EARTHQUAKE!?!

Dear Family,

First off, I'm perfectly safe, and healthy (so you don't have to freak out). This week has been awesome! My new companion and I are working hard, and getting alot done. We have several new investigators, we have had a couple investigators come to church even, and they said that they would be there next week as well! Ok, that's the spiritual part of my e-mail, short, but awesome.

So you may have heard about some of the stuff that has been happening in Oklahoma lately...well, it's all true (I think, but I don't know for sure, because I can't watch the news...). There was recently a 5.6 magnitude earthquake in a small town near Sparks, Oklahoma. This is a little north-east of me, but I still felt it. I had gone to bed and was just about to fall asleep when I felt  like my bed was shaking! Uh-oh....It felt alot like some of the seizures I would have when I was little so I was a little bit worried.....Then I heard the apartment shaking and l knew that it wasn't my brain going haywire, which was a relief....and then I realized the apartment was shaking! WHY WAS THE APARTMENT SHAKING?! So I still laid there in bed, what can I say, I was tired, and I listened and I heard the stairs outside the apartment shaking as well....I finally made the connection that it was the same thing that happened to us when we lived in Illinois and made the connection! THERE WAS AN EARTHQUAKE IN OKLAHOMA! WHY?! I DIDN'T EVEN KNOW OKLAHOMA HAD EARTHQUAKES!!! So, I sat up and asked my companion if he felt it, and he said that he had...hmmmm. He was pretty freaked out, but I was mostly just tired...so I went back to sleep....

One good thing about earthquakes though, is that it makes door approaches alot more interesting! They go to slam the door on us and we ask them about the earthquake and all the sudden they're willing to talk!!! So it has turned out to be a blessing kind of...That's about all that has happened with me this week...Sorry, it's not that interesting or long...

Love you all mucho much,

Elder Raymond the Younger

Senior Companion!

Dear Family,

Yes, I'm alive. I didn't e-mail last week because I wasn't able too...sorry. Anyway, Transfers were last Wednesday and my companion got transferred. My new companions name is Elder L. He's from Utah....so many Utahans.....anyway, he has been out for a transfer less than I have and I'm senior companion...ugh.....

We are doing amazing! We have an investigator who accepted a baptismal commitment, and now we just have to go back and set a date! It's freaking awesome. We are working hard and I can already tell that this is going to be a good transfer.

Not much has happened on my end....sorry, but it's true....I had a Pentecostal woman tell me that I was confused and didn't know what a soulful church felt like....hmmm....

I'm trying to think of what to write about but there isn't really anything. I built a well house last week, tore down a wall, repaired a chicken coop, and didn't have to chase down three horses :).

It sounds like there's lots of fun stuff going on at home right now! Caitlin is not allowed to drive....she's 12! heehee...
We had a ward trunk of treat on Saturday that was fun. My companion and I dressed up as the Mormon Missionaries. After all, what is scarier than that! Suffice to say, we went and we ate all the food. It was pretty good.

Thank you all for your letters and support!

Love you all mucho much,

Elder Raymond the Younger