Elder Pack is Back

 Hola,

I need to speed run this email because I don't have a lot of time left. Just an awesome week with a lot of really awesome experiences. So excited to be back in the Lone Meadows zone in the Rainbow Vista ward. Never thought I'd be here. I remember being in the Cheyenne ward living with the Rainbow Vista elders and now I'm in Rainbow Vista living with the Cheyenne elders. This week has been so fun. Such a great week.

First of all, my companion is a stud. He is a D1 athlete going to BYU after the mission. Elder Keele is going to play football for BYU, he's an offensive lineman. He is so nice and friendly but super obedient as well. He is literally such a wholesome guy. This week has been so great, he's becoming a great friend. He is from Morgan, Utah. We are learning Spanish together too so this week we've been able to improve in our Spanish a lot because we both suck. It makes it where both of us need to be 100% on our guard. 

Rainbow Vista is basically the Cheyenne boundaries but in Spanish. I work only with the Spanish speaking people and try to find them. It's been really fun but super hard. Finding Spanish speakers has been tough. Especially ones that are interested. I'm going to need a miracle and some crazy revelation to baptize this transfer. There are a couple of people that we are teaching that could be baptized. For example, Marco is someone we are teaching, and he could definitely be baptized. We taught a great restoration lesson and we knelt in prayer afterwards to know if it was true. I invited him to be baptized afterwards but he didn't accept it. Atleast we invited and showed him what our expectations were. It was a good lesson and I know that as he keeps praying and reading then he will find his answer. 

I got to go to a baptism for a part member family that I taught in the Cheyenne ward. Remember Wyatt? It was his little sister. So cool. Her dad got to baptized her and give her the Holy Ghost. So amazing to see them progress. An incredible miracle. I know that I needed to be in that ward for how long I was and that the Lord sends us where we need to go. Wyatt's dad told me I was their favorite missionary which made me feel really special. I worked with them a lot and I love them so much. I got to hug the dad after the baptism, and I let him know he was doing the right thing for his family. 

I ate dinner with the Barkers again this week. They used to feed us every week in the Cheyenne ward. It was like seeing old friends and we reminisced on old times. Brother Barker is one of my favorite people ever.

The district is great, our unity is super strong, and we've been having a lot of fun. I keep sending everyone on scavenger hunts to find stuff while tracting. One of them was to take a selfie with a toilet outside. One of the Elders had a sick miracle where they found a toilet outside and took a selfie with it. Then they knocked the door and found a Spanish lady who wants to get baptized. Dang, guess I receive mad toilet revelation. Love the Lord and I honestly think he has a sense of humor.

We've been talking with lots of people and my Spanish has improved a lot. I gave a talk in sacrament meeting in only Spanish and it was actually pretty good. I talked about how to be powerful member missionaries. The ward seemed hyped afterwards. I wrote the whole talk without translating it in Google translate before or afterwards. So, I hope people actually understood it. I thought it was halfway decent. 

Well, that was my whole week. Love this ward, love my companion, love the Lord. This will be a powerful life changing transfer. Just know that life is good for me right now. I'm grateful for the blessings that I've been given. 

Sincerely,

Elder Neil Pack

My selfie because I didn't take any pictures this week

Cheyenne 2.0 and Red Gumballs

 Hola a todos! 

What an incredible last week. I don't even know where to start. This email might be a bit shorter just because this day is my transfer P-Day and I don't have a lot of time.

This week went by super slowly because the work wasn't super fast paced. But we did see a lot of blessings and left the area with 3 more people on date to be baptized. Love teaching them. I hope they can still be baptized next transfer. I actually ended up getting transferred to a new area. Alta Loma is getting completely split up and everyone is basically leaving. There were 7 missionaries in the ward so that's kinda wack. Elder Medina is going to Spring Lakes and I am going to serve in Rainbow Vista as the district leader again. Didn't think I'd get transferred but here we are. I talked with Elder Plaster and he is getting transferred too. He's going to the Stonemountain Ward in Elkhorn Springs, that's the same ward I came out in! Super cool and I'm excited for him.

My District

A little about Rainbow Vista, it's a pretty large area with 8 missionaries in the ward. We all speak Spanish and are teaching a lot of Spanish speaking people. The boundaries also cover the Cheyenne ward so I'll be working in the Cheyenne ward boundaries again. It's like the same ward with a Spanish twist. So excited. The Cheyenne ward was the ward that I was in with Elder Mcgee and Wheeler. Also Wyatt got baptized there. Super awesome experience and I am excited to serve there again. 

A huge line of buggies in Logandale

My new companion is Elder Keele and he's from Utah. I know him well and I'm super excited to work with him. He's in this mission reassigned from Peru. 

I watched general conference this week at a lot of members houses which was cool. It was all in English which was surprising. A lot of people in Alta Loma spoke English for some reason. I received a lot of insight and I particularly love the missionary work emphasis during conference. 

Here's a funny story. We went to Logandale with our zone leaders and that night we went together to go get ice cream. We ended up spending our dinner break at night eating ice cream in this old fashioned ice cream place. So fun. There was this gumball machine with a bunch of different colored gumballs in it and a couple red ones. If you spun it and got a red one then you got a free shaved ice. It cost 25 cents each time. We were eating our shaved ice that we bought and a 13 year old kid came inside the store and started spinning the gumballs to win the free shaved ice. After 3 missed failures he decided to give up, but we started to encourage him to keep going. Eventually he did and the whole store started getting in on it. He kept spending quarters and the whole store was like YEAH YEAH! COME ON!  Literally like 10 people, it was insane. Then eventually after spending 7$ worth of quarters which would've bought 3 shaved ices he quit and ran outside. It was kinda sad but hilarious. Then I decided to spin the quarter that I had in my pocket and got the red one on my first try. Everyone In the store was like YOOOOOO!! We were laughing so hard but Elder Medina and I decided to run outside and find the kid. We eventually found him and gave him the gumball. It was a wholesome and hilarious experience that I will never forget. 

Shaved ice cream store

Cleaning our apartment 

Elder Rehkow and Medina being goobers

I relate this story to listening to peer pressure. We shouldn't heed to what the wicked say and should press on holding fast to the rod, no matter what happens we shouldn't listen but we should keep our eye focused on the Savior, even if 4 dumb missionaries are pressuring you to spend 7$ buying like 40 gumballs. 

Love you all,

Elder Neil Pack 

My Mission President running the 5K

Late to the Fun Run

 Hola, 

Pues, pues, pues, here we are again. Another week down and now this is my official last email of the transfer. Next email I'll write will be the start of a new transfer. Time sure does fly. Starting next week I will have 5 transfers left. That's not long at all and will go by super duper fast. Let's just get right into business. 

Elder Medina and I have finally clicked and we have been getting along really well. We've both been super obedient and working really hard. That's what I like to see. I'd be down for another transfer with him so we'll see if that happens. I wonder if he'd be down with another one with me haha. I definitely have a love for the area and my companion now. This last week of the transfer is going to be a super good one.

Today we were supposed to have a 5K fun run as a mission (which is like 3 miles) and Elder Medina and I accidently missed it. Apparently it was at 6:45 am and not 7:45 am, we realized we would be super late so we just didn't go. It was genuinely an accident haha. I actually really like running so I wanted to go (especially since our race was with Spring Lakes so Elder Plaster would be there). But we missed it soo.... but hey I still got the free shirt.

My Fun Run T Shirt

Let's see... what else happened this week? I was super sick last week which I might've forgot to mention last week. I had a super runny nose and cough and headache but I still did the work anyways because I'm super stubborn. I also had exchanges with Elder Barney. I love that guy alot, we've known each other in the mission for quite a while so going on an exchange with him as my zone leader was awesome. He's such a great guy. We've served around each other a lot so hopefully I get to serve with him again. Nothing really too special happened in the exchange but we did have mega fat miracles in tracting where people kept inviting us inside and stuff. 

We ran into this guy named Jeremy who was super cool and let us inside. He was really digging our first lesson until his wife came home who was actually an inactive member of our church (we didn't know that because this was our first interaction with the family). It was actually hilarious because you could here her walk in and set stuff down, and then walk into the living room right in the middle of the lesson. Her face was PRICELESS. Her eyes were huge and super surprised and like uh oh. She then instinctively said, "Hi Elders." We were like don't mind us just about to set your husband on date to be baptized. Her husband was really enjoying our lesson. Like actually but she quickly shut it down. We tried to finish as fast as we could and we invited them to pray on our knees together to know if it was true and Jeremy's wife was like "I don't think that's something we plan on doing." Then we got booted out. Kinda lame. I was really hoping she'd be willing to pray with us but I guess that wasn't in her schedule or something.

Another funny story this week is when we got visited by Elder Greenstreet, our housing coordinator. Elder Greenstreet is a older gentleman who is a little shorter than most people and a bit more goofy than most people too. He told us that basically our apartment needed to be closed down again and we'd open a new one next transfer. Uggghh... this literally has happened 2 times already on my mission and now I have to do a 3rd. I'm really not feeling like closing down my apartment again but I guess we have to do what we have to do. Also super randomly, after 15 minutes of Elder Greenstreet explaining this to us he looks around the room and checks it to make sure we were alone, he leans in closely and quietly whispers, "Elders, do you know what the printers manuscript is?" We say no. Then he tells us to sit down and he proceeds to explain the entire translation process of the Book of Mormon to us in vivid detail and shares his testimony of the Book of Mormon, which takes around a half hour. Now don't get me wrong, his testimony was very touching but just so random and out of context to explain the entire story of the printing manuscript in the Book of Mormon translation process in our apartment without warning after explaining that we are getting kicked out of our apartment. You'd just have to be there to experience it, it was heartwarming but hilarious at the same time. Then he says, anyways Elders, I'll catch you later and he just dips out immediately. Wow, I love the senior missionary couples.

My desk

A picture of our apartment

We had a pretty cool lesson with a guy named Robert where we put him on date to be baptized. It was pretty awesome. A lot of our other part member families fell off date so it's cool to have another guy in our area that we can look forward to getting baptized. Robert was in Logandale so the lesson was in English. We don't have a lot of progressing people that we are teaching in Spanish.

To be honest, I think the driving force of my happiness as a missionary is love. When I realize my blessings and express how grateful I am for them to others, I developed a real love for the events and people I am around. Then when I love what is happening even if it may not be the prime circumstances, I start to be happier and less stressed. I love the mission, love my companion, love the area, love the work, and most importantly I love the Lord. He's impacted me so much that I can't even describe how grateful I am. You see? When you love all those aspects, then of course you are going to be happy no matter what happens. 

Sincerely,

Elder Neil Pack

 

Shrek Selfie

It's my birthday.....again.

 Hola a todos,

Another week down. Crazy how fast it goes. I feel like this P-Day came at the perfect time. I was just a little fatigued and needed a change of pace. It's good timing. Here's a weird thing that I noticed today. I was calculating how many transfers I have left in the mission (I'm not trunky or anything, just curious) turns out I have 5 transfers left. That's crazy! Those will go by so fast, and this transfer is almost already over. 

Anyway, so today is in fact my birthday. Thank you for all the messages and emails. I sure appreciate it. This will probably be the most weirdest birthday of my life. Even though my last birthday was in the mission too this one basically nothing is happening. Yeah so the plan is to go get a haircut and play soccer. That's basically it. A couple days ago some other elders showed up to our apartment with a cake so I could have that as my birthday cake. 

My birthday cake! Its huge!

Elder Medina and I have been having a good time. The mission has been going well and we've been struggling to find new people to teach but our teaching pool is still pretty big so that's good. Last Saturday those kids ended up having to move their baptism date which was pretty sad. That's okay though we'll get them next week. They will still hopefully get baptized this transfer. I love them so much and love being with them, just hope they can see more blessings in their life. 

I went on exchanges with Elder Llontop this week. So fun! If you remember him I used to live with him back when I was with Elder Mcgee. It was so awesome. I loved Elder Mcgee, Llontop, and Child. They left a mark on my life that I will never forget. Elder Llontop and I's exchange was super fun. We had a theme of listening to the spirit all day and we acted on it. It was super fun and really powerful. I learned a lot and so did he. I hope I left an impact on him that can help him feel loved and supported. He sometimes feels alone because he only speaks Spanish so I hope that exchange showed him he's not alone. 

Also here are some highlights of the week. Had zone conference! That was fun. Got to see some old mission friends.

All the homies at zone conference

Zone Conference phot

The theme was running because next week our president wants us to run a 5k on p-day. 

I was super sick for a really long time but I'm stubborn and I still went out and worked anyways. I was pretty miserable actually haha. Wasn't fun. My nose was just dripping like nuts. I had posole for the first time which was like a Mexican soup dish, then I had pig feet for the first time which was super gross. Tasted like straight cartilage. I also got a new haircut and it looks super good. 

Pig feet that I ate (not fun)

Elder Judi

I love the Lord, I love my mission, I love my president, I love my companion. Just always a great time. Never something to complain about when I'm serving the lord. I especially love my peers in the mission who have made such an incredible impact on me. 

Here's a scripture I liked from zone conference:

"For how shall I go up to my father, and the lad be not with me?"

Genesis 44:34 

I relate this to the people we affect daily. Whether we are teaching them or they are friends or whatever. How can we leave without bringing them up to our Heavenly Father with us? It wouldn't be heaven without my favorite people. I won't go up to my Father if my lads aren't with me. 

Thank you for the incredible birthday and I love you all,

Elder Neil Pack 

Our album cover

Adventures in the Boonies

 Hola cada uno,

Another week down and now I am halfway through this transfer. Super wild. I really like being here though. Honestly it feels like I spend more time out in the Logandale wards than I do in the Spanish ward Alta Loma. I love going out there it is so fun. Alta Loma is fun too but just different, I guess.

In Alta Loma we aren't really teaching anyone progressing too much. It's in the northern part of central Vegas and it's got some really well-off places. Not saying there aren't anyone to teach but it's just more difficult. We have been having a lot of Spanish lessons though which is super cool. Our teaching pool is pretty large but none of them are progressing that fast. I predict I'll probably be in this ward for a long time. 

I went on exchanges with an elder this week who is going to Spain in a week. I'm super excited for him and the exchange was super awesome. We had a lot of fun. We found some people and taught a couple lessons for nonmembers in Spanish. We taught this one guy named Jose and he kept interrupting our restoration lesson to bash us about tithing. It was super frustrating. We were trying to be as friendly and as chipper as possible but this dude was definitely pushing my buttons. Eventually he was actually pretty interested in the Book of Mormon so that was neat. We originally didn't want to come back to teach him again but he asked us to give him a spot to read for next week. So I guess we're coming back haha. 

Then on the weekend we made our trek out to Logandale. We started out having brunch with Jared, the guy we are teaching. That day was also his baptism so he wanted to make us waffles. We walked up to his house and met his dad for a little bit, he was super nice and he was working on a car. After brunch Jared casually mentioned that his dad was the president of Shelby Cobra. Like as in Mustangs and stuff like that so we went outside and talked with him some more. He showed us all his awesome cars and my favorite was the Series 1.That was sweet then Jared and his dad took us on a ride in some of their off-roaders. Super cool. Yeah so I got to meet and drive with Gary Patterson on Saturday. 

Off-roading with Jared and his Dad

Then at the baptism a decent amount of people showed up, even Jared's dad who isn't a member. The talks were super good and the spirit was strong. We had to start a little late because there was a complicated situation with the baptismal clothes which was super annoying and could've been prevented. Overall it was a great baptism. Jared and his fiancé are the most chill people I have ever met and Jared roasts me a lot for how lame I am. My investigator is literally making fun of me for being or trying to be obedient and all that haha.... I can be pretty lame sometimes but I don't care haha.

Jared at his baptism with us and the sister missionaries who found him

Jared's family

A member let us stay overnight at their house to sleep which was super awesome. That way we could stay the weekend. That was probably the best sleep I've had in a while. Then on Sunday we had three more sacrament meetings which were all good. Then some of our lessons canceled but we set 5 people on date to be baptized this next week. Two different lessons and two different part member families. The work out here is incredible. All 5 of them are getting baptized this weekend. Then we made the trek home after a long day. I am starting to really like long drives. It's so fun to just relax and just drive. 

Ramen lunch

This car is meant for a lemon race (the idea is the car is supposed to be as awful as possible and you race it for 24 hrs)

It was a really good and fun week. This transfer has just flown by and it's going to keep getting faster. Kinda of like my mission I guess. Pretty soon I'll hit my 18 months and going home is now a real thing that is happening soon. To close off this letter, I wanted to share a powerful experience I had with Elder Medina. We had a lesson with one of our friends in Logandale. They were unsure about baptism so we decided to have all of us pray on our knees if it was right. The mother decided to offer the prayer and she just started crying during the prayer. The spirit was so strong as she closed the prayer, then they all knew what to do. We put them on date to be baptized this weekend. I love the work here and my mission. So many incredible miracles that have been happening. Love you all.

Sincerely,

Elder Neil Pack 

Seeking out the aloe.

 Hola,

These past two weeks have been crazy long. Probably the longest weeks of my mission ever besides when I got transferred to the Vegas zone. Those weeks felt super long too but eventually they sped up, so I hope it's the same here. Life in the Alta Loma ward has been really fun actually. We are teaching lots of people and finding lots of people. Our area is pretty large so I can just go anywhere I want with my Tacoma pickup.

There are alot of people we are teaching but most of the people that are progressing live up in Logandale. So, we go up every weekend and go hangout with them. 

Logandale

One of them is Jared and that guy is the most elect person I have ever met and he's super funny. He's getting married to a member and he wants to be sealed in the temple with her. Super cool guy and I can't wait for his baptism this weekend. There are honestly a lot of people that we are teaching up there and if everything goes according to plan then we will see 8 people enter the waters of baptism. Very exciting! Elder Medina and Jared have basically become best friends and all they do is message each other on Facebook messenger like a high school couple or something. It's kinda funny but a little odd at the same time. Anyways so that's been fun. 

We went up to Logandale and we were backed up with so many lessons. I didn't have a chance to breathe we just kept moving. Wish everyday was as fast paced as that. We've been teaching a lot of kids, so we've been doing a lot of fun object lessons with them. Still love the drive to Logandale. It's so nice to just vibe for a whole hour watching the desert scenery. I'll probably really like driving long distances after the mission. Instead of staying Sunday as well though we went back to Las Vegas for church on Sunday. Kinda cool to have my first sacrament in Spanish in the Alta Loma ward. It was fast and testimony meeting so a lot of people shared their testimonies which was super cool. I'd be lying if I said I understood every word because I definitely I had no idea what they were saying most of the time. The spirit was still there though which was cool. I could tell that it was a good meeting. 

Doing district council in complete Spanish is kind of a struggle. I definitely use a lot of English, but it was about 50% in Spanish. I hope by the end I can do 100% in Spanish. That would be sweet. I've definitely been practicing and learning a lot which is good. Elder Medina doesn't really like speaking Spanish with me for some reason even though he's fluent in both languages. That's a bummer but it's okay, I'm still able to learn a lot. We talked alot about goals and how district council will be structured throughout the transfer. Then we did a training about who we are becoming and how and why we need to change as missionaries. It was pretty fun. 

I went on exchanges with Elder Judi this week which was super awesome. Probably the highlight of the week. We had a pretty incredible experience where we prayed and chose an exact neighborhood to go knocking doors. I've found a lot of success when we pray and study a map for a really long time whenever we want to tract. I like profiling people to and most Spanish speakers have aloe outside their house so I knock on doors with aloe. 

We knocked on this door and we've been doing this method of asking to bless people's homes for free. A lady let us come inside and we said a prayer together in her home. We then asked her if she felt the spirit. She said yes so we explained that we have a message that goes hand in hand with this feeling that she's feeling and then we asked to sit down and teach it. We taught her the whole restoration on her couch. She started crying when we taught her the first vision. Literally balling her eyes out. She asked us if we actually believed that happened, and we told her "yes, yes we do." She was crying a lot. Then we invited her to be baptized and she said YES. Wow, pretty incredible. That's the experience I've been praying for because I really wanted Elder Judi to have an incredibly powerful teaching experience like that. So awesome. Wish Elder Medina could've been there too but that's okay. One of those experiences that you never forget because of how incredible it is. 

We also got to go to a Zion's Youth concert which was cool. I went in November last year and now I got to go yesterday again. Our mission president is so cool. The concert was really good and I got to see everyone of my friends again. I saw Elder Plaster and immediately hugged him. Miss that guy so much. I love all my companions but that guy is special. He's such a beast. 

Well that's about it this week. Powerful exchange that gave me a spiritual boost and listening to Zion's Youth on Sunday was awesome. 

Here is an excerpt from a scripture that I read today: 

"Hearken unto me, ye that know righteousness, the people in whose heart is my law; fear ye not the reproach of men, neither be ye afraid of their reviling's"

-Isaiah 51:7

Some people make fun of me for being a missionary or trying to be obedient but to that I have this scripture. I fear no one! Besides God of course haha. 

Sincerely,

Elder Pack

El Principio de mi misión otra vez

 Hola! 

Wow this has been one of the craziest and probably most stressful weeks of my mission. Most of the stress has been just me putting it on myself but has been absolutely crazy. This was seriously the beginning of my mission again. Honestly, I had a lot of fun but high intense moments. So, let's just jump right into it.

So, as you know from the tearjerker that was last week as I left Elder Plaster, I am now in a Spanish ward called Alta Loma. It is in the northeast part of my mission which is pretty nice. It's relatively close to Elkhorn Springs which is where I first came out in the mission. The Stonemountain ward if you remember that. Those days were so fun. Yeah, but my new zone Shadow Hills is super close to that. My zone leaders are Elder Barney, who I honestly love and admire so much, and Elder Rehkow again. Haha I just keep following this guy around. He's awesome and so glad he is in my zone again. Yeah, but on top of serving in a Spanish ward I am also covering 3 out of valley English wards in Moapa Valley or called Logandale. We go out there in person every now and then. My apartment is super nice, Sister missionaries lived there before us, so they did a good job cleaning it, but it is a two-man apartment. No extra friends at night which is a huge adjustment. It's really not fun but it does give me more time to journal and study which is good. 

Logandale on Google Maps

Me leaving my mission on accident.
The red is my mission, and the blue dot is me.

Okay so Alta Loma is like starting my mission over again except it's more difficult. Obviously, it's not serving out of the country in a language you don't understand but for me this is pretty hard. I feel like I am a super hardworking missionary and can easily do what is asked of me but now I can't communicate with the people I'm teaching because my Spanish is terrible. It's so fun (not). I love teaching and now I just have to sit there and jump in when I understand what they are talking about. Uggh. Luckily my companion is completely fluent, so he carries a lot of lessons. I love my personal prayers though when I get to talk one on one with Heavenly Father every night. That's super helpful. I still like going into the closet to say my prayers out loud so no one can hear me and it's super impactful. I try to do it every night but sometimes things happen, and I can't. Elder Medina (my companion) thinks it's stupid, but I think really helps me so I'm going to keep doing it haha. We taught a lot of Spanish lessons this week and I could understand probably 25% of what people said and would chime in whenever I felt like it. The gift of tongues is real because words will be brought to my remembrance all the time which is so great. I attribute that to the powerful personal prayers I have every day where I earnestly plead for the gift of tongues. I really need it to teach, it's honestly crucial. 

My companion is a really interesting guy. Obviously, I really admire him and love him a lot but he is just super different. He's from Mexico but he grew up in Arizona. His Spanish is so cool to listen to, his English is also perfect as well. So, whenever we do language study (even though I insist he talks with me in Spanish) he just takes a nap. *sigh*. There are a lot of things that are super different between us, but I hope it doesn't stop us from working. This transfer is definitely going to be a memorable grind haha.

So, one of the most fun things we did this week was Sunday we went to Logandale which is about a one-hour drive from Vegas. Super cool to finally leave Vegas after a full year of living here. Coming back into it when it was night, and you could see all the lights was kinda cool. In Logandale there was so little light pollution you could just see the whole galaxy at night. That was fun. We drove there from 7:30 am til 8:45 am and made it on time to welcome people into sacrament meeting. We had 3 sacraments that day, so I got my spiritual fill of talks for a while. It was good and needed as we got to sit next to the people we were teaching who came. They were all so full of people since there are a lot of members there and that was cool to see. Everyone and their mom offered to feed us but unfortunately, we had to tell them that we only come to Logandale every two weeks and on Saturday and Sunday. This week we only came Sunday. Some members offered to let us stay the night there which is so kind of them. Logandale was really cool. It's a small tight community and most people know each other. It's awesome. Elder Medina really wants to see if we can go out there every week. I'm super down for that that would be fun. 

It's not honestly all bad haha, I hope I didn't sound like I was complaining. The bright side is that I get to learn Spanish! And we have a lot of people to teach! That's always super good. We also cover Logandale wards which is also super cool. There are a lot of members willing to help and feed us. When you look at the glass half full it's actually super awesome. Honestly it was a pretty long week and that's all I have to say. I love my comp, love my president, love the mission, love working, love the people. It's great. 

I mentioned it earlier but really prayer is something that I really look forward to now. That and personal study, those two things are super awesome. I get a lot of answers when I pray out loud. I've come to realize this week that this really isn't my work but it's actually the Lord's work. Always has been. After applying that this week, my stress has just melted away. It's been nice. Looking forward to next week.

Sincerely,

Elder Neil Pack

Me in Logandale