April 15, 2009

Note: On April 10, 2009, a tornado with winds up to 165 mph went through Murfreesboro. This was four days after Bryan was transferred there. We did not receive an e-mail from him on Monday, April 13, his normal p-day. We got this from him on April 15 after we called the mission home to make sure he was okay.

Hopefully this makes it to you. I actually did send an e-mail to you on Monday but it must have gotten lost to cyber space. I'm perfectly fine the tornado didn't hit right near me but it did hit in my area pretty hard. We had 8 Elders at our apartment on 1322 N. Rutherford Blvd. We had that many Elders there because of musical firesides going on around the mission that I've been singing in so we gathered there to all get rides together for those participating and for those not to go on exchanges in their respective areas. I got some pretty cool pictures and videos of the weather though, but it doesn't give it any justice. The area got pretty torn up but everyone is doing alright. I'm trying to summarize the events of my last e-mail without writing the same thing over again and I cant remember everything that I told you last time. So things are going pretty well. Elder Garrison was trained last transfer here and there hasn't been any work going on for the last 3 weeks. He and his trainer just decided to hang out with some college students for the last 3 weeks of the transfer. So now we have no investigators, and very little trust with the members but we're working on improving that. There's a lot of work to be done here, and I'm really excited to be able to do it. Anyways things are improving slowly but I'm really excited to work here.

Thanks for the package by the way!! I really like that MoTab CD, thanks. Sorry the last e-mail didn't go through but I did try to send it to let you know I'm alright. I also sent Mitch a letter today letting him know that he's been slacking because I dont even know the date that he reports to the MTC. I also sent him some pictures that I printed as well.

I forgot in my last e-mail but wanted to make sure that I included it in this one. My expenses this month are probably going to be a bit high. Mostly because a lot of Elder Garrison's food was taken by his last companion when he moved, whether by accident or not I'm not entirely sure. I also needed to get a tune up on my bike, at transfer meeting they thought that it was someone else's bike and they started to take it apart to move it and they didn't really know what they were doing, so between those two things my personal expenses are going to be quite a bit higher this month. I've used my credit card a few times and I just wanted you to be aware of it, even though I'm sure you probably are, just so you hear it from me. I love you all and want you to know that all is well with me.

Love,
Elder Carpenter