Of Wolf and Man

Hello family.

A new transfer has just begun and it's been an interesting one so far. I got a new companion, Elder Woodruff, from somewhere in Idaho. He's way cool, we have a lot in common, probably more so than any other companion I've had yet, all five of them. And get this... He hates basketball! Just like me! I've never thought I'd meet a missionary that hates basketball, but it turns out that they exist after all, that makes two of us.
So yeah he's cool. New Year's Eve was rather dull, we had to be in by 5:00 pm, no exceptions. President didn't want us out on the road with all the borrachos driving around. The day before I had finally gotten rid of Elder Porter and picked up Elder Woodruff, and we had moved into another apartment, we switched apartments with the other english elders. It is bad, no hot water, roaches everywhere, it's just an old nasty apartment. Luckily we're not going to be staying in it for long. They told us that we'd be moved into a new 4 man apartment today, on monday. That hasn't happened yet, and it probably won't for another week or so. Which really stinks because we got our two new Spanish Elders to work in Conroe with us. Elder Bone (or Bonehead as I call him, he's pretty much the same as Elder Porter, both of them don't like me at all) and a brand new missionary straight out of the MTC, Elder Smith. On new years day they came down with a couple beds and the 4 of us are living in a 2 man apartment at the moment. It rather stinks, there's no room for all of us. But hopefully they'll move us into a new one soon. It's nice having a new spanish missionary. Looking at Elder Smith I finally see how much I've learned. I can actually carry conversations now with people and get most of what they say. Depending on who it is. Some people still talk so dang fast that I can't get more than a word of it.
Also it was odd as I was in charge for a while. The other three are completely new to the area and they all had to rely on me because I know the area and the people. It was kind of a spooky feeling, being in charge of something like that. The last two transfers I just followed Astin and Porter around, I didn't have to worry about anything. Now I have to worry about everything. They split our area in half and Bonehead and Smith got the vast majority of our investigators and less active members. Which kinda leaves us with not a lot of work. But oh well, they've got those Pentecostals now, not my problem (as much) anymore.
That's pretty much all that went down this week, moving in, moving the others in, and doing logistics on the ward and the area and whatnot. Lots of paperwork and map work. Oh I have a question, so where did you get that little electronic nano bug thing? We visited a part member family the other day and I let their 2 year old little girl play with it and they all thought it was the most amazing thing they'd ever seen and they wanted to know where to get one. I told them I didn't know and that I'd ask y'all so if y'all can do that it would be cool. I'm trying to come up with some sort of object lesson that I can use with the little bug, it'd be a cool lesson if I could think of something.
Well that's about it for today, oh and myldsmail has finally updated to this new g-mail system. It's identical to g-mail and works much better unlike the old retarded Novell powered myldsmail. It's amazing! So that's all I got to say, I hope you all are doing well. So yeah, peace out.

-- Elder Rice