Brett-September 2, 2008

Hey everybody. I got transferred to a new area last week. We actually have a McDonald's here...They call it the UFO McDonald's. Main Street here has alien eyes in the street lamps at night...If you haven't figured it out yet I'm in Roswell, NM. Its awesome here I love it. When I got the call I was getting transferred I wanted to go to either Midland or Odessa, or anywhere but Roswell lol But its not about where I want to go but where the Lord needs me. Roswell was pretty much the only place in the mission that I didn't want to serve, I guess just because of the whole alien thing but since I've got here I've realized its not what everyone thinks. Its actually really beautiful here. The highest point in our mission is about an hour away and we're going to go climb it next P-Day. Roswell has 2 wards, it's so good to be in a ward again!! There are 6 missionaries in Roswell right now. The sisters cover 1st ward and the 4 Elders cover 2nd ward. Elder Roper and Elder Hill are the Zone Leaders in the Roswell Zone and they both speak English. Elder Spencer is my new companion and we get to do all the Spanish here in Roswell. They have a Spanish group that meets and has sacrament meeting Sunday nights. This week they had a fast and testimony meeting because next week is stake conference. It was an amazing meeting. I got to get up and bear my testimony in Spanish. The spirit was so strong in that meeting and I feel like I learned a lot from their testimonies, both in improving my Spanish and it was spiritually uplifting. I also got designated the pianist in Spanish group. They tried to play a cd of the hymns in Spanish because nobody could play but the cd player wasn't working so I got to play. It was really scary playing in sacrament meeting. Again I wish I would have practiced more before my mission. Yesterday was Labor Day and the 6 of us missionaries had a barbeque with Mark and Ashlyn(the ZL's investigators). It was way fun and Mark and Ashlyn are way cool. Mark gave up smoking and has only had one puff in the last 2 weeks. They're awesome. Tomorrow is Zone Conference and they've changed things up a little bit. They've shortened it up a bit and our activity is only an hour now. Zone Conferences used to go all day but now we'll have a few hours to work at night. At first I was kind of bummed about it but I know there is a reason that President has decided to do this and we're gonna have to work hard tomorrow night and hopefully see some success. Well that's about it for this week. I love y'all.
Elder Brett Harber