Basingstoke

Hello,

There is a Gorillaz song playing right now and I'm singing along. "It's Dare!" Turns out we e-mail at the Apple store every week so now I'm on a fancy new Mac as opposed to a really old library computer with Windows 98. So there is also music playing in the background. It's definitely not as quiet as a library. Wow another Gorillaz song; now they're playing stylo.

 It's lovely here in Basingstoke. It's small but it's not too small. The buildings all seem quite new. Travel is fairly easy; we do a lot of walking and we can get pretty much everywhere by foot but we also take buses to save time. It seems really peaceful.

There aren't a whole lot of people on the streets. It's definitely not as busy as Oxford. The people here seem generally nice. Not a lot of them are interested though. I think younger people are more open to at least talk but from what I can tell so far there aren't a lot of young people here. There's more than in Romsey.

The new ward is awesome. The families are so nice and I think the missionaries have a really good relationship with the ward. The members are very friendly and the bishop already had us over for pizza. They also seem willing to help with missionary work.

My new companion Elder Goldsmith is a good guy. He looks like Tintin. He's a good missionary. He's from Arizona and he's a Marine. I'm helping him learn how to play the guitar. He has a pink electric guitar that members in his previous area gave him and he only started playing on his mission. He's already pretty good. He's been out for a year and we get along real good.

I haven't received any letters yet I'll probably get them tomorrow. My companion is district leader so we will be going to reading for DLC (district leader council) and I imagine the zone leaders will bring post from the mission home. I'll also see Elder Lika again because we're still in the same zone and his companion is a district leader.

I hope you all get better. It's no fun vomiting and having bad dreams. I've been having weird dreams too but they're not scary, just weird. I hardly ever remember them anyways. Have a good week!