Hey there everybody!!! Dad, I did recieve your letter and thanks for the picture. I'll be honest, at first I had no clue what it was but I recognized it pretty quick. Elder Miller and I just got out of the temple it was a great session. Thank you for sending those adresses and stuff. So I leave for Virginia tomorrow!!!!!!! I'm so excited. I haven't done any packing yet so I think I'll start with that after dinner. We did our wash today and all I've been doing is writing letters and eating and stuff. It's been a great Preparation day.
I think if one person has influenced me the most on my mission so far it would be Billy Bob Thorton. We wake up pretty early to get good showers and what not and every time my alarm goes off I either think "Tiiiime to get up........" or "BEAVERS N DUCKS"
We were released as Zone Leaders on Sunday and that sucked because I now feel lazy and have to deal with more study time in the wake of extra meetings. I'd rather be at meetings. Don't get me wrong, I learn a lot and love to read the scriptures, but when you have 2 3-hour study blocks in a day you try to get away from it as much as possible. I smell burning feathers all the time. Elder Miller smells them too. Also, I can't believe I've been spelling Wassail wrong my whole life, I thought it was wassle.
I have to be at the travel office at 4 am and our flight leaves SLC at 7:50. I don't know how long the flight is because our plans are in the room but we have a couple hours in Atlanta and that's when I'll be calling. We're going to get on the P.A. on the plane and make sure everyone there has heard about the Book of Mormon so we can know who to teach on the way. That reminds me, tonight I'm going to get on the P.A. in our residence hall at 10:00 and make sure every elder gets in one last pop-lock-n-drop it before bed. Our district has made this a nightly practice.
Someone write the Wazoo crew and tell them that I found a video in our Days Inn hotel room in Vegas at four in the morning of everyone sleeping, we all had some symptoms that night. Oh, and E. Miller is from Cali and he says Shamoo is a fake, and he has a season pass to sea world so he knows. He says there's multiple shamoos and that just bugs me. I had a lot of faith in shamoo. There's an Elder in my district that says people are like tumbleweeds and that when they come in front of us on our path we need to not swerve and crash but we should just speed up and hit them with the full force of the gospel. This isn't true, ask Elder Anderson. If it was, we would have like 20 investigators chillin on the side of our house by the boat every fall.
I just overheard Elder Tumbleweed say that we only have 709 days left on our missions. Then I overheard some typing. Then I overheard my companion say dinner is at 4:30. Then someone said that we're really doing it and that we'll be real missionaries in 24 hours. THAT IS SO EXCITING! I am having so much fun, I wish I could see all of my friends and my family and the real shamoo but I've given those things up now, I'm on a MISSION. I have gained such a strong testimony and companionship of the spirit. Diligence and working hard makes hard work fun. I just hope that still applies to the field. I'm sure it does.
Just to finish off strong, Id like to tell you a story that happened on sunday. We were on our temple walk and I turned to E. Miller and said, "All I ever say in my journal is how much I love you" What I meant by this was that I was thankful that I had a comp. that was a goof and really fun and wasn't a BIEBER D. We turned the corner and he just kept looking in front of us as he says, "yeah, my journal probably thinks I'm gay"
-Elder Skyler Andreasen
P.S. WAZOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO
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