Nov.30, 2015

I'm so glad to hear how everyone is doing! I miss you all. I kinda want you back. It's been hitting me pretty hard especially because it's actually real and happening now. It's kinda stinks not being able to be there for Thanksgiving, I miss family dinner and Black Fridayshopping. I'm glad to hear Glen is alive, I can stop worrying about that now haha. I got that phone you sent. Thank you. I don't know how the minutes/service works though... I'm assuming that it doesn't have a time limit and that it just has ervice for a month if I'm correct? If I'm wrong let me know. I love the Star Wars inflatables and glad you've started decorating. That list you have going is perfect, thank you. You could send that all to my mission office now because I'm leaving tomorrow morning, which is making me crazy just thinking about it... I heard Hunter's moving in my room, I'm not sure if I'm happy or jealous hah!

Here's how my week went and make sure everyone gets to read it because I don't really have the timne to write my "weekly update" or whatever to everyone hah:

This week has been long yet short. Weird to explain hah. It's been pretty exciting and jam-packed. The weekdays have pretty much have been the same as the other ones (class, food, study, etc.). But Thanksgiving was amazing yet sad. We had a Thanksgiving lunch and then had a service project which was totally amazing. We packed over 350,000 meals for hungry kids in Utah. Then guess who spoke to us? ELDER OAKS!!!!! That was great and he talked mostly about Thanksgiving and service and everything and the whole day was packed and spiritual. But it was kinda saddening because it's now my first holiday away from everyone, and I miss everybody. So Sundaywas pretty nice too. Sundays here are like Sundays back home on steroids. Every other day here is like a Sunday haha. But we had a devotional on Sunday night just from one of the district presidents here and he just talked about the Spirit and how we can keep it with us and also how to recognize it and grow from it. That was good and he really engaged everyone which helped keep all the sleep-deprived missionaries awake hah. After that we watched a movie, Mountain of the Lord, and it was pretty cool to learn all about the Salt Lake temple and it's process. Today was amazing too! It was my second p-day. We went to the temple again but what made it extra special is that it was snowing and has been the past three days! Okay so guess what happened in the temple? Same thing as last week! I swear the people in the prayer circle like to watch me cry. Jk, I really love it and love going to the temple-even if it means I'll ultimately cry every time. That's pretty much been my week. The days go by so slow but looking back on the week it all just seems to have happened in a blur.

I love and miss everyone,

Elder Wood