Week 4

Hello Family!!

ahh i miss you all soo much.. But i really do love it out here..! its so new and exciting!

hahha soo i have a funny story to start out with!! every morning me and elder ferrin go outside to work out.. and he usually runs back on forth on this road while i curl up in my blanket and either sleep... or attempt to do push ups and sit ups. haha not to successful so far. but im workin on it.. BUt anyways.. its my job to remember the keys and on thursday morning i forgot.. UH OH! haha so at 6 in the morning we were locked out of our apartment! Luckily enough elder ferrin is an awesome guy and laughed it off. But anyways.. Our apartment is on the 2nd floor so i climbed up to our sliding door thinking it was unlocked and it wasnt! so we were stuck.. outside..! haha no good.. anyways.. we were looking in windows to get someones attention and we finally got this ladies attention and she though we were the craaziest people in the world. hahah! ohh man.. We still laugh about it every time it gets brought up.

Anyways.. Dad.. You'll like this story.. We were on our way to washington city.. for a meeting.. and on the way there on the side of the road there were little frozen ponds of water! and on almost every pond there was a huge Bald Eagle just sitting on the ice.. Soo awesome!! And on 1 of the ponds there were probably 5 or 6 just hanging out.. I have never seen anything like it before.. But i guess its a pretty common thing here in muscatine.

So this week spiritually was soo awesome. I mentioned that we were teaching Mary Hadessa and Preston in my last email i think.. and we got them to come to church this sunday! :) Soo awesome. There kids are craaaaazy! ohh man. haha i've notice out here in iowa kids from age 3 up literally do not listen to their parents. they do whatever they want. hahaha! its sad.. there is no discipline.. and the reason is because THERE IS NO GOSPEL IN THEIR LIVES!! its as simple as that.. haha! So when we come over its crazy at first.. but at the end of the lesson the 3 younger kids are asleep on our shoulders and the house is soo peaceful. haha! pretty cool! Ill keep you updated on them! i just love there family! soo amazing! :) the little girl named karsyn says that me and her are going to get married. she's 6. hahha!! pretty funny! we are also teaching there grandma delorus. she's 4 foot 10 inches and the funniest old lady i've ever met. ohh man! she just cracks me up! we brought over a talk on dvd and it was by president eyring! and at the end of the talk she said "it felt so good!!! He had me hypnotized under his spell! I just wanted to get up and shout!" hahahaha! ohh she's the bomb!!

i love you all mnd miss you soo much. im running out of time.. keep sending me emails and everything! its soo good to hear from you mom and dad.. :) keep sending stuff!

Dad let me know how the music number goes.. i loved bruce r mckonkies thing you sent me as well. send me all the missionary experiences you have and everything! thanks!

mom! thanks for the updates! i miss you a ton! just keep praying about what shows to enter and you'll know which ones will lead you to success! i promise!

I love you all soo much. i gotta go! talk to you next week!

Love elder Russell!