Well this has been an interesting week it started off with the gift of 2 new companions I'm in a threesome with 2 guys from AZ so its kinda cool they keep telling everyone I'm from AZ too and that were all three desert rats. My senior comp is Elder Banks from Sedona AZ he goes home at the end of this transfer so I’ll only get him for one transfer like all the companions I've had so far, my other companion is Elder White from Scottsdale AZ and he has 2 transfers left after this one and he thinks he will be transferred out after this transfer so I might yet again be running an area after only a month and a half of being there luckily I have the Gps.

My new area has only a small branch of about 60 members so its a little different the building here is about the size of a cardston sacrament room and has only folding chairs no pews so its a small change. I’m only going to have the joy of meeting there for about two more weeks though. After that I’m going to be meeting in the back of some eye care place or something like that while they expand the building for some strange reason. Obviously waiting for a few baptisms I guess. Its a little different being here in a small area we don’t get fed by members as much but the ones that do feed us love us to death so that’s good. Were about 30 mins away from the closest set of elders in our district and about an hour and a half from the other set so its kinda going to be a weird pday with only the 3 of us. We did meet one cool family since I've been here though the Skabangz or something strange like that they are pretty much already your average Mormon family with 4 kids of their own and about 4 others they've adopted. We taught them a first lesson which went well and we set up an appointment to meet back with them this week on Thursday so hopefully we can keep them as investigators and get them to church some time soon.

Other then that its been pretty average around here I have however been doing a lot of service lately though. I’ve mowed an old ladies lawn one day and then the next day I dug 7 50pound bags worth of potato hills and about 3 big crates of butter nut squash or something that sounds like that and then a crate of beats and a crate of banana peppers. And then the next day or so we took down about 5 big tents at the historic society or something like that and then tomorrow I’m going to be running a weed wiper for 3 hours out there so that should be fun maybe I’ll be able to draw back on the ol skills.

Well that’s pretty much all that’s happened out this way I hope everything is going well where your at and that everyone is doing fine. Tell kayden too keep the butter on the toast at sadies. Tell him to listen to Elder Hollands Talk at conference again while he’s thinking about what to do after high school. But love you all again and hope to hear from you soon.


Elder Kartchner.

Elder Kartchners new address
402 High St apt 3
Somerset PA
15501