Week 1

I have had to write everyone back holy crap this takes forever when everyone sends these awesome long letters!! I love them!! ITs great to know there are people supporting me soo much out here!

so this week was great! the first few days i was pretty home sick and wanted to be back home with all of you but everyone said make it past sunday and everything will get better and you will love it! And turns out their right!! after sunday the days have been flying by soo fast i cant even keep up them! My companion Elder Holmes and i are always saying it always feels like were going to bed or getting up we cant keep up with everything that happens during the day! So this week we got our investigator kaylee(also known as our teacher sister zibetti playing one of her real investigators) and it's weird how much you really start to love them and want to help them even though its just practice and everything! Our other investigator is named Lance, hes really cool and he is more like a realy investigator because he is in the TRC which is the practice center for us!

People always say that the food here kills them... and it definately doesnt like your stomach too much after you eat it... but its unlimited buffet style and it tastes good and we eat tons of it!! i thgough i would have gained weight by now but i havent.... im sure it will catch up with me one of these days and ill get super fat or somethin... but i hope not... i like eating tons with no after effects.. haha.

YA i did get the doughnuts but we didnt figure out the mail thing till like thursday or friday afternoon.... so they were getting kinda hard.... but we still ate some of them any way... So thanks!! its lots of fun to get packages and letters from everyone!! let everyone know that until monday at noon if they send a dearelder.com letter to me i will get it and be able to read it that day which is always nice to hear from everyone throughout the week since i can only email on thrusday! i wont be able to write back to them until thrusday though... Im really excited to meet my mission president! but i feel kinda left out since his wife called a bunch of the elders and sisters going to the same mission before they left and she didnt call me.... o well probably just not enough time to contact us all. My district is awesome!! i love them tons!! we have soo much fun here! The part we had to work on at first was using study time for studying and have fun when its time to have fun! and i think weve gotten pretty good at it! theres this time called adtitional study time thats after all our personal and companionship study and thats when we have fun and just talk in class and get to know each other! We are in class from about 8am till 930 pm but there is lunch and dinner and gym time in between that. and we only have  a teacher in the class teaching us from 1230-330 and 630-930 so all the other time were just alone studying or having fun when its time.

We had a devotional sunday night from one of the mtc administrators and he was a really good speaker! and after we got to listen to a video talk from Elder Bednar called the Character of Christ which was awesome!!

I learned how to use sign language for my name! that was kinda cool...

there is a mormon message called the hope of gods light that you have to watch its brand new and about Todd sylvester Its an awesome one i loved it it was from that devotional!

Mom will you write me a letter from dearelder.com tomorrow or today with jakes phone number and leilanis phone number?

Was geoffs mission president david evans?? he was here and a mission president in nagouya japan!

did you get the blog up mom? let me know in the letter please:)

Love you and miss you a ton back home i think of you all every single day!! :)

Love,

Elder Neel