Hey Family,

Ya so I'm in Adams-Friendship now. Its in the middle of nowhere, surrounded by a ton of trees. The town has about 2000 people, with something like 8 or 9 other towns in our area of the same size or smaller. Our area is HUGE due to the spread out towns, so we get to use our truck quite a bit. We do however have a mile cap (which isn't enough) so we will get to use our bikes in town, which ish nicsh. The area is really beautiful, lots of vegetation and actual hills (not common in WI), the downside of which is that there are hordes of bugs. I literally saw a swarm of mosquitos pick up a deer and fly back to their nest with it. A.F. really isn't as touristy as you'd think. Theres a town, Dellwood, right by the lake thats probably a lot worse. We went trackting the other day and all the people were surprisingly nice to us, unlike the disgruntled Packer fans of GB. Just kidding GB has good people too..... And I don't think we're going to meet as many crazy people here as we did in GB, unfortunately. They keep things interesting. Our house is pretty cool, its owned by a family called the Caldwell. Technically its a cabin, but more like a small house (I was imagining a log cabin I guess). It's in the middle of a forest, so at least we have privacy.

We had church yesterday (duh, it was Sunday) and most of the members are really cool. We have an awesome mission leader, he basically lets us use his house as a base of operations. We can eat anything we want anytime we want.... We're going to go play disc golf with him and the Stephens Point Elders, then have dinner at his non-member (missionary opportunity) mom's house. There is an actual ward here, which is surprising, considering the small population. Apparently we get about 90 active members coming to church on any given week  ....... I guess I have to get used to the small town mentality, its a lot more laid back.

My companion is from a town of about 500 people in Idaho, so he fits right in. He's a good guy,....I think he's stressing a little about having to take over the area at 3 months. We have to stay in Adams for most of the week because we don't have enough miles to travel to other towns very often, so he's kinda struggling finding things for us to do. We do have a baptismal date, Mark, who is an awesome guy (must come with the name ). He's set to be baptised in early August. He loves the Gospel and has read A LOT of LDS literature. He's a real golden inv. like Scott was. Anyways me and Elder Bowcut are getting along pretty well.

Thanks for taking care of Molly Dad and not beating her. And thank you for paying for the packages by sacrificing all the blood and sweat that you put into your job. Start getting the paper work ready to sue the kennel if they sell Molly to a restaurant. The Caldwells have a dog here, Sammy, so I get my K-9 interaction there. They also have a huge fish tank with some cool looking ones.

Have fun in Utah, tell everyone I said Hi and I love them. Be sure to go really fast on the alpine slide for me.
Love,