The Year Rite

Whattup Farmhands, 
I love being a missionary. Also, it's very very hard sometimes. But I love it. It's a little like "today, I feel closer to God than I have ever been, I'm working miracles and working hard with my best friend, I'm an unstoppable machine" and then the next day is "I am worse than the dust of the earth, I need to repent, I haven't accomplished anything, I'm exhausted". And it just trades like that. 

I haven't written any notes in two weeks so this one is gonna be from memory, and it's probably also gonna be short because we're gonna have a 

Emergency Transfer
No I didn't kill another son lol. Actually, like I said above, Elder Wilson is fantastic and we're almost like the same person. It's pretty sick. But one of the other Elders in our house has been sick for like... ever since he got here, and now he's going home today and we're gonna end up a with Elder Barata in a trio. Lo key a relief and the trio is gonna be super dope. Elder Staker knows kkk

But yeah other than that nonsense we've been having a blast. Sorry for another short email but there is too much to do and not enough time. We've still gotta build a house for the turtles and an Elder lost in his phone in the park so it's really not gonna give time for me to write anything. Next week I will write at least 1 more paragraph, promise.

So that's all, wishing you all a wonderful new year!

God is Good, 
Elder Ebbert


























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