Hey everyone! im here! lol dont worry.. it has been pretty crazy this past week, having to say goodbye to lots of people and then trying to get familar with this new area.. but things have been goin pretty good.. i hope that things have been going good with all of you!ell i live in a small town called Paonia and we are living with a family named the Van Vleets, they are in there late 60's probably and there house it was old school i think it was built in 1904 or something like. we live up in there attic and we have king size beds to ourselves! :) it is awesome the biggest bed i've ever slept on! they are nice people. they have a son who lives up in Colfax and works for WSU so i was talking to them about the area up there and everything. they are really nice people, as well as everyone else in the area, we cover a few small towns that kind of remind me of Lind and Wastuchna type of towns, not really really small but not big i htink they have like from 1,000 to 1,600 in the different towns each. the towns are Paonia, Hotchkiss, Crawford, and Somerset.. but yeah it reminds me lots of back home with the small town feel. it is a good area and the work is going well so i just gotta keep on truckin through it! my new companions name is Elder Jensen and he is from Houston Texas he ahs been out on his mission for 19 months and heads home i think in march. we have a car in this area, it is a 2010 Pontiac Vibe and we do still ride our bikes around some.. There are some old farmers and tons of ranchers around here but not too many acres on the peoples places.. we email at a brand new library that just got built a couple months ago so that is really nice. we do lots of tracting and trying to visit people. the ward building is right here in town, which reminds me Paonia used to be in the guiness book of world records cuz it has the most churches per capita.. there are like 23 churches here in town! haha its crazy! but yeah it's a nice place and we have lots of inactive members that we are trying to work with and lots of part member families.. im not sure how many people would be in the ward if everyone was active.. we have about 100 coming weekly though.. so yea thats the area i can tell you more later.. oh but real quick i had to introduce myself at church and i told thm all bout myself and how i lvoe to snowmobile and i got offered to go snowmobiling! lol it is too tempting, we dont have snow yet but we will have lots of it soon! and there are deer all over the place. i have a talk on the 11th its on repentance ha so if y'all have any good ideas let me know! im glad that things are going well for all of you back home, its sounds like your staying busy and doing well.. we helped move a lady this morning so i didn't have time to sit down and think bout what i wanted to tell you specificaly, but we have lots of potentionals in this area and i think i can relate with lots of them so i hope that is why the Lord sent me here, its been a ruff week but i hope it continues to get better i just have to be positive.. thank you for all the letters of love and support! i hope things keep going good for everyone! i miss you all and love you so so so much! :( have a great day! bye Love, Randy