He's Alive!

Reed's not so great with time management as you probably know, so it took him almost the whole time (3 weeks) in the MTC to write his family. We got a letter he wrote in the MTC, and his companion praised him and his willingness to serve and his enthusiasm. Reed never found time in the MTC to set up his email so we recieved his first email after he arrived in Portland. Here is his even filled email. By the way, he can only email to his family, but can receive all emails. Here is his address: bigciz@myldsmail.net (bigciz is the nickname he earned in the MTC...go figure, that's what happens when you get a bunch of 19 year olds together...who knows what it means?!) I started to correct his spelling, but then it wouldn't be as original.

Hi family,
Sorry it took so long for me to get an email sent. I tried three times yesterday, but I could not figure out the password that I needed to set up my email account. This is my account if you ever want to write back. It is bigciz because that was the nickname they gave me in the MTC. So, the rule is that I can only email my family, but anyone can email me. Okay, so once we got here on wed. we went strait to the Portland temple. It is one of the most beautiful temples I've seen. We got to go into the attrium. That was pretty cool. Then we went to the mission office, were introduced, and ate lunch. After lunch we had interviews with President Gessel and then we got together with older missionaries and went proselyting. It was pretty fun. The first door Elder Wood (that was the name of the elder I went with) made me do, I got so nervous. I was tripping over my words and I don't know if the lady accually knew what we were doing. Not at least until Elder Wood took over. After knocking doors we went to the Mission home and ate dinner. It was really good. After dinner we had a testimony meeting. Everyone here is so ready to preach the gospel. After the testimony meeting is when we all got excited: Pres. Gessel and the assistance went into another room to determine who would be our trainer and where we would be going. That is when I found out that I would be going to Siverton Ward in the Keizer Zone. My trainer is Elder Greene. You might get a picture of us in the mail. I think they like to do that. Anyways, we went to bed then. The next day would be transfer meeting day. We got up early to go to the meeting and meet our trainer. During the meeting all of the greenies were intruduced. Once the meeting was over, we loaded up our bags and it was off to Silverton. It is pretty much as far as you can go south in our mission boundaries. Once we got here, we got our stuff into the apartment that we will be temperarally staying. Right now our apartment is being fixed because there was a fire in it. When we got our stuff out, we went to the library, where I am now and tried to do email. I could not figure out the password to set up my email account. Since we could not get in touch with the mission office we went shopping. That night we ate dinner at the house of the people that own the apartment we are staying at. Then we went to meet the bishop of the ward. He seems like a nice enough guy. Then we went to bed. This morning we woke up had comp. and personal study and now we are here. Normally we would not do email today, but Elder Greene said that it wold be okay since you are expecting to here from me. Well I think that I am getting short on time and I don't want to loose this email so I will get going now. I hope this email is not to confusing. I didn't really get a chance to read back through it. Just letting you know that I am doing well and I know that the gospel is true. So, until next time....:)
-Elder Carter