Elder Samuel Austin - Called to Serve: MY FIRST EMAIL

Hello everyone!

So this week has been crazy! First I finally left the MTC and we got here at about 4, We got picked up by the assistants and the mission president and we all went to the mission home. For the rest of Monday and all of Tuesday we were at the mission home doing introduction stuff with the assistants and the rest of my district that came out with me. On Wednesday we finally went to transfers and we met our new companions. My companion's name is Elder Shepherd. He is awesome and we are working hard. We got sent to Castle Rock, Colorado in the Meadows - in the Foothills Ward! Our area is only about 2 miles long and a mile wide. It is basically a super nice neighborhood and we mostly walk everywhere. Everyone is really nice and basically all really young families who moved in less than a year ago. It is a very young ward, but it has about 600 members! They are expecting to split probably at the end of this year. Oh and both of us are new to the area, and the elders before us didn't give us anything, so we have to start from scratch. We have talked to a lot of people in the streets in the neighborhood, but it is hard because everyone here is rich and doesn't feel like they need anything that we have to offer. We just have to work on the referrals we have, but it is the summer and no one seems to be home haha. But its all good we are still having fun. So far we have been going around meeting the members and getting to know the area but we will figure it out.

Miss you guys! Have fun during the summer!!

Love,
Elder Austin