08/25/2008

Hey Family,

The flight was good. We stayed at the mission home the first night. i got to try muck-tuck which is whale blubber. It looks discusting, but when i tried it, it tasted like watermelon. Weird!

Then the next day we got assigned our areas and companions. It was exciting. When President Dance said who my companion was going to be. This cowboy looking guy with a hard hat on and a cardboard sign that said Sterling or Bust! ran straight at me and grabbed me. His name is Elder Call. He's a really great guy. He's from Pocitello, Idaho.

Its just so beautiful up here. Course the i spy game gets boring cause mostly all you see is trees.

The first day with Elder Call was good. We live in a members basement. They're really cool. I also think im not going to run out of suit pants or shoes. Cause Elder Calls last companion left alot of stuff there. Elder Call had fun with me the other day. we left from our dinner appointment early and he said we had time to do some tracking before our next appointment. Well we parked in this parking lot for appartments. And we went up to this lady and started talking to her, she was upset and was sick of the missionaries always coming by so she told this guy to take care of us. and then all of a sudden she says to get off her sidewalk and get in her house. It ended up that it was our next appointment that was with these people. so that was his joke on me.

But we're doing really great and I'm so glad to be serving in Sterling. I about hurt one of the Zone leaders that day too. Elder Call was giving me a chapel tour and one of them came from behind me. He > grabbed me and took me to the ground and i grabbed him and flipped him off my back. It was interesting.

Mom could you send more of the vacum bags.

All my Love,
Elder Cody Lee Hoffman

P.S. I'll send photos in my next e-mail if i don't forget my cable to my camera