_EldersSmart&Gardner_

So the title is our signature on our cell phone, just in case you were confused.

As you all know, transfers were this week. Elder Leishman's in a place called summerfield, and my new companion is named Elder Smart. HE IS WONDERFUL.

We have a lot in common, we both love music (both playing and listening), in fact he's taken music theory, so we can talk about music a lot. As well we both had a childhood based on classic cartoons and homestar runner (for those who don't know what that is, look it up). We quote Brian Regan to each other a lot. He's funny, and more importantly he thinks Im' funny ;)

Basically he's super happy and easy to get along with, and he's excited to do the work. We've already had our fair share of adventures just in this last week. Our recent convert friend Chris is the one who took us to Charlotte and back for the transfer meeting, and that was a trip. At that moment Chris hadn't slept in 72 hours, had 6 redline energy shots (you're only supposed to drink half the bottle withing a 24 hour period), and 4 energy pills. We thought we were going to die.

We've met quite a few strange people. The strangest is two girls who we met outside HPU who were very drunk and very high. They were very concerned that both of us have girlfriends and are still virgins. Well... We tried to bring the conversation back but they tried to invite us to a party to get us drunk and rape us... We're still both laughing and in shock about it all. 

We also helped the Terry's (members) cut down a tree. I'll include some before and after pictures.

Which reminds me, I'm going to start taking more pictures! Elder Smart and I are both pretty bad at taking pictures, so we're going to do better. The pictures I do have, Which may be in this email or in a separate one:

The ice storm a couple weeks ago.

The before and afters of the Terry's tree.

My sweet tan-line.

Elder Smart holding the part of a chainsaw the chain goes around. While cutting off part of the tree, the huge limb came back and bent the chainsaw part he's holding. Luckily he didn't drop it or fall off himself. If you're wondering why he's in missionary clothes, we were back and forth between appointments and cutting down the tree, and we were just leaving to an appointment. So don't worry, we didn't cut a tree in our good clothes!

I love you all! See you next week!

-Elder Gardner