Elder Jaron Larson: BIKES!!!! on hills

Hey guys! So uh first things first.... I moved and they switched our apartment at the last second, so the CORRECT address is 801 Southampton Rd. Apt 171 Benicia, CA 94510. But no worries, if you sent any packages within the last week. It just went to the sisters and we see them a few times throughout the week.

So yeah.... Benicia! So far so good. The people here are really nice, it smells nice down here, the only edge I have on this place is trying to bike up and down all these hills. If any of you find a reason to visit here... you'll see what I'm talking about. My new companion Elder McGladrie is from Cincinnati Ohio and has been out about 15 months. He's cool. Im excited to be working in this area though.

Elder McGladrie

Vallejo bridge in the back

There wasn't too much that has happened besides transfers. But I mean... transfers were AMAZING! It was so good to see all the other missionaries. I didn't realize that I knew like everyone and everyone knew me. And the zone conference for this zone is combined with Vacaville, Fairfield, and Woodland, so I'll get to see all them again! That was pretty cool.

Most of our week consisted of settling in and CLEANING! Because this apartment was a disaster when we came in, like we didn't have a working toilet bad. We also didn't have areabook to work off of so we didn't have any phone numbers or addresses. Now everything is good. Clean apartment, we now have areabook to use. We also did have a ward Halloween party on Friday and it was combined with the lake Herman ward... So we tried to meet a lot of people but they were mixed. The peak of the week was biking 45 minutes to district council in Vallejo! It wasn't too bad, a little tiring, but hey, being on bikes... you can pretty much eat whatever you want and not gain weight.

Yesterday we bore our testimony of the book of Mormon to someone at dinner. The book of Mormon is SO TRUE. It's amazing. Understand that that it's the keystones of our religion. Without it, we are nothing. I'm so grateful that the Lord loves ME enough to send me his word, his gospel. It's my job to use that to it's full capacity and learn how I can be blessed because of it.

Thanks for all of your emails and love! I'm grateful for it everyday! Love you guys! Have a great week.

Love Elder Larson