First Email

* Over the next two years we will be posting updates on Drew. This is his mom... enjoy!

Hello my Family! Greetings from the Provo MTC!

Life here is great so far! Im doing very well. I hope that you were able to get my letter recently! I sent it last saturday so it should be there soon! you can also let Jodi and Kendall know that there are letters in the mail coming to them.

SO!!! Where to begin... My companions name is Elder Mc Mahan. You pronounce it Mc Man so its kinda cool. Hes half black with way curly hair. he showed me pictures of it his hair before his mission and he totally had a fro. it was great. He also is half black. i think you read that in my way to formal of a letter that i wrote you. hopefully you dont think im not still a goof. =) but hey ive been able to go to the temple once and actually it was today! and it was a really cool experience! im learning so much here and its really cool! the first few days that i was here were a bit overwhelming. but its really pretty cool now.

the other elders in my room are way cool too. Elder Driscle is like a freaking genius and then elder steele is a rock climber. hes way good at rock climbing too.

My district is way awesome. I dont think i could have been placed in a better place then with the district i am now. however we dont have any sisters... we are all men... i cant tell you how upsetting that is... But what i think is interesting is we have so many different backgrounds of people in our district that im so suprised that we actually came together and work together as well as we do. =) we are always doing things to try and look out first for our own companion and then see to it that everyone else in our district is feeling accepted and welcome. and even though we have jocks, know-it-alls, goody-goods, quiet, and nerdy people, (im the only musical backgrounded one in my district,) we all come together and get along great. so far this mission has been fantastic. I hope everything at home is going as well as it is here.

Now that ive given you the update I have 6 minutes and 19 seconds to write you an experience from today. Today i went to the temple and just did the session and then came out. the end... haha! no. ok! while i was at the temple i got my temple recommend out of my wallet for them to scan and then didnt put it back in my wallet but just into my pocket. as i was sticking everyting into the locker i just brought out my wallet and stuck it into the locker on the bottom underneath everything. while we were leaving i realized that i did not remember seeing my temple recommend with my wallet. i check all my pockets but fail to find it. i go back in with elder mc mahan and they graciously let us go down and search. i wasnt able to find it anywhere... then one of the members of the temple presidency comes down and tells me if i dont find it im going to have to set up an interview with the mission president to get a new one. i didnt find it at the temple. i was a little upset that i had already lost my temple recommend after the first time that i used it. but as soon as we get back in the dorm, and after i checked all my pockets about 5 times. i get the idea to check my shoe... Lo and behold when i take my foot out of my left shoe a little plastic covered peice of paper falls out and then i find it! anyway im over my time limit so i got to go!

Kendall, Drew, and Jodi

Drew's best friend Carson came and took Drew in.

Last family picture

There goes my little boy!