17 November, 2014

Hey guys, I'm on the ground in Lincoln and things here are great. My

 companion, Elder A., is really cool. Supposedly I'm "follow-up

 training" him, but he doesn't even need it. His Spanish is excellent

 and he's a lot of fun to be around.

 Plus he's also a skier so I have someone to commiserate with as I

 spend another winter trunky for the wide open slopes of park city.

 The members here are great. We ate with a member family from Peru, Los

 A., and they made us pollo salteado. It was ricissimo!

 We live in a cramped apartment with the Zone Leaders in

 Rocklin, where all the rich white people live. Elder L. and Elder

 C. are alright. Rocklin is nice area, but

 the majority of our work is in Lincoln, about 5-10 minutes away by

 car.

 It was cool to go to the trainers meeting in Roseville and see all the

 new greenies coming in. There was one Spanish elder - elder C.-

 and two Hermanas.

 So yeah. We have a baptismal date set with a guy named C. for the

7th of December, but he didn't make it to church this week. I don't

 know how solid he is - we've only had one lesson with him so far. This

 area seems to have the slowest work of any I've been in so far, but

 the branch members are great. I think they're really missionary-minded

 and willing to help out. I can already tell I'm going to love the time

 I get to spend here.

 Our address is …, in case you'd like to send me some food because Elder L.

 is a large Tongan and eats everyone else's (it's okay, we still love

 him).

 That's about everything for this week.

 Love

 Elder Nichols