hi yall. this is payton well any way i will start of by saying i went on the plane to oklahoma. and i fell asleep because we woke up at 3am and i drolled all over my suit jacket. it was fun yet embaresing. i got to sit by the window and when i looked out the whole flippen place is flat. there is no mountins or anything tall no sky scrappers nothing. the tallest building here is only 3 storys tall. but everything went well we landed president taylor and his wife picked us up. and we went to the mission home. we hade home made hot pockets. they were good buy had olives in them so i just had to grin and bare it. then we went to bed at like 9 because every one fell asleep in the oriantation. so president taylor just sent us off to bed. he is a great guy! he is truly an ispired man. we woke up (there are 12 of us) and had to fight for the shower. then we went to the church and met our trainers. my comp is named elder Damon. he is from the marshell islands. so his english is "No so good" but he is learning. he is a really great guy he teaches me so much. he loves to read his scriptures. and yes lauren he is good looking. just not as good looking as me Wink! well any way. on wednesday the tempreture was 117!!! and 100% hummitity. it was the worst day of my life. i was sweating like a cow in the oven on a volcano in the sahara dessert. but i guess its the hottest day ever recorded here. o and we are in a biking area. so we tracted for like 2 hours and allmost past out. then we went home. at the MTC i realized i laught to keep from crying. but now my comp has no sence of hummor. so i cryed like a baby my first day in the fild.i really just wanted to call it quits and go home. but i got over it in the morning. i know this is were im suppost to be. the people here are so nice. i finally know what southern hospitality really is. people are willing to do anything for you. like we get fed every meal. and we get free laundry done at laurens laundry, and free pizza at christs pizza. every body here belives in jesus. and that can be a good thing and a bad thing. because people say o we go to church every sunday. tracting can be very hard here. lots of people dont want to listen. and thouse that do want to bible bash. elder damon is cool about it he allways seems to know what to say. he is really good at talking to people. and me ahh not so much. but i will learn. the appartment im staying at is good small two bathroom two bedroom. theys say its the best place to live in the mission. but it kind of smells. and there is 4 people living there. me elder damon elder neild and elder kile. elder kile went to dixie highschool and knows deven. so thats cool. its a small world. ok so on thursday we went tracting again and that went ok. this guy drove up to us and said he would like to be babtized. so we took down his name and address and were teaching him tommorrow. it was kind of a mirical. gradmas packege was there when i arrived so thats good. THANKS GRANDMA AND GRANDPA!!! i loved all the candy and oreos. but im getting fat. because people feed us all the time. my bike got here ok but they deflated the tires on it. and they are french style inertubes. so not just any bike pump will work. so i have been borrowing bikes from other elders untill we can go to a bike store. friday i at we went out on a split with some guy in the ward. he was cool. he just bought a new car a BMW and he likes to race around. o and nobey stops at the stop sighns here. you just slow down. even the mission president. so it really should be called oklahoma stop. its cazy and scary. saterday i met the ward mission leader. he is crazy and akward. like he says stuff that you cant reply to. like the walls are sure blue today. and your like yep. (but really your thinking lets get out of here because this guys is nuts). sunday it was fast sunday. it was the longest fast sunday of my life. because sunday is not a day of rest here. its probably the hardest day of the week. we tracted all day and we viseted with members to ask for referalls.we met this one guy named john while tracking and he is what they call the "golden investigator" he just got into a car wreck and he new that god let it happen to him to hummble himself and go to church. so he let us right in and we taught him and he wants us to come over like everyday and teach him. today is pday. so we did laundry and we stayed there for like 3 hours to help lauren out. i can see why we get free laundry because she get 12 hours of free labor out of us. we cleaned and counted Quarters. she is a nice lady and stuff but any one can be nice to free labor. once or twice a week. we went to the gym this morning and got in for free. because the lady thats the manager is mormon. then we went shoping and some lady came up to us and asked if she could buy us lunch. we said sure. and she took us to this BBQ place. it was so good. it was probably the best food i have hade in the mission feild. we talked to her about the gospel and she said she has 46 kids!!!! form diffrent husbands and stuff. im like wow you need to slow it down there lady. i ges she has like 15 sets of twins. but she is a child of god. and we love her any way. hey ryan thanks for writing me i really miss you man. thts good you got your cast off. and thats cool that trisan came home. i wont see that kid for 2 years. well anyway im running out of time. because im on the librays computer.
send me mail just to the mission home i guess. i dont know our address. this gospel is so great its a really good way to live your life. i have a great respect for missionarys. two years is not a long time but its long enough to show your commitment to the work.
keep writing me i love you all. i will try to write some hand written letters today. because i only have 1 min left.
i love you . the church is true the book is blue.
Love Elder Payton
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