What's up everyone! Finally, I have actually begun my long awaited church mission. And so much has happened since I arrived here about two weeks ago... Upon arriving at the massive, nice mission home I found out my first area was the Selah 1st ward! Selah is barely west of Yakima, has a massive Treetop apple juice facility as it's only and is smaller but growing insanely fast. There's a ton of traffic because there's only one way in and out and so many more people are always coming in every day. The people here are all so kind and loving though and this is definitely the best first area I could have asked for. I get dinner from members almost every night and the food is super awesome. I even have a super distant relative in my ward! Firstly though, I need to talk about my awesome missionary companion and where I live. My companion is Elder Shepherd and he's already been out for 22 months but he's nowhere near being trunky, which means ready to ...