Georgia On My Mind: Cusseta and Fort Benning

Kimmie!

I attached some pictures just for you so you can see what’s going on. They are: my beautiful face of course and stuff from the infantry museum so that’s good for you :) forward them to everyone for me. Saves me time haha like to mom and dad mostly.

What’s up chicken neck haha I know exactly how you feel about not wanting to do anything some days and you feel that you not good enough and just let down? Yupp I know that. I have experienced it a lot down here. The best remedy for that is just to pray and ask for strength and read them scrips. That’s the best. And it always helps just to do it even though you don’t want to and always put a smile on that ugly mug of yours haha jk. (I try to make you smile :) like that so do it. The thing that puts me down is to see everyone at home doing all these cool things, weddings and parties and things just going on. That kills be but what evs. I’m having more fun probably even without an iPhone (which I miss so be-ad)

The area is small. Like a little bit bigger than Bee, Nebraska. I mean it has a high school and a post office and a couple (3) restaurants. So not very big. The base is awesome. I mean it’s a base. Not much to it other than its massive. Tanks and copters and trucks and camo everywhere. It’s hard to explain. So look it up on goggle that will help you out a little bit. It’s hard for me to explain things in a letter. I’m not good with words.

Everything here has been good. I haven’t been sick yet (knock on wood+ mom asked) no flu or anything. Nothing to worry about. Everyone has been asking about the hurricane stuff... To be honest I don’t know if we have been effected at all. I don’t have an understanding of the local weather. I just look outside to see what it will do and pray that I don’t get stormed on haha. It was a little rainy and windy so that could have been a little bit of it so I don’t really know :/

Things around Cusseta are good. Things still are slow but we are doing our best to do the things that we need to. There’s just not a lot of people in the 4 towns we cover so it’s just whatever we can do. It’s hard to be obedient in an area like this I have come to find out. Whens there’s nothing to do Elder Perkins wants to go home, and I go to. It kind of stinks but you have to remember to keep your head up and keep pushing on.

Fort Benning is of course still fun. It’s so cool to see the testimonies these young soldiers have and their willingness to come to church when they could be chilling in there barracks. It’s such a blessing I was sent down here even though I don’t like it. Its cool sitting down to study and hear the tanks let off a few rounds. I love it and can’t wait for my day to be in the military if that’s still the same thing I want to do when I come home. I have been thing a lot about the career path that i want to do when I come home. And I have eliminated ideas so that I will slowly pick one and focus on it. Right now its either military or its somewhere resort management so that I could manage Lake Powell- Bullfrog or a ski resort or something along those lines but I don’t know yet what I want to do or what I would be good at.

I mean everything’s been good here it’s just slow and not my type of pace but I’ll have to use my patience more. The base was good this week. I got to teach a guy about the gospel of Jesus Christ by myself and I see why we teach in 2s. It makes things easier. I did a good job I feel just hard to do it by yourself mostly. The package got here good and so did Aunt Kaye Lynn’s with Grandpa’s journals! They are so cool to read. He had good handwriting back in the day. A lot of the same struggles he had I’m having so it’s cool to read those and feel that connection again. :)
I don’t really need anything really. Just letters and emails mostly. But I love you all! Don’t forget it!

Love,

the best missionary,
willus