It is totally different here in BC... Good, just different. Everyone is so layed back. It is awesome. I am serving in a city named Cranbrook. Which is about a 5-6 hour drive South West from Calgary.. But I also cover two little towns, Jaffray, and Kimberley. Kimberley is so sick, as in sweet. It is just a little old fashioned ski bum town. It is definitely baller. Gotta love it.. I cover 1 ward, a pretty small ward, that consists of part of Cranbrook and Kimberley, and a branch out in Jaffray. We are expecting a lot of good things to come from the little branch. But wow, it is so beautiful here in BC. The mountains remind me so much of home. And every thing else is super green. I am here just at the perfect season. In Kimberley there is still like 3-4 of snow on the roof's and on the front yard, but it is slowly melting. I here it just gets unreal how awesome it is once all the snow is melted. I am excited. I will be using my camera lots..
In this area, we don't have any solid investigators or any baptismal dates. But we will soon! As long as our faith doesn't waver.. We will be doing lots of personal contacting (street contacting, tracting so forth) which my companion I don't think is to happy with that. But it is going to have to happen if we want things to get going in this area. We do rely on the members normally in our mission, but when absolutely nothing is happening. We need to get investigators to church and members will follow. Our stake is doing a "invite your friend to church week for Easter Sunday. So we are hoping for that to pan out big time.
My companions name is Elder Spurlock, He is from Kentucky. I am still on a roll for only having 1 companion from Utah my whole mission. That is pretty impressive if you ask me... He has been out 1 transfer longer than me. So 19 months I think.. Can you believe I hit 18 months in two weeks. What the heck.
We got here, and our apartment was disgusting. I took forever this morning cleaning up the bathroom.. It was disgusting. But now I think we will be good. Our zone is spread out over about a five hour drive. The biggest in the mission, but we only have about 10-12 Elders. Everyone has super big areas. There is one more set of Elders In cranbrook. Elder Caldwell and Elder Weaver, Elder Caldwell was in my last district for 4 1/2 months. So that was odd that we are around each other again, but it will be good. He is a way funny kid.
Yep, we are officially working out every morning. We go to the church with the other elders, which the church is about a two minute walk but for some reason we drive??- Elder Caldwell and I have been running 20 ladders every day. It is good. I am really working on eating better as well. It is going to be a lot easier to not have to have dessert here because we don't eat with members a lot. Not a lot of people sign up for some reason. Which kind of sucks.... And EVERYTHING is more expensive here in BC. So my money is going to run out a lot faster. I guess I will just be fasting a lot more 
.. So hopefully I can lose some weight before I come home. currently I am at 180 which is only a gain of 8 pounds since I have been out.. Not to bad, but I plan on coming home less than what I came out at... so I have some work Cut out for me.. It will happen. I am also trying to convince my companion to start riding a bike with me instead of Driving, at least when we are in Cranbrook, Given that Jaffray and Kimberley are 30 minutes away. But I am willing and hopefully able.
I guess next week I will be more prepared to tell you about our investigators and what is happening in the area. We do have some special trainings from the mission president tonight that will be really good, and tomorrow we have interviews with him. Those are always a joy. They happen every 3 months now. So It hasn't happened for a while.
Well I don't have much else to say.. I love you all and miss you..
oh yeah, we will figure out times for Mothers day call this week. What time would work best for you? What time is church and Everything?
And Holly is there anyway that you could visit up north that week?? :) That would make it a lot easier, seeing that I only have 45 minutes...
Love you..
Love Elder Dastrup
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