May 25, 2021

 Hey everyone!

I'm up here in Casper, Wyoming, and loving it. This is a great place. If you all could pray for Heather and Gary, that would be awesome. They are working towards baptism and some prayers to help give them the motivation to read the Book of Mormon, that would be great.

For pday today, we played a lot of basketball and some disc golf. It was a beautiful day here, except for the mosquitos. We also saw a snake. 

Sorry for the shorter email, but I want to let you all know that you're awesome!

Thanks for all the love and support.

Love, Elder Pack

PS:  Ethan really is loving being back in Wyoming.  They have regular Church, they eat with the members, and they have people to teach.  It's been great.  And he has found a thrift store, so he's a happy guy. 😉 

They live in an apartment complex with a gym so they get up at 5:30 am in order to have time to go workout before they have to get ready for the day.  Ethan said he has been a bit sore but it so grateful to be back someplace where they can work out. 

He is enjoying being with his companion, Elder Wright.  He was a reassigned missionary so Ethan doesn't know if Elder Wright will go back to his original mission (I believe it was Madagascar) or not.  They are enjoying life and working hard.

The missionaries are being fed well.  There was a little mixup one-day last week and they ended up with 2 dinner appointments.  They powered through it and had smoked brisket first and then went to the next house for a cinnamon roll with chili on it.  Ethan said it was weird but they ate it.  When Ethan first got to the area, someone had deleted the food calendar for the missionaries.  The ward scrambled but they got it figured out and they are being fed really well. Ethan said that everyone told him, before his mission, that if he served in Wyoming he would eat a lot of meat.  That wasn't the case when he was in Riverton but it's certainly true for Casper.  Bryan is pretty jealous of all the smoked meat Ethan gets to eat.

Ethan with his thrift store hats: