Thank you for all the e-mails this week! I'm sorry I don't have time to write to all of you, but I hope this one e-mail will be okay. No I didn't feel the earthquake, although I was at a meeting before Church when it hit.
Anyways, Redlands is an awesome area. The only real downfall (compared to my old area) is that I am on bike again. But it is a good bike area because it is very flat. My companion, Elder Hanson has been out for 3 months, and he is from Riverton Utah. He is a great missionary and is very excited about the work. We teach together very well, and our personalities are similiar enough that we get along well. The work is a little slow, because they just had two baptisms, but it is incredibly fast compared to 29 Palms. We have about 6 investigators that we are actively teaching and a lot of other investigators that aren't progressing at all.
We have a lot of awesome members, and almost everyone is willing to do anything to help us. One funny thing about the area is there is a Boden family in the 1st ward, which is Elder Boden's brother's family from my first area. Everyone thought though that it was Elder Boden coming and so I get asked a lot whether I am his brother or not. It is just Elder Hanson and I in the apartment. The area is pretty big for a bike area, and we never go into one part, mostly because 90% of it is 7th day adventist. I do have my first bike, but I had to make a few repairs on it, which was very annoying, but it is better now then when I got it, so I guess it's okay.
Thanks for all your prayers, I pray for all of you every night, I love you!
Love,
Timothy