Wow everybody, has it been another week already? Yes boy oh boy it sure has! Anyways, I'm serving now here in Tasmania which is cool, I've heard tons of awesome things about this place, so I'm excited to start serving here. Leaving Elder Worsencroft was tough on Tuesday, but I knew that it's all just part of the adventure of serving a mission. The flight to Tazzy was only like an hour, but I got to meet my new companion, Elder Stokes. He's also the District Leader here as of this transfer, so that's cool.

On Friday we has something called the "Bush Dance", Bush basically being the Australian equivalent to redneck or "Hilly-billy", but that was heaps fun. Lots of pie there, and I got to meet a lot of the ward members which was tons of fun, and the members are really wicked cool and chill. In fact, the people here are all really laid back. The members are cool, and a few of the more popular among missionaries are Todd, Tim Eckles, Scott Prebbles, Jono, and Job Tai. There's a recent convert couple in the ward, David and Estelle, both in about their 50's who are a hoot. David will call us probably half a dozen times a day to see if we are busy and want to come over. He's a little "off", but all goods, nobody here in Tasmania seems to be 100% there hahahaha but it's all goods, keeps things interesting.

We also met with an investigator with a baptismal date for August 15, and he's really solid on it too, so that really has my hopes going for him!

Elder Stokes has been really sick with a cold for the past few days, so we have been spending a lot of time in the flat just letting him rest so he can recover.  SOOOOO boring, I'd much rather be out working instead of sleeping. Oh well, I guess what has to be done, has to be done, but I tell you what, I've never done so much Book of Mormon/Bible study in one day that I have in the past few hahaha.

We also got snow here in Launceston! Apparently this is the first time since the 80's that it's snowed here, and we got to witness it! We had a member, Job Tai, come over to our house because Elder Stokes asked him if he could help in giving a priesthood blessing, and when we walked outside to his car it was snowing! Job was WAY excited to see it snow there. He's seen snow before, but not in Launceston, so he was really happy to see it snow.

Anyways, that's the week for us, not too much has happened. I can't send pictures because the computers here don't have an SD Card reader, so when we go shopping today I'll have to buy an SD-Card converter for next week.

So on Thursday while we were walking around in the city we had some guy who was playing a public piano in the street (Just a random piano open to anyone who wants to use it), and he started yelling at us about how God doesn't save Mormons, how "Our American God" died for normal *$#@*#  people, not his "bloody representatives" (and bloody is a REALLY bad word down here), and other ridiculously profane things to us and it almost looked like he wanted to his us! A part of me was wishing that he did so we could smack him around back, but I just held my peace and did what I could to ignore him. It's hard being a missionary sometimes...

And I believe that concludes this week. I love you all, wish you a merry Christmas (It's really cold down here, okay?), and as always, God be with you till we meet again
-Elder Landon Cook