Missionary Work

One of my best friends Bryan . . . obviously the one in the tux right?

is on his mission in Chicago, Illinois. I want to share a section of his letter with all of you, first of all because it's an awesome missionary story that I'm sure he will tell over and over again, and second of all because something crazy, funny, and traumatic like this would happen to him!

Something you have to understand about my dear friend Bryan is that he is the funniest person I know. Not one of the funniest, the funniest!

The first letter he sent me, my mom and I laughed non stop.

In this letter, he is explaining to me the experience he had when Elder Perry visited all the missionaries in Chicago.

-Elder Perry was awesome, he's a lot taller in real life, probably about 6'2''! Except I never want to meet an Apostle again because they can see through your soul! Here's the story . . . so my companion is a lazy piece of crap and doesn't even get up until about 10:30 so we usually skip part of the missionary daily routine called companionship study, because I'm so tired of waiting for him and I just want to get out and work. So the morning of meeting Elder Perry we drove down there and he wanted to shake hands with all the missionaries. So I'm standing in line excited to shake his hand! I finally get to the front and as I'm shaking his hand he looks me right in the eye and says "Elder, did you do companionship study this morning?" (How the fetch did he know?) I didn't want him to think I'm a bad missionary so instantly without thinking i said "Yes!" Then I thought in my head 'did I just lie to an Apostle of the Lord?' So then I blurted out, "No! No I'm sorry!" He just looked at me weird and then just walked away. It was the worst experience ever!

HAHA isn't that great!? That is him word for word. His first meeting with Elder Perry and he lies to the man.