January 13, 2011

January 13, 2011

HELLO and GOOD MORNING!

This is the FIRST E-MAIL coming from me that is NOT from NYC! I'm OFFICIALLY in the county of Westchester!

My new area is a little DREAM VILLAGE. Seriously. I'm going to seriously break man-code here by saying this... but it's the cutest little town in all of New York!! Hahah! I'm not sure how else to describe it. My area name is "Sleepy Hollow" but that also geographically includes Tarrytown and Elmsford. I. Love. It. There are trees and hills and little shoppes and everything is peaceful and quaint and everybody is nice and friendly!!! NOT to mention that I'm the official "designated driver" for the companionship- it feels SO strange to be driving again. I got re-accustomed to it about 20 minutes into driving... but it was almost scary for those 20!! Although our area is Sleepy Hollow- A.K.A Holloweentown- we live in Port Chester, about 15 -20 minutes away by freeway. We drive a little Silver Chevy Malibu 2008! It's SUCH a different atmosphere upstate than in the crazy city. We go out of the house, get into our car, wait a few minutes for the heater to start working, and take a peaceful, scenic drive through the snow capped Westchester hills into our picturesque little village. A CRAZY change from the high speed run-around-catching-buses-and-trains velocity of the city! Our area is relatively new- it opened up about 5 months ago, so we only have about 3 member families in the whole thing! So mostly we knock doors and "Make Friends"!

Right now, we are serving in the Westchester 3rd Branch! It's so awesome- it’s only a small Spanish branch of about 70-80 Members, but they are some of the most solid people I have met. The Branch President is named President Jefferies- he's Caucasian, but lived in Spain for 11 years so he speaks perfect Spanish! With the Z too! "Grathias?" Anyway. He's a great man and we look forward to working closely with him.

We've had some CRAZY storms here lately- already in the 1 week I've been up here, 3 days have been SNOW DAYS- cars; GROUNDED! Good days to catch up on reading or cleaning the apt... ew.

Hey sorry time is so short- we'll try a different Library next time!

The Church is True, even in Halloweentown!

B happy! B strong! B WARNED OF THE HEADLESS HORSEMAN!!

All my Love,

Elder Hellberg