Week 6 "On to Mississippi"

Text from early Tuesday Morning:

Hey Mom and Dad, this is Elder Acton :) I have made it to Mississippi safely and it is going well! I love the President and I am excited to work in the field! I love you guys :)

Dear Mom~

I made it to Mississippi safely! It's humid here but I expected it to feel hotter, that will probably be fulfilled in the summer. My mission President is wonderful and I am so excited to get going on my mission. I sent you a text from one of the missionary's phones this morning and I hope you got it! Yesterday was a good day, the Pres. and his wife and the APs and the STLs met us at the airport and took us to the church. We had a devotional type meeting with the APs and STLs while the Pres. was doing interviews. My interview went well it was a brief type of interview but he said that I was highly recommended by my bishop and stake pres. and that I've had many leadership positions in the church and that I've done a lot of things in my life (according to the info he had about me) and we just talked for a little bit. Oh and also Pres. Lyons told me to tell you that he is proud of me and is impressed at my hard work and is grateful for me. It was very nice of him to say that. After we had the devotional we then ate dinner and it was really good. We had BBQ chicken and cheesy mashed potatoes and veggies and salad. Then we went back into the chapel and had a Book of Mormon reading and then a testimony meeting. I bore my testimony on the power of the Holy Ghost and teaching by it and its importance in our lives. When we had got to the church, we were given a binder each specific to us with info about our mission and much more. Then we had prayer and went to the mission home where we ate some more food. We went upstairs and played ping pong and the APs and STLs went back downstairs and had a meeting or something with the Pres. and his wife. We were upstairs just playing ping pong and fiddling on the piano and chilling and talking for an hour our more. Then we went to drop off three elders to stay the night with some ZLs and the rest of us drove to the APs apartment to spend the night. We woke up at 4:30-5:00 and then went to the mission home to eat breakfast and we found out where we are going and took pictures by ourselves, with the Pres. and his wife and also all of us together with the Pres. and his wife.  Those pics should be being sent to your email this morning :) I am going to be trained by Elder Hubert, a Spanish Elder, who is apparently really good at Spanish and loves to work out and will be playing football in college when he gets back and I am really excited to meet him. I will be serving in Biloxi down in Gulfport (don't know if I spelled that correctly) which is right on the Gulf and is supposedly an awesome area all around and everyone tells me it was their favorite and they are jealous. Also I may be doing service cuz it did get hit by the hurricane in some places. I am so excited! but I am sad to leave Elder Isaacson and it will be really weird to not be around him, he has become a great friend to me and I feel like I'm leaving family again. I love you dearly mom! Tell everyone "Hi" for me!! I will be driving for 3 hours or so sometime soon down to my area!  Your are the best!!!!!! I am so grateful for you :)

Love your missionary, Elder Acton

Arrival Day! October 10th, 2017

President & Sister Olson with Elder Acton

Jackson Mississippi Missionaries 

arriving on October 10, 2017

with President & Sister Olson

On  the way to Biloxi, Mississippi

with Elder & Sister Morris and

the other missionaries assigned to that area.