Letter from January 24, 2008

Hey
I have some really cool stories already and its mostly within the first few days. The first day I ate some kanga, and it was covered in BBQ Sauce so it was really good, then for that night we tstayed in a place next to the temple for people who needed to say over night to go to the temple. Anyway the 20x30 bedroom had 10 beds in it and then there was 2 showers. 10 of us had to stay in there and we still had all our luggage that was a fun night and morning.
Another story is the next day when we got assigned our companions they were taking us all around to our different flats in this rental van that was a 10 seat van. Anyway there were only a few people left to drop off ( I was going to be the last one) and we pulled up to this apartment complex that the parking went under the second floor of the building kinda. Well we started to pull in and we found out the van was too tall, but we had already pulled in. The assistant to the president was driving and he had pulled in and hit the roof of the van. We couldnt back out cause the van looked (see pic)like this we had a trailer on the back for luggage. So we took off the trailer and tryed to do 100 point turn to get out because we couldnt go back through because we didnt want to hit the pipe on the other end. But after 90 points of the turn we found out we didnt have enough room. So we had to turn back the other way 190 points to get turned around. Then we decided to take the air out of the tires to try to get more clearance. After that a few of us got in the back of the van (1 of them being me) to weigh it down. And as we were pulling out you could see exactly where the beam was from inside the van. Wow!! cool story, for my second day in Australia I guess
Love Elder Andreasen