July 22,2016

Elder Goertzen says that it may take a while for his mom to accept his friend request because she doesn't get on very often. Anyhow, I can relate with being really tired because now I have the best MTC story ever. My companion left the residence at about 10:45 to go use the bathroom and promptly realized that he forgot his key. Rather than knock on the door and avoid all of this hullaballoo, he went out to go sit in the lobby and wait for one of us to come out for something so he could get back in. Another Elder from the residence next door said they had an extra bed that he was welcome to (this is against mission rules, by the way). So, Elder Goertzen went and slept in their room for  the night. By this point I was asleep, but was woken up by Elder Fackerell with a campus security guard standing just outside the residence at about midnight. As it turns out, Elder Fackerell had been unable to sleep, got out of bed, and noticed that my companion still hadn't come back yet. After searching the entire building, he called the security guard over to try and help find him. For the rest of the night, I accompanied some 12 other Elders in addition to the BYU campus police force and the entire security guard staff here at the MTC to look for my companion. I was also questioned for a good 30 minutes by the police after returning to the residence. We found out later that the Eagle Mountain police had been contacted, and they were looking all over for him, including showing up at his parents' house and 3 in morning. His Stake president and his Bishop were called in the wee hours as well. Anyhow, he walked over to the bedroom at 6:30 and knocked on the door where those of us who were out searching all night had only been asleep for a short while had planned to, understandably, sleep in a bit. That is when he figured it out. Anyhow, it is all good now, and he didn't really have any consequences since it basically only happened because Elder Goertzen was too considerate to wake us up by knocking on the door. 

Anyhow, I do have my flight information back at the residence, and I will get that to you by the end of the day. I am pretty sure, though, that I will have to call you really early in the morning or not at all. I assume that, though, that you would rather get a phone call at 6 am than not at all. 

I love you Mom!