He made it safe and sound!

 Elder Hone and his mission President and wife

All the missionaries that traveled with him and his Pres. & wife

Hey Family!!!!

        Everyone seems to be doing great back home!!! I have been loving it here!! I am still in colorado springs! Still in the 11th and Ridgeview ward but only until monday because... I GOT MY VISA!!!!!!!! I am leaving to Argentina on Monday the 16th!!! WOOO HOOO!!! Awesome huh??? It's not too weird having Elder K gone, I have been working with Elder M as a temporary kind-of-zone-leader haha it has been way fun!! Elder K has actually texted me from home and has called me a few times since he has been home! It's weird.... I probably didn't tell you I have a cell phone huh? haha it's cool and weird at the same time!  I get 2 new companiions on wednesday and I will be showing them as much as I can in our area before I leave. I haven't met them yet, just talked to them on the phone! There names are Elder S and Elder N. I am excited to meet them and help them as much as I can in our are before I leave. I will be an in-training-missionary for the next 3 months because they have a 3 month training thing with you and your training companion and here in the CCSM (Colorado, Colorado Springs Mission) I haven't been trained I'm just a normal missionary so I have kind of skipped the training here. But I have learned a ton and I have had some awesome opportunities here. Today I actually get the chance to go pick up a brand-new missionary and take him out tracting on his very first day in the mission!! Exciting huh?? It's so much fun!! Oh the Waldo canyon fire is now 98% contained, (or at least we have been told that) there have bees some crazy big rain storms this week which have helped a lot!!  We do get to drive a lot and for a few days Elder M and I had 2 cars so we were trading off between my car and his truck every other day to save miles because we have a limit on how many miles we can drive each month. So we walk and drive both but we drive a lot more than we walk. The only reason it is P-Day today is because of transfers. The last week of the transfer we have P-Day on tuesday because of how it all works out. But it's only every 6th week that we have P-Day on Tuesday. But, next P-Day I will be in an Airport flying to Argentina and I will call you on the phone!! :) Exciting huh?? I am getting really nervous to go to Argentina now but it's okay! It's going to be so much fun!!   Sadly I will not be here for any of the baptisms.. One of our investigators is getting baptized on the 22nd so I will miss that one. :( But it's okay because I was able to teach them and to help them progress and commit to baptism!! This past week we recorded a waay sweet song that we call the CCSM Anthem! I will email you a copy of it! Some of the Elders here wrote it, sang it, and played the music for it, and I got to be in it as the Spanish Missionary representing the Spanish Elders here in Colorado Springs! It was so cool!!! So when you listen to it I am the Spanish guy asking the questions. Everything has been going so good though!! I am so excited to go to Argentina! It's so crazy how fast time goes by!! It feels like I just barely got to Colorado! I'll be leaving here with the same 3 Elders I came here with!! It's exciting!

   Well family I love you!! I don't have my travel info yet So i don't know when I will get time to call home, and I don't know where my flights start or end! So hopefully I will be able to get a hold of you all! I will try calling all the cell phones and the house phone! If I have time I'd really like to call Clint, Trevor, and Libby too. so If you could give me their phone numbers when I call home next week? Any way I love you all!!! I hope everything this week goes great with the girls being at camp!! Talk to you soon!!

    Love, Elder Talon Hone