John's letter from 5/19/08

Sorry about the 3 comments on Brooke's post. What can I say it is 2:00 in the morning and I must have hit the enter button 3 times. You all know I'm such computer wiz.
Anyway here is John's letter. He is answering a list of questions that I asked. Mom


Thanks for the email mother. I forgot about that picture with president that’s funny. Ok the package I got was from lisa with some candy. The letter was from you and dad with pictures of Guatemala, which were really cool by the way. Good news im able to send some picture today. For p-day today.. it was an interesting one. We went out to a lagoon out in the middle of nowhere. It was a jungle/desert, the wind did not stop blowing hard for about the 2 or 3 hours we were there. We played some football and at times I threw the ball a little in front of me and it could come back for me to catch it without movin. We went in the back of this big truck. 12 missionaries goin down roads standing up in the back of a truck is a pretty funny site. Well on the way to this lagoon we hit all sorts of fun obstacles. First was a huge sand dune we had to get over. Well we already saw two other trucks like ours that were stuck so that wasn’t good. So we did some service there spending about an hour to get people out of the sand. All this is happening with sand blowing in our eye at 100mph by the way. That wasn’t too fun. But ya we kept goin to nowhere got a lil lost but eventually found it. While we were there got to throw a lil football back in forth. It was awesome throwing with the wind I threw it like 100 yards. Then there was the big hill of sand. And we had races running down it and at a line start to role to another line to win. Soo that was pretty fun. But I did get a lil sunburn because that’s the most direct sun I have gotten since I have been here. So that was all fun and on the way back we took a “short cut” according to the driver. Ya we eventually got to a dried out river that was all soft sand again. So got stuck a couple times but then at the end was a river to cross. That was pretty cool I walked across with 2 other elders for the weight to be lighter. So all that was an experience I have a couple pictures I can send today. I wont know if im being transferred till the first week in june. Which I probly will be transferred. The weather is always changing the day after it was cold it was scorging hot again. So we never know. But I love the weather. O ya I gave a talk in church about ummmm dìa de reposo get dad to translate. But ya it went fine wasn’t too nervous surprisingly talked about 10 minutes. I was impressed I could do that. I got a couple compliments but i think the others didn’t understand. I chose that topic because a lot of the people here don’t do the right things on Sunday so I gave a little waska(giving stick) to them. Im doin pretty well with the obedience, my companion keeps me in line. We don’t bend really any rules so all that’s pretty good. Money in my account every now and then I don’t think im goin to make any big buys anytime soon. Just check it every once in a while. And of course I love my mother. That’s an easy one. Ya when jacked barked a whole bunch of memories flew back in. but ya at times its weird what things we have in America that don’t seem to big that we need here. For example public bathrooms in our area I think there is one place with it. Or police haha. Ya the police system is really non existent here. If you aren’t goin 100 on the roads you get honked at. Well I guess no matter what you get honked at here. Ummm but ya I love you guys and I hope everything is goin well for the wedding this Tuesday I cant wait to see some pictures. But ya love you and I will hear from you next week.