John 7-14-08

Well it sounds like everything is goin well at home. I am glad to hear that you guys enjoyed the picture of me and my companion.(he hates that picture) well I don’t know if I have changes or not. Im getting way to nervous. I don’t want to leave my area just yet. We found a whole city that doesn’t have any churches. But I wont know till this Tuesday if I have changes or not. But I am having a good time with my new companion he is the first one I get along with really well. We work hard and we joke a lot as well. Well the stories from the past week…haha o ya Kristi cant complain about any kind of food. This past week was my second time with good ol cow tongue. I have had it in two different ways. The first time I had no clue what it was I was just eating what the pension at lunch gave us. Half way through I was thinking what kind of meat it is. So I asked my companion and he just stuck out his tongue. Then I realized because the bumps and everything were still on the meat. It was just straight up cut up tongue. And the past week I knew before hand it was tongue. Which made it a little weirder I think. This time it was long slices of tongue. And ya it just feels like biting your own tongue but actually going through..ya yummy. But its not bad tasting only the thought. And who knows what else I have been eating I just know I would not have ate it before the mission. And I might b e coming back home a lil chubby. Surprisingly I am getting a lil weight on me now. We eat so much, every person that we go to invites us something. We had 3 lunches yesterday for example all in 4 hours. But cant complain its better than being hungry. Funny about that spider when my new companion saw the picture said he had a bigger one in his bed with him way up there in the north of Bolivia. But ya lil creepy at times, I just try and think of other things. Um nothing really yet is happening with the whole peru deal but I think us Americans are fine. Most people like us. I mean they all have at least 2 shirts that have the US flag or a mark from the states. About the package umm just kinda the same stuff you sent last time. O ya one thing I might want is the power tester I use to have. The pen one that would light up to any electricity. They don’t have any good ones down here. But I think that is the best address to send it I can ask president this week about it(we are pretty good friends now president and i) and I haven’t got any letters since the one of the Guatemala and the one lisa sent me with some stickers and stuff. But I don’t know whats going on. And about the money at times we run out of mission money and have nothing and so that’s our back up so that’s the really the reason I need money know. Im using it more wisely now. Because I am understanding whats goin on. But I think that’s really all. I am doing fine getting a lil nervous for the changes and Spanish is still progressing. Hope everything is going well at home and I love you guys.