Johnboy's latest 7/28/08

Man how is Phil already home from his mission thats crazy. I cant wait to hear thatgood ol spain accent he must have. Everyone here in Bolivia makes fun of there accenteven though its more proper. I cant see phil eating cow tongue either. Or the drinksthat they serve down here. I struggle with this drink called Chicha. Chicha is ajuice made from corn.. ya interesting and then the mix with a a bunch of stuff.Like chicha de mani is the corn mixed with juice from peanuts. Or chichi de cerveca(whichactually means that juice of beer) but its really just mixed with grapes. I struggleat times drinking that down. But other than that im loving it. Im getting prettyfat im not going to lie. I have never eaten as many oranges or mandarins in my life.And im pumped for mango season coming up. Its in like 2 months and everyone herehas huge trees of mangos. Don’t be jealous Dad. But this month if everyone couldpray for a bunch of Baptisms. We didn’t have too much the past month but we havea bunch for august. I think we can pull out maybe 9! That would be awesome. Updateon Spanish is going well. I completed one of my goals I set in Peru when I wantedto correct a latin in there Spanish. And a teenager in our ward the other day wason the computer chatting. And was writing a bunch of word spelled incorrectly. Soa couple times I told him the right one and my companion just laughed on how I canspell better than him. But not saying I know this language yet. I also can understandthe little kids better than my companion. I think its because we have the same amountof vocabulary. Glad to hear that Kristi is doing well in Volleyball. But is she improving at all in Basket? Because that season is coming up soon as well… its crazyto think school is starting again there. The summer flew by for me. Well it was winter here haha. But I hear the summer is death in a couple months. And Decemberis when the storms start. Not too excited about that because the next change im going to the very north of the mission where it floods like crazy. But that shouldbe an experience. And this Batman stuff is killing me. Everyone talks about theyare goin to go see it down here and there are posters and previews everywhere. That’sthe hardest one for me to not watch. But I can wait. Heath ledger looks like he did a really good job as joker. Its not too cold anymore mom but when it is I haveenough to make myself warm so don’t worry too much about that. Umm I don’t thinkI need anything else in the package. But I will think this week and let you know.Just don’t make it too expensive. That’s cool that your having a soccer tournamentDad. I want to play im getting pretty decent at soccer now we play every mutual.And I get a goal every now and then. But I did play some basketball last week. AndI still got a lil something in me but I lost a lot. I don’t feel the same when Iplay. Anyway I love you guys and I hope everything goes well this week. And thiswork just keeps getting better, I have learned to love the people here and how strongthey are in the church. My first baptism(she is awesome) travels for about 40 minutesjust to get to church every Sunday. And half that time is on foot. And she givesus food every time we go there. But love all of you and be safe. Have a good week.