John's email 6/30/08

So if you are looking at this for the second time, then you'll notice I changed John's email to the one he sent this week instead of the one from 2 weeks ago. Sorry.
I added my email on the bottom so you would know what he is responding to.
Love,
mom

Dad i got a couple of your emails. Just not any letters yet, im going to be asking more about this letter business I don’t know whats goin on. But I got a new companion this week his name is Elder Parra (yes if you look at his name he has a double r… which means I have to learn to roll my tongue perfect now. He doesn’t like it when people pronounce it wrong. He is from Lima, Peru and he has the exact same amount in the mission as me. We are going to be leaving the mission at the same time. And I don’t know getting him means I stay in my area or not. I wouldn’t mind it we are having baptisms like crazy. O ya this past Sunday we had branch conference and we had a goal of getting 200 people there to show the stake president we are ready to become a ward. Well we had 235 people show up! It was really awesome the… capilla?(dad translate) was filled. so that was a lot of fun. Im pretty much a pro at the area now people come to me for refrences and I have a good idea where they are each on they tell me. . Sounds like Kristi had a good time at camp. Those were always some of the most fun times with the team. Because other than practice in the summer you never get to see them. And I in stacy´s letter man if spencer can only do 18 push ups in two minutes why don’t I look as big as him? But that stinks he has to stay in that holding class so long. Dad the name of my president is President Maynes from Idaho. He is really really smart and strict on everything. He has a brother in the first quorum of the 70 that’s apparently the one in charge of the missions in this hemisphere. But I really like him a lot. Spanish is coming a long really well right now. I lead a bunch of lessons the other day because I had an interchange. So that was pretty interesting. I laughed about the murder and mike. Maybe the murder just felt bad and would turn himself in? o I did some fun stuff on Friday. Well Thursday we had our district meeting and the zone leaders asked if we wanted to this service activity of help building a house. So of course I volunteered because I like doing that kind of stuff. They said it would take about 2 hours not a big deal. So Friday morning at like 10 we went to this ladys house and she wanted to take apart the house she has now and move it about 15feet away. It was one of the most pointless reasons but he we do what we are told. Well I was lucky I brought my leather man because that leatherman built the house. We started from the roof down. Haven’t heard of that before have ya? But if was fun but now fun. kinda stressful actually because they said I was the one who knew most about this stuff so I had to plan it and design how we were goin to do it. She wanted the house a lot taller to. So after about 3 hours of planning in testing we actually got some where. It was interesting. To make a long story short we worked till 6pm but the house was taller she was happy and everyone was tired and we didn’t eat anything alllll day. But ya that was a lot of fun. didn’t think I would be building a house from scrap metal, tarp, and with a leatherman. You should tell mike Hansen this story. But we rigged it so bad because we had lack of supplies. So a lot of the corners and stuff are just wired together. So we are crossing our fingers that goes well. But that’s really all I got. I love you guys, and I will let you know what happends next week. The pictures didn’t go through last week so I will try again this week…

Hey There,
This was a fun week for us and I hope you had a good one too! I'm hoping the news we hear about places in Bolivia declaring independance from the rest of the country is not going to affect your safety! How is your new companion? I guess you are going to be there for a while if you got another new companion. Are you getting Dad's emails? He said he asked you some questions that didn't get answered and so he was wondering.
On Thursday we had Brenda, Eric, Mike Day and his family came in town and they are always fun to have around. Mike is working for the FBI in California and was telling us about some of his experiences. He told us one time that I guy had murdered someone that day and the FBI found out where the murderer was so they had the house and area surrounded by all of these FBI people and Mike and his partner were parked out front of the house. The murder and someone else came walking out of the house and Mike gets on his radio and tells everyone. He sees the two guys split up and walk pass his car on both sides. He was waiting for them to walk past and was going to get out and get them from behind. The next thing he knows he hears someone trying to get into the back seat of his car so he jumps out, buts a gun to the guys head and and tells he had better not move! When another car arrives a little while later they realize the murderer thought Mike was his ride! All the other FBI agent could not understand what happened. All they know is Mike radioed that he was coming out of his house and they the next thing they know is he had single handedly (I guess he and his partner) took down this dangerous murderer! So now when they have someone like that to arrest they say "Let's just put Mike Day out front and maybe they will come get in his car!"
We played some cards and some Wii. Lisa and Pete just got back from California and bought the Dr. Mario and a new tennis game for it.
I've been working on our reunion for this week at Ft Yargo. And working in the gardern and working at work!
Briana was my only Laurel that was going to be at Mutual this week so she came over and we played "Are you Smarter than a Fith Grader" and I guess I'm not, but it was still fun. Then we watched a movie.
It sounds like all of my siblings are going to be here for the reunion this week so I'm really excited about that.

Yesterday was a great day. Megan Waisath and her husband Lee were sealed in the temple. We went to an endowment session and then the sealing and then out to California Pizza. The Cersey's and Waisaths and their family were there and Harold Galvez. It was like old times. We had fun. It's hard to believe that all of these kids that you all grew up with are so old! They are friends that are more like family.
So church today and that is about it. Hope you have a good day week! I'm going to try to send a birthday package soon, with the hopes that it will get to you on time or that it will get to you at all. Is there anything you need or want in particular?

Love,
Mom