Johnboy 10-12-08

Well this past week was an interesting one. Well of course the cool stuff happends a day after internet and we almost forget about it. But i experienced my first earthquake last week! It was awesome. We were watching a church video with a family and we heard like a big truck going by or something but it kept on getting closer. Then the floor just started shaking. We look at the family and they yelled earthquake run for the doors! Me and my companion look at each other and just run for outside. And the whole street was outside. Everyone is paranoid here about earthquakes one happend like 5 years ago that killed i think like a thousand people or more. So that was pretty exciting. What was not fun last week i got kind of sick. Im fine now mom dont worry about me. But i think i got a lil food poisoning. No clue what i ate but i did not feel good that night. I couldnt sleep too well and had to run to the bathroom many times in 48 hours. I forced a throw up to make me feel better which it did. The next day was just kinda of hard for me because i had a fever and i was weak. But everything turned out fine. Umm about my stuff in Bolivia i have no clue when we are going to see it again we actually dont hear anything about over there. I did here its getting kinda of worse and all the missionaries from outside bolivia might have to leave. But that was a rumor who knows. Yes mom there are no trees in my area... its a desert here with big hills. Im in an area called independencia. But i live near a huge red electric store near my house so you can look for that in google. So ya we kinda of miss santa cruz for the green. And the fact that the sun comes out. O and Elder Ridge is a funny guy. He was struggling at times but we usuallyt make him feel better. He is learning so much faster than we did cause we are there to help him in every little thing. So he getting use to the life here fast. I am just remembering alot of stuff with him. But he will be fine. The leaders here are getting more use to us.. im not sure if i said but they didnt like us too much when we got here. But they have apologized and its getting better. Dad i think i saw that corn stuff before i never ate it though. O ya our pension is from Colombia so they love to hear that you served there. They said they love it over there and its way better than here. And i hope as well the gas prices go down. So by the time i get home it will be at like 1 dollar again right? Thats what we are all hoping. O ya me and Taylor make fun of yall about how you are talking to his mom and everything. We feel like little kids still. Its funny i dont mind. And that you just found ridges mom out of nowhere made us laugh again. Taylor is teaching me a lot on guitar so i am getting better at that. We are in progress of writing a song. O ya funny story. So i was looking for shoes and this is where i feel like im a freak. I go around asking people for my shoe size which is like 46. and it exists but they said in my whole area nobody has it in any popular store in the super mall. So that made me feel kinda like a circus animal. But i have heard that they do have my size in one place aparently i can get my custom shoe made. So im looking more into that. Dont worry about sending shoes i will find some. Man thats crazy that TJ came back i hope he gets back into the field. And its hard to think all the friends i had that are younger than me are in college. That blows my mind. The wall i tore down was a big brick wall and i had to make a door passage for them. So it was destroying with carefullness(i know thats not the right word) but you get the point. But ya me and taylor are still getting along really well. We did make it past the change and we are still together. We thoght they were goin to separate us. But we are fine for 6 more weeks. I dont think there is much else going on. Thats not fair that stacy lives on the beach now. I saw a beach the other day for the first time in a long time. We climed one of the big hills and we could actually see pretty far this time and we saw the coast so that was pretty cool. But im fine and having a good time getting use to the area and meeting knew friends. Some new northamericans just got in our zone so there are a lot of americans right now so it should be fun. Well thats about all, i will write you guys again next week. But thanks for all the letters and i love you all. Hope you all have a good week.