John 11-24-08

Well it sounds like everything is going well at home. How come I didn’t hear anything about thanksgiving? I thought it was last week? I have some funny pictures of our thanksgiving dinner with elder ridge. It was some crackers, cookies and a soda. But it was pretty fun. Well when elder taylor left he bought the rest of it from me. But elder ridge just got a really nice new one. He payed a member to go out and find one. So that’s pretty fun. Im thinking about it cause it was a really good buy for what he got. But im waiting to hear if we are getting our stuff. Now other news…I heard from a better source that we might be going back to Bolivia the 31st of December. They are starting to call missionaries back to santa cruz right now to go to the ccm. So im not too sure whats going on with that. Well my new companion is Elder Laurente… he is from Arequipa, Peru. He has a year and a month in the mission. He is an interesting character… he works really hard don’t get me wrong, I just think in the wrong parts. Sometimes it’s a little hard to get along with him but man I did learn patience the first few weeks here so that is helping a lot. And like dad said there is always good things you can search for to take from them. So I mean I will be able to get a long with him. He has a really really dry humor and same tone voice. So I try to make the best of it by making jokes and stuff. Most of the time I just entertain myself which isn’t too bad. I don’t know if I told you but I think my mp3 player got stolen the other week. And I feel bad to say this but I think it was another missionary because they were all in our room one P-day. So I wasn’t too happy about that. We do have some new investigators going to church a couple just accepted to be baptized with a lil more time. I did baptize an 8 year old yesterday. Yes Sunday after church. I know it doesn’t count for the mission but me and elder taylor thought we would help her out cause she didn’t have a dad or any other priesthood in the house. So we taught her everything and planned her baptism. So I really enjoyed it not sure how my comp felt about how we did one that doesn’t count for the mission. but its all good. I laughed pretty hard when I saw that picture of brooke. I didn’t think I would ever see her with a gut. (Haha when I tried to write gut I wrote guy on accident) that would have made a funny sentence. Umm Kristi needs to start acting on her charges then if she wants to live up to the brother. That was a big key to getting all of those. Glad to hear the guys are actually winning some for a change. Is the coach actually doing better now? Dad it was good to hear you have some baptisms planned for this week. And those activities with food do help a lot. Our problem is just getting money to do it. Sad that byu lost to Utah I thought they were doing better this year. And how much genealogy did you find in moms line? Umm really that’s about all from the past week. Just teaching who all is in our area to my new companion. He just came from the jungle of the mission where everyone wants to go here. So he was pretty sad the first few days to be here but it is getting better. But ya im staying happy don’t think from all this complaining ive done doesn’t mean im not keeping myself happy. Lets see if I will send some pictures to you guys. But ya thanks for writing. I love yall. And hope you have a good week.
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