John 12-01-08

Oops, I think one of these is a duplicate. Sorry. Mom

Well thanks for the pictures last week… i know i know elder cheesman looked dumb last email. Its all elder ridges fault that he kept on saying thanksgiving was that Thursday, and i didnt know any better. But we didnt celebrate it we just had a normal day. Umm anyway last week was pretty fun. I GOT MY STUFF! Ya they called one night and said i was going to the ccm again to pick up my bagage. So that was pretty fun to see a lot of the santa cruz guys again. And everyone so happy to see there stuff and also packages showed up for a lot of guys so that made them happy. I talked to elder taylor and elder hanks for a long time. Taylor has a new area thats just a hill and nothing else. So he just walks up and down stairs all day. also this past Sunday we had a baptism of this 8 year old girl. It was pretty fun. Her mom pretty much threw her a party after ward(catholic tradition) dont know how i felt about that but thats ok. So overall it was a pretty good week. Im getting use to my new companion finally. I think i have found to where we can get along. Its helping my spanish a lot i can tell you that. And we have a big plan for this month to get this 500 baptisms in december. Well here are some more pictures i forgot which ones i have sent but here are some more. One is of our door art me and taylor did with tape. Umm other of thanksgiving, and one of me elder walker stewart fiddler and rohton. I htink one of our baptism we had as well with my new comp. Umm so about questions... why would you send me a picture of brads come home thing haha just kidding. But thats pretty cool. Its almost a year away for me thats crazy. As for the weather we are in spring. Its starting to get a little hotter finally just in time for all my sweters to come from bolivia and not be able to use them. But it gets kinda cool at night cause we are kind of near the beach. Thats really cool about the football team i knew they would be getting better some time. And that the basketball team is improving. Tell that andrew kid cheese says hi. He was a funny kid we always messed around with him as a freshmen. I do miss being a handyman at home.... only some times not always. Everynow and then i get to use some of my abilities. We did do some service last week to use my height really. Putting some wood on top of a roof to keep it from flying off when the winds come. I get the 11 month mark next week which is pretty crazy. There some guys in our ward going out to the mission in january and it made me think i will be home for a year before they get back. So that was pretty crazy. O ya about the mp3 player is definatley gone because we had to clean out the rooms to put some new desks and new bunk bed in. And i searched everything and...nothing. umm i think i might buy one here that will be cheaper cause there is a really nice store next to our church. Or i just might have to get a guitar because the one from bolivia never showed up. So i might need some money this week.. actually more for shoes i think i might wait on the guitar. How was the new james bond? I have seen some signs for it and it looks pretty cool. There is some theater posters near our area we get to walk by and see sometimes. Well thats about it for the past week. Im finally getting use to the kind of work they do here and with my comp. The past week we have had some cool experiences finding new people to teach. And some old investigaters that are hard hearts. But they seem to trust me. A lot of times i catch myself teaching lot more smoothly than im use to. Its with the people that need a little more. Im starting to love the people of peru finally. They are not as humble in bolivia but im getting use to it now. Its weird because this is my 2nd area and its almost been a year. Crazy huh? But this church is true is really the only one that makes sense. The past week i started marking my scriptures a lot better to use more scriptures during lessons and im learning a lot. Like a lot of people dont know the story in Acts 8: at the end of the chapter talks about a guy reading the scriptures and gets baptized only because he had a testimony of Christ so it shows you dont need a perfect knowlege of the church to be baptized. But anyway i have run out of things to say. Hope everything goes well this week. And i will write again next week. love yall
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