John 2-23-09

well that kind of makes me mad that you didnt get my email last week. i wrote a good one too. o well. thats really sad to hear about jessica and her baby. and elder taylor did have an emergency change. that doesnt mean there was a disaster or something. that means you get a change when you arent expecting it. but he got changed and now he is in my district. so it is really fun to see him again. he is kind of mad because they are trying to form a rule where you cant have guitars but we will see. id rather be able to have a guitar than to watch a movie from the world. like last week for example. we started to watch the new hulk movie which looked pretty cool then the assistents called and said never mind i guess it has a bad part in it. i dont know why we have them in the first place. 0 ya dad about ancient america speaks. i think president wants to use it for the mission. and i dont know if i told you about the statue it shows in the movie about the guy that stole a bunch of gold from the natives. but i was at the statue before and have a picture of it. and im also going to try to talk to president about going to the ruins where that baptism font is. about tenis courts...they dont exist here mom. but kids do play in the street a lil bit. tieing a string across the road and playing. they play a ton of volleyball here though. i will try to play some basketball today. and my companion wants to start playing too. we are in a pretty funny holiday right now down here. its called carnivals and people through water from there windows and waterbaloons and you cant get mad. just keep walking. i got wet only once from a couple teenage girls in my other area. but i figured out we wont finish till march. dad that was an awesome picture you sent of the dunk. my companion liked it too. and all this about kristis last game.... i should not be hearing. .... she needs to play at least another year. cant give up that easy. and i have to come back and see some games. the first 2 years are the easiest but it gets harder and funner the last two years. and about working in the yard in stuff. dont worry i keep myself busy with plenty of stuff. like pushing cars down the street. and taking 40 pound bags up huge hills for old women. o ya there is a guy in our ward who is amazing. he is 80 years old! and he leaves with us to teach from 2 to 6 twice a week. and he knows the bible like the back of his hand. he was a convert from being a jehovas witness. he has some sweet testamonies. he walks just as fast as we do too so it doesnt slow us down. but we do have some baptisms this saturday which will be the firsts since december! which is pretty bad. but its all getting better now.(even though leaders alllllways think different) but its all good. anyways im having a good time still me and my companion have a good time. he is from the mountains of bolivia. he is twenty five years old as well. but he is still like a little kid. he says hello to everyone. he is a newbie also with 3 months. so that energy from being new he still has. but he still kind of works in a dream. its getting really hot here too. im sweating a lot more lately. and i hear its not half of whats going on in the jungle for elder stewart and a couple other of my friends. whats fun about this area is im baptizing a couple of elder stewarts old investigators. so it will be fun to talk to him about them. well i think thats about it. i think we will have more time to write soon.(i hope) but hope everything goes well this week. thanks for writing me and i love yall.Elder Cheesman