John 4-20-09

Well glad to hear you guys had a good time out there with brooke. O ya they just gave me my package. So thank you for that. Um here its pretty well off. As of right now i dont need anything at the moment. The shirts you sent me made me laugh. I want to send some clothes home because my suitcase is getting pretty heavy. I feel i have too much junk. O ya this week im might start doing some leather work stuff to bring or send home. Does everyone have the same size cuadruple? Let me know if you want one. And i might be getting a pretty sweet guitar strap made too with crocodile heads on it. But you dont need to send notebooks either... i already have some that are not very used. But thanks. The candy is always a plus. The past week went by pretty well. Our conference is tomorow with president and they asked me and my companion to teach the class about how to contact people in the street with the book of mormon. Its a new thing president started that we actually read them a scripture from the book. So we will see how that all goes. Im pretty excited. O the city im in is called Guabira, but the big city is called Montero. Its not in santa cruz its going by my old area like 20 or 30 minutes. But its pretty much the same. All the roads in our area are dirt. And this month starts the south winds which im pretty excited for. Because that means its going to get cold. Its been super hot lately. Its crazy. And speaking of bugs mom next week i will send you a picture a bug that comes out at like midnight i think. Its about the size of my hand and it looks like satan created it. Its pretty ugly. They say its a cockroach but i dont beleive it. I see them dead in the mornings sometimes. Never seen one alive. If you thought i looked dark in that picture that was in peru... here its even hotter. I got burned the first day. But those 2 big guys were my companions for a week till my visa was ready in peru. And the government does not like any church really. The president is an atheist and doesnt want any missionaries in the whole country. But here i am. About school i have been thinking more about that lately. Not really sure if i would stay in georgia or go out to utah. UVU is a pretty cool place to go and they have an alright basketball team( but i dont know how well of shape i will be in if i want to walk on) and maybe BYU im on the debate of that right now. But we will see. Dad thanks for telling me your experience. I have those all the time it seems like. We always use examples of faith in lessons. We put a book on a table and say like i have faith that i can move that book into my compaions hand. Only with my faith... then i try using the ‘force’ the people laugh and we ask why cant i do it? You need to do something to move it. That usually helps the people with there faith to get them going to church. Because here they are famous for saying i beleive in God and everything but i dont need to go to church im already set for salvation. So that gets interesting. But thats really all thats going on with me. I hope i answered everything. Thanks for the package. And hope everyone has a good week....Nos vemos. (see you later) love yallElder Cheesman