John 05-18-09

Well being a zone leader is really different. I do enjoy doing the different stuff and my companion needs a lot of help. Last change he was zone leader on his own. But the zone is doing alright right now and president is expecting a lot out of me to change the zone. He sent me some new stuff to make all the houses better to make sure every thing is in order. To see if the houses are clean( they don’t know me very well then.) no mom you would be surprised that im the one always cleaning up the house or trying to fix something. My companion said he will start helping so that will be nice. It did get cold this week finally! But for 3 days. It was worth it though. The south winds came in and it rained really hard and then stays cold for three days and yesterday it got hot again. But we are hoping for another set of south winds soon. That’s crazy that steven in going a month earlier. That’s so awesome. That mission has to be freezing cold. I was thinking the other day if I come back in December that’s going to be winter there and summer here… and thinking how interesting that’s going to be. But the offices will ask me in about 2 months when I want to come home. Then they buy the tickets. So we don’t have to worry about that right now. I like being zone leader because I actually have a word in what we do and what we need to do. So I feel a lot better. And my companion asks me a bunch of stuff now what we need to do. But I have a good time. I got a letter today from the fifes which was really nice of them. Tell them thank you please. And I noticed lately the blessing of having a temple close to you. The people here have to travel for a very long time and have to sacrifice a lot of money to go to cochabamba. In my branches there are about 2 return missionaries I think and about 14 people that have been through the temple. It’s a struggle out here. Next Saturday we are planning on marrying a couple so that they can get baptized so im pretty excited about that. Lisa I did get to read your blog this time and it looks like your having a good time with volleyball and parties and what not. Kristi I did get your pictures. And just baptize this kid John send the missionaries. References are always the best. Even just tell the missionaries where he lives and knock his door ¨playing dumb¨ and see if he excepts. If not …. Just wait a while longer. Or better is invite him to come to the house to watch a video with the missionaries. Sounds like you had a good stake conference. And where is bishop trying to move to? I don’t remember hearing about he wants to leave. I haven’t tried any weird food lately because the pension lady is a good cook. But I do eat soup(is that how its spelled?) now I have gotten use to soup when its 100 degrees outside. Ummm we went to that big river in my area its called. The river madre de Dios. Kind of a weird name but you see a lot of it here. It’s a big river with a jungle background is pretty cool. But that’s really all I have going on. Hope everything goes well this week. I love yall and everything is back to normal here in Bolivia as I have heard. I will be sending for Americans next change to come here… but will write again next week. chauElder Cheesman
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