John's latest 6-8-09

Dad thats crazy that you already got realesed. But teaching the book of mormon would be just as fun I bet. I bet it’s a load off your shoulders and sad to leave at the same time. That’s awesome that br. Bolt is bishop. Im sure he will do fine. I bet it will feel weird to be back in the home ward again speaking and singing in English. It would be for me.. and its good to hear that the land in Athens finally got sold. What are they going to do with it? This past week was full of alllll sorts of things. First we went off to santa cruz for our zone leader meeting. That was pretty fun minus that we were traveling for forever and we get there and its really really cold. This time I brought my suit coat but it didn’t help tooo much. Then we slept at about 11 till 530 woke up and went to the meeting that started at 7. and it doesn’t end till 230. the good thing is we eat lunch in the presidents house. Now its moms turn(her letter just loaded) thanks for sending off the package who knows when I will get it. But its funny you sent me that art book. Because we saw one Sunday and I looked through all of it. And asked around to see where we can buy one. But now that your sending one will be better. Thanks for that. Last week was pretty fun for me. We get back from santa cruz at about 9 in the morning(travled the whole night) once again 10 hours in a bus and 1 hour in plane. I will be doing this every month by the way. So we took a little nap and worked pretty hard and found a lot of families last week. We also bought ourselves a little present….. a 10foot long… anaconda skin… its pretty sweet not going to lie. We were knocking doors and a lady asked if we wanted snake leather. Of course we just wanted to see it. And it was 10 feet long! Imagine seeing that cross your path. They found it themselves. so we went back the next day and bought it for 70 bolivianos which is about 10 dolars. Took it to the house to dry it out and we are going to get some stuff made out of it. and I didn’t know this markus had a girl friend. Where is she from? I haven’t heard from him in forever. O ya that swine flu thing is kind of a threat down here. They say it has entered Bolivia but none in Riberalta yet. President has told everyone not to shake hands if you don’t need to. And be careful with who you shake hands with.(its pretty hard) and to stay away from kids in the street. Luckily noone has had it yet. That’s sad that travis already got it. what mission was he going to again? Im staying in decent shape. When we do service and things im the big guy that does all the heavy stuff. So that makes me feel even bigger around here. And it was nice to hear from brooke as well. And im sure you have changed more wards than I have in the past year. Im not very famous for changing around that much. And the doctors can never figure out why cheesmans are tall and skinny it’s the name I think. But just get mason fat to be even taller later. The other day I got scared because my hips and knees were hurting me for no reason and I got really tired really fast for two nights. I told my companion that it might be some growth pains like when I was 15. and he laughed to think that the people now think im huge if I get even taller what would it be like. And im not skinny and im not fat now by the way. Im in the middle and getting better with what I eat(because there isn’t much a choice.) o ya I almost forgot a bug story. Last week we were cleaning up a little bit and I sprayed some bug spray in some wholes and such. And I went into the bathroom to clean and I see something following me…. It was a good ol…scorpion! Haha but it didn’t do anything but it did give me a little scare. That’s the first one I have seen in a year and a half so they aren’t a big problem mom…haha. But that’s really that’s been going on lately. We did find a really cool dad last week that has 5 daughters and no sons. And he accepted everything from the first lesson. And at the end in his prayer he recognized us servants of God. Which was really cool because that what president has been trying to help us do to be representatives of Jesus Christ. We don’t introduce ourselves as missionaries any more. Because Pres maynes says every church has missionaries but we are the only representatives of Jesus. So that was pretty cool. Sounds like everything is going well for yall. Hope you have a good week and I will write again next week. Love yall.Elder Cheesman