tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8592188262768831992024-03-06T23:28:22.648-08:00Larry and Carol Cheesman Family BlogLarry, Carol, Brooke, Dean, Stacy, Lisa, John, and Kristi. All on one page.deanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01349847768892368653noreply@blogger.comBlogger186125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-859218826276883199.post-57978316468339109642010-07-21T03:42:00.000-07:002010-07-21T03:58:45.492-07:00New Job for DadWell, I finally got a new job this week. I am now working for Leads by Fone based in Snellville. Their website is leadsbyfone.com. My title is VP of Sales but I am pretty much the only sales guy in the office. We do plan to grow by the end of the year so I will be hiring more sales people and will have more to do. All of my work is on the phone so I get to work out of the house with Jack at my feet. I have to keep my finger close to the mute button when we have someone visit the house and Jack starts barking but so far, it has not been a problem. The work we do is generate leads for companies who service water damage restoration. We do this by creating a website that gets to the top of a Google search so that someone who has a water problem in their house will call them. The customer only pays when there is a qualified lead. The way we know that is we record and listen to every call and determine if it is a lead or just a junk call. Right now, we have about 180 customers and hope to get around 500 around the country by the end of the year. As we go forward, we will add more vertical markets. The next vertical we will be adding is back pain so we will be calling all the chiropractors in the country which will keep us busy for a while. We look for markets where there is an immediate need and the revenue generated for the customer is substantial. <br /><br />I am excited to be with a young company like this and have the opportunity to help them grow and establish a solid base of business. It should be fun. We will see.Dadhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05390478719017388584noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-859218826276883199.post-74242761867766662212010-01-18T15:19:00.000-08:002010-01-18T15:34:28.812-08:00My New JobI started working 2 weeks ago at Aramark Uniforms as a customer service rep. My first week was pretty uneventful and I just had to look over everyone's shoulder to see what they were doing because my computer was not up yet. Last week, however, was a little more eventful. I went out on the routes with the truck drivers! All week I had to be in Gainsville, Ga. early in the morning. (5:30-6:00). I had to get up at 4:00 a.m some mornings 4:30 other mornings. It was so cold last week that there was still ice everywhere. I knew I was in trouble when I got to the depot and all of them but one were smoking and talking with some pretty foul language! I went with a different driver everyday and when we were on the truck together, they were such nice gentlemen and we had a lot of fun! I insisted on getting right in and working with them so I could understand that side of the company and so we could get done sooner. Well, I can tell you this, those guys earn their money and some of them make really good money! I was so dead the first night I think I went to bed by 8:30 p.m. Tuesday was hard as well, but by Wed. I was starting to get use to it and did fine the rest of the week. By Friday, the weather was nice and didn't mind it at all. Of course Friday was the day I got the non-smoker and it would not have been cold with the window down. The rest of the week when it was in the 30's that's when I had the smokers that would open their widows to smoke! The scariest to ride with was the 23 year old that smoked and text messaged at the same time while he was driving! <div>Today I worked at my office and got my computer up! The rest of the week I will be working at the downtown Atlanta location in accounting for two days and then at the plant for 2 days, sorting and doing laundry (or at least observing). I haven't decided yet if I will join in.</div><div>I do love the fact that Aramark wants us to know the whole company so we can do our jobs better. It's been an adventure!</div><div><br /></div><div>It's been great having John home! I loved having all of the kids home and hated to see them all leave! I missed Spencer, but am thankful for the service he is giving our country! </div>Momhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17501583079416519416noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-859218826276883199.post-41459264118103213972009-12-14T09:05:00.001-08:002009-12-14T09:05:41.765-08:00John's Email 14 Dec 2009 [last one from the mission!]Well this is pretty crazy… i will be seeing yall this week! Im pretty excited. Last week was pretty cool, we had a conference with Elder Gavarret from the 70. It was pretty good and I talked to him for a little bit after and he thanked me for all the serviced I have done and made me feel really good. Yesterday was cool to see some of the families I baptized giving there testimonies. All the kids talked about me in there testimonies. I think they are sadder than anyone. But I have some good bye lunches and dinners with them as well. Wednesday im going to santa cruz, and Thursday is at the mission home. So today and tomorrow are my last work days, most of it is to teach new members to make them stay active. Friday im getting there around 1130 in the morning. I leave here at like midnight. Im doing pretty well of working until the last day. Its kinda of hard though. Im thinking of the things I want to do when I get back but it seems like too many things. As for the roast I am find with that. as long as it doesn’t have rice. I know it would be amazing with rice but I think im 30 percent rice now I have eaten so much. Im not picky anymore. About my clothes, I think I only have that huge box, I don’t think I have anything else. Im actually pretty nervous to come back. I got culture shock going to santa cruz I cant imagine America. I realized that I cant decide on anything anymore. There is a place there like wal mart, and I couldn’t deside on anything to buy because there were a lot of options. Riberalta is a little different. You don’t have any choices, there is one kind of everything. So we always get the same. Which made me bad at decision making. Im excited that everyone is staying home for a while when I get back. It will be a lot nicer though calling instead of waiting every week to write a bunch to everyone. Im trying to update my journal. I haven’t done too good at doing it but I think it will be enough. Well I guess I have a talk next week, but you didn’t tell me a subject. Just Christmas stories? Well I guess you will just answer that in the airport. Its sad to say bye to everyone here especially being here for so long. Im not too excited though about there way to say goodbye. The culture is here is to either, through water on the person, smash an egg on there head, or through flower on the person who has a birthday or is leaving. I don’t enjoy it too much but I cant really do much. But that’s all im going to write because I want to be able to have stories for Friday! Im pretty pumped for that. well see you this week! Love yall<br />Elder CheesmanUnknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-859218826276883199.post-41941897688479930712009-12-07T09:30:00.000-08:002009-12-07T09:31:27.344-08:00John 12-7-09Congrats mom on the job. What is it exactly that you will be doing? Kinda crazy that next week I will be back, it still hasn’t hit me that big yet though. I don’t think it will till im on a plane. The zone leader conference was really good actually. I had to give my testimony in front of everyone which felt really weird because for 2 years I have seen other missionaries do that. And we came all the way back on the famous bus ride and plane. But it’s the last of those buses finally. The plane flights were pretty miserable actually because it was raining and really humid. So it got really hot in the plane and was moving around a lot. So im ready for being done with those. I really don’t like them that much anymore. Im not sending anything home because I don’t trust too much in the postal system. Im just going to leave a lot of clothes that are ruined now and I will have some room. Im just worried about if im allowed to take 2 carry ons and my guitar to santa cruz. I will figure it out some how, they are my friends in the airport now. Yesterday were the elections for Bolivia. And evo morales won, again. So we are all praying that we don’t have to leave again. But tomorrow another exciting thing is happening. We are going to Trinidad to have a conference with a 70. Elder Gavarett is coming. He is pretty new but I hear he is a really cool guy. And then next Tuesday or Monday we are having a regular zone conference. So I don’t have that many work days left. I have a feeling that they are going to ask me to do all the practices and stuff in front of the 70 because im one of the only people going home. Well elder Vandyke from my group will be there as well. Yesterday for the elections we didn’t leave the house allllll day. Because its against the law to do anything on elections day. You can only vote. So me and elder annis played a lot of cards, chess, checkers and I read some as well. I finished the book of mormon again. That’s my 2nd time in Spanish. So that was pretty awesome. I learned a lot more this time as well. I don’t think I will have a baptism before I leave but there is a lot for when I leave. Its not that hot today but always right at noon it gets really hot here. But I love the rain because there is no dust and it makes the day a lot cooler. Im kind of jealous you guys got to go to a concert. The masquerade is a pretty gross place as well. Funny to imagine mom and dad there actually. But I bet it was fun having them at home. Brooke I am pretty excited to see mason, apparently he will be talking in Spanish when I get home huh? And is it expected to snow this year in Georgia? Or just like ice and sleet? I don’t know how I will react to the humid cold of Georgia. But im excited either way. Well anyway have a good week everyone. And mom how long is everyone staying for when I get back? I love you all and see yall next week!Elder CheesmanMomhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17501583079416519416noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-859218826276883199.post-68303144462122304732009-11-30T08:26:00.000-08:002009-11-30T08:27:05.517-08:00John 11-30-09Well thanks everyone for the letters this week. Today we are heading off to santa cruz for the zone leader council again. Its pretty weird because its my last one! So im pretty excited about that. Sounds like last week was a pretty exciting for everyone. I bet the BYU game was pretty sweet. About which room I want I think I would like the basement again. I do kind of miss that room. Not that I don’t want to be close to yall or anything but I did like that room. I will keep it cleaner this time…I hope. Im trying to look at the pictures everyone sent me but they talk a long time to open. Next week by the way are eleccions here and we aren’t allowed to leave the house all day Sunday. There isn’t going to be church in the whole country. Crazy huh? O ya by the way mom I would like a little bit of ..¨dinero¨… cause im going to be buying some stuff today. And in the next few weeks. Maybe for some Christmas presents. Brooke cooking turkey sounds like an adventure. I don’t know if I have ever eaten food cooked by brooke. Last week that couple did get married and the husband was baptized. It was a pretty crazy baptism as well. Because people would show up late and stuff. But the worst part of it was that the church didn’t have any water to fill up the Baptismal Fount. So we figured out there is a tank of water below the church and we heard that it was little dirty which we didn’t care too much. It didn’t look that bad when it was filling up…..but…. when it filled up it looked bad. It was pure river water and really really dark green. You couldn’t even see the ground, so that was pretty funny, but there were no other option. So we asked the people that were going to get baptized if it was alright to get baptized in that water and they said it was fine. We made a joke out of it that Jesus was baptized in a river just as dirty as this and now your following his example even more. But everything turned out fine. What I was happy about is that he showed up the church the next day with a tie on. He had never wore one before. So that was cool. For a person to wear a tie here is a lot more difficult then you think. And for thanksgiving, we went to the cool looking restaurant and it was awesome. They made really really good food. We invited two other missionaries to come as well. And we ate a lot. It was pretty expensive but worth it. Well for bolivan money it was really expensive. It was like 30 dollars in total. I shared a filet mignon with my companion which was very good. The coolest thing about the place is that it has tiger skins everywhere and anaconda skins that are 25 feet long. So I enjoyed myself. Its weird to think im only going to church here one more time before im back home. Im kind of nervous to get back actually cause im not use to the life back at home. It will be a little weird at first like not inviting 140 people a week to church. But I don’t have anyone on my mind for the little home coming party I would invite. I think most of my friends will be home for Christmas so im happy about that. I got to start thinking of where to work as well while im back. Um but so a little bit of money as soon as possible would be nice….maybe today? Because I wanted to buy a few things while I was in santa cruz. O ya I didn’t tell what we sold for a fund raiser. We sold empanadas to the missionaries. And I made them eat a lot. It was funny. But they got enough money. Anyway im staying pretty happy, just a little worried about the baptisms for December. Anyway i got to go. Everyone have a good week. Love yallElder CheesmanMomhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17501583079416519416noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-859218826276883199.post-51143633018088617432009-11-23T07:58:00.000-08:002009-11-23T09:18:38.957-08:00John 11-23-09This week actually went better for us as a zone and area. We had more people in the church this week as well. So I am a little happier this week. And I don’t walk under too many trees anymore so I wont get attacked by snakes. Im trying better to take some good pictures of Bolivia. Im not going to lie there are some really cool places. It hits me that im in the middle of a jungle when I see a couple things like…. Naked kids running free in the street, kid with a monkey on his head, when everyone invites us bananas, and the other day it was funny because we heard like a screeching animal noise and my companion and I both knew it was a monkey. So we even know how every amazonic animal sounds. But its crazy how time is flying by. Only like 3 weeks left. And on the 6th there is no church and we stay in house. But I don’t think there will be as many problems as last year. There are a few problems with some candidate stuff with like teenagers coming and throwing rocks at them but that’s about it. And mom I haven’t been gone for that long.. I do remember what pie night was. Haha but im thinking of doing my own kind of pie night here. I don’t know what I will do but I know thanksgiving we are going to a cool restaurant here. So im pretty excited about that. O ya lately I have been learning how to cook some stuff here as well. I learned how to make some really good cheese empanadas and as well a side dish called Rice with Cheese. It is really really good. I hope I will be able to cook it at home. But I don’t know much else to cook. Because we rarely ever cook here. This Saturday we have a baptism of a couple, the wife is already member and we need to get them married first before we baptize him. Today we are doing a little fundraiser so that they have money to get married. So im pretty excited about that. But there isn’t much else going on, im staying pretty happy and still trying to work hard. My last zone leader thing is the first week of December, and the zone meeting will be like the 11th but I will be here in riberalta till like the 16th I think. That’s if I don’t have a change on the 3rd. but I don’t think I will. But anyway that’s about all that’s going on. Lisa im not really sure on my waist size but I do fit in all my clothes still. So I don’t think I have changed too much. Im trying to keep myself disciplined on what to eat but there isn’t much choice for me out here. Well I love yall and I will be writing again next week!Elder CheesmanMomhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17501583079416519416noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-859218826276883199.post-32724766306828246182009-11-16T08:13:00.000-08:002009-11-16T08:21:08.231-08:00JohnWell i got a couple stories for this week, yesterday was the most exciting… after the first branch in the morning we went and talked to a member to plan to pick up and investigator. So we were talking outside under a mango tree, and something fell on my shoulder then to the ground. I didnt think much of it but my companion kind of yelled and i looked. It was definitely, a snake! Haha it was hunting a tree frog and they both fell down. The member was freaking out telling us to kill it. Me and my companion just wanted to watch it. It was like 3 feet long and pretty skinny. It looked like a long garden snake, so it didnt look to dangerous, but apparently its one of the most venomous snakes in the area. But the story doesnt end there...while we looked for something to kill it, it got away from us. So once it was gone we got back to talking like normal. My companion was about to lean against the fence and screamed (like a little girl) there it is! It was on the top of the fence sneaking up to bite my companion. It was the first animal i have seen that has come back for vengeance. So at the end of everything we got a huge log and we killed it. And it was an awesome adrenaline rush. Also last week we had zone conference with president maynes. And it was funny when he flew in because the same day a senator running for elections was coming in as well the same day. So we are walking to the airport and there are a million people in the streets, as well in the airport. I think there were at least 5,000 people there. And president maynes gets there and sees all the people and just laughs. We told him it was all for his arrival. But we were stuck there till the senator actually got there and everyone went crazy like it was a celebrity. Stormed the airplane and everything. I got a good laugh out of that. And president did a really good conference this time again. It was really weird though thinking the next one is my last one. This week I will only have a month left. President told me I will still be here probly when I finish. I will be going back to santa cruz like the 16th and have the dinner and interview. So that should be pretty fun. As a zone we are doing pretty well. Our area is kind of going down. The people that were going to get married and baptized are having some problems and the members are not getting animated. There was a problem with some new member kids watching some movies that are against our church and doubted there testimonies. But i think we helped them out some. Last Monday we went as a zone to Tumi Chuckua which is a big lake. I have gone before but the whole zone is new so we went again. And we played a little bit of soccer. And of course the Americans beat the latins again. So we are always making sure that they remember that. The cool thing was at our half time we just went around picking up mangos on the ground for a snack. I forgot to tell dad that. Its mango season and for the past month there has been a ton of mangos everywhere. And all types of mangos. Bolivian, rose, Japanese, grape, papaya, pineapple, all sorts of mangos. I think the best are the Japanese mangos. Had some mango juice that was really good. I filled myself up on it and didn’t eat much lunch. But don’t be jealous dad. It hasn’t rained too much lately but it was cloudy a couple days and then it gets really really hot and goes back to a little cloudy. This morning started out pretty cool, but its already getting hotter. Here in riberalta there isn’t really seasons. The people say seasons like, the rainy season and dry season and maybe a dust season. Nothing else. There is only a time for the south winds to come in like may when it gets cold but for only like 2 days. But im kind of use to getting home really really wet from sweat and filthy from the seats people give us from all the dirt here. Um but there isn’t much else to tell. Sounds like it was a good fireside you had from that guy. There was a saying that president maynes used that is close to what he said. He said ¨good is excellent´s worst enemy¨ just to not settle for being good. But that’s about all that’s been going on. O ya james gosling is going to the mission of an elder in my zone. He said its amazing there and he will have a good time. And that’s cool that bj is going to long beach. That would be an interesting mission as well.Elder CheesmanMomhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17501583079416519416noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-859218826276883199.post-21383507828783398452009-11-09T08:18:00.001-08:002009-11-09T08:18:46.405-08:00John 11-09-09Last week was our little conference with the zone leaders again. It’s always pretty fun, even though the trip there was not fun at all. 2 nights in a row without a bed is not fun. 2 nights on a 10 hour bus ride and hot is not always the best thing to do. But the conference was really good. Sad to see some of the guys home this change though. Kind of weird the next one im finishing. And by the way im getting home on the 18th. I was looking at the flight plans and I leave at midnight Thursday/Friday and I get home Friday morning at 1130. Not on Saturday. I am pretty excited to come back, but don’t worry I plan going out with a bang. This month could be the best month the zone will do since I have been here and as well in my area. So im pretty excited about that. At the conference last week, I got to sit next to elder taylor, whom I have not seen since march. So that was really fun to see him again. Sounds like dad had a good week up there in Utah im trying to get through the pictures so I can see how it was. Kind of weird only have like 6 more weeks left. Today I complete 22 months in the mission. Weird to think its been that long huh? Im pretty much a bolivian now. But I am practicing my English to be able to communicate to people when I get back. Yesterday I gave a talk in sacrament again about the atonement and I thought it was pretty good. I think I might get nervous for my coming home talk though. There people actually know if you are speaking true doctrine or not… but I do pretty much have a calling here. In the morning branch I teach the Youth/Investigator class every week. So I get along pretty well with the youth. I made them do practices of inviting there friends to church, and it went pretty well. Im pretty excited to come back and seeing some basketball, it has been a long time since I have seen a game. Its doesn’t even make the papers the news or anything at all. Also want to see some high school ball as well. That’s cool that max is the only white guy, and Mormon on top of that. I liked your experience brooke about the ¨mucho gusto¨ it would make since in our language, but its funny to see the changes they make in other. Like the other day we were talking about a verb change that’s really weird. Like Bañarse means to bathe yourself…. When you change it too.. Nos Bañamos, it has 2 meanings one… we bathe…..or two ….we bathe each other. So I think its funny we tell people are schedule sometimes cause it would come out like this….we get up, do some exercises, and then we bathe each other. Spanish is a funny language. So im going to be living at home for college, that’s good to know. I think I can save up a lot of money doing that. Um the weather the past week has been amazing for me. It’s not too hot and it rains at random times but its always cloudy I love it. The surprise rain kind of messes us up because we don’t have umbrellas-(but your prepared son always has a poncho) and so I never get too wet. And my shoes aren’t too great anymore anyway so it doesn’t matter if they get wet. They are still lasting pretty well. But that’s really all that’s going on this week. Thanks for everyone that wrote and I will be writing again next week! Love yall have a good week.Elder CheesmanMomhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17501583079416519416noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-859218826276883199.post-27449947356797618282009-11-02T18:02:00.001-08:002009-11-02T18:02:58.803-08:00John 11-02-09Well right now im in the city of trinidad. On my way to our zone leader meeting. But today was pretty interesting. Well we get all of our stuff ready to leave and we call santa cruz elders for some questions. And they tell us that our flight got canceled, and we will not be able to come to the meeting this month. So we both got pretty depressed because we were really excited to go and we didn’t plan anything for the next 2 days. So it was really funny… we kind of got in denial and did not believe that there were no other flights today.(o ya I forgot that today is a holiday here, day of the dead, that’s why they thought it got canceled.) so we are in our room mad, and we decide just to go to the airport anyway. There was nothing else to do because everything closes down the whole day. So we get there and we ask some guy if there is a flight leaving today and said there will be one at 2 o clock. So we go home call the secretary and tell him that. He replies that he will call us back before we go. But an hour goes by and doesn’t call. And our flight was leaving in 20 minutes. So we just decide to leave. We went to the airport and found out we have tickets from riberalta to Trinidad. The santa cruz flights are allll booked. So we come up with the idea that we will come to Trinidad and take the long bus ride down there. And so we are here now and just bought our tickets for the bus and we will leave at 9pm and we wont get to santa cruz until 6am. So tomorrow will be a very long day for us. But im excited that we are actually going. And yes mom, the tropical rain storms are starting. Last Tuesday, a huge storm came through. It rained really hard for about 6 hours. And it got up to like 2 feet of water! And luckily we were kind of near our house to grab our umbrellas and go back outside. But they didn’t help too much just kept our heads and shoulders dry. We had to walk a long ways too because the motorcycle taxis don’t work when it rains. And there are no cars there. So we walked and got really really wet. But it was really fun though seeing rivers flowing through the streets. Some had there own rapids. And it was thundering and lightning pretty hard. Reminded me a little of Georgia. And I will figure out what date they think im leaving here so I can know for sure tomorrow. I guess I cant forget about lisa and kristis birthday. Your all getting too old. Its going to be weird when I get back. Im pretty excited about school though. Don’t know where im going to live. That might be the next thing to work on huh? But everything is going pretty well for me. Im staying busy with the people we are teaching. This past week went a little better. I think we are doing better than a lot of the other zone leaders still. So I think this council I wont feel too bad. Me and elder annis are getting along as well, I think I can deal with him for another month(joke). Anyway I love yall and I want to see some Halloween pictures. Por favor. Thanks for writing everyone and I will write more next week. Elder CheesmanMomhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17501583079416519416noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-859218826276883199.post-5800851219471499222009-10-26T09:30:00.000-07:002009-10-26T09:31:15.625-07:00John's Email 26 Oct 2009Well thanks everyone for the letters this week. Im glad you enjoyed the pictures. Well changes were last week and im………still in the same place. Which I was pretty happy about. Elder annis and I will be together for another change. I think its because we are having some good success together up here. But the down side….its really hot and these little bumps always come out on me from the heat. But I can handle it a little longer. I bought some cream so that they go away don’t worry about that mom. Next week we will be going to our zone leader meeting thing which is always fun for me. Apparently elder Taylor is a zone leader so I will be able to see him finally after like 8 months. And are you sure we leave on different days? Because our secretary told us that we are going back the same day. I think it’s the 19th now. But that is not that far away which is pretty weird. It also started raining a little bit and we are getting a little bit of the rainy season. Im fine with that because its not as hot. But really really humid. Its kinda of funny you mentioned the people might not sing that well here. Yesterday me and elder annis wanted the members to start learning new songs so that they aren’t singing the same. So we tried singing some and it was just bad. Every singing there own tones because they don’t know how to read notes so that was an experience. I don’t know if I will be able to write steven on his mission but if you write him just tell him. He needs to have a tone of patience and have an assurance he will eventually learn the language. And ask a lot of questions to his companion. And just talk a ton in lessons even if they don’t understand you, you learn a lot faster by looking dumber I have learned. We did get to baptize that family last week. It was soo awesome. They have gone through a lot. He had to stop his smoking addiction and find a better job that’s not on Sundays. I think they will be good leaders for the church down here one day. So that was a fun experience for me. O ya apparently I got accepted to GGC and they are asking for some paper stuff and that I need to take a test right when I get back. But I will tell lisa to go into my account. That got me pretty excited though. Im kind of ready to start studying different stuff again. I have learned that studying is a lot of fun here. I have read the book of moron like 5 times now. 3 times in English and going to finish in Spanish for the second time before I leave. And I got a new bible and marked it all up nice to teach better with and study better at home. But im glad I have learned to take advantage of my study time. And I don’t know what you are talking about mom that I didn’t study in high school or something. I got pretty good grades my last year if im not mistaken. That stinks that BYU lost that bad, I thought they were doing pretty good. Brooke thanks for the pictures of mason. He is already getting huge. Looks like he will be able to say my name when I get back I have been gone so long. Me and elder annis have made plans for thanksgiving dinner. There is a tropical restaurant here that is pretty nice. It has tiger skins every where and anaconda skins. It’s a cool place just a little expensive to eat there all the time. But I think that is what we will do. O ya and about the missionaries who have left the zone. The one I was sad about elder evans left. We got to be really good buds be he is in santa cruz now. I think in the zone of elder taylor. But good news we have 5 new Americans in the zone. So now we are 5 and 5. (today its gringos verses latins) in soccer and we are going to win. There names are Elder Cope(not from my group), elder askar, elder Schweinke(tongan). They are pretty cool guys. The tongan is pretty new and struggles a little bit with Spanish but he will get better here. He will lose a lot of weight as well. Im not too bad my self I might have as much muscles as tarzan like brooke says but im not as fat as I was in lima. So im pretty happy about that. Im sure If I would have had a change to santa cruz I would have ate a lot more and get fat again. Well that’s pretty much whats going on thanks for everything. Love yall and have a good week.<br />>Elder CheesmanUnknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-859218826276883199.post-81063474414248793692009-10-22T11:36:00.001-07:002009-10-22T11:39:33.770-07:00<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEinRnZZSV3qC6vmtwTSIUiiYB6NpLZKZh5DF8DSQl2nqeelhhBRfxivL81OTNr6z7ek_dmncZiLPAuHDen28W2vgVSTCnW-J3R-1K1pxHstwGiv3keBZ6zsLoKXQH5o_SDDpSY1Z7FXE6o/s1600-h/cheesman.JPG"><img style="margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEinRnZZSV3qC6vmtwTSIUiiYB6NpLZKZh5DF8DSQl2nqeelhhBRfxivL81OTNr6z7ek_dmncZiLPAuHDen28W2vgVSTCnW-J3R-1K1pxHstwGiv3keBZ6zsLoKXQH5o_SDDpSY1Z7FXE6o/s320/cheesman.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5395495612325079986" border="0" /></a><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhKKOP-h9Y5WFgDrBNPFXlifJnPOVidhVBwj7AHG2FUPxD5iC1m4glr3WXklrAasEv8dEUEjcRUAxsGCL2D7cVNvn-CK0DMnG8dIhRdBFwQq0POlim9qS3b_82kHazqOx7cbyYwmnYY0tk/s1600-h/cheesman2.JPG"><img style="margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhKKOP-h9Y5WFgDrBNPFXlifJnPOVidhVBwj7AHG2FUPxD5iC1m4glr3WXklrAasEv8dEUEjcRUAxsGCL2D7cVNvn-CK0DMnG8dIhRdBFwQq0POlim9qS3b_82kHazqOx7cbyYwmnYY0tk/s320/cheesman2.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5395495401575136066" border="0" /></a><br /><style><!-- .hmmessage P { margin:0px; padding:0px } body.hmmessage { font-size: 10pt; font-family:Verdana } --></style> I am better from last week, i dont what bug i had but i got better with lots of pills. This week there are changes and I have a feeling I will not get changed. I had a dream the other night that im staying here. But who knows. It was pretty funny when lisa wrote me about a Halloween party, cause that was the first moment of this month I remembered that Halloween is this month. I usually would recognize with the cold but its just stays hot here. It rained some last week and really hard. Knocked over some tin roofed soccer courts and stuff. Pretty intense. Lisa I haven’t got any emails from the schools yet only one from polytech that said Thank you for submitting your application to Southern Polytechnic State University. In 2-4 business days you may follow the status of your application at our website www.spsu.edu and click Banner Web. Use the ID lookup form to find your new SPSU ID number. If you have any questions please email us at admiss@spsu.edu.. Crazy that I only have 2 months left huh? Its going to fly by. Elder Rubio went home the other day. He was pretty sad but happy at the same time. He left baptizing more than any other missionary. The zone is still doing really well. Even president called me the other day and asked about the goal we put was 7 families with 25 people. And asked how much we really are going to have. I said I think 9 families with 25 people. He paused and just said excellent and keep doing that. And that’s all he called for. But I think we might only finish with 18 now. But im still happy about it. It’s the best we have done since I have been here. Um today I think we are going to play some basketball. What was nice about getting sick last week is that I lost a lot of weight so I am kind of back into shape. Sunday we had a little more people in church but still not enough. We baptized the family Vaca a few weeks ago and they are the most faithful of any member here. I am really proud of baptizing them actually. This week we also made 20 liters of Kool Aid in our water dispenser. Its pretty awesome im not going to lie. The other night as well we made grilled cheese sandwiches which were really really good. Its been a long time since I have had those. We might have a baptism this week as well of a family that we have been working with for a very long time. Last week I went on an interchange with elder evans again to help him out in his area. It was a prett fun change not goin to lie. I will be sad to leave this change because I have already gotten use to the people in this zone. But we will see. I will go and do right? Im staying pretty focused as well even though every now and then I catch my self thinking that 2 months isn’t anything in the mission. This time the pictures will go through of me in the jungle of my area. It’s a pretty cool place. Just really hot. I don’t got much else going on. Just thanks for writing me and I love you all.<br />> Elder CheesmanDadhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05390478719017388584noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-859218826276883199.post-14084558614339089672009-10-12T09:10:00.001-07:002009-10-12T09:10:35.545-07:00John 10-12-09Dad that was a funny story. Elder calle(the secretary) calls me one day and ask..your ending flight is going to be in Manchester right? And I kinda of freaked out and said .i don’t even know where manchester is, im going to atlanta. He kind of went silent and just said I will call you tomorrow. Luckily he is buddy of mine and does a lot of favors for me. So I think its all worked out now. The santa cruz flight coming back was really nice actually. Just the fact we were on a bus for forever again. But im use to it now. Not to brag or anything but we figured out in the meeting(we were the best zone leaders in the whole mission last month) the asked we could baptize and marry 2 families. It made me feel good about myself. I don’t know if it will be the same for this month but I hope it will. Yesterday was probly one of the worst days of the mission though it just seemed everything fell apart. We got done fasting which was very very hard this time because of the heat. But once we ate.. I got a little sick. But im getting better now. Just a bug in my stomach. O ya I want to send yall some pictures of the jungle in my area. Its pretty cool im not going to lie. Family getting baptized this week I have been working with for a very long time, she is the one that just had a baby and just waiting till she is better to get baptized. But I think this week it will happen. So im pretty excited about that. Changes are next week and we will see if I just stay out here till I finish. In santa cruz I got to hang out a lot with elder Hanks who I havent seen in a long time. So that was fun. O ya yesterday me and my companion felt like branch presidents apparently something happened in the afternoon branch and we got the sacrament ready and my companion directed the meeting and I passed the sacrament to like 15 people. While I had to leave every 10 minutes to the bathroom. So that was an experience. i forgot to tell yall I think that I met a Georgian here in riberalta last week. It was really funny. He is from thomasville georgia. Passing out bibles to schools here. He doesn’t speak a word of spanish. So we had a good little conversation with him about georgia. About how the airport here is the size of a bathroom in the atlanta airport. But that was fun. But im really enjoying the mission work and its weird from this Sunday I only have 2 months left. I forgot last week to follows bednars talk about bearing testimony to family. Just I know this gospel is the true gospel and the book of mormon is true. No natural man could ever write that, it was inspired for us to use daily. My companion says…someone who reads the Book of Mormon every day will not go inactive. It’s a book with lots of power and lots of teachings. I bet dad you are loving teaching that seminary class. And last week I bought the new bible that has come out here. And transferring some scriptures from my old bible to the new one. Getting the testimony I did of the teachings of Jesus Christ and how amazing they are if we apply them. Studying a lot about faith with works lately as well. There is a cocaine addict we are helping right now and it is interesting how the book of mormon teaches you have to have faith si o si( I don’t know how that is said in english.) but that’s a little something I wanted to share with yall maybe I will write more next week. Well I love all of you. And have a good week.Elder CheesmanMomhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17501583079416519416noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-859218826276883199.post-8616100744507098772009-10-05T17:27:00.000-07:002009-10-05T17:28:18.092-07:00John 10-05-09Well as of right now im in Santa Cruz for the little conference we have. The flight in is always really scary. The planes are tiny and if there is wind if bumps around like crazy. We call it the big mosquito. Cause it just gets tossed around by wind. But im getting used to it. Some of the missionaries really freak out sometimes when they get on. We just got done playing soccer with all the zone leaders on artificial field. It was pretty fun the only down side was they didn’t bring my shoes so I just played bare foot. I didn’t get hurt don’t worry. Dad that’s a pretty cool idea you got with the shirt thing. I didn’t know you were going to start doing that. And yes I did see all the conference sessions in English, me and elder evans and elder annis watched it together. And it was pretty amazing. I did like bednars talk and hollands a ton and uchtdorfs as well. We were talking about how there seems to be a lot more stick giving in the conferences. I love being in santa cruz to write because the internet is 10 times faster to read everything. Thanks by the way everyone for writing me. Im still working in my area. Im doing well about staying focused. We will just be planning sometimes and the phrase “do you remember when….” Will come up and we kind of get off topic. Glad to hear Grayson is doing so well in football its about time we stand out like that. Me and elder annis are still getting along. We are working pretty hard. We just need a little more people that actually complete with compromises in our area. A lot say one thing, but will never do it. So its hard to see the people that really want to hear us. We work hard and every night we get back we are dead tired from the heat and walking around. Its pretty difficult. Just hope we can find some more people to baptize for this week. We should have one this week but we will see how she is doing when we go back. The heat kind of gets me down sometimes but im staying in there. I have to always be an example to everyone in the zone. (im the second oldest in mission time in the zone) crazy huh? But I think I put a good example on how to do things. and I don’t have much problems with anyone. So im figuring that none of my friends are living at home now. Trevor sent me a message about he is savannah and everyone else is in Utah. But I hope all we be back for Christmas. Umm there isn’t much else to write until I come back from conference. But thanks for all the letters. I love you all as always. Have a good week. Elder Cheesman<br />No virus found in this incoming message.Checked by AVG - <a href="http://www.avg.com/">www.avg.com</a> Version: 8.5.409 / Virus Database: 270.14.3/2413 - Release Date: 10/04/09 06:20:00Momhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17501583079416519416noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-859218826276883199.post-22062826129231230302009-09-28T09:00:00.001-07:002009-09-28T09:00:28.174-07:00>Sounds like things have gotten exciting with the flood stuff lately. I do miss doing that kind of service actually. Im thinking the rainy seasons are going to be like that here, but the thing is its alllll dirt roads here. It takes a long time just to cross a road sometimes. Last week we went to guayaramarin for conference and it was pretty amazing as always. President kind of hinted at me that I might be here another change and he might send me elder taylor. So that would be fun to see him again. We were in the church there from 930 in the morning till 730 at night. With a five minute break. Without lunch as well. So it was a long day. But its worth it. For my birthday one of the branch presidents threw me a party and invited a bunch of members and we played a little game and ate cake. And the famous tradition here is to bite the cake with your face for your birthday. And there is always someone that has to shove your face in it. So I might send some pictures of that next week. Then on Friday the other branch president I have where we eat lunch had a big lunch for us with cake. And they made me bite the cake as well. Also they like to get the birthday people soaked with water. So we had a little water fight as well. Pretty interesting day. Im pretty excited everyone will be home for me, I think that will be fun. And thanks for the package you sent me. You too stacy even though it wont get here. It’s the thought that counts. Im enjoying the starburst and skittles. I did like the ties though. And socks of course. This week I will proby be using the leatherman as well to fix a shower so it was good timing. I told you mom that I took both tests. But I didn’t score very good on them. So I hope all that goes well. The thing is it would be bad if I don’t get accepted.. I got no where else to go. Today I think we might be playing a little basketball as a zone to make everyone get into shape haha. But the zone is doing the best the week than all the other weeks I have had here. President is happy with the work we have done. So I hope that keeps going. We would have baptized a young couple last week. But the wife gave birth. So that kind of put stuff off. But we went and saw her in the hospital. It was so weird to see her baby because it already had a full head of hair and hair on his legs. It was pretty fun though. My health is better as well. That rash isn’t bothering me anymore. I still kind of have a cough though but I will be fine. Im staying happy even though its hard to stay in a small area like this for a long time.(but im a pro of that by now) but me and my companion get along good. That’s how the days go by better because we make jokes about everything. But there isn’t too much else going on for me. Next week im going to santa cruz again. And im going to be buying the new Spanish bible that just came out down here so im kind of excited. Well have a good week and I love you all.<br />>Elder CheesmanDadhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05390478719017388584noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-859218826276883199.post-40273137227664979042009-09-21T10:15:00.000-07:002009-09-21T10:22:03.469-07:00John 09-21-09<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgvQiQVBgrvf9K5V1sw80-apYTzXH0bdGnLKIGi7maDuZLBNSsOBvxy6F7vJCZzNNV7ALAfdqcBvQDdOpCB0Mz-WzB-DEjMWUfC9ohxpLrtripXwnF-z8_F3HIvxZ2gTPD8yoHtC1rlPdsH/s1600-h/chese2.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 240px; height: 320px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgvQiQVBgrvf9K5V1sw80-apYTzXH0bdGnLKIGi7maDuZLBNSsOBvxy6F7vJCZzNNV7ALAfdqcBvQDdOpCB0Mz-WzB-DEjMWUfC9ohxpLrtripXwnF-z8_F3HIvxZ2gTPD8yoHtC1rlPdsH/s320/chese2.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5383972176972356658" border="0" /></a><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhwvQhNZa8cWfT7fiS9YKLsUrnyl5e2FXlR-fD0_k2OyOMkMItG6G1Aym7wrSsQsrt-alyl-jGHK3X_5TLkrUZtWK7TqC-SKj2dxG6NLoCaO1NJF10H4IfMQeCHy3pGwCkanwqxhP05reot/s1600-h/chese.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhwvQhNZa8cWfT7fiS9YKLsUrnyl5e2FXlR-fD0_k2OyOMkMItG6G1Aym7wrSsQsrt-alyl-jGHK3X_5TLkrUZtWK7TqC-SKj2dxG6NLoCaO1NJF10H4IfMQeCHy3pGwCkanwqxhP05reot/s320/chese.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5383971633750414658" border="0" /></a><br /><br />>Well it sounds like everyone had a good week. If you need help with the house, if i go to school close than i can rent out the basement. That might help a little. And i might be interested and doing that job with dad. Im pretty excited to get back to work. So it wont matter to much what i do. Im good now with talking with everyone. Working with hansen might be a plan c or something beacuse i didnt make very good with him. But we will see. Today i just got the birthday package just in time for me birthday. I did like the picture of mason a lot i think he should wear that everyday. Just an idea. It kinda cooled down a little bit yesturday because it rained hard for a while. But the family of 5 did get baptized and married. It was awesome. And now they are giving us referals to teach there family. They are the family Vaca(cow) its a common name here and i love it. Me and elder annis are getting along really well. We went and celebrated Saturday night eating a big burger and milk shakes. So that was pretty fun. For my birthday one of my branch presidents is going to make us a dinner in his house and invite some other members. I think it will be fun. And then Saturday the other branch president will do something for us as well. I havent opened the package yet because all these missionaries will just steal from me. But thank you very much for sending it. The only bad thing that has been hapening lately is that i have had a little reaction to so much heat here. Aparently its normal. Just little bumps come out all over your body. And they kind of itch. Its kind of like poison ivy but not as bad. But i bought a cream for it and getting better. And i will probly put on some sun block some days. This week we are going to Guayaramarin it’s the boarder line of brazil. To do zone conference. So that will be cool to get to know all the zones in the district Beni. I will try to send a picture of the baptism. This week we have a young couple that we are trying to get baptized that we have been working on for a while. If we baptize them we will would have baptized 3 families with 8 people this month. That does not happen very often in the mission. The whole mission baptizes like 8 families a month. And just us have maybe 3. Pretty good not going to lie (but staying humble of course) lisa. I don’t have my license stuff with me but tomorrow I will try and send it. Mom I did take both the act and sat. I took one and the other week I took the other. But I did take them both. About my social security I have no clue. Annnnnd high school stuff I don’t know how I would take those out from south America… haha but I do feel old turning 21. I should start acting like an adult pretty soon huh? You guys might want to bring me like a jacket or two when I get back cause its going to the middle of winter there right? Im going to freeze like crazy. Im learning a lot of English lately. Elder annis is teaching me. Every day I have some really messed up phrase or words I don’t remember. But everything is going fine. Thank you lisa for everything.( I will bring you something from here) I love you all. And thanks for everything.<br />>Elder CheesmanUnknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-859218826276883199.post-13551596314934755392009-09-14T10:00:00.001-07:002009-09-14T10:00:51.851-07:00John 09-14-09Well im not upset that you want to sell the house, but im not too happy about it as the same time. You want to live by a lake now? Which lake? I think there would just be more bugs and what not. But just take down the for sale sign till i get home then we can put it up would be a good idea..hint hint. I dont want to be one of missionaries from the movies that are lost when they get home. Last week was very interesting. Changes were a lot different then expected. Elder Rubio went to another area in the zone to be a zone leader to make it better over there. And im staying but my new companion is elder..Annis from ogden Utah. Its pretty funny because exactly a year ago i had elder taylor. And now another american. He is pretty cool kid. He talks better spanish than me and he likes to work hard. So we are having a good time. Also yesterday we had district conferance and president maynes came. There were about 460 people in the chapel. They didnt fit in there they had to lit outside and look through windows and what not to see. So it was good that we filled the chapel . Saturday we married a couple and baptized the wife. The husband was already member. This Saturday im even more excited that we have a family of 5 that is going to get married and baptized. So we will see how that goes. I have been with a little cold lately because some south winds came up but im getting better now because its got again. I know i say this every week that its hot but last week was a record for this city. Even the locals all talk about how hot it got that day. It was 115 degrees Tuesday and it felt like walking around in a microwave. And at night it stayed at 98 degrees. So i was sweating taking a cold shower and trying to sleep that night. I had the fan right next to my bed. It was bad i hope it doesnt get back to that. They say the rainy seasons are going to becoming this month, so im pretty excited. I kind of like it but it does make the work a little harder. Pres maynes talked about in the last conferance of zone leaders that God loves us sooo much that he lets us have a hard mission sweating, walking in rain and mud so that we can get the best of the mission. Pretty interesting if you take it at that point. Im excited to have an american companion becuase i can learn english again. Its really funny the phrases that we say that dont exist in english. The other day i wanted to say that “o that was coincidence that we found him” but i ended up saying “o well that was a casualty that we sow him.” As if casualty that he died or something, in spanish its “casualidad.” But that’s way off , we had a good laugh afterward. Ummm nothing much else happening. Dads letter never got here but mom and Kristi did write. Glad to hear that we finally won in the 3 on 3 tournament. We never get to finish out those. Im still not sure if im fine with the whole changing house deals… maybe if it was explained to me why I might understand a little better. Well say hi to brooke for me and glad to hear they will be back when I come home. Is everyone going to able to be at home when I come back? That would be nice. I hope next change I go to santa cruz to send some stuff home that takes up a lot of space. I have a lot of junk now that I need to send. But im happy staying in riberalta because we have lots of families progressing. There were 4 missionaries that left this change and so a lot of new guys came. And it looks like we have a good zone this change. But that’s all really going on lately. Thanks for writing and I love yall. Tell me if you guys want anything specific from here. Love yall and have a good week. o ya by the way what is left for schooling? just apply me anywhere or is there anything else i need to do? thats all thanks<br />>Elder CheesmanUnknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-859218826276883199.post-69097475472814443232009-09-07T09:37:00.000-07:002009-09-07T09:41:16.601-07:00John 09-07-09<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEinrha1PrdDvailARgWmeKkOK3hpAiT7SoWtT_LVLB6z1Ro0wY5Ig2uVWg3scfOAJ6ixsd0vbIilVH4Srp0A6Jkqp0itbET75xNbiVkikYYFwVQGNu0sC-uWjnSP5DkrMrmVZ1r1xZNHg/s1600-h/cheesman-lopez.JPG"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5378766470824261554" style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; WIDTH: 320px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 240px" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEinrha1PrdDvailARgWmeKkOK3hpAiT7SoWtT_LVLB6z1Ro0wY5Ig2uVWg3scfOAJ6ixsd0vbIilVH4Srp0A6Jkqp0itbET75xNbiVkikYYFwVQGNu0sC-uWjnSP5DkrMrmVZ1r1xZNHg/s320/cheesman-lopez.JPG" border="0" /></a><br /><div><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjiYbDc8qVXI_ACihCtYFxIGO61rI5sJkOyQ9z6XBd2poZBiTtk_gUymJQ_N3vgBE7P5g6_gb5Sz9zY2eNL_2RJtFA4vq3l525vQJdi_aeLcloHI6BV_M-UQk5dzVsBQRlJPLaTSofvkA/s1600-h/painting.JPG"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5378766308096164066" style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; WIDTH: 320px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 240px" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjiYbDc8qVXI_ACihCtYFxIGO61rI5sJkOyQ9z6XBd2poZBiTtk_gUymJQ_N3vgBE7P5g6_gb5Sz9zY2eNL_2RJtFA4vq3l525vQJdi_aeLcloHI6BV_M-UQk5dzVsBQRlJPLaTSofvkA/s320/painting.JPG" border="0" /></a><br /><br /><div>The zone leader conference was pretty amazing last week like always. Not just because I taught a class but the other lessons when really really good(im humble I promise) president talked about HOPE at the end and it was interesting. We should have hope in everything we do. When we talk to someone we should have a strong hope that, that person will get baptized. He talked about his son who just got back from his mission in Honduras. He baptized about 180 people in his last area for 8 months. And they were all referances from members that he hoped all would get baptized. He says that he didn’t knock doors his last 6 months because he was baptizing every week and taught like 60 lessons.( I teach about 30 which is the excellence number for the area. The mission now has 180 missionaries. Which is a ton. So things are going to look better pretty soon. I have no clue if im leaving this change but I hope im not because we have some families getting baptized soon. My body has been pretty dead lately. We are doing services every week. And we helped again to do a water well….in this sun its crazy. I sweated like 20 liters of water. My companion doesn’t leave till October by the way. And that’s awesome that BYU won elder evans celebrated when I told him that. Ya I forgot it was labor day im not going to lie. The only days I remember are my birthday and Christmas I think. Good to hear trevor went to church. I thought he was going before but I guess not.. and it was really funny in all your letters that said ïm sure dad will tell you about the game¨ and he didn’t say anything. I found it pretty funny. Yesterday me and my comp were fasting… and I think it’s the hardest place in the mission to fast. Everyone wants to invite you something and walking in the sun just makes me hungry(im not whining or anything) I will try to send 2 pictures…. Me and elder lopez at lake Tumi Chuqua and the zone painting my chapel. Crazy that we are already in changes and I have only 2 more to go. Seems like a lot but at the same time its not. I talked to elder hanks(from my group) the other day and it was the first time in like 7 months that I have spoken with him. That was really fun we figured out that our whole group is going back the same day in the same plane(that’s what we wanted) and I doubted that we could because they came late but I guess not. About the time I get in mom they have no clue. But maybe in the morning. Im sure everyone can just come in the 17th at night to be there for the next day…. And for school… there is something I need… a computer haha. And it surprised that lisa has a mac now. I have been thinking about if that is what I want for school and have a regular pc. There weren’t very many questions this week so there aren’t many answers. I think im going to be trying some new foods soon. Like monkey, raccoon, turtle eggs, stuff like that. Aparently there is a member that sells that stuff. But anyway that’s about all thatnks for everything and I love yall as always.Elder Cheesman</div></div>Momhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17501583079416519416noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-859218826276883199.post-65434032253768370282009-08-31T17:20:00.000-07:002009-08-31T17:21:32.281-07:00John 08/31/09Well Dean im very sorry for not remembering about your birthday last week. But this Week i remembered. right now im in santa cruz for the zone leader conferance. and we just got done playing some basketball with president. and i realized that i need to start doing some running in the morning because my legs got winded fast. but i enjoyed it a lot. the only bad thing today was our flight coming in. they are tiny planes and they bump up and down and side to side the whole way. and this time it was worse because of the wind. and one of the elders with us was throwing up...for a good amount of time. so that makes it always exciting. its nice being in the city again. good food good weather. but i feel kind of lost being in the city again. i cant imagine what it will be like going home. changings are next week. and we still dont have any idea of where im going. but i think i might go with someone from my group. but who knows. we had service last week doing a water well. digging out dirt pulling it up dumping it out. for like 2 and a half hours in the sun.... it was pretty hard but never have done a well before so that was cool. crazy to think only 2 changes left huh? but i think i will be working fine till the end. about what time i get in i do not know just said the 18th but i will ask tomorow. now mom dont freak out but... the 10th of december are elections again...like last year there might be a few problems. we have no clue yet but everyone is praying it wont turn out bad. so i might come home even earlier. but nothing is for sure thats just a rumor. i liked the pictures you all sent. sad to hear markus and mary are moving but im suuuure they will come back to see me right?... dean i want to hear what you did for yourbirthday and if you got any new toys. im wanting to come back to the city before i go home so i can send some stuff that will take up room in my luggage. so i can bring back cooler stuff. like a hand made hammock for 10 bucks. not really else happening this week. im staying pretty happy. president has asked my comp and i to give a class on the atonement tommorow and he wants it to be the best class of the conferance. so i think that will be fun. we taught the last time too on how to plan right and i think it made a differance. lisa about school stuff im sure kristi can pull my papers and stuff and mom has my sat and act scores i think. i think i got an 22 on the act. lisa can also put that i was an assitant teacher in an elementary school for a year as well. i dont think i have done any crimes....or got caught doing them (thats a joke mom) it was good to hear from everyone today. i didnt get the message from markus yet....it has been a very long time since i have spoken with him. thanks lisa by the way for helping with my schooling i will try and do some stuff right now. thanks for the package mom i think it will get here next week. and i will see what i can buy for my birthday here. but thats all really thats going on. i have baptims the next saturday and i think we can have a very good september. i love you all and hope you are doing well. brooke i cant wait to meet mason i think we will get a long fine. im loving the scirptures lately im very surprised of the stuff i can remember now. i think i have changed the movie quoteing talent to remember where a scripture is.. weird huh? o ya there is a family LOBO in my branch maybe they are realatives of luis lobo. his name is limberg. anyway nothing much more but i love yall and have funElder CheesmanMomhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17501583079416519416noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-859218826276883199.post-85101037311116775982009-08-24T08:49:00.001-07:002009-08-24T08:49:48.382-07:00John 08-24-09Last week was pretty fun for me. I went on splits with elder evans and played some basketball at 630 in the morning with him. he plays pretty well. he plays like a big man and i play like a wing. so he would over power me sometimes and i would be faster and get jumpshots. so we stayed pretty even. the funny thing was i was sore the next few days becuase i havent used those muscles in a very long time. but it made me really happy to play again. i still have a shot going for me. and got a nice compiment at first when he told me he thought i was left handed. so thats good my left hand is still working. as we played i was remebering more and more how i played before. he is a really cool kid, we talked a lot about basketball. he has heard of luis williams and it was funny to tell him i had to play against him. dad i like the talk you gave me last week. and there isnt the talk in spanish at all? my companion wanted it. i started to translate parts and he wanted the whole thing. or i always enjoy quotes and stuff from famous people. i have started a new notbook of sayings of random people, president maynes, my own sayings, and all the scriptures i have found interesting lately. so that would be a help to send some quotes. we are getting into the hottest time of the year and its hard. you can really feel the heat from the ground and the wind. its like florida getting up to 110 degrees and with hot wind. its very humid. im sweating just sitting here writeing yall. the picture dad sent me of the youth i recognized a little more this time but its weird how everyone has changed. my companion is one of the hardest working missionaries even though he is going home we still work hard. he talks about his girlfriend some songs from home but it does not show in his work. we have 3 families planned to baptize in september. the whole mission ususally baptizes 7 in a month.(we will have 3) so that will be pretty fun. and dad you will enjoy the humpfrey house. i did go there. it was huge! he has guards everywhere a small bush maze. like 30 bathrooms. and i only saw a little tiny bit of the house. i didnt get to see the bowling alley or the movie theater but i hear its pretty awesome. i will see if i can do the pictures of them on boxes to be the height of me and elder evans. that would be pretty funny. i didnt know elder taylor wanted all of our parents to come down here. that would be fun but there isnt tooo much we can do. maybe for a day or two would be fun. but there isnt much touristy stuff here. in peru there was a bunch. the plaza in santa cruz with the huge catholic church is all people go for really. but im done with it if yall are. so i wont be able to go to atlanta temple when i get back? when does it open? schooling i was thinking of studying a little bit in georgia then transfering out would probly be my best option. georgia gwinnett college or gwinnett tech or i dont any one of them that i would be able to enter. but it would be nice to study for free for a little bit before i have to pay for schooling. but any suggestions from anyone are accepted. crazy to think i almost only have 3 months left huh? my birthday is in less than a month as well(im old) almost a year since we have left Bolivia. crazy how time is going by now. only 2 changes are left. i think im going to be styaing here but its really not for sure. i hope i stay here because i dont want to happen like last year when noone knew me for my birthday. i had to buy a cake and eat it alone. but what comes, comes. sounds like everyone is doing well at home. well i will look up some more stuff for school but i love yall. and hope everything goes well this week. o ya maybe a favor Lisa maybe can send me some guitar tabs of the songs i liked that i can learn every now and then....thanks.Elder CheesmanMomhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17501583079416519416noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-859218826276883199.post-19224134108252019262009-08-17T17:05:00.001-07:002009-08-17T17:09:04.913-07:00John and pictures! 08/17/09<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiJmfQ_E-beEXi1UAJZv8kP45tWU1oUMh7rGcdLpjLqMyiUd-4oO3yKN7zUWWZKLy1iar3TBlfb-34DD-Ae2PJJYLUv3GAZiWpXWMDNjDytQktkhbHLeMWglTUOqtlMP4KKZB_eLPJkdw/s1600-h/elders.JPG"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5371088999627117554" style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; WIDTH: 320px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 240px" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiJmfQ_E-beEXi1UAJZv8kP45tWU1oUMh7rGcdLpjLqMyiUd-4oO3yKN7zUWWZKLy1iar3TBlfb-34DD-Ae2PJJYLUv3GAZiWpXWMDNjDytQktkhbHLeMWglTUOqtlMP4KKZB_eLPJkdw/s320/elders.JPG" border="0" /></a><br /><div><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjLwcDAuPyVv2fukFnRgabpX9eobUGnWirbOOobBrVTbKKBiZ5Ne1WLXkrXpW-2itVBg7_r5gRDQE3X27nSKK5xN85ViiTwIh2PSsWdBwyeQ5WNtxbP0zErs9y-scYC9ypnUD5TBY5NVA/s1600-h/capilla.JPG"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5371088995690706802" style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; WIDTH: 320px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 240px" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjLwcDAuPyVv2fukFnRgabpX9eobUGnWirbOOobBrVTbKKBiZ5Ne1WLXkrXpW-2itVBg7_r5gRDQE3X27nSKK5xN85ViiTwIh2PSsWdBwyeQ5WNtxbP0zErs9y-scYC9ypnUD5TBY5NVA/s320/capilla.JPG" border="0" /></a><br /><br /><div><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj6__8CgKspI5hZ95iHYEjO2gPGkO5j9STKU4g54aRX4BjOrHzVRwl7nazzjIMRtjCvMwnoFGue8ufdnHyZXTUpsINMiLIcAMoy4WTBUuR8RFlU-1QE4sMRugI-pWJr6S3ByewnbXYiTA/s1600-h/river.JPG"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5371088525181420578" style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; WIDTH: 320px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 240px" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj6__8CgKspI5hZ95iHYEjO2gPGkO5j9STKU4g54aRX4BjOrHzVRwl7nazzjIMRtjCvMwnoFGue8ufdnHyZXTUpsINMiLIcAMoy4WTBUuR8RFlU-1QE4sMRugI-pWJr6S3ByewnbXYiTA/s320/river.JPG" border="0" /></a><br /><br /><br /><div>Last week we had zone conference with president maynes and it was amazing as usual. Talked about a lot of interesting things. Like why did joseph smith have to be attacked by satan before the first vision? God had power to protect him. But let it happen so that joseph could see the lowest and worst state of sin and darkness to see the highest glory of God. If was very interesting for me. We are going to start putting together a book about the sayings of president maynes. And Brooke I loved the example you have about the new members it was funny and im sure I will be using it very soon to teach the leaders here. The organization here is horrible and we are going to start training some people. President said the companion I have now was my gift for suffering with the disobedience problems in the zone the past couple months. I am learning a lot from elder rubio. We have 3 families that are planned to get baptized at the end of the month or in the beginning of September. Im teaching a little better with him as well which is nice. We have a lot of goals to get things better here. And as for my birthday I think I just want some candies that you cant buy here. There is snickers and m&Ms here and that’s about it. Maybe a few new ties(never can have enough) I don’t like the ties that are very bright in color. The darker ones I use more. Plus president is getting more strict on the ¨party ties¨ umm but not much else. I think Thursday im going to go on changes with elder evans and we are goin to try play some hoops in the morning. So im pretty excited about that. Nothing really much is happening just still thinking if im going to finish here or no. its possible I can or no but we will see. That’s crazy that the school year is already started and im hoping to see some basketball when I get back.. that means Kristi needs to play. I am really missing basketball. I think im losing weight little by little. I have started doing harder exercises which will help a lot. The Americans are all back. Elder hanks ive heard is opening a new area in SATELITE which is half of my old area. Its been doing so well there that president put more missionaries there. So I was happy to hear that. But im staying happy. I figured out the secret is singing hymns all morning to wake you up. And better Christmas hymns which are my favorite to sing them very loud. (good thing we don’t have very close neighbors. And if you search in google earth it’s by the main park in the city next to Ganadero Bank. It’s a sweet house and we have made the room a lot better. But im going to search some more stuff about school ( im likeing a lot the system design and system development options but we will see. Well thanks for everything I love yall very much and dad I will print out the quotes to read later. Elder Cheesman</div></div></div>Momhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17501583079416519416noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-859218826276883199.post-91941799904107956532009-08-10T13:21:00.000-07:002009-08-10T13:22:16.263-07:00John 8-10-09Once again we did not get a picture!<br /><br /><br />Its good to hear everyone had a good week. Yesturday i completed 19 months! Crazy huh? Dont worry my companion are working very very hard. Probly the best i have worked all my misson. An american did make it up here finally his name is elder Evans. He is almost as tall as i am and he is from minesota. He played basketball for SUU for a year before he came out here. And he is telling me it wasnt too hard to get on the team. I dont know why everyone just wants to mess with my mind on where i want to go to school. I read a little what lisa sent me last week and like the Software development stuff. Its something pretty broad i can work on. Teaching would be a back up plan i thought about how i dont like doing the same thing everyday and teaching the same thing every year for the rest of my life my be a little difficult for me. So i was thinking of applying to the fallowing places Gwinnett Tech, UVU, SUU if i would go to utah i could try to walk on to a team next year, (it gives me time to get back in shape) today i got permision from president to search some more stuff about school to print off so i will be doing that right now. But he said that my family has to do the papers and everything. We went to santa cruz last week and it was pretty fun. Little scary coming in on the tiny planes but we made it alright. I stayed the night in the house of elder magnum and elder anderson who are my good friends that just got back from peru. They were talking about how lima north has gotten worse. And they saw elder ridge and he aparently gives all the credit to me for teaching him spanish. He is aparently training someone right now. And my whole group is here finally! Elder taylor went allllll the wayh on the other side of the missoin in yacuiba. Today i will take some pictures of the river that is near our house to send it next week. Alright i will try to send a picture this week but i dont promise anything. Last week it took forever becuase i didnt make it smaller. But i will see what i can do. I cant wait to see my nephew he sounds like he fits in the family way to well. About blake being in the airport is not my idea, i dont think i want that either. But she does write me quite often and some time brea but noone elses besides that becuase everyone is off and married. But i will live. Im willing to start over new when i get back if i need to. Has anyone heard about Evan in California? I have been wondering how he has been. Crazy to hear that school has already started, dad is going to enjoy seminary classes. I knew i was getting him ready when he woke us up all the time for seminary. When we went to the class with president maynes last week he gave a really really awesome lesson about agency and will of God. How even mormons have flase traditions about the will of God. A lot of missoinaries have been saying it was Gods will to leave Bolivia and go to Peru. But he said something very interesting. ¨bad things happen to good people by the bad use of agency ¨ like if someone decided to get drunk and wrecked with someone and killed them. Explained that is not the will of God to kill someone. Someone just used there agency wrong. It was very interesting for me. Talked about what all happend in the pre existance. About how the Celestial kingdom is no walk in the park. There is a joke here that there are not Hammocks( i dont know how to spell that) in the celestial kingdom. We are still going to be working there. He said imagine living in the celestial kingdom when the war in heaven was going on. Im sure it wasnt too easy. But he explanined a lot better than me and i enjoyed it. My companion and i also taught a class about how we should plan every day. It was pretty good im not going to lie. But thanks for writing me this week i hope i got to answer everything. But im going to print off some stuff. Thanks for everything and i love yall have a good week.Elder CheesmanMomhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17501583079416519416noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-859218826276883199.post-29144780250977422222009-08-03T18:57:00.000-07:002009-08-03T18:58:40.550-07:00John 08/03/09I did buy a camera so i will send some pictures from now on. I did enjoy the paint pictures but its sad i dont have a clue who these kids are. Thanks lisa for sending the college stuff. I have been thinking more about it. And im going back to thinking about computer design stuff.(why i cant i ever decide anything) but i think the papers you sent will help. I did get a new companion last week. Which wasnt planned, because we havent had changes yet. My new companion is the ex assitant that is going home in 3 months. And so the work here has really changed. He gives stick to everyone. But surprisingly we are getting along well. His name is Elder Rubio also from Ecudador. He is 26 years old and only has 3 years as member(got baptized and a year later went on the mission.) so he has some cool stories. It will be good for the area here. He is already helping out and has 2 days here. He works really really hard in everything which is good. Its starting to get hot hot. They werent lieing about august and september. Time is going to go by even faster now working this hard. The americans are going to be coming this week. There were problems with the visa so that means i dont go to santa cruz till Thursday. I have been pretty well with health lately besides the normal runs every once and a while from eating something weird. I have eaten a weird animal from the woods i forgot what it was called but it looks like a ant eater without the long nose and a little smaller. But it tastes like chicken. And very soon i told our pension that we need to try Monkey. So that will be fun. I will take some pictures of my area this week so you can see what i get to see everyday. Its really awesome, all types of bugs birds flowers trees fruits. I have tried a few new fruits as well that dont look like they would be fruits. There are some for when you want to go to the bathroom really really fast.(i stay away from those) but most fruits are really good. I really dont have much to talk about (as you can tell) this week. My companion says that there will be an american here finally this change so im pretty excited about that. And i might only be here till september. We will se what president says. But its funny if im here after september i cant leave till i go home. So next change determines it all. But im staying happy. And i will cut it a little short this week to print out those papers and to send a picture. But i love yall and hope everthing goes well thi s week. Brooke i really enjoyed your pictures by the way… Mason is huge! Cant wait to meet himElder CheesmanMomhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17501583079416519416noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-859218826276883199.post-46987675796385092462009-07-27T14:56:00.000-07:002009-07-27T14:57:34.954-07:00John 07-27-09Glad to hear that your trip to destin went well. I told you the place was nice. Last week was pretty good. It was hot alll week and then came the famous south winds. Its interesting how this place can be at 120 degrees and drop to about 50 in one day. It was really really cold. Friday night it kind of snuck up on us and we didnt have jackets so we went to every house and they let us borrow a blanket. But now its getting a little more hotter. I keep hearing that august and september are the worst months of the year due to the heat so we will see how that goes…there was a little problem with a companionship last week and one had to leave early and his companion was with us a couple days. So that was a little more difficult doing everything with 3 people. But he left this morning for santa cruz so we are back to normal. We have changes this week. And they are sending me a new compaion so im not alll alone up here. Im pretty sure the americans came back but im not for sure for sure. I will know next week when i fly back to santa cruz. Its crazy to believe i have already been here in riberalta 3 months! I didnt hit me till last week until someone told me that. The zone finished pretty well in baptisms as well. So im pretty happy overall. My health has been pretty good, i got a little runny nose/sore throught for a day because of the cold but other than that i have been good. The cough drop HALLS here is sold as a candy and for pretty cheap. So i buy them often to keep from my sore throught. And i will be buying a camera today i think it will be coming out to be around 200 dollars. Which isnt too bad for here, its a cybershot. Thats really all thats been going on the big thing was the cold last week. And we did have a baptism of a 16 year old and she looks like she will stay in the church. She made a lot of decesions to change and get baptized so that was good. Thats about all thats going on thanks for writing and i will have more for yall next week. Love yall…. The church is true (aint no doubt about it) o ya before i forget. Maybe there is someway you can send me the site of somwhere i can go fast to about college and print out stuff so i can read when im in the house (that would be a lot of help) please, thanksElder CheesmanMomhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17501583079416519416noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-859218826276883199.post-54695642515724492272009-07-20T14:58:00.001-07:002009-07-20T14:58:40.624-07:00Johnboy 07-20-09Last week we had conference with President. I think that everything went well. I had to everything pretty much. I think I did pretty well with my message to help everyone OPEN THERE MOUTH. I used a lot of examples from the book of mormon. Saying if some of the prophets didn’t want to open there mouth what would have happen. Especially the example of Abinadai(my favorite) if he didn’t testify a lot of the Book of Mormon wouldn’t exist. In my intereview with president he said he is happy with the things that are happening in this area. I had 3 baptisms last week of a amazing family. There are 2 more planned for this Saturday. The zone is baptizing a lot more now a days. We have one finishing his mission this Thursday we will see how he works before he finishes. Pretty weird having only 5 months left. And changes are already coming up next Thursday. President said he will be sending me a new companion to make things a little easier for me. President did talk to me as well about college and if I will play basketball. I told him that its still a maybe if I want to play. Because I would have to walk on to a team. He told me intramurals might just be better. And about studying im not sure about the design stuff because I wasn’t very good at it but maybe in computer repair stuff I was thinking. Either one would be fun just don’t know what all I have to take. It was funny president said that his son was applied by his sister doing the papers and this week lisa happends to send me sites for the schools. I thought it was pretty funny. It was awesome to hear about your baptism last week. That would have been fun to be at. Maybe pictures of that would be nice(hint hint). Sounds like yalls talks went over last week. Dad I like the quotes you used as well. Glad to hear ¨GIRLS Camp¨went well. Even though to hear that it wasn’t much of a camp. My house doesn’t even have air conditioning and im not camping. Its starting to get really hot here. They say that august and September are the hottest months of the year here. And im starting to believe it. So we will see how that goes. Didn’t get my hopes to high when I knew I would be here in September. I love the zone but the heat gets really bad sometimes. I sweat from head to toe just eating lunch. I did take out some money from my account I might need a little more for the camera I think im going to buy. Its about the only decent one they have around here. Not sure on the price yet but I think I will buy it tomorrow. Me and my companion get along fine. He really just likes to lay back and watch me do zone leader work. He is a follower missionary. Just does what his companion does. Elder taylor wrote me a little not saying he has his meeting with the ambassador of Bolivia and is waiting to hear the reply to come back here. So im pretty excited everyone is coming back. I think president will send me an American next change. There is a new rule that you have to be in santa cruz 2 changes to leave out to the jungle. (I left early) but there aren’t any problems with that. But elections are in December and some are thinking things are going to get worse (but I wont be here) so everyone is praying that nothing goes wrong. Nothing much else happened last week. This week I just have to do the financial stuff for the zone which takes forever to do. But its only once a month. Its so weird that I have about 3 changes left. That still hasn’t hit me completely yet. But don’t worry its not effecting my work… o ya we have started to play soccer every Monday morning at 6 and I have been playing a lot better. I feel better now playing sports though. I have a lot of goals to lose some weight this year. I still have a lil pot belly going on here. But I hope everything goes well this week to have a good month in july. Because June was a really bad month for us. And about the mikes house on the beach I have been to. I put the carpet in the 2 bedrooms( you can look at my work while your there) but its beautiful and has a good placing. I hope I answered all of your questions the internet didn’t let me do too many things today. But that’s about all. I love you all and I haven’t heard from Deano in a while ( I know I didn’t write you either in the mission but you didn’t have internet) but hope yall have a good week. And im doing fine. Love yall. Elder CheesmanMomhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17501583079416519416noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-859218826276883199.post-54208200184748040082009-07-13T15:07:00.000-07:002009-07-13T15:11:55.283-07:00John 07-13-09Hi All,<br />If you look at the end of John's email you will see his release date. I need everyone to post when it would be good for you to be home. I'm okay with it not being on Christmas Day if it is a problem with the in-laws, but it would be nice this year. Just let me know what works. I want everyone home at once. I know Spencer may have a problem with that, (lets kidnap him from where ever is going) but everyone else at least.<br />Love you,<br />mom<br /><br />Well the last week was pretty another travel week for me. I went to Santa Cruz for 2 days for the zone leader conference. President Maynes told me thanks for all the commentaries I gave during the conference after. So that made me feel good. Well I did get a new companion his name is Elder España(Spain) every member thinks he is from spain its pretty funny. He is from Ecuador and has 10 months in the mission. He was with elder parra and his trainer was elder rojas(both my old companions) but im doing good with all this responsibility on me lately. President even did jokes when I was leaving santa cruz like (don’t feel pressure but…. Alllll…. Todo….allll the responsibility is on your shoulders and you cant mess up for one minute) so that made me feel better. But they are sending me a zone leader at the end of the change. July 30th. But it sounds like everything is going well at home. Hey the mission president that came back didn’t happen to know Elder Zack Collins. Because he went to that mission a week before I left. So that would be cool to see how he is. My zone is also getting better. We had one of the best weeks we have had in a very very long time. As a zone we have 11 baptisms planned for this Saturday, so im pretty excited for that. Dad I like the tongue twister. There are a bunch here I cant do. They gave me this one in the CCM RR con rr guitarra, RR con rr carril, rapia corre los carros, rapido el ferrocarril. Try to do it in one or 2 breaths and its impossible (for me at least). Ive gotten use to the living conditions here I think we might be changing houses very soon to a better place so I hope all that goes over well. We have conference this week and president is going to come here to riberalta. So that will be fun this week. O ya I did get my package thank you. The socks weren’t the exact exact ones but they will work. The ones I have are the wool ones that are really really thick. Thanks for the ties I get comments about them from lots of people. Um I still would like some moron tab choir music. Because I don’t have any and we cant listen to anything but that. So as many as you can send of them would be great. Or better if all can be put on a mp3 cd. But whatever works. And man I wish that Bolivia was like Africa. People being in the meeting early. They have an Bolivian hour where everything starts an hour late. The church should start at 3 but no one is there till 310 so we start and people file in the whole meeting. But its getting a little better. I should have some baptisms this week of some teenagers of a family. It should be about 4 of them. And one more for the next week. So the area is getting a little better as well. I have been really well off with health lately. I haven’t got sick from anything. So I have been really lucky with that. And dad im fine with going to Hawaii any time. Now about school. I heard that gwinnett tech is pretty cool and perimiter is ok. But I have no clue which is good or which I would be able to enter. Something I need to get back to thinking too huh? But next week I will have better answers. Pretty soon we will have permission to enter school websites. But I will see. That’s about it. I will write more next week. But I love yall and hope all goes well. And by the way,… the church is very true. Elder Cheesman<br /><br />o ya by the way im going home december 18th you should have got an email...if not tell meElder CheesmanMomhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17501583079416519416noreply@blogger.com0