9/23

my oh my I have a lot of news! So my new area is pretty sweet.  There is not a lot of french people in this ville, but it is touching Cergy so I still use the same bus pass that I had a year ago! The ward is very excited to do missionary work right. Right now like ALL of our amies have came from referrals. There are a lot of good things happening here. Yesterday at church we had to sit in a different room because there wasnt enough room in the chapel.

My new comp Elder We... is a balla shot calla! He is SWOLL. Srsly, Arney has nothing on him. He wakes up early to drink like protein energy drinks before he works out. He was trained in Cergy and he loved it. He's in his 4th transfer and he did 2 there and this is his 2nd here.  This is my 3rd young comp in a row and its really good because they have a lot of good ideas. Sometimes I go into robot mode and young missionaries are great because they rely on training and not really just repetition likes sometimes I do.

 Our apartment is very very very small. Its not like too small to function but if we dont keep clean then it is just not even good at all. I kinda knew one of the elders just from being a missionary for so long and seeing him around. He is from North Carolina and went to SVU for EFY and he is training a missionary from Ontario who is a Spanish speaker.

Elder Smith LOVED the NBA rosters and he hated all of the trades involving the nugs.

So there is a recent convert in the ward who got baptized like 3 weeks ago. He has a HUGE rock and fossil collection and he gave me a GIGANTIC diamond. It is like bigger than an american grape. (I say that because grapes here are much bigger)

That's way good that the truck got fixed and that they got to got to Alturas. I'm happy that they got some ducks. I never shot a banded duck. and I'm also happy that Andrew didnt throw up. But I'm sad about dad's shoulder. How long will it take to heal?

We live like one second away from a bball court and let me tell you, Brad is going down when I get home.

hey mom, I'm sad you had a bad week. There is something that cheers me up a lot when I'm kinda depressed and that is listening to the song "you melt the madness" by jericho road. I remember when I was young we went to a concert and they were so cool. and then when I was at svu they were less cool but still awesome. Srsly a bunch of 40 year olds who are trying to be nsync can only entertain a certain audience. but their slow stuff is really really good. and I also think about the words to the 2nd verse of "come come ye saints". but praying also works. I'm glad it got better.

Thats really awesome that Cameron is back out on his mission. Can I get his address? If he's anything like me he needs all the letters he can get. It's pretty sad. 

I'm pretty weirded out because I'm going to be able to watch hockey from this season. Well at least the playoffs. Did melanee ever buy a Lids Sharks hat?

so you know how a little while ago I was really sick of wearing church clothes. Well its way worse. I love being a missionary, but i am just so uncomfortable. I dread getting dressed in the morning.

I think it would be great for me to go to SVU at the julymester. First of all because isnt it cheaper? and also I might as well get back at school instead of sitting around on the couch in Chico dreaming about being on a mission. I dont want to be one of those guys. Do you think I could maybe even get a  job for like a month before I go out? so I can get some monayyyy?