5/26

hey everyone.. that's weird that this is my last email... ever...

 

so when I was in my second transfer.. Elder Peiper showed me a video of him riding on some pedal rail cart things and it looked soooo fun. I did that today and it was SOoOoO fun.

 

So this week we went and visited a LOT of people to go say goodbye. I cried a lot. It was super weird. It is so weird to think that I'm not going to be a missionary anymore. My favorite part of being a missionary was having people like to see me. So it's sad that's not going to happen anymore.

 

This week 4 amies came to Church!!! It was sweet. J______'s wife came FINALLY haha I had to twist her arm a little bit, but finally she came and she really like it. I dont know if I told you but she reminds me of the Parrot from Alladin.. haha

 

I'm going to SMASH Bradley on 1v1 basketball. He WON'T beat me.

 

One of the peeps we visited has seen missionaries for 15 years... and I like him a lot. We visited him to say goodbye and he said in 15 years NO ONE had ever let him know when they were leaving and it broke his heart. So I was really happy that he was happy. He said saying goodbye to someone is a little thing... but little things can be enormous to people sometimes... and  I think that's soooo true!

 

Sister Poznanski wasnt at  my last interviews with prez.. I was sad because interview with her are soooo good.

 

 I will not throw away the suit that grandpa gave me.

 

I dont know what else to say... but I'll be able to tell you later this week... soooo

 

I'll eat a Paul Bunyan burger... I havent had a burger in over a year... mcdonalds doesnt really count in my opinion.

 

 

 

5/19

Hey everybody!!! So we had a super fun week.... Even tho I got the stomach flu.  Every time I ate, I fell like I was going to puke but I never did. It got to the point that Elder Sanchez gave me a  Laxative.  That was my first encounter with those things and I hope I NEVER have to use them again. But the members took care of me pretty well. A lot of missionaries get really sick right before they go home...

 

This week every missionary's nightmare happened. Elder Sanchez broke one of our amies priceless Greek vase.  It was so bad but I couldnt not laugh! It wasn't really has fault. He sat down on the couch and touched a radio that leaned and then hit a statue of Charlie Chapman and that leaned and touched their vase and it rocked and rocked and rocked and then tipped over and BOOM! They weren't THAT mad. 

 

We saw J***** and his wife and they are soooo good. He came to church again.. she gave me médicine when I was at her how cuz she said I looked like I had a fever. When she talks she sounds like Iago from Aladdin.. haha, but I love them a bunch. He's getting baptized in Aug... his son in law is going to baptize him.

 

I dont want to defend (I'm sure he means "offend"...haha) anyone but I do NOT want to go hiking.  (I asked him if he wanted to go with the scouts on their 50 Mile hike this summer.)

 

I care about the playoffs.. well not really, but I want the Blackhawks to win.

 

Elder Sanchez and I are starting to get in super good shape. We run hills every morning now and we work out at night.

 

That's super good that the Alturas house got rented.

 

The Easter flyers didnt give us ANY fruits...:( but ca va (Scott asked him about the flyers they distributed during Easter.)

 

Josh wrote me this week.  (His college roommate, who he is going to room with again in the fall.)

 

Today we went bowling again and I got 125... way better than 34.

 

Patrick is really excited that mom told him we can go visit him in Gilroy.. haha. Like he talks about it every time I see hime (which is like everyday).

 

well here goes the last week of my mission....

5/5

First of all... INVITE EVERYONE to the airport. That's my dream.

So guess what.... we had to go to Brussels 3 times last week!!!! It was super super stressful. I don't like train rides at all and I don't like Brussels that much, but it was kinda cool to get out of Charleroi. We had interviews with prez and that was good. He likes me.. but too bad because he's almost done being mission prez and me too. He told everyone that I'm going to be married in less than a month. NOT TRUE.

We also helped finish up the Helping Hands project... we loaded all the clothes in a truck and stuff.

Elder Pieper came and visited. it was cool because he's different but also the same.  He bore his testimony in french for the first time since his mission. 

So this week I had to give my "dying" testimony. I cried before I even started. It was really hard. I wanted to impress everybody... but i don't think i did. jk.  Every single sister missionary who was there cried.

We were mostly in Brussels a lot. 

Hey so we're going to try to do skype for 7am Sunday. Does that work? 

There are some members in a our ward who knocked down a wall in their house and we were there and helped them load all the bricks into a trailer. We put them all in sacks and then lifted them over there to the trailer and it was so tiring and heavy!!!!!

I really don't know what else to say

We finally got the kids dad's information... so now we can plan the baptism.

Our ward showed Saratov Approach. cried. 

There's not really very much beef jerky over here.

We have a lot of good members and good friends here. They take care of us :)