December 17, 2009

well, i'm not getting transferred. i'm staying with elder salibury once again. so that's pretty exciting. were getting along well. yeah, we bought a little 2 inch tall wire tree so we have something to put our presents under. so it's been intesting. no big changes for me this transfer. the first time no changes for me at all. yes, i have got your package. in fact i got it last thursday. so it was very fast this time. i don't know when i'll be calling yet, still need to figure that out but it will be in the morning i belive. i'll write when we figure that out. i stil have the phone card from mothers day, so no worries. well we've ben just getting rain here. the weathers been crazy though. one day it will be low forties and then the next in almost 70. makes its hard to know what to plan for. yesterday we made plans to go bike tracting. we woke up to find out it was raining. i think i'll be emailing on thurday i believe it's open but if not oh well. i will either just write or talk to you the next day. oh yeah i forgot to tell you this but last fast sunday i taught the lesson in priesthood. that was fun. it was on richard g. scott talk about honoring the priesthood and use it well. it was a silent rebuking in it but more of reminder was still a good talk. had a lot to do with respecting the daughters of God. thers not to much i know to talk about other than they called two traveling assiants in the mission, mostly those to help train those in the mission, one of the a.p.'s stepped dwon to help train the traveling ones. then one of my old zone leaders was made an A.P. so that was fun to hear. but other than that not to much i can think of to tell you. oh yeas last friday had a not so pleasant experince. we had a branch christmas activity and alot of good food. but at the end i was helping take the tables down and were i had the crown put on was feeling a little werid. and then five minutes later it popped off. it turned out the dentist had a bad batch of cement. but it was an easy fix, in and out in fiev minutes. so no worry. we had an intestring sacramnet meeting on sunday. one of the talks was a brother fly and he talked alot about the econmic cirsis but then tied into the christmas story. so it was an intesting talk he even made a joke about his wife saying, he's going to a give a doom and gloom talk during christmas. it was pretty funny. i don't know if you heard about the trial here involving some missionaries you served here three years ago but i'm sure you've heard something. i've know about that for a while but didn't want to worry anyone about it so i have said anything. but i'm glad that the guy was found guilty, just is a very sad story involving them. but the cool part is that elder hiebrink, ended up coming back out. well enough of that story but things have been going well here. i'll get to talk to you next week. happy holidays.