October 7, 2009

yeah i was pretty excited to hear that brigham city was reciving a temple. i was also crossing my fingers for one in Richmond but brigham city was cool. i always thought when i was younger there was a temple there, so pretty cool theres one there now. yeah we did not get to have any ice cream this time. we didn't have the time. we spent the night at the scotchtown elders place and we didn't get in till 10:30. so by then we were very tired and had no time to. but i enjoyed confernce of what i was able to see. the reception at scotchtown wasn't the best and it cut in and out all the time. but we had alot of good talks that we did see. elder hollands was powerful and then the first session alot of talks seemed to speak towards me. it was great.

thats sad about jills hamster. i'll be sure to write her today. elder karpowitz is from salt lake, near sugar house. he loves football and just loves giving people a hard time. he's been out about a year. last night was transfer calls and were staying together another transfer. in fact at the end of this transfer i will be his his 2nd longest companion. i'll be tied with his trainer. and you asked about for my birthday, right now the most i need is socks and some more garments. so thats all that i really could use.

so i have a funny story to share, last firday we were at jason's and vallery's having dinner and as we were eating, our phone starting ringing. elder karpowitz pulls it out to silence it and it said it was coming from jason. he made the comment, your calling me. then we heard Preston, there son start laughing and he was holding his cell phone. the funny part is he's almost two and from all the people he could have called, he called us. it was pretty funny. but other than that not tomuch news i know of to say, other than we've had alot of fun and had a lot of fun expriences. oh yes, jason and tabby another couple were working with should be getting baptized on the 17th. were looking forward to that. well my bike is fixed now too. it's been fixed for a few weeks now, i just keep forgetting to say something. well sorry if this isn't to long but hope everything is going good, well take care. Elder S. Johnson
oh just another thing, i think dad might be intersted in hearing. so for hunting in virginia, theyre pretty lazy. they climb up into a tree stand and send the hounds out to chase them out and then they shoot um. and they tend to do it in hunt clubs. so it 's kind of a cheap way it you ask me. well that's it. well take care