Monday June 23, 2008

Yes i got the pictures lol i got them just today. I dunno what to do withthem so i dunno if i want anymore, thanks tho i am mailing a couple to ali.Yes i also have my bike helment and lock thanks, the box was really beat upand my helmet has a little dent in it and some black marks but it's not badat all, i also do not need any lights lol my trainer doesn't even havereflectors. So something really lame happened this week my friend Guillermo left town.Him and his girlfriend Juanita who we've been trying to teach have been in alot of arguments cause Guillermo wouldn't get a job. He's smart and has adegree, but he's illegal, so anyways we found him jobs roofing and workingin fields and stuff but he wasn't willing to do them. It's sad to seeJuanita he didn't really tell her he was leaving or anything so she's reallyheart broken about it. Like the night before he left we went over and had agood lesson and taught her for our first time, and gave them scriptures toread and pray about, and they did it. So jaunita thought he'd cooled down abit but ya the next day he was just gone without saying anything she justame home from work, she works like 12 hours doing nursing home stuff allnight, only $6/hour, and ya his clothes and stuff were gone. It's justmessed up he lived with her for a year and a half and never helped pay thebills and now he's gone. She was a little behind this month so Elder Trippand I went today to the city and paid her electricity and water cause theywere gonna shut them off cause she was behind. Lol i have no money reallybut i felt bad for her. It's kinda nice tho cause she is letting us talk toher a lot now, i think because of their arguments and his insisting he wasgetting in the way of her progress. It's hard Guillermo was and is a reallynice guy I understand that little plainview didn't have any thing for him,but it's just weird he didn't tell us or Juanita about leaving it's lame hewas a good guy. We also did service at her house like all afternoon theother day, the day after he left, and mowed her "lawn" (the lawns are grosshere no one waters really) and picked up this giant pile of garbage and woodin her yard. We didn't have gloves or anything lol so i was grabbing allthe garbage and i cut my finger on a broken bottle, pretty lame actually iprobably have tetanus. There was tornado warnings just north of us the other day i really hope iget to see one before i leave texas the lightning storms tho are awesomeit's the highlight. Another couple we're teaching is Inez and Manuella theyare kinda older like 60ish but they have already been taught everything bythe other missionaries they really just need to get baptized. The problemis Inez speaks no English at all and Manuella only a little so Bro. Calderongoes with us. He's the Elder's Quorum President and he's like amazing, hisEnglish is pretty good but i love hearing him talk ha ha. He's like 50 butlooks like he's 30 and definitely a good missionary he takes us all over theplace which is good cause we have no miles left really except to go down toLubbock for District Meeting. Anyways basically he talks to them for anhour and we just sit there lol and occasionally hold pictures or findscriptures i feel like a little kid when we're there cause i can't reallytalk to them. P-days are cool i just wish there was something to do or seePlainview has 24,000 people but it feels like it's only 240. Well i'm glad dad is ok does he get a new suv now? :D Not very many peopled email me this time so i don't have much to read which is good i think just an hour of email time today will be sufficient although going to the Baptist college is actually fun for some reason, it's pathetic what's fun here. O ya! the best thing ever happened last night! It was storming and we had the door open cause it was cool and fun to watch and guess what came in? A Frog! Lol i just saw it jump up and i was scared cause i thought it was a rat but then when i saw it was a frog i was super happy, it was a big one too. Itcame in and like went in to where we have our pass along cards and stuff and Elder Tripp was like freaking out like telling me to get it out lol i wasjust so happy he was pretty awesome looking. I scooped him into my bikehelment with an ensign lol and let him back outside. I guess they reallycome out when it rains here. It was awesome and way funny anyways I'm gonna go play some online poker or something (jk mom) love elder blake theo porter