thanks for the stuff :D

I got you package today, the one with the beef jerky and the memory cards, thanks a bunch. Jack Link's is the best for sure. It's probably just a good idea to keep the cards huh? I'll mail the other one sometime this week, it's not as cool I fear. So yes Paul and his grandsons came to church yesterday, it was great because we didn't even invite them they just came on their own, and he once again donated $100 lol, we'll have to baptize him no doubt. Hope's granddaughter, who she has custody over, was sick so they didn't come, she was sick for sure when we saw her last, so hopefully it was legit. Lol i laughed thinking of Michael and Davey doing that baseball game, they really are yin and yang, they are both awesome though. Ryan's a noob and never emails me, i'll have to write him today. We went up to Childress, it's 2 hours from here but we cover it... and like there's a small branch there, i've told you this already so i don't know why i told you again. But there's a lady there named natalie who was ex-communicated locally like a long time ago when she was only like 18 or something. We are trying to get her to get re-baptized but she still has some hard feelings, she knows it's true though and finished the book of mormon this year. It's hard i don't know all the info and we were talking about the gift of the holy ghost and she's like how can man take that away, and i was like "are you talking about your ex-communication?" and she was like yes. It was awkward to try and tell her why she was ex-ed when she feels like she didn't deserve it, but it went well enough. I mostly just tried to focus on what she wanted now and not worry about all the members of the church being good. Anyways the mono seems to be going ok i don't feel very energetic but I feel decent, we haven't gone tracting yet still but we have had some good appointments. I miss ya'll especially the little gerbers. No offense lol they are just cuter. I never realized how awesome my family was. Random story, we were at the Amigos getting water and like this guy comes up and asks if we work for a church. We said we were volunteer missionaries and asked if we could visit him. He talked to his gf for a second and then said yes, and that they had been waiting for us. He was serious too. Anyways we call them a couple days later and apparently he beat his girlfriend in between when we saw them. It's really sad we went over with a cool member to teach her and she has really cute kids, 4 of them, and it's sad they have all been physically abused and her boyfriend like threatens them and stuff. They all listened very well including Monica's mom (that's the girlfriend's name) so it was great. It's just really sad I'm glad President Hinckley like was really outspoken against abuse, it's just the worst. This girl is a good mom and a way nice lady, if she just lived in utah and was mormon she'd have like an awesome husband i swear lol. Well the gospel can help them more than anything I think they will progress. Well tell everyone hi, Ali said she's mad ya'll haven't been updating the blog cause i kinda tell you guys investigator stuff more just so i can write other stuff in the letters i send to her cause i figure she'll see them on the blog. Don't make me start emailing her ;) lol jk... sorta
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