Just a short note we got Taylor's flight palns an he get in onThursday the 8th at 8 am. WE are super excited, See you all soon. Just a note Taylor talks in church on the 18 at 9 AM
Love you Mom

Hey whats going on nothing much is going on today. Its really a cold and raining day so its kind of a slow lazy day. Normally its been about 70's this last week or so, but today and yesterday its been really cold. We heard that its going to warm up though tomorrow and get back up to the 60's. It was pretty crazy though it was 81 on saturday, it was super warm and really nice to go out and work. This week was an interesting one. Everything was normal till friday, where we had district meeting and i had to do it and after that we had exchanges with some other missionaries. That was pretty fun it turns out that the elder i was with was on alta's football team when we played them in the playoffs. It was funny to hear him talk about it. He went and played football at snow collage before he came out but he said that he doesn't want to do that anymore, he wants to go walk on at the u or at utah state. He told me to come and do it with him, it was a fun time. A good break from everything that was going on. Then we went to one of the people i baptized and the family when i first got here and they told us the reason why they weren't coming to church anymore and that was frustrating then they started to just go off on the chruch and everybody over there. It was making us so mad, we were about ready to just explode but i was like we have to go, so we did but it was an kind of really frustrating. Other then that we had a good time at church. Our investigator that's going to get baptized on the 3rd came with her kids and stayed the whole time. The kids were a little hesitant to go to primary but we talked to her after and she said that they would rather go to primary then school. I thought that was funny, but also really good. She's on schedule and really excited for baptism. Oh yeah sunday was the primary program it went really good. The kids are always funny. But all in all it was a good sunday. Today we are just relaxing nothing really going on just probably a nap or something like that. That sounds really nice about right now. This week should be fun, we have had 2 people ask us to come over to dinner, but we will probably only make it to the one. Which i'm super excited about it will be a ton of fun. Then on friday we have district meeting and then we will be up in ada on exchanges. Oh i asked the aps about when my flight plans will be sent out and they said that they were going to send them on thursday so they should be coming soon. I don't know who they are going to, you or me. My guess would be just you, so you'll have to let me know when you find out but my guess is that i will be there about 7 or 8 in the morning and leave here around 6 or 6:30. So thats the big news other then that, thats about it. Heres a few pictures that i thought that you would like. The first one is of me on the texas border, i thought that it was cool. The next one is when we went up to a museum in norman there was a big wooley mamonth and i took a picture of me getting stepped on. Then last one is at the musuem also i thought it was funny... i'm a natural wonder haha. Well till next week, only 2 more e-mails and then you can just ask me in person what you want to know. Glad everything is going good back home. Tell everybody i say hi and will see them soon.
Love ya
Elder Downs

November 14, 2011-Email & Pic

Hey how are you guys doing today? i'm doing really well. It was an awesome week. We spent more time out of our area and in other areas then we did in our own, but oh well it was for a good cause. We have been working with one of our investigators to get them to come to church for the last little while and they showed up yesterday which i was super excited about. She said that she had a great time and that she will be back this next week for church this next week so thats super cool. She has a date now for the 3rd of december and if everything goes like it should she will be baptized on that day which i'm super excited about. To get one more before i head home. We have been working with her for that last 2 months so its cool to see her come this far. We also had 2 of the less actives that we have been working with for the last 3 months show up. IT was awesome! They just came out of the blue. Good things are going on down here and its really cool to see the changes and stuff thats going on. Other then that thats about all the new news. I got my pants and they are awesome thank you. Oh and good news i got a call from a missionary thats coming when i leave and he wants to buy my bike so i'm going to sell it to him for 175 dollars which is a really good deal. So his mom is going to send me a check before transfers. Yeah i know its 23 days left. Well i have to go i have to e-mail some other people today also. Talk to you next week!
Love ya
Elder Downs
P.S. heres a picture of part of our district we played a practical joke on one elder and started cutting everybodies ties in half and he thought that we wouold cut his in half it was funny. Don't worry they were old crapy ties so yeah.

November 7, 2011-Email

Hey how are things going for you guys?
I'm doing good today, i'm actually up in norman at the library in ou emailing today. We have another zone pday up here so we came up early to email here and to walk around and then later on today we are going to a museum here and then playing something at the stake center when we get done. Then i believe we have a meeting after all of that for a little while. This week has been really good, well it was bad and good at the same time. It started off with some good lessons at the start of the week, then on friday we had a huge bomb of a lesson. It went horrible nothing worked right and he started asking deep questions and we tried to help answer it but it was just going downhill from there. So we hurrried and tried to end it before we do to much damage. So we left and went back to another lesson and that one fell through, but amazingly enough we ended up after dinner having a really good lesson with one of our newer investigators. That was actually a really good lesson and he said he reallly enjoyed it and learned alot. Then after that we went back home and just called it a night. The next day we went to go and help a member roof their house and that was a blast. Funny enough it was except for the last 2 hours that really wasn't to fun. We got over there about 7 in the morning started took an hour for lunch and then went back to it till about 7:30 ish and then we called it and we took off home and colapsed for the night. We took off i think about 5 or 6 layers of shingles and then put all the paper down on the roof and shingled about half of it and then i couldn't move anymore. After about 5 or 6 hours my hand had conformed to the shovels and the hammer and i could barley open it all the way. And my whole body was sore i think i carried about 20 packs of shingles up on the roof so my shoulders hurt and my back was killing so i was super sore after that. The next day i woke up and i tried to sit up and my whole body hurt it was funny but we got up and got ready and studied and went to the chruch for stake conference. Here they broadcast it to all the buildings so that you don't have to go up to norman to the stake center if you don't want to. I think its pretty cool. We got there and were suppose to have one of our investigators come but she didn't so we were disappointed but then all of a suddent he guy we bombed the lesson with showed up with his wife who is a member. Thats the first time i've seen him at church since i've been here so that was a big relief! So after that we went to dinner 45 min away in a small little town. Then we came back just in time for a lesson, which went really well and she is getting excited for baptism. We haven't set another date with her yet but it will probably be the first weekend in december. Then we went back over and had a 100% better lesson with the guy who showed up to church. We found out a lot more about him and his background and tried to listen and teach instead of just talking at him, which worked a lot better. So it kind of had a bad day but it ended up being ok in the end. They got the roof almost finished yesterday i think they have just a little bit left. Stake Conference was really good i was surprised. So thats basically who we are working with right now. We have one is pretty solid and will be baptized sometime, and then another who will probably be baptized sometime in december or january. Which is sad that i am going to miss that. The kitchen look good i didn't even recongize it at all. I'm getting excited and also not wanting to come home. Thats about all the big news for this week not much else is going on this week should be fun also. Thats to bad about the furnace. Hope you can get it fixed pretty soon. Our heater works great and we stay plenty warm. i don't have any pictures right now but i will sometime i'm sure. I'll send home some more when i can. so what kind of a couch are you going to get? Well i have to go and do some other stuff. Talk to you y'all next week!
Love you
Elder Downs