Jan. 12, 2010-Email

hey yall
so to answer yours and dads questions we have a micro wave! and i did get my thermals just in time. the weahter here is crazy!!!! i can't believe it. so when i got my thermals on thursday just in time cuz it was suppose to get down to 7 degrees and have a wind chill of 10 or so below. so i got those and put them on so it was really nice to have them just in the knick of time! but then get this it was like that on thurdsay friday and saturday but then on monday it was 55 degrees!!!!!!! how does that happen? it was so crazy we almost didn't have to wear our suit coates... we can take them off at 60 degrees... but yeah its really crazy down here! we have had our best week so far which is really good! we taught over 20 lessons which is really good and got two new investigators! yesterday we found 2 more! which is really good for on e day with 6 lessons! yeah it was an awesome day! umm lets see sweet you got my letter and yes i know sorry i sent my memory card yesterday in a small package i don't want to take any chances with it getting busted up it was only 88 cents so not bad at all. and yeah you can see a little bit of us and the spanish elders! they are cool we hang out with them alot. lets see um so i don't have any pictures to send to you today sorry but i think you'll laugh at the pictures and yes i got the one on my memory card of me at my 16th b-day... wow that feels like it just happened and it was 3 years ago! wow time flies. so this week was interesting it went by so fast! i've almost killed my companion like 4 or 5 times! yeah and he for sure is leaving this next transfer. but i will most likely stay i will know the 2nd of febuary for sure so don't send any letters or send them to the mission office that week so that i get them. but i will e-mail you on that tuesday to tell you. yeah to me almost killing my companion. well he is very prideful like the most pridefull person i know! yeah and i am too a little bit and being together for 3 weeks nonstop yeah. and its like everytime i goof up on a lesson or something he never lets me live it down. and its like an all the time thing. even though he still makes mistakes and i make fun of him for it a little but it always gets brought back to me and my mistakes. no matter what. so yeah and sometimes i just can't handle it and he can't ever be wrong even though he knows it and i know it he can't. so yeah. but we are good and he is a really good friend but not somebody i could be with 24 7 ahaha yeah. well um lets see what else did you want to know... did you get my thing about the cd player and speakers? cds? and to start looking for a camel bag? that can be my christmas present or birthday. umm lets see oh yeah our church. its from 1 to 4 like yours and its half a mile or a mile away from our apartment. we go to the oklahoma city 2nd ward. the bishop's name is bishop davis. he is awesome and a great guy but not very charitable. but yeah we all have weaknesses. did i tell you that i went out with president gee this week? i don't think i did. we went teaching with him. it was awesome. we went monday night and went to lets see 3 potential investigators and they said not at this time then we finally went to a less active member and taught the first lesson there with him standing in on it. which made me nervous but we taught and i think its been my best lesson so far. by the end of it and we were walking out he said that he had to keep reminding himself that had only been out 2 weeks. and said that i did really really really well. so we got back to the apartment and then he taught us the first lesson which was really amazing to listen too cuz he is a really good teacher and it was such a powerful and amazing lesson. i think he is starting to like me alot and it sad that he leaves in july. we had our monthly interviews on thursday and he said that he was very impressed with the progress that i have made and that he is very confident in me and elder jackson and very excited for us. which is really good and he said that i will be a vital part of this mission. which is reall good coming from him. we have seen him alot this transfer and he seams to like me and get along with me so that really good. he really is an inspired man!well i got to go we are leaving so have a good week i wrote you a letter its kind of short but we don't have to much time we are really busy! LOVE YOU
LOVE,ELDER DOWNS