Jan. 19, 2010-Email

hey whats up? so yeah to your questions... i will watch out for the dear elder you just sent. the other one that you sent me took forever but i think that was due to the holiday season and everything closing around here. i hope all is well in bountiful and with all the family. cool i'm excited to see the video dad sent me. haha hows zach doing with basketball? he looked really good in the pictures. is jacob doing it too? i haven't hear from them in forever not since the mtc i think. i got a letter from jerilyn and everybody it made me smile haha along with some cool pictures. so yes i got my thermals!!! like 2 weeks ago! but i haven't had to use them in a while becasue its so warm here. it was 67 degrees yesterday and it was so warm! it was like the perfect weather to bike around in. and we didn't have to wear suit coats! it was a weird feeling at first but i can't wait till we don't. i haven't gotton my package yet but i am hopping for it this week. i'm excited for the surprise in it! and i'm looking froward to the cookies and carmel corn! have you found any good deals on camel bags? cuz i'm going to need one for sure in the summer maybe even sooner if the weather is crazy like this. sorry about last week letter sending it off not so soon. we were way busy then we had zone conf. so i totally forgot about it. but i wrote you a note last night so expect that one sometime this week. i hope all is well with primary. is it still crazy as always? you heard anything about chris? hows he doing? oh yeah before i forget you should get me haydens and jake's mission offfice address so i can write them. how are they doing have you heard anything? they should be out in the field by now right? anyway i had a pretty good week this last week not our best but not our worst so i'm not complaining. but yesterday was our best day ever. we had a lot of appointments and stuff but that all fell through but one. so all we did was tract... for like 4 hours. but we have to keep tract of how many people we talk to and give an oportunity to listen. and on a average or good day we get about 25-30 people. which is was good but yesterday we talked to 102 people while tracting! it was crazy we talked to so many people. we also taught 3 lessons and got 1 new investigator! so it was an amazing day! so that was our cool day yesterday! well i got to go! i'm about to be kicked off sorry about the short letter! love you bothLOVE ELDER DOWNS