Feb. 4, 2010-Email & Pics

hey mom and dad
wow this week has been really rough! it was probably one of the worst weeks out! i've had so many problems come up. i don't really want to go into them at the moment so just wait for my letter. it goes into whats happened and everything. but yeah the weather this week has been crazy. it went from 70 degrees to 12 degrees in 3 days! i couldn't believe it. then we got alot of rain that froze and then snow on top of it. so its been a really slow week that really didn't help with it being a bad week. i got some really cool pictures of me and some of the ice off stuff. which i will send with this which you should have by now. one of them is me as an icile. we went out during the freezing rain storm and thats a picture of my hair frozen. its not wet its frozen! and then the next are of me and pulling ice off stuff! cool huh? and thats me and elder romero with icicles that we pulled off the roof of his apartment. and they look like guns! haha that was like the highlight of the week. but i got exchange calls and i'm staying here for another transfer and my companion is elder glazer. i have heard he is really cool so i hope it works out all good. he comes tomorrow at about noon. so i'm excited and nervous at the same time. but elder jackson is going to somewhere in texas, i don't remember wehere exactly. but elder romero is staying here so it will be fun to be around him again. which will keep me sane probably. i havnen't had a chance to get back to the flee market yet, but its not a cowboy hat or a cowboy belt buckle haha yeah its a cool OU baseball hat and a lucky clover belt buckle that looks pretty cool. haha its cheap and looks way cool so why not? right? haha don't worry i've been pretty good with my money. i need to be a little more careful this month. i had an extra 50 dollars on my msf card from the expense of bags to fly out so i didn't really care how much i spent. but i should be good this week. i never realized how much grocries are! they are way expensive! and it adds up quick. and its really important to buy some we skipped a week because we didn't have any time to go and we regreated it pretty bad. and yeah this week has been pretty crazy we were only able to ride bikes on monday so we walked the rest of the week. but on tuesday we went bowling and guess what i bowled?!?!?........ a 145!! it was awesome best game i have ever bowled in my life! i got some pictures of that too that i will send home with my memory card. it was so much fun you can see me almost fall over while bowling haha but i still lost that game! elder romero bowled the best game of his life and got a 150... he was so lucky he only left two frames open where he didn't get a spare or a strike. so have i told you about how much i miss golfing... we ride past a course almost everyday and i get to look at it well not this week because of the snow it was covered but i have wanted to go. we only can go if a member takes us i guess. i'm not sure if thats true or not. weel i hope all is well with primary sounds like some struggles also. just keep having faith and everything will work out in the end. thats something that i have been trying to have this last week. and hope. i have found that my mission scripture is awesome and it goes hand in hand with d and c 78:18 which is also awesome i've read that so much this last week. you should look it up. well i got to get going. i can't belive its been 2 months already... it is febuary 2nd... and its been 2 months wow time flies by! wouldn't you agree. it feels like i just got here and now its already been a transfer. well have a good week. i'm hoping for a better week also.

love yall
elder taylor downs