March 16, 2010-Email

to whom this may concern or affect:

haha thanks for the scoop on march madness. we aren't suppose to go on other websites so i have to wait for the sheet to come to me so that i can fill it out and send it back. did you get my memory card? i sent it this last week it should be there this week some time. i didn't send a letter with it sorry but it was kind of a spur of the moment thing and i didn't have time. its from the last month or so. its been a fun transfer i can't believe it went by so fast! and the new one starts tomorrow basically! its so crazy! thats cool that byu is playing here. do you think that they will beat flordia? i don't think so but thats just me i have no idea if they are doing good or not this year its a little frustrating and stuff but its only for two years where i will be in the dark. i only have one more to go! lets see ummm oh yeah transfers should i drag it out longer or should i tell you now? ok i will tell you and be nice well we got transfer calls last night at about 9 at night so it was kind of eating at me all day and i didn't know if i would stay or not but it didnt' really affect our day. oh yeah our day i have to tell you about that first. we had an amazing day! probably the best day so far on my mission. last week was really slow and rought nobody was home and no body answered the door but yesterday we broke the bad streak. we taught 10 lessons yesterday!!!!!!!!!! it was amazing! we taught 3 off of tracting and 3 other ones that we had set appointments with. then we taught 2 active members and 2 less active members and we got 2 new investigators and got 23 contacts in the process! we only got 15 lessons last week we almost got that in one day how crazy is that? we did meet some ineresting people yesterday too. really nice people but some really interesting people too! lets see oh yeah we also got stuck at a pizza place for about 2 hours too. we went with a member and since two of our appointments fell through he took us to a pizza buffet. cici's pizza and we got there and he locked the keys in the car and he and his family only have one car so they couldn't find the keys first and second they couldn't get them to us. we were about 3 miles away from his apartment. so we had to call and get another member pick us up and drop us off at our apartment. so it wasn't too bad but i we left our backpacks in the car so we were without our scriptures for about half of our lessons. so it was difficult trying to find scriptures when you don't have them marked. and it felt really weird going around with out it. but we were able to get them back last night at about 9 so it wasn't too bad. ok so back to transfers. so guess what???? i'm leaving! i'm going to a place called ardmore. its where elder glazier was before he came here. its in the south east part of the mission. and i will be getting a car!!! so no more biking for me. i'm going down there with a really cool elder. i've heard nothing but good about him so it should be way fun! his name is elder jeff lewis. but the funny thing is that the area that i will be covering in the car is bigger then the zone that i am in right now. its pretty crazy. i have to drive an hour every friday to go to district meeting. haha but i will be touching haydens mission! which would be funny if he is up there touching mine! so yeah i leave tomorrow morning! at about 10. so goodbye city! its kind of really sad becasue i don't want to leave some of the investigators here and some of the members. its sad... abu is going to get baptized soon. he was suppose to start his job yesterday. and ronnie was close as soon as he stoped coffee and drinking and chewing tabacco. he already gave up drinking so the other two we were going to start with him next week with a workshop that garentees that he will stop in a week! so its way close with him well i hope so and there are a couple of othere ones that will be hard to leave. but i guess i'm suppose to! so yeah thats where i'm going you can see it on the map on my blog. and i will be living in a house too not an apartment! just the two of us. so its going to be nice to have that room. the only problem is packing i have gotten alot of suff sent to me and things so its going to be interesting packing it all in two suit cases. but i think i can do it. it will take some creative packing. haha. lets see well that its for this week i only have an hour since i'm at the library. occc is closed for spring break. to answer questions
no i didn't measure my sleeve.
got my package loved it except for its not the right muffins!
i got the cd from somebody
shoes are ok now that i will be in a car. i will take a picture haha its pretty funny.
no i only stay in the apartment till on on thursdays becuase of weekley planning. every other day we are out by the latest of 10:30 besides fridays which is district meeting in the mornings
have a great week! i'll talk to you next week!
love elder downs