March 23, 2010-Email

hey everybody!
whats going on? its been a crazy last week! first me and elder glazier had an amazing day on monday where we taught 10 lessons and talked to 27 people i think. thats the best day i have had these last 3 and 1/2 months. then that night (monday) we got transfer calls. and it was a complete curve ball. everybody in the zone thought that we would stay together for another transfer and stay in the city. but that wasn't the case. i got told that i was going to go to ardmore oklahoma. in fact thats where elder glazier came from before he was with me. and the funny thing is that elder cannon the one that replaced me was here in ardmore. and its been swithcing back and forth. even elder lewis was in the spanish branch in the city so it seams like that they just keep switching them from south okc to ardmore! haha anyway so ardmore is way cool i like it here. we had a good last p-day in the city which was full of golden Carrol. i think thats how you spell it. then we went and played volleyball with everybody. it was alot of fun. then i started packing which was quite the event! haha with me only having two suit cases and all the stuff that people have sent to me it was a tight fit to put it in. but i barley got it all in and got really lucky. transfers where last wednesday. everybody meets in moore, ok. which is like the center of the mission i guess and switched companions and went back to the new area. well the funny thing that happened is that elder cannon kept the cell phone thats suppose to stay in ardmore so we had to go up and get it from him. so that took most of the day then we had a two hour drive down to ardmore. which is alot of fun. haha but we have our own car. a red toyota carrolla. its alot nicer then my bike let me tell you! haha our area is huge so we get alot of miles about 1200 miles a month. and i got an upgrade. from a small gross apartment to a medium size house about the size of the one michelle rented in hooper i think. its way nice! and lots of room. i also have a nice desk which i'm excited about! i didn't ever use my other one i just used the table. i didn't recieve my brackets yet so i guess that means that i'm out of the running. oh well i still would like to fill one out to see how i would have done. i love the area and the ward. i like it alot bettter then my last one actually. i'm a little sad to leave the investigators there. i hope everything is going well but i think i'm suppose to be here right now and help the people here in ardmore so that makes up for it i guess. yeah i get along with my new companion. his name is elder lewis. he is from Minnesota. which is funny because i thought that every elder was from around the utah area. this is the first one that i know of that hasn't been. he like sports and loves to sing. he is way funny and its a fun time so far. we have everything around here but a WENDYS!!!!!!!! that makes me kind of mad! i haven't had wendys in lets see 111 days!!! (i'm keeping track) but we have everything else. we have a taco bell about 50 yards from our house... hahahaha which is really nice! we went there once already. we eat out a little but mainly if members take us. which they do pretty good. but yeah if you will send me gift cards or anything make it for taco bell or burger king or subway... i like subway now. yeah don't laugh. there is not missionaries around us. so p-days here are kind of boring well not really its a nice relaxing day. the people in our district are about an hour drive away. so we have to drive an hour to get to district meeting every friday. of course i brought my electric blanket. thats the only one that i have so i had to take it. i don't know exactly where we live yet but its right next to the freeway basically i think of the south east part of town. i haven't measured my sleeves yet i will i just forget i will this week.
my address is
1210 10th avenue nw
ardmore, ok
73401
you can see where i'm at on the map. we cover most of the the cities around us so its a huge area! lets see thats about it for this e-mail not very long but thats about all i can think of to say. elder lewis says hi.

tell everybody hi from me! and that they are jimmy baboo!
love yall
elder downs