May 18, 2010-Email

Hello everybody! hows your week going so far? mine has been way good! this week has been an amazing week for us down here. we taught alot of people and talked to alot of people. its been interesting trying a new way of tracting. we just go right into teaching somebody even if they don't really want to listen... most people like to talk anyway and if you start talking about christ and when he was here then they get into the conversation. instead of saying that we have a message to share about christ would you be interested. its worked really well this last week we were able to teach 25 lessons thats more then i have ever taught down here in ardmore. and we still talked to 100 people. so we were really busy this last week. and we were able to give about 3 or 4 book of mormons away every day. thats way cool and we have gotten 2 new investigators this last week. i guess everybody has been doing this in the mission and we are getting alot more lessons and investigators! lets see the weather down here has been back to normal pretty much. it was really overcast this last week and on friday i thought it was going to flood the whole earth. it started raining in the middle of the night and it was still raining way hard till about 4 in the afternoon then it finally stopped. it was crazy i have never seen it rain so much. most of the streets were flooded with about 6 inches of water. haha it made driving really fun. sounds like dad is enjoying being in the bishop ric :) he'll do awesome! Jaycee's headstone looks amazing! how are things going back in utah... you still cold and snowy? its back up to the high 80's here. lets see zone conference is next Wednesday. it will be a fun drive up there i'm guessing i have no idea how to get there once we get past oklahoma city i have no idea where i'm at so it'll be fun. we have our last interviews this week with president gee then he leaves next month. its going to be weird having a new president here. yeah i'm going to stop at wendys on the way back from zone conference. it should be a great ride home. lets see i haven't sent my memory card yet i will today or tomorrow. i haven't gotten a suit sized yet but i tried on some pants and the 40's fit so yeah but i don't think that i want a new suit till the end of summer i've decided. i have also been looking around for a rain jacket. a really lite one. and i haven't found one. they had one at jc pennys and it was to small and to expensive so it worked out good. so keep an eye out for that i ended up wearing my big winter coat and i was sweating in it so yeah. transfers are the 9th of june which is only like 3 weeks away not to long from now. yes i love my mother. i will send pictures in a little while i forgot my camera at the house so i will in a few hours. hows jerilyn doing? and tate? whats his middle name? let me know how it goes and send some pictures or something. lets see i don't think that theres to much damage down here its mainly up in norman. a few missionaries get to go up and help on that but we didn't. and is dad have a countdown chain yet in his shop? only 3 months left! wow its almost here are you guys going to throw a big party... i'm sure you can hit the early bird special somewhere! :) haha. well thats about it for me today. not much is happening new so yeah. so i'll let all of you go have a good week! talk to you later!
love y'all elder downs