hey everybody how are you doing today? i'm doing pretty good. its been an interesting week. we have made two trips up to norman which is 160 miles away. the first one to meet president taylor and have an hour meeting with him. then we drove back and then again yesterday for interviews. which i thought both of these were a waste of miles for us to just go up for an hour each time. but yeah it was good though we got to know him pretty good. and they have made some interesting changes already not just here but worldwide. for example they are now only doing zone conferences once every 4 months and interviews once every 4 months. they now will do every other month will have a leadership training for the ap's zl's dl's and trainers. it will be four days. then everymonth they can have a meeting with anybody they want. like a zone a district all the elders the sisters or whatever. so thats big news. they are kind of also switching the mtc around instead of doing what we were taught. to hasten the work they are doing a 8 lesson thing to teach us how to be better teachers. so that is the new thing that we will be being taught over this next year then in a year from now that is when all the new elders from the mtc will be taught that. so thats alot of new news. so zone conference wont be till november i believe i don't exactly remember when. president taylor is a pretty cool guy i like him alot more then president gee already. he doesn't scare me everytime i see him which i think is good. and he is really relaxed. it was pretty funny in my interview he was talkikng about how his oldest son went to viewmont and played football so it was cool. he is from up by eaglewood so i doubt if you would know him i didn't at all. but he seams less strict then president gee so it should be good. lets see umm thats about what happened this last week. our 4th weekend was kind of boring but not to bad i guess. we had exchanges till saturday afternoon then we went to a 4th ward party had some food then we had to go. then sunday we went over to a family in the ward that was having a grilled chicken cook off so that was cool and that was about it. we just went and tried to teach and preach and do what missionaries do but it wasn't to successfull since everybody was out of town. so other then that we are doing good. only 2 weeks left of the transfer basically. the shed looks good. dad and jake did a good job with it. and the door looks 100 times better then the last one. and dad just because you are luring in the birds doesn't mean that they want to live there haha i got the box of junk food and the money... my companion was really happy to see the stuff. and the funny thing was i bought like 30 otter pops the day i got the package with another 10 in it so i have tons now. tell dad the big motivators for going on a mission for me was the change in my life, to help somebody else and not have to worry about me for a while, and that nobody regrets going on a mission everybody regrets not going. yeah i will do the big show when i get home that will be fun! i'll send a picture this week when i get to the other library. and thats about it. have a good week let me know if i can help in any way! love y'all!
love elder downs or ups as the members call me
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