August 16, 2010-Email

how's everybody doing today? i'm doing ok not to bad now. we have had a major heat wave this last week well lets see its been about the last 3 weeks so yeah its sucked majorly. i think the worst day was saturday. it was 107 with probably a heat index of like 112. we were out all day in it we probably biked 30+ miles with no success nobody was home when we went to try them which was a big let down for as hot as it was and how much we biked. did i mention we went up 3 of the biggest hills in the oklahoma city area i don't see how thats a good thing for us to be out in that kind of heat and riding up massive hills. but oh well... i survived just barely. so this last week was way fun we had zone conference which was really cool we got the first lesson for us to be better teachers its all about our purpose and how it relates to the doctorine of christ... so basically we are focusing more on baptism. so now we have been told that we need to set firm batismal dates with everybody on the first lesson. which is a big shocker we have done that and haven't seen much success but we did get another baptismal date for in october for an investigator but other then that thats all we have gotten we have 18 dates though in our zone which is huge because thats about how many get baptized each month in the entire mission so thats awesome. so zone conference was really fun then after that i went on exchanges with the zone leaders up to guthrie which is like 30 min north of edmond. that was a blast it was fun to work with somebody that has that much passion and is wanting to work really hard but have lots of fun. and it was nice to have a truck for a while haha. we did that and then i came back the next day and had some hot normal days then friday i went on exchanges with the other elders in our district. it was way hot and fun till about half way through the day. when we were riding down a side walk and i saw a nectorine on the ground so i thought i would jump it and then i decided not to then last second i did but i didn't get my back tire up my foot slipped a little and my handle bars went crazy and then it ended up with me going over the handle bars and slidding about 3 or 4 feet on the cement into some dirt. yeah so i had my first crash and it hurt pretty bad it wasn't to much fun the worst part of the whole thing is that i landed on my shoulder and my backpack so my shoulder hurts but the worst thing is that i landed on a water bottle so it broke and spilt all over the ground which i wouldn't have cared but i landed into some dirt so my shirt got way muddy. i'm doing good i'm still sore on my right side and have a good little rasberry on my arm from it. sadly enough my shirt is trashed so i'm down 3 shirts now so i might need some more some time and the ones i have now are getting pretty gross so yeah. but that kind of ruined the day and we were about 6 miles away from the apartment so it was a nice relaxing ride home with no water. but other then that, thats all thats happended this week. we are almost done with the transfer only 2 weeks left pretty much which is crazy it feels like i just go here yesterday. but thats cool about charles i wish i could have been there to see it. thats way cool that dad got to be apart of it. haha and he noticed you guys right off. i was sad to leave ardmore he was suppose to cook me up some rattle snake but we never got the chance to. oh i had a first this morning. i had eggs benidict. or however you spell it. the guy that picks us up to do laundry at his house cooks us breakfast and thats what he cooked today it was really good. but i haven't had that much breakfast in a long time so i'm super stuffed. its getting pretty close till dad retires i bet he is super excited! hows everybody else doing i've gotten letters from a few people sorry i haven't written back i have been super busy i don't have time to do anything, but oh well this last two weeks have been crazy and i have a feeling that this next week will be the same. well thats all i got for this week y'all have a good week and be good!
elder downs