August 3, 2010-Email

hello yet again,
hey how are you'll doing this week? i'm doing ok trying not to collapse in the massive heat wave this week. its been super super hot! in the mid 100's lately which is way to hot i think and with the humidity it just makes everything worse. this week was spent mostly tracting we talked to over 130 people not seeing much success. but we do have 4 people that are going to get baptized soon. one is a guy from gahna and 3 kids from a recent convert. they all are doing good and are getting ready but other then that we don't have anybody else that is close at all. so once these guys get baptized this area will slow down alot! i had a first this last week though. i had my first flat tire. i found it yesterday morning on my back tire. but luckily i guess you could say we had an extra bike in our apartment. and i didn't have to walk all the way down to the bike shop thats like 4 miles away. but the only bad part is that the bike is made for i think a 12 year old. so if watching me ride a bike isn't funny enough then yeah this must have made people just bust up laughing. it was a long day let me tell you and then the pedals had been broken so i only had half pedals on both sides. so it would just dig in my shoes but oh well i got it fixed and i got some extra thick tubes so hopefully it wont happen for a while. oh did i telly you guys about how we cover two wards? we cover the student ward at uco too so we go to doubel church. we start at 8 for edmond 1st then the student ward starts at 2. so basically we start from 7:30 and go to 5:30... let me tell you staying awake during the second sacrament is one of the hardest things to do especially since its silent in there. i think i was head bobing this last week. it just seams like the longer i'm out the more tired i get. i can almost sit on a couch for 15 min and fall asleep. my companion is elder riches hes a way cool kid from midvale. hes alot like me so its really fun. except for he can't get past the 8 month cap between us so yeah thats still big. yeah i like riding my bike and i kind of wanted to go back on a bike but when your area is as hilly as ours is i would like to have the option of a car. if it was like my area in the south city then i would love it and wouldn't mind it at all but yeah since being here i lost another few pounds so its been good. i haven't really worked out much in the morning since we bike all day but i need to start again but i don't think they have a blender which is dumb. do i need anything ummm.... maybe just a treat box but no chocolate it melts by the time it gets here and is gross. other then that i don't think i need anything else we usually stop at 7-11 to grab a slurpee or something on the way home when its hot so yeah. thats not to far from our apartment. yeah they have a major heat warning this next week to 2 weeks i think yeah we haven't been told anything so we are still going out on bikes all day. hopefully somebody feels bad and invites us in. yeah the apartments are good but since missinoaries have been in ours forever they are really gross and really haven't been taken care of. and they are just kind of cheap ones. i'm doing ok still really stressed out with the new calling but i guess it'll work its self out hopfully. we eat out maybe once a week and thats it mainly just getting drinks at 7-11 or something. but hopefulley we will get our car back soon. i'm hoping within 3 weeks.
well thats about it for this week y'all have a good one
love ya
elder downs