August 30, 2010-Email

hey how are y'all doing?
well i'm doing really good. we had a really good day yesterday well it was a really good day but i was scared out of my mind the whole day which was really good when your stuck in church all day. but we had the baptisms of the lewis kids the 3 kids that we have been teaching of a recent convert! it went really good but the reason i was nervous is i had to baptized and confirm one of them the youngest and smallest. so the whole day was just building up the suspense till at 6 when we had the service. it was really good though and but i had a kind of dumb blonde moment that i went down into the font and i was so nervous that i forgot to hold on to the handrail and almost slipped and fell but i caught myself so no worries but i got her down in one try and then gave the holy ghost. it was awesome and really not as bad as i thought it would be. but i forgot my camera cord so i can't send the pictures to you but i will next week for sure along with them on my memory card so yeah. other then that our week has been really good we had 3 baptisms 27 lessons and we talked to 117 people too. i thought it was an awesome week and this next week should be just as good we have scheduled prince to be baptized this saturday or sunday so hopefully that goes through but he didn't come to church this last week or the baptism so hopefully he still wants too i think he does but i think he just had to work but we have a lesson with him on wednesday right after transfers so yeah it should go well. so have i stalled long enough about transfers do you think? well the big news is that i'mmm leavi just kidding i'm staying here for another 6 weeks and elder riches is leaving to duncan. i'm getting elder mcgill who is from i think germany but he's american his dad was military so he was on the base. i've been around him before so i know him ok so i'm excited about it i think i'm not sure yet but oh well and other good news is that we are getting a car this next transfer! i'm way happy about that! but we still have to bike a little well i'll probably bike alot still just in case since i don't know whats going to happen the next month! i might have to go down to moore every day for 4 days this month for this leadership training thing so that will eat up alot of the 800 miles. but oh well i don't mind biking to much its not to bad now that its starting to cool off a little bit. in the 90's is better then the 100's. but oh well thats great news about dads retirement! i bet he was jumping off the walls in excitement! i hope all the kids are doing great in school. i will try to get a letter to them this week. i'm going to be busy with district meeting again and now with transfers and stuff i'm even more busy but i will do what i can it might be a short letter so yeah but watch out for it. oh distict meeting went good i guess i basically had to talk for about 30 min on how to ask good questions and stuff but it went pretty good i thought but now i have to do it all over again and do another basically 30 min talk this week so lucky me right? oh well i still have no idea what its going to be on but i will figure it out tonight haha fun fun well i'll let y'all go have a good week i'll let you know about prince this next week be praying for him! love y'all!!!!
elder downs