October 25, 2010-Email

hey everybody!how are you doing today? i'm doing ok its been a crazy week. we had asuper zone conference with a 70 elder zwik came and spoke to us for afew hours. it was pretty cool i got to talk to him for a min and hewas really pretty nice and is a spiritual giant. i couldn't believeit. but it was really cool we got to spend a few hours with him and hetaught us about preach my gospel and more about working with members.the coolest thing though was i got to see some missionaries that ihaven't seen in a long time. i thought that, that was pretty coolsadly i didn't get to see my old district they were in the otherconference. so that was a really cool friday and it was nice it tookthe place of district meeting this week so i didnt have to plananything out for that. to answer your question yes i am still districtleader. and yes i still have to plan one out everyweek, plus this weeki have to give a 20 min talk in chickasha. so i'm going to be busyworking for both of those this week. lets see not much else is goingon we worked hard this week and were planning on setting over 10baptismal dates with investigators here but sadly enough basicallyeverything feel through we only were able to have 3 but i'm stillpretty excited about that. this next week will be better i have afeeling! so hopefully things will be exciting here in chickasha andblanchard. oh we went to blanchard this last week for church (weswitch off every other week) and we met in the double wide trailer. iguess they are suppose to be building a new building were the old one.sometime end of this year to the start of next year. but they reallyneed a new one! so i saw the pictures of libby and yeah she definetlyhas more hair then dad does haha she looks really cute though wish icould be there. give her a kiss for me! so lets see to answer yourquestions we have a washer and a dryer in our apartment so we dolaundry whenever we need to. we have a walmart here in chickasha so wego shopping there. i have 4 long sleeve shirts which i think will beenough i will let you know if i need some more. but i will probablyget a 17 if i get some i think. my suites are black and a dark darkgray. so i want a black sweater... long sleeve, and a dark darkdark gray one if they have one if not black will work. we have onlyhad one dinner at our apartment. but we don't really eat at membershomes. its either less actives or investigators we eat with. weusually eat with members in blanchard when we go up there once a week.we have a car with alot of miles but when we have to go to blanchard1-2 times a week it sucks the miles out so we end up biking a littlebit. but its not to bad in a small town theres not alot of cars at allso its really nice and the weather has been awesome. we e-mail mondayslike always. well tell everybody hi from me and i'm glad that kylieand libby are doing good. i love y'all elder downs