September 27, 2010-Email

hello my family!
how are you doing today? i'm not doing to bad, but what a crazy weeks its been! we started out with going to the masionic temple in guthrie last p-day that was super fun our whole district went up there and got to take the tour for free. it was really interesting i got some really cool pictures from it. so we did that and then the next morning i got picked up and headed down to moore for 4 days. the leardership training meeting was really good. i learned so much from it. the schedule was that we got up in the morning showered... this is at the mission home... studied for a little bit then went to meetings. there was about 8 of us at the mission home and everybody else got spread across the closest apartments to moore. so we would get to the meeting and have 2 hours of instruction on one of the new 8 lessons for us then get an hour to practice it. we would then break for lunch then we would do the same thing except for a new lesson then we would break for dinner where we had to go to our prosleyting area and get dinner or something. so i got assigned to moore 2 and got to work with elder williams who i knew pretty good, he was my district leader in ardmore so we are pretty good friends so we would go work in that area till about 8:30 and then go to the missino home and call our districts to see how they are doing and then go to bed. we did this for 4 days straight. i felt like i was back at the mtc. wake up eat, go to class, eat again, go to class, eat and then go to bed. but i think these new 8 lessons will help out missionary work so much so i'm excited to share what i've learned and apply it when we go out teaching. lets see so thats about it for my news this week thats all i did pretty much. i did get a call from brian he said that he would have to push our lunch or dinner off till this next week which worked best for us too. but i did get my suits! well i paid for them and got them tailored... the only bad part is they were a little more expensive then he said. it ended up costing 420 dollars because of the tailoring. it was like a 100 bucks just to tailor them to me! i thought it was quite ridiculous but the good news is that i'm going to look amazing and that if i gain or lose more weight they will retailor it for me for FREE!! so thats really nice. so hopefully that wasn't to much money if so i'm sorry i couldn't really say no when i was paying for it at the very end but i'm really excited to be able to have some suits that fit me! i'll send some pictures when i get them in on the 5th! good luck witht the fair this week i bet it will do awesome. yeah i'm excited for my birthday i can't wait to be 20 just kidding i feel old now! but it should be fun i think that it will be fun out here with my district, i've gotten pretty close with all of them so its been good. it looked like the party was super fun! wish i could have been there to enjoy in the bbq. but oh well, well thats about it for this week! hope y'all are doing good let me know if i can help in any way!
love all y'all
elder downs