November 22, 2010-Email

hey everybody!well another week is gone and its the end of the transfer so its timefor transfer calls... and it was kind of a shock for the both of us. ihad a feeling that we were going to stay together another transfer andso did elder smith but that wasn't the case. he is leaving here andgoing to altus south east of chickasha and i will be staying heregetting a brand new missionary. so yeah i will be training this next 6weeks which should be interesting with 2 holidays this transfer. soall i know is that i'm training and i will find out who my newcompanion is when i meet him wednesday morning. so thats been the bigexcitment around here. i'm pretty excited about it but also reallynervous about the whole thing but i guess it will all work out. thislast week has been a long one we really didn't do to much elder smithgot really pretty sick with a bad cold and with the wind here hedidn't want to go outside at all so we tried all of our investigatorseach day and then he came home and slept while i tried to study. wewere able to tract for about 2 hours on thursday though so that wasawesome, but i'm looking forward to being able to get out of the houseagain. its super boring when your stuck inside by yourself prettymuch. this week is thanksgiving too and we are going to one of ourinvestigators houses to eat so it should be way fun. shes a reallygood cook too! we will be over there for christmas too. oh we have abaptism on the 10th of december. i'm pretty excited about that. wellif everything goes according to plan which i think it will all she hasto do is quit smoking which she wants to do. but be praying for her.her name is amy baker. oh i have gotten most of the mystery messagesall but 2. the one with a bunch of boxes or whatever is giving me someproblems. i'm sending home a little box with some stuff in it: my oldplanners some letters and ward rosters so that should be coming inthis week or next week when i can send them. it will have my memorycard in it too. umm yeah thats about all i got for this week. so i'lltalk to y'all next week!
love yaelder downs