January 18,2011-Email

Hey whats up?Well its been an interesting week. We taught a bunch of lessons and weare working our butts off. We got a really cool investigator this lastweek. It was when it was really cold and she let us in. And it just sohappened to be the first door that we knocked on! She wasn'tinterested in letting us in but she said come in and get out of thecold and have some hot chocolate were like sweet thanks. Then sheslike well while your here you might as well answer some questions thati have. Then she told us about herself and how she has been trying tolearn more for about 3 years since her sister is a member. so we gaveher a book of mormon and she said come back in 2 weeks so that you cananswer questions... were like sure we can do that. So that wasthe highlight of our week last week. We might be having a baptismreally soon but i don't know quite whats going to happen they didn'tcome to church so we had to postpone it but they said they want itdone before the 26th. So pretty much were in the middle of this tryingto figure it out and its putting alot of stress on us. So what i think whatwill happen is we will have the baptism after church sometime. But ihave no idea. On the brightside though we got a phone call from somebody that moved into theblanchard branch said that he was taking the lessons and wants us tocome up and teach him. So i think that will be another baptism soon!Thats looking really good for up there. That should be at least 3-4baptisms pretty soon. I wish it was that good here in Chickasha butits super slow here. This week we have to go to moore for a trainersmeeting and then next week is the big 4 day meeting again. So thatwill be eating away at our miles. And it just so happens that all ofthese cool new investigators are super far away so we are burningmiles like crazy. Which means we will be biking almost everyday hereas soon as elder jacobs gets his bike back. (he broke it his 3 dayout) But thats the big news so far. Elder jacobs is doing better hewas about to go home last week but i told him i would tape him to hischair if he decided to do that. He laughed and i told him i wasserious. He is enjoying it more now. We are starting to work out too.the last week and a half we have been running everynight and trying toin the morning. We run around 2 miles at night and a mile in themorning. We are getting along good so thats good. No problems so far.Wow i can't believe that dad cleaned his shop! It doesn't look thesame at all! Yeah i loved the pictures and videos from my memory card.That made me laugh especially when dad had to cover his ears haha.What did you think of my memory card? You didn't expect the picture ofme on a camel did you? How cool is that? I shouldn't have tospeak in church for a while but i wouldn't mind it. I'm use to talkingto a bunch of people now its pretty funny. Well i have to get going,have a great week and i'll let you know about how the baptism worksout or if it even does!!!
Love y'all ELDER DOWNS