October 4, 2011-Email

Hey everybody,
How are you guys doing today? I'm doing really good. Its been a really fast week. I feel like all i have done is sat down and be in meetings. We had to leave wednesday night to stay up in pauls valley and then we drove and had to be in moore at 8:30 then we were there till about 9:30pm and then i went back to norman to spend the night. Which was super nice, surprisingly they had a queen size mattress so i got that one and slept like a baby, then the next day it was the same thing. The only exception was that we were suppose to drive back down to pauls valley after it was over, but the elders i drove up there with left there stuff there so we had to wait for the other elders to get back up there to get there stuff and we didn't end up getting back down to norman till 11:30. So they told us to just spend the night and drive down in the morning. So thats what we ended up doing we got back down here 5 seconds before conference started. We went straight to the church and as soon as we sat down it started. Then we stayed and watched conference had lunch with a member, then watched the afternoon session, had dinner with a member, then back up there for priesthood session. Then we ended up talking to the bishop for almost an hour after about some of the stuff going on in the ward and the drama down here, so by the time we got back to our apartment it was 10. I was so beat and then i went straight to bed and then we got up went to conference and then had lunch there with members and then watched the last session and then had dinner with members. It was really fun but i'm super tired of sitting down, i feel so lazy now because i had to basically sit for 4 days straight. The meetings in moore was super fun though. I learned alot and saw quite a few friends there. The funny thing is that the zone leaders totally stole my last district meeting talk i did with them down here. Basically word for word what i said. It made me laugh a little bit. I also found out something this last week too, it made me laugh also. Elder Jackson my trainer he went home like 2 or 3 months ago is already engaged and is getting married sometime this month. That was super fast, the funny thing was that he said that wouldn't happen for a long time haha. I did get the primary package, thank you for that! The camera works good, i forget i have it now, i got use to thinking that i don't have one anymore. Yeah i bought a shirt at buckle and i'm going to see if i can find another one. I also bought a sweet tie that i couldn't pass up it was 75 % off. This week should be interesting President is changing a few things, he is focusing more and getting members to go to lessons with us and only really wants us to report those numbers, the only bad thing is that we don't have any super solid investigators. We will probably only have 1 semi solid investigators after this week, so it should be interesting with his new focus. We are trying hard to find more people to teach, but we aren't getting refferals from the ward because of all the drama going on so its a lot of tracting for us. Yeah i feel better it was my own fault that i got sick so yeah i think my sinus' are a little messed up but other then that i feel good. The weather is awesome i love this time of year nice and cool makes you just want to be outside, which was hard these last 4 days. Well i'm signing off for now. I'll talk to you next week and i totally forgot my camera again so i will get that either tomorrow and send some when i go and browse mormon.org or next week.
Love y'all
Elder Downs