Amazon Float

well im glad that everything in the package made it to you. im glad you liked it to. did everyone open the presents or so you? glad you liked the dvds also. they are pretty cool. that is ALL of my pics in the mission and so now your all caught up. well except for the pics i have taken since then haha. so ya i havnt received any packages yet but no worries i will. so about the river, WOW, it was awesome, like i cant even explain it. it was soo pretty and amazing how the two river waters dont mix for like miles. and they litteraly dont mix. not even a little. it looks like something is seperating them it was way cool. we also got to watch a movie, the cronicals of narnia, it was cool and i saw elder orr. haha. it was a great day yesterday!!! Pics to come!

Mollie Born!

so becca had her baby!!! congrats for her. i was gonna ask about her today haha. i knew it was coming up!!! what day? and i will get to see elder orr and the amazon river. im going to the encounter of waters, its where the two rivers make the amazon river. it will be cool!!! so as we are having sacrament meeting there is a funeral going on in the cultral hall behind us with a dead body there haha. it was VERY distracting, and to top it all of they were using a projecter for sacrament meeting. ahhh, the church here is soo crazy haha.

Dec 2, 2009

this week was cool we had a zone conf. with pres. it was about the BOM. we got burnt on not using the BOM enough. so we will be using it more. haha. we watched some clipps from Elder Hollands talk, wow, i love that talk, it was like my favorite talk i have ever hear in my life. also i found out what pres is gonna do for the christmas conferance. im way excited for this one. ALL the missionaries in the mission (meaning i will see elder orr and elder t davis) are coming here to manaus!!! pres is trying to rent a boat and take us to the encounter of waters. its where the two huge rivers meet and make the Amazon river. one of the rivers is like black and the other brown and so when the waters meet they dont mix for a long time so its like a river with one side black and one side brown. there should be some pics online i imagine. but it is gonna be sooo awesome. im sooo freaking excited to see elder orr and elder t davis again!!!! also we had a baptism this sundya!!! that was way cool. it was the daughter of a less active that we are reactivating!!! her name is Larissa! this last saturday night the electircity was flickering and it ended up burnig our fans, like literaly, our fans cought on fire haha. so we had no fans sat night and then sunday we couldnt buy any so sunday night we died of a heat stroke also. haha. but then monday we went to buy some fans!!! o something else i realized is that NO one else wil have babies before i get home now. its passed the time already!!!! yayay.

Our Prez. is a great guy. i love sister. she is soo innocent it is funny at times. haha. but ya my comp its gettin lots better haha. last week he had an emergency to use the bathroom but we werent at home and the bathroom we were by didnt have toilet paper so he used plastic bags on the floor. haha. poor kid. i remember what it ws like being newer haha. this is his 3rd transfer. he is talking way better then i did with 2 or 3 transfers. he is doing good. i know who those brazilian girls are. they are some less active members in this ward that we are trying to reactivate. they have been going to chruch like 3 or 4 weeks in a row and we baptized their friend a week ago. i pray they get better and stay active. were helping them lots. but if there making my facebook dirty like that you can tell annie to delete them. tell emma happy bday for me. one of our investigators this week got in a fight with his wife and she stabbed him in the leg. its nasty. his leg is alll black and gross now. haha. brazil is messed up ahha. but he wants to be baptised soo much but he cant cause they arnt married so he wants to leave but he has no money to leave so he is in a tough situation. also a family we are teaching is awesome. im loving them. we had a way spirtiual lesson and we talked about baptism and the mom went off saying how she didnt feel like her first baptism was right and how she is looking for the right one. and she started to cry i was, well just teary eyed, i dont cry haha. but it was awesome. i love that family!!!! ya all is great here!! lvoe ya!

we have a mission home. but my area is the furthest away from the mission office. it takes like an hour and a half to get to the mission office so i never go there but i live with the assistants so the always bring my letters and packages!!! yes i got a package this week with spegetti and prego and dille beans and i got the belt a week or two ago. thanks a ton for everything!!!! your the best mom EVER!!! so there is a little boy in my ward witht the name of Hyrum. it is funny how the say it though haha. this week we had zone conf. it was way good. one of the elders that is finishing bore his testimony and talked about how he was a recent convert before his mission and when he decided to go on a mission his dad said no but he went any way. he said he has written his dad every week and his dad has NEVER written him back. how sad is that. he said he never gets letters packages or anything. i felt so bad. but i tihnk of how much faith he must have and how strong of a testomony. a mission is hard enough with family support. i cant imagine how hard it would be with out it. my comp is just sick alot. just like pains in the stomoch. but its normal for americans. also his feet hurt really bad caouse of blisters. so some days we dont even leave the house cause his feet hurt so bad and he cant walk. like the blisters burst and get infected. haha. poor kid. i was reading in alma 17 this week and i loved a scripture i was studing about patience in verse 11. it is totally how with my patience i will be a tool in the lords hand for the lamanites. that is a prophecy that im making part of. cool huh??1!!!! 

im reading jesus the christ and so that is like WOW, AMAZING. haha. im loving it. i read like half the book yesterday alone haha.

well love ya mother. your the best!!!!

New Area

Manaus is good. im enjoying it. the ppl here are alot smarter then in rio branco!! haha. lets see. sunday was testimony sunday and a guy from mexico city was here for buisness and he bore his testomony in spanish and i understood everything. i was like wait i never studied spanish and i didnt know it before the mission. haha. it was weird but cool for sure. its kinda an ugly language but dont tell ryan that. haha. also here in manaus, being in the middle of the amazon jungle has some beautiful rain/thunder stomrs. its amazingly great. the thunder is way loud though haha. and the rain is really HARD and its not even the reain season yet. everyone says in november or december it starts up for real. also for lunch on sunday i ate aligator. it was good. its kindal like chicken. kinda. haha. um my comp is cool. he got a little sick this week but i think he is better now. the roomies are cool. trunky casue they go home next transfer haha. but i love them. um pics...well i forgot my camera in the house today so next week maybe haha. sorry. no the language is about the same. ppl here are smarter so they actually conjugate the verbs corectly haha. um bakc is fine. no worries there. its not hurting at all. that is crazy about brett. is he ok now. i got mine taken our at the beginning of my mission but i never told you casue i didnt want you to get all worried up haha. but it was kinda crazy. i got a cool scare now. haha. jkjk. ive been blessed with health haha. well i apriciate the prayers and pray for you tons to. lov ya

transfers! Trunky... Happy... Sad... oct 2nd

Hippy friend!

well this week was awesome then sad then sad then trunky then awesome agian haha. let me start from the start. CONFERANCE. holy wow it was just great now wasn't it??? i loved it. Elder Hollands talk was just AMAZING huh?? he was like screaming and giving such a strong testimony. i absolutly loved the conf. this last weekend. i also recognize one of the 70. i think his name was Elder Nielson or something like that. i loved his talk about mission work. it was awesome. i think he is the one that helped me pick my mission suit that one day. haha. thats cool. then it got sad cause i found out i was getting transfered. i loved my area in rio bracno and also my comp. so it was way sad to leave there (recent converts members elders comp and etc...) but then it went to sad again when i had to pay 70 reais (35 dollars) on baggage cause mine was to heavy. but then it got trunky. in the airplane coming to manaus. i always thought the next time i would be on a plane would be on the way home haha. so all i could think about is how it would be flying home haha. then it got even trunkier when i got here in manaus and had about 100 letters and a package from you and melissa. haha. but then it got cool again when i got my new comp who is from northern idaho and my new area. im living in the area with the assistants so i will have to stop slacking and work now haha. but im totally lost right now. this city is HUGE and the ward has like ward missionaries and all the leaders and stuff. its weird haha. i havn't had a full ward my whole mission. in my last ward i had to give a talk at least once a month. but now the elders said we never give talks. its great haha. but ya im excited to get to know my area and the ppl here!!!! i got a letter from you chastising me for sending lame emails latly haha. so sorry about that. i will try to get better and my emailing. its just that stuff gets normal to me so ya. anyway sorry. :)