April 25, 2011

Well it sounds like u all had a great week!! im jealous that u all got
to go into the wilderness!! if u can find the camera that me and cubb
tookin last year we took some great pictures of the falls in there.
but ya, itll be nice im sure to have the trail cleaned out.  ya the
forest service people are a little crazy sometimes, but whatever, i
guess they have to do there job.   well, easter was really good, its a
great time to think of all the blessings we have, and of the
atonement.  well, we did have transfers, i stayed in the garden of
eden!! haha and e chavez went to be zl of the biggest zone in the
mission.  my new comp is e burchill, he`s from cali.  half of his
family is converts, his parents are divorced ond his dad isn+t a
meber, but his mom stepdad and brothers are.  hes been out for 6
months, so hes got the language down pretty good, sometimes we
struggle to understand everyone 100%  but we do ok.  weve found some
new good people to teach, so thats always good.  its finally starting
to cool off here, so im glad for that, all the natives  think its
freezing, but its about just right for me.  haha before transfers i
met a lady on a bus that wanted to talk english with me, it was hard
im not gonna lie, my first instinct was to answer in spanish.  its
kinda wierd, cause e burchil and i talk english in the house  and when
we leave, only spanish, and when we study only spanish.  so if i talk
about the church, or related things in english, its hard, but because
i haven`t talked a ton about sports in spanish i can still have a
normal conversation about sports without forgetting words.  well, i
bought a trasformer last week, i finally found one, so that was nice,
and i sent letters last week to, and will today, last week i sent some
pics home too, u can use one of these for my plaque, and if u use a
scripture too use jacob 1 19.  its a good one.  ya but, it takes
foreer to send pics throught he internet, so what ill do is every
couple weeks print some out and send them in the mail.  we got chased
by a big german shepherd and another dog the other night!  my comp
herad them coming and when i turned around they were right there, i
turned aroun¡d and was ready to throw the bible at it, luckily it
stopped, but it got our adrenaline going prety good!! haha  e burchill
had to get an ingrown toenail cut out sat morning so we couldn`t work.
 we talked all day about basketball, and other stuff, but it was
really good. i finished the b of m in english, so im done with it, and
only read in spanish now, so thats good.  i haven`t gotten any letters
from u guys in awhile.. i would like to get some more pics of u guys!
theres also one pic of me evan tj and bauer in my box, thatd be great
if u could send that, and some more of the family, or some of my
football and basketball pics.  well everything here is great, last
week i got like 12 other letters swent in a big letter to u, with
american stamps, so if u could throw those in the mail id appreciate
it.  thanks for everything!! and ill let u know about the call home,
were still figurinfg it out!! love ya tons!! con amor, elder donaldson