Thanks for all the info and updates! Much appreciated. I might be able to Skype on Sunday. I told dad some more info on how I'll do it. I'm allowed to text dad more info about that later on this week. I also heard that you're going to Grandma and Grandpa in Bountiful. Maybe you could plan on being there and I can talk to Grandma and Grandpa too! Well, sometimes it feels like the weeks go by fast. The days for me definately go by pretty quick. When I lay down at night, I can't believe I'm in bed again, haha. The weeks seem to go by a little slower. However, on Friday's, it seems like the weekend came up quick (not that the weekend means anything to me, haha). I'm a month away from being 1/4 done with my mission. I'll be in 'training' for one more month, or until the end of this transfer, and that's the 1/4 mark. Not that I'm counting or anything... I've also hear that after the 1/2 mark, it speeds up. Wow! That would make my mission a time warp. Pretty wierd. I'm definately enjoying a lot of things here. We're teaching the Montalva Family (Mom-Natalie, Son (16)-Alberto, and daughter (9)-Ariana. They are amazing! They're getting baptized June 3 (the last day of the transfer, and possibly my last day in Dover). Natalie was talking to us about how long it takes to go to the temple. Wow! She's really good friends with some strong members, so it wasn't too much of a surprise when she asked us how long she has to wait to get her endowment and get sealed with her family. Since my companion and I are baptizing her, I might be able to go to the temple with her when she gets her endowment a year from now! Exciting! We also told her that she and Alberto can go do baptisms for the dead with the ward about a month after baptism. Natalie already wants to starting working on her anceastors! We teach that family about twice a week. The dad still isn't too interested, but I think he'll eventually turn around. Remember Ivan? Well, we finally set a baptism date with him. He's really excited for that. I don't know if I've already talked about him, but we still need to talk to the parents about that baptism. The primary is really involved in trying to help out Ivan. Ivan's parents are okay with him coming to church. The primary is very supportive of Ivan, because Ivan does all the work to get his parents to bring him to church. (Remember, Ivan is only 9.) The primary and the Bishop really want to make Ivan's baptism very special. We all know how smart Ivan is, as he is accepting the Gospel at age nine. I'm convinced I'm baptizing a future Apostle, haha ;) Ivan's amazing. Pray for his parents! I don't know if I've talked very much about Nahomi. Nahomi's mom and grandma are both members. Her mom works everyday including Sunday to support her family and to keep getting money to pay for Chemo-therapy for her blood cancer, or someting. The grandma is pretty old and can't walk very well. Recently, the grandma, Margarita Kallahui, had a pretty bad seizure or something during one of our lessons. (By the way, that was a pretty scary expierence. She just zoned out of it and started shaking. Crazy!) She ended up going to the hospital and had brain surgery. My comp and I went and visited her the other day near Morristown. She's doing better now. Anyway, we've been teaching Nahomi (11). She really wants to get baptized and go on a mission. Yep, she wants to serve a mission! Her brother David (13) just recently started listening as well. He loves what we teach. His big questions are 'Where did we come from?' and 'Where are we going?' We taught him the Plan of Salvation, and I think that's when he got converted. I think as soon as we get Nahomi and David start coming to church and baptized, their mom will start coming back. Every Wednesday, the missionaries teach English class at the chapel. Not very many people come. Usually just one member comes. Last Wednesday, we had our investigator Juan Diaz come as well. My comp ended up teaching our friend Edwin and left me to teach English class. That was fun! When I found out I was teaching English class, I started to think back to how my German teacher taught us. He was a really good German teacher. He always worked on how to teach German in a way that we would learn it fastest and most effectively. So, as I taught English, I tried my best to speak English the most I could and I never directly translated what I taught. I acted out all the verbs I taught. I think that's one way my German teacher taught us. English class was a fun experience! Yesterday, I had a real Sunday dinner! There's a family in our ward who is American. Often, they need English people to come and support the Spanish wards. Brother Linderman is a convert from like 25 years ago. He grew up around a lot of Spanish people, so he knows Spanish fluently. His wife plays the piano in Sacrament, and their daughter leads. By the way, the Spanish wards are never very good when it comes to music. Our zone in the MTC of 30 or so missionaries sings louder in a language they don't know, then a Spanish ward of 80. So the Linderman family is a huge support for the ward. Brother (Bishop) Linderman was the Bishop for the last few years before our Bishop now. Last week, they invited us for steak dinner that we had last night. The last time I had dinner that good was at the Mission Home when I first got here in NJ. The time before that, was at home. Great dinner! Sister Linderman said that they want to invite us again for Memorial's Day. Nothing else very interesting has happened in the last little while. I hope that email was better (sorry Grandma!) I'll try to make my emails more and more interesting. Q of the W: 1. Have you experienced anybody really mean or rude yet? Not really. The really rude and annoying things that happen, is when somebody tells us that we can come over, then they never answer their door or their phone. It's just a waste of our time. That's annoying. I wish they would just tell us they're not interested in joining the true Church and receive help from the Church Welfare from one of the richest organizations in the world, and blessings, and friends in the Church, and be exaulted in the Celestial Kingdom with their families for eternity. Sorry, I don't think they know that, but it's still annoying. Fun fact, did you know that the LDS Church is one of the richest organizations in the world? The Church owns a ton of stuff! My car has only 18,000 miles on it. It's a 2011 Toyota Corolla. The milage report in the glove compartment goes back to when two other missionaries had it when it had 8 miles! The Church buys brand new cars for every companionship across the nation and proabably other places in the world. That alone, costs a lot!! Then you think about all the apartments that missionaries rent. All the farms for Bishop's Storehouse. Lot's of money! I guess Heavenly Father doesn't want His Church to be poor... 2. Have you seen any NJ gangs yet? (I kinda hope not, but I'm still wondering) Nope. No gangs. But I haven't served in Newark yet;) I'm told when I serve in Newark, that's when the 'stories' come. :) 3. I read someones email on Missionary Moms and they said missionaries get to go to the Manhattan temple every 6 months and will go through Times Square (or something like that). Have you heard anything about that yet? Yes! and yes! Every six months. June is when we go next and I'll take a detour through Times Square. Can't wait! By the way fam Gajewsky, we're visiting NYC and NJ after my mish! Forget Disneyland, we can wait. Love you all! Talk to you soon:) -Justin