Dear mom,

 

Why in the world are they canceling church that Sunday because of the Brigham City Temple dedication?

 

I have to say, my Spanish is getting better I think. Every transfer it gets a lot better. I've actually had a couple dreams where I speak Spanish or somebody else speaks to me in Spanish. Pretty weird because I still wouldn't say that I'm fluent. But cool. That's exciting to hear that Julia and Kaylee might take Spanish. If they're still doing it when I get home I would be so happy to help them out!

 

I was the same way when I was reading the last book of the Great and Terrible Series. I was really sad when I finally finished. So good!

 

So today was a pretty fun day. We went down to Princeton and played football with some members from the English Ward over there. We actually went to the Princeton University to play. The original plan was to play in their football stadium, but it was being used. So we played in a lacrose field that we found. It was pretty fun. Not much that exciting happened this week. Just transfers happened, and I'm in charge of my area. I'm with a guy named Elder Wettstein from Washington state. He's pretty fun. It should be a good six weeks coming up. I'm getting to know the area pretty well and I have good relationships with the members. They really like me especially now that they know I can play the piano. Just yesterday, we went over to the Branch Presidents house for some dinner and to talk about the Branch a little. Apparently there are a lot of less-active members in this area. President Rojas says that there are so many members that come from their country and come once to church and never come again. He also says there are like 200 members in the Plainfield Branch. That's hard for me to believe. He's says another big problem is that people are so caught up in work that they put their work in front of their church attendence and their commitments to God. It's really sad. I don't know how to help them. Even if we could find them, I don't know what we would say. Some people are so hard to find. And I don't even know why they have phones when most of them don't work or they don't pick up. Super frustrating.

 

There's this new missionary in our district, and they live pretty close to us. He just came from somewhere in southern Utah, but he went to UVU for a year or so. He's pretty cool. We were hanging out today with them and we actually started talking about burger joints and JCW's. Man, I really miss that place! Along with Carls Jr and Costa Vida. But they actually have Five Guys around here a lot. We just went there today and it was really good. I haven't had a good burger like that in a while. There are so many McDonalds around here though. I was also talking to this missionary about Quiznos and how bad the headquarters people are. I can't believe that Larry had to close down his store! That's so sad! I can hardly believe it. I was really looking forward to going back to say hi to Larry and the rest of the people working there after my mission. If you get any more info on it let me know. I'm actually friends on Facebook with Larry's son named Eric Brassfield. You could maybe ask him on my Facebook more details on it. I don't know if that would be private stuff or not, but that's a way to see.

 

I honestly don't know for my birthday. Maybe Five Guys card. That alarm clock would be a good idea. I really couldn't think of anything else. Surprise me!

 

Q of the W:

1.  Do you know if you are able to vote this year??

 

I want to vote. Especially for Mitt Romney. I don't know much about him, but I'm pretty sure he'll do better than Obama. There are so many Obama fans out here. I don't know why..

2.  Have you heard from your friend from Quiznos?  I totally have forgotten his name?  I hope he has a job now.

 

Channing. I haven't heard from him. I wrote him a letter when I was in the MTC, I think. He never wrote back. Also, Seth hasn't written back either. I'll try them again. I'm pretty sure Channing had another job.

3.  Have you been taking pictures lately with your camera?  It would be fun to get pictures from you...:)

I've kind of forgotten about taking pictures. I really need to do better with that. Every once in a while, I'll find something cool or interesting. I should carry around my camera for those things.

 

 

BTW: I really, REALLY need a GPS. I'm going to have to buy one today probably. I'll try and keep it around $100. It's pretty much impossible to find addresses without one and my new companion doesn't have one. It'll be nice for the rest of my mission for sure. I also really need to buy new shoes soon. Maybe a gift card to Marshalls or Kohls too..

 

Love you mom! Sorry if my emails aren't very detailed. I'm working on that.

 

-Justin