9/12/11b

That´s why Honda developed a button on the driver door that locks the windows. Crazy binner. I might be the only person who doesn´t even react to Vicodin. Only time I get a little crazy is when I´m too tired.

Larry is going to be home like September 30th or so, so they better get that package out express. Nice thought, though.

Having a companion is like having a ball and chain around your ankle that´s always there, and only falls off when you go to the bathroom. Otherwise, it´s always there with you.

More young men? Sometimes it happens.

Yes, I walk just as much. We end up going back and forth a lot in the city. There´s only one ward, and there were few changes since I´ve left. Granted, some people are still figuring out that I´m back, or they think I´m ´new´. Elder Gross always is at my side laughing while I´m being gracious ¨yes, I´m new, yes, nice to meet you.¨. Granted, for the ones that haven´t recognized me yet, I am about 45 pounds lighter than I was when I was here last.

The weather is hot and humid at the moment. But we have A/C this time around, so at least we´re not sweating while we sleep like we did here last year. Waking up being sticky is terrible. And they have remotes, so we just turn them off from the bedside.

The new music has been nice. Thanks for putting it together.

I´ll be home one of these years. I know I¨ve been talking to President Hinckley about looking into a one year extention that they´re offering to go and open things up in Morocco, but I¨m not sure about it yet.

Hehe...I funny. I´m sure your heart probably stopped while you read that. No, there´s no one year extention in the works.

This week, I spent part of it in Alcoy on an exchange. I was there to do a basic area inspection, as well as just see how things were. Blasted city is built in a canyon, so it´s uphill both sides. I´ve had almost exclusively flat areas my whole mission. But I survived. Nearly all the elders in the district are from Arizona. Only my companion isn´t. 

Then I came back to my area to see that it had imploded. One of those weeks where all the people say ´yeah, not this week.¨ Whether it was ´yeah, I´ll be busy shopping all week. I won´t be home one hour.¨ or ¨yeah, busy¨, we heard it all.

So we went out finding, and thankfully we did, and managed to still have a good week.

This week will be a little different because we won´t have a district meeting tomorrow, but instead Zone Conference on Friday. So I´ve only taught two district meetings this transfer. It´s been crazy. The transfers are next week, so while I don´t think I´m going anywhere, I don´t know for sure what will happen, so it´ll probably be Tuesday when I write.

Yes, we were trying to get Tomas Costa to pick the ¨Battle Hymn of the Republic¨ as one of the sacrament meeting hymns yesterday, but we didn´t get time. Then I tried to get the YM president (who´s 19) to pick it for opening exercises, but I couldn´t catch his eye. So after church we just listened to some patriotic music and talked about how great America is. The usual.

We had some interesting steaks last week that I got the recipe for, so I¨ll have to make it when I get back. They came out extremely tender. And this Sunday, I had my first taste of ginger ale...it really wasn´t anything special.

So, sorry this is going out late. We were getting ready to leave and write when Tomas called, asking us if we could go down and open the chapel, because some carpenters were coming to look at the building (they´re getting ready to do a lot of remodeling). The bishop was working, the first counselor was out of town, and he couldn´t leave the house, because he had to watch his grandson. So that took up more time than we expected. Then we had visits...well, I´m here now.

I hope you all have a good week, and I´ll look forward to hearing from you next week.