March 11, 2010

hello family it me again ! can you all believe ive been gone over a month. not gonna lie this has been the longest but fastest most busy month of my life. but i got my packakage today ... yaayy!! but when i got it, it was open but nothing was missing from what i saw. i got the SD card and it didnt really look like they searched through it. i heard that flat packages make it through customs better too. and put pictures of jesus all over it and that will help too. mom rember those book ( jesus the christ, etc. ) that i didnt take with me, well could you send those down to me?  and you dont have to make me another photo album one of the kids in my district from provo sent it to me here. and one thing that i need especially for the field is a headlamp . like what we take on the man hike. cuz the power goes out here all of the time and i heard that those are awsome to have. and one more thing to send me , my black nike bag. that would be great to have. now to answer all of your questions. i get all of your dearelders on wednesday usually or sometimes thursday, so in time for me to read them before i email. ryan my calases are gone on my fingers :( so now i get to go through the two weeks of pain again when i get back. i got to go to the store/ supershopping center this week, and i have been looking forward to going there for about two weeks so let me tell you a litlle bit about it. we had to drive there so we almost died like 20 times on the way there ( i found out that there are not alot of stop signs here either ) but i finally got there and inside it looks pretty much exactly like a giant walmart. it had two floors and it wasnt really anydifferent than what we have in america, so i was kinda bumbed cuz i thought it was going to be just this crazy store and there would be just craziness everywhere , but nope it was pretty normal. my companions , yup plural were elder warren and elder mecham but this week latins missionaries came in from around the world and so they split up our trio and now im with elder horton. i had to change into a whole new district with new teachers and eeveything , im really bumed cuz i really liked my old district and was comfortable there but oh well what can ya do about it ?elder warren was pretty cool and elder mecham, well tested me a lil bit but overall it was pretty good. you know toby off of the office? how he is always singing and stuff and kinda annoyoing well taht is pretty much how he is. i have never heard someone sing that much in my entire life, and sometimes he tries to sing a song and it just doesnt sound very good but he doesnt care and just belts it out anyway. it was pretty rough to get used to. so i hear tanner thinks its funny to poop ? haha that is so funny i wish i could be there to cheer him on. and jonathon i will approve of you buying this suburban only if it still works by the time i get home and i can ride in it on the way to our manhike. mom i havnt seen the ocean yet besides from what i could see from the temple. and im pretty sure that i wont be in the mtc during general conference cuz my day that im suppose to leave on is march 30 or 31 so i will be out in the field. mom i forgot to get the model of my camera but the brand is an EXLIM ( i think) and the box could be in my closet so you could look for it in there. my curfiew and time to get up is still the same as in provo.  get up at 6 30 and go to bed at 10 30. and someone asked me if was doing my big bird stuff..... well the most excercise that i have done the enire time out here on my mission is probably getting out of bed. jordy its ok b ball is over cuz tennis is way fun and you will be playing alot this year. when all of the haitians left i still didnt get the package so elder wendler let me borrow one of his, but now when i take pictures im probably not going to send home the SD card cuz its just too dangerous and takes way to long. so you all will have a bunch of pictures to look at when i get home. still going to the universtiy every week and guess what ...... still have no idea what anyone is saying to me. ok well i can kinda get it but spanish is freakin hard, so listen family even if you are prayin for me to learn this language its time for you to go into super prayer mode. because today we got two native roomates and i promise you this..... i can NOt understand one word they say to me . so pray pray pray. ryan i dont think you were tellin the truth to me in your email about me doing kinda well , cuz if you were here and saw my face when they talked to me , im pretty sure you would have a different idea. and my dear brothers i am sorry for the rough times that your eyes have gone through ( from your emails and both of you should know what im talking about). but mom i dont need anymore shirts and yes im still wearing my retainer. ryan and greg i give you two more weeks with p90x ... im just sayin. and i still only get thirty min of email, and i heard i only get thirty min out in the field but hopefully that wont be true but we will just have to wait and see. i bet that im tanner than all of you up there though. im gettin kinda dark, but when i get into the field i think thats when i will start getting super dark. thanks for the letters and emails everyone , i love hearing from you guys and i cant wait until next week when i get to hear from you again. love elder finn