Catching Up

7-19-10

Yeah, this week was awesome. We found about 8 new investigators so we are teaching them now. That’s awesome you’re just spending time with the family (spending a day shopping together!). Just wish we could have done it a lot more but no biggy. I saw the pics of the house - it looks awesome already. Well, this week we are going to try and see if we can get 2 gators to be baptized before my trainer leaves for home cuz he only has one month left, which stinks, cuz he is awesome and I learn so much from him. So, I guess I am going to just have to use him while I can. It is amazing how much I am learning from the Book of Mormon. I actually started to study it and it is fun; you should tell Miles to start when he has the chance. Yeah, I know. Dad told me to read it at home but I guess it just hits you when you get out here. I guess I have just been missing out all this time. Well Shayanna told me that they are going to try and start a family, maybe, but who knows, right? Well I am going to try and mail my camera card thingy to you this week so you can see all 500 of my pics. Well, the house looks great. I love you all.

Have a great week, and mom, I hope you are feeling better. I have been praying for y'all. ADIOS mi familia

Elder Goodrich

7-12-10

haha Yeah i like the way the mission does pictures. Well first to start off one thing really important - if you ever want me to get a package or mail to me you have to send it to the mission home USPS ok or I can’t get it until they see me next so there. My companion is Elder Ramirez.

Yeah I got someone who is amazing at Spanish but I don’t know how long I am going to be with him because he just trains for the 6 weeks and then he trains again so I am his third companion in 3 transfers. But the First Pres has made new changes to everything so they said I might be in my first area for like 6 transfers. Well we have 5 investigators right now but one is moving to Maryland and he said he was going to be baptized on the 18th but not no more; but we have 2 that I think are promising but then again the devil is a jerk. Well I tried to email pictures but this computer is stupid so I will just mail my card when I can. Sound good? :) Well I haven’t had a chance to buy my bike yet so I had probably the worst bike in the world to start with. It doesn’t shift out of 15th gear and the crank is bent (the part the peddle is connected

to) in case you didn’t know. So yeah I have had a rough week but I just went and bought my bike today but I can’t get it till Wed. So I guess I will just have to suffer more with this piece of junk, but then again blessed are they that suffer, right? haha. Yeah, well last week it got to 100 degrees so yeah, this is going to take some getting used to. But because of the hurricane it has been really nice here. But that doesn’t help the bike situation. Hey, well I will try and get the pictures to you as soon as I can. I love you all. I hope you are enjoying Washington because I miss it a lot. Well I love you bunches. Adios. And one more thing. I am in Dallas east area, in the Dallas 10th ward and the ward is the size of Moses Lake and the ward is only like 100 people. It’s crazy and I have two of my MTC buddies in my district so I see mi companero from the MTC a lot which is cool. Well bye mommy. I love you.

Elder Goodrich