3/26/12

Hi Ma,

Thanks for the email. everything is going pretty good. this week was good. I don't get that much mail other than from you and Lindsie. Erik wrote me a few times too. I do occasionally get a letter from someone in the fam too. thats cool that nick just left. he is going to mississippi right? those mini preach my gospels are great. everyone wants them but i dont have anymore. I'm pretty sure that this is Matts last transfer. this one or next. so you will see him home either in april or may i think. He served in Ashland at one point. I saw his name on the wall marking how tall he was.

Its nice to hear that all the kids are destroying the house as always. i miss all the kids but i sure dont miss cleaning up the mess. so it is the beginning of spring break here and its great. but the weather is just as messed up as Utah. one day its sunny and warm. the next its raining or snowing but overall its warming up. some flowers are coming up and its starting to look really nice around here. i think that i am staying in ashland but i am not 100% sure about that. i really wouldnt mind staying here. today we are going to go to a chocolate factory called Dagoba chocolate. then we are going to go to a unicorn store. then who knows if we have more time we might go to the hemporium then smoke some weed on the hill with some hippies. (jk on the last two) but i have been keeping my eye on this unicorn store and today we are going to hit it up. so i wish that i could email some videos of a guy in our ward rapping but i dont know if the file is too big. but i will send a picture of our zone leader when he came down for exchanges.

so this week we did pretty much the same old same old. we went to the soup kitchen as always on tuesday and our zone leader came with. i think he enjoyed it but at the same time he was probably thinking. wow these people are crazy. which is true because some of them are. one guy made a fire in the stairwell of a shopping plaza in downtown. but it only burned down one store. we had interviews thursday with the mission president and sister young. that was pretty good. we got a few new investigators this week as well. one guy we are going to start teaching has one leg and is really in to music. his entire front room is filled with records all the way to the ceiling. we also ran in to another guy last night when we were going to visit someone. he was fixing his car and we went up and started talking to him. we ended up talking to him for about an hour. I learned a lot talking with him. he has had a really hard life and through talking to him i came to find out that Oregon is incredibly racist. he is black and was telling us about some of the stuff he has went through while being here. but he said that we are welcome to come back anytime. anyways thats basically all that really happened this week. oh and the picture attached is our zone leader Elder Johnson holding a dead bird we found