Chance's Email 7/14/2008

how is it goin fam???????

thanks for all your letters i was smiling the whole time while reading them i love love love love love love them. first off i got my package!!! holy cow i loved it ha ha ha thanks so much but was it really 65 bucks? if it was please send lighter packages and i will buy more here. i thought it was cheaper than that, i can buy stuff cheaper than it costs to send packages. i got everything ok and that is the address you need to use always. sorry i am really short on time again, the most time we get is 90 min, but the past 2 p-days we have been really busy. dad send those articles via dear elder it would be a lot better cause i have so little time on the computer. mom and dad, i hope you are relieved that i got my package mom. now dont go ballistic and send me a million cause its soooo expensive and i can just use my card here. i know of a REI type of store here that i can buy a sleeping bag for a pretty good price so ill prob do that. thanks so much for your prayers i am recieving so much help everyday. my comp and i are still so different but we are understanding each other better. my new mission president is president may. he is awesome! he kinda reminds me of rob deboer cause he is tall, skinny, and is way good at basketball. he lived in new york as a nonmember and got a scholarship to byu for bball, there he met his wife and was converted and served a mission to argentina. they both speak great spanish and are from orem utah. i beliveve his name is michael may. i had my interview with him and he helped me out so much. he related to me well because he is new too and he was very, very nice. our old pres was more of a matter of fact kinda guy and very blunt. but there are goods and bads to both but im really happy with him. we had a zone conf last week and it was awesome. we have zone class with our zone each week and every once in awhile we have a zone conf. i got to meet with all my buddies from the mtc and we had a goood time. we get together and talk about how crazy life is and share good experiences.

so about my baptism yesterday....it went awesome! i was really nervous but i said the prayer slow and baptized her slowly and i recieved strength and help and it went perfectly. i felt the spirit so strong during the prayer i almost broke out into tears. it really strengthened my testimony and i loved it!! we are baptizing a family of four most likely next week and im so stoked! they are so humble. they are new from peru and have had a lot of trouble with jobs and finding a good home and stuff so we have been helping them. they looooove the gospel and are ready for baptism. their contract for their house expired so we were freaking out trying to find them a new house. remember my first house i told you about that i lived in for 3 days or so?.... well we moved them into that house and its working awesome for them! it was quite the night. their power turned off in the house they were in so we went to help them move and their house was dark and stuff and we didnt have a truck to help them move so we called the elders chorum pres and he drove over in his mazda 626 that was no bigger than a ford taurus and we started loading it. well, it took 3 trips in the mazda and all of their things were in their new house. 3 TRIPS IN A MAZDA. this included their beds their fridge their dressers their clothes everthing! we have so much its ridiculous. but it will be such a good memory. we packed everthing but the front two seat so we could help unload everything and the elders chorum pres drove and we squished in the front seat it was awesome. the elder's chorum pres. loves classic rock and while driving to and from we were listening to it and i was lovin life! it including a little bit of ub40, phil collins, zztop, eric clapton and many more. you would love him dad. also i gotta go but one last thing.. we gave two blessing of health to two members this week and it was such a good experience. keep in mind it was all in spanish and i had no idea what to say but heavenly father helped me and it was such a great experience. i love you all and talk to you next week.

elder peterson