so going to emily - emily you should just write me on your email account..... it might be easlier to reply.

so i remember stacie peterson saying she wants to go to BYU Idaho - you could posibly go with her..... i'm sorry about the scar from the beecher's dog; i'm glad everything healed up alright. sara behrman is also at eac - you could live with paul and blanca or with sara and still be instate, have an "in" to the music program there, and visit your fav aunt and uncle (i think)..... i'll pray for you as you figure out where you want to go and you do the same.

congrats with the tutoring! good luck with it as well. what happens when the kid has straight a's every week; do you still get the bonus? haha

i'm glad to hear everything else is going good too. keep up your great work and love for what you do! it'll take you places you've never imagined before.

do the kids still miss me, or does Gemma only love Brian? hehe remember her comment in the car about loving me after you asked her if she loved brian??

and my last question - do you like pink or green better? tell me in the next letter.

good luck with getting license and school and work and family. i love you and thank you for your love and support. time is going by quicker than it seems. have a great week! love craig

so Rob - i try not to think about the time, yet i always remember how fast everyone says it goes and it has gone fast but i'm not on the downhill slope yet.... will it be faster then??? ha

i'm glad to hear there was a good amount of support for cory at his farewell thing, whatever they call them now a days. when does cory report again?

and the dbacks game - thats awesome that you were able to enjoy those seats. not very often something like that happens is it?

so ya i'll need some patience and some love and kindness but more than anything, i need to adjust. all is going well though and we're in a 3-man which helps alot and this transfer is already on the 3rd week so time is going fast. the other companion with us has his own area that we work as well so we are in 2 areas, 3 elders. its great. i'm learning alot from them and i feel more like speaking spanish more often becasue they are closer to my age in the mission and they speak spanish here and there. it's wierd at first because we all speak english but i love it.

so i guess the vans are still in our ward? i'm glad keith is home now and all is well - did he change in pesa o algo asi? i was told last night by an invest. who we haven't seen for a few weeks that i am getting taller..... i don't know what to think about that.

haha i'm sorry for the temperatures there..... its raining right now, last night, and probably will rain all day today while the temps are in the 60/70s with a good wind..... it's awesome. i can hear the rain right now on the roof as i type. its great!

haha ya if there are any miracles happening with me, i'm not noticing them very well... i know i've seen some changes but not much. i'm sure i've changed more than i think though. so in the east there are bed bugs, and this morning i woke up and saw a bug on some shorts. it was dead but we still decided to spray the room with pemerithian (however you spell it) which kills insects on contact, or should. also on the wall i've noticed some black spots appear and wasn't sure what it was. we sprayed those as well as the whole room and more bugs appeared.... it's wierd b/c we've been told the bugs we've seen are not bed bugs - i'll let you know next week what happened. we called the senior couple over our area and they're going to come to our apartment and check things out.

we went to the hospital to give a convert member a blessing and she told us her whole life story - i cant share what she told us b/c its not my place to do so but from what she shared, and as we were talking, i really felt the spirit and a scripture came to my mind as clear as the sun at mid-day. i've never had that happen and it was cool to have that experience.

nothing real exciting happened this week, except we have 2 baptismal dates, one for october (our polish invest.) and one for november (a friend of a member). i hope i'm here for them both. other than that, we're seeing succes is finding people and being able to teach the investigators we have.

times up so i have to go out into the nice pouring rain with cloudy skys and wind and green trees everywhere you look!

i love you guys and thank you for everything! i feel your love and support everyday and am glad i'm here to learn what life is really like away from the comforts of home and family and friends. i love you all so much and i know if it wasn't for your love and support, serving a mission would be so much harder to cope with. i hope you all have a great week and that all goes well. i hope to send the books for mason and tanner. i also have something for gemma and a picture i found in my apartment that i want to keep in the best condition possible - if the picture is sent, i'll tell you about it after you get it. it's a sweet picture and you'd love it! i love you and thank you for everything. let me knwo if i can do anything for anyone.

love craig