buenas tardes! yes yesterday was a holiday so i am writing you today. it is a good thing too because we had a very fun trip last night and if i had emailed yesterday we might have been thrown off a little bit time wise.

Robert Brinton, Rob's dad, Happy birthday this week, and Staci Allen, happy belated birthday.

our 3 man trio is no more as of today, well this afternoon. we drove to the mission home to pick up the new companion for the elder who's been waiting for ever. we had dinner with the assistants and with President/Sister Bahr and the new comp. it was really fun. a storm hit us the last 10 minutes going to the mission home and we were in the storm the whole way home -

i have a picture of the 4 of us that i'll send next week. will be an interesting transfer b/c we have 18 new missionaries coming in and only 2 weeks left in this transfer so well see what happens. it'll be weird going back to a 2 man apt. in one area for 2 weeks but it'll be good.

i have a feeling I'm being transferred b/c Pres. Bahr said he didn't want to move me with a baptism coming up - the baptism we had for october is being moved to november so the couple can get married then we can baptize the wife, if i'm still in the area.....

anyways everything is going pretty well. we had stake conference where a 70 came. the whole way there and mostly on the way back i took video of the trees etc. so everyone can see how many trees there really is in nj, especially just on the highway. if you want to see them I'll send them but for now I'll just keep them.

oh a first time dream for me came this past week - i dreamed that i was at home and i shouldn't have been there.... it was weird. did you ever have those kind of dreams?

ya that is crazy weather... tornados actually touched down and destroyed homes - signs of the times?? i would've liked to see the golf ball sized hail and I'm glad it didn't hit your work or home.

how are grandma and grandpa roberts doing? tell them i say hi and that i love them, please and thankyou! I'm glad the kids had fun with the Halloween party - i actually thought about it one night.

I've heard having a golf ball for the winter is a great "tool" for knocking doors and i was wondering if i could get a golf ball? i know i have a set of golf clubs either in the garage or at jason and amy's and there should be golf balls in the carrying case thing or my mom or jason would probably have some. one ball should be enough though if i don't lose them over the winter. also hand warmers i've heard are great as well yet i'm not sure when i'd need them - i guess november gets really cold then december is when it starts to snow.

instead of different people sending packages maybe everyone can pitch in and send one package?? again i think i'm being transferred at the end of october - i'll let you know the monday before transfers but if anything is sent to me before then i would send stuff to the mission office in parsippany (i don't remember the address off the top of my head but i'll send it next week if you don't have it). muchisimas gracias por todo. sin tu, los demas, no estaria aca yo.

emily i'll send you the thing next monday, i hope and you are going to like it.

thanks for the picture of the house - i cant tell for sure what all they changed except i noticed they took out at least one of the chimneys and the drive way roof thing... the new missionary and crashing - did you tell him about me? and again, our 3-sum is no more, sadly. haha its not that bad

enjoy october break!!! we have zone conference this friday, missionary sunday, and a normal week of normal meetings etc. for the last week of the transfer, i believe... it'll be a good 2 weeks and i'm going to learn a ton about myself.

so with the work, elder lee asked his family to search our area to find the percentage of hispanic people in the different cities (would you want to do that)? and there is a city close by that i guess has the same amount of spanish as red bank and no one has been in the city forever so the last 2 weeks we'll be knocking a lot of doors in that city. it'll be fun figuring it out and learning spanish together. which my spanish is still coming along great.

i think more than anything this transfer i've been able to speak faster but i'm also being able to conjugate correctly y todo and with companions closer to my age in the mission we spit out words here and there but we haven't ever spoken only spanish and that is the best way to learn for us - go to another country (as you know) and you're kinda forced to only speak spanish. its a desire i have to only speak spanish within companerismos yet it feels so weird when we do...

i think thats all. this transfer flew by, well is flying by. i love you and everyone else. thank you for everything you have and continue to do for me. i hope you and everyone else have a great week and enjoy oregon! if possible, could i also get april and october conference ensigns? again, ask family to help out, not just you and julie....

i love you all and we'll talk again on monday! have a great week! i'll send pictures next week