April 24, 2009

Mom,

Thanks for the package I loved it. I waited till this morning to open it and it was really funny.

I got the chin up bar and it's been working great, thanks for the money. I started getting up at 5:45 so I could have enough time to get a good work out.

So far the people that have written me are all of you (except Brandon) Cody, Breann, and Kristi.

Our car is finally in the shop but I have no idea how long it will take to fix.

I just found out that Tallahassee is the allergy capital of the world. I was doing ok at first and then it just hit me like a brick wall, I've never had allergies like this in my life. Then the sinus cavities in my jaw and above my molars got infected and it kinda hurt. I took some allergy medicine and ibuprofen though, and it's staring to get a lot better so it should be fine.

That's crazy that it's gonna cost that much to send Nila to the vet, it's time to take her back to the farm, ha ha.

It's been pretty crazy here, but the members (for the most part) are really cool so that's been a big plus. The lessons are going fairly well, we're still teaching the 93 year old and he said he really enjoys having us over so it looks really promising.

I can't believe I'm actually 20, it's crazy. I'm actually the oldest one in my district (again), even my trainer is younger than me, only by two days but still. I feel like this was the time that I needed to go though, so I try not to think about how much of my mission would be done if I hadn't had braces.

Since it's a P-Day, we're gonna got to Guitar Center and the mall, (it'll be weird going in there in missionary clothes).

We were doing service at a bird park and there was a baby emu and I thought of you guys, I'll send a pic of it. I tried to get a video of him running (he's a fast little bugger) but I couldn't get my camera out in time.

There was something our President told us that I really liked, he said 'When we're angry, it's usually a result of being right, but when we're angry it makes us wrong.' and it really applied to me because we're teaching some pretty immature people right now and it's easy to get upset, but it's important to not get mad and focus on yourself, and there's my spiritual thought for the day.

Well thanks again for everything, I'll try to take more pics to send home. Love you,

Elder Waters