November 10, 2011

That's so weird that Brock (Nichols) is already coming back from his mission.  Brandon talked about that in his last letter.  Time really does blow by on missions.  There is just 12 more days for me here.  I don't feel like I have been here more than a month, although it probably seems like a lot longer for Connor.  You don't know how much I just wanna sit down and play a couple rounds of Super Smash Brothers with him. Oh my travel plans should get here tomorrow so by next week I'll be able to let you guys know exactly what's happening.

And as for ties, I'm not much of a tie trader here but I might need some more regardless.  All four of the Missionary Mall ties are falling apart.  Most missionary mall stuff is not high quality I've learned.  The suits and the socks work well but like I said the ties are all falling apart, I haven't used the alarm clock yet but it seems pretty cheap, those tie savers only work if your tie is lined up just right.  The coat seems to be working pretty well but I haven't actually used it myself.  Elder Burkey doesn't have a nice coat because he is from Arizona and they don't sell those there so I have been letting him use mine.  It's not cold enough for a coat yet in my opinion.  It's kind of funny when we walk outside on p-days or service days at seven in the morning, everyone's all bundled up and I'm out in shorts and a t-shirt.  And it seems like I handle it better than everyone else even with their coats. 

Tanner and I run into each other quite a bit.  James is on a totally different schedule than me.  We have a little overlap on some of the meal times.  He will be leaving as I get there, that's about all the interaction we have.  Matt was just here for three weeks because he already spoke French.  I see Jeff walking around every now and then.  The devotionals lately have been good but nothing really spectacular to say.  With Rob and Arif, Rob seems excited to pay tithing, that's good.  Arif always is very hesitant about everything.  Both of them are struggling with the no coffee.  But other than that things seem to be doing ok with them.

OK funny story of the week- Yesterday Elder Leavitt went to the bathroom and clogged the toilet.  He eventually felt so guilty that we went back so he could unclog it.  While he was plunging someone else in our zone came in to pee and Elder Leavitt started making throwing up sounds and then plunging really hard, it sounding pretty legit.  The other Elder was pretty worried about him.  But anyway after he was plunging for about ten minutes I told him to try flushing.  From under the stall I saw a nice fountain of loveliness flowing over the sides of the toilet bowl.  Turns out someone had flushed something down the toilet and my companion was unlucky enough to be the next one to use it.

Anyway I'm at negative one minute on my time so gotta go.

Love you guys- Elder Pearce