November 24, 2014

Zach in the Big City

and this was just some random guy who happened to have a scottsdale shirt, but he had no idea where arizona was, it was just a shirt he bought from some gypsies hahaha 

Hey momma!!

first off to answer questions(:

the Markhams aren't like a missionary couple, but they work for the chruch's self reliance program or something... im not quite sure, but yea they are here until january when they go home(: and Elder Huntington goes home on Dec 7th, so in like 2 weeks haha. and it weirds him out a bunch, but he still works hard as ever. and most likely yea, i mean you never know for sure, but  most likely i will stay zone leader here, haha our area is right where the big international lisbon airport is, which is super weird, cuz i used to think of Lisbon as the big brain of the mission, and now all of a sudden im right in the middle of it haha. 

and yea, im starting to get into the groove of city life, but today is actually the first time ive seen sunshine since i got here haha, its just been raining nonstop, so it was so nice to walk in the sun for a bit today, i hope it continues haha(: but i cant wait for you guys to come back here to see all of this cuz its so cool here! 

haha and i have no idea what i want for a christmas(: i also have no idea how this whole ipad thing is gonna go down, but im pretty sure that the church will order them, and then we pay the church, and all i know is that they're gonna be ipad minis. but yea i would totally love a batman case haha(: but we wont get them until january, so it would have to be a late christmas present haha(: but as soon as i know more about that ill be sure to let you guys know haha(:

and no i dont work in the office haha, thankfully! all the office elders are just so stressed and always doing like business work on the computer, i hope that i never have to work in there haha, i love being outside too much(; and yea we have a ton of new investigators, and the people here are sweet, i'm in my first ward! haha, with an average of about 120 in sacrament every week, which is awesome! 

and i know that you're not gonna like this, but im not sure if we'll be able to skype on christmas, or if it will be limited to just phone calls:/ but we dont know anything for sure about it yet, so ill have to get back to you on that one too(; and im not sure if we're gonna do anything special on thanksgiving, im in a 6 elder house and all the elders here are super awesome, but my comp is like a nazi with the rules, so im not sure if he's gonna want to do anything at all, but i wanna at least go play catch with the football for a while haha. AND GUESS WHAT?! i realized a couple days ago that starting officially today i am on the COUNTDOWN CLOCK...... as in i have less than one year left on my mission..... which blows my mind haha. and i will get home the tuesday or wendesday before thanksgiving haha! just in time for the turkey bowl!! but seriously the fact that i already have less than a year left scares the crap out of me, cuz i feel like i just got here!

haha and we went bowling today!! we live right by this huge mall called Colombo, its the biggest mall in europe apparently haha, so all 6 of us in our house went bowling, ill send some pics in a sec!!

well i love you guys so much!! have a good thanksgiving and ill talk to you next week!!

this is Elder Cluff! we did a division a couple days ago, and found out that we live like 15 minutes from each other haha, its funny cuz he's the first kid from AZ that I've gotten to talk to in almost a year, so we had some funny stories and what not, cuz he knew all about saguaro lake and stuff. and he went to Mountain View!!! hahaha, but we united in the ASU cause haha(;

hahahaha this is our house! we're the only 6 elder house in the whole mission, and its a fetching party every night haha, and by the way, the batman onezy and the raccoon onezy in the front are both mine haha, i was just the only one with cool costumes so i had to share haha, but our house is a blast haha!

this morning i was in a hurry, and some how ended up knocking our window off its slide doodah or whatever and it fell like 30 feet...... and broke haha, so that's coming out of my paycheck... plus its gonna be freezing tonight without a window haha(:

so we went bowling today and got some dope shoes!!! and i bet you can't get guess who i was just by looking at that name list..... but just in case you need help, yes.... i'm batman

 haha, it was only 5 bucks for two goes, and dang son, check out that form(; hahaha..... i almost won once hahaha