May 25, 2015

Spring Fever and American Food!!

good glory i shed a few tears when this baby came out....... not really, but i must've looked like a goof ball haha i was so excited..... good ole 'Murica

hey momma!

am i not too old to go to that camp?! haha i thought you had to be under 18? but works for me! haha. and i cant wait to go back to that condo haha, i made really good friends with this Tongan elder in the MTC, and he lives in Huntington, California, and he's inviting me to go back and kick it with him in cali for like a week or so haha. maybe in like early January or something, but we're still planning that one out! 

my week has been going good, but my allergies are raging here! holy crap haha, like im not saying that im glad this is my last spring in portugal... but it'll be nice to be back in the desert with less plants next spring haha! but hopefully this week it will rain, which should really help out. plus i just found out that at the farmacies here sell Zyrtec, so im gonna go get a Doomsday Preppers amount of that stuff maybe tomorrow haha. i feel like that little seahorse from Nemo, the one who's like "Hi! I'm H2O intollerant!" and then sneezes haha, but on the bright side im gonna have some washboard abs after how much i've been sneezing haha. 

Elder Phillips and i have been working hard on beating some sickness thats passing around, but we're doing pretty good at it haha. i do have a sinus infection, but i've been gargling salt water like a dolphin and eating oranges like mason eats chocolate, so i've just about beat it out of me. 

HEY! haha i just remembered! i was able to use a members phone to look at your instagram page, and i went way back and saw this really funny video of us after family prayers playing with Mallow haha, i miss that dog! and then this other one on Mason's where im like screaming and yelling while im making a sandwhich... its like i used to be loud and immature or something, it was really weird... haha. 

And nothing special for Pres Fluckiger, he's still around until July 1st (thats when he takes off). but guess what?! so we had our interviews with him last week, and i asked him if i could been done being a zone leader and train again, and he seemed really open to the idea, and he pretty much said yes, so i think im gonna be a daddy again!! haha im so excited! i have 4 transfers and all i wanna do is train and train and train and train! especially cuz i think this next transfer Pres Fluckiger will put another companionship of elders in Oeiras, so it would make it a 4 elder house which would just be a fricken dream come true, it'd be like Beja all over again, except this time instead of the middle of nowhere, we're right on the beach haha! its like leaving the planes of Texas and going to San Diego haha. 

and the new mission presidents get here i think the last week of June or somthing like that, so i'll meet them then! 

Please tell dad to take his GoPro to trek and get some awesome videos and stuff for me to see when i get home! i love you guys so much, have a good week! and tell Briggy happy birthday!! i'll be sending a package home tomorrow! love you guys! 

this is Yari, the awesome kid from Ecuador! the rest of his family will hopefully be getting baptised later this week too!

****AND THANKS FOR THE TIE MOM!!(: 'MURICA LAND!!

 so a few days ago we were walking along the side of the freeway, and when we came to this toll both some worker guy freaked out at us and said we had to get off the freeway, well we wanted to go to the other side but he wouldnt let us just run across, so he let us take the little catway above the freeway haha, it was kinda sick... but the guy was a turd!

so last week they set up a boxing ring in the middle of this mall and had like 20 different fights haha, starting from like 10 year olds and working up to fricken full grown men, it was funny. not nearly as good as the UFC, but it was cool

then i had a wonderful dance with the most charming model.....

today for lunch we went to this super sick American Diner called The 50s, holy crap its the best meal i've had since i've been in this country

......... oh.... and i shaved my head...... again haha(:

 here's the crew! and our not-so-American-looking "American waitress" bringing us milkshakes..... FRICKEN MILKSHAKES!!! do you know how long it's been since i've had a milkshake?!?! i can tell you exactly how long... the last milkshake i had was on December 11th, 2013.... thats a long time....... i almost cried

it was soooooooo awesome....... even the cup tasted good