April 14, 2014

hey yal,

Man its so good to hear from you ....really happy to hear all the great stuff that's going on back home!

The week was good.....went by so fast.... E. Sonenstahls getting transferred. I'm super sad. He was from the same cut of beef. He's bomb. Really probably my favorite companion. We just clicked from the 1st day and now 3months later we gotta pull our roots out and start fresh. I'm nervous but not too nervous. Just want a good comp to end my mission on.

Last Pday there was a 3 alarm fire not too far from us so we went and checked it out. Got there before the cops so we could see it all. Man the house was almost gone before they could get enough water on it. The natural gas line was just pumping out fire basically. There was 8 engines, a tiller and 2 trucks plus hazmat, an EMS, and a dozen cops stuffed into a cul-de-sac putting it out. Plus 3 helicopters and 2 C-130s flying formation over. Dunno why, they couldn't drop anything on it in the city but it looked cool! Then yesterday there was a commercial building that caught fire in DT San Jose..... it was crazy. We just see a plump of smoke go up from out apartment. Don't know much about that one cause it was way outta the zone and we had to go to a stinkin meeting lol oh well. Love fire fighting.

It was cool this week..... we went contacting with the Chinese missionaries a lot and it was interesting to see how they do it in Chinese and how weird and awkward that culture is. lol but its cool for them I guess.  We contacted on Deanza college and it was weird being on a college campus again but there was some cool people.

Went on exchanges with E. Jackson..... that was fun. I love that guy. We had a blast and of course talked about USU and all that fun stuff.

Saturday, the Ocampos, a super cool family that moved from Lawrence station ward who remembered me. We eat with em and the hermanas a bunch cause they're awesome and our ward doesn't always feed us so they're awesome and it was so fun.  They are now the managers of their apartment complex and so they had tenants leave and trashed the apartment so they asked us to come help and paint the whole place. It was so much fun.... the polys and hermanas and us had a blast! And of course the walls didn't just get painted.... we all got covered and we're laughing and man it was a blast! 5 hrs of our Saturday. It was legit.... so much fun! Then the Clayton's, a senior couple who are headed home now took the zone to lunch at Chevy's. It was so good and so much fun! me and the polys just talked and they taught me Fijian and Tongan and Samoan.... it was legit. Love those guys.

So the zone finally was getting good. We were changing our zone culture to the better and then most of the heavy hitters are getting transferred... its rough back to square 2, not 1 luckily. lol but its good. Plus our WML is leaving too so now I feel like I'll be shouldering the whole ward :/ The Lord will qualify me for what it takes though I know in whom I have placed my trust.

Talking to president about college tomorrow.... I'll let ya know how that goes.

love yal.

-E. McAllister