its about 2:30 my time and we just got to the library.. but yeah i got your letters and 1 of your packages hopefully the other one will come today, but no dont send any packages to the mission home cuz i wont ever get them.. just fed-ex or ups it to my apt address please.. hopefully its not to late. but yeah i got the ensign and i really loved the first talk in it by president monson.. you should read throught it as a family.. thank you so much for the calendar i really enjoyed it! oh also i just went to wal-mart and printed off some pictures so i'll write on them and send them out ethier tonight or tomorrow.. about my ward here it starts at 12:20 every sunday but we ahve to be there at 10:30 for meetings and then its sunday school priesthood and then sacrament. somethign taht is really cool is taht i met a lady and she asked where i was from and i told her and she said she had a sister taht lived in othello, and i know there family! haha its the Gilbert's ask michael about htem and he will tell you who they are.. but yeah i thought taht was pretty funny, oh and there is a younger girl well one that is just married and i guess she is related to the woodwards like oakdell farms.. so its a small world! who is gonna do the pigs for us this year? are you gonna do them? who will build the fence? to answer your question about my day yes it is like what preach my gospel says..6:30 wake up and exercise i normally do sit up's and a lil othere stuff, then between 7 and 8 we shower, eat breakfast at our place which i eat pop tarts or bagels, and get ready, then at 8 we have personal study until 9 then at 9 we have companion study until 10 and then at 10 we go out and ethier tract or talk with people of whatever is on the agenda.. then at 12 normally we come back to our apartment and eat lunch, mac n cheese or something liek that haha, then after taht we go out and tract or visit with people of if we ahve appointments then we will do that until 5 which is when we ahve dinner and normally we do eat at ward members house's but sometimes we have to just eat back at our place.. whcih reminds me the other night we ate at the bishops house and the next day the bishop came up to me and said " my wife kept saying last night how polite and nice i was and how well of a job my parents did in raising me!" i was so touched cuz it made me start thinking of home and how wonderfull of a job you and dad did do! im so gratefull for the both of you! but anyways we ahve dinner until 6 then we go out and OYM which means open your mouth, to pretty much anyone on the streets or we go to appointments until 9 which is when we get back to the apt. then from 9-9:30 we have planning for the next day and then from 9:30 to 10:30 we get ready for bed and write in journals but i normally go to be a little after 10.. so yeah thats my day as a missionarY! pretty boring! there are somedays taht go by really fast and then there are others that i dread! my bike is doing really good except for the fact that i got a flat tire at the start of last week! so we had to get it fixed! but yeah.. the area that i am in in prob 60 blocks total north and south and about 30 east and west, so its not huge but it sure takes forever on a dang bike! haha we do our laundry right at the bottom of our apt complext there is a couple washer and dryers.. it cost $1.25 per load of wash and $1 per dryer... but yeah there is a wal-mart in my area but its a 30 min bike ride so my companion doesnt really wanna do it and when we go up there it takes a big chunk out of our day so it sucks! we have a grocerie store taht is just like a mile away so we take back packs and load them up adn then carry whatever is left in a plastic sack on our bikes.. oh and about the wearther! it is straight up crazy here! like its really hot and then the other day it snowed so i dont know what it is..as for the white shirts i think i'll be. .. this past week has been anohter emotional roller coaster.. we had zone confrence tuesday and so taht went alright it took the whole day up so i was kinda happy! haha but make sure taht everyone continues to pray for me and let everyone know how much i love htme! oh and we only really have 2 investigators that we are working with they are 2 mexican ladies that they have been talking with for a while so we will see what happens, i'll keep you updated! i love you all take care!