Email May 14 2012

So since I’ve been a slacker at writing you and keeping you informed I’m going to send the big email to you today and you can forward it to mom or what not. They already heard everything I’ll put in here anyways. The call home was awesome yesterday but I was a little disappointed I didn’t get to see you or Becky. Christmas is only 7 months away! haha My new greenie is really awesome! His name is Elder N and he is from West Jordan. He is a big time snowboarder and skater; he is athletic and pretty tall. We get along really well! Better than I think I have with my other companions and we are going to have a good couple transfers. I had him take lead of one of the first lessons we taught after he got here and he did an awesome job considering he is a greenie! He has a very solid testimony and its going to help him a lot out here. We are still in the process of looking for people to teach and not having the best success but for how successful my mission has been until now. I can’t complain. I just want it to be a good successful time for Elder N. It’s getting super hot here. Like 100 for the last couple days and is supposed to stay like that for another couple days. It’s miserable but we get over it.

So after I talked with the family we went to dinner and oh. my. gosh. It was the best/biggest dinner I have EVER eaten in my life. It was so awesome I took pictures of the meal before we dug in. It was ribs that were drenched in this guys secret sauce that was amazing. The ribs had sooo much meat on them too which is perfect! Also there was hot links, and bbq chicken. I have never ever eaten like that before. It was like a feast of kings! It really was the very best ribs I have eaten in my life. By far. The guy who made it is a black guy who grew up down south and knows all the awesome southern cooking. Next time we go over he is making fried okra and homemade corn bread for me! haha I’m super excited! It made the day that much more awesome! Also had a cool small world experience at church. Met some guys about my age that were with these girls just traveling back up to BYU and I was talking to the guys and said something about being from St. George and one guy was like "my mission president was from St. George!" so I asked where he went and he said Paraguay and so I asked if his mission president was President Wade and it was! haha I told him I used to be pretty good friends with his sons Ryan and Jace. It was such a small world experience! I find that it happens pretty often out here. Well that is pretty much all for this week. Not really much else happened. Love you tons! Hope you’re doing awesome! I’m excited for you and Ellen and the baby!