I drew a little picture the other day, like a scale with one side was weighing down a lot, and in that tray it said glad. and in the other one, the lighter one, it said sad. and I wrote that there are a few reasons I'm sad, but tons more reasons I'm glad.

The worst thing though, is that I was sitting next to our investigator at church, and her little son, Micheal, had some shades, so I showed him mine, and he grabbed both the ends and pulled them as far as he could until one snapped off! that little bugger! so now my shades are busted, and I tried fixing them, but it's not the same. they don't fit. Little kids, oh man they'll be the death of me.. ahha and later that day we went to their house to teach, and the kids, one girl, and one boy, close in ages, like 2 and 4 I think. The girl's name is Hermalie. but it sounds like Emily for some reason... and they were attacking me, like just crazy stuff. I was trying to be nice for the kids, while JB taught, cuz it's in Creole. but they were just super crazy!

I wrote a letter to Emily's parents today, saying how much I loved cleaning up after the storm, and meeting new people. I hope they like it. I was mainly asking about Emily, like her address and stuff. I'm glad I got her home address when she wrote me when I left to the MTC.

It snowed again yesterday, but it's pretty much all gone again. oh funny thing. The other day we were doing studies, and all of a sudden there was a weird banging noise coming from above us, and I said that's upstairs, and JB said there is no upstairs. So then we figured that the owners were replacing their shingles, and didn't tell us. It was the weirdest noise I've ever heard. Then after a while they brought out some loud machine that I bet cut off the pieces they couldn't get themselves.

Oh, we got a new car, it's a Subaru Impreza. I like it a lot. It's fast off the line, and has a bigger gas tank. and leg room! but I'm driving so that's limited...

So we have two more weeks of this transfer, including this week. and I would like to leave, or just get a different comp. but I learned that JB has a calling in this branch, so he's not going to leave here. but I don't think I'll be able to stand him one more transfer. He's really nosy and always stands real close to me whenever we go anywhere. I made "Don't stand so close to me" by the Police his song. haha Like especially when it's windy and cold, he stands on the other side of me, so I block the wind, but he's still too close. idk,, just lots of things he does that bugs me. especially that he's not too good at English and can't talk right. and he forgets things all the time. or like when we plan for the next day, he says so and so is at 6, but the next day, it's at 5 or some other time.... guh!!! or he can't remember which way is left or right. I know where to go, but he still says left and points right.

And he uses the right words, jut not in the right order. Like when he asks where something is, instead of "where is it" he says "where it is". But I guess that's just Creole grammar. I'm trying to teach him which tense to use. cuz learning English is hard. and he's only been here for 8 months, and that's when he started learning the language. Especially the way he pronounces words, like adds "h"s to words that don't need them, or takes away the "h". and he says Smit for Joseph Smith, and earf for earth. I don't get why he can't just put the "h " at the end of smith. Sometimes he can say "th" but rarely. He's like a little retarded kid learning to say his R's or W's or all that.. you know.

Oh we had lamb for dinner last night, it was good. and rice with milk and sugar, but the milk was weird. so I didn't really eat it. but I love the food here. with the Haitian and the American at random times during the week. and sometimes Hispanic.

Oh have I told you how much I love Plantains? oh man they are so good! they can be prepared like 4 or 3 different ways, depending on the color it is. if it's green you can squish it, and it's good, if its yellow you can squish it and it's good. or if it's really yellow and black, it's sweet and good if it's squished. like you have to fry it a little, squish it, then fry it again. and it's amazing. or put it in bouijon or soup. it sounds like that beef bouijon stuff, that's how you pronounce the b word. it means soup. in creole. I found some plantain chips, like potato chips, but not.. ok so it looks like a banana but tastes like a potato. and the sweet plantains taste more like bananas, but not exactly.

To Dad,

no, i want the singing, that's the second best part! i would like 3 cds. i like that one with the little kid singing, it's cool. and we even had an enya cd last transfer with like ALL her songs, including may it be.

oh man that looks like a cool time, good thing nothing really happened, just rolled down a hill. that'll be fun towing that out. there's no hills here like that. i wish there was. i found a hill the other day, it could have been the highest point on the island, but i looked that up, the real highest point is like 400 feet. the one i saw may have been 100 ft. it was so high! haha

it made west mountain look like a real mountain.

chan is still a funny kid. that's good.

as always, i didn't care to watch the superbowl, but this morning some guys from the zone went to iHop for breakfast and they talked about it a bit. i knew about the brothers being coaches, that would be fun. and the sisters in my district just wanted to watch the commercials. one elder told us about an axe commercial about some girl being attacked by sharks and a guy goes and saves her, but there's a guy in an astronaught suit, and he gets the girl, cuz apparently, nothing beats an astronaught.

oh i just read his story, chans. it sounds fun. like that's a cliff in ND. ahah. cliffs don't exist here. as far as i know, i've been to a few beaches and the land just slopes into the ocean. the only "cliff" would be at montauk, but that's man made. and it's still sloping. i guess cliffs don't have to be straight down.

that's cool that ty is getting married, how long has he been back? he didnt' wait too long it seems, that's good. i'm glad to get another cousin. cousin in law? i never thought of that.

i showed the picture to my sisters here and they both love the idea.

i was gonna send you the link to teefury.com for a few days ago the shirt was a funny star trek thing. it was about enlisting to be a red shirt. "it only hurts for a second" haha

i know i used to have all of them LotR cds, but idk where they went over the years..