so, this library closes at 5. i hate holidays like these on mondays on the mission. but this library is awesome.  WE GET OUR iPADS TOMORROW!!!!!   i'm excited.

  so i went out and spent some money, kinda a lot, but i saved about $100 cuz we shop at marshalls. so i got new tennis shoes ($45) and some sweats ($15) and a sweet jacket ($25) and we went running this morning to the other elder's pad, but i forgot the phone so we just walked back. i hurt all over. but it was "my body saying this hurts, and my mind saying get used to it" according to elder Hunter.  oh mum- he's not slacking at all, on the contrary, he's going to work hard until the second he dies. i think he was sent here to baptize and help me work out.  because he said that in one of his last areas he baptized so many people the ward split!  
   oh, i guess my half way temple trip is coming up. idk when though cuz my year mark is in two transfers.

   so right now we have 5 investigators: amy+john, victoria+gabe, and hardy. we met with hardy last night and it was a good lesson on the word of wisdom, he pretty much already lives like that, not drinking alcohol or tea (he's chinese and doesn't drink tea?) and he'll occasionally drink coffee.  but he also eats well, like not a lot of meat and he'll throw in some veggies and fruits in his diet.  so we pretty much said there's a name for what you're doing.  and then we committed him to dec.1 for a bap date!  right now he works on sunday, and can only meet with us in the afternoon. but he applied for a new position where he can have all sunday off to come to church and "keep the sabbath day holy"  which was our last lesson.   

  amy and john are smokers and we're trying to get the 12 step program for them to quit. and i guess we'll teach them some gospel as well?  i mean amy has been taught everything already. and maybe so has john. idk..  

  and tori and gabe are doing very well. we met with them a few days back and i introduced hunter to them and we hung out and talked about video games and i even played a little bit of the new walking dead game. it was kinda slow and boring. a lot of decision making in a short time. it follows the show as well. like i met that hershel guy on the farm. and gabe said later in the game you meet the asian guy... glen?   but i only played for like 10 minutes. don't worry, i'm not going to get in trouble or whatever, i repented of it as well so i don't feel bad (cuz that's the only punishment we get is feeling guilty)   

  but they are reading and praying and we are almost done with the lessons. 

  

  oh, i forgot to say what happened in the lesson with hardy, so we asked him to give the closing prayer and he said something like this: "i'm thankful for meeting with the elders today even though the weather is cold, the elders words are like a warm wind that comforts my heart."

          ¡¡¡¡¡¡THAT'S SO DANG COOL!!!!!!      oh man, his prayers are getting better and we gave him a chinese book of mormon so he can read it faster and understand it. he said that we could read it all in a week now. rather than a month in english. hehe

 ok, so it's hard to find people to teach on facebook. most of my friends are members and the investigators are not on.  oh hehe galloni is on the computer that i've been on with the stupid keyboard.  i like this one. it's not a laptop feel, small flat keys.   

    back to FB. so even if we can get on at any time of day, it still might be hard to find them people.   i'll try.  that's all i can do, try my best.

   so anyway... i think that's it for the general email.