Received Monday, September 15, 2014

Glad to see that no one can find a name better than los osos rabiosos, although that is pretty hard. Also good to see that the bears picked it up and byu continues to do well, and that dad knows how to smack talk well with his co-workers. I think dad is forgetting that zak only likes to listen to taylor swift, not any of this 5 seconds of summer business.

I am saddened and embarrassed to say that I did not remember the Rebecca quote, and i couldn't remember who died of an ignominious death. I definitely did catch the princess bride reference though, so i'm glad i got one thing out of those.

When the BOM play comes, will you go and pass out cards, or real BOM's or something? Remember when Zak worked at the play when it came to his town? He enjoyed working there and talk to those people.

We will try to mostly pass out cards and pamphlets, but will happily give book of mormons to those who seem legitimately interested. last year there was 1 missionary who apparently passed out like 130 book of mormons, that is good but sadly most of those were probably thrown away and the mission was actually in a shortage of book of mormons for a little because there were so many passed out. so this year we are trying to pass out the less expensive, less important items like candy.

Tell us how Gerald is doing!

he was baptized!!! finally, we are very glad, as was he. His main friend in the ward is actually a guy that has fairly recently been reactivated within the last few months, so he got to baptize gerald which made both of them very happy. After he was baptized gerald told us he so so great and clean and couldnt wait to share it with his family back in uganda. so he was baptized here and then he will be confirmed next week in his real ward now. he is an awesome dude.

Did you wear your short sleeve shirts yesterday?

no i did not, but my sleeves were rolled up. normally on sundays because i already have to wear a long sleeved shirt under my suit, i just keep that same shirt on through the day so i dont have to change. it actually got pretty cold here this week but we both kept with the short sleeved shirts. sadly i think fall finally started this week, but i guess that means we are just that much closer to the next summer where it will finally be warm again. i am still going as long as i can with the short sleeves though.

In some parts of the US, there was snow last week....Zak got cold at the BYU game on Thursday night. Just saying.

that is crazy... no me gusta. it is so humid here that there really is no in between either, its either pretty hot or pretty cold.

Had any interesting or different meals?

actually recently no, we have been fed a bunch here but not much different. OH! thought of one. so a couple weeks ago a filipino member had us over and he made steak and rice for us. he told us we will have it the traditional filipino way. so he took out a bunch of big ol' leaf things called banana leaves and spread them across the table, then he plopped all the steak and all the rice on the table and he said basically go wild. so no utensils or anything, just eat it all with your hands. it was really really good, you guys should definitely eat like this from now on, it's awesome. and once you're done there is nothing to clean up, you just throw away the banana leaves.

What did you eat for breakfast?

cereal, always cereal... every once and a while a 2 packets of maple and brown sugar oatmeal.

do you help do any part of the sacrament at church?

nope

When you play sports for p-day, where do the balls come from? Who supplies them?

here, the church has the basketballs, they are actually really nice.

Do you pay cash for your bus rides, or do you get a bus pass?

we get a monthly bus pass every start of the month, i actually accidentally washed mine today and it got just a tiny bit warped, but it still works when i slide it so all is well.

Do people every talk or comment on YOUR accent?

apparently californians put more of an emphasis on the first syllable than most people. Every once and a while they wonder why i say about a little weird.

When you meet people, do they ask where you are from? What EXACTLY do you say? Arcadia? Pasadena? Los Angeles?

normally i just say california and that is good enough, but when they ask for more detail i just say arcadia and that it is by LA. when i told 1 guy that today  he asked if i had met a lot of famous people.

Have you gotten close enough to see Lake Ontario?

In pickering i saw it every day, i lived right next to it. Here i have gone down to see it once, our area goes all the way down there (it is south of toronto) but there arent too many houses or people all the way down there so we arent there too often.

 whoops accidently just hit send... that was actually pretty much the end of my email though.

I love you!

Quinn