9/8/09

Hello!!

Well it was nice to hear from everyone this week!! So for starters, my first paragraph is going to be all about football ha ha.. So i have been hearing for the last couple days how crazy it is that BYU beat Oklahoma!! That is pretty crazy i couldn't figure out quite how that would be possible for the Y to beat oklahoma?? but all the members up here FAILED to mention to me that the Heisman trophy winner Sam Bradford got hurt and the best TE in the country was hurt!! But still that is a pretty big win for the Y.. Shows the importance of a quarterback though.. So oklahoma is basically done for the year then right?? I bet BYU shot up the rankings to like #10 or so..It was good to hear that Utah won.. then again it was Ut State.. I think utah will take third in the conference it is hard to lose your starting qb and your 3 best WRs and your 2 best defensive players and expect to win the conference again!! but i think utah will at least beat either TCU or Byu on the road, but they won't win both of them.. 
Anyways everything is going really good on the mission!! I am really liking Training. it helps a lot that the kid i am training is awesome, he is probably the easiest kid ever to train, so i am lucky!! Our teaching pool has shrunk a little because of the baptisms we had last transfer so we are going to be spending a lot of time finding this week trying to get our teaching pool up again!! so i hope that we have some success.. 
Yesterday for p day we played flag football, wow was that fun!! i like that sport a lot!! 
So it sounds like everyone is doing really well!! to answer your guys' questions: yes the summer went by really fast, my old companion who i have become way good friends with Elder Harris, he goes home in 20 days!! its crazy i got with him when he still had 6 1/2 months left!! so time is going!! The fires have stopped and the fires in palos verdes have been out for about 2 weeks now i would say!! Vic it sounds like you are loving biking still, thats good!! the weather has cooled down a lot here but it still feels like california weather, but i do miss that "fall feel" that we get back home in utah, but i can't complain the weather is good here!! Last week when it was really hot i would just think of steven's mission in nicaragua and then i wouldn't feel so bad about the heat here ha ha.. Stevey is in bear lake.. i hope that he had a good time!! Yes mom i received the packages, thank you so much!! Diddi i will for sure show you around here after my mission!! I think you will like it here a lot!!anyways i love all of you guys and am so grateful for all that you do for me!! thanks for the support and prayers!! I will talk to ya next week on monday!! love you guys!!

- Marcus