Things Picking Up

The week has been going good. We have been pretty busy and the work has picked up a ton. I think we will be setting some baptismal dates pretty soon. The Burmese people are doing well although sometimes its hard to communicate cause of a language barrier. It consists of like 4 or 5 families. So Its a total of like 14 or 15 people. I might be leaving TF but I dont know. If I train I would probably stay here and train (training a brand new missionary). I've really enjoyed this area and the people I have taught. I thought the flat Thomas was pretty cool although it looks like his head might fall off. (Thomas sent a school project which was a flat version of himself to Greg.  Flat Thomas already made a trip to New Orleans to visit with a close family friend and Thomas decided to send him to Idaho as well. )I really like that Drew Brees book. It has a lot of motivational stuff and he talks about God a lot. He is a really good person and has a pretty big trust in God it seems like. Im already about 120 pages through it. I got grannys letter. I;m gonna make it a point to write them this week. You need to send that thing for my shoes in this week for sure cause my shoes are like falling apart. They are so much worse than what they were when I took that picture. The outside of them is fine but the inside is like shredding and stuff. My fav scripture is probably Alma 7 11-12 where it talks about Christs atonement. Or somewhere in the Doctrine and Covenants but I don't remember the verse or chapter. What do you mean by fav story to share? Like scripture story or what? So we are teaching a couple of new families. We are teaching the Canners and sis Canners daughter is not a member and she is less active but has been coming. She is kinda stubborn but she is pretty tight. We are teaching the Dixons. I don't much about them yet except he is a cop. Then theres the Cernicks who I finally got a hold of after trying for the past 4 months. I contacted them on exchanges last Tuesday. They want us to teach their kids that aren't baptized the lessons and help them going to church. Brother Cernick is tight and let me read his video game magazine. I talked to him about video games awhile. Tell Todd I have a kid named Trevan he can play with on xbox live. His name is Burk somethin on xbox live. Tell him he is really good. Brother Scollingburg my WML  (ward mission leader) for 16th ward also added my xbox live account and I'm gonna play with him when I get home. I'm pretty cool with him. He showed me the new Halo that's coming out and he is like when you get home we are gonna have to play this lol. I definitely miss video games. I have only played Call of Duty Modern Warfare 2 on my mission and I played it for like 10 min. It was in like January though. Otherwise I haven't touched a video game my whole mission. The only reason I played that is because the guy I was teaching threw it to me when I came in his house lol. Tell Chubbs (Greg's nickname for Garrett) I said hi. I hope everyone is doing ok. Well apparently some missionary took off. He is like on a mini mission and apparently he wants to go home. None of us know where he is so we are gonna have to go and look for him. He's a freakin idiot for just takin off. His companion is pretty frustrated. Anyways I g2g. Yall have a good week and take care




Love

Elder Mattei