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Oh boy, I have to be honest, that was a good one, eh? haha. I was kinda worried about the idea of sending an email like that home last week because I had a feeling that something bad might happen, but I sent it anyway. So after I sent it, I was thinking about it all day, and how there was nothing that could go wrong because I put the PS in there. Well, 2 days after I sent it, I got a call from Sister Evans. haha. She told me that my father had called, and all I could think was "oh boy" She said that you had talked to her and that I had said I had an accident. I told her the whole story about how my family was at Disneyworld, and I just thought it would be funny to shake up the weekly blurb. I'm not kidding when I say that she actually laughed about it! haha. I love Sister Evans. She said that was pretty funny, but that she would call you and let you know it was just a joke. haha. I was even thinking that it wasn't going to work cause when Justin hurt his shoulder awhile ago, the mission called home. I thought you might catch that, and realize I was kidding, but I guess you were too worried. Sorry. I am pretty proud of how real I made it sound though. I was laughing before I was even done writing it last week. Wow. haha.

So I also realized this week that I was so busy making my story sound believable that I forgot to mention some of the cool stuff that happened last week. First up is the weather. Aaahh, it is SO nice right now. It's been up in the low 60's for a few weeks now, and it is wonderful. It is even getting pretty chilly here at night. We are coming close to suit coat weather. I'm so excited for it to get cold. In addition to the weather, the trees are all looking great too. They have really been changing colors a lot lately. Oh - last week (on the day Sis. Evans called me, actually) we were driving home from an appointment we had, and we were driving right by the ocean, when my comp was like "is that a funnel cloud?" We pulled over, and sure enough, there were 2 funnel clouds out above the ocean. They were getting pretty big, and then they just disappeared. Pretty anti-climactic, but it was cool, and I got some cool pictures of them. Another cool thing was that last week we had a Nor'easter. That's basically just a really strong storm that comes from the northeast direction. The winds are pretty strong, and there is lots of rain, and the wind is freezing cold, since it's coming from up north. That was pretty cool. It rained a lot, and it lasted for about 3 days.

Next up are our investigators. First is Mike Pucci. He is doing so awesome. He's been smoking for 40 years, 2 packs a day, and we were teaching him about baptism, and we told him he has to stop smoking to get baptized. I am happy to say that he is going on 7 days no smoking, cold turkey! He said that he doesn't want to go to any addiction recovery sessions, cause they don't work. He says that if you're going to quit, you just have to quit. Awesome! Plus, we taught him the Word of Wisdom the other day, and he doesn't have any other problems with that. He is one of probably 2%of the New England population that doesn't drink coffee. It's crazy how many people drink that stuff out here. But, we set a baptismal date for November 7th with him, and he is progressing towards that very well.

Bryan is also doing really good. He won't be getting baptized this sunday, as we were hoping because he doesn't feel ready yet. His main concern is that he "doesn't feel the Spirit" We talked about how to recognize the Spirit, and then we had him say the closing prayer. In his prayer, he asked to feel the Spirit, and boy, did it come. After the prayer, I asked him how he felt. He said that he felt like an awkward moment just happened. I was like "It feels different doesn't it?" Then he started smiling, and he said "yeah, it does" Cool story! We are hoping that we'll be able to rechedule his baptism for the 7th of Nov. as well, cause we have Stake conference on Halloween. So he's doing great.

Midge is doing good. I don't have an update on her, cause we are meeting with her tomorrow, so next week we'll have some news.

So, now I will tell you about transfers. This week was transfers, hence the reason for the Wednesday email. Good news - I'm staying again. yay! And that's about it for transfers. haha. E. Rith is being transferred though. That's weird. I was only with him for 1 transfer. And he only has 1 left so I won't serve with him again. But, it was fun while it lasted, I guess. I'm excited to see who my new comp will be. I'll let you know next week.

I suppose I'll tell you what we did for pday today too, cause that was pretty fun. We woke up at the normal time to go watch the sunrise again, so that was cool. While we were there, we played catch with a football for awhile, which was SO fun. I haven't even seen a football in like 8 months, so that was awesome. Then we went and played basketball for another while. After that, we went and cruised around Salem for a few hours. That was fun too. We went to a museum and checked out some of the stuff there. It was a pretty cool museum. They had some cool stuff from Korea, China, Japan, and some Pacific Islands too. They also had an optical illusion exhibit that was pretty awesome. I had a headache after being in there for like 30 minutes, cause some of that stuff messed with my head. haha. It was really cool though. Salem is an interesting place right now. There are TONS of people there, and lots of them are dressed up in crazy costumes already. I got like 3 flyers handed to my by "vampires" about some of the nighttime stuff they have going on. It's pretty cool to see. They sure are some die-hard Halloween-ers. So that's what we did today. I got some good pictures from the museum.

So I think that's about all I got for this week. At least that's all I can remember, I wrote down a whole lot of stuff to tell you, but I left my planner in the car, so I don't know if I'm remembering everything. haha. Well, hope you all have a great week. Love you all!

P.S. Kurtis, I'm disappointed. I guess you don't want to play guitar hero very bad, huh? I haven't heard from you for a while. LAME!!