Sorry about last week

So,
due to the excitement caused from last week as well as the rushed craze to fit everything into the email, I accidentally sent the email off a bit too late. You see, here at the library, we have timers that automatically log us off after our time is up. It's my favorite. So I hit send like 3 seconds before. I should have known better.

By the way, thank you Jessica, Suzanne, and Dad for sending me emails. It has been really nice to hear from you all. I knew that yall would enjoy EFY. It's the best. I didn't know how cool it would be, but really, there is something at EFY that you can't really find in too many other places. I am really glad to hear that Mom and Dad are having an amazing time in Guatemala. Seeing all of those things would be ridiculously cool to see! Whew! Hopefully you're taking tons of pictures.

So I don't know if you've had time to read my emails yet from last week, but last week I was emergency transferred down south out of Crows Landing to a very special place called Woodlake. It is in the Visalia zone. When I say special, I mean, really amazing. The people here are actually nice. My companion's name is Elder Escobar ( just in case you haven't picked up on all of this from the last email that I send some 32 minutes ago) and we really click.
This morning, we had Zone Meeting/District Meeting in Tulare and I like everyone in our zone. Life is just...good! Everything - except our apartment. It's not that our apartment isn't clean, because it is. It is hot. Like, ridiculously hot! It has been like 100 degrees at night in our apartment for the last 4 nights- and that is with our 1 fan going full blast. =) So that's fun. And, of course, its not too easy to sleep when it's 100 degrees. So we're trying to get that fixed. In the mean time, however, I am just glad that I went through Katrina and went to Munson Island, because I just think about those times, and realize that it was just preparation for this. Preparation for getting me used to the feeling of sweating in bed. That and running a fever.

So we had a somewhat enjoyable 4th of July. We were supposed to spend it with the Jimenez family, however, they skipped town to go to some lame swimming party (who does that?), leaving us to the mercy of Lupe, another of our members. It was great though.

Oh, and  Tina - I love you so much and it would be really great to hear from you. If you could squeeze me into your schedule, to maybe send me a quick message/length letter, I would pleased. Very pleased. Pleased as punch, you might even say.


So we met with our new Mission President and his wife, President and Sister Gelwix. We actually had Zone Conference with them. Then we had president interviews. The conference was amazingly inspirational, the topic being "Choose Whose Team You Play For", as well as "Live with No Regrets". The interviews were great too. He said (beforehand) that there were too questions that he was going to ask - 1. "How have you enjoyed your mission thus far?" and 2. "Can I Trust You?"

It was great.

I love them.

Well, I need some new contacts. I left the prescription with you.

Ummm.... I love you all.

Elder Ostler