Wazzup...

Why hello thur,

How is everybody doing? So dad you should probably stop hurting yourself.. its a good way to avert death AND death related symptoms.

So first things first, Word of the Week is "Sinspiration." I think you can figure out what that means. It was given to us during a fireside and the speaker hadnt planned on saying it but did, and then laughed at his own joke. Lulz. Scripture of the week is found in 2 Kings 2:23-24. Just read it, and remember to never make fun of prophets :)

K so thanks so much for the package.. i now have enough food to feed a couple of lifetimes. JK. But really, that was a lot of stuff. Good joke josh with the paper towel.. probably should have seen that coming. I appreciate the iPod but uhhh... dont want to sound ungrateful but someone missed the mark on what i selected haha. I was lookin through it and its all good but was just wondering where all the OTHER stuff went. Cool. So this sunday we are giving a District lesson on revelation so i figured, hey... send me farewell talk no? While you are at it, if we still have my talk from BYU that was on the fridge send that one too.. i want to see my thoughts again from each of these cause both have come up this week.

So this week was kinda crazy. Hess and I did successfully do the week of Thai. Of course we still spoke english, but we did a lot better than we thought we would. On top of that, we had our first TRC that was all in thai. The results? Not bad. It was difficult ESPECIALLY cause the volunteer we got spoke Eastern Thai, which is basically Laotian. Pretty much thai has a ton of "r's" and in laotion every R is replaced with an L. So certain things just werent clicking for us. But we did well anyway. Our lesson kinda got off track cause i was talking about the many different religions out there and why ours is different... the word for religion is "sadsanaa." The word for prophet is "sadsaDAA." So i was talking about religions and then she thought i said sadsadaa and then asked about those.. so i had to basically stop dead about religions and throw in an explanation of prophets. Basically we ended up just confusing here. Awesome. But for a first lesson it wasnt bad. This week we also learned SO MUCH grammar. Seriously.. we have a grammar game at the end of every week before the TRC and usually we have like a jeopardy set up with 5 rows and 5 columns. This week our game was 11 by 5! Took 2 days to do. Its all coming along nicely. My brain wants to explode every now and then, but whatever.

So big news as of last night.. 1 is that Freddie is already gone. Sad face. But before he left the 4 of us (Roach Dallas and Freddie) gathered together to open up Cody's Dear Elder with his MISSION CALL! Any last guesses if you dont already know? Romania Bucharest Mission! How insane is that? Only problem is that he enters exactly 1 week after i leave. Bummer. Either way, congratulate him on my facebook or something. Im sure you already have Josh. Speaking of Josh, he said that Inception was pretty amazing? That so? Did you see it with him Mom and Dad? Just one more awesome movie that will join the marathon when i get back.

Hmm.. trying to think of anything else.. oh! The temple opened up today so we are going for the first time since being here. We get nccngthays tommorrow afternoon. Thailand has amazing fruit! Brother Saakha went through everything with us and there are so many, some ive never even heard of. And on the street they are about 5 baad (baht) which is like nothing for us. Maybe a nickel, i dunno. Oh i almost forgot.. i was super excited for the SD card, but i dont know what you took it on cause they are only pictures on my camera. Ima send a different one back with some new pics for you and maybe try again? If you put them on the computer try draggin them over to it maybe? I dunno, but try again cause they looked funny.. especially the one with you mom and the hula hoop. Ugh.. i feel like im forgetting something again. Hope not.. if not ill remember soon and write another letter, but this week just expect the SD card with a little bit of writing.. since we go to the temple we have a lot less time to write letters. We'll see. Either way you will be in Utah right? Exciting! Make sure Aaron and the Powells know how much i wanted to be there! K well i gotta log off.. Hope you enjoyed the previous letter with my little doodle of notes. Meant a lot to me and that kind of stuff happens frequently. Ok seriously im getting off now :) Love you!

Elder Gudmundsen

Word of the Day, Scripture of the Week

Word of the Day (It's actually more of a Phrase of the Day): "Go out there and Give 'em Heaven and Baptize the Hell out of them." -President Briggs of my Branch

Scripture of the week: Alma 54: 11. This is Moroni and Ammoron trying to negotiate for the exchange of prisoners. What Moroni says to him is just awesome (Think of Family Guy if you watch it.. the episode where Stewie is learning to play an instrument). "But behold, it supposeth me that I talk to you concerning these things in vain; or it supposeth me that thou art a child of hell..." HAHA. My companion found this and laughed over it because can you imagine him saying this, or better yet, Ammoron reading it? "Well ammoron id love to stay and chat but YOU are a child of hell." If you have seen family guy then and are thinking of that episode i hope you can remember the sentence stewie says to the girl that i cant say in this email for obvious reasons.

 

sawadii tccn chaw!

Hello there everyone! Did you get my letter from this week yet? I sent it out kinda late so i dont know if you get it yet. So Dad are you in Hawaii right now? Fun stuff. So i have a good scripture of the week but since i am pressed for time of course, you can read it yourself. Its in Jeremiah chapter 4, verse 19 to 21(I think..). Basically we found this and loved it because it describes the food here at the MTC.. also Cannon at BYU cause guess what... THEY'RE THE SAME! It's a good one. Hope you lol. Speaking of scriptures I am in Alma 19 right now. Chuggin along and will be done soon. Where you at?

 

K so this week was pretty epic. After our devotional last tuesday i had a lot that i wanted to write to you about concerning that devotional cause it was quite good. I didnt write what happened in the letter cause i wanted to get it off soon enough  to get to you in time. So ill write it here. Basically ive been wrestling with the fact that EVERYONE here can say ," I know the BoM is true." As ive expressed before i never have really said that because frankly i dont. You all know that I have believed it was true, but up until last week i had never said it FIRMLY. I felt a little out of place because of it but my teacher helped me get rid of those feelings. That night we had  the devotional and after them we always have District Devotional Reviews (DDR from now on ) where a member of the branch presidency presides over a small testimony meeting about the devo. Now i said the devo was good.. and it was.. but it wasnt the devotional or the talks themselves that were so good; the awesome confirmation from the Holy Ghost came after during the DDR. I had my 1 page of notes and was looking over them thinking about what i was going to say that i liked. I underlined a few things that i thought were good. I thought, okay.. good; ive got what im going to say. And then i listened to the others for a while. And one point i looked down at my paper and noticed a pattern in my notes... the order of my notes from the top to the bottom, were actually out of order. By this I mean that I saw a pattern going UP my page according to the exact things i had underlined. Now, im not sure if this is making sense so ill send home a copy of the page for you to see. But basically as i looked up the page of notes from the last thing i wrote from the devo, to the first thing i wrote, it is an EXACT replica, or map if you will, of the things and decisions I have made since being here at the MTC. All of it lead up to the first thing i wrote that told me more powerfully then anything i have ever felt that the BoM is true. I saw it and began to literally shake and tremble in my seat. I was the last person to stand up speak about "the devo" which is a blessing in disguise because if i had been first to speak i might not have had the chance to see the pattern. I could barely stand up to say  what i needed to say. I dont know if you are all getting the power im trying to convey here.. IT WAS FRIGGEN CRAZY. Pardon my language but hopefully that helps... ill send the page home tonight cause you have to see it.

 

Whew.. anyway.  The rest of the week was pretty good. We had out last TRC session in english.. SUCK! This saturday is all in Thai. Elder Hess and I are not speaking to each other this whole week.. in english. We have to carry around our dictionaries so we can express ourselves. To our surprise, or mine at least, we taught Sister Nopomas last night. First, i dont think ive told you about her.. she is so cute! She is a native thai convert who normally teaches the phiithays but.. THEY'RE GONE! They left sunday night so its just us nongthays for another 8 days. Anyway, we taught her as a "whole class to 1 investigator" ratio in thay and i was really happy at how well i was able to convey feelings to her. By small and simple things are great things come to pass right? Good stuff.

 

Hmm what else... umm you said that you have or havent sent off the package? Thanks for putting that together by the way.. really 'preciate it. So we are still pretty far off from this point (although our phiithays said that once they got us in their zone the last 5 ish weeks FLEW by) but we should start looking in to prepaid phone for the traveling.. one of our phiithays said he got a pre paid cell phone sent to him just so he could walk and talk and not have to stand by a pay phone. What'er. Also, ill have to send a lot home at that point including some purple ties cause purple means gay in thailand. Also, if you havent sent off the package yet, where are my blue, yellow, red paisley, and black and pink ties? Those rule haha. If you already sent it no worries.

 

K well im gonna bail cause i want to go home and change out of my clothes. But I love you all and thank you so much for all the support and encouragement to get me here. This work is quite amazing and if you could see the change ive experienced you would be quite astonished. Dont worry though.. im still the same _______ (insert adjective here... take it easy josh) as before. Mom i was sitting on a grassy hill this week for gym ( i know nice workout) and i decided when i get home i want to get back into 2 things.. tae kwon do and piano.

 

Phom rag khun ye ye!

 

Elder Gudmundsen

 

PS: Go to lds.org and watch the mormon messages. All of them. They are sooo good! Also the videos for mormon.org are cool.

1 month mark!

Ive been out for a month tomorrow! Epic? Cha. So first off... DONT SENT THE IPOD YET! Ill tell you why in a sec.. actually ill just do it now. We had Jenny Oaks Baker at our devo on sunday, and to make it short, she was absolutely insane (daughter of Elder Oaks... so yeah, he was there too). She is kind of a HUGE deal. Her introduction from President Smith (of the MTC) was like 10 minutes long and it included like 9 albums, Carnegie Hall, and some legit music school. Oh, i forgot to mention... VIOLIN. And her latest album is like #1 on some random list. But before you send the ipod, i want her music! Best violin playing i have ever seen. She just ripped everything and it was incredible. Also, for 4 kids later and at least 40 years old (so we imagined) she looks really good. And im understating it because i wasnt supposed to be noticing that anyway :) 

 

Okay so, ima start a little, "Word of the Day" and a "Scripture of the Week." This week's word is "Fantasmigoria." I dont know if that is the right spelling because i dont exactly have the ability to look it up. But basically it means, "Life shown before your eyes in bubble, kaleidoscope fashion." How awesome is that?

Scripture of the Week. It is found in 3 Nephi 29: 8 and it makes it so that we can no longer make fun of the jews.. which i never did anyway :)  It reads, : "Yea and ye need not any longer hiss, nor spurn nor make game of the Jews, nor any of the remnant of the House of Israel..." I did not know that even existed! 

 

What else is new... Elder Hess and i are like... bros now. Its chill. We got to clean the gym this week and got to use the Ghost Busters Vacuums... oh yeah, it was legit. We got a lot of photos cause we just had to. We also have turned a thai verb into a noun/name. "Klua" means to be afraid or scared. We named an Elder that.. now i know that sounds harsh but seriously! He is terrifying! He is at least 6.5 and so unproportionally large up top. And he is going Korean speaking so i am worried about our people mom! Every time we see him, which is a lot, Elder Hess and I can see each others terror in our eyes. Scary stuff. Theres another person who we call KLUA but thats for a different reason.. ill explain that in the letter follow up.

 

Okay since i am short on time i dont remeber all of the questions i was trying to address so i guess ill get into this weeks awesomeness.. cause it was awesome (Yiadyiam!). So for Brother Saakha (and Duval) we are the roudiest district they have ever had. They have had to try and calm us down with plenty of talks but we never seemed to get it. So on wednesday, Brother Saakha stopped and started scolding us again (lovingly of course) and i got defensive.. not to the point where i was talking back, but to the point where i wasnt listening because i thought that it was someone else trying to tell me that i needed to change who i am for the mission. He told us that we were going to go on a "walk" where we would just walk around the MTC and think about everything. At first i was reluctant to even think about anything because i didnt want to pray to heavenly father and ask what to do because i was afraid that he would tell me that yes, i needed to change. But i swallowed my pride and asked anyway. As I offered up my feelings to him, i felt the spirit in a very unique way; the first like this. This time in my prayer my thoughts were SO clear... usually they are wandering to something else. But here, it felt like a real 2 way conversation... id hate to relate it to this but its the best i can think of in this day... it was like instant messaging.. i asked and received SO CLEARLY almost instantly. There were no distractions around me, or in my head. I asked what it was i was supposed to do.. was i to change who i am? The answer came as clear, if not more clearly, than if Heavenly Father had written it in the air. It was a distinct, "No." The spirit told me that No, i should not change... Before my mission many people told me that i had a strong testimony or a particular talk was moving... i really appreciated those comments and it humbled me.. but the spirit explained to me that it was not because of my gospel knowledge of scriptorian-like intellect.. in fact, i hardly ever used scriptures when i spoke. The only reason (well not only) i got to the MTC was BECAUSE of my personality. All i needed to do was to add the gospel knowledge that comes from being more focused at the MTC. I hope that sounded clear? If not, its cause i am rushing as i only have 3 minutes left. Basically i have never been good at recognizing the spirit, or even feeling it for that matter, but this time i absolutely knew that that was from Heavenly Father. Real quickly... we had another TRC. Remember how i said we did so bad the week before? This week was at least 10 times better.. we really felt the spirit because our thoughts and teaching methods were clear and definitely directed on a path that made sense. It was stark contrast to witness both with the spirit and without. YOU CANNOT TEACH THIS GOSPEL WITHOUT THE SPIRIT. It is impossible. You can teach people all you want about your knowledge of the gospel but if you dont teach according to the promptings of the spirit no one will feel the need to live by what you are teaching. There IS of course more to this, but thats the start.

 

Okay i got to wrap this up.. 1 minutes left. Love you all and thank you so much for all the support that has gotten me here, and sustained me during this mighty change. Our phiithays leave in 5 days and then we are phiithays! AHHHH!!! What up ENC!! Keep those letters coming cause they are awesome. Sorry Josh that i could get you an email but ill write a letter in just a sec. Love you! PEace

June 29

Sawaddii Khrab! This is my follow up letter to the email I sent not too long ago this morning. First, thanks for the cookies, gushers, patch candy and gum! The gum was the icing on the cake cause you remembered that's my favorite! Cookies are so good! And quite the hit among my zone. Mom sent pumpkin chocolate chip cookies the same day, so I had to share! Not letting them go to waste.

You just got an email from my LDS mail account so you have that now. But on any day but Monday (or very early Tuesday morning) Dear Elder is the way to go. I check email only on Tuesdays at about 8 a.m. my time. So if you have a quick (or not) thought for me to get Tuesday morning, Monday is the best. Dear Elder Letters get delivered within a day, or if sent by noon, the same day (usually).

So everything is going very well. The lang. is sick but I did have a rough first day. I'm STILL adjusting to sleeping and a bunch of other things that got me super down. Some of the district were kinda bothering me, but we're ok now. Last Tuesday I was SUPER down. It was great to hear from you in general but when you said, "I'm sure that all our family will be blessed because of your sacrifice for the Lord. Thank you for doing that," I was reading it during the prelude music for Tuesday's devotional and just started bawling. It really made me feel like all this will be worth the hard times of adjusting and the hard times in general of the mission. Even more than all that it put me in the right mindset for the Fireside.

As you may or may not know, I still have not finished the B of M all the way through. I believe it's true, but with all the lesson exercises we do, it requires us to say, I know. And I would be lying if I said that. Going into the fireside with this outlook, your letter really put my mind at ease to listen to the speaker. As I did, he quoted 1 of THE ONLY scriptures that I can, to this day, quote from memory or cite its reference if it's being recited. At EFY about 4ish years ago, I found the scripture that the speaker quoted. Ever since then it has been one of my favorites: Alma 5:26-28. For the person on my left, he missed the reference, but I was able to give it to him. Two days before this fireside, the scripture was being spoken in a movie (Testaments... good movie) and I was able to, almost instantly, state the reference. To this my buddy, Elder Roach, said "Dude, that was epic." So this scripture came up twice in two days; very powerful to me. The the speaker quoted D&C 84:85. Ten days before, my stake President, Papa Crickmore, quoted D&C 84:80-85 before he set me apart. It states: "Take ye no thought beforehand what ye shall say, but treasure up in your minds continually the words of life, and it shall be given you in the very hour that portion that shall be meted unto every man." It could not have been more powerful to know first hand the truth of this scripture.

I lost it by this point because this man, Elder Snow, was speaking AT ME. The Lord was helping me (and practically screaming "it's true!" at me) expell the doubts I may have in order to read the Book of Mormon clearly. Even still, I've taken it upon myself to, as I read the Book of Mormon, write every question I have down in a little black notepad in order to find those answers, or be able to testify of the truthfulness of the Gospel, even with all these questions.

Know that you are always in my prayers. I miss you so much. Hope work and whatever else goes as you want. I will be sending pics your way soon (hopefully) but the computers here don't let us upload pics so I have to print and send them. You got a scanner or something so you can put 'em on the blog? K, gotta run! Love you

Love,
Elder Gudmundsen

Week three

Ok so first things first, we havent gotten any mail since saturday so if anyone sent mail since then i apologize cause this is not a response to any of them. We dont get mail til like, 9 this morning. which will be about half an hour after i send this.. Anything i read in the mail today ill send in a follow up letter.

 

Anyway, this week was an incredibly humbling experience for me, and maybe for my companion as well. But ill get into that in a bit. On questions and other important matters, mom the health care charge was for my last hepA/B booster shot. It was the one i needed when i first got here but didnt have my immunization sheet. Should be all taken care of. So about the debit and credit card thing (AHH). You want me to stop using the debit and pay with credit then? I mean nothing i would buy would be overly expensive but ill do that then. On the luggage thing... ill look into it more but the phiithays said that they get 2 checked bags and ONE carry on bag, which includes the back pack if thats what they have. So 3 bags TOTAL. Weird i know. But ill ask more as we get closer. Also, they say to get a shoulder bag so your back doesnt get super sweaty in thailand. Ill look into that later and eventually send my backpack home. On the pants thing.. we have learned that since the dollar is so flippin awesome over in thailand that all the missionaries have super nice (or super working) houses. So we have running water, kitchens, beds and washer and dryers. So, since i feel like my dress pants will get super sweaty and gross, wouldnt it be nice to have some to able to wash during the week? Also what with the rain and stuff they will get dirty! So i took a lot of 4th of july pics and temple pics again (also video) so im just gonna send the whole SD card home. My roommate Elder Wagstaff had a bunch of card protectors so look for that this week. Don't be frightened by some of them on there... Ill talk about the ipod policy in the letter i will send after this.

 

Now, on to the humbling experience i was alluding to. So the TRC this week.. we SUCKED. Straight up. We went in with a total lesson plan filled out on how we were going to talk and i was so determined to get through the lesson i didnt focus on the investigators needs. Didnt follow the spirit at all which i kinda ignored. yeah.. awesome mish i know. On top of that.. NEVER READ VERSE 16 OF JOSEPH SMITH HISTORY TO A NON CHRISTIAN. Preach My gospel lead us astray! HAH actually i remember reading the PMG lesson plan and was like, "Wait isnt 16 the one about satan?" But we had her read it and as soon as i heard the words, "but exerting" i face palmed it. I could tell she was confused after and so i asked if we could clarify. Of course, she focused on "what happened at the beginning" instead of the part about GOD and Jesus Christ appearing. No recovering since we didnt cover satan. Elder Hess and i really felt down cause it was just so bad compared to last weeks TRC, which wasnt perfect by any means, but was good. So we are preparing much better this week. Also, i know you thought i sounded arrogant about the language dad, and you may have been right cause this week kind of kicked our butts. Apparently we a are week behind schedule on reading thai script (those squiggly lines). This isnt to say that it isnt coming along great because i can read certain script lines and actually read what it says! It's so cool, but insanely hard. We were supposed to be able to read/sing out of the thai hymn book but we can barely get through 1 song. Still, we are doing very well with the language. Its an incredibly fun/difficult challenge. Ill write some sentences in thai in the letter today.

 

So what else.. we had a special devotional on saturday night for the 4th of july.. and it was terribad. Seriously, i dug the message that they were trying to convey, but it was so poorly executed... when camera angles change shots, tell your actors to stop reading the script line for line and look at the correct camera! Also, Benjamin franklin with a doo-rag instead of a wig was just histerical. Dallas and i lost it. Yeah, dallas roach and i were sitting together. One Sister not in the film (did i mention that? it was a film presentation with the MTC choir) narrated the Dark Ages. And i quote her first line, "The Dark Ages, were Dark." Yeah, no WAY we werent going to laugh. After the sad sorry excuse for a film we went outside to watch the end of Carrie Underwoods "Stadium of fire" over at the stadium... from the MTC parking lot of course. They had a sweet fireworks presentation that we watched together and got to stay out late! Til 10 30! ahh! By the way, Elder Hess as opened up sooo much. He's hilarious! He has the funniest rapid fire chuckle laugh that you cant not laugh with. Hes still a super chick but whatever.. its funny. Roach's companion leaves today for the MTC in guatemala.. huzzah! Hes stoked. And Freddie comes in tomorrow so its good. My sleeping schedule is getting.. better. It still sucks but its better. Well i better get going.. this week was truly humbling and inspiring... we are getting better and talking about the gospel and how it affects lives and i think we will be really affective in Thailand. This work is the absolute truth! I read a quote that said, "if this be the work of men then it shall not continue, but if it be the work of God, it cannot be stopped." Thats not the exact quote but you get the idea. We go with Heavenly Father to invite others to come unto Christ.. but ultimately it is up to them to find out for themselves. I have found out the hard way that you "cannot fight this feeling(!)." Sorry i had to use that song title. Say what up to ENC for me. look for the SD card this week.. one of the SICKEST pictures ive ever taken in there. Love you all!

 

Choog dii! Phom rag khun!

sawaaddii!!

That means hello! Okay so second week! Was pretty cool indeed. Got your package mom.... i didnt even read your guys' dear elders telling me to share because they are already gone! The floor LOVED them. Seriously, I was such a temptress these past few days ahaha. But seriously awesome. Josh thanks for the Charleston Chews.... i figured that would have been your idea? Havent opened the sees candy yet... They are sees right? Did you get all of my stuff and figure it out? You know, who to give letters to and what not? Good.. Really sorry to hear about Sister Sprottie.... sounds like the Bishop has been really busy doing the Lord's work.. Amen Brian. Truly an example to everyone. So some of your questions.... Neither Brandon nor Matt greeted me at the door.. It was that guy that you saw walking with me. It doesnt work like that apparently, cause you volunteer to be a host and then just bring whoever in when you go up to the sidewalk with the possibility that it is your friend. But i have seen both of those guys plenty. Dallas came in on Wednesday with his parents and the 12 APOSTLES! This week was so much seccccurity (like that black woman in that one video?) and we barely got to see anyone. But Dallas got to go to sacrament meeting with President Monson and 9 of the 12 apostles. Apparently Monson spoke for an hour there for all the new mission presidents.... All 114 of them. I was really surprised cause we had the sunday devotional and President Monson didnt even speak.. was really surprised that he didnt say anything to us when he was so close. But we did have Elder Oaks speak on a special Friday Devotional. Quite excellent. Oh, Dad you asked how the food was? Its like the left-overs from the cannon center, mass produced once more for maximum destruction to all that is important to your body. Breakfast SUCKS. 10 seconds after i ate the iffy looking burrito.... BAM. Done. Mom, the Shirts work perfectly. Forgot to get them out of the dryer on time but they are still non wrinkley! Its awesome. Took all my medication for my mouth. All good. At least i hope. Got all the pedigree stuff and the immunizations.... dont know if i said that already or not. By the way this is going to be a long paragraph because THE ENTER KEY DOESNT WORK! Anyway, the language is coming along great again. Josh you really were a "kun rue" for not writing a dear elder this week. Get on that. Brother Saakha gets cooler ur'day! We had our first TRC scenario (Teaching Resource Center) where we had to go into the room with the phiitays (older thai district) as companionships and talk with them for 15 minutes in thai (ahhh!!) and then ask if we can switch to english for the 1st lesson. It was nerve wracking as Elder Hess and I knocked on the door but then as soon as i got in there.... bam! Done son! No butterflys or anything. It went very well considering we didnt get to finish the lesson before the bell rang (yeah you have a time limit). But its hard to start the lesson because the first lesson begins with God. and they have no idea who that is. The phiitays had to act like thai people so when we asked if we could being with a word of prayer to invite peace into their home for the teaching they looked at us like we were insane. They went easy on us but it was still funny. Sister Hirschi (yeah, like the kiss) was our investigator and was like, "whats prayer? Wheres our monk who reads the paper for us?" Lulz. So yeah, the lang. is great. Pretty much there are 3 things that get us through the day though: Food, Gym and letters! Keep em coming! This week the actual gym was closed for the Mish Prez seminar but the field was open so beach volleyball everyday! Been a lot of fun. I dominate. JK. But really I do. Theres this one phiitay who thinks hes the bomb, but hes garbage. Like, Christmas morning garbage that doesnt get picked up for an extra day or whatever. Ok final words.... Mom I cant think of anything else i need so just the thais (hah! see what i did there?) for now will suffice. If i do ill send another letter. Which im doing anyway with some pics. Say what up to ENC 1 for me! Give them my love in return for letters! Seriously! K gotta run.. Love you all and I hope all is well. CHOOG DII!

Okay, here we go

Sorry for the lack of posting! I had to clear with AJ whether he wanted me to post his letters in full or excerpts. Now that I've gotten an OK, I'll start posting his letters here. Enjoy!