Letter FROM Josh 22 June 2009

Hey Family! Happy Fathers day Dad! to be honest i didnt even know that it was fathers day until our last apointment last night when somebody asked us if we had talked to our dads at all. we said no and asked why, and then they told us it was fathers day. But, that means that i have known probably since the time you were all in church and i was able to think about you for all of your day time hours. I love you dad.Anyways, the week went super quick, i am honestly trying to figure out how it is monday again. We get transfer news tonight, they changed it, we used to get it on saturday night so that we could say goodbye to everybody on sunday. but i guess president feels that it somehow made the work inefective when we got the news on saturday. i honestly dont see how it would make the work more inefective when monday is p-day anyways and so sunday is the only day that it could possibly mess up and about 3/4 of sunday is spent either at church or in church type meetings with the branch mission leadeer and etc. And this way we dont have time to say goodbye to anybody, but whatever he says goes so theres not a whole lot i can do about it. i dont think i am going anywhere or that i will get a new companion because pres doesnt normally transfer the "trainer" until "training" is finished, which isnt till the end of the transfer that starts today, but if i do go, and i dont get to say goodbye to people i will be pist.Mom, i dont know why you are so scared to come to Africa, and i would like for you to come pick me up or for us to come back sometime after i am home like we did with michael, and my current mission pres is ok with it, but i will have a new on by the end of my time here, so i dont know about him. i promise you will like it, and i think it will help you to realize that i am not living like a cave-man or anything, the cow blood was a one time thing, and you wont have to go through that either, however i could arrange it for anyone that wanted to try.We re-drew the boundaries for our area this week, and within one day of tracting in one of the places we "inherited" we have 6 new people to teach. i dont know why the other elders werent working there before, but it is good for us now i guess. i am excited to meet with them this week and see if they really are interested or if they were just being nice.I love you all! hope Zach Hulsey feels better, and that everybody at home stays well. have a great week!Love,Josh