Letter from Josh 7 August 2010

Dear Family,

This week was pretty good. it was nice to be in one place and not living out of a suitcase for the week. there isn't a whole lot to say about the week. we did a lot of catching up in the office and also finished off this transfers zone conferences. in general they went pretty well. its funny how you can see who will follow what is being said and who wont, but i guess that also means we know who to watch for and who to help more. we started transfers. it took us forever but we finally got our first plan finished, so now we will go back over everything and pray about it and then start again on Monday or Tuesday fixing anything that doesn't feel right. President and sister broadbent took us out to dinner last night. it was very nice of them and i got to have a real hamburger. i haven't had that in a long time. it was delicious. but mostly i am telling you that because i know mom wants to hear i am eating good. i am. its just generally not hamburgers.
every time i see pics of the house on moms blog i think "that just looks weird now. that's not the home i left." but its ok, i think a swimming pool and a hot-tub and are things i can get used too. the thing that will be the weirdest to get use to is how old everybody is. not mom of coarse, mid twenties is still pretty young. i mean its older than me, but she is my mom, they are suppose to be older. but everybody else is different, and that's going to be weird. but whenever you guys know which day you are coming and for how long you are staying then let me know so i can try to plan or give you options or whatever. also, the couple in mombasa offered for us to stay with them if we go to mombasa, but i would rather show you guys arusha then mombasa so it really depends on how long you are coming for.
We will have Elder Watson from the area presidency coming on Aug 20 and then we will do a mission tour with him. because of that we wont be having zone conferences next transfer, so i will actually have time to go out and to do some proselyting. i am excited for that. we will still have to do exchanges which will take up a bit of time. but not nearly as much as before. and we had a bit of time this week to go and see some of the investigators that were ours but we had to give to some other elders so that they could be taught while we were running everywhere. it was good to see them again, but it was also kind of funny because they had built kind of a loyalty to the other missionaries, which is fine, that means the other elders did their job well, but it was just funny to see the change from not wanting them to being a bit hesitant to have us again. i am excited to get to do more work though.
anyways, i love you guys!!! i hope you all have a great week!
Love,
Elder Harris

p.s. dad, just get my priesthood line of authority to me when you can, i wont need it until the 20th when elder Watson gets here.