Greetings. Once again, I feel as if I haven't emailed home in a couple weeks or so. I got an email from Charlie and he seems to be having fun helping everyone clean out their destroyed basements and trees from their yards. I honestly feel like I have nothing to say this time. Um...we've been teaching people, we'll have a baptism on the 17th, and two more on the 25th. Then another soon after...not sure when. But there is success! Two of those are in the Deaf Branch so I have been keeping my sign language alive. I feel fluent now. Not to the point where I'm 100% comfortable in the culture and understanding and expressing, but fluent.

I was able to play the piano for a while today and on Halloween. It felt good. Not quite satisfying, but good. I feel more responsible for a lot of things now. I don't know why. Kinda like I'm in charge of something. It's almost stressful - especially because I can't remember what I'm supposed to be checking up on! Ah! The weather here is great. I ran a red light the other day...and I got a notice in the mail today. Some deaf guy told me that he ran that light and he had to pay $620.00. I hope I don't have to pay that much. Or anything. No more red lights for me. I hate driving. Traffic makes it bad. Rules make it bad. Race car drivers have it so easy. I guess they have a lot of rules too, but they can still speed and get away with it.

So...in the Hearing ward, the dinner calendar was passed around and filled up maybe two weeks ago. Yesterday, in the Deaf branch, I finally got the calendar and there were quite a few people signed up for dinner. I didn't know what to do, so I got up in front of the branch and told them that the other ward beat them to it, if you want to sign up for dinner, you have to do it earlier. So I basically cancelled everyone's appointment. Then after church, the woman who's in charge of the calendar came up to me and was freaking out about how hard she worked on getting people to sign up. So with me being the biggest push over in history, I said okay, I'll call everyone in the hearing ward and cancel with them. Either way, I have to cancel with someone. And my silly common sense told me that since the hearing ward beat the deaf branch at getting dinners for us, they won. But I guess everyone loses when I'm involved.

Next time, is planned to be better but I highly doubt it will be any better. It's too much information for the Deaf branch to take in. They don't understand that the hearing ward WILL feed us if they don't. And they started passing the calendar around a long time ago. Snooze, ya lose. right??? wrong. Snooze, you get to feed the missionaries anyway. OR, the other option, is to go on splits for dinner on those nights where we have two families feeding us. And some of those "families" are single women. They don't know the rules about missionaries so we have to explain to them that they will be feeding 4 people in addition to whatever you were planning. Which is not nice for us to impose. So we just cancel and eat at home. We have been eating out for lunch a lot lately. I feel FAT.

Emailing is harder for me to come up with stuff. As you can plainly see by my interesting dinner calendar story. When you get the chance, I would ask that you send my indoor soccer shoes. Please. Every once in a while, we will play soccer in the cultural hall and I would like to show off more than usual. Thanks. They are the white ones with the orange sole and navy swoosh or something like that. They should be easy to find. I don't have any missionary experiences to tell. Like the one with the Priesthood blessing. I'm going to read some of my blog now.

K bye!!!