Monday, April 29, 2013


Part 2  
Just kidding. I'm probably not going to tell you. I like to keep people waiting. It's a new hobby of mine. Mwahaha. >:)

Attached is a picture I took at the Egberts. We eat dinner there every Monday. They are so nice. I like the palm trees and I take lots of pictures of them. Maybe this one could be attached to the blog post somehow? Thanks. The digital picture frame is good. It cuts the tops off all the pictures, but it's only noticeable on a few. I don't use it a lot, but it's really cool to see what I've done and to remember things that happened last year. I'm getting pretty tan. The California sun is hot. It has only been about 85 these past few days, but I've been outside more than normal. My hope is that when I come home, I'll be very dark and very irresistible. Haha...

It's hard to come up with things to say! Um...I guess I could tell you the rest of the story...nah.
maybe later. ;) There I go again.

I sent a package today. It has the baptism program, an sd card, and a letter. I wrote a little something for the dogs. If you could read it to them that would be wonderful. Try to imagine it were me talking to them. Just make them excited and mention that it was from me. :) thanks. I love their pictures by the way. Thank you! Could you do me a favor and keep them refreshed on all those Harry Potter spells? Be sure to use a wand!

I'm learning a lot of Spanish being here. I still don't know how to make things past, present, of future tense but I imagine it sounds a lot like a native Spanish speaker trying to speak English. It's somewhat understandable. The only problem is, nobody bothers to correct me and help me learn it right. They are satisfied with what I say even if it's wrong. A lot of Spanish speaking people here don't know proper Spanish. I learn proper Spanish from other missionaries, and then I put it to the test. They look at me like I'm still speaking English. I don't get it. I try to simplify it for them, but that never works.

Anyway...I'm getting very obese. My stomach skin hangs and flabs and jiggles. I hate it. It's a whole new world of fatness to me. I've always been pretty skinny, huh? I don't think I've gained a lot of weight, it's just that I'm not as active as I was and now I'm out of shape and developing a new shape. *sigh*  I hope longboarding will take it off when I get home. That should be enough, right? If I longboard a marathon every other day, would that make me skinny again? Or do I actually have to stop eating Taco Bell? Am I getting old? I'm 20. I'm pretty old if you think about it. I'm proud of Gma Judy for losing all that weight! Maybe she can help me out. :)

I got to play the organ today. Pday, everyone was playing basketball and I was getting ready to sit and watch for a minute, when an Elder said "Hey, do you want to teach me how to play the piano now?" I said..uh...yeah! So we went into the chapel and he said "Oh boy! I've been waiting to hear you play my whole mission!!" I guess he has never heard me play before. Well, nothing more than hymns. So I guess he just wanted to hear me play.

So I played some stuff on the piano and I looked at the organ and thought of Don Cook. I think it's so much cooler than the piano, but the piano is my home. It's where I'm comfortable. So I got up and turned on the old Wicks organ. I played for more than half an hour before getting up. Oh I loved it.

I will come home and play the organ a lot. Bro. Cook better be willing to help me. He has already given me his audio recordings and a booklet and I've been to a couple classes...but I'm serious now. I gotta know it! Also, I would like to study the baroque era of music and play a lot of that stuff on the organ. I think it sounds delish.

I guess that's all.

Elder Peck

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