Well at least I’m not the only one runnin short for time. But this week yes I did go on yet another exchange and its not really that normal but since my comp is the DL he has to do an exchange with every missionary in the district so I have to go with there companions but I’m done for this transfer. Kinda funny thought but today is actually my 2 month mark or as they call er out cheer your click day.

I just found out like on Thursday, Friday that I’m gettin a new companion on Tuesday so I don’t know if he'll be the district leader and if I’ll still be doin a lot of exchanges or if I’ll get a break and be able to stay in the area for a while. Its kinda weird losing my companion after the first transfer but there’s a reason, he’s been in the field for a while he’s done in December so he’s startin to die a little or get tired and a little lazy so maybe its something that he needed but I guess we'll find out soon.

On Thursday I dug a Pit for a pig to get roasted in for a farewell and that was fun but I'm gettin kicked out of the lab so I kinda got to go but I’ll inform you better on this week next week or somethin like that. But I love you all so have fun but the reason I’m so short on time is that we played 18 holes of golf so its my bad but have fun.

Elder Kartchner

Well I got another chance to tell ya all about what happened this last week. Everything was pretty much as usual going on exchanges and doin all that other stuff that ya do when your companions the DL. But last week was a little more exciting transfer was coming up this week so we were all curious as to who was gettin shipped out of the area. We didn’t really except My comp to be shipped out but for some reason he's going and I’m gettin a new one after only one transfer. Its kinda weird gettin a new companion after 6 weeks when I was supposed to be with him for 12 but I guess that aint how the cookie crumbled this time so I’ll just deal with it anyways.

Other than that this last week was pretty bland didn’t have much of any really cool stories or fun experiences. However I did dig a 6X6X1-1/2 foot pit for a pig roast, which was pretty interesting. Basically Juanito Reyes is goin on his mission this Saturday so for his farewell dinner he wanted to roast a pig. So Elder Gowdy and I volunteered to help any way we could. So we went out to Bro. Saunders house to dig a pit and cook the pig in it. The ground out in Pennsylvania is surprisingly hard for the amount of rain we’ve had recently, luckily we had a pick and luckily I knew how to wield it. So after about an hour and a half of digging we got er done and lookin nice and square cuz I got a keen eye for things like that. While we were diggin brother Saunders Kids let out his 7 chickens from there little chicken coop thing to try and catch them which wasn’t really a big deal they were just kinda walkin around. However a thunder storm blew in and they started scattering like crazy so I started gatherin all the chickens up it was like trainin for a fight in the rocky movies and some how magically I caught all 7. But we got the pig in the ground and cooked it for 14 hours, it was fall off the bone tender. So that was kinda a cool thing to do and to kinda see how it was done for future use.

Other than that we didn’t really didn’t have any cool things happen we went and saw Tom again the guy who owns a nutrition shop and he still keeps askin us questions and said that he wanted to come out to one of the church meetings so I’m hoping that we will be able to teach him. We should be seeing Patrick on Wednesday so hopefully it’ll go well and I’ll have something good to write about next week other than diggin holes and catchin chickens. It was kinda funny though Misiel Reyes was helpin us dig and you could tell he had never done any work like that in his life it was almost disgraceful to the Mexican population how he wielded a shovel but I got to go so everyone have a good week and hopefully you can find something worth readin within the 2 letters I wrote.

Elder Kartchner