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March 9 email:

hello. man is that crazy or what that you guys will be kickin it with boxie tonight. you will have to give him a hug for me. but it seems like you guys have been having a good time. this week things have been crazy not much time to write but i love you guys, you are the best. im excited to get some more cookies. there is no cookie like yours. but im trying to eat somewhat healthy. i lost another 5 pounds. you guys cursed me i got sick over the weekend and had the worst diarhea and threw up and stuff. the first time ive had to stay in. it was a bummer but i lost 5 pounds haha. but thats cool that you guys are going to the sports mall. im pretty jealous of the boys going and seein boon dock saints maybe, they will have to take their guns to the showing. thats pretty crazy that shamu ate someone. things have been kind of frustrating here the last little while. but thats how it goes sometimes. we have picked up 2 new people so thats good one of them we tracted into him and his wife is a less active member and he is athiest but he was asking us questions and thought it was pretty cool that we serve missions and asked us to share our message if it was so important. so the lesson went pretty good but my companion teaches what is called the eternal principle. like 15 minutes long when its supposed to be maybe 5. then we picked up a lady named nancy her husband is a less active member and she is super nice. works with a stake president i unfortanantly wasnt able to go to the lesson cuz i was chillin on the toilet all night but we visited the day after and gave her a book of mormon and she seems to be doin good. but other than that we have just been teaching members tryin to motivate and sometimes i think its impossible last night we had dinner with the stake pres and he gave us the excuse that he doesnt ever meet new people. so it was sad to see a stake pres that doesnt understand that god can give you a missionary opportunity if you want it and pray for it but, we have been having some good lessons teaching the recent converts that we have. but we also had a sad experience with monique. showed up to teach a lesson and she her ash tray back out with smokes in it. she's struggling cuz she's gettin a new grill and before she has the surgery she has to get her blood thickness up and so they took her off her bi polar depression meds so she is strugglin but had a good lesson and she'll be alright. we dont have anyone that is that close to baptism. we have a lesson with dafne adams tonight and maybe we will be able to work out a date for her. but we also have a lesson tonight with another part member family so we might get another new investagator. so that would be nice. so slowly but surely the work is coming. the weather has been crazy one minute its raining the other snowing then raining. last night there was a blizzard we could barely drive and got like 5 inches in a half hour but now its pretty much all melted so its pretty crazy. but the story of the week that athiest guy that we tracted into. at the very end of the lesson it was pretty funny. he accepted to read and pray and was excited to find out if god was real and things. then his neice that was asleep on the couch next to him stood up looking like a zombie and stood there for a second then threw up in the middle of the room. didnt say anything, then she walked thru it and threw up again in the other room. so we had a good laugh said the closing prayer and got out of there. but other than that i dont have much else to say but i did get the pic of riley at the dance with hannah. pretty sweet. and he's rocking my amazing pants from the phillippines. lookin good. well i love you all and hope everyone has a splendid week.
love elder knaphus