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HI EVERYONE!

Hope you all had a great two weeks! Sorry I didn't get to email last week - library computers wern't working for a couple of days, but my love was still sent via: air! So a lot has happened within the past two weeks... lets see if I can catch you up...
As you know I got to have a lunch with the Elaina & Susan Yokshas! It was so fun! And it was all in an hours time too - I'm so proud of myself! [Since -as a rule- we can only have hour long lunches] It was so good to have some good laughs with them and I can't wait till we can all have some fun at the house!!
Oh oh, do you know Don Hudson from ABC News?? Last Sunday this guy came into sacrament meeting a little late and he was looking around for somewhere to sit, so of course I noticed him and offered him a spot by me. Well I got to talking with him and he said he was just down here to see his family and he lived up in Provo. He told me some pretty funny stories about his son serving in the Guatemala mission now. His son just got a new companion and every morning this new companion goes outside and just stands with his back faceing the window. Well Elder Hudson noticed that his companion kept looking back at the window cautiously so one morning Elder Hudson snuck out to see what was going on and he caught his companion smoking! [haha, that gave me a huge laugh] Him & the mission president are trying to help him overcome his addictions. After the first speaker in Sacrament was done Don Hudson got up and gave me his business card and told me to look him up when I got home... I think he is the sports guy??? sounds familiar.
You might get a laugh out of this one. On Monday night all of our appointments canceled and so we were left to do nothing. We never really tract on monday since it's a pday and it is usually dark, but now that it is light till usually 8:30 we desided to tract. So we tracted and tracted and were walking up to this one house and when we had gotten to the front sidewalk we noticed that it was getting drenched with water from the sprinklers -but, being the good missionaries we are :) we desided to persue and keep going trough all the sprinklers... WELL, let me tell ya, 17 plus months out in the mission field can do a work on your church shoes (the treds are ALL worn off so my shoes are just flat). So we walked into the sprinklers and WHOOOOOOOP there I fly strait up and flat on my side... Elder Palmer at least asked if I was okay before he cracked up laughing. I came away with a couple of memories from that fall... 1st I was soaked all down my side 2nd, my nice purple bruise all down my side and 3rd, since it was Monday I planned on sending pictures to you all at the library but since it was down I couldn't, but I still had my camera in my pocket (you see where I am going with this...) well Let's continue with the story.. WHOOOOOOOP, I fly strait up and SLAM right down oh my camera. May my camera that now is all bent up and has a cracked screen rest in peace. Oh and 4th is the person at the door, right after I got up from the fall slammed the door right in our faces. NOW THE BLESSING>>> The really weird thing is I never got upset or mad, all I could do was laugh. Sometimes bad stuff happens in life EVEN when you are doing something good and what you are supposed to be doing, BUT we just got to remember the good things in life like our testimonies in Jesus Christ and the happiness that comes from that. I love Heleman ch. 5 where Nephi and Lehi are accounting of their father teaching them to "remember the good".
Well I have to go, sorry so quick - It seems the mission is just getting more busy ALL the time! I will tell you about my new companion Elder Jensen next week (I'm still in Palm Desert/Indio). Love you much! Stay safe and Remember the GOOD!!!
-- Love, ELDER PATRICK McBRIDE