10/16 4/6

FAMILY!!!! How´s life??? things here are crazy! this week was super insane! we had an exchange, visited some of the far parts of our area, a baptism! and had a few missionaries get sick so we were kinda crazy this week! but it was good! and looks like you guys had a good short week at school! bummer that your still feel sick dad! i don't know if this will help but boil some water with salt and breath in the fumes for a few seconds then move away try and get rid of the crap in your lungs then do it a few other times! i don't know if it will help but that's what we usually tell missionaries to do that out here cause they seem to get colds here quite a bit! but yeah try that out! i hope ya get feelin better soon! and that's awesome that you went and got your concelled weapons permit! you're gonna have to tell me more about that! i'm gonna come home and get that when i get back! but yeah anyways this week was crazy! like you guys read we had an exchange with one of the areas in our zone! it was pretty cool! i got to go with a new kid and it just made me feel old and made me excited to see all the new missionaries coming into the field! definitly those who are coming in are getting better trained and are more prepared! and i love it! i always love seeing the new guys cause they are full of excitement to work hard and do everything they can! and everyone needs that all the time! but yeah i'm also stoked to hear that theres lots and lots more people going on the mission! it's crazy to hear all the girls that are going out! i think i'm gonna get back to an empty college cause everyones gonna be gone on the mission! but yeah we're excited to see all the new people that come in! hopefully some get sent out here to see some people that i know :) that'd be awesome! but yeah anyways this week we also went to visit parts of our area! we have a huge area that goes all the way down to the beach! so we have a member that lives clear out there so we down there to see how things are down there and it was interesting we actually got to teach a lesson! it was way to far but it was cool! got our names around there! but yeah we also saw the only dunes in the caribean! supposedlyl the sand there is the same sand found in the sahara desert! crazy crazy! but yeah after that we had our baptism of Alexander! it was good! considering that no one really got to know about it! cause last sunday we had our conference so they didn't annouce it but we had good support there! i had to dunk him two times cause the first time he put his hand out of the water and so the second time we made sure that everything stayed under! but yeah then oh! sunday too i gave a talk in church! our branch president called me up friday night and said hey we need you to talk on sunday can you do that! i said of course so i prepared my talk about tithing and it went pretty good! still nervous as all get out to get up and talk to people like that! but yeah i did my best! but yeah then this whole week we had two missionaries sick that was just crazy! we were tryin to take things calmly but one of our district leaders was going a little crazy! so yeah! but i think that's about it! but yeah i think that's about it for this weeks email! hope you all enjoyed your short week and just so you guys know January is gone! this week will be february! crazy huh??? but hope you all have a great week! i love you all!

-Elder Carlson

Ps. i'm jealous of your snow! it hasn't rained here and is just constant sun and heat! so yeah! enjoy it there