Orange crayon on my da kine

Hey Everyone,

Alright so sorry about not e-mailing you yesterday. we never had any time, we were way busy trying to find stuff to do haha and so we got a ride down to another zone to go play some basketball and didn't come back to late and so we never had a chance to e mail, but now i am so its all good. Ok so yeah, i got transfered to the San Diego Zone. it's right by downtown, like we can walk there if we want and we are way close to the naval base. the place is called Barrio Logan or Logan heights. it's the Ghetto! it's pretty sick, haha. funny story so we were walking at night after an appoinment with a member and this guy on a corner street came up to us and was like "gue tal perros" and we were like hey man how's it going? and then in a gangsta tone he said "oh perros, you best be stepping, this is logan heights perros, you betta step outta here. we just were laughing this small skinny poser was trying to act tough. we probably shoulda knocked that brotha out, haha. get some stress out on him. So yeah anyways, my new companion is Elder Lawter, he is from MIssouri, cool guy. way chill, which is sick. i was like...finally. God does hear me and there are normal people here haha. But our apartment is sick, we live in an attic pretty much like in our room the roof slants, which is funny, because you know me i don't think before i do things a lot of the times so i was setting up my bed and i set up my pillow and where my head was supposed to be by the slanted side, which isn't too smart probably bang my head every morning, so i changed it haha. anyways i will send some pictures, hopefully soon.

Oh thanks for sending all that stuff! that was way nice, i am pretty sure half of it is gone already haha, everytime we come back, i snack on like 5 things and then all my roommates are like why the heck are you eating seaweed, and obviously i said kus it tastes good braddah. oh and the other two elders in the apartment are natives!! so sick they know tons of Spanish and they are hilarious too, its way fun. for some reason, someone gets a hold of a picture of cait and is like oh who's that? then that's where i start the spiel or what ever it is ... yes, that's my sister, her name is Imnotinterestedinyou Thomas and no, you can't date her she's 16, haha. it's ridiculous, haha. but yeah Cait you better turn it down on the looking good thing, alright?

So yeah, our area is the ghetto. all mexicans! oh man its so nice, very very nice! they all are like illegal and have mustaches and listen to mexican songs and cook tortillas all day and play soccer at the park and dress like cholos. everyone lives together and isn't married. oh it is heaven for a missionary, we have tons of investigators and they are nice to us and the members are sweet! it's good i am excited to be here. now i just got to get to work. it was funny because a member got deported the other day and then we heard he was back the next day, haha, because his dad was his cayote (thats what they callum) I thought it was pretty funny.

Oh quick story so we got a member referral. her name is Margarita and she has three sons. two of the son's names are mario and luigi. hahah so funny. but that luigi is a demon child man, it is so hard to teach while he is there. the first time we came and he found out my name was Thomas and so like a clever 2 year old, he made a connection with me and the choo choo train thomas haha. so he went to go get railroad tracks to show us and he started chucking them at us and then he found a bat (i don't know where) but he started whacking us with it and i was like yeah, God wants us... (whack) ow!... to return to his... (whack) ow! ...that crazy kid. and again today he had a crayon, and made a line write by that place on my pants. and it's orange. so i have a huge orange line on my pants by my da kine, (you know where). but i must say it helps with street contact. because they look at me and instead of looking away they look right at the line and so then we start talking to them. who would know ah? haha.

But yeah, so we have done more teaching here and more talking to people so it's nice. b ut man do i suck at teaching. I don't know what it is. but i was like shoot, i got to step it up and so i need to work on that too, which will be good. my spanish will get a lot better though, because my companion doesn't know a lot of spanish either. so we are like struggling the whole time, but we will get it. it will come. i figure you know what? who cares if i am not good at teaching now. if i try my hardest i will get it later on somehow, so i just got to step it up. Oh on a good note. i can read the book of mormon in spanish now and like fully understand what's going on. so i have been reading that and working on my spanish grammar and stuff and so i try to read 10 pages a day. so its pretty tough, but its coming along slowly but steadily which is what counts. somehow i just need to be patient.

Oh church this past sunday was very good. it's funny because we meet at a elementary school right across our house, which is nice, making getting to church on time easy. but it is weird because you have all these Hannah Montana pictures and posters and stuff all of over where we have sacrament meeting, but church is church and its still really good, the parts i understand, anyways. everything is really nice and i have a lot of stuff to work on but it will be alright and i will definitely be learning a lot. thanks for all the stuff you sent, it really helps and i would probably die without you guys. oh, and please tell the Harbottles thanks! a huge thanks! because that was really nice of them, i will send them a thank you card as soon as i can. but if you could thank them i would appreciate it.

I love you all and hope you are doing good with everything. I miss you and I will talk to you next week.

Love,
Elder Thomas