Monday, April 30, 2012

Weekly Letter April 17, 2012


Hola otra vez...

     Well, sorry guys but false alarm. I thought I wasn´t going to write you this week, but I got permission from the Assistants to write you for a half an hour. First off, I did send the letter to everyone last week and its interesting that it only arrived to Gav. I truly don´t know what to say to that, but I did send it to all this week too, so hopefully all will get it. 
     Sorry for the day wait, but yesterday we went to a zone activity an hour and a half away in bus so we didn´t get back to our area until around 7:30 in the evening. We were able to write President during the activity, but that´s all we had time for. But, the assistants gave us permission to write our families today. 
     It has been quite a week this week. First off, our little branch is having major problems. The leardership is tearing itself apart because of gossip and backbiting. Now, the Mission President, his councelors, and the District Presidency are getting involved. Until something else happens, President has asked me to keep it on the down low. So, more information will be on its way as it is made available. 
     Thank you so much for the pictures Gavin. You know, you are almost as handsome as I was at that age...haha. Nah, you´re more handsome than I was. But, I think I´m catching up now. Glad you had fun at prom. Sounds like its getting worse every year. It wasn´t too bad when I went, but that was a while ago. Pictures look great!
     Congrats Paige on your tests. I´m glad that you scored so high! But, I am afraid that I´m going to BYU Provo. I just feel that that´s where I need to go. I don´t know, I don´t have any specific reasoning, but I have prayed and fasted about it, and I just feel that, if I get accepted, that´s where I need to go. But, we´ll still be really close. Rexburg isn´t that far from Provo. That´s awesome that you´re going to the gym everyday. When I get back, everyone´s going to be skinny! 
     No Mom, I didn´t buy the pants yet and that money is burning a hole in my pocket! I haven´t been to Buenos Aires in three months, but if I get changed, I´ll be going in a week or so. As soon as I see a good pair of pants, I´ll buy it. It´s just so incredibly expensive where I am. Buenos Aires is ten times cheaper. My headaches are okay, same ol´ same ol´. Nothing worse about them at least. Don´t worry about the call, I´ll just pay for it with my monthly allowance. They´ll allow us to do that.   
     Nothing much else to report. But, next week...I won´t be able to write until Wednesday because there is changes. Even if I don´t get changed, I still won´t be able to write until wednesday with the rest of the mission. So, don´t be dissapointed when you don´t get my letter until Wednesday. I love you guys and I think about you everyday (not in a trunky way). Thank you so much for all that you do for me and I look forward to giving you all a big hug in a few months (not in a trunky way) pastedGraphic.pdf

Chau!

Monday, April 9, 2012

Weekly Letter April 9, 2012






Hola, ¿qué tal?

Well, another week absolutely rockets by in the mission. I can´t believe that I am now officially an old missionary. I don´t feel old. To be honest, I think I just started my mission a few months ago. I just got done being with my trainer. I just left my first area. But, as I come to the end of my time in my third area, I become sad to think that my next transfer will be from the country. But, six months is a long time...so I´ll make them the best six months of my missionpastedGraphic.pdf

On Wednesday, Buenos Aires suffered heavy storms with hail the size of Golf balls, heavy rain, and high winds. We got some of it here as well. Many vehicles, houses, and other stuctures were heavily damaged, and ten people in Buenos Aires were killed by the storm. As a result, water and electricty stations were heavily damaged so the majority of the Greater Buenos Aires area is still without water and electricty. Because of the great need for nesecities such as water and electricity, reports of robbing, civil unrest, and murders have been reported in the last few days. As a result, President Carter decided to remove 54 missionaries from their respective areas to keep them safe. Pretty crazy stuff right? I sent you a document that´s called the "Sol" or Sun in Spanish. Its the weekly newsletter that we get from the offices with a weekly message from the Mission President. I am sending this to you because its really interesting to see how the church responded in a disaster situation such as this. Look at page three for English.

Hey Mom, I saw that you are friends with Zeneida on Facebook. Thats pretty funny that you´re talking with my investigators. She is so cool and she takes good care of us. Just give her a few words of encouragement about getting married. Her pareja (partner) is a little iffy with the whole thing, but I think he´ll do it if we just give him a little push. She just needs to build her faith a little bit and she´ll be an amazing member. We´re hoping that they get married on the 20th of this month so she can get baptized before I leave. The guy she´s taking care of is kind of negative so she just needs somebody helping her out all the time. She has a true desire to be baptized and be a member of the church. She told me that she knows the church is true and that she wants to be a part of it. Its just this little obstacle that´s keeping her from doing it. Encourage her and make her feel good.

I sent you guys some pictures this week! I hope you guys like them! The picture of the building is the Catholic church in Chivilcoy, the Zone Leaders Area. Its gigantic. Really pretty too.

Another congratulations to Paige for deciding to go on a mission. I´m so happy for you and I am grateful to know that you have this great desire to serve the Lord. You´re going to have the experience of a lifetime. Also congrats on your BofM Class! 92% is an amazing score! Keep it up with everything else too!

Have fun, Gavin, at Prom dude! I´m still waiting for the letter that says that you had your first kiss, so...I´m hoping I get that letter next monday...haha! Be safe and have fun. Yeah, its kind of nasty at Prom, but I had a lot of fun. Its really not too terrible, it depends on who you´re hanging around.

Dad, just keeping swimming with the subject of finding a job. You´ll find something soon, I hope its up there. Something brought us up there, and God doesn´t do anything without a pretty good reason. I don´t remember my SAT score. I know I took the SAT and not the ACT. But, I took it during Junior year so I don´t remember my score. I think it was something like 1192. Actually I´m pretty sure it was that. But, the High School should have that score as well. I´ll call my Mission President today to ask for an interview.

Well, really nothing else this week. It was kind of slow other than the storm. But, read President´s Message, it was really good. I love you guys so much and I look forward to your letter tomorrow, sorry next week, but it´ll feel like tomorrow.

The church is true!


Élder Garrett Brighton Rook

Misión Argentina Buenos Aires Oeste

"La mejor misión de todo el mundo...."

Monday, April 2, 2012

Weekly Letter April 2, 2012






Hola!!!!

Well, another week comes to an end in the mission. Conference was amazing and I enjoyed it immensly. I especially liked Elder Hollands talk on the 11th hour. Awesome guy.

First, to comment on you guys:

Gavin, your tux is bomb bro. That is the store I went to when I went to prom. The guy there is really cool. Umm, things we did besides the dance...we went to dinner at this place in Couer d´Alene, some Italian restaurant...I forgot what its called. Then we went to the dance and I think we got Gooies afterward. No, I remember my date went to the hopsital half-way through the dance. We got gooies my first prom. To tell you the truth, my two proms weren´t really that exciting. But, you could probably find some ideas online of what to do during prom activities. You could always just go to park in Couer d´Alene and make out...hahahapastedGraphic.pdf just kidding, sorry Mom. Gav, keep the Gears of War two music coming. If you could send the whole album in seperate emails this week, that would be sweet, then I just transfer all to my flash drive and listen to it when I want. If you can, awesome, if not, its okay. I´ll just look forward to a new song every week.

Paige...YEAH!!!!!!!!!! You´re going on a mission!!!! That is seriously the best news I´ve heard for the last year and a half. I am so glad! You are in for the experience of a lifetime. Pray that you go Spanish Speaking, so we can speak spanish together (Hermana Rook). You will come back a completely different person and your spirituality will grow beyond what you can imagine. The Lord has great things in mind for you, prepare yourself well and make sure that you are ready when that time comes.

I am having major problems with the ´e´ key on the keyboard right now. I didn´t realize how much the ´e´ is used when writing an email until I have to go back and put the ´e´ into words where is wasn´t placed.

Sorry about your foot Mom. I hope you feel better soon so you can get back to your things. Congratulations on the amazing weight loss Mom! Thats so awesome! I think I´ve pretty much plateued. Yeah, I excersize every morning, but the members just give us so much food that the amount of excersize with the amount of food intake has just about equalized. I can´t lose anymore without putting a good hour of excersize in everyday, which is what I´m going to do when I get home. Now with winter coming, I need to really hit it hard in the morning, so I don´t gain weight. I´m not broke, when talking about money; its just that I use the monthly funds every month to buy other things I need; food, internet, bike repairs, ibuprofen, travel, stuff like that. So, when a new expense comes along, such as new pants or shirts or whatever, I don´t have quite enough funds. Which is normal in the mission. Everybody uses personal funds to replace clothing, its actually a rule. But, thank you so much for the money you sent me. I haven´t found a good pair yet for a decent price, but when I go to Buenos Aires in the near future, I´ll buy one there. Everything is more expensive where I am.

Thats interesting Mom about the sister missionaries. Against the rules to see another site? I could imagine if they were using it themselves, but if you show them, its not against the rules. I say interesting, because its against the rules to visit any site beside MyLDSMail.net, even if its Mormon.org. It says it in the rulebook that every missionary carries around. Did they navigate Mormon.org or did you guys do it? Give them references!

How is my application going for BYU by the way? Is it almost done? I hope so because i´m getting really excited to start school. Now, I am not truky AT ALL. I am just a little excited to start schooling again. Thats all...pastedGraphic_1.pdf Can you believe it? On the 6th of this month...I hit 18 months as a missionary! So crazy! Where did the time go?

The pìctures I sent you are all from today. We had another asado with my favorite family here in my area. Maggie is the girl that I baptized on Christmas and Zeneida is her Mom. We are still waiting for Zeneida to get married so she can get baptized. They bought all the meat and I cooked. We all went for ice cream aftrwards and took pictures in the central park of the city. Fun day. That asado was sooooo good. There was another brother that went with us too. We just don´t have a picture with him.

Nothing much has happened this week. We had six investigators go to conference this week, which was really good. We are going to have a baptism on the 14th of this month if all goes well, and I hope it does. The kids want to get baptized so we just need to hope that that excitement survives until the baptism. They´re good kids and they´ll make awesome members of the branch.

Bueno, creo que no tengo mucho para decir esta semana. Pero, yo tengo un testimonio de este Evangelio. Yo sé que José Smith es el profeta de la restauración y que, por medio de él, todas las llaves del sacerdocio fueron restauradas para poner el Evangelio de Jesucristo en la tierra otra vez, en su plenitud. Sé que el Libro de Mormón es verdadero, y que no hay otro libro más correcto sobre la faz de la tierra que este. Sé que tenemos un amoroso Padre Celestial que siempre es conciente de lo que nos pasa en cada momento. Hay que confiar en él, y él nos guiará. "Confía en Jehová tu Dios con todo tu corazón y no te apoyes en tu propia prudencia." Proverbios 3:5. Yo digo estas cosas humildemente en el nombre de Jesucristo, Amen.

I´m afraid that I don´t have much to say for this letter. But, I do have a testimony of this Gospel. I know that Joseph Smith is the Prophet of the Restoration and that through him, all the priesthood keys were restored to place the Gospel of Jesus Christ on the earth once again, in its fulness. I know that the Book of Mormon is true and that there is no other book, upon the face of the earth, that is more correct. I know that we have a loving Heavenly Father who is always aware of what we go through. We must trust him and he will guild us in every moment. "Trust in the Lord with all thy heart and lean not unto thine own understanding" Proverbs 3:5. I say these things humbly in the name of Jesus Christ, Amen.

Chau!

Monday, March 26, 2012

Weekly Letter March 26, 2012




Hola,


Well, another week passes in Argentina. Sorry for getting to you guys so late. I am almost completely broke, so we didn´t have money for internet, so we´re in the chapel right now, writing our families.

Finally, the weather is getting cold! Yeah! Aleluya! Today was quite a cold day, we had to wear coats. I love this time of year.

First off, Dad, you may have to call the High School to ask them what my GPA was. I´m not sure what the final GPA was, I think around 3.75 or something like that. I did take an Honors Chemistry Class and I took part in DECA and two years of Choir as extracurricular activities. Also soccer. I did not take institute because I was working. Thank you so much for doing that for me dad, I really appreciate it.

Mom, is it Elder Jeffrey Abarca from Chile who you´re friends with? If so, he´s home right now, getting a medical problem taken care of. He should be back in a short time, I hope. He was a really cool companion, tell him hi for me and tell him to write me. He speaks English. And yes, I taught him well.

Well, kind of bad news this week. Remember my companion from the MTC, Elder Alkema? So, about a month or two ago, he suddenly had a problem in his knees. He was walking one day and his arches went flat on his feet and he was in incredible pain. He calls me today and fills me in on whats happening. He went to the doctor last week and the x-rays came back. The cartlage (sp?) in his knee is almost completely destroyed, along with the tendon. They´re saying that he needs a surgery really bad. The thing is, is that Elder Alkema almost has 18 months in the mission like me. So, there is a rule in the church that if a missionary has to go home for an injury at or after the 18 month mark, he stays home and doesn´t come back. So, it is very probable that Elder Alkema goes home in about ten days. It makes me so incredibly sad to see him go home early. Of course he goes home with honors but when I talked to him, he was feeling really bad about the whole thing. Its weird, we were a trio when we came from the MTC. Elder Jones went home a long time ago, and now Elder Alkema goes home. I´m going to be the only one who finishes the mission on time from our group. I´m going to be the only American on the plane. Aftter he goes home, if you could find him on facebook and make him feel better, that would be awesome. His name is Nathan Alkema from California.

We had quite an experience this week. So, all of a sudden we have this kid, who is 9, that wants to get baptized that the missionaries had taught before and knew pretty much everything. So, we´re like, "you want to get baptized this Saturday?" and he says yes. Cool. We go to his house and talk with him and his brother who is 10, remember that. We do the pre-interview with them both to see if they have any problems with anything, which is highly doubtful, given their age. We get to the questions about the commandments i.e. Law of Chastity, Tithing, Word of Wisdom. We get to the law of Chastity and the child of 10 years asks if he would be able to do...it...with his girlfriend in the future without being married to her. We say no, and he then decides not to get baptized because he doesn´t agree with that. We talk to him and try to convince him that its not a big deal and that he really shouldn´t really worrying about that right now, given that he´s ten. So, we try to focus on the other kid, who´s nine, and he´s okay with the whole thing. So, we go to the soccer activity the next day and the 10 year old kid is there. He asks if his brother is getting baptized and we say yes. He decides to be a jerk and says "yeah, well I´m not going..", yeah little s---. We call the family the next day to tell them when the nine year old needs to be at the chapel to get his clothes. The Mom tells us that he now doesn´t want to get baptized. What? My companion talks to him on the phone and I can hear both sides of the conversation. A nine year old child is saying that he doesn´t want to get baptized because he doesn´t want to get married in order to have kids in the future. ... WHAT?... Come to find out later that the older brother of ten talked to him and said that the church was going to make him get married before he had kids. Seriously, we just cut the conversation when my companion started to try to reason with a nine year old that he doesn´t need to be worrying about marriage at the delicate age of nine. Seriously the stupidest thing I had every heard. Funny experience though. One for the ages. President called me this morning asking why our baptismal date fell and I told him the whole story. He was probably just at surprised as I was when I found out why he wasn´t getting baptized. He let us off the hook for that one and said that there was nothing that we could possibly do about that.

I think a congratulations is in order for Gavin. CONGRATULATIONS ON YOUR EAGLE!!!! Now we are both Eagles Mom. You proud of us? And now our kids in the future have no excuse. To be honest Gavin, I know where I got my tux, but I totally forgot how to get there. I think its just on your side of the river. On one of the roads by the Lyons Hotel. You may have to do some driving, but its around there for sure. Its easy to miss. It has a gravel parking lot. The guy there is really cool and will help you out a lot. Good luck! Thanks Gav, but for now, I don´t need anything. Maybe, you could send me a few emails with some music from gear of war 2 music on it. I can only receive 12MB for your information, so it would have to be a couple of emails. But, that would be so awesome. If not, I´ll just have to patient.

We have been getting rained on like crazy the past few weeks. I sent two pictures of our street after one of the rain storms. Crazy. The street was under a good six inches of water. Good thing we´re on bikes!

Well, I have to let you go. I love you guys so much and have a great week. Don´t worry too much about the job. Somebody can only be out of work for so long until something comes along. I would suggest to bump up the scripture study and really form a personal relationship with the savior through personal scripture study. You´ll find that your worry level will go down and your trust in the Lord will go up. Just a thought, but seriously, you should do it. That goes for all of you. Love you guys!!!!!


Chau!



Élder Garrett Brighton Rook

Misión Argentina Buenos Aires Oeste

"La mejor misión de todo el mundo...."


Monday, March 19, 2012

Weekly Letter March 1, 2012

Hola!


Well, I can see, by reading your letters, that there was a misunderstanding in my last letter on Wednesday. I think I said and I quote, "Once every six weeks...P-Day will be on Wednesday...".pastedGraphic.pdf Haha, but its okay. It happens. But, yeah all of my P-Days are still mondays, minus the one every six weeks, which is a wednesday. Thank you to those who sent me a letter last night, because it gave me something to read.

The weather here is driving me crazy. First, it rains in the morning and it gets relatively cool, so obviously we´re in jackets. Then, it stops raining and the sun explodes through the clouds and the heat hits you like a ton of bricks, and you´re in a jacket. I hate in-between seasons here. It just needs to be autumn now and cut it out with this indecisive weather. I just want winter already!

Have you found out anything about my BYU application? When is the deadline for winter semester? Are my grades good enough to get in? Please keep my updated on everything thats going on conerning that. Oh and also call them about the Music School and how I would work out that application. Please...pastedGraphic_1.pdf I think I´ve decided not to do ROTC, given that I wouldn´t be able to fully devote myself to a music composition major while being in the service. I still need to pray about it, but I think that´s the road I´m going to take. I think I´m going to do a bachelors in music composition at BYU, that is if I get into the music school. I think it would a really cool major. We´ll see of course what happens.

Its interesting, Paige told me nothing of the conference that both Mom and Dad talked about. Nor did she express her interest in going on a mission to me. She told me, "Well............................... ABSOLUTELY NOTHING happened this week.". Hmm, oh well...

Good luck Mom with your surgery on Wednesday. I´ll definitely praying for you. You´ll be okay. Clint is an amazing surgeon and I would feel 100% safe with him. Trust me, I´ve seen many from him haha...

Thats way cool Dad that Ty is serving in one of your old areas. Send a letter to him and he could maybe find some of your converts over there. Or at least somebody who knows them. Thats way awesome. Maybe Gavin will serve his mission here and I´ll give him a list of people to find.

Thats way awesome that Paige is interested in going on a mission. I hope that interest stays alive until she goes. Paige, do it, it is truly something that you´ll never regret for doing, and something that you´ll always regret for not doing.

Spencer is engaged to Tony? Yeah, I kow Tony. We worked together in Hollywood Video for a little bit until he quit. He´s a good kid, but I don´t think I could see him joining the church, given that he´s a little on the evangelist side. But, who knows?

Nothing much is going on here. My convert´s Mom was made Young Women´s President yesterday, so that was really cool. That family is just rocketing through the Gospel, its so awesome.

Nothing much else to write I´m afraid. Just working hard and getting things done here. When something interesting happens here, I´ll let you know. I love you guys and I always look forward to reading your letters. Have a great week and I´ll write you on Monday!

Mosiah 2:41


Chau!

Friday, March 16, 2012

Weekly Letter March 14, 2012




Hola otra vez...

Well first...apology for the late letter. Once every six weeks, from now on; p-day will be on wednesday, because changes are on wednesday and the mission doesn´t want the missionaries to lose two days of work, p-day and going to the offices on wednesday, so just to let you know.

First up, Gavin. CONGRATULATIONS ON GOING TO STATE!!!!! I knew you would make it, cause you´re a Rook. Mr. Mendez is a total boss. He´s so cool. He didn´t judge me because I´m not a bass or baritone, but I played for a lot of basses and baritones and got to hear him judge. Way sick dude. I´m looking forward to when we can play and sing together. Prepare somthing for the ward Christmas Party haha. I want to play for Kracht next year because I loved doing solo and ensemble. I am proud of you for learning a song on the piano. When did your intrest spike into piano all of a sudden?

I´m glad you had fun Paige at the caucus. I´m really looking forward to voting for Romney after the mission. He´s totally going to win. His Dad was Marion G. Romney right? I thought he was.

Send my congratulations to Lauren and Joey for me. Given that I can´t send an email to anyone besides family. I need to send a letter to Daniel´s family here pretty soon. Where are Lauren and Joey living by the way?

Okay, from Argentina...

Well, word on the street is that the Buenos Aires Temple is supposed to open in August after almost three years of being closed. Hopefully it opens when it´s supposed to, because I want to be able to go through the temple here.

The branch here is defnitely improving. The members are more willing to help us, given that they are seeing a growth in weekly attendance and baptisms. They are finally starting to get on board with us when it comes to the missionary efforts here in Chacabuco.

My companion and I are doing well. Today, we start another six weeks together. The time is flying by so fast! Stewie completes 18 months in the mission tomorrow! Before you know it, he´ll be home! No te puedo creer (I can´t believe it).

Yes Mom, I wear my orthodics everyday since the beginning of my mission. They help a lot. I´m glad that you´ll get that bunion problem taken care of. How long have you had that same problem? I really long time!

Finally, its starting to cool down a little bit. It´s still hot, but its nothing compared to the 100-104 degree range that it was about a month ago. Today, its a comfortable 27 degrees celsius. Nice day.

Thank you so much for the money for the pants. I´m going to buy some today. Woo! New pants after a year and a half!

I don´t think I´m going to extend my mission. President is asking a lot of missionaries to extend, but they´re all Zone Leaders. I don´t think I´ll make it to Zone Leader, I think President is going to have me train for the rest of my mission. Ugh...

We had something rally cool happen this week. On Sunday, the Dad of my first baptism here received the Melchezidek Priesthood after three years of inactivity. He is now an elder in the branch and on Sunday, he´s going to have a calling. I love that family so much and I have been privileged to see the change the gospel has made to them over these past few months. The Mom, who didn´t want anything to do with the church, is now teaching in Relief Society and making visits to the sisters in the branch. She gives talks in Sacrament meeting often and is probably going to be in Young Womens here pretty soon. Every time we go to their house, the kids are reading from the Book of Mormon and they always tell us what they´re learning. They do family home evening every week without fail and have now become one of the strongest families in the branch here. I love the Gospel and I have a testimony that its true. The Gospel changes lives and brings the Spirit of God to all that receive it.

I love you guys and I always look forward to your letters. I look forward to the day when we can all, once again, be reunited...

Chau!




Élder Garrett Brighton Rook

Misión Argentina Buenos Aires Oeste

"La mejor misión de todo el mundo...."


Tuesday, March 6, 2012

Weekly Letter March 5, 2012


Hola todos!

Well, we have had quite the week. And I hear that you guys have too. First, I´ll take care of a little bit of housekeeping:

First, sorry about your job, Paige. I guess that´s how we learn sometimes. You know what they say, "nobody learns from success...". Just make this a learning experience. Learn from it and move on. Apply what you´ve learned in future opportunities and make it better. In the meanwhile, even though you don´t have a job...WORK on finding a job. That is your job until you find one. Go to this seminar with Pres. Nichols, it will be awesome. Paige, I think you need to go on a mission, not because of what happened or whats happening, but its the learning experience of a lifetime. I don´t think you guys are going to know me when I get home. Its our opportunity to completely put our lives in the Lord´s hands and let us mold us into what he wants us to be. I highly encourage you to pray about it and do some major, prayerful, self-evaluation on what you need to do to change. I love you and am always here to support you.

I miss going to the temple often. Thats something I want to do when I get home, is go to the temple on a regular basis. I love the Thurgood family. I miss them a ton and say Hi to them for me. We need to have a giant barbeque when I get home. Yeah, Adam´s bed is awesome. I spent many a night there. Haha pastedGraphic.pdf

Just keep going with the job search. Its hard for everybody right now I´m sure. You could always come to Argentina to work. There is always something to do haha. Or, we could move to Canada. I was talking to an Elder about three months ago who is from Canada and he was telling me that there is too much work and not enough workers. How would that be? Just keep swimmin´.

Well, we have definitely seen the hand of the Lord in our area this week. We had a soccer activity on friday and a ton of investigators came. Then, on sunday, they all came to church and we now have eight people preparing for baptism. We´ll see what happens this week. I´m not getting my hopes up, but I´m having faith that the Lord will bless us. Hopefully everything will work out okay.

My companion is adjusting well. He´s always tired and he pretty much dies at night when bedtime comes around. But, he´ll get used to it soon enough. He´s a cool guy and kes to work hard, which is what this area needs.

Bummer Gavin about prom dude. But, whatever...it happens. I hope you have fun, and I want to see pictures afterward. "Now remember, no late night parties trying to get lucky, because tomorrow...we rock. As is the words of ACDC...´we roll tonight, to the guitar bite, and for those of you about to rock...we salute you...´". -School of Rock

I am still thinking about the ROTC and I don´t know what to do still. I was looking at the music program that the Army has, but I noticed that all of the musicians are enlisted men, not officers and there is no way I am going to go into the Army as an enlisted. I´m sure that they use the officers for something a little more productive than music. I´ll pray about it and see what I get.

Sorry for no pictures. I forgot my cable for my camera and my comp´s adapter for USB doesn´t work with my memory card, so yeah...next week for sure, I promise. Also a favor please. Mom...Dad...I don´t know if it would be possible if you could put like fifty bucks in my account for a new pair of pants. My work pants are all torn up and I´ve fixed the crotch area like five times, it just keeps breaking. If not, its okay, I can survive. But, if you could, it would be amazing.

I love you guys so much and I pray for you daily. Thanks for all you do for me and I look forward to seeing you in the near future. Have a great week and we´ll talk to you later!