Week 11

Hey Mom, wow I almost was thinking that I wasn't gonna get a letter
from you this week, I was almost done writing my e-mails before it
said I finally got one from you. lol

So good luck on the tri! I want to do that for sure when I get back
home. For exercise we use our total gym, I think I told you we bought
one. We got it at a garage sale for 20 bucks and it's awesome. We
play basketball on Monday and Friday at 6 am and then on Wednesday
and Thursday starting this week, we are going to start running to one
of our church buildings that's a mile away. It's really hard to find time
and energy to work out and it's impossible to not eat a lot here when
every night people feed us a feast!

Brent's baptism was awesome, he asked me to give a talk on the Holy
Ghost too so that was cool. It went really well. I'm getting pretty
good at talking now. I went up and talked for 5 minutes with out
anything really written out or anything.

Brent's Baptism 08/08/09

Brent's baptism (Tammy, Jared, Elder Johnson, Brent)

Elder Mintoghe is from D.C.  He lived in the inner city so probably
areas the Bakers would never even dream of walking down. He
does know a friend of mine from BYU so that was cool to make
that connection.

The weather here has been ok. This week it rained two days straight.
It was horrible because we were on bikes. We had to tract in it too
so we were soaking wet for those two days, but I guess rain is rare
here so I won't have too many of those days here which is good.
Speaking of bikes, whoever assembled my bike didn't do it right. They
didn't put the cranks in right and I found out the bent crank was due
to that. We have a guy here that used to work at a bike shop and he
basically has one in is garage now. I went over there for him to check
it out and he took of my crank and it was almost completely stripped
inside. That would have cost me a couple hundred bucks for new
cranks, but he had an extra old pair so he put that on for me. It was a
big blessing, but I wasn't happy to find out my bike that is only two
months old had stripped cranks.

The kids out here start school in two weeks, so we're trying to use up
a lot of time with our Priests now before school starts. We would get
to go to the Boise Temple every week here in Nampa because we
have a lady that usually takes us but the Temple is closed for
cleaning for another ten days, so in two weeks we'll go. 

Out here we eat at Sonic, Panda, Qdoba, Subway and Mcdonalds, so
any of those places would be awesome. I haven't gotten Tammy's
package or letter yet, I got Grandma and Grandpa's last week, it was
nice. I haven't received a piece of mail for 5 days and I'm dying right
now to be honest, lol, getting mail is amazing here and I hate when I
don't get any lol. 

Ok, I'll end on a good note, we have two baptisms this month,
Saundra is getting baptized on the 22nd and Tyler is getting baptized
on the 29th. So that's exciting and we're also challenging another
investigator tonight to be baptized so good stuff is happening.

Well I love you guys and thanks a lot for the post card
it was awesome, those pictures look sweet. Love you guys!!