Hey Family,
So news flash I like my scooter, I don't really want to sell it cause I will need transportation when I get home. If you guys need a battery any scooter battery should work. One stipulation, if you sell it i'll need you all to provide me with a ride when i get home...deal haha. Yes today is November 2nd and it's my berfday. I'm 20...crap!!! That's old as. I did get my package it was so cool all the little toys you put in there are so fun but I probably wouldn't have as much fun with them if I wasn't a missionary. I gave all the missionaries and some other people heaps of candy. They love it and my box is still chokka blocked full of more. Don't worry you'll get pictures soon enough. I told you guys all about my new area and comp in my last couple of email, it's alright, it's no Tazzy thats for sure but just give it time. I was so excited to go to the temple up here but it got cancelled cause dumb missionaries can't keep there flat's clean. Oh yes it is getting warm, I don't know if you heard about the huge bush fires here this past February but Saturday we went up there to clean up and it was crazy I took tons of pictures. It was 34 degrees celcius that day thats like 97 degrees and with the lack of ozone it feels like 115 it's nuts. I didn't burn cause I covered myself in ash from the fire you'll see. I can't believe Winter is back in swing. I had my first run in with the police here we were walking to our car and these boys we talked to earlier said we should knock this guys door and as we get to his porch he is hiding behind his couch with the police on the phone and when we walk up he screams and says "oh my gosh they're at my door... oh wait it's just the jehovah witnesses!" hahaha I correct him and it turns out he is crazy, so we chat with the guys out front of his house and they're cool then the cops come but we had a tea appoinment so we gapped before they stopped us. it was funny. I got a video of me opening my package i'll send that soon or you guys can wait till christmass next year. Thanks for all the birhtday wishes I love you guys.
-Elder Ballard
Sunday, November 8, 2009
October 26, 2009
Family...
This week was a bit better than last week my ear continued to try and kill me and almost the whole week I couldn't hear out the left one but i'm alright now. Apparently I have no infection or things wrong with my ear but my throat and things in my neck were so sick and swollen that it blocked my ears off so i'm taking antibiotics and now everything is fair dinkum. The week was good i'm still mourning the loss of my last area but i'm getting to know this one fairly well. We have a few people were teaching but nothing too big at the moment. So my new addiction is... Aussie Golf, the same as american golf but in Australia. We went last week and again today, I shot a +8 today on 9 holes.
We tracted for over 20 hours this week so i'm getting pretty tan. We helped some greek lady move 300 pound peice of concrete in our suits while tracting she was so happy, she offered us beer. Also some drunk aussie bloke approached us and he wants us to come over to have tea(dinner) and teach him everything, but not much else happened this week and if it did and I forgot you can just read my journal when i'm home. My new area is 1/20th of the size of the my old area so it's tiny as! My companion is Aaron Gremmert from outside of Seattle. It's all good i'm not in love with the ward yet but it seems so awesome. Happy Halloween every one I love you and be good.
Elder Ballard
This week was a bit better than last week my ear continued to try and kill me and almost the whole week I couldn't hear out the left one but i'm alright now. Apparently I have no infection or things wrong with my ear but my throat and things in my neck were so sick and swollen that it blocked my ears off so i'm taking antibiotics and now everything is fair dinkum. The week was good i'm still mourning the loss of my last area but i'm getting to know this one fairly well. We have a few people were teaching but nothing too big at the moment. So my new addiction is... Aussie Golf, the same as american golf but in Australia. We went last week and again today, I shot a +8 today on 9 holes.
We tracted for over 20 hours this week so i'm getting pretty tan. We helped some greek lady move 300 pound peice of concrete in our suits while tracting she was so happy, she offered us beer. Also some drunk aussie bloke approached us and he wants us to come over to have tea(dinner) and teach him everything, but not much else happened this week and if it did and I forgot you can just read my journal when i'm home. My new area is 1/20th of the size of the my old area so it's tiny as! My companion is Aaron Gremmert from outside of Seattle. It's all good i'm not in love with the ward yet but it seems so awesome. Happy Halloween every one I love you and be good.
Elder Ballard
October 18, 2009
Hey family
This week kinda uh... sucked! I almost died four times. We didn't get to teach any body except one big family who said they would come to church and when we went to pick them up they said they couldn't make it ughh oh well next week. Any ways...
Death escape #1 so we were driving home from an appointment (Alder Page the zone leader) and we yeilded to the traffic before we made a left turn (which is a right turn in american) then Wham!!! We got rear ended! I just yell out "oh my back!!" just for kicks I didn't get hurt and neither did our car they killed themselves on the trailor hitch so funny all they did for the first five minutes was scream the F word I laughed most of the time.
Death escape #2 before the accident we had a vegetable soup with 10 vegetables, and my body did not like that so it decided to get all my inards out as fast as possible, so all day the next day I had exsplosive diharria (SP?), but I survived barely.
Death escape #3 the next morning after filling the toilet with "yoohoo" I woke up with the flu and cold and fever to which I just tried not to rip out my own eyes. But I just read all day.
Death escape #4 after the fever had broke I contracted two ears that wanted nothing to do with my body I tried to rip them off but the blood made it too slipery. hahaha JK
well family don't worry about me i'm fine not dying yet, so yeah thanks for all your words.
love you guys.
-Elder ballard
This week kinda uh... sucked! I almost died four times. We didn't get to teach any body except one big family who said they would come to church and when we went to pick them up they said they couldn't make it ughh oh well next week. Any ways...
Death escape #1 so we were driving home from an appointment (Alder Page the zone leader) and we yeilded to the traffic before we made a left turn (which is a right turn in american) then Wham!!! We got rear ended! I just yell out "oh my back!!" just for kicks I didn't get hurt and neither did our car they killed themselves on the trailor hitch so funny all they did for the first five minutes was scream the F word I laughed most of the time.
Death escape #2 before the accident we had a vegetable soup with 10 vegetables, and my body did not like that so it decided to get all my inards out as fast as possible, so all day the next day I had exsplosive diharria (SP?), but I survived barely.
Death escape #3 the next morning after filling the toilet with "yoohoo" I woke up with the flu and cold and fever to which I just tried not to rip out my own eyes. But I just read all day.
Death escape #4 after the fever had broke I contracted two ears that wanted nothing to do with my body I tried to rip them off but the blood made it too slipery. hahaha JK
well family don't worry about me i'm fine not dying yet, so yeah thanks for all your words.
love you guys.
-Elder ballard
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