My Ears
to answer your questions, yes i got into the doctor this time. It was an ear specialist and she looked at both ears under this high powered microscope thing and said my ears looks "perfecto" which wasn´t what a wanted to hear. I wanted something easy that i could just take some medicine for and feel better. Then she looked at my throat and mouth and said it could be something in my mouth causing the pain like my wisdom teeth but i told her i had them taken out and there wasn´t infection where they were. So i started to really try to pinpoint the pain and realized it wasn´t my ears, it was my tonsils. So i told this to hermana peterson and she had me call the area doctor who is in buenos aires and told him how i was going to have them taken out and stuff and he put me on penicilin for a month and i´m supposed to gargle with hot salt water morning and night. so far, they´ve felt kind of better so i hope i can get it worked out and not have to have them taken out on my mission! haha. Also, it´s pretty guaranteed i´m not leaving. our area is too big to take both missionaries out at the same time, you need a guide or you´ll have no idea where you are. it´s also guaranteed elder whitaker is leaving so he´s going to start packing up this week and be ready for monday.

So just some things about what´s happened this week. We were accompanied by Brandon Day who is 13 and reminds me a ton of kaleb, i don´t really know why. But it was obviously his first time accompanying elders because he didn´t quite know what to say when we asked him to bear testimony or something. I´m not bagging on him because i wouldn´t have even gone with the elders with i was 13, i just thought it was funny some of the stuff he said. Like we asked our investigator what he liked from what he had read in first nephi and when he didn´t say anything, brandon burst in, quoting nephi 3:7. elder whitaker tried to salvage it by saying, ok what do you like about that scripture brandon? and he just said, yeah, i like that. haha it was funny, he´s such a good kid.

Also, i´ve been waiting for a story when i say something dumb on accident in spanish and it finally happened. This week, I was showing what few pictures i have of the family and i told an investigator that Holli is my daughter! My comp started laughing so hard and the people were like "what? you have a daughter?" and then i realized what i said and tried to change it but it was too late. I thought it was really funny though.

I´m not sure what else to say. Pretty soon i won´t be with elder Whitaker anymore. it´s crazy how fast the time went by, before you know it, i´ll have been out a year and a half like him. Hey you never answered my question about whether kyle got my letter i sent to him or not. I still haven´t gotten the letter from brady, maybe this week i´m hoping.

About the christmas package. You don´t need to send it in october, i´ll just get it around thanksgiving time and it will be all gone before christmas. But some things i want in it:
1. tons of pictures of the family. also a copy of that huge family picture we took on our stairs that has kirsten and everyone in it.
2. a six pack of country time strawberry lemonade
3.chocolate oranges
4. a bag of bacon bits to put in breakfast burritos
5. some more of those french vanilla hot chocolate packets you sent. the brand is land o lakes. they were soooo good.

so yeah, i´m sure i´ll think of more stuff. You can send the package around the middle of november and i´ll be sure to get it before christmas. thanks for everything you do, i love hearing all the news about how school is starting and everything. love you all
love elder newey