Asked Justin a bunch of questions.

1.  See above about Dad's old apartment.  Where are you living?  Apartment?  Is it nice?  

2.  Where are you doing your laundry?  Do you have to haul it somewhere on your bike?

3.  How do you get groceries?  Do you have to do that on your bike?  You said the members feed you dinner.  What are you doing for food the rest of the time? 

4.   How are you liking California?  You look a little damp in all the pictures.  They had pictures from the Emmy Awards last week with the guys' shirts all wet and stuck to them because it was so hot in LA.  Still pretty hot?

5,  You have a ton of short sleeve shirts.  How come, in all the pictures, you have your long sleeve one on with it rolled up?  Isn't that hot?

6. I know it is hot now, but it will get colder and right next to the ocean, it is going to get chilly.  Would you like me to send you some workout shirts with long sleeves or a jacket? 

7.  Are you getting along with your companion? 

8.  Are you having problems with your allergies? 

9.  The picture you sent of the sunset said that it was Bertha.  Is that the sun?  Why Bertha? 

Now, his letter: 

1. Yea that place looks pretty bad, no our place looks better than that.

2.  We have a washer and dryer at the apartment, our dryer is awful though.

3. On P- day we get picked up by elders with a car and go shopping with them.  For breakfast we either have cereal or eggs, lunch is usually sandwiches, unless we go somewhere.

4.This is apparently the hottest summer in 20 years or something like that. So yeah it's been hot and I sweat about 80% of the day.There have been a couple pretty cool days though. Other than that it's been great. It's super pretty here, Lots of super tall palm trees everywhere.  The ocean is right next to us so the view is pretty good. The people are usually pretty nice. The ward is awesome, and there's a lot of great missionaries here too.

5. I don't have enough short sleeved shirts to wear one every day, I think I'm one short, so whenever we have a meeting or church and we have to wear a suit I just roll the sleeves up when we're done. It's not too bad. Don't worry about sending another shirt

6. I have sincere doubts that I'll ever want to go run in anything but a t shirt and shorts but I'll let you know.

7. Yea things are pretty good right now.

8. no

9. Bertha is what everyone's calling the ocean

I think i told you about April last time, right? Well she's getting baptized hopefully on the 17th and she's having us teach her daughter starting on Tuesday. It's so exciting!!! It's been so amazing watching this woman grow from a very sad, angry woman, looking for meaning in life outside of drugs and partying and working all the time, to completely giving up those things and becoming full of joy and hope. She used the phrase 'hungry for more' The atonement works. This will also be my trainer's first baptism so it is a pretty special milestone for both of us. After this I' m not going to talk much about baptisms I have though because I feel like it takes away from their sacredness, We aren't here to grow the church's numbers, we're here to bring souls closer to God.

A member of the 70 is coming to talk to us on Wednesday, excited for that. Also looking forward to conference.

Love you guys!

Elder Sherwood