Jake: 1/17/11

hey so not alot of time today to im gonna just try not to ramble on. So mom, you asked how is my new companion? he was good...haha i changed again and now i am training a new missionary and staying in Kirkland. Elder Haywood was fun and great. Elder Albertson is great also. He is new and wants to work just like i do! finally! honestly we haven't stopped for more that 5 to 10 minutes to eat or anything. We really wanna show God we are commited.. We have Federico on date for the 12th of February. We are working with a bunch of other people also. Ah! Training is crazy. My Spanish is growing a lot. We run every morning in the little gym we have in the apt. complex. Usually just two miles is what i can get in. I have some really bad news, i got a parking ticket... and i have no money to pay for it. It was so lame because we were in such a hurry and we needed to go remind someone about church and so we pulled over as close as we could to their trailer in the trailer park and ran in to tell em and then we ran out five minutes later and there was a cop screaming in my face that it was a fire lane, but i did pull over as far as i could and there was no where else to park. The stupid thing is that the ticket is 350 dollars. I called the mission office and they told me to file a mitigation hearing because that is way too much, but just a heads up for that money, just maybe send me money that was going to be my birthday money and add some more and i will pay you back in a year. I am hoping that i wont have to pay that much after the hearing. Sorry guys. Anyway if it makes it at all better i am working harder that i ever thought i could and talking to everyone i see about the gospel. I love all of you and I will try to get on later in an hour.