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Bye Bye Birdie

The Biggest news of the week? Elder Palmer is now the District leader! Wahoo! We all switched up so the old senior companions are now junior and Elder Lundgren is no longer District Leader. We also have a new district of ten Elders in our zone, going to Mexico and Peru. Four of them leave in a couple of weeks for the MTC down there. Guess what else? I have seen four people I know this week. You all may have heard of Russell Parkin, I hosted him when he came in. I also saw Elle Brey, a girl I went to EFY with like 3 years ago. You probably have no idea who that is. Eddy Gubler is finally here(He was in my ward at BYU) and....MAT THOMPSON! I saw him in the cafeteria yesterday and I found out he just got here this week and he's off to Roseville, CA. Exciting, right? I assume Kody is back from Korea, right? Anyway, that was the most exciting part of the week right there.
Our District has an awesome goal this week of trying to talk with 150 people in spanish. This means we walk around for a little while every day, talking to whomever will give us the time to talk. Our district is down to Seven. Elder Brown left weeks ago for Guatemala, but Elder Francis went home. None of us know exactly why, but he said he had some things to fix before he could serve again. Elder Corliss went home on Friday because he injured his shoulder and is getting surgery. The doctors estimate he'll back later this week, though.
Last night Elder Palmer and I had a great study session. We decided to study instead of watching movies because we've seen them all. We were both reading out of the Book of Mormon when he asked, "What is a Cherubim?" I had actually been thinking of that exact question about 3 seconds before he asked. We then spent about a half hour looking up as much as we could about them, mostly in Ezekiel and Joshua. Elder Palmer and I love the Book of Mormon, in English and Spanish. We read aloud in Spanish every day as well.
We haven't seen Kevin in awhile, so we assume he's either dead or the MTC staff got him out of the cafeteria. Have I not told you? Well, Kevin is a small little robbin that somehow flew into the building and has been living in the rafters of the Cafeteria for a couple of weeks now. We haven't seen him the past couple of days, so we're kind of sad. :( It's ok, though. We had a good time at dinner last night. With 700 new missionaries this week, the Cafeteria has been very crowded and we couldn't find a spot big enough for our whole district. We found a spot with 6 spots, so we squoze in another seat for all of us to sit there. I don't think the Hermanas sitting next to us were very happy about it, but we felt very accomplished.

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