Working Hard and having fun!

ell late start today in the emails! Sorry about that but we have had a long and busy P-Day! But I do have to make it short since we dont have enough computers for the 6 of us and need to finish quickly to get dinner and head out on time. Like I said last week we did a Zone trip to a place called Ooty. There were only 6 of us , the other missionaries had other things to do. But the other 2 slept over and we had to wake up at 4:30 in order to get ready and head out. It takes 2 1/2 hours to get there and we wanted to have 3-4 hours there to explore and be able to come back and email. It was pretty fun! We visited some rose park that had some cool things and this little shopping mart and got some chocolate. and i dont know exactly where but im pretty sure its the main attraction. It was the top of the mountain with an awesome view. I did get to see some monkeys on the way up! Haha not that cool but the trip was pretty cool. Ill send some pictures next week since i forgot my camera cord again...

This week has been good, there were a couple of my first times here in India. I had to jump of a bus which doesnt sound intense but the bus took off before I could get my money and through all the people and was going pretty dang fast. I was on a short split with Elder Chandroo who had gotten off before the bus left so I had to. good thing ive got good blance and quick feet or i wouldve died.

Also I was able to go on exchanges with one of the zone leaders and also one of the AP's. Which went really well. The one with the Ap was nerve racking cause i didnt even know it was happening till the night before and I was supposed to go with him around my area. I thought i was doomed since I still dont have the area down. Luckily he had served around here before and actually helped me alot learning more of the area and members to see! He also taught me how the crazy streets and addresses work, which still doesnt really even make sense to me. And he also taught me the game of cricket

On the exchange with the ZL we had a lesson fall through and were walking back to the bus and these 2 kids came over and talked to us. Which was weird, I thought we were the ones supposed to talk to people haha but they were fun and had lots of questions.( not abut religion) They had a ball and pretty much a flat broken piece of wood they probably got from a fence that they were using to play cricket. So we asked if we could hit a couple times with them and they agreed. Ill admit I totally missed the ball my first swing... 

We had a fun lunch with the ZL one day. We went to a buffet place called Barbecue Nation! Oh my, it was so good. Pretty much like tucanos but a little bit more of the indian side and other countries foods added to it. I havent said much about the Indians but man do they know how to eat. My companion is so small but everytime they just pounds in food like nothing.

Im super jealous right now that you are all in Florida right now and having a blast. I guess I couldve told you it was a really bad time for you to go with the weather haha I bet that was fun. Probably lots hotter out there than it is here. Its been raining quite a bit lately which makes the weather perfect. 

Oh ya! So this guy called us earlier this week and was like is Elder Conrad with you, I would like to meet him tomorrow at the church. Soo im like how the crap does some random guy even know who I am... Come to find out his name is Raju Joseph and he his real good friends with Michael Anthony. Which took me awhile to figure out who that was haha and told me he was still in touch with my family in utah and that he wanted Raju to come and say hi and give me a small gift. Which was super awesome to meet him, he was one of the begginner missionaries in India. He was talking about the places he went with only like 10 members so that was cool.

Anyhow ya thats it for this week! Everything is going pretty good. Thanks for everyones support! Have a great week!

-Elder Conrad