hey its me, how's it going?things are going well here, last week was good, i got the christmas packages you sent and one from g&g garr, so i got 5 packages in one day, it was pretty nuts.

on sunday a japanese member of the military branch invited us to dinner at her house with some of her friends her husband thats an american, and a korean friend of theirs that is not a member. it was quite the experience, they cooked japanese food for us. so we walked into the house and we look over at the coffee table and see this pot with veggies and meat in it that looked really simialiar to korean food we sit down to eat and the hand us our each individual bowl and an egg which i thought was hardboiled. next the tell us to crack the egg into the bowl, it was raw... elder hirsche and i look at each other kinda like "what is going on?", then the old japanese ladies started putting food into our bowl with raw egg in it and told us to start eating. it was a little shocking at first, but it turned out to be one of the best tasting things i've ever had! it was so good.the other good experience of the week were: sunday night we where at a house where the member was married to a nonmember thai lady named pat that i will baptize on saturday, this one is solid its not falling through. well here husband kevin hyde grew up in logan and went to logan high school and i told him mom went there and he said "oh really?" he busted out his year books and sure enough i found sherry bunnell as a sophomore and junior in high school, kevin was a year ahead of mom and one behind doreese. small world huh? mom, kevin was wondering who you hung out with, he says you look really familiar.

elder hirshe and i made a christmas card that i'm working on getting sent out. i'm staying warm the thermal bottoms you sent were way to big but i don't really need them as long as i have my coat on.i'm going to send those shoes back to, they are big. i'm goingto apologize right now for christmas, i'm not sending much home, there are no good souvenoirs to buy in my area, and i don't have time to go searching, sorry. but i'm going to try to send home pictures soon.

love
court