It's been another crazy week. I can't believe how fast this week has gone. It seems like I just got to Mobile a few days ago and already transfer day is coming up in a week. President Jensen told us that we might be staying here in Mobile but we'll see if that changes. Hopefully I'll be the driver. Drivers here are crazy. We were almost in an accident twice because people tried to turn into us or merge into us. Luckily Elder O is a good driver and we swerved out of the way.
President Jensen has been here a lot. We had training with him the other day and he was here for stake conference. He and President Spencer (the Mobile stake president) just think we're doing fantastic. So that was pretty cool to get some of the compliments they gave.
I am doing very well. I am healthy have been sleeping better since I got ear plugs. It seems like about every hour there is half a dozen police cars that go by or someone starting up their 1960's Buick GS that sounds like a small train. Every morning at 5:30 I hear BROWOWOWOWOOOMMMMM!! VRAVRAVRA VrrrRRRRRRR chunk vvvVVVrrrRRRR! I have been enjoying the dinosaur vitamins you sent me and I think they are working. So far, I am the only one in my district that has not gotten sick yet. Everyone else has gotten some sort of sinus infection or this nasty throw-up-everything-you-eat virus.
I do have a favor to ask. My nice Cross pen has run out of black ink I believe I forgot the refills at home. I think they are in the box the pen came in. Could you please send them to me? Thank you!
I have included two pictures. The first is of a gecko/lizard type thing. They are tons of them down here. Some of them can change color which is really cool. Others are just geckos and some of them are just lizards of some kind. One gecko even tried to sell me car insurance. He was on a billboard.
The other night I decided to put my culinary skills to the test and I made my own corn chowder (second picture). It was really good and super cheap. It is composed of 1 potato, 1 can of cream corn, and 1 cup of milk. It was like $2.50 for the whole pot. It's about enough for two meals. I put some cheese and some chives on top. I think some bacon would be good too on top, but I'm too stingy.
I love and miss you all and wish you all the best.
With that mushy stuff we call love,
Elder Matthew Carlson
