B is home.

We love him.
We are happy.
The end.

B writes his last email home.

so i guess ill just see you guys on wednesday? im nervous, its gonna be sad to go, but it feels right. time to move on. i havent been in my area for a week now, ive been with our zone leader, so im going to get everything finished up today and then go to the mission home tomorrow. said my goodbyes, got a couple of pictures, i think the only thing left is packing. ill see you soon.

B is going out with a bang.

1/25/10
yowsers. 9 days till the big one. everyone i see keeps reminding me, missionaries, members, everyone. i lined up an all star dinner schedule for my "last suppers" so i can go out with a bang. and a big gut. we took one of the youth, alvin, out with us for a 24 hour showdown which he enjoyed. hes the coolest kid ever, a mexican from el salvador that was born here in the states and talks more spanglish than anyone ive ever heard. hes awesome tho, before, he didnt want to serve a mission, but now hes excited for it since weve been bringing him with us all the time. his older bro, hyrum, is taking a bit more work cuz hes such a slug, but it will all turn out. we cover the singles branch now, which kinda bites, because there are 3 people were going to be teaching, one just came on sunday for the first time and the other is coming next week. the third was already being taught, so the elder replacing me will be comandeering her with barfuss. now all the teaching is starting to happen since im going, which is fun. i was surprised to get some letters from a couple of my converts last week, it was pretty awesome, and one of them gave me a bag of smarties... yum. still not trunky. getting nervous tho. why did they line me up to speak so many times? i thought i was going to get out of it with just one at the home ward. oh well. ill be a little rusty, but i guess i can make it thru.
los angeles is full of weird people. even the ones you would think were normal. makes me dig the promised land (k-town, and utah in general) so much more.

B has a good week.

howdy folks. its raining really hard. good fun. things are going well, we're working hard, im staying not trunky (miracle: im less trunky now than i was 8 months ago), and its all going well. we found this girl a couple days ago that were going to be teaching, she is way cool and her boyfriend is a member from encino, so she knows a lot about the church already and wants to learn more. we knocked on her door while tracting but she was leaving so we set up a return appt and she was there, which is surprising enough, but she wanted to talk about it all, etc. finally found someone after like 40 hours of tracting these last couple weeks. im on the 15 min computer, the others are full, so this email will be kinda short, sorry. ill send another in a little while when i get back on.