01.03.12

 Me Then monty in front of me then Nelson behind me then Romney then Ostberg then Taylor On the flip side from the front is Roberts then Dale then Kraus. And the one if the front is the missionary from south Africa.

View from my front porch

The long awaited New Year!!!!!!!! 2012 That's crazy, I cant believe it. I never thought that this year would come. What a ride 2011 was, full of a lot of crazy experiences. The Christmas party in Kingston was a lot of fun. It was cool to have all the missionaries together. We drove in Thursday night, and stayed at Elder Montgomery's house.  That was a lot of fun. We stopped to get some mattresses from another house and on the way over when I was driving we lost a mattress on a curve haha. {yes they were strapped down, but we had a strap malfunction} All the sudden I hear a big BOOM. At first I didn't know what it was so I kept driving. Then Elder Kartchner reaches his head out the window and says ya we lost a mattress. So now I'm about 50 yards from the corner so we pull over to go and get the mattress, it had been maybe 5 minutes by this time and we get there and the matress is nowhere to be found. So someone in Jamaica got a real nice Christmas present. The party was fun. it was good to see Elder Montgomery, man I could serve my whole mission with that guy. It was a lot of fun to see everyone else too, I finally saw Elder Nelson after about a year, it was good to catch up with him and his "family" or the people that he trained. We all get a long good. For Christmas eve we had taco night at the McKenzie's and it was a lot of fun. I love tacos and I miss Mexican food. Then on Christmas day we went to the Johnson's and had some really good food then we went back to the McKenzie's. Christmas was really fun, but I'm ready to have Christmas back home next year. Crazy to think that this is my last year. This last week has kinda sucked because we had to stay inside because of New Years and because of elections. Elections here are crazy, people are always getting shot and one guy got his head cut off and thrown in town square. So we stayed in on election day. And Jamaica is all a big party so New Years and Christmas are always crazy. So this last week has been slow. It will be nice to get back into the groove.