Year One, Letter Twenty Two

HEY EVERYONE!

what up?? how is everyone doing? i only heard from morgan and mom today, so i don´t know how everyone else is doing at this moment. dad. i didn´t get your email yet. blake is probably pretty busy getting situated in a new house. and lauren as well. but it is cool.

alright, so favorite scripture. Alma 57: 19 - 21, 25 - 27. 2,000 stripling warriors. i used it in a message at lunch and that was pretty cool.

so some cool stuff happened this week. weslei and weslei were baptized and received the holy ghost on saturday and sunday, respectively. that was pretty awesome. they are both 9 and look very similar. they were both afraid of water, but we were there with them the whole time so they were okay.

we also had a meeting with our bishop this week. we have a pretty huge responsibility right now. we have another area called Três Lagoas and it is really far away from a church. so we are going to open a new ward there. so we will be having our whole zone going on divisions with a member or return missionary in the first week of february to have a huge teaching day there. the goal is 40 baptisms before the end of next transfer. but i am probably going to be transferred before i see those results. so i will be teaching a ton, but won´t see all the baptisms because this is my third transfer. so that should be cool.

our family - acildes, nilsi, patricia, and aline - were all marked for baptism. but they aren´t married legally. so that sucks. so those two and sandra (because she isn´t married, either) have to wait at least a month for the marriage papers to be ready. but that family lives in a different area. so we had to pass that reference to other elders. so we are just kinda starting over in centro and now in três lagoas, too. so it will be a long road.

elder guerrette is cool. he definitely isn´t used to the heat in foz do iguaçu. so that is kinda sad. he is cool. he is a good missionary. but he is very quiet. he doesn´t talk very much. so he doesn´t really help with language or anything. but it is ok. it will still be a good transfer. we are going to go play futebol de sabão today with our zone. it is soap soccer. lol kinda weird. basically a ton of soap and water are put into this big blow up thing like those things at the halloween parties for our ward. and you play a mix of soccer, dodgeball, handball, football, and slipping all over the place. it is pretty fun.

that sucks about the olympics. i forgot it was winter olympics right now. it seems too hot! but that sounds pretty tough. i hope those guys get better.

and it was really scary to hear about daryl hatch. it made me get chills because i can´t remember what day it was but it was just during the day one day last week or something and i was thinking about our ward and just how things were going to change and be so different when i get home and i was thinking about brother and sister hatch and i just had a feeling that i needed to say a prayer for them. so i will keep praying for them.

i am glad that you finally got yuma´s letter. lol we both said we were going to write each other´s family back in the ctm. so that is cool haha. i still haven´t received the other package, mom. and no i don´t need more face wash. you guys sent me two orders in the christmas package. so i have lots.

it is so great that hyrum is finally getting out in the field. he must be so thrilled. and i will be writing to connor i think. i will just send a letter home and you can give it to mendi or doug or connor at church.

yeah the mission is definitely life-changing. it is so great to find someone who actually accepts the truth and is ready for the message. especially in our world today where so many people try to disprove anything religious. but it is so great to be able to help someone change.

oh blake, my friend is serving in Porto Alegre Norte. He said that he is in São Leopoldo. do you know that area? he asked some older missionaries about you and there are a bunch that still remember you. pretty cool to leave a legacy neh? haha but i bet that if you haven´t been wearing a helmet while snowboarding, you will have another concussion and won´t remember.

oh yeah. i sent home a letter with my memory card in it a few weeks ago. you still haven´t got it? or did you receive it? i am praying that you did. that was a lot of pictures...

anyway. so this week was pretty good so far. hit 5 months. that was weird. but the 6 month mark is more of a milestone. so i don´t think i will celebrate or do anything till then haha.

love you guys! i hope everyone is doing well! better than our sports teams anyway.

love you! tchau!

elder scott ghormley

Year One, Letter Twenty One

well anyway. HELLO EVERYONE!!!

lots of news today.

first, favorite scripture: 2 nephi 33:6

second some very important imformation:::: for everyone!

ok so if you are going to send a package, always send to the mission home. the package morgan sent arrived but morgan, you sent it to the house in Morumbi, and i don´t live in Morumbi anymore. so it arrived a while ago, but i just barely met with the elders that live there today. so always send packages to the mission home.

if you are going to send a letter, you can send them directly to the house i am living at, but it has to be at the beginning of the transfer. for example, the third transfer started today. so you could send a letter today. but in 4 or 5 weeks, the transfer will be nearing a close, so you need to send it to the mission home. so ALWAYS ask me before you send a letter or package so that i know to expect it and i can tell you where to send it.

but i received the package from morgan, and grandma´s letter with the giftcard, but i didn´t receive the package or those gloves that you sent, mom. those are either still in transit or someone forgot to bring them with all the stuff that was coming to the missionaries in my zone. so i will let you know if those show up at next transfer.

but always let me know before you send letters to my house or packages in general. thank you :)

third!

elder vander was transferred. he was transferred to Londrina...he is assistant to president now. so my new companion is Elder Guerrette. He is from Brunswick, Maine...my first american comp in the field. and i am his first american comp in the field. he is senior comp, but i have to teach him all about our investigators, our references, and our area. which is huge. he is pretty cool. he got here this morning at 8:00 after 17 hours of bus rides. he has just a little more than one year...he passed the one year mark on december 27th. so far, we are pretty cool and he isn´t weird lol.

ummmmm so awesome story. we are baptizing two kids named Wesley this saturday. and maybe the two daughters and wife of Brother Acildes. but this girl in my ward just called me...like literally JUST NOW...and told me that Wesley´s mom, Sandra, wants to be baptized with him, the same day. this saturday!!! so that is awesome! the problem is that i don´t know if she has all the requirements (marriage, all the lessons, etc.) so i need to see. so right now, i am kinda having to be the senior companion because elder gurrette doesn´t know enough about the area. so that will be tough. but we will figure it out! PRAY PLEASE!!

um everything is going great. more or less. i am going to work on doing that thing to get rid of the bugs and i am still just...being a missionary! anyway. so i am going to try and teach elder guerrette about our area today. this should be...interesting.

i love you guys!!!

lol love you all

elder scott ghormley!

Year One, Letter Twenty

E AI!!!

what up everyone?? holy crap the whole world at home is changing. blake moved out?! what is his new address?! and who is he living with? and is it a house or an apartment? and lauren?! how is provo?? i already got an email saying it was going great. i hope you are enjoying yourself IMMENSELY. elder vander was determined to marry you...but when i said you were moving to provo he nearly cried. actually, i am pretty sure he cried. but i am glad you are having fun :) and don´t worry about the job and the math and stuff. just think...when i get home i won´t know a thing :) but what is her address?! and morgan and stuart are 25?? so young. calm down morgan....you are still young. it is ok. and mom and dad...empty nesters. but it is ok. you guys will be saving lots of money. i am sending a letter home ASAP with a letter in portuguese to blake and a letter to mom and dad explaining why it is actually a good thing that you are the only two at home, and my memory card. everything is already ready to send, but the post office is forever away. and we never pass it because it isn´t in our area.

OK! so my new address is:

Rio de Janeiro 686

Jardim Maracana

Foz do Iguaçu, PR

85852 - 050

BRAZIL

and my scripture for the week is Jacob 3: 1-2. talks about how we need to focus ETERNALLY and not just on the things of the world that are, in all reality, not very important. oh and everyone read 1 Nephi 17. it is pretty cool. i passed it during my study and thought it was legit...2 legit...2 legit 2 quit!! yeah...i stole that from brie. it is from HOT ROD. hilarious movie. you should watch it some time.

ummmm so what happened this week?? pretty cool stuff. josé received the holy ghost on sunday. he was quiet during the whole blessing - surprisingly. he has a habit of telling...whoever is teaching...to talk LOUDER. but he just kinda walks up to the person in the middle of the lesson and shouts it. lol hilarious. but caroline was baptized. that was awesome. her mom was a little against it but we promised that we would continue visiting her to make sure everything was fine, so she is good. and caroline was so happy. she was beaming when she came up out of the water. um we were working in a different neighborhood the other day and we found this lady that let us come in but was very tentative and kinda scared of us so it was tough to teach. but then we had a little miracle. there is this guy that lives next to us. i already taught him before elder vander got here. but he showed up at this house because he is friends with the lady and her husband. he isn´t a member, but when he saw me he was like, "ELDER Ghjasdtjknvapasif!!!! (< ---- that was as close as he could get) That American is cool...listen to their message it is awesome!" that is the translation anyway. it makes more sense and sounds...not so weird...when you hear it in portuguese. but yeah that was awesome. now she is a new investigator and she was WAY interested in the lesson. so we will see how that goes. we also have a family of 4 that moved here. and we are teaching them already because of another miracle...they moved here from Elder Vander´s last area and he already taught them once. they already said they wanna be baptized. yeah miracle. so pray that elder vander and I stay companions and stay in this area for one more transfer. because we have some serious potential here. the name of the lady is lia. and the family is acildes, patricia, aline, and juliane. pray for them too :)

anyway, so things at home are nuts. based on the letters haha. I CAN`T BELIEVE I MISSED THE CARDINALS GAME!!!! holy crap that sounds nuts! yeah, i already read the story that dad sent. i can´t believe that. they better work their butts off this week if they wanna be ready for the saints. that would be so cool if my prediction actually comes true. i will cross my fingers. whether or not i am in the country, i want them to win the super bowl.

morgan sounds like she is having a ball. haha stuart is back to the grindstone and morgan lacks projects. maybe you can ask mom and dad? they are always good at discovering projects... :)

ok so i am running out of time...

but hawaii for mom and dad for a week?! yeah jealous again.

and a new stake presidency and elder oaks is coming?? crazy cool again. elder neil a anderson is coming to my ward this week. talk about nuts. i will talk with him in portuguese too. how cool is that?? yeah the portuguese is coming. it is getting lots better cuz i can only talk with e vander in portuguese.

i have two videos that i need to send you from our ward activity and from a lunch elder vander and i made. they are hilarious but i will probably be sending them a little later this week.

um we don´t have air conditiong! just two fans. but whatever. we deal with it. for the most part lol. and the rashes and bug bites...well they are still there. haha the bug bites just get continuously worse. but what can you do? that is Brazil. i am positive it is bed bugs, but i can´t put my mattress outside because then it could be stolen. yikes!

but anyway! i gotta go! i love you all so much! happy birthday to blake on the 19th! i love you guys!

tchau

e scott ghormley

Year One, Letter Nineteen

Alright, so i have close to no time here!

I was reading everyone´s emails from the past week!! and there were lots. not that i am complaining!! but i am going to fly through this email.

OK FIRST OFF!!! My p day was moved to wednesday. same time, but now wednesday!! just letting you know..

we moved houses! finally. now the address is Rua Rio de Janeiro Mario Dutra 686, Jardim Maracana, Foz do Iguaçu. I don´t know the full address, but i will find it. anyway. i made a video of the house and stuff on New Year´s Eve. it was the last thing that i did on that 2 GB memory card. and now i will be sending that home to you guys. it will probably take two weeks to arrive. maybe a little more maybe a little less. but the house is small as...i don´t even know what. but we cleaned hardcore today. all of our stuff was still there, packed because we haven´t had time to unpack. we have been working hard.

favorite scripture: Mosiah 4: 5-10. yeah King Benjamin was just a baller. He told it how it was. I love that scripture.

ummmm so this is ridiculous. kinda funny, kinda ridiculous. in the Rio de Janeiro mission, the mission president said that if a missionary kisses a girl, he needs to be transferred. just transferred, nothing more. but then he goes, "but if a missionary breaks the law of chastity on the mission, they will, unfortunately, have to go home." WHAT?! lol is that not just implied as a missionary? lol i thought so at least.

ummm HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO STUART, MORGAN, AND DAD!! Stuart, for some reason i wrote that your birthday was the 3rd. so sorry i didn´t say happy b day last week.

OK so here is the news for investigators!! we found this guy in our area book a week or so ago. his name is josé. we were just looking through the book and his name caught my eye and i looked at e. vander and he was like "did you feel that, too?" so i was like i think we need to teach him. so we did. and he was baptized last sunday. lol he is 75 years old, nearly deaf, and totally ready. when he was being baptized, he walked into the font and laughed and then gave everyone a thumbs up before getting dunked. he was hilarious. but he already knew so much. he had read the BoM and already knew it was true. so nuts!

and now this sunday we have a girl named Caroline that is getting baptized. she is 12 and very smart. her family was inactive but we are reactivating them and baptizing her this sunday.

we have a list of fairly good investigators, so i hope i will have more to report next week. and MORE TIME! sorry but i spent most of my time reading today!!

but i loved all your letters!! i hope everything keeps going well!!

love you all and until next WEDNESDAY!!!

elder ghormley

Year One, Letter Eighteen

OI familia.

favorite scripture: 2 Nephi 33:1 - power in words...

So dad, you said that you were super worried about two things...cooking Christmas breakfast and being ready to call me on time. So, here is the important question...you didn´t burn christmas breakfast right?

It was SO much fun to talk to you all! Definitely the best christmas present! Especially to hear that everyone is doing so good and progressing so much with...life.

I am definitely going with blake´s and my theory...the harder you work, the more you walk, in the rain, and the more you work in the sun...the more blessings. it is just bound to be true :) it paid off for dad right? (dad this is where you turn to mom and say, "i love you and i am glad i walked around in so much rain in Ireland." and you have permission to give her a kiss...should the situation permit.) but yes, i am definitely glad that i was able to fulfill that desire that you have had for such a long time for me to go on a mission. it is definitely one of the best and hardest experiences that i have had thus far in my life. but it is amazing to see people change their lives based on faith. i know this is going to be such a huge blessing in my life and the lives of my family.

i am glad to hear the suns have decided to start failing. i never predicted that they would win the championship, lol. i predicted the cavaliers. are they doing well? and that is awesome that the cards are kicking butt. i am glad they decided to do that when i can´t watch them. super cool. lol. so i hope they can keep working hard.

Mom, yeah i guess it is good that i was born in June right? now the last call before i go home will be mother´s day, which is way before...whenever i go home. way to make your last phone call home weird blake. but yeah it was definitely awesome to talk with all of you. i was a little homesick afterwards, i am not gunna lie. i wanted to be there SO bad. it was definitely the fastest hour and 30 minutes of my life. without a doubt.

after the phone calls we worked. but guess what? there wasn´t anyone in the streets and no one wanted to talk to us. surprise surprise. lol. but we ended up just going home early and planning. and yes, i love the boxes. the cereal is gone. lol. but i still need to make pancakes. and i need to send the memory card home asap.

so our converts are strong. but the problem with jackeline is that she lives so far away from the church, so she needs a ride and can´t always get one. so we are officially going to be re-opening the work in that area. we are going to open a branch there in a member´s house, so on sunday, we will have our church in centro, and then we will go to that area (três lagoas) to have another meeting. i think we will be teaching jackeline´s whole family now. including the boyfriend. but other than that, we are working on getting them integrated into the ward and getting them callings and such. they are doing great. junior said he wants to serve a mission. he is only 17 right now. so that is prety exciting.

yeah the diseases are kinda weird. lol i don´t know if i should be worried or not...so i try to just not worry about it. the sores on my hands are just turning into scars right now, so i have just been putting neosporin on them hoping they won´t be very noticeable. and i try to drink lots of water, but we don´t have lots of mineral water. so i just carry a liter around with me of water from the church building. we are supposed to have purification water bottles that purify as you drink. but they ran out when we arrived. so we are still waiting on that. yes, i have repellant. but it sweats off a lot. which is annoying.

but i have good news. we are moving today. we have a house in centro now. and we are going to order mineral water. lots of mineral water. which will be perfect. because it is in our main working area, so we can return and refill our bottles when we need to. meaning the heat exhaustion will probably stop. i hope. lol.

that is great that lauren is getting ready to move. and lauren...it is definitely possible to fit your stuff in that car. we fit enough stuff for 4 guys to go to california. including a cooler. you can do it. lol. i am glad blake is making up boarding time. i will need to do that. i found out why Foz is so hot. we are in a huge valley that is surrounded by water on all sides. that is great, huh?

the language is coming. i feel myself getting better, but it is just a little annoying sometimes when you can´t describe yourself. it is way annoying when people don´t listen to you because you are american, too. but whatever. haha the good ones will listen. otherwise, it is´n´t worth the time.

oh and yeah, i need to make those new year´s resolutions. big time. but we make goals and stuff all the time. so i need to think of new year´s resolutions that are actually year long goals. ya know? i will think about that.

anyway. things are going good. the house we are moving into should be alright. i hope me and elder vander can still stay really cool and friends and such. and not wanna kill each other. because brazilians - not americans - can be really weird sometimes.

well i love you all! i wish i could be at home with you all, but i know this is more important right now. it is worth it. i love you all so much!

happy new year!!

elder scott ghormley

Year One, Letter Seventeen

MERRY CHRISTMAS!!

oh hi everyone!

ok scripture of the week: ummm let´s go with John 3: 16 - 17. kinda a favorite especially when it is christmas and everyone needs to remember the real purpose of it. by the way mom...that thing about the wise men is awesome. i never knew that was what the presents represented. it was really cool to know that.

anywayyyyy. so i am pumped for this whole first christmas in brazil deal. i mean it is the first time in my entire life that i will be spending christmas away from my family, so that kinda sucks. but it is kinda cool to think that the reason is because i am a missionary in brazil. i am sure blake can relate. and dad. don´t worry, i remember that you did, in fact, serve a mission, too. but yeah. totally psyched to call you guys. you need to call before 6:00 PM our time. i think there is a 5 hour difference. so call at like 12:00 or 12:30 or something. sister gonzales will be using the phone at 6:00, so make sure you call before that. i am sorry if this calling schedule throws off the christmas movie. i wish i had more information, but none of the missionaries that i am with know anything. sorry. but i won´t be calling at all to let you know when to call. so here is how i think it is: you guys call at like 12:00 which is like 5:00 our time. then we talk. :) and we talk for however long you have those calling cards. i think that is right. ok??

anyway. sorry. ummm this week was great. isabel and jackeline were baptized. :) i am still sick, and it didn´t help that we were walking more and working more. elder vander is a hard worker. but he doesn´t always plan everything in a good way. so we walk a lot more than necessary sometimes. but i have taken over the mapping out of our references, so it is better now. anyway. despite the sickness, the baptism was amazing. it was so awesome. and don´t worry! i am getting lots of pictures, i just can´t send them all. i think i will just send the memory card home so you can take all the pictures off and then send it back, because i have an extra memory card, too. so should i do that?

um what else? oh i tried coffee for the first time ever. that was disgusting. lol it was something called cevada. it is just a coffee replacement for people who can´t drink coffee, but want the taste. i don´t know who would. oh heavens it was disgusting. but we bought it for isabel so she could live the word of wisdom. she liked it, too. and was amazed when i was like ummmm you can keep this. lol.

we have made around 15 new investigators this week, but the problem is everyone is going places for christmas. so we can´t teach them FOREVER. annoying. i have a funny story about a family we just taught. but i don´t have time right now. so when i call, ask me about the lesson where the kid got punched in the face. sound good? anna and gabriel are good, but always busy! so that is tough.

ummmm the english lessons are just great. we are having lunch with that family today, which is odd. because normally on P-day, we don´t have lunch with members. but i am psyched. the lady makes chocolate for her job. they have a business. the stuff is amazing. i love it. but it doesn´t compare to mom´s fudge. oh and fruitcake....bleh. we will discuss that on friday.

we have our christmas conference this wednesday in Londrina. we are going to take a bus at 10:00 tomorrow night and drive there for 9 hours. so psyched. seriously. i love night bus rides when the entire bus is just missionaries. president leal is going to give us a little party, because it is his last christmas here. i will be receiving the packages and letters at the conference. i will wait till christmas.

dad - it sounds like the sports world is good. cardinals might make a run at it again. i predicted that they would win the super bowl during one of the two years that i was in brazil. so i hope that comes true. how are the suns? and mark´s putting green just gave you an unfair advantage. anddd tiger/cheetah is the most disappointing story in the sports world for a while to me.

mom - i have yet to buy an umbrella. for some reason, 10 reais is just way too expensive. but we are going to wal mart today - well, BIG - but it is owned by wal mart. so they might have a good one for pretty cheap. ummm thank you for the vitamin K. i am super psyched to take one more pill. lol i forgot to mention sister leal made me go to the hospital this week!! because i have sores all over my body from bugs and stuff. the doctor gave me a bunch of pills. he told me i have to wear repellent when i go to bed at night. not excited for that. but whatever. and yes i am drinking more water.

andddd i am super jealous about the snowboarding experience for blake. haha i am glad that him and rob are having fun though. i will be one of those return brazil missionaries in a while and then me and yuma will be like blake and rob lol. we already planned out this kind of stuff in the CTM lol. but i am super psyched to see Yuma again at the christmas conference!

anyway i am running out of time! i love you all and am SO psyched to talk to you all on Christmas.

mom and lauren - mom i am sorry that you are losing your hang out buddy. but at least lauren gets to have a new start without all the drama from the salon. lauren don´t be scared. i love you and everyone there will love you too. :) just be yourself. you are amazing. and mom and dad will be empty nesters yikes. but i am sure they will find the upsides relatively soon lol

morgan - sorry i couldn´t write back! but i love you and i loved your letter. stuart - keep studying!! remember that your relationship is more important than anything else though. soooo love each other :) goodness i give such great advice.

dad - i will beat you in golf, don´t worry. lol i love you and i am psyched to talk to you about...whatever experiences you wanted to share.

blake - keep boarding...you need to be able to keep up with me when i get home. ;)

I LOVE YOU ALL!! MERRY CHRISTMAS!!! TALK TO YOU ALL ON FRIDAY!!

e. scott ghormley!

Year One, Letter Sixteen

OPA!

how is it going??

scripture: D&C 29: 4 - 7

hey can you please forward this to grandma?? i can´t find her email address. i wrote her a letter, too, but i didn´t have her address so i just sent that to the house and hope that it will make it to her via you guys :) but yes i got her letter a while back! i just was super busy so i never got to return a letter and i didn´t have her email.

ok so this week was definitely a busy one.

elizangela was confirmed and received the holy ghost yesterday. we also had a young women´s presentation in sacrament. even though they were singing in portuguese, it was so awesome. i didn´t understand everything, but it was amazing. i also helped translate the priesthood lesson for this guy from oregon who didn´t know any portuguese. kinda like me. lol but i was amazed at how much i could actually translate. it was weird.

Two of my favorite members in this ward decided that "they need a change," so they are going to be moving to Australia. Yeah, random. but they want me to help them learn english now. lol that should be fun.

ummmm who remembers the christmas letter of 2007? at least i think it was 2007. anyway. a member gave us a huge fruitcake on saturday. i refused to eat it. thank goodness it was a present to take home and not to eat right there. i probably would have thrown up all over the table.

on the 11th...i think that was friday? i dont remember. anyway it was the worst storm that i have yet experienced in Brazil. it was nuts. gates and houses were just being blown apart. we waited it out in this lady´s house and then taught the first lesson.

ummm on tuesday the first transfer ended. so elder cabral was transferred to Marilea and i stayed in Iguaçu. I also got my next companion. another brazilian. his name is elder vander. he is so tight. we have so much fun and we laugh so much during the day. he is determined to marry lauren and when i told him that she was moving to provo, he was devastated haha. but we are having a ton of fun. we marked 4 more baptisms. hopefully Isabel, Jackeline, Gabriel, and Anna will be baptized before the end of December. It will be tough, but i think that they are all ready and just have a few little things to get past. We also taught Junior´s sister, Aline. We will see how that goes. She said that she thought I was too serious during the lesson. Little did she know that it was because i am not at the stage of portuguese where i can understand jokes. lol but it was fine. but i think i am going to have a lot more fun with elder vander.

anyway. so we got word today that brazil is sucking right about now for visas for the missionaries. the church is giving them one more week to figure it out and if not, they are going to start re-assigning missionaries. so i hope connor´s comes through before that. they have over 300 missionaries who should be going to brazil missions that are still stuck in the provo MTC. so hopefully that gets worked out. jackson FINALLY gets to leave. that language must be nuts. but he will do great.

i hope that deal goes through for the company. it sounds incredibly big, so i will keep that in my prayers. i kinda thought it was random but i saw a ton of forever living products here. they are a pretty big deal here. kinda cool, i guess.

i loved the christmas letter draft that i got. it was hilarious. i can´t wait for it to arrive...in a month or so. i haven´t got any of the packages yet. they are in the secretaries´ office in Londrina because they forgot to send them at the end of the transfer. the secretaries kinda suck. they are the worst ones on the mission so far according to the guys i live with.

ummmm it is thinking a little far in advance, but i am alright with christmas in orlando in like 2011. lol i think that the harry potter world sounds great and that it will be going nuts seeing as how number 7 movie will be coming out around that time.

even though i had a good time with elder vander and i am psyched for the next couple transfers with him, the week was tough. i was really sick again. i had major headaches and a major cold/flu or something. the symptoms were bad. so i hope i get over it really soon. i am just using lots of advil and dayquil/nyquil right now. so i hope i can just walk it off. literally. lol.

Tiger sounds like he has screwed himself over bigtime. great. what an idiot. i wonder what would happen if he kept playing? i bet if he were to win a major, the people would just boo when he lifted the trophy. he will have to remove himself from the golf world for a long time. so much for breaking jack´s record.

and dad...as for that putting green in mark´s backyard...this totally throws the odds. i now get to have 3 months to get back into my groove before you get to play me in a competition. because that would just be totally unfair.

anyway. well i am sure you are all getting pretty psyched for christmas. when did lauren start the christmas music this year? october? lol i will miss that annual christmas breakfast. i will enjoy some cereal or something. and what is the christmas movie? sherlock holmes? it looked hilarious.

can´t wait to talk to you all! it is only a week or so away. pretty nuts. well i love you guys!

tchau!!

elder scott ghormley