Well what is going on!?! How is the fam?! I am doing just fabulous up here! We did get our transfer calls and well.... *drumroll* I am TRAINING again!!! woot! lol I guess i didnt screw up the first 2 after all.. lol! But i am way excited! Elder Steinbeigle is headed to Spokane to the area that we refer to as "The Jungle" or "Felony Flatts" :D so he is pretty excited and he is stepping up to be senior comp as well so that will be a good thing for him.. This week kicked my butt. Physically... We helped a member of the ward dig out 2 window wells so that he could put in these bigger ones that were made of fiber glass and they look like stone... they are actually really neat! but on Friday we went and dug the holes and pulled the old ones out and it took us like 4 hours.. and then at the bottom of each one of them was a huge concrete slab that they cut the windows out of the foundation from.. they just dropped them in the bottom of the holes.. and they were a good 8 1/2 inches thick.. and so when the member got home from work friday night he rented a jack hammer and he jack hammered all of the slabs out because we had to go deeper than they would allow.. and so then saturday morning at 7 we went back to his house and first threw all the concrete onto his trailer and then we set the window wells in and lag bolted them into the foundation and then backfilled everything and went to the dump and dumped all the concrete.. and that took another 4 hours.. and so between all the digging and the hauling stuff back and forth i was pretty beat.. infact i am still pretty beat :D but we are going to go play basketball in a few minutes so that will hopefully loosen me up.. But it was really fun! I miss doing work like that.. I was so dirty i was literally covered from head to toe.. I was showering and trying to wash the clumps of dirt out of my hair and it just wasnt working... it took me a while but i got it out no worries :D mom i am very glad that you had a good birthday! Sorry i wasnt there to celebrate with you but i guess that what you have significant others for.. I mean Shannon just stepped right in and filled in for my absence.. :D Ya gotta love her.. :D But mom i love you very very much! And im glad that you made it to 64! I am proud of you! Happy birthday! Keep hanging in there ok! Take it easy on your back sheesh! But i am glad to hear that it is your back that hurts and not your knee.. Well wish me luck! and keep me in your prayers.. Im hoping that 3rd time is a charm and i can teach this one so that he wont end up so wierd.. If this one goes sour well then i will know that its just me.. lol! I love you guys so much! Take care of yourselves!
Elder Penman
