April 2

Hey Mom!

You might not have been trying to make me feel bad... but you still succeeded. Carp, the BYU game, and Ben Patch? Sounds like a pretty intense week!

Yeah, Dad remembered to email me, don't worry haha.

Sounds like West Ranch Volleyball is doing work. Figures it happens right after I left. Val's been telling me a little about it as well. We'll probably get league this year. I heard we also took the ship in Church Ball?

While I still remember that pizza place by UCLA, you don't have me feeling bad about eating the stuff. I've been on a little bit of a pizza kick lately. I'm not sure if the 'kick' thing is a normal phrase back home or if missionaries just made it up, but basically I ordered pizza 3 times last week, and bought a reheatable pizza another time. No, it wasn't DiGiornos.

This week was pretty sweet. Things have gotten kinda weird as far as meeting with Olga and Ola goes, I don't think that Torres and I will be meeting them anymore. The other elders will take over. So yeah, I got robbed there. But, we still did have meetings this week. As we were leaving the library last PDay, some lady walked up to us and was like "Mormoni!" I was kinda bracing for some kind of abrasive conversation at this point, but she turned out to be pretty cool. She wanted to meet with us. Not sure if she's going anywhere cause she can't come to Church on Sundays cause, "She does yoga, all day Saturday and Sunday". We'll see I guess. We also got a girl from our English class to meet with us for churchy stuff this week. Her name's  Tatiana, and she's pretty cool. We watched Meet the Mormons and gave her a Book and stuff. Ball is life.

But yeah, Olga and Ola are doing pretty well right now. At this point, it might take some time to get either of them in the water, but we've already gone through all the discussions. Now it's all kinda "endure to the end" type of stuff.

Conference was pretty sweet! We've only watched the Saturday sessions because of time differences, but we can watch the rest whenever. They seemed pretty good! It was also pretty sweet, our President Cieleński is the translator for Eyring and a few other guys! It was fun hearing his voice come on!

So, going back to English, we tried 20 questions in class again this week. We've got some new faces who had it pretty much down, but all the people from last time were pretty much as clueless as last time. This one lady, Laura, was up, and so far we knew that it was not alive, ran on electricity, moved, and fit in a fridge. She opted for chair. Darn close.

Polish is going surprisingly well. Lately I've been focusing less on vocabulary and more on fluency techniques and sounding like a native. I think it's working, I've never felt so comfortable. On top of that, I read from the Book of Mormon in Polish only now, and I also started Harry Potter. Whenever there's a classic quote, I get so excited. Even, "Harry, jesteś czarodziejem," was like so much more entertaining for some reason.

So, I've got one last request. Remember that countdown clock you got before I left? Well Elder Torres' family sent him the same one. Unfortunately, he remarks on how soon he's going home quite often, and I'd prefer if when it starts coming to an end for me, that I get as little reminders as possible haha.

I think that's it for this week though! Love you Mom!

Elder Haskett

Easter weekend

Hey Mom!

Crazy that it's already time for the lip sync! I was just thinking about that actually, I wonder if it's gonna be weird without us, especially for Spencer and Charlie. Actually, if it's possible, could you try to send me the old videos from the DVDs over email? It would be pretty fun to have, I could show companions and stuff.

I heard about the volleyball success! Pretty awesome! Glad we finally got a win from Valencia. I only got two of those during my career. To be honest, if I could only have one, I'd still choose the Valencia tournament, that was pretty much the best day ever, but it was always frustrating to come up second. Also pretty sweet that Noah got MVP again! He's gotta be pretty stoked, he might get some good time on varsity next year!

Super weird to think I'm not going to Carp this year. It's kinda sad, that's one of my favorites. It's probably gonna be worse when you go to Lake Powell. But while I think about it, it really doesn't seem that long ago that I was there. It's like the mission froze me in time, it feels like LP was like a month ago, just because it was the last thing I did!

The Brussels attacks were pretty intense here. We had Zone Conference like, literally the day after. Pretty crazy that the missionaries were affected. But, one thing we did pull out is that the situation could be a lot worse. And their testimonies and work has influenced a lot of people outside of the Church. The Holy Ghost keeps us out of trouble, I've already had it happen several times to me. Not going to go into detail there. But if God didn't expect them to be involved, they wouldn't have been involved. President and I both think that this is a chance for their missionary work to touch the whole world.

So as for us this week, obviously we had Zone Conference already. That was sweet, and where the pictures from Sister Edgren came from. Other than that, we've still been in contact with our investigators. Things are looking good.

One pretty unexpected change. President went through with the switch back this week after all. I'm back with Elder Torres. It was a bummer saying goodbye to Elder Park. We had a really good time. It's also going to be weird splitting our investigators for the next few weeks of the transfer. I hope things all work out.

That's it from me though! Love you Mom!

Elder Haskett

Is he trying to send me a secret message??????

Shorts.....really??????