Opposition: ankle better, finger dislocated

Haha, ya this week has been really good. Time has really picked up and yesterday I've been gone a month! It pales in comparison to Jon's 8 months though... Oh well. Ya Adam is great, he's 20 and going on a mission next year so we get on really well. Its fun to work with all the members here because they really want to reach out because the ward is so small. My ankle is fine now and gets better everyday so thanks for the prayers and you don't have to worry about me so much. It does feel like somebody doesn't want me out here though, right after we e-mailed we went and played games at our church. We were playing dodge ball and it was the last throw and if i caught it we would win so I did and when I caught the ball I heard a cccrrack! I looked down to see my poor pinkie crumpled up and dislocated! After a few attempts from different people Elder Swain popped it back in and now its fine. He said I probably shouldn't play anymore though so I wrote Rachiel, started writing home and ran out of things to say. (I'll finish it today). I guess one of the people we are teaching I could tell you about is named Steve. He's from Nigeria and just barely brought his wife back from Nigeria too. We taught him the first lesson and scheduled him to be baptized but Steve and Agnus came to church yesterday! And he had a bunch of questions but said we could answer them when we came back or at church next week, we didn't even have to ask him to come back! Well I'm really sad to hear about Brother Oldroyd, tell him he was always one of my favorite people in the ward and that I love him. I'll be praying for him. Thanks for keeping me updated on the animals, I sometimes worry about them but I know it will all work out.

Yup, that's our flat. We live with the zone leaders like a said which can be really fun most of the time. Nights are really different though because everybody is calling people and getting key indicators and stuff. The other day Elder Swain came home and had us all help him and we converted our dinning room table into a table tennis table! We're gonna be real great by the time we all go home. As for my ankle it is doing fine. The bruising on my toes already happened and we were afraid that meant it was getting worse so i'm glad to hear that's supposed to happen. I'm also glad you told me to stay off of it for a couple weeks because I was running on it earlier today. Did I tell you that we have a tennis court near our flat and some mornings we go play? I'm still carefull but I'd like to play everyday, usually we just lounge about during exercise every morning and it makes it hard to stay awake during study time. Did i tell you about the people i met in church last week from Provo? He worked for the track and she was on the team, they said they know Coach Robison and that they were there for a track meet. I can't remember if I told you that. The language really isn't that hard to understand, except maybe when people are yelling at you. That happened this week. This man started chasing off his property with a brick and yelling at us and Elder Thorup. That was earlier in the week and its been much much better since then. Like I said last time, the members are fantastic and Adam added mom on facebook. We were in the car waiting for Elder Thorup and the ward mission leader and I got to thinking and said do you have facebook? And he said yes and i told him to add mom, it was pretty funny. One last thing I wanted to tell you about happened two days ago. We sometimes go over to a recent convert's house and visit with her and her three kids (I may have mentioned her before, her name is Sonia and she has four kids, Les, Jade, Jason, and Adeena) but she called us on Friday and said she wasn't going to be able to come to church that week. We called her and it turns out her husband flipped that night and smashed a bunch of stuff in their house and got arrested. Well we went over and helped her clean it all up and it was a mess, but then her husband came home! It wasn't anything scary it was just like he'd been arrested for another reason. I think it may have happened before or he may have some condition or something. But the best part was that we got to give her a blessing of strength and comfort. It was really good. I'm really sad to hear about Bud Oldroyd and the Cuell family. He has always been one of my favorite people in the ward and I will keep him in my prayers. Well its nice to hear that Lindsay and Kyle are doing well. Tell them they can e-mail me whenever they want. Somedays I forget about home and other days its a little harder so I'm gonna try and work much harder.

Love you.
Elder Rowley