No Monkey Business In India

hey everyone. well it sounds like everyone is doing great back home. i had quite the week. so ill start by telling my bike story. me and my comp were riding to our apartment thurs night and going fast. all of the sudden a loud pop came from my bike and sparks were flying. the back fender slipped under my tire and its metel so i started sliding. i was going sideways and somehow rode it out. haha. my handlebars twisted so the front wheel was going the wrong way. probably doesnt make sense but nothing happened to me i hit a speed bump to stop me and then jumped over the bars and walked away without a scratch. haha. so the bikes been in the shop a few days. haha. then on monday i just finished personal study and went and sat on the couch for compainionship study. i was reading preach my gospel and heard the door open. just thinking it was the wind i didnt look up. then i looked up a few seconds later. . . a big ol monkey is looking right at me standing inside the house. i was like " uuhhh elder there is a monkey in the house" haha. i tried to scare it by standing and acting like i was going to chase it but when it just growled showed its teeth and took a few quick steps foreward i decided that wasnt gonna fix the problem. haha. elder william grabbed a couch cushion and started walking towards a different room in the house. as soon as he passed by me he took off leaving me there for dry. haha. so the monkey was only like 5 feet away and i was up on the couch and kinda jumped over it and ran to the other room and slammed the door. we were laughing so hard. then we realized it was making a mess so i opened the door and it was eating some tomatoes i baught up on the table. there were also 2 more in the house. haha. so i yelled and 2 took off but that first one just stayed threw our trash all over and jacked a whole kg of bananas i baught that same morning. that made me mad so i ran at the monkey and it took of and a slammed the front door behind it. haha. india is a crazy place. the only time i saw a monkey that close was at the zoo. haha.so the joseph family didnt come to church. the mom ended up having to work and she kinda holds the family together so nobody came. she feldt really bad and said for sure this week. so i sure hope so. but i gotta go didnt have much time because our cricket match took longer than we thought! but im doing great! love you all elder barr