Transfered To Kakinada

hey hows it going? well its been another great week with tons of great experiences. i almost dont even know where to begin?? haha. we had a great week of finding and teaching. im still trying to get used to finding with cycles and not by foot. oh man! e garcia ate it the other nighit! hahaha its funny now but want when it happened. we were just going down the road and then boom his front fender wendt under his tire and the scycle bucked him over the handle bars. his had was the first theng to hit. just a big old thud. haha now i know why they make us wear these helmets. we have had a good time laughing about it all week. but he was totally fine. we took the bikes in to get them serviced and make sure everything is tight and ready to go.
im really excited for some of the people were working with right now. bernards family is doing awesome. i think i told you about them. if not its a fam a 5 who are doing great. we taught them last night and they are reading the bom like crazy. they read like 15 chapters in 4 days. there super excited for there baptism on the 7th. its awesome how the lord prepares the people and that there just waiting for us to come and bring them the truth. and theis family from what i have seen so far is that type. READY. we taught them the word of wisdom and like everyone here they have coffee tea habbits but everyone was just like okay no problem well do it.
im still trying to figure the area out and wish i knew everywhere i was at at all times like i did befor, but it doesnt work like that. its funny because i could have the slightest clue wich way is north or south. the sun pretty much is right above your head all day so its hard to tell wich way is wich.
somthing kinda crazy happened though the other night. we went to cisit a recent convert couple pavin and sunitha. they were married not to long ago but are doing really well in the church. but as we were teaching pavin started to not look very good. all the sudden he started taking his rings and watch off and it seemed like his fingers were going numb. i thinking uh oh hes having a stroke. but then i was like no way hes only 28 so we called his friend and he came and picked him up and rushed him to the hospital. the next morning we found out it was a stroke and they ended up giving him heart surgury the other day to try and keep his valves open. i felt bad though cuz i just felt helpless as it was happening. they dont have money and i think the surgury was like 3 lacks. wich i thinkg in dollars is like 6 thousand. because they had a love marriage there families wont support them either. i want to help them but i know that i shouldnt. some people in the branch asked if there was anything our family could do. and at first i felt like ya i can probably do somthing. but i realize that im a missionary and thats probably not the thing to do. but one thing that i can do is teach them about tithing and fastofferings. i know that our family has been so blessed for always paying tithing. and i know it works.
e garcia and i are doing great. im having a lot of fun with him and i feel like hes having a good time to. and thats what its all about. work hard, play hard. and noone ever told me we cant do it at the same time. :) haha. but im doing great and having fun. me and e garcia are running a few times a week to so thats good cuz i loooove the food here.
oh and about the package. dont send brown pants. unless you already baught them cuz i already have two pair of brown. send some grey or dark blue? and chapstick. no need to send anything big either. thanks for all you do though. i love you and hope you have a great week. i hope its dumping back home now too. but if it doesnt and decides to wait and dump it all on the next season thats just fine with me. hahaha
love you
kaden
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hey ma and pa. haha. well everything is going really good. kakinada is TIGHT! its so much different than im used to. 8 months in a city to a smaller place is like night and day. but i love it. i can breath and even see some stars at night. haha. but it was sweet traveling here. i flew in to rajahmundry and when we were landing it was just miles of coconut trees and rice fields and you could see that in each field is a grass hut that the person stays in. i felt like i was back in india. oh and when i was at the airport in hyderabad i looked over and saw a football game on and got to watch the national championship! i was in heaven just standing there watching a real sport. haha. then i took a 2 hr bus ride from raj to kakinada. although it was a bumpy horn blowing ride i somehow slept a lot of the way. but the time i wasnt was it was cool to see fields and other cool stuff that you cant really believe. youl have to see it to believe it. haha. but my comp picked me up at the bus station. e garcia from fontana california. hes a nice kid. DIFFERENT!! haha. he has been out about a year also. hes a bit husky if ya know what i mean. :) its going to be really good for me to be his companion. a lot of elders have really struggled with him but so far so good for us. hes not really a social type and doesnt really know the branch well so im doing all i can to meet the members and stuff so we can get the work blowing up in our area. when i first hear he was my comp i was just like NOOOO! but now that im hear there is somthing inside of me that feels a strong desire to help him. he lacks confidence and doesnt look at people in the eye when he speaks so i really want to help him. not only for mission purposes but it will help him for life. so im really excited to see what we can do. he struggles to know where to go or what to do wich can be frustrating but were meeting some good people that im really excited about. a family that had been taught one lesson before by e garcia and his old comp we went and taught there family and had a sweet lesson with them. a family of 5. on of the little girls had a nasty infection on her eyelid that and she looked miserable and i imediatly felt that she needed a blessing. so after we watched the restoration dvd with them we taught about the book of mormon and the priesthood and they were way happy. we offered to give a blessing to there daughter and they said that they would love that. i set them for the first week in feb and they seem focused on that day so i hope and pray that everything will go well. we called the next day to see how the little girl was and the father said that everything was almost gone and thanked us. my testimony of the priesthood continues to grow every day as i see the amazing blessings that come from it. growing up i never realized how special the priesthood is but im greatfull god gives any worthy male the privilage of carrying the priesthood
my apartment is good. we cleaned a lot thismorning though..... haha. it needs some things like mirrors and things to hand your towel or put your soap on. jsut small thingsthat would make it nice and more comfortale. my bed is kindof like what you would sleep on when you go camping its just like a 4 inch thick foam pad. haha. let todd read this and so he can imagine the FOAM..... haha but everythings going good. im happy and healthy. there is tons of good food in kakinada. probably the best so far. lots of fresh sea food. prawns and crab curries prawn biryani. mmmm. everyone gets fat here but im telling myself i wont let it happen. so well see. haha. the branch has 130-150 mbrs 80 active? its fun though a lot of young guys that want to help the church grow. they all work hard because they want to get out of a rented space into there own chapel. i wear a big dumb bright yellow helmet that is to small and by butt is killing from the cycles. haha. oh and there are so many mosquitos. luckily i brought a bunch a repelent from hyderabad cuz i left a lot of stuff. oh and the packages got to me. thanks a lot. the new pants made me feel like a million bucks. you dont realize how old some of your stuf is till you get new. i washed my bag for the first time too today. haha. i didnt realize how dity it was but you sweat here and my shirst kept getting black on them and i didnt know why. yup my bag. so i hand washed it and the water was black. haha. oh and next package can you put in some phelsnaptha saop and some natural ice chapstick. oh and las wed my card in my camera got some virus and isnt working so i mighta lost all my pics from hyderabad..... it wants me to re format it but if i do everything will be erased. so im going to send it home maybe and see if you can get some computer wiz to try and get my pics off it cuz it would suck to have 8 months worthh of photos gone. oh well.. anyways everythings going great i love it here. love you and have fun skiin the POW. NOT hahahaha

kaden