Letter 11/17/11

Dear family, well everything is going great here in Pleasant Ridge.  We committed one more for baptism.  His name is Jeff he is pretty legit.  Our other baptism dates we either had to cancel or change their date.  A lot of them are on probation or have problems but we'll get a couple in the water here shortly.  I like the new area.  It is nice and the people are easier to talk to they seem to be nicer.  Everyone here smokes it is nut's I'm going to say 80% of them do.  We ended up going out with Jim Reynolds again last night to go teach his employee.  Her name is Inez.  She is from Costa Rica.  She is great.  She is about 30 year's old and not married.  I don't know why she is not married because she is a great cook and a great girl.  Well we taught about temples and why they're so important.  Jim was a great help.  Oh I wish y'all could meet Jim.  We went with Jim at 5 o'clock to go to the mall.  He took us there to go help a member close her shop.  The members shop was full of Thailand stuff because that is were she is from.  Well Jim just wanted to make her feel good and help her out so he bought some pillow elephants that were $40 a piece.  He bought 2 of them for his house.  He also bought some hair things so we could give them to our mothers.  He spent $120 in 2 seconds then on the way out he saw some See's Chocolates.  He bought a huge box for Inez.  This guy is great.  Well I have seen more crazy things in this last 2 weeks than I think in my whole mission.  We go over to Elvis Presley's house and he will sing for us.  I requested In The Ghetto and Daddy Don't Cry.  he is a great singer.  We even got him in his Elvis suit.  We had the music going and he came down stairs and started to sing for us.  He is a character.  I will try to send you a video.  Well this has been a great time and opportunity to serve with both Guest & Harwood.  They are both pretty cool guys.  Well sorry it's short but it's sweet.  Love Elder Robison  PS the planes and choppers looked great I think I'm still planning on getting my license when I get home.