Week 21 (5/9/10) Email to the Family

 Hey familia! It was SO great talking to you guys yesterday!! I feel like the genie at the end of Aladdin right now. I'M FREE! Wahoo! Shoving Elder Sobré into the black genie's lamp and flicking him across the river into Uruguay. 'Itty bitty living space.' Chao! I'm with Elder Maxfield now and I am stoked for this next transfer. I'm excited. Elder Maxfield is from Salt Lake and is the middle of 5 boys. He's excited, I'm excited, I think this transfer is going to be a lot better. He's a really nice guy and as of now I think we're going to get along just fine. Last night after I called you guys, I went back to Hno Cardozo's house and we waited for Elder Sobré. His wife put the kids to bed and there wasn't really anything to do in his small house so we watched TV. I saw the last two and a half minutes of that Suns-Spurs game. It was intense for a bit there. I haven't seen basketball in forever! Anyway it was late and Elder Sobré hadn't showed up. I didn't expect him to be done saying bye to everyone until around ten thirty-eleven so I didn't think anything of it until it passed eleven. We waited longer and I asked Hno Cardozo what he wanted to do. He said lets wait a bit longer. He's got the cell phone so he could just call. I imagined in my head Elder Sobré sitting in the pench by himself packing, completely oblivious to anybody but himself. Hno Cardozo had to work at six this morning so he was already up way past bedtime. I told Hno Cardozo about the situation I imagined in my head and -its midnight now- we decided to go to the pench to see if my 'wild' imagination was correct. If not we'd head back to his house. We got to the pench and the lights were on. I rang the doorbell and Elder Sobré came to the door with a stupified look on his face. I just looked at him like "you got something to say?" He said 'you were sleeping.' I said "what? At Hno Cardozo's house?" No,' He said 'No, in your room.' He said that they took a remis to Hno Cardozo's house and it looked dark so he assumed I wasn't there and that they had gone to bed and when he got to the pench the door to our room was closed so he assumed I was in there asleep. And that was as far as his effort took him. Past MIDNIGHT. Pero, ya fue. A new day has dawned and for that I am happy.:) There is a lot of work to be done in El Cruce and its time to get busy. The future is bright. My zone is looking good too. It is really young. We will have three brand new missionaries. There's me, an Elder with a transfer less and one with a transfer more than me. We lost 3 District Leaders. Also there are a lot of Yanquis. I think we may be able to make a push for the zone activity to be ULTIMATE! YEAH! I really miss that rush that comes from playing some good Ultimate. Falling in love with it over and over again. Squeezing passes into tight spaces or just chucking it up because I know Pete will catch it. Playing games late at night whatever kind of games they be, if my brothers are there, I'm in. I sure love you guys. Our family rocks! *Whistle whistle click click* ¡Esah! I love you guys. I appreciate all of the support and love you guys give me. Chao for now until next week.

Love, Elder Woodside