Ending the Day with a bang!

Tonight was one of the best nights of spanish i have had yet. Sat down with the family and started eating and started asking about different things in spanish and different words and the like and we talked about a ton of different personal things for the first time since i have been here and got to show them how much i really care about them and hermanita... which is little sister who is 19 so it was great! Loved it... i understood about 90 percent and was able to say exactly what i wanted to say in a general direct form=) IT WAS FANTASTIC=)

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA just got a call from my friend SCOTTIE CATES! Finally had some time to talk we talked for like an hour and 3 minutes a new record! It was so funny because i just got done havin dinner with my family (WHICH IS A WHOLE NOTHER STORY) and then i came upstairs and saw scott calling so i talked to him. Started out talkin about just stuff like bible breakfast for him and work. He told me how he was workin on the coal mine and fuelin up these light trailers and stuff and how he me a mexican that is named Elmo and he calls scott "Essay" there were some funny stories behind that! So then he goes "jake is there anything i can send you" i said "yeah there is" so he got his little note pad out and started writing down everything i said. So i told him he needed to go to Home Depot and ask for a 3 foot by 2 foot by 6 foot tall box, then he needed to get one role of name brand "Duck Tape" it couldn't be an off brand i told him, then i said he needed to buy 3 one pound boxes of packing peanuts and then he needed to address it to Sevilla Spain. So after he had it all written down i told him to show me the paper to make sure he had it written down right... mind you im tryin my best not to laugh" and i say well that looks good man you have it all written down perfect. Then he goes "jake thats a really big box what am i supposed to put in it.......ME!?!?!?!?" then he finally got it and we had a good ol laugh. Then we chatted some more just about whatever and he was all smiles the whole time and it was so awesome to get to chat with my best buddy! He is doin good and just lovin the Lord and walkin with him like Scottie L always does... and it was just great to get to spend the last hours of my night with him!=) God be with my friend Scottie L... and thank you for blessing me with time with him tonight=) Amen!!!! And as Scottie always says "Thank the Lord"