2-07-2011

thank you so much mom they were sorly needed. so let me tell you of the grand adventures of this week its been a crazy one. it all starts with wednesday afternoon we are coming home right before dinner so we could grab the story we were going to use in our dinner lesson. so we are riding along and on the way home there is this spot in the sidewalk that is a perfect accedent waiting to happen we usually avoid it but this day we had some good spiritual expereinces and i was in the clouds. so i found myself heading right towards this spot of death in the side walk and ther was no room for coreection so i follow my natral motorcyclist instict and just stand up and jump it (remember that if i hadnt things would have been alot worse) so im sailing through the are and everything is fine until the ground started approaching and the funny thing was i was headed straight into a flower bed. so i landed and almost recovered but ther was a seperator in the flower bed and it was basicly just a cement curb caught me and through back onto the side walk and i slide riping my pants and a couple of good gashes into my knee leg arm and one good one on the chin. so now just zoom out on this situation location right in front of the mexican restuarant mi ranchitos. for everyone to see. my companion had already rounded the corner and was well on his way when he noticed that i wasnt following and he just thought that maybe my chain came off(which happens frequently) so he just waited until i came pedeling around the corner as fast as i could to try and escape my embarrasment. the damage done was as follows a bent front rim a broken back spoke a pair of pants some scuffs on the shoes and a crack right down the center of the helmet so that was kind of a set back luckly i didnt spend a ton of money on the bike because i wnt to the bike shop to see what they could do and it looks like im gonna have to shell out 40$ on a new rim but i think thats pretty much it because they can take some of the spokes off the bent rim and put them on the back rim. well i probably will have to get a pair of new pants but i found a place thats real cheap.

on the better side we found an awesome family that has alot of questions and concerns but so far they love us and really are just looking for somthing for their family so it is going to be alot of fun helping them. well we bike an average of 30 to 40 miles aday and im feeling more in shape so its alot of fun. this sunday was stake conference and we had an area athority seventy come and he was really cool. there was alot of talkes that were just super awesome and really gave me a spiritual high.

well i love my life i hope everything is good at home i miss you guys and tell cati i love her and miss her.

Love your son
Elder Burbidge