Excerpt from Josh's letter March 25, 2013

Hey!

It's been a while since I typed out an email to you all. I have sooooo much to tell you and I hope I don’t forget anything. Well first I want to tell you something pretty cool that I found out. Well last night we went to The Greens home for dinner. They cooked Lemon chicken piscada for me for my birthday and also made teri maszu (yeah I don't speak Italian). Well that was really cool, but we were talking and bishop Green was talking about his mission and all the water falls and cool stuff and how he "didn't" go swimming  but anyways he said he went to Guam and I was like hey! That's cool! My uncle served in Guam! Then he said in Pompeii? And I said yes!! And he asked when and I had no idea then I remembered it was around the time of 9/11 and he was like I came home in 2011!  I must know who he is! And I told him and he said he knew who Geeb was! Super cool! I have a Pompayan message for him Let’s see.... Well the Shepard’s sent me something which was super nice of them. They sent me the talk that has been going through my mind for a while now. The one by Jeffery R Holland about how missionary work is not easy because salvation is not a cheap expense. So that was really cool Tell them thank you for me please! :) I don't know if I told you all or not but I quit drinking soda. It's been good for me haha. I've been trying to stay a lot healthier lately, even though we live off of stovetop rice and hamburger helper hahahaha It's been good though. We have been working really hard lately trying to find new people. It's been kind of hard. It's always hard to find new people to teach. We have a couple really awesome investigators that I am really really excited about! I really hope I will be here to see them enter into baptism. I have been learning a ton!! I've been reading a ton too! I am on Mosiah 16 right now and I finished all of D&C and am on JS-Matthew in the Pearl of Great Price. I am going to start knocking out the Old and New Testament(pray for me) It's been super cool! I am so so excited for general conference to see what the Prophet and Apostles have to say. I look forward to General Conference now for a completely different reason haha. I’m pretty excited about my birthday this year too. It's weird though, I can't believe I am going to be 20 years old! That's insane! I'm glad you told Brother Curry that it's my birthday Tuesday, His wife is going to bring us a huge breakfast casserole! I'm really excited for that!! :) I have a challenge for you all too that Brother Curry(our ward mission leader) gave to all of us. He asks us What is the significance of Dueteronmy. 4:29? There are two key words in there and another one that I really, really like is Alma 7:11-13 and the question that goes with that is how do we limit the atonement? I really like those scriptures they are really good! well anyways I will write more next week I love and miss you all! :)