HAPPY BIRTHDAY!!!!

hey mom!,
thanks for the happiness of the birthday sending! but unfortunately I read dads first so technically he said it first! I'm emailing you all from Kmilnistky today we are having a big meetinghere so five hours later off a bus here we are! but guess what... yeah I've been transfered! 5 months in Житомир... my first area matter a fact! I'm serving now in Revna with Elder Hoffling! we just pumped out two more baptisms out of here between Elder Hoffling and I, Revna is a really pretty city! and when I say that I mean that I hear Ukrainian 85 percent of the time! its so nice! the ward here is huge! ... well kind of haha 40 members strong.. well now 42 HA! Revna is known for her "branch girls" as the missionaries refer to them as.. apparently missionaries have just been baptizing woman here, yeah we contributed to that last week with yuliana and Inna. however we have alot of preisthood here to which is nice. the only crappy part about Revna is there are rules here that the missionaries have to follow! no no no not white handbook rules! but city rules! apparenlty somes missionaries a while back got kicked out for being retarded and when they let us back in they tagged us with some rules .. one being.. we cannot prosylite.... at aLL!!! we cannot talk to anyone about the gospel.. unless however they ask about it. cannot tract... all this junk however I think its a blessing in disguise because it makes us that much more creative. For instance one of our contacting tools.. other than every "bob" (our abreviation for Бабуся which is grandma) giving me and earful when they see me just wearing a shirt.. I found out lots of people like to talk to me in those circumstances so it works great! however at times it gets annoying and in those cases I just make a 360 degree turn, find the nearest short skirt (many here, yes even in winter) and then I point! and they stop chewing me out! but one of our other contacting tools that works great is TIE CONTACTING! basically we walk up to people and tell them we are having a tie contest. well its EUROPE! and they are all fashion like so they love giving there imput! Elder Hoffling and I have been taring it up here in Revna. He is a madman on the piano! he knows music, and he knows music theory and knows how use them both! he can turn I'm a little tea pot into a motzart composition. infact this next week we are having a little concert with him on the piano and we are inviting everyone! wow what else! .... oh yeah I haven't told you about BURNER BOB'S.. basically here, the old world war two, under Stalin rule, ancient grandma's are afraid of technology. Actually it would be better to say that some of them REALLY dont like it! so what do they do??? well they walk on into the apartment complex and they will light the circuit breaker on FIRE!!! and then waddle away! you see these giant scortch marks on the walls walking in to the complex sometimes haha I get a kick out of it! there SO superstitios sometimes! well sorry I will continue later because we arrived here kind of late and we aren't exactly getting a pday.. might be on thrusday! anyway love you! hope all is well! oh hey Chris and Bryndon... any uh... any potentials in florida??? haha love ya