if wishes were fishes, i would just teach a man to wish. July 23, 2012

Dear Family,
      Its me, the "Bridge Train". thats what people are starting to
call me. probably because i like trains.
 So weve had a good week. kkind of a sad sunday, we only had one
investigator with us, and we literally woke him up and walked him to
church. its so hard to motivate people sometimes, but alot of people
were sick too. i tell ya what, it can get frustrating. but its over
and my eyes are on next sunday now.
        No funny stories are coming to mind, even though were always
laughing. my comp is super into musicals, so hes always singing the
songs i grew up hearing. hes a really good kid, from taylorsville
utah. very mild mannered, meak i guess you could say. but hes pretty
quick and likes to joke around so we get along great. elder thorup is
his name, wants to be a dentist. i cant picture him doing anything
else.
        I taught gospel principles yesterday, on fasting. it was while
i was teaching that i actually started to notice all of the miracles
and special experiences ive been a part of while i was fasting or
because of  a fast. the fact that we have fast and testimony meeting
every month to me is a huge testimony that the Church is inspired. it
is such a powerful way to call down divine help into our lives, while
at the same time opening us up to the blessings of helping others, and
humbling us, and giving us stronger self control each time we fast. i
love it, and it was so easy to teach the lesson that i wanted more
time. its coming up in just a couple weeks, and im excited already now
jaja. The Lord often strengthens us by giving us oppertunities to
teach, ive found that alot, which obviously means im PRETTY dang
strong by now haha.
    So hey, i love you all a ton and i miss the heck out of ya. write me!
       Love Elder BRidge

Hello one and all. July 16, 2012

PONCHO! look it up! its the biggest festival of the year, just a huge
giant fold festival that literally has everything. a million mates, a
billion leather belts and shoes and all kinds of crazy stuff, and its
calling my name. time is limited, i love you all and im going to
poncho.
     Love, Elder Bridge

He put an egg in his shoe and a... beat it. July 9, 2012

HEy!
      Life is great here, just working real hard, staying busy, its a
good sunny day after a really cold week ( not that cold, but i keep
getting sick) and winter only lasts like a month here so im not too
worried. ill be complaining about the heat soon enough so im trying to
enjoy the cold as much as possible. we´ll be getting letters here in a
few weeks, i cant wait to find out who loves me!
        hope everyone is great, we cant buy reeses down here...
  Im gonna try to send some baptism pictures next week. its on my to
do list, no worries. love to all.
         Elder BRidge

Love you! July 2, 2012

but i have no time- we had a pancake breakfast to celebrate
indipendance day. i was singing oh canada, and very proud to know most
of the words. miss you all. we had maple syrup which i havent had in
over a year. not bad.
    miss you guys.
 Love elder Bridge

Violence inheriting the system! June 25, 2012

AYA! TAE KWON DO!
    so theres an hermano in our ward that is a black belt, so i asked
him a favor and this morning at 11 almost all of us got together at
the church and he taught us tae kwon do for like an hour and a half,
it was sweet. i was hoping people would try to rob me before, but now
i think i might actually tape a hundred peso bill to my chest and walk
the villa in the late hours, just so i can start delivering some swift
kicks and pouncing punches. one day... nah it was really fun though,
hes a cool guy. now were just doing the email real quick and were
gonna go play some futball for the rest of the p-day, and thats fine
by me. ive been two sick to play for the past two weeks so im really
to take back the title of mister hat trick.
      The week was hard, since i was sick for about half of it.
wednesday afternoon i went back out, and friday we went to the
provincia of la rioja for zone conferance. pretty cool, it looks alot
like catamarca, but i saw a bunch of elders i really love and it had
been a while. all of the trainings were exactly what we needed and it
was just really great. we feel good, and july is looking to be quite
the month, ill fill you in, if i feel like it.  (dad).
    Anyway, everythings the tops here. hope yall are great. to
everyone that played a part in making me that tape, thank you so much,
i really loved it. mom, i loved going through the pictures with you,
and just hearing everyone. very good idea, i loved it. im gonna send a
full tape i have soon. happy fathers day, and first of july! love and
miss you all.
   Elder Bridge

I'm so sick. June 18, 2012

so
  thought i was getting better yesterday, just had a cough but i had
all my energy. we went out and started working and after about 4
hours, just took a huge turn for the worse. so here i am, no better
than last week if not worse, just loving life. or hating it. blah.
 we had a good week though. 2 baptisms, lots of cool people were
teaching, my companion is the man and yeah, things are fine. ive just
felt like crap for over a week so it puts a damper on it. i have gone
through like 5 rolls of toilet paper for my nose and im still going
strong. pray that i get feeling better. please!
  other than that, love you guys. happy fathers day Dad, thought
about you alot yesterday.I understand that nobody wrote me because
theyre all just partying it up in Washington. some people still love
me. namely grandma glennie and johnny rompain.
      so anway, miss you guys. hope everything is great!
     Love, Elder Bridge

so they hung up a dead bird. June 11, 2012

kids here get super bored. some times we see them just sitting on the
curb for hours at a time, theres not much to do. and soccer balls get
expensive, and the new ones get stolen, so sometimes the kids just
want something to do. im pretty sure thats why the other day elder
bethers and i saw that they had found a dead bird, and hung it over
the powerline, where they could throw rocks at it. there were
literally like 10 kids just throwing rocks at the dead bird and having
the time of their lives. And who says we need video games.
      Things are good, were just trying to keep up our momentum and
teach as many people as possible, i feel like things are going really
well in that respect, the tough part as always is just getting them to
come to church, we only had 3 investigators in church yesterday
between the 4 of us, but we´ll get more next week, no worred.
       HOpe everyone is doing well and writing me letters! the mail
is slow, send now so that ill get some in september!!
 Love, elder BRidge