Don't Tell him his math is wrong! And things going well.

NOTE: [from time to time I'll insert thoughts or explanations ... they will appear like this]

ok like-almost-always i need to start writing my letter while iam reading yours so that i can comment and let you know that i think this lil counter % thingy is worthless...mainly beacuse it lies...ive been out about a tid bit longer than a half a year...that is about 20% of my mission and that is still maby over guestamating...so...?does elder richardson like the darnded Over Exaragting counter thing?...nope [this is referring to the counter on the side bar, and a counter on Tylan Carton's blog which shows the percent of the mission complete ... I informed him his (Josh's) % complete is 38 ... he obviously DOES NOT like that!]
and ?does he plan on wasting any one minuite? nope. all is good and we need not write any more about the counter thing...
and about all the other stuff...darnit dad...you cheated...iam sure it took you more than an hour to type all that and i cant do the same so ...as always i cant reply to the same...but this time i hva a back up and it is commin from left feild and you but attached to this email is an audio clip about the week...i want you to know it was my first audio clip and so it kinda sucks but....but! its there and it talks about the good things that happened this last week....
honestly i pray that i dont have another week in my LIFE! let alone my mission go by as fast as this last week....we ran and ran and then it was over...and i couldent even get caught up to anything and my goodness iam glad today is p day so i can catch up a bit.
tell bubba there is a special part for him and a special part for brie in the clip and that i recorded it befor you had told me what happened with him.
tell bubba that not reaching a goal hurts...alot, i know. but the most...the very very most important part about loosing or not reaching a goal is to find out why. if you find out why...it wont happen agin...and youll learn and grow. tell bubba i call it "Sea Bruto" that means BEASTINKINGWILDMANWHOISJUSTGOINGTOHAVETOWOOPSOMEBUTT!
...its the spanish version of gottawanna....if you wanna win, you gottawanna grow,and learn, and try.
tell brock i have been thinkin about the man a bunch...and maby iam not quite realisitic but to me i remeber him being 7 feet tall and shooting bolts of lightning from his eyes and fire balls from his...nvm.
and tell jared that i love that man he is a stud!
and brieezzzyy, dont worry about loosing...it sucks but it happens. there isnt any more to it than that...but the coolist thing about brie that i think she has that is most powerful is that if she looses or wins or gets hurt or if its off season...she loves soccer.
ronaldino,the best soccer player in the world!...loves the game. and in that way, right now brieann...you are comparable to the very best soccerplayer in the world!
mom, you are such a machine! holy maceral! faaaaaa! i have so much respect for you and every time i think, ok maby i should take a break and just sit down for a second...i think of you and all the work you did for us and it was because you love us...well i love these ppl soo...tengo que trabajar! [I have to work!]
dad, i love you letters, i wish i had more time to write back to you cus i really really like emails beacuse yours are so full of life and inspiration. thank you dad, i wish you could only know what it means to me to have you as a dad. i love you guys tons!
ok well, i lied i have to send the audio in another email but youll get it all the same.
i love you guys
elder josh

ps tell nate iam srry i forgot to get him his game and that he should be expecting a letter soon!

Comments on the Election and Progressing towards Baptism

OK ... I've been terribly slow getting this updated. My friend just posts his son's letters on the blog, and so I'm going to do that, unless I get the time to edit some and make sense of what is in the letter (since he answers questions that you don't see posed). So, here is the latest letter from Josh:

i cant vote todd richardson so i dont know if its vale la pena...but ill get 'er done and i do believe that in this i wont be like my people (los hispanos) and vote for obama...that dang smuck won all of the hispanics over with the fact that he dosent care about immagration or something like that and i have heard alot of sweawage that he has said that i can preach aginst....so when the darnded mexicans say "yay obama" i say..."thou shalt not be fooled by false words of a man who dosent love the lord of isrial..." and then that convo is over...
and that is all i will say about politics for the rest of this....
but other than that i cant even believe that you can dare to say that ty and jacob write more than me...last week you cant imagin the anger i had when the dang comp crashed and i have sat and typed as much as i posibly could for as long as i could every single week trying as hard as i can to write alot for you...
so as i make my lil fingerrs bleed trying every way i cant to type to you so that you might one day be proud to say"i got the biggest letter" i do realize how dumb and stumpy my fingers are so i get hit with the truth that it probally wont happen...haha
jeeze, you type so many questions that i dont know who w to answer what you want and still whrit about here...and when i dont answer your questions i get rebuked and when i get them all answered i get rebuked for not putting in enought about investagators...rrrrrrrrrr
ok, i sent the pics cus the last time i was at the libaray i was typing so long that i didnt have time to burn a cd withthe pics so yea...iam glad you liked them but i will get a disc later...sorry...some things are just hard to do...
and the as for pants i think mom has got it figured out. and shoes are a sweet deal,and contacts if you have been able to get them yet...but also something kinda happened and i kinda needed 10 dollars for a lil food to hold me up for a lil bit cus veronica had a problem beacuse the boss of her husband isnt getting him paied and they needed help with there bills or there were going to loose alot and so i kinda used my money to help them out...and things will be ok beacuse iam going to be makeing pan today but 10 would help with some escencials like contact sloution and toothpaste.
thank you you guys.
as for investagoators we have a date! his name is maricel and he will be baptized on the 2nd of november!
also we are getting veronica and fransisco married leagely so that they can get baptized...this was a weird thing cus they have a kid and call each other husband and wife but arnt married and there is a huge weird twisted loopy story that goes with iit all...but in the end you can just wrap it up with saying "silly lil mexicanos" but we really need that you say 2 prayers a day for them to be protected from satanas beacuse he is really smacking them arround now that there getting close to baptism...
also tenemos un oltro amigo who is progressing towards baptizim named antonio. he is a stud who kinda remiinds me of uncle kirk ...just a TON shorter...but he is a really sincear studly man that we gave a blessing to on our first day with him.
and then also we have a grounp of 6 tobacco workers from mex. that we travel out to dover TN to go see and a argentinian man we are goign to start seeing in hopkinsville and iam pretty stoked about that cus i south americanian people are way chill...and usually legal...haha.
but just to clarify, i LOVE mexicans...so just cus i havent met a legal one yet dosent change the fact that i love 'em.
the branch is growing a lil...we had a few ppl move back to mexico really quickly and without notice...but other than that its good. we are working really hard withthe familys and they are the best coolist familys that i have ever know in my gosh darn life! the branch is sweet! no hay un que es mas mejor! y no puede darme una coima que pagaria por un oltro.
i love you guys, its time for me to ajorn away! until another day!
-elder jrich

PS dad thak you for the letters from the other dudes! i todally love thoes guys!
and also tell brock i super love him and tell him this:
che,no te pones triste. este vida, estos puebras son un momento. estas ahora en tu compostura para tu vida. vos sos mi heroe che. !aupa ya! y levantas los espiritus del equipo tuyo, tenes mas corazon que todos los oltros y por este razon cada persona alrededor de vos puede sentir y disfrutar de tu espiritu. tequiero che. hazlo y andas adalante!
-tu hermano.