como estais?!

so i hear good things from home and everything! hope yal are well! ... i cant believe school is already out... thats freakin nuts! what are you gonna do with jj out of school now mom? ha dad just put him to work... that oughta do the trick =) just kiddin jj... come chill in spain with me =)

so everybody has been askin how much longer im here for. im here in the mtc on the 23rd... so like a week and a halfish... 2 weeks... what ev its all good cause basically the time flies anyway... haha i cant believe i almost been out for 2 months... geez! only 21 more fast sundays 87 more sundays and id tell you the days hours and minutes but it just smashes my enthusiasm... hahaha just messin! ya for reals though i cant wait to get out to the field... we get russian elders comin in here all the time just to renew theyre visas and they always tell us how sweet the field is compared to the ccm(mtc) as hard as that is to believe... NOT! but the CCM is sweet to i guess ha. we went to the temple for the last time thismorning cause the temple closes for some cleaning next week... so thats kinda lame. but its all good. we did some iniciatorios este mañana y que fue fantastico! ah... it was cool! kinda crazy cause we did the session and everything in portuges! cass you outa get a kick outa that =) they´res a whole ward here from portugal that is stayin here and doin temple work... its sweet! the church works out a deal that as long as they do 4 hours of temple work a day, they can stay in a hostal here for 10 bucks a day! freakin sweet huh! no kiddin! plus your in an amazing temple! its way cool... definately somethin to thinik about for the future... but anyway. spiritual experience... uh...

ITS ALWAYS SPIRITUAL HERE! we had an awesome practica sala grande last night. and know... wierd name. but its grate. oh my gosh... gotta tell yal this story. so theres this kid elder gerber here with us goin to bilbao. but last night durring dinner... we were all talkin and havin a good time. i dont know how but we got on the subject of the siberia mission and how they prolly had to use the church bobcat to get to the 1 freakin investigators house... and gerber is over there just freakin laughin to death... he thought we ment like a real bobcat like... the cat bobcat! ha! can you imagine! 2 missionaries ridin a bobcat across freakin siberia! and then helen kelar got brought up... i know we are all goin to hell but it was hilarious... hahaha elder smith was like ya then hellen kellar came along and steered the bobcat into the one freakin tree in siberia!!! hahahahahaha o my goodness im sorry im about to die of laughter! it was the funniest thing ever! i know... we are a little imature... but you gotta survive somehow! ha!

o man anoother story. i got my first reference this week! i was with a french elder at the park this week and it was sweet! we gave out 6 copies of the book of mormon and got 3 references! in 2 hours! we were stoked! we even got 2 people to come to church! so that just basically set my week up for a successful week... o man its great here. i love it so much. i hope yal back home are havin as much fun as im havin. and i hope you are all feeling the blessings as much as im feeling them... i can feel all your prayers every day and i definately know that i have nothing to worry about while im gone becuase yal are in the Lords hands... so i got nothin to fear. Know how much i love you all and miss you all. I hope to hear from you soon! o and if you think your letters wont get here before i leave you can just send them straight to my mission home.

mom and dad you should have that i hope... if not ill send it to you. cause im not sure of it either right now yhahaha sorry... but i gots to go. love yal so much and im prayin for you always. su hermano, hijo, amigo, y amor siempre...elder zachary austin pitts/coolest elder ever!=)

p.s. just to get yours and my hopes up... yes i can in fact call from the airport when i leave for malaga =) so ill give you some more information about that next week =) mom and dad if you got an extra phone card lyin around you could send it if you want... that would be sweet. if not its cool i can get one here. but its al good. love yal!