Letter 6-1-09

Dear Family,

First item of business in this week's letter is a request from everyone. The Eastland branch is putting together a branch cookbook and one of the members that is heading the project asked Elder Reed and me if we had anything that we could contribute. Well, of course I did. There are many unique and great recipes that I have grown up with that have been family favorites. I would love to contribute. The only problem is that I am not currently in possession of any of them. They are back in Utah. That is the request. Send some recipes to me that could be included in the Eastland Branch recipe book. That would be greatly appreciated. Anything goes, really. The ideal recipes would be those that are unique and/or are family favorites. The two examples that I thought of right off the bat are No-Bake cookies and Peanut Butter Bars. Yet keep in mind that my mind isn't the most creative mind right now. It's been quite some time since I last sat down and browsed through a recipe book. One last thing for this. It's kinda urgent. Yes, it isn't officially due till the latter part of June, but being that I've been in Eastland for a combined total of 7 months now, I may be shipped away before that due date, in fact might I say 2 weeks, so if you could git 'r done this week that would greatly appreciated. Absolute deadline to send recipes would be Monday or Tuesday of next week so I can turn them in either this coming Sunday or the 14th. Thank you. If I don't get any recipes from anyone, I won't be too offended, Eastland Branch just will just not got a contribution from Elder Droge. That would sad. Don't wait for everyone else to send them in, send in some of your favorite. If I get 50 recipes, so much the better. If half of them are duplicates, well then, it doesn't hurt anything, does it? I'll just not turn in the same recipe twice.

So I mentioned that Breckenridge, Texas is the highest city in the nation per capita to get away with murder. I almost added to that number this week. No need to panic. I didn't almost kill people. I almost smashed two animals with our car. Both in the same day. First was as we were about to enter. A turtle, yes, you heard that right, a wild turtle decided that he wanted to cross the very busy highway. Almost the stupidest and last mistake that fellow ever made. Turtles aren't the fastest of creatures. Luckily, because of my exceeding expertise with driving, I saw him just in time and drove right over him, without touching him with the wheels of the car. I say it almost gave me a heart attack, but the turtle probably felt a lot worse. I looked back and he was rightfully all hidden in his shell. There was a big yellow Penske truck right behind me, so I can't say for sure if the turtle ever finished his journey across the road, but I don't recall seeing a smashed turtle so I think he was okay. The second story came later that day as we were driving down the busiest road in Breckenridge. The stupidest squirrel I have ever met. He apparently had no patience in crossing the road, no animals seem to, so he decided to play a live game of Frogger, if you know what I mean. He darted right past me into the next lane where there was a car five feet in front of me. I could've sworn he got smashed, but he darted backwards, right in front of me. It was too late for me to do anything, and I thought I smashed the little bugger, but he escaped again somehow. I looked in the rear view mirror and saw him hanging out in the middle lane ready to cross again. Stupid animals. No wonder Texas is the roadkill capital of the United States. I made up that statistic after being here for 15 months, so I don't know if it actually is, but it sure wouldn't surprise me. Roadkill everywhere here.

So last thought. We talked to an old guy a week or so ago and he told us with a straight face that the second coming would be May 31st of this year. I was quite amused. Well, its June 1st now. Did I miss something? Did Jesus come yesterday and is secretly hanging out somewhere in Missouri or Utah or some other place like that? Let me know if you've talked to him. Hehe... Peace out all!
Elder Adam R Droge
The DrogeMiester