October

Oct. 19th


Hey Dad, This week was good. It's going to be interesting to be away from home on my birthday, and to not be hunting. We are teaching a couple named Red and Rosemary,  we committed them to be baptized on November 21 so that should be awesome. I'm doing well, growing a lot this week and it  was a lot better. So Rosemary at church yesterday was having some pain so she asked for a blessing, so we gave her one and all she said after was "that was so weird. "she was like "it felt like a tingly warm all over, and like someone was touching me." her pain subsided and she went right on to gospel principals. As soon as she walked out of relief society she said ill be back next week, i love this church. She said it has been the only church were she has understood the message, they have been truly prepared to see us for sure it has been really cool.
love ya dad 

Hi Mom,
Sister Rial is who called you! She is great and takes really good care of us, sacrifices a lot for us. We don't get fed a lot so she takes that upon her self, I think she has got to feed us 4 times a week. They are just really cool people! They are the family we have reactivated, they as well as I have grown so much in the last 9 weeks its nuts. We are teaching her friends, they are so cool we had a great lesson with them right before she called you. We committed them to be baptized on November 21, so that should be awesome. I'm doing well, this week was a lot better! So one of her friends at church yesterday was having some pain so she asked for a blessing, and so we gave her one and all she said after was that It was so weird. She was like "it felt like a tingly warm all over, and like someone was touching me." her pain subsided and she went right on to gospel principals. As soon as she walked out of relief society she said, "ill be back next week, i love this church"  she said it has been the only church were she has understood the message, they have been truly prepared to see us for sure. It has been really cool. Well I found a crochet hook on the road so I have been crocheting loofahs and pot scrubbers out of some tool i found. My comp for my birthday bought me a longer crochet hook (I was complaining that mine was short) and a ball of yarn. We had a member give us gift cards to a super fancy restaurant in town (50 $) Steaks kind of fancy ha ha, so we are going to go for dinner. So she is going to make me Kimber chicken and cheese cake ha ha I am happy!! Grandma sent me some new shoes, the ones I came out with finally got a hole in the ball of the foot, ha ha wore out. 
 well i love you mommy!

twice as nice

Hi Mom !

This week has been crazy, I am going to be getting a new companion tomorrow. For some reason I have not had a companion for more than a transfer, I get a new one every time its kind of getting old, but we will get there. I am super excited to get some jerky, ha ha it sounds like it will be good!! yeah a lot of missionary come out here without a great support system, but it really helps them ether grow there testimony or want to go home really bad its about 50/50.  Other than that it's just going really slow and we're just starting to get the hang of things, now that I am getting another new comp it is going to be pretty stressful. I have been having a lot of back problems just hurting all the time and my neck to, but I have been going to the chiropractors in our ward. He says its all caused by stress but it sounds like its not over yet so he gave me some stuff to take to help my back not hurt.  This week we are going to have what's called a farmers fair so the whole week most of the streets in the town will be shut off to cars, there will be a ton of carnival rides and booths and thing so that should be pretty cool.  We had dinner last night with the Bombgardners, there son races cars on a dirt track circuit out here and won all stair last year but crashed his car this year. They gave me a shirt for his team its cool, it has his number on the front and it says "nothing but trouble" on the back so it fits me quite well!!! ha ha Other than that not a lot has been going on. I love you Mom

Hey Dad,

It's going okay, I am getting a new comp again. I'm really sick of getting a new person all the time, nothing gets done but me trying to help the other guy learn the area. Other than that its been good, it's just going really slow not a lot of people to talk to. There is  a five block by five block area, so i just about feel like i have talked to everyone in town. its just hard when nothing happens when we are trying hard but we aren't getting people to have us over, i just don't get it though can't hit the standards but we will get through it and keep on going. ha ha Well the only real exciting thing that happened was i got to confirm the sisters investigator this week that was really cool. love you dad

Mom, 
 dang it sounds like it has been busy, that"s great! I really got a lot out of the priesthood session of conference, it was really great. we had a big cook out as the priesthood and the guy that i have reactivated come out and smoked the hamburgers, best dang hamburger i have ever ate. Thanks for sending my coat that will help, it just turned into suit season so we have to be wearing a jacket if its below 65 out. This week has been crazy, got my new comp Elder Bayly he is from Lehi and lives about 5 blocks from grandpa. He is really uptight about the rules so its been tough, you kinda gotta find a happy medium but we are getting there. It's going good then there has been a fair all week that practically shut down the town. We met some cool people for the first session both days we went to different members houses, and for the second we just watched it at the church but like any good conference experience I brang Dr pepper.
 I love you mom

hey dad,

 I hope that you had a great week as well, this week started off tough just with the whole getting a new comp and everything, plus he is a little over baring about rules and taking them to such an extreme it makes it hard but we are doing better. It's going pretty good we are getting along and we did a lot better with our numbers this week. There was a big fair in town so we got to go to that it was really cool we met a lot of cool people. General  conference was really good as always, and it did recharge my batters but it was hard to see prez Monson struggle so badly to talk, but he had a really awesome talk and was very bold in priesthood session. I really got a lot out of priesthood session it was great! My comp is from Lehi and lives about 5 blocks from grandpa, but of course is in a different stake. He has been out 3 months more than i have and came out when he was 18. not a lot else but we had a good week, and time is flying by.

 I love you dad 

more pictures to come!!!