No better place to be

 

Hanging out with Robert at the Temple

 

The ward council has been sending us to do all the dirty work. ha ha we are going around and finding out peoples divorce dates, and get info for records, people don't like to talk about that kind of stuff. We have a girl named Michelle on date for the end of the month, she is the girl that just ran up to us in the parking lot. We are also working to get our new contact Doug on date, he is doing awesome he has no knowledge of any religion at all. He didn't know how to pray, he never had. Its like starting everything with a clean slate, its crazy cool! Other than that just working hard, our a/c went out in our apartment about 2 weeks ago. Its been on average 90 or more, and I was just getting grouchy and no sleep and it was bad. I have been blessed a lot the past few days here have been getting down to the 70s at night so I'm doing a bit better. Our landlord is going to replace the whole unit on Tuesday, so I am soooooo looking forward to that, and I think my comp is to. I have been pretty grouchy with the heat and no relief at all, its gross humid all the time but oh well. ha ha

Well i love you dad !!

Going to the temple with Doug.

 

Hi mom, sorry I didn't email you yesterday we had a big zone fun day, it was great!! We got to go and play corn hole, bean bag toss,  or in the rest of the world. ha ha

Then we played apples to apples, and then we played never have I ever, it was super fun!  Well we have had a pretty good week over here, other than our a/c going out the last 2 weeks, but they are fixing it as I write this email. I can not wait for the good night sleep that I am about to get tonight! I'm just dead dog tired today, it is just so crazy all the time. We got to go to the temple today, it was really cool I just love it!  We took our investigator Doug, and he said it was an amazing experience so we are excited to see were he goes. Other than that everything over here is pretty good,  I just got a pair of shoes from the goodwill for 4 dollars, and a couple ties. umm 1 pair of my black suit pants just died, ha ha there was no redemption, worn thin. 

 I love you so much mom thanks for being the best!!! 

Okay, so I missed a few awesome pictures from the last few weeks so I'm catching up..

 

here is the elders with Jordan at the temple for her first time doing baptisms for the dead.

the Elders taking a selfie with awesome Sister Knotts

(she also takes and posts pictures on Facebook of the elders)

Spending more time at the temple

The baptism went awesome, he is doing great. He got up at the end and bared his testimony, and is was awesome. Then earlier that day we got to go to the temple, and I just can't wait to have one right by our house. I love going to the temple so much, it just makes me feel so good. Well I got to do all the confirmations, I got to record, and witness baptisms to. It was so much fun, I just love it WOW!!!  Jordan and I are a hoot, ha ha she reminds me a lot of Kasey. They are the best, it will be hard to leave this area when I do. Other than that I keep having dreams that I have come home, and I'm wandering around and saying hi to everyone. ha ha  
Last night I was talking to dad in my dream, and I went "no way I left my boot in my closet in Indiana" and then I went "wait I have only been out almost a year, wait this has got to be a dream" ha ha Dad was just sitting there looking at me weird and then I woke up. Almost every night for the past week I have been having similar dreams to that, idk but it's weird. Guess what I talked in church on Sunday about the restoration, and my comp only spoke for 15 mins, so I had to speak for 25 mins ahhhhhh!! I did it but I kind of just felt like I was rambling, but a lot of people came up and told me good job, and that they loved my talk. so it must not have been to bad. ha ha Well I love you mommy 

Kimber,
The weekend was awesome we had a baptism, and got to take Jordan our recent convert to the temple and do baptisms for the dead with her it was awesome. The district leader is the same, ha ha and I got to do a training every Wednesday. Sometimes its hard to come up with things but it works out. It sounds like you guys are having all sorts of fun, I cant wait for my pine nuts ahhhhhh they are the best!!! ha ha  well I love you Kimber 

Short and sweet

Kimber,
We had a great week, put 2 people on date for baptisms one for this Saturday and his name is Robert and another for the 8th of August. Its going to be a good transfer, I'm going to the county fair today, we have been doing service for them and for a member with 4 cows, 4 goats and 20 chickens. We've done lots of stuff but I made a few new cow pens, and fixed about a mile of fence it felt like but I loved it. We climbed around in the rafters at the fair and hung lights and fans in the show room for the animals, and last night I got to brand a cow, and tattoo a bunny!! ha ha
 It was fun, well I love you 

Mom,
I had a long dream the other night, I got home and I asked if we could go camping and you said no. I was like why not you guys went on 49 thousand well I was gone, why cant we go now, it was funny.
Well we have 2 main investigators, Michelle and Robert. Michelle is the one we took to the temple, she should be getting baptized around the 8th. Robert has been taught everything and now wants to get baptized, because his wife who was a less active member wanted to get sealed to him. She got cancer and recently passed away, so he decided he was going to get baptized and go to the temple and get sealed to his wife. It should be awesome other than that not a lot is different.
I love you mom, thanks for all you do for me!!! 

hey there sis,

its so good to here from you and not your phone ha ha jk.  I'm glad that Bristol is giving you heck she is doing a good job at holding up uncle Kurds reputation, Has she started telling you no yet ha ha!!  So we had a great week and I'm kind of getting the hang of this whole district leader thing. I get to collect numbers every night, then recollect them and more numbers Sunday then turn them in that night. Then Monday get some goals, have a conference call and announce the goals to the zone, and then tonight get on another conference call and listen to president its nuts. We got to go to the temple again, and we are trying to take a guy named Robert that should be getting baptized on Saturday hopefully. Well tell me what the clues are for Indiana byu box and I will find it ha ha

I love you, www 

A lot going on

 

First my mom sent Elder Cox a message last Tuesday just to see if he was getting transferred and would answer and this is what she got....

 

 

 

Hey Momma 

I didn't get transferred, but my new comp is just out of training and really on fire. He is doing awesome, and I became a DISTRICT LEADER!!!! Talk about a lot of stress, my comps name is Elder Manos. (you pronounce it like Monos) He is from Seattle Washington, and a new sister just came into the mission from cedar, that brings the count to 5 cedar city people we're taking over!! I am district leader over the kid that I graduated with that I didn't like in high school, but he is a lot different then he used to be. Well I love you all, and will talk to you on Monday! 

 

on Monday we got to hear a little bit more

 

Hey Mom

I'm so glad that you guys are getting some time to go camping. All I had to do was leave and you go an a camping spree ha ha just kidding. My first week has been ok just a lot of responsibility, and now I'm not just in charge of myself I'm in charge of 5 other people too! I got to make sure they are doing everything they are suppose to, if the not I got to go on what is called an exchange and I'm there comp for a day. I got to figure out how to excite them, and help them be better. ha ha pretty stressful but other than that I'm doing awesome, and doing well. I don't know if you are keeping track of the weather over here, but it has been crazy. I guess usually about this time of year they have 10 inches of rain, well in the past week alone we have gotten 20, I'm so sick of rain but we are doing really well. Um my new comp is 22 and he is from Seattle Washington, and he has only been out 3 months. He is super fresh, and thinks he knows it all, but we are doing ok we get along pretty well. :) Well my cowboy boot that I brought with me are the ones that I have had from freshman year, and I think its time to retire them. The soul is coming off, and I can see the nails. ha ha  We had a pretty cool experience this week when we were getting dropped off after a dinner appointment. So we had them drop us off close to our next appointment, and we got out and walked across a parking lot and a girl starts chasing us down. She gets up to us and asks us for a book of Mormon, and so we gave her one and asked her why she was interested, and she said that the missionary's used to come and teach her room mates when she was in collage. Her name is Maechelle, and so we went over and had an awesome lesson with her. She already has a amazing testimony of the book of mormon, and she believes that it is way more write than the bible ever was, so we are hoping good things for her. Then we were just walking the other day, and we get a call from the Indianapolis missionary's. They have a man that just moved down here that was suppose to be getting baptized, so they gave him to us. We haven't gone to meet him yet but we are going to go this week when we get the car, so we are hoping to have two more baptisms this transfer. We are super excited, and we are taking everyone to the open house for the Indianapolis temple too, so they are all getting that cool experience. Well I love your guts mom!!

 

Dad,

 Yesterday I got to go to the open house for the Indiana temple, and I'm going to get to go a whole bunch more these next couple weeks. It was so beautiful and amazing I will send some pictures next I am glad that everyone is doing well. I have had a pretty good week my comp is alright, he is 22 though so he thinks he has the right to tell everyone what to do.  I know that I need to be with him for some reason, I just want to thank you dad for always encouraging me to do my best, and to come out here. I know that my life will be forever changed from my experiences here, and I am so glad that I finally have realized how much you and mom really did for me!

Thanks so much, I love you dad. 

 

 

 

 The Elders at the  NEW Indianapolis Temple !

 

 

 

Serving our brothers and sisters

S

 Elder Cox and Nielsen hanging out with the Tuma family.

(we love them by the way, she posts so many picture's on Facebook of Elder Cox that it's so fun to see everything. we are spoiled, it's going to be sad when he move's to a different area:( )

 

 

("Had a great day with our missionaries! They worked in our yard and the Widow Houses yard and helped clear out a sun room for them!! It was a lot of stuff that would have taken MUCH longer to take care of if not for their hard work!")
-Quin Tuma

 

Man that's one thing we were taught how to do well! got to love picking rock's lol

 

what a stud!  got to love Kasia behind him, she could totally be a sister of ours :)

 

Working hard and being silly, both things Elder Cox knows how to do well!

 

Looking good Elder's

 

the Elders cleaning up the yard with Jordan, Kasia and Jayden

Kimber,
WOW your busy busy! I miss it down there, I just want to go four wheeling and have my truck, I miss my truck a lot! ha ha It sounds like your having a lot of fun with thoughs termites, have you started naming them yet? You could make them pets and you could have a Linda jr. ha ha I met a lady named Linda the other day and all I could think about was you, it was great. Well I love your guts don't have two much fun. Elder Cox

Mom,
 The yard looks weird, but I bet it's nice for all the day care kids to have all the extra room.  Well yes they do the forth over here really good, fireworks till 2 in the morning! I got very little sleep but that's ok, it was fun. Well I sent you a package today with a backpack, one of my pairs of long johns and I don't remember what else. It was quite full and made the box not square, so they said that you might have to pay some when you get it because I made it bigger than the flat rate size sorry. But it should be there Thursday. I cant believe that dad is getting his silver beaver, that is so cool it should be awesome! I love you all so so much!! Elder Cox

Hey dad,

Thanks for the story its a good one, and I have seen that. I think its funny cuz we have had all this success lately, and our zone leader asked us how we were doing it. I have a really big reputation for doing a lot of service and that's what I told him, "you got to serve them and do it well." They all give me crap that I don't want to teach, but I do just like to serve people. I got to build about half mile of fence the other day, also made three cow pens, and I fixed the a/c in a members car, then I fix a lawn mower and a weed eater all in a few days.  I mowed like four lawns this week too!! Well I'm getting a new companion tomorrow and I am not very happy about it. I really get along with Elder Neilsen very well, and it turns out he is like my 5th cousin!! ha ha but I'm very sad to see him go, plus it is always hard when you get a new guy. Everyone thinks I'm going to ether start training someone, or become a D.L. but I am not sure, ahhh its stressful but we will see what happens.

Love you so much Elder Cox

(a big thank you to sister Knotts for the picture of elder cox and his new comp)

 

New Elder Ma'nos!! and crazy Elder Cox!!! Welcome to Connersville

A great week with a little oops in it

 

 

 

Well a lot of stuff happened this week that I was not expecting, we did have our two baptisms though !!!! That was super fun, they were oh so spiritual. The guy that was a drunk finally kicked it and he got up and bore his testimony,  I think it was one of the strongest testimony's that I have ever heard it was crazy. I guess if your willing to stick with it for 5 years, you grow a pretty strong testimony. It sounds like you guys are having a ball over there, I miss all the everyday things some times. I was looking last night before bed and I have been out here for 204 ish days, 3 more transfers till I have been out a year mom!!!  It's flying by, but dragging at the same time. I feel like I am never coming home, it feels so far away but at the same time I can't believe that I have been out this long already. It feels like this is my new job, and that it's just a permanent thing.

 Well some other unexpected things were, I hit a squirrel on my bike! That was cool, and of cores I cut its tail off and have it tanning in our apartment. I am having such a great time here in Connersville, the ward of 50 is awesome. I get feed every night, and a member even goes shopping for us. That family we hang out with a lot makes it easier to, she reminds me of Kasey but here husband reminds me of Justin. Her son and daughters are the best, they all clam me as brother, and son at that house. Another crazy thing is I got some fire crackers! Back home Joey and I threw them in his toilet, and it didn't do anything. I threw one in our toilet and.... I will let the picture explain, let just say I have a really nice apartment manager!!! ha ha other than that, doing pretty awesome.

 I love you!

 

 

Fun day sunday

How is my mommy doing?, ​

 I am doing great and the baptism just got moved to the 28th, so this next week I will send pictures. Plus the other guy that fell of the wagon, is now going to get baptized on the 27th, So its going to be a busy weekend!!! ha ha Well it looks like you guys had a blast at family reunion, I am sad that I missed out but I know that there will be plenty more, other than that it has just been going smooth. I have had a crazy week though I went up to Anderson IN for an exchange wed then came home and unpacked, then I got a call and got sent to Richmond IN the next day. Its been crazy everybody trying to get there exchanges in I guess. Well I had a crazy dream this morning I dreamed that Kim Riddle pulled me over for running a red light, and told me "park your truck, I am taking you to your dad!!" ha ha I was like pleading, "no no!!!" ha ha It was funny. Well I am going back to Richmond today to have a P-day up there, we are going to go fishing its going to be awesome I cant wait. Well I hope you have a lot of fun with your screaming babies.

 I love you mom

 

 

 Back at Jorden's aunt's house

(we love them, that's two week's they have had them over and posted pictures on Facebook)