March 18, 2009

hey everyone.this week been pretty intersting. i arrived in farmville and its a city compared to wakefield. it's still considered country but it seems more like a city. there alot of food places, alot of stores, including walmart. there is two small unvinsities there. so thats most of the exciting things i know of here. the branch is small like wakefield, we meet in an old store, werid huh. but it's alot of older people here. oh yes there is someone from the branch that is serving in chad's mission. so could ask ask chad if he reconizes the name Elder Zeledon. so exciting news. oh yes, i keep forgetting, i haven't heard yet what areas Todd served in, so maybe you could ask them again. thanks.so now for my companions, Elder Nuegebauer, is a convert. his parents joined when he was ten. he's from Billings, Montana. Elder Malone is from mesa, arizona. so you already know about him. yes he is the one, the likes Hannah Montana. so thats the brief of them. its kind of funny, we served in the same zone for 4 and 1/2 months. so its kind of funny were together now. well i hope that Grace gets to come home soon. Can't wait to meet her when i get home. but i can wait. don't worry. oh yes, we also replaced the missionaries that were here. so all three of us are brand new. on thursday we arrived at transfers, we had to wait till the evening until Elder Malone came up from cheasepeake. i also found out that three of my district from the MTC are zone leaders now. elder Peacock, Elder Beames, and Elder Peterson. so pretty crazy. then we had a ride with President Nyce to farmville. we border two different missions. there is a memebr hear who is a modern-day Job. he was involved in a very serious accident and he is on bedrest. they had to reattach his legs, and has lost alot of use of his limbs. but he has a powerful testimony and is an amazing guy. it was such a spiritual time when we were there. alot of this week, we've been trying to find investigators and the ones they were working with. most of them have been annoying trying to find. because there addresses have been wrong. so not to much fun. on monday we had a lesson with a pentecostal preacher. he understood alot of it, but just has a hard time beliving in the church. but were going to help him. okay now for the important thing. my address is 912 #B, Farmville, 23901.i'm going to miss wakefield, i was almost in tears when i left. but i'm going to give it my all here as well. well the first year has flown buy. it's been alot of fun here. i have seen alot of miracles and seen the Lord Hand in this work. i'm loving this. well take care

March 11, 2009

so transfer were last night and i found out that i'm headed to another Branch. I'm headed to Farmville. it's a small town, in the country that has two collages. so i'm headed to a collage town. so that the news here. elder slaibury served there for six weeks and told me a lot about it. then there are also two new missionaries coming here. one of them is a spanish speaking elder. so thats the news here, there replacing me with two elders. my new companions names are Elder Neugabauer, and Elder Malone. so some pretty cool news. well tell grandma to get feeling better, i was feeling a little sick this week, but that was mostly the drastic change in the weather. it went from snow on monday to the 80's by friday. only a little change. sounds like Grace is doing great, hope she gets to come home soon. well now for the other news for the week. all last week again nothing happened. we would have rather had everything fall apart than that. elder salsibury described it to our district leader, it's like a hmaster running around in a wheel, you don't go anywhere. but we had a baptism so we were really excited about that. it was pretty awesome. on thursday chelsea got broncitis so we were not to happy, so we went by and gave her a blessing and she on saturday felt good enough to be baptized. it was awesome. then this week alot of great things happened. so far this week we had more going on then anything else. it's been great. well i'll let you know about the area when i write next week, or you'll probably look it up. i also border the mission boundry. but take care. take to you later and tell everyone hi for me.

We have Snow

yeah, all of virginia has snow. just to let you know how bad it was, they had all missionaries go in early sunday night. mostly it rained all day, alot of standing water and then it changed to snow. we got about two inches though. but heard richmond had 6 or more. they had us stay in till the storm passed the next day, mostly because people in virginia have no idea how to drive in it, so it was just percaution. school was cancelled all over the state. but hey I got to shovel snow to this year. we did that as we went out that day. pretty fun. well next time you see Chad tell him hi for me. wow, Grace sounds like she's getting big, pretty cool. no i didn't know that charnelle was getting married, thats great. well just to let you know, mostly everything is good right now, the only problem right know are my shoes. so probably the best thing to do is put some money on my debit card for it and then i'll wait tell i can get to a place that has shoes. right know we don't hvae anything here. but transfers are next week so hopefully soon. well this week has been a trial filled week. we had almost nothing happen for most of the week. the best news is that we have a baptism on saturday for Chelsea. my first one that is not an unbaptized youth. so i'm excited. but the other highlight was sunday, we had three investigators at church. chelsea, and the stewarts. fast and testimony meeting was powerful, alot of conversion stories, and such, then at the end bro. stewart got up and bore his as well. it was amazing. it was so cool. now for a funny story, i forgot to tell you this last week. we had just turned left on a street and then we saw flashing red and blue lights. we pulled over and we thought oh no, i start going for the registraion, and elder salisbury rolled down the window. he asked the normal and then he said, eyes forward, hands on steering wheel. we give him the stuff and he then aks, how much have you had to drink tonight. elder salisbury, said none. the officer responded, why do i then smell alcohol . we both looked at each and he said say what. then the officer starts laughing and that's when elder salisbury noticed who it was. it was a member in one of his old areas. he said as soon as he saw us he knew he had to. thinking back nowit was funny, but elder salisbury didn't like it to well. just a funny story for youwell i hope that everything goes well at the doctors. well i'll talk to you later, i'll let you know next week about transfers.