August 12, 2009

well i'm glad to hear that everything went good with the surgery. it kind of suprismed me to hear about it, i was riding an email from tiff and read that mom had surgery, took me off by suprise. but anyways glad to her that everything is going better. wow, i can't believe that grace is almost 7 months now. it doesn't seem like it's been that long. still feels like the other day that i emailed. we've had a couple of really warms days lately. we had a few days where we were just roasting. well on thursday we took the car to colonial heights to find out that they don't have the cable to replace for the recall, so were supposed to get a letter when the part arrives, so for now we still have the car, but the person in charge of the cars has told us if anything happens they'll switch the car for us, so it's been good. then we had a lesson with someone named george toth. he's awesome, he talks alot, and gets on alot of tangets but he asked us a lot of questions, which we could answer, such as the spirit world and such. it was great. then we had a district mtg the next day and went on exchanges with elder rodgerson, one of our zone leaders. it went very well. it was great. then sunday was a very discouraging day, kevin and sarah did not come to church and we spent most of the day with things falling through. then the next day we found out that kevin's mom was in the hopital with a very bad infection in her foot. she is also diabetic, and they had to remove three toes. they hope they got it all or else she will be losing more of her foot. so they've had some rough times start showing up, but we should be teaching them again on saturday. then yesterday we had another day of running all over the area, it was fun though, plus got to stay out of the heat. well i don't know to much more to say, things have been going very well here. things have really been moving along here. well take care, hope that evrything goes well with your recovery. i love you all so much

August 5, 20009

wow, jill and jason broke up, that was a shocker. but sounds like it was a good thing. also it was suprising to hear that james and mitch are elders now, mostly it helping me realize how long i have been out. time is just flying by. i'm starting to wonder where it's going, it felt like yesterday i emailed. it's crazy. sounds like you all had a blast at the reunion, oh yes, i keep forgetting to say this, one of the new things i've tried is goats milk. it's actually really good. theres a member here that has a milking goat and gave us some to try. very time time we go back they ask us if we want some. i say sure. well no scary weather experinces for this week. just so you know. well we had a very intersting week. we taught kevin and sarah again, theyre doing great. there just taking everything in. sarah even came to church even though her boyfriend was sick. she called for a ride and came. it was really great. then saturday we did alot of walking out in the country, mostly due to elder hinds bike needed some repairs. not much happened, just saw a lot of cornfeilds and heat was not fun. but then we had a lesson with the cathey's a member family that way and they had some intestring stories they told us. bro. cathey told us of how he came into the church, and said, that missionaries came looking for his wife, and he kept saying she wasn't here, and a fter a few weeks, they finally ask if they could share a message with them. he agrees. and then when it came to being baptized he didn't tell his wife at all just said, there was an activity going on at the church. so they both go and turns out it was his baptism. she was very much taken by suprise. then yesterday we found out that our new car has had a recall on it. so tommorrow we have to take it in. apparently theres a problem with the parking gear, that it hasn't been working, it's worked for us, they just want to inspect it. so no big worries there. then the rest of the day we went all over the area teaching lessons, it was a busy day, we loved it, espically after the slow week we had last week. well it was good to hear from all of you. things are doing great. well hope everything goes well and take care.

July 29, 2009

hey everyonesounds like you all had a fun week, we did here. yeah we had tornado weather again belive it or not, but we luckily were on the good side. it was in amelia, all we knew was we were talking with a guy on the porch, and then a storm out of nowhere popped us, and he said, i think you guys needs to get going, we didn't get any rain but elder hines said, it was tornado weather, hopefully i'm not scaring any of you, but i'm fine, don't worry. there an older couple that serving in framville named the fishers, and aparantley her maiden name is rasmussen, so i don't know but we may be related, i think she said she has family in brigham city. so maybe you could find out, i don't know. but that sounds fun, there was one in the branch here a while ago and it was pretty much three familes, that make up most of the branch. the three familes are the daltons, roarks, and adams. wow that activity sounds great, that sounds very fun, wish they did that back then for me. thats sad to hear about brother soelberg, wow it's going to be werid going back there. well for some other stories for you, on thurday we had a lesson with kevin and sarah and it went great. we went over the restoration with them again to make sure they understood and they did. they also made it to church on sunday and they loved it. then monday sarah told us that this is the happiest she's been in a long time. theres alot of potiential there i'm really excited. well were reallyexcited with them. saturday the branch did a fish fry and that was really good, there was a lot of less actives and plenty of members there. it went very well. monday we went over to the johnsons and were going to have sarah and kevin taught in ther home. so thats a plus. there i also found out that wakefield's branch presidency was reorganized. i don't know to much information other the bro. Johnosn's son is the new second councilor. elder Salisbury is still there as well. then yesterday we had our zone confernce and learned much about doing short, powerful lessons. we took alot out of that. pres. millburn also told us how he was called as weel and said that pres. Faust told him your sucess as a mission president will not be determined until 20-30 years later. it depends on how your missionaries will be as parents and grandparents. so that was something i never really thought about. then that night we went on exhcnages and elder neugebauer came down with us. we also set richard for baptism. he's right now scheduled for september 26th. so thats the good news on this end. elder burmister, one the missionaries i came out with is a trooper, he 's been having alot of health problems recntly, but he's still going out strong and he's great. he was just diagnosed with something, i cant remeber what it's called, but he know has to eat alot of fruits and vegatables. he cant have very much fat. well other than that thats the news for us. we've had a lot of things happen this week, and saw lots of miracles. it's been great. it so good to see how much the lord wants to bless us. it's great. well take care, and have fun.

July 22, 2009

hey everyone
so blair is getting married, thats great news. that so good to hear. i'm also glad that grandma is doing better as well. thats some really good news. wow so tiff and dan got to ride in a limo, thats something. well sounds like grace is doing well. thats great to her that everything is fine at the doctors. that sucks about spencer breaking two teeth. thats no fun. but for the drug trafficng , the cloest thing ive seen to that was all the unmarked police cars pulling people over. they always seem to come out of nowhere. luckily were always going the speed limit. this week had some intersting things happen. on thursday we said goodbye to elder hall and he's no out in washington, probably strumming a guitar. that same night i somehow stepped in a nest of ticks. i had about thirty on my leg, that was annoying. then the next day we were headed to victoria, and we got a few miles out of town and we saw some really meaning clouds on the way there, we decided to turn around and get inside, which was a good thing, the lightning was terrible, and it rained fairly heavy and had some nasty hail. a little bit later we found out there was a tornado warnin, i don't know if there was one or not, but all i know, is the clouds were a a mixture between this dark bluish gray with a green tint. but we were fine, excpet for getting a little wet. then we had a great lesson with a couple we met named sarah and kevin. were going to see them again tommorrow. then the next day we went up to amelia, and got a lost, i looked at the wrong road and and by the time i figured it all out we were way off target. so we've had to walk a monday, everywhere, still a little sore from it. but other than that not much more i know of to say. things have been on the slow side this week but they are getting better. well take care, have fun