September 23, 2009

this week was pretty good. yeah i heard that tom brady got beat and byu and utah as well. well it good to hear that dad is doing better, but time sure flying for me as well. i'm also looking forward to general confernce. i'm excited to hear what will be said.

well right now i'm up at richmond actually. we doing p-day uphere. we did exchnages and instead of switching back up we both are staying here. so it's been fun. had fun talking with them, earlier we played frisbee golf and that was great. also this past saturday we had a grounbreaking ceremony for the new church. it was great. there was a really neat story with it, there was a member who was very excited for it and he passed away and they dedicated the groundbreaking to him. he died a few weeks before i got here. it was really cool. the buliding is going to be big from the sounds of it. it suppossed to be able to house two congrogrations. very big for a branch. but everyone is excited about it.

well last thursday a member invited his friend to be taught and he's been reading the Book of Mormon and loving it. it's was a great lesson. then saturday after the groundbreaking we had an awesome lesson with another members friend. very powerful she knows it's true, the only problem is we had to pass her over because she lives in Charlotteseville, but other that that it was great. then sunday had a stake priesthood mtg and we had a great time there. i saw alot of members from Gayton. alot of them thought i had gone home already. they asked me if i was visiting. it was pretty funny. defiantly shows i've been out for a while. so yesterday had a pretty fun time with elder simmons. he was the elder i was on exchanges with. very odd being in city though. theres so many people here. kind of creepy. but it was a really good week. things are really starting to pickup here and it's been great. well take care, and tell everyone hi for me.

September 16, 2009

how is everything going? things here have been on the fair side. bike still needs some work done it, i'm planning to look over it today and do some, but i've been borrowing a bike from a member and thats been fine. yeah sounds good that dad is doing better. i've had cole slaw a few times, but i'm not the biggest fan. but i hear its really good on bbq sandwiches. atleast most places that have them have cole slaw on it.

oh yes, tell the stringhams hi for me too, plus grandma. there actually a missionary out here from tremonten and he says he knows chad. all i know is his name is elder bronson. he had to go home for a while for health problems but he's back out now.

so the normans moved, thats sad, i'm going to miss them, but tell the ward hi for me. so kate has started dancing lessons. wow, she really loves dancing. well for this week, we've had a alot of things happen. i spoke in church on sunday, about missionary work, tied into the plan of salvation. so that i think went allright. things have kind of gone downhill with vallery. she was diagnosed with cervical cancer, and her mom isn't very supportive with the church and it's back to square one again, but she will make it sometime. but for the other couple we've been working with jason and tabby, there oing great. theve been having som troubles lately but what helped out was the member we took with us talked alot of marraige and what caused his marriage to fail. then he went on how to strengthen it, so it went very well. they defiantly needed that. we also visited a member who is really big into the confedrates, and showed us this flag he has thats the title of liberty, sown into a confedrate flag. i'll make sure to send you pitcures. but anyways our week been pretty good. had some bumps in the road, but things have been doing good. i aslo got a wedding announcement from one of my old companions. so that was pretty fun. well take care, and have fun.

September, 2009

well we had an intesrting week, things are starting to cool off but still on the warm side. yeah i heard about byu and utahs game, utah i wasn't to suprised about, but Byu i heard that they did really well. heard that okaholmas quaterback is out for the year now as well. well we actually saw a piece of an airshow on friday. louisa has a small airport and we saw a plane doing the acrobatic tricks, so we figured out what was going on there pretty quickly.

i also found out this past week that next month were having a 70 come out and visit the mission. his name is elder kenneth johnson. so they've been telling us to prepare because he will be doing one on one roleplays with some missionaries. so some exciting news here. well for this week we had a zone mtg on friday and had a good time there, it was a werid feeling thinking i was there a year ago. espcially because one of zone leaders was brand new when i was there last. i also found out i'm the oldest in the zone, that, was very scary, doesn't seem right.

then sunday we had a really cool exprience, we called up jason rodgers to see why he didn't come to church and vallery picked up the phone, and elder karpowitz stared talking to her about football, and then it got on to prayer and said when she came in on tuesday and saw us parying she felt like she was missing out. well she wants to get taught again, so we will be teaching her tommorrow, it's great. then yesterday we had zone confernce and learned a lot of things there. alot about making sure you have love for the people and bringing heaven into the work. it was really powerful, they also gave a copy of a tallk that was for training new mission presidents, that was all about making sure the holy ghost is in everything. Im excited to read the talk.

oh yes, also on saturday, we were drivng down the road and and a car in fron t of us motion us over and he said that a bike fell off the back. i turned back to see that my bike was no longer on it. so it needs some repairs now, not to badly damaged, mostly just scrapped up and such. but still needs some work done, just thought id let you know. anyways take care

September, 2, 2009

hey everyoneyeah things have been great here in Louisa. so brett is getting married, sweet. alot of people i know are right now, bro. wangemann, one of my old companions, and now brett. sounds great. friends with kim too, that's pretty funny. well sounds like it will be fun the singles ward back up. well i'll probably give it a shot. theres been a cold bug moving around here. the bracnh president here is sick as well. or the people we live with. so we actually live with members here, i'm not sure for how long, because they have plans to move back to idaho, so maybe moving out soon, but for now my address is 829 goodwin store louisa, va 23093so about louisa, it's country, right now were meeting in the local high school, but there going to have a grounbreaking ceremony for the new building in a few weeks. so they'll have there own building soon. alot of things are very spaced apart, so my companion elder Karpowitz loves to bike, so we've done alot. he is from salt lake, and he loves sports and hunting. so for a story, we parked the car and went out biking for about 9 miles and he got a flat. so we had to walk all the way back to the car. the worst part is we had little water, and it was about lunch time. so wasn't to fun. but this week we had a lot of intersting things happen, at transfers i saw bro. brockman, formerly elder, and we talked briefly. he actaully ives in newport news now. so i'm may seem him again sometime. it's been pretty fun being her seen someplaces where i've been before on exchanges so its been fun. yesterday we taught jason rodgers and got to see vallery again. just incase uyou don't remember, she was someone me and elder beames met on exchanges. she actually came out to us and said how she had been praying to know what to do, the night before and we knocked on the door the next day. so it was good to see both of them again. she right now got a little bit of cold feet, because after the missionaries started working with her she was diagnosed with bipolar disorder, so she asked for sometime. so hopefully we get to start teaching her soon. well i don't know to much more to say, but good hearing from you, take care, and have fun. and get feeling better

August 26, 2009

well last night was transfer calls and i'm getting transfered. i'm actually going somewhere i have been before on exchanges of course. i'm headed to Louisa. it's kind of funny, about a year ago i left Gayton, and now i'm headed next door to it. my companion is someone i've never heard of, elder cupplets or something like that. i'm sad to leave again i loved it here. so you aksed aout richard and he is still set for the end of september, but it may get pushed back. not sure though. elder hines will have to worry about that. my replacement should be arriving in virginia in a few hours. he's training, so he's excited about that. but i can understand a bit with you not feeling well, i had a few days were i felt a little sick. i think it was mostly i didn't drink enough water. but i'm doing better with that. now for what happened this week. on thursday we taught someone named George toth. he is a great guy, has a lot of questions. the biggest thing is he's a talker, and we brought a member wth us named bro. berryman who is also a talker. so what ended up happening is we got pushed to the side and they both went back and forth. we struggled to get anything in. but it was still a good lesson. then monday we had a lesson with kevin and sarah. they lesson went very well. were we quite nervous going in there, because we were going to teach the law of chastity and word of wisdom, but they accepted it and they should be set soon, unfornately i wont be able to. then we taught richard last night and he's doing great. last night he made a comment this is the only church he's every been to that explains everything. he's solid, he going to be baptized, i'm sure of that, he even gave a friend of his a book of mormon sunday. i'm sure going to miss them. richard, sarah, and kevin are all great. well i don't know to much more to say, but i'll let you know my new address next week, and much more. well take care, and have fun.

August 19, 2009

hey everyoneyeah this week has moved by quickly once again. its crazy how fast things are going. but it great that everything is going well at mom recovery. and grandma's too. wow, sounds like that harry potter clue sounds really fun, i'm starting to get bored of the games elder hines always wants to play. normally chess, and this game that is a lot like sorry. but it's been fine. Sarah and kevin are doing great. kevin's mom should be out of the hospital now and they didn't need to have anymore of her foot taken. now for a funny story, elder neugebauer is leaving tommorrow to go home, so he can get home in time for school. well yesterday he had to get an ingrown toenail removed, so the doctor brings some papers to sign and he reads on it that theres a chance that if it gets infected he may have to lose his toe, foot, or leg possibly. he was fine until that point. so afterwards we had exchanges and the elder there kept giving him a hard time about it. he wasn't to happy. so after we met back up for exchanges we found out that they still had a our phone, in fact we found that out after we got back. so we called them using a payphone and they had to drive back down to give us it. so they weren't to happy. so hopefully it doesn't happen again. but exchnages were good, i was able to go up to farmville again, and i got to see the jones fam again. it was great. last thursday we had interviews with pre. millburn and committed everyone to use a scripture before he asks you to share one with him, well almost everyone failed because as soon as you sat down he asked you. so it did not go to well. well other than that i don't know to much more to say, but take care. everything is going well here, i'm lovin it. well take care