Jane's note: Sorry, I haven't updated in a long time, but this should have it all caught up.
well to answer your question real quick, you didn't ask me if i needed anything for christmas. i could use another pair of black slacks. other than that i don't really need anything. i'm doing good other than that. i keep forgettiong to ask about that guy, a few months ago i saw it in the newspaper as i walked by. he is actually from Vcu not virginia tech. (Mom comment---he's talking about the Jazz Player--Eric Maynor).
well for my bike i have a really sad story with that. right now for my bike i need a new rim, so thats the only hold up, as for the story, i've been borrowing a member bike and on saturday the derailer snapped. (thats what changes gears in the back) so on sunday we borrowed another members bike and the chain snapped before we even went a mile. so i have had really bad luck this week. but verything is fixable, so nothing to bad. so for right now, i've taken a tire off the first members bike and placed it on mine. so should get them fixed soon.
yes we got invirted almost a month ago to thanksgiving. it's with a fmaily named the lewis's. actually kind of funny story with them, they have us over almost weekly for dinner and every sunday her daughter comes and asks us what we would like. so the funny thing is is some members are starting to give elder karpowitz a hard time about her. mostly it is vallery and jason, and tabby and jason smith. i even get into it at times.
so for for this week the news is, we set vallery for baptism last night. she still has some things she needs to overcome but i'm certain she can do it, she almost quick smoking all by herself. so thats some really good news. so a few weeks ago i told about the member who was in the hospital and he is doing much better, he's in a nursing home now, but he has a staph infetcion in his knee, so once the infection is gone he's going to get a knee replacement. sorry i don't have to much news for you this week, i sturggling to remember all that we did. it was a busy week. and this week has as well. but have fun with thanksgiving it should be good. take care
Saturday, November 28, 2009
October 18, 2009
so we just had transfer calls last night, and i'm still staying here. in fact i'm going to be elder karpowitz's longest companion. so pretty strange feeling if you ask me. we were really expecting me to go, but it didn't. so i should be here through christmas. thats great the marilyn got married, thats some good news, as well as all the new babies as well. but dylan has himself a truck... thats crazy. i didn't even think he was old enough to drive. i'm getting old. but tell colten congradulations on his mission call. he's going to love it. but i'm glad that jill is doing better, defiantly glad to hear that.
well this week was intresting. on wensday it rained, it was a cold rain, and it stayed for 3 days. it was a steady, cold rain. we even had to change a sisters tire in the rain for her. so it was a pretty wet week. but it's been fine now. so an update with vallery, she is moving out on thursday. she is going to live with her parents, who are anti, but i'm sure she should do fine, she already making plans to met with missionaries up there. sunday michelle came to church and loved it this time, last time, she couldn't hear anything but this time she and her kids enjoyed it. so very much on the plus side. well thats about it for this week. things are doing good here on this end. well take care and have a blast with thanksgiving. have fun.
well this week was intresting. on wensday it rained, it was a cold rain, and it stayed for 3 days. it was a steady, cold rain. we even had to change a sisters tire in the rain for her. so it was a pretty wet week. but it's been fine now. so an update with vallery, she is moving out on thursday. she is going to live with her parents, who are anti, but i'm sure she should do fine, she already making plans to met with missionaries up there. sunday michelle came to church and loved it this time, last time, she couldn't hear anything but this time she and her kids enjoyed it. so very much on the plus side. well thats about it for this week. things are doing good here on this end. well take care and have a blast with thanksgiving. have fun.
November 10, 2009
yeah, we found out yesterday p-day was moved to tuesday this week. beacue of veterans day. so i quess i wont hear from you this week. anyways things have been going all right here. i got round two of a cold, but thats doing much better now. nightquil done the trick there. i also made chili last week. it turned out okay, still could use some work but it's getting better, i even put green peppers in it. going back to my bike, last week the axle broke, and so we took it to a member to fix it, and he's good but he says it's shot. so sometime i need to get a new rim. so hopefully that can get done soon. in the meantime i'm borrowing another members bike.
so for this week we found out one of our investigators named michelle got the swine flu, she's doing better, she was able to make it to church on sunday so that was good news. then we also found out this week that a member who weve helping out alot is in the hospital. his knee is is rough shape. he can barley move it without it hurting. but hopefully he can get out soon. on saturday jason and vallery, and preston were all sick. so it's been a ver7y sick week for alot of people. we only hyad one branch presidency member there at church on sunday. but things have been doing better here on this end though.
yesterday we saw jason and tabby and theyre doing great. there preparing for the temple and i'm sure they'll make it. now for the funny stopry for the week. so we live in the byrds basement and they have two kids, the youngest is named roger and he's about 2. and he's a blast, he is very friendly and you never see him without a smile. well yesterday morning we just woke up and i started to stretch before morning workout and and i start hearing a thumping sound. about the time i get up to see what it is, roger opened the door and peeked out from around it and said, hi, elders. it was so funny. he came down three times that morning. each time he came down just to see us. it was funny. well i should be emailing next week on wensday, anyways take care, and have fun, hoep everything goes well.
so for this week we found out one of our investigators named michelle got the swine flu, she's doing better, she was able to make it to church on sunday so that was good news. then we also found out this week that a member who weve helping out alot is in the hospital. his knee is is rough shape. he can barley move it without it hurting. but hopefully he can get out soon. on saturday jason and vallery, and preston were all sick. so it's been a ver7y sick week for alot of people. we only hyad one branch presidency member there at church on sunday. but things have been doing better here on this end though.
yesterday we saw jason and tabby and theyre doing great. there preparing for the temple and i'm sure they'll make it. now for the funny stopry for the week. so we live in the byrds basement and they have two kids, the youngest is named roger and he's about 2. and he's a blast, he is very friendly and you never see him without a smile. well yesterday morning we just woke up and i started to stretch before morning workout and and i start hearing a thumping sound. about the time i get up to see what it is, roger opened the door and peeked out from around it and said, hi, elders. it was so funny. he came down three times that morning. each time he came down just to see us. it was funny. well i should be emailing next week on wensday, anyways take care, and have fun, hoep everything goes well.
November 4, 2009
hey thanks for the pitcures, it was great seeing them again. they sure are getting big. yeah pitcures work here, but down in burkeville the computers there weren't the best. most areas aren't that bad. wow. sounds like woods cross is doing really good this year. so how did they overall do in the regular season.
yeah we didn't get any trick or treaters this time at the byrds house, mostly because we live down a mile long driveway. so for this week i've had some intersting stories. on friday we had zone confernce, and it was great. then afterwards we had exchnages with the zone leaders, i went to downtown richmond. i went with elder hoopes, who actually plays collage basketball for SUU. name sure fits huh. it was werid being there. it feels so differnt from louisa. different atmsophere. but the funniest part is that all the people there are scared about the swine flu. it's just a rougher area, just has alot of gangs and things and everytime i coughed, they all got scared and asked if i had the virius. it was differnt.
then for halloween, we had alot of finding, and then we went to the branch halloween party. they did a boxer treat. basically you designed a box and basically it's the same as trunker treat. then we went in a 6 and planned, that was basically it for us.
monday we taught jason and tabby again. and it was crazy, all there kids were bouncing of walls so it made it tough to teach. but the funniest part was there youngest son named will, he put on this mask and it was haning around his neck and was trying to scare people with it. it was funny, at first he was petrified of it, but he loved scaring people with it. it was pretty funny. then yesterday we had a district meeting and went very well, then i went on exchnages with an elder named elder sparrow. it was fun. so we had fun week. things are doing well here and it's been great. well take care and have fun. oh yes, real quick, my bike is having problems again. the axle broke on monday, which i think was a blessing in disquise, because if it happened last week we would have been screwed. we were very tight on miles. but i have the parts to fix it, so shouldn't be to tough. well take care
yeah we didn't get any trick or treaters this time at the byrds house, mostly because we live down a mile long driveway. so for this week i've had some intersting stories. on friday we had zone confernce, and it was great. then afterwards we had exchnages with the zone leaders, i went to downtown richmond. i went with elder hoopes, who actually plays collage basketball for SUU. name sure fits huh. it was werid being there. it feels so differnt from louisa. different atmsophere. but the funniest part is that all the people there are scared about the swine flu. it's just a rougher area, just has alot of gangs and things and everytime i coughed, they all got scared and asked if i had the virius. it was differnt.
then for halloween, we had alot of finding, and then we went to the branch halloween party. they did a boxer treat. basically you designed a box and basically it's the same as trunker treat. then we went in a 6 and planned, that was basically it for us.
monday we taught jason and tabby again. and it was crazy, all there kids were bouncing of walls so it made it tough to teach. but the funniest part was there youngest son named will, he put on this mask and it was haning around his neck and was trying to scare people with it. it was funny, at first he was petrified of it, but he loved scaring people with it. it was pretty funny. then yesterday we had a district meeting and went very well, then i went on exchnages with an elder named elder sparrow. it was fun. so we had fun week. things are doing well here and it's been great. well take care and have fun. oh yes, real quick, my bike is having problems again. the axle broke on monday, which i think was a blessing in disquise, because if it happened last week we would have been screwed. we were very tight on miles. but i have the parts to fix it, so shouldn't be to tough. well take care
October 28, 2009
well this week was pretty intesrting. it was full of alot of differnt things. yes, don't worry i did get the package and the birhday card. i enjoyed them. so it's been snowing alot, here we've just had rain. i think people thought we were crazy saturday. we were about five miles down the road when a huge downpour started. we were soaked. we got in a couple of them that day, so not to much fun. oh yes, i talked to pres. millburn this past week and i asked about what it is you need to do? and this is what he said, that in about four or six weeks. the church normally sends a letter explaining about the missionary coming home and stuff like that. and apparently you fill something out that comes in that if you want to pick them up. so should be recieving something in the next few weeks.
well for us this week, we saw a member thursday who hasn't been feeling the best, so we went by and found out she has the swine flu. so we gave her a blessing and so far looks like we haven't caught it. so thats been on the plus side. then friday we saw jason and tabby again, and she's doing great. she is loving life right now. so it's been going great. so for by brithday on sunday, elder karpowitz kept telling everyone it was my birthday, i was just keeping it quiet. but other than that we had lunch with the swinson's, our branch mission leader, and then did alot of finding, and that was about it. but on monday we had a lesson with jason and vallery and they even made a cake for my birthday, but i swear they had to put trick candles on it, because they would not blow out. it took about 4 tries to blow them all out. but thats been my life this week. haven't had to much exciting.
but sounds like the new tv should be nice, i thought we had already gotten rid of that old tv. and thanks for the cookies they were great. i loved them and so did elder karpowitz. i also got a letter from the young women this week but don't know the reasoning behind it at all other than a friendly note. well take care, and have fun.
well for us this week, we saw a member thursday who hasn't been feeling the best, so we went by and found out she has the swine flu. so we gave her a blessing and so far looks like we haven't caught it. so thats been on the plus side. then friday we saw jason and tabby again, and she's doing great. she is loving life right now. so it's been going great. so for by brithday on sunday, elder karpowitz kept telling everyone it was my birthday, i was just keeping it quiet. but other than that we had lunch with the swinson's, our branch mission leader, and then did alot of finding, and that was about it. but on monday we had a lesson with jason and vallery and they even made a cake for my birthday, but i swear they had to put trick candles on it, because they would not blow out. it took about 4 tries to blow them all out. but thats been my life this week. haven't had to much exciting.
but sounds like the new tv should be nice, i thought we had already gotten rid of that old tv. and thanks for the cookies they were great. i loved them and so did elder karpowitz. i also got a letter from the young women this week but don't know the reasoning behind it at all other than a friendly note. well take care, and have fun.
October 21, 2009
hey everyoneyeah this week was pretty intersting, it was cold for alot it but it's warmed up alot now. but i am feeling much better now. so some really good news. sounds like that banquet was awesome, it's kind of funny you heard bishop edgely speak and we had elder kenneth johnson speak to usthe very next day. it was great. mission confernce was not at all as i expected it. a little background of elder johnson is he is from england and was a convert at age 18. he's pretty much a comedian, he was making jokes left and right. he was just bursting full of enengy. everyone we've talked to loved it. he talked alot about teaching with your testimony, teaching with the spirit and things like that. it was great. he even made the joke he had everyone come up and shake his hand and introduce themselves. when he i told him my name he said, oh so your the one speaking today? it was a great experince, learned alot from that confernce.
well for our week we had a lot of crazy things happen. between weddings, baptisms, and funerals we were very busy. your probably wondering why i said funeral, this is the reason why. a member here named sis riddle, after we finished visting her, as we left we forgot to lock the gate behind us and her dogs got out, and one got hit by a car. i felt so bad about we volenteered to bury her dog for her. we felt so bad. but on a brighter note, tabby got married and baptized on saturday. it was great. it was pretty much at the last minute mostly because jason had a problem with getting a copy of his divorce papers, but once he got them it went great. we had basically two days to get verything planned, so we were gald when it was done. but everything went well. and one other thing, i made those homeade peanut butter cups to the baptism and they were a hit. everyone loved them. alot of people were telling me i need to get them the recipe. so tell grandma that they were a hit.
the last night we taught vallery and jason again and there doing awesome. vallery cancelled a trip to north carolina with her mom beause she wanted to go to church. her mom is very anti against the church and wasn't to happy. but that was a big step for her because thats what's held her back for a while now. but she knows this is true, now the only hold up is marriage but we have no idea how that is going to work right now. so it's still work in progress. other than losing that one dog this week has been great. we learned a ton from elder johnson and now it's trying to apply everything that was taught there. thats the challenge. but good to hear from you again, well take care, and have fun. next time i email, i'll be 21.
well for our week we had a lot of crazy things happen. between weddings, baptisms, and funerals we were very busy. your probably wondering why i said funeral, this is the reason why. a member here named sis riddle, after we finished visting her, as we left we forgot to lock the gate behind us and her dogs got out, and one got hit by a car. i felt so bad about we volenteered to bury her dog for her. we felt so bad. but on a brighter note, tabby got married and baptized on saturday. it was great. it was pretty much at the last minute mostly because jason had a problem with getting a copy of his divorce papers, but once he got them it went great. we had basically two days to get verything planned, so we were gald when it was done. but everything went well. and one other thing, i made those homeade peanut butter cups to the baptism and they were a hit. everyone loved them. alot of people were telling me i need to get them the recipe. so tell grandma that they were a hit.
the last night we taught vallery and jason again and there doing awesome. vallery cancelled a trip to north carolina with her mom beause she wanted to go to church. her mom is very anti against the church and wasn't to happy. but that was a big step for her because thats what's held her back for a while now. but she knows this is true, now the only hold up is marriage but we have no idea how that is going to work right now. so it's still work in progress. other than losing that one dog this week has been great. we learned a ton from elder johnson and now it's trying to apply everything that was taught there. thats the challenge. but good to hear from you again, well take care, and have fun. next time i email, i'll be 21.
October 14, 2009
hey everyonei hope that everything is going well thereas for myself, i've been sick this past week. mostly it's been a cold with really bad congestion. it's been very annoying. but i've been doing good other than that.
as for right now we should be having the baptism on saturday, and were both really excited for it. so how was the banquet last night? i think that would be fun to be there, and good food as well. i can't belive how fast halloween is here. i can't belive it's been almost a year. time is going way fast. yeah i heard the dolphins back up has really come form nowhere. i heard he really is looking good. yesterday we taught vallery and jason and there big football fans. so they usually talk alot about football. she is a big 49ers fan and she also likes the redskins which is the big team here. so usually hear alot from them.
so funny story for the week. we had stake confernce this past weekend and we called and asked if were suppossed to go to the priesthood leadership and adult sessions of stake confernce. one of zone leaders said, yes you should go. so we went and went to the leadership meeting and afterwards we called the zone leaders because they needed one of our beds and we called and told them were at the priesthood meeting where are you? we talked to the other one and found out we didn't need to be at the priesthood meeting. oops.. oh well we still learned some good things from it. but stake confernce was really good it had a lot about missionary work and about strengthing our families. it was really good. we had a slow week, but it was filled with service opprunties. we had to move quite a few things for members who needed help. so it felt good to help them and we've had a good week. well hope that everything goes well. take care and have fun.
as for right now we should be having the baptism on saturday, and were both really excited for it. so how was the banquet last night? i think that would be fun to be there, and good food as well. i can't belive how fast halloween is here. i can't belive it's been almost a year. time is going way fast. yeah i heard the dolphins back up has really come form nowhere. i heard he really is looking good. yesterday we taught vallery and jason and there big football fans. so they usually talk alot about football. she is a big 49ers fan and she also likes the redskins which is the big team here. so usually hear alot from them.
so funny story for the week. we had stake confernce this past weekend and we called and asked if were suppossed to go to the priesthood leadership and adult sessions of stake confernce. one of zone leaders said, yes you should go. so we went and went to the leadership meeting and afterwards we called the zone leaders because they needed one of our beds and we called and told them were at the priesthood meeting where are you? we talked to the other one and found out we didn't need to be at the priesthood meeting. oops.. oh well we still learned some good things from it. but stake confernce was really good it had a lot about missionary work and about strengthing our families. it was really good. we had a slow week, but it was filled with service opprunties. we had to move quite a few things for members who needed help. so it felt good to help them and we've had a good week. well hope that everything goes well. take care and have fun.
October 7, 2009
yeah i was pretty excited to hear that brigham city was reciving a temple. i was also crossing my fingers for one in Richmond but brigham city was cool. i always thought when i was younger there was a temple there, so pretty cool theres one there now. yeah we did not get to have any ice cream this time. we didn't have the time. we spent the night at the scotchtown elders place and we didn't get in till 10:30. so by then we were very tired and had no time to. but i enjoyed confernce of what i was able to see. the reception at scotchtown wasn't the best and it cut in and out all the time. but we had alot of good talks that we did see. elder hollands was powerful and then the first session alot of talks seemed to speak towards me. it was great.
thats sad about jills hamster. i'll be sure to write her today. elder karpowitz is from salt lake, near sugar house. he loves football and just loves giving people a hard time. he's been out about a year. last night was transfer calls and were staying together another transfer. in fact at the end of this transfer i will be his his 2nd longest companion. i'll be tied with his trainer. and you asked about for my birthday, right now the most i need is socks and some more garments. so thats all that i really could use.
so i have a funny story to share, last firday we were at jason's and vallery's having dinner and as we were eating, our phone starting ringing. elder karpowitz pulls it out to silence it and it said it was coming from jason. he made the comment, your calling me. then we heard Preston, there son start laughing and he was holding his cell phone. the funny part is he's almost two and from all the people he could have called, he called us. it was pretty funny. but other than that not tomuch news i know of to say, other than we've had alot of fun and had a lot of fun expriences. oh yes, jason and tabby another couple were working with should be getting baptized on the 17th. were looking forward to that. well my bike is fixed now too. it's been fixed for a few weeks now, i just keep forgetting to say something. well sorry if this isn't to long but hope everything is going good, well take care. Elder S. Johnson
oh just another thing, i think dad might be intersted in hearing. so for hunting in virginia, theyre pretty lazy. they climb up into a tree stand and send the hounds out to chase them out and then they shoot um. and they tend to do it in hunt clubs. so it 's kind of a cheap way it you ask me. well that's it. well take care
thats sad about jills hamster. i'll be sure to write her today. elder karpowitz is from salt lake, near sugar house. he loves football and just loves giving people a hard time. he's been out about a year. last night was transfer calls and were staying together another transfer. in fact at the end of this transfer i will be his his 2nd longest companion. i'll be tied with his trainer. and you asked about for my birthday, right now the most i need is socks and some more garments. so thats all that i really could use.
so i have a funny story to share, last firday we were at jason's and vallery's having dinner and as we were eating, our phone starting ringing. elder karpowitz pulls it out to silence it and it said it was coming from jason. he made the comment, your calling me. then we heard Preston, there son start laughing and he was holding his cell phone. the funny part is he's almost two and from all the people he could have called, he called us. it was pretty funny. but other than that not tomuch news i know of to say, other than we've had alot of fun and had a lot of fun expriences. oh yes, jason and tabby another couple were working with should be getting baptized on the 17th. were looking forward to that. well my bike is fixed now too. it's been fixed for a few weeks now, i just keep forgetting to say something. well sorry if this isn't to long but hope everything is going good, well take care. Elder S. Johnson
oh just another thing, i think dad might be intersted in hearing. so for hunting in virginia, theyre pretty lazy. they climb up into a tree stand and send the hounds out to chase them out and then they shoot um. and they tend to do it in hunt clubs. so it 's kind of a cheap way it you ask me. well that's it. well take care
September 30, 2009
wow, woods cross is doing pretty good this year. yeah i remember wendover's airshows, that they usually had to look towardthe sun with it, so that was not always fun. but did see part of an airshow a few weeks ago here. yeah we had a a cool weather pattern satrt for us, it was in the 80's and next day the sixties. yes i did get robby's wedding announcement, so it was good. it's been kind of funny between the two of us we have 4 wedding announcemnts. three of them go every week. so elder wangemann got married last friday, and now it will be robby, and then next week it's his cousin.
yeah i'll be fine with you picking me up, i thought that was the plan. so i don't know much else about it right now, so i'll write him today and ask about it. or you could too. so last friday we were able to teach vallery and we talked alot about trials and overcoming them. it was a great lesson, spirit was very strong there. she wasn't able to come to church mostl;y because he son was kepping her up the night before. but she's really excited for us to come over this week. so it's been great.
sunday we had the primary program and it was really funny. me and elder karpowitz were laughing at some parts. theres a family we've been working with, the mom not's a member and there oldest son leroy was up there and was it was funny watching him doing this one song, it was one where there was signs in the song, and he kept the whole time doing the same one. it was funny. but the best part is his younger brother whoses about three went up on stage and said, i know i'm not to be up here, but i want to. then on the primary leaders let him sit next to him and he was just fine the whole time.
saturday we biked in the rain all day so that wasn't to much fun, but we actually found alot of sucess that day, so went good. i'm sure looking forward to confernce this week. it's going to be a blast. i'm looking foward to it. well hope everything goes well at robby's reception, and have fun.
yeah i'll be fine with you picking me up, i thought that was the plan. so i don't know much else about it right now, so i'll write him today and ask about it. or you could too. so last friday we were able to teach vallery and we talked alot about trials and overcoming them. it was a great lesson, spirit was very strong there. she wasn't able to come to church mostl;y because he son was kepping her up the night before. but she's really excited for us to come over this week. so it's been great.
sunday we had the primary program and it was really funny. me and elder karpowitz were laughing at some parts. theres a family we've been working with, the mom not's a member and there oldest son leroy was up there and was it was funny watching him doing this one song, it was one where there was signs in the song, and he kept the whole time doing the same one. it was funny. but the best part is his younger brother whoses about three went up on stage and said, i know i'm not to be up here, but i want to. then on the primary leaders let him sit next to him and he was just fine the whole time.
saturday we biked in the rain all day so that wasn't to much fun, but we actually found alot of sucess that day, so went good. i'm sure looking forward to confernce this week. it's going to be a blast. i'm looking foward to it. well hope everything goes well at robby's reception, and have fun.
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