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.
Saturday, November 28, 2009
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.
Thursday, September 24, 2009
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.
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.
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
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
Wednesday, September 2, 2009
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
Monday, August 17, 2009
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
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
Wednesday, July 15, 2009
July 15, 2009
don't worry i did get the email from dad. it was good to hear from dad. well this week as been an intersting one. transfers, i don't know too much about, other than i'm staying here and so is elder hines. it will be just the two of us, so it will be a little differnt but should be fun. i'm glad to hear that grandma is doing better. thats really good news.
well i have a funny story for you, sunday we had dinner with the johnson's, and there son was my branch mission leader in wakefield, there was loking like a storm was going to hit there and bro. johnson needed water for his graden so elder hall joked around and did a rain dance for like 5 seconds, and about five minutes later, a really nasty storm hit. it was crazy, afterwards they joked around and said, it's a good thing he didn't do any more or we would have been blown away. it was really something. we also had quite a few miracles, theres this one less active family that all of the sudden want to come back now, so that was really something.
well i don't know to much more to say other than that i got a letter from Jacob this week, and i found out that he's works on updates for the new family search service, and he also is putting in a bunch of names from brazil. he says it's a blast. well take care, glad to hear from you again. take care
well i have a funny story for you, sunday we had dinner with the johnson's, and there son was my branch mission leader in wakefield, there was loking like a storm was going to hit there and bro. johnson needed water for his graden so elder hall joked around and did a rain dance for like 5 seconds, and about five minutes later, a really nasty storm hit. it was crazy, afterwards they joked around and said, it's a good thing he didn't do any more or we would have been blown away. it was really something. we also had quite a few miracles, theres this one less active family that all of the sudden want to come back now, so that was really something.
well i don't know to much more to say other than that i got a letter from Jacob this week, and i found out that he's works on updates for the new family search service, and he also is putting in a bunch of names from brazil. he says it's a blast. well take care, glad to hear from you again. take care
Saturday, July 11, 2009
July 8, 2009
hey everyone,i'm able to email this week, but we still have terrible interent. they were trying to change internet last week and apparently it didn't work. so hopefully i'm able to email.
well i just heard some good news from elder wangemann. he's engaged. so that was a shock to see this week. it's almost been a year since he went home. but anyways it good to email today. i'm also sending a home a package today so i can get rid of some things, so it's your choice whether to wait to open in 9 months or you can open it. mostly it's letters, cards, and some souvioners. that sucks to hear about sis. thompson, i defiantly write them today. and it good to hear that grandma is doing better. so thats really good news.
we were not able to see any fireworks this past week. so it was a bummer but the branch had a barbque so we went to it and had a good time. i've been fine with the heat, only a few times has been bad, but thoise salt tablets work wonders. well i did hear about that new policy at the Mtc, but i heard what it was like there with the newbies, found out it was actuallly the swine flu, but heard its good now.
friday i was ble to return to Farmville on exhanges, so that was pretty fun, didn't get to see to many memebrs but it was fun. had a good time with elder neugebauer. monday we saw a recent convert named brother McCadams and he is a geniune redneck. he is very intersting, however he always gets into longwinded tangets on politics and stuff, but he also is very much in to food storage, and stuff. in fact he keeps telling us when we get home to make sure we have plenty of food and bullets. yeah he has a lot of guns. but he's a character, a little crazy, but it's fun. i don't know much else to say right off but that things are going really well here. well take care, tell mom to have a good time a shakespeare. take care.
well i just heard some good news from elder wangemann. he's engaged. so that was a shock to see this week. it's almost been a year since he went home. but anyways it good to email today. i'm also sending a home a package today so i can get rid of some things, so it's your choice whether to wait to open in 9 months or you can open it. mostly it's letters, cards, and some souvioners. that sucks to hear about sis. thompson, i defiantly write them today. and it good to hear that grandma is doing better. so thats really good news.
we were not able to see any fireworks this past week. so it was a bummer but the branch had a barbque so we went to it and had a good time. i've been fine with the heat, only a few times has been bad, but thoise salt tablets work wonders. well i did hear about that new policy at the Mtc, but i heard what it was like there with the newbies, found out it was actuallly the swine flu, but heard its good now.
friday i was ble to return to Farmville on exhanges, so that was pretty fun, didn't get to see to many memebrs but it was fun. had a good time with elder neugebauer. monday we saw a recent convert named brother McCadams and he is a geniune redneck. he is very intersting, however he always gets into longwinded tangets on politics and stuff, but he also is very much in to food storage, and stuff. in fact he keeps telling us when we get home to make sure we have plenty of food and bullets. yeah he has a lot of guns. but he's a character, a little crazy, but it's fun. i don't know much else to say right off but that things are going really well here. well take care, tell mom to have a good time a shakespeare. take care.
Letter July 2, 2009
Hey family, as you could probably tell I couldn't email this week. The internet was down today so, I get to write this time. This week was interesting. ONe day we went out with Brother Berryman, and he went out and contacted quite a number of people all over the area. We found success. So we were pretty excited about that. We also had a family named the Hammonds (?) whose kids want to take the lessons again. So good news there as well. Sorry I don't know much to write. I can't really tink of much but take care. I should be able to email next week take care.
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