BOY! Yeah...it's not so bad heat wise anymore. We get random storms rolling in often. Like they roll in like in 20 minutes and they are completely gone an hour later haha. But when they hit boy do they hit! Usually the rain is the worst because it causes tons of humidity but this last one it wasn't bad at all. So hurray for that.
I loved the tie! I would wear it more if I could. But I only wear silk ties when it starts getting cooler and on sundays. Cause sweat will ruin the tie. Silk ties stain REALLY easy. So yeah. Some of the best types of ties are Donald Trump (you can find at burlington coat factory) and the other nice silk ones. Polyester is good for summers, but those ones you can really only find at like goodwill and stuff. They don't really make polyester ties anymore.
no no credit card. I'll call em after I leave here.
Tell Grandma I say Hi and I love her and Grandpa and miss them tons!
wendover eh? Man you think the storms there are bad...you should see the storms we have here. It's incredible. I know who cindy lauper is...haha that's so funny that she was there...she sounds kinda washed up! ha.
I would love to see those pictures! Send em to me when you can!
I remember going with paul and kyle and swimming at that park for 8 hours once...haha. do you remember that? we got so sunburned it was awful. That's cool you got to go though...I have kind of forgotten what it's like to swim? haha. just kidding.
Team building stuff is where it's at for football. THat's what helped us win state! That's cool that jordan is learning all that. Like what kind of stuff was he learning? That's awesome that they took away the phones! haha it's what they should do to keep em focused.
Before I forget! OK. So this last thursday we had a zone conference where our mission president informed us that we are now allowed to us ipods! SO. What I was wondering is. does jordan use his ipod touch that often? Like would he be willing to let me borrow it for the rest of my mission? ;D The reason I ask for the ipod touch instead of my ipod is because they were talking about it at the zone meeting and president gave us permission to use it to show people the church websites and stuff so I would love to be able to have an ipod touch because I can put scriptures and preach my gospel and all this other stuff on it. you would have to take all of jordans music off it and (if it still exists?) put all my church music that's on the downstairs computer on it and then find the preach my gospel stuff. maybe (and of course this is all if jordan will let me use it) dad can do all that stuff. The reason why I want either jordan's ipod touch or my ipod is because it would save me SO much space so I didn't have to haul around my cds everywhere. SO please consider it at least. Thank you! I would also need the sync cable, an auxilary cable (dad would know what that is) and maybe my fm tuner if it still exists? So please let me know whether or not you can send me something, whether it be jordans ipod or mine. I don't know what dad's done with mine since I left but anyways.
The mail isn't a big deal. I really don't care that much about getting mail. It's just like a bonus to know someone is still making an effort to write you. you know?
I love you mom and I love Dad and Jordan and Ryan. You guys are the best and I look forward to the day when I get to see y'all again! haha.
Thanks so much and I love you! BTW here's some pictures: (I really don't know why we were jumping but we felt like it? haha. So. yeah. anyways.)
Love you! Bye!
Tuesday, August 31, 2010
Monday, August 9, 2010
august 9th
haha you know what was funny? Thursdays have been bad news for us lately! Even though I didn't get hurt this last thursday, we had a major (and I mean MAJOR) storm this last thursday. Mom it was literally the worst storm I've ever been in! haha. We were driving, and we saw this storm rolling in and heard the thunder and saw some lightening but we didn't think it was that bad. we got out of our car and were like "oh we can make it to this house before this storm hits" and we take like 10 steps and we get like 4 bolts of lightening striking all at once and super close. so we are like uhhhh no. we are getting back in the car. hahaha. Oh my gosh so we got back in the car and the lightening starts and starts raining HARD. Then we start getting lightening thats striking like, with 100 feet of us. It was SCARY. Like you would see the flash and the bolt and would hear the thunder IMMEDIATELY. It was like an explosion. Like a cannon going off in our car. Holy cow. ANd then the wind picked up and It was all three, super windy, lightening, and rain. It went on for about an hour. At one point it was raining 3 inches an hour. It was crazy. We also had some funnel clouds form (pre-tornadoes) but never touched down. It ripped down trees and stuff. It was crazy. People said this is what happened last time they had a hurricane (bunch of severe storms then a hurricane later on) so we'll see what happens. Supposedly we are supposed to have another storm this thursday/friday. It has been the worst summer virginia has had in a long time. Like, the average temperature for july was 94.6 I think? And many times way over that. Man!
ok to answer your questions 1. No I didn't mess up my shirt 2. The bike is fine as far as I can tell, but the bike seat is destroyed I'll have to find a new one 3. we drive a car, we just were biking cause we were outta miles, so we are just driving now 4. No, didn't get dad's message unless you mean the "it's just a sprain, walk it off" thing. If it was that yes. I did. haha. 5. No the card hasn't come yet. Hoping it comes in the mail today. we'll see.
alright. that answer your questions? haha.
Yeah I got the package thank you so much for it! It was perfect and had everything I needed. Thank you! Yeah I was kinda upset myself but I couldn't really do anything about it. It was either pay the fine or go to jail? so i was like yeahhh....haha.
yeah the cd burning thing you can just send em to me whenever you can. no worries on the shirts. They are actually nice because of how they are put together. So thank you so much for that. I appreciate it. You guys are the best!
I'm not even in the sling anymore! I only wore it until my arm felt good enough to move around. Because the doctor told me it wasn't that big of a deal. so I still have pain in the shoulder but not very severe. Only when I move it in a certain direction.
Sheesh jordan. haha I can't believe he let them do that. That was just dumb. haha. my wrist is fine, I just wear this velcro black brace and it keeps it protected. when I take it off it hurts to bend it but obviously. haha.
I'll do whatever you want me to do on the medical thing. just tell me what to do and I'l ldo that from now on.
I'll defintely keep an eye out for dads letter. I would LOVE TO HEAR FROM HIM *HINT HINT DAD* haha no I know he is busy and I understand so no worries there. I'll keep an eye out for letters from aunt lorna.
That's awesome you taught jordan and ryan those scriptures. Those scriptures are what's gonna teach them to choose the right. You can tell them to do something all you want (do your chores, stopping fighting, be nice to people) but unless they understand the doctrine behind WHY you need to do that, they won't follow it. That's what I've come to learn.
HAHAHAHA that's so awesome that ryan had a good experience at scout camp. I laughed pretty hard at his fish story. That kid is awesome. Tell him that I tried to email him but it came back for some reason?
Tell jordan to go even if his hands hurt! Don't give him an excuse to chicken out. It'll help him grow more than he can udnerstand right now. So don't let him chicken out!
The campout sounds fun. I want to camp so bad. That would be so much fun haha. I'm looking forward to doing that when I am home again.
Tell ryan to get out and do stuff! video games will do nothing for you in the long run! haha. The wii is fun and so are games but really they don't matter in the long run. You can do some much more fun stuff outside! haha. Jordans got the right idea. haha.
Sis. Henrie is on a mission in virginia. She is from Pengwich Utah. I think. At least that's how she says it. but She is great! She calls us when we have mail! haha. She loved the card and was so grateful for it.
With the facebook deal, just check to see where they are from! If they are from virginia, add them! Yeah I'm sure facebook is going to get just as corrupted as myspace is/was. It kinda bugs me now. I don't know if I wanna have a facebook when I get home. we'll see.
I haven't run into andy. where is he?I thought you said clover hill but I asked the missionaries there and they don't know him at all.
The yard looks awesome! It's cool to see the yard again haha. Y'all did a good job on it.
tell dad to hold his horses on the cake! He needs to eat better like me! haha.
That's pretty hilarious that neil crashed too. I'll have to write him! haha.
Well anyways. I love y'all. Have a good week and keep praying for us missionaries cause the work never stops! Love ya!
hunter
ok to answer your questions 1. No I didn't mess up my shirt 2. The bike is fine as far as I can tell, but the bike seat is destroyed I'll have to find a new one 3. we drive a car, we just were biking cause we were outta miles, so we are just driving now 4. No, didn't get dad's message unless you mean the "it's just a sprain, walk it off" thing. If it was that yes. I did. haha. 5. No the card hasn't come yet. Hoping it comes in the mail today. we'll see.
alright. that answer your questions? haha.
Yeah I got the package thank you so much for it! It was perfect and had everything I needed. Thank you! Yeah I was kinda upset myself but I couldn't really do anything about it. It was either pay the fine or go to jail? so i was like yeahhh....haha.
yeah the cd burning thing you can just send em to me whenever you can. no worries on the shirts. They are actually nice because of how they are put together. So thank you so much for that. I appreciate it. You guys are the best!
I'm not even in the sling anymore! I only wore it until my arm felt good enough to move around. Because the doctor told me it wasn't that big of a deal. so I still have pain in the shoulder but not very severe. Only when I move it in a certain direction.
Sheesh jordan. haha I can't believe he let them do that. That was just dumb. haha. my wrist is fine, I just wear this velcro black brace and it keeps it protected. when I take it off it hurts to bend it but obviously. haha.
I'll do whatever you want me to do on the medical thing. just tell me what to do and I'l ldo that from now on.
I'll defintely keep an eye out for dads letter. I would LOVE TO HEAR FROM HIM *HINT HINT DAD* haha no I know he is busy and I understand so no worries there. I'll keep an eye out for letters from aunt lorna.
That's awesome you taught jordan and ryan those scriptures. Those scriptures are what's gonna teach them to choose the right. You can tell them to do something all you want (do your chores, stopping fighting, be nice to people) but unless they understand the doctrine behind WHY you need to do that, they won't follow it. That's what I've come to learn.
HAHAHAHA that's so awesome that ryan had a good experience at scout camp. I laughed pretty hard at his fish story. That kid is awesome. Tell him that I tried to email him but it came back for some reason?
Tell jordan to go even if his hands hurt! Don't give him an excuse to chicken out. It'll help him grow more than he can udnerstand right now. So don't let him chicken out!
The campout sounds fun. I want to camp so bad. That would be so much fun haha. I'm looking forward to doing that when I am home again.
Tell ryan to get out and do stuff! video games will do nothing for you in the long run! haha. The wii is fun and so are games but really they don't matter in the long run. You can do some much more fun stuff outside! haha. Jordans got the right idea. haha.
Sis. Henrie is on a mission in virginia. She is from Pengwich Utah. I think. At least that's how she says it. but She is great! She calls us when we have mail! haha. She loved the card and was so grateful for it.
With the facebook deal, just check to see where they are from! If they are from virginia, add them! Yeah I'm sure facebook is going to get just as corrupted as myspace is/was. It kinda bugs me now. I don't know if I wanna have a facebook when I get home. we'll see.
I haven't run into andy. where is he?I thought you said clover hill but I asked the missionaries there and they don't know him at all.
The yard looks awesome! It's cool to see the yard again haha. Y'all did a good job on it.
tell dad to hold his horses on the cake! He needs to eat better like me! haha.
That's pretty hilarious that neil crashed too. I'll have to write him! haha.
Well anyways. I love y'all. Have a good week and keep praying for us missionaries cause the work never stops! Love ya!
hunter
The big bike accident!!
haha alright! The fact that I can type is a good sign is it not? ALRIGHT. This is what happened ;)
elder beus and myself were biking down this road when we realized that we had missed the turn we were going to take. So we turn around and start going back. I didn't know exactly where we were going so I started following elder beus and all of a sudden he crosses the road. and I'm just like uhhh....so I start looking for traffic so I can cross and unbeknownst to me I was getting closer and closer to the edge of the pavement and I then slid off the edge of the pavement and hit a hole, which turned my wheel sideways and I flipped over the handle bars and landed on my shoulder and then slammed my wrist on the ground. I got up and at first nothing really hurt more than usual. I noticed that my wrist was popping and grinding and I remembered that from the first time I broke my wrist haha. So I called our mission medical person and told em what happened and bythe time I got off the phone my shoulder was just aching. So we get a member to pick us up and went to this urgent care place he xrayed everything and told me I had a chip fracture in my left wrist but the shoulder looked normal.
So today I went to the orthopedic person and they told me that, yes, my wrist was broken and that all I needed was to wear this velcro brace and it will heal eventually, and then also my shoulder has a ligament that is slightly torn but theres nothing you can do about it because 1. it's so small and 2. it's not that severe and will just heal on it's own. So all in all I am alright. But today has been all over the place. I haven't been able to see if the package came yet, I haven't even been to the office yet. So yeah. This week has been one of adversity for sure. Lost my wallet, cancelled my cards, wrecked my bike, and then yesterday got a letter in the mail telling me my liscence was suspended! So dumb! It was for the bike light thing that happened in new kent! the courthouse lady said it was taken care of but apparently NOT. So I now have to pay a 61 dollar fine by wednesday or they'll be a warrant out for my arrest! haha you must be either mad at me or laughing your head off! I'll tell you I am laughing about it so yeah. haha.
ANYWAYS.
Yeah I'm not in a ton of pain, just taking care of it all. The two shirts I lost were sent home to you cause they were stained. I got the other two short sleeved ones they are like, thicker than my other ones! haha I wanted to get thinner shirts cause it was hot! haha but that's fine they work just as good ;) thank you!
Like I said I havne't been able to check for the package yet but I will do it later on.
No worries about the cd I'll be waiting.
Yeah I did see sis pigg and her mom. It was funny you'll have to talk to her about it when you see her. I made a fool of myself but what else is new? haha. ask her about what I said about lions! haha.
The mission has gone by faster than you can ever know. I am afraid of when it has to end because I know it will eventually. But I'm not gonna think about it too much cause I still have a long time before I have to go home! haha. About the school deal, I'm not gonna worry too much about it, cause my mind has changed alot in the past few months so I'll see what happens as I get closer to next august.
But thank you for your advice. You are right and I'm gonna rethink alot of that stuff. So we'll see what happens.
Anyways. So cool experience I had sunday. Ill tell you a secret. I've been really struggling with elder beus. He is young as to the mission and he is struggling a bit with aspiring to leadership positions and not being the most obedient in some aspects. I've also caught him in some bold face lies he's told me and others, so I don't know what else he is lying about. It hasn't been huge issues or anything, he's the greatest. My struggle has been I have this like, phobia, of causing contention. So I just don't say anything. I just don't want to make people mad. SO I just was struggling with this. and I was fasting for help with this on sunday. and I was sitting in sacrament meeting (fast and testimony meeting, with the scripted kid testimonies and all) and I was just praying for Heavenly Father to help me with something. So I just flip open my scriptures and it plops open to Doctrine and Covenants section 121. I will tell you it is EXACTLy what I needed to hear. It taught me exactly how to help other missionaries when they are being disobediant without being like a nag or a holier-than-thou. so that was great. It was an excellent spiritual experience. I love the scriptures mom and there is SO MUCH in there. I can't accurately tell you how much I love em over the computer but you'll see how much I've learned when I come home haha.
funny thing that happened last time I was at the library. we were leaving and this guy walks up behind us and asks us "are you guys mormons?" and we were like, uhhh yeah and he hands us these papers and we are like what the heck. Just figured he would anti us. haha. His arguements in the paper were absolutely ridiculous and it was just funny. the reason I tell you this is because I'm pretty sure he's working up the courage to give me some more of these papers right nwo haha. he's been walking around for a while now. So funny. we'll see! Gotta love how people think they can anti us like this ha.
Tell me how scout camp went! Ryan will have a blast I bet. Jordan is a bum for nto going! haha.
I didn't lose my msf card thank goodness. They caught it before it got cancelled. So I'm good there. We also didn't go to the zoo but I attached a picture of my wrist and my arm haha. I look really sad don't I? haha.
Sis. Henrie is the best! She is so nice and cares alot about every missionary. She is really lonely her husband died about a year ago and she is still struggling with that. But we try to keep her spirits up.
There are plenty of people in the mission office to take care of me! haha. Sis. Henrie's companion is Sis. Smedley and every time I come into the mission office they both jump up to see how I am doing haha. It's great. I love being this close to the mission office.
Yeah So I am doing good!
I love you guys and thank you so much for being so quick to respond to help me out. Please stay safe and I'll look forward to talking to you next monday! To cheer up your day there is also a picture of Elder Beus in his footy pajamas! haha.
LOVE YOU
(still waiting for a letter from dad ;) )
elder beus and myself were biking down this road when we realized that we had missed the turn we were going to take. So we turn around and start going back. I didn't know exactly where we were going so I started following elder beus and all of a sudden he crosses the road. and I'm just like uhhh....so I start looking for traffic so I can cross and unbeknownst to me I was getting closer and closer to the edge of the pavement and I then slid off the edge of the pavement and hit a hole, which turned my wheel sideways and I flipped over the handle bars and landed on my shoulder and then slammed my wrist on the ground. I got up and at first nothing really hurt more than usual. I noticed that my wrist was popping and grinding and I remembered that from the first time I broke my wrist haha. So I called our mission medical person and told em what happened and bythe time I got off the phone my shoulder was just aching. So we get a member to pick us up and went to this urgent care place he xrayed everything and told me I had a chip fracture in my left wrist but the shoulder looked normal.
So today I went to the orthopedic person and they told me that, yes, my wrist was broken and that all I needed was to wear this velcro brace and it will heal eventually, and then also my shoulder has a ligament that is slightly torn but theres nothing you can do about it because 1. it's so small and 2. it's not that severe and will just heal on it's own. So all in all I am alright. But today has been all over the place. I haven't been able to see if the package came yet, I haven't even been to the office yet. So yeah. This week has been one of adversity for sure. Lost my wallet, cancelled my cards, wrecked my bike, and then yesterday got a letter in the mail telling me my liscence was suspended! So dumb! It was for the bike light thing that happened in new kent! the courthouse lady said it was taken care of but apparently NOT. So I now have to pay a 61 dollar fine by wednesday or they'll be a warrant out for my arrest! haha you must be either mad at me or laughing your head off! I'll tell you I am laughing about it so yeah. haha.
ANYWAYS.
Yeah I'm not in a ton of pain, just taking care of it all. The two shirts I lost were sent home to you cause they were stained. I got the other two short sleeved ones they are like, thicker than my other ones! haha I wanted to get thinner shirts cause it was hot! haha but that's fine they work just as good ;) thank you!
Like I said I havne't been able to check for the package yet but I will do it later on.
No worries about the cd I'll be waiting.
Yeah I did see sis pigg and her mom. It was funny you'll have to talk to her about it when you see her. I made a fool of myself but what else is new? haha. ask her about what I said about lions! haha.
The mission has gone by faster than you can ever know. I am afraid of when it has to end because I know it will eventually. But I'm not gonna think about it too much cause I still have a long time before I have to go home! haha. About the school deal, I'm not gonna worry too much about it, cause my mind has changed alot in the past few months so I'll see what happens as I get closer to next august.
But thank you for your advice. You are right and I'm gonna rethink alot of that stuff. So we'll see what happens.
Anyways. So cool experience I had sunday. Ill tell you a secret. I've been really struggling with elder beus. He is young as to the mission and he is struggling a bit with aspiring to leadership positions and not being the most obedient in some aspects. I've also caught him in some bold face lies he's told me and others, so I don't know what else he is lying about. It hasn't been huge issues or anything, he's the greatest. My struggle has been I have this like, phobia, of causing contention. So I just don't say anything. I just don't want to make people mad. SO I just was struggling with this. and I was fasting for help with this on sunday. and I was sitting in sacrament meeting (fast and testimony meeting, with the scripted kid testimonies and all) and I was just praying for Heavenly Father to help me with something. So I just flip open my scriptures and it plops open to Doctrine and Covenants section 121. I will tell you it is EXACTLy what I needed to hear. It taught me exactly how to help other missionaries when they are being disobediant without being like a nag or a holier-than-thou. so that was great. It was an excellent spiritual experience. I love the scriptures mom and there is SO MUCH in there. I can't accurately tell you how much I love em over the computer but you'll see how much I've learned when I come home haha.
funny thing that happened last time I was at the library. we were leaving and this guy walks up behind us and asks us "are you guys mormons?" and we were like, uhhh yeah and he hands us these papers and we are like what the heck. Just figured he would anti us. haha. His arguements in the paper were absolutely ridiculous and it was just funny. the reason I tell you this is because I'm pretty sure he's working up the courage to give me some more of these papers right nwo haha. he's been walking around for a while now. So funny. we'll see! Gotta love how people think they can anti us like this ha.
Tell me how scout camp went! Ryan will have a blast I bet. Jordan is a bum for nto going! haha.
I didn't lose my msf card thank goodness. They caught it before it got cancelled. So I'm good there. We also didn't go to the zoo but I attached a picture of my wrist and my arm haha. I look really sad don't I? haha.
Sis. Henrie is the best! She is so nice and cares alot about every missionary. She is really lonely her husband died about a year ago and she is still struggling with that. But we try to keep her spirits up.
There are plenty of people in the mission office to take care of me! haha. Sis. Henrie's companion is Sis. Smedley and every time I come into the mission office they both jump up to see how I am doing haha. It's great. I love being this close to the mission office.
Yeah So I am doing good!
I love you guys and thank you so much for being so quick to respond to help me out. Please stay safe and I'll look forward to talking to you next monday! To cheer up your day there is also a picture of Elder Beus in his footy pajamas! haha.
LOVE YOU
(still waiting for a letter from dad ;) )
Monday, August 2, 2010
august 8th
haha alright! The fact that I can type is a good sign is it not? ALRIGHT. This is what happened ;)
elder beus and myself were biking down this road when we realized that we had missed the turn we were going to take. So we turn around and start going back. I didn't know exactly where we were going so I started following elder beus and all of a sudden he crosses the road. and I'm just like uhhh....so I start looking for traffic so I can cross and unbeknownst to me I was getting closer and closer to the edge of the pavement and I then slid off the edge of the pavement and hit a hole, which turned my wheel sideways and I flipped over the handle bars and landed on my shoulder and then slammed my wrist on the ground. I got up and at first nothing really hurt more than usual. I noticed that my wrist was popping and grinding and I remembered that from the first time I broke my wrist haha. So I called our mission medical person and told em what happened and bythe time I got off the phone my shoulder was just aching. So we get a member to pick us up and went to this urgent care place he xrayed everything and told me I had a chip fracture in my left wrist but the shoulder looked normal.
So today I went to the orthopedic person and they told me that, yes, my wrist was broken and that all I needed was to wear this velcro brace and it will heal eventually, and then also my shoulder has a ligament that is slightly torn but theres nothing you can do about it because 1. it's so small and 2. it's not that severe and will just heal on it's own. So all in all I am alright. But today has been all over the place. I haven't been able to see if the package came yet, I haven't even been to the office yet. So yeah. This week has been one of adversity for sure. Lost my wallet, cancelled my cards, wrecked my bike, and then yesterday got a letter in the mail telling me my liscence was suspended! So dumb! It was for the bike light thing that happened in new kent! the courthouse lady said it was taken care of but apparently NOT. So I now have to pay a 61 dollar fine by wednesday or they'll be a warrant out for my arrest! haha you must be either mad at me or laughing your head off! I'll tell you I am laughing about it so yeah. haha.
ANYWAYS.
Yeah I'm not in a ton of pain, just taking care of it all. The two shirts I lost were sent home to you cause they were stained. I got the other two short sleeved ones they are like, thicker than my other ones! haha I wanted to get thinner shirts cause it was hot! haha but that's fine they work just as good ;) thank you!
Like I said I havne't been able to check for the package yet but I will do it later on.
No worries about the cd I'll be waiting.
Yeah I did see sis pigg and her mom. It was funny you'll have to talk to her about it when you see her. I made a fool of myself but what else is new? haha. ask her about what I said about lions! haha.
The mission has gone by faster than you can ever know. I am afraid of when it has to end because I know it will eventually. But I'm not gonna think about it too much cause I still have a long time before I have to go home! haha. About the school deal, I'm not gonna worry too much about it, cause my mind has changed alot in the past few months so I'll see what happens as I get closer to next august.
But thank you for your advice. You are right and I'm gonna rethink alot of that stuff. So we'll see what happens.
Anyways. So cool experience I had sunday. Ill tell you a secret. I've been really struggling with elder beus. He is young as to the mission and he is struggling a bit with aspiring to leadership positions and not being the most obedient in some aspects. I've also caught him in some bold face lies he's told me and others, so I don't know what else he is lying about. It hasn't been huge issues or anything, he's the greatest. My struggle has been I have this like, phobia, of causing contention. So I just don't say anything. I just don't want to make people mad. SO I just was struggling with this. and I was fasting for help with this on sunday. and I was sitting in sacrament meeting (fast and testimony meeting, with the scripted kid testimonies and all) and I was just praying for Heavenly Father to help me with something. So I just flip open my scriptures and it plops open to Doctrine and Covenants section 121. I will tell you it is EXACTLy what I needed to hear. It taught me exactly how to help other missionaries when they are being disobediant without being like a nag or a holier-than-thou. so that was great. It was an excellent spiritual experience. I love the scriptures mom and there is SO MUCH in there. I can't accurately tell you how much I love em over the computer but you'll see how much I've learned when I come home haha.
funny thing that happened last time I was at the library. we were leaving and this guy walks up behind us and asks us "are you guys mormons?" and we were like, uhhh yeah and he hands us these papers and we are like what the heck. Just figured he would anti us. haha. His arguements in the paper were absolutely ridiculous and it was just funny. the reason I tell you this is because I'm pretty sure he's working up the courage to give me some more of these papers right nwo haha. he's been walking around for a while now. So funny. we'll see! Gotta love how people think they can anti us like this ha.
Tell me how scout camp went! Ryan will have a blast I bet. Jordan is a bum for nto going! haha.
I didn't lose my msf card thank goodness. They caught it before it got cancelled. So I'm good there. We also didn't go to the zoo but I attached a picture of my wrist and my arm haha. I look really sad don't I? haha.
Sis. Henrie is the best! She is so nice and cares alot about every missionary. She is really lonely her husband died about a year ago and she is still struggling with that. But we try to keep her spirits up.
There are plenty of people in the mission office to take care of me! haha. Sis. Henrie's companion is Sis. Smedley and every time I come into the mission office they both jump up to see how I am doing haha. It's great. I love being this close to the mission office.
Yeah So I am doing good!
I love you guys and thank you so much for being so quick to respond to help me out. Please stay safe and I'll look forward to talking to you next monday! To cheer up your day there is also a picture of Elder Beus in his footy pajamas! haha.
LOVE YOU
elder beus and myself were biking down this road when we realized that we had missed the turn we were going to take. So we turn around and start going back. I didn't know exactly where we were going so I started following elder beus and all of a sudden he crosses the road. and I'm just like uhhh....so I start looking for traffic so I can cross and unbeknownst to me I was getting closer and closer to the edge of the pavement and I then slid off the edge of the pavement and hit a hole, which turned my wheel sideways and I flipped over the handle bars and landed on my shoulder and then slammed my wrist on the ground. I got up and at first nothing really hurt more than usual. I noticed that my wrist was popping and grinding and I remembered that from the first time I broke my wrist haha. So I called our mission medical person and told em what happened and bythe time I got off the phone my shoulder was just aching. So we get a member to pick us up and went to this urgent care place he xrayed everything and told me I had a chip fracture in my left wrist but the shoulder looked normal.
So today I went to the orthopedic person and they told me that, yes, my wrist was broken and that all I needed was to wear this velcro brace and it will heal eventually, and then also my shoulder has a ligament that is slightly torn but theres nothing you can do about it because 1. it's so small and 2. it's not that severe and will just heal on it's own. So all in all I am alright. But today has been all over the place. I haven't been able to see if the package came yet, I haven't even been to the office yet. So yeah. This week has been one of adversity for sure. Lost my wallet, cancelled my cards, wrecked my bike, and then yesterday got a letter in the mail telling me my liscence was suspended! So dumb! It was for the bike light thing that happened in new kent! the courthouse lady said it was taken care of but apparently NOT. So I now have to pay a 61 dollar fine by wednesday or they'll be a warrant out for my arrest! haha you must be either mad at me or laughing your head off! I'll tell you I am laughing about it so yeah. haha.
ANYWAYS.
Yeah I'm not in a ton of pain, just taking care of it all. The two shirts I lost were sent home to you cause they were stained. I got the other two short sleeved ones they are like, thicker than my other ones! haha I wanted to get thinner shirts cause it was hot! haha but that's fine they work just as good ;) thank you!
Like I said I havne't been able to check for the package yet but I will do it later on.
No worries about the cd I'll be waiting.
Yeah I did see sis pigg and her mom. It was funny you'll have to talk to her about it when you see her. I made a fool of myself but what else is new? haha. ask her about what I said about lions! haha.
The mission has gone by faster than you can ever know. I am afraid of when it has to end because I know it will eventually. But I'm not gonna think about it too much cause I still have a long time before I have to go home! haha. About the school deal, I'm not gonna worry too much about it, cause my mind has changed alot in the past few months so I'll see what happens as I get closer to next august.
But thank you for your advice. You are right and I'm gonna rethink alot of that stuff. So we'll see what happens.
Anyways. So cool experience I had sunday. Ill tell you a secret. I've been really struggling with elder beus. He is young as to the mission and he is struggling a bit with aspiring to leadership positions and not being the most obedient in some aspects. I've also caught him in some bold face lies he's told me and others, so I don't know what else he is lying about. It hasn't been huge issues or anything, he's the greatest. My struggle has been I have this like, phobia, of causing contention. So I just don't say anything. I just don't want to make people mad. SO I just was struggling with this. and I was fasting for help with this on sunday. and I was sitting in sacrament meeting (fast and testimony meeting, with the scripted kid testimonies and all) and I was just praying for Heavenly Father to help me with something. So I just flip open my scriptures and it plops open to Doctrine and Covenants section 121. I will tell you it is EXACTLy what I needed to hear. It taught me exactly how to help other missionaries when they are being disobediant without being like a nag or a holier-than-thou. so that was great. It was an excellent spiritual experience. I love the scriptures mom and there is SO MUCH in there. I can't accurately tell you how much I love em over the computer but you'll see how much I've learned when I come home haha.
funny thing that happened last time I was at the library. we were leaving and this guy walks up behind us and asks us "are you guys mormons?" and we were like, uhhh yeah and he hands us these papers and we are like what the heck. Just figured he would anti us. haha. His arguements in the paper were absolutely ridiculous and it was just funny. the reason I tell you this is because I'm pretty sure he's working up the courage to give me some more of these papers right nwo haha. he's been walking around for a while now. So funny. we'll see! Gotta love how people think they can anti us like this ha.
Tell me how scout camp went! Ryan will have a blast I bet. Jordan is a bum for nto going! haha.
I didn't lose my msf card thank goodness. They caught it before it got cancelled. So I'm good there. We also didn't go to the zoo but I attached a picture of my wrist and my arm haha. I look really sad don't I? haha.
Sis. Henrie is the best! She is so nice and cares alot about every missionary. She is really lonely her husband died about a year ago and she is still struggling with that. But we try to keep her spirits up.
There are plenty of people in the mission office to take care of me! haha. Sis. Henrie's companion is Sis. Smedley and every time I come into the mission office they both jump up to see how I am doing haha. It's great. I love being this close to the mission office.
Yeah So I am doing good!
I love you guys and thank you so much for being so quick to respond to help me out. Please stay safe and I'll look forward to talking to you next monday! To cheer up your day there is also a picture of Elder Beus in his footy pajamas! haha.
LOVE YOU
Tuesday, July 27, 2010
july 25,2010
hahaha thank you so much for figuring that all out...I was super worried about my social security card cause I thought it was in my wallet :X But THANKFULLY I had bought a safe box a while back and stuck it in there. So that was safe. I already cut up the cards so no worries there. I do have the checking account number in that box as well. But thank you for doing all that. Her name is Sister Henrie! She is the best. She helped out so much and did it real quick to help me out. I think I'm gonna hand that guy a El Libro De Mormon since he is spanish! haha.
Whoa! The pictures are great! I thought you were gonna expand the yard though! Not just get rid of the tree! I see you expanded it on the right side but I thought it was also gonna get expanded on the left! But nonetheless it's awesome! It looks great.
We are gonna go over this week sometime to see the armantrouts and see sister pigg and her mom! You know the older lady who is related to the piggs? she's here too! She recognized me real quick haha. Everyone just calls her grandma. haha.
NO! Oregon weather is not like virginia weather. It is not even close. haha I'm telling you it is completely different. It's kinda like utah when it comes to storms. It will have a big ol storm roll in and then dump rain for 15 minutes then it can be sunny again. Only difference there is that if it rains and then shines then you now have the humidity to deal with :X
Yeah those elders were great. I need to write elder larson. he's the man. Tell him I said that. haha
My gosh mom in a little over a week I am gonna be out 12 months aka ONE YEAR. It's way weird to think that there is only a year left. It's actually kind of scary. I am way intimidated by coming home. I don't even know what I'm gonna do. I am terrified of falling back into the way I was. Scary stuff.
Yeah I heard about the problems with the iphones. I also heard the released a fix for em lately so hopefully those problems will get fixed!
Yeah I don't know what I'm gonna do cause they may have had to cancel my msf card too. I'll find out when I leave the library. So yes. I got five dollars from Bishop Dunmire but that's about all I have to my name right now. haha. Just send the shirts and stuff as soon as you can! It's hot!
I'm going to the zoo today! It's free for missionaries! SWEEET deal. I'll attach a picture or two to make your day :) The first one is me looking suave in my suit, and the second is me, elder beus and Elder Fraga (pronounced Frog-uh) and Elder Doxey showing off the ties we stole from Elder Server! haha. anyways. Love ya!
Love y'all!
Your son.
Whoa! The pictures are great! I thought you were gonna expand the yard though! Not just get rid of the tree! I see you expanded it on the right side but I thought it was also gonna get expanded on the left! But nonetheless it's awesome! It looks great.
We are gonna go over this week sometime to see the armantrouts and see sister pigg and her mom! You know the older lady who is related to the piggs? she's here too! She recognized me real quick haha. Everyone just calls her grandma. haha.
NO! Oregon weather is not like virginia weather. It is not even close. haha I'm telling you it is completely different. It's kinda like utah when it comes to storms. It will have a big ol storm roll in and then dump rain for 15 minutes then it can be sunny again. Only difference there is that if it rains and then shines then you now have the humidity to deal with :X
Yeah those elders were great. I need to write elder larson. he's the man. Tell him I said that. haha
My gosh mom in a little over a week I am gonna be out 12 months aka ONE YEAR. It's way weird to think that there is only a year left. It's actually kind of scary. I am way intimidated by coming home. I don't even know what I'm gonna do. I am terrified of falling back into the way I was. Scary stuff.
Yeah I heard about the problems with the iphones. I also heard the released a fix for em lately so hopefully those problems will get fixed!
Yeah I don't know what I'm gonna do cause they may have had to cancel my msf card too. I'll find out when I leave the library. So yes. I got five dollars from Bishop Dunmire but that's about all I have to my name right now. haha. Just send the shirts and stuff as soon as you can! It's hot!
I'm going to the zoo today! It's free for missionaries! SWEEET deal. I'll attach a picture or two to make your day :) The first one is me looking suave in my suit, and the second is me, elder beus and Elder Fraga (pronounced Frog-uh) and Elder Doxey showing off the ties we stole from Elder Server! haha. anyways. Love ya!
Love y'all!
Your son.
Monday, July 19, 2010
July 18th 2010
HEY HEY!
Holy cow! It sounds like you had an eventfull week! haha
The p-day changed cause president monson wanted all the missionaries to have their p-days on mondays. so yeah? I guess it's just cause the prophet said haha. Oh I guess I misunderstood what you said about the fromes knowing him haha. He is the man. I just saw him at the mission office like 25 minutes ago. haha.
ok before I forget! I saw sister pigg! and I keep getting confused with who is related to who, but drews dads mom and grandma were in the bon air ward on sunday! I said hey and talked with em for a little bit. I think they are gonna be here for a while. Sister Piggs daughter is married to a man named Jack Armantrout who is in the bishopric of the ward! haha It was cool to see them again. Sister Piggs mom (drews great grandma I think) was sitting a couple rows behind us and I looked back and she was just beaming and I was like, holy cow! I know her! haha it was so cool.
haha Elder Beus is the man. I can tell he still has his greeny fire so I'm trying not to discourage that! haha. Brother williams IS the man. He is so cool he and his soon to be wife went with us to a lesson and they were so cool. haha I have actually GAINED weight since I came here. But I am working on eating better so I'm hoping it will go down soon. haha what do you mean I'm awesome!? hahaha. The house he sent was probably his! We live in an apartment complex. Definitely send him a picture of the family he would love that.
speaking of, we had an awesome thunderstorm last night. the thing about virginia is the weather is absolutely the most random thing ever. You can be on one side of town and it will be just DUMPING rain, and then you can go to the other side and it will be dry as a bone. Last night we were out and just start hearing this thunder and we were talking to this lady and lightening literally cracks RIGHT over head. It was intense. it got even worse later on into the night. we were in our apartment and it was just like the bottom drops out of the clouds and it just starts POURING rain. It was intense.
Alright I'll keep an eye out for the package when it shows up. Thank you so much for doing that! If you ever randomly (I'm not asking for it just if you happen to see some) see some ties that are made of 100% silk and you think they are nice, you should send them to me! Just letting you be aware! cause ties are the best! haha but seriously I'm not asking you to get it for me, just keep an eye out. I haven't got mail in a while! I got a wedding announcement from Elder LARSON! haha did you get that? That's pretty funny. I need to write him back for sure. He's the man!
Your car accident story sounds crazy! I bet that boy was grateful haha. I'm glad his name was hunter. He must've been a cool kid! haha. But seriously, I'm glad y'all are alright and not traumatized.
hahah the fire alarm in the library just went off and everyone just sat here and didn't move haha. That's how awesomely lazy everyone is here haha.
Your trip sounds awesome! I actually would've lvoed to go on that trip...missionary work makes you appreciate all those trips...haha.
hahaha That's so funny that rocky did that. HE IS THE BEST DOG EVER! haha. I miss him a ton!
haha well I gotta go! not alot else going on this week! I got to go on an exchange with one of my former companions the other day! that was cool. hope youre enjoying life! I'll tlak to y'all next monday!
love y'all
Elder C.
Holy cow! It sounds like you had an eventfull week! haha
The p-day changed cause president monson wanted all the missionaries to have their p-days on mondays. so yeah? I guess it's just cause the prophet said haha. Oh I guess I misunderstood what you said about the fromes knowing him haha. He is the man. I just saw him at the mission office like 25 minutes ago. haha.
ok before I forget! I saw sister pigg! and I keep getting confused with who is related to who, but drews dads mom and grandma were in the bon air ward on sunday! I said hey and talked with em for a little bit. I think they are gonna be here for a while. Sister Piggs daughter is married to a man named Jack Armantrout who is in the bishopric of the ward! haha It was cool to see them again. Sister Piggs mom (drews great grandma I think) was sitting a couple rows behind us and I looked back and she was just beaming and I was like, holy cow! I know her! haha it was so cool.
haha Elder Beus is the man. I can tell he still has his greeny fire so I'm trying not to discourage that! haha. Brother williams IS the man. He is so cool he and his soon to be wife went with us to a lesson and they were so cool. haha I have actually GAINED weight since I came here. But I am working on eating better so I'm hoping it will go down soon. haha what do you mean I'm awesome!? hahaha. The house he sent was probably his! We live in an apartment complex. Definitely send him a picture of the family he would love that.
speaking of, we had an awesome thunderstorm last night. the thing about virginia is the weather is absolutely the most random thing ever. You can be on one side of town and it will be just DUMPING rain, and then you can go to the other side and it will be dry as a bone. Last night we were out and just start hearing this thunder and we were talking to this lady and lightening literally cracks RIGHT over head. It was intense. it got even worse later on into the night. we were in our apartment and it was just like the bottom drops out of the clouds and it just starts POURING rain. It was intense.
Alright I'll keep an eye out for the package when it shows up. Thank you so much for doing that! If you ever randomly (I'm not asking for it just if you happen to see some) see some ties that are made of 100% silk and you think they are nice, you should send them to me! Just letting you be aware! cause ties are the best! haha but seriously I'm not asking you to get it for me, just keep an eye out. I haven't got mail in a while! I got a wedding announcement from Elder LARSON! haha did you get that? That's pretty funny. I need to write him back for sure. He's the man!
Your car accident story sounds crazy! I bet that boy was grateful haha. I'm glad his name was hunter. He must've been a cool kid! haha. But seriously, I'm glad y'all are alright and not traumatized.
hahah the fire alarm in the library just went off and everyone just sat here and didn't move haha. That's how awesomely lazy everyone is here haha.
Your trip sounds awesome! I actually would've lvoed to go on that trip...missionary work makes you appreciate all those trips...haha.
hahaha That's so funny that rocky did that. HE IS THE BEST DOG EVER! haha. I miss him a ton!
haha well I gotta go! not alot else going on this week! I got to go on an exchange with one of my former companions the other day! that was cool. hope youre enjoying life! I'll tlak to y'all next monday!
love y'all
Elder C.
Saturday, July 17, 2010
July 12th
So I was gonna send you more pictures but I left the camera in the car >.< Today has been ridiculous! I Forgot to tell you that p-days got moved to mondays :P So. From now on I'll be emailing you on mondays! haha.
Elder Beus isn't too new, about 6 or 7 months out. He's great! Funny and a great teacher. He's super tall too! haha. but a great companion. He helps me alot.
The pictures are awesome! The last picture is bro williams and sister harvey they are gonna get sealed in the temple eventually. Sis harvey is still sealed to her ex so she needs to annull the sealing so she can get sealed to bro williams. But he is so cool. you might get some more pictures from him I'm not entirely sure! haha. The camera is super awesome. It takes great pictures, just forgot it in the car :(
I would love some more short sleeve shirts haha...I ran out and was wearing the long sleeves during the days when it was 104+ out haha. So yeah...if you happen to find any good short sleeve shirts. Maybe of a different material? i don't know.
haha I aint doin no 5k! I can't do anything like that. I'll work on it and we'll see. haha. I'll watch y'all. Dad got to walk the first time so I will too! haha.
yeah...not a fan of the van driving. It's just like inflated and takes up more space than a car. haha. But y'know. I'm gettin over it.
Yeah I sent franks letter a couple of days ago. He is the man! haha you shoulda read that letter. He was way funny.
I am gonna try and send letters to grandma more frequently. I want to, I just never have the time to do it.
Tell Kyle when you see him to write me back! haha. Nah I'm just mplaying. He's the man. Tell andrea I say hey too!
haha mt. vernon is out of our mission! it's in the washington d.c. south mission. So no deal on that one. But we are really close to downtown richmond. we might go see the museum of the confederecy sometime. we are like on the west side of richmond. the person who owns the marriot hotels lives in our ward! haha. crazy eh?
but yeah so story about last night....gall.
so we were out working and decided to find around this potential investigator and so we knock around and then we walk down this drive way and talk to this guy for a second and all of a sudden these three early 20's people and an adult come out and start losing being super awkwardly nice to us and I just know somethings up. so all of a sudden the 20 something year old girl is like, lets talk! I'm just like....alright? so we walk over and sit on the porch and they asked us a couple things about what being a missionary was like and then all of a sudden the adult comes back and starts being super aggressive and asking me if I was gonna go to heaven when I die and just over all losing his mind on me. I didn't argue back I just was like, why are you being so aggressive? we aren't arguing, we are just talking here. so he gets all up in arms and continues to try to bash with us and we aren't fighting back so he continues to go off. then he finally walks away and dissapears and the kids just start asking questions again. I stuck around solely for the kids since they were being totally level headed and fine. so we start talking again and like 20 minutes later this crazy guy comes back with some papers he printed off the internet about some dumb anti and trys to get me to take it. and I'm just like, I really don't want that. And he's like "BE A MAN AND TAKE IT." and with those 6 words He completely destroyed any molecule of credibility he may have supposed to had. So I just took it and crumpled it up. He was just being a horrible bigot and attacking our faith when we wouldn't do the same back. It was ridiculousa nd I just wanted to sock someone afterwards. Which definitely made me know it wasn't of God.
So yeah. my crazy story of the week.
I'll talk to ya on next monday! I hope I answered everyhtingy ou needed! haha. If there's nayhitng else you need let me know.
Love y'all
Hunter
Elder Beus isn't too new, about 6 or 7 months out. He's great! Funny and a great teacher. He's super tall too! haha. but a great companion. He helps me alot.
The pictures are awesome! The last picture is bro williams and sister harvey they are gonna get sealed in the temple eventually. Sis harvey is still sealed to her ex so she needs to annull the sealing so she can get sealed to bro williams. But he is so cool. you might get some more pictures from him I'm not entirely sure! haha. The camera is super awesome. It takes great pictures, just forgot it in the car :(
I would love some more short sleeve shirts haha...I ran out and was wearing the long sleeves during the days when it was 104+ out haha. So yeah...if you happen to find any good short sleeve shirts. Maybe of a different material? i don't know.
haha I aint doin no 5k! I can't do anything like that. I'll work on it and we'll see. haha. I'll watch y'all. Dad got to walk the first time so I will too! haha.
yeah...not a fan of the van driving. It's just like inflated and takes up more space than a car. haha. But y'know. I'm gettin over it.
Yeah I sent franks letter a couple of days ago. He is the man! haha you shoulda read that letter. He was way funny.
I am gonna try and send letters to grandma more frequently. I want to, I just never have the time to do it.
Tell Kyle when you see him to write me back! haha. Nah I'm just mplaying. He's the man. Tell andrea I say hey too!
haha mt. vernon is out of our mission! it's in the washington d.c. south mission. So no deal on that one. But we are really close to downtown richmond. we might go see the museum of the confederecy sometime. we are like on the west side of richmond. the person who owns the marriot hotels lives in our ward! haha. crazy eh?
but yeah so story about last night....gall.
so we were out working and decided to find around this potential investigator and so we knock around and then we walk down this drive way and talk to this guy for a second and all of a sudden these three early 20's people and an adult come out and start losing being super awkwardly nice to us and I just know somethings up. so all of a sudden the 20 something year old girl is like, lets talk! I'm just like....alright? so we walk over and sit on the porch and they asked us a couple things about what being a missionary was like and then all of a sudden the adult comes back and starts being super aggressive and asking me if I was gonna go to heaven when I die and just over all losing his mind on me. I didn't argue back I just was like, why are you being so aggressive? we aren't arguing, we are just talking here. so he gets all up in arms and continues to try to bash with us and we aren't fighting back so he continues to go off. then he finally walks away and dissapears and the kids just start asking questions again. I stuck around solely for the kids since they were being totally level headed and fine. so we start talking again and like 20 minutes later this crazy guy comes back with some papers he printed off the internet about some dumb anti and trys to get me to take it. and I'm just like, I really don't want that. And he's like "BE A MAN AND TAKE IT." and with those 6 words He completely destroyed any molecule of credibility he may have supposed to had. So I just took it and crumpled it up. He was just being a horrible bigot and attacking our faith when we wouldn't do the same back. It was ridiculousa nd I just wanted to sock someone afterwards. Which definitely made me know it wasn't of God.
So yeah. my crazy story of the week.
I'll talk to ya on next monday! I hope I answered everyhtingy ou needed! haha. If there's nayhitng else you need let me know.
Love y'all
Hunter
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