Week 7

I am doing great we went to a antique store that was hump gas hahaha auto correct “humongous” I got a really cool lighter. Yes I have gospel library.

that was funny i got the pics you sent! i like looking at pics from back home.  the pic you found on google earth is awesome.   try pushing that button that makes it look 3d like you are actually on the road, i think the little yellow person is the button im thinking of.  

i just wondered about my bike i miss it 600.  tell dad and kash they can ride it but keep it as good as it is and if they break it they buy it and fix it and don't sell it!!! haha.   

Astacia is a recent convert of about 6 months the dad Scott is super funny and races dirt cars they are really nice and we go over there all the time. I heard Stacy sent you a message on FB that's cool.  if there is a second home it would be over there cause they are boss.  We actually watched conference there. I got the conference package too thank you for that.  And my conference question got answered but I missed elder bednar and pres. monson's last talks Sunday apperently they were the best two. I'll see them sometime 

OM GOSH!! Burger King raised their cones to 68 cents!!! i think cause we are the only ones that go there 

We do service for a guy and we were fixing his backhoe and he had me take apart the hydrolic pump under it but  he started it up and I got hydrolic fluid on my whole arm and got sprayed by diesel shooting out of the exhaust. 

One night we were going to the church and it was dark and this guy was stuck in the driveway and we helped him and once he was done fixing his truck in the parking lot he came inside and was very thankfull and he had ear rings and tats and I gave him a card and he said that he wanted to come to church. 

We also skinned a dear.  Me and rodgers were driving down a road and saw this dear that got hit by a car and Rodgers wanted to take the antlers but a member took it to his house and called us up and we pretty much just watched him process it.  he gave us the antlers, rodgers is gonna make whistles out of his and i am gonna make a knife out of mine. they are small only like 6-8 inches long its gonna be sweet.  

We are on exchanges right now Saturday, and this time I stayed so I'm in charge for the day so it's a little different.  I got dad's letter tell him thanks for me I was laughing at his picture he drew haha it was funny. 

i think thats enough writing am i writing enough? haha 

Week 6

**I mentioned this in our ward missionary mom's report on Sunday, but thought I'd share this interesting story with the rest of you.  A couple weeks ago, I was sitting in Sacrament Meeting, and felt very impressed to share something that one of the HIgh Councilmen taught in our ward, with Sam.  I scribbled my thoughts on paper, and came home and wrote it up in an email.  Added a fitting scripture with it, and went to send it, but it wouldn't send. Tried it again, wouldn't send.   I had already sent the family email with no problem. In fact, I sent another email after with some pictures to see if that would work and it did just fine.   But for some reason, this one kept saying "permanent failure."  I tried many times, copying and pasting it into a new window, etc.  Didn't work.  Finally I tried copying it and pasting it in a gmail account that I only use when purchasing online.  STILL WOULDN'T SEND!!  There was no reason that it should not have sent.  It made absolutely no sense.  The only thing I could think of was that Satan didn't want Sam to get this little thought for some reason that I felt so impressed to share with him, either for himself or for someone he is teaching.  So I was ever determined to make sure he got it!  After SO MUCH EFFORT I found that I could forward it from my gmail, back to my original email, and then forward it on to Sam.  Finally.  I believe that Satan is so aware of our missionaries and the work they are doing!!!

Letter Home

Sorry about last week we didn't get home till really late.  But I really liked that Joseph smith message you sent I know exactly who to share it with thank you.  I thought that was also really cool how it wouldn't send either, not really but you know what I mean.  

Last Monday at the beach it wasn't really dunes it was just a beach with sand but we played ultimate frisbee, soccer and me and rodgers brought our grill and everyone had hot dogs and hamburgers and we just ate and chilled for a while it was fun.   Today is Tuesday and right now at 10:00 skyler is probably on the plane or just landed in California that's kind of weird

Oh yeah and I forgot to ask about my card but that letter you sent explained it.  I'm glad, that would be bad, to lose that money, I'd be broke honey.  

Sheylee's video still doesn't work it's on YouTube maybe if she posts it on FB then I could see it or email or somethin.  But it's still on YouTube just posted on Facebook.  

I opened the box you sent Tuesday night and it was awesome thank you 400.  Next time Connie wants you to send something for her haha.  The cookies are selfish and everything else is too.  I'm gonna leave the selfish part in haha that's funny, dang auto correct .  It was delish.  You sent me that missionary commission thing and the very next morning rodgers is a district leader and he wanted me to talk on the power and authority of our calling in district meeting and that fit perfect.  I also used the poem about the champion you sent in a lesson last night and I know exactly who to share the river pebble story with.  So thanks for those.  

I'm getting fat there is a gym right across the street but it's probably a little expensive.  

I just remembered I'll send a tour of my apartment like how you do when on vacation.  Haha when I made the vid it was after personal study and rodgers was still doin stuff so I was quiet.  If you want I'll make one how you do with more talking hhaa.    

I went to dinner with one of the members and his wife went to sky view and I was like "how neat is that! that's pretty neat" 

friday we went on my first exchange it was pretty much just a normal day with a different companion but still fun.  We get bikes today!  we is excited I kind of all ready know they are gonna be no where near as good as mine.  Ok  Our bikes are crap walmarters we got them and mine is like calli's size but it was a deal for $35 I hope haha.  Rodgers is real happy with them he thinks they are awesome nice bikes ha   But ohh man!!!!! We took our bikes into our appartment and fixed them up as much as we could, it was fun to get dirty hands, and then this morning we took them for a ride and it was sweet. some reason i can wheelie mine soo good! mine is the white and blue one.   But they need some work and it will be fun.  We also got transfers today but me and e rod are staying so that's good Hebron is supposed to be the best area.  

.Man those stories of the other missionaries are awesome.  I've emailed styler a couple of times.  Haha I like the one about Cherokee that is soo funny.

“Hey hey hey this be elda rodgers your sons comp. he's a stellar missionary.  Anyway he works really hard and the spirit is really strong and he is a really good teacher and he loves the gospel. I hope to hang with him after my mission.”

Week 5

Hey peeps this week tyler bell sent me a package and its a really cool pen with my name engraved on it and he sent with it a nice letter too!!  

so tuesday we were in our apartment planning some stuff and i was getting tired of sitting so i stood up on the bench press we have and on the ceiling pretty close to the bench we have a fan and it was turned on full blast and i didn't notice it cause i was telling a story or something, but i didn't notice it was inches from my head and i leaned just a little too much and BAM!! the stupid fan got in my way and smacked the side of my head.  now i have a goose egg luckily its not bad enough to make me look like Humpty Dumpty but you can definitely feel it and its pretty sore.  so thats my funny story for this week.  

I gave another blessing this time to the wheelchair lady she was just stressed,  i guess im getting more comfertable giving them but they only last for like 1 minute.

i want to go for a ride really really bad.  i want to take a delivery too.  Elder rodgers calls me steeze now.  haha 

at this part of the email it is friday morning and we got a huge like 30 lb chunk of turkey and rodgers is frying it up while im typing this and doing some bench presses.  

elder rodgers had roller blades and we roller bladed to someones house and back.  then we got home and took apart his blades to clean the bearings, i wish i could have my longboard but for some reason thats against mission rules.  longboards are way funner than roller blades.  

there is this guy and we go do service for him a lot.  We helped his daughter move for 8 hours.  And she gave us a million cups a full set of China, a new grill and a tool box. when we werer at his daughters house just barely we were cleaning out her basement and she had a bunch of wine and i smelled chocolate alcohol and it smells like paint thinner its nasty!

now its saturday morning and i dagum done a 3 minute ab workout cause I'm watching my figure.  dont judge 2k14.  lol

i don't know if i told you this but a while ago we had a water balloon fight in our apartment and the floor was soaked. 

We were really hungry Saturday cause all we had was breakfast so at 10:00 at night we were coming home from a stake conference thing and we stopped at White Castle and got 20 hamburgers and 4 fries.  But we could only eat 7 each so we gave the rest to someone else. And we had the little boxes that the sliders came in all over the car it was trashy but we cleaned it up.

 we still dont have bikes but hopefully we will get them this week and they are mountain bikes and the guy said they look like 2-300 $ bikes for only $35 so thats cool but they are still not as cool as mine haha.  i saw that on facebook kash getting a hole in one i wish i saw it. 

we saw elder hamula from the 70 he talked to us last week and i shook his hand.

Today we get to go to the dunes for a zone activity I'm really excited 

Okay piece and blessings

Week 4

Hello er body's 

We were in Chicago and in wilmette is were Home Alone was made we could have driven by the house but we were going the opposite way.  And someday I'm going to go to Woodstock cause that's were Groundhog Day was made.  There is a ton of movies made here.  We were driving to Chicago and we missed a turn and got re routed and the gps took us on an abandoned highway it was sweet! There was weeds growing everywhere and no one on the road at all it was completely empty and off the side of the road there was huge train stations and abandoned buildings and it looked just like the movie behind enemy lines when it's just him and the bad guy and all the bombs go off and stuff, it was pretty cool.  

I got my bag back on Wednesday I'm really happy cause I had a whole bunch of candy in it from when you sent me that box at the MTC.  So I've been munchin all day er day.  

We went to Chicago 3 times this week.

We go to this place called zels it's a fast food place and they make chocolate banana shakes and we go and get one of those every now and then cause they are sooo good it reminds me of when dad makes them.  

We had a ward chilli cook off and that was our dinner for the night.  Everyone bringing their own chilli and everyone trying them out and eating them all so that made me really happy I get to eat chilli and only chilli all night :(!!!!!......... And I was a judge so I had to eat all of them!! Hahaha but it wasn't that bad I only had to take one bite out of all of them and I was able to miss most of the beans haha lol 2k14.  And there was a lot of cakes and dessert too. But I actually liked one  except for the beans and it ended up being the winner.  And it also ended up being chili from Wendy's but with some hot peppers in it haha.  There is the bishop and some other guy but they make the hottest ones there but the other guy Bro. Kelly is like 70 years old and he makes his stuff way hotter then the bishops, I dipped my spoon halfway and ate that an it made my eyes water and i was choking on it a little bit.  it was cray cray.  i guess there is a pepper that is hotter than the ghost pepper i think its the scorpion pepper and its the hottest one in the world and thats what he used.

connie the mission mom's son James is 14 years old and we go to their house all the time like once each night just to say goodnight pretty much cause they live right next to us.  and he has been wrestling all the missionaries that have been here and my companion was a wrestler and he was wrestling him and of coarse he kicks butt, so i guess last night was my turn and  i totally dominated!! jk but it really wasn't that hard it was fun.  

there is this other kid who is a hardcore gamer and he wants me to teach him front flips today but he is uncoordinated and chubby so i have some doubts but that will be fun cause i want to do some flips really bad I've only done 4 backflips the whole time I've been gone.  

my friend colton clark the one we saw at mr mac, just left for Lansing Michigan now he is just a couple hours away.  i have just about lost my six pack!! i am getting fat!!! so I've done some ab stuff and i hope it works cause thats getting me mad.  

I have not per chased anything with my home card except for something that was 30$ and a couple 50 cent ice cream cones that's it.  

Yeah I would like grandpas coat it's cooling down a tad bit over hear but it's not cold yet so we have time

I am feeling great 

My companion is cool I just figured out that he is a professional shooter for Remington. that's funny with Toby I used to duck down with him too and then run and he would chase me

Liz is a member she is pretty funny the ward is probably half the size or 2/3 of our ward

Man I bet calli was excited haha 

I haven't been homesick at all I miss some things sometimes but that's it

I got some pictures too 

We saw the baseball field and the abandond highway and some ghetto places and a monster corvette

Check out this dank bike I drew

Ightskees thanks mom we are going to be out of wifi for a tad bit but you can still send stuff cause I like it a lot.  I luh ya 

Week 3

Happy birthday Calli buns ber nanner funs!!!  I bet you are going to enjoy that concert That would be fun up the buns. 

today this morning i was sitting down eating that delicious nanner bread you sent me it was so good i love getting food in the mail, anyway i was sitting down and my companion is really good at voice mimicking and he gets board in the bathroom so he starts to talk to himself and have conversations with himself and its really funny.  We also made some speakers for the iPads with cups and a paint roller and it actually works.  

i bought a bluetooth keyboard and I'm using it right now it makes it so much easier to type instead of using just the ipad.  i made chicken pot pie!!! it tasted a little different cause we had potatoes and mini onions cause we just buy'ed a bag full of carrots, onions, potatoes, peas, and stuffs. and we actually made it for a family.  elder rodgers always cooks fried chicken for families when we go over so this time i made chicken pot pie.  but it was dank licouse.  i could eat it all day er day.  

we actually are not going to run the paralyzed lady in the race its her moms 100th birthday.  so she wont be there.  We aren't even going to run anymore it's $35 so we are going to run a water booth thing.  That's cool kash got an eagle if it was on the 4th hole that would be even cooler cause that's the hole I got my first eagle on.  And yes the nanner bread was fresh as fabreeze.  And it's actually 16 maxwell st.  And they spell their name like Flaherty.  But It's all good in the hood.  As far as spiritual experiences go Friday night we gave a blessing to a lady and Rodgers said in the blessing "your daughter will come to you..." Cause her daughter has started to drink and stuff and then that same night at 2:30 AM she came running to her parents crying cause she needed something or something like that i don't know.  But we have had a lot of good lessons everyday there is about 3 or 4 good lessons.  Sometimes more and sometimes less. Friday we got a hitch installed on our car and we have a bike rack on the way cause we are getting bikes for $35 and apparently they are pretty nice ones too but we can't see them unless we buy them.  But I don't care that's really cheep and we will get those probably next week.  

Yesterday night at like 8:00 was really stormy it's cool here cause they get a bunch of tornados each year this summer they had 8 of them and last night we almost had one.  And it's cool cause before a twister starts the sky turns green it's weird but cool.  It's like as green as the grass almost. 

 Tell kash our bench press can have 2 35s on each side but i think we lost one so we can only have 1 on each side but i done care thats still enough to get swole.  ha flood the block there is a lady called sis.  block and i always think of flood the block.  i miss the bass nectar.  man  im excited for skyler i just emailed him back he emailed me last week i hope he gets it i couldnt email that much i was gone all day.  

omg the banana brerad was sooooo good it tasted fresh.  i still haven't got my bag but i will hopefully friday cause we are going to chicago on friday to sing in a queir im mean quior hahaha.  i am writting letters to yall but i need to finish them and send them.  i also am sending erbody a little somthin somethin ive only got sheylees so far but im still looking 

oh yeah and we were at a big popcorn festival cause apparently Orval redimbacker started popcorn here.  but we ran into a baptist preacher   and we were talking to him he was soooo annoying he wouldn't let us say hardly anything.  but what evs.  i have a tech tip for austin, when you are talking to a preacher of a diff church just be nice and dont bible bash cause that never works its just gets them mad and they start yelling, so be nice and agree to disagree pretty much thats what we did and it ended up fine.  tech tip of the week

hey dad ya it has been really hot somedays and i hate the humidity but the last couple of days it has been cool with no humidity and its been pretty nice.  we have only taught members pretty much we taught a couple investigators but they are really close to being baptised cause the rest of their family has been.  there is a kid over hear that really likes byu.  tell adrian and neva ann geddes thanks thats nice.

Thanks mom that's really nice but if I see a tornader I am videoing that sucker!! Haha right now we are at a family's house we always go to and they are talking about zombies and the walking dead and I'm just like.... I'll email ha I've never seen those before so what evs.  I need to get the pics off of my camera I'll do that sometime

i cant remember if i told you this but i made chicken pot pie for connie the mission mom and it was de lish we also made our own speeckers for our ipads and it actually works!!! okay well today im gonna try to email more  and more throughout the day. okay bu by

Week 2

Hahahahaha that is so funny that sheylee got a Siamese cat they are so ugly haha.   Dang kash is really missing out on the wisdom teeth study that was some good times.  That bathroom is looking way better than it did before, you and that miter saw do work.  Kody really wanted me and kash to go to prater with him how long was the hike. It doesn't sound that fun.  Is the rental all done? That sounds fun, everyone asks about sheylee and if she went on a mission ?!!!!?? Almost everyone I meet asks that it's funny.  That's cool Austin is going to Mississippi my friend Colton Clark just left 2 days ago to the mtc he's the one that was going to lansing michigan it's only like 1 hour away from me.  Ya there is this one guy brother smoot he is 6'8", black and probably almost 300 lbs and he wares a lava lava and flip flops and paints his toenails blue and has ruby toe rings.  He is pretty funny.  Then I think I told you about that batman penguin lady she creeps me out.  We don't have a whole lot planned for today right now Rodgers is getting a hair cut and we are at super cuts.  We are having a cook out at the ward mission leaders house tonight that will be fun.

It's not bad being with a companion all the time probably cause me and kash were always hanging out.  Ohhhhhh yeah banana bread sounds super deliciousness.  Ya Connie said it's okay she lives like 35 feet away from us I guess that's pretty much her calling as a mission mom anyway is to do stuff like that.  Thanks for my blanket and new pillow it's awesome I slept good last night.  Rodgers is into this really stupid card game called magic it's like Pokemon and yougioh and he has a card that is worth 200 dollars and some other expensive ones but it's still stupid.  We ran a couple 5k's and this Saturday there is a 5 mile run that we are going to do with a paralyzed lady In a wheelchair.  Rodgers also just got his patriarchal blessing yesterday he has been getting teased all week since he hasn't had one. 

I left my journal in the car so I can't think of what to write but with these iPads we can email all day anytime as long as we have wifi so that's good.  

Something that I never thought about was that Indiana gets tornadoes. I really want to see one I think that would be so cool as long as it's a ways away but it would be sweet.  There was a cool circus that was right next to our apartment idk if I told you this already but it was 15 Dallahs. So we didn't go I didn't even get u picture they were only there for one day then left.  Everyone thinks it's so pretty over here cause of how green it is but it's not even that green and it's boring just trees everywhere cache valley is way better.  I got gummy bears and found a swastica bear!!! Haha okay well tah tah for now.   

First Week

Hello errbody that is so funny that the animals got inside of the house! Today is Monday it's my p day.  The airplane ride was sweet it was a smaller one only two seats on each side of the isle but we got on and took off they didn't have that crabapple lime stuff so I got pretzels and ginger ale.  The flight was like 3 hours long it. Was pretty fun. But we woke up monday morning at 2:30 cause my roommates were going to New York and they had to leave early so I sat around for an hour and got ready then we left.

The tour of the city wasn't really a tour we just rode the " blue line" to the bean and then walked overt to see some water fountains and then rode the " redline" back and the whole time we were passing out Books of Mormon it was actually quite easy.  Then we went to the mission home and ate deep pizza it wasn't as deep as I thought maybe cause it was homemade but it was still good then we slept downstairs and woke up and had breakfast and then walked to the stake center and got our iPads and companions and then rode out to our areas.  Elder Rodgers is from Washington state he grew up on a dairy farm he's pretty cool every night he gets a 50 cent cone at burger king so we do that now.   I haven't gotten anything from you yet and I left my shoulder bag back at the stake enter with my scrips, pmg, and candy in it.  If you send stuff to the mission office than Rodgers says that I won't get it for a week or two but if you send it to sis egolf or the mission mom Connie flairhety than it will  only take a couple of days and if it goes to the mission office than I have to wait 2 weeks so I can drive over to get it during a meeting we have I guess they don't ship it out to me.  

 It is hot and humid it's not as hot as I thought but the humidity is a killer I don't like feeling sticky and wet all day but we have a Chevy cruise brand new and it has great ac.  They buy new cars and then once they get to 50,000 miles they sell them and buy new ones it's cray cray.  The members are feeding us well every night we eat at someone's house but in between meals I get a little hungry probably from being used to snacking all day at work.  

We have only taught members so far. I gave my first actual blessing to a guy other than that I have only done annointings.  I saw fireflies for the first time a few days ago they are what's good.  Uhhhhh I ate black beans in salsa and raw mushrooms in a salad isn't that gross!!!  But I actually couldn't taste them so it was pretty good and I was starving so I enjoyed it.  There is this lady that looks exactally like the penguin guy on the old batman show she creeps me out a bit. And that's not exaggerating!  We have like 5 hours of service a week that's good because then I can get out of my church clothes, but I was sweating like 50 gallons per minute.

We have a nice lady do our laundry for us apperently this place, Hebron, it the best place in the whole mission it's a lot like home everyone in the ward are good friends .  Check out this car one of the members is a dirt racer and he builds his own cars I got a video of it running in the garage but I'll have to send it through something else but here is a picture .  It's hard to type consistently with an iPad I have a million type os.
I can't send that video yet I need to fix some email app thing on my iPad but I'll get it eventually.  So I'm still just chillin so how is school going the summer went by soooo fast it's gross.  I ate a sorano pepper but only about half of it we had jalepiño poppers it's a jalepiño pepper filled with cream cheese and wrapped in a piece of bacon.  I think dad would like them you should make some.   Rodgers is watching a video.  He likes duck dynasty a lot jack.  We are going to eat at Pavs for lunch it's like  that place in Richmond by tires I think. Has Toby grown more yet? How is my dirt bike doing?   How is LLP?  That's my list.  I really want to take a delivery right now.

  Okay we'll talk to ya later! Bye 

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 The wifi at the library was slow so we came to the church

 

Chillin

 

Mmmmm thank you for these, these are sooo good I'm happy they survived the plane ride