Monday, September 21, 2009

So I just typed the message and I lost it so this one will probably be shorter than the other one... I have Spondylolisis! That is what is wrong with my back... it means that my l-5 vertibrae is fractured... So what the Dr. I went to said was wrong...
Elder Woolsey the mission area Dr. went to a bunch of specialists in sports medicine and back pain and that is what they came up with...
The good news is I won't be coming home! The bad news is I have to live with the pain forever. Elder Woolsey said that I have two choices. I can complain about it or I can pretend it doesn't hurt...

So I decided I am going to endure and not let the pain get to me... cuz if i do Satan wins... besides its not so bad :)
Anyways I am sorry its such a short message but I love you all.

Monday, September 14, 2009

I still haven't sent the tape I am sorry...I didn't have a package for it when I went to send it.... and we didn't have the car... but we have the car this week so I will go and get a package and send it tomorrow when we are coming home from zone conference.
Sorry.
Anyways this week was kinda slow. I had my Dr. appointment for my back and apparently one of my vertebrae, my lowest one, thinks that it is part of my tail bone so my whole life it has been growing the wrong way. Ha I knew it was a problem with the bone when it first hurt but no all the "professionals" said it was a dislodged disk. I'm right ...they're wrong.. haha.. just kidding anyways I am meeting with the area Dr. on Wednesday at the mission office. But don't worry about me if there is a serious problem I'm sure President will give you a call... I will be fine... just keep my deformed vertebrae in your prayers... haha... Anyways we went on a trade off with the zone leaders on Saturday and Elder Chadwick and Call set a baptismal date with a Muslim for the 27th... haha i haven't baptized a Muslim yet that should be fun. Leo has to have his baptism postponed because he and his mom were both sick... we have Stake Conference on Sunday and President will be speaking that will be sweet.. and then only a couple more weeks for General Conference.... so exciting...
Anyways I don't have a lot more to talk about.. I heard that ASU won and the Cardinals lost... too bad. I am still not convinced to be a Cardinals fan... maybe it would be different if I was home to watch their season... but when all I hear is they made it to the Superbowl I just imagine a fluke.... anyways love you all.

Monday, September 7, 2009

So this week was fun... haha we had transfers... so we were with Elder Shirts the whole week because Elder Adams went home... that's why it took me so long to finish the tape and send that.... but it should be coming soon.
On Monday we went to St. Augustine and we had fun! I got to see Liz... she made me cookies. Haha but that's all good... Don was working so we weren't able to see him...
Tuesday and Wednesday were hectic because we had to cover two areas... Elder Shirts and mine... transfers came and went. Elder Fetty replaced Adams. He is kinda cool.
We have been finding a lot of cool people. We are hopefully going to be baptizing a boy named Leo on Sunday. The tape has a lot more information about him. He is sweet and obsessed with the Book of Mormon. He loves it!
I also found this guy named Jerom when I was on a trade off with a member... he was really humble and he will be getting baptized on the 20th if we can get a hold of him... he is never home ...but pretty sweet none the less.
I heard that ASU blew away Idaho State.
Anyways I hope to hear from y'all. I love ya... were fixing to go to the church and play some non-competitive basketball.

Monday, August 31st, 2009

Sorry it took so long to write today. We went to St. Augustine and we just got back. It was so much fun. We went to Ripley's again and I got to go and see Liz. Don was working so he couldn't be there... anyways, I have been working on a tape to send home and it should be done this week. I will probably be sending it on Wednesday so everything that has been happening is on that tape, so other than that I don't really have anything to say...
But I love you all...I am not getting transferred and will be in Mandarin at least 6 more weeks.. love you.

Mom asked if he got his Pizza.....his answer: ya i got it it was soo good... that was one of the best pizzas ever.... I loved it! Was it bufalo chicken? That's what it tasted like.

August 24, 2009

**Note from Mom**

I just got off the phone from with a Sister Clark from St. Augustine. Trevon baptized her husband about a year ago, and they are now preparing to go to the Temple. That is what Trevon has been praying for, that he will be able to attend the temple and see them sealed before he goes home. She reports that they are starting the Temple prep classes this week.
Her big message from Trevon was that he wants me to "order me a PIZZA!' So that is taken care of and should be delivered tonight at 8:00. She reports that he is kind of discouraged with the area he is in now.....(too many rich people that are not wanting to change their lives) Anyway, I am sure this would be a good week for a letter from family members and friends.
Sister Clark's husband is a former minister.....and she says the adversary is really working on him. But two of the comments she made that she and her husband both said....they have had many missionaries through the years and she says "your son is truly on fire for the Lord." and that he really knew his scriptures, and has really learned that he likes studying religion.
He had also told her to tell me that he really misses his family right now, (especially his mom....ha ha)
Anyway, it sounds like the computer situation is not dependable, so why don't you all send him a little note this week!
Love ya all.....Mom

August 24th, 2009

Hello... this will probably be a short letter I don't have al ot to write...

We have been having a really hard time our teaching pool is pretty much empty and my back has been acting up this last week... so tracting was a pain in the BACK!!!! Haha I talked to Sister Newman yesterday at Church and missionary medical can't cover chiropractic, but I'm not even sure if that's what I need... so she is looking around to see if their are any members in the area that can help me out.. I really hope so cuz we are back on bike this week and I am pretty scared for it... but it will all be good.

Chris and Aimee are not doing good at all... they wanted to push the wedding off to March and now Chris thinks that Aimee is cheating on him... so its not a good situation at all.

I have been pretty discouraged lately but I called Don and Liz last night (my first baptism ) and that was so encouraging to see how good they are doing... they started a Temple Prep class this last week so they should be able to go in a couple months... hopefully I will be able to go with them.

Anyways I am sorry I don't have more to say. The power has been going out here so I want to get this sent as soon as possible I have been kicked off twice already love you all.

August 17th, 2009

So this week was pretty slow... we had trade offs with the Zone leaders and Elder Garnette and I got the cops called on us. It was pretty funny... we were tracting this really ghetto apartment complex and we were talking to these two girls outside thier apartment for a long time. They were pretty interested and then this Hispanic guy that was a worker for the complex, janitor or something, came up and yelled in broken English "you can't be here. You have 5 minutes to get off property" I answered back "we will leave when we are done talking to these girls" and he yelled "I am calling the police" and he pulled his phone out and without pushing any buttons on it or anything he yelled into it "call the police" so it was kind of an empty threat so we just ignored him and kept teaching . So he went and got the manager and she came over and told us we had to leave as soon as we were done teaching those girls and Elder Garnette said "that's what we said we were going to do he just wasn't listening" and then the Hispanic guy started yelling and cussing like crazy... he was good at cussing ...you could actually understand him... anyways then we left and that was about it...

On Thursday we had zone conference... it was pretty good ....the lunch was great... we had President interviews afterwards and so did 14 other missionaries so we were there waiting to get into our interviews for about 4 hours... but it was good. It was the most unprofessional interview I have ever had with President . We just talked and joked about the mission and the members and stuff... he told me that the Mandarin 1st ward bishop is his home teacher and he asked President how he can afford to put his best missionary in Mandarin 2nd and President thought he meant Elder Probert so he started talking about the plans he had for Probert but Bishop said "no, I am talking about Elder Rogers." That made me feel good...

Chris and Aimee went out of town for the weekend and they have been talking about moving their wedding to March... I am pretty upset about it. We are going to set up another appointment with Bishop for them and hopefully he can move things up...

Anyways I got the cd...and I loved it I almost started crying in the first track because it was all of the little people singing to me and their voices are all so different... especially Kailin and Anna... I was really impressed... Jakob is doing so good on the piano! I loved their song! I miss all those little guys! Midget!
I will make a tape back and send it soon I will start on it tonight.
love you all. Love those letters....keep them coming!

August 10, 2009

So this week not a lot happened.. but we had some fun anyways... we pretty much just tracted all week. The highlight of the week was Chris and Aimee decided not to wait to get married all the way to September... they changed their minds and they will do a small wedding and then a ring ceremony later... I am pretty happy about that... all we are waiting on is Chris to buy a wedding band and propose. So they could be getting married and baptized this weekend.. it could be an awesome week... They also have to stop smoking though that will be a battle. We need to go over all their hold ups with them this week...

We have zone conference on Thursday and President interviews right afterwards... I am excited it has been a long time since I have had interviews...

Pete and PJ are moving tomorrow so we are with the other Mandarin Elders today at the library by their house, we will probably be going to the library from now on even though it is a lot of miles... and they will be taking care of our laundry for us from now on. thank goodness.. we would have had to pay...

So on Thursday I think it was, we found a raccoon at our apartment and I wanted to see if I could feed it so I pulled out some tick tacks and tossed one to it ..then put one in my hand and it ate the first tick tack and then came and ate the second one out of my hand... immediately I ran home and got some tortillas and my camera and I just sat outside against a wall and held out a tortilla and the raccoon came up to me and took it right out of my hand again... and again... and again.

After a while we decided to name him Bruce after Bruce Willis who plays a raccoon in Over the Hedge... Bruce really liked me, he started climbing all over me and when I didn't have a piece of bread to give him he would nudge my arm with his nose until I got him one... he ended up stealing the bag of tortillas but they fell out before he could eat any and I recovered it... it was hilarious I took some pictures and made some videos so I will send some in a letter right after this one... they are downloading to my flash drive as we speak...

Anyways not a lot else has happened, Pete gave me all of his old mission suits... so now I have like 9 suits so I will have to leave some behind... don't worry mom I am going to keep the ones that I brought out with me. but I got a really nice light gray one and another one that looks similar but it is a trench coat style I have some pictures that I will send as well of me modeling the jackets....
I love you all and I hope to hear from you soon.