Fill in the blank...

Dear Family,

Well that's way cool. I hope Cheybug had fun with her whoopin' dancing.  Well, I made it here safe so no need to worry! We live in a ghetto place!  Mom believe me when I say it's worse than West Valley, haha! Only me and my companion live in this apartment. I have lost 15 pounds, but I am eating great, having eggs for breakfast and a salad for lunch than a portioned Samoan dinner, haha. My favorite Samoan food is chop suey. Way good!  Look it up and cook it, haha, yum!  

Elder moody is the third oldest in his family. He has two older brothers and one younger one and younger sister Cheyenne's age. He is the first missionary in his family.  He is showing by example. He has lived in Utah his whole life.  He wants to be a professional bull rider when he gets home. I am his first companion he has to train. He has been out for 8 months, crazy, he says he feels like he just got here hahah!  We get along just fine. We have the same interests and I love that we do everything the same.  He just is cool!

Testimony and conversion, hard topic!  (I told him that I had recently spoke on that topic)  Just saying it's not easy to convert people.  I hope it went well cause you will be blessed for it. Oh I'm jealous that you're going to see my big guy and the rest of the family. I miss you and pray for them every day all day! (I told him that I would send pictures of Miles "eating" his birthday cake)  Haha, be sure to send those pictures that would make my day even better. (I told him that grandpa was having surgery)  Oh that's not good.  Tell him to cowboy up and everything will work out. I hope he heals fast and I will pray for him. Trent is in that competition,  fun fun!  I hope he takes the whole party!  Kris bought a animal, hahahaha, well she is getting old and soft after all!

Below are the answers to his fill-in-the-blank for the week:

1. Tell me about your flight and your experience in the mission home:  Oh I hate flying. Never again, mother!  I don't like the turbulence. I love being up there and seeing everything, just like it better on the ground!

2. Tell me at least one good thing that has happened to you this week:  Well one good thing that happened to me last week was we got 8 new investigators and we eat very good all the time haha!  First baptism is on the 30 and the next is on the 6. So excited!

2.5   The bad things about last week... You would be proud of me!  So we were tracting with one of the priests of the ward when a white van with the words "I laugh at hell cause I'm going to heaven are u?" drove past.  He was a baptist and this guy was laying into us on how were wrong and how Joseph Smith is trash and so is the Book of Mormon. All he was doing was bashing on us! I stood my ground, I smiled and said I'm glad you think that but you're not right. He gave us bible scripture to look up to prove we were preaching false doctrine.  Yeah, it was all talking about him. It said "for he that judge, he is condemned to hell."  Well, he ain't goin' to heaven, haha.

3. Tell me one thing that has you discouraged:  Well we have to memorize the preach me gospel lessons word for word and it sucks, but I will get it done.

4. Are you doing our laundry?  Of course mother. I have done it 5 times already, haha.   It's not that bad. We do it at a members house as were having breakfast, haha.

5. Are you cleaning up after yourself?  I am the only one in the apartment that cares about cleaning. I clean when I get something dirty or anything.

6. Is there anything you need?  Anything I need?  Um more of my friends, preferable the girls to send me letters. I think that's everything. All else is good, thanks mom.

7. Describe the Warrensburg area to me.  What does it like? Weather?  We are in the town of Blue Mills.  It's city with hills and flat parts too. It looks brown lots of trees, acorn trees with LOTS of squirrels haha. It's way big. It's like Spanish Fork size but more populated. We have a part time car. I like to walk more but I hate using the car cause I don't lose weight driving a car, haha. The weather here sucks, humid, one day its 82 the next its 32. It is ripping my immune system apart, but I'm getting through it. It's kinda ghetto with a lot of pitbull dogs in some parts but mostly good all the rest.

8. Have you heard from anyone else?   I loved the package you sent me, but I wish there would have been some jerky in it.. I'm sharing it with Elder Moody. He loves the stuff!  It's always good to send stuff. I love getting jerky and the Mio energy.  It's the best here. I have not heard from anyone. It sucks, but two days and I will be at my one month mark!

 

I love you too, Mom. Miss you, keep up the great work!

I love you, Dad.  I will do as the Lord see fit for me to do!  I am glad I can be a person that the other young men can look up to.  If they put forth the effort, the blessings will come.  I can promise them that!