October 8, 2008

That's right I'm on. hopefully for a hour or two. Hop on and keep hitting refresh. Hopefully we can chat a bit. Love ya tons.
Yeah conference was amazing. It went by so fast. They had a huge projector set up in the chapel. Most people watched it at home. It was us and a couple others for most up it, we had one investigator come. The last session on sunday it was just me and my companion in the chapel. Yeah it was a little weird. As for seeing naked guys, lets just say partially naked. It was just yesterday in fact. We were tracting a 3 story apartment complex. It was a pretty rought set of apartments, deffinately not the marriot. Anyone this black guy answered the door in a pair of white briefs. (Whity tities). I started talking to him and he actually let us in to teach him. There was one black guy sleeping on the floor and another smoking, hunched over on the bed. When we sat down he decided to put some pants and a shirt on. Not a bad lesson though. Tell Peedy, Gus, Rufus, Punchanello, Gunther, Stinky the Clown, Jack, Sprat, woofy, or whatevery his name is that I love him too, and in a little while here I'm going to wish he was here to keep me warm. There's a couple nights I come home and I'm pretty cold. Our heater hasn't worked for a while, so we would study the scriptures as a companionship around the oven with the door open. You'll have to make sure that you print off all of these emails that I send you and keep them in a binder ok bud. I love you tons and I hope school is going good.
That's ok. I'm glad you're on. I really wanted to talk to you. These last couple days one of our investigators had a fight with her daughter and then she started telling us about how she had been in abusive relationships. It was horrible, really sad, I won't go into details. It made me feel sad. Then One of our recent converts was abused by her boyfriend and now he's in jail. He threw her to the pavement and choked her. They did not prepare me for this side of missionary work, I'm only 19, not a psychiatrist or a social worker. So its been tough hearing these things, but none the less good.
Wow! That's awesome. Tell amber good job. Conference was awesome. It was usually just me and my comp in the chapel watching on the projector. I took notes and it was so inspiring. Every talk had something for me that I could apply. It was as if they were speaking to me. We did have an appointment sunday to eat lunch at the craves and to watch one of the sessions, but then Del wasn't feeling good so we couldn't go over. We had one investigator come to one of the sessions. The last session on sunday it was JUST ME AND MY COMP in the chapel. Yeah it was different. The priesthood session was amazing. It went by so fast, I was looking forward to this one (being my first in the mission) and now it's already over. Oh well the way time flies the april session will be here next week. So your car is totalled. I hope everything works our financially. I pray for you and dad. Don't worry about sending a gps though because my comp bought one last wednesday. In interviews president said that he wants to try and keep us together so hopefully I'll have at least one more with him. Especially since we have 2 baptisms scheduled in the next 2 weeks or so, and possibly more on the way. Then I'll be pushing it because I'll have been in beloit for 4 and a half months. Oh and I need you to send me an ABSENTEE BALLOT SO I CAN VOTE that's the first week of november and this is a big ellection. I'm thinking next week on p day I'm going to go coat shopping so that I can be prepared. There's a couple nights I come home and I'm pretty cold. Our heater hasn't worked for a while, so we would study the scriptures as a companionship around the oven with the door open. Yeah it's ridiculous.We had exchanges with the Zone leaders last friday and The Zone leader actually ran with me. I didn't have to run back and forth. He said his legs hurt bad during study though, and he didn't want to get on the bike. We talked a lot and my door approaches really improved. He said I have a lot of charity for the people, and he said that my door approaches were good. He also told me that I was doing good and to not be too hard on myself, just keep trying to improve. I felt charged after that exchange, I really learned a lot. We have great Zone leaders.
Yeah so I sent Zach a letter on saturday, because I was worried and hadn't heard from him. Tell him I love him. My hand got better finally but it took clear till about Friday before it really went down and stopped itching. You should have seen it sunday, monday and tuesday. It was huge and itched so bad. The only thing that made it feel better was the cold. So either I had to be cold or itch??? Hmmmm.
Wow good luck with the oz costume. And a mazda 3, zoom zoom. Tell josh that it sounds like college sports are fun. I know they were for me when I was running with them. Man alive though, that scholarship is important. Tell him to put on his game face and get to it. I know they have labs to help with writing and all sorts of stuff. I know that's what you do in college is just write papers everyday. What time is his first class every day?? The canning sounds awesome. Which reminds me for birthdays or christmas or whatever the occassion, I don't need candy or sweets. I want to be able to run when I get home. I did think of something that I want to see sometime on my mission, not necessarily now. I thought about your homemade granola, but don't put the sunflower seeds or the pine nuts that you and grandma put in there that one time. The nuts in it are weird. Stick to the raisins and craisins. I love you so much mom. You are my mom. Oh so we started telling the members to start inviting nonmembers to dinner appointments so we can meet them. Needless to say when the dinner calendar went around for october there was a substantial decrease in dinner appointments. So I was able to bust out the cookbook you gave me. I'd like to tell you kudos and my companions are pretty jealous I think as they eat their ramen and spaghetti and cold cereal. I made your 5 min fried rice bowl. It was awesome!!! (I bought stuff for these last p day). Last night I made the chicken wrap with the romaine lettuce. It was awesome but I had my comp helping me shop and he had grabbed a can of creamed corn!!! I took a couple bites of it to taste it, but it was not worthy of the creation. So I had to minus that out, and I thought I'd save some money and I had ceasar dressing so I used that instead of Ranch. I took a picture of this, it was so good. It was fun cooking, and I loved it. I love you mom. That book is genius. I sat there eating and said "I love my mom." It was as if you had been there and cooked me something from the heart. So those two recipes deffinately get an A++ and can go in the missionary food archive. I loved it. You're the best mom!!!! IN fact I would challenge what I made to what we had at the craves the night before.
I don't know. We went out to this 3 story apartment complex when it was raining and tracted. Hard work is the best remedy. We were inside so we didn't have to deal with the rain. All the testifying that I did of my savior made things better. We knocked doors for probably close to 2 hours or more. We actually got let into one and taught a lesson so that was good too. KNocking doors and testifying and teaching thats where it's at. Being a missionary thats where its at. I wrote you about this it's in the letter I just sent, but also I made one of your recipes and that was good. Honestly by the end of the night last night I was fulfilled, happy, and I knew the lord was on my side. I felt good at the end of the day.
That's crazy to see my name written. That sounds good though. I hope your day is going good.
to see Devin written, and not elder adams. I might have to leave right now so write me really quick one more time. We are going to Rockford to play basketball with some other missionaries I love you tons. Mom. Write back again really quick.