65% of the Mission Has Been in the Field for 4 Months or Less

Laurence the Lizard

Mother, go online or wherever and listen to the Nashville Tribute to Missionaries: The Work, listen to track 7 bless my son, cry then email me back. OK, listen to it all, cry then email me again. OK, back to answering you. I wont forget papa's birthday. Wow, 30 years friends with Mish and yay Hawaii.

I tell people that I'm going to probably do what my dad does. It is starting to cool off here, too ..... it is said we wore jackets today (thanks for the coat mama) it was like 70s and we felt so ashamed. How could two kids from Idaho and Utah, land of the cold and snow, feel like 70s are cool enough for jackets!!!!! 

So we had a lesson on Sunday morning and it went very well, Her name is Marie she is a nice woman. It went quite well, we taught about the Holy Ghost. The member who was with us asked if she wanted a blessing and she said yes so we gave her a blessing and then at church the Mission Hills Sisters had a member that need a blessing so we gave her one. Elder Miller gave Marie her blessing and I gave the Mission Hills member a blessing so we are blessing right and left, and then we had dinner with our landlord last night as well. It was very nice, it felt like being with a grandma and grandpa, well other than they didn't know anything about exactly what we do so we kinda explained it, but it is funny they call us by our first names so yeah haha. We have a meeting with a less active man on Tuesday so that will be interesting and he is a person that has told people no many times before so we feel like we can help because he said yes to us coming back. 

Well, the transfer is coming up so it will be fun to see if either of us leave or train, well we are pretty sure we are going to train because we are getting about 30 new missionaries this transfer and we will have about 210-215 missionaries and right now more that 65% of the mission has been out in the field for 4 months or less so yeah we are a very young mission hahaha. Then on the 10th, so Thursday, we had zone conference and we had Elder Kopischke of the 70 come and talk to us and it was very interesting because he was nothing like we were excepting. He was funny and energetic, hahaha and he taught a lot. So yeah, a lot I got for myself so I will just say that he did an almost informal lesson where we just talk a lot so it was cool and then we had to wait after zone conference because our ride had to talk to president so we were doing role plays with the assistants and some other elders. President came up and gave us some advice on what we could do better and other ideas we could use in our questions so it felt kinda special to get direct council and teaching from President while we were just using some extra time we had, so it was great I love President. 

We don't have a scale but i know i lost a lot of weight because I was looking at a picture from the MTC and one I took a day or two ago and there is a pretty big difference so yeah it is pretty fun and then I have Calves of steel from biking haha. So yeah, I still get tired from biking and sweaty but yeah that's what I do. Oh, and yes the package was at the house when we got back from emailing so thanks mama it was great :) and nothing was spoiled cause I have eaten a bit of it all and i haven't gotten sick yet so that is a plus and thanks for the picture and thanks for the shirt and jacket and the MP3 player and olives and pickles, and everything else too mom. It is really good. If you could send CDs, I will then have more stuff to put on the player. Also, could you send me a good pillow? The one I have is well a crappy pillow so yes I would enjoy the comfort of a nice home pillow or a new nice pillow. It is really funny to see me sleep, I either have my head against the head bar or put my feet through the foot bars so I don't have a bruise on my head for ever haha so yeah I like being tall .... when I have a bed that fits me. haha  

We had our first animal encounter with a lizard that got in the house he was a nice fellow we caught him took pictures and released him i named him Laurence Lizard. so yes. i love you Mom, talk to you next week :)

MTC 

Granada Hills 4 months and a few pounds lighter