aight. so my comp is a stud! so we are both really young missionaries. he is in his 3rd transfer and i am on my 4th. i am his 2nd comp but he is my sr. comp and i am his polisher. it is really weird how that works but it just shows how amazing he is! he is a super hard worker!! i feel bad for him because i am still not super with the french so i ask a lot of questions. i hope it doesnt drive him nuts. but he is patient with me.
so Carcassonne is sweet!! it is really small so we walk everywhere. no busses usually unless we go to a city that borders it. we have a nice apt. but not so nice of a shower... haha it is tiny!!! so you have to sit down on a seat and get the shower head and spray yourself off. BIG difference from my palace over in Nimes!! haha but we have a proprietere named Doctor Balbary. he is so funny!! he is not a member, but has known the missionaries for like 20 years. so like right after dad left. he brings us down to his office on the 1st floor every day for a prayer. he also takes us to his beautiful house on the french country side to go pick cherries. he has TONS!! so we pick tons of cherries and do more yard work as our service. it is sweet cuz then we give the cherries to our investigators. it is service both ways!! we also go with the red cross to go feed the homeless each friday. it is so much fun!! there are some of the funniest old men who work with the red cross. so it is increadible here! i really really like it! it is known for being the "hard ville" but i love it!! we see alot of potential with our amis!
each monday wednesday and friday me and elder mayer get up at 6 and got run for an hour. the first day we circled the castle and took a little run through it, it was sweet. the next time we ran along a river it was cool also and today we ran along another river.
the ward is cool alot of people moving but oh well. so i met an english family from alpine utah!! i told them to stop by thanksgiving point and ask for traci or kendall wimmer. so if they do hook them up if you can!! haha
so elder mayer makes some sweet tartes and is showing me how also!! i love it!! thanks for all your emails!! happy birthday rich!! I love you all!!
Morgan
5.31.2010
jordan 5.31.10
ok well T.Y. Thailand sounds crazy. everything is burning. be carefull. you should be getting a letter from me.
Morgan! what the poo! thats the coolest city ever! Right under Amsterdam. your comp sounds rad. only speak in french to him.
well i got a new comp as you know. ive had him before. seeing elder howell go home was one of the hardest things on my mission. mom be expecting a phone call i gave him our house number. he is going to come visit. its very quiet in our appartment now not much action going on. its going to be different. we now are in charge of two companionships investigators. last sunday we, as in all of amsterdam, had 17 investigators in church. thats pretty good. we have 3 baptismal dates and there are a couple more that will be baptized besides them. busy busy.
today we are going to the Rijks and van gogh museum. it will be rad. mom cate is a girl from eindhoven. she works here in in a-dam. she is rad. the other girl that looks like her is her sister natalie who goes to school at byu. they are good friends.
My cast is off! right before i went int the hospital i cut it off bucause it was bugging me. but they x rayd it and its not broken. but there it a little piece of bone between my radial and scaphoid just flouting around. they said it should be fine. its not really bugging. well see what happens. richy i heard about the old through the hands bounce off the head and swish trick. gets em every time.
well love you all . its been one year!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
elder robert!
Morgan! what the poo! thats the coolest city ever! Right under Amsterdam. your comp sounds rad. only speak in french to him.
well i got a new comp as you know. ive had him before. seeing elder howell go home was one of the hardest things on my mission. mom be expecting a phone call i gave him our house number. he is going to come visit. its very quiet in our appartment now not much action going on. its going to be different. we now are in charge of two companionships investigators. last sunday we, as in all of amsterdam, had 17 investigators in church. thats pretty good. we have 3 baptismal dates and there are a couple more that will be baptized besides them. busy busy.
today we are going to the Rijks and van gogh museum. it will be rad. mom cate is a girl from eindhoven. she works here in in a-dam. she is rad. the other girl that looks like her is her sister natalie who goes to school at byu. they are good friends.
My cast is off! right before i went int the hospital i cut it off bucause it was bugging me. but they x rayd it and its not broken. but there it a little piece of bone between my radial and scaphoid just flouting around. they said it should be fine. its not really bugging. well see what happens. richy i heard about the old through the hands bounce off the head and swish trick. gets em every time.
well love you all . its been one year!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
elder robert!
taryn 5.31.10
It rained every evening this week. It was wonderful!
We had an awesome week. We started it off last monday going to jin and jiaps, 15 and 16 year old girls who are all stars! they are so good. we are also trying to teach their families. they are cousins that are students of maa noi (she tutors kids. everyone hear "learns special" or goes to extra learning after school), the relief society president. maa noi (she has helped many through the years into the church. she is amazing. she also helps us teach a lot. the most humble sweet lady ever.) mentioned the gospel and jin said as soon as she said something about it she knew it was something special. she is hoping to get baptized this week, but we have to get her dads permission first. we went to their house on monday and had a little family night with them, we taught them the gospel under their traditional thai wooden raised house, sitting on a little wooden platform, and they taught us how to make somtam (see pics) putting in whole huge black crabs and bubala (fish sauce that they bury for 3-4 months to let it rot!) then their aunt came home from the rice farm with fresh beetles. a delicacy... they catch them themselves because the ones in the markets "arent as good". of course we had to eat those too:( atleast they werent as big as the cockroach i had to eat a few months ago!)
tuesday was full of lessons and teaching english as usual. we are trying to figure out who of our investigators are the ones prepared by the hand of the lord, trying to get quality instead of quantity, though it is so hard to drop them! we taught one of our recent converts, yaay bua, who told us all about how in the old days she was pregnant she would be out working in the rice fields until her stomach started to really hurt, she would go home, kneel on her hands and knees and deliver the baby herself. then someone would hear the baby crying and come in the room. crazy. we are so babied now days.
we have a few investigators right now that cant read. what a burden. what a blessing it is to be able to read, the whole world is opened to us. i cant imagine what it would be like.
thurs we taught guy, my investigator that wants to get baptized but has to wait until her husband gets back from isreal next year. she was talking about how she tried to pay tithing but president told her that she had to wait. then she told us how she wants fiat, her 18 month old son to be a missionary. after that we drove down to khon kaen for interviews, and friday zone conference. president commented after my prayer in the interview how good my language is:) he also commented on how well the area is doing. friday evening right when we got back we raced back to jin and jiabs where we found out a parade was going on in celebration of the big buddhist holiday, had to slowly get throught that, and then got to teach them again. it was pretty cool to see though! on the way back as we raced to our last apt of the night we got to see a naked old lady bathing in her front yard in the thai way of a big ceramic pot of rain water and a little bucket to pour over. i dont think i can count the number of naked people ive seen here! usually old big ladies...
my birthday was so good. i love the people here. we taught a lot of people in the morning, and then sister niw (one of my favorite people ever) took me to lunch at a nice place for my birthday and gave me an udonthani t-shirt like the one that i gave her for her birthday (see pics:)), but she got cute stuff written on the back too. i heard so many of the thai rendition of 'happy birthday' sung to me that day. during studies apple, one of my cute investigators called me and said she was leaving the next day for awhile and wanted to meet with us before she left. we re-arranged our appts a little and then rushed over there for the last appt of the night. we started talking and she told us to wait just a minute because we had food coming. i thought that was wierd, but didnt think much- though i was really hungry, it was 745 and we hadnt had time to eat yet.. then the lights went out and a few members that we have taken to her house to teach with us came out singing happy birthday with a cake and candles. so sweet! i love them so much. then sunday quite a few members gave me random little gifts of all sorts- 2 of which were hair things- a bright pink headband with a big bow on it and also a scrunchie thing that has little pompoms coming off it all over. of course i had to wear them both, they even put them in my hair for me. haha i felt like a walking present.
today we went to a little town about 30 minutes away and bought some fun bags and things, it has been a good day so far! im excited to get back out there and work though. this work is amazing. i am so tired, but it feels so good. such a priveledge to be a missionary, especially a missionary in thailand. i love you all so much!!! thank you for the sweet birthday emails. i miss you and am excited to see you! i cant believe we hit a year this week. crazy! be happy, be safe, choose the right!!
love, ty
taryn's companion holding a crab they ate.
the bug they ate.
We had an awesome week. We started it off last monday going to jin and jiaps, 15 and 16 year old girls who are all stars! they are so good. we are also trying to teach their families. they are cousins that are students of maa noi (she tutors kids. everyone hear "learns special" or goes to extra learning after school), the relief society president. maa noi (she has helped many through the years into the church. she is amazing. she also helps us teach a lot. the most humble sweet lady ever.) mentioned the gospel and jin said as soon as she said something about it she knew it was something special. she is hoping to get baptized this week, but we have to get her dads permission first. we went to their house on monday and had a little family night with them, we taught them the gospel under their traditional thai wooden raised house, sitting on a little wooden platform, and they taught us how to make somtam (see pics) putting in whole huge black crabs and bubala (fish sauce that they bury for 3-4 months to let it rot!) then their aunt came home from the rice farm with fresh beetles. a delicacy... they catch them themselves because the ones in the markets "arent as good". of course we had to eat those too:( atleast they werent as big as the cockroach i had to eat a few months ago!)
tuesday was full of lessons and teaching english as usual. we are trying to figure out who of our investigators are the ones prepared by the hand of the lord, trying to get quality instead of quantity, though it is so hard to drop them! we taught one of our recent converts, yaay bua, who told us all about how in the old days she was pregnant she would be out working in the rice fields until her stomach started to really hurt, she would go home, kneel on her hands and knees and deliver the baby herself. then someone would hear the baby crying and come in the room. crazy. we are so babied now days.
we have a few investigators right now that cant read. what a burden. what a blessing it is to be able to read, the whole world is opened to us. i cant imagine what it would be like.
thurs we taught guy, my investigator that wants to get baptized but has to wait until her husband gets back from isreal next year. she was talking about how she tried to pay tithing but president told her that she had to wait. then she told us how she wants fiat, her 18 month old son to be a missionary. after that we drove down to khon kaen for interviews, and friday zone conference. president commented after my prayer in the interview how good my language is:) he also commented on how well the area is doing. friday evening right when we got back we raced back to jin and jiabs where we found out a parade was going on in celebration of the big buddhist holiday, had to slowly get throught that, and then got to teach them again. it was pretty cool to see though! on the way back as we raced to our last apt of the night we got to see a naked old lady bathing in her front yard in the thai way of a big ceramic pot of rain water and a little bucket to pour over. i dont think i can count the number of naked people ive seen here! usually old big ladies...
my birthday was so good. i love the people here. we taught a lot of people in the morning, and then sister niw (one of my favorite people ever) took me to lunch at a nice place for my birthday and gave me an udonthani t-shirt like the one that i gave her for her birthday (see pics:)), but she got cute stuff written on the back too. i heard so many of the thai rendition of 'happy birthday' sung to me that day. during studies apple, one of my cute investigators called me and said she was leaving the next day for awhile and wanted to meet with us before she left. we re-arranged our appts a little and then rushed over there for the last appt of the night. we started talking and she told us to wait just a minute because we had food coming. i thought that was wierd, but didnt think much- though i was really hungry, it was 745 and we hadnt had time to eat yet.. then the lights went out and a few members that we have taken to her house to teach with us came out singing happy birthday with a cake and candles. so sweet! i love them so much. then sunday quite a few members gave me random little gifts of all sorts- 2 of which were hair things- a bright pink headband with a big bow on it and also a scrunchie thing that has little pompoms coming off it all over. of course i had to wear them both, they even put them in my hair for me. haha i felt like a walking present.
today we went to a little town about 30 minutes away and bought some fun bags and things, it has been a good day so far! im excited to get back out there and work though. this work is amazing. i am so tired, but it feels so good. such a priveledge to be a missionary, especially a missionary in thailand. i love you all so much!!! thank you for the sweet birthday emails. i miss you and am excited to see you! i cant believe we hit a year this week. crazy! be happy, be safe, choose the right!!
love, ty
taryn's companion holding a crab they ate.
the bug they ate.
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zone conference.
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birthday gift from a member.
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buddhist holiday parade.
5.24.2010
taryn's birthday
taryn's birthday is this saturday.
what a great gift if everyone sent her an e-mail saying
happy birthday!
her address is to the lower left.
(be sure to go into your e-mail when writing, don't use the link.)
what a great gift if everyone sent her an e-mail saying
happy birthday!
her address is to the lower left.
(be sure to go into your e-mail when writing, don't use the link.)
message from kendall
Morgan was just transferred to Carcassonne! I re-opened Carcassonne and served there for about 6 months some 25 years ago—my last city prior to returning home. Carcassonne is very much in the South--not far from Spain. Very hospitable people with distinct southern drawl. He’s got a French companion (see picture below) and seems very happy about the move.
Carcassonne is home to Europe’s largest existing fortified ville which consists of a double ring of ramparts and 53 towers. The main city center and town sits just outside the old city.
Carcassonne is home to Europe’s largest existing fortified ville which consists of a double ring of ramparts and 53 towers. The main city center and town sits just outside the old city.
morgan 5.24.10
hey hey!
okay so this one has to be kinda quick. sorry.
well i got transfered. i am going to miss Nimes but thats okay. so I am in Carcassone!! Dad did you serve here also? i thought i remembered you saying that? thatd be sweet!
okay so my comps name is elder Mayer. he is french and he is big and really happy!! haha he is a stud!! such a difference from my last comp.
okay mom in my package. hold back on the white pants. i dont need them. i need some of that sumo hair stuff you got me. it DOMINATES!! i just got here and we are at a tahitian families house and they are waiting for me to come eat. sorry it is so short. i love you all!! i miss you! talk to you next week! good luck on the 50 momma!! I love you! HAPPY BIRTHDAY TY!!! jord sorry to here about the wrist. chan, papers??
morg
morg
taryn 5.24.10
Man what a crazy week!
I dont know how much you heard in America, but Thailand had a pretty crazy week last week. We knew things were getting pretty bad when we saw a few soldiers on the corners outside the government buildings, but i thought that they were just being a little over protective. Last wednesday my companion and i had just finished up our plate of rice and a wierd chicken combination, biking home to study when i saw a bunch of smoke and heard sounds like gunshots. i was joking around and said "oh man, the redshirts.." but was thinking it was just a yard fire that got out of hand (they usually burn their garbage and their plants in their yards. 2 minutes later we got a call from our panicked zone leader telling us to get home. the redshirts burned down the town hall and another govt building in udon, and 4-5 others in other cities, and then they burned central world in bangkok, the 2nd biggest mall in asia!! it was huge!!! this all went down at 12:00. all the missionaries in Thailand were on lock down for the rest of the day. it made me realize how important food storage is. a few months ago we got told to buy food for 4 days, so we bought some, but just basics like oatmeal and stuff. i was really wishing that we had better food, especially cuz we had no idea how long we would have to stay in. moral of the story: get good food that you will want to eat for your food storage! luckily an amazing member and her husband called us at like 730 after we had been eating off the scraps that we could put together in our and the elders house and she brought us a bunch of stuff. sister niw is amazing, she calls us a few times a week and drops off khaw niaw mamuang (mango and sticky rice- everywhere right now). anyway, back to crazies. we now have soldiers with big guns, everywhere, especially lining the area around the government buildings, and then have random big army trucks driving around the city. the entire country has a curfew of 8 right now, if you are home later than that they can shoot you!!!! what is really amazing is that everything was so crazy until friday, the day that elder oaks and 3 other general authorities were supposed to come to thailand for a leadership training for the asia area, a stake conference, and to speak to us. we thought that they werent going to be able to come, but everything went peaceful right in time for them to come. It was a true testimony of when the Lord needs something done, it gets done, no matter how hard Satan tries.
We just got back from a broadcast with all the missionaries in bangkok and surrounding areas (we didnt get to go:( too far..) elder hallstrom of the 70 came to talk to us. it was awesome. he told us that our area, the asia area, not including asia north like korea and those countries, has the most muslims, hindus, and buddhists out of any other area, even the middle east! also he mentioned that the asia area for the church is 1/24 in the world, but we have more than 1/2 of the population of the world!!! he said that this area is the frontier right now, we are on dawn of something huge! He talked a lot about after you finish your mission and how you have to stay strong, even when you wont have the scheduled study times. it has gotten me really wondering what is going to happen when i get home, its crazy thats in not too long! ive been wondering about my major, what i want to do in life, whats going to happen with dating, all that fun stuff. i have no idea what is going to happen! its nive i dont have to really worry about that for still another few months.I liked something that elder hallstrom talked about. he said that the "purpose of life is not to be easy". if it were easy we wouldnt grow! if life is easy you are doing something wrong. life is learning to find happiness while having to grow and be streched. i noticed in the book of mormon awhile ago how only a very small portion of it is when things are happy and easygoing. there are a few verses here and there, but then it skips years and goes into the trials again. its the trials that we learn from!
The area is still doing awesome, we are seeing lots of miracles. We had some huge black clouds in, we were expecting a big storm. we were in iang and her 2 daughters house (one of our investigators) when it started to downpour on her metal roof. super loud!!! we couldnt hear anything, so we thought we might just have to leave, but it rained for about 20 seconds. stopped for a minute, started again for about 10 seconds and was finished. thailand. We had 15 progressing investigators last week! it is just amazing me how much the Lord is blessing us. we have 7 investigators with bap dates, but were hoping to set some more this week. i looked through my planner from my first moves here in udon and was laughing, 1 investigator with a date, 1-3 progressing investigators, and on average about 6 lessons a week. it was hurting so bad. it is amazing to see what a little elbow grease and A LOT of the Lords help can do. every week when the elders get our numbers they comment on how incredible we are doing. it feels soooo good:) though i am getting really tired and my body worn out! what a blessing to be a missionary. we learn and grow so much while we are actually focusing on others. funny how that works.
i hope everyone is so happy and healthy right now. i love you and miss you! crazy im 22!!!! also crazy it is the end of may.
love you so so so much. im deeply grateful for all of you! This church really is the true church. The book of mormon is the book that will bring the most happiness to ones life than any other book in the world!!!!
love, ty
I dont know how much you heard in America, but Thailand had a pretty crazy week last week. We knew things were getting pretty bad when we saw a few soldiers on the corners outside the government buildings, but i thought that they were just being a little over protective. Last wednesday my companion and i had just finished up our plate of rice and a wierd chicken combination, biking home to study when i saw a bunch of smoke and heard sounds like gunshots. i was joking around and said "oh man, the redshirts.." but was thinking it was just a yard fire that got out of hand (they usually burn their garbage and their plants in their yards. 2 minutes later we got a call from our panicked zone leader telling us to get home. the redshirts burned down the town hall and another govt building in udon, and 4-5 others in other cities, and then they burned central world in bangkok, the 2nd biggest mall in asia!! it was huge!!! this all went down at 12:00. all the missionaries in Thailand were on lock down for the rest of the day. it made me realize how important food storage is. a few months ago we got told to buy food for 4 days, so we bought some, but just basics like oatmeal and stuff. i was really wishing that we had better food, especially cuz we had no idea how long we would have to stay in. moral of the story: get good food that you will want to eat for your food storage! luckily an amazing member and her husband called us at like 730 after we had been eating off the scraps that we could put together in our and the elders house and she brought us a bunch of stuff. sister niw is amazing, she calls us a few times a week and drops off khaw niaw mamuang (mango and sticky rice- everywhere right now). anyway, back to crazies. we now have soldiers with big guns, everywhere, especially lining the area around the government buildings, and then have random big army trucks driving around the city. the entire country has a curfew of 8 right now, if you are home later than that they can shoot you!!!! what is really amazing is that everything was so crazy until friday, the day that elder oaks and 3 other general authorities were supposed to come to thailand for a leadership training for the asia area, a stake conference, and to speak to us. we thought that they werent going to be able to come, but everything went peaceful right in time for them to come. It was a true testimony of when the Lord needs something done, it gets done, no matter how hard Satan tries.
We just got back from a broadcast with all the missionaries in bangkok and surrounding areas (we didnt get to go:( too far..) elder hallstrom of the 70 came to talk to us. it was awesome. he told us that our area, the asia area, not including asia north like korea and those countries, has the most muslims, hindus, and buddhists out of any other area, even the middle east! also he mentioned that the asia area for the church is 1/24 in the world, but we have more than 1/2 of the population of the world!!! he said that this area is the frontier right now, we are on dawn of something huge! He talked a lot about after you finish your mission and how you have to stay strong, even when you wont have the scheduled study times. it has gotten me really wondering what is going to happen when i get home, its crazy thats in not too long! ive been wondering about my major, what i want to do in life, whats going to happen with dating, all that fun stuff. i have no idea what is going to happen! its nive i dont have to really worry about that for still another few months.I liked something that elder hallstrom talked about. he said that the "purpose of life is not to be easy". if it were easy we wouldnt grow! if life is easy you are doing something wrong. life is learning to find happiness while having to grow and be streched. i noticed in the book of mormon awhile ago how only a very small portion of it is when things are happy and easygoing. there are a few verses here and there, but then it skips years and goes into the trials again. its the trials that we learn from!
The area is still doing awesome, we are seeing lots of miracles. We had some huge black clouds in, we were expecting a big storm. we were in iang and her 2 daughters house (one of our investigators) when it started to downpour on her metal roof. super loud!!! we couldnt hear anything, so we thought we might just have to leave, but it rained for about 20 seconds. stopped for a minute, started again for about 10 seconds and was finished. thailand. We had 15 progressing investigators last week! it is just amazing me how much the Lord is blessing us. we have 7 investigators with bap dates, but were hoping to set some more this week. i looked through my planner from my first moves here in udon and was laughing, 1 investigator with a date, 1-3 progressing investigators, and on average about 6 lessons a week. it was hurting so bad. it is amazing to see what a little elbow grease and A LOT of the Lords help can do. every week when the elders get our numbers they comment on how incredible we are doing. it feels soooo good:) though i am getting really tired and my body worn out! what a blessing to be a missionary. we learn and grow so much while we are actually focusing on others. funny how that works.
i hope everyone is so happy and healthy right now. i love you and miss you! crazy im 22!!!! also crazy it is the end of may.
love you so so so much. im deeply grateful for all of you! This church really is the true church. The book of mormon is the book that will bring the most happiness to ones life than any other book in the world!!!!
love, ty
jordan 5.24.10
ok well hello.
so the news is im staying in amsterdam. it was kinof scary because thay said they were going to take one companionship out of a-dam. because they are short on elders this transfer. well they sent one elder from the other comp to a different city and my comp is going home so the stuck me with the elder left over. im companions with elder sticht again. i was companions with him in breda 6 months ago. it will be good we will have the work of 4 elders to do with only us. its going to be sad to see my companion go. he is an amazing person.
oh yeah so last week we got a call from some buisness man and he tells us he wants us to come eat with him at his hotel. so this last night he called and so we went this morning to his hotel right out of town and we got to eat a really nice breakfast. we were a little late because it was hard to find so he couldnt spend much time with us because he had a meeting but i find out he is in the Magnesses ward! he knows all the magnesses! ha ha it was so random. i didnt ask him if e knew anybody else but he probably does! his name is John Edmunds. well thats about it for this week.
my cast is getting really annoying i might cut it off soon. ha ha oh yeah i got a cast on tuesday. my wrist got a little injured well see you next week!
happy b day taryn!
elder robert
so the news is im staying in amsterdam. it was kinof scary because thay said they were going to take one companionship out of a-dam. because they are short on elders this transfer. well they sent one elder from the other comp to a different city and my comp is going home so the stuck me with the elder left over. im companions with elder sticht again. i was companions with him in breda 6 months ago. it will be good we will have the work of 4 elders to do with only us. its going to be sad to see my companion go. he is an amazing person.
oh yeah so last week we got a call from some buisness man and he tells us he wants us to come eat with him at his hotel. so this last night he called and so we went this morning to his hotel right out of town and we got to eat a really nice breakfast. we were a little late because it was hard to find so he couldnt spend much time with us because he had a meeting but i find out he is in the Magnesses ward! he knows all the magnesses! ha ha it was so random. i didnt ask him if e knew anybody else but he probably does! his name is John Edmunds. well thats about it for this week.
my cast is getting really annoying i might cut it off soon. ha ha oh yeah i got a cast on tuesday. my wrist got a little injured well see you next week!
happy b day taryn!
elder robert
5.17.2010
morgan 5.17.10
salut everybody!!
so this week was really cool. I worked really really hard on trying to be diligent with my contacts especially on the bus. we found 5 new amis to teach. one of them is SWEET! he came to church and everything and wants to come again after his vacation. so cool!! my comp is still very negative but i am most likely going to be getting transfered next week so i just gotta hold tight. and if i dont get transfered i will have to hold a little tighter. oh yeah so if i get transfered and it is a long ways away i will have to do emails on tues. so dont freak out mom if you dont get an email on monday. it will come.
okay so i bought some pants here for 25 euros and then i had to buy some food for 10 because my other stupid card doesnt work. the pants are really really cool and go a little bit better with my black suit. sorry if i am using too much money. if so just let me know mom.
okay so last week we had a french sister in our district go home. i dont know why she did but it was just really hard for her to be here. very sad!!
so andie, who is this dude you know coming to my mission?? there are only like 80 missionaries and the numbers are dropping fast. so it isnt too out of the question for us to be companions. when does he leave? you will have to keep me updated!
oh wow so this could be my last email i send from Nimes. very sad! i am going to miss it alot!! i said goodbye to out ward mission leader lastnight. he was like my best friend here, he was a stud. I also said by to a man from portugal with like 1 tooth haha he is a stud. but i might try and go get another photo with him and tell him to smile BIG so you can see his pretty tooth.
well this week in Nimes there is this thing called La Feria. it is a big 5 day party of just drinking all day and night lond. In the past missionaries have been taken out of the ville but we just have to be in by 5. but we also live smack center of centre ville. ahha so we might have to wear casuals for the week. it starts wednesday and goes to sunday.
mom dad my address here in Nimes is 33 rue fresque. but DO NOT WRITE ME HERE. haha if you do and i leave it is going to take like 2 months to get a letter so just if you wanna look up where i am on google earth sweet but dont write me with my real address. our apartment is kind of a mess right now so i think that is what we might do during the feria is just clean it spotless!! well HAPPY BIRTHDAY CADE, SAGE AND SADIE!!
i love you all! thanks for all you do!
morg
so this week was really cool. I worked really really hard on trying to be diligent with my contacts especially on the bus. we found 5 new amis to teach. one of them is SWEET! he came to church and everything and wants to come again after his vacation. so cool!! my comp is still very negative but i am most likely going to be getting transfered next week so i just gotta hold tight. and if i dont get transfered i will have to hold a little tighter. oh yeah so if i get transfered and it is a long ways away i will have to do emails on tues. so dont freak out mom if you dont get an email on monday. it will come.
okay so i bought some pants here for 25 euros and then i had to buy some food for 10 because my other stupid card doesnt work. the pants are really really cool and go a little bit better with my black suit. sorry if i am using too much money. if so just let me know mom.
okay so last week we had a french sister in our district go home. i dont know why she did but it was just really hard for her to be here. very sad!!
so andie, who is this dude you know coming to my mission?? there are only like 80 missionaries and the numbers are dropping fast. so it isnt too out of the question for us to be companions. when does he leave? you will have to keep me updated!
oh wow so this could be my last email i send from Nimes. very sad! i am going to miss it alot!! i said goodbye to out ward mission leader lastnight. he was like my best friend here, he was a stud. I also said by to a man from portugal with like 1 tooth haha he is a stud. but i might try and go get another photo with him and tell him to smile BIG so you can see his pretty tooth.
well this week in Nimes there is this thing called La Feria. it is a big 5 day party of just drinking all day and night lond. In the past missionaries have been taken out of the ville but we just have to be in by 5. but we also live smack center of centre ville. ahha so we might have to wear casuals for the week. it starts wednesday and goes to sunday.
mom dad my address here in Nimes is 33 rue fresque. but DO NOT WRITE ME HERE. haha if you do and i leave it is going to take like 2 months to get a letter so just if you wanna look up where i am on google earth sweet but dont write me with my real address. our apartment is kind of a mess right now so i think that is what we might do during the feria is just clean it spotless!! well HAPPY BIRTHDAY CADE, SAGE AND SADIE!!
i love you all! thanks for all you do!
morg
taryn 5.17.10
Hello~
HAPPY BIRTHDAY CADSTER!!!! you are a teenager?!!!!!! what?! i hope you had such a good day.
Man we are so busy here. I am so tired! it is so so so hard to get up in the mornings lately, racing from apt to apt in the intense heat, sometimes not even having enough time to eat is wearin' me out! by the time the long day is over i lay down and am asleep. the area is doing awesome! we had 12 progressing investigators, 7 with a baptismal date, 24 lessons, for thailand that is really good :) our area is big, we cover two elder areas, we need to start using our time more wisely, maybe doing certain days in certain areas to get more teaching in and less biking. Heavely Father is blessing us so much. Ive never noticed the Lords hand working so much in my and others lives as i have at this time. the past few weeks i have seen His influence in everything we do. I have never felt this tired/wiped out, this accomplished, or this kind of happiness before. its such a different happy. its not an overjoyed kind of thing, but more of a constant assurance that i am working alongside the Lord. I never imagined one of my areas doing this well in thailand, especially in udon. 2 months ago i would have laughed if someone told me. I hope and pray that things will keep going this way and we can keep it up.
Church was really neat last week. it was district conference so the branches from sakonakhon, nong khai, kumphawaphi, and lao came. these are people with incredible faith. it was amazing to see 40 people pull up from lao on songtaws and little old vans, all dressed in their nicest/fanciest outfits. so cute. the had 15 baptisms last year, more than any of the other branches. they dont have missoinaries and arent even able to talk about the gospel outside of church. that is truely the Lord right there. miracles.
cute nong phloy got baptized yesterday. cutest baptismal service, everything was done by the primary except that i played the piano. she bore her testimony after and said how she wants to be a missionary when she grows up.
guy wasnt able to get baptized:( she and her husband arent legally married and he is in isreal for another year. were trying to figure out a way to do it, but it looks like shell have to wait till next year. saturday i sent her husband a bom, some pamphlets, and a gospel principles book (she asked me to sent that, she loves reading it!) this is going to be an eternal family someday. she is someone really special to me, she is the first person that i have felt that if i wasnt here and wasnt listening to the Spirit she wouldnt know about the gospel for awhile longer. about 2 months ago we were inviting in the early morning. we passed a street and then i had the prompting to go back, even though my comp at the time was in one of her bad moods. as i biked down the street i way cute little boy ran out of his gate into the street with his mom chasing after him. she is now patiently waiting to get baptized. she is so golden! last week she was telling us about how she was reading about Christ and she was crying. my district leader said of her interview that she passed with flying colors. the gospel is amazing!!!
Weve begun teaching 3 girls -jin, jiap, and beer- 14-15 years old that are tutored by sister noi, an amazing lady who has introduced the gospel to many converts now. they have come to church 3 weeks in a row now, even though they are the only YW in the branch. they are darling! they keep asking us so many questions like, "what is a member?" "how long do you have to learn until you can be a member?" and "can i be a missionary like you?" jin is the most golden, in our last lesson on sat she told us that she new this message was true from the moment sister noi talked about it. the first time teaching her the thought entered my mind that she will be a missionary someday, though i didnt say anything. then last week she said she wants to be exacly like us. she asked a million questions about missionary work and said she wants to be one. the problem her dad is the only one that has an issue with her changing religions. her goal for bap is the 6th of june, were going to pray a lot and hopefully she can get permission!
we are also teaching a few people that cant read right now, such a barrier in life. we are so blessed. they are having a hard time figuring out prayer, but hopefully they can soon. how wierd would it be
Today we went to nong khai, on the border of lao. we took a boat almost to the other side of the mekong, and also walked the friendship bridge to the border, a sign saying "haam phaan" or "dont cross." i never thought in my life id ever be that close to lao!
times up:(
i love you! i miss you! not too much longer, crazy. stay safe!
love, ชิสเตà¸à¸£์ ยัง
mom, did you ever get my card sent?
HAPPY BIRTHDAY CADSTER!!!! you are a teenager?!!!!!! what?! i hope you had such a good day.
Man we are so busy here. I am so tired! it is so so so hard to get up in the mornings lately, racing from apt to apt in the intense heat, sometimes not even having enough time to eat is wearin' me out! by the time the long day is over i lay down and am asleep. the area is doing awesome! we had 12 progressing investigators, 7 with a baptismal date, 24 lessons, for thailand that is really good :) our area is big, we cover two elder areas, we need to start using our time more wisely, maybe doing certain days in certain areas to get more teaching in and less biking. Heavely Father is blessing us so much. Ive never noticed the Lords hand working so much in my and others lives as i have at this time. the past few weeks i have seen His influence in everything we do. I have never felt this tired/wiped out, this accomplished, or this kind of happiness before. its such a different happy. its not an overjoyed kind of thing, but more of a constant assurance that i am working alongside the Lord. I never imagined one of my areas doing this well in thailand, especially in udon. 2 months ago i would have laughed if someone told me. I hope and pray that things will keep going this way and we can keep it up.
Church was really neat last week. it was district conference so the branches from sakonakhon, nong khai, kumphawaphi, and lao came. these are people with incredible faith. it was amazing to see 40 people pull up from lao on songtaws and little old vans, all dressed in their nicest/fanciest outfits. so cute. the had 15 baptisms last year, more than any of the other branches. they dont have missoinaries and arent even able to talk about the gospel outside of church. that is truely the Lord right there. miracles.
cute nong phloy got baptized yesterday. cutest baptismal service, everything was done by the primary except that i played the piano. she bore her testimony after and said how she wants to be a missionary when she grows up.
guy wasnt able to get baptized:( she and her husband arent legally married and he is in isreal for another year. were trying to figure out a way to do it, but it looks like shell have to wait till next year. saturday i sent her husband a bom, some pamphlets, and a gospel principles book (she asked me to sent that, she loves reading it!) this is going to be an eternal family someday. she is someone really special to me, she is the first person that i have felt that if i wasnt here and wasnt listening to the Spirit she wouldnt know about the gospel for awhile longer. about 2 months ago we were inviting in the early morning. we passed a street and then i had the prompting to go back, even though my comp at the time was in one of her bad moods. as i biked down the street i way cute little boy ran out of his gate into the street with his mom chasing after him. she is now patiently waiting to get baptized. she is so golden! last week she was telling us about how she was reading about Christ and she was crying. my district leader said of her interview that she passed with flying colors. the gospel is amazing!!!
Weve begun teaching 3 girls -jin, jiap, and beer- 14-15 years old that are tutored by sister noi, an amazing lady who has introduced the gospel to many converts now. they have come to church 3 weeks in a row now, even though they are the only YW in the branch. they are darling! they keep asking us so many questions like, "what is a member?" "how long do you have to learn until you can be a member?" and "can i be a missionary like you?" jin is the most golden, in our last lesson on sat she told us that she new this message was true from the moment sister noi talked about it. the first time teaching her the thought entered my mind that she will be a missionary someday, though i didnt say anything. then last week she said she wants to be exacly like us. she asked a million questions about missionary work and said she wants to be one. the problem her dad is the only one that has an issue with her changing religions. her goal for bap is the 6th of june, were going to pray a lot and hopefully she can get permission!
we are also teaching a few people that cant read right now, such a barrier in life. we are so blessed. they are having a hard time figuring out prayer, but hopefully they can soon. how wierd would it be
Today we went to nong khai, on the border of lao. we took a boat almost to the other side of the mekong, and also walked the friendship bridge to the border, a sign saying "haam phaan" or "dont cross." i never thought in my life id ever be that close to lao!
times up:(
i love you! i miss you! not too much longer, crazy. stay safe!
love, ชิสเตà¸à¸£์ ยัง
mom, did you ever get my card sent?
jordan 5.17.10
hello family!
well this week went by super fast. emailed on thursday last week so there is not mutch but. so last week an elder from assen where i used to serve said he had a package for me. i had no idea where or who it was from. so he brought it down to amsterdam. it was huge. it ended up being from the Blijelevens. Ramons dad. we baptized ramon in assen and got to know his parents very well. the are good friends. but ramons dad is the one who sent the package. (he is the one that took us to fly the power kites, the kites that are huge like a parachute) any way i open the package and there is a giant backpak and inside the packpack is a full size power kite. its like 12 feet long has handles the whole shebang. i was speachless. he is the kindest peron. that kite aint cheap. they run in the i think aroung 1000 euros. sorry about that one christian. i think i might be sending it home sometime.
we had a sport day on sat and i took it we went to museamplein its a huge grass field right where the rikes and van gogh museam are. we didnt fly it because there was too many people. but i do think i fractured my wrist again. i landed on it pretty hard. it is still useable. its the same bone and wrist i broke skateboarding. i know thats not what you want to hear. but im wondering what to do. i thiink i will wait one more day to see if it feels better. but maybe i need an x ray. i need some advice on what to do. my body is falling apart. and if you could get some of that stuff for my arms i would really appreaciate it.
well our investigators are doing good we have met a few new people this week that sound really posotive. next week is transfers. i will know who my new comp is. pray for me.
well i love you all so mutch. Sam Nyman congrats on your mission call! that is so sweet! you will absolutely love it. dad and mom thanks for the letters. you guys are awesome! chip to bad the trip fell through! rich you are the man, chan you are even a bigger man keep shreading. cam keep painting and climbing. Chad spears your Freakin rad do you get my emails love ya man,dud you are married! Chris did you see the giro d' italia? started in a-dam!, alex word up doggy!, Jann you are coming home!!!!, Billy thanks for the email! taryn you are amazing! morgan hows the french?Wade you betterbe practicing, kendall we have the same manerisms ha ha, Joe you better polsh up all you skills in everysport because i think i can beat you in all of them, mike you the man your going to be getting some nice p.t.a. by the pool pretty soon, jared you should probably work on your pta with mike ha ha
ilove you all elder robert
ps sisters i love you all too!!!
well this week went by super fast. emailed on thursday last week so there is not mutch but. so last week an elder from assen where i used to serve said he had a package for me. i had no idea where or who it was from. so he brought it down to amsterdam. it was huge. it ended up being from the Blijelevens. Ramons dad. we baptized ramon in assen and got to know his parents very well. the are good friends. but ramons dad is the one who sent the package. (he is the one that took us to fly the power kites, the kites that are huge like a parachute) any way i open the package and there is a giant backpak and inside the packpack is a full size power kite. its like 12 feet long has handles the whole shebang. i was speachless. he is the kindest peron. that kite aint cheap. they run in the i think aroung 1000 euros. sorry about that one christian. i think i might be sending it home sometime.
we had a sport day on sat and i took it we went to museamplein its a huge grass field right where the rikes and van gogh museam are. we didnt fly it because there was too many people. but i do think i fractured my wrist again. i landed on it pretty hard. it is still useable. its the same bone and wrist i broke skateboarding. i know thats not what you want to hear. but im wondering what to do. i thiink i will wait one more day to see if it feels better. but maybe i need an x ray. i need some advice on what to do. my body is falling apart. and if you could get some of that stuff for my arms i would really appreaciate it.
well our investigators are doing good we have met a few new people this week that sound really posotive. next week is transfers. i will know who my new comp is. pray for me.
well i love you all so mutch. Sam Nyman congrats on your mission call! that is so sweet! you will absolutely love it. dad and mom thanks for the letters. you guys are awesome! chip to bad the trip fell through! rich you are the man, chan you are even a bigger man keep shreading. cam keep painting and climbing. Chad spears your Freakin rad do you get my emails love ya man,dud you are married! Chris did you see the giro d' italia? started in a-dam!, alex word up doggy!, Jann you are coming home!!!!, Billy thanks for the email! taryn you are amazing! morgan hows the french?Wade you betterbe practicing, kendall we have the same manerisms ha ha, Joe you better polsh up all you skills in everysport because i think i can beat you in all of them, mike you the man your going to be getting some nice p.t.a. by the pool pretty soon, jared you should probably work on your pta with mike ha ha
ilove you all elder robert
ps sisters i love you all too!!!
jordan 5.13.10
hi it is a late email and i dont have much time. wow it was so good to hear everybody. thanks so much for the support.
it sounds like everybody is doing great. this week we had a zone conference. it was good. my comp goes home in two weeks its weird.
cam i saw your paintings they are so rad. whit thanks for sending those. sky and say say! i cant believe you are in the ensign crazy! your famous.
well i think its going to be a short one today. mom and dad it was so good to hear your voices. i love you guys so mutch! i will be writing on mon. thanks for all the emails. chip are you stuill coming out? it was weird to see all the hansons just walking down the street. alright g2g till monday!
e robert
it sounds like everybody is doing great. this week we had a zone conference. it was good. my comp goes home in two weeks its weird.
cam i saw your paintings they are so rad. whit thanks for sending those. sky and say say! i cant believe you are in the ensign crazy! your famous.
well i think its going to be a short one today. mom and dad it was so good to hear your voices. i love you guys so mutch! i will be writing on mon. thanks for all the emails. chip are you stuill coming out? it was weird to see all the hansons just walking down the street. alright g2g till monday!
e robert
5.12.2010
letter from neighbor
this is the 2nd letter from a friend that saw jordan in amsterdam.
Hi, Pam.
It’s Pam here. I’m chuckling because I thought his hair was pretty cute today. Some of our BYU students, who are supposed to also be nice and clean cut, have got the facial hair thing going, one has a borderline mohawk, and one even told me today he was growing out a Mother’s Day moustache. Actually, I did notice today that a couple of the other missionaries had a teency weency bit longer hair than usual. Perhaps it’s a mission thing, where the president doesn’t come down as hard on them as others? Maybe? :)
I just kept looking back at him today at church and wishing I could have hidden you in my suitcase. He seemed so very genuinely happy to be there and said the work is going well. At one point he had his legs crossed and this expression that I have seen Kendall do every once in a while at church. Jordan even had his notebook out taking notes during church. Afterwards, we talked about Morgan and his baptisms, and the very interesting meeting there today. We brought 40 extra people, including our non-member bus driver. Peter is from up north, but it was fun to hear the two of them speaking Dutch. Jordan has got it down!
One lady gave a talk in Spanish, it was translated into Dutch, then into English for us. Another lady gave a talk in English, which was translated into Dutch, and one regular ole guy gave one in Dutch and it was translated for us, too. Then at one point, the Bishop called for all the men in the audience, including Peter, to come up and sing “Oh My Father.” (On Mother’s Day). They all went up. Pretty much half the congregation. They sang wonderfully. I even shed a few tears—it was so nice. Jordan was up there with a big ‘ole smile on his face.
We had a little chat with him after church, took another picture I’ll have to send to you, and he seemed so calm and so happy. I’m so glad you get to talk to him today, and I’m remembering when Nick was in Zimbabwe and how much I ate up every little morsel of anything we could hear about him.What a sweet boy. What a wonderful missionary.
Ooooh, I hope you get to come here. It’s beautiful! The garbage men are all on strike so it’s really filthy around the city. But I’ve always loved Amsterdam. We went to the Anne Frank house after church, and that is always incredible. Makes me feel so grateful. We’ve taken these kids to Normandy, Bastogne, and we’ll also visit Dachau in a few weeks. So they’re getting a dose of WWII as well as hopefully some arts, shopping, and lots of BYU-type partying. They are good kids. I think Mark and I are going to need a vacation after this, though!
Have a wonderful visit with him tonight. It looks to us like all is well and he’s doing a wonderful job!We hope all is going well there.
Love,
pam
Hi, Pam.
It’s Pam here. I’m chuckling because I thought his hair was pretty cute today. Some of our BYU students, who are supposed to also be nice and clean cut, have got the facial hair thing going, one has a borderline mohawk, and one even told me today he was growing out a Mother’s Day moustache. Actually, I did notice today that a couple of the other missionaries had a teency weency bit longer hair than usual. Perhaps it’s a mission thing, where the president doesn’t come down as hard on them as others? Maybe? :)
I just kept looking back at him today at church and wishing I could have hidden you in my suitcase. He seemed so very genuinely happy to be there and said the work is going well. At one point he had his legs crossed and this expression that I have seen Kendall do every once in a while at church. Jordan even had his notebook out taking notes during church. Afterwards, we talked about Morgan and his baptisms, and the very interesting meeting there today. We brought 40 extra people, including our non-member bus driver. Peter is from up north, but it was fun to hear the two of them speaking Dutch. Jordan has got it down!
One lady gave a talk in Spanish, it was translated into Dutch, then into English for us. Another lady gave a talk in English, which was translated into Dutch, and one regular ole guy gave one in Dutch and it was translated for us, too. Then at one point, the Bishop called for all the men in the audience, including Peter, to come up and sing “Oh My Father.” (On Mother’s Day). They all went up. Pretty much half the congregation. They sang wonderfully. I even shed a few tears—it was so nice. Jordan was up there with a big ‘ole smile on his face.
We had a little chat with him after church, took another picture I’ll have to send to you, and he seemed so calm and so happy. I’m so glad you get to talk to him today, and I’m remembering when Nick was in Zimbabwe and how much I ate up every little morsel of anything we could hear about him.What a sweet boy. What a wonderful missionary.
Ooooh, I hope you get to come here. It’s beautiful! The garbage men are all on strike so it’s really filthy around the city. But I’ve always loved Amsterdam. We went to the Anne Frank house after church, and that is always incredible. Makes me feel so grateful. We’ve taken these kids to Normandy, Bastogne, and we’ll also visit Dachau in a few weeks. So they’re getting a dose of WWII as well as hopefully some arts, shopping, and lots of BYU-type partying. They are good kids. I think Mark and I are going to need a vacation after this, though!
Have a wonderful visit with him tonight. It looks to us like all is well and he’s doing a wonderful job!We hope all is going well there.
Love,
pam
5.08.2010
jordan in amersterdam
Some neighbor's of Traci's were in Amsterdam today, they got
off the bus, walked about 10 minutes and saw Jordan!!! They
e-mailed Kendall and told him what happened and they sent a
picture.The husband writes first and then his wife, Pam, writes!
off the bus, walked about 10 minutes and saw Jordan!!! They
e-mailed Kendall and told him what happened and they sent a
picture.The husband writes first and then his wife, Pam, writes!
We arrived in Amsterdam and the bus dropped us off.We walked about 10 minutes down the very busy main drag in Amsterdam between the Central Train Station and the Dam Square. The group said, "Hey there are the missionaries!" I looked up and it was Jordan. He couldn't believe he was seeing someone that he knew. I couldn't believe it either.He looked great. He's healthy and happy.We will see him again tomorrow at Church.
Okay, here's Pam now: He looked wonderful! He was so happy and smiling and so glad to see us and I'm afraid I broke a mission rule but I gave him a big hug. He was so cute. He and his companion looked like angels; they were absolutely glowing. They had our 37 students all crowded around them so excited to see them, and I'll bet it was nice for them to see a whole slew of American kids, too. I kept thinking of Pam and I wished I could have plopped her in my pocket--I'm sure she would have fit--and had her see him.But here's a picture we took. We look forward to seeing him tomorrow. He said he was looking forward to talking to home, as well.
Please tell Pam how wonderfully happy he looked!!!
5.03.2010
taryn 5.3.10
howdy
life is so busy right now! i love it. the past few weeks the work has really picked up and almost our whole week is already packed with appointments! im a little stressed because we also have a lot of potentials to go back and try to teach, now im the only one that knows them and we dont have a lot of time to go find them! our goals are really high right now, im excited to see the Lord work miracles:)
I HAVE A NEW COMPANION! she is really fun, its nice to have a change up in companions. her name is bonnie meyers, she is from gilbert, arizona. this will be a good moves, we have our sights set really high. we got to go to bangkok, the morning waking up in bangkok i was really excited. i dont know why but i kept \feeling like i was going back to saphaansung. i cant wait till i get to go back and see all of them. watching sister richins say goodbye to everyone made me not want to leave this area, i hope i get to stay a few more moves! im really loving it here now, i have seen a lot of changes and put a lot of work in, and the people here are amazing.
it was so fun to see Jared for a minute! im so glad that i was able to. crazy he was right there. it was wierd seeing him, home is just such a different world, it made me realize that you all really are still there! it also made me realize how little time i have left. i felt like i had just seen him and that was almost a year ago!
its been raining more lately, i love it! last monday night we had a huge thunderstorm that was blowing rain sideways. i dont know why, but the rain here is so much different than utah. utah you can go out and hardly get wet. here you get drenched no matter what!!! its wonderful:) the streets filled with water, our saamlaw- motorcycle/cart- trying to push through the flood, hardly anyone on the streets. the power in the city went out, everything dark. we had familiy home evening at a members( sadly our investigators bailed because of the storm. thais are weird about rain. they think that it gets you sick. my voice is usually a little scratchy (i think from teaching a lot/no sleep) and they always tell ask me if i was out in the rain. if they get caught in the rain they go home and take cold medicine right away. i love thais. we ate dinner at the members sitting on a roll up straw mat on the floor as usual, but this time with candles stuck to the floor around us for light.
our investigators are doing well, especially guy and phloy, they should be getting baptized soon! its amazing to see the Lords hand and the miracles. prayers answered every day. being led by the hand of the Lord. i love this work. it is so hard and so tiring, but such and experience to be a part of it. im so glad that the Lord trusts me with his children in Thailand. what a priveledge.
we dont get to hear a lot, but the redshirts are getting a little out of hand.
My companion had a bunch of John Bytheway talks on her ipod, they are really good. there is one that i really like called "turn of the tv and get a life." i think you can get it at deseret book. it is super movational and also makes me laugh. you and the kids should listen to it before the summer. its all about developing your talents and not wasting time. hah its not as boring as that sounds though, it is actually really entertaining!
sorry, not too much else to write, i never really know what to write and then especially with going to bangkok and back, not too much else has happened. let me know if there is anything specific you like to hear about!
i miss you, but im glad i have a little more time left of serving the Lord, his children, and bettering byself. i love you!
love, sister young
PHONE CALL!!!! it feels like i just talked to you all! crazy, that much time left and im home. would it work to call on YOUR sunday evening around 5:30-6, so it would be 6:30-7 on monday my time (i think?)?? i hope that works. my comp's family will be calling around 9:30 on monday. i cant wait!!! x-xx-xx-xx-xxx-xxxx
mom.. have you sent my debit card and my journals yet?
happy mothers day! i love you!!!!
life is so busy right now! i love it. the past few weeks the work has really picked up and almost our whole week is already packed with appointments! im a little stressed because we also have a lot of potentials to go back and try to teach, now im the only one that knows them and we dont have a lot of time to go find them! our goals are really high right now, im excited to see the Lord work miracles:)
I HAVE A NEW COMPANION! she is really fun, its nice to have a change up in companions. her name is bonnie meyers, she is from gilbert, arizona. this will be a good moves, we have our sights set really high. we got to go to bangkok, the morning waking up in bangkok i was really excited. i dont know why but i kept \feeling like i was going back to saphaansung. i cant wait till i get to go back and see all of them. watching sister richins say goodbye to everyone made me not want to leave this area, i hope i get to stay a few more moves! im really loving it here now, i have seen a lot of changes and put a lot of work in, and the people here are amazing.
it was so fun to see Jared for a minute! im so glad that i was able to. crazy he was right there. it was wierd seeing him, home is just such a different world, it made me realize that you all really are still there! it also made me realize how little time i have left. i felt like i had just seen him and that was almost a year ago!
its been raining more lately, i love it! last monday night we had a huge thunderstorm that was blowing rain sideways. i dont know why, but the rain here is so much different than utah. utah you can go out and hardly get wet. here you get drenched no matter what!!! its wonderful:) the streets filled with water, our saamlaw- motorcycle/cart- trying to push through the flood, hardly anyone on the streets. the power in the city went out, everything dark. we had familiy home evening at a members( sadly our investigators bailed because of the storm. thais are weird about rain. they think that it gets you sick. my voice is usually a little scratchy (i think from teaching a lot/no sleep) and they always tell ask me if i was out in the rain. if they get caught in the rain they go home and take cold medicine right away. i love thais. we ate dinner at the members sitting on a roll up straw mat on the floor as usual, but this time with candles stuck to the floor around us for light.
our investigators are doing well, especially guy and phloy, they should be getting baptized soon! its amazing to see the Lords hand and the miracles. prayers answered every day. being led by the hand of the Lord. i love this work. it is so hard and so tiring, but such and experience to be a part of it. im so glad that the Lord trusts me with his children in Thailand. what a priveledge.
we dont get to hear a lot, but the redshirts are getting a little out of hand.
My companion had a bunch of John Bytheway talks on her ipod, they are really good. there is one that i really like called "turn of the tv and get a life." i think you can get it at deseret book. it is super movational and also makes me laugh. you and the kids should listen to it before the summer. its all about developing your talents and not wasting time. hah its not as boring as that sounds though, it is actually really entertaining!
sorry, not too much else to write, i never really know what to write and then especially with going to bangkok and back, not too much else has happened. let me know if there is anything specific you like to hear about!
i miss you, but im glad i have a little more time left of serving the Lord, his children, and bettering byself. i love you!
love, sister young
PHONE CALL!!!! it feels like i just talked to you all! crazy, that much time left and im home. would it work to call on YOUR sunday evening around 5:30-6, so it would be 6:30-7 on monday my time (i think?)?? i hope that works. my comp's family will be calling around 9:30 on monday. i cant wait!!! x-xx-xx-xx-xxx-xxxx
mom.. have you sent my debit card and my journals yet?
happy mothers day! i love you!!!!
jordan 5.3.10
ok so i dont know what time you get out of church but on sunday call at 1:30 your time. it will be 9:30 my time this is the number you call xxxxxxxxxxxxxx. i cant believe its mothers day already.
well last week was crazy. we went to the temple again. it was great. it was another woman that my comp helped a year ago. she got her endowment.
it was also queens day on friday. if you dont know what queens day is you should look it up. its the biggest party in the netherlands and the biggest gathering is in amsterdam. it starts thursday night and goes all through the next day into the night. it was crazy! we went into the city around 11:00 in the morning and the streets were packed full of people. everybody and evrything was in orange. everybody was drinking. everybody. there was techno music on everycorner blasting. people were selling things on the streets everywhere. hundreds of boats with people peacked on them covered in orange. every boat had a dj on it too. trash was all over the streets. people would do crazy things such as they had homemade stands where if you payed 1 euro could could through an egg as hard as you want in someones face. with no protection. it was crazy. other people launching waterballoons into crowds of people and nobody cared. i watched a dude get hit in the face and after he just waved. there was weed everywhere. this city is nuts i love it. i plan on coming back in two years for queens day!
something else really cool that happened the last week in interviews pres took my in and said. how ya doin ect... then sias you and your companion are the most talented missionaries in the mission and the most talented companionship. it was surprising. it felt good though. it was needed.
well our investigators are doing well brother oconer came to church and wants us over again for dinner. jason is kindof slipping through our fingers we need to whip him back into shape. this week we were invited over to a house where this girl in the ward in nannying. she nannys three boys. it was the radest house ever and the boys were cool too. they skateboarded and i told them i could skate and they didnt believe me so we went outside and they just about peed their pants. it was so fun. we also played baseball. they loved it. they want me to come over every tuesday to give them skateboarding and baseball lessons. dont worry. i will squeeze the gospel in there too its going to be awesome!
well i cant wait to talk to you on sunday! ok see ya then!~jord
well last week was crazy. we went to the temple again. it was great. it was another woman that my comp helped a year ago. she got her endowment.
it was also queens day on friday. if you dont know what queens day is you should look it up. its the biggest party in the netherlands and the biggest gathering is in amsterdam. it starts thursday night and goes all through the next day into the night. it was crazy! we went into the city around 11:00 in the morning and the streets were packed full of people. everybody and evrything was in orange. everybody was drinking. everybody. there was techno music on everycorner blasting. people were selling things on the streets everywhere. hundreds of boats with people peacked on them covered in orange. every boat had a dj on it too. trash was all over the streets. people would do crazy things such as they had homemade stands where if you payed 1 euro could could through an egg as hard as you want in someones face. with no protection. it was crazy. other people launching waterballoons into crowds of people and nobody cared. i watched a dude get hit in the face and after he just waved. there was weed everywhere. this city is nuts i love it. i plan on coming back in two years for queens day!
something else really cool that happened the last week in interviews pres took my in and said. how ya doin ect... then sias you and your companion are the most talented missionaries in the mission and the most talented companionship. it was surprising. it felt good though. it was needed.
well our investigators are doing well brother oconer came to church and wants us over again for dinner. jason is kindof slipping through our fingers we need to whip him back into shape. this week we were invited over to a house where this girl in the ward in nannying. she nannys three boys. it was the radest house ever and the boys were cool too. they skateboarded and i told them i could skate and they didnt believe me so we went outside and they just about peed their pants. it was so fun. we also played baseball. they loved it. they want me to come over every tuesday to give them skateboarding and baseball lessons. dont worry. i will squeeze the gospel in there too its going to be awesome!
well i cant wait to talk to you on sunday! ok see ya then!~jord
morgan 5.3.10
WOW!! haha i can not believe it is may. in a way it feels like i have been here forever but in another way it is going by fast.
okay so today is p day and we were planning on going to Montpellier to go Bowling with our district but a member called and said he needs our help, Elder Mcmullin straight up said "no" haha i was pretty amazed but i snagged the conversation and told him we would be glad to go and help. so yeah elder Mcmullin isnt to happy with me right now.
okay so I love Nimes!! i honestly do!! the work with this new comp is still not too great yet, he still doesnt think he needs to do street contacts so i do ALL of them, and we dont get many lessons a week. it isnt a bad number of lessons but just not as much as me and elder christensen got. so we kinda had a talk and i told him that we need to start working harder.
i am stoked for this week. Me and my comp get along pretty well but he just gets really down on himself and very stressed very easily. its hard sometimes but we have fun together. recently we have been listening to Christmas Music haha we are both so excited for christmas. yes everybody, i know it is may. haha.
So last saturday at our saturday sports we played volleyball, at first there was only us 2 and our dmp emmanuel. but as time went on we ended up inviting people just walking by and we got a sweet family to come and play. it was so cool!! they wanna come play this week too. we also had some crazy dude who thought he was a prophet. haha COOKOO!!
oh it was so funny some crazy member gave us a rose she didnt want so we gave it to Nicole (crèpe ladie) and she was so happy she started crying!! haha so funny! I kinda felt guilty... haha. well so for service today we are going to help Lily (alexis' mom and Bridgittes daughter) because she has a "broken tail bone" we dont know how sure she is about it but we are going to help her move out of her old house any way, she is still prepairing to go to the US.
okay so here is the deal Momma, so Emmanuel (our dmp) has some free international calling thing. so i am going to call you if thats okay, if not just when i call tell me you will call me back then okay?? okay so i am calling at like 6 my time which is 10:00 am your time sunday morning. sorry if that is during church but yeah.. I will call our house phone and if youd rather me call a cell phone just tell me when i call you and i can hangup and call a cell phone. i have like 1 hour to talk. it is technically 45min but Pres Carter said it wouldnt be a sin to talk for an hour. haha I love him!! Well I love you all so much!! mom thanks for the easter package i just got it!! SWEET!! haha I love you!!
Morgan
okay so today is p day and we were planning on going to Montpellier to go Bowling with our district but a member called and said he needs our help, Elder Mcmullin straight up said "no" haha i was pretty amazed but i snagged the conversation and told him we would be glad to go and help. so yeah elder Mcmullin isnt to happy with me right now.
okay so I love Nimes!! i honestly do!! the work with this new comp is still not too great yet, he still doesnt think he needs to do street contacts so i do ALL of them, and we dont get many lessons a week. it isnt a bad number of lessons but just not as much as me and elder christensen got. so we kinda had a talk and i told him that we need to start working harder.
i am stoked for this week. Me and my comp get along pretty well but he just gets really down on himself and very stressed very easily. its hard sometimes but we have fun together. recently we have been listening to Christmas Music haha we are both so excited for christmas. yes everybody, i know it is may. haha.
So last saturday at our saturday sports we played volleyball, at first there was only us 2 and our dmp emmanuel. but as time went on we ended up inviting people just walking by and we got a sweet family to come and play. it was so cool!! they wanna come play this week too. we also had some crazy dude who thought he was a prophet. haha COOKOO!!
oh it was so funny some crazy member gave us a rose she didnt want so we gave it to Nicole (crèpe ladie) and she was so happy she started crying!! haha so funny! I kinda felt guilty... haha. well so for service today we are going to help Lily (alexis' mom and Bridgittes daughter) because she has a "broken tail bone" we dont know how sure she is about it but we are going to help her move out of her old house any way, she is still prepairing to go to the US.
okay so here is the deal Momma, so Emmanuel (our dmp) has some free international calling thing. so i am going to call you if thats okay, if not just when i call tell me you will call me back then okay?? okay so i am calling at like 6 my time which is 10:00 am your time sunday morning. sorry if that is during church but yeah.. I will call our house phone and if youd rather me call a cell phone just tell me when i call you and i can hangup and call a cell phone. i have like 1 hour to talk. it is technically 45min but Pres Carter said it wouldnt be a sin to talk for an hour. haha I love him!! Well I love you all so much!! mom thanks for the easter package i just got it!! SWEET!! haha I love you!!
Morgan
jordan 4.28.10
hello! i dont know why you didnt get my email last week. Jamer! well last week was good. my companion and i got to go to the temple on sat because someone he baptized a year ogo was getting married in the temple. it was only us and 2 other missionaries. we went to the sealing. it was really cool. a special time for my companion. we are going again tommarrow for somebody else he baptized.
well the reason you didnt get an email this mon is because we went to Keukenhof! its the place with all the tulips. the whole zone went. we decided it would be funner to take a bike then we can ride through all the beautiful fields, we were the only ones who took a bike and it was the best decision i ever made. Keukenhof was beautiful its like an amusment park full of flowers, trees, water, sculptures ect..and the smell oh my its unbelievable. but the most beautiful part was riding through the giant tulip fields, with the huge blocks of color. really a site to see. one of the most beautiful things ive seen.
we are still working with the oconnor family from america. they are so awesome. the husband is rad. i think they really like us. they have invited us over for dinner again this sunday. we really want to push baptism.
yesterday we went over to an investigators house to help with her house. we have been helping her the past couple of months we call her mamma maria, i dont know if ive talked to much about her but she is great. when we first met her she was totally closed to everything. but now that we know her really well she finally opened up. i think i menchoned her last week. but her parents died when she was really young. and she has no family and was taken advantage of when she was young. it has effected her life severely. she sees no point in living. well we took her to eat over at a members house the other day and this couple really connected with her. it was amazing. she has a problem believing in God because he never helped her when she was young and she was praying 24/7 its very sad. i didnt know really what to say to her. but we all explained it very well to her. and got down to why she is so miserable. she cannot forgive the person that abused her when she was young. so we told her she needs to pray for the desire to be able to forgive. we explained that Jesus Christ took upon himself the sins of the world and through his sacrifice and mercy towards all men that we can be saved and live with God. I wish she could fully understand the atonement, i wish we all could fully understand the atonement. we then told her some stories of forgivness, and explained, how is God supposed to forgive you if you cant forgive someone else? she was in tears. it was good for her though. i hope she can forgive.
well im out of juice. Chip thanks for the letter! yeah man you better hit me up when you get out here. it would be rad to see you!
parents just a little advise: the best way to teach your kids is to teach them how to center their lives around Jesus Christ, and to teach them true principles of the gospel. Well i got to be going now the weather dominates here. chan chan i had a dream about you last night. write me homie. ok g2g 3p
well the reason you didnt get an email this mon is because we went to Keukenhof! its the place with all the tulips. the whole zone went. we decided it would be funner to take a bike then we can ride through all the beautiful fields, we were the only ones who took a bike and it was the best decision i ever made. Keukenhof was beautiful its like an amusment park full of flowers, trees, water, sculptures ect..and the smell oh my its unbelievable. but the most beautiful part was riding through the giant tulip fields, with the huge blocks of color. really a site to see. one of the most beautiful things ive seen.
we are still working with the oconnor family from america. they are so awesome. the husband is rad. i think they really like us. they have invited us over for dinner again this sunday. we really want to push baptism.
yesterday we went over to an investigators house to help with her house. we have been helping her the past couple of months we call her mamma maria, i dont know if ive talked to much about her but she is great. when we first met her she was totally closed to everything. but now that we know her really well she finally opened up. i think i menchoned her last week. but her parents died when she was really young. and she has no family and was taken advantage of when she was young. it has effected her life severely. she sees no point in living. well we took her to eat over at a members house the other day and this couple really connected with her. it was amazing. she has a problem believing in God because he never helped her when she was young and she was praying 24/7 its very sad. i didnt know really what to say to her. but we all explained it very well to her. and got down to why she is so miserable. she cannot forgive the person that abused her when she was young. so we told her she needs to pray for the desire to be able to forgive. we explained that Jesus Christ took upon himself the sins of the world and through his sacrifice and mercy towards all men that we can be saved and live with God. I wish she could fully understand the atonement, i wish we all could fully understand the atonement. we then told her some stories of forgivness, and explained, how is God supposed to forgive you if you cant forgive someone else? she was in tears. it was good for her though. i hope she can forgive.
well im out of juice. Chip thanks for the letter! yeah man you better hit me up when you get out here. it would be rad to see you!
parents just a little advise: the best way to teach your kids is to teach them how to center their lives around Jesus Christ, and to teach them true principles of the gospel. Well i got to be going now the weather dominates here. chan chan i had a dream about you last night. write me homie. ok g2g 3p
jordan 4.28.10
note from blog administrator: this letter was written the previous week but not sent or received until 4/28)
well this week was interesting. monday was fun playing basketball and soccer in the warm sun in the park. there are people everywhere ilove it so much. this week we got a call from pres and he said you need to go to the hospital. a girls mom called and sad her daughter is in the hospital and needs a blessing. so we went to the hospital. luckily we got in it was after visiting hours. but with a neame tag on you can do anything. we went into this small room and there was a blonde cute girl that looked super sick but she was so excited to see us. se explained what happened to her. she was living in Uganda for service or something she was on her way home and she started to feel super sick so they didnt let her on the plane and she ended up in the hospital in amsterdam. she got malaria. she wasnt doing to well. i gave her a blessing and we talked to her for a bit. so two days pass and she calls and sais she needs us to come over. we went over and she was in quaranteen ( dont ask me how to spell that) dont ask my why she was in but she was. so we paid a little visit with the sisters and sung her some hymns and read some scriptures it was super spiritual. Its importat to ask for help in time of need. and she needed it. on sunday we went back over and gave her the sacrament and she was doing amazing we wheeled her outside in the sun it was good for her. her mom was going to fly out but couldnt because of the volcano sad. but she should be getting out of the hospital soon but what else is sad is she still cant fly home. man.
ok speaking of the volcano we ended up with at least 7 or 8 different people in church(americans) that were stranded in amsterdam. including one of the seventies Lance b. Wickman he spoke in sacrament metting. there was also a pilot a scientist ect... mom will you send me the talks by truman g madsen on joseph smith? its on my laptop. send it on cd or paper also can you send me the book of mormon study guide its gray and mine is at shaynes house. richie bought a ton of them for the pmg class.
morgy porgy have you gained any weight? i have. dont worrie we will burn it of surfing climbing swimming ect,. chan man hows the skating coming? cam send me that painting homie and a picture of your girl mom if he doesnt you have to. oh yeah. last night i had a dream that the whole family showed up in church in amstedam. mom and dad you were sitting on the back row ha ha i didnt know if itwas allowed to talk to you or not but i went back and sat next to you guys it was so weird. it was nice though dad you had on a pair of high top vans ha ha nice. ok well thanks for everything gtg holmes
love 3p
well this week was interesting. monday was fun playing basketball and soccer in the warm sun in the park. there are people everywhere ilove it so much. this week we got a call from pres and he said you need to go to the hospital. a girls mom called and sad her daughter is in the hospital and needs a blessing. so we went to the hospital. luckily we got in it was after visiting hours. but with a neame tag on you can do anything. we went into this small room and there was a blonde cute girl that looked super sick but she was so excited to see us. se explained what happened to her. she was living in Uganda for service or something she was on her way home and she started to feel super sick so they didnt let her on the plane and she ended up in the hospital in amsterdam. she got malaria. she wasnt doing to well. i gave her a blessing and we talked to her for a bit. so two days pass and she calls and sais she needs us to come over. we went over and she was in quaranteen ( dont ask me how to spell that) dont ask my why she was in but she was. so we paid a little visit with the sisters and sung her some hymns and read some scriptures it was super spiritual. Its importat to ask for help in time of need. and she needed it. on sunday we went back over and gave her the sacrament and she was doing amazing we wheeled her outside in the sun it was good for her. her mom was going to fly out but couldnt because of the volcano sad. but she should be getting out of the hospital soon but what else is sad is she still cant fly home. man.
ok speaking of the volcano we ended up with at least 7 or 8 different people in church(americans) that were stranded in amsterdam. including one of the seventies Lance b. Wickman he spoke in sacrament metting. there was also a pilot a scientist ect... mom will you send me the talks by truman g madsen on joseph smith? its on my laptop. send it on cd or paper also can you send me the book of mormon study guide its gray and mine is at shaynes house. richie bought a ton of them for the pmg class.
morgy porgy have you gained any weight? i have. dont worrie we will burn it of surfing climbing swimming ect,. chan man hows the skating coming? cam send me that painting homie and a picture of your girl mom if he doesnt you have to. oh yeah. last night i had a dream that the whole family showed up in church in amstedam. mom and dad you were sitting on the back row ha ha i didnt know if itwas allowed to talk to you or not but i went back and sat next to you guys it was so weird. it was nice though dad you had on a pair of high top vans ha ha nice. ok well thanks for everything gtg holmes
love 3p
taryn 4.26.10
Sin dxan laaw! iik may naan ca klap baan!
Hello!
Joe: Talking Queen With Dancing Twin Children= courtney:)
what a good week. it was nice to work extra hard after the crazy week before. The area is doing so good right now! we are rocking it! we were supposed to have a baptism yesterday, but Am's mom didnt give her permission until sat night when the relief society president called and talked to her mom. she is 18, but it thailand the legal age is 20. i think her baptism will be in two weeks. the the week after (cades birthday!) we have two scheduled:) its nice to see the blessings coming now from working so hard for the past 3 months. going from having 1 baptismal dater and 2 progressing investigators to now 6 with a bap goal, 9 progressing, and also many of our LAs came to church yesterday that we have been working with for quite a while!
this week is moves (transfers)! the past moves went by pretty quickly. an elder from my district is finishing his mission this week, it is the first time i havent envied someone going home, having to say goodbye to everyone and to thailand. some of the members took us out to a nice Vietnamese restaurant today for his last day. (we eat a lot of vietnam food in udon) i felt bad for him. it is so exciting, but at the same time so sad. i feel good about having 4 more transfers right now, but know that it is going to be here too soon. im getting a new companion!!! :) im really really hoping for sister christiansen who is from orem! there is a good chance she could be coming. it would be a dream! that means this i get the thai train ride adventure again this week, only this time two nights in a row! its been a long time (3 months) to be out in the boonies without any contact with sisters or many other missionaries. i cant wait to see everyone! also, we are finally getting one sister in this moves, we havent gotten any sisters since the group that entered right after me! we are getting so small in numbers, though we are having quite a few come this summer. man, i cant believe summer is almost here! (which means the incredibly hot season is almost over here, then it will just be hot:) ) it finally rained a few times this week. i love the rain. im excited for rainy season again!
we were teaching our golden investigator Guy (chicken) the other day, she really is so amazing, it makes me nervous that something is going to happen! she turned on the movie"Up" for her little boy in Thai to entertain him while we taught or else he is all over the place. that was the last movie that we went and saw as a family, the family night before i left. hah it was so hard to pay attention! i cant wait to get back and watch it again, i think i might buy it here in Thai.
in the middle of district development meeting last week i looked out the window and saw a crazy guy putting his face up to the window of the church. then a minute later he came into the church and into the room that we were in asking for money. we told him that we couldnt give him anything, thinking he would leave, but instead he just stood there staring at us. we tried to carry on with our meeting and then he sat on the ground for the majority of the meeting. it was super awkward we tried to carry on without busting up laughing. another day that showed me how grateful i need to be for all that i have. finally at the end the elders talked to him and convinced him to leave.
on Friday we taught the investigator that showed up drunk to her interview- A. she wasnt progressing at all. we talked about prayer. then later that night she called and said "God really does answer prayers if we have faith! i prayed after you left to get a better job and then today i got offered a very good job. it was a miracle! i am going to read and pray much more now. im determined." this was a huge step for her, i was so excited! she didnt show up to church on sunday which is a bummer, but at least she is slowly getting there. i just want her little girl to grow up in the church, her life will be so different. it will happen!
mom and dad, you sent my DEBIT card right? haha mom, not my camera card:) though i am appreciative of it, ive almost filled it all up. i am down to nothing. ive never been so poor in my life! as soon as i get some money ill send you a few cds from the past while, and might end up sending a big package if i move next transfer, which is likely because i think whoever comes here will train in june. my big suitcase is completely full already of just souvenirs. i dont know how im going to move my stuff! mom and dad, youd better be bringing some empty suitcases:) oh, did you end up getting tickets? whats the story with that?
sorry not too exciting of a letter, sometimes its hard to know what to write. i love you so much! ill be talking to you soon:) its already almost mothers day! miss you
love, sister young
ps andie brooke! you are HORRIBLE at writing! write me girl! now you dont have an excuse, you are out of school:)
Hello!
Joe: Talking Queen With Dancing Twin Children= courtney:)
what a good week. it was nice to work extra hard after the crazy week before. The area is doing so good right now! we are rocking it! we were supposed to have a baptism yesterday, but Am's mom didnt give her permission until sat night when the relief society president called and talked to her mom. she is 18, but it thailand the legal age is 20. i think her baptism will be in two weeks. the the week after (cades birthday!) we have two scheduled:) its nice to see the blessings coming now from working so hard for the past 3 months. going from having 1 baptismal dater and 2 progressing investigators to now 6 with a bap goal, 9 progressing, and also many of our LAs came to church yesterday that we have been working with for quite a while!
this week is moves (transfers)! the past moves went by pretty quickly. an elder from my district is finishing his mission this week, it is the first time i havent envied someone going home, having to say goodbye to everyone and to thailand. some of the members took us out to a nice Vietnamese restaurant today for his last day. (we eat a lot of vietnam food in udon) i felt bad for him. it is so exciting, but at the same time so sad. i feel good about having 4 more transfers right now, but know that it is going to be here too soon. im getting a new companion!!! :) im really really hoping for sister christiansen who is from orem! there is a good chance she could be coming. it would be a dream! that means this i get the thai train ride adventure again this week, only this time two nights in a row! its been a long time (3 months) to be out in the boonies without any contact with sisters or many other missionaries. i cant wait to see everyone! also, we are finally getting one sister in this moves, we havent gotten any sisters since the group that entered right after me! we are getting so small in numbers, though we are having quite a few come this summer. man, i cant believe summer is almost here! (which means the incredibly hot season is almost over here, then it will just be hot:) ) it finally rained a few times this week. i love the rain. im excited for rainy season again!
we were teaching our golden investigator Guy (chicken) the other day, she really is so amazing, it makes me nervous that something is going to happen! she turned on the movie"Up" for her little boy in Thai to entertain him while we taught or else he is all over the place. that was the last movie that we went and saw as a family, the family night before i left. hah it was so hard to pay attention! i cant wait to get back and watch it again, i think i might buy it here in Thai.
in the middle of district development meeting last week i looked out the window and saw a crazy guy putting his face up to the window of the church. then a minute later he came into the church and into the room that we were in asking for money. we told him that we couldnt give him anything, thinking he would leave, but instead he just stood there staring at us. we tried to carry on with our meeting and then he sat on the ground for the majority of the meeting. it was super awkward we tried to carry on without busting up laughing. another day that showed me how grateful i need to be for all that i have. finally at the end the elders talked to him and convinced him to leave.
on Friday we taught the investigator that showed up drunk to her interview- A. she wasnt progressing at all. we talked about prayer. then later that night she called and said "God really does answer prayers if we have faith! i prayed after you left to get a better job and then today i got offered a very good job. it was a miracle! i am going to read and pray much more now. im determined." this was a huge step for her, i was so excited! she didnt show up to church on sunday which is a bummer, but at least she is slowly getting there. i just want her little girl to grow up in the church, her life will be so different. it will happen!
mom and dad, you sent my DEBIT card right? haha mom, not my camera card:) though i am appreciative of it, ive almost filled it all up. i am down to nothing. ive never been so poor in my life! as soon as i get some money ill send you a few cds from the past while, and might end up sending a big package if i move next transfer, which is likely because i think whoever comes here will train in june. my big suitcase is completely full already of just souvenirs. i dont know how im going to move my stuff! mom and dad, youd better be bringing some empty suitcases:) oh, did you end up getting tickets? whats the story with that?
sorry not too exciting of a letter, sometimes its hard to know what to write. i love you so much! ill be talking to you soon:) its already almost mothers day! miss you
love, sister young
ps andie brooke! you are HORRIBLE at writing! write me girl! now you dont have an excuse, you are out of school:)
morgan 4.26.10
Okay so this week was not the greatest week but it also wasnt bad. Mme Laurent is being LAME!!! she hasnt came to church for like 3 weeks and she didnt come to our RDV that we had on friday haha but she was in a catscan so good reason but still... haha just lame. i am worried about her not taking this very seriously.
so in our ward here in Nimes we have ALOT of smokers who still take the sacrament and still feel just as worthy as anyone else. which with some of them they really are trying and i have no problem with that. but with the others in particular this woman named corinne hugon. she is like 50ish, she is super materialistic, she wears like really shiny glittery fancy clothes and is not very modest about it. she has a BIG smoking problem and has been baptised for like 15 years or something like that. Her kids are really struggling, her son wants to be muslum like his father and the daughter is the nicest one in the whole family. but yesterday we had the sunday school lesson about covenants and how we need to keep our promises with god. it went right ever her head. so tonight we planed a pretty intense lesson directed obviously to her and so hopefully she gets it. haha i am excited about that.
so my comp this week is better. It is really hard for me to stay patient with him but i do and it helps. but he has said some really strange things like when we were going to get on the bus i stopped this woman to contact her. she wasnt interested but he got all mad at me and said "Elder! we really dont have time!!!" now he was saying this as we were going to get on a bus just to check up on somebody and try and set up a RDV. haha. so i just looked at him and asked "we dont have time to talk to people about the gospel?" he didnt answer me and i reminded him that we had zero scheduled RDV's planned that day. haha probably not the nicest way but i put him back into his place. and yesterday before church there was a dude flying around the round about in front of our church and spun out of control and crashed like right in front of us!! it was crazy!! but he quickly got up and rode off, but there was a bunch of stuff that fell out of his seat, so i walked over to pick it up so i could go run it to him but my comp tried to stop me he just said "Elder!!" i just looked at him and picked up the stuff and ran it to him. the dude was so grateful!! but Elder M. was so frustrated for some reason. haha he is a little weird like that for some reason but other than that he is fine. he is from texas but just found out 10 sec. ago his fam is moving to maryland. he only has 4 months left on his mission.
okay i am so excited to call you all!! haha I really cant wait!! its already getting hot!! sorry.. I love you so much!! good job Mom and Ash with the race!! Dad good work on being the boss!! haha i love you all!! talk to you next week!!
thanks again.Morgan
so in our ward here in Nimes we have ALOT of smokers who still take the sacrament and still feel just as worthy as anyone else. which with some of them they really are trying and i have no problem with that. but with the others in particular this woman named corinne hugon. she is like 50ish, she is super materialistic, she wears like really shiny glittery fancy clothes and is not very modest about it. she has a BIG smoking problem and has been baptised for like 15 years or something like that. Her kids are really struggling, her son wants to be muslum like his father and the daughter is the nicest one in the whole family. but yesterday we had the sunday school lesson about covenants and how we need to keep our promises with god. it went right ever her head. so tonight we planed a pretty intense lesson directed obviously to her and so hopefully she gets it. haha i am excited about that.
so my comp this week is better. It is really hard for me to stay patient with him but i do and it helps. but he has said some really strange things like when we were going to get on the bus i stopped this woman to contact her. she wasnt interested but he got all mad at me and said "Elder! we really dont have time!!!" now he was saying this as we were going to get on a bus just to check up on somebody and try and set up a RDV. haha. so i just looked at him and asked "we dont have time to talk to people about the gospel?" he didnt answer me and i reminded him that we had zero scheduled RDV's planned that day. haha probably not the nicest way but i put him back into his place. and yesterday before church there was a dude flying around the round about in front of our church and spun out of control and crashed like right in front of us!! it was crazy!! but he quickly got up and rode off, but there was a bunch of stuff that fell out of his seat, so i walked over to pick it up so i could go run it to him but my comp tried to stop me he just said "Elder!!" i just looked at him and picked up the stuff and ran it to him. the dude was so grateful!! but Elder M. was so frustrated for some reason. haha he is a little weird like that for some reason but other than that he is fine. he is from texas but just found out 10 sec. ago his fam is moving to maryland. he only has 4 months left on his mission.
okay i am so excited to call you all!! haha I really cant wait!! its already getting hot!! sorry.. I love you so much!! good job Mom and Ash with the race!! Dad good work on being the boss!! haha i love you all!! talk to you next week!!
thanks again.Morgan
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