Nov 25

Hey that's so exciting to hear about the tree. The other day we got invited by one of the best families out here to come and skype on Christmas and do breakfast with them at 8 our time 9 yours, but transfers are coming up on the 16th so I'm not sure if I will be here for Christmas. today we went and got to see how shirts are printed that was sooooo cool.  Nothing really went on this week. We had one lesson with Kristi that went well. We did go to Reds house and had dinner with them and while we were there they were playing all kinds of rock and rap music and they played a little Breaking Benjamin. I am kinda learning how to play the piano.

 

It's getting colder out here. The air is so dry I'm having a little bit of a hard time breathing.

 

 

Investigator pool            status

Red, Veronica               Difficult to teach

Kristi                            taught Restoration and Plan of Salvation

JJ GeCee                      droped

Natashaw                     Taught Plan of salvation came to church once and enjoyed it

Keith, Kyberly Sudder    lesson set

Dorthy                           from Philippines small language barrier hard to get a hold of
Miguel, Layla                 Hard to get a lesson set

 

I think thats all of them

Nov 18

Conversation with Cody... It's like pulling teeth to get anything out of him.

Cody

sorry i haven't emailed yet i couldn't yesterday

Julie
What happened yesterday?

Cody

4 out of 7 computers were broken

Julie

That makes it difficult.  Guess where I am?
I'm on my way to a Michael buble concert..   so excited!
What did you get to do this week? Anything fun?

Cody

lame we got a new investigator and we play football every morning

Julie
Wow that sounds like fun! You've never really played football before. Is that because of your new companion or the new investigator?

Tell me more about your investigator

Cody

the mission is doing a turkey bowl on thanksgiving and we are practicing its a zone vs zone game

our investigator is Natasha i think i told you about her

Julie

You only told me you had an investigator.  Is she married? Does she have kids? How old is she?

Cody

not married 2 kids and men don't guess womens ages
you should put disney music on my ipod

Julie

LOL.. you crack me up.!  Where is she from?  How old are her kids.  Is she old like grandma, old like me or old like JayDee?

What is iPod?  (I actually meant to ask "What ipod?")

Cody 

she is younger and you know what an iPod is

Julie


Did she grow up in Nevada?

Cody

she moved around a lot

Julie

So tell me more about your companion

Cody

from north Carolina been out for 4 months 

Julie

Does he have siblings? Is he 18 as well?  Is he fun? What does he like to do?  Camp, fish.. etc

Cody

he is 20 he is the oldest of 3 and he likes to box

Julie

That's cool! Does he teach you how to box? Is he a convert? Is his whole family members?

Cody

no he doesn't teach me to box and no he was always a member just a little inactive but that's ok he is reconverted and his parents and siblings are members. got to go bye

Nov 11

 Ya I think Elder Kennedy is a cool guy. The Gladys Knight fireside was great we got one referral from it and she came to church with us yesterday and she thought it was cool.  She has never gone to a church before and she said she would come next week. So far she is our strongest investigator and she is still in the potential investigator category. Next week we are going to go golfing and on Thursday we are going to the temple I'm so excited.

The fireside was so cool I loved it there was some cool music. Ya I'm so excited to go golfing I miss it.  We had dinner with this family who invited another family from our ward and they came over to play cards but we can't but I can shuffel them so I did and I missed it too.

Oct 28

ya i got the package it was cool thanks for everything in it. this week i went on exchanges and was on bike all day it was fun and then on Saturday elder Hutchings and I went garage selling (it was a community garage sale) because tracting is discouraged garage selling makes people talk to you so of course we had to go on bikes so it would be easier to talk to people, and to make it look like we were buying stuff we had to buy stuff all i bought was a puzzle and elder Hutchings bought lots of random stuff. on Friday we went to a Halloween party for the ward and after elder Hutchings bike broke so we had to fix it well he had to fix it i have no idea what im doing with bikes. the other day i found out that my GPS needs a map update and that they cost $50 so i might need that if thats ok its online

did grandpa Mattingly serve a mission in South Carolina

(note from mom... I am having lunch with Uncle Marty)

Las Vegas grows so fast but ok. Hi uncle Marty how are you?

(note from mom...He says he's good and he is going on a motorcycle ride to st George in November.)

good he should come stop by lol jk

(note from mom... He wishes he could)

I bet he does and i wish i could tell you where im at but i cant

elder Hutchings in his Halloween costume ( a nerd missionary)

you got me doing puzzles GRRRRR its the only other for of entertainment

hey i just found out that i can have regular ChChristmas music so ya make sure you put voicemale on there and dont forget mercy river. today is transfers and elder hutchings is leaving my new companions name is Elder Kennedy. on Saturday the scouts celebrated 100 yrs of scouting and we were able to go to help people get the Thomas S. Monson award but in order to help people get it we needed to get it it was fun to get. there were 8,000 people there. something else we did this week was got our bikes tuned up by a guy in our area and while we were there we got to ride an $18,000 road peddle bike like lance Armstrong races those kind of bikes it weighed 12 lbs and was made of carbon fiber it was cool.

Elder James Walsh and me in the MTC

Oct 21, 2013

 No progress on any of the families but Miguel and his family said that they would love to go to the Gladys Knight thing with us which is a once in a lifetime thing.  We get to go on Nov 5th, the day after transfers and Elder Hutchings will probably go to a different area. 

(I asked Cody if he will stay where he is on the next transfer)  I probably will because he (Elder Hutchings) has been in this area for 6 months so its my turn.


Did you get a letter from Sister Ericson? she is so sweet she gives us food like none other, half the food we have is because of her. No we won't be participating on Halloween we will be required to be in by 6.

Right now I'm still being trained but next transfer I probably won't train, it's a processes.  You get trained then your second companion is called your polisher, but I don't know what's in store.  Well I have to go, bye I love you.

Oct 14,2013

We played some pool on an 8 ft table instead of a 9 ft table (we lost), tried cow tongue and learned about the secret room in the hill cumorah

JJs family is not progressing they are struggling. I can't go into any more details. So someone in the ward got diagnosed with stage 4 breast cancer and I was able to help with the blessing. I told our story and gave her the blog info and Tami's book name and she said she would read them. 

Ok, so the cow tongue. Bishop took us to dinner at a Mexican place and Elder Hutchings wanted to try the weirdest thing they had so he got the cow tongue tacos, I was smart and got a chicken bean burrito.  So when they brought the food out, the cow tongue was chopped up so I took one and tried it............IT WAS NASTY......... but I could eat it if I had to, also if there was something I could puke in later.  Elder Hutchings said that he got through 1 1/2 tacos and said it was getting to him later in our car, he said he might puke, he didn't thank goodness.

Daily routine: wake up shower, eat, exercise (if we remember), personal study at 8, companion study at 9 and because I'm being trained we have another hour of companion study at 10 then it varies on what we are doing.

Aug 26 - Oct 7

I haven't posted anything for a while but that is because Cody isn't much of a writer but I will post the little tid bits he has sent me.

Oct 7...

ok so a few weeks ago JJ went missing but a few day later he came back.The lessons have been going on but only the 2 youngest have been coming. The 9 yr old girl wants to be baptized but she needs to get her dads "ok" so we talk to him after conference and he said he would think about it. Bro Williams (JJ bro) had us over for General Conference and JJ's family was there including him. We talked to him and he said that he wants to change his life around so hopefully we can help. We are also teaching the Tait Family they are a great family we have only taught them once but we see some potential. we have also been teaching a woman named Dorothy she has a lot of questions she's not progressing fast but potential is there. We are also teaching another family His name is Red they are progressing really slow but they love having us over the can feel the good vibes that we bring in with us.

Sept 30...

ok so we have been having some complications with teaching JJ and his family so I don't know how that's going but we are now teaching a guy named Red and his family we are also teaching the Tait family we just started teaching them but not to much is going on. I was wondering if you could send me some jeans a pair of the faded ones and some work ones and some of my T shirts (NOT dads) and my white shoes. it doesn't mater what is on the shirts. oh and some socks. So I asked the mission president if i needed a white shirt and tie and pants for a baptism and he said i did so i will be needing my temple bag also

Sept 23....

No I didn't fix the porcha yet. ok so we did some running around today and we got some chicken and a had bbq for lunch today. transfer 2 is here today. We went to teach JJs family but only the 2 youngest attended and when we got there she was playing missionary so next week we are going to have her help teach the lesson she says she wants to read Matthew than she will get baptized I don't know why Matthew but ok?


Sept 16...

Thanks I need the button for my jacket not for the sleeves.  We taught JJ's family and committed them to baptism and they said that they would pray and we also invited them to a baptism and they want to come.  The 9 year old has been coming to church for a long time and says that she wants to be baptized and so we will wait to see what the family decides to do.

So we did some service helping build a house for a member and hopefully teach this one guy and we see an old porch and so we had to check it out and ask about it. it has a new engine in it that has 300 miles on it and all it needs is to get new fuel and probably a new battery and so the guy that owns it is hopefully going to invite us back to work on it and hopefully we get to drive it. 


Sept 9...
Monday was p-day and we got to ride on bikes that had a 2 hp motor on it. I sent JayDees birthday present to our house I forgot to get her address before I left oops. We have been working on getting my priesthood linage I'm excited. Can I Get a picture of my chair. My suit lost a button and I need it can you go to MR Mac and get some?   I have the PSJ world traveler I need like a lot of buttons. music requests Mercy River and anything at deseret book.--
Elder Mattingly

Aug 26...

I asked him about a new investigator

Well I came into the mission and he was already an investigator but another family just let his brother move in with them and his brother ( the one that moved in his name is JJ) fell away and JJ's wife isn't a member nor are the kids and we taught them one lesson and JJ said to his 9 yr old that if she wants to get baptized than she can