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