November 29, 2010

This week we sent Wesley a bunch of questions. Here are his answers.

How is Fred (and the surrounding area)Texas?
Small, really small. Elder Sedar said in 2000 the census had 300 people in Fred. We also cover Spurger, and over to Warren. Lots of trailers....well compared to houses. Lots of southern words and vocabulary. Lots of dirt roads, bad ones. We actually drive a Toyota Tocoma Pickup thanks to Elder Serdar.

Who is your New companion and where is he from?
Elder Roos from Salt Lake City

Are you the senior companion again?

Yes

What did you do for Thanksgiving?
A whole lot of nothing. We ate lunch at a members home, then went back to out trailer until 7:30ish when we went to our Branch Mission leaders home for the rest of the evening. Oh ya, we did do a re enactment of World War 2. We even killed real Germans.....Cockroaches that is.

How is living in a trailer?
COLD!!!!!!!!!!! :-(( Please send me Thermals. We have 4 portable heaters in our trailer that we try to stay warm with. I've used an electric blanket at night and been fine, but in the evening and in the morning when it is cold outside the trailer is really cold. We are not going to freeze to death, but it's not very comfortable...especially since I take after Mom and like it really warm. The worst part is that our bedroom and bathroom are on the same circuit breaker and if we have a heater going in both rooms we can't turn on the lights or the circuit breaker will blow.
We also have MICE, Harold and his brother Gerald.

Where do you shop?
Silsbee Walmart

Where do you email us from?

Silsbee Library

When is your whole mission Christmas Conference?
December 16, in Baytown

Do you have any idea why the Mission President wants us to send all your Christmas stuff to the mission office?
Probably to make sure that packages get to the missionaries. Friends and family might not know about transfers. Maybe to prevent theft, not everyone has a P.O. Box. They are probably going to hand out packages at the Christmas Conference.

Would it be safe to send your packages to you since you pick up your mail from the post office?
I would say yes, but with how small and Ghetto Fred/Spurger are I think it would be best to send packages through the mission office. I'm just a little weary they might get lost if they are sent here.

Do you have any requests for Christmas now that your living arrangements have changed?
More "Washable" ties. I'm going to buy myself a new razor today, so that can be part of Christmas. No, I can't think of anything I really need or want right now. I could write you a list of stuff to buy like movies and games and you can save them until I get home if you want :-).

Well got to go Love you guys bye

Novemeber 22, 2010

Hi,

Yes, I did get transferred. I'm now in Fred, Texas. You'll probably have to look awhile to find it on a map. It is North of Silsbee and South of Woodville. The last census they took (2000) had 300 people in it.

My new address is,

P.O. Box 505 Spurger, Tx. 77660

The roads are so rough out here we're driving a Toyota Tacoma pick up in a few weeks we're supposed to get a new Chevy Colorado.

NO mom, I have not had any other bruises and the one on my fore head never hurt, and it went away after a few days.

I have no Idea what our plans for Thanksgiving are. We'll probably hang out at our branch mission leader's house. I really don't know how the work is going in this area. Funny thing this was Elder Serdar's area before he came to Lake Charles(Elder Serdar is training for the second time this transfer) and Lake Charles was Elder Clark's area before he came to Jasper.

I like the camera thank you!

Mission stories...hmmmm Did I tell you that Salt Lake City gave us texting? I didn't text Dad's phone though. I sent him an email from a computer.

Oh yah, when we went to the Temple, I bought Mormon Tabernacle Choir "Ring Cristmas Bells" and "100 years of Excellence". I also got the new D&C study DVDs. They have the new Joseph Smith Movie on them. I really have no idea what I want/need for Christmas. I'll try to think of somthing.

Well, I'd better email Ethan, I'm fine no need to worry. Talk (write) to you next week,

Love you guys
bye

Novemeber 15, 2010

Hi Everyone,

That e-mail you got was actualy an automated response I set up. So, if you write me it will tell you I will write you on my P-Day. I didn't think it was turned on yet.

The weather has really cooled down here. It's getting down to the 50's and 40's at night.' I like it though. It's easier to stay warm than to stay cool.

Transfers are a week from today, we'll see what happens.

We get to go to the temple tomorrow!! I'm excited. We also get to go to the bookstore, the only Mormon store for probably hundreds of miles. I know there aren't any in T.H.E. Mission.

Let's see.... a good story.....Hmmmm. Ok, here you go. I took a 15 min. power nap during lunch (Saturday). I was too lazy to crawl under the blanket , and I didn't want to wrinkle up my clothes. So I laid on top of the blanket and flipped the sides up and over me. Kind of like a cocoon. It was light too, so I covered up my face with the blanket and put my hands on my face to keep it from falling off( hope this is making sense). Well, I got up and went into the bathroom, and there was /is a bruise right in the middle of my forehead just above the eyes. Eveyone says it looks like I got hit with a stick, or somone took a straiting iron to my forehead and burned it. The best part, I had to speak in Sacrament meeting the next day (Yesterday). So, that's what's new with me, a mysterious brusie that dosen't hurt on my forehead.

Is it all snowy up there yet?

Oh ya, in the smallest most minute possibility of a chance that you DON'T know Robin REALLY REALLY REALLY REALLY REALLY REALLY REALLY REALLY REALLY REALLY REALLY REALLY wants a cell phone. (I got your letters.)
Well, I need to go, hope all is well,
love you guys
Bye

November 8, 2010

Hey there,

How's it going? The weather has really cooled down I'm loving it.

The pizzas did work out thanks.

My birthday was great. Thanks for everything. I think you had something to do with he 46 birthday cards I received, thanks.

I actually just sent a package today with the pants + some other stuff. I didn't think to put the camera in it though.

We're going to the temple on the 16tht That's a week from tomorrow.

Right now the number of people baptized in THE mission for the 2010 year is in the low 300's. The goal was for 534. In Zone Conference 2 weeks ago President Moldenhauer told us that if we don't make the goal it is because of our unbelief. Yes we are making an extra effort for these last 2 months, the theme for November is: "An Attitude of Gratitude" and the theme for the month of December will be: "A white Christmas".

Transfers are the 22, the week before thanksgiving. I do think I will be transferred. The only thing that makes me think I might not is that the assistants were messing around with Elder Serdar and told him he was going to be a Zone Leader next transfer. We don't know if they were being serious or not.

This past week we've been doing a lot of tracting looking for new people to teach. Several people have said we could come back, but we haven't been able to catch any of them at home yet.

The missionaries we share the ward with tracted into a lady who spent some time on an Indian reservation teaching English. She said that when she was with the Indians the Elders of the tribe told her that Jesus Christ came to America. So she was interested when the missionaries told her about the Book Of Mormon.

Got to go,
Love you guys
Bye

November 1, 2010

Hey,

Yes I did get both the Halloween and Birthday packages, thank you. Unfortunately the Assistants said we could'nt dress up for Halloween trunk or treating party so I couldn't use the wig.

Yes we did find the Recent Convert form California, Ming. He is in Bejing China....he turned his phone back on, that's how we know where he is.

Things are going great, we're loving the cooler weather, it's still in the 80's.

Today is our Zone P-day, and it's combined with the Beaumont Zone. It should be a lot of fun. I know we are going to play soft ball for sure, I'm not sure what else.

This week was kind of hard, our teaching pool just evaporated. Right now we have no one to teach except for an inactive, recent convert, part member family...... A recent convert who hasn't come to church, her nonmember husband. But that's the mission. We will find those who have been prepared.

Thanks for telling everyone to mail me a B-day card. I got 15! on Friday, and 6 on Saturday.

You can send a pizza if you want. There is a dominoes, pizza hut, papa johns, papa murphies, near by. I'm not sure about Little ceasers.

Sorry to cut it short but I got to to so we can get to Zone P-day on time. I Love you guys. Bye