June 25, 2012

Oh man, I thought I wrote back about the temple thing.  That is the coolest thing.  When I reading that and the conversion story of his friend, I might have shed a few tears.  That is the coolest thing.  I was just in St. Goerge this past week.  I went to the temple there, and I will be traveling through again on Friday.  That would be so cool if I could meet the guy that went to school with the old man.  That was crazy to me, haha.  Sorry for not saying anything about that.

I email the little sisters all the time.   I don't know if they check it or not, but i do most weeks.  Just saying.

Well this week has been good.  We found some new people to teach and are really excited about the prospect of teaching them.  They seem pretty interested.  I never thought I would see the day when Jenny went on a mission, hahaha.  No offense to her, haha, but that is so cool.  She will have a blast.  Did I tell you that Meredith Miller is going to France on July 11th?  So, that is more cool news.

I hope to out do dad one of these days.(driving)  I will do 32 straight hours by myself, haha.  I highly doubt that, but hey, it is a good goal.

Yeah, thanks for the package.  I got everything great.  Thanks for the ipod.  That will help me be able to get a bunch of talks and stuff from other missionaries, so it should be good.  Thanks for thinking of me on that one. Yeah, I got the stuff from the Avery's.  They are an awesome family.  When I needed to get a break from my comp that is where I went because they are awesome and Elders Arnold and Coulter both loved them so I could just enjoy for an hour, haha.  it is a blast.  We are cooking gumbo tonight.  We invited some people to come eat gumbo and so we should have some investigators there.  I hope at least.

Hey dad!  I have a favor to ask.  Could you type out your whole conversion story and email it to me?  I would love to have that to read and to think about.  So I will look forward to that.  Thanks dad.  

 Elder Zachary on top of a mountain

 

Elder Zachary and Jack, who he baptized

 Elder Zachary, Jack, and Brother Rask...both from Lake Havasu City, Arizona

 Dorothy Roberts, baptized at 88

Not sure? 

 St. George Temple

Dakota Hampton

I can't think of anything that really happened lately.  Love you.  Thanks for everything that you do for me, mom and dad.

June 18, 2012

Hey, so no, we didn't have a baptism this week.  We had the last one on the 9th.  So yeah, but we had a good run there for a bit, but we did set another one for a long term goal.  He is set for 3 months from now, so we are excited about that.  He has a lot of work to do to get ready, but he has come a long way since the time when I started teaching him when I was first in the area.  So that was the excitement of this week.  But yeah, the work is still moving forward and progressing.

Still don't know anything about President Black.  It should be weird.  We will go down to Mesquite to meet him on the 3rd, so that should be cool.  And we will go down on the 26th of June to meet with President Nieder to say bye to him. 

That is really weird that they are engaged, haha.  I don't know who she is.(Lindy Welch and Nate Jarrell)  I need a picture to see if it is a good move.  So if you would get one on facebook then that would be good.  Tell MC that she better write me with the names of every boy she goes on dates with or even talks to.  I have companions that will be there soon and he will take care of those little punks for me!!!! He is joining the army, haha.

Yeah, I thought that i was senior, but no.  But, I am doing the job of senior, haha.  I don't know why, haha, but  I like it.  I hate to follow, haha.  It was really strange.

I have not checked the mail yet, so we will go check after I leave here.  

Thank you for sending it to me.

The Avery's leave on next Saturday so y'all have to go visit them on Friday when you get back and let Preston, their son, drive the Shelby.  They won't ask, so tell dad to offer.

June 11, 2012

Hey, so this week has been good, haha.  It was really funny.  I really like my new comp.  He is really wierd, but really cool.  We are having a good time so far, just strugling making it to bed on time because we talk too much, haha.  He is pretty quite, but that's all good.  But yeah, we had to give a talk this week in the wards as a suprise.  It was really funny because we get there and Elder Craft is speaking first and we each have about 20 mins to speak.  He gets up and uses about 5-10......really short, haha.  So, I am like "holy crap, this could be really bad." haha  So, I grab another talk that I had in my scriptures and I get up there and I put them together to make one talk and about 35 mins later I sit down, haha.  The whole time I had to look at the time to see how much more I had to talk about, haha.  I think it went alright.  The first counsler in the bishopric came up and was like "thank you, so much, Bishop....I mean...Elder Zachary" haha.  I was like "you know that is not going to happen haha.  So that is the funny story of the week.  Made me laugh haha.  Fun stuff.  Well, we had another baptisim this week.  The 5th in 6 weeks.  So that has been good, but now we have a lot more work to do to find more.  It is crazy.  Love y'all.  Need that iPod, please. 

I got that email last week.  I just now forwarded it to you.  I thought you would like to see it though.  Yeah, I am district leader and he is senior, but I do all the stuff that the senior should do, because I know the area and he is shy. 

Call the mission home and see if you can take me out to dinner, haha.  Yeah, I have not heard much, but we have leadership conference this week so we are heading to Vegas for two days.  Well, I am and my comp is staying in Mesquite.   Well ok, I have had my comp since Tuseday, but I knew who it was going to be last Monday, and so I just sent that to you so you could see what the mission pres was saying.  This meeting is only for the district leaders and zone leaders and ap's. 

June 4, 2012

Hey hey, I am staying in this area! My comp is leaving and I am going to be comps with Elder Craft. He has been out 2 transfers longer than me, but I am senior and district leader still. But yeah, so my goal is to teach him to relax and still do good work. He is a very uptight missionary, so we will break him like a stallion,haha! jk but I will be in the Nevada Las Vegas West Mission on July 1st. So it will be really cool to see the differernce between the two missions. But I will be in the same mission as Ivy.  Yeah, the more I think about being a teacher the more I get excited about it and a principal is fun too. I think I don't know what I would want to teach. I think PE would be a blast, haha. But I don't really know yet. I mean elementary teaches a little of everything, but if I was in like one class it would be history. That would be a blast.......or science.   Mom, I heard about your ride in the Shelby,haha! I bet that was fun, haha. It is so wierd how small the world is in the church, haha.