May 28, 2012

This week was a lot of fun.  We are still finding new people to teach.  Last Sunday, I don't remember if I told you, but we had a lady walk up to us and say, "who do I have to talk to to get baptized?"  We where like ........................................................ um "oh yeah! Uhh, that would be us! haha.  It was cool, but she is really nervous about letting people know about it because last time she had a date, a year ago, she got really nervous.  So, I don't know.  She is an awesome lady, so we are hoping that she will make the date of the 9th of June.  So, I don't know.  And then on last Friday we got another investigator and last Sunday we set her for June 16th.  So, I don't know.

I am really, really nervous about transfurs, because I don't really trust my comp to take up after me.  I feel like I do all the lagistics and the 2 appoitments he has taken care of have fallen through.  So I am nervous about how it will be if I am not here.  So, I don't know.  It is stressing me out for the first time on my mission.  I have not been stressed out at all besides now, and I dont know why.  I could hardly sleep last night.  This area is doing so good, but it could turn around in a heart beat so i am so nervous to think about what could happen.

No, there are no BBQs today that i am aware of.  Just go out and work.  I didn't even know that today was a holiday.  So we shall see what goes on today.  I am stressed.  Hopefully we can go and play volleyball today, so that would be fun.  But I don't know what else we will do.

Hey, I didn't turn in my Eagle the day before my b-day.  I did it the day of...... duhhhhh.  Get it right. I am amazed how fast this 10 months have gone.  It is crazy to think about.  It blows my mind. Sister Nieder set me down at interviews and was like, "you are coming up on a year and you are doing really good, but I have seen a lot of missionaires turn for the worst and get complacent at this time.  So don't let that happen to you."  I was like "I am not coming up on a year.  Oh wait, I am.  No!  Don't tell me that.  You are messing with my mind.  It is weird."

Oh no, we didn't have one this week, but we have one on Saturday for the next 3 weeks.  So, that is good.

Love y'all.  I just am holding on till transfurs this week.  I do like my comp but he has a lot of wierd things about him.  He is either really excited and gets a high pitch voice, or he is depressed.  So, it is really hard.  When he gets depressed he doesn't want to teach, but when he is excited he gets mad because i don't let him teach enough, haha.  Oh well, then he comes back and tells all the members that I am some, like, awesome missionary.  And it drives me crazy.

May 21, 2012

This week has been great.  We had a baptism of the lady that is 88.  She is awesome, haha.  It was so cute.  She leaned over to me and said, "you are not going to forget about me now are you?"  She was very concerned, haha.  It was awesome.  Because she is so old I went into the water to help bishop do the baptism.  So it was really neat.  But yeah, and then at church we found two new people that wanted to be baptized so we are still trucking along, haha.  It has been a great time this week.

My comp is still with me.  We have been having long talks and he is struggling with wanting to follow the rules.  He knows they are important, but he wants to do the things that are fun.  Like on Saturday we couldn't find anyone that was home and so he wanted to go to bishops house and listen to music with the bishop.  And it was not MoTab (Mormon Tabernacle Choir), haha.  But I didn't know that was the reason he wanted to go there so we went, but bishop was thankfully not home, haha. But yeah so I don't know what will happen.  I think he will leave because I don't think he can handle being here anymore.  It is kinda sad.  But, I don't know.  We will see in two weeks.  I will know more about what is happening.

I bet Mom with all your kids leaving that makes Pops look kinda old, haha.  Not you though, haha.  I am glad to know that you cried, though.  That is a good thing.  I am messed up in the head, haha.

At Marshall's.  They have the socks on sale there, sometimes.  Just look there and when ever you find them buy them.  I am in no rush so just whatever.

It has been crazy to see what, with a little dedication and hard work, the miricals that you can see in an area.  When I got here there was only 2 investigators.  One was baptized, but we dropped the other.  Now we have had 3 baptisms with 3 more coming up soon and it is amazing how the Lord has blessed the work in this area.

May 14, 2012

Yeah, I won't remember to send them out (birthday cards for family members).  I will be honest, haha.  But thanks!  Yeah, I got the package.  Thanks for the jersey.  It made my day.

This was the email after Mother's Day.  So it was short, but we had talked to him for a couple of hours the day before, so I guess I forgive him!

Sarah-Beth Zachary

SKYPING MY BIG BRO!! I love him sooo much! He's the best missionary ever!! :)) — with Elder Taylor Zachary.

Sarah-Beth Zachary

I get to Skype Taylor today:))
We love our missionary!

May 7, 2012

Um yeah, we are Skyping at the Avery's house and she has to talk to her missionary and see when he can Skype.  Then they will give us a call some time today and let us know when he is going to Skype.  Then we will be able to do it some other time that day.  So I don't know when and don't worry about the time, haha. It will be ok, haha.  I only get to talk to you 2 days a year so we will talk for a little while!!  I will call that morning and let you know.  It will be some time that night.

 

As far as stuff that I need.......the sausage would be nice, but it is not a huge deal.  But last time y'all sent it like that there was no melt at all.  It was all still solid.  So just mail it in like 2 or 3 days instead of over night and it would be fine in that ice chest.  Um ok, roux and crawfish boil.  Yes I would like some of that.  Send that separate from the sausage so it is not an arm and a leg.  My waterproof camera works fine and so does the other one, but it is kinda old.  But it is fine.  I don't need a new one.  I put my memory card in my phone and been using it as a camera.  So I do have pictures, but I can't send them to you.  Sorry.  But the waterproof one is a Fiji film water proof camera, and it needs a charger that the battery comes out of the camera and then plugs into the charger.  The other one I know Dad has gotten off Ebay before so he can get another one.  Ok, then I want a pair of my BKE Jeans or both of them and my polo with the Shelby GT500 on it, and maybe one more nice shirt.  

 

Please.......it is crawfish boil not crab!

 

Ok, the baptism was great.  It was awesome, haha.  It went well besides the fact that it was an old man baptizing an old man and they could hardly get down or back up.  haha.  It was really funny, but me and my comp held our composure until no one could see us, haha.  It was really funny.   He almost fell.  It was great.  Man, that is a good memory.  And then this next week one(baptism) is going to be moved to the 26th of May, but then the one the next week will go on still, and then we have one on the 2 of June.  So, it is good stuff.  Yeah, I can see my knowledge grow a lot on my mission, but I am still pathetic at the Bible.  But, I am not going to read that all the way through till after the mission.  I might read the New Testament after I read the Book of Mormon again.

 

That is so cool.  I am hoping that I will be able to see a sealing on my mission.  It could happen with this family that I just baptized the husband.  We might be able to go and do that so that would be cool.

 

The weather here has been great.  I am loving it.  It has been from 75 to 80 with no humidity.  So it is perfect.

 

Yeah, I don't want to do the video (something I asked him to do for our church Youth Conference this summer), haha, and right now I can't.  I have nothing to record with, but I will if you need me to.

 

April 30, 2012

Nope I have not heard anything at all.  The zone leaders are right next to me and as far as they know everything is the same, but they go to zlc this week, so they will find out more then. (about talking on Mother's Day)

 

Yeah, Nathan.  I remember him, haha.  That would be funny if I get sent up there and then I am his trainer, haha.  That would be awesome, haha, but I don't think I will get set there.  I think I will go to Vegas this transfur, in 5 weeks, haha, but anything could happen, haha.

 

Aunt Ange is getting old, haha. 45 haha, I just put that in there to annoy her, haha.  I hope it works maybe she will be mad and email me or something!  That would be a tragedy, haha jk.  No, i love them.  That is so awesome that they where able to do the same thing that I wanted to do and everyone thought was a terrible idea.  I am just full of bad ideas, haha :)

 

I am glad that y'all are doing the reading.  I am not going to send my notes anymore.  It takes too long to type and I took a week off to let y'all catch up in the reading, but I studied other things in this past week.  So I got an awesome gift from one of the members here.  They were going through some old bookshelves and they came across a 1914 edition of the Book of Mormon in perfect condition except for one little tear on the cover, but it is not bad.  I picked it up and was like, "Man these things are awesome."   And she was like, "You can have it."  I was like ok!!  I ran before she could change her mind, haha.  JK on the last part but it is awesome haha.  98 years old.

 

Oh yeah, the members fix my clothes whenever i get holes so i dont worry about them.  Every pair of my suit pants has had a hole but they are all fixed but one.  I would love some socks.  I want Under Armor socks so if you can find some black ones get them.  They look good as long as they are black, so just what ever you can find.  And if it is alright I am going to buy a basketball and a scale today with home money.  So let me know, please.  I still have not gotten the camera chargers that I need to be able to take pictures so I can't send them.

 

So, this week we have a baptisim and then next week and then the week after that, haha.  It is going to be awesome.  It is amazing how when people hear the truth of the restored gospel of Jesus Christ they are ready to change their lives to live the gospel because of the power of the Spirit bearing witness to their hearts of the truthfullness of what we are telling them.

 

we had the opportunity to speek to some youth in the Alamo Ward about missions and why we serve missions.  It was an awesome opportunity.  I felt the spirit as I spoke.  I hope the kids were able to feel the same thing.

 

 

 

April 23, 2012

Dear family, sorry about getting frustrated.  I only had 22 emails this week, haha.

Sounds like y'all have had an awesome week, so far.  Man so we have a bunch of poeple that want to go catch some crawfish and have a crawfish boil, so if you could have bishop send me the instructions on how to do it and then y'all send me what ever I need to do it because these are less actives, haha. So yeah, help me out with that please, haha.  Everyone wants to get Cajun food, haha. and this guys name is Beadou.   haha i know that is not spelled right but his family is from down south in LA, but he has never been there.

Oh, so this past Sunday we got a call from this man that said he had been reading the Book of Mormon and was on 3 Nephi and read how if you take the sacrament unworthy then your soul should be damned and so he read that baptism is by immersion and so he decided that it was time to be baptized.  So we will be doing that on the 5th of May.   haha   It is awesome.  The area has picked up so much.  We were at about 3-4 ltms (lesson taught with a member present) a week and now we have gotten 9 in the past two weeks and are hoping for more this week.  So the area is on the upswing.  So hopefully we will be able to keep working hard and have the area improve. ( not to brag but before I got to the area there where 2 investigators we baptized one of those and dropped the other and now we have 9+ investigators and finding more all the time.  It has been a great blessing.)

Oh, that blanket smells like home.  Still, what did you do to it? haha  My comp was like..."is that what your home smells like?"  and I was like, "yeah".  He was like, "wow smells pretty good."  haha.

I don't know what we can do on Mother's Day yet. I will have to ask the zone leaders what is allowed and then i will have to tell you then.  Ok, sounds good?

Georgia Arnold......There you go Mom.  This is Elder Arnold's mother's number.   hahaha 509-929-1111

Oh and that email was still not here. haha  I don't know what happened, but thank you for mailing it to me. And sorry for getting up set last week. I should not have.

April 16, 2012

Hey, I am your son...remember me ?


Ok, look, I know this sounds like I am complaining, and it is because I am.  But missionaries look forward to emailing family and when you get to the computer and there are emails, but they are like a picture and a letter from Micheal, and one from Jenny and that's it, then it is really frustrating.  I care about y'all and I want to know what is going on.  I can't call.  All I have is email and when I can't even get y'all to take 5 mins out of your week and send me an email it is really really frustrating! Sorry for complaining.


Well, I didn't get one from y'all, and I have to go.  I am not going to make my comp sit here all day!!!!