A report on the Mission Conference

Family, how are you?

I'm so glad to hear from you,

Life here is actually really well we're setting up tons of stuff for the coming weeks and we're pushing along or being dragging along from His perspective haha but thats ok

so we have a couple of baptism dates set up which is super good and it was so cool to have some of the apostles come and speak to us.

oh and yes we met at the temple for our meeting with the people and
let me tell you how amazing that was and now you can
actually tell what its going to look like!

so my companion has a week left before he goes home. he is super excited to go back to his life so i'm doing my best to keep motivated and simply keep going with everything,

tonight we're going over for FHE with debbie and sister blanco and thats going to be sweet

so sorry i don't have much time to email you i've been sitting by a rather rough biker dude whose been trying to argue with me for the last hour or so hee... so i haven't been able to focus much i'm sorry.

well next week i will be getting a new companion so i'll let you know how that goes next week.

Thank you dad for the line of authority!

i love you all so much thank you thank you!

A PS from Z:

Isn't it fun to hear from Andrew each week? I think it's funny he's even getting a chance to share the gospel (or argue with a creepy biker dude) while doing his weekly emails. 

Andrew may not be the most grammatically correct of writers, but I do enjoy hearing his stories. It's wonderful to see the success they're having in AZ.

For a more picture-laden and grammatically correct update on the AZ Phoenix Mission, check out Sister Taylor's blog here. As the mission president's wife, she's got access to all the neat ins and outs around the mission, and it's great to see what's going on down there. The post I linked to is the one about the huge mission-wide conference they had this last week - it's a real treat :)

APM Mission photo - yoinked from Sister Taylor's blog

STEAK!!!

Ok first, i gave a talk in Del Rio and i'm so glad its over, i can boldly testify quite easily to a small group of people but when giving a talk in sacrament i don't know i don't like it i guess.

 life up here is going well although it was a very hard week with everyone canceling and rescheduling and blah blah blah but hope is not lost Elder Pehrson has decided that i'm going to give it a new attitude and not focus on the negative

we have a lot of good stuff in the works that i think we can accomplish by the end of this month so i'm quite happy with that  We had interviews this past week and that was good i really enjoyed talking to pres Taylor and just laying out to him everything that i'm feeling and what not, its quite therapeutic 

 so after which the Stake President invited us over to his house for a celebratory dinner for breaking the stakes record of convert baptisms in a month and he said we were getting steak.... no.... what he gave us wasn't steak... it was a cow cut in half grilled and slapped on our plates! they were huge! and they were so good! best steak in my life! these farm folk sure know how to cook their moo moos phew!

 i almost went into a meat coma, it was amazing!

 so i did notice that it was nathans jacket haha i don't mind really and that you so so so so so much from what you sent! i love it all! and that picture i love love love love!!!!!! 

and i'm going to get my pants today thank you mumsy i love you all dearly! so now i'm thinking of what else i can send for halloween/popsicals birthday... what I've been thinking of is sending a box of giant grasshoppers that cover the roads and fields down here hmmmm i dunno :) oh i loved the picture of luna and wow she's getting dark or it was just the picture, but i sure do hope you like the stuff, i thought they were super super cool so, i can only hope. well i love you all so much i have a massive list of stuff to do today blah but i'll get it all done.

Ok IMPORTANT!
1. have you sent my driving record?
2. dad could i get my priesthood line of authority
3. mum i would really like to get your own personal conversion story and the more detail the better please :)
4. i love you ALL!

ps this is my happy/sad/angry/bored/jovial/giddy face i sure hope you enjoy!

My companion when we were goofing off with some Halloween costumes at a member's house.

For you.

What a crazy week!

What a crazy week it has been! good, happy, amazing, busy, but crazy!

so some members in the ward volen-told me to be in a quartet that's singing a poor wayfaring man of grief for Elder Roberts last Sunday so now i'm practicing for that.

i don't have the keberliners address on me but i'll get it to you, did they stay long and talk or was it a hi-bye? and i'm super happy you like them i'm glad that i can collect things like that and send them home unlike Z and nathan haha but i guess everywhere is differant, i hope that they go well with your decor thats already in place. what did you do with the family proc? have your framed it yet? i would love to get some printed pictures from you folks, i don't have any at all and thats something i would love.

i'm sending a great story in my letter to alex, also i've been sending my baptism programs to her, i don't know if she's shown you but they are neat.

so funny story, lately i've kept calling sister Marsh Grandma or sister Grandma haha and she just starts laughing and saying that she loves it, oh man is she a saint we sure do love her, and she made creamed eggs on toast again for sat morning before conf.

OH MY GOODNESS YM @ 18 AND YW @ 19!!!!!!!!!!!! thats amazing! you have no idea how much i've been geeking out about that!

that is inspired also MTC time isbeing cut down to a third of the time! the mission field is going to be flooded with Gods servants who are so ready to share His word and boy do we need that! but think about how many more missionaries we're going to have and then in my own opinion (this is not docterine) think of how many missionaries China needs! AHHAhAHA its coming!

so we watched a session with debbie at her house and that was so amazingly spiritual, she loved it so much and it just spoke to her so much! can i ask a favor of you folks? and please follow through with this, could you guys write a letter to Debbie Bocko @ _____ you have no idea how much it would mean to her, all her family isn't in contact with her or whatever and she is the most amazing person i've met on my mission and she wants me to come with my family to visit her after the mission (which thatnk goodness i have a while) but she is in her 60s she owns and runs by herself 15 acres 4 horses 8 meat sheep a slew of chickens and two dogs, and boy do we love her! she is going to be such an amazing leader in the ward.

any who i love you all so much, thank you for all you do for me! i would like to get an updat on how everyone is doing and what thier up to! I love you all!

Pictures, Trunkiness and a Video

Wow do you know how happy it made me to see those pictures? they were so cool i loved them so much! thank you for sending them to me!

mum & dad

z & a

the fam

the fam pt 2

a & z - and the baby bump!

min & nater

more of the fam

so before i get started i just wanted to let you know that the keberlines are headed up for conferance so i gave them two items for you guys and they have your phone number and address and they would love to stay and talk and hear the chilly cellos! Oh! and to save on post they said that they would pick up my overcoat and bring it down so that saves everyone and so don't forget to give it to them thanks! so the first item is colorfull and big and it is for Dad, an early birthday gift and the other rope thing is for mum just because i love you! sorry i don't have more stuff to send home to everyone but i'm working on them! 

so This week has been fantastic! we had so much work to do and on sat we had three baptisms and they were so amazing i loved them so much i'll send you the pictures. 

So we were at a members house the other day and he told us he had something for us and he took out these two knifes that are so amazingly cool! i'll send a picture next week but they look like mini samurai swords and they are made by cold steel which i guess is a nice knife making thing. 

so if i could ask a favor, could i get those pictures you emailed in print? i would really like to have a framed family picture that i could have on my desk, i would sure love that. 

so today i might buy some canvas pants at walmart we do a lot of service up here and moving bales of hay in gym shorts leaves quite an impression if you know what i mean. 

any whom i love you all so much you have no idea and your examples to me help me through everyday and at times i can almost hear mom telling me things ( mostly like wash your dishes make your bed brush your teethers haha jk) i wish you could all experiance the joy that i have been feeling and the satisfactioni of doing the Lords work. YOur all in my heart and your the bestest ever! oh oh Kyle i'm digging the beard! you done did make me proud!

And zena i made this video for you!