January 9, 2012

Hey Mom,
   FYI I have been and will keep praying for all that. :) I’m glad you liked the pics. Its sounds like y'alls week was full of fun stuff! I was told that grandma stole your sweater and Scotty wore black all day! Got to love our family! You’re not old! You’re just wise :) so the good to hear Grandpa Reynolds is doing better. Had me nervous for a while.

So the guy that played Santa in the pics I sent you died this last week. We went out with him at least once or twice a week. His wife has asked us to be pall bearers at his funeral on Wednesday. So that what my week consisted of this last week we found 2 more investigators and we are planning a huge missionary night for the youth of our ward on the 19th and we are also doing it for the adults on the 22nd during the 3rd hour of church. We created a new ward mission plan that will make missionary work spike in the Yorktown ward. But that’s what my week consisted of.

We also had our interviews with President Perry. Did I ever tell you his is a former 70? Well, he is and he is a man of god! It’s so cool to just sit and talk with him for 20 min. it’s sweet. Well, he told me I will probably be a trainer or a district leader this next transfer so I’m excited for that. I hope I stay in Yorktown for the training we have so many solid potentials that I don’t want to up and leave right in the middle of all this. But if it happens o well he knows what he is doing.
I hope it snows soon!
Love you forever like you for always
love Twark

January 3, 2012

Hey Mom,

     Madona is getting baptized!!!!!! That is great! Out off all dads’ family she was one that I didn’t see making the change! Wow good day good day.
Well I will get a letter sent to her soon but I don’t think I have her address! Can you get that for me??? And I also need Drew Matsen’s address. I want to write him to. Can you send me my Osterhout family history book it’s on my desk on the top shelf and also could you send me my white shirt I got our family pics taken in?
    I wrote tucker, Levi, and Grandpa Reynolds this week but if he is in the hospital can you try to get it to him a read it to him, if things get to serious and they know the outcome call Pres. Perry and he will call me and tell me what I can and can’t do.
    I’m glad you got to talk in church! Sounds like much fun! I’m so glad I have running water and a pot to crap in! I don’t think I could handle that for longer than a few weeks. Elk hunting is like that and by the time that is over I want my bathroom!
    Well, my week has been fairly dull. Not much going on cuz of the holidays and stuff but I’m hoping things will pick up since people only have a year to learn about the truth before the world ends! (jk 2012 world ends do you get it??? jk I think I’m funny sorry.) But we have just been trying to find some more people to teach. Always interesting. But that’s what my life has consisted of this last week. I went to bed early on New Year’s Eve! It was fantastic! We had to be in by 8 so we had some time to just chill and I took full advantage of that! But that’s about all we did. Great fun! We play basketball every Monday for about 4 hrs! I’m getting lots better than when I started! Its kind of fun! I still just want to sleep but I need to burn some of that chub that collecting on my mid section! It’s great.
    I hope you have a fantastic week! I sent you a letter today with something in it! I couldn’t think of anything else to send. Have a fantastic 40th birthday!!!!!!!!!!!! ;) You’re not old your still 29 at heart. Send dad and pee wee my love
    Y'all are in my prayers
    Love you forever
    Like you for always
    Love Twark

December 27, 2011

Hey Mom,

It was so great to see you on Sunday! O my lanta it was sweet!

The rest of the day we went to breakfast, church, to a members house and watched Despicable Me, then went to the Ashby’s for dinner and played games and watched Madagascar. It was fun! Then on Monday we played basket ball from like 10- 2 I was so stinking tired! I slept until 5! It was great!

Thanks so much for all the stuff y'all got me! It was great! I love it all! We got so much food from everywhere idk what we are gonna do! I really enjoyed the 12 days of Christmas! It the first thing I did as soon as I woke up every morning!

Elder Sevy is a strong amigo. He lost his grandpa on Christmas Eve and I didn’t see a tear. They all knew it was coming though. So it wasn’t a surprise. He is doing good though.

I can’t think of anything I need at the moment but if I think of something I will let you know!

Thanks again!

Love you forever

Love Twark

 

Sunday, December 25, 2011

Christmas morning started bright and early in Idaho I was up at 4:40 a.m. making sure my skype connection was still good and everything was ready for when Cameron called. He called around 5:30 a.m which in Virginia it was 7:30 a.m. There was quite a crowd in the basement Kaitlyn Smyer, Ty and Kenz, Scott & Mindy's family, Grandpa Rod & Grandma Marilyn, the Davis crew and of course Hank, Kambrie & I.

It was soooooo awesome to see Cameron on the big screen, to see him beaming and completely happy. We talked for an hour, mainly we listened to him :D as he shared many rewarding experiences.

December 19, 2011

My week wasn’t too shabby but not that great either! It was a lot like your one day you had! We had many teaching appointments set up but cancelled on us the holidays are the worst because no one wants to talk to us because they are all too busy. On Saturday we had 4 appointments set up. And we drove to all of them and not a single person was home! I was so mad grr they wasted our whole day and plus it was cold and we biked all over the dang place! But ya it makes me angry to. Lol

FIX that TREE don’t let it get the best of ya.

I can call b4 you go to work because we are 2 hrs a head of you so it’s normal for me but early for the rest of the family. But o well it might be our only time. So Sunday morning at like 7:30 my time so like

5:30 your time??? Idk I will figure it out or maybe even Christmas Eve? Idk I will talk to mom about it she is chatting with me on the email so I will talk to you on Sunday

Love Twark

So guess what! I finished the Book of Mormon today! First time all the way through without jumping around all my myself! We read it all the way as a family but I can actually understand it now! It’s fantastic! There is a talk by Elder Holland that I love and y'all will to! It’s on lds.org and go to conference talks and it’s called "safety for the soul" and how he talks about the book of Mormon is exactly how I feel!

December 12, 2011

Hey mom!

I’m doing great and I’m staying in Yorktown!!!!!!!!!!!

I just sent that first part so you could breath! He he

I will still be with Elder Sevy. We have work yet to do in Yorktown! It will be a good time and I love the ward and was going be bummed if I had to move right b4 Christmas. But all is well here. I can’t think of anything I need! But if I do I will let you know! I have some pics I want to send you when I get my other memory card back! It lots cheaper than printing them out then sending them.

All is well in Yorktown! We have a few people set for baptism and I’m glad I will get to be here for that! We also found a few really solid investigators this last week! I’m so stoked to teach them. Sister Shumate let me watch that video you sent me so I could actually hear it! It was fantastic! Thanks so much!

Sounds like peewee was in a coma!! What a dork! Lol hahaha Kambrie is lost! Hahaha love her!

I’m glad things have kind of slowed down for you! Thanks so much for the stuff! I will be looking for it!

Isn’t that crazy about the Preach my Gospel! Who would have thunk it! NOT ME! Lol

Thanks Mom you’re the best!

Love you forever like you for always

Love Twark

December 5, 2011

Hey Family! I got the package! It had lots of "g's" in it! Thank you! My iPod! Under armor, socks, hat, and gloves. Did you forget the jump drive or sending it at a different time? Transfer calls are Sunday so I will find out if I stay or go on Sunday but transfers are on Thursday the 15th. Idk about the calls on Christmas yet I will talk to the zone leaders today.

I do have a few people I would like to get something for. Our ward is doing stuff for people and I’m chosen to get something for a teen age boy so I will be getting that today! I’m thinking just a gift card for like $20. But idk yet. I would like to give a couple books! But more like 5 of them. I have to recent converts I would like to give them to, my bishop, Calls, and the mission president! I love that 3 trees book! That would be perfect!

Sounds like Idaho is great! Nice and cold o’ and you can’t forget about the wind! I’m glad u still got more than one tree! I have taught you something!!! He he jk. Sounds fun! We have a member that is going give us a tree.

Anyways a cool story for you,

Hmmmmm I have some not too many though. The most recent was Thanksgiving Day! We had a super powerful lesson with our investigator Judy (the older lady) on Tuesday! We asked her to be baptized for the 10th time! She said she didn’t know she will think about it! We promised her how happy she would be and all that jazz and had a fantastic lesson, well on Thursday night I had the impression I needed to call her before we went to bed to see how she was doing and how her Thanksgiving was, we talked for a few minutes about the day and at the very end of the conversation she said, “Oh and by the way I have decided I want to be baptized on Dec 3rd" I jumped off the bed and she was calm as could be!!! It was so cool the spirit works in weird ways! But I like it!

Another experience

I and Elder Sevy were riding our bikes going to see and inactive member. We had no intentions at stopping at anyone’s house along the way! Well we were riding by this house that had a bunch of stuff lying out on the street. It was old carpet pad, carpet, trim; it looked like they had done a remodel in the house or something! Well you know me it caught my eye! I turned around and told Elder Sevy we needed to knock this door! So we did! A kid probably 23 years old answered the door, we told him who we are and what we do! We told him as missionaries we go around and help people answer the questions of the soul, such as: where did we come from, what the purpose of life, and where do we go after this life? We had never seen this kid before and had no idea of his situation. He had just had a recent death in the family that’s why he was even home. Normally he is at school down in Norfolk. He invited us in and we taught him the entire plan of salvation. Last I knew he was meeting with missionaries in Norfolk from the singles ward. What if I didn’t follow the spirit and knock that house! He would probably still have no knowledge to what happens after we die. If you think about it the LDS church is the only church who knows the plan of salvation and that our families can truly be together forever. Just a FYI his name was Marcello, and he was the one that did the remodel for his parents! We had an instant connection! I just wish we could get to teach him! He is a great guy.

My week was sweet! I went to Richmond for most of it! I had leadership training down there and I had lots of fun and learned a lot! It was cool! But Saturday was the best! We had a baptism! It was one of my favorite baptisms so far!  It was really spiritual! It makes it all worth it! I have a card that is called My Missionary Commission" Diffy gave it to be b4 I left on my mission but the meaning of it didn’t really hit me until last week when I was in Richmond listing to President Perry speak.
My Missionary Commission
I Am Called Of God.
    My authority is above that of the kings of the earth. By revelation I have been selected as a personal representative of the lord Jesus Christ. He is my master and he has chosen me to represent him. To stand in his place, to say and do what he himself would say and do if he personally were ministering to the very people to whom he has sent me. My voice is his voice, and my acts are his acts; my words are his words and my doctrine is his doctrine. My commission is to do what he wants done. To say what he wants said. To be a living modern witness in word and deed of the divinity of his great and marvelous latter-day work.
                        Elder Bruce R. McConkie
Just with this week and with the baptism and when I read this it makes this whole mission thing worth it!!!!!!!! Judy’s baptism when great! It was the most spiritual baptism so far and it was truly a great day and week.

Love y all forever Like y all for always

For all eternity my family you will be!

Love Cameron