Febuary 1,2010

HAH Mom you are so dang funny. Our whole family is! Its rediculous if you ask me. Thanks for singing to me on my b-day! I had an alright day i guess. We had interviews at our apartment and pres brought me alittle cake that he bought. So that was nice of him. Interviews went really well actually. He told me he wants to get me to the point where i am with some younger missionaries. so thats good. I want to train really bad. so i guess we will see in a few transfers what will happen. There's a good chance that me and Tidrick will be staying together i think. T-calls are on friday, so ill be finding out this week. I didnt get your package yet. But brianne told me there are some peanut butter bars. So thats good! I got Jeron and Beckys package.Which was awesome.Im sorry you guys are losing it. I think its because you say you are losing it so much so it gets in your head and then you actually start losing it because you believe you are....chew on that for a while.hah. I cant believe you guys let Eric inside our house! hah thats waycool. Is he leaving for the mission? Isnt it in february sometime? Thats so cool that Brandon is getting his call! Hah im guessing he is going to Canada. Thats my guess. second guess is Australia. And third is China. Ive heard a lot of stuff about China opening up. I heard that when it does they are going to need like 50,000 missionaries to go there. Thats just about as much as is out right now! Elder Liermantold us that. He has some connections in SLC, but it might just be talk. I dont know.So this week we had Shirley Paynes wedding. Her family did it at apentecostal church. have never seen so many black people in my life.wow...The church was right in the middle of Muskegon Heights, which is a pretty intense ghetto. And wow. There were probably 300 people at the funeral. and only 6 of them were white. Hah! Everyone had these sweet fur coats on and all this bling and stuff. Soo many gangsters everyhwere, and then theres me. The whitest of the white. Hah it was pretty tight i loved it. But Shirleys Son Jakata wanted us to speak at her funeral. So I let Tidrick do it because he knew her better. So he got up there and spoke about her and shared a scripture from the bom and he got a ton of people clapping and stuff. Hah it was really cool.But it drug on for a while. And it was kinda rediculous. There was alot of shouting and "carrying-on" as mom would put it. People would get up and shout amen! and praise jesus and everyone was crying. It was crazy. so we ended up leaving early because it was taking so long.We are going to be meeting with Jakata and Javahna on wednesdays. So there is some really cool potential with them. That would be sweet to baptize both of them and get them into the church. Thats what Shirley wants im sure. I attached a picture of Jakatas son, Tugi. Hes pretty funny.So this next sunday we have a baptism! YAY! Hunter LaNore is the name. He is a way cool kid, so im excited about that. Ill send some pictures. We are going over there a bunch this week to reteach him everything so hes ready and stuff. We also helped a lady move this week. Her name is Joanie. She has two kids and i guess the missionaries taught her once and it went very well and she really enjoyed it. So she asked us if we would help. She is a way nice lady and she really likes us so when we get the car on wednesday we are going to go have a lesson with her. She is one of our top investigators so im excited about that. So things are going pretty well. to answer your question. i dont really do anything in the ward.OH i just remembered something. So saturday night we got a call frombro Lammi to give a talk the next day......so we almost called in sick...haha just kidding, We both prepared 10 minute talks that night when we got home and so in sacrament meeting the lady before us went waaayyy over her time. We sung the intermediate hymn when we should have been ending the meeting. so it was 5 after and i just decided to share a little quote and bear my testimony. so i stood up there for like 3 minutes and then i sat down and Tidrick decided to give his talk. So that was kinda stupid. He made me look dumb, but at the same time he looked dumb. I was kinda mad to be honest. so we ended sacrament 20 minutes late. hah! it was kinda funny. But yeah anyways all i do is go to classes and worry about investigators. We also have to go to PEC every morning and talk about everythign we did in the past week. Who we taught and what we taught and what happened. im about to go inactive because of all the dang meetings. HAH I hate meetings. people talk way too much and say way more than they need to say. And thats the truth. just say the facts and get on with it. I dont need your dang opinions. hah! people are funny/stupid. Thats another truth. booyah! Thats me venting again. I do that sometimes.hah but its all good. So thats basically my week. I dont know what else to say. so peace! And love!Your son

Dear Theresa—
Just wanted to tell you how honored I was to have your son for supper again this past Sunday evening. We’ve missed him since he was transferred to North Muskegon, which is 30 miles away. He and his companion drove to Shelby and spent Sunday night with Elders Brunson and Baros, and they all came here for supper. They are so wonderful to have around, and I so enjoy it when they are in my home! He has such a quiet sense of humor, but when it comes out, he has everyone laughing—and we spend a lot of time laughing. Thank you, again, for sharing him with us. I miss him, myself—and I can only imagine how much of a sacrifice it has been for your family. Just know that there are others who love him and care for him while he is away from you.

Love in Christ,
Ruth Myers