Thats so cool about your tithing money! Thats perfect. The Lord works in mysterious ways eh? Merry Christmas! WOOHOO! So i just barely got your package with my clothes in it! Yay! I wore them around all morning. I also got a package from danny and suzi and tony and lori. Hah i loved that Lowes Christmas card! I was laughing my head off all morning and my comp was too. Hah it made my day. I sent you guys a Christmas package. Nothing is wrapped or anything so just open it up and surprise!
So Christmas Eve i think we are spending with the Levasseurs (Marissa thought it would be a good idea to put flour handprints all over me, ill attach a picture) and the Browns invited us over too. Then Christmas morning i am going to Mamma Myers and will be over there for a while, !!!WHICH BY THE WAY!!! She is expecting me to come up with something to cook for her! You need to email her remember? Im too dumb and i fall apart under that much pressure. Hah Its Ruthmyers@charter.net I believe. You should check my last email to make sure tho But after that we have a few other places we are invited too, so we are going to be taken care of pretty well. We ended up with three christmas trees. The Longcors brought a real one to us. But we have nothing to decorate it with and our stand is broken so it has just been leaning against our table. Hah But we have packages all over the floor and candy galore. <-Rhymer i am. So we are going to be taken care of really well so its all good! Im going to keep this short though becasue i have a long letter to write president to convince him to let me stay here in Hart. Ill find out Christmas eve, So ill talk to you guys in a few days! Love you all. OH I can talk i think as much as i want. They never said anything about it, so ill call you guys on Christamas a bunch. I want to call the Grandparents too! Okay love you guys bye bye!
Here is our other victim who fell helplessly into the divine waters of baptism! He didnt even see it coming! Thats how we roll. Hit em while theyre down and kick them into the water. Works like a charm im telling you. This is my gangsta Jason Stafinski. He came to church one day and found Elder B-runs and ever since then we have been teaching him. He has had a cast on his foot for quite a while and he just got it off, so we hurried and dunked him before he had to get his other foot done. He planned out his entire baptism and everything. He was solid for sure. His best friend that has been sitting in on our lessons came too and so he might jsut be the next target we are going to get wet. But everything went really well and it was a nice baptism. Elder Brunson was actually throwing up that whole day and so we werent sure how everything was going to play out, but as soon as we picked up Jason Brunson felt 100% better for the entire baptism. So that was pretty sweet so thats that. Love ya'll
Ya she came up to me at church and pointed a finger at my face and said " and ill be expecting a call from you tomorrow!" Hah she is so funny. She gives us hugs when we go over and stuff. Shes the best. Not as good as you, but she is like our mother out here. haha
Whats up pops! That sucks you have been freezing cold at work! Thats the crappiest thing ever. I hate winter im telling you. Lets move to California when i get back? Haha just kidding, kinda. Sounds like you are working way too much too! Bro Fuller worked at a steel plant when he was younger and so he asked what you did and i told him you worked in the Roll mill, and he was like oh well he had the good job. I think he was in the melting place when he worked there. Hah it was crazy. And his wife was talking about how she was on a gluten-free diet and stuff. so i got to talk about you a lot to them, haha.
Hows Briannes driving skills? I sure hope they improved a little bit. How is she handling the toyota in the snow? Its a good truck. Everyday i miss driving it because these cars are just horrible. I have hydroplaned and just about skidded off the road tons of times. Stupid junkers!
Yay boots! Im not sure if my feet are bigger than yours or not...I wear 10 1/2 and i have short little stubby toes too. Hah! I have good looking feet boy! But im sure a 1/2 size will be good if im wearing my snowboarding socks with them, hah!
Dang Grizz thats so dang funny. He has got to be the dumbest dog ive ever seen or heard of. I love it though, good boy Grizz! Give him and pat on the head for me! Well i better get going. Love you dad youre the best!
Monday, December 14, 2009
Tuesday, December 8, 2009
Dec.8,2009
Hello!
Did you guys get my pictures? I sent them and got an error to you guys tho....stooopid computers. Sooooo, this week was the crappiest week ever! yippee! I was sick with the Ebola virus all week i think.....We went down to N Muskegon and went to this play with a member there. HHe manages the theater called the Frauenthal and so he took us to it. It was this ginormous christmas tree that kids climbed in and sang and there was this freakin cool light show too. It was sweet. Afterwards we went to pizza hut.....bad idea. Pizza hut is one of Satans tools to kill us missionary folk. I was crampin up after i ate and i thought my stomach was going to pop! So all week i felt like i was going to throw up and i was constipated and took laxatives and they didnt do jack crap I didnt eat for two days and i still cant eat much. Brunson was throwing up like crazy to. It was wierd, we had different symptoms but we both felt like crap. So basically all week we were just chillin in our apartment, we didnt make it to church either...Sister Levasseur is a doctor and she bought us some food and basically saved our lives. Then we got a blessing and were all good now! And guess what! Im out of time i have 2 minutes left and then i get kicked off. I had too many emails to read! haha i love it. So ill try to get to another computer today or tomorrow to write you guys. Cuz this isnt fair. Love you guys so much !
Okay so we went to the library in Hart, so hopefully i can write my peeps. Yesterday we had zone conference so thats why i didnt write you guys. It was pretty boring we had nasty food and i fell asleep and so thats good im starting to know a lot of other missionaries, so its making things a lot more fun. I am making a ton of friends and so that helps a lot. We went to pizza hut again that night with the Fremont elders and i felt like i was going to throwup. Im never going to that place again.
I got the tree yesterday when we got home, we are going to set it up today after we clean the place up. We both have trees and a members i going to get us a real one from his farm, so we are going to be all decked out! yay christmas! We dont have a time limit on how long we can talk either as far as i know. So ill be talking to you guys all day, well for a while anyways... we have 3 dinners....i think we are actually going to mamma myers that morning to have breakfast with her family. She is the best cook. oh man, we are having biscuits and gravy tonight! Its a good day! so i was going to make some christmas cards for everyone but i dont have a picture to use and i dont have a walmart......so now im sad. Mom i dont know what i need. mostly money i think. haha or you can buy me a hoody or shirts/pants or something like that, i always need clothes. Ties are good too.
I dont know josh wood but i heard about him before i even left. I met Elder Turner the first day i was here, he was Jordans friend so he came up and gave me a hug from him. That sucks they are in bad axe, the thumb. Theres nothing going on over there from what i hear, haha
So there is finally snow on the ground! It snowed like crazy for 2 days and so we have a little bit. There still isnt a lot, but im sure it will all come this week or next, bring it on! It snowed really hard yesterday when we were going to zone conference, there were a ton of wrecks and i could barely see the freeway the snow was so thick. It was sweet.
so not a whole lot went on this week with us being sick, but this week we are going to try to make up for it. We have another lesson with Jason before he is getting baptized! Its this Saturday! He planned everything out too, he is way excited. He is a crazy man tho. Im going to resend those pictures of Dennys baptism to the bros/sis ' s...emails. so things are good here. Love you guys, peace out.
Did you guys get my pictures? I sent them and got an error to you guys tho....stooopid computers. Sooooo, this week was the crappiest week ever! yippee! I was sick with the Ebola virus all week i think.....We went down to N Muskegon and went to this play with a member there. HHe manages the theater called the Frauenthal and so he took us to it. It was this ginormous christmas tree that kids climbed in and sang and there was this freakin cool light show too. It was sweet. Afterwards we went to pizza hut.....bad idea. Pizza hut is one of Satans tools to kill us missionary folk. I was crampin up after i ate and i thought my stomach was going to pop! So all week i felt like i was going to throw up and i was constipated and took laxatives and they didnt do jack crap I didnt eat for two days and i still cant eat much. Brunson was throwing up like crazy to. It was wierd, we had different symptoms but we both felt like crap. So basically all week we were just chillin in our apartment, we didnt make it to church either...Sister Levasseur is a doctor and she bought us some food and basically saved our lives. Then we got a blessing and were all good now! And guess what! Im out of time i have 2 minutes left and then i get kicked off. I had too many emails to read! haha i love it. So ill try to get to another computer today or tomorrow to write you guys. Cuz this isnt fair. Love you guys so much !
Okay so we went to the library in Hart, so hopefully i can write my peeps. Yesterday we had zone conference so thats why i didnt write you guys. It was pretty boring we had nasty food and i fell asleep and so thats good im starting to know a lot of other missionaries, so its making things a lot more fun. I am making a ton of friends and so that helps a lot. We went to pizza hut again that night with the Fremont elders and i felt like i was going to throwup. Im never going to that place again.
I got the tree yesterday when we got home, we are going to set it up today after we clean the place up. We both have trees and a members i going to get us a real one from his farm, so we are going to be all decked out! yay christmas! We dont have a time limit on how long we can talk either as far as i know. So ill be talking to you guys all day, well for a while anyways... we have 3 dinners....i think we are actually going to mamma myers that morning to have breakfast with her family. She is the best cook. oh man, we are having biscuits and gravy tonight! Its a good day! so i was going to make some christmas cards for everyone but i dont have a picture to use and i dont have a walmart......so now im sad. Mom i dont know what i need. mostly money i think. haha or you can buy me a hoody or shirts/pants or something like that, i always need clothes. Ties are good too.
I dont know josh wood but i heard about him before i even left. I met Elder Turner the first day i was here, he was Jordans friend so he came up and gave me a hug from him. That sucks they are in bad axe, the thumb. Theres nothing going on over there from what i hear, haha
So there is finally snow on the ground! It snowed like crazy for 2 days and so we have a little bit. There still isnt a lot, but im sure it will all come this week or next, bring it on! It snowed really hard yesterday when we were going to zone conference, there were a ton of wrecks and i could barely see the freeway the snow was so thick. It was sweet.
so not a whole lot went on this week with us being sick, but this week we are going to try to make up for it. We have another lesson with Jason before he is getting baptized! Its this Saturday! He planned everything out too, he is way excited. He is a crazy man tho. Im going to resend those pictures of Dennys baptism to the bros/sis ' s...emails. so things are good here. Love you guys, peace out.
Monday, November 30, 2009
Nov.30,2009
OOOHHH! So many people to write to and so little time! I hate that, and thats the truth! I might just email you guys tomorrow too or something. haha. Bro Schuitema is picking us up in a little bit because he wants us to come drag trees out of his yard with his 4 wheeler and tractor. That guy is crazy! He woke us up this morning and we are pretty sure he was all hopped up on his monster energy drink! He always has one in hand. Crazy man, but he is cool. He is the one we lift with and he buys us subway after and all that good stuff. So its all good i guess.
So the exciting news this week is we got a baptism! Ill send you another email with pictures and a little more about it. Hehe funny.
Thanksgiving was alright i guess. We went over to the Hawleys and had dinner with them. They had all sorts of good stuff, they had their whole family over and so we got to talk to a lot of people over there. Then we went over to Bro. Kennidys and had some more dinner! I almost puked! I couldnt shove any more down, but the wierd thing was later that nioght i was eatin again....crazy. He has a sweet house though! He made his basement into an apt so the missionaries could stay there. But they told him he was too far out of the way so he couldnt do it. We played guesstures and the other missionaries were over there and we watched all the football games and stuff. Oh man Detroit blows, haha. So we were around a lot of good company for Thanksgiving, still doesnt beat our thanksgiving partays tho.
Forogt my planner again......ill have to wing it. Friday we went to Fremont and shopped around a little bit. Black Friday doesnt exist here in Michigan. The towns are way too small, haha it was just like any old day, so i looked for something to waste my money on and i failed. Which is good because i have to buy some presents for some members and investigators, dadgum. They need to up my salary i think!
Had a cool district meeting.....went to the Levasseurs crazyness.....Mamma Myers is awesome....I might be getting kicked off better send this! Loves!
YAY! the black friday spirit is still alive! Woot woot! I cant believe you didnt go buy anything tho. I havent been out to the lake yet. I think we are going this week. There is a cool lighthouse out there too that i have to go see. so thats fun. Ya our area is tiny. But the members make up for it. And we have a cool district so we can just go to North muskeegon if we want to go to some stores. Hah Im glad you guys are having fun without me. That makes me laugh that someone fell off the horse. Its crazy it wasnt Jeron tho,. That just blows my mind. Hah Anyways i love you dad and i love the pictures you send me. Thanks for everything you do for me paps
So the exciting news this week is we got a baptism! Ill send you another email with pictures and a little more about it. Hehe funny.
Thanksgiving was alright i guess. We went over to the Hawleys and had dinner with them. They had all sorts of good stuff, they had their whole family over and so we got to talk to a lot of people over there. Then we went over to Bro. Kennidys and had some more dinner! I almost puked! I couldnt shove any more down, but the wierd thing was later that nioght i was eatin again....crazy. He has a sweet house though! He made his basement into an apt so the missionaries could stay there. But they told him he was too far out of the way so he couldnt do it. We played guesstures and the other missionaries were over there and we watched all the football games and stuff. Oh man Detroit blows, haha. So we were around a lot of good company for Thanksgiving, still doesnt beat our thanksgiving partays tho.
Forogt my planner again......ill have to wing it. Friday we went to Fremont and shopped around a little bit. Black Friday doesnt exist here in Michigan. The towns are way too small, haha it was just like any old day, so i looked for something to waste my money on and i failed. Which is good because i have to buy some presents for some members and investigators, dadgum. They need to up my salary i think!
Had a cool district meeting.....went to the Levasseurs crazyness.....Mamma Myers is awesome....I might be getting kicked off better send this! Loves!
YAY! the black friday spirit is still alive! Woot woot! I cant believe you didnt go buy anything tho. I havent been out to the lake yet. I think we are going this week. There is a cool lighthouse out there too that i have to go see. so thats fun. Ya our area is tiny. But the members make up for it. And we have a cool district so we can just go to North muskeegon if we want to go to some stores. Hah Im glad you guys are having fun without me. That makes me laugh that someone fell off the horse. Its crazy it wasnt Jeron tho,. That just blows my mind. Hah Anyways i love you dad and i love the pictures you send me. Thanks for everything you do for me paps
Friday, November 27, 2009
Nov 23,2009
Hello!!!
Holy cow man, this place is so cool! AAAH! I love it! Theres really nothing to do here....but the people here make up for it! We just got back from getting adjusted at the chiropractor, hes a member and does it for free. Hah. We are teaching a ton, we have 4 baptisms set up, he have a baptism this saturday! His name is Denny Cole, he looks a lot like Einstein, hes got the hair and stuff. The members here are dang cool too! Mamma Myers is awesome. She cooks the best food ever! We are going over there for Christmas. She is so dang nice too. We went to a high school play with her this week. Her daughter was in it so we thought it would be nice if we were there. Then we have the LeVasseurs....Dang where do i start. Single mother raising 3 girls and 1 boy all in the ages of 9-15....We go over there and just hang out with them. They love the missionaries. So we go over and watch church movies and jump on their trampoline. They have a huge house, and at the top they have like a balcony thing. So we go up on the top of their roof and just hang out up there. Its so dang fun, they are crazy tho. They hide in our trunk when we are about to leave and stuff. Hah. Then we have Bro Schiodima(i think thats how you spell it)(Sky-di-ma, haha) We go over there three times a week and lift with him and Bro Kenidee. Im so sore! And we are doing chest today and im not quite ready for that again. We have awesome investigators who just love us and really cool Less active people that we talk to. Brunson is the man, I love that kid, dad i dont think i can beat him up...just being honest. He played college football and he did MMA and cage fighting and stuff. We are having a good time though. Im learning a lot from him and this transfer is going to be bomb. Ill send some pictures pretty soon for ya'll and a tape too.
Sorry you are so bored mom, haha thats no fun, you could send me packages if that would cheer you up. I need some more clothes. You could sent my pantaloons that i left home and maybe some of my cool shirts. Im glad the grandparents are feeling better. Tell them hi for me and that i love them and think about them a lot. We have 2 dinners on thansgiving and 3 on Christmas, so we are pretty well taken care of. I looked at the December dinner calendar and its ALMOST FULL!!! Im going to get so fat here. Too many dang good cooks here. Im not even going to buy any food. I have just been eating left overs since i got here.Mom your praying skills must have worked, now just pray that i will get to stay here longer than one transfer.haha
We do a lot of service with the medical care facility here. We work with the old people. Last week we did a ton of stuff. We went bowling with them one day and helped them send it down the lane and stuff. Then the next night we went to dinner with the Alzheimer patients. I was laughing so hard that whole night. They are dang funny. There was one lady that kept coming up to us and she would say " Thanks so much for coming with us. You look so nice. Your parents must be so pround. You are dressed very nice." She would keep saying that over and over. She was the sweetest lady. Then this dang funny guy that would sng all the time woud say "can i say something?" then he would get close and throw his hands up and yell "Thanks for coming!" Hah its was fun. Then we helped them with a bazaar sell thing the next day, and helped with lunch and played some wii and that good stuff. Hah So things here are great.
I just got an email about christmas packages. You can send them to my apt, they have just had trouble in the past with people stealing the boxes that are left on the porch. So i could have them hold any packages that come to us, or you guys could do that. I think i might have to do it on my end though. So it should work out. I have that ipod stereo mom so i should be good i think. Mom yu take me too seriously haha. Im a joker, you know? I dont cut my own hair. We went to the beauty college While i was in Harrison, now im not sure where ill do it. I think ill grow my hair out tho :) I cant think of anything else to say. I love you guys and im glad things are going well with everyone in good ol cache valley. Its the bomb for sure. Its not snowing here yet. I think its supposed to this week though! Bring it on i say! Love you guys! Peace.
Holy cow man, this place is so cool! AAAH! I love it! Theres really nothing to do here....but the people here make up for it! We just got back from getting adjusted at the chiropractor, hes a member and does it for free. Hah. We are teaching a ton, we have 4 baptisms set up, he have a baptism this saturday! His name is Denny Cole, he looks a lot like Einstein, hes got the hair and stuff. The members here are dang cool too! Mamma Myers is awesome. She cooks the best food ever! We are going over there for Christmas. She is so dang nice too. We went to a high school play with her this week. Her daughter was in it so we thought it would be nice if we were there. Then we have the LeVasseurs....Dang where do i start. Single mother raising 3 girls and 1 boy all in the ages of 9-15....We go over there and just hang out with them. They love the missionaries. So we go over and watch church movies and jump on their trampoline. They have a huge house, and at the top they have like a balcony thing. So we go up on the top of their roof and just hang out up there. Its so dang fun, they are crazy tho. They hide in our trunk when we are about to leave and stuff. Hah. Then we have Bro Schiodima(i think thats how you spell it)(Sky-di-ma, haha) We go over there three times a week and lift with him and Bro Kenidee. Im so sore! And we are doing chest today and im not quite ready for that again. We have awesome investigators who just love us and really cool Less active people that we talk to. Brunson is the man, I love that kid, dad i dont think i can beat him up...just being honest. He played college football and he did MMA and cage fighting and stuff. We are having a good time though. Im learning a lot from him and this transfer is going to be bomb. Ill send some pictures pretty soon for ya'll and a tape too.
Sorry you are so bored mom, haha thats no fun, you could send me packages if that would cheer you up. I need some more clothes. You could sent my pantaloons that i left home and maybe some of my cool shirts. Im glad the grandparents are feeling better. Tell them hi for me and that i love them and think about them a lot. We have 2 dinners on thansgiving and 3 on Christmas, so we are pretty well taken care of. I looked at the December dinner calendar and its ALMOST FULL!!! Im going to get so fat here. Too many dang good cooks here. Im not even going to buy any food. I have just been eating left overs since i got here.Mom your praying skills must have worked, now just pray that i will get to stay here longer than one transfer.haha
We do a lot of service with the medical care facility here. We work with the old people. Last week we did a ton of stuff. We went bowling with them one day and helped them send it down the lane and stuff. Then the next night we went to dinner with the Alzheimer patients. I was laughing so hard that whole night. They are dang funny. There was one lady that kept coming up to us and she would say " Thanks so much for coming with us. You look so nice. Your parents must be so pround. You are dressed very nice." She would keep saying that over and over. She was the sweetest lady. Then this dang funny guy that would sng all the time woud say "can i say something?" then he would get close and throw his hands up and yell "Thanks for coming!" Hah its was fun. Then we helped them with a bazaar sell thing the next day, and helped with lunch and played some wii and that good stuff. Hah So things here are great.
I just got an email about christmas packages. You can send them to my apt, they have just had trouble in the past with people stealing the boxes that are left on the porch. So i could have them hold any packages that come to us, or you guys could do that. I think i might have to do it on my end though. So it should work out. I have that ipod stereo mom so i should be good i think. Mom yu take me too seriously haha. Im a joker, you know? I dont cut my own hair. We went to the beauty college While i was in Harrison, now im not sure where ill do it. I think ill grow my hair out tho :) I cant think of anything else to say. I love you guys and im glad things are going well with everyone in good ol cache valley. Its the bomb for sure. Its not snowing here yet. I think its supposed to this week though! Bring it on i say! Love you guys! Peace.
Sunday, November 22, 2009
Nov. 16,2009
Thousan questions!
okay im going to attempt to answer them all....here we go....I'm good, no i don't have a dvd player, but if you want to send me a portable one i can catch up on movies! I decided not to get a quilt, id rather die. Lets wait on the boots. moneywise im good. We get 140 a month and i havent bought anything these last 2 weeks because i knew i was getting transferred. How much would it cost to ship my guitar? just curious....I dont hear really anyhting from Adrian, he gave me his address this week and a note. I havent heard anything since i last told you. He has a way strict mission i guess. He might still be with his trainer? Chris sent me a letter....hahah it was pretty dang funny. He must think Michigan is in Canada, he asked why the mission home wasnt in Canada and then he told me to baptize the canadians......Hah it was pretty funny. Im going to write him a letter soon. Hello there! So this week was pretty dang good! We kicked it up a knotch! We should have kicked it up three, but hey its progress! We did a lot of good this week, hah. So im sure you are wondering about transfers.....Im get on the transfer van tomorrow! Im heading off to Hart! and my new comp is Elder Brunson! Everyone is so dang jealous, Brunson called me up and was all excited and telling me about the area and it sounds so aweomse! He told me to get a christmas list ready because a member is going to be buying us presents! There are a few baptisms set up and the members are awesome i guess. I think he has been out like 20 months and he said Hart is his favorite area by far! Hah im so excited! People are so jealous when i say im going to Hart, then i say with B-runs and they are even more jealous. Our investigator was jealous i was serving with him, cuz Brunson served in Harrison in the spring. Hah so it should be a pretty good Christmas! Im dang excited. Hart is right next to Lake Michigan too! Yay! There are a ton of missionaries who are on their last few transfers that havent seen the lakes, so im getting hooked up this time! I heard it snows a ton there too, because of the lake, so im all pumped up now! Poor Anderson, he is getting a comp he doesnt like...hah. That will teach him.
Its hard to leave though. I really loved this place, the members here are cool, i like them a lot. We went to the Lees and hung out with them, i took a bunch of videos of Madison, Keyins little girl. I made Keyin add Brianne to Facebook and say hi! Hah bamf. Lastn night Bro Ford had us over for a little dinner and fire, We listened to some talks and just sat around the fire chatting, I tried to get Page to come too, but someoene at his place had to go get stitches in their hands. Oh well. Bro Ford is an awesome guy, i like him a lot. He will probably be sending you guys some pictures pretty soon. It was a really fun time though. Bro. Hamilton told me to come over today before i leave, so we will go over there and talk with him, he is our gator who is jealous im serving with Brunson, they got way close. So its exciting, but hard too.
We went back to Jason and Cheryls house to teach them the Plan of Salvation, OOOOOHHH MAN! It was so tough! They just cant keep they're dang yappers closed! They talked about abortion of all things for 20-30 minutes! AAAHH! It was so dang hard. I told Anderson the next time they go over to give them notebooks and have them write all their questions while they are giving the lesson and just emphasize the importance of the lesson they are teaching. So maybe that will make them be quiet. They ask really good questions tho....they just go off on so many tangents. I try to appear like i have something to say ya know, Ill be flipping through my scriptures and reading things and they just keep talking! I could pull out a gameboy and start playing it and they wouldnt even think anyhting of it! Uh it was alright tho. They are dang nice people, and thats three gators that have come from Dook-knocking! Dont tell me it doesnt work!
So thats my life! Im glad the married couple are getting settled in and didnt get kidnapped in Vegas! Sounds like things are going good, Maybe a little bit better if dad would stop hurting himself huh? hah, i started reading the body-builders bible with ARNOLD the governator again, and now i really want to lift. Hopefully Bruns will get me working out. Hes a college football player i hear. so i hope things are good. Keep p the busy work! Love you guys!
Elder Matthew Larsen
375 Lesada Ave Apt #6
Shelby, MI 49455
Dang it snowed again! Its just a matter of time before it starts here. It feels like its still October here. I dont know if i told you that the pictures worked or not....I bought a card reader and now it works just fine. I accidentally deleted one of the cards tho, the 2meg card. I got all the wedding photos and pictures of before i left, but i screwed up on the others. I will be sending you guys a card soon. I love the pictures you send every week too! I like to see people in action ya know? Whats with hurting yourself all the time? Dang kid! Sounds like you are working yourself to death! And i wont stand for it! You need to just sit down and play some video games for a change. You can tell everyone that i gave you permission too! Thats cool that the house is getting finished tho and Im glad Grandma is getting better. Im going to send her an email today. I want to send her a letter, but i just cant get myself to start writing! Thats so cool we got a Texas Roadhouse! I want to go so bad! I also heard down in Ogden or something we got a In'N'Out! Elder Littles trainer called him almost every night and told him about it. He said they are building or already built two of them. mmmm in'n'out welp im almost sick and tired of emailing and i still have a bunch to go. Love you and we will talk to you later
okay im going to attempt to answer them all....here we go....I'm good, no i don't have a dvd player, but if you want to send me a portable one i can catch up on movies! I decided not to get a quilt, id rather die. Lets wait on the boots. moneywise im good. We get 140 a month and i havent bought anything these last 2 weeks because i knew i was getting transferred. How much would it cost to ship my guitar? just curious....I dont hear really anyhting from Adrian, he gave me his address this week and a note. I havent heard anything since i last told you. He has a way strict mission i guess. He might still be with his trainer? Chris sent me a letter....hahah it was pretty dang funny. He must think Michigan is in Canada, he asked why the mission home wasnt in Canada and then he told me to baptize the canadians......Hah it was pretty funny. Im going to write him a letter soon. Hello there! So this week was pretty dang good! We kicked it up a knotch! We should have kicked it up three, but hey its progress! We did a lot of good this week, hah. So im sure you are wondering about transfers.....Im get on the transfer van tomorrow! Im heading off to Hart! and my new comp is Elder Brunson! Everyone is so dang jealous, Brunson called me up and was all excited and telling me about the area and it sounds so aweomse! He told me to get a christmas list ready because a member is going to be buying us presents! There are a few baptisms set up and the members are awesome i guess. I think he has been out like 20 months and he said Hart is his favorite area by far! Hah im so excited! People are so jealous when i say im going to Hart, then i say with B-runs and they are even more jealous. Our investigator was jealous i was serving with him, cuz Brunson served in Harrison in the spring. Hah so it should be a pretty good Christmas! Im dang excited. Hart is right next to Lake Michigan too! Yay! There are a ton of missionaries who are on their last few transfers that havent seen the lakes, so im getting hooked up this time! I heard it snows a ton there too, because of the lake, so im all pumped up now! Poor Anderson, he is getting a comp he doesnt like...hah. That will teach him.
Its hard to leave though. I really loved this place, the members here are cool, i like them a lot. We went to the Lees and hung out with them, i took a bunch of videos of Madison, Keyins little girl. I made Keyin add Brianne to Facebook and say hi! Hah bamf. Lastn night Bro Ford had us over for a little dinner and fire, We listened to some talks and just sat around the fire chatting, I tried to get Page to come too, but someoene at his place had to go get stitches in their hands. Oh well. Bro Ford is an awesome guy, i like him a lot. He will probably be sending you guys some pictures pretty soon. It was a really fun time though. Bro. Hamilton told me to come over today before i leave, so we will go over there and talk with him, he is our gator who is jealous im serving with Brunson, they got way close. So its exciting, but hard too.
We went back to Jason and Cheryls house to teach them the Plan of Salvation, OOOOOHHH MAN! It was so tough! They just cant keep they're dang yappers closed! They talked about abortion of all things for 20-30 minutes! AAAHH! It was so dang hard. I told Anderson the next time they go over to give them notebooks and have them write all their questions while they are giving the lesson and just emphasize the importance of the lesson they are teaching. So maybe that will make them be quiet. They ask really good questions tho....they just go off on so many tangents. I try to appear like i have something to say ya know, Ill be flipping through my scriptures and reading things and they just keep talking! I could pull out a gameboy and start playing it and they wouldnt even think anyhting of it! Uh it was alright tho. They are dang nice people, and thats three gators that have come from Dook-knocking! Dont tell me it doesnt work!
So thats my life! Im glad the married couple are getting settled in and didnt get kidnapped in Vegas! Sounds like things are going good, Maybe a little bit better if dad would stop hurting himself huh? hah, i started reading the body-builders bible with ARNOLD the governator again, and now i really want to lift. Hopefully Bruns will get me working out. Hes a college football player i hear. so i hope things are good. Keep p the busy work! Love you guys!
Elder Matthew Larsen
375 Lesada Ave Apt #6
Shelby, MI 49455
Dang it snowed again! Its just a matter of time before it starts here. It feels like its still October here. I dont know if i told you that the pictures worked or not....I bought a card reader and now it works just fine. I accidentally deleted one of the cards tho, the 2meg card. I got all the wedding photos and pictures of before i left, but i screwed up on the others. I will be sending you guys a card soon. I love the pictures you send every week too! I like to see people in action ya know? Whats with hurting yourself all the time? Dang kid! Sounds like you are working yourself to death! And i wont stand for it! You need to just sit down and play some video games for a change. You can tell everyone that i gave you permission too! Thats cool that the house is getting finished tho and Im glad Grandma is getting better. Im going to send her an email today. I want to send her a letter, but i just cant get myself to start writing! Thats so cool we got a Texas Roadhouse! I want to go so bad! I also heard down in Ogden or something we got a In'N'Out! Elder Littles trainer called him almost every night and told him about it. He said they are building or already built two of them. mmmm in'n'out welp im almost sick and tired of emailing and i still have a bunch to go. Love you and we will talk to you later
Thursday, November 12, 2009
Nov. 9,2009
Hello my people!
Well im glad my mission life is a joke to you mom! Hah! I dont even know whats so dang funny! Oh well i guess im just a goon like that. Sounds like Ryans wedding went well! He sent me a few pictures that didnt work out and one text that he sent to my email. Jeron sent me a bunch of pictures! I want more of Ryan and Britney tho! I cant believe Bryan let Becky and Jeron hold his kids! That was daring of him. Jeron looked like he was about to elbow-drop him WWF style, and becky looked terrified to be holding a kid! HAH! DANG DANG humorous is what it is. Well i better open my planner so i can remember what the heck i did an hour ago. Stupid short-term memory loss! Well crap i left it at our house...
We went on trade-offs on Wednesday and i went to Alma with our DL. It was pretty cool. Their apt was awesome! They have a garage and a weight room and all this stuff. Our house could have fit in their living room! It was saweet. That was after i made a fool of myself at the bar/grill we went to. APPARENTLY i cant order off the kids menu.....my entire plan got shot-down faster than Jeron playing Call of Duty. We had a good time though. We have a cool District. The sisters double our numbers and Almas numbers combined every week, Hah Elder Paul B. Pieper of the seventy talked about that last week. He said no matter where you look in the mission field, Sisters always baptize more. Dang women.
We met with our new gators again, They asked us about our missions, so we gave them a sob story about how we are away from our families....So they invited us to dinner tonight! Its a date! Dinner and a lesson. It doesnt get much better than that! They are dang nice though. I told them i was probably leaving soon so we did it asap.
Transfer calles are this friday! WOOT! Im probably getting transferred. At interviews PJ (Pres. Jones) said, "Its about time for you to get a new assignment isnt it?" So I probably get to leave Harrison finally! Its a bitter-sweet thing of course. Mom you were wondering what interviews were like....Remember when i lit on fire and we went to the police station and i got interrogated? Ya its kinda like that. Only we say a prayer before and after. So im pretty experienced by now! Hah PJ is a really good guy though. Hes a military man, so its all business sometimes it seems. But you can always feel the Spirit when you are around him. The term Spiritual-giant fits well with him. I got a little chastised for not teaching 20 lessons a week...i think we were getting around.....hah maybe i shouldnt say....5? So thats about to change.
Things are good here though, We started slacking for a while and time started moving really slow. But i decided to stop that crap and get back to work, so things are better now :) You asked about my "new" comp. haha we have been together for 5 weeks now and its coming to an end. He is a good kid, nerdy... but good. We get along really well.
So pray for PJ! Or President Jones. That he will send me where i am most needed in the mission! Im excited for a new challenge. mm mm challenges. Arent they fun? I almost forgot! Christmas! i dont know what i want.....books? You could send my retainer and my harmonica, por favor. Im plenty warm. we have our cooler going every night and i dont get cold. If i do i will probably go visit the Amish and buy a quilt from them or something. I almost forgot! On thursday my comp had to go to Kalamazoo! So i got to see my dream area! Oh man it was so awesome! I love the big cities. There were people driving like mad-men and gangsters walking all the streets! it was beautiful too! Thats right i just used that word. we drove there through Lansing and drove back through Grand Rapids, i didnt get to see a lot of GR. It seemed huge tho! Pray that i will get sent to K-ZOO! Anyways i dont know what i want for Christmas. I dont think my shoes(rockports) will make it through the winter....They are getting pretty bad already. I dont know.....hah ill think about it. BYE BLAHKAHWDKFS!
Alright im gonna go now. Love ya'll PEACE!
Looks like a successful hunt! unless those weren't yours! Hah! The state of Michigan isnt progressing much....hah i think the work is alright tho...It hasnt snowed yet. All the leaves have fallen off but no snow yet. These last few days have been awesome actually! It was like in the 70s and stuff. It was totally awesosome. Sorry about your bad luck with the door-knob. I hope you got a good lock for the doors. Because i learned how to card doors on my mission and its pretty crazy how easy it is. it only takes a few seconds too, same with picking locks....Not that im breaking into places, just my own house. Our investigator Karen was shown how by some guy and it scared her to death, so she bought a bunch of locks for her doors too. Too bad Grizz is gun-shy. Thats no good. I talked with a few people this week about how dumb he is. haha. We visited a member move-in and she opened the door and 2 great danes came barking towards us! Man they were huge! The thing could have licked my chest where it stood, hah! The one was all black and looked a lot like grizz just twice his size. It was pretty scary. They were nice dogs though. I could have ridden them just fine. Anyways sounds like youre keeping busy. So things havent changed too much since i have left. Keep up the good work! love you
Well im glad my mission life is a joke to you mom! Hah! I dont even know whats so dang funny! Oh well i guess im just a goon like that. Sounds like Ryans wedding went well! He sent me a few pictures that didnt work out and one text that he sent to my email. Jeron sent me a bunch of pictures! I want more of Ryan and Britney tho! I cant believe Bryan let Becky and Jeron hold his kids! That was daring of him. Jeron looked like he was about to elbow-drop him WWF style, and becky looked terrified to be holding a kid! HAH! DANG DANG humorous is what it is. Well i better open my planner so i can remember what the heck i did an hour ago. Stupid short-term memory loss! Well crap i left it at our house...
We went on trade-offs on Wednesday and i went to Alma with our DL. It was pretty cool. Their apt was awesome! They have a garage and a weight room and all this stuff. Our house could have fit in their living room! It was saweet. That was after i made a fool of myself at the bar/grill we went to. APPARENTLY i cant order off the kids menu.....my entire plan got shot-down faster than Jeron playing Call of Duty. We had a good time though. We have a cool District. The sisters double our numbers and Almas numbers combined every week, Hah Elder Paul B. Pieper of the seventy talked about that last week. He said no matter where you look in the mission field, Sisters always baptize more. Dang women.
We met with our new gators again, They asked us about our missions, so we gave them a sob story about how we are away from our families....So they invited us to dinner tonight! Its a date! Dinner and a lesson. It doesnt get much better than that! They are dang nice though. I told them i was probably leaving soon so we did it asap.
Transfer calles are this friday! WOOT! Im probably getting transferred. At interviews PJ (Pres. Jones) said, "Its about time for you to get a new assignment isnt it?" So I probably get to leave Harrison finally! Its a bitter-sweet thing of course. Mom you were wondering what interviews were like....Remember when i lit on fire and we went to the police station and i got interrogated? Ya its kinda like that. Only we say a prayer before and after. So im pretty experienced by now! Hah PJ is a really good guy though. Hes a military man, so its all business sometimes it seems. But you can always feel the Spirit when you are around him. The term Spiritual-giant fits well with him. I got a little chastised for not teaching 20 lessons a week...i think we were getting around.....hah maybe i shouldnt say....5? So thats about to change.
Things are good here though, We started slacking for a while and time started moving really slow. But i decided to stop that crap and get back to work, so things are better now :) You asked about my "new" comp. haha we have been together for 5 weeks now and its coming to an end. He is a good kid, nerdy... but good. We get along really well.
So pray for PJ! Or President Jones. That he will send me where i am most needed in the mission! Im excited for a new challenge. mm mm challenges. Arent they fun? I almost forgot! Christmas! i dont know what i want.....books? You could send my retainer and my harmonica, por favor. Im plenty warm. we have our cooler going every night and i dont get cold. If i do i will probably go visit the Amish and buy a quilt from them or something. I almost forgot! On thursday my comp had to go to Kalamazoo! So i got to see my dream area! Oh man it was so awesome! I love the big cities. There were people driving like mad-men and gangsters walking all the streets! it was beautiful too! Thats right i just used that word. we drove there through Lansing and drove back through Grand Rapids, i didnt get to see a lot of GR. It seemed huge tho! Pray that i will get sent to K-ZOO! Anyways i dont know what i want for Christmas. I dont think my shoes(rockports) will make it through the winter....They are getting pretty bad already. I dont know.....hah ill think about it. BYE BLAHKAHWDKFS!
Alright im gonna go now. Love ya'll PEACE!
Looks like a successful hunt! unless those weren't yours! Hah! The state of Michigan isnt progressing much....hah i think the work is alright tho...It hasnt snowed yet. All the leaves have fallen off but no snow yet. These last few days have been awesome actually! It was like in the 70s and stuff. It was totally awesosome. Sorry about your bad luck with the door-knob. I hope you got a good lock for the doors. Because i learned how to card doors on my mission and its pretty crazy how easy it is. it only takes a few seconds too, same with picking locks....Not that im breaking into places, just my own house. Our investigator Karen was shown how by some guy and it scared her to death, so she bought a bunch of locks for her doors too. Too bad Grizz is gun-shy. Thats no good. I talked with a few people this week about how dumb he is. haha. We visited a member move-in and she opened the door and 2 great danes came barking towards us! Man they were huge! The thing could have licked my chest where it stood, hah! The one was all black and looked a lot like grizz just twice his size. It was pretty scary. They were nice dogs though. I could have ridden them just fine. Anyways sounds like youre keeping busy. So things havent changed too much since i have left. Keep up the good work! love you
Monday, November 2, 2009
Nov. 2,2009
SUP! So its monday of course. And im doing gooood! I forgot everything i was going to say....hmmm. well i guess ill start at the beginning of the week....stupid brain think!....well i better pull out my planner(missionaries brain)okay its blank....now what. HAh just messing. So we had our half mission tour with Elder Paul B Pieper.It was so cool. He knows everyhting! He would ask us a question and he would get like 10 answers back, but it was always something a lot deeper that he was looking for. It was cool the way he spoke about things. Kinda going back to the root of the doctrines and things like that. He basically taught us how to teach better, i think thats what they all do. He was a really neat guy though. He just radiated pure awesomeness. We got chastised tho, because a lot of us showed up like 5 minutes before we started.....oops...and he told us he needed about 10-15 minutes to interview all of us while he sat on the stand. Crazy general authority magical powers or something. I forgot to take something to write, so i had to fill up my planner. haha but i dont have any specific things to tell you other than it was amazing and i learned a lot. Like were supposed to commit people to be baptized on the first lesson....i always thought it would be the second or third. im a nooooob. Then on thursday we went to Farwell, becuase i dont think much work has ever been done over there. And we found this big outside concert theater thing. called Mountain rock. It was sweet! They had posters of def leppard and dio and all those old school bands that played there. Who woulda known in tiny little Farwell. Elder A got us stuck in a ditch. He scares me when he drives. So i took over the keys. haha, He got out of the car to start diggin us out. I got in the drivers seat and rocked the car out and started driving aways. hehe, im a thousan driver. Then we went to Clare and stopped by a house that i had doorknocked into with E Simpson and finally they werent busy so they invited us in! We taught them the restoration and a lot about prophets and the Apostasy and missionary work. It was so hard to teach them tho. I asked them something about prophets and they just went off on some tangent for like 20 minutes and then i asked them another question and they did it again... They would answer and then just keep talking. We got onto the topic of how catholics put pics of the Saints as reminders and they talked about soccer and AAHHHH! Totally off the subject. So i dont think they got the whole priesthood authority being restored part....so we will have to review with them on tuesday. They have two young kids and they said they dont get very many intelligent conversations,...obviously haha. They were really cool though. Im excited to teach them. So we got two more investigators! WOOT! Now president wont slap us this week at interviews! Yesterday Bro Ford took us to a funeral so we could have some dinner. haha hes a good guy. He is probably going to be sending a picture or two to dads email. Anyways we almost had to give the prayers at the funeral because the sister missionaries hadnt showed up yet. tardy tardy tardy, but they came screaming around the corner at the last moment, so we got out of it, woot! They want us to go to mount pleasant tomorrow and do some work on campus with them. This mission has this ginormous Book of Mormon that some Elders made, and so missionaries take that around the campuses and walk around with it and it attracts all kinda of attention, so we might do that maybe. So thats all that happened this week. So i hope all is well. Good luck with the Wedding! Thats so cool! im excited for ya'll. Mostly Ryan of course, love you guys and we will talk to you next week!
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