Mom! And everyone else who reads these!
So this week we had exchanges which were great because I got to go with our disrupt rich leader Elder Colledge who is from Lehi Utah!
He's soo cool and we related a lot which was really fun! We didn't do much because nobody answered their doors and we didn't have any appointments that day.... But it was still probably the best day I have had out here on my mission!
Apparently there is is movie coming out in a few weeks on October 10th called meet the Mormons! It's only going to certain theaters but if it comes to one in Utah you should all go! It's gonna be great! The commercial looks really good! The other thing you should all watch is the talk Elder Bednar gave at Education week this year about social media, it was awesome!
So they just built this Amazon factory out here and it is huuuugggeeee!! I heard it's something like 1.4 million square feet or something crazy like that. It's probably a quarter or a 5th of a mile long! I will send a picture or 2 of it.
I found out we are 2341 miles from my home to our apartment out here haha. We put our homes in our gps just because we were curious.
So we met a 99 hear old man this week because his daughter is a member and takes car of him. Well before or after I can't remember but, Elder Young our mission nurse told us the story that he was over one time visiting and this man asked if they wanna look at some pictures he has collected and put in a scrap book. So Elder Young said sure and the old man opens this book and this guy had like a collection of girls in swimsuits likening bikinis filling this book!! Hahahaha
We are with a member family this week for dinner one night and the grandma there is Ukrainian and made these things called Parogees I think? They are like pot stickers but filled with potatoes and they are aweeeesommeee! It made me miss our family a lot because it reminded me of our Sunday dinners with all the kids running around and all the food and people.... I miss our big family dinners......
We had to drop the couple dan and Stacy that got back together because they are having a really hard family trial and weren't keeping commitments:( John is gonna be baptized for sure though, whether Elder Lake and I are here or not I'm sure the next missionaries will baptize him.
The sisters got tranferrsed out of our area so we picked up like 4 baptismal dates and their whole area book so it has been super stressful out here!
Funny story though. We were helping a couple move a pack up a truck and burried in the back corner of the room were two Wigi boards!!
Freaking crazy people what are they trying to do? Do they want satan in their house?
Anyway haha see you all later!
Quote of the week
"Thank you Mr.Gardener, for cutting me down, for loving me enough to hurt me." Hough B. Brown. The Will of God Mormon message
Love you all back home!
Love elder neel
Wednesday, November 19, 2014
Week 6
Mom! And everyone else that reads these back home!
So this past week on Monday we had what they call zone development
day. It was great cause we finally got to wear p day clothes! Because
even on p day you have to wear church clothes....:( And basically it
meant a day just to go play games and have fun with everyone in our
zone! We started off with some short training stuff on how to use the
Adjusting to Missionary Life booklet and something else that the zone
leaders taught us. Then we went into the gym and played volley ball on
two different courts with everyone. We played it like king of the
court so the winner stays in spot 1 and the loser moves to the bottom.
Our team seemed to spend a lot of time down at the bottom..... I love
volleyball but it's a lot harder in jeans haha. Then after volley ball
we did this thing where we had to draw a picture of our companion with
a marker using only our feet! I thought mine wasn't too bad, my
companion was a farmer so my picture of him had a cowboy hat and
cowboy boots on and people thought that was pretty funny. Then we play
his game called zip bong, basically you cover your teeth with your
lips and aren't allowed to show your teeth or you lose and then one
person starts by saying zip and then it goes to the person to their
left and that person says zip or bong, of they say zip it goes to
their left if they say bong it goes back to the person who sent it to
them. Once you get going it gets pretty funny and it's hard not to
laugh! After that we had dinner and then played some kick ball in the
gym which was really fun. It was really sad to leave that night though
because I loved being around a big group of elders and sister again
like at the MTC. I loved the MTC and would totally go back with my old
zone and spend a couple months there.
Mom thanks sooooo much for the package!! That was the coolest
decorated package I have ever seen! It was a lot of fun to get a
package, cause packages and letters really cheer you up! And then once
I opened it and saw what was inside it was even better! The first
thing I saw was those socks which were way cool! I wish I was allowed
to wear shorts so that people could see them! But sadly I'm never
allowed to wear shorts except to sleep in.... So good thing I brought
like 4 pairs.... The mint Milano cookies were awesome!! I've had to
hold back and not eat the whole box in one sitting which is really
hard... And everything else in there like the funny string and the
flashlights and the mints I loved all of it! And thanks for that book
it looks really good, I just haven't read it yet....
Grandma and grandpa thanks a ton for the package you sent me to!! How
did you know that I wanted more cookies??:) The cookies were amazing
and I have also been trying really hard to eat them slowly because
they are soooo good. And the zucchini bread! My companion actually got
some like a couple weeks ago and I was really jealous, so when I saw
that I was super happy!! And the pasta packages are really good! They
are really easy to make a quick lunch and they were delicious I've
eaten one of them so far, and cooked the macaroni and cheese box. The
alien sling shot thing was hilarious I love it, my companion said its
a distraction but I said its fun.:)
So this week my companion and I were out walking around finding and we
saw a turtle in the middle of the side walk so we rescued it and
carried it to this pond that was near by. It was fun to see a turtle,
I keep hearing about people talking about them but I hadn't seen one!
I will send a picture of him. I named him Phillip.
People down here are kinda weird nobody knows their neighbors! We ask
people of maybe their neighbors would like to hear this and they say
"we don't really know them." How do you not know your own neighbors? I
feel like at home we knew everybody in every house in our ward
boundaries even if they weren't members.
Elder Lakes mom is really nice! She keeps sending me gift cards! The
two times he has gotten a package she has sent me a Red robin gift
card and an Olive Garden gift card! I wish I knew where either of
those restaurants were around here.... But it's still really nice of
her!
So apparently there is a hurricane called hurricane John of the coast
of Africa that could possibly come our way, but it's only a category 1
and we are on the gulf side so there's nothing to worry about. I found
out the other day that we are in a giant bowl and one ward member,
(Christian) said his house is 150ft below sea level! No wonder there
are 10ft tall signs every where that say water could come this high in
a hurricane!
We had a really spiritual experience teaching one of our investigators
Ty, he is kinda stubborn as he says, and we have been trying to teach
him the importance of the Priesthood, and we had a lesson with him and
our mission nurse because he's in our ward and he shared his testimony
and Priesthood line of authority with Ty and the Spirit was so strong
it was sooo cool. I hope he recognized it and will understand what we
are teaching him a little better.
I was watching this Mormon message called "It Was Mom" mom and grandma
and Jen and all the other women I my life you should really watch it.
It was really cool and really reminded me how grateful I am for all of
you in my life and how thankful I am for all the love and support you
have given me over the years. I love you all so much especially you
mom. Thanks for all you've done for me!
Well I think that's mostly everything for this week!
I love you all and miss you tons!
Email me or write me and let me know what's going
on with everyone! I love getting the emails and I do my best to reply
to them even if its short. I have lots of time to read them but only
and hour and a half to reply to them, so if I don't reply I'm really
sorry...
Love,
Elder Neel
So this past week on Monday we had what they call zone development
day. It was great cause we finally got to wear p day clothes! Because
even on p day you have to wear church clothes....:( And basically it
meant a day just to go play games and have fun with everyone in our
zone! We started off with some short training stuff on how to use the
Adjusting to Missionary Life booklet and something else that the zone
leaders taught us. Then we went into the gym and played volley ball on
two different courts with everyone. We played it like king of the
court so the winner stays in spot 1 and the loser moves to the bottom.
Our team seemed to spend a lot of time down at the bottom..... I love
volleyball but it's a lot harder in jeans haha. Then after volley ball
we did this thing where we had to draw a picture of our companion with
a marker using only our feet! I thought mine wasn't too bad, my
companion was a farmer so my picture of him had a cowboy hat and
cowboy boots on and people thought that was pretty funny. Then we play
his game called zip bong, basically you cover your teeth with your
lips and aren't allowed to show your teeth or you lose and then one
person starts by saying zip and then it goes to the person to their
left and that person says zip or bong, of they say zip it goes to
their left if they say bong it goes back to the person who sent it to
them. Once you get going it gets pretty funny and it's hard not to
laugh! After that we had dinner and then played some kick ball in the
gym which was really fun. It was really sad to leave that night though
because I loved being around a big group of elders and sister again
like at the MTC. I loved the MTC and would totally go back with my old
zone and spend a couple months there.
Mom thanks sooooo much for the package!! That was the coolest
decorated package I have ever seen! It was a lot of fun to get a
package, cause packages and letters really cheer you up! And then once
I opened it and saw what was inside it was even better! The first
thing I saw was those socks which were way cool! I wish I was allowed
to wear shorts so that people could see them! But sadly I'm never
allowed to wear shorts except to sleep in.... So good thing I brought
like 4 pairs.... The mint Milano cookies were awesome!! I've had to
hold back and not eat the whole box in one sitting which is really
hard... And everything else in there like the funny string and the
flashlights and the mints I loved all of it! And thanks for that book
it looks really good, I just haven't read it yet....
Grandma and grandpa thanks a ton for the package you sent me to!! How
did you know that I wanted more cookies??:) The cookies were amazing
and I have also been trying really hard to eat them slowly because
they are soooo good. And the zucchini bread! My companion actually got
some like a couple weeks ago and I was really jealous, so when I saw
that I was super happy!! And the pasta packages are really good! They
are really easy to make a quick lunch and they were delicious I've
eaten one of them so far, and cooked the macaroni and cheese box. The
alien sling shot thing was hilarious I love it, my companion said its
a distraction but I said its fun.:)
So this week my companion and I were out walking around finding and we
saw a turtle in the middle of the side walk so we rescued it and
carried it to this pond that was near by. It was fun to see a turtle,
I keep hearing about people talking about them but I hadn't seen one!
I will send a picture of him. I named him Phillip.
People down here are kinda weird nobody knows their neighbors! We ask
people of maybe their neighbors would like to hear this and they say
"we don't really know them." How do you not know your own neighbors? I
feel like at home we knew everybody in every house in our ward
boundaries even if they weren't members.
Elder Lakes mom is really nice! She keeps sending me gift cards! The
two times he has gotten a package she has sent me a Red robin gift
card and an Olive Garden gift card! I wish I knew where either of
those restaurants were around here.... But it's still really nice of
her!
So apparently there is a hurricane called hurricane John of the coast
of Africa that could possibly come our way, but it's only a category 1
and we are on the gulf side so there's nothing to worry about. I found
out the other day that we are in a giant bowl and one ward member,
(Christian) said his house is 150ft below sea level! No wonder there
are 10ft tall signs every where that say water could come this high in
a hurricane!
We had a really spiritual experience teaching one of our investigators
Ty, he is kinda stubborn as he says, and we have been trying to teach
him the importance of the Priesthood, and we had a lesson with him and
our mission nurse because he's in our ward and he shared his testimony
and Priesthood line of authority with Ty and the Spirit was so strong
it was sooo cool. I hope he recognized it and will understand what we
are teaching him a little better.
I was watching this Mormon message called "It Was Mom" mom and grandma
and Jen and all the other women I my life you should really watch it.
It was really cool and really reminded me how grateful I am for all of
you in my life and how thankful I am for all the love and support you
have given me over the years. I love you all so much especially you
mom. Thanks for all you've done for me!
Well I think that's mostly everything for this week!
I love you all and miss you tons!
Email me or write me and let me know what's going
on with everyone! I love getting the emails and I do my best to reply
to them even if its short. I have lots of time to read them but only
and hour and a half to reply to them, so if I don't reply I'm really
sorry...
Love,
Elder Neel
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