Mother!

What is this Blasphemous talk about going on a cruise to Hawaii 4 months before I get home!?! That is not cool at all. First you tell me the home is a better place to be without me and now a cruise right before I get home... ouch... It's a good thing I don't get offended to easily. ha ha

I'm glad you guys are getting things done though. That's always a plus. Did dad resurface the deck? If it does snow you can always start work on the basement. It snowed once this past week here. it got cold! we walked a lot so we got to really feel it, sad thing is though, That is warm weather when it really hits. ha That's good though that bishop did that. but at the same time it's not summer so they will probably forget when summer does come. ha oh well.

For some reason it doesn't surprise me that Braxton came home. Speaking of ventura, is Jeremiah home yet? It's close isn't it? or is that Spencer Budd who is there? i can't remember. I got a letter from Jr not too long ago saying Matt got his call and he told him to write me so I know where he is going but that hasn't happened yet, no surprise there though ha.

Elder Wilkinson goes home the 23rd this months and transfers are the day before thanksgiving. I will be staying. they won't shotgun us out because we were just shotgunned in and we are doing a lot better than the sisters. we teach around 20 lessons a week and this upcoming week we already have about 20 planned with more to come and a trip up to kirtland, that will be fun.

Could you really not find my tights? dang man that bites. and yeah, I really am not sure where those pictures are I thought they were just up in my closet or room somewhere. oh well, but yeah, speaking of ammon. how big is he now? 200? chubby boy gettin real chubby? haha man. he has got to stop psyching himself out though. but how is Jayme? I never hear about her. any who. how is everything else going? House decorations or anything else interesting? nothing too exciting here. just doing work and we have a baptism scheduled for the 20th. Interesting story there...

This girl she is 27 has a crush on Elder Wilkinson. She well, I'm not going into details but she is not for either of us. at all. she had five piercings and we got her to take them out and she now has an interview with our mission president, you can assume there I wont tell you why he is though, but she gave him a letter yesterday telling him that she likes him and wants to try and see him after he goes home and man I really just cracked up because he kind of has a 'Sister' at in Utah right now on medical leave. so i thought that was funny, but it's also making me nervous that she is doing it for ulterior motives instead of really having the desire to change and enter into a covenant with God. I really hope she does have the real intent you need to be baptized. we'll find out how things go tomorrow and Wednesday.

I'm just going to say, You aren't going to be your mother until you start quilting. then you are a pro. until then, eh... just someone to make fun of! haha Love you.

Speaking of temples. the Akron stake presidency wants temple attendance to go up here so they can qualify to have a temple built here. that would be super cool, the Columbus temple is already at capacity. you have to call to reserve a seat. If they can get another one in Ohio that would be really cool. yes, the members do spoil us and that is not a lie, it's bad, but at the same time it's fantastic! haha

Life, well Like we are told, we need quality members and quality Missionaries. if you aren't going to do anything for God, he isn't going to do anything for you. The bishop here is a good guy. when he talks about finding people to teach, he tells us we need to find the next Elders quorum president, Hp group leader, bishop etc.. that is what we are called to do. to find the elect. I know in Utah the mentality of seeing a missionary in your ward is more along the lines of, wow they must really not have anything to do. but as president Hinkley once counseled, missionary work is not just tracting, we all know there is a better way to do misisonary work and that is through the members. without a fellowshipper or in other words a member to tie the person in they will have a lot harder time to accept the gospel, finding your friends or people you know who need the gospel in their lifes and then inviting them to have the lessons in your home is they most successful way to experience conversion.

I never realized how important members are until I got out here. so yeah, they may send the goofy missionaries to Utah, but we are all doing the same work and they need help. I wont lie, so be nice.

Nothin more to say here.

Love Michael

P.S. Move Hawaii to where I can come! that is so not fair! oh heck!

What's up?!

Football was so much fun to play! oh I love to work out of course haha

I'm glad ammon works hard, that's good. man but the bikes. thats fun, hopefully they aren't wrecked when I get home, are they manual or are they auto? thats good that the yard is moving along too. I still like quads more.

We are teaching a lot, we have a possibility of teaching 20 + lessons this week so that's good and we have a trip planned to Kirtland. with one of our investigators. she has her interview wednesday. we also have a family investigating, but the dad cannot be baptized until he is off of probation. so thats three years away as of now. but if he can get off earlier that would be awesome. but that family is waiting to be baptized as a family and they are all gung ho about it have they are really good friends with a family that are also members. we have about four potential we met this last week and one family is super solid. so we'll see what happens but we don't see them from a week from today because the schedule we have this week is crazy.

Love Michael