Mother.

I guess I can be lost for the next month and a half, or however long you decide to take.... whatever... ;P haha Dad doesn't use his... haha ;p Oh yeah, and you might get an e-mail or a call from a sister headrick, I don't know her first name, but she might ask you for some recipies or something.

The Hern was just apostate, I tried not to complain with him so there wouldn't be any tension or what not that would drive the spirit away, I'm a peaceful guy remember? or have you forgotten in just 3 months? ha Elder Wilkinson is super cool, he teaches me a lot, I feel like I'm going to learn quite a bit this transfer. I sure hope so.

The ward is spoiling us, it's great we didn't even have to buy milk last week, someone just gave it to us. that's all we need to buy this week. so it's legit, I know haha. Oh yeah, and last night was the first time we ate dinner at our apartment, but a member gave us dinner to eat, so we are still muy bueno! ha I think the reason why the sisters stopped working is because they got offended. I'm not too sure how but they did and it was probably over something stupid so yeah, you just can't get offended easily.

Yeah, I got the package, I was like oh sweet, maybe a GPS. but no, just something to help my hands not get frostbite. That's good too though cause it's getting time for the cold to be here. I think I might have to go buy some thermals sometime. or maybe you could just send them to me in a couple weeks, whatever works really.

Is ammon really that worried about it? I mean really, just tell him the crap that I had to go through, I hardly won any matches my freshman year and I still wrestled, I had to go up ten pounds just to wrestle JV!! I still don't understand why he pulls this crap. He is going to have to learn to deal with hard things, because if he just tries to avoid it he isn't doing himself any good at all. He did this last year, He is finally getting to the point where he can't just man handle everyone and get what he wants, he needs to actually work for things. He know's how to work hard, he just needs to to it all the time because if not where is he going to learn it? Wrestling is really the one thing well sport, that teaches you how to overcome mentally hard things. when he grows up he is going to face a lot of mentally challenging things. Just remind him when I quit wrestling it took me a week of prayer to finally make up my mind. Have him read 2 Nephi 32: 8-9. Make sure he understands what it means. I know that if he does pray about it he can make up his mind. he just really needs to cut the crap. Love Michael.



That's super cool that grandpa is planning on getting us tickets. talk him into getting us on the 50 fairly low! ha (remind him how hard stairs are! haha) that's really good though that Scott had a job interview. I hope he gets it. That would be really good for him and his family.



I'm glad you are realizing that the house is more peaceful without me in it. how do you think that makes me feel? maybe like the source of all evil? quite possibly. gosh.... :/ I'm glad though that you enjoy my absence. haha



Love,
Michael!

MOM!!! you distracted me! here is my adress 295 Third St. Wadsworth OH, 44281 and yes, this area I really do need a GPS so you can stick it in with my gloves because neither of us know where anything is and you know how much I love you and how much I would do anything for you so... Puhlease!!? :) like really though, we get lost so if you could really send me one that would make my grey hairs and wrinkles go away.... Love ya.
Hey Guys! So did sabrina naulu talk to ammon about this? haha. Actually we don't cover Medina. we are about thirty minutes or so south in a city called Wadsworth, It's about the size of Spanish Fork I think. we cover about four or five other towns too. No, The Webbs aren't related to coach webb. He is from washington state. My new companion is elder wilkenson and it's his last transfer, before here he was a zone leader. but yeah we got shotgunned in here (where they take two out and put two in) there use to be sisters here and they were pretty lazy, only teaching about four lessons a week. ( we have 20 or more planned for this one. but we'll get there in a second) The Hern was horrible. so I have to forget everything and re-learn from elder wilkenson, he is killer. haha I don't know why i was transferred i was only told by the Ap that this is what the Lord really wanted and I'm super stoked. this ward is the bomb. oh yeah, we don't cover Akron... I didn't do anything bad either to get transferred, I believe I was being rewarded with a new trainer and a better area. I'm so impressed with you guys. this yard might actually be done before i get home! wow.. haha that's awesome. but you're going to have to stop soon because of the weather right? and mom, if you get in shape you can go running with me when i get home~! haha exercise is the best! I love it! ha and yeah mom what the crap. why can't you just think what would michael do in those situations.!!?/ So anywho. this ward. oh my this ward. The very first night we got here we had dinner with the whittinbergers. they are a crazy family, everyone calls the dad hillbilly, the reason for this is because he throw's road kill in his neighbors drive way haha it's weird but they are a family that will come running to help anyone at any time. also they have a family that they are helping take the lessons. Bob and Sue, they have three or four kids. very good people and we are going to try to set a baptismal date with them this week and invite their daughter and boys (if they boys are old enough) to start taking the lessons. The next night we ate with the Foutz family and man they are sweet too. they gave us food when we left and yeah. haha then we met the webbs on that same day i believe and he is going to do a great job being the ward mission leader. yesterday we went and ate with the Zuro family and dude this guy is rich! he plays golf with his clients all the time, I mean okay dad this one is for you he had two porsche carreras just sitting in the garage, he doesn't evendrive them!! haha and they well he, invited us to come play paintball with him in their woods. we will probably do that.... hahaha shh. don't tell anyone ;p This ward is so amazing, they are like the only area here that is upper middle class and higher that has members and other people who are receptive to the gospel and the ward members do missionary work too so it's super cool! but anyways, Neither of us have been here, Elder wilkenson was serving as a Zone leader in Youngstown so we are still trying to get established here. but the sisters that were here before us didn't really do anything like i said they had only taught like three lessons a week, we have over 20 planned for this week and all we have done is gone through the area book and the records calling former investigators and everyone trying to meet them, I mean, we got most of our appointments from not even leaving the house. so yeah, we are excited to really get things going and we could be teaching all day everyday for a long time, we have a potential of having ten investigaors, if not more, by the end of the week. Elder Wilkenson has said that this is probably the best area in the whole mission. I believe it. Oh yeah, The mayor of wadsworth is in the ward too. so the people here know who we are! haha well, I think that's it. Tell everyone you see I love them. well... Maybe not, it depends on who it is... hahaha! Love you, Michael P.S. I'm a great missionary, so uh, don't think I got transferred for a bad reason! ha :p



Hey dad,

This area is the bomb, It's so cool here and everyone is super nice that we have talked to. ( there are amish in the surrounding area's too. we have seen horse and buggys!) the shakes are to help me lose my belly flab, especially in this area we are fed every single day and sometimes twice a day. the members also take us grocery shopping in their pantry's after every appointment too. so ha we only need to buy milk. that's it. so hopefully i don't gain too much weight here.

I thought you were putting the small junipers in the retaining walls? :/

Cool though that it's getting done.

Love, Michael

What's up homies?!

Transfers are tomorrow and guess what?!? I'm getting transferred! haha so if
you haven't sent that package yet send it to the mission office! I can get
you my new stuff on monday. But if it's already on it's way Elder Hernandez
said he would forward it on to me. for reals about the GPS though that's
super depressing. I may as well go drown myself in lake erie... ha just
kidding!! the GPS just helps a lot so we don't have to waste time. Elder
hernandez has a GPS but it's been broken and all of his last companions have
had GPS's except me. so yeah. oh well.... the weather here is probably more
eratic than Utah. weird things happen here. I'm eating alright. I'm taking
these meal replacement shakes so I can lose my gut and come home with a six
pack and a flat stomach... haha we'll see how that goes. I just don't want
to get fat.

Yes, one transfer in St. Mary's and I'm already moving. It's super strange.
I guess this has only happened once before where a greenie leaves the
trainer after the first transfer. But the Lord knows best. The Money
doesn't go very far. Lately though we have been getting fed pretty well so
it's okay. I'm not craving anything but junk food but yet again, I don't
need that cause with that I will never get my SIX PACK!! haha

I'm not suppose to go to other websites. but if I wanted to I really could
but I don't think I will because Obedience brings blessings and we all know
as a missionary I need as many of those as I can get.. So maybe you could
send them on over, it all depends on you. Speaking of pictures, I haven't
been able to do much but we went to this "temple of tolerance/rock garden"
yesterday and I got to take a couple of pictures and that just reminded me
of how much I love photography and what I could do with a nice SLR. but I
work with what I have. I still haven't hit 100 pictures though so you wont
be getting memory card anytime soon haha

anyways, Jill. I swear. but she reset her own date and now there are 4
baptismal dates set for the next transfer, but i'm not going to be there for
any of them. oh well. Things are good there but she is so strange and messed
up from her old life style.

Yeah, I know. Rich is a big guy. You all say this everytime... you should
just get use to it. college football players gotta be big. I mean come on
guys! haha :P Ammon though, I mean come on guys. we all knew what freshman
football was going to entail... what's the big surprise? I mean we have all
been through this before. Hopefully the Varsity coaches aren't as stupid.
Again, Ammon, What drives you to do these things? I know the good Lord gave
you a brain... way to blow a hundo! haha don't forget you can always use
your old new one! ;p

By the way... What's up with Matthew carrying that phone around? Is he
texting some girly's? oooh matty, I can't believe you haha! That's pretty
funny though how Joel's Number ended up just like mine. strange things i
guess... but whatever! haha

I went to the Chiro again today... I don't know if it was the bed I have
been sleeping on or if it is this new lifestyle but I have been out more
than normal and it's pretty darn annoying but this place was a lot better
than where I went the first time. oh yeah, did scott or grandpa ever give
you that reciept? anyways... today is my last day in St. Mary's. we'll see
where the wind takes me...

Love you.
Michael

hey dad,

P days are just whatever that we need to do to prepare for the week and maybe go hang out with some other elders. It has been cold, but this weekend it jumped up to the 80's but now it's on the downward fall so I'm just waiting for the freeze! I have half an hour to work out every morning but some of the time I'm too tired to get anything done so I hope i'm not losing too much muscle. but we all know that will happen.

Love you

Mother.

Yes I really do need a Gps. Roads in Ohio are not as good as roads in Utah, So it is a really good thing to have. I promise! so Please! haha and Maybe a good set of winter gloves? I love you! ;p Also I told dad what scripture and I told him Alma 29:1 will be fine. Also I'm jealous that you have had good weather in utah. it has been below 68 all week. the last couple days were in the 50's so we'll see what happens this week. The weather is probably a little more crazy here than at home.

I'm Super stoked that you guys are getting things done haha. that's good that maple Beat spanish. that really needed to happen. was Jaylin pretty much their only play maker?

Well wanna hear something weird? I took like ten pages or more of notes this weekend. I mean since when have I taken notes?! haha That's way cool that J.R. has his call. I really hope that Matt can get down to where he needs to be. He needs to get going so if you could call him and tell him he doesn't want to go a year or more without me and JR in his life ha! Also that Michael Really wants him to get to work. ;)

oh yeah and Jill? well she had taken a drag this previous week and so we had to tell her that we have to move her date back two weeks and she about died, I mean really died. her blood pressure was that of someone who would go to the ER immediatly. she was heart broken, but freaking now she doesn't want to set a date so we are going to have to tell her that if she doesn't set a date then if something happens and she dies she isn't cleansed from her previous sins and that it will be worse because she didn't want to set a date to be baptized, she had progressed a lot but she has also Digressed some also. some people I just don't get. I mean yeah this is my first "real" investigator so i'm sure i will get use to it. no doubt. but yeah...

So if you didn't notice General Conference, at least to me, talked about obedience and following the prophet. So kids... Be more obedient!!!! don't laugh. Michael, I mean I can be serious now. I'm a missionary remember? ha but no really it's true, things of this world are very horrible and if we are not careful and doing all of the things we need to do satan will slowly drag us down to hell. I heard a really cool analogy of commandments and rules this last week. Imagine that each commandment and rule is like a bar to a cage, now how do you feel being stuck in a cage? pretty confined right? but now imagine that you are still in that cage in shark infested waters. now you feel pretty safe. so now we can say that as we are living in shark infested waters. which this world is very infested with sharks and other evil things around us. if we follow the commandments and rules to the best of our ability, even with exactness we will be safe and more free to do the things that we so desire.

I can't believe that you really got an antennae ah haha and that ugly thing is in your room. ha. man you guys. TV isn't that great or important. I promise ha. but that's good and yet again i promise you that you would wish you had a GPS in Ohio too. It's so darn confusing, so i'm on my needs begging you (don't forget how much I love you mom, and that I'm your favorite... ha) so please! ;p I don't have winter gloves either... I don't know why we didn't get me any before I came out but I don't know what kind of quality to get, I know i'm pathetic.... and i don't really have money here. . so yep.
anything i can do for you? ha

Love, Michael!

Hey Peeps!

Thanks for the birthday package and such! you must have forgot to send me a GPS. cause that will really come in handy down here.... haha if there isn't really a way to send it you can just put money on my account so I can buy one here... ;) I'm glad matthew is enjoying soccer, oh yeah, and tell him for the Millionth time i'm not in cleveland hahaha! :p

Ammon. here's the thing, I work out when I can and that's not very much. we have been so busy i wake up and i'm to tired to work out so I lay on the floor haha! but I do what I can, and we have two baptisms coming up within the next month!! we have transfers on october 13th so I could leave but probably not because you spend two or three transfers in an area.

things are good. We are teaching this Lady Jill. She is going to be baptized in two weeks. she has had a shady past with drugs, alchohol and stealing. Jill was fired from her job this last weekend from stealing and that wwas what she really needed to be honest. with her job there was no way that we could get her to come to church but now she said she is going to be to church no matter what! but anyways. she has also had the gospel in her life for thirty years and is just now accepting it at age 50. she feels so bad for being a nitpicker and not accepting to anything ever but now she is so happy and you can see the light in her face. we meet with her every day to talk and teach. she told us that her end goal is to get sealed to her parents in the temple! so yes she is pretty much golden. She has made leaps and bounds in the last week, let alone the last couple months!

Oh yes, mother. I'm sending scott and grandpa the reciept from the Chiro with their letters so you can give it to dad. I'm fine, my bed just sucks and it was time for an adjustment. That chiro sucked too. Joe is way better than him. so if i have to go again while i'm here i'm going to try to find another one that is better.

Oh yeah, Speaking of the Harlans. I forgot to tell you guys that I saw Briana at the Temple with her man my last week in the MTC. I didn't say anything though cause I just thought I should stay quiet haha. oh yes. Tell Hailey that so far she has lied. She said she would write me! haha oh just kidding. you can if you want though. Isn't Camielle coming home soon? or is it another 6 months? I can't remember.

Anywho. I'm stoked, we have a family of four we are going to try to start teaching and also we are going to start with rick's nine year old step daughter and we found a new guy tracting so we are going to see if we can teach him also. Things are starting to slowly pick up here in this area, but it's still going to take some time to get it where we really want to be to be honest, and when we get there we are probably still going to want to improve. I'm not going to lie haha! but yes. things are going very well

No mother. I'm not homesick. I told you that nonsense wouldn't happen with me. once I get homesick things go bad and that's just not going to happen. I'm sorry. haha. You need to call JR and matt or something because they should have their papers in and getting their calls soon so be on them for me!

Um, So I think Adam loves me more than Jennifer. I just though I would throw that in there somewhere too. um, let's see... nothing else that's coming to mind. I'm glad that the yard is getting done. Like I said... It better be done so we can have a huge party when i come home! haha ;P love you

Love you and you.

Michael!

Way to go dad! you're going to be ripped when I get home!!! haha I can't believe the plow broke! that sucks!! man. I'm on a trek. I haven't rode mine yet but i have while on exchanges. and there are some you can pray for. Jill Robinson. Brian Sutton. and pray for the kosch family and norm to be accepting to the gospel so we can teach them.

Love you.

Lovers,

Quit Using Dearelder okay? I swear I told you that you could e-mail back now that I'm no longer in the MTC haha ;p as you know from past e-mails, the johnson farm was very cool. and mom, you were wrong, It wasn't because of the holiday you didn't get an e-mail, it was because we were up in Hiram all day long doing stuff so we didn't have the opportunity to e-mail. nice try! hahaha :P I can't believe Jordyn is learning to write! give her a big ole' kiss for me haha I'm so happy that she is enjoying soccer and what not. that's so cool haha

This last week was crazy, we had over ten hours of tracting and we taught around 11 lessons, this week on the other hand isn't going to be as good because we only have four days that we can prosalyte (however it's spelled) in our area because of meetings and exchanges, so we'll see what happens haha. I'm so stoked for you guys to actually get tree's in the front yard! it's progress haha. that's good, maybe it will be done when I get home. I mean it better be because if not... well lets just not go there haha. I can't believe you got talked in to being the room mother! ah hahahaha that's so funny!

I'm glad to hear that Joel has moved out, hopefully that will be good for him and he will be able to improve and such, that's great. and Jayme! way to go girl! that's mad props, next time make him go up there! haha ;P (now, now, don't get mad, I'm only playing. you know I love you!)

Now Ammon, I'm glad you are reading your scriptures, just remember as you read you need to understand what is going on or your study is in vain... Just saying. ha That's more than what I did. I didn't start really reading till the end of my Jr. year for a couple of months and then all of my senior year. It's definitely worth it so keep at it man, you know what's up! ha

can you see me becoming weirder in my e-mails? be honest!!! I sure hope I'm not! I plan on coming home with the same type of personality I had when I left, Maybe even better, but not weirder haha! that would be a total downer. no joke.

So they had me talk in church on sunday. it was the first time I didn't write it down word for word, so I was a little nervous, but luckily for me the branch only had 30-40 people there so I did good and I spoke for 20 Minutes... where did that come from? haha

Anyways. Mission life, well we are thinking about dropping rick, or only going to see him once a week or less because he isn't progressing and he doesn't really seem like he want's to. Elder Hernandez was cool with what I said to him. He kind of just lets me say what I need to say because he isn't the greatest at being bold. Somtimes I have to take control of the lesson too because he gets distracted with the kids really easily and can go off on tangents. oh man, speaking of this. we went to talk to this guy who is investigating that we haven't talked to since before i got here and we brought a member who talked to him for and hour and a half before we could say a single word! it was horrid! I had to tell the member i was going to cut him off and ask the investigator if he still wants to be baptized and we found out that he had be anti'd because some how he found out about the mountain meadows massacre, I mean really? how do you find out about that unless you are really digging or someone gives you anti material.

Oh yeah, Adam, I forgot to tell you in your e-mail, you have mad props with all that work. and make sure you do it good because when I get home I'm planning on doing the whole year mixed with work thing too. so be good at it so i can come get advice from you! haha it's definitely worth all of it.

So my birthday is this saturday right? I would sure hope that you wouldn't forget, because that would be freaking lame. so along with all of the other things you are sending me... (:P) if you could send me a GPS cause we have a hard time finding places sometimes.... I would be eternally grateful (greatful? man I can't spell) and also two long sleeved shirts. one of them we got was a 17 with 32-33 instead of 34-35. so yeah. that would be awesome. so I love you, don't forget how much I love you, every single one of you! ;) So if anyone else is interested in sending something, cause I know it's your hearts desire. My adress is:

1810 Winston Dr.

St. Marys, OH 45885

So don't forget how much I love all of you, hahaha but yeah. I think this is it. so have a good week, I know I will.

Love Michael!

Bad Momma, Bad Momma!!

Ouch.... This sucks!

no e-mail waiting for me. It's not the knife in the heart that hurts, it's the turning of the blade...

ha okay just kidding. a little, that's some offensive stuff!

Anyways, this last week was a pretty busy one, we ended up teaching about 12 lessons or so in Five days, that's pretty good for this area I must say. Usually there isn't that many. also i have a feeling that i might be gaining some weight because we have eaten at a members house like every night, sometimes lunch too.

I don't really know what else to say i guess cause i didn't have an e-mail waiting for me... :'( I go serve the Lord and I get forgotten... haha :P

I guess a good thing though is that we finally got an appointment with one of the investigators that we haven't been able to make contact with for the last three weeks, so we just need to go see if he is still intrested and teach him a couple more things and then he can be baptized. so maybe that would count as my first? we'll see how much we still have to visit with him and teach him.

So how is everything? Is ammon having a fun time with football? Hopefully his game this last weekend went well. what about the yard? more tree's, curbing, sprinklers, or maybe even grass? well... maybe I'm getting a little ahead of myself.... haha Anyone new move into the hood? I would ask if anyone asked for my address so they could write me, but who am I kidding? ha no distractions here! just really just serving the Lord!

So this one investigator, Rick. He has a smoking habit. pretty frustrating with that cause he was smoking a lot less than normal but now he has digressed. Also, he is living with his baby momma and they have three kids together. before I came they had committed them to get married but when I asked last time he just had another excuse. It's really frustrating to put up with it. we had told him that we were going to call or drop by his house every night to check on him to see how he is doing and so when I talked to him last night I was very up front with him. I just told him that he can't just sit back and wait for some miracle and that he is going to have to do things for God to help him overcome his addiction and that he needs to really try and not be so lazy. I was pretty blunt but I felt I needed to. I don't think there is really any other way to get to him. I really don't know. It's just excuse after excuse.

Enough of my ranting about hardships. How are Jenn and Adam? I haven't heard from them at all, if you wanted you could tell them to E-mail me or something? How are Jayme and Cassidy? is that still touchy? and yes, I know he is in ceder. Do you know if Scott took offense when I told him not to send me articles about spanish fork football? I hope not because i didn't mean any.

Is Matthew liking the new school and all? I hope so. Are the kids still going to the LaMonts to work out? or just Ammon? that will be good for him, Hopefully he isn't too much bigger than me when I get home haha. Have you heard about anyone else that I went to school with getting their mission calls? I know there is a lot of questions here, Kind of like Alma 5 but without the soul searching/eternal salvation questions haha. but there isn't really much to work with cause well it was an empty inbox so i'm just winging it that is all!

It's already been a month, that's weird to think. we'll see if time speeds up after the first transfer, that's what i have beed told so maybe it will happen, I just need to stay diligent and doing my best.

Oh yeah, are you still sending this E-mail to people? who are they? I'm just kind of curious, that's all. but yeah. Untill you write me back. ;) (this time you have a full week, so we'll see what happens haha :P)

Love Michael!!

In my defense, I didn't write an e-mail because Michael told me not to so that he could use all of his computer time writing to us!! I sent a snail mail letter to him last week, he just hasn't gotten it yet, and I'm sending another one today, so there!!