Received Monday, May 5, 2014

It was a really good week. I am sleepy today

QUESTIONS:

what time will you call for mother's day?? I am assuming we will be in a chat room waiting for you, happily. If you need to call mine or dad's cell phone to figure stuff out, please do. 

Good question. So there is a family that invited us over and said they have a ton of devices that will work, so that should all be good. I believe they said it doesn't matter to them if it's before or after dinner, but it will probably be after. It's interesting because someone is Elder Tait's last area (foxboro) asked him to baptize her, so a member is driving him there for that and we're not sure when he'll be back and I'll be with a different member here to be my companion in the meantime, so that all makes it more likely that after dinner will work better, plus that probably works better for you Hawaii'ers. I bet you fly there in a "big red" airplane with mickey mouse on board.

 

do you want me to send you a copy of the May Ensign? (conference edition?)

yes, that would be great!

 

I finally google mapped where you live!! You are RIGHT by the beach!! Your neighborhood is lovely! I "drove" down the street for a bit. So nice. I assume your address that looks like a house is really an apartment building. How many apartments are there? Do missionaries knock on those doors to share their message, or are you discouraged from doing that?

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It is the mustard colored house, to make sure you got the right one. we live on the bottom floor and a member family of 3 live above us and that's it.

 

have you been jogging every morning? Are you allowed to get apps on your phone? You can get a running app to see how far you run. It is called Runkeeper. It is a good one. We learned about it from Chase. Don't you share the fancy, smartphone? What brand is that phone?

 We do jog every morning. The phone we share can under no situation be qualified as "smart" and does not have any access to apps. Smart phones are not coming, but tablets will eventually. no one really knows. probably around 6 months from now. We have s Sprint LG phone.

                                                                             

                                                                           

hear any talk about tablets for you missionaries?

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how was church on sunday?

good fast and testimony meeting, although someone from the stand did need to ask someone to finish there testimony after they went on for about 20 mins. We had 3 different investigators at church which is great. Mary (investigator) was going to bring her daughter in law (who she brought to our last lesson) but it sounded like she chickened out at the last minute

How is your weather today?

pretty good!

What are your p-day plans?

Revere chapel 2:00. The usual basketball and soccer. There also may be some frisbee/football action in the yard of the chapel

When is your next transfer day, are you half way there yet?

The next transfer day is this Wednesday, in two days. Both Elder Tait and I are staying (for my last transfer). A lot of change in our zone though. In two different area's where they have elders and sisters, a whole companionship is being pulled out and not replaced because the mission is currently losing more missionaries than it's gaining, so that is hard for some people.

You had mentioned kylie was trying out for chanteurs but this is the first I heard she made it! congratulations!

Smart thinking to invite a friend to hear your RS lesson, and nice to hear she appreciated the invitation!

I really don't know much about the donkey story in the OT, so i could have really benefited form either Dad's or Christopher's lesson.

One of our investigators, Linda, accepted a baptismal date for June 1st! she is great. She called us saturday and said she is looking forward to church the next day and excited to pay tithing! She is the one who visited her friend in AZ and has come to church with us twice now. Sarah, who we've been teaching since before I got here, still has her date set for June 21st as well. I remember now something I was going to ask relating to her. She likes to go to this website/blog about "mormon feminist housewives", you should google it and next week let me know how "out there" it is. Sarah is really smart and has strong opinions, some of which aren't exactly in line with church teachings, but she has a lot of faith as well.

Did I write a few weeks ago about Jerry? The very old guy here from Preston Idaho who we might be related to? we went to visit him again this week and his neighbors hollard over to us and told us he had just past away last tuesday! we went over to there house (non-member neighbors) and talked about him for about an hour. they were very friendly. It was very suprising and a bit sad to hear about Jerry. we didn't really know him, and his wife has just passed away like 2 years ago, so it's all ok looking big-picture. We texted the bishopric and let them know and they announced it yesterday. This is his obituary (Notice the Cole-connections and try to find out if we're related!

Jerald George Morgan Obituary    July 29, 1928 – April 22, 2014
Jerry was born to Edgar Morgan and Ethel Winn Morgan in Preston, Idaho.  He was raised in Weston and Preston, Idaho until he was called on a mission to Sweden.   When he returned from his mission he joined the Navy.  While his ship was in Boston Harbor he met and later married Shirley Rhoda in 1954. Jerry spent the remainder of his life in the Boston area.  His heart remained in Idaho and Utah where his family later moved, he always talked about coming home to the mountains, and whenever he visited home returned to Weston and Preston to see all of his favorite places and memories. Jerry is survived by two brothers, David Cole, (New York) and Craig Cole (Washington), and many nieces and nephews.  He was preceded in death by his wife Shirley, three brothers, Edgar Morgan, Ezra Morgan, and Marvin Cole; his parents Edgar Morgan and Ethel Winn Cole, his father Ervon Cole.  Jerry was raised by Ervon Cole after his father died and his mother remarried. Graveside services will be held at 1:00 pm, Tuesday, May 6, 2014 at the Preston City Cemetery, Preston, Idaho under the direction of Lindquist Mortuary.

we had a good zone meeting this week too. It's always a busy, hectic wednesday (we find what the meeting is on) through friday (when we give the training) but it went really well. We used a pinata, actually hung it and had someone smash it with a bat, as an object lesson. Also they now do transfer texts (finding out who's getting transfers) on fridays instead of saturdays, so we had a waffle party after the meeting for when the texts came in. We had like 6 waffle irons, and a bunch of toppings and things brought and made waffles there. We should have counted how many we made/ate. It was all good and fun, especially since Elder Tait is doing good and helping me work on my goal of being more "outside the box".

Also, Happy birthday Lizzie!

Also, trunky question, I'm really glad to be having you guys figuring out my BYU things for me; how are they going? Did Brad Sear's parents find a place? also we can talk a little bit about classes on mother's day. The other field/occupation that I feel I should check out is being a statistician. Probably not many classes overlapping with optometrist, but it's also something I think I potentially could enjoy.

I hope Quinn really enjoyed the temple.

We may drive over to the Boston temple (actually in the cirty of Blemont. About 45 mins away) to teach a lesson there with Mary and her member friends about the temple and sealings, etc. 

Someone made a "may the 4th be with you" yesterday as we were leaving church. yesterday at church the family we're going to dinner with today told us it's part of a cinco de mayo thing their doing and inviting a lot of people over, so it could be fun/interesting.

That's all for now!