Okay, I have finally uploaded some pictures from Christopher's last picture card. Check out May again because I added several more May pics. There's also a June Pics group now! Enjoy!
Wednesday, July 29, 2009
MORE PICTURES !
Okay, I have finally uploaded some pictures from Christopher's last picture card. Check out May again because I added several more May pics. There's also a June Pics group now! Enjoy!
Tuesday, July 28, 2009
OXNARD INFO
Here's some info about the city of Oxnard I thought everyone would be interested in:
From the City Website:
"In the years since incorporation in 1903, Oxnard has gone from cattle grazing, to sugar beets and beans, to orchards, to more intensive farming with several crops grown in a single year, to servicing the defense industry, and finally to diversified industrial, housing, and commercial development. ...
Situated along a beautiful stretch of Pacific coastline, Oxnard is the largest city in Ventura County. The City is located about 60 miles northwest of Los Angeles and 35 miles south of Santa Barbara.
As you enter Oxnard, the first thing you're likely to spot is the surrounding farmlands. With its patchwork of crops and orchards nestled along a narrow coastal plain, Oxnard boasts some of the richest agricultural land in California. A mix of climate, rich topsoil, adequate water and a long harvest season provide favorable conditions for such high-value crops as strawberries. Farmers can often grow double, sometimes triple, crops on the same piece of land during a year.
With such fertile lands, it stands to reason that Oxnard enjoys temperate weather throughout the year. In fact, weather conditions here remain fairly constant:
Average annual high temperature: 73 degrees
Average annual low temperature: 51 degrees
Average annual rainfall: 14.75 inches"
From Wikipedia:
Oxnard (pronounced /ˈɒksnɑrd/) is the largest city in Ventura County, California in terms of population. It is located at the western edge of the fertile Oxnard Plain, and is one of the world's most important agricultural centers, with its distinction as the strawberry and lima bean capital. Founded in 1903, it is home to nearly 200,000 citizens (192,997) and is the largest city in the Oxnard-Thousand Oaks-Ventura Metropolitan Area.
The city is home to two large U.S. Navy bases (Port Hueneme and NAS Point Mugu). The Port of Hueneme is the busiest commercial port between Los Angeles andSan Francisco. Oxnard is also a major transit hub in Southern California, with Amtrak, Union Pacific, Metrolink, Greyhound, Intercalifornias and many others stopping in Oxnard. Oxnard also has a regional airport called Oxnard Airport (OXR).
My guess is that Christopher will be enjoying some cooler weather!
Monday, July 27, 2009
WEEK 1 and TRANSFERRED!!!!!!
Hey family, i don't know what to tell ya, it's been a crazy day! i'm getting transferred to Oxnard Sixth Ward! it's a long way away and it's on the coast, so it's much cooler, my new companion is Elder Durant, he is only 6 weeks older than me ... President told me that he is preparing me to be a senior companion .......... wow ....... i'm too young to be a senior! i'm being humbled alot. this is Elder Durant's first transfer as senior comp, so we're gonna have fun! jeezz it's been a crazy day, i don't have my address, but i'll tell you next week what it is. I called the Quel's and Juana was super shocked and almost started crying .... i felt really bad ... we're going to say goodbye tonight. Elder Triana is going to stay here and get a companion named Elder Jackson. he served here in south Bakersfield as an English Elder until 6 weeks ago. 6 weeks ago he was tranferred to Santa Maria and switched to Spanish, so now he's coming back to South Bakes as a Spanish missionary, and Elder Triana is going to help him learn some Spanish, supposedly he is struggling a bit with it. soooo i realized how much junk i've aquired during my stay here .... i'm trying to dig myself out, it's crazy. thank you so much for the pictures of my 1st six months, it was great to go through them and remember all the good memories i've had. but with all the packing they are alreay packed with your letters in it and i remember someone asking me a question but i can't remember what it is. So, sorry i'll try to remember and answer it next week. crazy day ... Elder Triana is also going to be a District Leader, so he's pretty nervous about that. so this week we've been doing the most we can do, we were inside for 2-ish days cause Elder Triana's head thing came back. Elder Eaton is leaving for his home in Kansas, i'm gonna miss that guy, he's probably my best bud i've made out here, haha he's hillarious, i'm sure you have seen pictures, speaking of which, i need my camera card back cause i've almost filled up my current card with pics. so maybe you could put it in an envelope and send it to the mission office and they will forward it to me.
so we have a full night of going and saying bye to all the ward members, it's really hard with a few of them cause i'm gonna miss them. but i have only heard good things about Oxnard so i'm excited. it's pure Spanish, Elder Triana says that no white people live there haha. so we have found a new investigator this week his name is Ariel, he is really quiet but really smart, he came to church and loved it and now we are trying to get his mom and brother to church. we also have been teaching the aunt of our Ward Mission Leader and she is on fire. her name is Margarita and she absolutely loves the church and the Gospel. She knows it's true but wants to learn more and make sure she has completely repented from all her sins and stuff, so awesome. The sad part is that we told her that transfers were Monday and that one of us might leave and she was a bit taken back and said "but I was already thinking about being baptized and I want you (talking to me) to baptize me." Well .... that took us back a bit too .... but Oxnard is too far away for me to travel back and baptize her so I will have to tell her tonight that I can't. She is awesome and will get baptized though.
How is the family doing? enjoying the last few weeks of summer? what did you guys decide about spot? poor guy .... Irene wrote me, she is good, still going to school. Daniel also wrote me, he's doing good it seems, same with Danny and Jeanette and Shaune. reminds me ... gotta pack my typewriter ....... bleh too much stuff .... well sometimes it's rough with changes, i've learned that the hard way, i don't like change, but gotta keep moving, like the whole "Who Moved My Cheese" book says. I'm going to a car area so I don't need any $$ to buy a bike yet, we'll see how long I can luck out with a car, haha. I love you guys a lot, remember that the Atonement wasn't free, it cost a very dear life. Christ died for us so that no one has a one way ticket to earth. We must never forget that. There are a few verses in D&C 19 that are very strong and help us to remind ourselves not to forget what he did for us. Oh and you all should be taking the Book of Mormon challenge, 4 pages a day is nothing, that's like 15 mins of reading max. Especially BHL, you have to prepare, and there is no better way than to read the scriptures. Don't be like me and have to speed read it the week before you leave for the MTC. There are some pretty cool things inside them, you just have to look. k, my time is used up, i have to try and pack. i think i'll be sending a few things i don't need home, like mom's reproduction of the 1st BOM, and a trenchcoat that i acquired from a dying missionary, it's a black one, i've always wanted one so when i got the chance i jumped on it and claimed it. so yeah, Jordan, it's too tall for you, only BHL (but he probably won't want to) can use it or dad. thank you for everything. remember i love you, if you want to send me anything wait a few days and send it to the mission office.
love ya, hasta oxnard!
Elder Larsen
love ya, hasta oxnard!
Elder Larsen
Monday, July 20, 2009
Week 6!
Hey Family!
okkk so yeah i think i can print Emails, i think i have to pay like 5 cents(just realized that we don't have a cents sign on the keyboard...hmmmm). it would be perfectly fine if you guys write them on the computer and then just mail them to me, that way i can take them to email and answer any questions you have, and respond to it all, cause i hate having change in my pockets and i'd probably forget to bring change to email every week. i'm glad that you wrote me emails though, i love hearing about everyone. Dad sounds like you're having fun, wow, if i had been home i think i would have found some way to go with you guys, i remember when we went to the wind rivers before we moved, we spent a week up there and it was probably the most amazing experiance "nature-wise" of my life, soooo beautiful. pretty crazy the things our Father in Heaven has made huh? we were having a conversation Elder Eaton and I about the brain and stuff and how it's a pretty crazy thing. hahaha i'm really going to miss him alot, he's probably the best bud i've made out here so far. he is going home a week from today, he's an old missionary. so i take it that you did recieve my pictures?? i hope so, cause i wasn't sure if you could put stamps on those yellow padded envelopes ... but i did it anyway and sent it off with alot of faith. Elder Eaton is the one who takes really weird pictures of his face...he is also the one in the Sombrero. being a missionary really brings into prespective life. who you are, who different people are, how to interact, the world, lots of crazy stuff. i've grown so much from this short experience that i have had out here, i'm 7 months old only! grandma, being old is cool, and sometimes i wish i could be treated like an old lady haha. we ran into a super rude guy yesterday ... i had to "cool off" for about 5 minutes afterwards. but we have to be like Christ, patient with everything. and we have to try to think good thoughts about mean people ... cause thoughts affect how you work and feel and act around people. soooo i'm like 90% sure i'm going to get transferred in a week, i'm not sure, normally a missionary gets transfered after 4 or 5 transfers in an area. butttt President Murri asked Elder Triana if the heat affected his "condition" (that was caused by me) and he told him that the doctors said that the heat would affect it. by the way he is all better now, no affects really, and in 2 weeks he'll be "officially and technically" fully healed. anyway, so i think president murri may transfer him out to a cooler area, so 1 or 3 things will happen. 1) i get transfered and E' Triana stays and gets someone new (i'm betting on him training). 2) I stay and get someone new and E' Triana gets tranferred to somewhere cooler. 3) we both get transferred (it's called whitewashing an area) and 2 new guys get brought in. sooo yeah, we'll find out next monday. this transfer has flown by, it's crazy, they just go by faster and faster. so how is spot? is he on probation? i'm glad that kenidee is better, go kick butt at softball! soo there is a family in the ward who has some kids that live in Hyde Park, they are going up there this week and for pioneer days, so i may give them the address and tell them to come say hi, the husband can speak english so it's all good. this week we worked really hard in the heat, 100+ every day ... and ya know what, i have only gotten sunburnt twice! i'm used to the heat now, once i'm out in it it's fine, it's just getting in and out of super hot and nice and air condisioned cars that gets me, haha. knees are doing fine, and i'm doing great. i have a request for Dad, actually i have 3 requests, in order of importance, my priesthood authority line ... don't have it, great tool to teach to new converts. 2 talks, "The Role of Members in Conversion" by Elder Oaks in spanish please, and "Find my Lambs, Feed my Sheep" President Hinckley in English please. that would be great if you could get those to me. how is everyone enjoying the last few months of summer? working hard? obeying dad mom and grandma? i'm very grateful for the family that i have, you all are great and i love you tons, i want you all to know that a mission is i think the first most important thing that you can do (for guys), 2nd probably marriage+family and 3rd probably education, not entirely sure on 2 and 3 cause i haven't reached that point yet. but for me, up to this point in my life, my mission is the most important thing. testimony strengthened, people skills sharpened, patience level increased ;] and many many more things that are continuing to increase in their own respective forms. heed the counsel from the bishop, read the Book of Mormon everyday, 4 pages is nothing. i'm still working on trying to improve my reading of the BOM, it's hard cause we only have an hour for personal study and its usually filled up studying for our investigators, and then we finish studying and head out and zoom there goes the day. i'm going to start reading the LDM for spanish study and we'll see if i can get done by the end of the year with you guys ok? never stop increasing your knowledge of the gospel, you have to be ready at a moments notice to share the gospel. if we gain more knowledge now, we will be better off in the life to come, dad can show you the scripture in D&C that says so cause i can't remember it at the moment.
remember that i love you all, remember to study the scriptures, feast on the words of Christ and then you will be able to pass through the chalenges in your life with surity of Christ's love for us. ( Alma 37:44-45 ) remember to laugh and to smile, God has a sence of humor, just look who he stuck in the Larsen Family! ;] i love you all, may God bless you.
Elder Christopher Larsen
okkk so yeah i think i can print Emails, i think i have to pay like 5 cents(just realized that we don't have a cents sign on the keyboard...hmmmm). it would be perfectly fine if you guys write them on the computer and then just mail them to me, that way i can take them to email and answer any questions you have, and respond to it all, cause i hate having change in my pockets and i'd probably forget to bring change to email every week. i'm glad that you wrote me emails though, i love hearing about everyone. Dad sounds like you're having fun, wow, if i had been home i think i would have found some way to go with you guys, i remember when we went to the wind rivers before we moved, we spent a week up there and it was probably the most amazing experiance "nature-wise" of my life, soooo beautiful. pretty crazy the things our Father in Heaven has made huh? we were having a conversation Elder Eaton and I about the brain and stuff and how it's a pretty crazy thing. hahaha i'm really going to miss him alot, he's probably the best bud i've made out here so far. he is going home a week from today, he's an old missionary. so i take it that you did recieve my pictures?? i hope so, cause i wasn't sure if you could put stamps on those yellow padded envelopes ... but i did it anyway and sent it off with alot of faith. Elder Eaton is the one who takes really weird pictures of his face...he is also the one in the Sombrero. being a missionary really brings into prespective life. who you are, who different people are, how to interact, the world, lots of crazy stuff. i've grown so much from this short experience that i have had out here, i'm 7 months old only! grandma, being old is cool, and sometimes i wish i could be treated like an old lady haha. we ran into a super rude guy yesterday ... i had to "cool off" for about 5 minutes afterwards. but we have to be like Christ, patient with everything. and we have to try to think good thoughts about mean people ... cause thoughts affect how you work and feel and act around people. soooo i'm like 90% sure i'm going to get transferred in a week, i'm not sure, normally a missionary gets transfered after 4 or 5 transfers in an area. butttt President Murri asked Elder Triana if the heat affected his "condition" (that was caused by me) and he told him that the doctors said that the heat would affect it. by the way he is all better now, no affects really, and in 2 weeks he'll be "officially and technically" fully healed. anyway, so i think president murri may transfer him out to a cooler area, so 1 or 3 things will happen. 1) i get transfered and E' Triana stays and gets someone new (i'm betting on him training). 2) I stay and get someone new and E' Triana gets tranferred to somewhere cooler. 3) we both get transferred (it's called whitewashing an area) and 2 new guys get brought in. sooo yeah, we'll find out next monday. this transfer has flown by, it's crazy, they just go by faster and faster. so how is spot? is he on probation? i'm glad that kenidee is better, go kick butt at softball! soo there is a family in the ward who has some kids that live in Hyde Park, they are going up there this week and for pioneer days, so i may give them the address and tell them to come say hi, the husband can speak english so it's all good. this week we worked really hard in the heat, 100+ every day ... and ya know what, i have only gotten sunburnt twice! i'm used to the heat now, once i'm out in it it's fine, it's just getting in and out of super hot and nice and air condisioned cars that gets me, haha. knees are doing fine, and i'm doing great. i have a request for Dad, actually i have 3 requests, in order of importance, my priesthood authority line ... don't have it, great tool to teach to new converts. 2 talks, "The Role of Members in Conversion" by Elder Oaks in spanish please, and "Find my Lambs, Feed my Sheep" President Hinckley in English please. that would be great if you could get those to me. how is everyone enjoying the last few months of summer? working hard? obeying dad mom and grandma? i'm very grateful for the family that i have, you all are great and i love you tons, i want you all to know that a mission is i think the first most important thing that you can do (for guys), 2nd probably marriage+family and 3rd probably education, not entirely sure on 2 and 3 cause i haven't reached that point yet. but for me, up to this point in my life, my mission is the most important thing. testimony strengthened, people skills sharpened, patience level increased ;] and many many more things that are continuing to increase in their own respective forms. heed the counsel from the bishop, read the Book of Mormon everyday, 4 pages is nothing. i'm still working on trying to improve my reading of the BOM, it's hard cause we only have an hour for personal study and its usually filled up studying for our investigators, and then we finish studying and head out and zoom there goes the day. i'm going to start reading the LDM for spanish study and we'll see if i can get done by the end of the year with you guys ok? never stop increasing your knowledge of the gospel, you have to be ready at a moments notice to share the gospel. if we gain more knowledge now, we will be better off in the life to come, dad can show you the scripture in D&C that says so cause i can't remember it at the moment.
remember that i love you all, remember to study the scriptures, feast on the words of Christ and then you will be able to pass through the chalenges in your life with surity of Christ's love for us. ( Alma 37:44-45 ) remember to laugh and to smile, God has a sence of humor, just look who he stuck in the Larsen Family! ;] i love you all, may God bless you.
Elder Christopher Larsen
Monday, July 13, 2009
week 5
Hey Fam,
Thanks so much for the long awaited letters!!! lots of pics, needless to say the Elders in my Apt got a kick out of the surgery pics...they were all "ohhh" and "waht is that?" and "ewwww" pretty funny. so this weeek went by super fast, i have 2 more weeks in this transfer and probably in this area. Elder Triana is pretty much healed so that is all good, he is driving today. we had a BAPTISM! Arturo, Hna. Quels' brother was baptized this past weekend with 2 child of record baptisms of our ward. it was great, Juana talked and it was awesome. the Quel's are way strong, and i'm excited for them to start progressing in the gospel. soooo funny story of the week, our fridge has been acting weird, our milk would go bad a few days before the expiration date and it just wasn't very cold, we could leave stuff in the freezer for a few hours and it wouldn't be frozen. so this morning Elder Eaton came in during studies and threw a "snow/ice ball" from the freezer at me, and that commenced the "DEFROSTING OF THE FRIDGE EPISODE" soooo we decided to investigate and found that the vents and most of the freezer had frozen over. soooooo we went to work and basically took the whole fridge apart till we could see all the parts with ice on them. then we poured hot water all over everything until we realized that the over-flow pin thingy was over flowing....sooooo we made a big mess and started to clean everything. we eventually just gave up on the poor dincky over flow pan cause we were dumping so much water down the freezer, so we took it out and i held a galon milk jug under it, and emptied it out several times. then we dried all we could get with a towel off and stuck two big fans in front of the freezer so it would dry off all the pieces and stuff. then we put it back together, searching for missing parts and all, and then pluged it back in. sooooooo then we left and are hoping that it is cold when we get back haha. the "rod of iron" is the coolest thing this side of the mississippi, aside from me. matt and lorrin will get along great in the MTC haha. thanks for the address, i already know lorrin's thanks. the parade pictures look cool, it's ok that you didnt get a pic of the band mom, i still love you ;] thats crazy about stevie and the hunsakers, find out where they lived, i'd like to know where it was. thank you for all of your letters, i appreciate the time that you take to write me, when you are all on your missions i'll write ya i promise. Taylor....write more....Derek wrote more than you did. EFY sounded awesome, although i heard more about it from Jordan....hint hint haha Taylor if you don't want to write a letter, type one, i want to hear from you too. EFY is more than just Girls. but no worries, because i know that i'll be getting a more detailed letter from you soon ;] Elder Eaton and Rogers got a kick out of your letter taylor, Elder Eaton calles you a champ. and i don't know what "answer my quieres" means...answer my wants? maybe? directly means "Answer my you want". plusss you didn't ask me any other "Preguntas" than that one so i dunno what you want me to write, and the "mish" is just fine haha. i'[m very glad that Kenidee is doing better. no worries, you don't give up on playing clarinet, there will be a way to play it ... and if that doesn't work ... Trumpet probably will never go out of style.
so we have a few progressing investigators, this week went by quick but kind of slowed down with our investigators. i guess its just the ups and downs of the missonary way of life. we are planning on working hard these last two weeks, on Friday i turned 7 months old!! crazy how time flys eh? there are a few birthdays coming up too, so i'll be getting you your cards, BTW when is Marie Laure's birthday? i found a hillarious card for her.
remember that the church is true, none of this is fake, and there is always a way to over come lifes challenges. we need to have sufficient faith to over come lifes problems. faith is the most basic of principles and is necesary for a strong testimony. you guys should read the talk "the Challenge to become" by Elder Oaks as a family one day. it's very good and give some good insites and advice. sorry if this letter doens't have too much "meat" in it, we have no time because the Fridge incident took forever (i took lots of pictures). oh, did you guys recieve my pictures? i sent them off last week in a yellow padded envelope with two stamps on it. sooooo i hope they got there. let me know. oh, this morning we also found and killed out arch-nemisis, a huge cockroach that was hiding in our apt. got a really good pic of him too. anywho, i love you all alot, thank you for your letters, love and care. Dannys package was really great, little M&M's with messages on them, i took pics of that too. i'm addicted to taking pics of everything haha i know elders who have had the same camera card their whole mission with-out sending it home haha. k guys, till next week!
Love,
Elder Larsen
Thanks so much for the long awaited letters!!! lots of pics, needless to say the Elders in my Apt got a kick out of the surgery pics...they were all "ohhh" and "waht is that?" and "ewwww" pretty funny. so this weeek went by super fast, i have 2 more weeks in this transfer and probably in this area. Elder Triana is pretty much healed so that is all good, he is driving today. we had a BAPTISM! Arturo, Hna. Quels' brother was baptized this past weekend with 2 child of record baptisms of our ward. it was great, Juana talked and it was awesome. the Quel's are way strong, and i'm excited for them to start progressing in the gospel. soooo funny story of the week, our fridge has been acting weird, our milk would go bad a few days before the expiration date and it just wasn't very cold, we could leave stuff in the freezer for a few hours and it wouldn't be frozen. so this morning Elder Eaton came in during studies and threw a "snow/ice ball" from the freezer at me, and that commenced the "DEFROSTING OF THE FRIDGE EPISODE" soooo we decided to investigate and found that the vents and most of the freezer had frozen over. soooooo we went to work and basically took the whole fridge apart till we could see all the parts with ice on them. then we poured hot water all over everything until we realized that the over-flow pin thingy was over flowing....sooooo we made a big mess and started to clean everything. we eventually just gave up on the poor dincky over flow pan cause we were dumping so much water down the freezer, so we took it out and i held a galon milk jug under it, and emptied it out several times. then we dried all we could get with a towel off and stuck two big fans in front of the freezer so it would dry off all the pieces and stuff. then we put it back together, searching for missing parts and all, and then pluged it back in. sooooooo then we left and are hoping that it is cold when we get back haha. the "rod of iron" is the coolest thing this side of the mississippi, aside from me. matt and lorrin will get along great in the MTC haha. thanks for the address, i already know lorrin's thanks. the parade pictures look cool, it's ok that you didnt get a pic of the band mom, i still love you ;] thats crazy about stevie and the hunsakers, find out where they lived, i'd like to know where it was. thank you for all of your letters, i appreciate the time that you take to write me, when you are all on your missions i'll write ya i promise. Taylor....write more....Derek wrote more than you did. EFY sounded awesome, although i heard more about it from Jordan....hint hint haha Taylor if you don't want to write a letter, type one, i want to hear from you too. EFY is more than just Girls. but no worries, because i know that i'll be getting a more detailed letter from you soon ;] Elder Eaton and Rogers got a kick out of your letter taylor, Elder Eaton calles you a champ. and i don't know what "answer my quieres" means...answer my wants? maybe? directly means "Answer my you want". plusss you didn't ask me any other "Preguntas" than that one so i dunno what you want me to write, and the "mish" is just fine haha. i'[m very glad that Kenidee is doing better. no worries, you don't give up on playing clarinet, there will be a way to play it ... and if that doesn't work ... Trumpet probably will never go out of style.
so we have a few progressing investigators, this week went by quick but kind of slowed down with our investigators. i guess its just the ups and downs of the missonary way of life. we are planning on working hard these last two weeks, on Friday i turned 7 months old!! crazy how time flys eh? there are a few birthdays coming up too, so i'll be getting you your cards, BTW when is Marie Laure's birthday? i found a hillarious card for her.
remember that the church is true, none of this is fake, and there is always a way to over come lifes challenges. we need to have sufficient faith to over come lifes problems. faith is the most basic of principles and is necesary for a strong testimony. you guys should read the talk "the Challenge to become" by Elder Oaks as a family one day. it's very good and give some good insites and advice. sorry if this letter doens't have too much "meat" in it, we have no time because the Fridge incident took forever (i took lots of pictures). oh, did you guys recieve my pictures? i sent them off last week in a yellow padded envelope with two stamps on it. sooooo i hope they got there. let me know. oh, this morning we also found and killed out arch-nemisis, a huge cockroach that was hiding in our apt. got a really good pic of him too. anywho, i love you all alot, thank you for your letters, love and care. Dannys package was really great, little M&M's with messages on them, i took pics of that too. i'm addicted to taking pics of everything haha i know elders who have had the same camera card their whole mission with-out sending it home haha. k guys, till next week!
Love,
Elder Larsen
Monday, July 6, 2009
week 4
hey guys,
okkkk so i think i got the package from danny figured out, i'll just call them as soon as i'm done with Email and tell them to just leave it at the apt tomorrow. we'll get it all figured out, the package sounded cool, something about my life or something, she wouldn't tell me everything. everything sounds like it's going good, i'm sending the camera card home today, hope you enjoy the pics, i haven't gotten any letters from you guys in a while so i'm glad that mom said she is sending one soon. Rich and Kim sent me a full size Texas Flag haha it's awesome, now all i need is a Utah one and a California one, missionaries here are way into flags for some reason. and when missionaries leave an area they have all their buds sign their California flag. I gotta find a Cali flag somewhere. i think i'll be tranferred at the end of July, so i gotta get one before then. so this week went by quick, we're already in week 4! we're having a baptism this weekend if all goes well, Hna Quel's brother Arturo, and hoepfully 2 next weekend, and one is set for 1st of August. this area is on fire! we're being very blessed. soooo how was your 4th of july? mine was very non-fireworky haha i took a small video of the only kind of "celebration" that we did. haha it was fun though and we laughed. soooo funny story ... kinda ... last Sunday we were at a member's house teaching her and her friend and there was a bug on Elder Triana's collar ... so i went to hit it off of him ... without thinking ... and i also misjudged the distance between us and i must have forgotten that there was a human head behind the bug. anywho, so i hit the bug rather hard ... missed the bug, but the very tips of my fingers hit right in front of his ear ... apparently that isn't a very good place to get hit cause i messed up his equalibrium .... orrrr the organ in the inner ear that controls all your balance/focusing skills ... soooo for 3 days we were cooped up in the apartment cause he couldn't focus/ read/ listen to music/ think/ ride in a car/ walk too much/ walk fast/ be in the heat/ write/ study ... or basically anything that required any significant brain usage. needless to say we were very bored and i felt/feel like a dirtbag. but it forced him to relax, which is something he really isn't good at, that's kinda why we butt heads every now and then, so it was good in the end and yesterday and today we are working full days, it's almost better so he'll be ok. sooooo yeah, i cleaned alot this week haha.
okkkk so i think i got the package from danny figured out, i'll just call them as soon as i'm done with Email and tell them to just leave it at the apt tomorrow. we'll get it all figured out, the package sounded cool, something about my life or something, she wouldn't tell me everything. everything sounds like it's going good, i'm sending the camera card home today, hope you enjoy the pics, i haven't gotten any letters from you guys in a while so i'm glad that mom said she is sending one soon. Rich and Kim sent me a full size Texas Flag haha it's awesome, now all i need is a Utah one and a California one, missionaries here are way into flags for some reason. and when missionaries leave an area they have all their buds sign their California flag. I gotta find a Cali flag somewhere. i think i'll be tranferred at the end of July, so i gotta get one before then. so this week went by quick, we're already in week 4! we're having a baptism this weekend if all goes well, Hna Quel's brother Arturo, and hoepfully 2 next weekend, and one is set for 1st of August. this area is on fire! we're being very blessed. soooo how was your 4th of july? mine was very non-fireworky haha i took a small video of the only kind of "celebration" that we did. haha it was fun though and we laughed. soooo funny story ... kinda ... last Sunday we were at a member's house teaching her and her friend and there was a bug on Elder Triana's collar ... so i went to hit it off of him ... without thinking ... and i also misjudged the distance between us and i must have forgotten that there was a human head behind the bug. anywho, so i hit the bug rather hard ... missed the bug, but the very tips of my fingers hit right in front of his ear ... apparently that isn't a very good place to get hit cause i messed up his equalibrium .... orrrr the organ in the inner ear that controls all your balance/focusing skills ... soooo for 3 days we were cooped up in the apartment cause he couldn't focus/ read/ listen to music/ think/ ride in a car/ walk too much/ walk fast/ be in the heat/ write/ study ... or basically anything that required any significant brain usage. needless to say we were very bored and i felt/feel like a dirtbag. but it forced him to relax, which is something he really isn't good at, that's kinda why we butt heads every now and then, so it was good in the end and yesterday and today we are working full days, it's almost better so he'll be ok. sooooo yeah, i cleaned alot this week haha.
how is Kenidee? i suppose that she is just fine cause she could probably wrestle a polar bear and come out fine. no hard feeling directed toward Spot? did Spot get in trouble? did he feel bad? silly dog.
so we met a lady named Dora and she is awesome, she is the one set for the 1st of August. she read what we gave her and even started to show it and defend it to her Aunt and Mother-in-law who are both Jehovah's Witnesses. pretty funny, and the aunt is totally against it, but the mother-in-law tells her to follow what she feels. Dora says she just feels good about the pamphlet and everything we have taught her, she said that she feels different when we come over, sooooooo basically we jumped on that and helped her understand her feelings and what it was that she was feeling. she understands what the Holy Ghost is and that He will testify of truths, she has dedicated 30 mins per day for reading BOM and pamphlets. she has been prepared for us by the Lord, we're really excited for her and hope that all goes well. Satan really hits the good ones hard so we're doing our best to support her and help her. thanks for Matt's address i'll write him when i get a chance. do you have Casey's address? I gave Lorrin your address, we've been writing, he's doing great in the MTC, learning alot.
How was Girl's camp? BHL write me more about Hawaii, I told gma to write me more about Hawaii too. Kim and Rich sent me a small photo album with a bunch of pictures from their trip to Utah. looks like you guys had a ton of fun. alright guys, sorry this is so short, i'm running short on time cause we have to go to an appointment at 4 cause that is the only time that this investigator can meet us with her husband. soooo we're sacrificing 2 hours of p-day today and that makes everything kind of hectic. remember that i love you, the gospel is true, i'm doing good. i hope that you have a wonderful week!!
love Elder larsen
How was Girl's camp? BHL write me more about Hawaii, I told gma to write me more about Hawaii too. Kim and Rich sent me a small photo album with a bunch of pictures from their trip to Utah. looks like you guys had a ton of fun. alright guys, sorry this is so short, i'm running short on time cause we have to go to an appointment at 4 cause that is the only time that this investigator can meet us with her husband. soooo we're sacrificing 2 hours of p-day today and that makes everything kind of hectic. remember that i love you, the gospel is true, i'm doing good. i hope that you have a wonderful week!!
love Elder larsen
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