11-3-14 Halloween

[After much research and hunting, we were able to find an apartment for Michael and Elder Holbrook at BYU in January.] I am excited that you found a place! Thanks for all your work there and I'm sure it will be great. It's got to be better than some of the places I've spent the night in out here… :-) 

Fun While We Work

I'm glad to hear the apartment hunt is going well. Yeah, I've talked to Elder Harris a couple times and he told me he would be living at home. I thought I told you that, sorry for the miscommunication. It is exciting to get things figured out, and will help me feel a lot better about coming home right before school starts. Thanks for everything you've done on that front.

New foods

[Sunday night we received a picture text from Steve Collins, who had just fed the missionaries.  He wrote', " Just wanted to let you know your boys are doing well and are being fed.  Thanks for sharing them with us.  Their testimonies are powerful.  They are great missionaries doing great work."]Haha well I am glad you are easy to please, because picture texts aren't too hard for people to send.

10-13-14 Meet The Mormons

I am so Flippin' excited for the snow!! We went to visit some people this week up in the more mountainous part of our area, and you could see all the different shelters for the homes built over the top of them to help with the snow. The people were telling us that some years it can get up to 10 feet of snow in certain parts of our area! Now I'm not saying that's going to happen this year, but I wouldn't be disappointed if we saw a couple feet ;-)

10-6-14

This week was good. It was really busy, but I am doing alright. We had a leadership meeting on Thursday with all the ZL's so I got to see Elder Holbrook and Elder Harris. That is always a bonus. Our mission president announced some new rules that missionaries are not going to be happy about....and we get to tell them tomorrow at zone meeting. The good news is that I get to serve around missionaries that will still be nice to me no matter what (Elder Benedict and Elder Geisler) so that helps. 

October Transfers

The news for transfers is that Elder Page is getting transferred to Redding to take Elder Harris' spot (He is going to Olivehurst) and my new companion is Elder Larson from Springville Utah. I have talked with him a lot before. He knew Zach in high school (graduated 2 years after him). He said that Zach was the only senior that was nice to him on the team. Anyways I am excited to be serving with him...most likely he will be my last companion.   Elder Benedict and Elder Geisler are both staying. One of the other elders we live with is getting transferred as well, so there will be two new missionaries in our apartment.

9-22-14 Boston

Wow, sounds like fun in Boston. I think from Dad's job, us kids have gotten the wrong impression of what a 'business trip' actually is...because from our perspective now, you guys just get a bunch of mini vacations with travel paid for by Dad's work. Ryan and Daniel never knew about the days back in Colorado where business trips didn't mean vacation. Haha but I am glad you kids are having fun on your excursions! [Steve had a business trip in Boston, and Laura tagged along at our own expense.  Work only paid Steve's flight and hotel for two of the nights.]

See, one of us is working!