You
all are incredible. I quite enjoyed your pumpkin pictures!! alexs
temple and pumpkin eating another pumpkin was grand, kevins minion was
incredible, and all reminded me of home so much! Good stuffs!
I have talked to Noah a touch, but it sounds cold
out there! as its getting to 100 and humid here! definitely gonna be
thinking of him! We will bring the world his truth, surely.
mom, don't you remember, you sent me with 20 bottles of contact
solution? If i need soap, meds, contact solution I am sure, anything I
need I can get here. Besides frosting and pretzals and cheesesticks. and
home. but hey, what are these 2 hours for? and no I have not found
peanut butter, but then again I have not looked very hard. I usually
just buy ham and cheese and bread and eggs. We always have lunches with
people.
I am glad all is well there! You will have to get me matts email.
I
got my halloween package on Halloween! What luck! I also got tons of
letters from the last month. 5 from lauren, 1 from mallory, and 1 from
grandma and grandpa simpson. someone help them figure out how to email
me. Oh and the little newspaper snipit from Grm k!
so this package made me very happy. let me tell you why.
first thing I saw was my moms handwriting, and that made me very happy.
Then
the pretzals. OHHHHH the joy!! always send pretzals!! I am slowly
enjoying the greatness. The peeps I was like, ok I will just eat one.
But no, you cannot just eat one peep. Before I could take another breath
they were gone. Ohhhh goodness.
The hammer screwdriver thing is super cool! super funny how small it gets!
Perry
the platypus Pez. I will keep this forever. forever being 2 years. I
did a little patience experiment with the pez, because on my attributes
test, patience was the lowest. I ate one pez and made myself wait for
increasing increments of time to eat the next one. When it got too easy,
I began to hold the pez in my hand for the whole hour I was studying.
This whole experiment took two days. The hardest part was the next day, I
was like, this is dumb, I just wanna eat it! But no, I made myself do
one at a time. It was so hard! But hey, maybe it helped.
lauren, if you have written my every week then I am missing two letters that must be at the mtc from sep 10 and 17. I did not recieve the Rm application or those other things.
for all those wishing to send me a real letter, it takes 2 to 8 weeks to
get here, so plan accordingly! Here is a funny thing I found about
letter sending, it is kinda long, and a lot of you have written me
emails which is the fastest and really easiest way to talk to me,
because I will not write handwritten letters often, they cost 3 bucks
each to send. so here is this, it may not apply, but its funny anyways.
The first epistle of Elder simpson to the dead letter writers.
chapter 1
IN the beginning was the mailbox and the mailbox was void of letters.
2 and the missionaries said, "let the mailbox be filled" and the box was not filled.
3 and the missionaries beheld the continuing void and were not pleased.
4 and lo, it was the first day of the first week and there was no mail delivered, but this was good.
5 But on the second day was the mail delivered, yet the box remained empty.
6 Yea, even from the second day unto the seventh was the mail delivered.
7 Even so, the box retained its void.
8
and yea, great mists of darkness spread forth from the void and
enshrouded the missionaries. Yea, and did bring much sadness to their
otherwise cheery days.
9 Even the long hours of fruitless tracting, being attacked by the
fowls of the air, and being pursued by the beasts of the field were not
as desheartening as the lack of blessed objects know as letters.
10 Yet they persisted.
chapter 2
AND, lo, on the second day of the second week the mists still encircled the mailbox.
2 and on the third day, from within the depths of the void was a single postcard.
3 and this postcard put forth a ray of light that pierced the darkness and overcame the mists.
4 and the missionaries were well pleased, and there was much rejoicing.
5 But, alas, their exclamations of joy were in vain. for the postcard was for someone else.
6 but if their joy was so exceedingly great over someone elses
mail, how great would be their joy at partaking of their own mail?
chapter 3
BUT some will say, a letter, a letter, We have already written a letter. We have no need to write any more letters.
2 know ye not that there are more days than one, and more events
tham one in a day? Why think ye that these events need no be reported?
3 Yea, and ye need not worry that your letters will go unanswered.
4 But you should say, I will go and write the letter tha a
missionary requests. for I know that he giveth no requests except he be
prepared to speedily respond.
5 and we give unto thee the parable of the self addressed envelopes.
6 When the missionary departed into the far off land he gave a
certain number of self addressed stamped envelopes to his friends.
7 Unto one he gave five, unto another he gave two, and unto the third he gave one.
8 and while he was gone, he that was given the five envelopes wrote five letters, then in his zeal wrote five letters more.
9 The same with him that had two enveloples, He wrote two letters and the two letters more.
10 But he that was given the single self addressed envelope became
slothful and careless. and he lost the envelope, even that which he was
given.
11 and when the missionbary came home he went unto his friends. nd he that had written ten letters he warmly greeted.
12. The smae with him that had written four letters.
13 But he that had written none at all was given nothin more than a fishy, wimplike handshake.
chapter 4
AND the missionary said unto his friend, lovest thou me?
2 nd the friend said, of course I love thee. Then the missionary said, fill my mailbox.
3
He saith a second time, friend, lovest thou me? and the friend said,
thou knowest that I love thee. He then said, fill my mailbox.
4 He then spake a third time saying, lovest thou me? nd the friend said, thou knowest that I love thee!
5 Then the missionary said, stuff my mailbox.
6
and the vision is become unto all as the words of a letter that is
sealed in the envelope that men deliver to one who is not serving a
mission saying, Read this, I pray thee, and he saith, I cannot, for it
is sealed and it is not mine.
7 and the letter is deliverd to him that is serving a mission saying, read this I pray thee, and he saith, why sure.
8 Therefore you should proceed to do a marvelous work for a missionary, even a marvelous work and a wonder by writing a letter.
That is all. Yeah I thought it was funny too.
One
thing I could use, mom, is recipies. I cant find my book. can i get
recipies for crepes, brownies, choco chip cookies, and sugar cookies?
just in case i have some extra time on pday to have fun.
I laughed hard in one of laurens letters talking about mom. I guess mom asked
with all this modern technology, why cant they make bandaids for black people?
and also
I am not playing!! (after a ball hit the window)
hahaha oh mom, I love you so.
Halloween, I
saw a few trick or treaters with their parents, mostly dressed up like
witches and stuff. there are a few clothes and stuff with halloween, but
its not big here. people know it is all.
I finally saw a good sunset! Oh it was beautiful. I
wanted to just sit and watch it and pull up a cowboy hat and play my
guitar. This place is gonna make a hick out of me.
We
taught this man who had bugs crawling all over his feet. like they
lived in the wounds that were there. he didnt even seem to care. Ew.
poor guy is getting eaten!
I finally weighed myself for the first time in the
mission! I have gained 10 pounds! I was also wearing shoes, had my tag,
planner, stuff in my pockets, tie, belt, BUT HEY! maybe i have gained 5
lbs.
lightning here is super cool. You can see it in the
cloud coming. It lights up the sky. super cool! We have seen it a lot
this week!
I went on a split this week with an
Elder who is only 6 weeks more advanced than me. It was hard for us to
talk to people and understand, but I feel like we had a successful day
there! His apartment is super nice. air conditioning. end of story. We
made pancakes. I bought stuff today to make pancakes.
I have learned something of obedience. How can we
expect our investigators or friends to keep their commitments if we are
not keeping ours? just ponder on that.
With an
investigator Yeni, (jenny, pronunciation) we asked her to pray about the
book of mormon and if it was true and just wait for a little bit and
listen. Well we waited for no less than 5 whole minutes I am sure, but
she was crying, and she could really feel the spirit of it! Then... she
didnt come to church. But hey, its a work in progress.
It's fun to run into other missionaries or pastors
from other religions. They all teach truth! They all teach good stuff!
But its not everything! They are missing important things! Its sad.
No we do not have ensigns, and yes we have 4 other sister missionaries in our branch.
Well I am out of time. I have so much to say to you all! ahh,,, next week.
love you all, keep writing me!
This is my mtc district, the aaron district.
Top, left to right.
Elders Reed, Eiker, Degn, me, worsham, baxter, miller
Holding our teacher Hermano fioramanti (love this guy)
Below, Hma sanders, elder page, and hma braunersrither.
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