I happened to be on the computer this morning checking my email and a letter from Tab popped up. Good thing no one else was home or my scream would have scared them to death! What a great surprise - So happy to hear from him! Here's what he is up to.......
Hi again!
Sorry I have not been able to write home as often as I used to! We are always busy doing something and the last two Mondays we have only been given 30 minutes on the computers. That and to be honest, writing letters to everyone has become less of a priority for me. Obviously I still will write every Monday and I think about the family every day but in my down time I don't think of how many letters I can write. There are just too many other things I could, and should, be doing before that. I still need to finish my hand written letter home because that will have a lot of good stuff in it for everyone.
How is everything going at home? I hope that you are still enjoying reading your scriptures every night. As of late I have had a huge interest in reading the Book of Mormon. There are so many cool stories that I am discovering that I just skimmed through late at night and didn't pay any attention to. As a mission goal we are trying to read the Book of Mormon (starting over last week) by the end of the year. I am at 2 Nephi 10, so I have a lot to go. But I already read the Book of Ether because the idea was to read the records in chronological order.
So I have a few random and funny things I wanted to mention:
-On our way home from stake conference we passed a Gas Station/Subway deal that was converted from a chapel, so it was like a Subway with a steeple. Super funny and I didn't get a picture of it but I will.
-They have Smashburger and Panera Bread here! We went to Smashburger last week which was amazing.
-Is Regan engaged yet?
-Oh could you send some more of those Lindt bars in your next package? Just a few cause I don't need them but I really like them alot. Thanks!
-I think I will end up using my trench coat because it is super warm. So about the coat you were going to send - forget that I said in my last email about a coat. I probably won't be needing like a winter coat type thing so you don't need to go buy one. I think I may have one that's just a black wool or medium overcoat type thing at home.
-There is this store we went to the other day called Forman Mills and it is like a Ross/TJ Maxx superstore and it has the style of clothes that black people wear (which happens to be my taste:) and I was just lovin it in there. It's a shame though because I don't need any more clothing. I have plenty for now. So we'll have to go there after my mission.
-In that package if you could include some sort of long johns or long garments, a pair of old pants and shoes that I can use for service and clean up, and my hat. And a gold or purple tie (I am going to send a few home). I think I have everything else that I need. Oh and some of the wide (8.5") envelopes not the small ones. And three of those cheapo adjustable CTR rings. We have some investigators that asked for them.
-Did that letter to Dylan end up working? If not you should take it to his mom's house (Regan knows where that is) and they know what to do with it. And how about the mail at the MTC? Do they have any that I didn't get?
-I have pictures from the hurricane that you will be getting soon. And it snowed! Almost 3 inches. It was fabulous. We made our first snowman. It melted the next day, though. Have you gotten snow yet?
-Our investigator who just got baptized, Larry, survived the hurricane in the forest. Pretty ridiculous because he didn't have any way of communicating for the weeks prior to the storm. Needless to say we were very worried for him and relieved when he texted us saying he had made it out alright. I'll have to write down and tell you what he said in that text because it was hilarious. He asked if he still needed to be confirmed and receive the Holy Ghost (the week he was supposed to there was a hurricane) because he felt like the Holy Ghost was already guiding him well enough. So great.
-My roommates are Evan Scott from American Fork, Utah and Trent Pruitt from Queen Creek, Arizona.
-Have you had anyone call about my bike? I probably need to worry about that later but it popped into my head so I wrote it down.
-I don't know if I said this already but we drove through Morristown a couple of weeks back and it was beautiful! The fall colors are amazing and the city is really nice. It's a very wealthy area. I would like to serve there.
-We went to Rita's Water Ice and we took a video so you'll see that soon.
-Our Branch President is named President Commander Rickford Hinds. And I think he's on facebook or something like that so you should check that out. He has dreads and he is something like 6'5" and he's the nicest guy in the world. It's great.
-If you get random facebook requests from people in New Jersey, accept them.
-I think that's it.
If you can somehow get Clark's ldsmail.net, MTC and mission field addresses that would be marvelous.
We've been staying pretty busy lately. It's been weird after Day Light Savings time because now it gets dark around 5:30pm and just weeks before it wasn't dark until around 8. So now by 6pm I feel like it's time to go home, and we still have 3 hours of work to do. So I'm hoping we get used to that because when it gets dark I often get tired, and it's cold, and when appointments fall through, all those things combined make it seem like forever.
Starting tomorrow we will be doing service in Eatontown, I believe. According to Elder Pruitt that is one of the cooler areas in the mission. He served there and loved it. And the area is huge too. I will hopefully be getting some neat pictures of the coast line.
I'll try to upload a few of my pictures in this email so you can get a teaser of the hurricane's effects in East Orange.
So I think that's all. Tell everyone hello for me! I probably won't be writing a big letter to Dad so you should share this with him.
Love,
Tab
I LOVE THIS KID!!!
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