Hey Mom!
Ha! The library's AC is still broken but it's not that hot today. So I'm here!
I'm going to be short today because I wrote dad a long email, but I'll answer some of your questions.
I did get a Flat Reese on Saturday with a statue of a newspaper guy. It is pretty good, and I just send it to her email right?
Elder Traasdahl is doing pretty well with his new companion, Elder Warnock. His spanish is not that good, but he looks a lot like Reese. The two are unrelated I know. He's a nice kid, too. He plays golf! And it sounds like he's pretty good. He told me his handicap is about 4.4, if that means anything to you. Colby knows what it means. I had a handicap of about 2.
I don't know David Gow, but I wish his family the best.
Well get out there and do some more work! Sorry my letter is short. I think I'll have time later today to finish a letter to you and include my memory card. I have lots of new pictures :)
Have an awesome week! Tell the Christen's hi for me! They wrote me a great letter for my birthday, and you can tell them I put the speaker from the letter into a tie I have, so now it plays star wars sounds whenever I hit my stomach. Good stuff.
Love,
Tab
HEy Rorie!
How was your trip to California? Did you guys go to the Ross on Market St? I love that store even though I've only been there once. Did you get some good chocolate Starbucks shakes? I have a map of San Francisco that has a lot of cool landmarks that you guys would have liked to see - it has a graffiti wall pointed out, I forgot what street it says that it is on.
So I think we went to Shalom for youth conference a lot of times. But never just as scouts. Ask mom - she came with us because she was YW president back then. I liked what ever place that was.
Clark said that our family writes him a lot! Good for you - I know he enjoys it. I think he still speaks english just fine, but we talk like that just for fun. He's a good guy. He is doing good work in Germany too, I'm proud of him!
I wish I had some cool things from Jersey to send you, but the truth about this area that I'm in is that it's not much different. Especially Princeton - it's a lot like a nice city in Utah. There's a highway, Chipotle, Pei Wei, Wendy's, Walmart, and Princeton University. I'll see if I can find something special about Trenton to find for you. The biggest problem is that we don't have a car to drive during the week so there aren't many places we can go to shop for special things. But I will be able to some day. Sorry! Oh, I can send you some goooood fried chicken.
Haha, Ritas... Swedish Fish Gellati! Glad it's coming to Utah.
I talk to Larry about once a week. I text him or he texts me. He attends church regularly, but he moved to a city called Elizabeth. The english branch in Elizabeth is very small, maybe 20 people attend. But he still goes! And he might attend the singles ward soon. He is doing alright, and they're still visiting him two or three times a week so that's great.
Well, thanks for writing me Rorie! It's a lot easier for me to email back than write back on a letter. I'm sorry - well I can't really apologize cause I'm not doing anything wrong - but we have from about 3pm to 5pm on P-Day where I have time to write a letter and usually I can pump out one good letter in that time. And that is if we're not doing anything like sports or eating. Other than that we can't write letters during the week. But when I get the chance, I'll write something quick :) But if you email, I have two hours at the library that I can email back.
Ok I have to write mom now...
I love you Rorie!
Tab
Ha! The library's AC is still broken but it's not that hot today. So I'm here!
I'm going to be short today because I wrote dad a long email, but I'll answer some of your questions.
I did get a Flat Reese on Saturday with a statue of a newspaper guy. It is pretty good, and I just send it to her email right?
Elder Traasdahl is doing pretty well with his new companion, Elder Warnock. His spanish is not that good, but he looks a lot like Reese. The two are unrelated I know. He's a nice kid, too. He plays golf! And it sounds like he's pretty good. He told me his handicap is about 4.4, if that means anything to you. Colby knows what it means. I had a handicap of about 2.
I don't know David Gow, but I wish his family the best.
Well get out there and do some more work! Sorry my letter is short. I think I'll have time later today to finish a letter to you and include my memory card. I have lots of new pictures :)
Have an awesome week! Tell the Christen's hi for me! They wrote me a great letter for my birthday, and you can tell them I put the speaker from the letter into a tie I have, so now it plays star wars sounds whenever I hit my stomach. Good stuff.
Love,
Tab
HEy Rorie!
How was your trip to California? Did you guys go to the Ross on Market St? I love that store even though I've only been there once. Did you get some good chocolate Starbucks shakes? I have a map of San Francisco that has a lot of cool landmarks that you guys would have liked to see - it has a graffiti wall pointed out, I forgot what street it says that it is on.
So I think we went to Shalom for youth conference a lot of times. But never just as scouts. Ask mom - she came with us because she was YW president back then. I liked what ever place that was.
Clark said that our family writes him a lot! Good for you - I know he enjoys it. I think he still speaks english just fine, but we talk like that just for fun. He's a good guy. He is doing good work in Germany too, I'm proud of him!
I wish I had some cool things from Jersey to send you, but the truth about this area that I'm in is that it's not much different. Especially Princeton - it's a lot like a nice city in Utah. There's a highway, Chipotle, Pei Wei, Wendy's, Walmart, and Princeton University. I'll see if I can find something special about Trenton to find for you. The biggest problem is that we don't have a car to drive during the week so there aren't many places we can go to shop for special things. But I will be able to some day. Sorry! Oh, I can send you some goooood fried chicken.
Haha, Ritas... Swedish Fish Gellati! Glad it's coming to Utah.
I talk to Larry about once a week. I text him or he texts me. He attends church regularly, but he moved to a city called Elizabeth. The english branch in Elizabeth is very small, maybe 20 people attend. But he still goes! And he might attend the singles ward soon. He is doing alright, and they're still visiting him two or three times a week so that's great.
Well, thanks for writing me Rorie! It's a lot easier for me to email back than write back on a letter. I'm sorry - well I can't really apologize cause I'm not doing anything wrong - but we have from about 3pm to 5pm on P-Day where I have time to write a letter and usually I can pump out one good letter in that time. And that is if we're not doing anything like sports or eating. Other than that we can't write letters during the week. But when I get the chance, I'll write something quick :) But if you email, I have two hours at the library that I can email back.
Ok I have to write mom now...
I love you Rorie!
Tab
Letter to Dad -
Thanks for the thought Dad! It applies well to me - I know that just getting out to teach is good, and working hard is good, but as Elder Callister put it, that is just changing our behavior. I gave a training in District Meeting a couple of weeks ago about consecration, changing our nature. I asked myself if I would be exactly obedient to all of the mission rules if I didn't have a companion who I had to account to all day, every day. My answer is no, I wouldn't. And so, I need to continue to learn about the importance of my calling. I have a lot to learn. But something I haven't done in a while is pray for charity, so I will do it.
I'm glad you had a fun trip. Mom sent me some photos she took. Did you eat at the fabulous vietnamese restaurant? I hope so. I plan to go there regardless of whether you are taking me or not! Reese said he enjoyed his senior trip to California and would love to do it again - I think it would be nice to invite him.
Our investigator pool is quite low. The problem we have is that we have lots of new investigators and almost none that are progressing. Each day it seems like we contact promising people, and then most often they don't invite us back after the second lesson or we never see them again because they won't keep appointments. Jos is progressing (somewhat) and we've only talked to her mother about joining the Church. She was okay with it, and Jos said she would be the more stubborn of the two. We haven't talked to her dad, but he is friendly to us when we see him. So the hope is that this week he'll be home and we can sit down with him too. Jos said she felt a lot better when we talked to her mom.
Ange and Arding are doing really well. They will get the priesthood next week (finally) and they are going to invite their dad to come. Sadly, Arding does not have a good relationship with his dad and so he wasn't very excited about that, but the Bishop suggested it. Both of them are actively participating and coming to church every week, but we're working on teaching Arding reverance and he still doesn't get it. I think that he has ADHD, because he's always moving and talking and what not. I hope that the ward will take him in like a son so that they can understand his problem and know how to work with it better than we do. Ange is awesome, he is teaming up with us this week to go visit some of his friends. Johnson is doing alright. He is still reading regularly and praying regularly but he hasn't been to church in a while because of work. We found out he joined a soccer team that will have games on Sunday so when we met with him yesterday we talked about the law of sacrifice. He understood it, and he knows that coming to church is more important than soccer games. His (spiritual) progression is slower because we don't get to visit him as much, so we have to rely on Courage and Ange to help him along. He was accepted to the University of Virginia Ewing and he will leave for school soon, so we're hopeful that missionaries there can continue to assist him.
As far as new contacts we've been teaching, we taught a family yesterday that we have waited two weeks to visit. We had the impression to knock on Camille's door about three weeks ago and he told us we could come back on the weekends to visit. He said he was a Catholic but he wanted to hear what we had to say. We came back several times and he was never there, but we got to know his six kids pretty well. He has the nicest family in Trenton! His family is the best - that is a huge motivator for us to go visit him. His wife is super nice as well. She is from Haiti. Well finally, yesterday, we taught him and his wife and two of his friends, Gilbert and Lawrence. The lesson didn't go as well as we'd like but it ended well and Gilbert seemed pretty interested. Lawrence, his wife, had met missionaries a lot before in Ivory Coast. Camille is pretty hard headed so it helped to have his friends there to talk some sense into him. Each of them committed to pray about and read the Book of Mormon. And we are coming back on Saturday to teach Camille more about the scriptures because although he's a Christian, he knows almost nothing about Jesus Christ. That was what made the lesson tough. Anyway, we've been praying that he will be more accepting to the message of the Restoration and that he will understand how much we love his family and how much we can help them! That's what we got to at the end of the lesson, and that was what made it end well... his family means a lot to him. So that and a few other interesting people we have appointments with this week, I'll let you know how it goes.
I hope you have another good week! Send me a picture of the progress of construction at BYU - I have a friend, Elder Jellen, in the mission who's dad is a professor I think and he had no idea that they were blowing up the parking lot. He asked me to send him a picture, and I can't find the one you sent me a while back. Have a great week!
I love you,
Tab
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