I played golf last Monday!

Hi Mom,

We did get to go "goffing." I played awful (~50) but I enjoyed it. My short game hasn't faded away yet, but I couldn't hit a driver or iron straight down the fairway to save my life. My nice draw has been replaced with a banana-like slice." (quoting myself) I only started with one ball and I didn't lose it! So that was the good part. 

Sounds like Vegas was HOT - haha. I probably would have stayed in St George with Colby. Las Vegas has some nice golf though. Did Colby stay there with any friends?

Well, I hope that Isaac gets to play at BYU. That'd be really neat. We'd go to school together! We've been playing soccer a lot with all the hispanic kids and I am still terrible. 

Chick-Fil-A peach shakes are pretty yummy. And the grilled chicken bacon sandwich is one of the yummiest fast food things I have ever eaten. You gotta try it. 

So yeah I'll probably stay here for transfers. Too many missionaries are already leaving our zone. I think it would be ridiculous to have me go too. Who knows though! The bigger kid in some of my photos is Ryan Stojka. He teams up with us like three days a week so we just hang out with him on Mondays. We're buds! He's 17 but he'll be going on a mission soon. The photo from church has him in it as well. He's great.

Haha - is that Chase sitting next to Regan in that photo of home?

Yeah send another Chicken Taco seasoning packet if you find one. Finding pork butt or shoulder is a task so I won't cook those as much but chicken is easy and we have a crock pot. 

I should have taken photos when we went golfing. BAH! Man. HA Elder Packham chucked a club by accident in a tree and it got stuck something like 80 feet in the air. I don't even know how he did that but it sure was funny. 

Yeah everything is good here. We've got one of the best members ever in our area of Point Pleasant. His name is Brother Rob Cinotti but we call him Uncle Cinotti because he's got this goofy italian accent and Elder Packham and I both concluded that we wish he was our adopted uncle. He's hilarious. I'll send you a photo next monday. I didn't snag any new photos this week... my b!

love you much!

Tab

PS I'll be around for a minute.  Then we're off to Barnegat Lighthouse again! it was too much fun. Gonna go get some Abalone shells. maybe.

Hi Dad!

Haha that was an interesting story you shared of your interview with President Reichman. I hope to play golf with him again. He is a good guy. I bet one day that he will be the Stake President. If not, he'll be a mission president. 

(Tim's story - I had a temple recommend interview with Pres. Reichman today. We chatted a bit and then he started through the interview questions and was going through them at 90 mph. He was almost done and lost his train of thought and had to take a few minutes to regroup. When he was done asking questions, he said he lost his  thought because he had images of you swinging a golf club come into his mind. And then he said Tab sure loved to play golf.)

We had a pretty good week. I've been working on doing meaningful things with my time and not just doing things that fill time. For example, meaningful planning. It is easy just to put in members and the same people we visited last week for our plans every day. It's easy to be lazy that way. But I've been trying to use the area book to plan more effectively and plan new places to go and new people to find. It takes more time but we've been seeing more blessings from it. My companion is awesome. He gets really pumped by Saturday or Sunday afternoon because that's right before we have to report our numbers. I work slowly but daily. But I'm learning how to be bold from him. From my perspective, he seems confrontational. I'm more on the opposite side of the scale. We even each other out. And we get along really well so that's nice. 

I just started rereading the Book of Mormon. I'd been spending a lot of time in the Doctrine and Covenants and the New Testament and as I started reading 1st Nephi I began to remember how much I like the Book of Mormon. It is very plain and I like that. I wish more people would read it. It even looks like a neat book. I think that if I had never seen it before and someone gave it to me, I would probably read it. 

By the way, I played golf last Monday. I played awful (~50) but I enjoyed it. My short game hasn't faded away yet, but I couldn't hit a driver or iron straight down the fairway to save my life. My nice draw has been replaced with a banana-like slice. 

well that's about it. 

Love you!

Tab