October 20, 2006

Okay first let me explain.............Ken went to Dallas for a Seminar and got permission from little Kenny's mission president to have lunch with him. Steve went as well as a long time family friend Cris Stott, who coincidentally taught little Kenny how to swim. They had a great visit and below is a portion of the email that I got from Kenny on Monday about the visit.

The visit was really good. I am sure they told you but I was way surprised to see them waiting for us. I thought they were just going to call at three, I wouldn't have recognized them but Cris was just staring at us and I eventually recognized that it was him. It was way weird having them in the apartment though that is for sure. I was at a loss of words, I didn't even know what to think. It was SICK though that is for sure. I wish we could have had more time together I am not dwelling on the visit either. Saying Good-bye was easy, I didn't cry at all. It was a lot easier than the MTC that is for sure. The blessing really did help, not every missionary gets to have their Dad give them a blessing while on their mission. It was also the first time that I was able to stand in the circle with Dad so it was an even better experience.

October 13, 2008

This week was really good. We have actually seen the temple site pictures. Elder Donadeo's chapel is like right across the street and his house is like five minutes away. He was way excited. I miss the snow so much. But I don't know about six inches on the truck, that does remind me of last year. All the time that I spent on that stupid four wheeler plowing the drive ways. Working at Pier 1 must be fun. That would be sweet if you have your own store. You would be making a lot of money so that wont be bad. So what is wrong with sis? Is she just having a hard time like being sick and throwing up or what. That is right that she shouldn't be working that hard. Make sure she gets a blessing if she hasn't already. We haven't got to many leads from the movie night just that one lady but we haven't been able to meet with her yet. We are going to have a baptism next week, he is dating a girl that is a member and we started to teach him and he wants to be baptized. We have to get permission from his dad first though. So keep him in your prayers please. So about transfers, we both are staying through another one. I am pretty excited about it, besides that fact that I need to learn Spanish because it is stressing out my companions a little bit because he has to do all the teaching at the Spanish appointments. I know it will be good for me so I am just going to suck it up and do it.

October 6, 2008

I can't believe that you got to go to conference,that is pretty sweet though. How come Sis didn't go? It would have been really good for her to be there. You just need to make sure that she watches it because I am sure that you recorded it or something. I wish I could have been there. It was way good that is for sure. We watched it at the church because we invited our investigators but none of them showed up until the Sunday afternoon session. It was pretty good though.

We had actually been talking about the temple in Rome. I guess that John Paul gave his permission but Benedict said no, so the members over there have been fasting for it. They have had the land for it for awhile. When President Monson said that they were building five new temples. I knew Rome was going to be one of them. You should of seen Donadeo when he heard that he totally jumped out of his chair. It was pretty cool that is for sure. It is going to be like five minutes from his house. I now will have a reason to go over to Italy and visit him. How sweet would that be?

We will have the first Spanish church meetings this Sunday. We will see how it goes. We had five of them show up for conference on Sunday so it should be pretty good. I really don't want to learn Spanish though that is for sure. If I stay here another transfer I will probably have to learn though. Transfers are next week so I will let you know what is going on.