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Service And Turkey Bowls

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THANKSGIVING WAS SO GREAT!! We woke up Thursday and THERE WAS SNOW ON THE GROUND!! We got to play football against some club teams and we (the missionaries) won a few games but because we didn't have cleats we kept falling!  We spent our Thanksgiving doing service and eating. Our mission president literally told us "go have fun"  What was fun for us was serving others. Seeing the smile on homeless people and seeing a home where we were able to give them wood was what we desired most.  I really am so sorry for the short letter. I promise to make the next great.  Pictures:  1. Splitting wood 2-3. Cute kid that wanted to help us 4. Football 5. The nick name everyone gives me 6. Sam's temple trip!!

THANKFUL

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Hey everyone! As a family on thanksgiving we usually go around the table and say what we're thankful for. Because I won't be able to talk to or see my family this week I want to let you all know what I am most thankful for at this time of my life. A lot of the stuff and the things I will refer to come from my personal study notes: There are so many people that are lost and think that they are the "vilest of the sinners" (Mosiah 28:4) and the "thought of coming into the presence of [their] God .... racks their souls with horror."(Alma 36:14)  What satan has done to trick these people is told them that all is lost and there is no way that they would be able to become great and that they don't deserve God's forgiveness. THIS IS A LIE (Ether 8:25) "For behold, I am God; and I am a God of miracles; and I will show unto the world that I am the same yesterday, today, and forever" (2 Nephi 27:23)  "and as many as should look upon the Son of Go...

Kidnapped By A 71 Year Old?

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Okayyyyy well first off we had a dinner at a really old guys house and he served a mission in New Zealand and he was bound and determined that he was gonna feed us like how the "natives do it" so we had a HUGE 10 course meal and he served us everything! He legit told us we could not leave until we finished everything. Anyways we finish dinner and start to head out. He grabs us by our shirts and tells us "NOPE you're staying for dessert" He goes into the kitchen and grabs 3 HUGE PUMPKIN PIES and tells us we need to eat dessert. This man cuts the pie into quarters and then plops the HUGE slice onto our plate. He then goes and gets a brand new can of whipped cream and starts piling on the stuff. No Joke this man ran out of cream and had to get another one. We were dying. anyways I hid a lot of my pie in a cup and threw the cup away. We aren't ever gonna go to his house ever again.  Okay on a good note:  That kid Sam I've talked about, (the one from Mud Lake...

Halloween!

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Okay so Halloween for missionaries is weird! we got locked in a building from 6-9 so we could all be accounted for. (all these Idahoans dress up as missionaries and do dumb stuff so we stayed in) We had the sisters set up a bunch of stuff for us, it was so awesome! The best game was the newly wed game but for companionships! Me and Elder Oringdulph won!! We then carved pumpkins and watched COCO! it was so good but we didn't get to watch the end. I was so sad!  Something awesome happened this week so here it goes! On the 30th at 9:00 at night we were on our way home (which was a 25 minute walk from where we were) we're hustling home because we are in a spooky trailer park. Not to mention it was 36 degrees with a bad wind.  We pass a trailer and keep walking and I get hit with the feeling that we need to backtrack 5 minutes to this random trailer! We knock and a voice tells us to come in. We get in to a super warm house and we see an old lady sprawled out on her couch with oxyge...

House Plant Vs Field Corn

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What’s up Elder! Crazy week here in Beaver, Cael did great in his game Wednesday, he lead the team in tackles.  It was fun to watch him. We play delta this Friday. That is a good matchup for Cael because they run the ball a lot.  I have been meeting with the Vivint Higher ups and they are really excited about my future with Vivint, I just wish that I had a crystal ball and could legit see what was real and what was hype.  Chris Smith (work gloves) discovered that he has a cancerous brain tumor that he needs to get removed. It is really sad. He is tying so hard just to make it until this summer when his son gets home from Puerto Rico. It makes me so sad for his family.  How are things with your new comp? Are you guys still crushing it?  I have been reading in several different books lately. None of them have really grabbed my attention though so it is hard to really did into any one of them. I don’t know if I’ve ever told you my house plant/field corn analogy or ...