Kirksville, Missouri

Hey! This week has been great! Kirksville has been doing great and I love it! We have some super solid investigator and we got a new one this week and he is super cool. His name is Dieu Merci Hilu, which means thank god in french, and he is Congolese. He speaks pretty good English and he loves Jesus and want to learn more and how he can be like us. He is so excited to be changed by god and we met him on Sunday and have already had like three lessons with him. But he is great and he said he is going to make African food for us tonight and teach us some french too because there are quite a few people from the Congo here. Im glad to hear things are going good at home and those are some nice fish you guys caught! I ask people sometimes where there are some good places to fish and there lots of good spots :) Well the its all been going pretty great here and I hope you all have a great week!! Love you!

Snow Day

December 12, 2016

Ya its been getting a bit colder but Ive been able to stay warm :) That taco stand sounds like a great idea to me!!! Actually some good tacos sound really good right now. Haha its funny I actually make salsa every week and will normally bring some to p-day and the elders really seem to like it :) 

Im so excited for Triston and tell him I say good luck and he's going to love it! Vegas sounds fun and I know Sebas will kick some butt. I really enjoyed those videos of him wrestling you sent last time and I would love to see how he does in his next tournament. But I'm so happy to hear you are all doing good :) This week was really good we got to go up to Iowa City for exchanges and it was really fun and cool to see how missionary work is in a big city. The work in Washington has been good too and we were able to meet with a lot of people this week. We were going to have 4 people come to church but church got cancelled because the roads were really icy but thats ok they can all come next week :) Oh ya and I can now say I have gone knocking in the snow and shoveled snow. We went to go shovel and older members driveway and side walk and kind of ended up doing the whole street so we had a nice arm workout :) And I love how this season has allowed us to serve people and people have been nicer too because that light of Christ is so strong this time of year. LOVE YOU GUYS!!!!!!

New Calling

November 07, 2016

Well Im glad to hear you are all doing well and tell Tyler I said good luck ;) It sounds like you guys had a good stake conference and this past sunday we also had an area broadcast from salt lake and I guess it was the first time they have ever done that but it was really good. It was cool because they talked a lot about going to the temple and teaching like Christ. There were four different speakers, and I can't remember the first three's names but the last speaker was Elder Rasband. He really emphasized the idea of one by one and how each of us can make a difference one by one and how God knows and blesses us one by one. But it was a really good reminder of the difference we can each make. 

Oh ya and it was really cool to see Halloween happen in a small town, they went all out! All the kids in the town and other smaller neighboring towns all gathered together in the town square and all the shops handed out candy and the park in the center of the square had tables set up to pass out more candy. And now they are already setting up for Christmas! They go all out for that too :) The weather is starting to get a bit chilly too. The low tomorrow is supposed to be 33....thats a degree above freezing.... Well hope you all have a great week! Love you!

November 14, 2016 

Ya I love this little town, it does seem like it is straight out of a movie. My mission president and his wife always say that Washington is their favorite town in Iowa. It has been getting a bit colder and we are starting to get some ice in the mornings but everyone has been telling me it is normally snowing this time of year and this is very irregular for it to be this warm right now.The past couple of days the low has been in the 30's and the high between low 60's-50's but I have been able to stay warm so far :) 

We have been working with a guy named Rodney and it has been so cool to see the change in him. He once told us he used to be content with life but now he knows he can actually be happy. He has been trying so hard to make a change in his life and he has come so far already and we are so excited for him to keep changing.

That is so cool you and dad got called as ward missionaries! I know you guys will be great at it and will receive so many blessings from it! 

Tell Sebastian I said good luck and to kick that other kids butt ;) and tell LJ i said good luck too, I dont remember who she is but I might if I saw her face so you should defiantly send me a picture of her ;) And sorry I havent sent any pictures I keep forgetting to bring my camera when I email. But do you think you could also send me a picture of our family and one of all the cousins together too :) 

November 28, 2016

GO SEBAS!!! Tell him I said good job! So this week I got a new companion and her name is Hermana Beach and she is from California so we are in a zebra companionship (one english and one spanish). And we are still in Washington :) But I have been trying to work on my Spanish and I have been able to understand mostly all of what people say but I'm working on the responding part. Hermana Beach is super nice though and she is cool too so we get along great. We ate so much food on thanksgiving! The member that fed us lives on a farm and she makes everything from scratch and there was so much food. Then we got to pet some horses and sheep after so it was fun. How was your thanksgiving? Its getting colder here and they said it is supposed to snow this week so im excited for this week :) I hope your week goes great! Love you all!

oh ya and we just had a change in our music rule so we can now have any artist as long as they are singing a hymn so do you think you can ask LJ to put some music together for me? And here are the last pictures me and Sister Hilliard took together and the one with Nereyda she is wearing my name tag because she wanted to :) she said it felt funny