An Obedient Missionary

Saints King Cake and Cookies

Garrett with our "Stick Greg" the day of the Superbowl

I didn't watch the game. President Yardley told me not to and I was going to not listen to him and do it anyways but I decided that I shouldn't. I had a guy we were teaching tell me the scores and stuff lol. My zone leaders were surprised when I said I didn't watch the game but I did hear it was a good game. I got to watch the celebration and the highlights. I also didn't watch it because I thought they would have lost if I would have watched considering I was told not to lol.

But anyways I have 2 baptisms coming up this week on Friday. I don't think I have a whole lot of pictures on my camera but then again I could be wrong. But everything is going well. I get along with my companion for the most part although he gets angry and frustrated really easily. O yeah during the Superbowl I spent my time watching some movie on Joseph Smith lol. It was a pretty good movie. I feel good about what I'm doing right now. I have been pretty obedient lately on my own. So how is the family doing? Yall will have to get me a Superbowl shirt and maybe buy the DVD for when I get home lol. Anyways I'm teaching quite a bit of people. The 2 getting baptized are Dorothy and Vincent. This other kid who is about 15 named Chris will be getting baptized probably on the 20th. Tell all my friends I said hi by the way. So this week has been pretty good. I didn't go to church though on Sunday because my companion hasn't been feeling well lately. He is having like a ton of migraine headaches. Everything seems to be going good without my medicine. I do kind of say a lot of random things though like I did back home though without it. Sorry this email is all over the place. I still have yet to see Trevor. I keep going to the temple and then the mission office and I never see him there. I will eventually see him there lol. So how are granny and them doing? And send me a picture of this puppet thing yall made of me. I had made something like a stick puppet of Greg for the Superbowl. It had a picture of him as a missionary on one side and a picture of him in his Brees jersey on the other. Since he couldn't be there with us in person to watch his team win the Superbowl, we had the stick puppet to represent him. It was kind of funny, but cute. Yeah I got the SI article you sent but I hope yall get the one of Drew Brees on the cover cause I would like to read it and it will be a collectors item one day maybe. Well mom thanks for the email.

We still go see Aaron in Jail. He is a really nice guy and I have respect for him. He has a hearing this Thursday so its possible that he could get out of jail then. Marti is the guy who had a seizure in church and he is fine. He just went home and rested later that day. It was a mild seizure. It wasn't like horribly bad or anything. Yeah I'm still enjoying my mission. I want a companion though that I can be buddy buddy with. Then it would be more fun. I'm waiting for summer to come around because I'm tired of cold weather and I think the days will go by a lot faster once summer comes. Meagan has a cute dog. How are all of them doing? On a scale of 1-10 I would rate my mission probably a 7 or a 8. Its a good learning experience and its not the easiest thing in the world. I have my trials but overall its been a good experience and it will be a good experience for getting married and raising a family. I also learn to be a lot more outgoing. Transfers are in 2 weeks I believe.At some point I will probably serve with Trevor cause President Yardley likes to put Elders who know each other together a lot of the time. On P day we have been going to the temple and we played volleyball last week and we just kinda chill. I would like to play more volleyball and sports more often though. I haven't written in my journal but I really need to try and write in it. I just never feel like writing in it lol. I hope I answered all of your questions. Today should be a pretty busy week. I have a stake coalition meeting tonight and a lesson at 5 with someone. We are gonna teach this guy Moses the 1st lesson tonight so hopefully it will be good. Anyways tell everyone I said hi and thanks for writing.

Love

Elder Mattei