Finally, Pictures!

The skits were to describe a principle in Preach my Gospel lol.   Elder Mattei sent a video of the missionaries acting out scenes.  Preach My Gospel is basically the missionary handbook they use.  It was  during a district meeting. I heard about Dad's car that really stinks. Good thing it didn't do any really bad damage.  Okay, so for those of you who haven't heard already, Thomas was sitting in Mike's Jetta (a stickshift) before church on Sunday.  Mike ran back in the house to get his wallet.  Thomas leaned over the stick to get something and took the car out of park.  Our cul de sac is at the top of a hill.  The car rolled all the way down, taking out a mailbox and glancing off a Suburban.  Luckily Thomas was fine, but the damage actually was pretty bad.  I guess that serves Todd right for sneaking out although that does stink that he has it all over his face. That's kind of bad of all the stuff Todd is doing cause it will only get worse as he gets older.  Todd's been pretty mischievous lately.  He snuck out late one night to hang out with friends and apparently got into some poison ivy.  His face was really messed up.  We emailed pictures of Todd's face and Mike's car to Elder Mattei.   I'm surprised to hear that Christine is going on a mission. I honestly didn't think she would ever serve one. A friend who will be serving a mission soon.  This week we found a potential investigator by knocking on the wrong door. Im glad we found him because we need more people to teach considering things are slow right now. We will probably go tracking some this week. Things with Trevor have been going good. I know dad asked if I thought he was a good teacher and stuff and I think he is really good at teaching and knows what he is talking about. Trevor has been a really good companion and we haven't argued or anything at all which is good. We are out of miles again at the end of the month so I spent yesterday at the Hills mowing their lawn in 95 degree heat. Im glad to hear that Bishop Tuttle said nice things about me. Our bishop was speaking to the church members at a meeting last week about missions and said some complimentary things about Greg which we shared with him.   Today we played a lot of basketball and it was pretty good. We went to the Fathers and son campout for 2nd ward but didn't stay overnight. They had a really good fireside and Bishop Arrington's son, Travis just got back from his mission in England so he gave a really good talk. It was a really good night. Im glad to hear Melissa went with Mark to a church activity. I hope Granny and Pop Pop and Stephanie are doing well.  So my week has been pretty good and I hope we will find some new people to teach this week. Yall take care


Love Elder Mattei

 

Elder Kirkpatrick

Elder Kirkpatrick with Elder Mattei

Mardi Gras in Idaho??? 

A stop sign in April

Elder Eddington

Elder Mattei ,Elder Guerro, Elder Leonard, Elder Hall, Elder Langi then next to Elder Hall is Elder Gillie then Elder Crook then Elder Eddington

with Elder Leonard and Elder Langi

Still No Pictures

Hey how are yall doin? My week has been pretty good. My rash seems to be coming back which stinks. I have a huge farmers tan lol. I do a lot of outdoor work. Yesterday Elder Langi and I rode bikes so that we could save miles on our car. Trevor can't ride a bike so he went with Elder Akina. I rode probably a good 10-15 miles yesterday. It was good exercise and I took video of it. I just found out that Trevor left our phone in the other Elders car so it's gonna be hard to get because they live in Buhl lol. So I can't give you Sister Kerr's address or # at the moment but I will give it to u next week if you remind me. I'm glad Pop Pop is interested in talking about religion. I'm in kinda a hurrry right now so I won't have too much time to talk. I met a weird relgious freak yesterday. He was just really weird. He was sayin how he was selfish for taking a extra 90 sec shower and how that was a sin. He also refused to touch a Book of Mormon that we offered him. He was pretty crazy. Things are still pretty slow around here but hopefully they will pick up soon. Its pretty mild temperatures here. Thankfully it hasn't gotten very hot. Today we slept in and I mowed Brother Hills lawn and played basketball and emailed. That was pretty cool that Lindsay and them were able to see Austin.  Lindsay, while visiting a friend in California a couple of weeks ago just happened to run into another missionary from our area - Elder Tuttle is Greg's age and graduated from HS with him.   I saw the picture on his thing. Tell Granny and Pop Pop and Stephanie I said hi. Tell Grandma and Grandpa as well. Hopefully they are all doing ok. Anyways sorry this one is pretty short but I got to get going. Yall take care.

Another Transfer in Twin

Things have been going pretty well this week. The teaching seems to be going good. We had a ward party in 16th ward where Bishop Kerr had to kiss a pig lol. Hows Todd's hair looking lol.  Much better!  The rash seems to be getting better. The rash Im pretty sure came from hiking and stuff. So spring fling is basically playing a bunch of sports and stuff with a bunch of different zones. It should be a lot of fun though. I'm hoping that me and Trevor stay together next transfer. Transfers are next week and I would like to stay because I really like this area. Some of the families we have just started teaching have been progressing pretty well. Yeah we get a lot of member referrals. Member referrals are really where most of the baptisms come from. I'm kinda distracted right now so its taking me forever to write this letter.  Apparently it was taking him so long to write, he had to continue the email 3 nights later.  


How are all of yall doin? So I'm having to do the rest of this from Brother Hill's computer because I ran out of time at the library the other day. Today I mowed Brother Hills lawn and stuff and went to some appointments and helped at the Bishops' store house. So dad to answer some of your questions,  I have been getting along with Trevor pretty good. I don't think we will argue or anything. I have to clip his toe nails and stuff lol. Elder Gonthier, (Trevor) has a physical disability which limits some of his range of motion.  So he needs help with things like putting on socks, clipping nails etc.   I butchered his feet the other night and caused one of them to bleed . I felt bad but it's all good. Trevor had his six month yesterday so we invited some Elders over and they burned ties and stuff.  A missionary ritual at certain anniversary marks.  


 I found out today that this girl that likes me is pretty much crazy. She is 13 yrs old and she has been in and out of juvie since she was 8. Apparently if you make her mad she will freak on you and beat the crap out of people. She has been charged with battery probably over a dozen times. The lady we had dinner with works at the detention center and knows her very well. She told me to be careful around her and stuff.   She grew up with bad parents and stuff and unfortunately will probably spend most of her life behind bars. So yeah she is pretty much psycho.


 But anyways mom can you send me your gumbo and red beans and rice recipe. So I'll tell yall about the spring fling. It was pretty fun but I guess I was expecting more. It was fun playing baseball and stuff with the Yardleys. Mission president and his wife  It wasn't much different than a regular p day except for the fact that 4 zones were combined for it. I had fun though and I found out I'm probably staying with Trevor another transfer. I get transfer calls tonight so I guess I'll find out for sure if i am or not. 


 Let me know how Melissa likes our church.  Mark is trying to get his girlfriend to attend church with him once in a while.   I'm sorry to hear that Granny and Pop Pop are getting sick. It kinda worries me cause I'm not really there to see them or anything like that. Tell them I said hi. I'm gonna try and write them this week. I'll be sending your memory card tomorrow.  Every week he says he's going to write his grandparents and send the memory card.  I've about lost hope of ever seeing a recent picture of him.  LOL   So I just found out for sure that I'm staying here. So I will be here for a total of 6 months. I really like it down here a lot. Its a good area. I'm excited that Elder Langi is going to be down here still. I've become really good friends with him. He is Tongan but he lives in Salt Lake. He and I both came in our areas at the same time. So right now Brother Hill is lecturing me about turning the lights off lol. He had to tell me something about leaving my stuff around. I need to work on cleaning up. I'm getting better but I still need to work on it a lot. Apparently he has been in Twin Falls so long he's starting to really make himself at home.   Tell Julian thank you for the comment. You need to get him and Courtney to email me directly. It would be nice to hear from them. I need to write them more. I'm really bad at writing people. O yeah I think i may have overdrawn my account. I apologize if I did. I used a lot of that money for clothes and stuff that I needed so thank you for that. Well its getting late and I probably need to go to bed. Hopefully everything is going well. Yall take care and I'll talk to yall on Tuesday. 

Love 
Elder Mattei