Totally Random Stuff

So we didn't tract this week at all but we do have new people to teach from referrals and other stuff. So I'm glad that we have more people to teach.  It sounds like yall had fun at Table Rock lake.  President Yardley has been gone for awhile. He left like the 1st day President Cannon got here. I think someone was wanting to cook Gumbo for me but they also I think want to cook it for themselves. Have you heard about your favorite person Mel Gibson lol. I was like wow when I heard about all the stuff he said. In the package if you send anything send a Subway card and maybe some money. I don't need junk food and I try to stay away from it. I still have some fruit snacks from when you last sent me stuff. They're almost gone though. I sometimes cook for myself. I should probably be doing it more than what I do now. Tell Garrett I said Happy late B-day. I totally forgot it was his b-day last week.


If things are slow (finding people to teach) I fast and pray and also ask members for referrals or go through the 15 focus families. Or we go out and tract to find some people. I feel my mission has changed me by having a lot stronger of a testimony and I actually enjoy sharing the gospel with people. I love being able to see the change that happens in people's lives.  Are they doing high adventure at Scout camp? (Todd is at Boy Scout camp this week and Mark is helping out there.)  I got a letter from Granny the other day. I need to write them back at some point. To answer your other question my testimony has grown by going out and teaching and being more in tune with the spirit. So today we pretty much played football and emailed. It was a lot of fun and I enjoyed it. 


How are Jackson and Miss Aimee doing? How are the rest of Mark's friends like Bryan and Mark Lemen? Favre hasn't signed with the Vikings yet but I'm sure he will. I doubt he will want to end his career like he did.(uh~oh, I brought up football) The All Star game is tonight. Im hoping the National League will actually win for once. So how is Julian doing?  I think Drew Brees is a great guy and really has a good heart.  (More football -I mentioned the new book by the Saints QB)  Well I g2g. I hope yall have a good week.

Slow Week

Things here are doing pretty good. I started a new workout program called P90X. Its probably the hardest workout I have ever done. I felt more sore from doing it than I have doing football and lacrosse practice. Its supposed to totally transform your body though in 90 days. Each workout session is about 90 min long and its a pretty intense workout. You work out all the muscles in your body and do yoga and stuff as well. You have to do it 6 days a week as well.  I plan on doing it just about everyday but its gonna be pretty hard cause its really tiring. Things have picked up a little bit but not a whole lot. We will probably be tracting a lot this week I'm sure. No one is being baptized anytime soon.

We didn't do much 4th of July weekend. Elder Soleberg had a bday on Sunday so we went to his house to celebrate that and then we went to another missionaries house to watch a fireworks show. No I haven't sent the other memory card. Hopefully I will do that this week.

I met the new Mission President on Friday. He is a pretty nice guy and is going be doing some things a little bit differently. Like we won't have interviews with him as much so we won't really get to know him as well as we did President Yardley.

It sounds like yall are having fun in Branson. It would be fun to go jet ski and stuff. So where did yall find all those video games and stuff? No I haven't written anything in my journal. I really probably should. I'm really bad at writing anything cause I hate to write stuff. I don't attend ward choir or anything cause I dont have the time to with meetings and stuff. I do read my Patriarchial blessing every once in awhile. I probably should read it considering its been a couple of weeks since I have read it. Tell Garrett thank you for the note.

I'm suprised yall found all those games though. You think yall would have looked in my closet or something.  Literally since the day Elder Mattei left,  a bunch of his video games have been missing.  We found them along with a couple of his favorite movies (yes, he liked chick flicks) in a tote bag when we were packing for our vacation.  We had let him know that we had found them and I guess he was glad.    I miss watching the movie When Harry met Sally. I really liked that movie lol. So did Garrett like Toy Story 3? I heard it was really good and I really wanted to see it. I don't why Mark bought a N64 when you can just download a bunch of those games off of the Wii.  I really miss video games lol. So how is the Jet ski  running? Well I hope yall have fun at Branson. I'll talk to yall later.




Love

Elder Mattei

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