Mark's in New York

Hey how are yall doing? It was nice bein able to talk to all of you. I enjoyed it. There really isn't much new goin on since then. Today we played dodgeball and had sushi. It was pretty fun but got pretty old fast. I would have rather played basketball or football. Don't move my room into that big room unless I get a door cause I would like to have some privacy down there. But if there is a door built there I'm all for it. Thats awesome that Mark landed today. He will probably really like it there. I wonder where he is gonna serve first. That would be sweet if he went to Manhattan. I will have to write him more now since he will have more time. I hope he will have a pretty good trainer. I think he packed way too much stuff. That was so stupid for him to do. He is gonna just end up getting more while he is there. It will be a pretty big pain to transfer with all of that stuff. As I told yall we got a new investigator on Sunday. He seemed like a pretty nice guy. Our area has picked up a lot. We seem to have a lot of potential people to teach. So I'm hoping everything will turn out for the best. Anyways sorry there isn't much to write this week. But yall have a good night and take care.

 

Love

Elder Mattei

Not Counting Down

So how are yall doin? So to answer some questions Elder Crook is doing good. He actually called me from Indiana. It was nice being able to talk to him. I hope to see him sometime later this year hopefully. Elder Ware's family apparently did get hit by a tornado but eveyone is ok. He said his house had lost some shingles and damaged the roof pretty bad. But his Aunt lost her house entirely. It looked really bad. But they all seem to be fine.

I'm still working on doing that fireside. Its gonna take a couple of months to plan. It will prolly be like right before I go home. So hopefully I stay in this area long enough to plan it all out. That conference sounded really good dad. That is a lot of popular people you got to hear. It sounded like it was a pretty good message as well. 

So the NFL draft was this week. The Saints got some pretty good players. I think they will have a pretty good team this year. They got the Heisman Trophy winner in 09, Mark Ingram. The Cardinals also seem to be playing pretty well as of late.

I will probably start sending stuff home pretty soon. To be honest I really don't get that trunky. Its just kinda like whatever. Like the days are going by fast and I'm enjoying them. I'm not doing that count down thing. To be honest I don't really count down the days, just the months. Right now we aren't really teaching anyone new. We are hoping for that to change. Its slow right now and kind of discouraging. Things with my companion are really good. I get along with him.. Thanks for doing my college stuff by the way. It sounds like my classes should be pretty good. Anyways I got to get going. I hope yall have a good week. Tell everyone that I said hi.

 

Love

Elder Mattei

Starting to Enjoy Being a DL

Hey how are all of yall doing? This week has been pretty good. Its just been slow cause I feel like I'm always going to meetings and I'm not able to get any work done in my area because of it. Our area is really slow right now. Elder Bevell and I are really trying to get more investigators. I'm going to plan on doing a Missionary Fireside. So we will see how good my organization skills and everything are lol. I'm enjoying being a District Leader. Its not as bad as what I thought.

I read about the tornadoes and flooding in the paper. That's crazy. I kinda miss that kind of weather. Yesterday Elder Tukuafu and I got rained and hailed on. It actually was a pretty good storm. O yeah so I have some big news but unfortunately its bad. Elder Crook is going home tomorrow. I'm pretty sad to hear that he is leaving. He is going home to have surgery on his knee. I really like Elder Crook and Elder Ware and I are going to miss him a lot. I will probably go visit him sometime when I get home because he lives in Indiana. But I feel bad that he has to go home early. I went and told him bye earlier this morning. It will just feel different without him here. 

So on Easter we went and ate with the Wilsons and watched the Ten Commandments with them. It was actually a pretty good movie and I enjoyed watching it. I remember trying to watch it when I was little but I fell asleep. I also made gumbo on Saturday and ate it. It came out pretty good. I do think its pretty scary that everyone is getting married. That's crazy. Dad it seems like u will be going a lot of places this summer. That will be cool to go to all those places though. I doubt I will get to serve with Elder Ware. I wish I could serve with him though. Panama City is going to be fun. So will going to a LSU v Alabama game. I'm so excited for that. It looks like a lot of people wrote on my facebook. Tell Bro Scollingsberg I have like 3 months left. I miss that guy. He was pretty awesome. Anyways I need to get going. I hope yall have a good week and take care.

Love

Elder Mattei

Email to Todd:

I'm doing good. Well Mark's and my mission will be very different. Mark will probably be doing a lot of street contacting people. I don't really do that much. I receive more referrals to go contact people and teach them lessons. We also walk around and go and see less active members and stuff like that. Yeah that was me laughing in the background. I figured  it was you she was talking to cause it sounded like you. ( A sister that feeds Elder Mattei regularly called our home to find out some information for him about school.  She spoke with Todd who could hear Greg laughing in the background.  Todd was like "Oh my gosh, is Greg there?"  He couldn't believe it!)  My mission has been very good and I've really enjoyed it. How is school and everything going for u? Anyways I need to write Mom and my mission president so I will talk to u later.

Elder Mattei