Torn pants

So the pants that needed to be sewn were the ones we got at DI and they came unstitched below the pockets on both sides. I had already sewn them and on one side it got worse after a while.  The stitch I made held but it came unstitched farther down.  It also ripped across the crotch and I sewed that.  A member was giving us a ride and I was putting my bike in the back when my pants exploded at the thigh. It was ripped from the crotch to the knee and I haven’t sewn that yet.

I’ve already gained 20 lbs.  I now weigh 175. I’m going to be so fat when I come home and I can grow facial hair more effectively so I have to shave a ton it sucks.

New Companion

My new companion is awesome his name is Elder Whitney and he got transferred from Milton which is the next city over. We would hang out on p-days. I got the package and it was awesome, thank you so much. The picture on the mission blog where it looks like I am "dancing" is with Elder Browning and I was doing a karate take down.

So the coolest thing happened this week so we have an investigator that we have been teaching for 2 years and we had taught him all the lessons. We were sitting down for dinner and we normally watch D&C videos but I asked what other things we had to watch and Elder Whitney pulled out the Mormon message videos and when we opened it up it was the bible videos so we decided to watch them. We got to the part where Jesus is cleaning out the temple and he was throwing the tables and my comp and I were both surprised and we looked in the bible and found that is said that he was overturning tables, after that we decided to follow along in the bible with the videos because they are word for word from the bible and when we got to the sermon on the mount in Matt. 7 and it applied perfectly and we made an awesome lesson plan and when we gave it to him he really opened up to us and he is so close to a bcd. (I think this is baptism covenant day but not sure (Cheryl))

Elder Swenson

Sister Riggs Sewing my pants

Elder Taylor

Elder Swenson

kittens at a rc's house

October 6, 2014

So this week has been amazing weather. It was cool and we could drive with the windows down and have the wind in our faces. Conference was awesome and where I was, it was only one hour behind, most of the mission is only one hour behind but tally is two. I saw Josh Palmer and Joseph Goodmenson in the MTC choir at priesthood session. I really liked Elder Bednars talk in the last session and can use that for people I teach.

September 29, 2014

Hi mom, it is so crazy that jess is now home. An umbrella would be nice; when it rains it rains hard. How hot it is depends on the humidity most of this week has been nice and in the 70s but if you have high humidity it will feel like 100s and you will sweat a lot. 

So transfers are on Wednesday and my companion is being transferred and it sucks. I will be showing the new missionary around and I still don’t know the area. It will be hard. Last week I also got bitten by a dog, it chased us for a while and it bit my foot but it didn’t do anything to my shoe but I still got bit and it freaked me out. It seems like everyone in Florida has a mean dog.

Sept. 22, 2014

This week has been a lot better. I'm happier than I've been on my mission. I am starting to know the area. It is still hard to get up early and during studies I sometimes doze off. But my diet consists of cereal, beagles with strawberry cream cheese and peanut butter and Nutella sandwiches and what I get fed from the members. We get fed most of the time. Dad do you ever have ward council with the missionary’s because we have ward council every week except on Fast Sunday. We also taught a dog to like missionaries it was so cute.

Sept. 15, 2014

So this week has not been so good but the last few days have been a lot better. there is this place called firehouse subs, and it is so good, it is expensive but so good. we got to play basketball with some members on Saturday and it was a lot of fun. One cool thing that we can do in florida is you can burn stuff in your back yard, we have been doing service and cutting tree lims off and then we just put them in a pile and wait a few days and than we go back and burn them it is fun. 

Yesterday it rained so hard we got a ride from a member and by the time we got to our apartment we were out of the storm, then we waited five minutes and the storm caught back up with us.

Labor Day

Hi dad.

 I had to give a talk on Sunday and for the first time in my life I was worried that I would not have enough time at the end. I think the people down here are really into football but I haven't run into anyone yet. We are in a military ward so there are a lot of cool guys in our ward. One cool thing that happened to me on Saturday was we went to sonic for half price shakes, we live about a block away from sonic, and I got to OYM (open your mouth) the person that gave us shake I got to know her a little bit then referred her to family history. She said that she wanted to but couldn't find a site that was free so I gave her a pass along card to her with our phone number in it was really cool.

Dallin is in the back, 3rd from the left. this is at a part mission conference when Elder Zwick was visiting the mission. (Info we got from the mission blog and not Dallin:)