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A Few Words From Elder Clyde

So Elder Goob thought it would be funny to take a picture of me while shaving... Can you find the humor in this? I sure can't. He's a weirdo.

I decided that we can be friends now. I don't even like Elder Goob like that anymore. You can have him! Our friendship means too much to me to let someone like him ruin it. It just wasn't worth it. All the great times we've had over the past 3 weeks have been so wonderful. I wouldn't dream of giving them up. Not even for Elder Goob. I hope you understand and forgive me of everything I did, or didn't do to you over the past 3 weeks.

Your friend 4ever
Elder Clyde :)

Lovely Letter Day!

Well hello there cutie! How are you? I hope you are doing great! Okay, so I have to tell you my story for the week... So I was expecting a letter from you on like Tuesday or Wednesday at least, and every day I would come in at night and there would be no mail...and so I was starting to be like what the heck did it get lost or what...and then finally Thursday night Elder Clyde was like, I wonder if it is a package, because the only packages that get forwarded are USPS ( United States Postal Service) because UPS and Fed-Ex charge to forward things...and so the packages the mission office gets just get taken to the next zone conference. So luckily our zone conference was on Friday and so I got the package there and I was so happy! Then I got home and opened it and was even more happy because it had a tape! And cookies! And pictures! And I was so happy!But no worries, if you send another package UPS just send it to the other address I gave you! Anyways that tape was so awesome! I listen to it almost every night while I am going to bed! I like to hit people with rocks and watch them bleed too!! LOL What a crazy! Kaleb is so cute on there singing "I am a child of God.":) Hey so are you making sure to put the goofy pics of my comp on the blog also? I hope so! I don't know why you stress out so much when you give a talk in church :) You are so cute it is really funny! I know that you nearly died before you got up there and then you did just wonderful :) Oh, tell your mother that it is wonderful that she wants to say something on the tapes! I am fine with it. So I only live about 25 minutes away from Dave and Jane. My area is in Northern Spokane but it is the southern most part of Northern Spokane, if that makes sense. So I know it took me a while but I finally did my first paint job! We painted a bathroom for some less active members! It was pretty fun :) So I got your letter half way through writing this one. We live with members, they are the Brough's (Bruff is how you say it) But we pretty much share everything, and our bedroom is right across the hall from theirs, both upstairs! We share the kitchen and fridge and basically own their dining room table. They are way nice! Okay, so the name of my zone is North Spokane, but the name of my area is River Ridge, which is the ward we cover also. We get fed on Sat, Sun, Mon, Tue, but on Wed, Thur, Fri we cook our own dinner... and yes we have way too much food and we love to eat. No I haven't eaten any gross meals yet, I'm sorry I haven't answered these questions sooner. You can go ahead and do the blog, I think its a great idea :) and your letters are just fabulous! Don't chicken out and not send me the pictures of the grapes! grrr... I can't believe that! I was really looking forward to getting those pictures! Okay so the pictures where you see the bags piled up everywhere I have to tell you that story. We go over to this lady's house and she is an older lady so she lives all by herself. She is getting ready to move and so she wanted to have a yard sale to sell some stuff. So she got a hold of us and told us that she had some Christmas stuff that she wanted us to bring up from the downstairs the day before the yard sale. We said okay, and we went over to her house and she takes us downstairs and we walk into a room that is just full of Christmas stuff and so we are thinking okay, well this will take a few hours. Then she leads us into another room that is even more full, and we are like okay, we are going to be here all day. And THEN she says well lets start in the back room..(room 3) and this room was huge (its the one in the pictures) E. Clyde is standing in the middle of the room, and took a picture of me. All of it is just Christmas stuff! I think she robbed every Michaels in the world for like four years straight! It was the craziest thing I have ever seen! We moved stuff upstairs for like 2 hours and didn't even make a dent. So she tried to sell what she had us bring upstairs. The best part was the whole time we were moving stuff she was telling us ya I used to decorate with this stuff but over the years its all been stolen! LOL Me and E. Clyde just started laughing because it would take a ten man crew about a week to steal all of that stuff! Her name is Marilyn, and she wont go anywhere because she thinks people steal stuff when she leaves the house. Its pretty funny. I'm sorry, but it is. :) Oh and BTW you better believe we made that cake! Cause we did! I pRomise! Hey that would be fine to have Dave and Jane come to my area and bring me something from you and/or take us to dinner :) But really if they would want to I would love to see them! It would be way fun! So I can't believe that James told you about the matrix pictures. I will have to summon someone to kick his trash for me. :) I love you tons! Have a wonderful week! See if you can get someone to write my lonely companion. :) Well I hope you enjoy the pictures! I enjoy yours a lot and I think you should never go a week without sending me them! I love you! Dank ya for the cookies and tape baby! :) I will start a tape soon! Have a good week and take care of yourself!
Love Always Elder RJ

Greetings From Elder Goob

Hey! Hows it going?!?! Well it is going pretty well here! Its fun to hear all of your funny stories throughout the week! I finally got to do my first paint job! I know it took me quite a while but I finally got it in. We painted a less-active member's bathroom! The day before we painted it she was dying her hair and almost suffocated herself in the bathroom! She couldn't breathe and she was flinging her hair around and the stuff got all over the walls and she couldn't get something on her computer to work and so she called us crying. We came and said we would go grab some paint and we would be there at 8 tomorrow to repaint the bathroom. She tried to tell us no but you know how that works... so ya it was fun except that bathrooms are just cutting stuff in the whole time and so hrrp... It was funny cause her husband who is a non-member tried fixing some patches above the shower with caulk and his finger and so we dug it all out and spackled it and sanded it and made it look really nice and then re-caulked the whole tub and so it was pretty funny! Well this week was really fun and pretty successful! We have 4 people on-date now and we started 3 people on the quit smoking workshops... The one lady that we put on date we had only taught her once and dropped by another time and gave her a plan of salvation pamphlet, but then when we came back and her crazy neighbor wasn't there she had really good questions for us and she was really interested and so we taught her 3 lessons in one... just cause she kept asking questions that lead to other stuff. So we taught her, and she smokes and lives with her baby's daddy but they aren't together.. but her date is July 5th and so she has little time to either get together with him or move out and to stop smoking! She can do it I know she can! So we are probably going to see her every day! Cause that's what you do with on-dates.. but ya that was pretty cool.. her name is Sandy! We have her on-date and don't even know her last name :D oops... but anyways this week has been really good! I wrote my mission pres last week and just told him that things were going good and he wrote back today and said "that's good that you are starting off good because I expect great things from you." So that made me feel good! Pres is so awesome! We had zone conference this week! It was way fun! I learned a lot! and I had an opportunity to give my greenimony and then you get to hear the trunkimonies! Ya its pretty cool though! This week we are holding a baptism for a 10 year old boy his name is Cason Brennan. His mom and 3 sisters were baptized just before I got here! They are way cool. It is going to be awesome because as a mission on the 29th of this month it is a big bring a friend to church day. The talks are going to be stuff that new people need to know about us.. like the fact that we are christian.. lol no but just basic stuff and it is going to be really good. Our ward's goal is to get 50 people there, and our mission's goal is 1000 people. We will be confirming Cason on the 29th. So it will be perfect because it will weed the people out for us so that we don't have to waste time because they will either feel the spirit really strong and recognize that it is of God or they will harden their hearts and never want to come back.. so it will work just fine! Elder Clyde is doing both the baptism and the confirmation, which is good. It will be a great meeting! I am really excited to see pictures of the house! I really want to see how it all turned out! Oh I have a really funny story but I cant remember if I wrote it in my journal or if I wrote it to you or not but I will just tell you and if you have heard it before then you can laugh again cause its funny! OK so me and my comp are walking to an appt. and this little kid comes up to us and stands with his arms and legs out as far as they would go (like we couldn't walk by him) so we stopped and he says to us, "you got any cigarettes?" and we both got these really surprised looks on our faces and my comp goes "did you just say cigarettes?" and the kid says ya, you got any? We laughed and said no and he goes "you got any money?" and we laughed and said no and walked around him. Then I said wait and I turned around and asked him how old he was because I wanted to write it in my journal and he said "I'm 5." LOLOL!! A 5 year old! I mean its really sad that the 2 most important things that he has learned from his parents are cigarettes and then money! But it is freaking hilarious that a 5 year old stops us and asks us that! We were laughing so hard! But ya not everyone is crazy but we have run into a few! :D Well anyways I love you guys so much! I would tell you to go ahead and read this to everyone but I guess you can just throw it on the blog :D Which BTW I need the URL for because my comp wants to give it to his parents so that he doesn't have to write them anymore :D:D They can just hear whats going on through me! Well I love you all so much! Thanks for all of your prayers! We are so blessed! Take care and send me pics!
Love/Elder Goob