The Mail Came Early!

Hey you cute little thing! Thank you for your sweet little letter and those pics of my fam! Eva is so darn cute! But I wouldn't mind at least one pic with ya know... YOU in it! :) You're so dang cute that I think you should send a million pics a week of you! I mean, I'm not saying that my dad flipping me off with a brush while in his painting clothes isn't cute! LOL No, I really enjoyed them! Thanks! So this week was crazy crazy crazy! I wrote most of it to my parents though so I'm sure you have already read that. But we did have a baptism on Saturday and it was amazing! I ended up speaking about the Holy Ghost and it was very awesome. Cason was confirmed on Sunday and E. Clyde did that also. It was awesome because Sunday was the big bring your friend to church day. That sacrament meeting was so good! Wow! It just focused on Christ, which is the way it should be. We ended up with 5 of our investigators there and 1 of them was a girl named Jasmin. She went to girls camp this week and she sang in Sacrament meeting with the young women! It was so cool to see a non-member get up and participate in sacrament. Then we found out that the day before she went to girls camp she told her mom that she wanted to be baptised! Her mom said that it was a good and honorable thing, and she wants her to, but she wants her to wait a little bit and think about it. Unless she feels the need to do it sooner! So we are working on it :) But the thing is before when we taught her, we taught the restoration and the commandments, and never once mentioned baptism. So I know with all my heart that if you create an atmosphere where the spirit can be present then no matter what you teach, the spirit will teach them what they need to know! The girl in the picture that E. Clyde is doing her hair is Wendy. Wendy and Jasmin are cousins, but Wendy is less active, and so we have been teaching them together and we hadn't mentioned anything once again, but Wendy came right out and asked us if she should get a different job so that she can go to church because she works on Sunday. She tells us that every time she reads and studies the BOM that is all she thinks about! So it is amazing how the spirit guides and works on people! I seriously freaking love being out here! I am so glad that I am here and I wouldn't trade it for anything in the world! Its so fun to just always be serving others! But anyways, yes the Brennan's dog is a mastiff...they have 3 of them! Its crazy! But the other 3 dogs(Molly, Katie, and Becky) are the Brough's doggies. They are so cute! But sure we can still get a great Dane as long as he doesn't try to eat you! LOL So we get our P-day on Friday and a bunch of missionaries from E. Clyde's last area are getting together so we are going to go and have a 2v2 companionship basketball tourney! I know that we are going to freaking slaughter anyone that we play! :) It is going to be so much fun! So one of these days I will start a tape! Don't worry, it will come, but you have to send me pics of you with the grapes before I will start it! :) Gotcha! How's that for a bribe! LOL well I love you so much! I really like the washing your car pics! They are my favorite so far! Send me more pics! Let me know if you get that job and how school is going for you! I love you! We can do this!
Love, Elder Ryan John

Service, Service, Service!

Hey! How are you guys?!?! Its good to hear that the house is finally coming along! I hope you send me some pics! Or shanni does anyways :D Oh wow so this week was way fun! I have more funny stories! :D But this morning we bucked hay!16 tons of hay! It was so freaking fun! But ever since we painted, the lady we painted for wanted to see if she could wash the paint out of my pants and so she has had my pants and so Ibucked hay in shorts! So I have scratches on my arms and legs and my facebecause I wanted to see how high I could throw one and we had already had a placethat was 6 rows high and I wanted to see if I could do 7 and so when I lifted itup it started to slip and so I caught it with my face :D I got it up there so it was worth it! It probably weighed about 90-100 lbs. Most of them were 80-85 but this one was a little wet so it was a little more heavy. But ya that was a really good workout and now I can say that I have bucked hay! OK so my funny story of the week! This lady calls us, she has been a member for a little over a year. She is moving and wants our help. Well we are pretty much pro movers by now and so we said sure and we went over there on Thursday... she says OK now I am really good at moving and I only want to do this once and so we have to do it right the first time.... we are like sweet. so her lawn is divided by a concrete path going to her front door... she says everything I am keeping goes on the right side and everything that is going in the yard sale goes on the left side.... simple enough. So we start moving stuff and there is me and elder Clyde and her nephew.. and so we move all her stuff out on the lawn (her piano, leather couch,all her clothes, 3 Tiffany lamps, every freaking thing she owns) except a bed and a TV. Then we get all the yard sale stuff on the other side. Well after we do all this come to find out she is trying to get in an assisted living place that she wont know if she is accepted until Monday.... and then she wont be moving until tomorrow.(Tuesday) That's a pretty long time to have everything you own out on your front lawn especially when you invite everyone over for a yard sale and then yell at them that half of the lawn isn't for sale and so they turn around and leave! LOL OK so the story gets even better! We go over the next day (Friday) to get a few more things brought out for the yard sale for her and imagine this, her neighbors sprinklers came on and soaked everything... her piano and leather couch... etc.. and she goes ya we got a little rain! We laughed but we felt a little bad So we wiped down the piano and stuff and covered it with tarps, but I mean holy crap! Oh well it was funny :D We also helped 2 more people move this week and I painted some more... so ya 3 moves 1 paint job and 16 tons of hay make for a pretty good week :D So parents if you get crazy and do things like this Iam just going to have to put you out of MY misery. :D Well I am glad that youare both doing well! If I was to have you send me something it would be my workshoes either the ones I wore while painting with Dave or the ones I wore hunting.It doesn't matter. And like 3 more pair of my white gold toe socks! We do a lot of service :D If i kept those crappy navy pants I had you could send those too... but no big hurry I am doing fine :D I love you both so much! We had a baptism! It was amazing and I ended up speaking on the holy ghost! Which went well. We were actually combined with another baptism, and they invited the kids to the front like they always do, and they did the first one and one of the kids stood up to walk back and they said wait there is one more and so he went to turn back around and fell and ALMOST face planted in the water! lol One of the witnesses caught him by the back of the shirt :D That would have been way funny tho :D But anyways I love you guys so much and I think about you and pray for you all the time too! Thank you for your prayers! I love hearing from you! I got a few pics of you that are way funny! My comp goes why is he flipping you off? I said oh that's my dad! :D he wouldn't understand if I explained it to him :D I guess his family must be normal or something and they don't do that. I dunno :D They are missing out in my book :D Well everything is going good and I am excited to see the final on the house! I picked a good den color! he he! It just brings the blue out of the wood !!!!!(that ones for James!) Well anyways I love you so much take care and I will talk to you maybe Friday cause they only
gave us 2 hours of p-day today and then on Friday we get the whole day for p-day!
So we might email, if not I will talk to you Monday! love ya!
Love/ Elder RJ!