This Church is So True!

What's happenin? Well this week was pretty nuts! But I'm glad that you had fun in park city! I am so jealous that you got to hang out with Piper! She is so darn cute! Just like her aunt Shanna! So I think you would make a good lookin scuba diver! Who knew you could look so good in goggles? So I have a confession to make! Elder Clyde's b-day was the 14th, Monday, but because of it he got like 5 different cakes, and tons of candy and I gained FIVE POUNDS this week! Holy crap I'm a fatty! But don't worry I'm going on a diet! Okay, so I hope I can clear up the whole polygamy thing for ya. Polygamy was never a belief of our church, plural marriage was practiced by the people when God saw fit and commanded them to do so. But no polygamy/ go marry as many wives as you can ... is not how it worked at all. When plural marriage was practiced, you had to be called to have more than one wife by the first presidency, and you had to be well enough off that you could take care of more than one wife. So you could say it was accepted by the church because God saw fit that we needed it. But if Pres. Monson in the next conference comes out and says that plural marriage is okay again, then I'm coming home early! ha ha ha. J/k. Well I am proud of you for getting back on a horse after the horrible accident that broke your cute toes! So if Dave and Jane ever want to take us to lunch or dinner or something then just give me their number and we will call them. Even if they don't want to, then tell them to drive Piper up here and we will hang out with her :) LOL. Park city looks so stinkin fun! If you run off and get married then I'm going to park city with your fam while you stay home with your hoser husband :) Or if you wait for me then we can go have fun together! You have an awesome family! Tell Maddie and Bailey Hi from me, I feel bad that I haven't had a chance to write them back! Okay, so I love getting packages from you, but I am gaining weight, so please hold off on the treats until I get it under control...LOL I can't gain weight because then I'll have to buy new clothes! So I have a funny story that I think you'll enjoy. We just started teaching this lady named Trena, and we are sitting on her couch one day, and we asked her if there was anything we could do for her, and she replied,"yeah, pray to get rid of our head lice!!!" Oh my goodness I have never jumped up from a couch so fast in my life! LOL it was hilarious! So that picture with the goggles is pretty good! I went and bought a tape recorder, so I'll be making you a tape now :) Hopefully I will be able to send it out next week! So make sure, even though I know you are, to save my letters and e-mails because my journal is really struggling! I have no time to write in it! Its crazy, but the first part of my mish will have to be recorded by letters. I am excited for the baptism this week, and I will let you know how it goes! Keep sending me pics of you :) So when are you coming to Spokane? Are you driving up? Let me know dates and things, not because we will be seeing each other but I am curious. I can't wait to stand in the back of that family picture and tower over everyone! How is your church journal coming? Tell me something that you have learned and if you have any more questions for me please ask! This church is so true! I love you so much!
love, Elder Ryan John

Better Late than Never!

well hello? how are you both doing eh?? sounds like your pretty busy out goofing around shopping and golfing all the time... i feel so bad for you! :D jk lol wow so sorry we didnt get a chance to email yesterday... it was nuts we went to help pour concrete in a garage for the same member that we bucked the hay for and anyways they poured it on just dirt...and they wet it down before like just a little bit kinda like how you would wet down a baseball field and then poured on top of it with the sun beating on half of it and so the dirt sucked the moisture out of it from one side and the sun from the other and it was freaking dry in like 25-30 minutes! it was nuts so because of that we had to try to finish it by hand and smooth it out a little but it wasnt freaking working... i mean we were walking out onto it and rewetting it to smooth it out.. you should be able to walk on it! lol so our little 2 hour project turned into like 4 and a half.... ya it freaking sucked but then we had just enough time to go home show and change to go play golf with a guy who lives in elder clyde's last area and ya so then after that we barely made it in enough time to our dinner appointment and then it was too late to email after that since we ate dinner at like 7 and then they wanted to play a game called righteuos its like the BoM version of scene it... its pretty fun! it was Elder Clyde's birthday yesterday. Monday. and so i swear the last 4 or 5 days we have had cake! they even announced it in relief society as an offical announcement and so the whole freaking ward knew about it and so they tried to get us as fat as they could and i freaking gained 5 lbs no joke! so i am on a diet! so mom hold off on sending me cookies please :D lol! well ya so yesterday was crazy! but anyways the work is going great! we have a baptism this friday. its a 79 year old man and he is going to die soon! he is in really bad shape and has been prolonging his baptism for a while i guess he was on date in april but has been moving it back but he is scared he is going to die before but anyways his family came into town (which is what he was waiting for) and they arent members but hopefully they will support him in his decision... but i wouldnt be surprised if he died a few weeks after the baptism... and then last week we started teaching a girl named Trena she is like 37 years old (she claims anyways i think she is like 50) but we put her on date for the next week so the 26th i believe... but ya so things are going good and hopefully we will get one more this month! our area rocks! i love the people here! they are so great! we were riding our bikes the other day and a car drove by and threw pennies at us and they hit my comps bike and so we stopped and picked em up and kept them! :D lol we were like hey thanks.. well transfer calls were on saturday and we both survived! im staying! can you believe its already been 1 transfer?!?!? only 16 more to go :D HAHAHA! but ya now Elder Clyde is district leader and so he is going to be sending me out on exchanges twice a week! lame!!! but oh well that exchanges arent that bad.. plus i can beat up on the old farts.. or the apostate missionaries! lol anyways! I did infact get the shoes and socks and pants that you sent me mom! thank you so much! concrete really would have sucked in my basketball shoes!!! but anyways i got pictures of the house and it looks great! you did a fabulous job on the colors mom! and you did a good job putting in all together dad! my room looks a little out of place now lol but oh well! it wont be my room for long when i get back! lol jk mom! :D dad go get mom a tissue... lol i love you guys so much! thank you for all of your support and prayers! this is seriously the happiest time of my life i love serving others! there is nothing better! take care of yourselves and dont get hurt! Love/Elder Goob