Well that sucks that highland lost but I think you guys can win the next 3 games for sure! Just tell those hosers to suck it up! lol That's so funny that someone put on my blog that I shouldn't be blogging.. lol hrrrrp what hosers... Tell them that if they really want me to get the comment they are going to have to write me a letter cause I don't check the blog lol! I just do it with my mind... hrrrp :D
So we had an interesting day on Tuesday... we went on exchanges with the elders in mead. I was with elder Hullinger and he is just one of the most unique kids you will ever meet. I cant even really explain it but for instance he doesn't use tooth paste to brush his teeth he uses tooth powder... and its made from like tree barks and different herbs and things lol! His mom is a hippy and his dad is a red neck... so you can just imagine! :D But ya so we are teaching a lesson and we had just got out of district meeting where we were trained on how to begin lessons. In fact we drove from district meeting to the lesson and the first thing you do is remove distractions. Well we go into the lesson and the TV is on and what not and we small talk for a minute and then he starts asking her about her reading and goes right into the scriptures. I was like wait can we turn that off and have a prayer? He was like oh thanks for remembering... then we go to another lesson and we teach the plan of salvation and we would go back and forth in our teaching but he would just lay the doctrine out there and then hand it over to me. I would back track a little and ask questions to make sure she was getting it and so after the lesson he tells me hey thanks for remembering to ask questions. So then we go to the gas station to get some finger nail clippers for him... and he goes in there and picks them out and puts them in his pocket and we both walk out... and we get to the car and I go so did you pay for those? He goes oh crap! and runs in and it was so freaking funny. The guy was telling a missionary hey thanks for being honest I really appreciate it. I was laughing so hard! Then he was like thanks for remembering that.. lol he was just having a rough day. It was hilarious!
So then we get home for lunch and this members son comes running out of the bathroom and is like call 911!!! Then he goes and lays at the top of the stairs. So we call 911 and what not and we are both standing at the bottom of the stairs and he yells oh crap and grabs his stomach and starts coming down the stairs and we both take off running cause we don't want to get puked on.. and so the ambulance shows up and he thought it was cause he was diabetic but they checked his blood sugar and it was fine. They were asked him are you on any drugs or anything and he says no i just smoked a little weed this morning for my foot to get rid of the pain. I guess he has a gun shot wound to his leg or something that happened a while ago. But it was funny cause they are like did you smoke more than normal? Nope... Did you smoke weed that you aren't familiar with? Nope.. So its yours? yep... lol And this is all took place in a members house that the missionaries live at! LOL!!! What a hoser. But ya so that was a very interesting day!
I hope you guys watched conference! If not you missed out and you need to repent! It was awesome! We got investigators there and everything! So there is good and bad news to this call that we got for transfers... the good news is we are both staying... the bad news is that they are taking our car away!!! Right as the weather is getting cold! We are going to have to share a car with Indian trail elders. We live like 6 miles apart... lol so it will be interesting. But I am staying and hopefully we are going to baptize a couple!! We started teaching a brand new couple this week (unmarried again) but they seemed really interested. So things are going very well in this area. Today is my last day with my bu! (Malibu that is) but I call her my bu! :( I don't know how the car sharing thing is going to work out but we are going to plan it out today so I will let you know how it all works out.
I hope you guys are doing well! Keep up the good work and the scripture study! I love you guys a ton! Take care of yourselves!
Elder Penman
Monday, October 6, 2008
Saturday, October 4, 2008
The latest from Ryan John
So I hear that James told Clyde that if he got close to you he would break his face! LOL that is awesome. I think James being in one of your college classes is an even better idea now!
Well, I have bad news... we had interviews with our pres this week and I asked him if your parents could take me out to dinner and he said no. The reason is because it can be hard on your companion and it could make him want to see his friends or family. But I look at it like this....in a couple years I will be eating dinner with your parents all the time! :) The only difference will be I won't be dressed up!
So I had kind of a cool experience last night. We got this referral for this lady who lives way out in the boonies ( which our area does have we just hardly ever make it out there). I called her to see if we could set up a time to go out there are she asked me a few questions and it lead into the restoration over the phone. She said she had to go and that we could come out sometime...and so I tried to get an exact time to come back, but she was like October is really busy for me and my husband is gone and so lets shoot for the second week in November! Lol. I hope I'm still here! But we got talking after that and she asked me if I knew this Christian speaker guy and I said no, but anyways he does this talk about marriage that she really likes. I said well I'll have to listen to that before I get married, and she said you're not married? I said no I'm only 20, and she said oh wow you don't sound 20! I said yeah I'm just getting over a cold, I don't usually sound this manly! :) She thought that was pretty funny.
Sorry no pics again I have some good ones to send, I just haven't had time! Oh, and yes we still go see Willis all the time. He is the funniest guy ever!
P.S. I will let you know in my parents e-mail on Monday if I am moving or not!
Well, I have bad news... we had interviews with our pres this week and I asked him if your parents could take me out to dinner and he said no. The reason is because it can be hard on your companion and it could make him want to see his friends or family. But I look at it like this....in a couple years I will be eating dinner with your parents all the time! :) The only difference will be I won't be dressed up!
So I had kind of a cool experience last night. We got this referral for this lady who lives way out in the boonies ( which our area does have we just hardly ever make it out there). I called her to see if we could set up a time to go out there are she asked me a few questions and it lead into the restoration over the phone. She said she had to go and that we could come out sometime...and so I tried to get an exact time to come back, but she was like October is really busy for me and my husband is gone and so lets shoot for the second week in November! Lol. I hope I'm still here! But we got talking after that and she asked me if I knew this Christian speaker guy and I said no, but anyways he does this talk about marriage that she really likes. I said well I'll have to listen to that before I get married, and she said you're not married? I said no I'm only 20, and she said oh wow you don't sound 20! I said yeah I'm just getting over a cold, I don't usually sound this manly! :) She thought that was pretty funny.
Sorry no pics again I have some good ones to send, I just haven't had time! Oh, and yes we still go see Willis all the time. He is the funniest guy ever!
P.S. I will let you know in my parents e-mail on Monday if I am moving or not!
Monday, September 29, 2008
A Chapter a Day Keeps Temptation Away!
Hey mom and dad whats happenin?!?! I hope everything is going well! This week was pretty good! We were a little down in numbers but those weeks happen and so we are trying our best still and hopefully we can bump our numbers back up! So you met elder Clyde eh?! That's cool that he got you guys flowers! I gave him some money before he left and told him to buy some flowers from me :D So I'm glad he did! he is a cool kid.. lol He kinda flaked out on me while he was here but hrrrp oh well I don't care lol.
Well lets see we had our interviews with pres and everything went well. I was the last one to go and he was going to be late for a dentist appt so he was like, "Elder Penman how are you doing?" I said good and he goes did you have anything you wanted to talk to me about and I had two questions for him so I asked them. He answered them and then said well keep up the good work... and that was it. lol! Like 3 minutes and he hasn't even checked my planner the last two times. I think he must trust me or something cause he checks everyone's planner. But ya this week wasn't too exciting... I kinda have mixed feelings about this coming week. I am way super excited about conference but I want to know if I am staying or leaving... I think I am staying so ima work my butt off still this week. But.. I dunno. I guess I just want to know if I'm going or not! :D
But anyways I'm glad you guys always have a good time with Shannon! Keep her around would ya! She is way too freaking hot to let go! :D LOL!! No but she is my best friend! I just love her! So keep hanging out with her cause I'm pretty sure she will be around for a while.
Wow I am really sorry to hear about mike... That's too bad really! It makes my heart go out to his family for having such a strong testimony in the gospel! Tell them that I love them! And give them all a hug from me! Seriously that sucks to hear! Let me know how they are doing. I don't know how people can get so much thrown onto their plate and deal with it so well... That family is just amazing! Holy cow. Isn't it amazing to see how powerful the gospel is and how true it really is!?
Well I'm pretty sure I already told you guys when transfers were but I will tell you again. The 7th is the actual transfer and the 4th we get our calls... so the 6th I will be telling you if I'm staying or leaving. Oh and mom I do want boots for Christmas but I haven't found any here so maybe go check that place out. See if they got any good ones that will polish up nicely that pretty much look like church shoes but they are boots. Meh I know you will do just fine. :D You always do! Well geez I hope you guys are ok! Tell everyone that I love them and that the church is true! There is just no other way. Simply no other way. Keep reading your scrips!!! A chapter a day keeps temptation away!!! :D Well I love you guys so much! Have a good week! Go BYU! go 49ers! LOVE YA!!
Elder Penman
Well lets see we had our interviews with pres and everything went well. I was the last one to go and he was going to be late for a dentist appt so he was like, "Elder Penman how are you doing?" I said good and he goes did you have anything you wanted to talk to me about and I had two questions for him so I asked them. He answered them and then said well keep up the good work... and that was it. lol! Like 3 minutes and he hasn't even checked my planner the last two times. I think he must trust me or something cause he checks everyone's planner. But ya this week wasn't too exciting... I kinda have mixed feelings about this coming week. I am way super excited about conference but I want to know if I am staying or leaving... I think I am staying so ima work my butt off still this week. But.. I dunno. I guess I just want to know if I'm going or not! :D
But anyways I'm glad you guys always have a good time with Shannon! Keep her around would ya! She is way too freaking hot to let go! :D LOL!! No but she is my best friend! I just love her! So keep hanging out with her cause I'm pretty sure she will be around for a while.
Wow I am really sorry to hear about mike... That's too bad really! It makes my heart go out to his family for having such a strong testimony in the gospel! Tell them that I love them! And give them all a hug from me! Seriously that sucks to hear! Let me know how they are doing. I don't know how people can get so much thrown onto their plate and deal with it so well... That family is just amazing! Holy cow. Isn't it amazing to see how powerful the gospel is and how true it really is!?
Well I'm pretty sure I already told you guys when transfers were but I will tell you again. The 7th is the actual transfer and the 4th we get our calls... so the 6th I will be telling you if I'm staying or leaving. Oh and mom I do want boots for Christmas but I haven't found any here so maybe go check that place out. See if they got any good ones that will polish up nicely that pretty much look like church shoes but they are boots. Meh I know you will do just fine. :D You always do! Well geez I hope you guys are ok! Tell everyone that I love them and that the church is true! There is just no other way. Simply no other way. Keep reading your scrips!!! A chapter a day keeps temptation away!!! :D Well I love you guys so much! Have a good week! Go BYU! go 49ers! LOVE YA!!
Elder Penman
Thursday, September 25, 2008
Transfers Are Coming Up Already!
What is happening?! How are you? Thank you for your letters! I love them. I show you off to everyone! Even that wallet picture I have of you that is from 2004! LOL You might need to send me a new pic for my wallet :) People always say "she looks young in that picture." and I say that's cause she is young...shes only 16! So send me one if you want but keep in mind I show it to everyone! I hope you aren't still sick! That sucks you get sick so much. Remember if you are sick ( and even if you aren't) you don't want to get any boys sick by kissing them... :)
Last night we went over to the Whittles ( it was Wendy's birthday) and they had the Monday night game on and it about killed me! I just went into the kitchen and ate some cake! LOL. Transfers are the 7th of October but transfer calls will be the 4th. So on Monday I will let you know through my e-mail but I don't think I'll be leaving...at least I hope not. Okay I will tell you one thing I want for Christmas and that is slippers to keep my feet warm when I get out of bed in the morning! :)
Well the mission isn't all bananas and dancing with tooth brushes...LOL. Grrr it just seemed like last week every day someone wanted to argue with us or tell us we were wrong. But tonight we are going to go teach a family of like 6 or more so I'm excited! The dad is a football coach and the whole family loves sports! I am going to get along great with this family! The only name I know right now though is Larry, so pray for Larry and his family! :) The baptism is going to have to be cancelled again with Richard. He is puffing those cancer sticks like there is no tomorrow. He will get baptized eventually, he has a testimony. It will just take some time. Tessa and Jacob are really awesome! We finally got them to talk about marriage and they are thinking about January 25th. We have plenty of others we are working with too, they just aren't progressing as quickly. But hopefully we will get a baptism soon.
I am so excited for general conference! You have no idea! I can't wait. Its going to be so sweet. We are watching each session with different people- 3 gators and the Whittles.
I hope things are going great! Take care and keep sending pictures! I love you!
Love,
Elder Ryan John Penman
Last night we went over to the Whittles ( it was Wendy's birthday) and they had the Monday night game on and it about killed me! I just went into the kitchen and ate some cake! LOL. Transfers are the 7th of October but transfer calls will be the 4th. So on Monday I will let you know through my e-mail but I don't think I'll be leaving...at least I hope not. Okay I will tell you one thing I want for Christmas and that is slippers to keep my feet warm when I get out of bed in the morning! :)
Well the mission isn't all bananas and dancing with tooth brushes...LOL. Grrr it just seemed like last week every day someone wanted to argue with us or tell us we were wrong. But tonight we are going to go teach a family of like 6 or more so I'm excited! The dad is a football coach and the whole family loves sports! I am going to get along great with this family! The only name I know right now though is Larry, so pray for Larry and his family! :) The baptism is going to have to be cancelled again with Richard. He is puffing those cancer sticks like there is no tomorrow. He will get baptized eventually, he has a testimony. It will just take some time. Tessa and Jacob are really awesome! We finally got them to talk about marriage and they are thinking about January 25th. We have plenty of others we are working with too, they just aren't progressing as quickly. But hopefully we will get a baptism soon.
I am so excited for general conference! You have no idea! I can't wait. Its going to be so sweet. We are watching each session with different people- 3 gators and the Whittles.
I hope things are going great! Take care and keep sending pictures! I love you!
Love,
Elder Ryan John Penman
Monday, September 22, 2008
Pictures!
Ryan and Andy the dog
Willis Runquist Baptized July 18th
Confirmed July 20th
Aaronic Priesthood August 24th
Elder Ashton's crash wounds
hey whats going on?!?!
well its nice to hear about highland and byu and my niners!!! I'm glad they all had a good week! lol i knew something good had to come from this week lol! well this week was alright.. we had a lot of people wanting to bash with us.. and telling us we were deceived and flipping us off and well the whole nine yards... which is expected but.. it was like almost every day lol! its so funny to listen to people and then say something that makes them think... like for instance one guy was telling me that the BoM is an addition to the bible and what not and it says in revelations not to add to the book and so forth (talking about the book of revelations...) but anyways and so i said well what about all of these different translations of the bible? and he goes well translating it into more modern terms isn't adding or taking away.. and i explained that it is from the real meaning and then i said oh so when its convenient then its not adding or taking away lol! and he was like well uhh well... blah blah blah... nothing to say.. :D but i know i shouldn't even bash at all and that's what i told him.. is we don't want to argue that if he wants to know if what we teach is true he needs to read and pray.. and then another day this lady tried to start belittling me and it kind of pissed me off... (oops) lol but then when she told me that i was deceived and that how do i know it wasn't Satan putting those thoughts and feelings into my mind when i prayed about the BoM... i told her well I'm sorry that you cant tell the difference between God and Satan... but i can.. people are so funny! but after a while you are just like hrrrrrrp... but on Tuesday we have an appointment to start teaching a new family! there is like 6 of them or more i dunno but they would make the coolest members in the world!! and the dad (Larry) coaches pop Warner football and what not! me and him get along really well! its going to be fun for me to relate the whole gospel to football!!! :D i am really excited to teach them! well i don't know if we will be having a baptism this Saturday or not.. Richard called us Saturday morning and said he got in a fight with his roommate and was up smoking all night... that was after he was like 4 days clean.. soo anyways we are seeing him tonight so we will see.. I'm not too worried cause even if he doesn't get baptized Saturday or even when I'm here i know he will get baptized... cause he has a testimony! he just cant stop the smoking... but what do ya do right... oh just to give you a heads up... its crazy to think but transfers are coming right up... we will get our transfer calls on the 4th of October and then we will actually transfer the following Tuesday.. the 7th... so the 6th i will be able to let you know what i am doing... but ya its crazy to think that the time has gone by so quickly... but ya interviews are this Thursday... holy cow.. its gone by fast! but elder Clyde has been up here the last couple days... its been fun to see him and church and what not and today we are going golfing... so that should be a lot of fun! hopefully you guys get to meet him tho and if so then (dad... cause i know mom wont) you have to ask him why he dresses so preppy... and if he brings the girl he is dating (her name is randy and she is 4' 10" ) you have to tell him that you thought i was bad with dating short girls but at least I'm not dating a midget lol!!! don't make her feel bad but give him some crap!!! lol and if you have to punch him in the kidneys!! not that i ever used to do that... lol well our other good gators right now are doing well (Jacob & Tessa).. we finally got them to talk about getting married and they told us ya we were looking at like JANUARY 25th!!! i was like what the heck lol!! but oh well... they want to really see what the church is all about cause they don't want to feel like they are using us just to get married which is good.. but the funny thing was that Jacob told us last time we talked that he was thinking about it and he thinks he remembers getting baptized into the LDS church as a kid... like around 14 or 15 and we laughed and then we got his info and the clerk requested his record and it takes like a week to get it or to see if he is a member... lol!! if it turns out that way then we will prolly get them married and have Jacob baptize Tessa.... and he gets the priesthood and what not.. but that is just funny... we have met with them a dozen times and h e just all of a sudden brings that up lol... but things are going great! me and elder Ashton are getting along great.. he gave a talk in sacrament yesterday and it was good.. i sat by elder Clyde... so it was kinda funny.. sitting next to my old comp and listening to my current comp... or in missionary terms sitting next to my "dad" and listening to my "mom" lol but anyways! i love you guys!! i hope that dad that smacked the coach gets thrown in jail for a long time!! that's terrible! its crazy to think that people would do that kind of crap!! but anyways.. tell my hoser siblings that they are both very lame and they need to write me and that i show off their kids to everyone lol! mom i am glad you are reading but not glad about the not every day part!! don't read cause its something you have to do... read because that amazing book tells us how to be happy! what an amazing thing! happiness :D its not easy but its worth it! just remember that! love ya mom! love ya dad! thanks for everything! hey both of you read Mosiah 2:41 and then think about us being commanded to read everyday! its pretty much telling us that if we do we will be happy! what better blessing could you get than that? well i love you guys! tell everyone i love them and sorry that i am too lazy to write all of them! lol! anyways take care! i still don't know what i want for Christmas! maybe boots... hmmm elder Clyde got his at like an army outlet type deal they were the black boots that the army guys wear and he just polished them up.. but anyways if you see any that might work just email me the pick of them and i will let ya know.. :D but that's my thought so far... but hey take care of yourselves! and i hope everything is going alright! i hope you are both feeling better! if not then well... go to the byu game or something :D or maybe eat a pound of sausage i dunno... after that I'm out of ideas... lol! love you guys!
Elder Penman
well its nice to hear about highland and byu and my niners!!! I'm glad they all had a good week! lol i knew something good had to come from this week lol! well this week was alright.. we had a lot of people wanting to bash with us.. and telling us we were deceived and flipping us off and well the whole nine yards... which is expected but.. it was like almost every day lol! its so funny to listen to people and then say something that makes them think... like for instance one guy was telling me that the BoM is an addition to the bible and what not and it says in revelations not to add to the book and so forth (talking about the book of revelations...) but anyways and so i said well what about all of these different translations of the bible? and he goes well translating it into more modern terms isn't adding or taking away.. and i explained that it is from the real meaning and then i said oh so when its convenient then its not adding or taking away lol! and he was like well uhh well... blah blah blah... nothing to say.. :D but i know i shouldn't even bash at all and that's what i told him.. is we don't want to argue that if he wants to know if what we teach is true he needs to read and pray.. and then another day this lady tried to start belittling me and it kind of pissed me off... (oops) lol but then when she told me that i was deceived and that how do i know it wasn't Satan putting those thoughts and feelings into my mind when i prayed about the BoM... i told her well I'm sorry that you cant tell the difference between God and Satan... but i can.. people are so funny! but after a while you are just like hrrrrrrp... but on Tuesday we have an appointment to start teaching a new family! there is like 6 of them or more i dunno but they would make the coolest members in the world!! and the dad (Larry) coaches pop Warner football and what not! me and him get along really well! its going to be fun for me to relate the whole gospel to football!!! :D i am really excited to teach them! well i don't know if we will be having a baptism this Saturday or not.. Richard called us Saturday morning and said he got in a fight with his roommate and was up smoking all night... that was after he was like 4 days clean.. soo anyways we are seeing him tonight so we will see.. I'm not too worried cause even if he doesn't get baptized Saturday or even when I'm here i know he will get baptized... cause he has a testimony! he just cant stop the smoking... but what do ya do right... oh just to give you a heads up... its crazy to think but transfers are coming right up... we will get our transfer calls on the 4th of October and then we will actually transfer the following Tuesday.. the 7th... so the 6th i will be able to let you know what i am doing... but ya its crazy to think that the time has gone by so quickly... but ya interviews are this Thursday... holy cow.. its gone by fast! but elder Clyde has been up here the last couple days... its been fun to see him and church and what not and today we are going golfing... so that should be a lot of fun! hopefully you guys get to meet him tho and if so then (dad... cause i know mom wont) you have to ask him why he dresses so preppy... and if he brings the girl he is dating (her name is randy and she is 4' 10" ) you have to tell him that you thought i was bad with dating short girls but at least I'm not dating a midget lol!!! don't make her feel bad but give him some crap!!! lol and if you have to punch him in the kidneys!! not that i ever used to do that... lol well our other good gators right now are doing well (Jacob & Tessa).. we finally got them to talk about getting married and they told us ya we were looking at like JANUARY 25th!!! i was like what the heck lol!! but oh well... they want to really see what the church is all about cause they don't want to feel like they are using us just to get married which is good.. but the funny thing was that Jacob told us last time we talked that he was thinking about it and he thinks he remembers getting baptized into the LDS church as a kid... like around 14 or 15 and we laughed and then we got his info and the clerk requested his record and it takes like a week to get it or to see if he is a member... lol!! if it turns out that way then we will prolly get them married and have Jacob baptize Tessa.... and he gets the priesthood and what not.. but that is just funny... we have met with them a dozen times and h e just all of a sudden brings that up lol... but things are going great! me and elder Ashton are getting along great.. he gave a talk in sacrament yesterday and it was good.. i sat by elder Clyde... so it was kinda funny.. sitting next to my old comp and listening to my current comp... or in missionary terms sitting next to my "dad" and listening to my "mom" lol but anyways! i love you guys!! i hope that dad that smacked the coach gets thrown in jail for a long time!! that's terrible! its crazy to think that people would do that kind of crap!! but anyways.. tell my hoser siblings that they are both very lame and they need to write me and that i show off their kids to everyone lol! mom i am glad you are reading but not glad about the not every day part!! don't read cause its something you have to do... read because that amazing book tells us how to be happy! what an amazing thing! happiness :D its not easy but its worth it! just remember that! love ya mom! love ya dad! thanks for everything! hey both of you read Mosiah 2:41 and then think about us being commanded to read everyday! its pretty much telling us that if we do we will be happy! what better blessing could you get than that? well i love you guys! tell everyone i love them and sorry that i am too lazy to write all of them! lol! anyways take care! i still don't know what i want for Christmas! maybe boots... hmmm elder Clyde got his at like an army outlet type deal they were the black boots that the army guys wear and he just polished them up.. but anyways if you see any that might work just email me the pick of them and i will let ya know.. :D but that's my thought so far... but hey take care of yourselves! and i hope everything is going alright! i hope you are both feeling better! if not then well... go to the byu game or something :D or maybe eat a pound of sausage i dunno... after that I'm out of ideas... lol! love you guys!
Elder Penman
Wednesday, September 17, 2008
Hey whats going on?!?! Well I know you are all excited to hear about the baptism! So I will just tell you now that it got pushed back to the 27th... :D It was really kind of a cool thing though because Richard wasn't really seeing the importance of quitting smoking to be baptized and he was just gonna tuck it under the rug. Well we weren't getting too good of a feeling about it and then we talked to his nurse (who introduced him to us) and he said that he is still smoking and we weren't too surprised. I guess Thursday night the nurse went and talked to him and told him that he wasn't going to be able to make it and Richard said why not and he said cause you haven't quit smoking and you are just going to get wet not to take upon you what baptism is all about... and so Richard called us himself and said he was sorry that he wasn't truthful with us and that he would like to move it back. So we went and saw him the next day and he is doing so much better! It feels right now and you know he isn't smoking cause he snaps at everyone :D and he is more cranky! But its awesome to see that when we start reading the scriptures and the spirit is there he is just happy and its awesome. He has been good for 2 days straight and tonight we will see if it is 3 or not... but he is so much fun to teach! So with Tessa and Jacob we went over there today and taught them cause it was the only time early this week that we could get together with them cause we have zone conference on Tuesday. They were busy Wednesday so we were like what the heck and just set up a time today. It was fun we taught them the law of chastity and we left them with a proclamation and told them to consider getting married and what not and that it was required for baptism because its a commandment from god. But anyways it was my first lesson that i have taught that was a well you need to get married... stop having sex and tie the knot... but anyways.. lol They were very open minded and so it wasn't that bad. Tessa kept giggling the whole time cause we used words like sex and pornography and things like that. She just couldn't hold back lol. Sooo what do ya do. she is in her 20's too.. but hrrrp anyways they are so cool and they want to be baptized too! Its just a matter of time... so I better not get moved out of here! I love it here! My area is so cool! You know me and elder Ashton get along great now.. seriously I have just excepted the fact that he is a goon. But he is cool and we are getting along just fine. He really has humbled himself though and its cool to see. He says all sorts of goofy things at dinner w/members and such but I just have to laugh and smile... I figure that the lord makes up for our weaknesses. So things are fine now and I think he just came into this area in panic mode cause it was his first time being senior comp. A lot of his other comps sucked the big one and didn't work and he has been out 16 months. He feels like a lot of his mission has been wasted and so he just wanted to get right to work and I guess he just assumed that I was going to be another comp that didn't want to work. But since he was senior he was going to make me work or something I dunno... anyways once he has realized that all I want to do is work then he has relaxed A LOT! Its nice... its funny though cause he doesn't know the area at all yet and we will be walking down the street at the same pace but he is like 3 steps in front of me :D but we are going the same pace... and so I will turn and he will be like oops and have to turn back and follow me :D Its funny. BUT!!! OH MY GOODNESS! He wrecked so hard on his bike the other night!!!! Holy crap we are flying down this hill and they are repaving the road at the bottom of the hill and so there is like a 5 inch lip cause they only had half of it done... well anyways he is behind me and I go up the lip and I look back and he is laying on the ground and I'm like what the heck. He jumps up and is doing the I'm embarrassed dance.. lol you know what I'm talking about where he is like oh ya I'm fine... no I'm alright lets go.. ya I'm good.. LOL!! So I'm like dude chill a little are you alright.. what happened? He goes ya I'm fine I just squeezed the front brake a little too hard!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! LOL!!!! It was hilarious! I couldn't help but laugh!! There was a pizza delivery guy that saw the whole thing too. But anyways we are riding back to the car and he is like you know I wish it was a little better story!! I was like ya that one is kinda stupid and he agreed and then we get in the car and we are driving home and I said I bet next time we go down that hill your gonna use your back brake... and he was like yep... LOL!!! Nothing like learning the hard way! Oh man... I think that is all that really happened that was too exciting this week! We were so busy! We taught 17 lessons last week! That was between lessons with a member.. other lessons.. and recent-convert/less-active lessons. We taught lessons every day and it was way fun! I know you're probably thinking well that's how its supposed to be.. and its true but unfortunately its not like that every week .:D But anyways mom I did get that bank deal sent in the day after I got it.. it should be there by now so thanks for taking care of that driving record for me! You're the best!! Go BYU holy crap! Oh and even better go NINERS!! They never win!! woohoo!! that was good news!! lol It was funny cause we are in elders quorum and they ask who saw the BYU game yesterday and I raised my hand and they all looked at me like what the heck?!?! I just smiled and was like I'm kidding but how did it go?! Its so funny how serious people take you as a missionary! I love it :D Granted it would be worse if they didn't but you know what I mean :D I make comments in district meeting like that all the time.. like we went to the temple on Wednesday and when we were planning it I was like what time to we need to be there... and they were like 6:45 and its like a half hour drive.. so I was like dang that means ima have to get up almost on time! They all got quiet and looked at me then I just smiled and started laughing... the sisters believe anything! Its great and well the ZL's are in our district.. so people just don't joke around about things like that cause then they might tell pres LOL! Oh well. I base my work off of virtue! If I know I'm working hard and heavenly father does too then who cares right? lol Well anyways ya I still like to laugh a little! Our ZL's are way cool now since the bald one got transferred out :D But I love you guys! Good luck with football dad you guys should smash Granger! Oh and DON'T take it easy on those kids at practice! Losing with those kinds of numbers is just simply out of line... and will not be dealt with here in the Highland High organization!!!!! :D LOVE YA!!! Take care of yourselves! Hey the year is almost over!!! READ YOUR SCRIPTURES!!! Oh and I have no idea what I want for scrips... maybe some nice boots that will shine up and keep my feet warm who knows but I will think about it and get back to ya! Thanks for everything! Take care! Love ya!
Elder Penman
Elder Penman
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