Hey there guys. Its good to hear from all of you fools of a tooks. The summer has sounded like the usual Heywood summer. Jackson, Lake Powell, working for dad, mission calls from everyone, Katie GETTING MARRIED AND HAVING A BABY BY THE TIME IM HOME. hahahahahh I can’t wait for her to get pregnant. Arizona sounds crazy. Its nice to get letters from 2 of you. Maybe by the end of my mission I will be getting letters from all of you. Dang.
Hold on I’m getting kicked off the computer...
Wednesday, July 8, 2009
Monday, July 6, 2009
4th of July in Polsen
Hey................. all is well here in the good ole town of Polson. 4th of July is this Saturday. We got invited out to the Tanners Mansion on Finley Point. From what we've heard; they blow about 2 grand on fireworks and have quite the show. Everyone can see them from across the town. We don't know what we are going to do but it is so tempting to see all the firework stands and shops around. Also, with it being the 4th of July, there are so many boats and jet skis and everything else around that I like and would want to do. The big turquoise lake is so tempting to just jump into. Especially when driving by it in the mornings or evenings and seeing a perfectly flat piece of heaven. People stay out water skiing until about 10 at night because it is still light out.
Everything is going great here (even though Elder Lindhardt is trunkiest trunkster that I've ever seen). He has a toy model Delta Jet Plane that he flies around and puts his own sound effects to as if he is flying inside it heading home. He flies it around the house, then holds it out of the car window as we drive, then acts like he is the pilot making announcements on the plane, then flies it around and makes it land in his home town... the list goes on and on.
We have been teaching awesome people. We have another couple (Roger and Marilyn Van Eram) that is seriously investigating and could probably be baptized in the next month or so. We will see. Another local sasquatch, Shaun Robbins, is a single guy investigating the church. He has a sweet pony tail and is the most awesome guy. He was telling us about these stories. They were good. I laughed. Hard. Great time. Awesome guy.
Lastly, we are teaching this 14 year old kid who has LDS convert grandparents who live in Texas. I guess he visited them a while ago and he seems pretty interested in it. He is small, very smart, has red hair with dark skin, skates, and likes computer games. He is awesome. I hope we can keep on teaching him. He is not home alot and his dad is a bum.
Lastly but not least, (even though I already said "lastly") We have been going by/teaching/visiting an old lady named Inness Brown. Carl and Kathy Moss (who are ranchers and members and the most awesome people on the earth) ran into and ended up helping out her daughter and son in law. This was about four years ago. Brother Moss' truck broke down by some Uhaul place and Dick and Melodee Scott (the daughter and son in law of Inness) had just moved from Great Falls and were unloading all of their junk. Long story short: what ended up happening was Bro Moss called his wife from the Scotts phone to come pick him up. Melodee ended up getting heat stroke (or something like that). Bro and Sister Moss ended up helping them unpack/finish moving for the rest of the day. They ended up becoming great friends have made out to be good friends, along with the mother Inness, slowly incorporating the Gospel into their lives. About 2 hours ago we vistied Inness in the hospital and got to have a good sit down with Inness and Melodee. That was really exciting.
So hopefully we will have some potential investigators on our hands. Polson is awesome. Love it. Keep reading your scriptures, especially you Jared.
Everything is going great here (even though Elder Lindhardt is trunkiest trunkster that I've ever seen). He has a toy model Delta Jet Plane that he flies around and puts his own sound effects to as if he is flying inside it heading home. He flies it around the house, then holds it out of the car window as we drive, then acts like he is the pilot making announcements on the plane, then flies it around and makes it land in his home town... the list goes on and on.
We have been teaching awesome people. We have another couple (Roger and Marilyn Van Eram) that is seriously investigating and could probably be baptized in the next month or so. We will see. Another local sasquatch, Shaun Robbins, is a single guy investigating the church. He has a sweet pony tail and is the most awesome guy. He was telling us about these stories. They were good. I laughed. Hard. Great time. Awesome guy.
Lastly, we are teaching this 14 year old kid who has LDS convert grandparents who live in Texas. I guess he visited them a while ago and he seems pretty interested in it. He is small, very smart, has red hair with dark skin, skates, and likes computer games. He is awesome. I hope we can keep on teaching him. He is not home alot and his dad is a bum.
Lastly but not least, (even though I already said "lastly") We have been going by/teaching/visiting an old lady named Inness Brown. Carl and Kathy Moss (who are ranchers and members and the most awesome people on the earth) ran into and ended up helping out her daughter and son in law. This was about four years ago. Brother Moss' truck broke down by some Uhaul place and Dick and Melodee Scott (the daughter and son in law of Inness) had just moved from Great Falls and were unloading all of their junk. Long story short: what ended up happening was Bro Moss called his wife from the Scotts phone to come pick him up. Melodee ended up getting heat stroke (or something like that). Bro and Sister Moss ended up helping them unpack/finish moving for the rest of the day. They ended up becoming great friends have made out to be good friends, along with the mother Inness, slowly incorporating the Gospel into their lives. About 2 hours ago we vistied Inness in the hospital and got to have a good sit down with Inness and Melodee. That was really exciting.
So hopefully we will have some potential investigators on our hands. Polson is awesome. Love it. Keep reading your scriptures, especially you Jared.
Tuesday, June 30, 2009
Katie writes Parker about her engagement to Aaron
YOU HAVE GOT TO BE KIDDING ME!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!. Oh my gosh. That is absolutely crazy. Aaron told me in that last letter that he sent me that he was going to marry you and also said that it would be soon. I can’t believe I am getting this letter. My mind hasn’t even been thinking about what he said. I completely forgot that he was going to ask you. Way to go! I wish I could write more about all the wedding and everything but we are leaving here in a bit to go scout for some black bears. You realize you have a one-way ticket to the Celestial Kingdom right? As long as you keep all of your covenants. Wow. You will love the temple!
I got a new companion here in Polson and Elder Kesler Tanner left to Billings to become dual Zone leaders with Elder Ty Ashton, who was the missionary who trained Elder Tanner. That has rarely ever happened. What a lucky dog. So.... I am here in Polson with Elder Lindhardt from St. George, Utah. He leaves for home in 6 weeks after this transfer. All of this means that I will stay for another transfer after he leaves. All of THIS means: that I will be here for another 3 months. All of THIS adds up to: I will have served here in Polson for 6 MONTHS!! Wow. Anyway, about my companion: he is small and blonde and is trunky. He talks about going home all the time. He is about 145 lbs and reminds me of a mini Ben Hulse. He quotes movies all the time and does a good impression of Sid the sloth and all the greatest of SNL. He also likes lifting weights, working out all the time, kissing girls (at home), he has a girlfriend who hasn’t been loyal but is still waiting for him, kissing girls, kissing girls while driving his motorcycle going 60 mph, quoting movies, kissing girls, and working out. He is actually really cool and I like him its just that he talks about going home all the time.
I realized that I didn’t write much about the Baptism. It was awesome. We got soo much ward support and everything went smoothly. Both Elder Tanner and I were in the water. Kesler baptized Earl and I baptized Emy. When Emy came up out of the water she was just crying her eyes out. It was very special. They were both glowing. The next day they were confirmed by Patriarch Jensen. He pretty much gave them a patriarchal blessing. it was awesome. They both kept asking (afterwards) if this is what it feels like having the spirit. It was just all around awesome. They are very eager to learn and get to the Temple in a year. They keep calling us waiting to receive, and wondering when, they will get ward callings and when they will have their home teachers come over; etc., etc., etc. They have already started doing Genealogy and are doing Missionary work. Anyway Earl and Emy are doing great and we hope to have a couple of people in the baptismal waters during July. All the details later but one mans’ name is Shaun Robbins. He is the bomb. He is a native and is Wizard master, Nintendo, star wars, Mel brooks, self-role playing, xboxing, almighty, ponytailed, history, GURU. He is the man. He is similar to all history type guys. They all speak in the Monty Python type accent and self role play to themselves. He is awesome and I hope he gets baptized. It would be so awesome. We have taught him restoration and plan of salvation. He will be taught Lesson 3 on Friday. He is sic.
We went out to the Tanners (from mesa az) house on Sunday (Elder Tanners last day) and had dinner. They have the most awesome house with a massive entry gate that says, "Tanner's Treasure." Its insane. They have a brand new 24 ft. Malibu and 3 jet skis. I can’t even explain what their property is like. After we had talked a little about different things a boat drives by and they say, "is that Howie?" and I ask them who Howie is and they say, "its Howie Long. He is one of our good friends up here. We didn’t know he was up for the summer yet." I got to see and hopefully meet in the future: HOWIE FREAKIN LONG. The guys who was an all-star player for the raiders and did all the radio shack commercials and now does all the GM commercials.
That’s about it for now. Gotta go. Polson is awesome. Doing well.
Wednesday, June 17, 2009
Hey fam.,
We are all in Kalispell. I don’t have much time to write because we are leaving for Glacier Park anytime now. It’s the last Pday of the transfer so I guess we always do something fun the last Pday together. Lots to talk about.We definitely think that one of us will be transferred this Saturday so we will see. I got to meet the whole Tanner family Sunday. Will probably have dinner out at their house sometime this weekend before one of us goes. I guess Chelsea Forans little sister from Gilbert is with them. She said she knew Jared. Sister Tanner looks like she could fit right in on your tennis team with Karen and Kris and all those Mountain View hill billies. By the way we drove by this 63,000 sq ft. house today. It was cool.
I got a letter from Matt Mcdowell the other day. I will send it to you guys but he baptized a lady in a stretcher and he said he hasn’t had a solid stool in about 8 weeks.
Crazy story that I never told you about: there was a crazy guy that we met and he and his wife had us over for dinner. Lots of details that you will one day hear. He called us Sunday and said that things were going real bad and asked us if we were up for an exorcism. and..... last night we drove by where he lives and there were 2 ambulances there and a police car. Crazy. Satan killed both him and his wife.
We are all anxiously awaiting the arrival of President Gardner.
Thank you all to everyone that contributed to the package with all that stuff. It was awesome even though Elder Tanner won’t let me listen to the EFY and church mix cds. I should have told you that those were inappropriate. He did let me (last night) stay up later than usual and finish our risk game with Bro Heskiel because one of us was going to be transferred. I won it.
That’s good to hear about all the stories that you guys had in Utah. I feel bad for the Davidsons and hope all is well over there. I’ll send them a note. Did you hear the MTC is quarantined? They can’t shake hands anymore and are not letting anyone go in and out.
Did I ever tell you that President Fisher served on the navajo res? He speaks fluent navajo and I think served his mission there at the same time grandpa Bob was branch prez.
Tell Jared to expect a good bday present.
Anyway. Onto the stuff that’s going on in Polsen. Our baptism on Saturday. I'm baptizing Emy. Tanner is baptizing Earl. Its gonna be great.I love working with all the Blackfoot, Flathead, Salish, Kootenai, and other cross-breeded indjuns. They are fun to work with but I always thinking to myself,"When are these lazy people going to join the church as it says they will before the 2nd coming in DC." Anyway all is going good here. We just want to see what the new transfer brings. Everyone thinks and bugs me saying I will become an office elder working in the office. No one likes that job.
This is for Chris: thanks for the letter bro. I just wanted to say that there is a 5 year old boy in our ward who had all 13 articles of faith memorized before he was 5. and he has D&C section 4 memorized as well.
love you guys. Tell Baja hi for me. Church is true!
We are all in Kalispell. I don’t have much time to write because we are leaving for Glacier Park anytime now. It’s the last Pday of the transfer so I guess we always do something fun the last Pday together. Lots to talk about.We definitely think that one of us will be transferred this Saturday so we will see. I got to meet the whole Tanner family Sunday. Will probably have dinner out at their house sometime this weekend before one of us goes. I guess Chelsea Forans little sister from Gilbert is with them. She said she knew Jared. Sister Tanner looks like she could fit right in on your tennis team with Karen and Kris and all those Mountain View hill billies. By the way we drove by this 63,000 sq ft. house today. It was cool.
I got a letter from Matt Mcdowell the other day. I will send it to you guys but he baptized a lady in a stretcher and he said he hasn’t had a solid stool in about 8 weeks.
Crazy story that I never told you about: there was a crazy guy that we met and he and his wife had us over for dinner. Lots of details that you will one day hear. He called us Sunday and said that things were going real bad and asked us if we were up for an exorcism. and..... last night we drove by where he lives and there were 2 ambulances there and a police car. Crazy. Satan killed both him and his wife.
We are all anxiously awaiting the arrival of President Gardner.
Thank you all to everyone that contributed to the package with all that stuff. It was awesome even though Elder Tanner won’t let me listen to the EFY and church mix cds. I should have told you that those were inappropriate. He did let me (last night) stay up later than usual and finish our risk game with Bro Heskiel because one of us was going to be transferred. I won it.
That’s good to hear about all the stories that you guys had in Utah. I feel bad for the Davidsons and hope all is well over there. I’ll send them a note. Did you hear the MTC is quarantined? They can’t shake hands anymore and are not letting anyone go in and out.
Did I ever tell you that President Fisher served on the navajo res? He speaks fluent navajo and I think served his mission there at the same time grandpa Bob was branch prez.
Tell Jared to expect a good bday present.
Anyway. Onto the stuff that’s going on in Polsen. Our baptism on Saturday. I'm baptizing Emy. Tanner is baptizing Earl. Its gonna be great.I love working with all the Blackfoot, Flathead, Salish, Kootenai, and other cross-breeded indjuns. They are fun to work with but I always thinking to myself,"When are these lazy people going to join the church as it says they will before the 2nd coming in DC." Anyway all is going good here. We just want to see what the new transfer brings. Everyone thinks and bugs me saying I will become an office elder working in the office. No one likes that job.
This is for Chris: thanks for the letter bro. I just wanted to say that there is a 5 year old boy in our ward who had all 13 articles of faith memorized before he was 5. and he has D&C section 4 memorized as well.
love you guys. Tell Baja hi for me. Church is true!
Thursday, June 11, 2009
Hey. I am still in Polson. Transfers are next week so we think that one of us will be going here even though that it could easily go either way. In Elder Tanner's last area he stayed there for 4.5 months with his trainee. So.... we could end up staying together until end of July. Elder Ashton has now been in Big fork since January. we will see.
Everything sounds different at home. South Dakota??? Where and what in the world was that trip ever planned for and why? That's just weird.
Lots is happening here and yes you can write the Atchleys. address is: 7 Weber st or ln. Polson, Mt 59860 (I don't know which). They are getting baptized the 20th of this month. I am baptizing Emy and Tanner is baptizing Earl. It's going to be awesome. We started to get a little baptism service organized for them and the stake patriarch's wife gave her a ward list. We have just been hearing that she has been calling everyone. Its pretty funny. and most importantly, one of the members in our ward was Cpt. Von Trapp in the Sound of Music with one of the local community theaters here and they both went to see that. So.... Emy wants him to sing a special musical number for their service. its going to be good. Can't wait.
AT church this last Sunday. a couple showed up out of no where. They retired from
Florida and have come here because they knew how beautiful it was. They stopped in in Idaho on the way and talked with their LDS uncle who talked to them about the church forever. So... they wanted to be sealed for time and all eternity and no other church has that. We just gave them the 1st lesson in their 5th wheel 2 days ago. We will see. They told us they have already been "baptized" so we will see how it all unfolds.
We are anxiously awaiting a new mission president as we just had our last zone conference with our dearly Beloved President and his wife. They will be missed. They told me that after my mission I need to go to their house. Our zone conference was pretty awesome. we had this stupid fun run set up by sister fisher in which we were in groups running blindfolded/ with a cup of water/a sack of sugar/ and tied together (all individually) in which we had a lesson later on about. It was dumb. We just ran around the neighborhood.
Tell the Olivers and the Bevans that I would love to see them. they might just have to do some missionary work with us if we see them so that we can walk and talk. Tell them that if they are coming from Missoula they will see me. Otherwise they won't.
I can't remember what the rest of the letter said but I love being here in Montana and I can tell you that this has to be the best mission in the world. Everything about it is awesome. I wish I could write a novel every week of what has happened to me but I can't. There are some other cool stories that I would love to tell but I'm done for today.
We are teaching some awesome people and have had some great times.
We have a member missionary fireside this Sunday so we should see how that goes. I look forward to the stuff that is being sent and everything else I hear. make sure you guys never forget to write me
LOVe me do. Elder Pleywood
Everything sounds different at home. South Dakota??? Where and what in the world was that trip ever planned for and why? That's just weird.
Lots is happening here and yes you can write the Atchleys. address is: 7 Weber st or ln. Polson, Mt 59860 (I don't know which). They are getting baptized the 20th of this month. I am baptizing Emy and Tanner is baptizing Earl. It's going to be awesome. We started to get a little baptism service organized for them and the stake patriarch's wife gave her a ward list. We have just been hearing that she has been calling everyone. Its pretty funny. and most importantly, one of the members in our ward was Cpt. Von Trapp in the Sound of Music with one of the local community theaters here and they both went to see that. So.... Emy wants him to sing a special musical number for their service. its going to be good. Can't wait.
AT church this last Sunday. a couple showed up out of no where. They retired from
Florida and have come here because they knew how beautiful it was. They stopped in in Idaho on the way and talked with their LDS uncle who talked to them about the church forever. So... they wanted to be sealed for time and all eternity and no other church has that. We just gave them the 1st lesson in their 5th wheel 2 days ago. We will see. They told us they have already been "baptized" so we will see how it all unfolds.
We are anxiously awaiting a new mission president as we just had our last zone conference with our dearly Beloved President and his wife. They will be missed. They told me that after my mission I need to go to their house. Our zone conference was pretty awesome. we had this stupid fun run set up by sister fisher in which we were in groups running blindfolded/ with a cup of water/a sack of sugar/ and tied together (all individually) in which we had a lesson later on about. It was dumb. We just ran around the neighborhood.
Tell the Olivers and the Bevans that I would love to see them. they might just have to do some missionary work with us if we see them so that we can walk and talk. Tell them that if they are coming from Missoula they will see me. Otherwise they won't.
I can't remember what the rest of the letter said but I love being here in Montana and I can tell you that this has to be the best mission in the world. Everything about it is awesome. I wish I could write a novel every week of what has happened to me but I can't. There are some other cool stories that I would love to tell but I'm done for today.
We are teaching some awesome people and have had some great times.
We have a member missionary fireside this Sunday so we should see how that goes. I look forward to the stuff that is being sent and everything else I hear. make sure you guys never forget to write me
LOVe me do. Elder Pleywood
Thursday, June 4, 2009
Hey I hope you remembered that I have pday today. we have zone conference tomorrow. If you get this and it's not past 6pm you can write back because I will be here in the stake center until then.
This week was pretty awesome. Earl and Emy Atchley came to church and said that they would get baptized. Friday afternoon before this last Sunday we had an awesome lesson with them. Actually, sorry, the lesson before that one on Tuesday they said that they were going to pray about a baptismal date. so... when we went to our lesson on Friday we started off by talking a little bit and then asked them about their praying, studying, etc. They both looked at us with despair and said that they couldn't join the church. we asked why and then they replied by saying that they wouldn't be able to pay tithing. Elder Tanner started laughing and said he knew this would come up. Everyone replied and said, "what?" He then told them/me that he knew God wouldn't let them be soo easy to be baptized. He said that it never works that way with anyone; that everyone had at least one obstacle. We both then proceeded to teach tithing for the next 20 minutes and she was in tears by the end of it saying that she thought she had faith until tithing came up. She said that she felt horrible after we explained it to her. She had said before, that she had known this was true and was filling a missing piece to her heart. After that we finshed by teaching the basic gospel and concluded by giving her a priesthood blessing. She said that she was soo frustrated with everything: her shoulder surgery, not sleeping at night, always being tired during the day etc. soooo..... when we met them at church the next day she came in with a beaming smile and said she slept through the whole night and was ready to, for sure, get baptized. They both only stayed for sacrament and left. ( because they are both very old) But, they came back at 130 to see one of the 8 year olds (in our ward) baptisms. They both loved it. we have a return appt/lesson Thursday night. Hopefully they will get baptized by the end of this transfer. I think i might be leaving. I realize that I don't talk a lot about Earl. bottom line is: he is very quiet but very very bright and has some of the most funny comments. He is awesome.
I wish I could explain everything in extreme detail to you about the people here and all of their individual personalities and characteristics etc etc etc. If I did it would take me a whole week. I Benjamin button. meaning that I've met a lot of incredible people. people that have done and will do incredible things in their lives. It really is like a fairytale as gay as that sounds but we have talked to soo many crazy, weird, great people.
That's about it for now. Hope to talk to you later. thanks. love.
This week was pretty awesome. Earl and Emy Atchley came to church and said that they would get baptized. Friday afternoon before this last Sunday we had an awesome lesson with them. Actually, sorry, the lesson before that one on Tuesday they said that they were going to pray about a baptismal date. so... when we went to our lesson on Friday we started off by talking a little bit and then asked them about their praying, studying, etc. They both looked at us with despair and said that they couldn't join the church. we asked why and then they replied by saying that they wouldn't be able to pay tithing. Elder Tanner started laughing and said he knew this would come up. Everyone replied and said, "what?" He then told them/me that he knew God wouldn't let them be soo easy to be baptized. He said that it never works that way with anyone; that everyone had at least one obstacle. We both then proceeded to teach tithing for the next 20 minutes and she was in tears by the end of it saying that she thought she had faith until tithing came up. She said that she felt horrible after we explained it to her. She had said before, that she had known this was true and was filling a missing piece to her heart. After that we finshed by teaching the basic gospel and concluded by giving her a priesthood blessing. She said that she was soo frustrated with everything: her shoulder surgery, not sleeping at night, always being tired during the day etc. soooo..... when we met them at church the next day she came in with a beaming smile and said she slept through the whole night and was ready to, for sure, get baptized. They both only stayed for sacrament and left. ( because they are both very old) But, they came back at 130 to see one of the 8 year olds (in our ward) baptisms. They both loved it. we have a return appt/lesson Thursday night. Hopefully they will get baptized by the end of this transfer. I think i might be leaving. I realize that I don't talk a lot about Earl. bottom line is: he is very quiet but very very bright and has some of the most funny comments. He is awesome.
I wish I could explain everything in extreme detail to you about the people here and all of their individual personalities and characteristics etc etc etc. If I did it would take me a whole week. I Benjamin button. meaning that I've met a lot of incredible people. people that have done and will do incredible things in their lives. It really is like a fairytale as gay as that sounds but we have talked to soo many crazy, weird, great people.
That's about it for now. Hope to talk to you later. thanks. love.
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