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Howzit-Elder Flexy!

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Elder Flexy 11:2 -email-



Make,
what!! that’s crazy how can you lose your job. but your right you will find another one. i hope everything works out.

1 How is the work going?

1.great we had a pretty good week.
2 Are you still teaching a ton? 
2.ya we have about fifty investigators.
3 Anybody you would like us to pray for specifically?
3.yes Ephriam, lindo and ayanda 
4 Did you do anything fun for p-day?
4.well today is just a quiet p day just gonna chill with our roommates.
5 Have you had any interesting experiences this last week?
5.well we went teaching with a young man who is preparing for mission.
6 Favorite scripture?
6.well joshua 1:9

Special question:

7 How do we continue in faith when all seems lost?
7.well your faith is your trust in God so you just have to always remember that He is in charge. 
anyway life is good love you.
    Love Elder Flexy

Baba, 

wow your always busy aren’t you!!! jeepers your always doing something. well i’m about the same as i was when i talked to you. but life is good we keep working hard and its going great. love you

    Love Elder Flexy 

  
M,

well its ok that you weren’t there for the prayer i just cryed anyway. but ya i love you.
Love Elder Flexy

Totally "Fort Worth" it!

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Hermana Kelsey 3:4 -email-
 
 
Mama,
Oh my goodness! What happened that you lost your job? That is so crazy! You’ll be able to find another one super easy though, because you are definitely qualified. 🙂
I’m feeling better this week than I was last week. I’m feeling pretty good though.
Teaching appointments are going well. We have a lot of investigators, but not very many progressing. Most of them either aren’t married to their significant other, or are married to someone else in Mexico, so they can’t get baptized. We fasted last week so that our entire zone could all get a baptism this month. We have a couple people who are really close. A. has been taking the lessons for like 2 years, but he has a baptisimal date for June 5th (we got him to move it a week sooner so that Sister Vaughn can be there).
These two other guys, J. and D., have baptisimal dates, but we are going to talk to J. about doing his sooner, because he is so ready. Anyways, so that’s exciting. Hopefully we’ll be getting our baptism in May!
Seriously, we talk to some of the craziest people ever. Yesterday we were tracting and we met this guy who was on something (I’m not quite sure what), but he sneak attacked us and hugged us! It was so crazy. He was definitely not all there in the head. It’s kind of funny though, because we will talk to people who are drunk a lot, and they give us information we need, even if they don’t want to listen to our message. It’s hilarious. We always joke about “taking advantage” of the drunk people. Sometimes we’ll ask them where to find other people we want to teach and they’ll tell us because they are so drunk. It’s fun.
Anyways, that is so cool that Brynne is home. She is so great. Tell her that if she wants to send me a letter that would be fine with me! 🙂 Also, tell everyone else if they really, really, really want to write a letter, I think I would be fine if they wrote to me. You know where to send it. 🙂
I’m glad you are keeping yourself busy. Maybe now that you don’t have a job you can work on that project that Uncle Larry kept wanting you to do. That would be pretty cool.
Anyway, I better go now. Thank you for always supporting me. You are so great! I love you lots.
Love, Hermana Kelsey
Dear KJ
 I went to a Stake Priesthood meeting tonight and one of the speakers talked about a trip they took down the green river and how they studied the maps and used a gps to help them know where they were, and where to stop to walk ahead and see where the safest route was. then he compared it to making important choices long before the situation comes up. It was a great meeting. 
 
 Papa,
That story is a very good relation to real life. Sometimes it is hard to make good choices. But the out come is so worth it if you make the right choice. 🙂 Have fun with your garden. Hopefully it grows better this time than your corn did last time. 🙂 Just kidding. Anyways, I better go now. Love you lots.
Love, Hermana Kelsey
Emmysaurus Rex!
I am writing you a letter already, so I will send it today. I’m not sure what card you are talking about. They only I got was the cute sisters one like a couple weeks after I got to the MTC. I’ll be expecting a letter from you within the week! Anyway, love you. Bye!
Love, Hermana Kelsey
 P.S. I ate “elote” the other day, which is that corn that Nacho eats in “Nacho Libre”. It is quite delicious! You should be jealous. 🙂
XoxOxoXXXoxoxoO

Family History Friday: Still Organizing?

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So I have recently had a 
little extra time on my hands. 
And of course, one of my favorite
 things to do, is Family History. 
It is so fun!
Besides doing research, 
it is fun to organize it.
 I have noticed though, if you haven’t had time to organize, and reorganize. It kinda piles up. I spent the entire day today organizing and reorganizing my Family History. It is an ongoing process. My new goal is, to never let it get so bad again. I will do two hours of Family History every Sunday afternoon. There, now that it’s out there. I will be more likely to follow through. Pick a quiet time of the week for organizing your Family History. It’ll make you feel great!!! I promise!
Happy Family History Friday! 
Love, Joy

I love Mother Teresa!

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“People are often unreasonable and self-centered. Forgive them anyway.
If you are kind, people my accuse you of ulterior motives. Be kind anyway.
If you are honest, people may cheat you. Be honest anyway.
If you find happiness, people may be jealous. Be happy anyway.
The good you do today may be forgotten tomorrow. Do good anyway.
Give the world the best you have and it may never be enough. Give your best anyway.
For you see, in the end, it is between you and God. 
It was never between you and them anyway.”
-Mother Teresa

Totally "Fort Worth" it!

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Hermana Kelsey 3:2 -email-
Hola Familia!
Long time no talk right? Today is better, but I think that is because it is p-day. I’m hoping I can adjust a little more very soon.
Last night we got dinner from one of the members in the English ward. They were cool. They have two cute little girls. Anyway, we don’t get dinner very much, so that was nice.
Also last night we taught this crazy guy, and he offered us some water. We told him we didn’t want any, but he insisted. He gave us water from a gallon milk jug, but apparently he hadn’t rinsed it out before he filled it with the water so it tasted really gross like sour milk. It was so not cool. 
Oh also, how was your talk with Flexy? Is he doing so great? I wish I could have talked to him longer.
Anyway, I better go now. Love you all. XoxoXOXXXoOxx
 
P.S. Dad, that is so cool you have a black widow pet. Maybe you should fatten her up and then give her to the Nature Center again. 🙂
 
BYE!

Howzit-Elder Flexy!

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Elder Flexy 11:1 -email-
Make,

ya i just realized that when we were talking that i never said happy mothers day so… HAPPY MOTHERS DAY!!!!! so i don’t really know what to say today that i didn’t say yesterday. but life is good and all is well. love you
    Elder Flexy
Dad,
ya that’s so weird that all those young ones are getting so old. My brother Bryce?!?! that’s great but ya it was nice to hear from you guys on the phone. but ya we have been seeing a lot of snakes lately so that’s intense. but ya that’s all for now.Love you.
    Elder Flexy

M,
ya it was fun to talk to you about work. its good to know all the old people are doing well but  I’m about the same as a was yesterday but ya. Love you.
    Elder Flexy

Howzit-Elder Flexy!

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Elder Flexy 10:4 -email-
Make,
the baptisms went great i performed the baptism for Nokwanda. its was way cool and i didn’t have to do it more than once. but ya mission is going well we have a massive teaching pool and the area is doing good. we played soccer yesterday and i didn’t do well we don’t play as much in swaziland as we did in in durban so i’m losing the skill i had.  but life is good!! we had interviews with president and i enjoyed speaking to him i think he might put me in a leadership position after this transfer but if not all the better the leadership positions stink i just like to worry about me,  my comp and my investigators. so about the phone call i will see if i can use the blackburns land line and then call you so you have the number then you can all me back so hopefully that will work. but life is about the same as it always is in swaziland. anyway love you.
    Love Elder Flexy

Baba,

thats good that time is going fast that means your staying busy. we are too, we work really really hard and its paying off we are finding people like crazy. but mission life is kinda funny you start to feel like you do the same thing every day. but ya its going well swaziland is very well prepared of the lord and the people are listening. thats so crazy your selling your truck. but the roof was looking pretty bad when i left. but ya i turn ten monthes on saturday so thats pretty intense!!! i’m quickly aproaching half way done so thats pretty much the craziest thing ever the time is going so fast and i’m loving it. love you
    Love Elder Flexy

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Hermana Kelsey 3:1 -email-
Madre,
 
Hola! How are you doing? I hope things are going great for you. The mission field is really weird, especially when I’ve been so out of the world for so long. I am forgetting how to use technology! It’s craziness. Anyway, the spanish is no bueno. I can’t understand half of what anyone is saying because they talk so fast. I can pick out words, but it’s really hard. And I feel so exhausted at night because my brain is working so hard to try to understand people all day. Plus, we teach in english too, which you would think would be nice, but it just confuses my brain, and now I can’t teach very well in either. It’s really hard. I’m don’t feel like I’m learning any spanish at all, but my companion says it will come in time.
 
My companion is Hermana Vaughn. She’s really cool. I’m her last companion before she goes home, so she’s been out for a while. She is from Idaho. She just had surgery to get her gallbladder taken out like a three weeks ago, but she is almost completely better and doing the work like usual. She has a really good spanish accent, and she speaks spanish very well. She is great.
 
But anyways, my first area is a really big area. It’s kind of weird, but I like it. I’ve been meeting a ton of people, and most of them are totally crazy. They say the funniest things, but I never understand them until Hna. Vaughn explains them to me later. But they are pretty much hilarious. We have a few people that they have been teaching for a while that are supposed to get baptized soon, so that’s pretty cool. I think it’s crazy, because when we go tracting, we meet people who have never heard of the Mormons. I thought everyone knew of us, or at least had crazy ideas about who we are. That was definitely eye opening.
 
We had church yesterday, of course, and it was insane. We went to the just spanish ward, and it was so tiny. There are only ten women in Relief Society on a good day, and in sacrament meeting there was only like 30 people. I’m used to really big wards to that was really strange. Since it was fast Sunday, the President asked us to get up and bear our testimonies. So I did…and I slaughtered it. They could all tell what a gringa I am. It was sad. But everyone is really nice so that’s good. I also ended up saying the closing prayer in sacrament too. So that was fun.
 
I will probably call after church on Sunday. We have church at 11 on Sunday too. But since we are an hour ahead, it will probably be between like 3 and 5 ish. I’m not really sure. Just keep your phone handy. 🙂 Anyway, I better go now. Love you lots. I’ll talk to you on Sunday.
  
Love, Hermana Kelsey 
 
Padre,
 
My first week has been okay. The work is really hard, but I like it. The Spanish is crazy! They talk so so fast, and most of the time I don’t know what they are saying. Me and my companion don’t speak that much Spanish with each other, but we talk some. I ask her a lot how to say things, and she’ll tell me so I can say them at another point. It’s fun.
Anway, I better go. Love you lots.
Love, Hermana Kelsey