Monthly Archives: September 2011

Howzit-Elder Flexy!

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Elder Flexy 15:1 -email-
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life is good we are working hard we had a zone conference. and we have had some changes in our mission we are now issued small dvd players to use in our studies its pretty cool. so missin is good we went on splits with the guys in the branch they are cool i was wwalking and my comp took the truck but we tracted like a mad man. and we found lots of cool people. thats all for now i’m glad your doing well and likeing the new job you are doing.Love you
Love Elder Flexy
Baba,
wow it sounds like the hike was a pretty cool thing i’ll have to hike it when i get home it will be cool. ya i’m glad your still playing soccer i’ve been playing basketball with Elder L. its pretty fun we try to entertain ourselves on p day. anyway life is still going good.
Love Elder Flexy
M,
i’m doing great and i hope you are too i love you sis.
Love Elder Flexy

Family History Friday: Personal History/Journal!

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“What could you do better for your children and your children’s children than to record the story of your life, your triumphs over adversity, your recovery after a fall, your progress when all seemed black, your rejoicing when you had achieved? some of what you write may be humdrum dates and places, but there will also be rich passages that will be quoted by your posterity.” -Spencer W. Kimball

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“I urge all of the people of this church to give serious attention to their family histories, to encourage their parents and grandparents to write their journals, and let no family go into eternity without having left their memoirs for their children, their grandchildren, and their posterity. This is a duty and a responsibility, and I urge every person to start the children out writing a personal history and journal” (Spencer W. Kimball, in Conference Report, Apr. 1978, 4; or Ensign, May 1978, 4).

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Start a journal if you haven’t done it, your children will be so glad! I have mentioned in other posts, my darlin’s dad has Alzheimers and he can’t tell us any stories of his life, because he can’t remember. I am glad we have the stories and memories that we do have of him. But a journal would be awesome!

Happy Family History Friday! Love, Joy

Totally “Fort Worth” It!

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Hermana Kesley 7:2 -email-
Hola familia!!
Como estan ustedes?! (How are you all?) Espero que todo esta bien (I hope everything is good). Este semana era muy bien para mi (This week was really good for me.) Okay enough of the spanish. If y’all spoke spanish I would write an entire letter to you…but you don’t. 🙁 It’s okay though. I am doing pretty darn great. We had transfers again this past week and I stayed here in Arlington with Sister Q. I’m okay with that, because I still don’t feel like I know the area or the ward members very well. Hopefully I can get to know it better before she gets transferred or goes home. She finishes her mission in November, and she thinks that we will stay together until then, and that I will “kill” her. (That is when you send a missionary home…well when you are their last companion before they finish their mission) I sure hope not, because last time I did that with my trainer I got really trunky. But it’ll happen the way it is supposed to. (Oh ps. we were top companionship this week! Yeah!)
Anyway, we have so many great things going on in our area. We have 5 pretty legitimate baptismal dates. One family, the mom and the two sons have dates, and they have been taking the lessons for like 12 years. The mom is practically a member, except she hasn’t been baptized yet. I think the thing that is holding them back is the dad. He just doesn’t seem to get it. Anyway, so they have a date for the 25th of this month. The other two are for Carrie, who we have been teaching for a little while. And also for a lady named Shellie. They are both really cool. We have only been teaching Shellie for a couple weeks now, but she is just so ready. She loves everything we teach and how it has answered all of her questions. She studied with the JWs for a little while, but she really didn’t agree with a lot of the things that they taught. But so far she agrees with everything we have taught her. 🙂 And Carrie is this 14 year old girl we have been teaching for while. She had a date a little while ago, but they announced it in Young Womens at church, and she got all scared. But this time we got her. She is even starting to bring her friend to church. She’s not even a member, and she is already doing missionary work! Yeah!
Okay so this week we had a couple fun/crazy/memorable experiences.
First, on Friday, we had an…interesting experience. Mom…don’t be worried everything is fine. But it happened when we went to go see one of our investigators, Joe. So we pulled up to the house. Joshua, their “son in law” (the guy who is with their daughter Jana), pulled up to the house a few seconds after we did. Sister Q was on the phone talking to our exchange, but she told me to roll down the window, and ask Joshua if Joe was there. I rolled down the window to ask him, and all of the sudden this truck pulled up next to his car. A guy got out of the car got out and started yelling and swearing at him. Then he just started beating him up. Another guy got out immediately after, and they were both hitting him. Sister Q yelled at me to back out so we started backing out, and she called 911. There ended up being 7 guys in all, against the two son in laws. After that the rest of the family came out of the house. We circled back around, and the car was gone, and the police were there. They talked to everyone, and got statements and stuff. It ended up being okay, but we had to stay for a while to calm everyone down, and pray with them and stuff. So that was really fun. I got the biggest adrenaline rush ever! But yeah, so Mom don’t worry. I just wanted to tell you about our crazy experience. 🙂
We have had a little bit of drama with a less active member, because she was having troubles with her man, and then when she came to church on Sunday, she told us that the day before her “husband” tried to kill her by stabbing her. She had to call the cops on him, and they put him in jail.
So crazy times. But as they say…when it rains, it pours.
Anyway…
Mom: I’m so glad you are getting kids to watch. The Lord is definitely blessing you. 🙂 Just remember to keep doing everything you can to let him bless you. :):)
Dad: We had some peaches the other day from a member, and they were so good. I don’t even like peaches, but they were super sweet and juicy. And really big.
Emmysaurus: How did you have ANOTHER car crash?!?!? You crazy girl. I think you just need to be a little more observant with you drive. Or at least not tail people. 🙂 That’s cool though. Who is that Tanner guy that you wrote to? I don’t even know who that is. By the way, you should write to me before you write to Colter. I think I’m a little more important. 🙂 Jk jk.
Anyway, I better go now. I love you all! Les quiero mucho!!!
Love, Kelsey
XOXOXOXOXOXOXOXOXOXOXOXOXOX

Howzit-Elder Flexy!

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Elder Flexy 14:5 -email-
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this week has been great we worked really hard tracted like crazy. we are working hard i’ve been talking to the other missionaries and i think i will be transfered this transfer. but i’m working hard we found this really cool guy named Seth he is really cool we committed him to baptism but he has more then one wife so we will solve that problem and baptise him. anyway not a whole lot else going on here just working hard. sorry the internet is being bad. love you
Love Elder Flexy
Baba,
Sounds like all is going well your always busy with somthing but i hope all is well.
Love Elder Flexy
M,
well you have to be carful with the car or you will be in trouble. but your doing fine.
Love Elder Flexy

Sunday Best!

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1 Corinthians 13:2-8

2 And though I have the gift of prophecy, and understand all mysteries, and all knowledge; and though I have all faith, so that I could remove mountains, and have not charity, I am nothing. 3 And though I bestow all my goods to feed the poor, and though I give my body to be burned, and have not charity, it profiteth me nothing.

4 Charity suffereth long, and is kind; charity envieth not; charity vaunteth not itself, is not puffed up, 5 Doth not behave itself unseemly, seeketh not her own, is not easily provoked, thinketh no evil; 6 Rejoiceth not in iniquity, but rejoiceth in the truth; 7 Beareth all things, believeth all things, hopeth  all things, endureth all things. 8 Charity never faileth: but whether there be prophecies, they shall fail; whether there be tongues, they shall cease; whether there be knowledge, it shall vanish away.

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The apostle Paul was trying to teach the people in Corinth that

although there are many gifts of the spirit, the gift of charity is most important.

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Charity is the pure love of Christ. To love as Jesus did. He loved us so much that he atoned for our sins and died for us. He loved us so much He was resurrected that we too, may be resurrected. He loved us so much that He gave us commandments and parables that help us to know what to do in our lives. He is the perfect example of love.

Hope your Sunday was the Best! Love, Joy

First Born and his Fixie!

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This is Riley, he’s my first born. Next to Riley is his Fixie! In case you wonder what a Fixie is, it’s a bike with a fixed-gear. It has no freewheel, which means it cannot coast. If the wheels are moving, so are the pedals. My son Riley has a Fixie, and loves to ride it. He rides it to work, (not my favorite thing) and home. It’s about ten miles one way. He is very amazing. Don’t you love to watch your kids as they become their own person. As they pick their favorite things to do and develop their talents. Riley is also amazing at working on cars. I am so proud of my first born.

 

Family History Friday: Epidemic Timeline!

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When tracing death records for our ancestors we may notice a time when several family members died within days of each other. Could there have been a epidemic? When we have a timeline, that focuses on the years when epidemic’s are ocuring in the world, as well as in specific states of the United States, we can check to see if there was an epidemic at that time. I found a great “Epidemic Timeline” here! Seeing an epidemic in an area where your ancestors lived at about the time they lived there might give an explanation for what normally may seem hard to believe.

A woman doing research found the mother, father and several children had died in the same family within a short time. They lived in Italy in the 1800’s. She can go to the “Epidemic Timeline” and see that there was an “Influenza” outbreak “World wide.” There were children remaining in this family. What happened to them? She could look to aunts and uncles to see if they took the children as their own.

It is not a completely conclusive way to find out how ancestors died, but it does give us an idea. Sometimes an idea leads to more information.

Check out the “Epidemic Timeline” and use it in research, it very interesting!

Happy Family History Friday! Love, Joy