J.SHINES in musical!

Many hats, many hours, several expressions for the spot light manager!
Sound of Music South Sevier's 2009 Musical


She did an amazing job keeping the lights on for the play!

Elder Jones posting from South Africa, Mon, November 16, 2009

Well there is a major time difference between you and i so that could possibly be the reason for the delay. Right now it is 10:00am here but it is probably like 2:00am-ish there. so that could be the problem. yeah J. e-maild me about all that stuff. But that's cool because i probably wouldn't have turned him in i would have just ignored him so that's good. that she has the courage to stand up for herself.
that's good that you have all been reading scriptures, and to answer your question i am in 3rd nephi right now in the book of mormon, but we are supposed to study preach my gospel more so i have been doing that the most. but definatly keep reading the scriptures. especialy J and C.
About the bible and stuff, Did they give you a new member package? is the newtestament miniture? well just send the new testament and the book of mormon and D&C. i don't need the gospel principles book. once i get it, i'll see what i can do to make it work.

Well as for what's going on here, we had kind of a slow week and we didn't meet many new people and alot of our apointments cancelled on us. but we did have 5 baptisim's this sunday wich was good but unfortunatly we were supposed to have 6 but one of them bailed at the last minute. It was frustrating. We were waiting to see him in sacrament and the people who bring him to chruch showed up but he didn't so we thought they had forgotten him. So we left sacrament and went to his house. we found him cleaning the house and we were kind of suprised. he told us that his sister and brother told him he wasn't grown up enough to be baptized and he is now going to go back to the methodist church. IT WAS SO FRUSTRATING!!! He was our golden investigator and he loved everything we were teaching him and he kept all of the commandments. it was so sad but we have moved on now, and we are going to go talk to him on wednsday so we'll see what happens. but yeah things are good here and transfers are wednsday morning. i'm still staying in ridgeway but we are getting two new greenies in our district.
It's awesome to hear from all of you, M. and K. and Z.. and i love each of you very much. keep up the good reading and learn lots from the scriptures. THey ARE AWESOME!!!!
well Talk to you later, i'm running out of e-mail time
Tyrell

P.S. Love you Dad

Letter to Tyrell Nov.15 2009
We are very busy now with wrestling and J. is assingned the spotlight for the show. Everyone is trying to read thier scriptures so to make a challenge for them they want to know where you are in your Book of Mormon. Well M. mostly wants to know and C. wants to beat him reading, you know how he makes everything into a competition. I got a bible but it is only the new
testiment the Bishop has know idea how to get a Old testiment it is the millatary edition and it came with a book of Mormon and a D&C and a gospel principals booklet do you want any of they to come or just the New testiment. Well we are getting a package ready for Christmas and hope that it will arrive in time for that holiday of the Lords birth. I hope your baptizum was wonderful and you can tell people about our blog even if you can't look at it. Smile and have an amazing week filled with the spirit of the Lord. Sorry about the missspelled words I tried to spell check and you computer must need defraged because it would not change anything. Love Mom
This is M. letter: I am growing mold for a science project on the 20th and I get to have a rootbeer party and who ever wins gets to have a 50$price 20$ for second and and third. On the nineteenth is my manners dinner and I have to do a presentation on demo of making romen noodles in the microwave that same day. And at the manners dinner my Moms is going to be thier and bringing the toppings for the ice cream. I am reading my scriptures and I am on page 20. I love you very much.
K. letter: Dear Tyrell I am working hard to learn to read. I am working on reading my scriptures also. It snowed and I want to know what is happening to sister Eunice and her daughter. I pray for them every day and for Bryler. We made snow towers out of the snow M. and I and Z.. We went sleding down a little hill. I am so glad you are being a missionary keep doing a good job. I miss you and love you be good. Love K..
Z. saying Hi. I love you I like you so much. Is it fun their? We are sending something to you for Christmas. I bet it sucks with out snow so we are sending you some. I am happy that you are serving a mission. How many people did you baptize besides K.? I love you Tyrell Love Z.
Dad: Happy Birthday Christmas may yankee doodle eat Mary had a little lamb for breakfast. I hope you are having a very narlybodasious time. Please baptize a lot of converts and more importantly convert your self and may your testimony grow and expand. I love you very much Dad

Truly THANKFUL

No feeding tube just the oxygen left Sept 2007.Jan. 2007 to Junes Cowboy still watching his sats with the Monitor even while in the car.


Faith and Gratitude We are where they said we would never be.
So maybe I am going back in time a few years but today as I put Jer. on the bus and we had no tubing attached to his little neck, I had a moment of WOW. My memory shot back in time to 3&half years ago sitting in a New Born Intensive Care Unit around this time of year pinning to just go home and be a complete family and be free from the struggle we were facing and remembering that they told me that he would never go to school with out a ventilator and the trach. It was an incredible WOW. So FAITH and GRATITUDE just over took me as he waved goodbye and I went home to write this. I am so blessed by the Lord and realize that. These scripture are so true 3 Ne. 17: 8 , D&C 42: 48, D&C 29: 6 , Heb. 11: 1. I received the most profound promise in a blessing before he was born but I still had to go the whole challenge to see it come to a realization. My Dad had stated in that blessing that everything would be all right after the challenges were over. They are not all over but we don’t have to drag that machine to school that’s for sure. So check out some of the photo progress that we made through the last three years. Notice how we gain kinds of tubing and then slowly lose those kinds of tubing. It took us from Aug 2006 to June 2007 to get rid of all those different kinds of tubing’s and we still to this day at night have the nasal tubing when he sleeps


The size he grew while we lived in the hospital was much bigger then a 10 dollar bill! But he went from having to have a tracheotomy, ventilator, and feeding tubes to freedom.
June 2006, 1lbs 14oz Breathing on his own! He was as big as a 10 dollar bill. Jer.'s starting Story was that he didn't need any help breathing for 24 hours and then assistance with blow by air for a month. Then what they call the NICU rollercoster ride hit and we just hung on tight!

Family letter X2

OUR family really had sent him a letter, two to be exact they just somehow didn't email transmit and so he got a huge update this week when I reposted the past ones with the new week worth of news. We all had the swine flu the week before and were just recovering.
Mon, November 9, 2009
WoW!! sounds like alot has been going on back at home with all of the sickness and crazy school stuff. I would love to look at the blog mom but i can't go on anything else except for myldsmail so you should send me some of those pics in an e-mail. I am not allowed to e-mail anyone that's not in my direct family but they can e-mail me. SO mom you will have to forward my e-mails to them. it's great to hear all of the cool things that have been going on with everyone. THat made me laugh to hear the story about the snake in jami's house. that's also crazy to hear that dad is getting all technilogical it's pretty sweet. i love hearing from all of the kids and family members. Sorry that J. got kicked of the play but that's awesome that she is loving tech. it's som cool stuff to learn and maybe when i get back home we can do a play together or somthing. That's awesome that C. had fun doing the lipsinc. i remember that, It was so fun. he should get a vidio of it so i can watch it when i get home in two years. if you can remember it that long. sorry that everyone has been sick at home. I have been just fine here. things are going great. we have 6 baptisims coming up this sunday and we have a total of 18 investigators on date for baptisim. our district is basically carrying the zone in effectiveness. i't pretty cool. I'm getting more used to teaching and just jumping out there to talk with people. It's been a good week and i just have to tell you it rains alot here this time of year. And i thought that thunder and lightning was crazy back home. You should see it here. Well that's all that i can really say for now so i will talk later but i love everyone and just remember to pray lots for everything.

Tyrell

Hello!, A Pitaful letter from the Missionary. Nov. 2, 2009

It would be nice to get an actual e-mail from my family rather than forwards of someone elses's e-mails. Just sayin!
Any way happy Birthday M;!!!! I hope you enjoyed your birthday and halloween. Not many people around here even know what halloweeen is but that's ok i hope you had fun.
Well this week has been fairly normal. we have taught some good lessons and had some rejection. we have been foucusing this week mostly on the ones who are going to be baptised soon so that they are ready. we have been teaching them the things that we haven't been able to teach them yet and setting up interview's with them so that they are ready.
So how have things been going at home anything new happen? anything crazy? How has the play been going for J.? Is she still enjoying it? how's school for caleb and the rest of the kids? WHAT'S GOING ON OVER THERE???? i haven't really gotten an e-mail from you guys for two weeks. And you know J. and C. can e-mail me from there e-mail's you know. it would really be cool to here how they are doing from their own words. anyway. things have been going good here so far we have been teaching lots of people so that's good.
Last time i think you asked me what i would wan't in a christmas package and i have thought about it. the things i have thought of so far are:
-Maybe a couple of ties.
-And i would deffinatly appreciate it if you could get me a miniture bible from the bishop.
-And anything else you would like to send me. I might think of some other things this week but that's it for now.
Well Talk to you later
Tyrell

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Family Photo Shoot

Picture taken on Tyrells last weekend with our family before leaving to South Africa and serving the Lord on a Mission.