My Little Wrestlers

Mc in his stance take down and then his super good score that was so close. He was a great wrestler today Even if the kids won the next kid dropping Mc to third place.

Zane is just pleased as punch it get a medal even if it was for 4th place.

K boy the little heavy weight chest sitting on his opponent taking second place.

Hey cousins write to the Missionary!

1. Do people there get to go to the temple very often or does it seem very far for them to travel to Johannesburg?
1.Well from here it is way to far to travel, and most people don't have their own cars, so if they want to go to the temple, then they have to wait until there is a branch temple trip.

2. Tell us about the orphanage there and what more you see with the humanitarian kits that you gave out. One of the Howell girls sewed many of them that got sent from our stake.
2.Well we actually haven't been to that place in a while now because they haven't had anything for us to do. It's not really an orphanage, it's just a place that provides meals for the kids coming from school and for some of the orphaned kids around. It's a nice place, but I'm not really sure how it all works.

4. Has the fruit gotten ripe and what are you eating now days?
4. Well The Mango's are getting big, but their not quite ready yet. Everyone says they will be ready early December, and there is a large possibility that i could leave before that, i really hope that i don't, but you never know. Litchis are starting to grow and we even saw a guava tree the other day(the fruit was still tiny though) I'm not really eating that healthy I think.

Well this week has been AWESOME!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Our district is still doing very well and all of the new missionaries are getting along well. It's nice to have them all around, because you don't have to put up with missionaries that don't want to be obedient.-Elder Lechner is my favorite missionary. You should definitely send him a package. (typed by Elder Lechner)- I got to tell you mission is awesome. This week Elder Rasi and i have focused most of our time on preparing and trying to discern if Brother and Sister Mpofu are ready and we feel that they are. It's been tuff for them due to brother mpofu's work, His boss is a Muslim and doesn't really respect their belief. he says he will relive them on Sundays, and then he never shows up. It kinda sucks, but Bro Mpofu says he's not going to put up with it much anymore and so he might quit or something. they are and awesome family and if they make it to baptism this Sunday and tinashe as well, we will have made our overall goal for the trimester (Sept-Dec) it will give us a chance to really work hard and bring more to eternal life in December. We are doing very well, and the work is great.

1. Just a question about how Justin Rhett and my other cousins and friends are doing through out the world (Devin, Sam...)
2. How is Aunt Jadie, Amber.......

I love you all family and I hope to hear from you all
Elder Jones

Family letter to the missionary.

Mon Nov 1

Well I guess you will get two letters today. This time I made sure to get the letter written early so that didn't end up having kids keep me from sending a note to you. I even checked the time and it should have gotten to you before you were sending to us. I love you too lots young man you make me very happy that you are setting a great example to your brothers. I hope you can understand the end of C letter that he mailed in the Christmas box it shows how you are an example to them by his signature.

Tell all those Greenie Elders that they are amazing to be serving and know that they will settle down soon just hopefully they will keep that fire in them that they need to reach all those who want a better life.
Today is Thur as I add some to the note I realize that I accidentally put your other address on the letter that I sent last week. I am so sorry I sure couldn't understand why you would not have gotten my letter as I knew I had sent it before you were looking at email. I hope that you have gotten several different photos over the last two weeks because I have sent some like J and the dance and the boys the fire and Halloween pumpkin gathering with the whole Bingham side of the family. Tonight Dad and I went to dinner with all his bros and sis to celebrate their birthdays. Twila said that Sam is now a Zone Leader and his trainer who is from that area is done serving but he gets to see Sam often. Sam says he really has enjoyed that and the Young man said that his Portuguese is just like everyone on the Island where he is, this is a compliment to him.
Dallas said that there are a few people who have said things like "oh your Tyrells cousin" while he has been up at Snow College.
Well it's Saturday and we have now gotten through the race that I wrote to you about last week in the letter I sent to Timbuktu. Mc and K did the mile race and K took second and Mc took 3rd they both realized that they needed to train more, a little girl beat K by a long shot and her Mom is also the one who won in the age group younger then mine. I came in second and Dad stayed right by me speeding up and down along the race. We were not last but almost so no one got a turkey for our thanksgiving dinner. It was fun and I will be trying to send a pic so you can see the running results of all of us. Brother and sister Shaw raced in the race also. J stayed with the little boys and took the pictures for us. C went to Mountain Pleasant instead of racing to watch the Football team all of a sudden after losing almost the whole season they won enough to make them be in a position to play in the finals. They beat the two top ranked teams and then today they got beat out . He said he had fun but he is never going to go on a rooter bus again. His number this year was 11 and that pic is yes him at his last game. Lins Grocery store is closing and so lots of sales have been going on. Lots of people out of work also. It seems a bit crazy to close the store with the best parking lot and bigger freezers. We had just picked up an application to see if J could work there but oh well. I have been permanently hired on with the Sevier School District and it is now official. So nothing going on with anyone that I can see on your facebook like wedding invites so you must have boring friends. We are very ready to hear what happening on that side of the world with your goals and baptism and new companion and whatever else you can tell us of the special work that your are doing.

Start looking for a package its in the mail for over a week now and there is Christmas for you and one other person and maybe even a few other fun combinations of things. Sunday, Dad's turn to stay home with a sick kids Z this time. Dad was sustained today as the new secretary in the Young men's group so now he can keep C under control maybe. Hopefully work will not get in the way of him being able to go to the activities. It was very interesting to walk into sacrament, There was the young women who I help on the bus with her wheel chair ramp. Then one of the very rowdy little boys and his sister that I have to keep sitting down on the bus. Again towards the back was a little tiny boy who always wants to sit by the N B boy and draw pictures with him. And then another little girl that I always have to tell her to sit down. It was very overwhelming they are not members or inactive families I was really not sure which and then at the end of the fast and testimony meeting I felt more and more strongly about bearing my testimony to the love and knowledge that the Lord knows how to help us if we but listen and ask him for help. I bore my testimony about feeling grateful that Iwas able to get this job and that I cared deeply for these children that were his and I hoped that no one like the Mothers would be offended if I bossed them around and made them sit down and even reminded them that they should not act that way because that is how Heavenly Father and Jesus would want them to act. I felt very overwhelmed and seeing a bit of my patriarchal blessing coming to light in my life as it says that I will be a mother to the children of the neighborhood and they even call me bus Moma sometimes or Teacher Jones. Mc passed the sacrament for the first time today and did very well. Then he did the fast offerings. C went with him a couple of times and I even saw him helping him to make his tie a bit straighter at M's M house. Later J did her project for the values of young women hood. She demonstrated that she could make and find out how to make the Jalapeno Poppers. She gave a sample to everyone. On the way home we talked about a new goal to make and she is now going to try reading the Book of Mormon before you come home, me and T are going to read with her and I got her a special book marker to mark as she goes she is also giving one to T. I think I sent one like it to you it was yellow. Then C I found out has to read also to get his duty to God for being a teacher and Mc made a goal to just read more for school so they got a book mark and C read out loud to Mc and they started the first chapter. I read to Z but K had already fallen asleep. At least this Sunday was a bit more peaceful then the last month ones. Most of all I hope that J and C by reading can somehow become a bit better friends. The first of this week was rough with them having some struggles with each other and then poor J and T had a struggle with tec crew. Well with two letters I am not sure you are going to have time to answer all the questions nor read everything nor look at everything so I except whatever comes back ok and just know that we love you lots and lots.

Love you have a super great week Love all your family

Family Mile and 5K running, Family exercises, Family activities, Family togetherness, Turkey Trot ya that's it!

The goal was out of 4 runners in our family one of us would win our Thanksgiving Turkey Dinner at a Turkey trot race. The picture story unfolds.

We are all bibed and ready to run keeping our coats on to stay warm and smiling in the cold still. Well some of us are smiling, there are some that want to race even when they do not feel really good enough to do that.
Mc stretching the calves in preparation to run a mile run to try his hand at winning a Turkey.
Racing bibs numbered 121 and 117 ready to run.
Mc came in third in his age group and has decided he needs to train more.
K was second and beat by a girl and he says that will never happen again he needs to train more too.


Z was a bit put out that we wouldn't let him try running. The problem was he had a nasty cough so we took a pic of him waiting around for the two to return.
Some tired runners but willing to try again on another day. Mc had thought about going the 5K with Mom and Dad but after that mile run he decided he was tired out.
Jer would also love to race with Dad and Mom but sorry that's not going to happen either. Nearing the finish line after running a full 5K run.
Alonzo choose to stay by my side and so we both got the same time.Reaching the finish line with all the boys cheering and running us in.
We didn't win a Turkey but we did get bananas and bagels and had lots of fun running around. These Photos are courtesy of J girl who doesn't want her photo taken today as she didn't get pretty at all and had rather messy hair she said. Two of our boys are missing for the day one of course is way to far away serving the Lord on an LDS mission and C boy was cheering his football team on at the state finals. In the end C boy wished he had come run with the fam.

Oops desperate Missionary out there our letter didn't get to him this week.

Hey mom if you get this you can e-mail me within the hour or so because I don't have any e-mails if you sent them. Mon, November 1, 2010 3:41:54 AM[ No Subject ]off Moms email.


Well guess I can still write anyway. This week has been pretty good now that we are all getting back into the swing of things after transfers. I had the opportunity to do 3 interviews and we also had one interview here in our area making a total of 4 awesome people to receive eternal life yesterday. Tomorrow I will be doing another interview for Modjadji. So we are well on our way to achieving 70 baptisms by the end of December YEAH!!!! I love missionary work, it's the high of the highs and the low of the lows but it all comes down to if you've done your part.
The new missionaries in the district are doing great "Especially Elder Byrnes" Says himself as he is watching me write this e-mail. We are working on resolving some pride issues in the district....Just Kidding! anyway I'm still surviving the heat and all is well.
Love Elder Jones
Mon, November 1, 2010 4:37:43 AM[ No Subject ]A bit later on my email line a bit later.


I love you mom!!!!! :) Mon, November 1, 2010 4:38:21 AM
Finally the last little plea to hear from us this week but alas our letter was lost in email somewhere I guess, or crossing somewhere under the great ocean. I hope it isn't gone so far that he never receives it but I promise we did send a note to him.


See here is our family letter to him maybe next week we will have our questions answered.
1.Never fear all emails are saved from my end. Are you wanting all family members of others like J, C and say Aunt Bethany to save theirs that you send to them and they send to you?
1.Well the more the better, but i usually only e-mail you.

2. We will never hate you for making a short note, Dad says as the days go on you are going to get busier and busier so we understand. So the question is do you feel an intensity of busyness on your end?
2. Sometimes yup! there's never usually a break while you are on mission.

3. Are you the only one who can drive and like how do you all fit the 6 of you in that tiny car?
3. Each companionship has a car. So one or more members of each companionship can drive. Unfortunately my companion can't so I will have been the driver every day for the past 5-6 months.

4. So does your companions family celebrate Christmas or is that even a holiday they understand?
4.Yes they do celebrate Christmas. They do celebrate Christmas here, in fact they celebrate Christmas all over the African Continent with the exception of the middle-eastern countries

6. So if our packages get sent when will they get to you? Will it be the next time you go to Johannesburg like at Christmas time?
6.I'm not really sure when they will arrive in the country, but all i know is that when they do get here, i have to ether wait for transfers or a zone conference or something.

7. How many members are in the branch that you are in now?
7. That's actually something i should know off the top of my head but i don't, there is quite a few less actives and some who are living outside of the branch boundaries

8. We hope you are sending us pictures and you never told us if you got ours last week.
8.yes i got them. i think i got all of them. I also got some this week

9. Did you know it was Wills birthday this last week on the 20th?
9. I actually forgot it was his birthday. He doesn't have much time left does he?

10. Tell us about the baptism and your week last week, hopefully you will have time.
Well we did get an answer to this above question at least we know he is still busy.
10. The baptism went very well, and Elias is so committed, he even told his boss of a newly found job that he wasn't going to work on Sunday. He is confirmed and everything, the whole deal! The church is true I'm telling you.


This week has been down right cold and there was even two days of snow flurries that stuck and stayed till afternoon. By this weekend it has gotten a bit warmer but not much. We are sending some sunscreen hope it gets there soon and not all riped out of the packaging.
Well today is Halloween but you know we went out and did all that celebrating yesterday. Oh and Mc Birthday. Dad yesterday morning went with me on a 5 mile run well he calls it my shuffle and his walk run because he can walk as fast as I can run. Even the boys Mc and C think I need to pick up the speed. I guess I will have to work on lengthening my stride so to say. Dad made me go up the side of the mountain and then cut back down to the road that goes out to Pov F. He calls it cross training but I could no way run up it nor really down it to quickly. Once we got back on the road I could pick up the pace but not fast enough for his liking. Next weekend there is what is called the Turkey trot 5K in Richfield and supposedly the boys and Dad are going to run with me while J takes pictures and watches the other two and yells us at the end. Oh well Mc actually says he is going to run the mile race since he beat everyone at school and thinks he can be really fast for his age range. I have to run at least one more time this week and faster they all say to even come close to winning anything. My goal is not to win only to get to the end so that I will know that I can do that kind of a thing. But they want me to win a turkey and they have goals to win one also. Today Jer and K ended up not feeling very well so I had to stay home with them. Most likely it was the to much candy thing except Jer has that nasty cough that just plagues him all winter. We had to sit with the chest pounder on and read books so that it would all shake lose in his chest and get moving out of his little lungs. Brock is still not able to stand on his leg and as of tonight I have not heard what they have decided to do about it. We did not see them yesterday at all and so I am not sure if they are going to see an infection control specialist or what for sure. There has not been to much family news to tell you other then it was Pa Holbrooks 95th birthday so Nana an Papa went to Idaho to visit them. I wish that I could have gone but our car would never make it there these days. Mc was ordained a Deacon today and he says he felt the power of it come over him. Dad and I took him to have an ice cream up at Hoovers using an excuse to pick our last checks for the season. The end of the school quarter is here and all the kids have kept pretty good grades so that has been nice to have going on. Oh ya we cleaned out the whole front end of the basement and will move the food storage out front by next Sat. Then we can start to lay the coils down and pour the cement to level the floor. It might just take us all winter to get done but I guess that will be ok as long as by the time we have to weigh the steers comes we empty out the horse trailer since that is where we put everything to keep it safe out of the basement. Hopefully it will be done by the time you return so that you can have a bed and a room this time for when ever you are around. Well we as always await to hear your adventures for the week and now last weeks two so let us in on them. Oh ya did you ever get extra ties from an Elder Romney? We sent them to Africa in his luggage and I am not sure what happened from there with them but he would have been leaving the MTC about the time you went to get your new companion.
I am reminded to give this poem to you from Grandmas bathroom I think you will remember it.
Waste is unjustified, and especially the waste of time-
limited as that commodity is in our days of probation.
One must live, not only exist; he must do, not merely be;
he must grow, not just vegetate. -Elder Spencer W. Kimball
Use your year well it is going to be passing so fast now. And there are packages on the way.
Love you lots and stay safe

Harvesting some pumkins in October with lots of cousins from my side of the family.

October harvest family fun on a hay ride to get pumpkins and the orange leaves popping out everywhere. Jer says hey everything is turning into his favorite color ORANGE so he is one thrilled boy. My side of the family got together this year and rode the hay wagon to the pumpkin patch and then went home to eat Chili together. So glad that we have family, couldn't make it without them sometimes.

Dance going even if your on a set of crutches.

Pretty J girl is going to the Homecoming dance. I wonder how they will dance with a crutch in the mix. Later heard that dancing didn't go to well, he is a bit to tall for her to hold him up without a crutch help and they about had a fall over happen.
Riding up the Mountain went better even if he couldn't hike to much. You know all these kids that have to have predance dating. She said dinner was fun and yummy too.

Richfields Junior league Soccer Champions for 2010

Mc's team did it again two years in a row for him and he is one thrilled kids to say the least.