Bus RIDING

Jer. is riding the bus and loves it. He can't see anything because the seat is to tall, but who cares its the ultimate ride to him. He goes for three days to early intervention preschool and then four days of head start. He even gets to ride the short bus on the other days of head start, but its not as cool to him because its not as huge a bus. He would ride in cars all day long if we let him. He can tell you if its a race car, diesel, tractor, fire engine, or sub for suburban. He really love those cars on the road.

Pharaoh

C. caught him today and rubbed him down till his eyes were rolling back in his head and he no longer jumped away. He is losing his baby hair and turning a very dark almost black which will be super. He didn’t fight the halter and he even got a bit of lead rope training. C. even thinks he wants to start riding the skittish Rosy Mare so that he has extra horses to ride for his friends.

Saturday, September 19, 2009, 1:35 AM
Hey thanks for every one's support the mtc here is so great and the spirit has been so strong with the elders here. they are a great bunch of young men. Especially the local south africans here. they have the strongest testimonies. they are willing without questions and i hope that can help my testimony. Although we havn't been out of the mtc yet i've already enjoyed the culture here. the food is good and the tropical juice is legite stuff. well i wish i could remember everything that has happend through the week but it's hard to remember everything without having my jornal with me. Well love everyone Sincerely Elder. Jones

Wednesday September 16 2009

Well i'm here in one piece. I don't have a lot of time to write so i'll tell you more about my travles on saturday. but i can tell you that a 777 is a huge plane and that the sunset from above the clouds is amazing. Right now there is about 19 elders all from the US and by tomorrow we should have a total of 32, my compainion included. he is from south africa but his name sounds white so we'll have to see tomorrow. well i got to go so i'll talk to you later.

Love
Tyrell

P.s. I'M IN SOUTH AFRICA!!!!!

FLYING 4, 24 HOURS

Well we delivered the goods and now we wait to know if there was a secure arrival. Elder Jones has been a missionary for three days now and is still in the plane as I type. The kids didn’t cry we laughed because it was so funny to watch him taking off his shoes and opening his bags that he had packed so meticulously and of course he handed back the hairspray that I told him they would not let him have in his carry on. He was the last one to go through the security checks. I think he was prolonging it a bit out of fear. J. still doesn’t believe it’s real, yet when we got home the first things she did was go drive her car that used to be Tyrell’s; she bought it from him. When he was out of our sight we drove over behind some warehouses that butt up against the tarmac and were able to tell when his plane took off because it was the biggest one there and left at 11:20 on the nose. The kids waved and stood on top of the sub so maybe if he was on the right side of the plane he got to see them. Then after a long DR. appointment for Jer. we headed home. With Elder Jones leaving fall arrived, now time to get firewood and wear hoodies to school.

CONTACTING THE MISSIONARY: ELDER JONES

Snail Mail for letters hand written and packages marked (missionary Supplies) value less then 40$ that he would have to pay customs fees on. Or least expensive rate: US Postal Service Priority Mail International flat rate envelops made of cardboard sent for $13.00 for 4lbs, tape well or there is a Priority Mail International Flat rate box that can go for $38.00 for 20lbs.

Elder Tyrell James Jones
Private Bag X4
Ansfrere 1711
South Africa.

Letters Sent through Pouch mail: must be on a single sheet of paper, folded into thirds and taped on the top edge only. No envelops allowed sent to:

Elder Tyrell James Jones
South Africa Johannesburg Mission
P.O. Box 30150
Salt, Lake City, Ut 84130-0150

Letters in an envelope must be sent to the private bag South Africa address above and takes at least one month to get there.
Missionaries can only email family on Prep Day if they are not in the Africa bush.

I will be posting on the blog his letters so check in to find out news.

AUGUST RUSH

Recovering from surgery, A Baptism, Fair Days and Showing lambs, 4-H and Peewee 4-H and Riding the Sponsor Flags for the Rodeo, going to the Temple with Tyrell, and last but not least get every thing ready for School to start. Aug felt like it flew by and we hardly have time to catch our breath. There was so much that had to be done for the lambs and then cramming the horse practicing in made for a really busy first two weeks this month. Tyrell just worked and thank goodness didn’t have to work on days that I needed him to drive the truck and trailer for J’s flag practices. J. showed her sheep and won a blue ribbon and third place for her weight bracket. Alonzo learned to shear sheep and next year the kids get to learn; since his back felt broke and it took at least three days of four different shearing tries. One Lamb was so ticklish it was crazy. C. showed his lamb and almost won but the lamb jumped just as the judge was going to select him and so he changed his mind. He still sold it for a great price. M. learned tons for his first year, he got to do the showmanship and got his t-shirt but his lamb didn’t make weight so she came home and we will be breeding her and making a herd for ourselves. M. and J. did the 4-H horse show and M. took a white ribbon for keyhole and a red ribbon for barrels and then by points was selected to represent Sevier County for the State 4-H show. He isn’t being brave enough to go so maybe next yr. He took second in the group over all and his self esteem isn’t up to allowing him to know that he can beat the girl that took first especially if there are going to be many other girls like her at the big state show.
J. took blue ribbons in Poles and Barrels and third in Horsemanship, Western Pleasure and the big test. She tied for second with another girl to represent Sevier County at the State 4-H show and she is thrilled, it’s been a long time coming with stupid horses that she has always had to start from scratch with every year it seems. She has a barrel run time of 18.69 and its getting slowly shaved down, on a horse that we least expected to be a good horse. She had a blast riding the sponsor’s flags and then their group got invited to ride the American Flags for the Western Extreme 15 Barrel races. She would have loved to try ridding the barrels in the open class competitions the next day but we were going to the Temple with Tyrell and couldn’t haul her and just leave her there. The show is to air on RFD TV, At Your Leisure TV and Horseshow.com but we are not sure what days. C. started football right after the fair got over and so every night he is at practice and the walls are safe inside the house again for a bit. They have only won one game, there isn’t many on their team so they get really tired. K. and Z. with cousin B. did the Pee Wee show and learned tons and had a blast. We are in for it next yr because all they do is fight over who gets to ride the horse after each event.
Tyrell and J. went and got their Patriarchal Blessing what a sweet moment that was in the busy month.
SCHOOL STARTS one in high school, one in Jr. High, three in Elementary and one in Preschool. I am not sure if it’s easier or not since I spent the first three days there at one of the schools. Jer. really thought the first day of riding the bus was cool the second he didn’t think was so great to have to leave Mom and the third day he told the bus driver all kinds of things and was too busy to tell me goodbye.
Soccer started too for M., K. and Z.. Its Z.’s first time and he loves it. It’s funny to watch the things theses little guys do when they are trying to be so big. M. is in to winning and K. loves to be the Goalie. Even Jer. said I got my soccer ball; it was a tiny bead that he threaded on a necklace at school. Well that sums up a busy summer and the busiest of all the months. Even Alonzo had changes he was released from his stake calling in the Sunday school presidency after three years in there. Bring on September we are ready for that adventure.

K’s Baptism

Turning eight is so great we had a lovely baptism with great talks to help us all remember the Holy Ghost and why we choose to be baptized. K. got his scriptures and a tote to carry them in, now he is missionary ready when the time comes. Tyrell baptized K. because he really wanted him to and then he was confirmed by his Dad. That was Tyrell’s first priesthood action.