Two letters at a time these days! At least we are not waiting for a ship to sail around the world!

Dec 16-20 2009
1. How long can we talk that day is there a time frame limit?
2. Did you get a package or two or three because they should be there by now?
3. What holiday do they celebrate there Christmas with lights or what?
4. Do you like me to forward Sam, Will, and now Devins letters to you?
5 When is the next transfer time?
8. Do you like your companion and flat mates better then your college roommates?
9. Did you ever see Elder Kolinker like he said he was going to be speak at the MTC?
10. When I sent the pic of J. with all the gear on for running the spot light were you able to view it and have you been able to view the pic that are attatched to Will's letters that I have forwarded?

So Devin is in the MTC today. Dad went and stood in the circle to set him apart. We have been super busy every single night here. Mon C. was in charge of the family home evening and we read a story and played bowling. Tue the big kids went caroling and the little ones to bed. Wed J. went to the basketball game at the SVC and the big boys wrestled and the little ones to scouts. We all crashed rather fast that night. Thur M. wrestles practise and C. danced at the Middle school, J. studied and the little boys went to bed. Fri I went to SLC to the dentist and they all went everywhere and I wish I were in bed. Every day has been super busy with running to each kids thing whatever it ends up being. Dad has built the three oldest display cases to hang thier medals on and horse trophies. They are really cool looking when I figure out how to attach pics we will send them to you. Well C. managed to end the cameras life at the sanddunes last April and now K. killed my video camera part so all I have for pictures is the old phone. Dad cant figure out how to take pic or at least view them, we know we took them it just won't show us what we took and thats on his new phone, and the video is the same way. Oh yeah Dad finnaly got the TV to work thats after I called and found out that the antana was set fracing the wrong way. So now the kids are feeling frustrated because the chickens decided to quit laying eggs since it has been so cold and they are not getting to sell them. On my trip up to SLC they decided that they are going to put Jer. under general asthisia and fix his two teeth they are starting to really decay. They will be closing the little hole opening also so that he only has to go under one time. We have the dates set but they are running comflict with other times that are set up already. So Mon. I get to spend rearanging all the surgery times and make sure that nothing is getting crossed over the top of. Everyone is excited to talk to you on Friday some just realized today that it was that close to happening. We have our special phone card set up and are ready to call you. I dont think anyone will have gotten up yet so know one will be able to tell you what they get for Christmas which will be interesting. You can tell that the boys were so happy about this last wrestling match since they quickly wrote to you. Well I hope that you can see the pic of our Gingerbread house it came from Swedan out of a box and then we used the mold that Aunt Jadie gave us along time ago to make a train. It was a bit tricky because the roof kept falling down and Dad still wants to put more candy on it so we will see if we are done today or if they are going to add more in an hour or so. Until Fri day keep the Lords Spirit with you strong and shining. Talk to you soon Love Mom.
Dec 21 from Johannesburg
Ok i'm not going to e-mail long because the internet is being stupid, but i'm going to answer your questions and then talk to you guys on friday ok.

1.i'm not really sure on a time limit. all of the elder's i've talked to said they talked for like two ours and stuff so i don't really know.
2. I havn't gotten any packages yet so i hop they are ok.
3.they pretty much celebrate christmas all over the world but know one is very big into it here. you can only find christmas decorations at the mall
4.i love getting all of those e-mails from my friends in the field. it's encouraging
5.transfers are on the 30th. and one of us elder martin or i, is definatly leaving (most likely martin)
8.Yeah i deffinatly like my flat mates better.
9.yeah elder koeliker came to our ward the first sunday he was back here and he was supprised to see me.
10.my lds mail dosen't really process pictures so i havn't gotten any.

Well i love everyone and i'm sorry it's so short but i can't wait to talk to you guys on friday. Follow those plans and if somthing goes wrong and all else fails, i can call you with the card i have.

Love you all
Tyrell
last weeks letter
Dec. 14 2009
the internet went down just as i was going to send this letter last week so here it is...

I think you may have forgotten to ask me the rest of the questions, but to answer the first. we are usually all together when we have p-day, but we just prsolyte like other missionaries, two by two.

well this week has been pretty good. monday was just a regular p-day, we shoped e-mailed and then went back to te flat to chill until our apointments at 6. tuesday was really cool. i'm not sure if i mentiond it before but we have geen going to a handicap school on tuesday mornings just to talk with the students and give them company. it's so awesome to go there. they are all celestial children of god and i always enjoy seeing all of the smiles on their faces when we show up. many of them are very handicaped and others are not so bad off. this tuesday was the last day that we were going to be able to go until january and ethier i or elder martin is leaving on the 30th, so we just took pictures with everyone and said goodbye untl january. wednsday was a good day as wel. every wednsday morning we have been doing service at meals on wheals where they distribute food to homless and very poor people. well this wednsday was their christmas party to celebrate their success . at this paryt they prepared food for alot of people and all of us elders ended up putting on santa hats and ended up being the servers. thursday was pretty cool, i went on exchanges with our district leader elder mcombs and i learned alot there. friday was intense! Elder martin and i had to ride bicycles a very long way. and from the time we left to the time we got where we were going it qoured on us. it rainned and rainned and rainned. after that it didn't really get better because we went to our investigators's house, lebo, who is on date for baptisim and her aunt was there so she got all upset at us and started telling uus we were taking lebo away from her and all about how we were false prophets. so that was a little bit frustrating. after her aunt left us alone we told lebo not to let her testimony be shaken and we left. we kept getting rained on and eventually had to go change our clothes. the rest of the week was fairly normal but yesterday we had our mission christmas party that was really fun.

Tyrell

P.s. i need to get a pumpkin pie recipe from you mom. my investigator wants it. this place loves pumkin but they don't have a clue what pumkin pie is so yeah.

P.P.s. sorry if this e-mail is hard to understand it was kind of rushed.