The time is swiftly passing.

1. Are u eating ok your photos looks like your a bit thin these days?
1. Actually I thought it was the other way around. I lost some weight in my last area, but I've gained it all back in this area...Well I've stayed about the same since we haven't had a car.
2. What person needs our prayers the same ones that you talked about in the last letter?
2.Clifford And Elijah that they can come to church. Elwin and Noriah for the same thing.

3. Did you get your car back yet?
3.We have a car now but it's not our car. it's a senior couples car and they have a rental.

4. What was the name of the shoes we got you, are your nice ones that got bit holding on?
4. I have a pair of Propet shoes and some Rockports. the Propet's are starting to get some small holes in the heel but I think they will be fine and the other shoes are ok too.

5. Do you wish for a new tie now?
5.I would love many new ties if that is possible. I've actually had to give some away som my selection it is slim.

Well it sounds like you've had a pretty hectic week. Thanks for the advice, I'm not sure what it is because I'm usually patient but sometimes it just doesn't seem to have an effect. Their all great missionaries though. Well this week has been a fairly normal one except for a few humbling/learning moments P-day was an average day of shopping cleaning and e-mailing. nothing very exciting happened because we are all short on funds until Friday. Tuesday was a bit long, we were walking around the village alot because our appointments dropped us and anyone else we could go see was far from where we were. Wednesday we went to Polokwane for our new lesson training and I hope the Elders learned something from it because I had to teach and I wasn't really sure what to teach or how to teach it, I just kinda got thrown into it. Thursday we had our weekly planning and set our baptism goals for the next 4 months Sept-Dec. (it feels like we just did that for May-August) and time just seems to keep going faster and faster. Friday was the day I was humbled and I learned a little bit about keeping time. We were working in the village on Friday and everything was going well, when Elder Mortenson (Senior missionary and Stake President) called and asked if he could pick us up a little early. We told him yes he could and that we would meet him at a designated place. We only had 1 more appointment and it was very close to where he was going to pick us up so we figured we would go there and then close the appointment when he gave us the call to tell us he was there. As the appointment went on we lost track of time and realized that the phone didn't have any service. After realizing this we quickly ended the lesson and took off down the road, there he was sitting in his car waiting with his phone in hand. We jumped into the car and with the most sincerity I could I said Sorry President... BOOM!! I don't think I have ever gotten more of a scolding than that in my life. And I think I will not be late again.
Map of what is near our missionary. ">Saturday I had the opportunity to go on Exchanges to Modjadji with Elder Hove (Hove-ay), We had a pretty good day and some disappointments too, but that's missionary work for you.

Google Map of Tazneen with blue marker showing land of Modjadji

Modjadji is where the biggest Satanist Rumors are. People drop like flys from the missionary teaching pool, but they are holding strong. Sunday was great, we had 12 investigators at church and some of them came after the first appointment. I sure hope good comes from that. Unfortunately Clifford and Elijah still were not there and we are starting to wonder if they will ever make it. Please keep praying for them. Well that's the overview of the week, One more thing I could say is that I'm going to do interviews for the first time tonight so I hope it goes well.

Some Q's of my own
1. How many animals do we now have on the farm exactly?
2. Can I please get more pics of some of the goings on at home some how?
3. How is Will have you heard much?
4. How is the FHE going with everybody? I still strongly encourage that.

Well that's it, love you all

Elder Jones

P.s. sorry if my e-mail is poorly written, I was having a hard time writing today for some reason.

The time is swiftly passing.
Here goes the story of the adventure of last Mon. after the wild working morning experience. The little boys had their last peewee 4H show over in Monroe. Dad had said that there may need to have gas put into the fire engine truck but I was so out of time by the time I got back that I just hurried to load all the horses and go over to the arena. They did pretty good J went and helped me and Jamie drove separate so that they could go ahead and get signed up. It went forever late and we finally got to drive out of there at about 11:30 pm. I was just rounding the hill after crossing the last canal when the truck just went off dead. I called Dad and he came and we tried to get it to go with a small amount of gas. Finally at 1:00 am he returned from getting gas in Elsinore at the night pumps and we still couldn't get it to have enough to make it stayed turned on even after priming it. He finally hooked the white truck up and pulled me all the rest of the way home with the three big horses inside. Talk about knuckle gripping scary it was a very dark night and I was so afraid I would hit into the back of him. I went over to Jamie's after to grab the little boys who she had fed. J and I ate at 2am in the morning. Dad and Mc had already ate and C was left over at a friends house for a sleep over. My elbow was swollen the next morning from gripping so hard on the steering wheel. I must admit I was glad that that was the last show for the year. School started this Wed. and they are all thrilled to be back except J. Jer feels jiped because his did not start until tomorrow and he was lonely and kept asking where the boys were. When they got home he would say do you want to play dump trucks with me outside to each of them it didn't even matter that it was dark either by the time C got home and done with all the chores.
Rosie is back to her tricks of getting out every day all day long. We finally had to lock her into the round coral and hope that it keeps her there. She knocked the whole end of the hay stack down on one of her out moments. J and Bootsy had just moved from the spot so they were pretty lucky to not get hit. J had just gone down to put her in for the second time that afternoon. All the steers got out into the field one of the days because April had broke the waterline and they were out of water all day till Dad got it fixed. I was amazed that I was able to get them all back in by myself. I think mostly because C has been working to walk his and so it was pretty pushable to return to its home site. J's is a bit more wild but at least it followed the other one in. It is starting to feel cold at night and there is that nip in the air that turns all the leaves in a few weeks to gold and orange and red. Papa brought over a whole bunch of tomatoes and I am making chili sauce over the next couple of days. Or maybe spaghetti sauce. I can't keep peppers around for nothing C and Mc keep eating them like they are apples. They even keep the garden cleared of them. There are so many cucumbers the I am going to have to make some into pickles this year. Its funny to watch those two older boys eat now they pretty much will eat it all except for the tomatoes. Of course Z and Jer are still very pick and stick to the hot dog or cracker foods.
For the last two Sundays now we have grilled outside or C has cooked for us with a grill that Sondra and Chad left for us. C thinks it is the fun-est thing to do. J keeps not being here when we do it. She has been volunteering and so now she gets to work at the ice house and today they had to work also and then she went on a date with Travis to his grandparents farm to watch movies out in the barnyard after they were all done filling the pallets for the ice order. She is not wanting to stay at Hoovers very badly because she hates having to talk to people but the job will end here about the middle of Sept. anyway as their season starts to get very quiet after labor day. I wish that they would hire her at Bullies then she could go there right after school.
C has been doing football and they are really trying to keep him from getting to beat up at a young small age. The football coaches wish he would grow and the Wrestling coaches want him to stay right where he is at. But sadly enough he has grown at least 4 to 5 inches as all the pants he wore last year are very short on him now. He is driving me crazy with all the energy that he has and can take out Mc or any one who we don't want him to hold down of the little boys. K is so glad school started and can hardly wait to sleep out with Dad at Gooseberry.
Well Rhett is being stationed in Hawaii shock of all shock. He was just sure that wouldn't happen. Only about 5 are sent there of new Marines so he was just sure he would go to North Carolina. My cousin is also being transferred to there so Jadie hopes that they will be able to have some family moments maybe.
Brittany Obray and her boyfriend moved into the cabin. Derek Obray got engaged. Cristina is going to put her papers in to serve a mission now also. That will be three out in their family all at one time.
My little bit of advice to D&C 121. Often this is how being a parent is so put your feet in the role of a parent and then think you love the child so much you want the choice they make to be the right one but there has to be correction done. You would never want your child to leave your sight without knowing that they are very important to you even if you had to get disciplining with them. The Savior had to whip with chains to get the attention of his brothers but in the end he loved and cared for them even after his anger at the wrong done in the temple. Learn to put your arm around them when you are chastising them it will help them to know that you do care for them. Of course you have to be careful with this because not all people accept a physical contact in the moment of chastisements. The most important is that the Lord will have Angels whisper the words of chastisement and encouragement if you listen closely enough making sure you do not take it personal when there is anger directed at you. Something we each get to always work on that's for sure. Dad told me I should tell you some advice but I am not sure it was really great advice. I just know this that the Lord is there always sometimes even carrying you through the very hard struggles that we face. He called you to this because he knows you either need to learn or are very willing to learn to touch others and help guide them to becoming better missionaries sometimes just simply by your simple example. I love you your amazing and wonderful. So glad that you are serving your Heavenly Father in the search for his lost children.
Love Mom

South Africas oldest tree and other photos.

The Baobab Tree thought to be oldest in the world.Cool river and water falls.

This week has been a pretty interesting week, we have realized that we aren't going to make our baptism goal for August, but we now have a chance to set new goals for Sept-Dec This week has been an interesting week for us because we still don't have our car back,(I can't remember if I told you about the accident or not) and it is getting hot around here. The appointments we had set for this week were a bit far from each other so we had to do alot of walking and rearranging of our scheduled appointments. On a good note it has helped us to meet alot more people and we have been seeing some success as we have used the members a little bit more in our teaching, for instance just yesterday we put a father led family on baptismal date and another man we were teaching just because the member we took with us knew each of them. I hope we continue to see success as the few members we have get excited about the work. There is this new program we are starting called U-night, we've actually been at it for a few weeks now, but I think I forgot to tell about it. It's a missionary finding tool that provides an opportunity for members to invite friends to investigate the church while having some fun at the same time. We have set every Friday and 6:30 to be our day. Each Friday a small lesson is planned on something that everyone can benefit from. Things like (love, service, overcoming trials...) and then afterward we have an activity and some refreshments. It's been working slowly but surly, recently members have been inviting more friends to come and now all we have to do is had this thing over to the branch to run and ourselves to meet the new investigators. This brach is small and it gets frustrating, but I think one day it will be big. On Saturday the branch had planned to do it's Helping hands project, which is a giant service project that the church does all over Africa. Unfortunately the day came and no one was prepared, we didn't have the paint we were going to use and the school we were going to paint (the meeting place in Motupa) was locked up due to a South Africa wide strike that all the teachers are on. This country likes to strike, since I've been here I've seen 3 major strikes. I'm sure you can look it up some how. Anyway to make a long story short Elder Makosa and I had to hike around all tracting Saturday because we only had three appointments planned for after the project, and that didn't go well I could explain the experience as.... knock knock " Hello my name is"...SLAM! anyway we still had smiles on our faces. It's been good and I'm still enjoying every minute of it.
Love Elder Jones

1.Do you use the huge electrical converter that we bought at Missionary mall?
1. actually no I don't really use it much just when I charge my razor, The outlet system here is so messed up, when I got here I had to get more converters for my converters. It's wacky.

2. Is it the one that broke that made your camera work or what charges it?
2. I'm not sure I really understand this question, my camera doesn't charge, but it uses rechargeable batteries.

3. How are you storing your photos? Do you need more storage cards or a jump drive?
3.I'm doing just fine with storing photos, I just put them on a cd or dvd when my card is full.

5, So do you wish that you had taken Mrs. Judds finance class a bit more serious? 5.Kinda, but I don't know if it would have helped much

5. Do you are you writing in your journal? You should and then bring it to your letter writing day and remember through the week while writing us.
5.I'm still struggling with that, it's more like once or twice a week.

6. Do you need more toothpaste? Med? Shoes? Paper? Pencil? Shorts? We have jerky for you.
6.No I'm good on all of that stuff, But yes send the jerky and some captain crunch.

7. What thing would your companion think would be cool from us, Try not to ask him so if it is not there when he is it wont hurt to not get something if he is transferred it's mainly a generic kind of think that I wonder about. Ya know what I mean, I imagine they do not get many packages from home.
7. That is a great question, I'm not really sure but I do know that he is expecting me to give him something before he leaves, which could possibly be soon, but I'm not sure

8. What is the river and the falls that are behind you in the pic you sent last time? Is it Sabia river?
8.I'm not sure what river it is, it was actually an interesting story that we found them, the Zone Leaders asked us to go down the road towards their area because they said they lost something there and we found those falls along the way.

A short note of part of our crazy week.
I really need these questions answered and I just want to tell you that I love you. The kids are so ready for school to start. C is loving football. They are making enough money to pay for the fees to play soccer and football. Even Jer is happy to be getting into school. Burnadean wants me to become a sub bus driver which will take training time and a CDL but I am going to work towards it because by the time Jer is in Kindergarten then I would maybe be able to take over her spot. Then I would be home when they are and gone only when they are. I feel like the Lord is watching over me and our family as a whole in so many ways. Because it's been so wild a week of talking to authorities I can't think of anything much else. C says he met a friend of yours up at Timberline that you knew at college he wants to know if it's ok to say hi to her on your facebook I told him no. Ok Please tell us your adventures and I hope the two you mentioned last letter are getting to church and the one is being able to stay away from the addiction that he has. I love you lots.
Mom
Next week story about running out of gas on Mon. the craziest day last week. Also Dads computer is having a waze and I can't get the photos on his computer yet and there are a few really funny ones. Z and K totally muddy so so that You can not tell who they are.


Hi Tyrell it's your dad. It sounds like you are taking on alot of responsibility. It's good for you. You learn much about alot of stuff out there. A mission will teach you more in two years than four years of college. It has been raining alot the last couple of Weeks, and it makes it hard to get my hay put up. I and some other leaders took the scouts on a horse back ride up on Monroe mountain last Saturday and it was a great adventure. We will have to do it again when you get back. Keep working hard and pray much and study with a prayer in your heart. You have shown that you are successful. Build on that because there is no limit to what you can do. Success builds on success. Take care I have to go now.
Dad
To Dad
I've defiantly noticed some of the changes that have taken place since I've been here and you are defiantly right about the growth that you can have if you do it right. Man I miss going horse riding, every time I have an interview with the Mission President he says stuff about that, he owns a ranch somewhere there. It kinda makes me trunky at times. I like hearing about all of the stuff that happens on the farm so keep me informed, thanks Dad. I've been having some trouble with D&C section 121 when it talks about being reproving with sharpness but showing love afterward, I'm supposed to constantly help my district improve, but when I give suggestions, sometimes I just get a whole bunch of excuses and justifying back. How can I be more persuasive but not be overbearing?

Well I got to go, Love you dad

Tyrell

South African Taxies are a bit crazy to drive near.

Questions and answers from last week:

1. What does a District Leader do for his duties different then a greenie or a broke in missionary. (well that's a good question, because I'm still trying to figure that out. You basically just communicate the Key indicators(numbers) for the district, to the zone leaders. I have 5 missionaries plus myself in the district, and I plan exchanges and evaluate how they are doing. I also do baptism interviews when they are needed.)
2. Did you have to move yet? (Nope, we got a 1 year extension on our contract)
3. The baptism photos didn't come through were they of only Lenny or also Beverly?(there was one photo with sister Beverly and Lenin)
4. Is the church that you attend in the school right in Mutupa or in Tazneen? (we attend to services each week, 1 in Tzaneen and one in Motupa. In Tzaneen we have a chapel)
5. Are you getting along with your companion?(Yeah pretty well, we have some struggles every once and a while, but we usually are able to work through it quickly)

Answers from this week:
1. Did I get Jared address to you?
1.Nope I didn't get it.

2. So tell your opinion on being a district leader hard, busy, going to grow in a new way easy what?
2. Well recently, meaning today it's been a bit difficult. And it's really hard when it seems like members of the district don't want to take your advice. It's taking alot of patience and alot of learning but I'm trying to measure up to what is expected.

3. Did you get our letter last week?
3.I got your e-mail, but if you mailed a letter I didn't get it.

4. Did you finish reading Jesus the Christ? I would love to read those books when you are back since that is one that I never got to read.
4.No I haven't finished yet it's a very large book and I don't get much time to read it.

Well this week has been an interesting one. I didn't e-mail last week because Monday was a holiday and everything was closed. And then this week, we were rear ended by a taxi. Man Taxis get on my nerves. The car is now in for repairs and it's making things a little bit hard to work. Luckily it did lead us to finding 2, yes 2 new Father led families and 1 shows alot of potential. We have been struggling now to reach our goal of baptisms for this month which is 4 and as of right now we might, and when I say might I mean it will take alot of prayer and fasting and effort,to get 2. Elwin and Noriah, they want to be baptized but the struggle is that it is hard to visit both of them at the same time because Elwin is working and we still need to teach them alot. We have worked out a plan that might work in teaching them but it depends also on if they have a chance to come to church or not. Noriah attends every Sunday but Elwin, because of his job, struggles with it. Please keep them in your prayers and we will do our best, but if anything it will be up to Heavenly Father. Wed. we had a special training session in a place called Polokwane on some new stuff they are incorporating into the MTC soon and we have been asked to apply it so that when the new missionaries come in we can accommodate them, I think Elder Devin Monroe was talking about it as well. Then on Friday we had our Mission tour where we met Elder Renlend one of the councilors in the Area Presidency him and President Poulsen taught us more of the principles that we learned on Wed., and that is going to continue on every Wed. of this month (not with Elder Renland though) Sunday I was audited for the first six months of the year, Jan-Jun, on all of the finances of the church and I didn't get here until the beginning of July. It went well though because I was lucky enough to have the Brach President with me to help out. Man I never thought I would ever be doing Finances on my mission.
One other person you can pray for is Clifford, he is struggling with overcoming addictions to Alcohol and Drugs so he needs your prayers.

Well I hope this all makes sense to everyone cause I was kinda scattered in thinking of all this stuff.

love Elder Jones.

P.s. Thanks for the E-mail Aunt Amber, it's much appreciated

The families County Fair week
Lets start with Mon. I was way tired by the end of the day and it isn't even Friday yet. I cleaned 6 cabins and it took all day but at least we made some money to pay on the mission fund bill. Tue two more cabins and big bathrooms to clean. The boys couldn't cut anymore wood because it had rained and rained the whole week before. Wed. hauled the sheep into the fair turned around and picked C up to register for high school and get J's stuff set up also. Then grabbed all the boys put the horses in for the third time and back to the fair grounds. J finally got her drivers license officially and only made two mistakes so now she gets to drive to the fair in the morning by herself.
Thur. she drove all alone, I took C to football and then we hauled the two horses into the fair grounds. She had already shown her sheep and got blue ribbons by the time we got there. That night J rode the entry drill team to start out the rodeo with the sponsor flags. They had a bit of a struggle but the next night they looked really good. I video taped now if I can figure out how to pull of my camera and load it to a DVD. A horse ended up having an accident and they had to carry it off on a panel. It was one of those bucking broncos and after the guy was off it just collapsed after one really hard buck. We went home smelling like camp fire and at our house we had to shut all the windows and coolers down because it was so very dang smoky from a huge controlled burn that is now out of control on the Beaver side moving over to Kimberly. They expect it will burn the rest of the summer and it stinks. There have been belly dump helicopters flying over our house for four days now attempting to keep the Kimberly mine historical site intact. Jer is seeming to take it in stride better then me. I got super crappy and finally had to take some med because whatever is burning I am allergic to big time. Mix that with fair dust and I couldn't' even get up and going on Fri till 12 in the afternoon. Z has been suffering too a bit.
The next day J rode the Rodeo again and sold one sheep to Burnadeen and one off the floor. Your pictures took one a blue the one with the bee and the violet took a red. I am not sure why the red but it was sitting by the judge choice and the grand prize so I wonder if that was what made it move down. Sat the 4-H show was at an unearthly 7am because they had to be out of the arena for some dang reason cause of the hog wrestle and then in the end it didn't even matter they did it on the race track area in front of the stands. J did the hog wrestle with three other kids, the goal was to get it's butt into the barrel while slipping in the gray clay mud that is super slippery. They did it but wasn't as fast as the team they were trying to beat. She had a blast doing it. It also is on video so now I just have to get them all on the video together. I finally made the little boys go home with me because it was more fun to them to slide in the sawdust piles then to do any of the fair activities. They were sound asleep at 6 pm and J who didn't want the fun to end came home at 10 and crashed she was super tired. Dad had gone with the young men up the mountain to their ride C didn't even go he went to Daltons family reunion. Dad after getting all the Young men off the mountain had to turn around and go back up to get Brother Clabes horse that had all of a sudden quit and would not move. They gave it butte and got it pulled back down with Brian M's horse, but didn't get back till 7pm so then me and Dad had to go back in to town and get the two horses that were at the fair grounds waiting a ride home. I must admit I am glad that it's over and next year I fear will be even more crazy as we already have the steers that they are going to show and J wants to do a hog anything to make me feel even more tired and spread in several ways. Also I bet C will do sheep and Mc and K will be old enough to also show. J will be going to state again with Hobbles so she is pretty excited and this year I will go up with them I think. Dad is finally today and tomorrow going to get the oats and hay cut. The swather had a major break down when it finally stoped raining. Dad went and gave Jordan the priesthood with Papa and Shane and some of the Carter family. Uncle Brock is in Alaska for the next 3 week working and he is going to try and ship some smoked Salmon to all of us. They bought a tiny shop and acreages in Annabella that they can build on someday. Justin is loving working for the Shakespeare festival and Cody is now down there working away and starting school. Rhett is about done with part of his second training and will go either to Hawaii or North Carolina. Well please tell us your adventures and I will try to get the photos up next week with mud on J's face. Smile have a super great day and I think your a great missionary.
Love Mom

There is a chicken in my Bathtub!!!!

School has got to get started soon. WHY because there is a chicken in my bathtub. If it ends up in there one more time today it will be a dead little chicken too. The boys have been doctoring a chicken that all the other hens keep pecking on its little head. They love their little chickens so it came from the barnyard to our house and for some reason they keep trying to store it inside in my tub until it recovers. "This had better end soon the Mom finally yelled at the end of the day. Chickens live outside and not in my bathtub get it out now"! But Mom it will get cold and alone and what other excuse could they think up. "Out OUT OuT I said, now, and it will not come back in again, I mean it". It has a safe little recovery yard outside and it can stay there till it's a bit bigger now get it there enough said!

My Missionary and Humanitarian Kits arriving in South Africa.

1. Please tell us about the photos that have all the boxes in them what are they and what were you doing.
1. Yeah I forgot to tell about that. The Church Of Jesus Christ Of Latter-day-Saints donated 300 New school kits for the kids attending the school we have church in. They included a bag some notebooks a few pencils and pens with sharpeners, and a ruler for that stuff. There also was some calculators, but I'm not sure or not. It was great!!! We always see kids around the village now that have those bags. We've noticed that some of them have been personalized as well.

2. Who were the dignitary men was one of them Brother Koelliker?
2. No one of them was the 2nd counselor to our Mission President.

3. Were these photos in Tazneen?
3.Most of those photos were from Motupa and Kruger National Park.

4.Which young man is your companion the one cooking the food by the stove or the one in Kruger park with the red shirt?
4.The one with the red shirt. The one cooking is Elder Chikonye a Lenyenye elder.

5. Was the young man in the photo with the funny hat in Kruger store Lenni?
5.No that was one of our brach missionaries named Chris, and the other was Jomo

6. Did Lenni get baptized you never confirmed that.
6.Yes he did, he got baptized the same Sunday as Sister Beverly. There should have been a picture of it. They were both confirmed yesterday

7. Were you there when Elder Watson and Elder Koelliker spoke I think you said that but can't place time like I am thinking you were in Soweto at the time.
7.I'm actually not sure what your talking about with this. I've seen Elder Koelliker once and Elder Watson several times at zone conferences and what what.

8.Should I write smaller letters so you have more time to write back?
8.No I like hearing whats going on. The thing that makes me slow is when I get letters from President Poulsen that I have to read.

9.Has it cost you every Internet cafe that you have used?
9.Yup and it's gotten more expensive each one I have used.

10.What does it usually cost to send email?
10.They charge us per how long we are on the computer which is an hour. My first area it was R5 my second area was R10 and this area is R30 but they actually give us a discount here because we come in every Monday so it's only R15.


11.Did you have to have any other shots once you got to the MTC after all the ones we had at home?
11.Yeah I had to get a couple but I can't remember what they were.

12. Are you wishing you had updated photos that were tangible to look at of your family or is the one family photo good enough?
12. it's always nice to see the photos of the going's on at home. Just keep e-mailing them that is nice.

13. Do you think you have found all the encouragement notes that were hidden in your stuff a year later now?
13.I'm pretty sure I found most of them in the mtc and then I found a few in my first area as I started reading some of the books that I have.

14. So having been wearing garments for a year now are the drylux still your favorite over there in the hot of Africa?
14.Well that's a good question, they defiantly absorb the moisture much better then the silk ones.

15.What packaged foods are you missing and want us to send. Beans? taco shells? Chicken in a can? Energy bars? What tell me.
15.Well I can get all that here, but I actually have struggled to find the chicken in a can, but that's because you can find chicken in almost any other form imaginable here. People love chicken. I'm not sure if I would like that in a package. Stuff that I do miss....... it's so hard for me to think of right now..... Whoppers! yes I would love some whoppers. I would love some Captain crunch Cereal to much!... Root beer.....I would say some more sunflower seeds, but I think there bad for my teeth and it might be what was causing my gumline to recede....Jerky.... and yes a Symphony Bar
If there is anything else I'll let you know. I usually don't think about that kind of stuff so I'll see.

16. Do they grow tomatoes over there?
16. Yes they do

17.Does Elder Makoso speak Sestheo?
17.He is from Zimbabwe, he speaks Shona. but he does understand it more then I do.

Well this week feels like it has flown by, but it also seems like it has been forever. It's interesting now to be District Leader cause I'm still trying to figure out all of my duties for that. And being the ward clerk has slowly started becoming easier because I sat down with the Branch President and asked him to show me some of the stuff that was important. We also went to transfers on Wed to pick up the new elder and it was a long 5 hour drive down and a long 5 hour drive back. We now have Elder Lechner with us in the flat. He's a missionary who was in the MTC with me. it's nice to see a familiar face.

And for some reason I really can't think of anything to say right now..... so you might not like it but this may just be the end of my e-mail... yep nothings coming to me...

I'll e-mail dad and maybe he'll let your read his.

Love Elder Jones.

PHOTO'S OF THE END OF JOURNEY TO WHERE HUMANITARIAN SCHOOL KITS ARRIVE THAT ARE MADE BY RELIEF SOCIETY MEMBERS OF THE CHURCH OF JESUS CHRIST OF LATTER-DAY-SAINTS IN THE UNITED STATES AND THEN SHIPPED AROUND THE WORLD.

Dear son
Never forget this:
How old was the young man that the Lord trusted with his ancient gold book to translate called that wonderful book
THE BOOK OF MORMON?

This should be posted in everyone room.

Our Deepest Fear
Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate.
Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure.

It is our light, not our darkness, that most frightens us.
We ask ourselves, Who am I to be brilliant,
gorgeous, handsome, talented and fabulous?

Actually, who are you not to be?
You are a child of God.

Your playing small does not serve the world.
There is nothing enlightened about shrinking
so that other people won't feel insecure around you.
We are all meant to shine, as children do.

We were born to make manifest the glory of God within us.
It is not just in some; it is in everyone.

And, as we let our own light shine, we consciously give
other people permission to do the same.
As we are liberated from our fear,
our presence automatically liberates others.
by Marianne Williamson

You are in the business of doing this in your new position as a District Leader and a Missionary. You will be amazing son lean on the Lord.
This week has been somewhat quite the boys went up to Hoovers and cut split wrapped and sold firewood and made a bit of money. They can't wait until they can do it again, they want to make some more mola. I think that C will start doing it even to the Flying U if he can figure out a safe storage area so no one would steal it until it gets sold. He got to go to Lagoon with the money with D. Then J the next day got to go for a date with TT for his first big official 16 date even though his whole family went also. She stayed over at the oldest boys girlfriends house and I sure hope she becomes better friends. It has rained and rained this week, flooded my window actually and C and I had to jerk the air-conditioner out. I got shocked what a lovely feeling. Dad has been going like crazy and so we have hardly seen him. The house has stayed clean and they are taking me seriously with the pick up of things which has been nice. The starting school count down is getting near. K is still asking everyday when. Even Jer has started to say little things about doing school. Pictures will go into fair Mon. Well it's Friday and the whole house went to pot. I am not sure what I am going to do with C. He thinks money grows on trees and that he really isn't to having to work hard at keeping stuff nice now that he got what he wanted with going to Lagoon. He did the run away thing again but this time it was because I told him he could walk home after he was done doing the wood today for being so dang rude. Well he talked Mc into getting out when Dad stoped to to pick up the twin to tie with. So K and Z made 60 bucks with Dad helping them. C is still being all balky and teen rude tonight. J is thrilled because she walked into a Local restaurant and landed a table busing job that could have started that night but she had said she would babysit so she couldn't start till Sat night. I hope it gets her a little advance cash and then can move to another better job since it might end in Sept. She riped the clutch out of the car going from 5th to 1st at 30 or so miles an hour. So another 340.00 out of her pocket in less then a months time from fixing the tie rods that you wheeled out when it was yours. I even landed a job cleaning the cabins so I was in a bit of shock. They blessed the twin babies this weekend but we are not going up because of J's new job and the car that has no air conditioner and will cook you to death. Sorry for all the questions but I am trying to figure out what those photos are. Love you and have a great week.
Love Mom

Dad note
Hi Bud.
Mom chats enough that she most likely said everything that I know. The Lord will not expect more then you can do so do not get over whelmed and keep trying as hard as you can and pray often. Those are the secrets to being a successful missionary. I love you and I think you are doing a good job and do not try to be perfect there was only one person on this earth who was and you are not him. Even the flesh and blood brothers and sisters of Jesus rejected his teachings. Everyone gets the freedom to choose.
Love Dad

Dear Dad
I think I've realized some things this week and they've helped alot on the side of being frustrated. I realized that one thing I've done is get frustrated over things that haven't happened yet but I'm afraid might happen and so during church I was thinking about that and I wrote a little list of things in my planner that I need to do, and i call it the "take your own advice page" I realized that it's not worth getting upset and fretting about things that you can't control. You are going to make mistakes but all you can do is get back up and do better next time. If that doesn't work then try something else. Being on mission definitely makes you think about alot of things at all times of the day. I just need to relax my mind sometimes and realize I'm not the only one out here, I have my Companion and The savior to help take the burden away. Thanks for the encouraging advice dad and I love getting e-mails and letters from you. How is things on the farm? Does J have her license yet or what I keep hearing about her driving but I'm not sure if that is with you and mom or by herself. Is there anything that I can help you with or encourage you about.

Anyway, I love you lots Dad
your son
Tyrell

Jer says his neck is all gone.

The before and afters of Tracheostomy revision photos on Jer's neck. The first thing he said when the bandage fell off was "my neck is all gone it better get back soon". Little does he know that this is the normal for him now. They sure can perform magic when it comes to repairing that surface called our skin thank goodness because it also helped to have scar tissue removed down the inside of his throat and off his vocal cords. Now he is not doing the gag and puke thing but maybe once when he takes to big a bite or isn't paying attention to chewing enough before swallowing.




Finally 4 years later we have a sorta normal neck with a cool scar as all the big boys call it not a belly button neck.