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