Soccer is in running in the Jones boys blood now instead of wrestling.

The South Sevier High School team has the C boy and two of his cousins that play with him. One from each of the sides of his family meaning one off the Moms side and one off the Dads side. Heres a team huddle. Belive it or not at the beginning of the season three of the players all had arm casts on including the C boy.

C ready to play soccer.

This is the first year that the Jr. has had a soccer team which of course makes it so that there is a a good high school team later on. Mc with the red hat is ready to play the soccer game too. 

Yep all ready for the challange and then we awoke to this the next morning. And where they were going to go play had even more inches of snow. Needless to say the games were cancelled. Hope my tree stays intact.

Missinary has a new companion again.

Well this week has been pretty good. Elder Seastrand Went home on Tuesday and i got another companion named Elder Hatch. He's from Washington State. So far he's really cool and has alot of good ideas to help the zone. Due to the change in everything, we've had a bit of down time with trying to get situated and get adjusted to all of the changes. But nevertheless, things have been pretty well. Wed we had Zone Leader council and that was really nice, we got some more great ideas about what we can do to help the zone lift where they stand. Thrusday we had planning and it also went well. Afterward, we had a some apointments that fell through but we still achieved our purpose by finding new people to teach. Friday we travelde out to the new area in our zone to attend their District meeting and we got a bit lost. It took us about 1hr to drive there, and once we got into town is when we got lost. We were waiting for the Elders to come and find us at The Protea Hotel wich later we found out was very confusing, because there are two Protea hotels there and they kept going to the wrong one. Eventually we figured out the problem and they found us. Their district meeting was Great and the Distirct leader Elder Ssempala is super awesome. Their district is going to lift the zone alot. Saturday we went on exchanges with Elder Udy and Elder Ray. I went in my area with Elder Ray. He's a super excited missionary and still really has the Greeny fire. I hope he can help encourage Elder Udy to keep a good smile. Sunday was great, the Van Dyk family got confirmed and Sister Dutio the family history specialist to talk about family history so they can take names to the temple. Their way excited to do it and thy have the forms now to get started. Now to answer your Questions:

1.P.S. Please forgive me I didn't get to the mailbox but I will this week. Please tell me of your needs, Anything, contact solution, desired candy crave, or food crave, or CD or inspired desires, What, let us know NOW its most likely the last box I will dare send and know that it will make it to you in a decent sort of time frame.
1.I think i would like the usual stuff you have sent and i especially enjoyed the Cereal (crunch berries) I always like jerky and all those goodies. Maybe a bottle of some Authentic hidden valley ranch dip and some cool ranch doritos would be nice.

2. What is the weather like there now?
2.It's getting a bit chilly in the evenings and early morning, but it's just hot or rainy during the day

3. What do you think about all that I said for school?
3. well i really don't want to jump in mid semester, but setting me up for the January semester would be nice. I'd like to work until then and i plan on filling my time up with lots of good things to do, so don't fill my scheduled so much that i can't put anything else into it. But thanks for all that.

4. New companion give us the update and the low down of his info?
4. answered above

5. What is the new teaching people that your now working with?
5.we are trying to build our teaching pool up a bit now. We recently got droped by a few people

7. So what happens when you have a companion that flys home is the transfer the same or different?
7. nope the transfer goes just the same

8. Conference it was your turn this week right how did you like the talks?
8.we don't see it until next week.

9. Is there lots of rap music that is played there?
9.Yes and what they call House music

10. How much responsibleness do we have towards helping our closest loved ones look and learn of the gospel? Please tell us your take on this subject.
10. Well i'm sure that we have quite a responsibility to help them as far as we can, but in the end they have agency and you can't force them. But fear of rejection is no reason to not even try.

Well i'm out of time so i'll talk to you later.

Elder T. Jones

Apr 11, 2011
Dear Elder Jones

Mothers day talk just saying now so you know. We at the first part of your mission paid for a card that holds money for calls to International locations. There is $ left to be able to use to talk with you for the last call of your mission just so that you know ok. Ya its a bit early to be telling you but I just got a little email update so while its on my brain I thought I would say something.

I in the last week ran into the Rose kid he says to tell you hi in broken Spanish, Cortney C who gave me some great advice for a very lost returning missionary ("get him enrolled in college asap and hand him a schedule so that you are told what to do for the first two weeks since thats how its been for the last two years his words not mine") and he says to tell you Hi keep up the good work. 

I actually found out that you can start school halfway in the middle but not so sure the class choices are much to be desired. But I am going to meet with a counselor to see if it works. Its too late to file for scholarships I should have done that in January but at that time it really didn't seem that there was any kind of need now I know better oops. Also Will told me that you could come and live with him if need be until that got all sorted out too so we will hope that you two have now written to each other. Also you are most likely going to be saying ughs lets not even talk about any of this yet so that you do not lose focus right? But I at least wanted you to know that there is going to be a sort of set plan already in place for you because many have said that return missionaries feel pretty lost when its time to come home and that it can make for a scary feeling when you have to face that time. So never fear Mother Planner is here and she has it all figured out (not) but I am willing to try.

J and Dad and I went to school the other day so that she could make a plan to start cutting hairs with cosmetology. Its going to take her having to do stuff online and maybe going to Ceder Ridge a bit which she is not to thrilled over but she is getting the idea that she has to be ahead in order to fit it all in. C to has this plan to get a scholarship to UVU so I am going to call and get a plan already in motion because we found that he has to have certain kinds of math, English and science to be able to even be looked at. Often the kids miss those and so they take basics and thats not what is wanted by the college so they dont get offered a invite. So now he is also going to do electronic high school and Ceder ridge to bump ahead.
J went to Prom with T she wore her lime green dress that she bought all by herself and she looked so very pretty. Dad got dragged there to do the Parent dance with her and they had so much fun. Even though she is not a Jr. they let the partner do the Promenade. She sure looked cute even though she has two left feet she says. I made his bouttonier and we did a whole different angle then the normal flower style. Bethany and I came up with a lime green race hotwheels car and a few tiny flowers and we wired and glued and it was the most guy related there ever could have been. Lots of people thought it was very cool. The next morning we had to get up really early to take J and C's fair steers in to be weighed. It was really hard to get everyone going as it was snowing like crazy and we had at least 4 inches of snow. On Mon and Tue we had all worn short sleeves and by Thur night it was starting to be cool and rainy and Sat SNOW again. We are really tired of it and I am sure you are missing it. Its late Sat night and its still snowing and it most likely will all night. The mountains are so overly full that we just hope that we do not flood away again especially the part that got burned so badly. Dads week off was a bit hard as the tractor broke down and he had to go get a part fixed just so he could get back to plowing, water line broke so that took a whole day and now snow stopped him totally as he really didn't want to get the tractor stuck. Poor Mc was supposed to have soccer game but Manti got lots of snow too so the ball would not have rolled on the ground thus it got cancelled. C this week had three games and the last one was really hard against Beaver. He got hit in the head two different times and had the worst headache. He was shaking pretty hard by the end of playing two games I am not sure if it was the head bumps or from starting to get cold that caused it. He was in bed so fast that night it was almost scary since he is not very good about that now days.
Well thats our little bit of news for the week not to much exciting really happened. Please remmeber I love you son and I am so grateful for this time that you have taken to serve the Lord and the example that it is setting for your little brothers. It also helps J to have a standard to set guys up against so that she picks wisely because she wants that in her future choice of a husband.
Love the mom telling all the family info news

Pretty Girl J goes to Prom again.

Now that's a bouttoner any guy would think cool made by the Mom and Aunt Bethany and car donated by little cousin Joselyn

Trav and Pretty Girl J

Announcing the Jr. He is she is not.

The start point of the special dance by the Jr. and their partners.

She is so tiny he can really lift her up.

She was told she should do the parent dance with her Dad and she really is not that great at dancing, of course she is showing her attitude about the whole thing.

At least her Dad knows how to dance and hang on to the girl.


Such sweet people.

Trav looks on to snatch her away, aren't those two related.

Oh one sweet kiss well deserved.

One more missionary day.

1. I wondered what your attitude would be if the Lord needed you to come home early to help

save the lives of others as in the case of some of the 45 missionaries that were sent home from Japan to make room for the ones who just arrived and so that the members would focus on rebuilding instead of concern to feeding the missionaries. Or in a possible other reasoning that the Lord would need you to say be home early how would you prepare yourself for that? Like Dad said he had to change the way he thought because of being sent home early as they changed the dates of the mission lengths world wide to 18months.
1. I guess I would do whatever I would be asked to do, but I think I'd be a bit sad. Luckily South Africa doesn't usually suffer from natural disasters, but you never know.

2. Who is the young black boy that you two are sitting on the couch with in the photos you sent?

2.Well He's actually a young Indian boy. His dad is a member and his mom is not a member. They recently moved out of our area so we were taking goodbye pictures on his birthday

3. What would it cost to ship that crate home verses giving away all your stuff and putting it into your luggage that would come home with you? C saw the wrestle shirt and was really surprise that you had taken it with you and wondered if you were now sick of the stuff you have with you and if you are leaving it there?
3.I'm not sure, the problem is I don't have everything that I want to send home yet so I've been waiting.

4.So I assume that you are now the senior companion again as the zone leader or was there a transfer of you also?

4.I don't have any idea whether I'm senior companion or not, transfers doesn't happen until tomorrow. and I won't even find out who my companion is until around 3:00. I'm still in the area, usually only one companion gets transferred at a time. If both gets transferred that means the closed the area for missionary work so I'm staying.

Well this week has been pretty hectic. Monday was normal Tuesday was normal except alot of appointments fell through. Wed was normal, and then came Thursday. Thursday we had our weekly planning as always and then when we were just outside of our 1st appointments, we got a phone call from the assistants telling us that we had to move on Friday, the following day. I must admit that was a bit of frustrating news, because we were told that we were going to move today, which is Monday and we had already made plans for all of those things to work out. So the free time we had on Thursday was spent going around cancelling our Friday appointments. Anyway moving to Friday, things worked out. We got to got to the temple with our zone which had been scheduled and was unchanged by the moving plans, then straight after we started packing and with the help of the housing couple Elder Sibley and Sister Sibley, we are now living in a new house. The house is bigger because tomorrow two other Elders will be moving in with us, because their opening up Elder Seastrand's and my Second area, Centurion, with their own elders. It's kind of exciting. We also got news that Place called Kwaguwa, is being brought into our zone and we are losing the Centurion area and they are making a new Centurion zone. It's history in the making I guess. I hope everything will go well and I hope I can orient the two new Elders to their ward as well as my companion to our ward and zone.
Saturday was a very nice day, we got to take Benee, Maria and Irene to see the temple grounds and have a little picnic with them. They are very excited to get to the temple and be sealed after one year of being members of the church.
Then Sunday we had the baptism of Benee, Maria and Irene. It was really special. They are going to be a strong family in the gospel. Benee already paid tithing last week, and they are holding family home evenings on their own. they read their scriptures each night and always say family prayer. They are definitely the model Family as of right now. Their still learning but their learning fast.
Most of today is going to be spent helping Elder Seastrand prepare his luggage and everything he needs to go home. It's crazy how fast time flys! I met him three months ago and he's already out of here. Crazy crazy crazy. I hope everyone is doing well, I hope all of the stresses of life in the family get ironed out and every one can keep smiling.

Elder T. Jones.

Mon, Apr 4, 2011
The news happenings
This week Dad took off next week so that he can plow and plant and clean up the corrals because the winter made a big mess. He never gets a farm full work day so he has been deciding that this is how he will get a jump start on the farming. Spring is also so teasing us these days. as it will be warm enough for shorts and then back to coats and boots from tons of snow. He is alos listening to his mission tapes and trying to figure out a way to get them on to paper form so that he has a record in case his tapes die. Sat Mc played his first soccer for Middle school and they won against North Sevier.  C and Mc went to Priesthood session all by themselves because Dad was plowing. C was very please when our fast resulted with that fast of an answer today. It was the most peaceful Sunday we have had in a very long time too because he tried very hard to stay reverent. C played against Grand and they won too. He is a really good player also and made several points and blocked lots of possible scores. Jer is just getting smarter and smarter with all the things he can do. He still sucks at eating but at least I have gotten him to drink a few more healthy protein sources now days.
I have not been running this last month because of trying to study for me test and because of the cold but I am gearing up to get going now that it seems to be getting a bit warmer. Please be really careful running with your really old shoes unless you got new ones. Old shoes can cause shin splints or heel injury's so slow and steady and how are you shoes holding or did you get a new pair? Also I would like you to bring home only one thing should you choose to leave everything else. Please bring your most torn apart shoes so that some day we can show your posterity what kind of missionary you where by the soles of your feet.
Oh sorry about no photos again. Hopefully next week everyone will be able to unload their cameras as only Dad, Justin You and Jamhal were missing when we all got our pictures taken on Jadies front porch. I of course forgot mine ugha. Jathan is supposed to send me his.
Love you lots have a great week of new changes and goodbyes,
Love Mom and the Family

Donate to Japan Relief

In response to the great need in Japan here is a link to exactly where and what needs can be given Please look here for Japans needs The Church has received many calls from individuals asking how to contribute to help those in need. For information, see the LDS Philanthropies website. 


This is a safe place to donate to go here. Just click back on that here and it will guide you to what is needed and how to give.Learn the things that are needed and the rules to what can be given.Our family donates every month along with making some of the items that go to this place, you can share a little too. Please Do.


Though I have never lived in Japan myself my parents and younger siblings have and they have people that they care about there. The country has always intrigued me and held my attentions even as a tiny child. The honesty and respect that they carry in their demeanor is something we can all learn from. They are a very peaceful people and strong. They will recover from this hardship but we can help a little to move that along. 

Goodbye to one more companion and on to a new one.

Our letter to missionary got lost in Internet land so now he has answered the inquires we made.
Last week's questions:
1. How would you feel if you had to come home two months early from your mission?
1. I would feel very sad.

2. Do you get the Ensign? I would like to send you a few inspirational stories if that is ok to take up the email room if you can print them off tell me if not then I will not take up the space.
2. We get the Ensign. Just point out the ones you would like me to read.

3. Do we fill you with enough news or do you wish you got more news from home?
3.Well it depends on what you mean by news. If it's like world happenings, i really don't care to much. If it's family happenings i like to hear it. And i really like getting pictures from home Alot alot alot!

4. How is Clyde doing now after our many prayers for your investigators?
4. Well it's sad to say but, Clyde has kind of fallen out of the teaching pool. It's like there is a brick wall set up against us now so we don't know what to do.

5.Are there many earth quakes there?
5.Not that I've noticed

6. What kinds of calamities do occur in that land. I know hail is one because of the Mutupa story you told us about the hail ruining that mans home. What about fires???? bush fires or smoke we kind of have heard about.
6. I'm not really sure, we don't hear about alot of those things and if we do it's because someone mentioned it to us, like a member or and investigator or we experienced it which hasn't happened much. We don't read newspapers or watch television or even surf the Internet so yeah.

7. So how is the driving now that you have lived there for over a year?
7. It's going to be weird adjusting back because even when i think of driving at home my brain sees on the left side of the road.

8.Tell us one faithful moment you had this week.
8.Well we had a very nice lesson with a recent convert and a member family. There has been a couple of hectic weeks that the Recent convert has had and it's been rough for her. So we talked about how testimonies can not be taken from us unless it's of our own doing. Then we had a small testimony meeting and everyone was in tears by the end (except me because I'm getting better at not crying during those kind of things.)

9. Have you been told when you would be coming home. We understand that your companion was told a date like 4 months before the time came????????
9. I'm not really told the date, but a transfer cycle happens every six weeks exactly so it's not hard to figure out. There is this thing called a trunky call where Sister Henrichsen calls you and asks questions about who's going to pick you up at the airport and what what so she can get you plane tickets but that's about it.

10. What is the one food you miss and can't wait to eat when you come home?
10. I honestly can't answer that question because i haven't thought about that much.

March 28 2011
From Elder Tyrell Jones
Well this week has been good. We had quite a hectic week We had exchanges Wed-Saturday every day, so Elder Seastrand and i were only together in the morning and at night. But it's totally worth it because we were doing interviews and we had 9 baptisms in the zone yesterday! It's nice to see people receiving the gospel. We are going to have 3 baptisms next Sunday of Benee and his wife Maria and their daughter Irene. It is the first White Father led family i will have baptized on my mission, not that that really matters, but usually White people are alot more stubborn. That's really how the week went and it's gone by so fast that i cant really give any finer details. My health is good and Elder Seastrand and I go running every morning and i plan on doing so every morning for the rest of my mission so watch out Mom. I'm eating well because members always send food for us and it's pretty healthy. Love you all to much and I'll talk to you next week.
Elder T. Jones

March 29 2011
From the Mom
Another week over and I am sure I had barley anytime to breath. Dad said he is taking time off just so he can get farm work done because everyday after school there is someplace to have to be to. Mon we did stay home and just got to bed early, Tue he had to pick up C and then went to go to young men but they did not show up at the shooting range. Then Wed K had the Pinewood Derby, Thur Jer's head start had a pinewood derby. If I get the pic uploaded then I will send them. Fri the parents finally get to stay home one evening but Mc is going to hike in the Delta desert for scouts. C finally received his On my honor award for doing it at timberline and its a very nice one too. Jo and Trav on Sat and Mon. put new ball joints on her car and changed the oil. She said in order to get to do some of it she would have to take the tools away from him so she could have a chance because he would get to into doing it. But ya pretty much she has redone the under structure of the wheel base on that car with either taking it to a shop or doing a do over with Trav. To the tune of about 6 hundred now. Sadly though the poor car is looking worse and worse. The boys got it stuck in the mud and then didn't step on the break fast enough and ran it into the side of the truck bed so it scratched the back side of the car. Then Dad made a speed rut at the top of the hill to run water off the road the other way and it hits as we cross poor car i hope it makes it. But at least its more alive then the sub which we think it truly blew the engine the other day. I was trying to get up the hill to the bus and it would not drive out of the yard at all it just putted. Trav thinks the engine blew also by the described sound Jo said it made. Well Katie Mills came home this last week and she gave her homecoming talk today. It was really neat to see here growth. Her mission was really hard for her and as she said humbled her alot. Levi will be home sometime next month. Papa hopes that he will have a chance to return to Japan to help the people there. He has an idea an is praying that the door opens that he can serve there in some way again. This week must have been very interesting for you and we are excited to hear what has happened it should be eye opening to hear the changes that are going on. I am going to be going to the Missionary Moms get together so maybe I will get to see a Mom or two for some of your companions, I guess we will just have to see. Have an amazing week and I sure hope this letter gets to you this time.

Love the family.
I wont ask to many ? today since you already have to catch up on the letter that got lost last week sorry not sure what happened.

1. What are the different church pictures about that you sent us?
1. Well to answer your Questions, that big building is not a church. Its the union building which is the equivalent of the White house. The picture with the spire is of the temple and the picture of the church with a spire is our chapel here. The picture of Elder Seastrand and i with the two others is the Young man we helped to set apart for his mission.(center right) and the other is his brother (center left)

2. Who are the two elders that you and Elder Seastrand are with in the foyer?
2.(see answer to question 1)

4. What is the service project about that you have the bags and orange warn shirts on about?
4. Its' called helping hands, i think the church does it all over the world but i could be wrong. We were cleaning up a school that the Mamelodi ward meets in.

5.You should start looking at preparing to ship your gift crate that you said you had accumulating. We will not open it when it arrives alright.
5.Yeah i was even thinking about that today, i just have been trying to save a few bucks. but if i could ship it it might make things easier on me.

6.So did your companion survive and keep from getting truncky?
6.Well he's doing good. but he's definably aware that he's going home in a week.

Missinary reaches his 18th month timeline!!!!!

Union Park and Union building in Pretoria South Africa

Elder Seastrand, Brother of Missionary, Missionary going to Tyrells Fathers mission area of Miniapolis Minnasota, then Elder Tyrell J. Jones

Missionary work is always about serving in and out of suits. Service of Helping hands, cleaning up the scvhool where the Mamelodi ward meets.

These are items that people should avoid at all costs as they are not healthy for the body or the mind and soul. As the face of our missionary shows defiantly something to avoid!

Well i thought i would just highlight the week and send some pics. The rest of the Monday we had was really nice. We got to go see the union building and it has a nice. It has a really nice park area where we actually sat and talked with our mission president about the zone over the phone. It was really nice because we got some good advice from him and it helped to relive some stress. Tuesday we had Zone leader and Leadership council that was also edifying and it has helped us to be effective this week in getting ideas of helping the zone. Some really great things to note is that our zone achieved the highest of all the zones in the mission this last week. And a lot of areas really improved. Wed. we had a normal day with good appointments, and then Thursday we were on exchange. I was with Elder Lechner and it was ironic because that was the day we both turned 18 months on mission. Elder Lechner pointed that out to me. Friday we didn't actually spend anytime in our area because we were on splits with one of the districts in the zone in order to help them to improve a little bit. It was nice and i think it helped because we've seen a spike in that district. Saturday was a normal day and then Sunday I had the opportunity to stand in the circle of setting apart a missionary who is now going to serve in the Minnesota Minneapolis mission. I thought Dad would think that is really cool. As for anything really unusually, not much happened. We didn't yet find out who our new bishop is because it hasn't been decided. Well, i love you lots hope to here from you soon.

Elder T. Jones
P.s. I don't know if you e-mailed this week or not, but i didn't get it if you did.

P.s. Just a reminder i hope your saving my e-mails.