12/25/2017 Week 8: Merry Christmas!

Christmas dinner at the Shuley's

Christmas Day at with the Miller's

12/18/2017 Week 7: I Am In A Big Hurry

So I dont have much time because of my Zone being a distraction so this will be very short. We went to the aquarium today and they had a scuba Santa. We also had our baptism this week (the picture below) Zach the kid next to my companion was baptized. It was  an amazing experience that I wish I could go into detail about. I gave 2 talks this week one at the baptism and one in sacrament. Those were fun. I got a haircut today. Cant wait to see the family on Christmas. Sorry for everyone not participating. Maybe I can in 2 years. We have another dinner appointment today and I feel like the members are doing too well at feeding us. I am super tired, this past week has been full of a lot of things with the baptism and transfers and other things. Yesterday night we had a thing where our stake and 4 other churches come together and celebrate Christmas. It was fun but I have learn I have a bad temper toward things I know are not true so when the preachers for the other churches got up and spake I nearly got up and walked out which wouldnt be good because 1. the missionaries all sat at the stand for everyone to see, 2. President and sister Welch were there in the front row, and 3. bad impressions. I nearly fell asleep also. The only talk that had the spirit was the stake presidents talk for some reason ;). We understand why of course. But there were a lot of cookies so it was good in the end. I got called out during it by the host who is a member. He told everyone I am from Alaska, and lived in Japan. He listed where people were from and he said places like Utah, Idaho, Tennessee, one sister from Canada, California, New York, etc. Then he pointed at me. I did have a lot of fun this week. I feel bad for the ward mission leader because all the work he does. By the way mom and dad message him on facebook to see when I am able to skype you. I have to go bye!!!!  

12/11/2017 Week 6: The Members Are Stuck With Me

Howdy every one. Today was our first snow in Kentucky. I'm really having fun. We didn't by many groceries this last week because of transfers so I was a little hungry when shopping today. I bought so much stuff for $25 its great. The members have been feeding us too well. We have to much leftovers. I got a picture with Santa at the the ward Christmas party on Saturday. It's transfers week and I am still in Highland Heights with my companion. I got a little sick this week from a box of 12 donuts that were a little old, I ate them in 3 days. I also chugged a 1/2 gallon of egg nog so that wasnt great. still like egg nog though. I am really tired for some reason. oh well. We do in fact have a baptism this week so I am excited for that. I will get a picture. My companion and I are doing great. Having lots of fun an I am excited for Christmas. I will never get homesick. This is sadly going by real fast for me. I am excited as well about finishing this email because I have food waiting for me. I love you all. I am sending letters out so expect a letter, and if you dont get one it is not because I dont like you I just may have ran out of letters. Ok sorry for the short email. Love you bye.

12/4/2017 Week 5: Everything is Great

I FORGOT MY CAMERA, NO PICTURES, SO YOU WILL HAVE TO READ MY EMAIL TO SEE WHAT HAPPENED, MWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA. But it was a good week. We were fed a lot. And are being fed even more this week. We went and visited a member of the ward for a little bit and he gave us 4 bags full of fritters and my stomach hurts. I am happy. I picked up a little bit of sewing and I made an oven mitt out of an old pair of jeans. We have a baptism in 2 weeks for a kid named Zach. Really cool guy and loves the church but he is 17 so we need his mom to sign the papers first. I have officially downloaded every single conference talk to my flash drive. I have listened to about 32 of them in this past week. I am tired though but oh well. And I need to do laundry when I get back to the apartment. We are doing great. The town that our apartment is in is called Fort Thomas and its like completely Catholic, Baptist, Methodist, Pentecostal, and a little bit of Mormons. They had a Christmas walk so we passed out a bunch of cards and talked about Light the World with them. They had free food, horse pulled carriages, and then at 8 we went to a members house and watched the Christmas devotional. Thats pretty much everything interesting that happened. Talk to yall next week.