So Tamara got baptized on saturday! We are so happy for her, I will send pictures. We had to do it at a swimming pool, the pool was so deep that Brother Serge was up to his neck, and We had to find a stool for Tamara to stand on. The water was cold and she was crying because of that, but after she got to sit in the Sauna to warm up and she was happy.
We are still doing really well on finding here, it is amazing as our investigators bring us investigators.
The rest of the week was good, I have transfer information and not alot is changing. I am now the District Leader in Sumy, and Elder Jeffery and Elder Rice(Who is still not even in Ukraine) are coming to join us up here. We really need the extra hands, everything should go well!
Anna is still doing okay, she is not progressing any more, but she has good potential to progress again, we hope she and Roman will get married in the Temple one day, but they have to get baptized first!
We had a less active show up to church randomly yesterday, eh asked for help moving out of his appartment. So we helped him and had a small spiritual thought, he said hell come back to church next week so that should be good. The snow is starting to come down here, and I love it!
Elder Vanbuskirk is still trying to adjust to it, it is funny. He like refused to believe that God would create so "Terrible" a thing as winter. But oh well!
I love it!
Hey bud,
Well, you had me pretty stressed out at the beginning of the week;) I was seriously so worried. I feel good about it now though. Sister Sullivan called me on tuesday and that helped me realize that you wouldn't be without money for transfers...just for extra stuff.
We had a pretty good week. We had more Dr. and Dentist appts. that went pretty good. Cam is sick again with a swollen Salivary gland again so I will have to take him back to the Doctor tomorrow. His swallow study is on Wednesday so that should be interesting.
We had parent teacher conferences for the Elementary kids. They are all doing good. Cam is doing as expected mostly. Kaestli is smart and doing really well. Her reading level is coming close to Cam's. Jacob is doing great and pulling to the head of the class. He is really doing well with math. He loves his teacher.
Jordy had a pretty good week. There have been a couple issues at the school with him, but he is mostly doing well, and it is far better than it was at South Hills. He still has the big sore in his mouth and then he did a face plant while ice skating for YW/YM's the other day and his braces went through his top lip. It's all cup up and was really fat for a few days. The cuts are still healing but it looks better from the outside view at least. There was literally part of his lip still attached to his braces that I had to pull out.
The presidential election was this week. And the shock to the nation and probably the world was that Trump won! Josh was completely giddy the entire night of the election. He threw a bit of a fit about having to go ice skating during it, but I forced him to go. The republican party took the house and senate and with a republican president Josh is hoping to push some conservative agenda's through. I feel quite fine about the result and have hope that Trump will do a good job. The stock market has stayed steady so that is a great sign.
The boys went to crystal hot springs for scouts this week and apparently Josh and Jordy both convinced 2 different girls to kiss them on the cheek. So.....that happened. Why can't they be more like you. Just obedient!
The BYU game was yesterday and we had fun.
Curtis is in St. Louis today and tomorrow working on our housing investments there. I am hoping we can sell them soon. They are more stress than they are worth.
Everything else is pretty much the same. I am super curious about transfers! Here are my 3 options to make your life better.
1-You get transferred out of there.
2-You get a new comp but stay.
3-You don't get a new comp but they add 2 more missionaries to live with you guys so you can at least do splits more often and have more help around the apartment and have other people to talk to and hang out with.
Can't wait to hear all about it!!!!
Questions-
1-Bank card issues...anything else I should know about? Everything ok? Let me know when you get it.
2-Christmas package is sent. Promise not to read the customs label. Inside you will find wrapped gifts that you have to save. But there is one gift you can have early that is in the small stocking, be careful with that and then there is a box that goes with it that is a christmas box but not wrapped. You can open that too. OK??? Also, there isn't any letters in the package, but I will send some from all the kids this month separately.
3-Full details of the transfers, where you are, who is your DL and who is your ZL. What zone are you apart of?
4-Tell me about your new comp, or new room mates etc.
5-Did Tamara get baptized??? Do you have any pics of it???
6-Pics
7-recordings
8-Has EV gotten any better? Is his back a real problem?
9-I got your letter about Sarah...Sorry to hear that she doesn't feel the same way. I am glad you have a good attitude about it. You will be going to BYU with a huge selection of amazing girls. You just need to pray you will be lead to a good, kind loving girl that you will have a happy life with. Don't worry about any girls right now. What did EV email to whitney...isn't she on a mission too?
10-Are you happy and positive? Is it hard to stay happy and positive?
11-What do you love most about Sumy?
12-Did that Family Search girl come to church again, any progress with her?
13-Tell me about this new Russian lesson/tests things. One of the moms was talking about how her son is starting these tests and his call is to go around and help with the language or something like that. What is it? Do you think it will help?
14-How does President Sullivan think you are progressing? What does he have you working on?
15-message for me:)
Well, I miss you like crazy. The weather has been amazing here, so it is nice to have time passing and feel like christmas is close, even though it's still nice outside. I think it gets cold again this week though.
What if you get a new apartment and there aren't hand warmers? Let me know and I'll send you another package with them:)
Love you so much!!!! I hope you are super excited about the changes being made, and if nothing changed I know you will get through it.
Love you,
Mom
NO, everything is okay, sorry that stressed you out, everything else is going fine. Thanks so much for the Package, I cannot wait to get it. So transfers are such, I am staying in Sumy with Elder Vanbuskirk, I am the District Leader, and Elder Jeffery, and Elder Rice(Brand New missionary) are coming to stay with us in sumy, we are trying to find them a new appartment. Elder Vanbuskirk has been much better lately, it is enjoyable to be his companion so everything is okay. Yes Tamara got Baptized and I have tons of pics to send. Yeah I am not too heart broken, I have known for a pretty long time that she wouldnt be my wife. Yes I am happy and positive, no it is not hard. I love the people, and how clean our city is, they actually shovel the snow away here! IT is amazing. We got 3 inches last night, and there should be more on the way, somone said it should drop to -20 soon. I am not worried about girls at all, yes Whitney is on a mission. He just Emailed her the usual middle school "I see you and Elder Jorgensen Right eachother every week, and he talks about you sometimes, so how do you feel about him"
I dont really care about it, I sent an Email to her after explaining, she thought it was funny.
We met with her a couple times, but she did not come to church, she might invite some of her friends though.
Yeah the tests are simple, they are to help the missionary know what he needs to work on. We take a test after everyother district meeting.
He says I am progressing well, I have never been chastised by him, He trusts me a lot.
I love you so much, thanks for all he help you are giving me. You are the best Mom ever!
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