August 18, 2014

Hi family,

Since there are not many members in Kennett we do most of our own cooking.  I could use some simple fast recipes I guess. Elder Allred and I  usually cook pretty well. We made biscuits and sausage gravy from scratch the other day. It was pretty good. 

 

Not a ton has happened this week really. Kept working with people, met more people, etc. One of our lessons was interrupted by cops knocking on the door. So yeah. That was interesting. Life as a missionary just keeps on going. 

 

Our mission president sent us all a 4 page study guide that we all need to go through before Zone Conference on Thursday. So we will be doing that this week for a bit. Not much else really. kloveyoubye.

Love, Other Elder Udy

August 11, 2014

Hi Family,

I just finished reading through Psalms and Proverbs! The Old Testament
is one of my favorite things to learn about, study, and teach!

We don't get fed much out here. We are far away from most
members and there aren't a lot to begin with. We just buy our own food
and cook for ourselves. I am getting pretty good at cooking though.

The humidity is fine. It hasn't been to bad recently. Except the days
after the 2 lightning storms this week. Oh yeah, by the way we had
lightning storms and the streets of Kennett completely flooded. So
that was fun! :-D

Me and Elder Allred get along well. We have a lot in common actually.

Only a few of the people we met panned out, but we have some
good people that we are working with still.

Not a ton happened this week except for a guy passed
out in church while giving the closing talk. We had to rush onto the
stage to help him sit down so he didn't fall. He has diabetes and was
low on sugar. Kind of scary, but he is okay and fine now. We had
breakfast with him this morning actually. Nothing really exciting
other than that. kloveyoubye.

Love, Other Elder Udy

August 4, 2014

Hi family,

 

It's nice that I can keep in touch with my friends serving missions. Share experiences and stuff between each other and find out what they are doing that works in there mission to help me improve. 

 

The Blytheville missionaries are back now. Working 2 areas was kind of tough, but it all went okay.

 

I got my new companion of course, Elder Allred. He is from Lapoint Utah. It is a small town that has about 300 people in it, just outside of Vernal. He is pretty cool. He is pretty ripped to...it scares me a little. He picked me up and threw me onto my bed the other night. I have never experienced that before. It was fun! 

 

We were on bikes this week. We met a ton of new people biking around in between appointments. We had something like 37 lessons and 11 new investigators, so it was good! Bikes do have advantages. That's about it for the week. kloveyoubye.

Love, Other Elder Udy

July 28, 2014

Hi Family,

 

There isn't a huge problem in Kennett with unmarried people. There is in Memphis though. Tons of people just have their baby daddy's and stuff. 

 

Of all the lessons we mostly teach the restoration when contacting and finding people. 

 

The famous singer that came from Kennett is Sheryl Crow. 

 

We had a pretty crazy week this week actually. On Friday we got a call from the other missionaries in Blytheville saying that they were going to be out of the area for a week (another long story) so we were going to be covering their area as well as ours. We have been up and down for the past few days. And one of the other missionaries also had to speak on Sunday, but wouldn't be there. So I had to fill in and write a talk in about an hours time that we had free. My topic was Obedience. It went pretty well I guess. And we got a call this morning and Elder Jelte will be being transferred on Wednesday. Transfer week already. So I will be getting a new companion. So it has been kind of hectic, but good. 

 

We had those people come to church again and they are looking forward to their baptism so that is awesome. That's pretty much it. kloveyoubye.

Love, Other Elder Udy

July 21, 2014

Dear Family

 

We actually did have a few people at church today! A family of 3! They have a date for marriage and baptism too, so it should be good. 

 

This week we had specialized training with Pres. Wakolo it was really good. He is taking the mission in a whole new direction that should be good for us. Focusing a lot on Personal Development rather than what to do to baptize people.

 

That was pretty much my week. We still teach and stuff. So yeah. That's cool. kloveyoubye.

 

Love, Other Elder Udy (not Emerson)

July 14, 2014

Our investigators are progressing well. We have had several tell us that they know the Book of Mormon is true and the church is true, but they just have no way to make it to church. (Church is a 45 minute drive to Blytheville, Arkansas) It's kind of rough. We will figure it out though. Some of them just need to be more committed. A couple of them say yes it is all true, but won't even try to find a way down to church. They will only come if we set it all up for them. We will keep trying though. Not a ton is going on other than that though. 

 

We have specialized training this week with President Wakolo. This is the first time we will see him teaching a whole meeting rather than just part of a zone meeting. We are all pretty excited for it.

 

That's all. kloveyoubye.

Love, Other Elder Udy

July 7, 2014

 

Our meeting with President Wakolo was awesome. He is really intelligent and knows tons and tons about doctrine. It's gonna be a good few years for teaching and learning doctrines in all kinds of ways. I can't wait for it. 

 

Our investigators are good. It's hard to get them to come to church though, since it is a 45 minute drive to get to the building. The ward is pretty good. The people are nice and helpful when they can be, we are just out of the way of most of them. We just drive the car down for church, or if we don't have a car one of the members is willing to come get us. We had 2 of our investigators make it down to church this week, so that was good. Hopefully we will see some baptisms pretty soon here.

 

Elder Jelte came out the transfer after I did. So I am only 6 weeks older than him. On the fourth of July we went down to Blytheville and had a BBQ with our Bishop and his family. Played some Frisbee with them. It was fun. 

 

That's all. Love you all.

 

Love, Other Elder Udy