May 26, 2014

Elder Garner and I are getting along just splendidly. We pretty much have fun all the time. We keep each other laughing and such.
The humidity is awful. You can walk outside, stand in the shade, and just start sweating without doing anything. It's gross.
This is my 3rd transfer here, so I might be getting transferred in a few weeks.
Not a lot happened this week. It was bike week, and we spent about 40 hours or so just walking around trying to meet people. Pretty boring week.

May 19, 2014

Dear family,

Our week was good. We are both fine from the accident last week. We were just rear ended. We don't have a car right now, but that is because we are on bike week. It doesn't have to do with us being hit. It was just our turn to be on bike. We will get a call when we need to take the car in for repairs.

We got to put the chapel together this week. They took all the pews out so they could replace the sprinkler system, and we were asked to help carry them back in and bolt them down. We did something else exciting to that I can't remember. That's all!

Love, Other Elder Udy

May 5, 2014

Hi Family,

We actually never had to clean up the tornado stuff. It didn't really hit Tennessee bad. 

I haven't had my final interview with President Petersen yet. 

I will be skyping home on mothers day. 

Nothing really exciting this week. I found out David Lynn's number and stuff this morning and gave him a call and talked to him for a bit. Nothing else is happening really.

Love you! talk to you on Sunday.

Love, Other Elder Udy

April 28, 2014

Dear Parents,

We want you to know that all missionaries serving in the Arkansas Little Rock Mission are safe and accounted for.  They have been asked to stay in their apartments today so you may not receive an e-mail from your missionary this week.  Some of our communities have sustained considerable damage so many of our missionaries will be involved in on going service to help those in need.  Thank you for your prayers and faith. 

Sincerely, President Steven M. Petersen 

Hi Family,

 

I got my package. I love my pillow tie. I wore it to district meeting on Tuesday. It was good fun. 

 

I don't really get involved in the music. They want us to let the ward take care of that kind of stuff and we focus on teaching and stuff. 

 

We have a few investigators. Not to many though. We are constantly looking for more. None are really progressing right now. Things are going to pick up though.

 

We were in the tornado warning for Little Rock. We didn't really have to worry a ton about it though. We had a lot of flooding in our area though. 

 

That's pretty much it. Love you!

Love, Other Elder Udy

April 21, 2014

Hi Family,

I have read that bio and seen the picture of President Wakolo already. (He will be going to Arkansas in July to be the new mission President). He seems like he is going to be a really cool guy. Hopefully he speaks English (he and his wife are from Fiji, he has been a seventy) well. Ha ha. 

 

For Easter we had a breakfast and Easter egg hunt at the church for the little kids. It was pretty good. For sacrament meeting the entire program was practically just singing. Music plays a lot bigger role out here than it does in Utah.

 

That's all.

Love, Other Elder Udy

April 14, 2014

Hi Family,

I'm still just studying the Book of Mormon and Preach My Gospel. Occasionally I will read part of the bible too. We are in Exodus in our Sunday school too. 

 

We have an Easter activity planned in the ward. That and the church wide Easter missionary reach out thing. The whole thing is on mormon.org. You should check it out. It's pretty cool. 

http://easter.mormon.org/

 

That's funny you met Emerson's new mission president. Now you just need to meet mine. His name is President Wakolo. He seems like he will be an awesome guy.

Love, Other Elder Udy

April 7, 2014

Hi Family,

We did watch conference. All 10 hours. My favorite talk was probably the one President Monson gave in priesthood about having courage. Will you send me a CD of conference so I can listen to them in the car and stuff? Thanks. All the warnings about whirlwinds and stuff were funny, because we were having a lightning storm during conference over here. How ironic. I really like that thought of being on solid ground though. It's something I have been thinking about a lot lately. I was starting the Book of Mormon again and I read 1 Nephi 1:6. I was wondering why Nephi thought it was important to mention that the pillar of fire that Lehi saw was on a rock before him. Why not just assume it was by him, or on the ground, or in the grass. The best answer to that question I could come up with was that revelation comes to the steadfast and immovable. We must be strong in our faith like a rock, and build our foundation on Christ.(Helaman 5:12) We must pray in faith, with nothing wavering. (James 1:6) Revelation and help from our father in heaven doesn't come unless we can give him a good base to lay it on. Love you all.

Love, Other Elder Udy