November 24, 2014

Hi Family,

That's fun that Cameron came home for a visit. Tell him "Hi" for me and that I miss him. 

 

Well one miracle is that we baptized last week. That was pretty cool. Baptizing on the first transfer an area is open. 

 

We had specialized training last week with the mission president. That was fun. It's crazy how much he knows sometimes. I swear he has the bible memorized. 

 

I am instructing for part of district meeting tomorrow on diligence and I have to give a talk on Sunday about the attributes of a successful missionary. 

 

We had stake conference this last week and so we just watched it from our building up here. Elder Bluth from the Seventy was presiding at it. Not a whole lot else happened this week. kloveyoubye.

Love, Elder Udy

November 17, 2014

Hi Family,

I haven't burned the shirt quite yet. I will do it on Friday at our branch presidents house in his backyard after dinner.

I bought a sweater at J C Penny the other day. Sweaters work a lot better for keeping warm down here than coats do. Part of the money I spent went to that, the other part is just on things we needed and stuff. They really should give missionaries some extra money if they open an area. We had literally NOTHING when we got here. I think we got most of the stuff we need now, so I shouldn't be spending as much.

We have some cool people we are teaching. We are teaching a guy who is the son of a Church of Christ preacher and his friend. They are pretty cool. They really like everything we have taught them so far. We have been seeing some really awesome miracles also.

We have quite a few people in our mission on church and government aid. It is a BIG problem in some units here. That's all for this week. kloveyoubye.

Love, Elder Udy

November 10, 2014

Hi Family,

I burned a shirt on my hump day!!!! :-D It was one that had a stain on it, so I didn't wear it anymore anyways.

We are finding some good people to teach. The branch is growing well still.
Our week was pretty unexciting. I went on exchanges back to Blytheville. I was with Elder Scott. He has been in the field for about 3 weeks now. He is also from Australia, so that's fun.

We have no snow really. Occasionally a light dusting. And it is quite cold now. That's all for this week. kloveyoubye.

Love, Elder Udy

November 3, 2014

Hi Family,


Dyersburg is pretty awesome. We are having a lot of fun and success here. The branch was good yesterday. There were probably about 60 people there. We have a building that we meet in. It is starting to get a tad bit small though, so we need to turn it into a ward fast to get a bigger building and stuff.

We had a branch Halloween party on Wednesday. It was pretty fun. The branch is really supportive and helpful.

We live in an apartment in town. We actually live down the stairs from the other Elders. Closest sets of missionaries in the mission. Literally downstairs. Elder Ernst has been out for 6 weeks less than me, so I'm senior companion again. We are still getting along well though. I have hump day on Thursday. Not a lot else happened. kloveyoubye.

Love, Elder Udy

October 27, 2014

Family,

My new area is good. I am serving in Dyersburg Tennessee. My companion (Elder Ernst) and I  actually opened up a new area. So we got a new apartment and everything. The hard part is neither of us know where anything is, and we have literally no investigators or anything. The other elders in the area (we share the area with them) have been able to help us out though.

The branch is super supportive. We have literally had dinner every night since we showed up. A big change from never having dinner with members. We have a car right now. We will be on a car share like always though. Some weeks with a car, some without.

We did have dinner with David(Chads cousin living in Cabot) and Amanda's old friends. Their names are the King's. He used to be the Bishop in the Cabot ward until 6 months ago, so he knew them.

Elder Ernst is from Cedar Hills Utah. He is a real cool guy, and we get along well. We are going to have to just work real hard for awhile until we can get the area to start moving along well. That's all for this week. kloveyoubye.

Love, Elder Udy

October 21, 2014

Hi Family,

 

Sorry I didn't e-mail yesterday. Me and my companion were at the temple all day (woohoo) and the library had closed when we got back to Kennett. Exciting news though. I'm getting transferred this week. I will be somewhere on the Memphis side of the mission still, but no clue where exactly. I will find out tomorrow. Not a whole lot of exciting stuff other than that though.

We are teaching a few cool people. I will be sad to leave before seeing them be baptized. We don't work with many less-actives. There aren't many of them close by.

 

Isaiah is fun. I use Isaiah 1:16-18 to help teach repentance occasionally. I am reading the Book of Mormon again. We are reading it as a mission in November. Also, we are sacrificing the last 4 hours of our P-days throughout November to help us reach our goals. It is giving up a lot, but the Lord will bless us for it. That's all. kloveyoubye.

Love, Elder Udy

October 13, 2014

Hi Family,

 A lot of the people that I see around Kennett do know that we are missionaries. I have been here so long though that I recognize a ton of people when we go around. I can name probably 75% of the people that we see on the street, so it is kind of weird now. 

 

Our biggest stumbling block is probably preconceived notions about the church. People that don't actually know what we believe and don't want to, or (my personal favorite) when people "know exactly" what we believe better than we do. People have basically told us that we don't know what we believe, they do though. So that is fun. 

 

Our baptism is hopefully going to be rescheduled. We are trying to catch them still.

 

I have heard of Meet the Mormons. We saw it Wednesday morning last week before it was in theaters in a zone meeting. It was really good. Hopefully it will help put down some of the false ideas people have about us. That's about it for the week. kloveyoubye.

Love, Elder Udy