Hey mom, dad and gma!
Things are going great! we had a crazy week!!! loaned a load of copies of the book of mormon. about 23. Got a ton of folow ups!! so we have a lot of work to do this next week.
YEa, now it's just CRAZY HOT!!!! It's been, on average, 105F with the humidity. Sweet!! I'm so looking forward to having no heat!!!!!!!!!!
Cool! (referring to a Brandon/Reina's wedding/reception I catered and did the cake for on Saturday)
Wow! lol!!! THat's hilarious!! That's alot of food leftover!!! wow!! (Brandon's brother Christopher had a white tie with a ton of colorful jewels he had put on himself) (prepared too much food and leftovers went home with the Hensley family)
Yay!!!! i guess i'll be helping out with a bunch of stuff when i get home! lol. help momma out! (told Billy of all that dad did for me hauling/shopping/trans-porting/ lifting/etc. and loved this response as Billy was always such a great helper to me in everything I do)
Oooo, not good! i know how that is. I hope Gma is feeling better real soon and glad she has a doc visit this week!
Man, that's what church is for!! it helps to relieve the weight that the world puts on our shoulders. thats why it's so important!! (a friend stayed home because of depression)
Just exited about all the BoM loans we had last week!!
Keanu(as in keanu reeves?). Cool! (youth speaker in sacrament)
Wow, cool! Sacrament talks on pioneer ancestry and experiences from japan missionaries.
Hehe. that's something that me and elder h. realized this past week: The members now don't have a good enough knowlege of the gospel, which is why the bretheren have brought us back to the basics(for which i'm glad for) to build from the base up. I'm glad that the spirit can teach us, no matter how old or young we are, we jsut have to be open and worthy for it's direction!! (in response to things I'm learning at my age that these young Elders are learning now)
EEeeek! lol, yea. but even the bretheren write some stuff down! (Billy talks in our ward sacrament in two months and I told him "it would be given him" what to say)
Yea! i have no doubt about receiving all the support from family and studying together when I get home!
I have some clothes i can wear for a couple of days after i get home. We can worry about shopping when we get there.
Tell dad that if he insists on getting a laptop for me, just to get one of those little acer mini ones. i have plans for a good desktop(gaming and other stuff). I'll include the parts list for him, just so he knows about it.
Love YA!!!!
Elder Mulks
Monday, July 25, 2011
Monday, July 18, 2011
Break in the Weather! July 18, 2011
Hey Mom, Dad and Gma!
Things are going well out here! enjoying the break in heat for the short time it's here. we hear that it's gonna get really bad next week.
* We are definitely trying to keep cool!
* Yea, i know of Elder H. My companion was around him for a while in other areas. he's our zone leader right now. his companion is elder s. (I communicate with Elder H's mom on my missionary mom email group and she thought her son was Billy's companion)
* Mmmm...salmon! (told Billy about Auntie rockie's birthday dinner)
* Yea, i love finding too! lol (we always pray doors will open for our missionaries)
* jeez, d., though that doesn't surprise me with how he was before i left. i just hope it's not with anyone i know. (sad news about one of Billy's friends in Lacey partying and getting drunk)
* Wow, alrighty - will keep Gma in my prayers for her eyes as always!
* Sounds great! Ours was the most noisy i've been in, in a while. (Sacrament meeting - told Billy of our speakers and the great messages)
* cool. I can't wait to see everyone! (mentioning just over two months left of the mission)
* Hehe, utah! lol Nice! (one of Billy's friends just received his mission call to Ogden, UT where another of Billy's friends is currently serving)
* that's good. so are all the sisters helping out with other stuff? or just random acts of service? (regarding help with the wedding reception food and cake I'm doing on the 23rd - mentioned not asking for help from our ward as it is our day of service and Billy is wondering what the ward is doing)
* Nothing very interesting this week. it's been pretty uneventfull.
* Looking forward to it too! elder h. doesn't stop teasing me about how long i have left! but it doesn't phase me!
* Cool, thanks for the log in info for my gmail account!
Love Ya!
Elder Mulks
"To have faith is to have purpose, and to have purpose in life is what defines a man and makes him steadfast and resolute. Faith keeps him true and, even in the darkest hours, illuminates him like a candles' flame. Faith guides him surely from birth to the grave. It shows him the path, and prevents him from straying into the darkest thickets,where insanity awaits. To lose faith is to lose purpose, and to be bereft of guidance. For a man without faith will no longer be true, and a mind without purpose will walk in dark places."
Things are going well out here! enjoying the break in heat for the short time it's here. we hear that it's gonna get really bad next week.
* We are definitely trying to keep cool!
* Yea, i know of Elder H. My companion was around him for a while in other areas. he's our zone leader right now. his companion is elder s. (I communicate with Elder H's mom on my missionary mom email group and she thought her son was Billy's companion)
* Mmmm...salmon! (told Billy about Auntie rockie's birthday dinner)
* Yea, i love finding too! lol (we always pray doors will open for our missionaries)
* jeez, d., though that doesn't surprise me with how he was before i left. i just hope it's not with anyone i know. (sad news about one of Billy's friends in Lacey partying and getting drunk)
* Wow, alrighty - will keep Gma in my prayers for her eyes as always!
* Sounds great! Ours was the most noisy i've been in, in a while. (Sacrament meeting - told Billy of our speakers and the great messages)
* cool. I can't wait to see everyone! (mentioning just over two months left of the mission)
* Hehe, utah! lol Nice! (one of Billy's friends just received his mission call to Ogden, UT where another of Billy's friends is currently serving)
* that's good. so are all the sisters helping out with other stuff? or just random acts of service? (regarding help with the wedding reception food and cake I'm doing on the 23rd - mentioned not asking for help from our ward as it is our day of service and Billy is wondering what the ward is doing)
* Nothing very interesting this week. it's been pretty uneventfull.
* Looking forward to it too! elder h. doesn't stop teasing me about how long i have left! but it doesn't phase me!
* Cool, thanks for the log in info for my gmail account!
Love Ya!
Elder Mulks
"To have faith is to have purpose, and to have purpose in life is what defines a man and makes him steadfast and resolute. Faith keeps him true and, even in the darkest hours, illuminates him like a candles' flame. Faith guides him surely from birth to the grave. It shows him the path, and prevents him from straying into the darkest thickets,where insanity awaits. To lose faith is to lose purpose, and to be bereft of guidance. For a man without faith will no longer be true, and a mind without purpose will walk in dark places."
Monday, July 11, 2011
Hot and Humid in Lynchburg, VA July 11, 2011
Hey Mom, Dad and Gma!
Things are going well. We are not enjoying the heat and humidity out here. It's so nasty! Doing lots of finding.
* yea, it's been stayign in the mid 80's all week. ugghhh!
* No investigators at church. we have one really promising investigator who we are seeing tommorow. seems pretty solid!
* New mission president was very good. he was VERY nervous(shaking the entire time), but he will be good! THat would work--sending me cell phone for flight home and layover in Detroit for 3 hours.pffft, i've never suffered form jet-lag. even when i went to japan, i didn't feel any. But a 3 hour layover! man, i guess i can be thankful that it's not overnight!
* We were given the embroidered items by a member in gretna while out there on a p-day. Not much else to say about them, though.
* nope, i just found Auntie Moo's gift card it in the car, i forgot to take it out. so i'll be writing this week.
* Yea, ill be writing to Gma this week too!
* OOoooo! I miss that place! I'm glad to hear Wok on Fire still open! wow, 4 missionaries in one apartment? cool! Wow!! that's abit much! though, before i left, i wanted to nail the furnature in their apartment to the walls...lol.
* ...mabey... (dad wanted to know if Billy will give his homecoming talk in his mission language - hillbilly--lol) i'm not quite as fluent as is my companion.
* Good! Hopefully Ben will lighten up a bit when i get back.
* Lol!! that derick...never pictured him as the scared type for asking a girl out.
* hehe, funny story this sunday. There were 2 speakers(one was a High Council member), and the first one only left 5 min for the other. just talked for 50 mins in a monotone voice...i actually fell asleep! bad me! my comp had to keep me awake.
* I just got the entire gospel library. the OLD one that has doctrines of salvation 1-3, teachings of brigham young, teachings of joseph smith, miracle of forgiveness, etc... all from a member who doesn't read them anymore.
* OHhhh!! Im glad nothing happened when you fell off your bike again! Hehe! yea, remember edison-"i didn't fail 900 times, i've just found 900 way how not to make a lightbulb." Try, try again!
* Exercising has gotten lax in the past few days. i need to step it up again. Elder Houghton is doing good. He says he wants to kill me here so he can stay an extra transfer. If that happens, he'll have been here for almost 8 months! No real service activities here, just helping out members. (Killing a missionary just means sending him home at the end of his mission)
* WHat!?? The Ganoes! Sweet!! That's awesome you heard from Sister Ganoe on facebook! I love the Ganoes!(he's the branch pres in peterstown.)
Oh, if you could, send me my gmail username and password so i can get that straghtened out before i leave. that would be awesome!
Alrighty, not much else!
Love YA!!!
Elder Mulks
Things are going well. We are not enjoying the heat and humidity out here. It's so nasty! Doing lots of finding.
* yea, it's been stayign in the mid 80's all week. ugghhh!
* No investigators at church. we have one really promising investigator who we are seeing tommorow. seems pretty solid!
* New mission president was very good. he was VERY nervous(shaking the entire time), but he will be good! THat would work--sending me cell phone for flight home and layover in Detroit for 3 hours.pffft, i've never suffered form jet-lag. even when i went to japan, i didn't feel any. But a 3 hour layover! man, i guess i can be thankful that it's not overnight!
* We were given the embroidered items by a member in gretna while out there on a p-day. Not much else to say about them, though.
* nope, i just found Auntie Moo's gift card it in the car, i forgot to take it out. so i'll be writing this week.
* Yea, ill be writing to Gma this week too!
* OOoooo! I miss that place! I'm glad to hear Wok on Fire still open! wow, 4 missionaries in one apartment? cool! Wow!! that's abit much! though, before i left, i wanted to nail the furnature in their apartment to the walls...lol.
* ...mabey... (dad wanted to know if Billy will give his homecoming talk in his mission language - hillbilly--lol) i'm not quite as fluent as is my companion.
* Good! Hopefully Ben will lighten up a bit when i get back.
* Lol!! that derick...never pictured him as the scared type for asking a girl out.
* hehe, funny story this sunday. There were 2 speakers(one was a High Council member), and the first one only left 5 min for the other. just talked for 50 mins in a monotone voice...i actually fell asleep! bad me! my comp had to keep me awake.
* I just got the entire gospel library. the OLD one that has doctrines of salvation 1-3, teachings of brigham young, teachings of joseph smith, miracle of forgiveness, etc... all from a member who doesn't read them anymore.
* OHhhh!! Im glad nothing happened when you fell off your bike again! Hehe! yea, remember edison-"i didn't fail 900 times, i've just found 900 way how not to make a lightbulb." Try, try again!
* Exercising has gotten lax in the past few days. i need to step it up again. Elder Houghton is doing good. He says he wants to kill me here so he can stay an extra transfer. If that happens, he'll have been here for almost 8 months! No real service activities here, just helping out members. (Killing a missionary just means sending him home at the end of his mission)
* WHat!?? The Ganoes! Sweet!! That's awesome you heard from Sister Ganoe on facebook! I love the Ganoes!(he's the branch pres in peterstown.)
Oh, if you could, send me my gmail username and password so i can get that straghtened out before i leave. that would be awesome!
Alrighty, not much else!
Love YA!!!
Elder Mulks
Tuesday, July 5, 2011
July 5, 2011 - Hot/Humid/Stormy
Hey Mom, Dad and Gma!
Things are going well. THe weather has been relentlessly hot and humid and there are storms every other day or so. But we are able to get out and tract. We have a couple of people who we are teaching, but not too many.
Hehehe, i remember having firecrackers go off in my hands!
* Hope there is more than pancakes at your 4th tri-ward breakfast!! You could take agave syrup!
* We meet the new Mission President and his wife tomorrow. But from the sounds of it, he's pretty cool!
* Yea, i know what you mean about liking cooler weather!
* I thought that i sent Auntie Moo a card...hmmm...ill have to send another to make sure she knows I received the gift card, etc.. Yea, thanks for the $$!! I got my suitcase and am going to mail home a couple of boxes today.
* hehehe! I didn't think Cameron would be familiar with all the missionary lexicons. I only knew a few when i came out. Lots of them are mission specific.
* Sweet! I'll be looking for the copies of study items you talked about sending !
* Nice you and dad took a little bike ride! I really want to do some biking when i get home. Keep my weight down.
* wow! You can do more than i can with reading music and playing on Gma's new keyboard! I can't read alto cleft, so i just play top-hand...but not very well. lol
* hehe, that's cool about Elder Young in your ward having a brother who served in the same mission as Kyle in NJ and knows him!
* silly mom, you need to get your planner up-to-date when you sign up to feed the missionaries! lol! i don't know what i'm gonna do without one!
* Crazy cat - i bet they don't like the fireworks going off all over!
* Wow! that'll be something for Chivaun and Laurie to come down for my home coming and the rest of the family!
* the parable of the debtor? that one is really cool. (we saw a video about mercy/justice in Sunday School)
* Yea, i have a couple of talks that are based on the constitution and how america is the land of promise. done, of course, by Ezra T. Benson.
* ... (I think billy doesn't want to comment on my mentioning he had 80 days till he comes home)
* I'll let ya know how he is next week after I meet the new Mission President!
Alrighty then! Thats about it!
Love YA!!
Elder Mulks
Things are going well. THe weather has been relentlessly hot and humid and there are storms every other day or so. But we are able to get out and tract. We have a couple of people who we are teaching, but not too many.
Hehehe, i remember having firecrackers go off in my hands!
* Hope there is more than pancakes at your 4th tri-ward breakfast!! You could take agave syrup!
* We meet the new Mission President and his wife tomorrow. But from the sounds of it, he's pretty cool!
* Yea, i know what you mean about liking cooler weather!
* I thought that i sent Auntie Moo a card...hmmm...ill have to send another to make sure she knows I received the gift card, etc.. Yea, thanks for the $$!! I got my suitcase and am going to mail home a couple of boxes today.
* hehehe! I didn't think Cameron would be familiar with all the missionary lexicons. I only knew a few when i came out. Lots of them are mission specific.
* Sweet! I'll be looking for the copies of study items you talked about sending !
* Nice you and dad took a little bike ride! I really want to do some biking when i get home. Keep my weight down.
* wow! You can do more than i can with reading music and playing on Gma's new keyboard! I can't read alto cleft, so i just play top-hand...but not very well. lol
* hehe, that's cool about Elder Young in your ward having a brother who served in the same mission as Kyle in NJ and knows him!
* silly mom, you need to get your planner up-to-date when you sign up to feed the missionaries! lol! i don't know what i'm gonna do without one!
* Crazy cat - i bet they don't like the fireworks going off all over!
* Wow! that'll be something for Chivaun and Laurie to come down for my home coming and the rest of the family!
* the parable of the debtor? that one is really cool. (we saw a video about mercy/justice in Sunday School)
* Yea, i have a couple of talks that are based on the constitution and how america is the land of promise. done, of course, by Ezra T. Benson.
* ... (I think billy doesn't want to comment on my mentioning he had 80 days till he comes home)
* I'll let ya know how he is next week after I meet the new Mission President!
Alrighty then! Thats about it!
Love YA!!
Elder Mulks
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