Oí Família,
Happy Halloween! Sounds like you guys are having a great time. Great job on the football game Derek! Thanks for the pictures. I think next year I´ll carve a pumpkin here. I don´t have a lot of time today. Was Joshua able to watch all the Halloween movies? Oh Happy Birthday Kelleene and Father in advance! So this week was good. I arrived here and had a baptism already.:) She´d been going to church 1 year and 8 months already though. Her mom just didn´t want her to get baptized until now. My companion is pretty cool, a little over enthusiastic but cool. We have another baptism planned for the 12 too. The area here is really small though so it´ll be hard to find new investigators. Jaren hasn´t recieved his visa yet? That means he might be comingg to my district, because my district leader is waiting for his companion to get his visa. That would be cool if it was Jaren. I´m feeling a little sick today. I hope it´s nothing. It´d be terrible if it impedes my work. So Uruguaiana is really big, or at least bigger than Santiago. In the center of the city there´s a big cathedral. It´s awesome. I´ll have to take a picture. I´m working in a Ward now, but unfortunately it´s like Vila Rica in that it has a ton of in active members. More work I guess. Anyway I hope you all have a great wek and Halloween! Love you guys! HAPPY HALLOWEEN!!!!
Elder Jolstead the Younger
Monday, October 31, 2011
Monday, October 24, 2011
October 24, 2011
Oí Família,
Wow Dallin you look a ton older! Strange to see everyone older in these pictures. Mikey looked a lot bigger too. Looks like marriage life has been good.Haha just kidding. Speaking of which two sisters said I looked a lot bigger since the time I arrived. I hope that its muscle and not fat.:( The food is just too good here.haha So Today is my last day here in Santiago. I´m off to a city called Uruguaiana and as the name suggests it´s close to Uruguay. I here it´s a pretty big city and to my dismay extremely hot.:( I just know these next couple of months will be a struggle, but its the times of great struggles that we grow the most, that is if we put in the effort to face it. So I´m sad to leave but also excited. This transfer went by fast, because it was super easy to work with Elder L. Silva. Honestly he was a lot better companion then my so-called ´´Father.`` So Halloween has arrived with all the other holidays soon to follow behind it. I hope you all remember me as you eat your Halloween candy and were your masks. For Halloween this year I think I´ll be a pancake or a fried egg or maybe a burnt piece of toast.haha Anyway with that sad bit of humor I´ll have to end my email. Don´t worry about the vitamins and stuff, Mother I don´t need them right now. I will in the future months but right now I´m fine. Anyway have a great week! Love you guys!
Elder Jolstead the Younger
Wow Dallin you look a ton older! Strange to see everyone older in these pictures. Mikey looked a lot bigger too. Looks like marriage life has been good.Haha just kidding. Speaking of which two sisters said I looked a lot bigger since the time I arrived. I hope that its muscle and not fat.:( The food is just too good here.haha So Today is my last day here in Santiago. I´m off to a city called Uruguaiana and as the name suggests it´s close to Uruguay. I here it´s a pretty big city and to my dismay extremely hot.:( I just know these next couple of months will be a struggle, but its the times of great struggles that we grow the most, that is if we put in the effort to face it. So I´m sad to leave but also excited. This transfer went by fast, because it was super easy to work with Elder L. Silva. Honestly he was a lot better companion then my so-called ´´Father.`` So Halloween has arrived with all the other holidays soon to follow behind it. I hope you all remember me as you eat your Halloween candy and were your masks. For Halloween this year I think I´ll be a pancake or a fried egg or maybe a burnt piece of toast.haha Anyway with that sad bit of humor I´ll have to end my email. Don´t worry about the vitamins and stuff, Mother I don´t need them right now. I will in the future months but right now I´m fine. Anyway have a great week! Love you guys!
Elder Jolstead the Younger
Monday, October 17, 2011
October 17, 2011
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Oí,
The baptism was awesome! We were able to baptize two people. One named wiliam with18 years and one named Luíz Filipe with almost 12 years. Wiliam already wants to go on a mission. I´d have to say that that is a great feeling to know that someone you helped find the church will do the same thing for others later on. So that was cool. Oh funny story. I had a dumb blond (funny that I´m not blond) moment yesterday. I was handing out hymn books in the new members class at church and I handed a hymn book to a sister who is blind...I felt like an idiot. Anyway this week was great. We´ve found a ton of really great people that I think will accept the gospel and be baptized. Unfortunately I found out I will be transfered this next week. I´m pretty certain I´ll be trainning. Its sad that I´m leaving. Elder L. Silva is an awesome companion and I´ll really miss working with him, but the Lord wants me somewhere else now. Anyway thats weird that the name changed. Newman Lake ward, huh? Oh so we get new members? The Lines? That´s awesome! Merrill will be our ward now...or at least his family, I´m not sure if he´s at home or probably at college. How´s the autumn weather? I have to say I´m jealous. It´s become extremely hot here. It seems like I´m always sweating. Oh well, I´ll have to get over it. It won´t cool up until about May or June. Anyway I hope you all have a great week! Love you guys!
Elder Jolstead the Younger
Oí,
The baptism was awesome! We were able to baptize two people. One named wiliam with18 years and one named Luíz Filipe with almost 12 years. Wiliam already wants to go on a mission. I´d have to say that that is a great feeling to know that someone you helped find the church will do the same thing for others later on. So that was cool. Oh funny story. I had a dumb blond (funny that I´m not blond) moment yesterday. I was handing out hymn books in the new members class at church and I handed a hymn book to a sister who is blind...I felt like an idiot. Anyway this week was great. We´ve found a ton of really great people that I think will accept the gospel and be baptized. Unfortunately I found out I will be transfered this next week. I´m pretty certain I´ll be trainning. Its sad that I´m leaving. Elder L. Silva is an awesome companion and I´ll really miss working with him, but the Lord wants me somewhere else now. Anyway thats weird that the name changed. Newman Lake ward, huh? Oh so we get new members? The Lines? That´s awesome! Merrill will be our ward now...or at least his family, I´m not sure if he´s at home or probably at college. How´s the autumn weather? I have to say I´m jealous. It´s become extremely hot here. It seems like I´m always sweating. Oh well, I´ll have to get over it. It won´t cool up until about May or June. Anyway I hope you all have a great week! Love you guys!
Elder Jolstead the Younger
Monday, October 10, 2011
October 10, 2011
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Oí Family,
Well sounds like you all had a crazy week. It´s always fun being sick during road trips.haha From the pictures it looks like the wedding went well and Mikey and Rebecca look really happy, so that´s good. Don´t worry I didn´t get to hear a lot of Conference too because of power outages. So I felt like I missed it too. So this week was good, and went by incredibly fast. I made Pancakes about four times this week. ( I found maple flavoring in our cupboards and a recipe I recieved from the MTC)I think my companion is addicted to maple syrup. They were good and made me think of Saturday mornings at home. Don´t worry I only got a little trunky, but then I got over it. So This week we have two baptisms. One is a 18 year old boy named William. He was a reference of a member and we´re going to try and get his member friend to baptize him. The other is a 12 year old boy named Luíz Filipe who is a cousin of a member. We´ve been trying to get him to baptism for a very long time. So this week we were only able to do a little bit of service because a lot of people are waiting on materials to fix their houses. But once they get them we´ll probably be spending most of our days fixing houses. Its funny. One of our investigators is afraid to leave his house. No matter what we say or do he will not leave his house. Its becoming extremely frustrating, but he´s a cool guy so week can wait till he´s ready. We just need to wait and have faith that the Lord will put into our minds the things we need to say and to help him overcome this fear. So anyway all is well here. It´s almost another transfer and this next one Jaren enters the field! It´s going to be crazy when I see him. Oh so today we ate at the Couple missionaries´house and my companion made Churrasco and the Sister made a ton of food. It was amazing, but I´m afraid of returning home fat.haha I ate a ton! Anyawy thanks for the pictures and have a great week. Love you guys!
Elder Jolstead the Younger
Oí Family,
Well sounds like you all had a crazy week. It´s always fun being sick during road trips.haha From the pictures it looks like the wedding went well and Mikey and Rebecca look really happy, so that´s good. Don´t worry I didn´t get to hear a lot of Conference too because of power outages. So I felt like I missed it too. So this week was good, and went by incredibly fast. I made Pancakes about four times this week. ( I found maple flavoring in our cupboards and a recipe I recieved from the MTC)I think my companion is addicted to maple syrup. They were good and made me think of Saturday mornings at home. Don´t worry I only got a little trunky, but then I got over it. So This week we have two baptisms. One is a 18 year old boy named William. He was a reference of a member and we´re going to try and get his member friend to baptize him. The other is a 12 year old boy named Luíz Filipe who is a cousin of a member. We´ve been trying to get him to baptism for a very long time. So this week we were only able to do a little bit of service because a lot of people are waiting on materials to fix their houses. But once they get them we´ll probably be spending most of our days fixing houses. Its funny. One of our investigators is afraid to leave his house. No matter what we say or do he will not leave his house. Its becoming extremely frustrating, but he´s a cool guy so week can wait till he´s ready. We just need to wait and have faith that the Lord will put into our minds the things we need to say and to help him overcome this fear. So anyway all is well here. It´s almost another transfer and this next one Jaren enters the field! It´s going to be crazy when I see him. Oh so today we ate at the Couple missionaries´house and my companion made Churrasco and the Sister made a ton of food. It was amazing, but I´m afraid of returning home fat.haha I ate a ton! Anyawy thanks for the pictures and have a great week. Love you guys!
Elder Jolstead the Younger
Wednesday, October 5, 2011
October 3, 2011
Message body
Oí Família,
Well this week I have a lot to say, so again don´t be offended if I don´t e-mail back. This week was interesting. The begginning of the week was great. We taught an awesome family and they agreed to be baptized. The lesson was awesome. You could feel the spirit so strongly, especially when we bore testimony of the first Vision. Anyway so that was cool. We also invited 4 other people to be baptized and they all excepted too. So this week was awesome in the begginning. We were all happy and excited for conference too, but then A huge storm hit Friday night and Saturday morning. I honestly am not sure if it wasn´t a hurricane that hit, because it tore roofs off houses, ripped trees and telephone poles out of the grounded and even caved in the house of a member. Don´t worry. I´m fine. The Lord really protected us, because it´s a miracle our extremely old, little wooden house didn´t getripped apart or the giant palm tree that always creeks and looks like its going to fall outside our house didn´t fall and destroy our house. Anyway so basically we were sleeping peacefully and out of no where we awoke to thunder that sounded like cannons and the sound of something like rocks hitting our roof. It was crazy! It sounded like a battle field! So we look out side and its completely dark because the power is out. all you see is flashes of lightning. The lightning was amzing! There wasn´t a second inbetween one flash and then the other. That night I didn´t think much of it, because we´ve had bad storms before, so I just closed all the windows and went back to sleep. My companion woke me up later that night and I guess he told me the branch president called to see if we were all right, but I don´t remember because I was half asleep. So anyway we woke up like normal and studied and everything, but we found out that the electricity and water were out. So we went outside and it honestly looked like the end of the world. There were people in the streets others fixing houses and everything looked destroyed. Our neighbor showed us a hail ball the size of a soft ball outside his house. Anyway so Santiago, or really just our area got ravaged by something and because of that we miseed all the sessions of conference the first day, so I hope it was good. But now we have a chance to help a lot of people and at the same time teach a message that will help them have hope in this time of craziness. Because really is was crazy. A freak storm That for some reason only attacked our area not the central of the city. So anyway that was my week. Pretty exciting and like Alma I´m kind of happy because now we have a chance to really help more people, because before there really were a lot of hard hearted people. I don´t get me wrong, I´m not happy that people are sad. I´m happy because now they might be a little more open to our message. Something kind of funny too is that the church here is right beside a lutheran church and after the storm passed over, the lutheran church got ravaged, but our church didn´t get a scratch. All I could think was ´´How Firm a Foundation``:) Another funnt, or strange thing was the day before I shared a message with a family about Helaman 5:12. Which is actually a great scripture to use because almost all the members´ houses ended up ok. There was only the one of the member inactive that had the problem. His whole side of the house caved in. Luckily he and his family are fine. So this next week will be a great week for service. So anyway how´s everyone doing? How was conference? Oh Mother, please forward this email to Jared, Krystine and Krystal, because I don´t have time to email everyone this week. This email is for everyone ok? Oh so I do need two more things. lots of Chapstick and if you could more polyester ties, because one of my ties started to melt this week.( Its getting really hot.) You don´t have to send anything now. Just for when you send the next package for Christmas or whenever. Oh and could you send recipies for :Pancakes, heaven bread, brownies, Chocolate chip cookies, the blanket for pigs in a blanket, clover rolls, cinamon rolls, and father´s chili. I really need to learn how to make food, because its always my companion and I feel bad for not helping. I know that´s a long list, but it is for two years. Anyway I don´t know if Joshua is offened because I didn´t write back, but I´m sorry. It really is hard to email everyone everyweek. I think the other Elder might be offended too. Sorry guys it takes a long time for me to type in english and even more in portuguese when I email the mission president. So the Marriage is this week? Good luck Mikey. And sorry I won´t be there to wear a kilt. That´s sad about your game Derek, but don´t get discouraged just try to do better every game. I didn´t know you were playing baseball Braedan. That´s cool and good luck in Basketball. So you´re not done with radiation and stuff, Kelleene? Sorry I was confused. Hopefully You´ll be done with this soon. Try to stay happy though, that´s the key to everything hard in life. Just stay happy and remember the Savior has already felt everything you´re feeling. That´s always a comforting thought for me. There were a lot of great taliks about that in the last conference and Elder Cook spoke a lot about that yesterday. Oh Dallin thanks for the comics, I don´t know if I already thanked or not, but they are really cool. Nathan, sorry I won´t email you again, but yes I think the ears on the catwomen costume look stupid too. Anyway here´s my long email for everyone. Don´t worry about me here I´m fine but honestly really excited to help here. I really think this storm will help the branch here grow closer together and also wake up a lot of the people here. So anyway have a great week everyone and I hope the everything goes great with the marriage. Oh Krystine I forgot, I agree the conference or what I saw of it was really good. Hopefully ext session in 6 months I´ll be able to watch all the sessions.:) Love you guys! Tchau
Elder Jolstead the Younger
Oí Família,
Well this week I have a lot to say, so again don´t be offended if I don´t e-mail back. This week was interesting. The begginning of the week was great. We taught an awesome family and they agreed to be baptized. The lesson was awesome. You could feel the spirit so strongly, especially when we bore testimony of the first Vision. Anyway so that was cool. We also invited 4 other people to be baptized and they all excepted too. So this week was awesome in the begginning. We were all happy and excited for conference too, but then A huge storm hit Friday night and Saturday morning. I honestly am not sure if it wasn´t a hurricane that hit, because it tore roofs off houses, ripped trees and telephone poles out of the grounded and even caved in the house of a member. Don´t worry. I´m fine. The Lord really protected us, because it´s a miracle our extremely old, little wooden house didn´t getripped apart or the giant palm tree that always creeks and looks like its going to fall outside our house didn´t fall and destroy our house. Anyway so basically we were sleeping peacefully and out of no where we awoke to thunder that sounded like cannons and the sound of something like rocks hitting our roof. It was crazy! It sounded like a battle field! So we look out side and its completely dark because the power is out. all you see is flashes of lightning. The lightning was amzing! There wasn´t a second inbetween one flash and then the other. That night I didn´t think much of it, because we´ve had bad storms before, so I just closed all the windows and went back to sleep. My companion woke me up later that night and I guess he told me the branch president called to see if we were all right, but I don´t remember because I was half asleep. So anyway we woke up like normal and studied and everything, but we found out that the electricity and water were out. So we went outside and it honestly looked like the end of the world. There were people in the streets others fixing houses and everything looked destroyed. Our neighbor showed us a hail ball the size of a soft ball outside his house. Anyway so Santiago, or really just our area got ravaged by something and because of that we miseed all the sessions of conference the first day, so I hope it was good. But now we have a chance to help a lot of people and at the same time teach a message that will help them have hope in this time of craziness. Because really is was crazy. A freak storm That for some reason only attacked our area not the central of the city. So anyway that was my week. Pretty exciting and like Alma I´m kind of happy because now we have a chance to really help more people, because before there really were a lot of hard hearted people. I don´t get me wrong, I´m not happy that people are sad. I´m happy because now they might be a little more open to our message. Something kind of funny too is that the church here is right beside a lutheran church and after the storm passed over, the lutheran church got ravaged, but our church didn´t get a scratch. All I could think was ´´How Firm a Foundation``:) Another funnt, or strange thing was the day before I shared a message with a family about Helaman 5:12. Which is actually a great scripture to use because almost all the members´ houses ended up ok. There was only the one of the member inactive that had the problem. His whole side of the house caved in. Luckily he and his family are fine. So this next week will be a great week for service. So anyway how´s everyone doing? How was conference? Oh Mother, please forward this email to Jared, Krystine and Krystal, because I don´t have time to email everyone this week. This email is for everyone ok? Oh so I do need two more things. lots of Chapstick and if you could more polyester ties, because one of my ties started to melt this week.( Its getting really hot.) You don´t have to send anything now. Just for when you send the next package for Christmas or whenever. Oh and could you send recipies for :Pancakes, heaven bread, brownies, Chocolate chip cookies, the blanket for pigs in a blanket, clover rolls, cinamon rolls, and father´s chili. I really need to learn how to make food, because its always my companion and I feel bad for not helping. I know that´s a long list, but it is for two years. Anyway I don´t know if Joshua is offened because I didn´t write back, but I´m sorry. It really is hard to email everyone everyweek. I think the other Elder might be offended too. Sorry guys it takes a long time for me to type in english and even more in portuguese when I email the mission president. So the Marriage is this week? Good luck Mikey. And sorry I won´t be there to wear a kilt. That´s sad about your game Derek, but don´t get discouraged just try to do better every game. I didn´t know you were playing baseball Braedan. That´s cool and good luck in Basketball. So you´re not done with radiation and stuff, Kelleene? Sorry I was confused. Hopefully You´ll be done with this soon. Try to stay happy though, that´s the key to everything hard in life. Just stay happy and remember the Savior has already felt everything you´re feeling. That´s always a comforting thought for me. There were a lot of great taliks about that in the last conference and Elder Cook spoke a lot about that yesterday. Oh Dallin thanks for the comics, I don´t know if I already thanked or not, but they are really cool. Nathan, sorry I won´t email you again, but yes I think the ears on the catwomen costume look stupid too. Anyway here´s my long email for everyone. Don´t worry about me here I´m fine but honestly really excited to help here. I really think this storm will help the branch here grow closer together and also wake up a lot of the people here. So anyway have a great week everyone and I hope the everything goes great with the marriage. Oh Krystine I forgot, I agree the conference or what I saw of it was really good. Hopefully ext session in 6 months I´ll be able to watch all the sessions.:) Love you guys! Tchau
Elder Jolstead the Younger
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