Monday, April 25, 2016

April 25, 2016

Hey everyone!! #24 hour exchanges!

Hey everyone! It's awesome to be able to send these out every week, and I hope my experience blesses you (and makes you laugh) when you read it (well, if you do. :P)

So let's dive right in, we were able to meet with Lily on Monday night last week, and taught the Plan of Salvation. She really liked the idea of living with her son together forever (Although she joked she wouldn't want that ;) ) And so I think she's really getting that. We went to a suit shop (woah, suits here are cheap, and they're tailored to you) and looked at suits. I bought a super long tie that is blue, which is now my favorite tie XD. Elder Merrell got a suit ordered that's light blue (for post mission) and it's gonna be super nice, it's gonna have purple silk on the inside (By the way, shout out to Elder Merrell, the Coolest Companion of the world!!)

When we got home we noticed something that looked like a leaf hanging on the exit sign on the 34th floor of our apartment (We live on the 34th floor). As we walked back out however, we realized that it was DEFINITELY a bat. We hid as we watched it twitch a bit. Elder Merrell took his umbrella and stuck it through the door we were using as a riot shield to poke it and jabbed it. It took off and landed on the ground. As we snuck closer, we realized we were wrong BOTH times. It was a sphinx moth that was black. That was almost worse than a bat O.o  I can almost feel what my mom feels about moths now.

So this week we ate with Yoshi twice (Elder Love and I) and ate sushi, and then Japanese pork chops. They were for Elder Love's birthday (Which we did not tell Yoshi on purpose) Yoshi told us to go find the other Elders and he'd go to get seats at the restaurant, and while we were waiting he came back up behind us with a cake in hand and handed it to Elder Love. When asked how he knew, Yoshi answered simply, "I know everything." So that was awesome.

Time to get into spiritual stuff:

Cool story: Elder Love and I were in Sheung Shui, waiting for an appointment. Let me explain a little bit about this appointment. So there was a contact online, about someone who was feeling very depressed and wanted to know more about our religion and was truly seeking peace in his life. so we went to stand out where we said we'd meet. Ten minutes passed by, we called him, no answer. 5 more, called him and he said he was coming. 10 minutes, and we call him and he didn't answer. So we got on the bus figuring he decided he didn't want to come. I felt bad about it though, but we had district meeting very soon and we needed to go. I felt really bad about it, like it was wrong to do. As we boarded the bus and scanned in, (Mom, octopus cards are so convenient) he called us and asked us if we were coming. So we got back off (Darnit, $4 wasted) and met with him. To our surprise (which his name was Umer so we shouldn't have been surprised) we met to Pakistani men. Elder Love and I reluctantly approached, a smile on our face nevertheless, and they sat down with us and Umer explained that he desperately wanted to learn about our religion. He told us he hated his past religion (Muslim) because he hates that it causes so much violence and pain and suffering. So he wanted to convert. One thing you gotta know about that: If Muslim people convert (especially from Pakistan) it is legal for their families to kill them. He told us he hates his family because they do evil things, and they hate him. He loves his wife and his children (At the time we thought he had two wives because he didn't know the English word for Divorce. So grateful his Cantonese is basically perfect.) So he explained to us he wanted us to teach him about the "True" religion, and not about the fake one "I do not want any fake in my heart." So we taught him and as we discussed he basically named off about 30 or so principles that fit right in line in the gospel, about family, about God as our Loving H.F. He was amazing. He's so prepared and we've met with him basically every day this week. We can't commit him to baptism because he has to meet with President Lam first. He's an amazing man and has one brown and one blue eye, he has a deep integrity and I'm so happy he was able to find the correct church online!

We had a game night with the Sheung Shui ward, where you have to cover your teeth with your lips and pick a fruit for you to be (Yeah. This was in Cantonese. With Tones and all.) To start, you say yours twice and say someone else's fruit (I've not learned any fruit words, and now I know a bunch) And they have to say theirs twice and call another fruit. My face has hurt since Saturday, but I think I won ;) jk jk.

That's all I have for you!! The gospel is true!

--Elder Farr

(I asked what octopus cards were: "They're like credit cards but you just have to press them on a box and they scan. They are the transport cards here, and they're way better than ticket systems or bus fares. Just press your wallet (and it scans through like 4 of my cards in my wallet) against the squre and it beeps the money. Electronic transactions are so Fong bihn (Convenient)!)

(One more note: Elder Farr didn't give any details, but Norton wasn't quite ready for baptism yet. Hopefully soon!)

This is the food that we ate with Ian (A less active, he's like one of our best friends, and he's very close to being reactivated)

My pictures of my family are being defended from the Evil Chinese Coin assassins via my Ninja brethren. ^.^

And my home looks like it's actually in Columbus (The Bioshock city that flies).
(what a video game nerd, but an awesome picture anyway!)
And since he didn't send a proof of life picture, here's one sent to me by Yoshi.
More funny from Chance:
HAHA, it was SO MUCH DESSERT!
Funny story time: We were sitting eating and Yoshi tells us it's the full birthday dinner for Elder Love, and starts to buy food. We were already full before dessert and he got us each a scoop of ice cream, and we both ate half a cheesecake slice and half a creme brule. (My first time having that.) He then turned to the waiter and ordered something in Cantonese (I heard Jyugulik syut gou, which means chocolate ice cream) And right after talking to the waiter he asks politely, "Do you think you have enough time for more ice cream?" The question was not time, but was definitely room. We still ate the whole sundae (it was made of milk from Japan, and was the Japanese style with cereal like things inside, with crushed oreos and it was seriously fantastic.) 



Monday, April 18, 2016

April 18, 2016

Hey Everyone! #Prep for Baptism!

Hey everyone! It's so nice to be throwing out another email, sending it into the old world :) Haha just kidding, but I'll get started.

One thing I've realized here is that we definitely, definitely can use love to overcome anything. Love is the literal power of Jesus Christ, and it can bring the spirit, it can perform miracles, and it helps us to be better people. It is the great motivator, although fear is much more common. So isn't it awesome that this Gospel is All about love? That's literally all it's about. Is Heavenly Father's love towards us, Jesus Christ's love toward us, and our love toward other people. So I invite everyone to go out and serve someone in love. I know that if you do that, you'll have a happier life regardless of your current circumstances. (That's a missionary promise by the way. ;) )

So things that are happening, Norton will be baptized next week (Lau Hing Daih will perform the service) And we will keep teaching the people we've been teaching as always. Alex has made a bit of progress, he told us he knows that it's true right now but he wants to feel it before he keeps the commandments (How do you explain that's not how it works? :( ). Right now we are working with JR, who is just kind of chilling on either side of the fence, we are trying to help him see how he can show his faith because he has so much. I don't think he has faith in himself, which is crazy because he's awesome.

On Sunday we had an awesome sacrament meeting with Elder Wong (The 70 who spoke the first general conference talk in his native tongue, which was Cantonese btw :D:D) and when he spoke, it felt like all the words were directed to Samuel, a less active who happened to be at church. I'm so happy that he was able to hear it and he seems to have a new resolve to go to the temple. We've been working with Ian and he seems to be doing well. Lily is a woman in her 40s that we've been teaching a bit, she's super nice and she's been reading the Book of Mormon. Relatively new, she's showing really good faith and I know that she can feel God's love for her. I'm excited to see her follow the commandments and repent, like every person needs to.

Funny things that happened this week:

Tong hing daih told us that he learned how to swim through the power of the spirit (he's a recent convert in Sheung Shui)

Norton told us that if he had a million dollars, he'd contribute his 1/10 (this is just part of his English, he knows it better in Cantonese) to the Church, spend 20,000 on his family, spend 35,000 on a girl and the rest on himself.

I was called princess by someone learning English... :P

Norton told us to "Come in!" and bursted in to "Chamachamachamachamachama Chameleon!!" Which now won't get out of our heads.

So overall, life is great here! I'm so happy to be here and have this opportunity to serve.

Last of all, I'm sure a lot of you have heard about Elder Hampton's passing. I knew him in the MTC, and I'm shocked to hear about what happened. I know that he served well, and I know he is definitely doing missionary work right now in the spirit world. Although it is sad to lose him here, he is still living and working hard. I know that the Lord will bless his family with peace and comfort as they go through this trial.

Everyone, Ga yauh.

Love you all,

--Elder Farr

We found these shirts at H&M for 70 HKD (like $9) 

Reuiniting at Training Meeting! (This is his district from the MTC!)

The view this morning out of my window


Tuesday, April 12, 2016

April 11, 2016

Hello Everyone!

Man, lots of time has passed and it's already another time for another email! :) Hopefully all of your weeks and conferences were amazing, as they always are, I know for sure mine was. :) The times here are awesome, and I can hardly even remember what happened because it all happened so fast (and I left my planner at home).

So the night of P-Day we got to go to a barbecue with the youth, and took Alex along. He seemed to really build relationships and have friends here, which I'm excited for because he needs those. Everyone does right? and so I've decided that Chinese barbecue is WAY good, (I think) better than American BBQ. We ate sardines, (heads and all) cheese tofu mix, fish balls, cheese fish, and a whole bunch of vegetables. We also ate potato chips with chocolate on them. ^.^

The next few days were district meeting and I was basically with Elder Love the whole time. We were together basically all week this week because there are changes being made in the mission so the zone leaders have to do all that stuff. We've been teaching a lot of people lately which was super awesome, and I'm loving every minute of teaching. We taught Leih hing daaih or Brother Lee who cannot read, and cannot comprehend very well. He's the sweetest man, he's got an earnest want to learn about Jesus Christ and what He's done for him. He has pictures of Jesus Christ in his room and when asked to draw what he was grateful for he attempted to imitate the painting. He's such a nice man but he's having a hard time learning to pray, and learning the commandments. I'm very positive when he learns he will follow Christ's example.

As for Ma On Shan, we have JR who decided he doesn't want to get baptized (which I'm sure will change because of the faith he has) but would like to still meet with us.

We have Norton who came to the last session of conference, and said that it was pretty good. He met with the bishop to ask about some tithing questions he had, and afterward when we met with him he asked, "Should I bring my swim trunks?" So yeah. He'll be baptized on the 24th :D He's an amazing man, and we've realized his interesting gong faat (way of talking) really just comes from his inability to practice English with native English speakers (We're the only ones he knows :P) and the way he talks has gotten way better :D

That's it I think, other than we got to listen to the Beatles at a loud volume because there's one bus that blasts it (Siu ba) so we got to hear them for quite a bit :D

That's all folks! :)

--Elder Farr

Wednesday, April 6, 2016

April 4, 2016

Hello World! #Awesome

Hey everyone! This week went by so fast (Probably because last p-day was on Wednesday. :P)

Time to get into the good of it all :D

So Thursday, I went together with Elder Love, because Elder Merrell had zone business stuff. Super fun, it's super awesome to teach with Elder Love. We traded at like 8:30, and were going to teach at 10:00, take the hour trip to Ma On Shan, teach there, eat there, take the train back, teach 3 lessons over there. So we were at his place doing comp study when we found out that his first appointment couldn't make it. So we went over to Ma On Shan and ate, and My appointment canceled (Got a hold of Anti Mormon stuff. Super Chaam (Miserable) but I'm sure he'll learn the reality of our message.

So we went right back over to his place to run back and forth between lessons. We taught an old man who doesn't know how to read (son of a farmer) named Brother Lee. He's super nice, and he loves to shout "GA YAUH LOU LIHK" (In English it doesn't make sense. Sort of like press forward with strength? Literal translation is add oil with effort, so...) And he's trying to get work off to go to church right now. Then we had to sprint from his house over to Chen Hing Daais in the later part of the night, super dark, and we went through a sketchy shanty town. Elder Love let me know he didn't know where we were, so we knelt and prayed and instantly felt where we should go. The Lord sometimes gives us challenges to see if we will remember that we need to ask.

On Friday I wore my new Uniclo socks, to do personal study and forgot to change them. So I had bright blue socks, which is totally against the rules. So I went and changed pretty quick when we realized ha ha :P That day during my hour lunch learned how to play Viva la Vida on the piano. :D So much fun!!

Then we finally got in contact with Norton and met him at his house. He's doing so well! Progressing so quickly, his baptism will be on April 17th. I look forward to seeing him get baptized and I knkow he will have the faith to do so :)

We went singing finding Saturday night where we just stand on a sidewalk with a banner and sing. We totally have the Nearer, My God to Thee 4-part down, and I always add a new part. 5-part harmonies are awesome, and a few people video taped us that we were able to talk to.

On Sunday it was Fast Sunday, so we were super hungry after church and Brother Lee invited us to come eat all of his leftovers before he goes to Utah for a week. So we ate until we were stuffed (By the way, it was Cow Tongue Soup) and then they gave us a half pear/half peach to try. Luckily his English is perfect so we were able to understand his stuff.

Alex came to church this week, and that was awesome!!

Thanks so much everyone, See ya next week!

--Elder Farr

Alex is super Gihng (Super, but kind of like an awesome or a cool expression)

We did awesome parkour everywhere on these pipes, jumping up and down and stuff. Awesome picture spot, wanna visit it again!

We also ran into some goats by the wayside !! :D

And since this post is late, you get to see the awesome picture from President Lam
and the map of the Hong Kong stakes that I got in the mail yesterday :) 



Thursday, March 31, 2016

March 30, 2016

Hello Everyone! Back around again! #templetrips

Hey everyone, so awesome to see all of your emails and I'm super appreciative of everything that you all send me, it really means so much. Thanks for reading along as well, I also appreciate that :)

So last week we went to the mall to shop and we just had some fun on Pday!

The next day I switched with Elder Love and was hanging out with him (Yes the dude from Beyond 5, he's super talented) and he taught me how to play the Uke during our lunch hour! We had district meeting and that was awesome, we also met a girl named Check in (Yes that's literally her English name) and she said she was super interested. Haven't been able to get a hold of her yet but everyone in HK is super Mohng (Busy) so I'm sure we will get in contact. On that Friday we had an awesome activity with the whole ward and we got to go because Alex went with us! It was an amazing thing and I'm super glad we got to go, Alex really felt fellowshipped and the food was delicious (Hk food always is :P :P) And we got to hang with Angelo who is super awesome. I found out his favorite song, and just what a cool guy he really is.

During English Class Norton prayed for his Husband in Law (meant Brother in Law) which made us lose it and start laughing like crazy. He also thought Sparingly was pronounced (Spraingly) which we couldn't stop laughing about. It's interesting because Norton's really taken a liking to Angelo and they've been talking back and forth. Apparently Norton called Angelo out of the blue and they talked for a half an hour.

Then we talked to Waly which was super awesome, he's a SS (Seung seui/Sheung shui) man who was just baptized last week. Elder Love and Elder Anderson taught him and he was so cool! Also met Angus (Yes Angus, you get a shout out in my email) Who's SUPER COOL! I'm so excited because he's headed out on a mission here soon, and I've never seen a person more excited than he is. I'm so happy I got to meet him.

When we went to church I saw someone with an AWESOME SHIRT! It was all blue, it had 2 coffee cups on it, and one of them had "Writer" on it and one had "Police" on it. They had Castle and Beckett's face on them too! Super awesome.

Also last shout out, CONNER HAPPY BIRTHDAY!!

Love you all!

--Elder Farr

(I just wanted to add that the investigator that came up to them on the street last week has been very busy, but they are going to meet with him this week, plus they were meeting with Johnny (the Lionhead Kendama guy) that evening. They did meet with the pot-smoker guy (I don't know his name) and he said he believes that what the Elders were teaching him is true :D They also got to go to the temple with their district on Wednesday.)

The view off the bay of the water :)

My district at the temple!

Reuniting with Elder Caloobanan (MTC companion)

Lion's Rock

The view from Lion's Rock

Elders Farr and Merrell at Lion's Rock

Dragon Bushes!

The masterful creation of bridges built of paper!

Angelo and I

The sunset out my window

Monday, March 21, 2016

March 21, 2016

Hello everyone! Week 4 (I think?) #HK!

Hello everyone, it's good to send yet another email, the Adventures of Elder Farr (I'm going on an Adventure!!). This week has been a crazy one, so grab your popcorn, grab your soda (or water if you prefer) and sit back and see the crazy that unfolded!)

So Monday right after emailing, Elder Merrell, Elder Ship, Elder Chu, Elder Daplin, Elder Sargent, Elder Jiu and I all went to hike up Lion's Rock. It was a hard hike but it was so worth it for the view (Let me know if you want that picture, it's awesome) and it was great. So apparently just recently someone fell off the cliff and died, so of course we as missionaries were not careful. None of us died which was a relief, but there were some epic pics taken. When we were coming down Elder Wilcoxson was slower and so Elder Chu was waiting for him. Elder Wilcoxson had someone try to lead him the wrong way and promised him that 7 white guys (the rest of us) had gone a different way. But luckily Elder W listened to the spirit. So listen to the spirit everyone! So after that we had a good time shopping and we went to a lesson that fonged our fei gei (Chenglish for "Didn't get on our airplane" or ditched us).  Later that night for whatever reason Elder Merrell was a robot that just had to make cookie dough. So we ate some, that was awesome. Also that day was 3/14 and I bought a pie without realizing it was pi day. Apparently my body knows the math better than I do! ;) It was funny and super coincidental!

So on Tuesday we walked up and met with two guys that were both in caps and one smoking a cigarette. We were talking to them and one showed off his Lionhead Kendama tricks (which was awesome) and then we started teaching them the Plan of Salvation after one told us he wanted to move to Florida and smoke weed (which I don't think is legal there still). We gave a teaser of the Word of Wisdom, and they listened to our message and we are meeting with them Wednesday. So hopefully he will be converted to the gospel, I've got faith that they will both :)

Wednesday we went to do service at what the Elders call the "Banana Farm," which is weird because the dude is not even growing any bananas. He's growing a lot and he believes that he should build a self sustaining farm, and he wants people to join it. Kinda like a combine but not really. It was nice to meet him and he has an adorable little dog, apparently we will do that every week now. It was fun to help him establish the farm and I learned how to grow rice. ;)

We met with Norton and taught the Law of Chastity and the Word of Wisdom. He brought up a question from last week, and asked us about "inducing to the end". Of course Elder Merrell and I were like, "Uh... what??" "Why does it say Inducing to the end? Why do we have to do that?" His English is hilarious. he committed and has been to church 3 weeks in a row now.

Then we ate with Yoshi the next day, and went to ice cream after. Yoshi's was already sorta melted when he got it, and it started to pour out of the cone. Not just drip, but to like pour. So he was eating as fast as he could as it was like literally falling out, taking care of it or at least trying to super hard. Elder Chu was like, "Hey Yoshi, it's dripping on the back." Yoshi thought that was funny. When we asked him if he was okay, he was like, "Mhaih hou ok" or "Not exactly really good" which caused everyone to laugh. (Side note: I ate Honey Melon and Lychee scoops of ice cream. So. Good.) After that we met a kid who literally stopped me and asked us about the church and if we were Christian. He told us he had a lot of interest and told me that my Chinese was pretty bad so we could just speak English. He told us that he wants to meet us and so we were like, "Uh... Okay!!:D" and so that will happen this week!

We got to go SINGING FINDING ON SATURDAY! We stood out on the street with banners and sang our hearts out with the Mandarin Elders and Ma On Shan Elders. Oh my goodness that was fun! We also met someone who was really cool and believes every blessing comes from God. How cool is that! We also met Au yeung who has a thick Guang Dong Province accent but he's cool, he's a mainlander and we gave him the English name Kyle. So we had Paul, Kyle, and Norton at church which is more than Ma On Shan has had in a long time at church simultaneously. So overall the work is going well and the Lord is blessing us a ton. It's been so much fun to be around here and to experience so much! I'm sure I'll have many an adventure to share with all of you next week. Oh, I almost forgot! Today we met with Lee si fu who taught us Kung fu. He's super cool and has a diamond knuckle, he hit it against metal and stuff until it was rock hard. It hurts to be tapped on the head with. He also is an expert in literally every Kung fu style, and teaches those he selects to be his students for free. It's pretty sweet.

That's all I have for you, Hah go sin keih gin! (See ya next week!)

-Elder Farr

Ice Cream Time! (This picture was from Yoshi!)

I got this one thanks to Elder Taylor's Mom! :)

Kung fu with Lee si fu. Chance says he's awesome.


Monday, March 14, 2016

March 14, 2016

Hey everyone! #Activities!

Hey everyone! It's so good to send out another email this week! I'm not sure who really reads this anymore but I'm gonna keep sending them like the entire world reads them ;)

This week has been a fantastic week, the work has been going hard but good, and I'm so happy that I'm here in Hong Kong. The food's amazing, the people are DEFINITELY amazing, and everything is just great!

Throughout the week we've been able to meet 5 new people and have 5 new investigators (Seriously, that's a miracle it seems, considering we had one new investigator last week and he already dropped us) and we were able to teach some of them twice this week. We are so happy to have all of these investigators and I am so blessed to love these people, and feel a bit of what the Lord feels for them, even if it's just a tiny portion!

On Thursday, Yoshi took us out to this awesome Taiwan based restaurant. That was delicious, it was a bunch of kinds of soups and fried chicken (which is kinda expensive here) and that was super good. Then for dessert we had some toast with a LOT of ice cream on top, and of course out of rocky road and mango, I chose mango. ;)

Yoshi has been a power house for us so we have prayed for him a lot, he's super cool and he has basically a photographic memory. He learned my birthday like 2 weeks ago and this time he was like, "Oh yeah, around Elder Farr's birthday, whatever P-day is closest to May 1st, I'll take you all out to a full buffet on the Island." So yeah. That's no good. ;)

Then that morning I was really craving sweet stuff, so I bought a bag of cookie dough on P-day and made it. Then I used some of it and made myself a peanut butter and honey and cookie dough sandwich. If you're wondering, yes it was fattening. Did I love it? Yep! ;)

Some funny things I've learned in Hong Kong -
They have sort of a slang thing here, which translates to literally "Wat gei" or "bend the machine". It's basically just being over powered. So in League, Fizz is Wat gei, but not only video games are wat gei, you can be wat gei in sports and stuff too. You can also wat someone's gei, which means you'd like wipe the floor with them. That's the best vocab I've ever learned :) Haha, jk jk, but stilli t was fantastic.

We had an awesome activity on Saturday with the kids in the ward where we took missionary flyers and taped them to KitKats and then had them take them all out and hand them out. Initially, the kids were really afraid (Like all new missionaries are) to talk to others but by the end we had them running so hard to give other people candy, it was awesome. And at one point we got to see a tender moment of two kids bearing their testimony. We thought it would just be a moment of kids going "Want some candy?" to other kids, but it ended up they started talking about the fliers on it and how important it was in their lives. It was really a testimony to me, and I was so happy to experience it.

Norton went to church yesterday, and of course it was about the Law of Chastity, which we hadn't taught him yet. so we were pretty anxious but of course the Lord knows what he's doing, and so the lesson really helped Norton and he seemed to understand. :)

That's all I have for you all now, I'll see you all in a week!! Bye!!

-Elder Farr

(Extra stuff, from Mom's letter)

It was funny, we were going over to teach Lilly her second lesson, and we went over to her massage shop (she owns it) and she told us that we had to wait for her son. So we were sitting talking with Vashti back and forth and then her son finally arrived, and then he sat down and Lilly had to go back to work, so we just taught her son. When we sat down he told us that we needed to only speak English because Lilly doesn't understand English. We were super confused, and then he told us that he had secretly become a Christian and that his mom was strict Buddhist. Then we explained that we had already met with his mom once, and she had accepted our message, taken a copy of the Book of Mormon, and she was like 1/4th of the way through it, which AMAZING for HK people. His jaw dropped when we told him that. He was so confused. Looks like the Lord works in mysterious ways!

Always remember that witness comes after a trial of your faith. we have so many things that increase our faith (General Conference, church, seeing an angel) but like Laman and Lemuel, if you don't strengthen it (by staying faithful, having patience in trials, looking to the Lord) then you'll lose it and murmur so quickly. It's like trying to build a sweet armor on video games. You've gotta enchant it, you gotta gem it, you gotta star it, you have to do all of these things to build it to the best it can be. Just having an empty socketed armor piece won't do you anything.

(Funny Story!)

So Vashti (A girl in our ward who just came back from serving at Temple Square) was talking with us and she'd mentioned how frustrated she was about how her little brother never texts her back because he's always playing League of Legends (if you don't know, this is one of Elder Farr's FAVORITE computer games). As you can imagine, my eyes hit the ground instantly, sort of embarrassed. She then told me she'd break the game if she could. Elder Merrell started laughing and told her that I had played an excessive amount of League of Legends and that I was super good at it. She smiled at me and asked me if I could explain changing from a League of Legends player to a missionary and how that conversion process happened. So she recorded my voice on Sunday, talking about how I decided that League of Legends, although is super fun and that I'd probably still play after my mission, wasn't the most important thing and that it was family that was really important. She was super happy with that, so I 'm glad I was able to help her. :)

Please say prayers for Elder Farr and Elder Merrell's investigators... Norton is scheduled for baptism on April 14th, and Kira is scheduled for the 27th of April!

Yoshi Yu sent these pictures to me...
This is the awesome french toast/ice cream thing they ate this week. YUM!


 Elder Farr with Elder Taylor, these boys went to High School together and now see each other at the Apple Store when it's emailing time. Makes me so happy to see them together. Of course, Chance didn't send this picture, but Elder Taylor's awesome mom sent it to me!

Zone training, my splits partner Elder Love from Beyond 5 
(I didn't get this before, but his splits partner 
(in the middle of the picture) is in a band called Beyond 5.

 Batman exhibit for the new movie coming out. Batman VS Superman!
(Hey Chance, we have Batman VS Superman here too. We want to see pictures of YOU, you DORK!)