Good week

We had another baptism this weekend his name is James Pampani, hes way cool I'll send pics soon.

I got that cut on my face while we were doing service cutting trees down at a members and it accidentally hit me on the side of my face so now I got a cool scar.

How does Miles like going out with the elders? Does he like doing the work? Thats crazy all the kids are leaving home. When is Cameron gunna start working on his papers?

Haha I don't know if Miranda will grow another foot, she might but I doubt it haha. Tell them good luck in the games. Ya when I get home you can watch me play some sports:) I wish.

Haha us missionaries have to have some fun. Yankees and Phillies in the World series thats sweet. Elder Ramsey keeps saying the angels would go just cuz hes from cali. Ya that message on our answering machine was a member, he's way cool and likes to mess around and go out with us. We're doing good here not much just teaching and tracting a lot. We have a zone conference every transfer and they are pretty sweet. Well I hope you have a good week.

Luv ya Elder Goods

Hey Yall

Hey yall

Danville is doing good were teaching this guy named James and were baptizing him this weekend so thats way cool and hes a great guy and were just working with a few other ppl that arent really progressing right now but theyll get there.

Maybe you can send a package soon or whatever, I dont need things now. Maybe some things of mine I dont know yet, I'll let you now aight. No I've rode my bike 3 times haha. I'm in full car right now and I really dont exerise in the morning, I try really hard but i cant seem to do it its harder than I thought to get out of bed and exercise usually I just sit on my bed for awhile. We have a bench set and I do that a lot we go running sometimes and I do crunches. Theres not a whole lot to do exercise wise on my mission.

Tell Crystal hi for me and to get well aight. How's she doing?

Did yall get my letter i sent last week??? it had my card in it i hope it got to yall or ill be mad cuz i had some sweet pics on there.

Well were changing how were doing things in the mission so its a little rough they want us to make our main priority finding so we are tracting like 10 hours last week that was fun and we taught like 15 lessons.

Ya its pretty crazy they're gettin married in 2 weeks wow. Ya you can send me the dvd that would be sweet.

What are Shayanna and Steven's plans right now? Like for thier honeymoon and wat not? when are they moving to Idaho?

Wheres Kale and Tyler going? We havent really had a lot of stories just the norm but me and my comp Elder Ramsey get along really well he likes to tell jokes and laugh a lot. He's way cool.

Well its all good here and send pics soon

luv ya

Elder Goods

New Comp & Conference was great!!

Ya I really enjoyed Elder Holland's talk as well and the priesthood one about the asian boys, that was good. I've been reading the Book of Mormon a lot. I'm gonna finish it this week so I read it in about a month:) I will always remember the times I was able to go to the temple. The temple was amazing and I'll never forget that experience.

Thats pretty sweet that Lacey's girls want to be baptized. I went with the missionaries a few times to teach her. Is the house still pretty empty? What do yall do all the time now?

Oh do you remember a David Baldwin?(Side note. I trained Elder David Baldwin on my mission in California) An elder at tranfers on Thursday told me he knew you, that he went to your mission. Oh I got a new comp from Tonga, Elder Ramsey he's way cool.

Well we're teaching here and its going great, I'll send my memory card soon aight.

Conference was awesome I watched all 5 sessions and took some naps. I cant watch ppl talk forever so I got a little sleepy haha.

Thats sweet that the girls are having fun playing volleyball. I havent heard from them in forever, how are they doing?

Ya I'm sure its way weird for us growing up, one out here, Shay gettin married, Cameron leaves for a mission soon, then Miles. Its crazy but fun.

Thanx for the email Steven I really liked it. Good advice and I know how much you miss it cuz when the time comes I won't want to leave either. It is the best experience to be on a mission and I love doing the work.

well hope to hear from yall soon luv yall

Have a good week, luv ya Elder Goods

Sept 28 email.

Hey Family

Sounds like the chiefs are doing pretty good I thought they would suck

this year haha. I guess not. Ya I'm getting excited about watching General Conference too, we'll probably watch it at a members house, but I dont know yet.

I started the BoM at the begining of sept and I'm almost done with Alma.

I'm learning a lot of new things everytime I read it. I'll send some pics soon.

We had a mission tour on friday and Elder Richard Maynes came and he taught

us about how to better the missionary work here it was really good, and I

learned a lot from it.

Yes I'm healthy right now but I've been a little sick a couple of times so far.

Tell Miles Cameron and Shayanna to write back please. Thanx

We are going good here we're teaching a few good ppl that have already come to church a few times and its pretty crazy here buts it all good

Have a good week luv ya

Elder Goods

Yup I've been out 3 months its crazy.

Hey Fam,

Yup 3 months. It’s crazy I’ve been on my mission that long. It doesn’t even seem Seth Bruneel has been gone that long and he’s already coming home soon. What we did last week - day by day –

Monday we did all of our stuff and ate with members. Well Tuesday we had interviews with the president then I went on exchanges with Elder Tobler in Eden. We visited a few members and one of their investigators. It was sweet. Wednesday we went and talked to a few ppl but its hard finding new investigators right now; and we just taught a couple of ppl. Thursday was just a normal day teaching and finding. Friday we went to Eden then we went and taught a few ppl. Went tracting. Saturday we had to go to this thing at the church which sucked. We were there for like 6 hours and it was way boring. We then went and taught ppl; I cant remember their names right now haha. Then Sunday we went to Caswell since we were over there as well and taught a guy we met. It was cool. Then we ate w/ a member then went to visit one of our investigators. Then we went to a member to take them with us to an appt; but they weren’t there, so we went back to their house and talked about things that are happening right now. That kind’a sucked but we’ll get through it. I haven’t really had anything weird. I’ve tried shrimp and crab - they r fricken gross. They’re nasty. We get fed a lot though. I’m pretty big now. jk It’s going good here. The Lord is blessing us a lot even though things r happening that Satan is trying to stop the work. It’s a little mess here, but we’re working through it. Miles said, “Oh ya bro... the packers beat the bears... haha.” Ya they lost but they beat the Steelers so it’s all good. Update me every week about the Chiefs football. That would be tight. R they pretty good??? Well we’ve already had 5 baptisms in our area so it’s way cool. The Lord is helping us a lot here. Is Cameron getting more and more excited about serving a mission? I’ll send pics soon. Well we met this one guy tracting and he was looking for answers to his prayers and we showed up and gave him a BoM. Now we’re teaching him and he’s come to church twice. Just teaching and helping ppl understand is a spiritual experience by itself; especially when they want to learn and
come to church. It’s really cool to watch ppl change their lives. A crazy thing we do is we mess
around sometimes in our apartment. It’s pretty fun haha.

luv ya

Elder Goods

Hey Fam

Hey fam

Hope everything is going well. How's school & work going for you guys? Well, I'm doing good. My companion is pretty cool; we get along good. We both like sports, etc. We don't really tract a whole lot here; mostly when an appointment falls through we go knock some doors. Saturday was the 1st time someone slammed the door. HAHA. It was kind'a mean but whatever. We've met a lot of good people here and a lot not so good, but it's all good. We're doing the Lord's work and getting blessed for it. We teach over 3 lessons a week and our investigators are awesome.

Well last week our zone leaders had a meeting with the stake presidency and we are the most baptizing ward in our zone and this is the most Danville has baptized in a long time. So that's a big blessing.

Well this one time we were tracting with Cortez and almost got the cops called on us. It was pretty funny. The lady was very mean. We would have a few investigators we were teaching at the beginning and then they didn't want to meet with us anymore so for a while it was hard to find new investigators but we're doing pretty good at that.

Well our investigator getting baptized Sat the 12th - she's awesome. We've been teaching her since I got here and when we met her she kept saying she was "saved" (everybody says that down here) but as we explain things to her we helped her understand from the scriptures. She drank tea, coffee, smoked and we told her to give it up and it wasn't a problem for her. She's getting "anti" crap but since she got a witness about the priesthood, she knows it's true and says she's gonna die a Mormon :) We have a few investigators that want to come to church so that's way cool. We met James and his fam last week and we were just tracting and people were on his porch and they were high. HAHA. Then he came out and wanted a BOM so we taught him and he understands what we're teaching and he came to church and really liked it and said that's how churches are supposed to be.

Well Danville is going pretty good but there's a lot of crazy people here. We're also teaching a fam we found; they seem kind'a interested but I don't know. So we're doing very good here and it's awesome.

Some of the members here are pretty cool. We hang out with the Johns and the Tubbs and they feed us or whatnot. The Johns are way cool and he's ex-military and has a lot of cool stories. His wife is from Nevada and knows my comps family. We play bad mitten there a lot on P-Days. The Tubbs are hilarious. He tells us all the funny stories from his mission and we laugh all the time and she's cool, plays softball. They have a little boy and he's very cool. Lately we've been doing home run derbies and I dominate every time. :) There's a few more cool members. Sis Anderson feeds us and we do service for her and she's a great woman. Those 3 fams right here are pretty much the only members that will come teaching with us.

Well the missionary life is a little difficult but I'm pretty much used to it now. I wakeup at 6:30 but I'm still a little tired. That's about it now. We exercise for a little bit. The teaching thing and talking to people is the easy part.

Well, sounds like you guys are having a good time in Moses. Oh, well, studying from the scriptures and PMG helps me a lot and I've already read the BOM and am reading it again and studying the Bible since I don't know a whole lot about it.

Well hope you guys have had a great week and tell Eric hi for me and everybody else.

Is there anything else you gus wanna know about the mission, etc? Just let me know.

Luv you guys, Elder Goods

PS Thanx for the pics. Hope to get some more soon and to hear from you guys.

This was written to Cameron. We had to send snail mail.

Its going really good here we were the highest baptizing district in our zone with 5 in the past 2 months and we have another this weekend and we're teaching like 4 promising investigators so its going all good bro.  Its fun you'll miss home for a little bit and then you'll just figure out that if you keep worrying about it, it will go by slower so when it comes your time to go on one just remember to not worry about home and just go do the lords work:)  We have some really cool members that we visit a lot and have a good time w/ them.

Well like the past 5 pdays weve had homerun derbies and i win everytime haha

I'm around 240-245 ive gained a little mostly in the MTC cuz I cant play bball everyday like I did back home so not exercising everyday kinda stinks but ive gotten a whole lot stronger for some reason I can bench a lot and so I'm pretty strong haha.

Tell mom and dad, shayanna, miles etc to write back.

thanx bro

oh when do you plan on starting your papers???

well have a good week bro ttyl

luv Elder Goods