Elder Pack

Hey everyone! Things are going good here. Thanksgiving was good. We got to play ultimate frisbee (there was only 1 torn ACL) and eat dinner with some members. It was pretty great.  Other than that, it has been business as usual. We were able to teach a lot of members and a few nonmembers. Also, the weather has been super warm recently, which is weird because it's almost December. But I'm not complaining.  Well, that's honestly about it. Things are going good though.  Thanks  for all your support! From, Elder Pack PS.  It wasn't Ethan who tore his ACL.  They were playing Ultimate Frisbee and an elder was a bit too aggressive at trying to chase Ethan down.  Ethan was looking up for the frisbee and the elder ran up on him.  Their legs tangled up and they went down.  That's how the other elder tore his ACL.   Ethan got to ride a bike again.  He went on a mini exchange with the other elder in their district.  Ethan was able to ...

He messaged me Thanksgiving morning to tell me that they were allowed to call home so he would call us after they had eaten Thanksgiving dinner.  I was excited.  Bryan's birthday was on the 24th and they can call home for those too.  So if Ethan would have wanted to, he could have called on Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday this week. 😉 They had a good Thanksgiving.  They got together as a Zone and played ultimate frisbee.  Those are the pictures that I have attached to the email.  In the first picture, they are trying to look mean, then they smile, and then they just take pictures looking into the sun. 😉  They played 2 games and Ethan was on the winning team both times.  He said it wasn't because of skill, it was just the advantage of being tall.  He can reach the frisbee before the others.  They almost made it through the entire game without injury until close to the end when an elder (who was being aggressive) was chasing after Ethan...

  Everyone! Ethan didn't write an email this week so I thought I would share what he talked to us about when he called on Tuesday. It has been a weird week.  Ethan wasn't sure if it was the Taco Bell he ate or trying to adjust to the food in Colorado, but his stomach wasn't doing well.  He thought it had gotten better but it threw him a bit off.  His companion has also been struggling a bit to adjust to the mission so Ethan was trying to help him with that and it was just throwing things off.  When you're a trainer, there are a lot of extra studies you have to do with your companion and more details you have to see to.  It makes things a bit more complicated. Ethan said they ate with a couple last week who was really nice.  During the conversation, the husband was asking questions that were very mission-specific.  After a while, Ethan asked if the man has served as a mission president.  He said he had and then things made a lot more sense bec...

  Hey everyone! Hope your week has been great. Things have been pretty normal here. Most of the people we're teaching are super flaky so I'm not sure how much longer we're going to be teaching them. But the ward is pretty good. We get fed pretty good which is a blessing haha.  The only other thing I really have is that I had a great study of alma chapters 40 and 41 in the Book of Mormon. It talks about the plan of salvation and what happens after we die. You should all check it out. I made a list of all the stuff we learn from those chapters and it's pretty  awesome . Thanks  for all your support! From, Elder Pack PS: Don't ask about the pictures of the frog and...whatever that is...because I just don't know. 😉  Ethan is doing well but he is adjusting to Colorado.  I think he misses his all-elder District.  He doesn't want to play slaughter ball and risk hitting a sister in the face with the ball. haha!  So they are playing other games and just c...

  Hey everyone! It's been a minute since I've written an email but things have been going great here.  Michael, who I was teaching in Casper, got baptized! I, unfortunately, didn't get to see it because I got transferred down to Loveland, Colorado.  Colorado is pretty cool. If I'm being honest, I prefer Wyoming but that isn't to say Colorado isn't great too. Also, my last district was  awesome  so it's been an adjustment.  I'm training again too. His name is Elder Bateman. He's pretty cool. Here in Loveland things are kind of slow teaching wise but it's picking up. We've been working hard and have seen success because of it.  Some notable things: we talked to a flat earther. We had an  awesome  new missionary orientation meeting (President Palmer is  awesome ). The weather has been great. Taught a guy named Eli a first lesson on his porch. He really appreciated being given the Book of Mormon. Got to go through the temple last week and cl...

  Everyone! Ethan has had a busy day and so I thought I would pass along what we talked about today with him. First, Ethan got to go to the Temple!!  The first time he went through the temple was November 3, 2020, and the second time he went through was November 2, 2021.  Every couple of weeks, his mission president takes a couple of zones (who are within 100 miles) to the temple.  Ethan hasn't been close enough until now.  He was excited and had a great time.  Hopefully, he will get to go more now that he is closer.   Ethan is on the left: Ethan is on the left: Ethan is in Loveland in the Boyd Lake Area.  He hasn't met too many people in his ward because a lot of them have been out of town this week, but they went to the ward chili cook-off and trunk-or-treat.  They were able to meet people there, although Ethan said he doesn't remember all their names. They live in a nice apartment, one of the nicest in the mission.  It has 2 bedr...