Saturday, September 12, 2009

One Month Today!

JD has been gone for a month now. We love and miss him tons! We are excited to here all about his experiences out in the field. Way to go JD! Brother and Sister Glende (mission pres.), Elder Jarvis, Elder Egan (1st comp.)

I'm In Kentucky Now!

(first e-mail we recieved- Wed, 2 Sept. 2009)

hey hey hey! how yall doin? i doin pretty good i in kentucky now in crestwood. its so much different from the mtc. and i mean way different! so when we got to the airport in kentucky we met our mission president and he gave us a book of mormon and had us go place it! it was pretty fun but hard. we got shut down like 5 times and then one of the assistants came and gave us some help and then we did it we talked to a guy that is in the army and he was a way cool guy and real nice and has heard about the church through the army cuz guys he serves with are in the church. so ya that was cool and was my first deal of missionary work. then we went to the mision home and had dinner and meetings and stuff like that then we went to bed. woke up and had more meetings and stuff. then at like 12 we went to a church building and had a transfer meeting and thats where i met my companion. his name is elder egan and he is way cool. he is gonna be fun to serve with. i am excited to learn alot from him. after that we went to the apartment and i kinda unpacked and got situated then we had a teaching appointment with a guy named eric he is a way cool guy and was raised catholic but never felt it was right. and he is marrin a member and ya but he is way solid and guess what i did my first day we commited him to baptism and his date is oct. 3. how crazy is that my first day and i already have a baptism date! i am way excited! its cool cuz i will probably be able to go through the temple with him in a year when he can and see him and his wife sealed in the temple! thats way exciting! i am excited for this work and cant wait to do more! well thats pretty much it for me. oh and i live in one of the two only 4 elders apartments and its way fun to be with all them. well peace out! love u all! and miss yall tons!!!!!!
Elder Jarvis!!!!!!!!!!!