Howdy Fam(that now includes you Whitney),
There a lot to say and I´m not sure exactly where to start. I just got a lot of news all at once. first, tell the Kellers that they´ll be in my prayers. I´ll miss Ruth. Second, Mom if you see Linnae tell her congratulations on the wedding, that´s great.
Life here is going wonderfully as usual. We had 2 baptisms on Sunday. Five people passed the interview but then 3 weren´t baptized, but its all good. One of them will be baptized this week. As it turns out my companion got transferred. He´s flying out to Manaus tonight. My new companion is just coming from another area in Rio Branco, his name is Elder Cidade and I´m looking forward to being his comp. He seems like a really cool guy. This month our mission had a goal of 350 baptism but we just managed 316, but next month has five weekends so the goal is 400. It will be fun to see what happens. President Parrella only has two months left, so we´re going to help him go out with a bang.
Whitney, I know that officially you´re not my sister yet, but like it or not in 11 days you are. Just let me say, good luck!
Love,
Elder Bangerter
Wednesday, April 27, 2005
Wednesday, April 20, 2005
Have a fun trip
Howdy Fam,
I can´t believe that the wedding is so close. I thought the day would never come, but it seems that everything in life is like that. I hope that Adam and Crystal have a good time up at the Y. Adam, don´t have too much fun, you´ve still got your mission(I don´t know why I said that). Crystal, what are you going to study?
Anyway, I´m back in my area, but I enjoyed my week in Tucumã. Frank was going to be baptized last week, but there was a little confusion so he´ll be baptized this Saturday. We had the baptisms of two young men; James, and Ramon. This week I´m not sure how many baptisms we´ll have, between three and six, so I´m excited as usual. This will be my last week with Elder Lourenço. We haven´t gotten the transfers yet, but he only has one transfer left and we´re sure he´ll be transferred.
One other thing to remember is that mothers day is coming up, so lets not forget about that. It will be the day after the wedding. I don´t have the phone number yet but I´ll send it next week.
Anyway, I´m here, you guys are there, I´m happy, what else is new?
Love,
Elder Bangerter
I can´t believe that the wedding is so close. I thought the day would never come, but it seems that everything in life is like that. I hope that Adam and Crystal have a good time up at the Y. Adam, don´t have too much fun, you´ve still got your mission(I don´t know why I said that). Crystal, what are you going to study?
Anyway, I´m back in my area, but I enjoyed my week in Tucumã. Frank was going to be baptized last week, but there was a little confusion so he´ll be baptized this Saturday. We had the baptisms of two young men; James, and Ramon. This week I´m not sure how many baptisms we´ll have, between three and six, so I´m excited as usual. This will be my last week with Elder Lourenço. We haven´t gotten the transfers yet, but he only has one transfer left and we´re sure he´ll be transferred.
One other thing to remember is that mothers day is coming up, so lets not forget about that. It will be the day after the wedding. I don´t have the phone number yet but I´ll send it next week.
Anyway, I´m here, you guys are there, I´m happy, what else is new?
Love,
Elder Bangerter
Wednesday, April 13, 2005
old area and lots of conferences
Howdy Fam,
Sounds like everything is going great up Texas way.I hope you have fun with the bike mom, and I hope that Crystal has fun with jury duty. Adam, good luck at BYU, and have a blast with Steven. Tell him hi for me. Its good to hear that dad´s busy with work.
As it turns out, this week has been and is going to be fun. I back in Tucumã for a week on splits with the missionaries there to see if we can get things a little more excited here in the area. I´m with Elder Monson. He´s one of the few elders thats blonder than me. He´s a great guy and we´re having a great time. He likes dirtbiking, airplanes, and his dad is an autobody guy, so there´s always something to talk about. Its also just great to be back in my old area. Its an interesting feeling walking down the same streets, through the same shortcuts, and seeing so many people that I grew to love while I was here. We´re going to baptize young man named Frank that I found when I was here the first time.
We´ve got zone conference tomorrow, which I´m sure will be great, and then on Saturday there´s going to be a transmission from the first presidency to the missionaries in the whole world, so I pumped.
Anyway, life is great and so are rootbeer slushies.
Love,
Elder Bangerter
Sounds like everything is going great up Texas way.I hope you have fun with the bike mom, and I hope that Crystal has fun with jury duty. Adam, good luck at BYU, and have a blast with Steven. Tell him hi for me. Its good to hear that dad´s busy with work.
As it turns out, this week has been and is going to be fun. I back in Tucumã for a week on splits with the missionaries there to see if we can get things a little more excited here in the area. I´m with Elder Monson. He´s one of the few elders thats blonder than me. He´s a great guy and we´re having a great time. He likes dirtbiking, airplanes, and his dad is an autobody guy, so there´s always something to talk about. Its also just great to be back in my old area. Its an interesting feeling walking down the same streets, through the same shortcuts, and seeing so many people that I grew to love while I was here. We´re going to baptize young man named Frank that I found when I was here the first time.
We´ve got zone conference tomorrow, which I´m sure will be great, and then on Saturday there´s going to be a transmission from the first presidency to the missionaries in the whole world, so I pumped.
Anyway, life is great and so are rootbeer slushies.
Love,
Elder Bangerter
Wednesday, April 6, 2005
I love conference
Howdy Fam,
Well, as always, another week has come and gone and I´m not quite sure where it went. The area I´m in is great. We´ve found a lot of new people to teach and the members are very willing to help. The two baptisms that we were going to have this last week fell through but thats all right. We should have two this week and the next few weeks will be full. Next week we should baptize a 76 year old man. He´s a pretty funny guy. He was a soldado da borracha "rubber soldier" during WWII. They were soldiers assigned to collect rubber from the rubber trees in the Amazon that were used to make all the tires and everything during the war. Anyway, he´s a cool guy, he already had a BOM and already read the whole thing.
General conference was great. As always, they said so many things I needed to hear. I really enjoyed Elder Bednar´s talk, I really felt the spirit as he spoke, Elder Nelson´s talk about his wife was also quite touching. Anyway, I won´t bore you guys listing off all the things I liked, I´ll just say that "It was worth the five bucks for me and my whole family, eh".
So things are good here, and it sounds like they´re good there, so thats all folks.
Love,
Elder Bangerter
P.S. once again congrats to Ben and Whitney(I´m trying to build up Brownie points)
Well, as always, another week has come and gone and I´m not quite sure where it went. The area I´m in is great. We´ve found a lot of new people to teach and the members are very willing to help. The two baptisms that we were going to have this last week fell through but thats all right. We should have two this week and the next few weeks will be full. Next week we should baptize a 76 year old man. He´s a pretty funny guy. He was a soldado da borracha "rubber soldier" during WWII. They were soldiers assigned to collect rubber from the rubber trees in the Amazon that were used to make all the tires and everything during the war. Anyway, he´s a cool guy, he already had a BOM and already read the whole thing.
General conference was great. As always, they said so many things I needed to hear. I really enjoyed Elder Bednar´s talk, I really felt the spirit as he spoke, Elder Nelson´s talk about his wife was also quite touching. Anyway, I won´t bore you guys listing off all the things I liked, I´ll just say that "It was worth the five bucks for me and my whole family, eh".
So things are good here, and it sounds like they´re good there, so thats all folks.
Love,
Elder Bangerter
P.S. once again congrats to Ben and Whitney(I´m trying to build up Brownie points)
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