A Lot of Love in Carmel

May 7, 2012

Hello again,

This week flew by in nothing flat. It was super busy with lots of fun things! Mikayla was in a play at her school and the performances were this week, so of course we wanted to be to all of them we could. It was "Honk", the story of the ugly duckling. It was a really cute show which was very well done, right down to the casting. Mikayla, of course, was my very favorite actor. She did a stellar job as a turkey and I was so proud of her. maybe some day she'll be on broadway. She does have quite the knack for acting.

Oakley got baptized on Saturday. It was very nice and I enjoyed visiting with everyone afterwards. Marion has taken a job with the State of Wyoming. He is in the process of selling his shop in Draper and will be moving up there. He started a few weeks ago so he was telling us all about his new job and how different it is from owning his own place. Holly is getting married in July and Mirranda is getting married in August. Paige has two boyfriends, she just can't decide which one she wants to marry. Garrett bought his own house just outside of Vernal and is making a lot of money.  Adam's new baby, Bentley, is pretty cute and so is Holly's baby, Lucy. Everyone is growing up and things are changing so quickly.

Did you get your package? I hope you like the book.  Have a fantastic week.

I love you!

Mom

Hey,

This week's been great. All the senior missionares live around us so we get really spoiled. The Jarmans are always having us over for dinner and Sister Parker is always baking something for us. We get a lot of love here.

On Wednesday we did a lot of work in the Indianapolis part of our area. We've been finding some great people there. The only problem is it's a little hard to get down there on the weeks we don't have the car.

Wednesday Night we had dinner with Brother Bell, who is a beekeeper. We got to go into his backyard with him and put two queen bees into two of his hives. It was pretty neat. He's got a roommate from Germany, he lives about an hour away from Tim. That was a really fun night.

We had our Zone Conference on Thursday, which was great. I'm always eager to get back out and start working harder than ever whenever we have meetings like that.

After Zone Conference we had dinner with a member in Indianapolis. While we were there our appointement for the next hour fell through. We moved on to our backup plans and tried by a few former investigators and planned to tract in the area. Once we tried by everyone I felt like we should try one more that was in an apartment complex a few miles away. We got in the car and drove over there. We parked the car and got out to walk to the apartment. There was a car parked next to us with the windows down and this mother and her daughter in the car talking. They sounded like they were in distress. We walked to the apartment and knocked, but nobody was home. As we were walking back out there was a group of teenagers all leaning on our car and talking to the people in the car next to ours. We saw this as a great opportunity to talk to all of them. We introduced ourselves and started explaining who we were. The mom in the car asked us if there were any black people in our chruch. She said she had never heard of a black Mormon before. Elder Tobler jumped right into the Restoration and explained everything. By the time he was done they said they really wanted to get a copy of the Book of Mormon. It was amazing. We'll be going back next week. She's got eight kids, so this should be a fun teaching experience.  

Saturday was really neat as well. We helped a family move in the morning. We taught Chris, who is doing great. He's so sincere about learing more about the gospel. He's great. Setting a baptism date with him is out of our control, but I think he'll be able to be baptized soon. For dinner last night we ate with the Moalas, who are members of our ward. He's also a starting defensive end for the Colts. He brought a teammate over for dinner too. He's a starting center that just got signed to the Colts from the Steelers. Dinner was amazing. It was one of the few times I've had ribs in the past year. We brought the Westfield Elders with us too. We had a ton of fun with them. They're awesome.

The only downside to this week was that my bike was stolen last night. Bummer.  


Love you,  
Jared