Grayson and Mom on a Mission

Hello my love! I hope you have lots of great things to report and maybe even a baptism or two that took place this weekend! Are Alessandra and Lucianno still progressing? Can't wait to hear!  How is your toenail?  Is it sore or red at all?  If it feels warm or looks red it could be infected so don't mess around with that!  Take all of your antibiotics until they are gone! I'm so sorry that I literally have no pictures from this week.  It was a busy week of taking care of crap at our house and the flip house.  But everything seems to be in good shape now so hopefully that is behind us.   This week was a difficult one for me.  Settling into the idea that you kids are all on your own now. It is a tough transition for me... that is for sure.  I am so happy with where each of you are in your lives right now and so proud of who you are becoming.  I guess I was just too good at my job and helping you grow into amazing, independ...

yoyoyo momma! ok so first of all that girl from noelles ward is a hottie for sure. I feel like ive seen her in noelles ward before actually. DO you know where she is serving in dallas right now? and how much time does she have? Maybe i will ask noelle for her email(: what do you think? I love the pics you sent! The family get togethers i think will get more common for you guys now! its fun that everyone seems close! Sooooo this week was a crazy one! lots has changed! We had something called Mission Tour with a 70 named Elder Gonzaga. It was aight, i think i was expecting a little more but i learned a good amount still. They talked a lot about working with members and its something me and elder Rodrigues have put into practice this week! We also had another Leadership Meeting for the mission with the 70 and we had kinda a question and answer time which was cool with him. There really are some studs here in the church in brazil. Guys that have been amazing examples for me in my life...

Hi baby!  How is my incredible boy? How are your english classes going? How are your investigators progressing?  I've been thinking about your safety a lot lately.  Do you feel safe where you are?  Do you pray for protection and safety every day?  I do. And I know you are protected.  I just want to make sure you are being guided by the spirit and listening to those promptings. We have had a good and tough week.  I miss my kids!  This transition is tough.  I really just miss the noise and love and busyness in our house.  Now its just two crazy dogs!  We have also had so much craziness this week that it has helped me to stay busy and not too focused on the quiet.  Both of our water heaters went out!  That is kinda crazy!  So we had no hot water for a few days which meant some cold showers.  Have you had to take cold showers on your mission? They suck!!!  But dad was able to install both of them and we only...

yooo momma its true you had a heck of a fun and awesome week! im jealous! Im telling you Colorado is such a beautiful beatiful state! And i like the drive from byu to rexburg too. I think i like any drive in the middle of nowhere honestly. and abbys dorm is super dope and nice looking! I like it a lot Oh my goodness. Tell abby to not download those freaking apps. You dont even need them at byu its already way social. I think its good that she wont date until jackson leaves too. It will definitely help her establish study time at night. When I was mackin with sally almost every night, my study hours took a dip lololololol btw mike eckel emailed me and said "cant wait to see you!" hahah hmmm hes definitely on my side.  Thats interesting about abbys major. Seems like a cool thing but i think its important that you dad and abby look on the internet if there is really jobs coming out of that major. Lots of girls make that mistake to major in something and then there en...

Hi sweet boy!    Wow what a week!    Jackson (abby’s friend) left a week ago and it feels like that was 1 month ago!    I think Abby and I drove over 2000 miles this week!    I’m on a flight now flying back home and can I just say.. I’m so happy I’m not driving! But the drive was actually fun.    Abby and I left last Tuesday morning and drove all the way to Ft. Collins CO.    It took us about 14 hours but it was nice to get a big chunk done the first day.    Ft. Collins btw is such a cute city.    Way nicer than Denver and it is only about 40 miles north of it.    Then we drove to Draper the next day and that took about 6.5 hours.    We did some Costco shopping, etc. and hung out with the Sandersons and Sam.    Then Thursday morning I rented a car and we drove both cars up to Rexburg.    Another 3.5 hours.    It is pretty much in the middle of nowhere (a...

YOYOYO ELDER HEQUER IS LEAVING HAHAHAHAHA. So he got transferred and im staying here but i wont know until tomorrow who will be my comp. It will be someone who is just being called as zone leader just like me last transfer. so i will actually be a Senior Zone Leader now which is pretty crazy. The week was alright with Hequer. Kinda normal I guess. Im just glad for someone new. I would have lived it out if he stayed but im just happy to be with someone new. So this week we found an awesome couple Lucianno and ALessandra but they arent married yet. They are really liking our messages and have tons of great questoins. So im hoping that can all work out and we can marry them this transfer and baptize them. Families are the most rewarding baptisms on the mission. I would way rather baptize a family or couple then people individually. There is just a much better chance for them to stay firm. We had a couple other people at church and have a couple of girls that are wanting to be baptized. Th...

Good morning sweet Elder G!!! How was your week?  Do you guys have transfers on Tuesday?  Or is that next week? How are things with you and Elder Hequer?  How about your investigators?  I also want to know what you talked to your zone about to encourage them?  How did it go? We had another crazy week.  I feel like this last month has been a blur.  Abby gone for so long, and then I went to Utah, and then Sam came here and then Jackson (abby's new bf) was hear and just left yesterday.  Now we are busy today getting ready for our road trip to Idaho.  We leave at 5am tomorrow morning!!!  So It is a crazy day and we haven't even started before today because Jackson was here.   So Jackson... we had a lot of fun with him!  I like him a lot and he treats Abby so great!  He is very engaging and charming.  I think he fits great with our family and both you and Sam would really like him.  So, not sure how t...

OIiii momma. Well it was a good and bad week at the same time. We found lots of new people but sadly none of them came through when they needed to most. it was sad. we literally had zero investigators in church. one of the few few times on my mission. but its all good. just gotta look up. analici and celio are going downhill a little bit. analici wants to be baptized but i think celio is kinda dragging her down with him. its sad but we will see what happens this week. we will go there with a really good return missionary in our ward. also our other baptism that we have had for a while was alline. she was supposed to be baptized this week but she kinda just completely disappeared from us this week. its sad and we really have no idea why. based on what she said to us last week she seemed super firm and ready to be baptized so idk if something happened but that kinda sucked cause she seemed like a for sure almost. but it will be all good. our zone is kinda down in the dumps in reference t...

Hello gorgeous boy!!! How is my wonderful son?  How was your week sweet boy? I'm hoping your investigators (I can't pronounce their names... lol) are doing great.  Any of them ready for baptism? What did you do for Pday? Can't wait to hear all about it! We had a good week.  Sam was home til Thursday night.  He spent lots of time getting his hunting spots ready and is hoping to come home a couple of times in the fall to hunt.  I think he spent some serious cash! He and Stanton got things ALL set up on the Kidingers land.   We've also been getting Abby ready for school.  I can't believe we are leaving in just over 1 week.  We will leave Tuesday (9/11) and get to Denver that day.  Then we will drive to Utah and get to SLC Wednesday afternoon.  Then right on up to Idaho on Thursday.  We will probably do a little shopping in SLC before we get to Idaho and there ).   So the big news came yesterday when we ha...