Grayson and Mom on a Mission

yo momma! im doing pretty well! So we have some elects really that we are working with right now.  1. Sara is the sister of two other girls that were already baptized like a year ago. She has been a miracle!! Two weeks ago her sister told us that she said she didnt wanna be baptized in our church. But these past two weeks we have seen her progress like crazy! She is loving church on sundays and is super super firm. We visited her again today and she is set on getting baptized this sunday! its gonna be super special. 2. Alfredo is progressing a ton as well. He chose to go to church with us this week even tho he usually goes to another church with his mom on the last week of the month. He is way good buds with the young men in our ward. it is awesome to see them all together. We will go there tomorrow to try to firm us his baptism for sunday as well. Hoping for the best!! 3. Cristina is another miracle from our english class who showed up alone to church. We set a baptismal dat...

Hello love!  How is my boy?? Tell me all about your "elects" you met last week.  How is Alfredo and the others?  Do you have any baptisms scheduled?  How is your zone doing?  Any improvement this week? How are your hives?  Did you talk to someone?  Do you still have them?  Did you get a chance to eat more this week to put on weight? I did.. lol.  Thanksgiving is killer for the waistline.  Abby went to Noelle's for thanksgiving and had a great time.  Poor Noelle had Greggs family for thanksgiving.  She was so happy to have Abby!  Strength in numbers I guess.  Gregg's mom and his brother both showed up with their large dogs (without even asking first) and then stayed over (without even asking first).  She said dogs were pooping everywhere.  Then Greggs mom sat on the couch the entire time Noelle and her family were cooking and setting the table.  When Allie sat down to watch a movie, his mom told...

my week was good! we are starting to put the pieces back together in this area. This week we found a couple elects! I did a contact on SATURDAY, he went to church on sunday and already is preparing to be baptized this sunday. Its a 9 day miracle! But i know that the elects are going to be ready when we share this message with them so it doesnt surprise. We are also working with a young guy named Alfredo who is so sick! He loved church on sunday and all the young men loved him and got his number and stuff. It was pretty cool. We are also working with a girl whos 18. Her 2 sisters are already members but she wasnt taught that much cause she was always working. We actually went to teach her today on our pday (cough cough consecrated missionary) and she said she really was willing to learn more about the Plan of God in her life. We are way excited for these last 2 weeks in the transfer. The transfer is on December 3rd.  Vanusa told me that you guys talked! That was awesome. Im so h...

Hi baby!  How is my handsome boy???  How was your week?  I had a VERY fun surprise from Vanusa!!!  She sent me a video of you cutting your birthday cake.  It was the greatest surprise!  We communicated a little on FB messenger.  I'm totally using google translate and so afraid that I'm actually saying something like "your mother is a pig." But I think we did pretty well.  She is so sweet!  Did she tell you we talked?  I sent her some pictures of the dogs to show you. We're just getting ready for Thanksgiving around here.  We're going to eat at our house this year.  Can you believe it... Dad and I actually hung real Christmas lights this year!  They look really good except one strand that now wont light. ugh.  We alternated red and white lights.  I'll take a picture when we fix the non working strand. But you should know we won't be THAT house in our neighborhood anymore.  lol! Sam is home now for th...

yo yo momma! Well i really did have a great birthday. It was a fun day for sure and i was treated very very well here. I had lunch with Vanusa (she is a recent convert here and really loves me so accept her request) and her daughters as well. They made all my favorite food and then we had cake at the end. At the end of the night we went to a pizza buffet with a few people and the APs. It was super fun! I ate like a king thats for sure. hahah so it really was a great day, but im glad to say my next bday will be at home im glad they both liked your pic! Its lame that sally couldnt even send an email to me but whatever man... I miss the days in the culdesac on myrtice. they literally do feel like yesterday. Those days were the best! did you watch that video that i said to search up in my email last week? Love you momma! Elder Gurksnis

Hello my angel boy!!! I hope you had a wonderful 21st birthday and were treated like the amazing young man you are! We had a little red velvet bundt cake in your honor on Saturday and thought about you all day. How can it be that you are 21?! The years have gone too quickly for me. I just want to take my three little kids back to the culdesac on Myrtice drive and throw pop flies to you ️ ️ ️. Tell me all about your day Saturday.  I’m not going to write a long letter because I know you’ve received many. I hope you know you are loved and missed! You are my extraordinary son and no one loves or misses you more than me. Erik and Chels had their sweet boy yesterday and it was an amazing reminder to me, so close to your birthday, of how a son changes everything in your life ... in the most incredible way! (See the other email for details and pics).  I love you my son! More than the sun and the moon and the stars and infinity plus infinity and even more than that! Have an incredible ...

yo yo momma! Wow looks like you had an awesome, fun week. Thats also awesome to hear that lindsey is in the MTC! I love to know that one more person will have the amazing experience to be able to serve the Lord on a mission and bring people to His church.  That sounds like a fun get together with all your friends. Thats kinda crazy that 2 of them ended up marrying after so many years. Your pictures are awesome and ive still got a good looking momma! I do miss that cali trip. I have tons of pics from the trip, so when i get out my picture book its good to see those moments we had. Its awesome to be able to meet up with friends after so many years and still see that they are strong in the gospel and such great people.  im glad the dogs recognized you! i hope they recognize me in the same way! haha.  I love that spiritual thought! I feel like ive heard it before but i never looked at it the way you explained it. Its so true. Thats why blessings dont come right aw...

Hello my love!  How is my favorite mish???!!! I had a very fun/eventful week!  I stayed in Provo thru Thursday morning and spent some time with Dani and her family and some of my other friends.  I visited with Noelle and her fam but couldn't stay there because Jenny and Tom were bringing Lindsey to the MTC that week and were staying there.  So she is now in the MTC and sounds like things are going great so far! Then Thursday morning I flew to LA to spend the weekend with my friends Kellie, Laurie, Monica, Angel, Marci and Penny.  Penny and Hugh, a friend of ours from our byu days, just got married two months ago so we went out to celebrate with them  She has been a widow many years (her husband died of a brain tumor when he was 30) and he is recently divoriced. We spent the weekend in Santa Barbara where they live and we had a blast!  It is such an incredible blessing to have great friends.  All of them (well excluding Angel, but she is ge...