10/12 email

Hmmm new and exciting?! THis last week and weekend were the best of my mission, it was awesome! ALright i will start with Chris Jensen.


So Chris is having his baptism on the 24th of October! Everything is going great with him. We go over about once a day right now just to make sure things are still going well. He is way pumped for his baptism and he wants me to be the one to baptize him. I am totally honored by that kid for wanting me to do it, i am way excited for him and i am happy i'll get a chance to be a part of a baptism! It will be amazing, he has been so good, he has come to church 4 weeks in a row, he is reading in the book of mormon and he is saying his prayers and things are just going really well for him. And he is starting to make good friends with the youth in this ward too, especially with sam egan. And they are having a sleepover this weekend with all the deacons to play xbox and just hang out, that will be perfect for chris, he loooooves videogames. So keep him in your prayers, ok?


Alright next is this new spanish lady we met named Maria. She is hilarious, she grew up with her mom speaking english and her dad speaking spanish, so she can really speak either of them very well so she just kinda does a combo of both. Haha its awesome. So anyways we just starting teaching her last thursday, i think, and she has already been reading what we asked of her in the book of mormon and she came to church! That is sooo huge, so many people never go to church. And we had another appt with her on sunday afternoon, and she is loving it. We taught about the gospel of Jesus Chirst, and she has a baptism date now for Nov. 13th. She is amazing and she really likes church and wants to be a part of it. She is a nice old lady who lives alone and has to work since her husband died, and this gospel will help her out so much. So keep Maria in your prayers too!


And next is my favorite part of the last weekend. Greg Jackson, like one of my favorite investigators ever, was at church with us too! Hahha and the crazy thing is, he was in jail this week too! Haha man he was falsely accused for some drug crimes and was released, and we asked him to come to church with us and he did. ANd since it was testimony meeting, he bore is testimony about how amazing the missionaries are and how elder westley and i became not just his freinds but we are his brothers. it was epic, and everyone loved him, and he loved it hard. So keep Greg in your prayers too, he is a really good guy, he has a rough past, but we are working with him.


And on sunday night too was Elder Cooks 21 bday, so we threw a suprise bday for him, and we owned him with silly string and everything. it was aweomse. haha jess would love elder cook, and he lives in mesa, and he come home in 3 weeks!


That is soo coool you guys keep finding time to hang out with megan. I bet she loves it, and i love it, and i bet you guys love it hard. Haha how about you tell my bum brothers to write me some emails! I have heard from joel i think 3 times and drew once! haha they are noobs. I loved that little story about Reese, man she sounded soooo dang mad! You gotta get me some pictures of Maddux's new room, that has to be awesome. And don't worry sam is in my prayers everynight, all you guys are, no lie i can't say a prayer without thanking heavenly father for the amazing family he sent me. So don't worry you are always in my prayers. Well i love you guys and i hope you have a great week, let me know about sam, and thanks for sending stuff i hope i get it soon, and if you don't send it for a while remember just to send it to the missions office if its near the beginning of the next month. Love you guys! Love you mom!


Love,
Elder Bobo

10/4 email

I am doing pretty much amazing haha, and yes i had a great week! it was kinda a crazy different week because I was on an exchange for 3 days with elder cox from canandaigua and then we had conference this weekend so I was all over the place and then had a nice rest this weekedn for conference! Elder Cox is a nice quiet farm boy kid from idaho, haha he is mega quiet so when we were in Geneva i took him over to this crazy pentecostel guys house. It was hilarious, you have heard me talk about him before i think, his name is greg Jackson. It was so funny mom, soo we meet in the cellar of his house which he calls his "war room". Haha it is called that because it is the room where he wages war against satan! haha he is a goober but a nice guy. SO we met down there in the war room with frank and him and we were doing a bible study of the book of daniel. So that went well and then it came time to the end of our lesson with him and it was time for prayer. So he likes to hold hands, and we were all holding hands, and he starting praying, and he got louder and louder and praising jesus and shouting to the heavens, hahhaha and then frank over on the other side is starting it up too, thank you jesus, praise thee jesus, haha and i felt bad but i couldn't hold it in anymore and i just started busting up laughing during the middle of the prayer! Hhaha and since i started busting out elder cox couldn't hold it in any longer and he started busting out laughing. Holy cow that was funny but i felt kinda bad, so i told him i just got the spirit of laughter and i couldn't hold it in so he didn't feel bad. ANd he totally took that because the pentecostels believe in the sprit of laughter so i was totally safe. You should have been there you would have loved it, soooooooo funny how crazy some people are out here. He is a great guy though, and that kinda burst elder cox's bubble so that was good.

SO new with the work right now is we found a spanish farming family outside of geneva we are working with! I am so happy and grateful, they are from mexico too so i can actually understand their spanish! My spanish still isn't great at all but it is getting better and the spanish people are so nice they help me out if i don't know a word or something. But its great working with Leo and Daniella and their girls, so i am very grateful the Lord put them in our path. :) THe baptism for the 9th however is not going through. It is sad, we went over to Ray's place on monday, he had quit coffee and had been off cigs for 3 days, and we come over and he says he broke, he is smoking again and its too hard right now and he'll have to find a better time in his life to quit... That was tough, i'm not gonna lie, but we are still trying to work with him. SO pray for him he needs it!

DOn't worry about taking too long to send off stuff i'm fine, it is definitly getting colder here but i have bought nice gloves and beanies and socks and scarfs and some sweaters too. So as long as i just get that coat and those garments i'll be fine i got the rest of the stuff i need here. :) They don't have a distribution center here so it would be best if you could get me some and send them. It is totallly rainin like crazy here and last week on thursday literally all our appts fell through so we had to go tracting out in the rain and we got soaked... that was amazing... not haha. We do have walgreens around here, how would we set that up so i could get my prescriptions there? ANd that would rock and you could call the mission office if you need to figure it out or maybe they might even let you call me!

Our plans for pday are pretty much regular stuff and then we are going to play dodgeball, man i am pumped for that because we are going to play with the sister missionaries and i am going to pwn them. haha i'm pumped. I'm feeling great, i get headaches every once in a while but i haven't been sick yet.

I'm praying for sam and i bet things will all go alright for her tomorrow, and it sounds like every one in the family has stuff going on. Drew with school, sam with school, jess with work and trying to find a husband haha, you and everything and my chemical romance haha, joel and kasey with a baby, and tarah running in st george like crazy. Thats good you guys are keeping busy and that's amazing. My favorite talk of conference mom was the one from Pres Monson on sunday morning, and the Uchtdorf one from saturday. you should read it, it is about maing our lives more simple and just focusing on the basics. it is an amazing talk. ANd i am glad you hung out with megan, :) haha that always makes me happy! Well i love you so much mom and things are going great here and i'm having a lot of fun. I have pills till thursday so if you can send those off soon that would rock! Love you momma and i love the rest of you family! ANd give peanut a kiss for me haha, talk to you next week!

Love,
Elder Bobo