I am doing amazing. How are you doing? I had a really amazing week. things went great and We have had a ton of fun. Hahaha and no i didn't fall off another ladder this week, but i thought about it. I know i'm totally a dork, but the good thing is my bruises are almost all gone now haha. Geez that was funny, i wish you guys could have seen that one. You would have been busting a gut. Things with Laura are going amazing. We are still teaching her and we see her about every other day. She is still reading the Book of Mormon, she has read from the introduction all the way up to chap 4 in 1 Nephi. And thats pretty amazing, most people don't even read the intro haha. She is getting along pretty well here in Geneva, its a bummer though she really lost a lot in that fire, she doesn't even have a car anymore. I'm not sure how old she is but i think in her 40's. And it is sooo cool we went to go teach her yesterday afternoon, and we taught about prayer and the proper way to say a prayer, by addressing heavenly father, expressing gratitude and asking for things, and closing in the name of Jesus Christ. So she totally prayed at the end and she did great. AND she has a baptismal date in 3 weeks, on december 26th. It will be a way nice belated christmas present! haha it is so cool, she is excited and she loves it when we come over and share more about the gospel.
Everything else with the work is going great. Ray and Jacinda Johnson are doing amazing, they are still struggling a little bit with the smoking but they are continuing to get better and better. Frank is still great, and he is so nice. Since we don't get the chance to put up a big xmas tree out here, he let us help set up a huge tree up at the mansion, it was amazing i'll send you a picture! We are still working with the Baker family and they are doing good too. We had a ward christmas party yesterday, and Elder Simmons and I along with the sister missionaries sung in the program, so the baker family came! That was a pretty big deal they all haven't been to that church in a while. Haha and it was sooo funny the lady who played piano for us is a way nice lady, but she did so terrible we looked soooo bad. It was awesome, elder simmons and i just started laughing, because it was mega awkward turtle. Hey tell jess to update my website if she hasn't, i know that was mega random but it just popped up in my head. And another cool thing that happened this week is i have been fasting that we can find more people around here to help. And it was great because yesterday, we went to contact this referral we got and we met with this Puerto Rican family. A single mom with 3 girls. And she loved having us over and now we are going to start teaching her and her girls! Its so amazing, the power of prayer and fasting together is just epic. I am happy we are going to be able to help her and her family out, she is pretty down because it is the christmas season and her family isn't all together. But we'll be able to help cheer her up and with learning the gospel she will know that she can be together forever with her family which is just the coolest thing in the world.
Oh yeah transfers are coming up next week. Hmmmm i would say hold off on sending my package till next week, because i'll know this sunday whether i am staying or going, and i don't want the package to get stuck in geneva and me be in buffalo!!! haha. I really hope i stay here another transfer too. I love it here, honestly i could serve my whole misison here and i wouldn't care if i didnt get to see anywhere else. The people here are so amazing and i love them, and i hope i can spend christmas with them. :) And don't worry about my pills just get them out quick if you can, i ran out today but i can make it a day or 2 ok.
ANd yes it has been snowing like crazy here! :D haha i love it, it looks like a marshmellow world in the winter. haha do you remember that song, its epic, but its true. And the funny thing is i have to drive in it, and it is terrifying. but we haven't died yet so i must be doing ok. it is getting pretty cold here and that wind chill factor is brutal! haha but i'll survive. You wanna hear something amazing, megan sent me a little xmas tree and 25 days of christmas! haha she is soooooo amazing i love it, its like i have a little christmas every morning haha. I'm glad you guys like her so much too and have her over. That means a lot to me mom. :) I love you so much. Well i gotta get going things are going great here, and Elder Larson wants to marry either jessica or Sam so have whichever one he emailed write him back. He is the coolest elder in the world haha, we have decided we were brothers in the preexistance. Oh and he sent a mega hilarious mega awkward email to one of them too i think it might have been sam so tell her to check. I love you guys so much and i can't wait to hear from you soon, its going to be epic!
Love you noobs talk to you soon!
Love
Elder Ingram
Wednesday, December 8, 2010
11/29 email
Alright so i'll start out by telling you about my thanksgiving day haha it was pretty good. So we got up and did our normal morning thing, and then we walked around and said hi to all the people we work with to wish them a happy thanksgiving. And after we did that we called all the people we couldnt get a hold of. Haha thanksgiving is a little interesting to try and find time to see people because they are all busy doing their own thing you know? But then we had our first thanksgiving dinner over at the robinsons house. Haha geez so i was trying to help them get everything ready for it so i wasn't just being a bum on a log and i was trying to open this pomegranate, and i squeezed it a little too hard and it exploded! haha all over my white shirt and this brand new tie that megan got me! haha That was a little embarrassing but hey what can you do right? :) They were nice and washed my shirt for me while we were there and gave me another shirt to wear, so that was really cool. And i was really really grateful to be over at a familys house for thanksgiving and have someone care about us especially on thanksgiving. :) it was a good dinner too, it wasn't a huge thanksgiving dinner because they have a really big family but it was good.
And then after that thanksgiving dinner we went over to the Cleere's family house out in seneca falls. It was way cool, their house was built in 1855! Thats nuts, that before the civil war! You would have loved it mom. And over there we had dessert and we just hung out with them for a while and we played apples to apples. Haha it was way fun, they are a cool family. And then after that it was about 7, and we got together with elder larson and cox, and the seneca falls sister and we played board games up at franks mansion. :) That was so much fun haha, we played this game called quelf and it is insane!!! You have to tell kasey about it since she loves board games so much. haha it would be a perfect game for our family nights, it just makes everyone look like a fool haha, i love it.
So that was pretty much our thanksgiving, and i'm glad we had places to be and things to do. I miss you guys and thanksgiving is my favorite holiday. My favorite part is trying to make the crystal glasses ring and drive everyone crazy. :) But hey i only have 1 more thanksgiving to go!
Haha i got another funny story to tell you real quick before i get to another cool story. So on saturday we went to go help and do some service for this guy out in canandaigua with the other elders. So it was freezing, it had snowed the night before and it was just blowing wind hard and i was sooooo cold haha. We were helping him reside part of his house for the winter becasue it was so bad. And i was up on this ladder removing nails from these huge planks of wood, haha and holy crud some wind came and it threw off my balance and i came sailing down that ladder! Holy cow i can't believe i fell out of a ladder, i landed pretty dang hard but some angels must be protecting me because i didn't break anything. I just got bruised up pretty good. It was kinda funny to think about it afterward, because i looked like a goober just flying off that ladder! haha geez i am such a noob, thats why i don't do any construction work.
So another cool story is we found this amazing lady named laura bogler. She just moved into geneva about 3 weeks ago because her house burnt down in canandaigua. It is sad she lost everything and her 2 dogs. :( They were like her best friends. But she is such an amazing lady, i walked by her on the street and i just said hi and walked away, and the spirit told me i had to go back to talk to her. So I listened and we went and talked to her and asked if we could start teaching her and she said yes. And we are teaching her now, and its amazing. She already says she wants to get baptized and she is reading the book of mormon and praying. Its crazy to see how just one little choice could affect someone salvation you know? Because i could have not listened to the holy ghost, by being shy and not wanting to go talk, but if i would have done that, who knows if she would have ever accepted the gospel?
I love you mom so much and i hope you aren't bummed about me calling megan and not you guys! It wasn't even me, we were with frank and he just called her so it was crazy, but i kinda loved it at the same time. But I love you all so much and i can't wait to talk to you soon, can you believe i have almost been out 6 months and its coming on xmas?! Its crazy. I love you so much momma and i think about you guys all the time. Get me some pictures of the new little guy. Have a good week and talk to you soon!
Love
Elder Ingram
And then after that thanksgiving dinner we went over to the Cleere's family house out in seneca falls. It was way cool, their house was built in 1855! Thats nuts, that before the civil war! You would have loved it mom. And over there we had dessert and we just hung out with them for a while and we played apples to apples. Haha it was way fun, they are a cool family. And then after that it was about 7, and we got together with elder larson and cox, and the seneca falls sister and we played board games up at franks mansion. :) That was so much fun haha, we played this game called quelf and it is insane!!! You have to tell kasey about it since she loves board games so much. haha it would be a perfect game for our family nights, it just makes everyone look like a fool haha, i love it.
So that was pretty much our thanksgiving, and i'm glad we had places to be and things to do. I miss you guys and thanksgiving is my favorite holiday. My favorite part is trying to make the crystal glasses ring and drive everyone crazy. :) But hey i only have 1 more thanksgiving to go!
Haha i got another funny story to tell you real quick before i get to another cool story. So on saturday we went to go help and do some service for this guy out in canandaigua with the other elders. So it was freezing, it had snowed the night before and it was just blowing wind hard and i was sooooo cold haha. We were helping him reside part of his house for the winter becasue it was so bad. And i was up on this ladder removing nails from these huge planks of wood, haha and holy crud some wind came and it threw off my balance and i came sailing down that ladder! Holy cow i can't believe i fell out of a ladder, i landed pretty dang hard but some angels must be protecting me because i didn't break anything. I just got bruised up pretty good. It was kinda funny to think about it afterward, because i looked like a goober just flying off that ladder! haha geez i am such a noob, thats why i don't do any construction work.
So another cool story is we found this amazing lady named laura bogler. She just moved into geneva about 3 weeks ago because her house burnt down in canandaigua. It is sad she lost everything and her 2 dogs. :( They were like her best friends. But she is such an amazing lady, i walked by her on the street and i just said hi and walked away, and the spirit told me i had to go back to talk to her. So I listened and we went and talked to her and asked if we could start teaching her and she said yes. And we are teaching her now, and its amazing. She already says she wants to get baptized and she is reading the book of mormon and praying. Its crazy to see how just one little choice could affect someone salvation you know? Because i could have not listened to the holy ghost, by being shy and not wanting to go talk, but if i would have done that, who knows if she would have ever accepted the gospel?
I love you mom so much and i hope you aren't bummed about me calling megan and not you guys! It wasn't even me, we were with frank and he just called her so it was crazy, but i kinda loved it at the same time. But I love you all so much and i can't wait to talk to you soon, can you believe i have almost been out 6 months and its coming on xmas?! Its crazy. I love you so much momma and i think about you guys all the time. Get me some pictures of the new little guy. Have a good week and talk to you soon!
Love
Elder Ingram
11/22 email
haha mom i am such a wimp haha i started crying at the end of this letter. I miss you guys so much, and i am so happy i have you guys for a family. I am bummed i won't be there for thanksgiving with you all, but you are right i am out here doing what HEavenly Father wants me to do. SO you guys better have the best thanksgiving ever and send me a bunch of pictures, and of little vander too. I can't believe i am a 3 time uncle!!!!!!!!!! I love being a turlte!!!!! i mean uncle!!!!! haha man that little kid is going to be such a fireball with the genes of kasey and joel haha. I won't be suprised if the first thing he does when i see him is him punching me in the arm! haha I am so dang happy for joel and kasey they are going to be the best parents ever. ANd now reese and maddux have a new little cousin, how awesome is that. Man joel i cannot believe you are a dad, it seems just like not to long ago we were still wrestling on our trampoline in the backyard, and me leg dropping your face when you had braces on. hahah dude that was soooo funny and you know it! Wow no lie though that is crazy, everyone in our family is growing up! whats with that? o well it is al good though.
So things this week have been pretty amazing. THere is this family out here called the baker family and they love me and they are way nice. Sis baker knitted me a scarf, and she is working on making me a quilt too. Haha it is so much fun being able to get close with families out here and stuff. And then for thanksgiving we have 2 dinner appointments and then someone invited us over for dessert! Holy crud i am going to gain like 30lbs and i am going to love it haha. That will be a good day though so i am super excited about that. SO don't worry i won't be alone for thanksgivng i will be having some fun just like you guys. So another thing that was awesome this week is elder larson and i are zone leader companions so we went on this 3 day exchange and we drove all over and had to check up and see how all the other districts were doing. holy cow we had so much fun, tell joel he is pretty much my elder bailey, he is this big huge tall and thick football player guy who is just the funniest person alvie haha i love it. We were driving down one road, this may sound bad but it was way funny, we say this big possum in the road and he was like should i hit it? and i thought and i was like dude you have to do it. ahah and we did and it was so gross but it was kinda hilarious because of the face and the noises elder larson made when we made contact. hahah geeez we are bad i'm sorry but it was soooo funny. Elder Larson also tried the 3 pancake challenge and he destroyed it, i tried it again i don't know why and i got mega sick... haha.
So on a spiritual note we had a lot of good things go down this week. We had a lesson with frank and our mission presidnet. Which was awesome we were up at franks mansion with a fire going, and the mission president just helped clear up a couple problems that frank was having and it was just so cool. I also had the wonderful opportunity to give a few people priesthood blessings this week. it is crazy i give those a lot more than i thought i ever would, and it makes me realize and know how powerful the priesthood really is.
ok now to answer some of your questions.
being a zone leader is fun, but its hard sometimes when missionaries in your zone are mega disobedient.... my companion isn't spanish speaking, so i am a lone ranger out here when it comes to the spanish program. Which is hard sometimes, but i can handle it. :) haha i am doing great with my laundry, and with cooking a lot of people feed us now so i don't cook much. the mr mac slacks just kinda are bad, my suits are perfectly fine though. Brown slip on shoes, just like any cheap rockport brown shoe, just so i can change my style up a little bit. The eccos are perfect and they are great shoes, i just want a little brown in there but if not its totally cool. :) Chris and maria are doing great, especially maria she loves coming to church and relief society!
alright mom i love you but i gotta get going i gotta wirte a letter to the president! I love you guys so much and can you believe in not too long i'll have been out here for 6 months! that is 1/4 of my misison! Keep praying for me and i love you guys so much!
Love,
Elder Ingram
PS ooooooo it is getting cold
So things this week have been pretty amazing. THere is this family out here called the baker family and they love me and they are way nice. Sis baker knitted me a scarf, and she is working on making me a quilt too. Haha it is so much fun being able to get close with families out here and stuff. And then for thanksgiving we have 2 dinner appointments and then someone invited us over for dessert! Holy crud i am going to gain like 30lbs and i am going to love it haha. That will be a good day though so i am super excited about that. SO don't worry i won't be alone for thanksgivng i will be having some fun just like you guys. So another thing that was awesome this week is elder larson and i are zone leader companions so we went on this 3 day exchange and we drove all over and had to check up and see how all the other districts were doing. holy cow we had so much fun, tell joel he is pretty much my elder bailey, he is this big huge tall and thick football player guy who is just the funniest person alvie haha i love it. We were driving down one road, this may sound bad but it was way funny, we say this big possum in the road and he was like should i hit it? and i thought and i was like dude you have to do it. ahah and we did and it was so gross but it was kinda hilarious because of the face and the noises elder larson made when we made contact. hahah geeez we are bad i'm sorry but it was soooo funny. Elder Larson also tried the 3 pancake challenge and he destroyed it, i tried it again i don't know why and i got mega sick... haha.
So on a spiritual note we had a lot of good things go down this week. We had a lesson with frank and our mission presidnet. Which was awesome we were up at franks mansion with a fire going, and the mission president just helped clear up a couple problems that frank was having and it was just so cool. I also had the wonderful opportunity to give a few people priesthood blessings this week. it is crazy i give those a lot more than i thought i ever would, and it makes me realize and know how powerful the priesthood really is.
ok now to answer some of your questions.
being a zone leader is fun, but its hard sometimes when missionaries in your zone are mega disobedient.... my companion isn't spanish speaking, so i am a lone ranger out here when it comes to the spanish program. Which is hard sometimes, but i can handle it. :) haha i am doing great with my laundry, and with cooking a lot of people feed us now so i don't cook much. the mr mac slacks just kinda are bad, my suits are perfectly fine though. Brown slip on shoes, just like any cheap rockport brown shoe, just so i can change my style up a little bit. The eccos are perfect and they are great shoes, i just want a little brown in there but if not its totally cool. :) Chris and maria are doing great, especially maria she loves coming to church and relief society!
alright mom i love you but i gotta get going i gotta wirte a letter to the president! I love you guys so much and can you believe in not too long i'll have been out here for 6 months! that is 1/4 of my misison! Keep praying for me and i love you guys so much!
Love,
Elder Ingram
PS ooooooo it is getting cold
11/15 email
Holy cow mom, haha i got a letter from you sweeeeeeet! Not just a funny small email form jessicas phone! haha I am just teasing, but thanks for sending me an email anyways when you guys didn't have the computer. You are amazing. This last week was really good, it went by soooooo fast, and we did so much. It was hard near the weekend though because i caught a cold, and its hard to push through the busy days when you are feeling too well you know. Haha no lie, i had never been more tired in my life than i was on saturday and sunday. We had so much going on with planning and making sure maria's baptism went well, oh and it totally did it was amazing, i'll talk more about it in a bit. THen Elder Larson and i had to plan and train all the elders in the zone at zone conference. Then we had a meeting with the president, and just a bunch of appts with other people and just a lot of running around this week. Sooooo i am way super happy that it is pday and i can just chill for a little bit and go have some fun with some of the other elders out here.
Things with Elder Simmons are going great. He is going to be a really good missionary, and he and i work together well when we are teaching. He had broken his arm skateboarding before he came out, and today we are going to the doctors so he can get his cast removed. SO he is way excited for that to happen. Hmmmm any new and exciting news here in Geneva... well we are working with a few new people right now. One of my favorites is this old lady named SUe. She is super cool and she knitted me a beanie, and she is just a super nice old lady we met through doing some service at the catholic church, and now she just wants to know all about us and our church. We are working on finding more people right now too, espcially at the Hobart College campus. I think that we might be able to really find some people there that need the Lords help.
Ohhhh and the weather here is already soooooooooo dang cold. You guys would be freezing! I can't believe last week it was still almost 100, hahahah and i laughed when you said we had a big cool down and its in the 70's. That sounds oh so nice right now. It is usually in the 40's right now but it dips into those 30's and thats when it gets me cold haha. It hasn't really been snowing too much yet, but this next week it is really supposed to cool down and start snowing on us. brrrrrrrrrr i'm gonna freeze! haha pray for me
Frank is still doing well, and he is taking good care of us still. Its been good because since i have been in geneva for ahwile a lot of the people in the ward know and like me, so we are being taken care of pretty well in the ward too. Its really fun working with the ward members and they are so important in our work. So if you guys have a chance this next week, you should invite the elders over for dinner.
ALright on the Maria's baptism. It was pretty much amazing. It is so crazy to know about 6 weeks ago she knew nothing about mormons or our church and now she is a baptized and confirmed member! THat is such a miracle. ANd it has been fun because i have been able to use my spanish in teaching her. It was funny too, we just met her one day and asked if we could come talk to her about church and then from that first visit she just loved it. It was cool working with her and seeing how much better her prayers got, and how much she really like relief society and everything. Its just amzing to be able to work around people and see how much better thier lives get from the gospel. So we made sure this baptism was going to be really nice, we got quite a few people from the ward there, and the whole spanish crew too that comes to church. Elder Larson and Cox came, and everything just went great. ANd i was blessed to have the chance to baptize her. That is such an honour to me that someone would want me to. ANd it is cool because now she is going to be focusing on the temple so she can get the work done for her dead husband and be sealed to him for time and all eternity. Wow thats just amazing. I love being a missionary!
So that was pretty much the highlight of the week. Baptizing Maria and having a wonderful service with everyone there from the ward helping and being great. Well i love you mom and keep on rocking, i miss you guys like crazy but i love being out here. I mean i have already been out here for a little over 5 months! Crazy. Love you mom and i'll hear from you next week!
Love,
Elder Ingram
Things with Elder Simmons are going great. He is going to be a really good missionary, and he and i work together well when we are teaching. He had broken his arm skateboarding before he came out, and today we are going to the doctors so he can get his cast removed. SO he is way excited for that to happen. Hmmmm any new and exciting news here in Geneva... well we are working with a few new people right now. One of my favorites is this old lady named SUe. She is super cool and she knitted me a beanie, and she is just a super nice old lady we met through doing some service at the catholic church, and now she just wants to know all about us and our church. We are working on finding more people right now too, espcially at the Hobart College campus. I think that we might be able to really find some people there that need the Lords help.
Ohhhh and the weather here is already soooooooooo dang cold. You guys would be freezing! I can't believe last week it was still almost 100, hahahah and i laughed when you said we had a big cool down and its in the 70's. That sounds oh so nice right now. It is usually in the 40's right now but it dips into those 30's and thats when it gets me cold haha. It hasn't really been snowing too much yet, but this next week it is really supposed to cool down and start snowing on us. brrrrrrrrrr i'm gonna freeze! haha pray for me
Frank is still doing well, and he is taking good care of us still. Its been good because since i have been in geneva for ahwile a lot of the people in the ward know and like me, so we are being taken care of pretty well in the ward too. Its really fun working with the ward members and they are so important in our work. So if you guys have a chance this next week, you should invite the elders over for dinner.
ALright on the Maria's baptism. It was pretty much amazing. It is so crazy to know about 6 weeks ago she knew nothing about mormons or our church and now she is a baptized and confirmed member! THat is such a miracle. ANd it has been fun because i have been able to use my spanish in teaching her. It was funny too, we just met her one day and asked if we could come talk to her about church and then from that first visit she just loved it. It was cool working with her and seeing how much better her prayers got, and how much she really like relief society and everything. Its just amzing to be able to work around people and see how much better thier lives get from the gospel. So we made sure this baptism was going to be really nice, we got quite a few people from the ward there, and the whole spanish crew too that comes to church. Elder Larson and Cox came, and everything just went great. ANd i was blessed to have the chance to baptize her. That is such an honour to me that someone would want me to. ANd it is cool because now she is going to be focusing on the temple so she can get the work done for her dead husband and be sealed to him for time and all eternity. Wow thats just amazing. I love being a missionary!
So that was pretty much the highlight of the week. Baptizing Maria and having a wonderful service with everyone there from the ward helping and being great. Well i love you mom and keep on rocking, i miss you guys like crazy but i love being out here. I mean i have already been out here for a little over 5 months! Crazy. Love you mom and i'll hear from you next week!
Love,
Elder Ingram
11/8 email
I'm doing amazing, how are you doing?! :D My new companion elder simmons is pretty cool, he is from billings montana. He used to be a skateboarder at home. He is way super excited for everything we are doing which is really cool, and anyone we see or walk by he walks right up and talks to them, so that is pretty awesome. Yeah and our last week was great we had a lot of fun. Haha holy cow though we were driving home around 9 pm, heading home, and as i was driving through an intersection some crazy lady just jumped in front of our car!!!!!!! Holy cow mom, i cranked on that wheel so hard and fast and i was just ready for us to hit her, but somehow we missed her by like a milimeter haha it was sooooooooo freaky. I know Heavenly Father was looking out for us there, because we should have ran into her because she literally just jumped in front of the car and somehow we got out of the way. Haha how bad would that have been if i actually did hit her, with Elder Simmons his 2nd day in the missionfield, holy cow that would have been bad. But i prayed for awhile that night to thank Heavenly Father for saving us and that person. WHew that was crazy.
Being a zone leader is pretty fun. My zone leader COmpanion is ELder Larson and he is just the funniest person of all time haha. He reminds me a ton of joel's companion elder bailey. Haha i love it and since we are zone leaders together we get to go travel around all the areas in our zone to see how they are doing and spend some fun time together so that is pretty fun. Being a trainer too is a little different, because i am this missionaries first view and picture of what our mission is like you know? And i just really want to do my best so elder simmons can love it out here and continure to be a good missionary throughout. So i am doing all i can to be the best trainer i can. Its pretty cool seeing how he teaches and where i can help him with it. Its a lot of fun. THis is going to be a really fun transfer. :)
Oh and yes things are still set for our baptism on the 13th! Woo Hoo its going to be amazing! haha i am just so excited because Maria is such an awesome spanish lady and she just loves and embraces the gospel. It is sooooo cool mom, i love it. And it will be a really good experience for elder simmons to participate in a baptism so early in his misison too, it will pump him up for sure. So keep Maria in your prayers, everything with it is still on track, but extra help is nice because satan is out here working just as hard.
Haha yes mom it is getting cold here. It was in the low 40's for most of last week, and it snowed a little bit one of the days. But the good thing is they have an indian summer out here, which is just some point in the winter it warms up and that's happening next week so i am way excited about that. haha i'm such a wimp to the cold, but there are so many place to get winter stuff and i already have alot so i'll be warm.
I'm sorry that jess lost her job, that is never good. WHy did that happen? I'm glad she is feeling a lot better though. It sounded like she was going to die in the last email you guys sent me about her! Maddux thinking Jesus is batman may be one of the funniest things i have ever heard in my entire life! haha holy cow that is soooo funny, i love him and reese so dang much. I look at pictures of them on my wall every night. And i can't wait to see pictures of vander, he is going to be a stud and probably punch joel in the arm in the way out like he always use to punch me. Oh yeah and mom i got my meds and the memory cards so thank you! ANd i am sending out a lot more pictures to you guys today so lookfoward to them in the mail, they are going to be awesome. Alright mom well i love you so much and keep being amazing. I have the best mom in the world i am so lucky, i love you and i'll hear from you soon!
Love,
Elder Ingram
Being a zone leader is pretty fun. My zone leader COmpanion is ELder Larson and he is just the funniest person of all time haha. He reminds me a ton of joel's companion elder bailey. Haha i love it and since we are zone leaders together we get to go travel around all the areas in our zone to see how they are doing and spend some fun time together so that is pretty fun. Being a trainer too is a little different, because i am this missionaries first view and picture of what our mission is like you know? And i just really want to do my best so elder simmons can love it out here and continure to be a good missionary throughout. So i am doing all i can to be the best trainer i can. Its pretty cool seeing how he teaches and where i can help him with it. Its a lot of fun. THis is going to be a really fun transfer. :)
Oh and yes things are still set for our baptism on the 13th! Woo Hoo its going to be amazing! haha i am just so excited because Maria is such an awesome spanish lady and she just loves and embraces the gospel. It is sooooo cool mom, i love it. And it will be a really good experience for elder simmons to participate in a baptism so early in his misison too, it will pump him up for sure. So keep Maria in your prayers, everything with it is still on track, but extra help is nice because satan is out here working just as hard.
Haha yes mom it is getting cold here. It was in the low 40's for most of last week, and it snowed a little bit one of the days. But the good thing is they have an indian summer out here, which is just some point in the winter it warms up and that's happening next week so i am way excited about that. haha i'm such a wimp to the cold, but there are so many place to get winter stuff and i already have alot so i'll be warm.
I'm sorry that jess lost her job, that is never good. WHy did that happen? I'm glad she is feeling a lot better though. It sounded like she was going to die in the last email you guys sent me about her! Maddux thinking Jesus is batman may be one of the funniest things i have ever heard in my entire life! haha holy cow that is soooo funny, i love him and reese so dang much. I look at pictures of them on my wall every night. And i can't wait to see pictures of vander, he is going to be a stud and probably punch joel in the arm in the way out like he always use to punch me. Oh yeah and mom i got my meds and the memory cards so thank you! ANd i am sending out a lot more pictures to you guys today so lookfoward to them in the mail, they are going to be awesome. Alright mom well i love you so much and keep being amazing. I have the best mom in the world i am so lucky, i love you and i'll hear from you soon!
Love,
Elder Ingram
11/1 email
Happy Late Halloween! Yeah yesterday was a pretty awesome day. We weren't allowed really to do anything for halloween yesterday, but on Friday night we were able to go to the trunk or treat with a couple of our investigators and have fun and hang out there. It was pretty awesome, we got our faces painted, and we got to talk with a lot of people and just have fun. It was pretty awesome. Especially this one guy named Wing Liu, haha he is pretty much amazing. His whole family is active but he isn't, so i am hoping we can get him coming back and i think we can. We clicked pretty good this last week with him because he is a mega dork like me and loves wizards and dragons! hahah he has read wheel of time and sword of truth and all those other fantasy books i love so much. so we talked alot about those and 2 of his daughters are even named after characters in the sword of truth series! Rachel and Kahlan, haha holy cow you have to tell joel about that one its hilarious.
ANd then on saturday i put on a special halloween district meeting, and we were all able to dress up as much as we could. Haha it was pretty sweet, i dressed up as the brawny man and i had my paper towels and i took some sweet manly pictures next to the fire. haha i'll be sending those home and you'll love them. Elder Cox and cook dressed up as nephi and the sisters were fairies... lame. haha we had the meeting up at high acres and it was pretty awesome. So i had a pretty good halloween weekend. :)
How was trick or treating with maddux and reese!? I am sooooooooooo jealous, i would have loved to gone and done that with little batman haha. THose 2 little kids are so cute and i can't wait to see what little Vander is going to look like. :)
THe work here is still going great. we found 4 solid new investigators this week and things are going well with the people we are already working with. Maria still has her baptismal date for nov 13th and she is still on for that, and Jacinda johnso quit smoking 5 days ago and she is still smoke free!!!!! woo hoo thats amazing, we have been working with her for 3 months and this is the longest she has gone and i think she is pretty much done with them. :) so pray for her, she'll need all the extra help she can get. And yesterday in church we confirmed Chris, and that was really cool.
I'm sorry to hear jessica was doing so bad after her surgery. thats not good, but atleast she is doing better now and it will be good that those tonsils are out anyways you know? Just tell sam to keep her chin up and everything will be ok, her friends are losers but she has the best family in the world. Haha and mom give austin a call because i know he will help you with your computer or atleast help you get set up witha new one ok? You guys need one for sure, especially for sam with school work too! THanks for sending out my meds and memory card momma, i haven't gotten them yet but i will soon. And don't worry about not sending me a package, they are way expensive and you guys sent me one just like a couple weeks ago!
Alright for the big new transfer news! So guess where i am going... BUFFALOOOOOOOOOOOO. Just joking, that would be wayyyy to cold and i would hate that haha. I am staying here in Geneva again for my 3rd transfer, i am way pumped about that. I really wanted to stay here, because i kinda feel like there is still more i need to do here. And guess what else, now I am the Zone Leader this transfer for the Palmyra South Zone, and guess what else?! THey are having me train a brand new elder too! haha holy moly i am going to have some stuff to do this next transfer, especially with traning the new elder but it'll be a blast. I am way excited. And Elder Westley is going to be the new assistant to the president, so he is way excited for that, and i am happy for him. :) I honestly couldn't be more happy for the next upcoming transfer, i really wanted to stay here again, and it'll be fun training a new guy, and i'll get to go check up on alot of the other areas being a zone leader which will be mega fun.
Well momma you guys can keep sending stuff to the same address i had before. I'll be here another 6 weeks so it'll be no problem. I love you guys so much and its already november, i get to call and talk to you in like 2 months!
Love,
Elder Ingram
ANd then on saturday i put on a special halloween district meeting, and we were all able to dress up as much as we could. Haha it was pretty sweet, i dressed up as the brawny man and i had my paper towels and i took some sweet manly pictures next to the fire. haha i'll be sending those home and you'll love them. Elder Cox and cook dressed up as nephi and the sisters were fairies... lame. haha we had the meeting up at high acres and it was pretty awesome. So i had a pretty good halloween weekend. :)
How was trick or treating with maddux and reese!? I am sooooooooooo jealous, i would have loved to gone and done that with little batman haha. THose 2 little kids are so cute and i can't wait to see what little Vander is going to look like. :)
THe work here is still going great. we found 4 solid new investigators this week and things are going well with the people we are already working with. Maria still has her baptismal date for nov 13th and she is still on for that, and Jacinda johnso quit smoking 5 days ago and she is still smoke free!!!!! woo hoo thats amazing, we have been working with her for 3 months and this is the longest she has gone and i think she is pretty much done with them. :) so pray for her, she'll need all the extra help she can get. And yesterday in church we confirmed Chris, and that was really cool.
I'm sorry to hear jessica was doing so bad after her surgery. thats not good, but atleast she is doing better now and it will be good that those tonsils are out anyways you know? Just tell sam to keep her chin up and everything will be ok, her friends are losers but she has the best family in the world. Haha and mom give austin a call because i know he will help you with your computer or atleast help you get set up witha new one ok? You guys need one for sure, especially for sam with school work too! THanks for sending out my meds and memory card momma, i haven't gotten them yet but i will soon. And don't worry about not sending me a package, they are way expensive and you guys sent me one just like a couple weeks ago!
Alright for the big new transfer news! So guess where i am going... BUFFALOOOOOOOOOOOO. Just joking, that would be wayyyy to cold and i would hate that haha. I am staying here in Geneva again for my 3rd transfer, i am way pumped about that. I really wanted to stay here, because i kinda feel like there is still more i need to do here. And guess what else, now I am the Zone Leader this transfer for the Palmyra South Zone, and guess what else?! THey are having me train a brand new elder too! haha holy moly i am going to have some stuff to do this next transfer, especially with traning the new elder but it'll be a blast. I am way excited. And Elder Westley is going to be the new assistant to the president, so he is way excited for that, and i am happy for him. :) I honestly couldn't be more happy for the next upcoming transfer, i really wanted to stay here again, and it'll be fun training a new guy, and i'll get to go check up on alot of the other areas being a zone leader which will be mega fun.
Well momma you guys can keep sending stuff to the same address i had before. I'll be here another 6 weeks so it'll be no problem. I love you guys so much and its already november, i get to call and talk to you in like 2 months!
Love,
Elder Ingram
10/25 email
Haha you guys are nubs and need to get a new computer!!! haha or just go to the library and ask for a guest pass. You guys should go do that, you get to use the computer for free! It's what i do and i love it. Thanks for writing me a letter anyways on jessica's phone mom, you're the best. :) So my week has been really good. Kinda interesting actuallly. Earlier this week one of Elder Cook's and Elder Westley's old investigator died, so that was really sad. Elder Cook had a baptism date with her for this sunday, but her cancer came back like crazy and her lungs collapsed. :( It was super sad, since i have done quite a bit of exchanges with the elders that were teaching her, i had been around her a bit too, and it is just wierd to know someone we were teaching and around is now gone from here. The last funeral i had been to was grandma maxine, and that was forever ago. And i was so young that i didn't really even understand what was going on you know? Elder Cook gave the eulogy for the funeral and he did awesome, they loved him like crazy. And it turned out great. :)
Anyways enough for some bummer stuff. SO Chris's baptism went through on sunday!!!!! :D It was amazing mom, haha i took some pictures and i'll be sending them home next week for the next transfer. So if you guys are sending anything, just send it to the mission office, since i could possibly be moving. Haha alrigh back to the baptism. It was amazing, a ton of people from the ward showed up so we were way happy about that. ANd we were a little stressed because we couldn't find a ride for his gma to church, or a piano player for the service. So i just prayed and asked Father, hey you know we have done all we could you know, and we have been working real hard with chris, we came and had to scrub the baptismal font for a couple hours it was so gross, and we just want this to be good for him, will You help us out and bless us with a piano player and that his gma can get a ride.
So i asked him that, and it was amazing, chris's gma showed up, and we got someone who played the piano for us because she said the spirit was telling her to do it! How epic is that, Heavenly is amazing. And so is Jesus. I love it mom, being able to be a part of his baptism, to baptize him, and see what Jesus has allowed for everyone. i mean really i could see the changes in his life that are coming up for his good choices and following Christ's example. It is soo epic to be a part of this work to literally brings souls to salvation to the Lord. I mean there isn't anything better than that. :)
SO that was good, and we got to go to palmyra again with some spanish lady and jose from our ward. it was awesome, she totally loves it, and has a baptismal date for nov 13th. And it was so funny elder westley and i went through the grove with her, and jose had to go get something in town. so we get out and jose isn't there... so i call him, and he thought we left so he was driving home! He totally left us there haha. But he came back luckily and picked us up.
So i have had a great week mama, and tell joel he must be emailing the wrong person because i haven't gotten an email from him in fooooorever! But i love you mom and have an awesome week. I haven't frozen yet, and thanks for the package! I am wearring my shoes right now and already using the coat! Thanks mom i love you!
Love,
Elder Ingram
Anyways enough for some bummer stuff. SO Chris's baptism went through on sunday!!!!! :D It was amazing mom, haha i took some pictures and i'll be sending them home next week for the next transfer. So if you guys are sending anything, just send it to the mission office, since i could possibly be moving. Haha alrigh back to the baptism. It was amazing, a ton of people from the ward showed up so we were way happy about that. ANd we were a little stressed because we couldn't find a ride for his gma to church, or a piano player for the service. So i just prayed and asked Father, hey you know we have done all we could you know, and we have been working real hard with chris, we came and had to scrub the baptismal font for a couple hours it was so gross, and we just want this to be good for him, will You help us out and bless us with a piano player and that his gma can get a ride.
So i asked him that, and it was amazing, chris's gma showed up, and we got someone who played the piano for us because she said the spirit was telling her to do it! How epic is that, Heavenly is amazing. And so is Jesus. I love it mom, being able to be a part of his baptism, to baptize him, and see what Jesus has allowed for everyone. i mean really i could see the changes in his life that are coming up for his good choices and following Christ's example. It is soo epic to be a part of this work to literally brings souls to salvation to the Lord. I mean there isn't anything better than that. :)
SO that was good, and we got to go to palmyra again with some spanish lady and jose from our ward. it was awesome, she totally loves it, and has a baptismal date for nov 13th. And it was so funny elder westley and i went through the grove with her, and jose had to go get something in town. so we get out and jose isn't there... so i call him, and he thought we left so he was driving home! He totally left us there haha. But he came back luckily and picked us up.
So i have had a great week mama, and tell joel he must be emailing the wrong person because i haven't gotten an email from him in fooooorever! But i love you mom and have an awesome week. I haven't frozen yet, and thanks for the package! I am wearring my shoes right now and already using the coat! Thanks mom i love you!
Love,
Elder Ingram
10/18 email
I'm doing amazing, how are you doing mom? And yes i am pretty cold haha. Man for 4 days this week the high was 51! That's nuts! haha holy cow it is really starting to get cold here and it usually rains when its cold too so the snow is going to be starting up soon for sure too. Holy cow i am scared haha. But thats alright, i'll have to deal with it because i'm going to be in western New York for the next 2 years. Haha not gonna lie though i am a little scared...i'm gonna freeze my butt off. Thanks for sending that package too mom, i hope you didn't think i was rushing you for it. I'm super excited to get my coat and hoodies and shoes though, its going to be amazing. Yeah i'll get some thermals here no problem, and when you do get the chance to get the thermal garments you can just get a few of them and stuff since i'll be getting some extra thermals to have. Yeah and don't worry i am buying and getting all the stuff i can so i will be warm for the next while. And don't worry i got some nice snow boots too already that are water proof and black, so i'll be able to wear those all over. they will be way nice too, especially if i am in a walking area! I have gotten some nice wool socks too and a few sweaters, i got a really nice one from megan! She is amazing. :) and i got a couple pair of gloves, a couple beanies, and a couple scarves. So i am just kinda getting what i can so i won't be an icecube haha.
SO things are going amazing with Chris. He is still on for the 24th, and we have everything almost set up and ready for it. I am so happy for him it is going to be so amazing, Elder Westley and I are doing all we can so he has an amazing experience for his baptism. All the youth form the church will be there, a ton of his family and friends are coming, and a few of our other investigators plan on coming too so things are just going to be awesome for him. I'm so happy for him, and its awesome mom, i love how happy and complete the gospel can make peoples lives. His mom is so happy he is being baptized and that they can be together forever, she just cries everytime she thinks and talks about that. Man its sooo amazing, we are so blessed to be a part of Christ's church again on the earth. I love it. :)
Things with greg are ok haha. Man that guy is crazy, the other day we went over there and it got mega weird, he started busting out and talking in tongues and stuff.... mega awkward. Haha and the even more awkward part was that he wanted us to try it too! SO we are kinda keeping our distance from that guy a little bit now, he is really nice, but its kinda sketchy haha.
Frank is still doing awesome. We had a really great time with him yesterday at church, and we went to the sacred grove and the Joseph Smith farm house with him again this weekend and it was awesome. Haha how cool is it that i can take my investigators to the exact spot where all this church history actually happened?! I mean i can say, well joseph smith saw Heavenly Father and Jesus Christ, hmmmmm right here. He saw the angel moroni, hmmmm right here in this room. He recieved the golden plates, hmmmm right here. Haha and even more! THe book of mormon, well that was published and sold, here! And hmmmm the church was reorganized right here! Holy cow its epic! Hahah i love it so much and being able to use those resources rock.
So we had a big huge mission wide meeting this week. And some serious stuff went down. There are a bunch of bum missionaries out here, so the President got everyone together and said, if you aren't going to be obedient and work hard, i am going to send you home next week. THen he told us to go to the sacred grove to pray and see where we are at. And it was awesome because i already knew, hey this is where i am supposed to be and i'll do whatever i have to to be here. So it was mega intense for some people and he is having interviews with everyone next week to see who is staying or going. But you don't have to worry about me momma. :)
I am so glad sam is alright, i was way worried about her i'm not gonna lie. That is so good. And i am glad jessica can finally get her nasty tonsils out hahah. I bet she is pumped too. And that is sooo sweet that maddux got to sleep over, and i totally knew he was going to be batman! I loved hearing him ask about me and carrying my picture around. I miss that little guy so much, haha he literally is one of my best friends. :)
Hmmm lets see if i remember a couple of the questions you asked. Yes i actually cook for myself now and clean like everything, you would be proud. I am very tidy and clean out here, i do my dishes, cook my food, do all of it! I like being district leader, haha its a little wierd be a dl over a district of only sisters, but its all good. Haha and thats all i remember, i love you mom we are going to just go around and hopefully find something fun to do for pday. I love you guys so much, keep chris in your prayers. Love you mom
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Elder Ingram
SO things are going amazing with Chris. He is still on for the 24th, and we have everything almost set up and ready for it. I am so happy for him it is going to be so amazing, Elder Westley and I are doing all we can so he has an amazing experience for his baptism. All the youth form the church will be there, a ton of his family and friends are coming, and a few of our other investigators plan on coming too so things are just going to be awesome for him. I'm so happy for him, and its awesome mom, i love how happy and complete the gospel can make peoples lives. His mom is so happy he is being baptized and that they can be together forever, she just cries everytime she thinks and talks about that. Man its sooo amazing, we are so blessed to be a part of Christ's church again on the earth. I love it. :)
Things with greg are ok haha. Man that guy is crazy, the other day we went over there and it got mega weird, he started busting out and talking in tongues and stuff.... mega awkward. Haha and the even more awkward part was that he wanted us to try it too! SO we are kinda keeping our distance from that guy a little bit now, he is really nice, but its kinda sketchy haha.
Frank is still doing awesome. We had a really great time with him yesterday at church, and we went to the sacred grove and the Joseph Smith farm house with him again this weekend and it was awesome. Haha how cool is it that i can take my investigators to the exact spot where all this church history actually happened?! I mean i can say, well joseph smith saw Heavenly Father and Jesus Christ, hmmmmm right here. He saw the angel moroni, hmmmm right here in this room. He recieved the golden plates, hmmmm right here. Haha and even more! THe book of mormon, well that was published and sold, here! And hmmmm the church was reorganized right here! Holy cow its epic! Hahah i love it so much and being able to use those resources rock.
So we had a big huge mission wide meeting this week. And some serious stuff went down. There are a bunch of bum missionaries out here, so the President got everyone together and said, if you aren't going to be obedient and work hard, i am going to send you home next week. THen he told us to go to the sacred grove to pray and see where we are at. And it was awesome because i already knew, hey this is where i am supposed to be and i'll do whatever i have to to be here. So it was mega intense for some people and he is having interviews with everyone next week to see who is staying or going. But you don't have to worry about me momma. :)
I am so glad sam is alright, i was way worried about her i'm not gonna lie. That is so good. And i am glad jessica can finally get her nasty tonsils out hahah. I bet she is pumped too. And that is sooo sweet that maddux got to sleep over, and i totally knew he was going to be batman! I loved hearing him ask about me and carrying my picture around. I miss that little guy so much, haha he literally is one of my best friends. :)
Hmmm lets see if i remember a couple of the questions you asked. Yes i actually cook for myself now and clean like everything, you would be proud. I am very tidy and clean out here, i do my dishes, cook my food, do all of it! I like being district leader, haha its a little wierd be a dl over a district of only sisters, but its all good. Haha and thats all i remember, i love you mom we are going to just go around and hopefully find something fun to do for pday. I love you guys so much, keep chris in your prayers. Love you mom
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Elder Ingram
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