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I know that we really enjoy reading your blog and I’m sure that others do too, so don’t think no one is reading it even if the don’t comment because they are. It is kind of hard to figure out how to comment on here. We have had a busy last couple of weeks and I have been pretty worthless with the pneumonia. It is getting better, but not gone completely. It is hanging on like a bulldog.
We had a lot of fun with Em and Trev, they just left yesterday, and Sean and Rachel were here until Sunday. It was a lot of fun, not to make you homesick or anything. Liam’s 3rd birthday was on Saturday and he had a blast with all the cousins. He had a BSU Bronco Cake. There was a theme of weapons with the presents for some reason, so he now has a full arsenal including a double barrel shotgun that shoots darts from Sean, a cap gun, bow and arrow, and a pirate knife. They had a club party in Danny’s room and I went in there and he was having his first slow dance with a girl (Whitney I think) so it was a big day for him. Danny took video on her phone, so I need to get it from her, it was so cute.
I have to get packed today because we are leaving for AZ tomorrow early. Hope you have a great Thanksgiving. We will try to call from the Deatons as they have SKYPE now.
Dear Grandpa and Grandma,
How are you doing on your mission? Happy Thanksgiving! Hope all is well. We had a nice thanksgiving. I helped my mom make pies. Autumn cooked the turkey. It was yummy! Guess what? We have a new puppy named Brutus. He is a miniature Dachsund. Sorry we missed your phone call. We love and miss you lots.
Love ,
Bethany
Hi grandma, how are you doing. I am doing good in school I got an a teenbis award. I whis I could come and visit you . love, autumn
Hi there! Just wanted to let you know we finally had our baby! We have a girl! She was born today, December 13th at 1:27 pm after much labor! She kept her little fist up by her face most of the time, hence not budging much! Cathy said it almost felt like I had a lip on my cervix, though everything was so soft it didn’t make much sense! Anyway, Cathy helped hold that “lip” while I pushed past it, then finally my water broke at 1:26, and she came at 1:27. She was 10 lbs 2 oz after having nursed for almost an hour, 21 inches long, 14 inch head, and 15 inch chest. She is beautiful! We will post pictures on facebook soon! We love you! It is wonderful to read about all your adventures! Now I just have a baptism to hold this Saturday! Rhiannon will be baptized at 5 pm. Mom and dad will be here, as well as Ben’s parents and his sister. Love, Colette
I finally had Tina get ahold of Tiffani so I could find your blog then I’ve been enjoying it to much by the time I get done reading I haven’t time to write! I have to get to work. We’ve changed our email at home to wireless and haven’t quite got it figured out yet. Nick will be up at Christmas and check thinks out and get us so we know what we are doing. Winter has finally arrived here. Your not missing anything just making me envious. I can really tell they certainly knew where you two needed to be. Will try to write more later.
Love you,
Nina K.
We just read your last entries. Sandi thinks all you are doing is having parties and eating, Ha Ha. Well you are great ones for making people feel good and always giving of yourselves so much. Had 12 inches of snow then a few days of rain, so almost gone. All is well here. May go to Phoenix in January to visit with Nyla and watch LaReen r un a half marathon. Think of you each day and pray for your success. Love Nyle and Sandi
Happy New Year!
We are enjoying your Blog site. It’s like living our mission over again. I was dreaming last night about going along the avenue of the Ramblas. What a pretty drive. I can picture you walking along with members and enjoying the excitement of the occasion.
As a matter of concern, I don’t know if you are reading your regular Emails, but this is to inform you that your mailbox is full and my Emails to you are not going through. I’m glad that I can use this blog site to reach you, but it limits what I can send. Maybe thats good, eh!
Any way you might use a thumbdrive to save what you want off of your regular Email and then dump the rest in the trash. Keep up the good work and enjoy, don’t feel guilty, you may never have another chance to pass that way again. We send our love to you and to all the members there. Raquel and Merlin
Merlin, thanks for writiing. Your letter came through just fine. I’m not sure why the other e-mail shows full because we deleted most everything in it! the only thing that may have done it was that I had a mission folder storing emials with information for the ysa program. Now that I have saved them to a different file not an e-mail file, it seems to be better. But Paul says that this email address with the blog site has tons of storage, so don’t be afraid to use that. For some reason the things from Fred Olsen will never download for us, and are just advertizements so don’t bother to send them. do you remember how much it cost you to ride Fred Olsen’s boat? We are going over to Gran Canaria this Friday Am. to spend 4 days with the Parkers at the Old Mission home where you used to live, and to do some site seeing. They are the CES couple for the Islands, and we are going to be opening an outreach center here, so we are going to spend some time visiting with them and learning the ropes,- although it sounds like we have a lot more activity going here than they do there. They sound a little discouraged at present. Maybe we are going over to encourage them. She says that they only have 1 or 2 that come out to home evenings etc, where we average at least 10 plus the missionaries. But we are looking forward to the trip. We visited in La Laguna last week on Sunday, so we weren’t at our ward. Everyone called to see if we were o.K.- so I guess they missed us! La Laguna had a very spiritual testimony meeting, I wanted to bear mine but there was never a break for a second. So that is great. Things are going well It seems that a lot of the discord is beginning to smooth out. But tonight at a bar-be-que we heard about how the spaniards that are no longer in positions of leadership complain that the South Americans are running the branch, and Some of the South Americans say the same thing about the Spaniards. We just assure them that this is the gospel of Jesus Christ, it has nothing to do with your nationality. The first couselor in our branch is south american. So it really is a nice mix of both. Those that are fuerte, are very fuerte, and those who are looking for an excuse,to be inactive can find something to gripe about if they look hard enough. But all and all the gospel is strong and the people are happy and growing. We send our love. Ron and Nancy
Hi Nyle and Sandy, We appreciate you writing. Sorry to be so slow to answer. You are right, it does seem at times that all we do is feed people, play and have parties, and activities! It’s a shame , Huh? You could enjoy this type of mission,Sandy, right?
But all kidding aside, we do do a lot of those things because the general authorities in ou Area have requested us to have an outreach center for the young single adults to (1) help them strenthen their testimonies through institute, home evenings etc, (2) help them stay active in the church through a support system and good wholesome activities, (3)encourage missionary work, and provide a place where the lessons can be taught to single young adults, and where they can come for fellowshipping. And where the YSA’s can assist in the missionary discussions. (4) To encourage friendship and eventually Temple marriages among the group.
Many days we feel like we are spinning our wheels, but most of the time we are pretty busy, and are trying to do our best. Ron says I have to quit having a guilt trip about all of the work we can’t get done, and just do our best and enjoy the experience! I worry about every sweet person that passes by on the street, and if we should have tried to tell them about the gospel. It’s hard to do even when you are full time missionaries. Most of the time the best referral are those of the friends and families of the member. How is you son enjoying being home, Sandy? How did he like Idaho? Write when you can. We love you tons. Were you ever able to access our pictures etc? Just type in andrewsmission.com in the address window. It works best under msn, but not the search window. Love ya lots
Happy New year!
Dear Andrews,
We are enjoying your website. We want to send you two things. An e-mail copy of our Christmas letter, but we need a regular e-mail address so we can send it as an attachment. The kids in Seminary wrote you a group letter, and we want to send it to you hard copy, so we need a mailing address. Our e-mail is jsshull@gmail.com. Thanks, Love
Joe and Sandy Shull
Hi. I’m not good at this blog thing but hope I am doing it right.
Thanks for have a site where we can get updates on what you are doing. It appears that your being there is going to help a lot, not only with the members and investigators but with Branch leadership understanding.
Believe it or not, I have been assigned to be your home teacher so hopefully I will get at least a short message to you each month. Things are going good here. Kevin and Cathy Searle have bought 3 acres of our land so we hope to see them as new neighbors when they get their house built. Last I heard they are planning to have your son help with the building.
The longer you are on your mission, the busier you will be so keep up the good work.
Love, Pete
We just said our goodbyes to my other parents today. It’s official, we’re orphans. I’m a baby and miss you guys lots. We talked to Rachel and she wants to go on our trip to see Cheri too so this should be a fun trip for the girls. We are hoping Tif will be able to find somebody to do her daycare so she can come too. I rode up with Trevor’s aunt this morning for class but she doesn’t leave to go back until 6 so I’ve had a long school day but I’m a week or two ahead now so that’s good. Did you get the pictures?
We had Brynnlee’s apointment the other day and she’s doing pretty well. She’s started saying a little bit. It sounds like she is saying “Mo” for more when she wants something and she now can say “Off” when she wants her coat off. Oh yeah, she said “eye” the other day and pointed to her eye. The doc said if she doesn’t pick it up in the next few months to call him so we can see about a speech therapist. I hope she figures it out. Well we love you and can see all the good you’re doing from your postings.
Lots of love,
Emily, Trevor, and Brynnlee Jones
Hi, Ron and Nancy! It’s so interesting to hear bits and pieces about your mission from our common family link, the KIDS! This new scype program is amazing! Since I’m one of the “oldies” who grew up before computers, it’s hard to believe you can actually see and visit with each other half-way across the world like that. But it is wonderful to know the gospel is being taught “to every nation, kindred, tongue and people.”
Keep up the Lord’s work! Love, Lucy
We just got back from enjoying a few days at the condo. The best part was being able to go into the Spokane temple a couple of days. Saturday Jan 30th the name I took thru was one of the family names of a lady from Kooskia Idaho. Not only that her name was Nina Tanner! So needless to say you have been on my mind and couldn’t wait to get back to a computor to tell you about it. Do you know her? Now it’s back to work. Sure glad you take after Mom and keep us informed.
Love Nina K.
Hi Nina! I don’t know Nina Tanner well, but there are some friends of ours in the other ward that her maiden name is Tanner. Nina may be her sister who moved here recently. I’ll bet you enjoyed going to the temple. We should be getting ready to go this month. Our branch adults are going to Madrid Spain for a week at the temple about the 23rd I think. W just couldn’t quite see our way clear to spend that much right now as we have had a number of other expenses lately, and it takes us away from our responsibilities at our center for young adults again. We have had a lot of conferences and meetings lately. But we will go the next time. The residents are able to fly very cheaply, where it cost us a lot more. They go for a week and stay at the hostel on the temple grounds and do sessions all day long for a week. When our mutual age kids went and spent a week they did over 4,000 baptizms the first day, we found out. It was a record. We had a flood here on monday. It was rather exciting to watch from above, as the streets turned to rivers! No one was hurt, but there were areas of the city where streets caved in and store fronts broke and filled up with mud and rocks! It rained over 12 inches in one day. Everything here slopes towards the sea, so the streets filled with water rapidly. We didn’t know anything was going to happen until the Elders called and said that we were all to stay in off the streets.
Well I guess I should be writing all of this on the blog site too. So forgive me if a repeat myself. Cheri’s baby is due so I need to call her. Rickie has been a lot of help to her. She has been having some problems with this pregnancy. The girls are going to go up and see if they can help her for a couple weeks. Well we send our love. Ron and Nancy
Hi, Ron and Nancy, I have been searching for Ron’s webpage for weeks finally asking Sean and he mentioned to look under Nancy and here you are. Greg and I have been wondering how you are doing and all we have to do is read it here and we can get a good idea of your activities. We are thinking about and praying for you often. Greg and I send our love to you both. Your Ward has a new Bishopric in case you haven’t heard. All is well with us, Greg’s busy repairing cars as he was when you left only now with the dealership up and running he is on the auction site regularly and his finger is hitting that mouse button more often than ever. See you when you get back. Love, Greg and Michelle
Hi Ron and Nancy , this is the fourth attempt tosend E mail. We enjoy reading your missionary journal. Looks like you are doing a great work The area looks beautiful and what nice scenery. Congrats on the new grandson. You are way ahead of us now. We just finished redoing the basement of our house. Looks pretty good. Hope to sell this yr. We plan on moving to the Cottonwood area in Az if it sells. Would be closer to some of our kids and the weather wouldn,t be too bad either. Sandi has a new baby (dog ) tea cup pomeranian. She is cute, named Bella , all black. No winter this yr. Only snow for a few days. Love you both, Nyle and Sandi