Boat Loads of Pictures

Levi sent home some 100 plus pictures. I cyphered through them and found some very good ones. Here they are.

His heart is in the right place

I love this one so much!

I love this one more!!!

This has no relevance to Levi at all, but I think he is pretty.

Apparently it flooded.

In case your eyes don't work to well, this is a teeny, tiny frog.

Remember the message of the bus as you go about your day.

August 6

Hello family,

How are things going for you? I haven’t received the package yet, it should come this week. Thanks again. We had that baptism last week, and it was good. Zone conference was fun, and we played football last Monday with the elders in Trinidad. It was great to get out and run for sports, it has been a while since I have done it. I am pretty sure I’m losing weight, but slowly.

We are teaching some great families, and they look really promising. In the mission we are really striving for every companionship to baptize every month, and it is really helping everyone to focus on accomplishing that goal. There were 106 baptisms this last month, and things were really good, and many of our members are helping us with the work.

I am having some tech problems with the speed of the internet. I haven’t read you emails, I know that I have them, but I haven’t had enough time to read them. I will probably send this via hotmail. I hope that everything is going as well as they usually are. I found out last Friday that the mission is trying to get rid of office elders for the most part. They are always at the office, and they don’t have the time to go out and do missionary work, as much as they should. Things are going well for us in the mission though. I could not complain about anything.

So is Billy going to a lacrosse camp this summer or Kristie? I sure hope to have some competition when I return. I need to get back into shape. I not exactly out of shape, but that sounds familiar. I have been saying that for a long time. I hope you have been enjoying the picture that I have been sending home. I have a bundle more, and it is becoming difficult to catch up, maybe I’ll send a package home with a cd of all the pictures with it. I finally caught up to the pictures in Trinidad. So I would probably have more in response, but I haven’t read you emails yet. Thanks again I love ya can’t say I miss ya. well bye bye

July 9, 2007

Things are going well. I received transfer calls this week, and I am staying and not going to the office. I am training this next transfer. that will be fun. I don't think that it will be anything like the last person that I trained, but either way it will be good. I have been keeping incredible track of my food intake, and it has helped me eat better. I am still eating plenty.

Speaking of which. I nearly died last Friday. oh gosh it was the absolute worst food that I have ever had. I have no idea how it was fed to us. it is called choo choo. It was so hard to eat. By far the hardest thing that I have had to eat in my life. the fish, onions, tomatoes were the better part of it. oh gosh I will never forget that meal. I found out some of the families children don't even like it. So we got stuck with it. I ate as much as I could, and I gaged a little bit once. It was a good thing they left a pitcher of Koolaid right in front of us. they are a cool family. it is going to be crazy this Tuesday, we are going to some of the members for Elder Morris, my comp, and we are going to be fed 4 different times in less than7 hours. it is going to be quiet the challenge, because no one feeds us just a little, and even if you just ask for a little they are going to pile it on there.

Yesterday was a cool. president Robinson came to our branch, and joined in for the day. It was cool, and a little odd as well. I almost know that I am going to be an office elder in the nearby future. From what I understand president say that "Elder Balling's fate is sealed." so he knows that I can work with computers, and they are going to send me there in the future. it will be fun. But first I train and what not. it is going well, and let me know if there is anything I can do for the family. oh yeah I ran into someone that sells anime down here. it is about 1.60 for a DVD. so I bought a few. I won't watch them, but I will send them home or something.

I love ya can't say I miss ya.my time is up have a great day.

Sent June 4th

Hello
I'm in trinidad now. It is completely different. There is over a million people in the country. It is really cool. My apartment is a huge improvement. I have a crockpot, popcorn popper, blender, a 6 burner stove, a badet (or whay I call crap shooter), hot water, 4 matresses on my bed now, and I live in a 2 floor apartment. oh goodness things are really different here. it seems that I am back in the states. Though there are a lot of differences it is just such a difference from a 3rd world country.

Well, I read dad's email, thanks for the reminder I nearly forgot. ha ah. Well I can get basically anything in this country when it comes to food. They have grocery stores like Albertson's and stuff. I have one of the coolest areas. We had a baptism the week before I got there, and we will have one by the end of this month. there are some really cool people. My first day i ate by 2 different people. it was cool. I had homeade Ice cream. The members are really nice here, and there is just so much going on. as far as converting the muslims that is a little more difficult now. the first presidency put out a message to everyone that if we are to baptize a muslim convert or someone with parents of that faith we are to receive permission, and they are to not be under any threat of death upon there return home. I think there has been some problems with it. there isn't any fear for me to be here, I have talked with a lot apeople of that faith, and most are very kind, but firm in there beliefs, as far as the bad ones, there used to be one here, but is wanted by the cops here, that is the terrorist. so there isn't to much going on. if they are in guyana, well nothing is in guyana, and there is tons of people that would hate them, and would probably kill the terrorist if he was caught. oh well it isn't much anyway.

Oh, I also have 4 fans in this apartment, and AC, but the ac doesn't work.another weird thing is I am in an internet cafe, and they have a big picture of some anime that I liked back at home. it is just weird, but they do have anime down here, and I found out that the recent convert, watches it from time to time. My companion hates it too. he is cool about it though. He wants to go into a architech career field, and he may design a house for me. it is weird downhere, and I could be in one area, and call into houses for hours, and not get into one. then go to a next area, and everyone lets us in. well, will stay in one part.

It works better as far as a package is concerned, I probably doesn't need to much; just a stick of body glide would be nice, I don't walk as much here, and the temperature is cooler. it has rained everyday since I have been here, there is no chance of flooding here. they have a mountian, yeah, I'm having fun, and the work is going well. I share the same church with the office elders, and theAssisants.

Well, I love ya can't say I miss ya. I am getting comfortable, here my comp is cool, works very effectively andsmart, which is a good difference from my last comp, this one is really quiet. really quiet, but we have some good conversations. well bye bye I didn't say to much about the baby. I'm looking forward to seeing hinata. there is one down, now ted needs to get on the ball. bye

Father's Day

I know there are pictures to go with this but I was asked to watch the phones while one of my coworkers is at a meeting. I thought it would be too presumptuous to save pictures to here computer.

Anyway here is Levi's letter. Thanks for reading

Things are going great. I had a really good day yesterday. It is great to work with members. the pictures of hinata looks good, yeah it is fun here, there are only the 2 of using the apartment it is cool. The address is the usual address they have a slip that they can use, I'm not to sure how it is all ran. in the picture riley senthe looks really tired and out of it. it all works so chris leaves in a week fun. oh well I'll see him in 2 years. that is good,1 down and 2 to go. yeah my comp is really fun, he has a different sense ofhumor. he talks cars a lot, and he hates japanese cars, and anime. I am goingto get a japanese dictionary here. it is really cheap about 12-13 dollars US. it will all work out. I have know Idea how to budet with so many things to buy, it is horrible. especially since my comp doesn't buy anything in the store, sohe eats at the really tasty street vendors, and places. we have a credit cardso I can swipe it, it is bad. I don't think that I need anything else other that what I have said, and Idon't even know what I say. so it works out alright. so kayla is getting readyfor school this next year, riley just had a kid, ted in china, billy workingwith dad, kristie don't know what she is doing. I think she is working for dada little, that is cool. I am sending a bunch of pictures. I uploaded apicture of a mouse. my zone leaders found a mouse in there apartment, and ithad eaten poison so it was dieing in pain, so they humanily put it in a jar, andfilled it with water. hmm. then the following week, I kill a mouse with acutlass it was fun. I got it on camera, sort of. it was fun.well I love ya can't say I miss ya. there is so much for me to do, and solittle time. healthy eating is becoming more and more of me. it is a goodthing. I made up some goals for the next year. it will be fun. to reach them. bye bye happy father's day dad.cool that was fun.

April Something or Other

hello once again yeah I have been thinking a bit of lacrosse, but there are reasons for that. don't worry i have just recieved some reading material, and I spent 2 hrs.reading it last night, Joseph Fielding Smith was a really smart guy, and what I am reading will motivate me to strive to be as perfect as I can, what the purposes of it are. it is good, merciless to my companion you don't even know. ha ha ha ha. I feel that I have acomplish my goal. my companion is still here so that was the greatest accomplishment that I could do. in short, he had a good case of homesickness. that is in the past, and now he is going to the islands, and receive a little more medical treatment, but is doing fine. this is the last week of the transfers, and I beleive that I will be staying in this mission, and then move to some where else. I do plan on refocusing my efforts as a missionary this next transfer. I have been told that I will have a self-relible companion. That will take a good load of my back, and focus a bit more. Mother don't worry I know how to buget my money. I am just carefull. I would hate to go over. I still have plenty of money for food for the rest of this transfer that I don't know what I should do with it. I am doing ok when it comes to eating well. I just eat little to well. I havealso seen the importance of taking care of your body to receive spiritualtruthes in the world. and that when near to perfection after the resurrection, the closer one to perfection is going to have to wait on the other companion. So father and mother, hmmm I wonder who will be waiting on who. ha ha hah ah jk.I wonder if that joke made to much sense. I thought it was funny. well yeah there is a great family that we are teaching, and we are preparinganother person to recieve to preisthood, and some one that I have been teachingthe last 4 monthes recieve the higher preisthood last sunday, so it has beengood. I had something on my mind that would have like to be sent. So far I thinkthat I would mainly like to have the conference CDs, and perhaps the hymns, andchildren primary songs. I may order them this next transfer. If I order thingsfrom the church here, I receive a half off discount. Well I will tell you who my new comp is this next transfer is and where Ishould be I think that I will be here, but I don't know yet. If I stay I shouldbe leaving after the next transfer. I have been in guyana for a while. well Ilove ya can't say I miss ya.things are going well here, have fun and I still think of lacrosse, but I viewit as a future thing, for example I think that i may be a High school physicsteacher, and own a lacrosse store to proved more of an income for my family. Ihave also been talking with some of the couples down here, and they have workedup in idaho for schooling, and they have told me that I could have a job therein a heart beat. so, it is the same with montana. the land value in montana isa lot less than utah at this point, and it would be nice to be able to afford areasonable home for a family, but I am still just a simple missionary, andthings are to be done in wisdom and in order. bye bye family



This is a picture of Trevor? Who ever that is. Levi just forwarded it to us. Its in the Azores

Hello? Is It Me You're Looking For?

Apparently the only reason I keep posting on the blog is I get some weird intrinsic motivation. I came to this conclusion when after last week when I begged and pleaded for comments I got none. This could be for one of three reasons. One-nobody reads this blog; this is sad, but probably true. Two-You do not know how to leave a comment. Let me answer this for you. First you double click where it says comment at the bottom of each entry. You will be asked to fill in some information, this is so no spam or random people leave mass advertisements. It will ask for your email and to identify some funny looking letters. Now you have no excuse and the joy you will bring me is totally worth the effort. Three-you are just a random blog surfer and you have no clue who I am, why I blog, and what the weird pictures are all about. If this is the case I invite you to leave a comment, because heaven knows none of my family and friends are.

In hopes to entice people to visit I Jazzed up the blog a bit. I got rid of the scrolly boring blog and came up with a happy blog. yippee for me!!!

I was going through some random pictures and I thought the following were note worthy.