Feb 13, 2012

Hey dad! Thanks so much for your email :) I loved it. I've been sick again. I'm so tired of bein sick ha I've never been sick so many times in a row in my life. I've been takin alot of vitamins and such and have it about knocked out though so it's all good. I don't know if i told you the story of the pheasant or not ha But Me and elder Lessie were driving back form delta ( about an hour drive, district training meeting ) and about 10 miles out of richfield i saw a pheasant that had been hit with a gorgeous tail so i flipped around and was gonna pull out its tail feathers but when i picked it up it was just as warm and limp as could be. Needelss to say i threw it in the car with us ha I thought elder Lessie was gonna shoot me. He didn't want to take it but luckily i'm the driver :p We took it to brother poulsons and i skinned it out super quick (we're talkin like, 6 mins.), threw the breasts and skin in the freezer and we ran to a baptism. Then last monday i cooked the breasts and ate them (they were delicious. I simmered them in cream of mushroom like mom does with dove. Mm mm mm.) I'm gonna salt the skin and mail it home. Brother poulson has pictures so hopefully i can send you one next week. Elder lessie was pretty mad but i felt good. After all sister leonard is always telling us to take time to smell the roses :) I don't think theres anything i need. All is pretty good. We got transfer calls last night. Elder Lessie is going down to st. George to be a zone leader and i'm stayin in richfield to train a new zone leader, elder richardson. Can you believe that at the end of this transfer i will have been a zoneleader for half of my mission? That's crazy. You weren't kiddin, it's unbelievable how fast the time has gone. -Elder Jer

 Hey mom! Like always i only have a minute so this is gonna be short but thank you thank you thank you for your email. Things here are goin great. We had another baptism this past weekend. Hooorraayyy baptisms! We're not having any this week but we'll have 5 more the 25th. We got transfer calls last night. Elder Lessie is going down to be a zone leader in st. George and i'm getting an elder Richardson to train to be a zl. Should be good! I'm super excited for this coming transfer. We had alot of baptims last transfer and we should have even more this transfer which is nuts. The best part is, we're finding at basicaly the same rate we're baptizing so we're "escelatoring" it rather than "elevatoring" it. It's a great time to be a missionary. Sorry this isn't longer but elder Lessie has to go pack. Love you very very much!

 Pictures: 1. Elder lessie, me and two awesome sisters that are going home 2. Our baptism of Kim. She's awesome. I forgot my baptism clothes though ha oops