Sat 11/28/09

Subject: Harry your a live and a horrable shot.

How is my fam. that loves me so. lol. well things are good. After Elder Walker came we (the office Staff) are not going to be staying up past 10:30pm. we are to be in bed by then. I tell you i have never been so happy to go to bed by 10:30. So we just got 4 new computers for the office and they are a huge pain in my butt. We have been spending a lot of time just trying to get them to work right. I told them if they wanted to fix the problem they just needed to get macs. I never told you that this year for our Christmas Conf. for the mission we are having it in the Capitol building. Thats going to be sooooooooo Sweeeeeeeet. its on the 16th of Dec. it will be so much fun. So yesterday E. Averett and i went to the mission home and helped Sister Albright put up her new Christmas treeand everything on it. That was fun. We really didn't get to go and work to much this week. I had a good Thanksgiving. It was just not the same. It didn't even feel like Thanksgiving. I still had a lot of good food. It is really cold right now. I mean really cold. I got my kilt. It is very nice. So we are going to try to go bowling. it will be fun. we are still moving a lot of elders and sisters to their new apt. we have 2 that we are going to be moving next we. I hate stairs. well thats about it for now.
Love elder Thomas Scoble

SAT 11/21/09

Just to let you know im still Digsting so my kung fu

might not be as good as...later.

So how is it going in the really world? things are good. So being a office elder is a lot of work. Some nights we don't get to bed until like 3:00am. it hard to get up at 6:30 with three and a half hours of sleep. But we do it. Some day we stay and work at the office all day. I have been working on the Christmas Yearbook. I a book that we put out every year at Christmas With name and Pictures of all the missionary in the field. We also put their mailing address. its really nice to have. it helps you keep all that stuff in one place. Im all most done with it. We didn't get to go work to much this week(like tracting and things like that). We did have a really good lession with a new invest. Hes name is Victor. We found him tracting and he asked us to come in and have some chille. So we did and we talked about the BOM. We gave him one and asked if we could come back. So we did. So when we sat down to start to talk, his roommate come in and asked if he could sit in on the lession. We were like ya. His name is George. So Victor started asking some questions. and we did are best to anwser them. They were really good questions. We both gave solid testimony and told them what to do to find out if its true. Then at the End George gave the closing prayer. It was a really good pray. I feel like he was really putting his heart in to it. We need to Call them soon. We have a new convert that we go by and see every so often. His name is Larry Clouse. He is going thourgh a really really really hard time. Lets see he has had his power turned off, money stolen, 3 Million dollars in debt that is not his, and he has a 5 day eviction notice. Lets just say that it a little hard for him. It doesn't help that he is so judgemental and prideful. I just pray that he come out better in the end. So we had Elder Walker of the Seventy. it was so good. I took a lot of notes. He told us how to get our invests. to church. and things that we can do to make ourself better missionarys. We did have to go and move the Kellers out of their apt. The Kellers were with me in Falls Church. They were the Seinor couple there. No joke Pro-mover right here.lol that is like the 3 move we have had to do. They had a lot of heavy crap. Its pritty sweet to get to be around Prez. all the time. The APs are our roommates. E. Ross and E. Gifford. E. Gifford told us(the office Elders) that we are like printers. We get everything done and with out being noticed until something go wrong.LOL you know that is so true. Well thats about it for now.
I love you all and miss you.
Love Elder Scoble

SAT 11/14/09

Subject: Holy crap its a cat!!

So im a office elder. wow its a lot of work. I don't have a lot of time to do just about anything. We don't even get to go tracting or teaching for the most part. we spend a lot of time in the office and divering all of the mission or working on the Mission computers. I was called to be a office elder because Our Bishop and stake Prez. were telling Prez. Albright that i was good on computers. So would you tell them thanks.JK lol. We take the missionarys places if they need too. Today at 5:00am we had to get up so that we could take a missionary to the airport. He was going home for the 2nd time because of health. I don't think he will come back out. We deliver all kinds of stuff to everyone. We move missionarys to there new appts. if they are moving. We did that today. Our Pday is on Sat. We also live with the AP. so on the friday after transfer we that is office Elders and the APs get to sleep in because of how little we get that week. The APs got about 2 hours of sleep a night the Whole week of transfers. So they let us sleep a little longer that day. Every night we get in between 10:30 and 12:00 and sometimes later like 2 or 3 in the morning. We don't get to sleep very much. I get to drive the mission Van and Truck and ever other car in the mission. and I some times have to drive the cars all by my self. Thats really weird not having your comp. in the car with you. its fun still. And now im no longer on a bike. I just hope not to lose my Thunder Thighs.LOL I get to be around Prez. and Sis. Albright a lot. I seem to be one of the only missionarys in the mission that know how to work Macs. They only have one. I had to fix it yesterday and im still not done with it. I told them that if they wanted to fix all the computers they just need to get Macs. Im going to tell you now I don't think i will be getting you all a letter ever week this transfer. We don't have any time. The time that we do have we spend trying to get some sleep. Well thats about it for now. I love you and miss you like i miss people that use Macs.
Love Elder Thomas Scoble

Wed 11/11/09

Subject: ‘If I'm not back in five minutes... wait longer!’

So we have been working hard. We are trying to get all kinds of good things to happen here. Im going to be transfered. Im going to Be a Office Elder. I will be with Elder Averett. I will call him Avie-baby.lol. It will be a lot of work. I will work a lot on the computers and become a pro mover. I will get to work a lot with Prez. Albright. I hpoe to do a good job. So we went and had a lession with one of our invests. and it was a good lession, but the member were trying to say what we were saying was not true. We knew that what we were saying was right. The member just didn't want to step on anyones toes. I don't think that them trying to hide things from them that they don't like is going to help them. We have been working really hard with a less-active part member fam.the Donleys. we have been able to get them to church the last coulpe of weeks. and we are trying to get them to take the lessions. So we are still teaching Jan. We had a really good lessions with her on Sunday. We just stayed at the church and watched the rez. video with her. she was saying that She feels just like Joesph Smith did. and she is going to be baptixed soon. It just sad that i wont be there to see it happen. I know that she will be left it good hands. Yvonne is kind of falling off the map. The Member is trying to find out what is going on with her. So we had this way sweet thing happen. We went to go see a former invest. and she was just leaving. she was like im going to be right back and im not doing anything. Can i come with you and go teach people. We were like ya you can. So we took her to a coulpe of lessions. That was fun.

MON 11/2/09

Subject:Can i ride you home? I mean can i give you a ride home?

So things are good. We had a fun week. Things are going good. we are teaching a lady named Jan. She is great. She is the one the called and told us that she wented to be baptized. The lession was so great with her. we tought her about the Godhead and she said "Stop....i have know that my whole life now Explain it to me." We then gave her a calender that we made and told her that we wented her to do all the things on the calender and that we had prayed about a date that we think that she should be Baptized. Then we Said that we weren't going to tell her but that we wanted her to pray and find the anwser for herself. She said she would do it. Then we did the samething with this lady named Yvonne. She said that she would do it too. it great to see thing start to happen. So for Halloween we went to the church and watched a movie as a Zone. It was a lot of fun. We watched Kung Fu Panda. We are still trying to find more. If the people we are teaching do get baptized we wont have anyone to teach. Well thats about it for now. I love you all and miss you.
Love Elder Thomas Scoble

Elder THS

I am going to start this Blog for Thomas to try and keep everyone up to date on him. I will post all of his letters each week and any pictures that I get. I am hoping to get a few pictures. As of right now I don't have any pictures so I am just going to post all of his letters from the beginning of his mission until now. When I get pictures I will add them in.

Just in case you don't have his address and want to write him here it is:

Elder Thomas H Scoble
5242 Lyngate Ct.
Burke, VA 22015

MON 10/26/09

Subject:I've seen a lot of crap in my life...but that...was

......AWESOME!!! Sorry about your car man.

So how are things. We are just having people call us and tell us that they want to get baptized. No joke. Our ward had our Halloween party Sat. and it was great. they had like 10 non-members there. Then 2 that went to the party came to church Sunday. Then after chuch Jan (a new invest.) called us and told us that she wants to be in our church. She has be looking for a church. The member that has been working with her has done a absolute Great job getting her really to meet with us. I gave this lady a blessing. we have an appt. with her this week. It is so get. then the other lady that came loved church and said that she wants to go again next week. She said that she wants to meet and get the lession. things are looking good. One of our invests. that we haven't been able to meet with we are meeting with this week. Things are really lookin good. The lord is blessing us. I just want to do my best to show that im willing to work for these things. We have this one lady that we are going to teach, she is a security guard. There is like 8 Members that live in this place. She was mad that none of the members told her about conf. so she went and printed out all the talks. We are going to go and ask her if she wants to be baptized. We have this one family, the spars. we haven't been able to meet with ether.So we just stoped by and he was like i let you in for 2 mins. i don't have a lot of time. 25 mins. later we are still talking about all kinds of things. E. Laughren is just want they needed. They went us to come back before he leaves. things are great.thanks for all the support Everybody. Sorry for missing your B-days. I did get cards I sent them today. I didn't time to get them. We have applebees. That would be good. Mom Send me Tylers Mailing stuff. Or Tyler you give it to me. Thats about it for now. I got to go. I love you all and miss you like E. laughren misses his alotment.LOL No joke.

Love Elder Thomas Scoble

MON 10/19/09

Subject: I love the Dark, I love the Dark, But i hate Nature, I hate Nature.

Things are good we had a good week. We work really hard. It was good. I don't get why we can't get any appt. with our invests. we try all kinds of things to try to meet with them. so have you ever gone biking donw hill in the rain and in 40 Degrees Weather. Let me tell you THAT IS REALLY REALLY COLD!!!!! I couldn't feel my fingers. We tought 14 lessions. We had a Lession ever half hour From 4-9. we were on full exchanges to get them all done. Happy B-Day Mindy i do have a card for you I just have to go buy it.LOL I Emailed so late because I didn't get my Pday tell then. a lot of stuff came up so we couldn't have it when it was going to happen. Dad you most have thunder thughs too.LOL Thats why you are so fast.LOL. I don't know what you should give me for my B-day. Holy Crap Im going to be 20. we have zone conf. this week.Thats about it for this week. so i love you and miss you like poor people miss money.

Love Elder Thomas Scoble

THU 10/15/09

Subject: (big crash) that still only counts as one.

Hello how are you doing? Things are good we are working with a lot of the members to get them to want to do the new ward mission plan. We have been doing a lot of tracting and street contacting. We have talked to 342 people so far this week and we still have 4 days left this week. we want to get over 500. We met this lady she is so ready for the gospel. She has been questioning her church. She is seeing that the things that her church is doing is wrong. We got an appt. We went to the appt. and she was not there. We called her and she said that she was not going to make it. She said she would call us or we could call her. i still think she will want to learn. On Sunday we had 13 lighting visits. we were way befind on lessions. we even got a lession with a non-member there. it was a good day. We had this one lession with this lady named Fadmada. we watched a video with her. She really liked the video. we are going to go and teach her more. Then we leave the lession and we start to head to a members home and see if we could get a ride home. then this teen pulls up and asked if we needed a ride some where. E. Laughren was like ya lets go. I don't think i would have taken the ride if he wouldn't have said yes. It was all good. We just talked about Missionary work. It was great. I love you and miss you. I may send a little more later. I got to go.
LOve elder Thomas Scoble

MON 10/5/09

Subject: You call that a knife? Now this is a knife.

So things are good. I sent the lazer pen home today. So things are going great with Elder Laughren. He is a lot of fun. He really wants to make his last full transfer a good one. We really want to see baptisam and get the ward pumped to do missionary work. So we were out tracting and this lady saw us coming and was coming to tell us to go away and we told her that we where here to just help her out and asked if we could do any service for her. she said that her hand rail could use some paint. We said DONE. So we got her name and number and are going back this week. that was fun. then yesterday we were tracting and the last house of the night.(Why is it always the last house) this lady came and said that we were there late. so we talked for a bit. Elder laughren is a really good musican and asked if he could play something for her. She is also a musican. She said maybe some other time. so we said how about friday. She also knows the members that live right there. We will see how that goes. Her name is Dee.General conferencee was great. My fav. was Hollands talk. We did got to watch all of it. The Priesthood session was really good too. so I don't know is someones toilet blew-up or what but this joint smells like crap. it really makes me want to blow chunks. So i found out that elder Laughren is training me to be a district leader. I hope that i can do that. Thats a lot of work. that also means that i will be staying here in falls Church for at lest one more transfer after this, because E. Laughren will be going home. So that means i will be on a bike for 9 MONTHS if not more. WOW. I'll be able to kick a football from here to DC.LOL. Well thats about it for now. I love you and miss you lots.

Love Elder Thomas Scoble

WED 9/30/09

Subject:AAAAAAAAHHHHHH!!!!! Hey it would be really

cool if you didn't tell any one that i scream like that.

So it was a good week. we had a lot of miracles. We are now teaching a Mother and daughter. They are great. we are teaching them in a members home. that is ready making the lessions better. We are teaching the mom for the most part. Cassie the daughter has said that she wants to be baptized. The mom think she needs to be 18 to choose to do that. We would have had another lession with them they had somethings come up. so on Sunday when we got home from church we pray for a Miracle. so we go out. so we went to a random street. we knock a couple and nothing. We see some people parking their car. It is raining very hard at this point. the guy tells me that it is raining , I say I know and we love it. They thought that was funny. He asked us to come with him up to the porch to get out of the rain. so we did. We started to talk about the church. He asked a lot of questions. He wanted a BOM. He doesn't live in our area so we passed on the info. That was great to see. But thats not all. The very next door is a lady named Jinny. She asked us to come in and she gave us something to drink. She started asking a lot of questions. Then she started testifing to us about things that she had seen come from the Mormon Church, and the happiness she had seen in the members lives. We are going to go back and teach her more. Then later we met this lady named Jeru. She wants a BOM in Amrharic. That was all in one day. The lord does answer prays. One of the Sister Missionary said that our prays as missionary have the power to call Miracle and get them. It is so great to be a missionary. then the other day the first person we talk to asked us to come in and tell him about the BOM. Things are getting good. We had some really funny stuff happen too. We helped push some ladys car out of the middle of the road. We stopped and talked to a very very very smelly Hobo that said that he was a member of the church. He said that it was the worst 17 years of his life. Have looked at your life right now you are homeless. HELLO!!! LOL. We also met this guy from Ghana that was trying to tell us how a baby is born. Let me tell you It was jacked up.LOL I found out that i'm staying in Falls Church. I'm getting Elder Laughren. I have worked with him before. He is a lot of fun. He will be the District Leader. E. Holmstead is going to be a Zone Leader. Well thats about it for now. I love you all and miss you like Tyler misses me. LOL

LOVE Elder Thomas Scoble

MON 9/21/09

Subject: what That horrible Stench? Its FANTASTIC!

How are you all doing? so this was a good week. Still don't have any one that we are teaching. We still did a lot. We tought Seminary this week. That was fun. It was really early. We tought theplan of Salvation. We had then act out some of the stuff it was fun. I think they liked it. We did have something weird happen. We were tracting this street and everyone on it was saying that we had just been there like last week. Then letter down the street we met this guy named Kevin. He was like you guys are early. we were like what? then he tells us that two guy just like us had been here last week and that his wife had made dinner plans for them. This guy is not a member. So we talk for a bit and then go on our way. He was very nice. We still didn't know who was tracting in our area. So we call the Zone and ask. No one had been there. Well later this guy comes and finds us and tells us that his wife didn't set and time for the other guy to come to dinner and that they just wanted us to come. So we are like OK. So now we just have to set a day and time. Crazy right? One day we met this crazy Asian lady. She was telling us that life is an illusion, that she was not from this world. i asked her for her name and she said "it doesn't matter, Im not really here." Lady what kind of drugs do they have you on?! She had a lot more stuff that she dished out. we met a lot of wierd people this week. Like a couple of crazy catholic people and athiest. Elder Holmstead ran over a huge pile of dog crap and got punched in the you know what by a 4 year old. It was just a good week. this one day we met this lady Named Grace. she asked us if we had eaten yet and we told her no and she said come on in i'll make you dinner. so she made us dinner and we talked for a long time. She will be writting you a letter. She already emailed Elder Holmsteads family. I tell you what Lazer pens are the best things ever. I did tell you i got one didn't i. It was a $200 lazer pen that i got for $28, Kids and animals are the most fun thing to play with the Lazer. Prez. Albright is getting one. He thinks that they are great. NO JOKE. Well thats about it for now i love you and miss you lots.

Love Elder Thomas Scoble

MON 9/14/09

Subject: What is your fav. color. Red No Blue YAAAAAAAA

So how are things? This was not a very good week for us. All of our invest. dropped us. we don't have any one that we are teaching right now. so have be tracting like no tomorrow. Sat. it just seemed like no one wanted to talk at all. It was just a bad week. there was one good thing that happened this week. One of the members (Sis.Beck) brought a non-member to stake conf. She asked us to give her a blessing. She felt the spirit so strong. she didn't feel the pain in her neck. Sis. beck told her that was the spirit. She is so good. Sis. beck is very happy. I feel fine. The weather has been great its been in the 70s. Well thats about it for this week. I will talk to you all later.
I love you and miss you lots.
Love Elder Thomas Scoble

TUE 9/8/09

Subject: don't pick your nose in front of me. Im not picking im scraching.

So how are things? Things are good here.Elder Holmsteads Meetings are greating better. i think he did a really good job this last week. One of our invest. we asked to be baptized and she said yes. it was so great. we didn't set a date will do that the next time we have a lession. We are hoping to start teaching her whole family. They all seem like they want to learn. we have dropped a lot of people. we have dropped like 4 or 5 people. we are trying really hard to find new ones. No one has been very nice. So we had this guy that wanted us to call him back and talk to us sowe did. He was a Jehovah Witness that wanted to bash. Elder Holmstead talked a lot longer then i would have. there was this great miracle that happened. we had an hour until a member was going to pick us up to go to appts. so we prayed to see a miracle. so we go to this random street and there are only 2 house on the street. so we knock the frist one and no one was home. so we knock the next one and this big guy come to the door. We started talking to him about football and some how got to prophets. He asked us to come in. We tought a very short Lession 1 and gave him a BOM. We are going to get another appt. with him. So im glad to hear that the fires have stopped. sounds like you guys worked your butts off at Grandmas and Grandpas. Well thats about it.
I love and miss you all

Love, Elder Thomas Scoble

TUE 9/1/09

Subject: Silence! I KILL YOU! LOL

We meet again!lol. how are things? things are good here. Elder Holmstead and i are really sick of our people that we are teaching are not calling us back and can't get appt. with them. And getting them to church is like pulling teeth. I have already started cleaning for inspections our bathroom was nasty. It still needs work. We went street contacting and i talked this lady in to letting me help unload her cart. I talked to her about her family and got her thinking about after this life. I think she will call the number that we left her. Elder Holmstead had to do a lot of baptizum interviews this week. thats a good thing for the district. then we had our frist DMs of the transfer. It was OK. It was Elder Holmstead's frist time running it. I know that he will get better as he goes along. So we went and had dinner with this guys family. His name is Ryan and he is a member but his family is not. While we were there Ryan keep on trying to bring up the Gospel and his Dad would try and change the subject. Well come to find out he wants to meet with us again to ask us some questions. So we were out tracting this one day and we knocked in to this girl named Savanah. She was nice but didn't really didn't want to talk. so we were getting ready to leave and here she comes running bare foot in the rain to come and talk to us. She said that she didn't know anything about the BOM. so we taught her under a tree while it was raining on us. then we went back and had our frist lession with her. It was great, she answered all the question right that we asked her. She said that she really liked the lession. So i found out that i'm allergic to cats. we went to see a family in the ward and they have like 12 cats.That sucked. Tyler i feel your pain. It the freaky twin thing. We are trying to get more people to teach. Its really hard to find people. So we went and visited this man named Bro. Chin. Holy crap this guy is funny. He is mentally challenged. He was tortured in one of the wars for the US. He speaks like 7 languages. He dosen't talk he yells everything. He will sit there and yell "I LOVE YOU". We are like "we love you too." He never wears a shairt. Well thats about it for now i love you and miss you all.

LOVE Elder Thomas Scoble

FRI 8/28/09

This video is by a member of our ward that was in Virginia this week and

recorded this with his Blackberry when he met up with Thomas!
Enjoy,
Terry

Terry,
I hope you will be able to watch the video.I gave him a big hug for you guys and dinner money.He lives in a really nice apartment. I can tell he is really happy.
Talk to you soon.
Jon Kim

MON 8/24/09

Subject: Let me touch your Feet! I like feet i don't know why.

So things are going good in the new area. We are trying to great the people to really feel the spirit. I know that will really help them to know that the church is true. We are trying to find more to teach too. I think the Elder Holmstead and I are going to get along great. I really like him. He has been out only 6 months. I will be 5 months on the 25th. he is also the district leader. i will try to learn a lot from him. I will watch what he does being the district leader. So we got our frist door slammed in our faces. It was great. So the Bathroom here is nasty. I have to go and clean it. We went to this thing with the Stake prez. we had breakfast and talked about our area. His houes is huge. he has over 8 room and bathrooms. it had a theater that had 22 seats. so i still live with some room mates. They are spanish elders. It will be fun. so our P=day changed to Mondays now. will thats about it for now. I don't have a lot to talk about this week see that I just email not too long ago.
I love you and miss you lots.
Love Elder Thomas Scoble

WED 8/19/09

Subject: Thug life !!!

So things are great. We have been so buzy this week. So we were tracting and we found this guy named Zack. He is so great. He knows that he is on the wrong path in life and he wants to change. We went and had an appt. with him and it was sooooo great. The Member that we had with us Shard his testimony with him and it was just what he needed to hear. It was great lession. We have this other guy that we are teaching and his name is Ben. He is doing good too. He is going to be coming to church this week and he is reading. This one night we ended up coming home about 30mins. early and i was like lets go get a miracle. So we went out to knock like 5 doors and on the 5th door this young kid named Omar comes out. He is so ready for the Gospel. we gave him a BOM and he said that he would read it. we are going to go back and teach him. the Lord is so good to us when we have the faith for miracles to happen. We had a Zone Blitz for the Dale city area (our area). It was great. We got 4 P.I. to go back and teach. We had this one lession with this guy named Curtis. he just wanted to Bash. We dropped the hammer on him. We confounded him he didn't want to belive it could be true. We will go back and see if he readed and Prayed. If he did that he could really find if it is true. We did srevices for this lady. She is not a member. We had to cut herMonster grass. It was huge. I have never sweet so much at one time. I know how you feel Tyler. I was so wet. So im going to be transfered. Im going to Falls Church. I will be with Elder Holmstead. he will be the District Leader. And yes im still on a bike. THUNDER THIGHS.LOL. Elder Hunt is going to be staying here in Dale City and training a new Elder. Thats so great to hear that you are both going to the Temple. I know that is what is going to keep our family strong in the Gospel. Well thats about is for now I love you all and miss you.
Love Elder Thomas Scoble
Let me touch your Feet.LOL What movie is it from?

WED 8/12/09

Subject: No Subject

So it is a good week other than i have a cold. Im working hard still. So we are still teaching Josephein. She is doing good. She is really getting all the new things that we are teaching her about the Plan of Salvation. things like Adam and Eve and pre-life. Now we are teaching the son of a member. The Branchthat they were in lost the record for the son. So we need to reteach him so he can be rebaptized. Not a big problem with that one. So we have a member that just moved here from Ghana. She has like 5 people that she wants us to teach.We tought her Uncle yesterday. It went well. We have been going over to Nikki's too. She is a 4 month convert. Thing have been really getting better for her. She has been reading like 3 Chapters a day from the BOM. Its great. Elder Hunt and I spoke in Sacrament meeting last sunday. It was good. We are really trying to get the ward to want to do missionary work. So we went to the temple for a members wedding. There was going to be like 30 non-members there. And was there. Heck no. We just ended up sitting there. Biggest waste of time. So there was this one house that we knocked and this guy come out and points to a little sign that said NO Soliciting and says do you know what that means? I was like yes. and he put his hand out and sweeps his hand in front of my face and Yells NOOOOOO! I thought he was going to try to back hand me. I Don't know what i would have done if he would have really hint me. I would have kicked the crap out him.JK LOL. We were tracting and knocked on this one door and this really good looking girl comes to the door. She was sooooooo nice. To bad she is moving to go to college. LOL. I dont know what it is with our home, but we have so many Spiders in it. And they are Huge. We have killed like 7 of the stupid things. I hate spiders. They call me Spider killer.LOL. well thats about it for now and love you like a fat kid loves cake. And miss you lots.
That really how it goes Tyler.lol
LOVE you Fav. Missionary Elder Scoble Scoooo
(Thats my Pokemon name, Every one thinks my name sounds like a pokemon.)LOL

WED 8/5/09

Subject: You smell like beef and cheese.

So things are going good. We are going to be speaking this Sunday at church. I hope that we can get the ward Missionary work on their minds. We want them to want to do missionary work. They need to want to share the gospel with everyone. We had another good appt. with Josephine. We met her Paster as he was leaving her house. We watched the Restoration video with her.She liked it a lot. She was taking note as she was watching it. I still don't think she really gets it yet. I don't think she gets what it means to her that Joseph Smith is a Prophet. the Spirit was really strong. I don't know if i told you but her husbend is a Paster too. We Had a lession with a member the other day. she wanted us to help her to stop smoking. It was a really good lession. I know that she can do this. she is calling us every day for 7 days at 6:30 to let us know how she is doing. Thanks for the stuff on the leg cramps I will try to do that stuff. I hope it helps. Ah yes good old Shark week how i miss it so.LOL. Mindy still never told me how the Harry Potter movie was. Comp is good. I don't really need anything at the moment. We just had Zone conf. It was really good. I learned a lot. Well thats about it for this week. I LOVE you all and MISS you.
LOVE Elder Thomas Scoble
Good Night and Big Balls ;]

WED 7/29/09

Subject: Why Hello!!!

So things are going good. we had a good day yesterday. We went and had a lession with Bob. We were planning on dropping him. we went and tought the Word of Wisdom. That is something that he has a problem with. We didn't think he would try to live the word of wisdom. we made sure that he didn't have any smokes or beer. We also put up no smoking signs. So we will see if he go through it. Then we were going to a members home and this guy called us over and had some qustions for us. He wanted to know how to be happy. We told him that by living the Comandments that he would be happy. we are going to call him later. Abby,one of our investigators that had a date, we can not get a hold of. Its really sad to see someone get so close to being baptized and then stop. I see her coming back some day. We have this new lady that we are teaching. Her name is Josephine. she said that she had met with missionarys before. I don't think she has met with Mormon Missionarys. She had never heard of Joseph Smith. She really liked the BOM. we have another appt. on Sat. It will be good. So the other day we were out tracting and It was really Hot and Humid all day. so we are at the end of this really long road and it starts to Thunder and lighting. These really big clouds come in and open for business. We couldn't have been any more wet then what we were. We rode our bike to a members home and asked for a ride. They were nice and did. Nothing like being a Missionary. LOL. We went to the Temple today. It was nice to go and do that. We are still needing to get a lot more people to teach. All of our people that we are teaching are never home for appt. and never call us back. i just want to slap them and say DON'T YOU KNOW THIS IS YOUR SALVAION. I know that they don't know that but i just want to show them that this is the MOST IMPORTENT Path that they will every walk. Well thats about it for now. I Love you all and miss you.
Love Elder Thomas Scoble

WED 7/22/09

Subject: its your fav. Missionary

So Things are good. We are still trying to find more people to teach. Abby is going through a hard time. She has not been coming to church for the last 2 weeks. We are trying to make it so she dosen't far off. We met this young girl name Karyn. She had a lot of questions. She is still wanting to know more. We think that getting her to church will really help her. We had a lession with this family the Parmley. He his a was a member or still is. we don't know right now. He know a lot about the church still. He know the church by thinking about it not be feeling the spirt about it. That will be his biggest thing is to get him to pray. so the other night We made a video with the zone leaders. It was for the District meeting. I played the Satan. it was a really funny video. everyone had a good time with it. We have a new convert that will be going to the Temple to do baptizes for the dead. She is so happy to be able to go and do that. her 10 year old son want to come to church now to. Elder hunt and i are getting along great. We have this get idea. We are going to be making a fasting calender so the members can fast for us. We are going to have a missionary sacrament. I really want the members her to want to do missionary work. the Stake prez. is really wanting to do that too. I hope you got my letter and the things in it. the tape and the memory card. Thank you Stacy for the CDs they are great and all of the other stuff. Tell Austin HAPPY BRITHDAY!!!!!!!!!!!! for me. And you must say it just like that. Well thats about it for now. I love you all and miss you.
LOVE Elder Thomas Scoble (good night and Big Balls)

WED 7/15/09

Subject: THUG LIFE!!!

So things are going great. We are having so many Miracles. Monday were going to see a Refarer. The guy that we went to see wasn't home. So we started to just tracted the area. We ended up meeting this lady. She was so nice. She was from texas. She and her husbend were seeing the missionarys there. We readed from the BOM and gave her one. She wanted us to come back. And she is going to cook for us. After we were done talking to her. Elder Hunt had the feeling that we needed to go. he didn't know why. so we left. we get up around a corner and go now what are we doing. then this lady comes up in her car. she was so happy to see us. She was like come to my house and we will talk about the word of God. we were like WOW. Then Later We had a great lession with Abby. I know that she will be baptized. Then on Tuesday. we met this guy named Robert. He had us come in. He told us how he was sick of being an drunk. So we tought him about the Word of Wisdom. Then Elder Hunt asked if he had any alchol in the house. He said that it was up stairs. We told him to through it out. he said that couldn't do that. So i said do you want to stop. He said yes. THEN LETS GO GET IT. So we went and took all his alchol. We gave him a BOM. He knew that we were sent from God. It was so Great. Then we had a lession with a refael Name Gerald. He is a drunk also he wants to change so much. We had a great lession with him. We are going to be teaching him on Friday. We have been finding so many Potentials investigators. things are going so great. Elder Hunt is a really good Missionary. We are working really hard. I know that we will keep seeing more miracles. so how are things? Im good. sound like Tyler is having more fun. Im going to send you a memory card and a tape today. I hope. Well thats about it for now. I love you all and miss you.
Love Elder Thomas Scoble

WED 7/8/09

Subject: What up all!!!?

Its your fav. missionary Elder Scoble. So how is everyone? I good. So Transfer came. Im staying in Dale city. Elder Ray is Leaving. Im getting Elder Hunt. I know him a little bit. I hear that he is a hard worker. We are going to do a lot of good. Now that Elder Ray is leaving i can do the things that need to be done. Im going to drop Bob and Stop spending an hour and something at members home. That was one of the things that made me so mad. So we have this guy that we are teaching his name is Laron. we think he belives in god. he has a hard time with jesus. we are going to have a lot of fun teaching him. So for the 4th we did a Zone blitz. It when all the missionarys in an area tract the crap out of one place. It was fun. Im going to be sending you pics. next Pday. After the Blitz we went tracting or i should say i went tracting. Elder Ray sitting on the sidewalk isn't really tracting. He did that a lot. then we went to Bobs house. We sat there for 2 HOURS. I was ready to kill him. He didn't even teach. He just waited to be feed. Then we leave and a member the Shrefflers had us over for dinner. Bro. Shreffler has to be the biggest man i have ever seen in my life. Hes got to be around 400 to 500 Pounds. NO JOKE. LOL Then we went to go watch the fireworks. It was fun. So on Sunday we took a investigators to the T.V.C. His name is Rodney. He has been tought everything like 4 times. He will not come to church. The sister at the T.V.C. did a great job with him. They were really bold. I pray that he will come to church. Will you all Pray for all of our investigators. They need it. So i found out why Elder Ray is so lazy. He doesn't want to be here. He is trying to find away home through hes nee. Thats why we sit in LESS-ACTIVE members homes. He is sitting is a place of sin. His mom even know what he is trying to do. So Elder Whithers, Elder Llody, and i call prez. and told him what we think. We think his is having a bigger problem as well. Im not going to say what we think it is. I hope Prez. will be able to save his mission. Well that about it for now. I love you all and miss you.

PS Tyler i didn't have your email. sorry. I thought i was emailing you.:)

WED 7/1/09

subject: Answers

Yaaaaa CDs.lol Yes i like fruit snacks. Yes i would like pictures. No there is nothing else that i need or what. Thanks. I would like to think Tyler does. I miss you and love you lots.
Love Elder Thomas Scoble

WED 6/24/09

Subject:Three months tomorrow!

So we went to DC today. It was a lot of fun. Im really tired. we went to see a lot of stuff. I will send pics. yes i got the package. Thanks for all the stuff. So we got to met with Prez. for the last time. the new one is coming soon. The pillow case was nice. yes i liked the pics. I need some where to put them. yes i got the memory card. not much is really going on. We are trying to get some people a date to be baptized. we are really trying for two. we don't have anyone new to teach right now. Im still trying to get along with him. he is still just lazy. I really hope that i don't stay with him. Its not to bad for the weather. It can be really hot and humid. Im trying to wright everyone that wrights me. I don't have a lot of time to wright on P-day. I do wright when i can. sorry this is short the trip to DC. took a long time. So i have to go. I love you all and miss you.
Love Elder Thomas Scoble

WED 6/17/09

Subject: Yo

Hello everyone. how are things. I good. So We had this really great time today for p-day. we had this Zone Study thing. the whole Zone got together and Had this whole study thing. I learned a lot. The other elders have given me some really good complments or have ever you spell that. They all said that they Thought that i had been out longer then them. Thats really great. We have a lot of people that we are teaching. We got 3 new people to teach last week. The sad thing is that we are going to give 2 of them to the Spanish Elder. I think the people would learn better is spanish. Im going to try to learn some more spanish. I don't know if i told you but there is a small chanse that is could become a Spanish Elder. It happen once in a while. I know that Dad would like that. I do have to say the Weather has not been that bad. It might be really hot and humid one day then rain the next and the temp go down for the next 2. It not bad at all. the Hills here suck. I still don't get off the bike to go up. My legs feel like they are going to fall off some times. We had Temple Conf. last week. I was really good. the DC temple is really nice. We all so had Stake Conf. I was really great. Elder Pearson of the Seneny (I can't Spell) Spoke. He was so good. One of our people are getting Wet this saterday. He is 9 and past his interview. He is a little slow. He is such a great kid. So we have this guy that we are teaching, his name is Steven. He is trying to find a church to start going to. We have tought him 2 lesson. and he said yes to a soft baptism invite. Meaning that we didn't give him a date. I think he is going to be ready. his Wife is not all that in to it. shes not even in the room when we teach. We will see what happens. Things are gitting better with elder Ray. He is starting to get up on time now. He works really hard when he wants to. I could use some Short sleve shreets. Well thats about it for now.
I love you all and miss you.
LOVE Elder Thomas Scoble

WED 6/10/09

subject: Hello everybody

So things are going good. Im still having problems with Elder Ray and his lazy. He trys to sleep all the time. I wont let him. then he get mad at me because i make him work. When he does work he is good. he knows his stuff and he can be a lot of fun. So Elder Fuller, one of the senion couples, Showed us this great thing from Joseph Smith. "The Proghet Joseph Smith taught, and he never taught mor comforting doctrine, that the Eternal Sealings of faithful parents and the divine promises made to them for valiant service in the cause of truth, would no only save themselves but likewise their posterity. Though some of the sheep may wander, the eye of the Shepherd is upon them, and sooner or later they will fell the tantacles of Divine Providencereaching out after them and drawing them back into the fold. Either in this life or in the life to come, they will return. They will have to pay their debt to justice;They will suffer for their sins; and may tread the thorny path; but if it leads them at last, like the penitent prodigal, to a loving and forgiving Father's heart and home, the painful experience will not have been in vain. Pray for your careless and disobedient children; hold on to them with your faith. Hope on, trust on, till you see the salvation of God." What a great thing that is. I so glad that we don't have this problem in our family. So last P-day we went to the driving range. It was a lot of fun. I broke the guys club that i was using. I was on the back swing. I don't hit it on anything. He said that it was a crap club. Then we went to The National Museum of the Marine Corps. I know Dad would have love it. So i found out that one of our People that we are teaching likes me. Her name is Abby. She is a 19 year old black girl. She not bad looking. I will need to keep my space from her. she is getting better. She now think that Joseph Smith could be a Prophet. She is still having a problem with Juses Christ. We are working on it. we took her to the Temple VC. She liked it.
So yesterday i tought a lesson all by myself. i did have a member with me. Elder Ray was another appt. we had too meny. I think i did good. Like it was the lady that is So ready to get wet i dont think i could have messed up.lol. Well thats about it for this week.
I love you all and miss you.
Love elder Thomas Scoble

Hello Sister
it would have been nice to talk to you too. I will be 20 this year. Holy crap no longer a teen. Yes i did get your letter and the pic. Can't wait for the next one. would you help mom pick some good songs to send me. It can have singing. I would like it to be a bit faster song if you could do that it would be great. Thanks
Love you and miss you
Elder Thomas Scoble

Wed 5/13/09

Subject: Re: It was good to talk to you!

Ya it Was nice to get to talk to you all. I dont know how it will be with a new Mission president. I don't really know this one that well. but of what i do know of him he is great. Yesterday he came with Elder Metcalf and i to a lesson. It was our first one with her. her name is Rupa. She said that she has been having probles with Demons. Ya so we wanted some help with this one. President was great. I think she is going to learn really fast. when we told her about the Book of Mormonshe asked, "did you bring me one." We were like ya we did. She was really wenting to read it after prez. talked about a little more. She said that she would come to Church and that she would read and pray about the Book of Mormon. We can eat at a members home if it is before 6:00. We don't eat at members homes very often. I don't know if there is any businesses that give us free meals. I will have to ask. I remembered it was Stacy's Birthday right after i read it on here.lol HAPPY BIRTHDAY STACY.How old are you? 15?jk lol. Go mom on cleaning the house. It wont last.lol. How is Austin doing with the new baby. No it not raining for now. its been nice the last couple of days. its not humid at all yet. that a BIG YET. I cant wait. Ya Right.lol. we are going to try to take the New Member to the movie if we can. Just so you know He a new member. We do have an investigator that we are going to try and take if she want to go. Not Rupa. Her name is Amy. I think she would like it a lot. My comp. has been out for 11 Mounths. Transfers are every 6 weeks. I've been here for 4 weeks. so in 2 weeks. I don't know if im going to be transferred. I don't really know if i really want to be transferred or not. I'm starting to know all the members and street good. WOW Summer is that close. I didn't even know.
Well I love you all and miss you lots.
Love Elder Thomas Scoble

This is just a short little response he sent to me.

Wed 4/29/09

Subject: carzyness

Ya he is from Draper. I'm sending the tape today. i was going to send it last P-day but didn't get to and i'm sending pics.that is great the Kysa will know me she better lol.the Address will be in the letter home so get it from mom. ok. I don't know about the 17 year old girls.lol
I love you and miss you lots.
Thanks for the letter.
Love Elder Thomas Scoble

This is his first letter from the field:

Wed 4/22/09

Helllllllllllllloooooooooooooo

Hi everyone how are you all doing? I get an hour on the computer here. so i can talk a little longer. I'm doing good. Elder Metcalf and I are teaching a lot of people right now. It Great we have 3 that might take the dive. I will try to send a tape and a memory card in my next letter. On the tape i will tell you all about the pics. on the Card. I tell you what dad i'll be able to kick your butt on a bike when i get back. You meet some wierd people out here. Their is every kind of race, Relgion, and country. One missionary counted how many countrys here ran in to and he counted 109 diff. countrys. That a lot. It is deffintly green out here. I rained a lot the last two days. It sucks riding a bike in the rain. will you all need to tell me what all is going on. And could you send me Tylers email address. i trying to do my best to talk to everyone. I like my companion. he is nice. He is teaching me a lot. the sick feeling is going away. My bag the one from Missionary mall i breaking a little. do you know if they make water profe paints? The members are really nice here they give us rides and food sometimes. well thats about it for now the tape will have a lot on it.
Love Elder Thomas Scoble

First letter from the MTC:

Wed 4/1/09

Subject: What up all

this is for everyone. i just want you to know my email. so you can all email me. I dont have a lot of time to do this. Im having a good time here at the mtc. I want to say hi to alex. i hope you are having a great time. does josh know where here is going? you can all go to this thing calldearelder.com and get letters to me that day. and it is free. you just need to fill in the info. if you dont have it just call my mom and dad. i think it cost when i leave for DC. So send lots when im here. I love you all. PS this is for josh. The mtc gets better after sunday.

I think I may have missed his letters from the MTC, because this is the only one I could find. He didn't have my email at the beginning so this is all I have, sorry.