Wed 5/12/10

Subject: We should have a battleroyal. :)

why hello everybody. Things are going great. We had some really good things happen. We went out tracting in the morning. Elder Skousen felt like we needed to go to this little ct. so we went. we find two people on that ct. Ones name is Dre and the other is Teddy. Dre we didn't get a lot of time with he was on his way to work. He did tell us that we could come back. Then later we met Teddy. When he came to the door he had a phone to his ear. I thought that he was trying the phone cop-out. We ask him if we can come in and teach him and he told us to come in. He has two little girls. They were watching TV and we didn't want to ask if we could turn it off. It was keeping the kids busy. But with it on we couldn't feel the spirit. So we asked. they did it with out question. We finished the lesson and asked him if he would be baptized and he said that he would. It was great. We are going to teach him again next week. We have a lot of people that we are going to be teaching this week. One of the guys that we went and taught the lesson went good. we asked him if he would be baptized and he said that he would too. Then we asked when we could come back and he told us that we could not come back. I was like what the crap. That ain't good. So i don't what that crap happened. Well that's just a sad day for him on the other side. Oh one thing that i forgot to tell you on Sunday. I have acid reflux disease. I was feeling a lot of pain for like three days. I didn't think that was a good thing. So I called the Doc. and he told me to go get some prilosec. I took it. I felt a lot better in the morning. It was so weird. It just came out of nowhere. I had never had anything like it before. I just fine now. So don't freak out MOM. Well that's about it for now. I love you all and miss you so much.

Love Elder Thomas Scoble

Wed 5/5/10

Subject: Its very nice.

Hello everybody. How is every one doing? Things are going good here. I am in my new area now and it is great. It is way different then all of my other areas. It way out in the country. There is a ton more trees on sidewalks, no street lights, and no teeth. The people are way nice. The ward is really small. We are going to be see a lot of good things happening we think. I like my new comp. His name is Elder Skousen. He is from South Cal. He is well off too. he has no problem with money. So he has this thing right now that he wants to eat only top roman. I keep telling him that he is going to die if he keeps going. He is still a way fun guy. He is a little older. He is 21 and he just got out. We have a couple of people that we are working with i have not met them all yet. So we went a did some service for this less active in the other day. We went in a took out their old fence and put in a new one. We didn't have enough stuff to finish it, but it looked way better then when we got there. It was a lot of fun to get to do that. I have not done something like that for a long time. So we were going and trying to find some less actives to go by and teach. So we go to this one lady and she has not come to church for like 2 years. She starts to tell us some of her concerns. Then i have the feeling that i need to ask her how she felt when she was going to church. " I felt good when I was going to church." She said. Then I asked her "Do you feel happy now?" "No I really don't." She said. "Do you see a connection with that." Then she said that she did see a differents in her life. Then she told us to call her on saterday to get her to come to church. That was sooooo great. Well thats about it for now. I love you all and miss you so much.

Love Elder Thomas Scoble

so i see you take forever to get something to me. Did you like that last letter that i wrote to you. It was way long. I think that that was the longest letter that i had ever made. So Be happy. LOL

Love Elder Thomas Scoble

So i will be trying to call about 7-8PM some time around that. i hope that will be fine. We have church like all day too. so it will be later.

Love you

Wed 4/28/10

Subject: you know what you need to do.

Just keep swiming just keep swiming.

It was meeeeeeeee. Hi everybody. So it was a good week. We got a lot done. So we had a dinner appt. with a inactive in the ward. this would be our 2nd visit with them. So the Dad is the inactive one the rest of the family is active. So i knew that his son was getting close to being 8 and i thought it would be a good idea to teach a lesson on baptism and the sacrament. So we did. And you know what he came to church this last Sunday and said that it is time for him to become active again. That was so great. So then yesterday we taught Victor and his wife. It was one of our better lessons. They are the ones that fight everything that we say. They still did that a little but not as much. They were really trying this time i felt. Then on one day we wanted to try something different. So we went and got some sidewalk chalk and we draw the Plan of Salvation on a parking lot. It looked really good. we only got one person to come over while we were making it. We also put our number so that people could call us. So we moved in to our new place. It is really nice. We have so much room. We don't even have all the Stuff we need. So we are sitting on the ground right now. Its great. I get to really feel like I'm in Korea. The sad thing is that we are now going to be transferred. I'm going to Chancellor, Massaponax. Its at the very bottom of our mission. I will be covering 2 wards. That will be new for me and will be in a car. I don't remember my new comps. name right now so sorry about that. Elder Choi is go also. He is going to Manassass. My first area. They are white washing this area. They are bringing in some Sisters to take over the area. Well that's about it for now. I love you all so much and miss you. Keep up the good work. I pray all the time that you all will also have missionary experiences.

Love Elder Thomas Scoble

Wed 4/21/10

We are going to need to take the leg.

No not my leg! OH NO it going towards

his..... TAKE IT!!!! TAKE THE LEG!!!!!

Hello all. How is everybody. I can't tell you how happy I'm to hear that Josh got his call. That is so great. I know that he will be a great missionary. I thought that is was so great to get to hear how we get our call from last conf. that is great. Well things are going good. We have 3 people that we are teaching. Victor and his wife Alisa. I think that's how it is spelled. They are a pain in the butt. They are both reading the BOM. They are reading it to find what is wrong with it. Every time we go over there they just go on an on about how the Bible is The only thing. I love it when we can use the bible to prove something and then they just come up with some stupid thing about why that is wrong, When it is out of the bible. I think next time we are going to just watch a movie with them so they don't get to take. So they are lots of fun. so then next we have Samuel. He is great. He is taking things a little slow. He wants to make sure of what he is doing. He is reading the BOM. We could not get him to pray in our first 2 lessons. But on the 3rd one we got him to. It was soooooooo Great. We are going to get him a member home the next time we meet. We have just been teaching him at the Library. So last week Elder Choi Went to another area to teach a lesson in Korean. He got asked some really hard questions. Like What is THE Christ. and a lot of others. I was not there for it. I wouldn't have know what they where saying anyways. I know that he did a great job. We also helped out the ward. They had this thing that I call Mulch Madness. It is the biggest service project ever. they sell the Mulch to anyone. And one of the days they get all of the mulch and have to take it to everyone. The bags are like 25 pounds dry and like 50 pounds wet. They were almost all wet. I was taking 2 at a time. Oh Ya. I'm still got the guns. It was a lot of fun. So we got to go out looking for an apartment. That was kinda fun. so we are going to be moving Thursday. The Place is really nice. I will take pics. of it. so that's about it for now. I love you and miss you tons.

Love Elder Thomas Scoble

4/14/10

Subject: Here i'am Looooove me!

Hows it hangin? So things are good. We got some new people to try and teach. so we were tracting and It had just been a long day. It was getting late and we knock on this one guys door and he opens the door and said you Possibly just found the most interested person in this whole place. And he asked us to come in. So then we taked to him for a long time. It was an ok lesson. He was a member when he was a kid. But he knows nothing about the church. He is a really nice guy. At the end his wife came in and had been meeting with the missionaries a long time ago. They wanted us to come back and talk some more. They said they would come to our church if we went to theirs. It would be weird to go to another church. His name is Victor. then later we went to a Baptisam for a kid in the ward. The family had asked a lot of non-members to come. They had 3 Whole familys. It was great to see them all. There has been a lot of people that we have met that have watched the PBS thing on the Mormons. I mean a lot. Well thats about it for now. I love you all so much and miss you.

Love Elder Thomas Scoble

Wed 4/7/10

Subject: A little Thunder and a little lighting.

Hi boy and girls. So we had a really good week so far. things are looking much better. So the other day I had an Elder here on exchanges. He's is really really really really really really Weird. He just makes everything awkward. He would do the weirdest stuff. He went up to these one guys. They told him that they were going to go get wasted. He asked them if he could sing them a song. I was like what the crap. So with the same Elder we were teaching a lesson to a Julie the recent convert and her little brother. He is 12 and not a member, But not an invest. so we were teaching the lesson 2 and this guy walks by and the Elder asked him if he wanted to hear and story and the guy sat down. I was like wow not a bad move. Well the guy sat through the rest of the lesson and was asking questions. His name is Cesar. that was great. then the next day was Gen. conf. It was Sooooooooooooo Good. I can say that i didn't fall asleep at all. then in between sessions We went and tought this guy named Samual. I really can't get a read on this guy. he is like kinda not so nice but like at the same time he is. i don't know what to say. It was an ok lesson. we did get another appt. with him so thats good. So yesterday we found like 4 new people to try and teach. It was great. and today we went to DC. It was a lot of fun. so things are lookin good. I just hope it can keep going. thanks for all your prayers for all of us missionarys. well thats about it for now i Love you all and miss you sooooo much.

Love Elder Thomas Scoble

PS. Applybees(or how ever you spell it.) would be fine. Thanks Mom. And the Weather is really really Hot. Like 95.

Wed 3/31/10

A couple of pictures of Thomas. He is the 5th person in.

He is in the top row 3rd one in.

Subject: OH NO COPS!!! I knew I smelled Bacon.

Why hello! so how is everyone doing to day. So we have been tracting our brains out. We are having a hard time trying to find people to teach. We are doing our best just nothing is coming of it yet. So we went to the Rickards to have a dinner and FHE. Well the lesson was good. We had them build a temple out of Lego's. It was a lot of fun. Their family loves Lego's. Then we had them tell us the blessing of having a temple. It was good. the Dad didn't really do it but he was there for the whole thing. So they have a cat. We i thought that i had it bad with the cats. Elder Choi was trying to copy that whole seen from The movie Hitch. When he has the reaction to the food. It was pretty bad. He is OK now. All of the pollen is kick-in his butt. Yesterday was a good day for the most part. So we had a lesson with Julie. She is a recent convert of about 4 weeks. She is great. She knows soooo much about the church already. She is moving to Utah in a week. I told her that Brit and Stacy live out there and that you both have kids and she said if you ever need a babysitter She loves kids. Not to mention she is really good looking. I know, I know, I'm on a mission. You don't need to tell me. I know. LOL. Then we had really weird dinner appt. So the dad is inactive and the mom and the kids are very active. I had never met the dad. So we get there and the kids were the only ones that said hi. The kids really like me because of the Duck voice and so they all wanted to be at the table to eat with us. but the mom wanted them all at the kids table. I told them if it was OK with them i would go to the kids table and eat with them to help keep the peace. So i did that. The whole time they all seem like they want to bit each others heads off. They would all get so mad over the stupidest things. I just felt like they all need some love. So i really didn't get to talk too much to the family. Elder Choi was telling me that the Dad was just insulting everyone at the table, and he was bossing is wife around like a slave. The way the kids were talking to their mom. I mean WOW. If I would have talked to Mom that way I would have been kicked to the moon. The Mom is really nice and the oldest girl was too. We were then really late for our next appt. so we were cookin to get to it. We get to the appt. The member Wanted us to bring a BOM is Chicanes for his roommate. I just thought we were going to just give the book to the guy and the member just went right in to a lesson and he did most of the talking. It was still good. I don't think we are going to teach him right now. Well thats all for now. I love you all and miss you sooooooooooooooo much.

Love Elder Thomas Scoble