Sunday, April 11, 2010
Transfered Again Sorry For The Updates
April 7
hey mom, whats up well ya i didnt tell anyone about my birthday. and i actually kindof forgot the last couple days until sis nichols called me to wish me. haha its her b day too. so my comp found out and when i got here thismorning they had a cake for me. and i had to eat food out of my comps hand because thats culture and they would be offended. i actually dont mind anymore. haha. oh so i have offically had to take 5 flights in the last 5 days. due to the situation in hyderabad thye were going to postpone transfers but last min they didnt. so my flights were kindof all over the place. first took taxi to raj at 9 am friday then flew from raj to hyderabad had a 4 hr layover then to bangalore then to coimbatore. i reached at 9 p.m. the sucky thing is is that i had to pick my bags at each stop cuz the flights werent connecting and i had to pay overage charges 3 times. so i spent like 5 000 total. so sorry i have spent a bunch of money the last month. sister kamala the paralized sister is poor and her home is very hot. they have no money for a fan so i baught one. i know were really not supposed to do that. but i love her a lot and she needed it. now i gotta buy all new food stuff for the apt today also. oh and then after 2days here we had to turn back and fly to bangalore mon night for zone leaders council and we just got back from bang this am. the council was awesome though. sis nichols cooked cinamin rolls. fried chicked potatoe salad. mmmm. but we did a lot of planning for the mission and changed some plans to try and help the mission.
anyways coimbatore is nice. its supposed to be a cool place but this year is like the first year it hasnt been i guess. haha. the sun is way strong here also. my first day we were only in the sun a few hrs and my arms and face got burned. our area is kindof far from our apartment so we are the only elders in coiimbatore to not have cycles. after all this walking im acctually starting to miss cylcling. haha. the zone is the smallest in the mission but it has a big impact on the mission right now. our apartment is nice too! my bedis too short so i have to sticky my legs through the bed frame so i can sleep. haha i actually am gonna switch with the apartment next to us. we stay on the same floor as one other companionship wich should be fun. e riley is coming to be the district leader here so ill get to see him every day. he is stuck in kgf until the person who is going to fill his spot comes from hyderabad. i hope soon because we are in a threesome and trying to cover 2 areas. oh and no need to send anything for bribes haha. thanks though. anyways i cant believe it snowed that much. sounds like maybe winter was a bit late this year. maybe it will just make it so there is some water in newton when i get back. :) oh ya and my comp is elder palla from visak. hes 25. hes a hard worker and obedient. always joking too. haha. its always diferent being with a native but im excited. our area is kinda down right now and were both excited to do our best to pick it up. he is the only member of his family and has his masters in couputers. everythings going great right now. happy and healthy. but gotta go we had computer probs earlier so i dont have time to write more cuz we got some stuff to do. so tell dad and todd thats why. thanks for all you do. i love you and hope you have a great week.
kaden
Mar 31
hey mom well another good week has gone bye. thats funny its raining mud. haha. i actually felt the first drop of rain i have felt in probably more than 6 months on our way here to email. but thats about all i felt, one drop. haha. but there have been a few clouds in the sky the last couple of days wich i havent seen either. so maybe well get a bit of moisture soon? we had a good week and have a few people who are really starting to progress towards baptism. i think i have told you about dasu and bheemaswari. but they are set for the 25th and they seem excited about it. so bernards family is doing great in the branch. he recieved a calling as a sunday school teacher. i couldnt believe it when they called a brand new member to do that. but this sunday he taught sunday school. its pretty cool to see people just fulfil there calling even though they dont know much yet.
so anyways you asked about transfers last week and transfer calls came last friday. i answered the phone and was just talking to the assistants waiting to give the phone for garcia. but then they were like, hey your going to coimbatore. i was like what?? really you mean garcia. but nope e barr is off to coimbatore. its in tamilnadu. i got called up to be a zone leader over there. so not only a transfer but then zone leader kinda shocked me. haha. but i guess thats what i get for telling you i wouldnt be transfered. it will be good for me and give me some more resposibilities and get to speak in zone conf wich im not too stoked about. haha. my new comp will be e palla. hes from visak. so another native. im excited tho maybe ill learn how to cook some more curries cuz i dont remember how to cook they ones i learned any more. garcia is gonna start his 5th transfer here! thats a pretty dang long time. hes cool with it though. so were supposed to go on friday but i guess there are some protest going on in hyderabad again and pres doesnt want anyone going in or out of hyderabad so they postponed us a week wich kinda sucks cuz they tell us about transfers a week early so we can de register from the FRO office and now another week. but we will just have to work hard for another week. but dang everyone is trying to feed us now so im gonna burst if we have to eat at someones house every day. "im full" doesnt stop them from another full plate of rice. haha.
well everythings going great. sounds like everyone is as busy as ever. love you and have a great week!
kaden
thats crazy colton is back. if you ever see him tell him what up for me.
Saturday, January 23, 2010
Transfered To Kakinada
hey hows it going? well its been another great week with tons of great experiences. i almost dont even know where to begin?? haha. we had a great week of finding and teaching. im still trying to get used to finding with cycles and not by foot. oh man! e garcia ate it the other nighit! hahaha its funny now but want when it happened. we were just going down the road and then boom his front fender wendt under his tire and the scycle bucked him over the handle bars. his had was the first theng to hit. just a big old thud. haha now i know why they make us wear these helmets. we have had a good time laughing about it all week. but he was totally fine. we took the bikes in to get them serviced and make sure everything is tight and ready to go.
im really excited for some of the people were working with right now. bernards family is doing awesome. i think i told you about them. if not its a fam a 5 who are doing great. we taught them last night and they are reading the bom like crazy. they read like 15 chapters in 4 days. there super excited for there baptism on the 7th. its awesome how the lord prepares the people and that there just waiting for us to come and bring them the truth. and theis family from what i have seen so far is that type. READY. we taught them the word of wisdom and like everyone here they have coffee tea habbits but everyone was just like okay no problem well do it.
im still trying to figure the area out and wish i knew everywhere i was at at all times like i did befor, but it doesnt work like that. its funny because i could have the slightest clue wich way is north or south. the sun pretty much is right above your head all day so its hard to tell wich way is wich.
somthing kinda crazy happened though the other night. we went to cisit a recent convert couple pavin and sunitha. they were married not to long ago but are doing really well in the church. but as we were teaching pavin started to not look very good. all the sudden he started taking his rings and watch off and it seemed like his fingers were going numb. i thinking uh oh hes having a stroke. but then i was like no way hes only 28 so we called his friend and he came and picked him up and rushed him to the hospital. the next morning we found out it was a stroke and they ended up giving him heart surgury the other day to try and keep his valves open. i felt bad though cuz i just felt helpless as it was happening. they dont have money and i think the surgury was like 3 lacks. wich i thinkg in dollars is like 6 thousand. because they had a love marriage there families wont support them either. i want to help them but i know that i shouldnt. some people in the branch asked if there was anything our family could do. and at first i felt like ya i can probably do somthing. but i realize that im a missionary and thats probably not the thing to do. but one thing that i can do is teach them about tithing and fastofferings. i know that our family has been so blessed for always paying tithing. and i know it works.
e garcia and i are doing great. im having a lot of fun with him and i feel like hes having a good time to. and thats what its all about. work hard, play hard. and noone ever told me we cant do it at the same time. :) haha. but im doing great and having fun. me and e garcia are running a few times a week to so thats good cuz i loooove the food here.
oh and about the package. dont send brown pants. unless you already baught them cuz i already have two pair of brown. send some grey or dark blue? and chapstick. no need to send anything big either. thanks for all you do though. i love you and hope you have a great week. i hope its dumping back home now too. but if it doesnt and decides to wait and dump it all on the next season thats just fine with me. hahaha
love you
kaden
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hey ma and pa. haha. well everything is going really good. kakinada is TIGHT! its so much different than im used to. 8 months in a city to a smaller place is like night and day. but i love it. i can breath and even see some stars at night. haha. but it was sweet traveling here. i flew in to rajahmundry and when we were landing it was just miles of coconut trees and rice fields and you could see that in each field is a grass hut that the person stays in. i felt like i was back in india. oh and when i was at the airport in hyderabad i looked over and saw a football game on and got to watch the national championship! i was in heaven just standing there watching a real sport. haha. then i took a 2 hr bus ride from raj to kakinada. although it was a bumpy horn blowing ride i somehow slept a lot of the way. but the time i wasnt was it was cool to see fields and other cool stuff that you cant really believe. youl have to see it to believe it. haha. but my comp picked me up at the bus station. e garcia from fontana california. hes a nice kid. DIFFERENT!! haha. he has been out about a year also. hes a bit husky if ya know what i mean. :) its going to be really good for me to be his companion. a lot of elders have really struggled with him but so far so good for us. hes not really a social type and doesnt really know the branch well so im doing all i can to meet the members and stuff so we can get the work blowing up in our area. when i first hear he was my comp i was just like NOOOO! but now that im hear there is somthing inside of me that feels a strong desire to help him. he lacks confidence and doesnt look at people in the eye when he speaks so i really want to help him. not only for mission purposes but it will help him for life. so im really excited to see what we can do. he struggles to know where to go or what to do wich can be frustrating but were meeting some good people that im really excited about. a family that had been taught one lesson before by e garcia and his old comp we went and taught there family and had a sweet lesson with them. a family of 5. on of the little girls had a nasty infection on her eyelid that and she looked miserable and i imediatly felt that she needed a blessing. so after we watched the restoration dvd with them we taught about the book of mormon and the priesthood and they were way happy. we offered to give a blessing to there daughter and they said that they would love that. i set them for the first week in feb and they seem focused on that day so i hope and pray that everything will go well. we called the next day to see how the little girl was and the father said that everything was almost gone and thanked us. my testimony of the priesthood continues to grow every day as i see the amazing blessings that come from it. growing up i never realized how special the priesthood is but im greatfull god gives any worthy male the privilage of carrying the priesthood
my apartment is good. we cleaned a lot thismorning though..... haha. it needs some things like mirrors and things to hand your towel or put your soap on. jsut small thingsthat would make it nice and more comfortale. my bed is kindof like what you would sleep on when you go camping its just like a 4 inch thick foam pad. haha. let todd read this and so he can imagine the FOAM..... haha but everythings going good. im happy and healthy. there is tons of good food in kakinada. probably the best so far. lots of fresh sea food. prawns and crab curries prawn biryani. mmmm. everyone gets fat here but im telling myself i wont let it happen. so well see. haha. the branch has 130-150 mbrs 80 active? its fun though a lot of young guys that want to help the church grow. they all work hard because they want to get out of a rented space into there own chapel. i wear a big dumb bright yellow helmet that is to small and by butt is killing from the cycles. haha. oh and there are so many mosquitos. luckily i brought a bunch a repelent from hyderabad cuz i left a lot of stuff. oh and the packages got to me. thanks a lot. the new pants made me feel like a million bucks. you dont realize how old some of your stuf is till you get new. i washed my bag for the first time too today. haha. i didnt realize how dity it was but you sweat here and my shirst kept getting black on them and i didnt know why. yup my bag. so i hand washed it and the water was black. haha. oh and next package can you put in some phelsnaptha saop and some natural ice chapstick. oh and las wed my card in my camera got some virus and isnt working so i mighta lost all my pics from hyderabad..... it wants me to re format it but if i do everything will be erased. so im going to send it home maybe and see if you can get some computer wiz to try and get my pics off it cuz it would suck to have 8 months worthh of photos gone. oh well.. anyways everythings going great i love it here. love you and have fun skiin the POW. NOT hahahaha
kaden
im really excited for some of the people were working with right now. bernards family is doing awesome. i think i told you about them. if not its a fam a 5 who are doing great. we taught them last night and they are reading the bom like crazy. they read like 15 chapters in 4 days. there super excited for there baptism on the 7th. its awesome how the lord prepares the people and that there just waiting for us to come and bring them the truth. and theis family from what i have seen so far is that type. READY. we taught them the word of wisdom and like everyone here they have coffee tea habbits but everyone was just like okay no problem well do it.
im still trying to figure the area out and wish i knew everywhere i was at at all times like i did befor, but it doesnt work like that. its funny because i could have the slightest clue wich way is north or south. the sun pretty much is right above your head all day so its hard to tell wich way is wich.
somthing kinda crazy happened though the other night. we went to cisit a recent convert couple pavin and sunitha. they were married not to long ago but are doing really well in the church. but as we were teaching pavin started to not look very good. all the sudden he started taking his rings and watch off and it seemed like his fingers were going numb. i thinking uh oh hes having a stroke. but then i was like no way hes only 28 so we called his friend and he came and picked him up and rushed him to the hospital. the next morning we found out it was a stroke and they ended up giving him heart surgury the other day to try and keep his valves open. i felt bad though cuz i just felt helpless as it was happening. they dont have money and i think the surgury was like 3 lacks. wich i thinkg in dollars is like 6 thousand. because they had a love marriage there families wont support them either. i want to help them but i know that i shouldnt. some people in the branch asked if there was anything our family could do. and at first i felt like ya i can probably do somthing. but i realize that im a missionary and thats probably not the thing to do. but one thing that i can do is teach them about tithing and fastofferings. i know that our family has been so blessed for always paying tithing. and i know it works.
e garcia and i are doing great. im having a lot of fun with him and i feel like hes having a good time to. and thats what its all about. work hard, play hard. and noone ever told me we cant do it at the same time. :) haha. but im doing great and having fun. me and e garcia are running a few times a week to so thats good cuz i loooove the food here.
oh and about the package. dont send brown pants. unless you already baught them cuz i already have two pair of brown. send some grey or dark blue? and chapstick. no need to send anything big either. thanks for all you do though. i love you and hope you have a great week. i hope its dumping back home now too. but if it doesnt and decides to wait and dump it all on the next season thats just fine with me. hahaha
love you
kaden
________________________________________
hey ma and pa. haha. well everything is going really good. kakinada is TIGHT! its so much different than im used to. 8 months in a city to a smaller place is like night and day. but i love it. i can breath and even see some stars at night. haha. but it was sweet traveling here. i flew in to rajahmundry and when we were landing it was just miles of coconut trees and rice fields and you could see that in each field is a grass hut that the person stays in. i felt like i was back in india. oh and when i was at the airport in hyderabad i looked over and saw a football game on and got to watch the national championship! i was in heaven just standing there watching a real sport. haha. then i took a 2 hr bus ride from raj to kakinada. although it was a bumpy horn blowing ride i somehow slept a lot of the way. but the time i wasnt was it was cool to see fields and other cool stuff that you cant really believe. youl have to see it to believe it. haha. but my comp picked me up at the bus station. e garcia from fontana california. hes a nice kid. DIFFERENT!! haha. he has been out about a year also. hes a bit husky if ya know what i mean. :) its going to be really good for me to be his companion. a lot of elders have really struggled with him but so far so good for us. hes not really a social type and doesnt really know the branch well so im doing all i can to meet the members and stuff so we can get the work blowing up in our area. when i first hear he was my comp i was just like NOOOO! but now that im hear there is somthing inside of me that feels a strong desire to help him. he lacks confidence and doesnt look at people in the eye when he speaks so i really want to help him. not only for mission purposes but it will help him for life. so im really excited to see what we can do. he struggles to know where to go or what to do wich can be frustrating but were meeting some good people that im really excited about. a family that had been taught one lesson before by e garcia and his old comp we went and taught there family and had a sweet lesson with them. a family of 5. on of the little girls had a nasty infection on her eyelid that and she looked miserable and i imediatly felt that she needed a blessing. so after we watched the restoration dvd with them we taught about the book of mormon and the priesthood and they were way happy. we offered to give a blessing to there daughter and they said that they would love that. i set them for the first week in feb and they seem focused on that day so i hope and pray that everything will go well. we called the next day to see how the little girl was and the father said that everything was almost gone and thanked us. my testimony of the priesthood continues to grow every day as i see the amazing blessings that come from it. growing up i never realized how special the priesthood is but im greatfull god gives any worthy male the privilage of carrying the priesthood
my apartment is good. we cleaned a lot thismorning though..... haha. it needs some things like mirrors and things to hand your towel or put your soap on. jsut small thingsthat would make it nice and more comfortale. my bed is kindof like what you would sleep on when you go camping its just like a 4 inch thick foam pad. haha. let todd read this and so he can imagine the FOAM..... haha but everythings going good. im happy and healthy. there is tons of good food in kakinada. probably the best so far. lots of fresh sea food. prawns and crab curries prawn biryani. mmmm. everyone gets fat here but im telling myself i wont let it happen. so well see. haha. the branch has 130-150 mbrs 80 active? its fun though a lot of young guys that want to help the church grow. they all work hard because they want to get out of a rented space into there own chapel. i wear a big dumb bright yellow helmet that is to small and by butt is killing from the cycles. haha. oh and there are so many mosquitos. luckily i brought a bunch a repelent from hyderabad cuz i left a lot of stuff. oh and the packages got to me. thanks a lot. the new pants made me feel like a million bucks. you dont realize how old some of your stuf is till you get new. i washed my bag for the first time too today. haha. i didnt realize how dity it was but you sweat here and my shirst kept getting black on them and i didnt know why. yup my bag. so i hand washed it and the water was black. haha. oh and next package can you put in some phelsnaptha saop and some natural ice chapstick. oh and las wed my card in my camera got some virus and isnt working so i mighta lost all my pics from hyderabad..... it wants me to re format it but if i do everything will be erased. so im going to send it home maybe and see if you can get some computer wiz to try and get my pics off it cuz it would suck to have 8 months worthh of photos gone. oh well.. anyways everythings going great i love it here. love you and have fun skiin the POW. NOT hahahaha
kaden
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