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
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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
Wednesday, December 30, 2009
Happy New Year From India
hey mom and dad, well it was great to hear you and get to talk with you. but due to more bunds everything is closed down today. so the place we normally mail from is closed. so we have been serching for a place and we found this little crappy one thats still open. just to be saft i thought id write my letter in word and save it often in case of a power cut. yup sure enough it did. but the guy said that it clears everything when the computer reboots. so i was almost finished with a big letter to dad and it was gone. im kinda ticked so im not going to try and re write it. there are more computer engineers in india than anywhere else but they cant figure out how to make something work. haha anyways since i talked to you its been great. that day we went out and found a couple of nice families. our family who has been progressing towards baptism is doing really good and are excited for there baptisms this sunday. it was really nice this last sunday because there daughter who is handicap was great during church she sat through all of sacrament and releif society. so there family was really happy. we also have another sister being baptized whos name is krishna veni. she has been in her village for like a week and is supposed to come sat morning so i hope everything works out. especially with these bunds and crap happening. its not safe for them to travel so i hope everything works out. from today onwards there will be a continual bund except now there saying maybe not tomorow cuz everyone wants to celebrate new years. and if you cant buy booz then how can you celebrate? haha new years is a big deal here tons of parties and things. all the native elders want to wake up at 1159 so we can celebrate. ummmm how bout not. haha but well see i guess. i cant believe its almost 2010. i remember seeing my call. 2008-2010 and was like no way! and now its hear. haha
everything is going really good. we knew it was going to be a rough week as far as time we can find so we worked really hard to find and teach on mon and tues. we ended up finding 3 really good familes who seem to be very interested. the hard part is is its hard for people to travel when there are no busses so i hope they can find ways to come to church this week. but nothing to crazy or exciting has happened since we talked. but i want you to know that i love being out here. i know that the gospel is true and by following its basic princiapals we will be happy and find satisfatcion in what we do.
it sounds like everyone is sick back home. that sucks. sorry. if it makes you feel any better i feel great! haha jk knock on wood. oh and mom no packages yet but dont worry they will make it and i still got some jerky left so it will tie me over til they come. haha. with the bunds and things its probably slowing things up. well i hope everyone is doing good. it was great talking to you. have a good new years. thanks for everything. love you
kaden
Friday, December 25, 2009
Kaden's Doing Great
hey mom and dad, well im just going to say hi and bye cuz i get to speak to you in like 2 days anyways so i dont have a whole lot to say. haha just kiddin i know that wouldnt make mom to happy with me. but anyways it was a really nice week. it felt good to have a full week of work with no problems or things put in our way. we were just talking to everyone! hindu, muslem, christian, seek, it didnt matter it was fun. our district had over 50 new investigators. but it was good for me to see because i realized what really can be done in a week and how many people you talk to in a day so im setting a goal to always treat every week like that. i has helped to have all the christian starts but we even found some good hindu familes. we taught a fam that the son was the number 2 rank tenis player in india a few years back. the father didnt believe in god at all. the mother likes christ, the daughter is fully hindu, and the son is everything. haha so it was interesting to teach them. we started with the restoration but finished in the plan of salvation somehow. so aruns family came to church on sunday and stayed the whole time!! they have to make big sacrifices to bring their little girl. she is like 9 and he just carries her like a baby. its awesome to see the love in there family. but there super excited to be baptized on jan 3 and they are following the word of wisdom now too! we gave a blessing to the wife aruna so that she could learn english. 2 zone conferences ago pres talked about the priesthood and it made us realize that we dont use it enough. a lot of people hear think the gift of toungues is some crazy language that someone babbles but its not. so we have started blessing the people who have a desire to learn and they are able to learn like you cant even believe. but after we gave the blessing she was soo happy. tonight there is christmas party at church that were going to so we will have a good time with that. indian skits can be pretty funny. haha.
everything is going really well though. i just wanted to say thanks again for all the stuff you sent. and im greatful your sending stuff to narla and when you said you sent b ball shorts i was shocked because i forgot to tell you to send some. i was going to take him to city center where there are nice western stores and buy him some for christmas but you already took care of it.
it sounds like the barr construction party was good too. haha its funny how the little kids are scared like anything untill he gives them something. haha. sometimes new babies see us white people and just have a look like what the heck are you? haha. well i cant believe its already time to speak on the phone again. last year i couldnt wait and now i dont know how i feel. haha it will be good though. narla is calling 25 night and im going to try and call by 8 am here but sometimes the places dont open on time so if its not right then dont worry. have some questions and stuff cuz im trying to think of what to tell ya and i got nothing. haha. so i guess just have everyone there around that time on christmas. but im doing good and enjoying christmas in the sun. haha. thanks for all you do. love you!
kaden
hey mom and dad. thanks for the pictures and all that. haha it seems like just yesterday we were doing that stuff for todd. time flies. but thanks for your support and tell everyone else the same. so its been a good week. all restrictions are done and were back to normal missionary work. man it feels good too. haha. its cool too because during christmas some christians put out a big star in front of there door or hanging off their building. were always looking for christians and somedays it feels like there are no christians in all of india. haha. but now more and more starts are giving them away. they may as well just stand out in front of there house and yell for me to come teach them. hahaha. so were having fun star finding because pretty much where theres a star, theres a family. so were working are hardest to get to all of them. so i have been doing what dad said by teaching people about the birth of the savior. and it has given me a even greater appreciation for what he did for us. many people here no the name Jesus Christ but they no nothing about Him so im greatful to have the privilage to teach them.
so missionaries have been teaching a family in my area for over a year now and they have never been dropped. i feel bad because they are a great family and have a lot of faith. they have a mentally and phisically handicap daughter who is about 8 and its difficult for there full family to come so off and on they come. but i was looking over there teaching record and they had never been taught most of the comandments. word of wisdom tithing fasting or anything. so last week we decided to teach them the things that will start to change there lives. they are working on there word of wisdom and are already down to one cup of tea. after the lesson the wife who only speaks hindi asked us when she can be baptized! we challenged them a couple weeks ago but they wanted to pray about it. she reads the bom every day and now wants to be baptized. im way excited for them and hope that there whole family will have the same desire as her. were going to teach them about temples and how they can live together forever tonight!:)
oh and mom you can quit worrying cuz your packages made it. dang i could start an american chocolates store and make bank. haha in india all candy is called chocolates. but man those 3 musketeer mint are bomb. im not saying that so you send more either but thanks for everything. i feel like a million bucks in new gs and white shirts. i didnt realize i was wearing brown shirts untill i got these new ones haha. and the ties are awesome. everyone at zone conf yesterday was jealouse of my tie. i wore the big fat pink and black one. haha.
anyways im doing great and having fun. i have a bit of a cold right now but other than that im great! thanks so much for everything both of you do. your the best and i love you so much. have a great week and go get in some pow turns for me. oh and i was going to ask you if you could e mail some pics of me on mile high and a couple wakeboarding, baseball, and family because i want to use them for bapt interviews. it makes the people more comfortable starting by looking at pics. thanks. love you
kaden
everything is going really well though. i just wanted to say thanks again for all the stuff you sent. and im greatful your sending stuff to narla and when you said you sent b ball shorts i was shocked because i forgot to tell you to send some. i was going to take him to city center where there are nice western stores and buy him some for christmas but you already took care of it.
it sounds like the barr construction party was good too. haha its funny how the little kids are scared like anything untill he gives them something. haha. sometimes new babies see us white people and just have a look like what the heck are you? haha. well i cant believe its already time to speak on the phone again. last year i couldnt wait and now i dont know how i feel. haha it will be good though. narla is calling 25 night and im going to try and call by 8 am here but sometimes the places dont open on time so if its not right then dont worry. have some questions and stuff cuz im trying to think of what to tell ya and i got nothing. haha. so i guess just have everyone there around that time on christmas. but im doing good and enjoying christmas in the sun. haha. thanks for all you do. love you!
kaden
hey mom and dad. thanks for the pictures and all that. haha it seems like just yesterday we were doing that stuff for todd. time flies. but thanks for your support and tell everyone else the same. so its been a good week. all restrictions are done and were back to normal missionary work. man it feels good too. haha. its cool too because during christmas some christians put out a big star in front of there door or hanging off their building. were always looking for christians and somedays it feels like there are no christians in all of india. haha. but now more and more starts are giving them away. they may as well just stand out in front of there house and yell for me to come teach them. hahaha. so were having fun star finding because pretty much where theres a star, theres a family. so were working are hardest to get to all of them. so i have been doing what dad said by teaching people about the birth of the savior. and it has given me a even greater appreciation for what he did for us. many people here no the name Jesus Christ but they no nothing about Him so im greatful to have the privilage to teach them.
so missionaries have been teaching a family in my area for over a year now and they have never been dropped. i feel bad because they are a great family and have a lot of faith. they have a mentally and phisically handicap daughter who is about 8 and its difficult for there full family to come so off and on they come. but i was looking over there teaching record and they had never been taught most of the comandments. word of wisdom tithing fasting or anything. so last week we decided to teach them the things that will start to change there lives. they are working on there word of wisdom and are already down to one cup of tea. after the lesson the wife who only speaks hindi asked us when she can be baptized! we challenged them a couple weeks ago but they wanted to pray about it. she reads the bom every day and now wants to be baptized. im way excited for them and hope that there whole family will have the same desire as her. were going to teach them about temples and how they can live together forever tonight!:)
oh and mom you can quit worrying cuz your packages made it. dang i could start an american chocolates store and make bank. haha in india all candy is called chocolates. but man those 3 musketeer mint are bomb. im not saying that so you send more either but thanks for everything. i feel like a million bucks in new gs and white shirts. i didnt realize i was wearing brown shirts untill i got these new ones haha. and the ties are awesome. everyone at zone conf yesterday was jealouse of my tie. i wore the big fat pink and black one. haha.
anyways im doing great and having fun. i have a bit of a cold right now but other than that im great! thanks so much for everything both of you do. your the best and i love you so much. have a great week and go get in some pow turns for me. oh and i was going to ask you if you could e mail some pics of me on mile high and a couple wakeboarding, baseball, and family because i want to use them for bapt interviews. it makes the people more comfortable starting by looking at pics. thanks. love you
kaden
Saturday, November 14, 2009
Kaden's Doing Great In Hyderabad
hey amma and appa, im going to write you both together. im trying to be quicker at mailing cuz my comp doesnt really have anyone to write. imglad my parents know how to use computers. haha. but anyways its been another great week. we had a good sunday and our investigators are coming to church. so i cant complain about that. selvums fam were all ready and about to come to church but they got a call that his little bro was in the hospital in a koma. so they werent able to come to church wich is understandable. i called pres and he said they can still be baptized this sunday. but i dont know if we can get them interviewed and all that in time. deaths in india are a big deal. they have the funeral then a 3rd day 10th day and who knows how many other day functions. its kind of sad actually because it takes over there life for over a month. last week we got a call that one of our branch members fathers died and they were having the service so we dropped what we were doing and went there. the people were screaming and crying the whole time. it was hard to see people that upset but it made me apreciate the plan of salvation that much more. even though i teach it several times a week to people im still thankfull to know that if im obedient to the principals of the gospel i will get to live with my family again. but many of those people screaming and crying probably dont know they will get to see there family again. anyways selvums fam is still doing good and i know that the Lord is keeping them prepared for the gospel.
thats cool pres wrote you guys. he is a great guy and great leader. i look up to him a lot. its been great to be around him the lintons and many other sr couple becasue thery are all very successfull. and im trying to soak up as much knowlege i can from them.
k mom im gonna try and answer your questions cu last week i was thinking and i remembered a bunch of questions dad asked and was like man im just like todd was... never answering the questions. haha. so dad we have 8 in our dist when the zone leaders are there we all live in seperate flats, but usually on sudays we go to someones apartment and cook up some nice curries or somthing. haha. each one of us have one american and one native in our companionship. just like a giant oreo sandwich. haha. but we have a lot of fun together so its cool. we usually do stuff on p day. nothing special though. ping pong or just chill. and about the shirts mom. all short sleeve!!!! were sweating our you know whats off over here. haha. 6 or 7 probably. and the stafford ones are good. the thinner material. i think these are 161/2 necks. whatever you send is fine.
im way happy to hear that todd and katie are getting sealed! i was expecting to hear they were prego because of the titles of your letters but nope even better. i cant wait to go to the temple again. being so far from a temple will make you realize how special it is. but im happy for them. you guys are a awesome example to all of us and seeing your happieness make others want the same and i know thats why todd was able to make it. your examples is one of the reasons im on my mission so thanks for being who you are. i read a scripture this morning form the bible i think in 1 cor that paul said i am what i am. basically saying im not perfect but i am what i am. i know you guys arent perfect but you are what you are and the people you are have raised a great family and been a great example to all those around you. so thanks and know that i love you both.
kaden
oh and mom i was going to ask if you could shrink the gospel art book a little bit. it barely fits in my bag and gets beat up. there might be copywrite rules but if you can it would be tight. thanks.
hey mom, what up. sounds like you had a good halloween. i forgot it was halloween until i was following up with the district leader and he said happy halloween. haha. but dad said you and sis bailed him out for the ward party thing. haha. i would agree with him and say i dont know how he got so lucky to get you. haha. nae looked way cute in her chudidar and lil kambri is a cutie.
anyways i have been in the FRO trying to extend my residential permit all day so i gotta be fast. i dont know why they always pick wednesday to make us go there. its an unorganized circus. but oh well. this week has been really good. unfortunately selvums children had exams on sunday and couldnt come to church so they have to have it postponed. selvum and his wife said they still want to do it this week but i feel its best to wait for the full family. thats what the gospel is all about right. but i always hate to see delays becasue satan throws out all he has. but im sure everything will be just fine. so this week we went to a area i had never been to because we got a referal from a new member(prabacher) who wants us to teach his wife. and as we were walking down a long busy road not really knowing where to got. this little kid about 11 came and said hi where are you going and we told him and he was like okay ill take you cuz i live right there. so we went and he showed us the place and he said my house is right there. but we just went to the appointment and didnt really think much of it. a few days later we were going to prabachers and they had some stuff come up at church and couldnt make it in time. so we were walking back and that same little kid was there and i thought hey maybe we could go to his house. to make a long story short he took us to his home. he Mervin his mother SriLatha and elder brother vipen speak great english his father vankatesh is a cab driver, but they were awesome and the spirit was very strong in the lesson and we set them that night. they came on sunday to church too! so im very excited for that family now also. its still amazing to me how the spirit works and directs us to people and people to us. it truly is his work and we are the ones who get to help. and there is no doubt in my mind that this is his work and im greatful to have the privilage to be a part of it.
anyways thanks for your letter mom. i liked GC too and how they talked about love the whole time. thanks for all you do because i know you are the one who is always behind the scenes and doesnt get the credit. but know that i look up to you and love you!!
kaden
p.s. my g's are 32 cotton poly i think and tops med talls dri lux or something. i might have you send shirts too because i went and looked and the shirts are like 1500 rs a shirt and 100 percent cotton and i dont think i want that. but ill let you know. thanks have a great week
thats cool pres wrote you guys. he is a great guy and great leader. i look up to him a lot. its been great to be around him the lintons and many other sr couple becasue thery are all very successfull. and im trying to soak up as much knowlege i can from them.
k mom im gonna try and answer your questions cu last week i was thinking and i remembered a bunch of questions dad asked and was like man im just like todd was... never answering the questions. haha. so dad we have 8 in our dist when the zone leaders are there we all live in seperate flats, but usually on sudays we go to someones apartment and cook up some nice curries or somthing. haha. each one of us have one american and one native in our companionship. just like a giant oreo sandwich. haha. but we have a lot of fun together so its cool. we usually do stuff on p day. nothing special though. ping pong or just chill. and about the shirts mom. all short sleeve!!!! were sweating our you know whats off over here. haha. 6 or 7 probably. and the stafford ones are good. the thinner material. i think these are 161/2 necks. whatever you send is fine.
im way happy to hear that todd and katie are getting sealed! i was expecting to hear they were prego because of the titles of your letters but nope even better. i cant wait to go to the temple again. being so far from a temple will make you realize how special it is. but im happy for them. you guys are a awesome example to all of us and seeing your happieness make others want the same and i know thats why todd was able to make it. your examples is one of the reasons im on my mission so thanks for being who you are. i read a scripture this morning form the bible i think in 1 cor that paul said i am what i am. basically saying im not perfect but i am what i am. i know you guys arent perfect but you are what you are and the people you are have raised a great family and been a great example to all those around you. so thanks and know that i love you both.
kaden
oh and mom i was going to ask if you could shrink the gospel art book a little bit. it barely fits in my bag and gets beat up. there might be copywrite rules but if you can it would be tight. thanks.
hey mom, what up. sounds like you had a good halloween. i forgot it was halloween until i was following up with the district leader and he said happy halloween. haha. but dad said you and sis bailed him out for the ward party thing. haha. i would agree with him and say i dont know how he got so lucky to get you. haha. nae looked way cute in her chudidar and lil kambri is a cutie.
anyways i have been in the FRO trying to extend my residential permit all day so i gotta be fast. i dont know why they always pick wednesday to make us go there. its an unorganized circus. but oh well. this week has been really good. unfortunately selvums children had exams on sunday and couldnt come to church so they have to have it postponed. selvum and his wife said they still want to do it this week but i feel its best to wait for the full family. thats what the gospel is all about right. but i always hate to see delays becasue satan throws out all he has. but im sure everything will be just fine. so this week we went to a area i had never been to because we got a referal from a new member(prabacher) who wants us to teach his wife. and as we were walking down a long busy road not really knowing where to got. this little kid about 11 came and said hi where are you going and we told him and he was like okay ill take you cuz i live right there. so we went and he showed us the place and he said my house is right there. but we just went to the appointment and didnt really think much of it. a few days later we were going to prabachers and they had some stuff come up at church and couldnt make it in time. so we were walking back and that same little kid was there and i thought hey maybe we could go to his house. to make a long story short he took us to his home. he Mervin his mother SriLatha and elder brother vipen speak great english his father vankatesh is a cab driver, but they were awesome and the spirit was very strong in the lesson and we set them that night. they came on sunday to church too! so im very excited for that family now also. its still amazing to me how the spirit works and directs us to people and people to us. it truly is his work and we are the ones who get to help. and there is no doubt in my mind that this is his work and im greatful to have the privilage to be a part of it.
anyways thanks for your letter mom. i liked GC too and how they talked about love the whole time. thanks for all you do because i know you are the one who is always behind the scenes and doesnt get the credit. but know that i look up to you and love you!!
kaden
p.s. my g's are 32 cotton poly i think and tops med talls dri lux or something. i might have you send shirts too because i went and looked and the shirts are like 1500 rs a shirt and 100 percent cotton and i dont think i want that. but ill let you know. thanks have a great week
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