Chapter 25

So things are going great on my mission.  We just found 2 people the other day to start teaching, and one of them looks really promising, so we are super excited XD.  It's also really fun covering a ginormous area XD.  I am teaching quite a few people about the gospel and having a blast while i do it!  Coming on my mission has been one of the best choices i have ever made XD.

This last week, we were driving around in Dubios, trying to get a feel for a layout since we now cover it, and we ran into this sign next to this gate that said, "Enter at your own risk" and so we looked past the gate wondering why a sign would say that and we saw that the path led into this pit and at the bottom of this pit was a cave! We went down to the mouth of the cave and looked inside, and inside the cave we saw a little ways inside a brick wall and a steel door.  So later that day when we were visiting someone we asked them what it was and they told us it was a nuclear bomb shelter that was built back in the cold war! So that was cool to see.

My companion had some people he was teaching in his old area, which was down in poci [Pocatello], who had asked him to baptize them so this last saturday we went down to poci so he could baptize them.  While on the way, however, we decided to get some lunch and guess where we stopped and ate???? PANDA EXPRESS!!!!!!!!!!!!! WOOT! hahahahaha i was sooooo happy to eat that panda express because it had been pretty much 6 months since i had had it and i was missing it alot hahahaha.  Now i just need to go to chilies, can't really go to maki yaki or in n out since they don't really have them here, and then i will have gone to all my favorite places to eat on my mission XD. 

Last week was one of the "Best Days Ever!" because the stake president came down the stairs holding a bag of elk jerky and asked if we wanted some elk jerky and my companion was like, "I have never had it before so sure" and i was like "OH MY GOSH YESSSS!!!!!! I LOVE ELK JERKY!!!" hahahaha. It was really good and made me think about all the times i eat elk jerky at my dad's house hahahaha.  But while on my mission so far i have had elk, buffalo, deer, lamb, and the only one that was really new to me was ram, which was actually really good hahahaha. 

Well, besides those stories and the fact that my mission is going awesomely great, i am out of things to write about so i will end this chapter here.

Peace out till next week!

With Love,
Elder Arrowchis

Chapter 24

That sounds like a pretty awesome stake conference! Our last Stake Conference we just had here was piped in from SLC, It was still pretty good though, but yours definitely sounds a little more awesome hahaha.  So i have already heard a little bit about that trip to go and TP Joe Wilson's house.  The young men all wrote me this last week and in a few of the letters they told me all about their adventures to go and TP a few people’s houses, one being Joe's.  However they didn't tell me that they got caught hahahahaha.  

Well, as you know this last sunday was Father's Day and i have a funny story to tell about it.  You know how i some how ALWAYS ended up with the treat that the mothers/fathers were getting in church on Mothers/Fathers Day? Well that kinda happened again in my ward here hahahaha.  Sacrament had ended and my companion and I were starting to head off to Gospel Principles class and we were intercepted by one of the Mom's who was helping to hand out the treats, which were cinnamon rolls, and hands us both one and used the excuse that we were Fathers in training. hahahahaha.  We both definately enjoyed those cinnamon rolls and accept our new titles of Fathers in training happily hahaha.

So things are still hectic here now that we cover the entire stake.  We are finally getting used to our new schedule we made of which ward we are going to be in on which day and things are getting better.  Today for p-day we are having a Barbeque with the other elders that live in Roberts and having a Board Game Party so i am definitely looking forward to it! XD

So it's fun/wierd being a district leader's companion.  Pretty much atleast once a week im doing an exchange with the other elders in our district so im with a new companion for a day every week. Like i said, it's fun but wierd.

Con amor,
Elder Arrowchis

P.S. Tell my lamo friends to hurry up and write me, the last time i told you to tell them only steve wrote me hahahaha.

Chapter 23

It is pretty cool living with the stake president, mostly because our stake president is a pretty chill person.  He isn't overbearing and wants to help out anyway he can.  It also makes it easier to find out about people in any of the wards because he has lived there his entire life XD.  So what happened this week? hmmmmmmm.....honesly, not a whole lot has happened this week.  We are still just trying to get a hang for the area and finally got our schedule figured out and we are confident that the work here is going to progress really well.  We can already see the potential this area has and we are super excited to get to work XD. 

So i guess something cool that is happening today is we scheduled an appointment for this place called dragon slayer games (it's a card/board game place that is only tues-sat and will open on mondays if you set up an appointment) and we are going to buy some boardgames, mostly settlers of catan and some expansions for it, because since we now cover twice the area and they only gave us 250 more miles than we had before, we have come to the conclusion that we won't be down to Rexburg for a few weeks at least during this transfer for p-day

But other than that nothing really has happened in the last week, so i am going to end my email here XD. I will try and do something exciting this week so i can spice up my next email XD.

Con amor,

Elder Arrowchis XD

Chapter 22

So i am a little jelly of you guys that you get to play raquet ball hahaha.  Tennis is one of the things i miss the most. However, about 3 p-days ago i got smart and went to walmart and bought like a 15 dollar raquet and played tennis with my district leader from last transfer.  It was the happiest p-day i have had on my mission so far XD hahahaha.   That's so awesome that Sue told them to "hurry up and freaking write me" hahahahaha. And it worked because Steve wrote me this week XD. Also, that game you guys played, signs, i have played that before and it is sooooo much fun.  We played it up at BYU for one of our family home evening activities and we had a blast doing it XD.   Well i guess I will tell you about my companion now.  His name is Elder Wilkins, he is from Arizona, he has 2 brothers and 3 sisters, he is super awesome, and we are going to boss up the Terreton Stake and get baptisms like no other XD. hahahaha.  He is actually the companion i have been hoping for, one that loves to have fun and joke around but who also is a hard worker and loves doing missionary work, and my guess is that i will be with him for atleast 2 to 3 transfers so i am super happy right now XD.  So the new spanish elders that they brought up to cover the menan stake, terreton stake, and part of rigby kind of stole our apartment and kicked us out, and for a few days i was super mad because i liked that place. HOWEVER, a few days after finding out they are stealing our apartment they told us we are going to be moving in with our Stake President into his basement.  They told us we will be moving in with him on Tuesday, we have been staying with the spanish elders in their apartment in the mean time, so we decided to go and talk with the Stake President and find out what the house rules are. So we go there and we find out that his house is HUGE!!!!!!!!!! The basement, which we will be staying in, has about 5 bedrooms down there and even a treadmill, which i am super happy about the treadmill because they said we could use it, and we get to use their beds which are WAYYY more comfortable than the missionary beds they give us so I am super excited hahahahaha XD.  So if you were worried about poor awesome Elder Arrowchis it's ok you don't have to worry anymore, i will be taken well care of hahahaha XD.    Well that's all that really happened this week so i will end this awesome!!!! chapter of my life here so peace out till next week!   Con amor, Elder Arrowchis   P.S. Tell david that one of the spanish Elders that came up here (him and his companion are both white washing the area, the spanish work atleast, by the way) his name is Elder Mayor and he is from Argentina! So he was super excited to see that Boca Junior jersey in my closet hahahahaha and he laughed really hard at the Ushuaia shirt. And if you want to know how to pronounce his name ask david, because it isn't pronounced like a mayor of a town.

Chapter 21

Transfers are on wed. and we got the transfer calls on saturday and they are good and bad :(.  They are awesome because like you hoped i get to stay in my area! And my new companion is going to be the new district leader of my district, since my current one got transfered, so that will be a fun experience.  So now the bad news though.... They are making my area into an english speaking area, which means i am back to speaking english as a missionary again.....But im actually fine with it for a few reasons. One, i asked president colton if i can still do my 1 hour of language study every day to keep learning spanish, and he said that it was fine.  Also, when i go on exchanges (which will happen to me atleast once a week since im the district leaders companion and he has to go on an exchance with all the elders in his district atleast once a transfer) all the other missionaries in my district are in spanish areas so i will get to still learn it/teach in spanish on exchanges.  So it wasn't a complete waste for david to send me those spanish materials.  Also, president colton said that this was just for now so Im hoping that once we get more spanish missionaries that they will open this area back up as a spanish area and i will be spanish again XD (my guess is in 2 to 3 transfers that could happen). 

But i have been reflecting on me coming to this area and i really have warm feeling that i wasn't supposed to be coming to this area to be a spanish missionary, but to serve in this area and to meet some certain families.  There are 2 families that we are teaching that i have drawn really close to and i have this unexpressible love for them and want the best for them.  So i am extremely happy that i get to stay here for another transfer and continue to teach them and help them progress to baptism! XD

Well i don't have time much time to email this week so i will end it here. All the elders in my district want to go golfing because 4 out of 6 of my district are getting transfered hahaha, so they want to do a last p-day activity with each other so i told them i would keep my emailing short this week. So unfortunately i won't be able to email david this week, but tell him i will write him next week because i will have my normal aloted time XD. Peace out till next time!

Con amor,

Elder Arrowchis

P.S. Can you tell my bum friends to freaking email me already :P. Thank you XD.

Also, please find out for me this week whether Ashley is at BYU still for another semester or at home so i can know what address to send my letter to! thank you! XD

Chapter 20

Man that's so exciting that david is home! He looks a little different now in the pictures you sent me. That or maybe i just haven't seen him in a long time hahaha.  And it feels wierd/cool to be the ONLY Elder Arrowchis in the world now XD.  Im so used to telling people that my brother is in Argentina on a mission when they ask if i have siblings and what they are doing.  I might mess up for the next few weeks when people ask, but i will adjust.

I got your package today!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! IT'S AWESOME!!!! I will thank david more in my email to him but thank him anyway for the soccer jersey and that AWESOME Penguins of Madagascara shirt XD.  And that would be so like david to make you guys wait 25 min just so he can shave and what not hahaha.  That's so awesome that David got to see everyone and go to travbum's wedding! Tell Travbum i say congrats on the wedding/temple sealing!

So this week was a good week.  The first thing that happened was we had a spanish ward activity for the spanish branch here on saturday! And guess what i learned?!?!?! Spanish activity = SOCCER!!!!!!!!!! hahahahahaha! It was so much fun to play soccer again, and thanks to david i will look legit in my Argentinian soccer jersey at the next spanish activity XD.  And also because david sent me all those spanish materials, which i was super excited for, i will be able to better understand what they are saying and communicate back by the next one.  Seriously though, tell david i am super grateful for those spanish materials because i have been borrowing my district leaders materials but the grammar practice books all have the answers written in them so i couldn't really do them, and David being AWESOME he didn't write in them XD.  So now i will actually be able to do more than just read the BOM in my one hour of language study every day! XD hahahaha.

Another note to talk about is transfers is in a week and something huge is happening to our area! They are going to take out one of the 2 companionships in the Terreton Stake and give the other companionship the entire stake.  For example, if i stay i will cover not only Terreton and Roberts, but i will also cover Hamer/Dubios/Monteview.  And you also have to factor in that my companion has been here for 6 transfers and one of the elders in the other companionship has been here for 5 transfers so alot of crazy possibilities are available! hahaha.

Today for P-day we wen't to the zoo in Idaho Falls!!! It was waaaayyyy smaller than the San Diego Zoo but it was still alot of fun XD.

Well, I am going to end this chapter of my life here so i have time to send you pictures so peace out till next week and keep having a wonderful time.

Con amor,

Elder Arrowchis

Chapter 19

It was really awesome getting to skype home on mothers day. And i agree, skype is one of the greatest inventions ever XD. But it really was nice to see you guys and to get to talk to you.  Hey, i have a question for you. Is Ashley back home for the summer or did she stay at BYU? I need to know so i can know where to send her letter. If she is at BYU i will send it to her address. If she is home i will just have you email it to her.

Well since i just talked to you yesterday and told you everything, there isn't really anything to report on so i will just end this email here. XD

Love you all and hope you continue having a great time at home.

Con Amor,

Elder Arrowchis

P.S. Also, please let Aiden know that he is awesome and tell all the youngmen that i say Hi. Oh, and you MUST call brother Titel an old man for me the next time you see him XD. Love you and Peace out!