Hey everyone!
This week was just ok, it could of been better, but it was ok. But that's fine, this week should be better. Happy Fathers Day last week!! I hope it was a super great day! So last week I spaced and thought I said it but it turns out I didn't. So happy late fathers day :) That world wide broadcast was so good, I hope the branch all watched it and got motivation to do more missionary work, that would be super. I liked the video of the family doing member missionary work and how it showed that member missionary work isn't as hard as everyone makes it out to be, and it showed some examples of how easy it can be. It was cool to see Ammon in that video clip towards the end, we got a dvd about working with the branch mission leader and his responsibility and Ammons in that one too, except he's speaking in spanish in like an interview kind of thing and explaining how important members are in missionary work. There was a midnight sun festival thing going on here on saturday, they had a parade and a staged bank robbery. The bank robbery was pretty fun to watch, the discovery channel camera man was supposed to be there filming it and I think I saw him, so it might be on discovery channel sometime haha. It was all pretty fun to have happen but we weren't able to see very many people because everyone was busy. We ended up tracting alot this week, we ended up getting some good potentials out of it though. Elder Garcia got sick yesterday, so we stayed in pretty much all day except for dinner.
We weren't able to see A----------- this week, she hasn't been responding to texts or anything and we're not sure what's going on. But we're going to stop by her cabin and see if we can catch her home and start teaching with her again and hopefully get her on date for baptism.
We saw I----------------- this week, we taught him a little bit more about the restoration but I dont think he quite understood everything we were saying because of the slight language barrier he has with russian being his first language. But were going to use that object lesson that Chris talked about using the cup to talk about the importance of the restoration. Except instead of breaking the cup on the ground we're going to use a paper cup and rip it up haha, so not as exciting but still should get the point across. And he isn't moving into a tent city but probably just into a tent over by their camp, which is just a couple of trailers.
It sounds like everythings been good for you guys back home, alot of weddings and baby showers and farewells. Tell Keaton congrats for me! Same with Hayden and Alyssa! Tell all the people from my mission that are gonna be there hello for me too. I'm glad that you guys got my box of winter clothes, you guys can unpack that stuff so nothing gets musty or anything like that, it's just winter stuff and a couple other things. That's awesome that you guys got all the chicken stuff set up and got the chickens haha, thats gonna be fun. Anyways, I gotta go, sorry its not the longest email or anything! I hope you guys have a wonderful week! Love you guys!
Love Elder Ashton Roney
Monday, June 24, 2013
Monday, June 17, 2013
From Ashton
Hey everyone!
This week was alright, the few days down in Anchorage was fun, its always nice to go back to civilization and see trees and all that fun stuff again. (Ashton flew to Anchorage for transfers) I bought a new camera while I was down there since my other one broke. We stayed in the mission home our last night there and we got to see all the departing missionaries leave. That was pretty crazy, one of the missionaries leaving came out with me. He left a transfer early to get training for college basketball. My new comps name is Elder Garcia, hes been out for like 17 months, and he's from Texas. It's kind of funny how many times since he's been here that I've heard the joke about, if they split Alaska in half, Texas would be the third largest state. I'm sure he hates that joke though. He's a cool kid, he just came from eagle river, from the meadow creek ward. The weather's finally warming up, it's supposed to hit 77 degrees today! The ice decided to float back to Nome again, but thats ok as long as the weather stays nice. I found a few more trees the other day up here in Nome to, so that was exciting haha. It sounds like something stupid to be excited about, but in Nome there aren't very many trees at all so its actually kind of exciting to find trees you didn't know about before haha. (Nome is a VERY barren tundra - few trees) Today we moved a washer for a lady here, that's why youre getting this email so late.
A------------'s good, we were going to meet with her the other day and try to get her on date but she left with her family to go hunting. So we're going to see her this week hopefully at least once. I------------ doing good, we saw him and taught about faith and hope. Hes doing good though, he came to church yesterday too. Hes going to be moving again but this time hes going to be living in a tent for the summer. Hes going to be living over at camp with the other miners that he's working with. He's gold dredging for the summer.
I'm glad everyones doing so good back home. That's awesome that Brolin got 2nd place in that iPhone photography contest! Congrats!
Sounds like Cayman was pretty fun, that's cool that you got to do stuff with the missionaries over there.
That's awesome that Braedon did so good on his GRE test last week! Congrats!
You guys got the chicken coop haha, it looks pretty good, a kid from Provo High made that? That's awesome!
I'm glad you guys are all doing so good! Sorry this email isn't longer, but I gotta go. Love you guys!
Love Elder Ashton Roney
This week was alright, the few days down in Anchorage was fun, its always nice to go back to civilization and see trees and all that fun stuff again. (Ashton flew to Anchorage for transfers) I bought a new camera while I was down there since my other one broke. We stayed in the mission home our last night there and we got to see all the departing missionaries leave. That was pretty crazy, one of the missionaries leaving came out with me. He left a transfer early to get training for college basketball. My new comps name is Elder Garcia, hes been out for like 17 months, and he's from Texas. It's kind of funny how many times since he's been here that I've heard the joke about, if they split Alaska in half, Texas would be the third largest state. I'm sure he hates that joke though. He's a cool kid, he just came from eagle river, from the meadow creek ward. The weather's finally warming up, it's supposed to hit 77 degrees today! The ice decided to float back to Nome again, but thats ok as long as the weather stays nice. I found a few more trees the other day up here in Nome to, so that was exciting haha. It sounds like something stupid to be excited about, but in Nome there aren't very many trees at all so its actually kind of exciting to find trees you didn't know about before haha. (Nome is a VERY barren tundra - few trees) Today we moved a washer for a lady here, that's why youre getting this email so late.
A------------'s good, we were going to meet with her the other day and try to get her on date but she left with her family to go hunting. So we're going to see her this week hopefully at least once. I------------ doing good, we saw him and taught about faith and hope. Hes doing good though, he came to church yesterday too. Hes going to be moving again but this time hes going to be living in a tent for the summer. Hes going to be living over at camp with the other miners that he's working with. He's gold dredging for the summer.
I'm glad everyones doing so good back home. That's awesome that Brolin got 2nd place in that iPhone photography contest! Congrats!
Sounds like Cayman was pretty fun, that's cool that you got to do stuff with the missionaries over there.
That's awesome that Braedon did so good on his GRE test last week! Congrats!
You guys got the chicken coop haha, it looks pretty good, a kid from Provo High made that? That's awesome!
I'm glad you guys are all doing so good! Sorry this email isn't longer, but I gotta go. Love you guys!
Love Elder Ashton Roney
Saturday, June 8, 2013
"Dying" in Nome Alaska
Hey everyone!
You're probably wondering why you're getting my email today, today is our pday because were going to be flying to Anchorage on monday. (He'll be flying into Anchorage to pick up his new companion) So I got my transfer call this morning, I'm staying in Nome for my last transfer and Elder Allens going down to Homer. We're both pretty happy about this next transfer. I was completely expecting to leave so when President Beesley told me that I was staying we were pretty surprised.
Last pday was good, but the weather wasn't very good haha, the weather decided to be foggy from now on. We tried driving out this dirt road to go to a big dredge (gold mining machine thing) but the road was completely washed out. There was no way we could get across, so we went back to the apartment and just relaxed for most of the day. The gap in the road was like 15 feet across and 7ish feet deep haha, I'll send a picture of it. We got haircuts again though, so that was good. For dinner we ate at Ians place on the beach, it was a pretty cool, haha. (Ian's a member who mines gold on a dredge in Nome.) I'll send pictures of his place and of the beach where all the miners live. I finally got the package you guys sent in the beginning/middle of may! (His birthday box) The cake was pretty grody but everything else was just great! Thanks so much! So remember how we kept popping our car tires over and over again? We talked with our vehicle coordinator and convinced him to send us new tires that are more durable and he sent us some new, thick, super heavy duty, mostly Nome proof tires! So we're good for a while haha.
We were able to see A---------- this week, we were planning on seeing her twice but only saw her once. The first time we ate dinner with her and her family, and we were going to go back the next day. But the road had washed out the previous week and the temporary bridge kept breaking. They were working on it when we went back. So we haven't been able to see her since we had dinner with her. I don't know if I told you guys but when we were there one of these last times she told us that she's going to pray to know if she should be baptized. When we go back to see her we're going to follow up and hopefully put her on date for baptism. I really hope to see her get baptized before I leave Nome.
We saw I--------- this week too, we finished teaching him everything he needs to be taught to be baptized, now he just needs to make the decision to be baptized :)
Everything's good though, I'm glad I get to stay in Nome for my last transfer, it should be good. I hope everyone's doing good back home and down there in cayman. Enjoy the sun and the warm weather for me :) Love you guys!
Love Elder Ashton Roney
You're probably wondering why you're getting my email today, today is our pday because were going to be flying to Anchorage on monday. (He'll be flying into Anchorage to pick up his new companion) So I got my transfer call this morning, I'm staying in Nome for my last transfer and Elder Allens going down to Homer. We're both pretty happy about this next transfer. I was completely expecting to leave so when President Beesley told me that I was staying we were pretty surprised.
Last pday was good, but the weather wasn't very good haha, the weather decided to be foggy from now on. We tried driving out this dirt road to go to a big dredge (gold mining machine thing) but the road was completely washed out. There was no way we could get across, so we went back to the apartment and just relaxed for most of the day. The gap in the road was like 15 feet across and 7ish feet deep haha, I'll send a picture of it. We got haircuts again though, so that was good. For dinner we ate at Ians place on the beach, it was a pretty cool, haha. (Ian's a member who mines gold on a dredge in Nome.) I'll send pictures of his place and of the beach where all the miners live. I finally got the package you guys sent in the beginning/middle of may! (His birthday box) The cake was pretty grody but everything else was just great! Thanks so much! So remember how we kept popping our car tires over and over again? We talked with our vehicle coordinator and convinced him to send us new tires that are more durable and he sent us some new, thick, super heavy duty, mostly Nome proof tires! So we're good for a while haha.
We were able to see A---------- this week, we were planning on seeing her twice but only saw her once. The first time we ate dinner with her and her family, and we were going to go back the next day. But the road had washed out the previous week and the temporary bridge kept breaking. They were working on it when we went back. So we haven't been able to see her since we had dinner with her. I don't know if I told you guys but when we were there one of these last times she told us that she's going to pray to know if she should be baptized. When we go back to see her we're going to follow up and hopefully put her on date for baptism. I really hope to see her get baptized before I leave Nome.
We saw I--------- this week too, we finished teaching him everything he needs to be taught to be baptized, now he just needs to make the decision to be baptized :)
Everything's good though, I'm glad I get to stay in Nome for my last transfer, it should be good. I hope everyone's doing good back home and down there in cayman. Enjoy the sun and the warm weather for me :) Love you guys!
Love Elder Ashton Roney
Tuesday, June 4, 2013
50's and 60's
Hey everyone!
This week was pretty good, the weathers been so nice this week, it got into the 50's and I think into the 60's a couple times and the suns been out all day, every day this week so we've been walking around a lot instead of driving, I didn't think I would ever be so happy to get a sunburn in my life. For p-day we didn't do anything very exciting, we drove out one of the roads out to salmon lake to see it, it was still frozen over though.
On Wednesday we drove out to teller to see William T, a member who lives up there. He's a super solid guy. The village up there is tiny, there's probably only about 250 people who live there. Teller is an interesting place, we were talking to a guy who lives there and he described it as its like its own little third world country. Ill send some pictures. We got a lot of really weird looks from people there haha, we got out of the truck and there were a bunch of guys standing in front of one of the houses and they just stared at us until we drove to another part of the village. We met a couple really cool people though. It was a good trip anyways, it took a couple hours to drive there but it was worth it. When we got back we found out that we had another slow leak haha, so we switched out our tire and took the tire in the next morning and got it fixed. The best part is that after we got it fixed we drove back to our apartment to have lunch, and when we got out of the car to go inside we had another leak on a completely different tire! So we immediately got back in the car and drove back to the tire shop, a small rock punctured the tire haha. We have the worst luck with tires ever. We talked to the mission vehicle coordinator and hes going to send a set of new, better, thick, mostly Nome proof tires up to us.
We drove out to A------------s camp this week and part of the road was washed out a couple days earlier so they built a one lane bridge for now on that part of the road. We asked the construction worker if it was ok if we drove across yet and he said, travel at your own risk and if the bridge is washed out when you come back then too bad. Except it was phrased differently, he phrased it in a very hardened, true rough Alaskan way that isn't appropriate for me to say, especially as a missionary haha. We watched her cut up a seal that they shot the day before, then they gave us a plate of it to take home. I don't know if were going to actually eat it though, she gave us some of the intestines, I think she gave us a liver, something else, and a little bit of the meat. yumm...
We taught A------------- the gospel of Jesus Christ this week, it was after we watched her cut up the seal. She wants to be baptized but she wants her husband to be baptized at the same time. We invited her to pray to know if what we taught is true and whether or not she should be baptized, she said she would do it that night. So tomorrow or on Wednesday were going to go see her again and follow up with her, and hopefully get her on date for baptism.
Iskanders doing good, hes been busy getting ready for the mining season so we haven't been able to really teach him anything this week unfortunately.
Sounds like your guys week was pretty good, and busy. Thats pretty sweet that Avery graduated and passed his eagle board of review, congrats bro! Why did they switch doing all the graduations at UVU instead of the marriot center this year? Just curious. That sounds like tons of fun for Brolin doing that hike up the canyon to a secret waterfall and going to lagoon too! The giant BBQ sounds like it was a lot of fun up at uncle Brookes Go Away ranch. That's awesome that Elder Anderson was the one to do Kylers temple sealing. Dad bought a chicken coop? haha nice. And no I haven't gotten my birthday box yet, hopefully it comes this week, was the cake the only thing in it? The mail system up here is the worst. Anyways, I'm glad you all had a pretty good week for the most part, I gotta go now, love you guys!
Love Elder Ashton Roney
This week was pretty good, the weathers been so nice this week, it got into the 50's and I think into the 60's a couple times and the suns been out all day, every day this week so we've been walking around a lot instead of driving, I didn't think I would ever be so happy to get a sunburn in my life. For p-day we didn't do anything very exciting, we drove out one of the roads out to salmon lake to see it, it was still frozen over though.
On Wednesday we drove out to teller to see William T, a member who lives up there. He's a super solid guy. The village up there is tiny, there's probably only about 250 people who live there. Teller is an interesting place, we were talking to a guy who lives there and he described it as its like its own little third world country. Ill send some pictures. We got a lot of really weird looks from people there haha, we got out of the truck and there were a bunch of guys standing in front of one of the houses and they just stared at us until we drove to another part of the village. We met a couple really cool people though. It was a good trip anyways, it took a couple hours to drive there but it was worth it. When we got back we found out that we had another slow leak haha, so we switched out our tire and took the tire in the next morning and got it fixed. The best part is that after we got it fixed we drove back to our apartment to have lunch, and when we got out of the car to go inside we had another leak on a completely different tire! So we immediately got back in the car and drove back to the tire shop, a small rock punctured the tire haha. We have the worst luck with tires ever. We talked to the mission vehicle coordinator and hes going to send a set of new, better, thick, mostly Nome proof tires up to us.
We drove out to A------------s camp this week and part of the road was washed out a couple days earlier so they built a one lane bridge for now on that part of the road. We asked the construction worker if it was ok if we drove across yet and he said, travel at your own risk and if the bridge is washed out when you come back then too bad. Except it was phrased differently, he phrased it in a very hardened, true rough Alaskan way that isn't appropriate for me to say, especially as a missionary haha. We watched her cut up a seal that they shot the day before, then they gave us a plate of it to take home. I don't know if were going to actually eat it though, she gave us some of the intestines, I think she gave us a liver, something else, and a little bit of the meat. yumm...
We taught A------------- the gospel of Jesus Christ this week, it was after we watched her cut up the seal. She wants to be baptized but she wants her husband to be baptized at the same time. We invited her to pray to know if what we taught is true and whether or not she should be baptized, she said she would do it that night. So tomorrow or on Wednesday were going to go see her again and follow up with her, and hopefully get her on date for baptism.
Iskanders doing good, hes been busy getting ready for the mining season so we haven't been able to really teach him anything this week unfortunately.
Sounds like your guys week was pretty good, and busy. Thats pretty sweet that Avery graduated and passed his eagle board of review, congrats bro! Why did they switch doing all the graduations at UVU instead of the marriot center this year? Just curious. That sounds like tons of fun for Brolin doing that hike up the canyon to a secret waterfall and going to lagoon too! The giant BBQ sounds like it was a lot of fun up at uncle Brookes Go Away ranch. That's awesome that Elder Anderson was the one to do Kylers temple sealing. Dad bought a chicken coop? haha nice. And no I haven't gotten my birthday box yet, hopefully it comes this week, was the cake the only thing in it? The mail system up here is the worst. Anyways, I'm glad you all had a pretty good week for the most part, I gotta go now, love you guys!
Love Elder Ashton Roney
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