Email 1-30-12

Elder Walburger, Lethbridge, Alberta, Canada

Connersville in the early morning.

Elder Long

Elder Cornwell
so this week has been wonderful. i got my new foreign companion and wednesday, and we went and ate at bubs..... for my last time. it was fun eh? but like i said this week has been pretty good. i had my temple recommend interview with president collins and i passed, so now i can go to the temple my first day back!!! woot woot! anywho, long story short my new companion is ELDER WALBURGER!!! and he is from..........................
CANADA!!!!!!!!!!

anyway he is from Lethbridge, Alberta, Canada. Do you know how canada got its name?? well they puts a bunch of consonants in a bag and pulled them out one by one.....

C eh? N eh? D eh? and thus C a N a D a was born.

alrighty well i've learned to a greater extent this week that i need to set a better example. there are a lot of immature people, spiritually, mentally emotionally, etc. and i realized that i need to step up and be a leader. not for leaderships sake, but because im sick of people being immature. but

this week we found 2 sweet new investigators. they are amazing. angela wants a lot more peace in her life. and we are going to help her achieve that. nancy has a friend who is less active, but told her a little about the book of mormon and nancy IS LOVING THE CHURCH and its views on scripture study and seeking to know the deep things of the gospel.

IM LOVING CONNERSVILLE!!!! this has been one of the best areas of my entire mission!! the work here is booming. anywho. im not really in a writing mood right now but i do have a ton of pictures to make up for the lack of info. so ciao!!!!

elder swanson eh?


the pictures are of first me and elder cornwell
me and elder long
sunrise picks this very morning and then
elder walburger

oh on a side note i have my new phone already..... maybe... so elder cornwell found a motorola droid or android in his area, he turns it on to see whos it is. didnt turn on. it was water damaged so he dries it out and presto it turns on and it has a bajillion not so good things on it, so he formats the phone to get rid of all the crap, garbage, etc and then tries to find info in it about the owner..... well no info, he said it wouldnt even work anymore, it de programmed itself, so it needs a verizon store tech to re programm it or something. anyway, he brung it to transfer meeting and said since i was going home i could have it! so when i get back i'll have to take it to the verizon store to see if it can be traced to the owner. if so, lucky them they get their sweet phone back. if not then lucky elder swanson, i get to have a smart phone. yay! that would be sweet if president collins let me switch our brick phone over to it. but he defiently wont so it has to stay in my suitcase for a couple weeks. ah well.

alrighty then, im signing off for today. have a stellar week!!
love,
elder swanson

p.s. pray for the connersville ward please. we need all the prayers we can get! thank you!

marko

Email 1-23-12

mmm my week has been very...... emotional. i hate.... and i mean HATE that i am almost done with my mission. my feelings are being ripped to pieces right now. i want to be a missionary, but i also want to start life again. its so bleeping frustrating. its official as of this morning that i am staying in connertucky for the rest of my mission. i am stoked to stay here. we taught 79 lessons this transfer!!!! its crazy how much work is going on here. it will be good because in order to stay afloat emotionally here i'll need to keep myself busy. Elder Mortensen is going to be a trainer somewhere this coming transfer. he is pretty nervous. he'll do awesome though.

anyway I AM TICKED THAT I AM ALMOST DONE!!!! i wish i could extend or just be done tomorrow. i dont like the whole FINISH LINE IN SITE thing. It sucks. well enough of being negative.

this last transfer is going to be amazing. there are a few baptisms in the work for next months so that will be awesome and our ward is doing a soup competition this weekend!!! IM GOING TO WIN WITH BROCCOLI CHEESE WITH BACON, POTATOES AND CHICKEN!!!!!

yum. well im going to get going but have a wonderful day!

love,
elder swanson