Pics from Mark

Lafeyette courthouse and somewhere over the rainbow.... in Indiana.

No. 1? No surprise. hehe!

Crunchy the Leaf Man.

Email for 11-15-10

alrighty so this week, we have a baptism of a young man named weston wands. he is so awesome!!! he is totally ready for baptism. AND HEY I"VE GOT SOME OTHER BIG NEWS!!!!!!!!!!! DRUM ROLL PLEASE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! IVE BEEN CARBONATION/CAFFEINE FREE FOR 6 MONTHS TODAY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! WOOOHOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! the funny thing is i feel great, but i love the taste of mountain dew and THE "DOCTOR" but thus far i am done drinking soda for the rest of forever. its not really good for you im sure you've heard. so 6 months ago i decided to stop. and i did!!! oh man crazy awesomeness stories, first one -- i bought a nerf gun and modified it on p day and now it shoots about 65 feet!!!! and second story.... we always play dodgeball on p days. so last pday we were playing dodgeball and Elder Von throws it as hard as he could and hits Elder Hurst in the ear..... so he gets knocked down on his butt. then elder hurst got back up and started playing with his ear... he said he couldnt hear. that it felt as if his ear was dead. sure enough elder hurst is now deaf in one ear. he is going to go see a specialist this week. hope everything turns out well, but there goes dodgeball on pdays. anywho not really much going on here besides westons baptism. i talked to elder Neilson (zl) last night and he said he thinks my mission right now is to help elder von. so to not worry if nothing is happening investigator wise. its seems as if the last 2 transfers have been for me to help my comp. that is what president told me anyways. alrighty i hope you are having a super awesome fall back home. our trees are better out here though. but i gotta run so LOVE YOU!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Elder Swanson

Pics from Lafayette, IN

Mark's apartment.

cool photo of light up ball.

Boys and guns. When Mark was little we wouldn't buy him a gun and he and his bro would bite their sandwiches into gun shapes. It's a no win.

Silly p day antics. Notice Mark is wearing a Indy firefighter shirt.

A special baptism day.

Mark's always flirtin' with the ladies.

Mark's bud and his wife.

Rats of unusual size.

Swine Registry?

A zone of happiness.

Email for 11-8-10

Hi All! Nothing really new this week. Purdue just lost to Wisconsin yesterday. It was really bad I guess. We have text updates on the games so we have a good opener to talk to people while tracting. So guess what !?!?!?! I have only two more transfers until I've been out on the mission for a year! crazy eh? time flies. seems I left yesterday. anywho, Weston is to be baptized on November 20 and now we're teaching his mom too! I hope everything goes well. hmmm. other updates. not much happening. but Mom - I would like to make a request for Christmas. a 50 gift card to wally world. our area is saving to buy Super awesome Nerf guns so we can all meet on a Pday and have a great WAR ZONE !!!!!!! It should be fun. anything else you would like to know? if not,that's all I have for this week, but I love you SOOO MUCH !!!!

Email for 11-1-10

hmm so this week has been super awesome i guess. honestly nothing new at all. its kind of slow in our area right now but it should all get better soon. ummm wow thats pretty much it. WE are getting a 2011 chevy malibu in 2 weeks or so. and im still the full time driver for the car so its pretty awesome. ummwhat else. we are going to go play ping pong today at the institute building with some of the YSA members ummm other than that not much to update. its already super cold. this winter is going to suck with epic vacuum suckiness. umm wow its getting harder to write home because nothing is new here. same investigators. Weston still has a baptismal date. a new scripture i read says, "" for tracting exuberantly in west lafayette profiteth an elder nothing. for all the people round about in the land are wine-bibbers and gluttons, and want nothing to do with the gospel of Jesus Christ." its a very true scripture. we had 8 tracting contacts this week...... its all good though. missionarying has its fasts and its slows. the church is true. anywho LOVE YA"LL!!!!!!

ELDER SWANSON