Pictures

Elder Fuller and I with Rylie

My District

Sister May

 

The Johnson Family

Our chapel in Copperton

What the houses look like in Copperton

Milly our dog

Elder Medieros and I

"I love doing this work"

Dear Family and Friends,

So im under a time limit. im trying to write this email in 8 minutes before my computer automatically restarts. And so far i dont think i am going to make it. I cant get rid of it and its just ticking down the clock and all i can do is write faster to try to get everything in. 

So we had a baptism this last weekend! it was pretty cool. The baptism was great the ward involvement was great, the program went amazing and i didnt have to do anything. The only hiccup was that the uncle who baptized her called her by the wrong name... in the baptism and for the confirmation. apparently theres this long family feud about what her last name is and he brought it into the baptism. i almost freaked on him. i had to call president chambers and ask his advice as to what to do. There is no birth certificate for this girl so we actually dont know what her real name is. and her biological father wasnt there when she was named and her biological mother died. So its a mystery. apparently the for her to be saved calling by the right name doesnt matter. but we have to create her record with the name the uncle said. Not a cool move on his part. But im going to stay out of it. 

Last monday we went to the Mata family for dinner. it was great. they are from southern mexico and they asked me what we wanted. of course i asked for cow tongue! my companion was not too thrilled but after was had a few or maybe 10 he like my choice. i really enjoy cow tongue. if its prepared correctly. 

This last week we have been busy teaching and getting to know members and unfortunately we didnt find anyone. But we got a great referral for a family that is coming to church and and they ahve 4 kids unbaptized. 15 13 10 and 8. i was talking to the bishop and and we were joking and saying how great of a day it would be to see them all in white! With the father baptizing them. That our goal. March is tehre lucky month. they have been to church the last 2 Sundays and they love basketball so im sure we will get along great! 

Elder fuller and i are getting along great. He is a funny guy. when ever he wants to express himself he does it via movie quote. Half the time i dont get the movie reference because its been so long. But he usually explains it to me. But lifes good. I love doing this work. its the best thing for me!

Elder Salmon

"I am doing well"

Dear family and friends,

Well the start of my second week in West Jordan has been a great start. we are finding lots of successes here and i love the work. we found 3 new investigators this last week and have a baptism this weekend. March looks to be a very fruitful month as all 3 will be on date for that month along with a few others we are teaching. 

Its been great as ive gotten to know elder fuller a little more. He definitely beats me on the whole nerdy thing. i usually claim nerd status but he totally destroys me. i keep forgetting to get my camera and send pictures home. i have a few that are pretty cool. So where we live they have a dog named milly. She is a very playful dog. always wanting to play tug of war or fetch. She will stand there beg and whine until we do. if it gets too bad we have to send her out and lock the door so we can study! but she is a cool dog. i like her. and thats saying a lot because i dont like too many dogs. I probably wont like her if she steals my socks as is her bad habit. But we have the upstiars in there house, a bedroom and the den to study as well as our bathroom is up there. And we both live on the main floor. Our landlords are like 27 and i enjoy talking \with them. 

As far as my week it was a normal missionary week. We did our thing and we found peolpe to teach. Invited people to be baptized and and over came concerns.

We cover 6 wards here which isnt too bad. much better than the 9 in south jordan. i dont think i could even work with just 1 ward. i wouldn't know how. i dont know how they stay busy. But here we always have sooo many people to go to. planning is super easy becuase we can never get to everyone we need to correlate with or people we need to contact. So i hope all of you will make the missionaries lives a little easier by doing something to help them. if there is a task you can do but "usually" the missionaries do it, help them out. It makes our lives easier. 

Last weekend i got to go back to south jordan and attend a baptism of someone elder heath and i taught. It was pretty sweet to go back a see a few people i recognize. 

Well i am doing well.

Love you all

Elder Salmon

Transferred

Dear family and friends,

well i got transferred to west jordan west zone! this is a great change i am very excited to be here. i was in South jordan for a long time. So if you look at google maps im the farthest west you can get. at 75th west! i even cover copperton! that small town out there. thats a weird town. its a regular small town with 100 year old houses. The people are very nice and the area seems fairly cool. Everyone i see walking is smoking there but theres a pretty big ward there apparently. 

I am still trying to get down where i am going and where everything is but after about a week here i think i know it better than my companion who has been here for 6 weeks. His name is Elder Fuller. hes kinda a Goober but i like him. Hes always talking about taking over the world. As long as he doesn't kill me i told him im okay with that. we will have a lot of interesting conversations im sure. haha i do like him though. hes been out 2 transfers so i get to help him out of his training phase.

So im still a District leader which is a slight drawback but i have 3 companionships in my district now. So this is the biggest amount of elders ive ever been over and the whole zone is basically in my district (geographically) so i dont really have to get permission to go anywhere! because it all in my district! haha

We had a stake conference yesterday and saturday and Elder Larry S. kacher of the seventy was the presiding authority. He did an amazing job! the spirit was very strong and i knew he was who he was, an especial representative of jesus christ. it was great to talk to him for a little and hear about what he does. He was in the middle east for like 5 years! He has a lot of interesting stories. This stake conference was perfect for me to get to know the stake president and his councilors and see most of the stake.

I love this area! i was so happy when i came here. Our landlords are a youngerish couple. no kids. they are about late 20s and they are pretty cool. after we plan i go down and we talk. My bed is so comfortable. i actually sleep through the night now! i never did in south jordan. man a good nights sleep really helps me out! 

We have so much potential here! WE have 2 on date already and probably will have 2 more on date this week! i love teaching and this i feel will give me a great opportunity to teach many many people.

Well i better go. Elder fuller is done and i dont want to keep him waiting.

love elder Salmon