Ummm UNCLE ALEX?!
I did not even know until now you losers hahahaha I'm
FREAKING OUT in the library!! You were supposed to call haha I just
found out you had her!! She is the most GORGEOUS baby I have ever seen!
Seriously I'm trying with all the energy of heart right now not to cry
haha because I am surrounded by people in the library that already think
we are crazy haha. That is so exciting! She is so cute!!!!!!!!!!!!! I
wish I could just hold her right now!! All the ladies who work here in
the library were all flippin out too haha because I showed them (they
love us), they said to give her a kiss for them :) Well how is everyone
else loving her! I bet you have people coming over all the time now huh
haha? how spoiled is she? Actually dont answer that haha I dont even
wanna know... :) Well this week was pretty awesome!!!! Especially now
that I just found that out!! This has been the greatest week ever! We
found a guy named Robert, he is a really old white guy (thats uncommon
out here) and he is seriously the most humble guy I have ever met! This
man has lost everything yet, he has such a Christ-centered life. I don't
know what it is about this investigator, but my heart has never been so
full for someone we are teaching. I desire so greatly to have him
receive the gospel. It really is a feeling I have never had before. I
know that the Lord is working through us as missionaries to bring this
wonderful gospel to people like Robert. He is such a wonderful person
and he has such a caring and open heart, he really is a tender mercy the
Lord has provided for us to be able to meet him. Well, other than that I
have just been reading and learning all the time haha and spreading the
gospel. Life is great, if I was this happy forever, I would never
complain or ask for another thing haha. Well I'm so excited that you are
FINALLY PARENTS! You are both going to be so great!.. actually, you
already ARE! Well, I have been having such a
wonderful time out here. The time is going so fast it isnt fair haha, it
honestly needs to slow down. Months turn into weeks, weeks into days,
and days into hours. It really is SO INSANE! Well I love you all very
much! I'll admitt I haven't taken any pictures in my new area yet haha
so I will start! Everything with me is going great! I hope all with you
is well!!! I pray for you each every night! Let my friends know when you
see them that I love them very much, and that I KNOW this church is
true! I can't comprehend or explain why I am so happy, I just am, and I
know everyone can be too. Let them know okay! Can't wait to here from
you soon! If there is anything I can do out here to help you out let me
know, but until then, I'll keep on with my fervant prayers! :)
I LOVE YOU!
Peace, LOVE and Blessings,
Well tell Brons HAPPY BIRTHDAY!
So I dont have much time sorry so I'm gonna try and make
this quick. But with how insane this week was it's probably going to be
pretty long haha. So to start, after our district meeting on Monday we
had the craziest day. So there was Elder Yogoh, Berhelson, Losi, York,
Sowyer, Lunt, Prestwitch and I. And then a Senior couple named Elder and
Sister Greenland. So the we are all sitting in the church after
district meeting and the only people outside are the senior couple and
elder prestwitch. Then, all of the sudden he comes running into the room
and says "do you guys have anything valuable in the car?! because some
guy was just going through your car!" So he tells us that the guys is a
skinny black guy wearing a brown shirt. So we all run outside and are
looking for this guy and can't find him anywhere. So we go to the car
and check. He had stolen Elder Losi's GPS and that's all we could really
tell. He left my camera and ipod haha so we figured he didnt really
know what he was doing. But then, all of the sudden we hear Elder
Prestwitch say "hey, there he is!" And this guy had come back and was
just walking through the church parking lot hahaha so I start running
and him and I'm like "Hey come here!" and this guy yells "I got a gun!"
but in my heart something was like "no he doesnt" so I keep running at
him and he picks up a rock and throws it at me (luckily he missed), so
at this point I knew he didnt have one. but then all of the missionaries
run and surround him. And so we are telling this guy "hey just give our
stuff back and we'll let you go" and this guy picks up this huge stick
hahaha and throws it and it nails Elder Berthelson (the smallest one,
like 5' 9" and 140 lbs) right in the face haha I know I shouldn't be
laughing but it was so crazy and funny at the same time. So Elder Yogoh
and I run up to this guy and start swinging at him trying to grab him
and get the stuff, then he just throws it on the ground and runs haha so
we got it all back. This guy took his GPS and some CD's and left an
IPOD and my CAMERA haha these people down here, I'm tellin ya. So that
was by far the crazy story for the week haha. Well other than that I had
to do the most embarrassing thing ever haha! So Elder Berthelson thinks
he has a splinter in his butt, and it was hurting him so bad he
couldn't sit down. So he calls Sister Rugg and tells her whats going on,
and she says "okay have someone in your house get a needle and get it
out" haha so we are all like no way haha I'm not touching his butt. So
we all put a foot in the middle and play "catch a tiger by his toe", and
guess who it lands on, ME! Haha so I have to pretty much stick a needle
in this Elders behind and squeeze out a splinter haha I felt so homo,
but this isnt the end. The next day, it is twice as big. Probably like
the size of a quarter. So he calls her again and she says to go to the
ER. So we go there last night. It turns out he had a boil on his butt
hhaha and that they were spreading because he now had one on his arm. So
while I'm in the room this elder has to take all his clothes off, put
on one of those little gowns and lay there while a female doctor lances
this boil on his butt haha it seriously was the funniest thing I have
ever seen, I was laughing so hard I was crying haha. You just had to be
there. The only down side is it took it 6 hours to get done, because
they take the patients who are in the worst condition first, so he got
helped like very last haha. So that was the crazy week I had! So yeah
haha I had an awesome week! I finnished that first journal by the way! I
think it was like 200 pages, so I'm starting on my 2nd, I never thought
that would happen haha. I'm glad I'm keeping record of all this though,
it is awesome! I'm glad to hear that all is going well with Bryleigh
though! Man she is SO CUTE! You guys probably needed a date though so
that was good! Well you two are the BEST! I hope my stories made you
laugh haha just wait until I tell it in person haha it was so funny! So
pretty much keep on being awesome! Good luck with school and work and
the baby! Oh and guess what, i've been exercising too! I'm back to 210.
Elder Yogoh and I kill it everyday! So I'm gaining weight because of the
protein we take, YAY! So good luck with the gym, all those extra lbs
will come off soon :) LOVE YOU GUYS! STAY AWESOME AS EVER! THE CHURCH IS
SO TRUE!
Love peace and blessings,
YO YO!! :)
Haha well, first things first, I'm getting TRANSFERED AGAIN!
Say what?! haha this is nuts. I'm pretty stoked though. The only part
that I'm not looking forward to is packing, that totally sucks. This
week was pretty sweet though haha. I got to take Elder Berthelson to
get his butt boil looked at a couple more times, that was pretty
entertaining. :) I'll be honest though, the only part that just looks
so. . . different .. is seeing a woman come in and mess around with an
Elder's butt haha it's just an interesting sight to see as a
missionary. I also went on an exchange to the richest area in the
mission this week. It's a place called Hoover. I went on an exchange
with Elder Lunt, I was in Selma with him. It was way cool. These
houses out here are so HUGE!! It's nuts. Never in my wildest dreams
would I ever had imagined that Alabama had nice houses hahaha show's
how quick I was to judge right? These houses were each 2 million bucks
or more, it was CRAZY! This one house by the church out there had like
4 floors and the entire bottom of the house was glass, it was so
sweet. This week I did a lot of running around. I had to go to most of
the surrounding areas and do some interviews for baptism so that was
nice. Yesterday was super awesome too. We had a missionary/member
leadership training by Elder Bluth of the 70, he was TO LEGIT TO QUIT!
haha he blew me out of the water with some of the things he said. It
made me so pumped to get out and do missionary work though, especially
because he talked about working together as missionaries and members.
So that got everyone into the spirit to share the gospel. I'm so happy
to hear that everything is going great with Bryleigh! You better send
me some pictures quick haha I'm getting impatient. hahaha so pretty much the mission is the
greatest thing ever, seriously, not a worry in the world. I never ever
thought that this is what a mission would feel like. It's probably
every emotion in the world all combined into one huge one, but in the
end, your HAPPY and that's all that matters, truely happy. Well, I'm
pretty stoked to start playing ball again haha so I'll let you know
how that goes. And about the journal, I'll never lose it haha, it's
like a record of God's dealings with the modern inhabitants of the
America's, can you say modern book of mormon hahaha jk I shouldn't
even compare myself to great prophets that are found in the Book of
Mormon. Well, I hope all is going well! I'm super stoked to talk to
you all and see you on MOTHERS DAY!! YAY!! :) Keep on reading and
praying every single day! I know it will help you in every aspect of
you lives!! I've been thinking a lot lately when Jesus was giving the
Sermon on the Mount and how he told his disciples not to seek for
treasures where "mothes and dust doeth corrupt", but for the treasures
of Heaven. Then he continues on by telling them that "where your
treasure is, there will you heart be also". So moral of the story,
keep your heart in his word and in good works, and there will be
blessings all around you! I know that you'll find true happiness in
people like Bryleigh and things like the scriptures and prayer. I LOVE
YOU SO MUCH! BROCK SHAY AND BRYLEIGH!! WHAT AN AWESOME FAMILY OF GOD
AND RIGHTEOUSNESS!!! KEEP IT UP!
Love, Peace and Blessing,
Elder Tolman
Haha well, first things first, I'm getting TRANSFERED AGAIN!
Say what?! haha this is nuts. I'm pretty stoked though. The only part
that I'm not looking forward to is packing, that totally sucks. This
week was pretty sweet though haha. I got to take Elder Berthelson to
get his butt boil looked at a couple more times, that was pretty
entertaining. :) I'll be honest though, the only part that just looks
so. . . different .. is seeing a woman come in and mess around with an
Elder's butt haha it's just an interesting sight to see as a
missionary. I also went on an exchange to the richest area in the
mission this week. It's a place called Hoover. I went on an exchange
with Elder Lunt, I was in Selma with him. It was way cool. These
houses out here are so HUGE!! It's nuts. Never in my wildest dreams
would I ever had imagined that Alabama had nice houses hahaha show's
how quick I was to judge right? These houses were each 2 million bucks
or more, it was CRAZY! This one house by the church out there had like
4 floors and the entire bottom of the house was glass, it was so
sweet. This week I did a lot of running around. I had to go to most of
the surrounding areas and do some interviews for baptism so that was
nice. Yesterday was super awesome too. We had a missionary/member
leadership training by Elder Bluth of the 70, he was TO LEGIT TO QUIT!
haha he blew me out of the water with some of the things he said. It
made me so pumped to get out and do missionary work though, especially
because he talked about working together as missionaries and members.
So that got everyone into the spirit to share the gospel. I'm so happy
to hear that everything is going great with Bryleigh! You better send
me some pictures quick haha I'm getting impatient. hahaha so pretty much the mission is the
greatest thing ever, seriously, not a worry in the world. I never ever
thought that this is what a mission would feel like. It's probably
every emotion in the world all combined into one huge one, but in the
end, your HAPPY and that's all that matters, truely happy. Well, I'm
pretty stoked to start playing ball again haha so I'll let you know
how that goes. And about the journal, I'll never lose it haha, it's
like a record of God's dealings with the modern inhabitants of the
America's, can you say modern book of mormon hahaha jk I shouldn't
even compare myself to great prophets that are found in the Book of
Mormon. Well, I hope all is going well! I'm super stoked to talk to
you all and see you on MOTHERS DAY!! YAY!! :) Keep on reading and
praying every single day! I know it will help you in every aspect of
you lives!! I've been thinking a lot lately when Jesus was giving the
Sermon on the Mount and how he told his disciples not to seek for
treasures where "mothes and dust doeth corrupt", but for the treasures
of Heaven. Then he continues on by telling them that "where your
treasure is, there will you heart be also". So moral of the story,
keep your heart in his word and in good works, and there will be
blessings all around you! I know that you'll find true happiness in
people like Bryleigh and things like the scriptures and prayer. I LOVE
YOU SO MUCH! BROCK SHAY AND BRYLEIGH!! WHAT AN AWESOME FAMILY OF GOD
AND RIGHTEOUSNESS!!! KEEP IT UP!
Love, Peace and Blessing,
Elder Tolman
Buenos Tardes Hermano y Hermana!!! :)
So to answer you question, YES, Elder Larson is spanish!!
President has assigned me to spanish this transfer. When I asked him
if it's permanent he said, "just learn spanish Elder Tolman" and
smiled, hahaha how AWESOME is that! So these six weeks I have to learn
spanish! So I've been studying for an hour a day the last 3 days :)
It's going to be awesome! But my companion is seriously the coolest
cat ever!! He was in my district last transfer for a little bit, and
he loves to lift weights. So we were talking one day and we were both
like "how sick would it be if we got put as companions?" and then we
were both like "no, it coulnt happen, we both speak different
languages", but look what happened! These last couple days have by far
been the best days in the mission. We wake up and six every morning
and just beast a work out. Then we eat break fast and a protein shake.
Then we study and just do work with spanish haha. So these last three
days, that's it, three, we have taught 22 lessons and found 18 new
investigators!! The Lord put SO MANY people in our path one day! On
Friday we walked pretty close to 30 miles, and we found people who had
been just praying they would meet missionaries again, for different
reason, for example they had already been taught and then moved! So we
have 13 baptismal dates set up in two weeks!! How tight is that!! We
also met a guy in the ward who was converted three years ago. His name
is Brother Davidson! He was the GRAND DRAGON of the KKK. He is the
smartest man I have ever met!! While he was in prison he decided to
get a Ph-d in theology!! He has study all the different languages of
the Bible and literally like everything to do with the Mason's and all
the history behind he! He was put in prison for the same thing Joseph
and Hyrum were put in Carthage for, "Conspiring against the U.S.
government". He was actually on Jerry Springer too haha and he is the
one who hit's Jerry Springer in the face! Go on youtube and look at
it!! :) But anywho just an amazing story of his conversion. But pretty much he had lost
everything in life, and he finally fell down to his face with his arms
stretched out and cried that God would lead him the right way, and the
missionaries showed up 20 MINUTES LATER!! Nuts right! Well I'm sorry I
ran out of time but I forgot to tell mom and dad about Brother
Davidson so please read this email to them!! I LOVE YOU BOTH! Keep
being amazing!!
Te amo,
So to answer you question, YES, Elder Larson is spanish!!
President has assigned me to spanish this transfer. When I asked him
if it's permanent he said, "just learn spanish Elder Tolman" and
smiled, hahaha how AWESOME is that! So these six weeks I have to learn
spanish! So I've been studying for an hour a day the last 3 days :)
It's going to be awesome! But my companion is seriously the coolest
cat ever!! He was in my district last transfer for a little bit, and
he loves to lift weights. So we were talking one day and we were both
like "how sick would it be if we got put as companions?" and then we
were both like "no, it coulnt happen, we both speak different
languages", but look what happened! These last couple days have by far
been the best days in the mission. We wake up and six every morning
and just beast a work out. Then we eat break fast and a protein shake.
Then we study and just do work with spanish haha. So these last three
days, that's it, three, we have taught 22 lessons and found 18 new
investigators!! The Lord put SO MANY people in our path one day! On
Friday we walked pretty close to 30 miles, and we found people who had
been just praying they would meet missionaries again, for different
reason, for example they had already been taught and then moved! So we
have 13 baptismal dates set up in two weeks!! How tight is that!! We
also met a guy in the ward who was converted three years ago. His name
is Brother Davidson! He was the GRAND DRAGON of the KKK. He is the
smartest man I have ever met!! While he was in prison he decided to
get a Ph-d in theology!! He has study all the different languages of
the Bible and literally like everything to do with the Mason's and all
the history behind he! He was put in prison for the same thing Joseph
and Hyrum were put in Carthage for, "Conspiring against the U.S.
government". He was actually on Jerry Springer too haha and he is the
one who hit's Jerry Springer in the face! Go on youtube and look at
it!! :) But anywho just an amazing story of his conversion. But pretty much he had lost
everything in life, and he finally fell down to his face with his arms
stretched out and cried that God would lead him the right way, and the
missionaries showed up 20 MINUTES LATER!! Nuts right! Well I'm sorry I
ran out of time but I forgot to tell mom and dad about Brother
Davidson so please read this email to them!! I LOVE YOU BOTH! Keep
being amazing!!
Te amo,
