May 24, 2010

Dear everybody,

I haven’t read your emails to me yet just because i want to make sure I have a little bit of time to fill you in on what is going this week. Well, lots to fill you in on! I’ll just touch on them briefly because I have a letter headed to you as we speak that will give more details BUT today was transfers and I am taking over Eindhoven and another elder is coming here; I can’t remember the name at the moment, but he is apparently a hard worker, but a very young elder also :/ lol we are in for a lot of learning and growth this transfer! Both of us -- he has only been in the land 4 transfers!

I always get so stressed when I have email time lol the question mark is not working for some reason. Today we had a ward picnic and we had a lot of fun! It was really good for me to develop more rapport with the ward and we also got to play a lot of games including my first go at rugby! I had a blast! Oh, another thing that happened that you will hear more about in my letter is a blessing I was able to give to an investigator of ours! That was a first for me and I felt really privileged to be able to give it, a great experience!!! I am very excited for my new companion, of course im going to miss Elder Stringhambut it will be good to be able to get more experience of my own and kind of step out of his shadow so to speak. This week is going to be very busy! My comp Stringham is still District leader and we have to go do some interviews in Heerenfein tomorrow and then we have a lot of appointments with the ward and investigators to say goodbye and what not so we will be VERY busy tomorrow and then Wednesday is transfers and Elder Kettler that is his name - he will come down here and we will get to know etc and then we have a few appointments already for the rest of the week also :)!!! Busy is good!!! Did you get my email last week or any of my emails for that matter....? How about my letters have you been getting any.......? Well in any case, all is great here and let me know if you are getting my emails etc!!! I love you very much,
Ryan



MOM DAD BOO BOO,


Mom can you try remember to put stuff up on the blog, I know it’s a lot to ask but it helps A LOT and I would appreciate it very much!!!! Did you get those pics I sent you......? Please that would be a huge help!!!! Well you have a letter coming your way also so just know that and that I love you and anything you can put up on the blog would be great! Love you three very very much and pray for you every night!

Love,
Ryan