New Companion

Elder Beal,
I hope this week finds you feeling healthier than last week.  This was a very busy week here. Camilla went up on Monday with Jaden to Tokettee Falls and swam in the freezing cold water. Collin stayed with us while he was visiting friends in Oregon. It is always a pleasure to have him around. Camilla and Malachi went with him to Tokettee the next day to hike a few falls and enjoy the hot springs.  Malachi was playing real live fruit slice Tuesday night and we ended up in the ER for several hours, in fact it was one hour for each of his five stitches. Most of it was just waiting, 10-15 minutes was with the doctor. Thankfully, it appears he did not lose any movement ligament function or major nerve damage. On Thursday, Nauvoo passed her drivers permit knowledge test without missing any! I feel safe and relaxed in the car when she drives. Friday night your dad and his friends went motorcycle riding. They sure see some beautiful places in our valley! Saturday was EP prom, Sariah and Nauvoo went with a group and had a great time. They each looked stunning. Today I was released as Primary President. I feel at home in primary, I guess it is time for me to grow. I am one of the new Gospel Doctrine teachers. Also my final semester of Pathway through BYU-I started.

How is the sister you invited to baptism doing? Life altering decisions can be difficult to navigate. I am glad you and Elder Boyd get along so well. Sister Dabel sent me some pictures of Jared for you, but I am still working on getting some of Rick. I sent him the last batch of pictures you sent and he is glad to see your doing well and flabbergasted at how quickly his two years are dwindling down to nothing. He left on Sariah's birthday, so that leaves him with six short months.
I love you and am really looking forward to visiting on Mother's Day. Your financial clerk has the needed proof of payment and said you would be issued a new iPad. Do you know the details of our visit? Skype or FaceTime? Saturday or Sunday? Time? I am super excited!
Love always,Mom

Tokettee Falls

Prom

Elder Dabel

Elder Dabel

Malachi- soccer 

Nauvoo-Drivers Permit!

Malachi's Stitches

 Hey Mom,

This week has been really good and bad, Fuerte has been really good but pretty hot. We had transfers this week and Elder Boyd got transferred to Vigo; my first area! He is a Zone Leader there now, because my dad in the mission, Elder Howard died. (That is missionary lingo for -He honorably returned home after serving his full two-years in Spain) Elder Boyd is one of my favorite companions and I'm gonna miss him. Anyways I am getting a new companion from Madrid and he will bring me my new iPad. I will send you a ton of photos next week and a long message! I love you guys and Malachi is crazy! I miss you guys a lot. And I will be FaceTiming y'all! but I don;t know when, but we will.

 Love,

 Elder Beal 

Invitation to baptism

  Hola Sweet Mama! 

This week has been pretty good! I got pretty sick the past two days though. But I'll get healthy soon! I have had a lot of fun this week transfer with my companion Elder Boyd! Its going to be hard to find another Elder like him, that loves Psych. Hopefully, we stay together for a while longer. Today I finally found my Micro Chip, so I will be sending some more photos! We did some splits the other day with some of the members, and I got the chance to ask one of our investigators to be baptized and she accepted. So hopefully she will keep it. I love the members here they are some of the best I've met. We are only a Rama here but someday we will be a ward. I love the weather here it is so amazing to see sunny days every day. It's crazy being on a mission because the time flies, I don't know if its the same at home but I have almost seven months here! Loco. I miss everyone, all the the people in the ward and the family. I hope no one moves while I'm here! I send my love to everyone and I'm grateful for them! I love you mom and I am so exited to see your beautiful face!  I have been thinking about Gavin and Rick lately, its been a long time since we've been camping together and I hope that there doing good. I love you Mom and Ill see you in a bit. 

Love,

 Moroni.

Also If you could send me some photos of Rick! that would be awesome. I love you Mom.

Elder Beal,
Right after church today I sent you a nice email with a couple of videos. Just now when I sent the request from Bishop I saw that my letter from earlier is not in my sent box or my drafts! I will do my best to recall what I shared.

Today Bishop asked me to update the ward on your mission. The ward family loves to hear about the people you serve and how you are growing in the gospel. Thank you for sharing your interactions with people and your experiences with us. I am thrilled to hear that after six months in the field ringing timbres, someone opened their door to you. I am more impressed that you keep on ringing. Don't ever stop. I am so grateful to have the gospel in my life and the knowledge that my family is eternally connected through the power of the priesthood in a temple of God. That would not be possible if Missioneros serving in my are way back in 1985 chose to stop. Now I know they had the assistance of a ward family who befriended mine and that is an essential part of a successful conversion to Christ so I pray your ward or branch will reach out to their friends and help connect them to you and your companion so that you can assist in connecting them to Christ.

Your dad gave a nice talk in the White City ward today. He started it off by making a correlation from Malachi's soccer game on Saturday, which they won 5-2. He sent you a copy in a separate email.  We went up to Elderberry Flats earlier this week for an evening of roasting dogs, mallows, and banana boats. It was so lovely to escape the daily grind for a few hours and reconnect with God's great creation we call Earth.

Today my parents celebrate their 44th anniversary. Your dad made some fantastic steaks on the Treager and we had lemon bars for dessert. It is also my grandmas birthday today. She turned 85!

I can't remember what else I updated you on in the first email. I know it didn't like that I was sending two videos so I will send them separately this time. I love you and am so proud of you. I am thrilled that you are reading the Book of Mormon in Spanish now. Certainly that can be tough to learn a new language. I have no doubt whatsoever that when you bear testimony of Christ with the power of the Holy Ghost that it doesn't matter the language as he will place words in your mouth and the listener who is ready will feel the prick and piercings of it in their heart. Keep up the good work, keep us posted on your happenings.  I hold my breath each week to get your emails. I love you!
Love,
Mom

Oh I forgot when bishop was here  earlier he said something along the lines that the more diligently you serve the better your wife looks will be. :)

Ring the Timbre (doorbell)

Elder Beal,

It seems so amazing to me that 6 months have passed since you left!  You are accomplishing great things and much is happening in your life, but it feels like the same ol, same ol stuff here. Let me think for a minute I know there has been some excitement! The barn at the back of the Ogle's property caught fire.  It is the one you can see from the back of the high school.  Thankfully, they did not have anything in it and it was far enough from their house to not have been a threat to their family.  Unfortunately, the owner whom they rent from lost a lot of her stuff in it. 

Brother Shultz joined dad, Jeff, and Erik this Saturday on an afternoon ride.  I included those pictures for you. 

Malachi had his first soccer game of the season and he mowed the whole front yard by himself.

Subway is working Camilla some crazy long hours, she is getting 45+ hours each week!  

Sariah and Nauvoo are killing it on the golf course, both of them taking first place and breaking their PR.  My mom is one of the assistant volunteer coaches this year.

I only got one math problem wrong on my final exam for math, one week off then writing begins with a new semester.

Christian and Aleesha put an offer on a house to buy in Texas, I included a picture of it.  I am super excited for them!

Enough about here.  What is new with you?  

Who are you and Elder Boyd teaching right now?

Do you share your piso with the other set of missionaries in the photo from the last email you sent? 

Are you being fed by the members? 

What kind of service to you do? 

Is there a family that we can pray for?  

I know you had to leave one bag behind at the mission home, which was hard then, but do you now feel like you don't really miss it or do you?

Did Elder Howard ever teach you how to convert fat ties to skinny ones?

Where is Elder Boyd from?

I LOVE YOU!

Mom

 

Hey Madre!

This week was really good! We've taught a lot of people. We have really good goals, but sometimes we can't complete them. We have been doing some tracting this week and we actually have had some really good luck! We ringed a timbre and someone just let us in, she was studying with the Jehovah Witnesses (Testigos), anyways during the lesson she said to us, you're kind of convincing me! Today we are going too play Futól and I'm really excited. Elder Boyd is from Washington but he moved to Utah when he was young. I love you Mom and I'm really excited to see you on Mothers Day!  I cant wait to go on trips with dad after the mission. And Scrap Book with you too. Tell the Family that I love them and the ward too! I Love you and I'll send you lots of Fotos next week! 

Moroni

Hey Dad,

Here are The Donaldson Papers, we are using them here in FuerteVentura to teach by. Honestly, this is the best thing that a Missionary and a Future Missionary can use. Read it when you get a chance. Share this with the Young Men so that they can ACTUALLY prepare for their Missions. Also, Reading Preach my Gospel and The Book of Mormon are some of the smartest things that they can do, I regret not doing it more thoroughly, and it was hard to go on a mission without having that true individual Knowledge and Testimony. Thanks for the example you set for me! by the way I've finished it in English and now I'm struggling through it in Spanish.

Moroni

It is 16 pages of a great talk to a mission zone that I am too technically challenged to add to his blog, sorry!~Kimberly

General Conference

  Hola la mejor Mama en el Mundo!

I really enjoyed General Conference this week it was really spiritual, plus it was in English! There were some Amazing  talks. I took to heart the one by Elder Holland! It`s really good to know that God is always on our side and will forgive us freely! I really liked the talk that Elder Uchtdorf gave about the Family and it reminds me how much I miss mine!

   

      Fuerte Ventura is Awesome! The people here are really down to earth and they are here to relax and have fun. The work is hard but the living is nice, this place is like southern California. Sometimes I wish that I went to a third world country but then I think how glad I am to have a cool Piso and a washer machine! Some loco dude stopped me in the street today and asked me some knotty questions! I told him off in Spanish that I'm waiting for marriage for those things! I love you Familia and I cant wait to see ya'll this Día de la Madre! 

Love Moroni

Elder Beal,
Dad and Malachi went camping Friday night and came back just in time to watch General Conference. They camped up at Elderberry Flats. Malachi cooked his own meal and learn how to set up his own hammock.  He'll be all ready when you come home. I know you used to camp there and have paintball wars with Rick and Gavin and Christian and Colton and Donavaghn and Emerson.  Goodtimes!

Zack and Sarah had their baby:

On Wednesday morning
Elijah (Eli) James 5lbs 15oz
Joined our family!

Darren turned 2 on April Fool's Day. It looks like he loved his cake!!! Super cute! Amazing blue eyes!
Here's a picture of both boys at Easter time. Aren't they so adorable!?! I just wish I could squeeze them and kiss their sweet faces! They are so adorable, I can't wait to see them in person again!

Here are a few Lisa posted on FB of Elder Mapel. I wish I could send you his video. It is super cool how fluent he is in the language. Maybe next month on our call I can play it for you. He is cooking with sawdust.

Here's a picture from Donavaghn's blog. They're not sure why he's wearing a pink tiara, it is a birthday party for his companion. He said the same thing about Easter week -been really difficult with Catholics all leaving town.

Showing off a traditional belt and buckle.

Hope you have enjoyed these photo updates. I noticed they were all about boys!

General Conference was wonderful! Dad tied flies while watching. I thought it was interesting that they pointed out that the savior was both a stepson and a refugee. Lots of people will be able to relate to that. I also loved the concept found in the scriptures about beauty from ashes when talking about the Provo City Temple. And also the restored church from Elder Uctdorf's homeland.
We love you and her so proud of you! Keeping you and Elder Boyd in our prayers. Please let me know if there's anything we can do for you.
Love,
Mom