tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4089940596661971822024-03-13T10:22:18.022-07:00Marshall the TroopsLetters to Mom from DallinHi! That's me!http://www.blogger.com/profile/06184113926570167549noreply@blogger.comBlogger131125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-408994059666197182.post-73909343538700721512015-08-07T12:55:00.000-07:002018-09-01T11:12:55.087-07:0012-14-2014 This is it... my last email ever to you.<div>
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Well this is my last email I'm going to be writing to you... dang its way sad and I feel like I'm not really leaving.. it still hasn't hit me... I think it might hit me when I get on the plane in a day or so... its sooo quick.</div>
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I have never worked harder my whole mission and this last Saturday 2 of my investigators, Netrine Jita and Jola William got baptized!!! It was definitely one of the most stressful days of my life because it was just out of my control and I didn't know if it was going to happen or not... we went to their house and they said they were ready then they would taxi there and I was doubtful if they would have money or just would come or not... they said they would come at 6... 6 came...didnt come... 630 came nobody... 7..nobody... 715 they came!!!! I was about to say the baptism is cancelled but I just couldn't do it and didn't want to do it. I'm so grateful that they came and it was a wonderful program and I was so excited for them to be able to get baptized! The next day they came a little late to sacrament meeting but they got confirmed and sang with the youth in sacrament meeting. It was great! Extremely stressful but I'm so glad they got baptized and were ready to go!! </div>
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So yeah this has been a great way for me to end my mission. I know that it's because I worked really hard that Heavenly Father blessed me with progressing investigators to keep me going and positive. I'm so grateful for missionary work. I don't wanna say too much cuz I'll just explain everything in a few days... but I'm way excited to see you and hug you a bunch!!! You are the best and I love you so much.</div>
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I just want to end with my testimony that I know that what I have been doing for the last two years has been such a blessing to me and my family. I know that this church is true and that Heavenly Father loves us all. My testimony has increased majorly since I have been on my mission. I know a lot of people are worried about me coming home and screwing around, but if you guys have gotten anything out of my emails and the work I have done you all will know how converted I am and how excited I am to live my religion as just a normal person. I hate that I feel like you all think I'm perfect and some spiritual giant. I definitely know more but I'm far from perfect. I'm the same Dallin you guys all know! Just a little more refined and have a good knowledge of things and I'm more prepared to face this world. I love you all so much and I couldn't stand breaking your hearts. This is an eternal gospel and I'm gonna do my best to stand strong and continue in the faith. I love you mommy.</div>
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This is it... my last email ever to you. I love you so much and can't wait to hug you!!! Take care and see you in a couple hours</div>
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So these are my last couple of days! This is basically my last email to you guys! Next week I'm just gonna write out my testimony and give you the thoughts of a dying elder, then come home and give you the biggest huge ever! It's gonna be weird for you to not have a little boy out on a mission! It's been that way for years now! You'll get a little break before we get Conner out serving one! So anyways this week has been pretty lousy.. I have been way sick with stomach pains and throwing up cuz of bad food. Not really bad, but just I'm not used to American style food and it just destroys me whenever I eat it. Haha so in in trouble to go home! But I feel better a bit now. Regardless I have been working really hard and just been having a really good time! It's hard to not give up or let indifference come into everything. I just love these people and the members and my investigators. They are just so cool and I'm working hard just because I love to talk to them and hear about their lives and then teach them how to make their lives better. It's been pretty awesome. </div>
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This last Saturday our 2 girls, Netrine and Jola, were supposed to get baptism but they fell through last minute. The font was filled and everything! It's a lot of pressure and they need more time. It's heart breaking because I don't have anymore time!! They will either get baptism next week or in the next couple if weeks. It's so sad that I don't have that time to help them more... But it's been alright and I'm Not getting too down on myself about it. I know that it's in heavenly fathers hands and that he loves these two girls and will provide a way for them to get baptized when it's the right time. If I can't get them baptized, at least they are coming to seminary and church and have received an answer about Joseph smith and know that this church is true. My patriarchal blessing kinda talks about people receiving the gospel during my service and after. Just didn't think it would be like that. But it's been comforting for are to have read that. I wish I could have done more or worked harder. But then again I don't know how I could have. I literally have given Heavenly Father 100% of my this last transfer. I'm showing him that my faith isn't the problem in the equation. All people have their agency and can do what they like. But in going to make sure my faith isn't the problem. </div>
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So yeah being sick hasn't been any fun. Still working out though. I hope I can get a gym membership when I get home so I can continue on and work out and get ripped with you! I know you laughed when I said how were gonna get beach bods. I'm glad you got the laughing out of your system so we can get down to business and get ripped! </div>
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Oh yes thank you for my birthday package!!!!!! I was so happy to get that and I shared it will all the elders and they were way happy about it as well! That was so nice of you guys! I didn't think I would get another package on my mission! I never got the scriptures and the pants... You guys should track it and see where it's at.. Way bummed. So yeah I definitely am gonna get a new pair when I go home. I'm not sure what kind I want so hold off on buying them if you can! I'm so sad I didn't get those.. Hopefully if someone took them they are reading them and gonna get baptized soon!! I haven't found any Marshallese nativities but I have a ton of crafts and souvenirs that people have given me and I've collected over the mission. I think you guys will love them! </div>
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It's super hard to write good emails to you guys cuz I can just tell you guys everything in a week! So hope you don't mind too much. Next week will just be a nice testimony for you guys. It's been fun but I hope I don't ever have to go 2 years without seeing you guys ever again! I like you guys too much! You are my mom :) and I'm your favorite son! I love you so much and hope you know how happy I am and how excited I am to see you! Christmas will be a great time this year and I'm way excited to get the family all together for the first time in a couple of years!! I'll talk to you (in person) next week! If you have any questions just let me know if the next email! Just so excited to see you mommy!!!! Love you bunches and be right back!!</div>
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Hi! That's me!http://www.blogger.com/profile/06184113926570167549noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-408994059666197182.post-42456221936469535822015-08-07T12:41:00.000-07:002015-08-07T12:47:40.758-07:0011-30-2014 Remember what they said in conference: stay in the boat!!!MOM,<br />
Sorry about not emailing you last week, we didn't have time because we took a boat to an outer island on the Majuro lagoon and went to a shipwreck! haha well it was a huge $400k yacht that ruined and got pushed to shore and we helped them and we got a ton of free stuff! I will have to explain it later in person in like 2 weeks!! dang!!! okay I really don't have much time to email today because we are going to a bbq.<br />
So I just wanna end with a little pump up talk. sometimes we have ups and downs in life. I guess you could say all that life is ups and downs, but that was makes it so sweet. the hard times make the good times that much better. I know that Heavenly Father puts you through was seems like more than many but its just because he knows you need it and he knows that the lower downs will eventually and definitely bring you to the highest highs. Doesn't even matter what you are going through. Just like Nephi, but he had to take his family across the world with half his family hating him. I don't think anything we have in our lives has come to that. I want you to be stronger than you are right now. You are one of the strongest ladies I know and one of the greatest that I know too. I know first had because I have tested you out really hard and I think I will continue to test you when I get home! haha hopefully not too much!! I hope you don't think I have become perfect or some amazing person in these last two years. I definitely have improved but I hope the expectations are too high. I love you a ton and hope to be everything you have thought I was though! I want you to know that while I didn't email you last week I felt very pressed to pray especially for you this week. I didn't know you were having a hard week or anything but I know my mom and Heavenly Father knows us even better.<br />
I want you to be stronger than you were yesterday and plan to be stronger tomorrow than today. I come home very soon and want you to know that I am working the hardest of my mission. I don't have time to waste and I feel so good about what I am doing. I'm giving everything up on the alter of sacrifice and I know that Heavenly Father will bless me as well our family for it. I love you mom and know that you are a strong woman and can do anything. Don't let temporal struggle effect your eternal desires. Love you too pieces. I apologize for a short email, but its packed with good stuff :) Remember what they said in conference: stay in the boat!!!<br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Thank you for the birthday wishes! I actually had a great birthday dinner with the elders a guy that worked in the mission office! It's been a good week and we have been so busy. But I have loved it all and I really enjoy being busy like this. No signs of slowing down. As I told dad we have two investigators that are going to be getting interviewed this week and hopefully baptized in the next week or two! Way excited and we have only taught them for like 3 weeks now! This is easily the hardest working I have working my whole mission. I just understand my potential and know I can work at a higher capacity than what I have been doing before. It's been great but definitely exhausted!!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Training as kept me working hard and more obedient. It's cool that president told me last week I was a model for hard working and obedience in the mission right now! Never thought that would have been said about me! I work hard and try but I always feel like there was better. Some elder this week told me how I was their role model in the mission. That's so crazy that I remember the missionaries that I wanted to be like and how awesome they were, but now I'm being looked up to and I used to look up to those people. Way cool. Just makes me wanna go hard and finish strong. I'm so happy right now and so motivated to improve on everything. I'm trying my hardest to learn 15 new words a day, to read hard everyday and to lift hard everyday. I'm accomplishing a lot. My son, Elder Lesser is the man. He is the exact same type of elder as my trainer Elder Watkins. It's weird how alike they are. Starting and ending the same. He acts like he knows how to do missionary work and sometimes tells me what to do but I try my best to accept what he says and value his input. He's a goal guy and sometimes I feel like he's really frustrated with me speaking Marshallese half the time and just expecting him to speak it. In lessons he will teach then look at me but I just tell him to keep teaching which I know he doesn't like but it pushes him. I know that he's gonna be a good elder, or at least I will have give him all the right tools and help to be a good elder. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">I'm so scared to come home. Doesn't really feel like coming home but more like starting everything over again. I'm so comfortable with missionary work and the islands. I feel like I'm gonna be weird when I get home. More than Tanner and Logan because they went to white people places and it wasn't 180 degrees different and they probably never had to sleep on the ground on their missions or literally fish to have food. Haha their missions are still amazing tho! It'll be fun to talk to then about it in the position that I am in right now! I emailed grandma and said we all need to bear our testimonies at Christmas in our mission languages! Dad, Tanner, Logan and me. And Conner in English :) I'll get him going don't worry. I think that will be a really cool idea! I think I am going to go crazy not being able to speak it as much as I want. But there are tons of people here that I can skype all the time and keep things going with and texting Elders in Marshallese and what not. I want to get even better at Marshallese after the mission. I'll be able to do it no worries. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Sorry I don't have heaps of time to email this week but between yours a Dad's emails it's a good amount so please read his as well! I love you so much I will write more next week! If there is any souvenirs you want me to get let me know! Love you so much mommy! Tell everyone yokwe for me</span></div>
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<br />Hi! That's me!http://www.blogger.com/profile/06184113926570167549noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-408994059666197182.post-36295541389323606862014-11-19T09:40:00.002-08:002014-11-19T09:40:11.341-08:00Ps note to my friends on facebook:<span style="font-family: inherit;"> See you guys all in 4 weeks. Try not to get too excited and focus in on all your finals... Haha What a pain. Love you all and hope you guys don't make fun of my accent or my English too much... Time flies that's for sure. Told you all I would be right back! Start the preparations. - Elder Ingalls</span>Hi! That's me!http://www.blogger.com/profile/06184113926570167549noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-408994059666197182.post-60134249844289024372014-11-19T09:38:00.000-08:002014-11-19T09:38:08.467-08:00Never thought that would have been said about me! 11-16-2014<div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Thank you for the birthday wishes! I actually had a great birthday dinner with the elders a guy that worked in the mission office! It's been a good week and we have been so busy. But I have loved it all and I really enjoy being busy like this. No signs of slowing down. As I told dad we have two investigators that are going to be getting interviewed this week and hopefully baptized in the next week or two! Way excited and we have only taught them for like 3 weeks now! This is easily the hardest working I have working my whole mission. I just understand my potential and know I can work at a higher capacity than what I have been doing before. It's been great but definitely exhausted!!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Training as kept me working hard and more obedient. It's cool that president told me last week I was a model for hard working and obedience in the mission right now! Never thought that would have been said about me! I work hard and try but I always feel like there was better. Some elder this week told me how I was their role model in the mission. That's so crazy that I remember the missionaries that I wanted to be like and how awesome they were, but now I'm being looked up to and I used to look up to those people. Way cool. Just makes me wanna go hard and finish strong. I'm so happy right now and so motivated to improve on everything. I'm trying my hardest to learn 15 new words a day, to read hard everyday and to lift hard everyday. I'm accomplishing a lot. My son, Elder Lesser is the man. He is th exact same type of elder as my trainer Elder Watkins. It's weird how alike they are. Starting and ending the same. He acts like he knows how to do missionary work and sometimes tells me what to do but I try my best to accept what he says and value his input. He's a goal guy and sometimes I feel like he's really frustrated with me speaking Marshallese half the time and just expecting him to speak it. In lessons he will teach then look at me but I just tell him to keep teaching which I know he hates but it pushes him. I know that he's gonna be a good elder, or at least I will have give him all the right tools and help to be a good elder. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">I'm so scared to come home. Doesn't really feel like coming home but more like starting everything over again. I'm so comfortable with missionary work and the islands. I feel like I'm gonna be weird when I get home. More than Tanner and Logan because they went to white people places and it wasn't 180 degrees different and they probably never had to sleep on the ground on their missions or literally fish to have food. Haha their missions are still amazing tho! It'll be fun to talk to then about it in the position that I am in right now! I emailed grandma and said we all need to bear our testimonies at Christmas in our mission languages! Dad, Tanner, Logan and me. And Conner in English :) I'll get him going don't worry. I think that will be a really cool idea! I think I am going to go crazy not being able to speak it as much as I want. But there are tons of people here that I can skype all the time and keep things going with and texting Elders in Marshallese and what not. I want to get even better at Marshallese after the mission. I'll be able to do it no worries. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Sorry I don't have heaps of time to email this week but between yours a Dad's emails it's a good is amount so please read his as well! I love you so much I will write more next week! If there is any souvenirs you want me to get let me know! Love you so much mommy! Tell everyone yokwe for me</span></div>
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Thanks for the great email! That's awesome that you woke up at 5 just to make sure I am written! Not being able to talk much these last couple of months has been difficult but just made me love you and appreciate you so much more. It's kinda therapeutic to get your emails and just see what's going on! Yes it will be weird to go home. I can't even handle 24 degrees Celsius with the air conditioning at night. I don't know what that is in Fahrenheit but I assume maybe mid 70s and that's death for me!! I have a sweat shirt and I just snuggle up with all my laundry covering me as a blanket! Doesn't help my companion wants to sleep it absolutely freezing temps!! And not having the water is going to be really weird! I have heard the ocean waves 24/7 for 2 years now and it'll just be so quiet without them!! And our lakes are good but... They might possibly be frozen! Haha I can't really imagine that. It's weird to think I grew up and moved away for 2 years and my previous 19 years are a blur! It will be hard to transition back too! </div>
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Don't worry about Conner. When I get home were gonna be best friends again and I'm gonna be stronger than he is being right now and I'm gonna make the best example for him ever. I pray hard for him and pray mostly to know why God wants him to have these trials. He needs a stronger testimony and the only way I see him doing that is for him to see both sides. It's too bad but I know one day he's gonna come back with a stronger testimony than any of us!</div>
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This week we have done a ton of finding and just trying to get new investigators. I've been doing pretty well with it and it's basically just me and the spirit because my companion doesn't really do much. Well, can't do much haha it's good tho. I have really had to pray and rely on the spirit to help me find people to teach. Almost everyone we talk to we have had positive contact with. I haven't had too much of a problem finding people and keeping busy. Life is good and I'm happy to walk out of the house each day. Not just happy but excited and pumped up!! </div>
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I know I got about a month left but this is honestly the hardest I have worked my entire mission and easily the most obedience I have ever been it's been great and I love it. No signs of slowing down until I'm on the plane home. Just so excited about missionary work right now and just the chance to do this great work. I love my language capacity and I love how outgoing I have become with these people. These are some of the best people in the world and I'm gonna miss this place so much. Words can't even begin to describe that. </div>
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Just so happy right now. Lae really changed me and I have really let myself become the man that God wants me to be. I'm still the same semi-immature Dallin but I think you all will notice a difference. Especially when it comes to church things. </div>
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Just now wanna say how much I love you and I am getting the best Christmas present ever by getting to come home and spend it will you!! You are my mommy :) I love being around you and just having the best parents in the world. Can't wait to come home and getting ripped at the gym with you and dad!! Change begins the moment you think about it. I know this church is true and I'm happy to be in the Marshall's right now. I don't really think there is a better thing I could be doing with my life and being a missionary right now! I'm not perfect, even though most of the time I think I am.. I'm trying my best and trying to be like out savior Jesus Christ. Only a couple more weeks! I promise to work as absolutely hard as I can and come home exhausted! Love you mommy :)</div>
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How are we this fine morning? Sorry last week was short! I didn't have any money! But we're good now. Just want to start my letter and tell you how much I love you and how much you mean to me. I know you and dad need blessings and that's why I'm working so hard. Even when my mission is ending. I'm working like I'm getting paid a thousand bucks a day to do it! So happy to be a missionary right now. I told dad how much I missed Lae and how much I learned and grew there. I gained the most knowledge and the most gain in my Christ like attributes. I'm far from perfect, but closer than I was. And these last two months I'm gonna try to be even better. Lae helped me gain the knowledge, here in Delap training Elder Lesser is my application. I want to be known as a rock star here. And to do that we just have to work hard and try our best. Our best along with preach my gospel and the spirit, there is nothing that can stop us. Lae changed me so much and so many people have noticed it. It's great. I feel like a new person. I'm so happy and motivated. I've prayed so hard to have that motivation and Heavenly Father has definitely answered my prayers. I know that prayers are definitely answered and helpful. I love teaching people about prayer. It's my favorite thing. Just because I know it works. I makes more sense than 2+2. Definitely know more about the gospel and have such a deeper testimony than before. My testimony was wet concrete before but it's hardened now. But still be adding too. </div>
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So yeah this week was pretty good. Weird having to do so much and my comp is new so everything is on me. It's hard to start over in an area but it's a good challenge and I like it. Really gets me out of my comfort zone and helps me just improve on everything. I really push Elder Lesser to learn the language and work hard. Hopefully he doesn't hate me too much right now because it'll only help him later. I wish I had companions when I was young in the mission to push me really hard. Never really have. We were always evenly motivated or me being motivated more. I think he gets frustrated when I talk to people and don't really include him. It's hard trying to involve him in finding but I just take it away. I have high expectations though. It's good. I'm happy to train. Lae gave me knowledge, and Delap is giving me application. </div>
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I'm so excited for you to get my letters I wrote to you in Lae! I'm gonna send them off to you this week! Basically everything I did out there! I can't stop talking about it with all the elders! To be honest Majuro is very different and I still haven't got used to the air conditioning or white people or the English yet... Don't know if I will. I'm so cold at night and my companion says how hot he is so yeah, I basically freeze!</div>
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It's crazy how much I have grown in the mission and how different I am now. I even notice the change in myself. My studies are so different. They used to be so general now they are extremely specific and I get so much out of them. I'm following the rules in the best way I can. I'm not perfect but I know that I'm doing a good job. I feel good at the end of the day and completely exhausted from a hard days work. I'm so excited about missionary work and I hope to help the elders out a bit when I go home! </div>
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Psss hope I'm not annoying with will how much I talk about my mission... Haha love you babe</div>
Hi! That's me!http://www.blogger.com/profile/06184113926570167549noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-408994059666197182.post-25974944761948954992014-11-13T22:20:00.001-08:002014-11-13T22:20:14.274-08:00The Other, Other Side of Heaven 10-26-2014<div>
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Well I'm finally back on Majuro and boy it's it just a shock to have air conditioning, see cars and drink cold water! It's been so weird I can only imagine what it's like when it is an even bigger shock coming home! The mission should have given you my flight plans looks like I'm flying in at 10pm at night which is a bummer!! But whatever it's alright. </div>
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Boy do I miss Lae. Never realized how much I learned out there and how many stories and experiences I had there! I'm a little weird but I'll be normal soon. My language is fine but I used so much Marshallese words and usually just speak to the elders in Marshallese. My son is great. His name is Elder Lesser. He's the man. He lived in Singapore for 5 years before his mission. I'm gonna work him like crazy. I'm so stoked about missionary work and just gonna finish absolutely drained!! I reached ultimate nerd status in Lae and never realized how much of the gospel I know and how great I've become at the scriptures. It's because of hard work and the spirit. I have an absolutely incredible amount if motivation to lift, study and teach right now. It's been great and I don't have any time to waste!!</div>
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Lae was an amazing experience for me and I feel like I gotta have a separate journal for all the stories. Maybe a "the other other side of heaven" book coming out. I never realized how patient I have become and just loving people. I am so talkative and can't shut up because I really didn't have anyone for 4 months to talk to! Lesser is probably hating me but it's funny. </div>
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The mission is coming to a close and I'm just so happy about everything. Gonna be exhausted when I get home and that's how it needs to be. I love you and I will write more next week because I have to pay for email now and I have no money :( but I love you. Take care and I'll be right back!</div>
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Hi! That's me!http://www.blogger.com/profile/06184113926570167549noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-408994059666197182.post-37031605646061746842014-10-22T19:19:00.003-07:002014-11-13T22:15:49.609-08:00Talk to you soon from Majuro! - 10-14-2014 (Lae)Mother!!<br />
Responding to you first before the internet shuts off random!! You are<br />
awesome and the first thing I want you to know is that I'm not hungry!! I<br />
have food enough to eat and be satisfied! It's no chipotle or steak,<br />
but don't you worry about me physically. I am fine!! Second I'd like to<br />
thank Heavenly Father for answering our prayers and being with us<br />
every day of our lives and how much he has blessed you for the service<br />
us missionaries are doing. I love being a missionary and I am working<br />
my hardest right now. I'm excited to go home, and I am working hard to<br />
be the best missionary I can until the end. I thought I would get<br />
progressively lazier as time went on but I am unusually motivated to<br />
work hard and study hard and just finish strong!!<br />
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Sorry to hear life is boring compared to Hawaii!!! haha I wish I got<br />
to spend more time there!! You guys had a fun trip and I hope you can<br />
bring that energy home to the wastelands of Minnesota!! haha I'm going<br />
to bring my island happiness back with me that's for sure!! How is<br />
Macey with tennis? and congrats to Matt for looking into our church.<br />
Treat his interest as something precious and pray for the Spirit to<br />
be with him in every missionary opportunity. If he honestly searches<br />
he will truly find. Boy, do I wish all my friends in Minnesota were<br />
down to study and learn more. I hate to distance myself from them but my<br />
mission is changing me so much. I like who I am becoming and want to<br />
continue to grow. Pretty cool I read Jesus the Christ in 2 weeks!! Shows<br />
how much time I have out here to read and study!! It's been awesome.<br />
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So for the news... I'm going back to Majuro to train my last transfer!<br />
I should be there in the next 2-3 weeks depending on the plane and the<br />
boat... if there is not a plane I will get on the boat that President is<br />
coming on on the 25th. He is coming to meet with the branch and train<br />
some people and visit. I'm so excited. I don't want the plane to come,<br />
I want to wait and be here when he is here!!! We had another baptism<br />
this last week!! Tom!! He is the son of two formlery less active<br />
members. They are all coming to church and I'm super excited with the<br />
work we have done here!! It's fun to see the success.<br />
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We're getting all of our investigators ready to receive the new elders<br />
and plan for the transition to be good. I feel like some of them are<br />
gonna stop studying and it just makes me so sad, I want them to be<br />
strong and they have come so far, I have to just keep hoping that they<br />
will continue with what they are learning. I completely forgot that General<br />
Conference was recently!!! haha I haven't emailed or talked to Majuro<br />
for a couple weeks because the internet is down and the phone is no<br />
good because it has rained so much... if only you knew how hard it is<br />
to talk to you guys!! and especially how small this island is... haha<br />
its soo tiny but every day I swear that is gets bigger and bigger..<br />
hahaha<br />
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Conner is my problem when I get home. I hate to say it but I wasn't a<br />
good example really to him but we have a strong relationship and I<br />
think I will be able to talk some sense into him. I really wanna take<br />
him on a road trip or something to get him out of everything and just<br />
have it be me and him... I think I can really help him and I think my<br />
coming home will be a spiritual experience for him and he will be able<br />
to catch some of the fire I come with. I think he will be fine. please<br />
have more faith and love in him. I know you absolutely love him, but<br />
channel that love and show it more. You can be firm, but do it lovingly.<br />
I'm coming to the rescue soon!!! <span style="color: red;">[Dallin and Conner were very close</span><br />
<span style="color: red;">growing up and it's been hard for Conner since Dallin left. They were</span><br />
<span style="color: red;">more like twins than just brothers. I am excited for the day when they</span><br />
<span style="color: red;">are reunited! MOM]</span><br />
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So yeah I am doing fine!! No worries!! Stressed about having to leave<br />
Lae, especially with the progress I have made and the relationships I<br />
have. They are all just family to me and we all help each other out<br />
and care for each other.. so that's been kinda sad to hear but its<br />
going to be okay. I'm glad to have the opportunity and challenge of<br />
training my last transfer in the mission. I think it is just what I<br />
need. I'm so excited to go home and everyday is closer and closer. I'm<br />
super nervous and I don't know what to expect... especially being on<br />
this island I hope I haven't gotten weird or anything. I will be a<br />
little funny when I get home, especially with the language problems<br />
and my extreme love and drive for missionary work. It'll be good though,<br />
as long as you give me a hug and a thick coat when I get home!! I'm<br />
happy. Sometimes annoyed and frustrated but I'm generally happy and I<br />
love to do what I am doing.<br />
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Love you babe and talk to you soon from Majuro!!<br />
Elder Ingalls!Hi! That's me!http://www.blogger.com/profile/06184113926570167549noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-408994059666197182.post-29387966185026983562014-10-22T18:41:00.000-07:002014-10-22T19:02:31.184-07:00I thought I was gonna die - 9-26-2014 (Lae)Mommy!!<br />
Good email thanks for all the updates and I'm so glad that you were<br />
able to meet Fesolai!! Still one of my best buds I made on the<br />
mission. I always talked about you guys and he loved hearing about the<br />
Richard and Heather stories so him meeting you was awesome. I always<br />
told him he had to meet my family!! Hopefully it was all good and you<br />
got to take picture or something with him!<br />
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Skydiving?? haha I haven't been in anything higher than a 2 story<br />
building for the last two years I think I might come home and be<br />
scared of heights!! That's so cool hopefully you all got some cool<br />
pictures and stories for me to hear about!! I'm sure getting a lot of<br />
them here that's for sure!!! Did you guys go to the temple while you<br />
guys were there?? Everyone here when I told them you were in Hawaii<br />
they all wanted me to have you guys meet their families! haha There's a<br />
Marshallese ward there!! Did you have Fes speak Marshallese to you<br />
guys? haha he probably forgot it!!<br />
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So yeah our cute little investigator Carter got baptized on<br />
Thursday!! Way exciting and he is the man!! He is only 9 years old but<br />
we completed the family and he was sooo happy to be baptized!! He<br />
was walking with us and his friend was drinking coffee and he told his<br />
friend "you drink coffee obviously you don't believe in God" hahahaha<br />
it was the cutest, funniest thing I have ever heard in my life!!! So<br />
funny!!<br />
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This morning we just got back from our "campout" on one of the outer<br />
islands. It was a good time. Funny, this is the same as camping to me,<br />
but their camping is extreme!!!! hahaha I don't have time to explain<br />
it all but its like wilderness survival... crazy stuff and what's<br />
crazier is we went on fishing in the 2nd counselors boat which is<br />
maybe 12 feet long with a 40hp engine in the ocean fishing sharks and<br />
tuna... we got caught up in a storm with 10-15 foot waves and that was<br />
probably the scariest thing ever... we were holding on for dear life<br />
and we couldn't see land and we had no idea where we were going...<br />
Tentau and I both had impressions to go in a certain direction and we<br />
eventually found one of the outer islands and we made it back into the<br />
lagoon... I thought I was gonna die... Brother langbata even said he<br />
was super surprise the waves didn't flip us... insane... this typing<br />
it story doesn't explain it as intense as it was!!!<br />
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Also this week I've been asking members about their conversion stories<br />
and I wanna write them all down. Still many more to be made! We're<br />
teaching a good amount right now. Completing a lot of families and<br />
teaching the kids of less active members. It's been a good time. I'm<br />
happy with the work I am doing. I'm not eating that well but I'm getting<br />
enough to eat. Working out hard to keep in shape and feel good and<br />
not get sick. The Word of Wisdom isn't just what we should take in our<br />
bodies its also basically God's plans for us to get in shape and lets just<br />
say I have a good amount of the island working out now because of it!!<br />
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This week has been fun and I'm glad that you guys had a good trip!!!<br />
Probably didn't sleep on the ground on rocks with a piece of<br />
cardboard, but I'm sure it was a good experience for you guys!! I love<br />
you Mommy and hope to see you soon for Christmas!! Me coming home will<br />
be a good gift! haha we need to take a family picture too!! haha while<br />
I'm tan... okay I love you sugar hope you are well have a good week!!<br />
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Elder IngallsHi! That's me!http://www.blogger.com/profile/06184113926570167549noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-408994059666197182.post-19179664014981740432014-10-22T18:18:00.001-07:002014-10-22T18:41:14.892-07:00Lama Fesolai 9-18-2014 (Lae)Hey if you are still in Hawaii you should go an meet Lama Fesolai at<br />
BYU Hawaii!!! One of my best friends on the mission!!! look him up on<br />
facebook or something! <span style="color: black;">You</span> have to meet him!!! the coolest kid ever!!!!<br />
I gave him your email. Make it happen!!!<br />
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[We actually did meet him! It was purely by accident! We went to the Polynesian Cultural Center for the dinner and show and afterwards, Logan wanted to get his picture taken with one of the ladies (or a bunch of the ladies!) We went around looking for some, but there weren't too many around since it was raining. Finally he found one who was talking to two guys. Logan asked her for a picture with her and this guy asked us where we were from. We told him, "Minnesota" then he asked us what our last name was, "Ingalls" we said. Then he said, "Dallin!" we were shocked!!! It turned out that he had just returned home from his mission in the Marshall Islands and that he loved having Dallin as a companion! I asked him if Dallin was behaving and he smugly replied that, of course he was, but the smirk on his face let me know that Dallin is still Dallin wherever he goes! Then he made sure to tell me that he was, indeed, being obedient and that he's a really great missionary too! Whew! Then he looked at my husband and said, "Richard!!!! I have heard stories about you!" It was the coolest experience and so heart warming. We were on the other side of the world and far from Dallin too and yet, in the middle of it all we meet the one guy that knows my son personally and can give us a report of his happiness and well-being. I have hardly heard from him myself in the last few months so the reassurance from this young man was definitely a gift from Heaven. Heavenly Father knows us and loves us and is aware of us daily, this I know. He gives us the strength to continue on if we seek Him. He comforts us and calms us and gives us peace when we need it, sometimes even when we do not think to ask. I am grateful for this small miracle to remind me of His love and to the young man that thought to ask us where we were from. MOM]<br />
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Hi! That's me!http://www.blogger.com/profile/06184113926570167549noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-408994059666197182.post-35038898070082036492014-10-22T18:05:00.001-07:002014-10-22T18:41:00.653-07:00We eat shark and ramens - 9-12-2014 (Lae)hey mom!! <span style="color: red;">(Unedited)</span><br />
sounds like you guys are pretty close to me right now in the hawaii!!<br />
thats so cool hopefully you guys are getting a good glimpse of the<br />
island life!! haha hawaii is nothing like this right now here in the<br />
marshalll islands.. its a pretty humbling experience and i know we are<br />
blessing for it. this week has been awesome. i thought you would write<br />
a little bit more to my email but you dont so i dont have much to say<br />
other that to let you know that i am alive and doing well and love the<br />
islands here. crazy to think that i just got like 3 months left and<br />
then im done... kinda ready some days and not ready on alot of days.<br />
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news: we are catching alot of sharks and we eat shark and ramens for<br />
alot of meals... a boat came with food so we should be set for food<br />
for awhile... well that is, we shouldnt be starving for awhile... i<br />
know how much you hate this word so you will know how serious i am when<br />
i use it haha pretty good the culture here. i was annoyed when one<br />
meeting that should have taken 20 minutes took 2 and a half hours... i<br />
ask our president why and he said why rush things? do you have<br />
something else you need to do? pretty true cause i didnt... i really<br />
do get an incredible amount of reading and thinking time... sometimes<br />
too much... its a completely different kidna of work than on majuro or<br />
ebeye... this missionary work is really fun but its is really<br />
stressful too because you want people to work harder than they do or<br />
just do anything at all!!! haha its gonna be hard for me to not gain<br />
50 pounds when i get home.. i drank a soda and had some chocolate from<br />
the ship... and idk if i could physically stop myself... haha <span style="color: red;">[I knew that when</span><br />
<span style="color: red;">Dallin decided to go on a mission that the spiritual side would not be a</span><br />
<span style="color: red;">challenge for him, but that he would need to learn patience. He is very driven</span><br />
<span style="color: red;">and works hard for the things that he wants, but there are some things you</span><br />
<span style="color: red;">just don't get just because you want it bad enough and work hard enough</span><br />
<span style="color: red;">for it. It's called the Lord's timetable and that is something that only move</span><br />
<span style="color: red;"> the way He wants it too and we just need to be willing to wait! Dallin is</span><br />
<span style="color: red;">learning to wait for the things he prays for and to wait for answers to his</span><br />
<span style="color: red;">prayers. I am excited to see this new Dallin when he comes home! MOM]</span><br />
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catching alot of sharks here... learning tons and tons about the<br />
gospel!!! life is good. i will talk to you later when when the sun is<br />
out!! i hope to see you in a couple of months looking well!!! hopefully<br />
not too stick and bones like... haha i really wanna know if my accent<br />
is there and if i sound funny... haha i havent really spoke english in<br />
weeks so idk.... love you babe write me a longer email next time<br />
telling me whats up<br />
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elder ingalls ej yokwe eokHi! That's me!http://www.blogger.com/profile/06184113926570167549noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-408994059666197182.post-38704851584349909112014-10-22T17:54:00.002-07:002014-10-22T17:54:17.447-07:00I love you a million sharks - 9-4-2014 (Lae)Mom!!! <span style="color: red;">(Unedited)</span><br />how are we doing? I am getting to email just for a little while today<br />because it was sunny but now its cloudy and the internet is going to<br />shut off so I'm writing this is a word document that hopefully i will be<br />able to copy and paste with you and you read it. life is going great<br />about the work out here. It's weird to think about going home some day<br />but it'll come fast.. I dont really know if i am ready to go home<br />yet!! I still have so much i would like to get done and accomplish. its<br />difficult on this little island tht doent have too many people. its<br />hard to teach anyone out here because they are all so busy making<br />coconuts for the boat that is hopefully coming soon... idk how that<br />will work out. i know alot of people are getting on the boat to go to<br />ebeye andsome people are gettingoff to come here. we will see what<br />happens. we are really struggling for food out here!! no boats have<br />came for the last 9 weeks so everyone here is basically out of food<br />and living solely on the stuff we can get here... fish and ma and a<br />little bit of rice... so yeah that boat should be coming here in the<br />next couple of days... its been so delayed because there wasnt any<br />funding for it to come out here from the government... aha if you<br />think our government is useless there... youhave no idea until you come<br />here!!! but its all good no worries. heavenly father wont let hard<br />working missionaries go hungry! (...or too hungry...) hahaha we are<br />really cared for out here by the people. they love us so much. still crazy<br />
how when we had a fireside a couple days ago they talked about fasting <br />
and fast offerings for "the people that are poor and dont have food...<br />
like people in africa..." I couldnt believe how much these people<br />
are suffering but they still dont consider themselves poor or in need<br />
of serious help... unreal. <span style="color: red;">[I can see that he is being humbled a lot and</span><br />
<span style="color: red;">that his mission is really helping him to see his life in a different</span><br />
<span style="color: red;">perspective! MOM]</span><br /><br />im still working hard with these people alot with just strengthening<br />the members and working with the less actives.. there arent too many<br />people who havent sided with religions so its difficult to find<br />investigators and such... thats the thing tho the missionary work is<br />way different out here... we dont just go from lessons to lessons and<br />just teach all day. we serve and build and strengthen all people out<br />here and if we are blessed to have the opportunity to teach them, of<br />course we do. its cool speaking only marshallese here.. so my english\<br />
is going be a little rusty if im here for the next 3 months then go straight<br />
home. i think my engish sounds worse on a computer because<br />
im slowly forgetting how to use this thing, i easy mix things up.<br />
my speaking of english is better so dont worry... haha hopefully<br />
you guys dont speak too fast for me that would be a pain... haha<br />
i havent even heard fluent english for like 2 months now... i couldnt<br />
imagine going a solid two years like that... see tanner and logan<br />
probably spoke there language, but also had companions that <br />
may have known english o just some people in general living where<br />
they were taht they could communication with... me.... no<br />one.... hahah<br />
<br />so right now i am writing this in the dark... its pouring rain out<br />right now and the ceiling in this little shack is leaking... haha<br />luckily i have a flash light so i can see the keyboard and a little of<br />whats going on. haha this room is tiny... not even three people can<br />sit in here!! haha i took pictures of it so you will see it soon. its<br />cool typing on a laptop! this one kinda stinks but its all good i dont<br />mind... at least i will get to tell you a little of what i am doing! i<br />still am writing letters to you guys on pdays trying to explain the<br />cool things that i have done out here! im keeping my journal pretty<br />nicely managed so you will be able to get some stuff out of that... the<br />free time i have out here is incredible. since the people are so busy<br />working, we are able to work with them which we usually do<br />then we chill and read and write and just komaate iien... haha its<br />good i am getting some serious reading done and making up for wasted<br />study time... i also am writing essays just for fun... on all sorts of<br />topics on my mission and anything else that comes to mind.. its going<br />pretty well and its pretty fun to reflect on things... who knows maybe<br />i would be able to use some of them in some classes i take some day or<br />in a talk or just to have general knowledge and practice... the shark<br />fishing has been awesome!!! i wish the internet here was better so i<br />could send you guys some pictures and some stuff... but i guess you<br />guys will see them all in a couple months!!<br />
<br />lets see... what else... basic knowledge.. the island is tiny!!!!!!!<br />the other side of heaven book which i read in a day... groberg<br />explains that his "tiny" island was like 14 miles but 3 miles or<br />something and it had a mountain.... LOL to him... my island is maybe a<br />mile across the lagoon with like 10 islands on the edges and nothing in<br />the middle... the islands are long and skinny... maybe about 2-3<br />football fields and the widest part... i can get from one end to the<br />other in maybe 25 minutes walking... marshallese speed which is as<br />slow as humanly possible while still getting some where... there are<br />probably close to 200 people on the island... i dont know everyone<br />yet... but everyone here has known me since day one... its hard to not<br />be shy or intimidated... haha!! there are an average of 65ish members<br />
attending church and maybe half or them are kids.. its all good though<br />
i absolutely love the kids here they are like my best friends! so awesome<br />
and innocent and just dont know much about the world.everything is<br />
going well here. i talked to the assistants and my release date has been<br />
moved along with my whole intake to the 17th of december so start<br />
making the party plans because ill be home for Christmas!<br />
<br />well until next time... i love you a million sharks. take care and see<br />you soon!!<br />elder ingalls Hi! That's me!http://www.blogger.com/profile/06184113926570167549noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-408994059666197182.post-29846372549347934302014-10-22T17:38:00.002-07:002014-10-22T17:38:34.845-07:00I am keeping a stellar journal - 8-22-2014 (Lae)yokwe mommy im back in business!! you woud not believe how extremely<br />difficult it is to email out here... the laptop is always broken<br />according to the guy thatr uns the little shack that i am and does<br />the email. so yeah life is good. you wouldnt believe how my english is<br />sounds... like i think i sound fine but the thing is i get mix up what<br />language to speak so itjust makes me look like i have no idea what i<br />am talking about haha but yeah the island here is amazing and i am<br />learning so much and i cant believe tht i have basically been here for<br />a one month now!! just like 4 more months to go. i think that i will<br />be coming home in december i havent heard anything yeet, but at 90<br />days is when i get my flight plans and that is the craziest thing in<br />world. so yeah i have caught 5 sharks so far!! none of them are too<br />big except for one that was over 6 feet long!!! it was so hard trying<br />to pull taht thing in shore!!! it was like the middle of the night<br />when we caught it!!<br /><br />so yeah with not alot of work out here i get a crazy amount of time for reading<br />... like i am basically finished with the old testament, pounding<br />through some church manuals and reading a psychology textbook taht i<br />found in the house!! its been pretty awesome and i have really enjoy<br />all the time i am getting to do that. there is a ship coming that is<br />gonna pick up coconuts to make coconut oil and its difficult because<br />literally everyone on the island is spending there time doing that.<br />and the diet... basically straight fish and rice and kool aid packings<br />that you sent to me!! thank you so much for those!!! there are worth<br />more than gold here!!! i also learned how to make tortillas!!! my<br />companion doesn't talk much... its difficult because of<br />the language barrier... again i am so thankful for my experience here it<br />is really teach me alot of love and patience for these people haha<br />especially now that im here they think i can do all their callings and<br />teach all there classes... so it is a good learning opportunity for me<br />and they are all growing because of it. we have a few investigators<br />but they are all busy doing the coconut right now so we aren't really<br />getting anywhere.<br /><br />im collecting a ton of shells and crafts for you guys!!! there is not<br />such thing as the nativity in marshallese... sorry... idk what to tell<br />you aobut that.. maybe i can draw faces witha sharpie on some shells<br />or something for you...<br /><br />i got only a couple months left to just get lost!!! i hope you let me<br />go grocery shopping when i get home and i can buy the food i would<br />want to eat. i dont mind fish and i would actually like to eat it, but<br />i never want rice to eat.... hahaha ever again. well, except in<br />chipotle :)<br /><br />i am keeping a stellar journal for you and writing you a letter every<br />pday that i might be able to mail home, but most likely i will just<br />bring it home... so yeah... ummm i love out here. im safe. my healthy<br />body is slowing leaving me because i have no food to eat... but i<br />still work out like crazy to fight it!!! enjoy life, enjoy good food,<br />enjoy cold, enjoy cars, enjoy those stinking jetskis you bought AFTER<br />I LEAVE!!! its okay, you can buy the boat when i get hom :) love you<br />so much. take care<br /><br />love elder ingalls the 4/5Hi! That's me!http://www.blogger.com/profile/06184113926570167549noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-408994059666197182.post-26755464160316506812014-08-18T18:44:00.002-07:002014-08-18T18:44:30.505-07:00im alive<span style="color: red;">[First email from the small island of Lae. I left it just the way he sent it to me! MOM]</span><br />
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mom!!!<br />im alive here on lae atoll!! took me forever to get to email!!<br />
i will probably be able to email to you every other<br />week or so.. just like a paragraph or soo.. sorry i dont really have<br />that much time to email. i am writing you a lettter every week psaying<br />all the stuff that i have done. idk when i will be able to send it to<br />you but youll have a good idea of what i have ben doing here...<br /><br />so yeah lae atoll is the coolest place in world. it remind me alot of<br />manypoint camp to be honest!! we live right on the beach. we fish for<br />our food everyday. the money dad give me really helps i bought alot of<br />canned meat and such with it. its hard life out here. my companion is<br />a kiribati elder so he knows how to live like this and really helps me<br />out. he doesnt know english so i speak with him marshallese only...<br />its crazy i really havent spoken english at all out here.. if im here<br />my whole rest of the mission... my english is going to be so bad....<br />seriously... i spek maybe 95% marshallese all day... and the only<br />english i hear is some music a member has!! haha<br /><br />everything is apwesome out here. sorry i am in a huge rush because idk<br />when the internet is gonna stop working!! haha it took me like 20<br />minutes to just get to this page!! i hope it sends.<br /><br />on my way here i flew to kwajalein, then wotho, then ujae and saw the<br />elders there!! then flew to lae!! it has been legit!! learning alot.<br />its hard being completely surounded by marshallese people 24/7 but its<br />good. i have learning alot. im glad to be an eagle scout and use a<br />little bit of what i learned with that here... i never thought the<br />knots, of the sailing, or the stuff like that would ever come in handy<br />but it has.<br /><br />im happy to be a missionary. i love it here. i have so much time to<br />read and chat with people. my marshallese is getting preptty good!!<br />some people here say they want me to translate for conference beause i<br />sound pretty good with my accent... haha so i guess that is a<br />copmpliment<br /><br />i hope everyone is doing alright at home!!! not talking to you guys<br />sucks... it was a pain having to email every week but now that i<br />cant... boy do i miss you guys... okay i gotta go. i love you a ton.<br />you take are and be sure to email back!!! talk to you when i can!!<br /><br />love your son elder ingallsHi! That's me!http://www.blogger.com/profile/06184113926570167549noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-408994059666197182.post-43920010575794901082014-08-18T18:36:00.000-07:002014-08-18T18:46:49.436-07:00I wanna be like you if I ever grow up. 7-25-2014<span style="color: red; font-family: inherit;">[This is Dad's handwritten letter sent with mine! MOM]</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Richard!!!!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">What’s Gucci?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I
thought I would write you a smaller letter and say Yokwe!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I’m going to Lae!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I told Mom everything so read hers!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I hope life is going well as you are happy
and looking good as ever!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Are you ready
for Hawaii?!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Hope you are ready for the
program I’m gonna put you on!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I’m
jealous I can’t go with you guys, but I will be there soon as I’m coming
home.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>According to the transfer it looks
like I will be going home before Christmas!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>That will be a good present for Mom!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>I think the whole fam will be together for the first time.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>That will be awesome.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I think that will be a sweet time!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<span style="font-family: inherit;">I can’t tell you how
excited I am about missionary work right now.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>I don’t want it to end.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I wish I
had this effect my whole mission.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I took
time to get to where I am now.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I wanna
share a little about faith with you that President Hamula (Area President)
talked with us about.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I enjoyed it and
thought that you would like to hear about it.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>So first we need to hear a truth from some sort of person who has heard
or seen and that gives us a hope for those things and if we have that hope we
can act and as/if that thing is true, we will receive that confirming
witness.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It’s kind of like a light
switch.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We were taught that it will turn
on a light.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>And we have had cycles and
cycles of hope, action, and the confirming witness of that light turning
on.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>As we continue in that cycle, hope
turns to assurance, and that assurance turns in to certainty.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We all are at certainty with the light
switches (assuming you’re in a place with electricity!)<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It’s so cool that we can do this test for
anything.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Insert something false and we
will never get that confirming witness, especially with disobedience.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I absolutely loved that training!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Hopefully, you understood and that all made
sense.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Hamula said the difference
between us and the prophets is that they have had that confirming witness so
much to create certainty.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>They’ve just
cycled around that chart more than us.<span style="mso-no-proof: yes;"> </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">I love working hard.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>I like getting people to work hard and see their potential.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I wish I could have had such a confirming
witness earlier in my mission.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I love
being a missionary.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I wish I could do
this stuff forever, but may not all the rules! <span style="mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-char-type: symbol; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-symbol-font-family: Wingdings;"><span style="mso-char-type: symbol; mso-symbol-font-family: Wingdings;">J</span></span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I wouldn’t mind swimming and sleeping
in!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>But, yeah, I have an unusual drive
for obedience and hard work right now.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I
know that this spark will be what Lae needs for right now. (Sorry for my bad
handwriting.)<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I’m just pumped and wanna
write my thoughts all out before I forget them.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Life is going!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I’m amped for that
last five months.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Pulli jerbal then
celly Christmas.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Such a blessing that we
can all be together.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This Gospel is
power and strength.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Keep being
awesome.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I’m going to absolutely miss
the talks and emails we have shared.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I
have loved that experience with you and can’t wait to have those discussions
all the time.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Especially the fact that I
know some stuff now!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Especially after my
outer island, I’m gonna be a wiz at the scriptures.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>That’s what all elders say and definitely
what President said!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>A LOT of
reading!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Gonna get all those manuals
down!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I love being smart and just
knowing a lot of facts.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It’ll be fun
studying together and learning together.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>I’m really excited to read the scriptures with you guys and actually
care about it!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Hope you guys are still
going hard.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Anyways, I hope work is well with you and you’re happy.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I hope your trip is absolutely everything you
want it to be.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Do every righteous thing
us kids want you to and you’ll find so much happiness as we continue to follow
you.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>You are my absolute role model and
I still wanna be like you if I ever grow up. <span style="mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-char-type: symbol; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-symbol-font-family: Wingdings;"><span style="mso-char-type: symbol; mso-symbol-font-family: Wingdings;">J</span></span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>You are the man, Richard!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Love that you are my father and that you are
so strong.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Strong enough for us kids,
especially me, to lean on you.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I love
how you pump me up to work and to be better.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>I enjoyed writing this letter and I loved my experience writing with
you.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>You are a great man, Richard!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Your giving me answers and advice has been
great!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Thanks!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Love you!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Love, Elder Ingalls 4.0</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">P.S.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Five months to
ping pong!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
Hi! That's me!http://www.blogger.com/profile/06184113926570167549noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-408994059666197182.post-38354615037524639172014-08-18T18:25:00.002-07:002014-08-18T18:45:57.033-07:00You’re welcome for the letter! 7-25-2014<span style="color: red; font-family: inherit;">[We received a handwritten letter in the mail and were so excited! It's been months since we've received any of those! Also, in the same day he was able to email us! Yippee! Here is the snail mail! MOM]</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Mommy!<o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;">So yeah I don’t write letters, but I guess I promised
you.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Words are nothing if you don’t mean
them.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Ok, new pen because mine’s
garbage.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Sorry my handwriting is pretty
junky now.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It would be awesome if I keep
up with the letter writing!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>So yeah, I’m
going to Lae Atoll!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>That’s going to be
one of the most exciting adventures of my life.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>I know these next couple of months are going to absolutely change me and
how I view a lot of things.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I’m excited
to "die" on an outer island!<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">I will be the maximum amount of weird when I go home!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>At about 18 months out I’ve learned a lot and
have enjoyed my mission.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I talked to
President before I left and because of the transfers I think my release date
will be before Christmas.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I think the 17<span style="font-size: small;"><sup>th</sup>
or the 22<sup>nd</sup>.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>President brought
it all up and said that’s what he’s thinking.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>You guys will probably get a letter or email about it before I
officially know.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>That would be such a
great present to go home and be with you guys and everyone for Christmas before
we all go out to school.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Still five or
six months away!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>These last weeks I’ve
had absolute desire to study really hard and work really hard.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Life has been busy but I feel pretty
accomplished.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Missionary work is hard,
but it gets easier as I continue to learn the language and accept the rules.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">My investigators in Ebeye were awesome and I know that they
will all one day receive the Gospel.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I
can’t tell you about my investigators in Lae because I’m not there yet!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I actually flew back to Majuro last week and
have been working with the ZLs in Uliga!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>I should be flying to Lae tomorrow if the plane flies!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>So no boat… for now…<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I could still take one, and coming back from
Lae I still could take one!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I’m so
scared to take the tiny little plane and land on a field of grass.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I’ve seen a video of it landing.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I’ll be sure you get a ton of pictures about
it!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">I’ve taken a lot of pictures!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>And I’m doing my journal pretty well.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I wanna write a separate memories
journal/book out there.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I’m not sure
what I will do but something to keep me sane!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Lae Atoll is one of the smallest atolls in the Marshall Islands, only
being about one and a half miles across!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>And there are about 300 people there!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>There is a branch there, too!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>It’s one of the strongest outer islands where the Church is at!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I really wanna build it so it can eventually
be a ward in the future Ebeye/Kwajalein Stake!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>I know what I’m doing matters and I know that I’m not out here to waste
time!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I’m the most lethal and effective
as a missionary right now!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I wish I
would have got to this point sooner!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It
all comes down to preparation.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It’s
difficult to mold to missionary work and the schedule.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>But it’s good.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It’s cool being one of the oldest elders in
the mission, and having people look up to me for whatever reason.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">I want to be a good example to them and I want to be a good
role model.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I don’t want you guys to
worry about me in Lae.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I’m going to work
hard and be obedient.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This place is like
any other area; full of people who need this Gospel and need to see me being obedient
to it.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It’s a lot more fellowshipping
and just living and strengthening people.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>I’ll be doing a lot of service and being of whatever assistance I can be
to these people.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I’m so lost in what I’m
doing.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I really just love it.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I went to a grocery store here and stuck my
head in a freezer and literally couldn’t breathe…<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Checked the temp and it was at 20
degrees!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I’m so in trouble!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I’m going to freeze when I go home!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Hope you guys are ready to take care of me
and put up with my complaints about being on the verge of death!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>FYI, 72 degrees is wayyy too cold to live in…
So turn up the house to like 84 degrees before you guys get to the airport) so
then I will be used to it!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>PLEASE!<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>So yeah, that’s basically it.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">I wouldn’t buy too many clothes or anything, because I have
no idea what size I’m gonna be when I get home.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>And hold off on the Challenger until I can come pick what one I want! <span style="mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-char-type: symbol; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-symbol-font-family: Wingdings;"><span style="mso-char-type: symbol; mso-symbol-font-family: Wingdings;">J</span></span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>On a serious note, I can’t wait to see you
guys and I can’t wait to share my experiences with you.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>You guys take care and be strong.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Five-ish months more and the boss will
return!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Keep being strong in your
prayers and studies.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I love you, Mommy!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Sorry I’m so sucky at writing and my
handwriting is bad.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>You’re welcome for
the letter!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This was hard for me to do!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Okay, babe, I will see you guys in a couple
months!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">I’LL BE RIGHT BACK!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>-
Elder Ingalls 4.0<o:p></o:p></span></div>
Hi! That's me!http://www.blogger.com/profile/06184113926570167549noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-408994059666197182.post-77987670161195790242014-07-10T14:10:00.000-07:002014-07-10T14:10:03.516-07:00You are my mommy! 7-6-2014<div class="ecxMsoNormal">
Mom!!!!</div>
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I checked my email copied all the emails over to a word document and replied to all of them!! Yours wasn’t in there so I didn’t think you were going to email me today so I wrote everything out to Dad! But I still got a<span> </span>bit of time to write you a final email before I leave for the next couple of months!! I have heard of people having email out there but I wouldn’t count on hearing from me for the whole time that I am out there.</div>
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I really wrote everything I wanted to tell you in Dads email so I really hope you enjoy that and don’t mind that this is short. I'm really crunched for time today! I have to buy food and some supplies today so I'm pretty busy! And of course get Subway for the last time! I am really going to miss Ebeye and everything its taught me. I really enjoyed being the district leader out here and giving trainings that forced me to learn a ton, especially from preach my gospel. I get so much study time on my mission. I completely understand why they have classes at BYU for the return missionaries… haha I would just dominate the discussion because I know so much more that a pre mish cat. [What other missionary talks this way? He is still just the same old weird Dallin as when he left!] Its way nice how much I learn. The faith I build from it just helps me live and be the best missionary I can be. I'm so far from perfect, but I'm definitely on the right path to perfect. </div>
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I'm grateful you're my Mom, because you’re my Mom! I don’t think many other ladies could handle me! Maybe Grandma… haha who knows!! But thank you for raising me up properly with goals in mind and a love for Heavenly Father!! You definitely succeeded in that!!</div>
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Please read Dads email for my story about the Book of Mormon. You are awesome mom and I feel absolutely horrible that I can't write you more.. you are my mommy! I love you and I will see you in a few months!! Take care and I will be right back!</div>
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ps enjoy Utah!! Say hi to everyone for me!! love you baby!</div>
Hi! That's me!http://www.blogger.com/profile/06184113926570167549noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-408994059666197182.post-3469373484126443892014-07-10T14:02:00.001-07:002014-07-10T14:02:59.463-07:00Outer Island Needs 6-18-2014<span style="color: red;">[This is out of order and I'm not sure how to get it in the right place, but I saw this in my email box from Dad and thought it would be fun to add it to the blog! MOM]</span> <br />
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Daddy!! Hey dad I'm in Majuro and today I should be getting my teeth fixed just fine. President told me I will be going back to Ebeye, then going to Lae!! An outer island!! Hopefully I go this time! But while I'm in Majuro I was wondering if I could get some personal money to buy supplies here for when I go out. Ebeye is wayyy to expensive so if I could get it here that would be wonderful. Whatever you can help me out with would be great, if money is tight, no worries! Please keep me in your prayers for my teeth and the ability to just continue on it the work. I love you and Mom so much! I pray for you guys everyday! Love you Dad you take care!!! DallinHi! That's me!http://www.blogger.com/profile/06184113926570167549noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-408994059666197182.post-50557801357250534872014-07-10T13:59:00.001-07:002014-07-10T13:59:28.578-07:00Read Dad's email!! Love you! 6-30-2014<div>
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Just was able to see that you emailed me! I will be able to write you a nice email next week! I wrote most of everything to Dad because I didn't think you were going to email! This week and next could be some of the last times I email you guys in my mission! I bet I will be in Lae for 4-5 months. I think that it's going to be some if the best times of my mission! </div>
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I'm way excited to hear you guys and working out and getting into shape! Just like what I said to Dad I am gonna get you guys into shape when I get home! I am way jealous you guys get to go to Hawaii! That will be way fun! What all are you going to do there?? I wanna go with you guys! I love it here but I wouldn't mind a resort in Hawaii with my family! </div>
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So Macey getting her license?.. Haha that's crazy to think about. <span style="color: red;">[Well, he better start thinking about it because it happened and she is driving herself everywhere in the green 300C, which Dallin nicknamed Thundershock (from the Transformers movie) when we first bought the car and he started thinking that it was his! He is going to be in for a big shock when he gets home and finds out that all the kids need to share the car!]</span> But that's sweet to think that she can drive me around when I get home! I'm gonna need that for when I need to get my license renewed! Haha it's fun to show people my license when I had longer hair and look like a little bit of a thug! Sometimes I wish I could show them all the cool pictures on my facebook! Idk if you are adding anyone or not! Whatever doesn't matter I can do it when I get home! I told some to say "Hi" when they see you in my facebook! <span style="color: red;">[I rarely go on it since I have been trying really hard to keep up with his blog entries - sorry Dallin!]</span>Probably Marshallese tho.. Haha</div>
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Okay I gotta bounce! Read Dad's email!! Love you!<br />
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Hi! That's me!http://www.blogger.com/profile/06184113926570167549noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-408994059666197182.post-81984787818077409082014-07-10T09:45:00.002-07:002014-07-10T09:45:48.566-07:00All I am is a messenger 6-23-2014<div>
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Hi!!! Okay I'm back on Ebeye. I flew out Monday and they did my teeth Wednesday and then they flew me back Thursday morning! That was a fun little vacation!! Got to see old families, elders that I probably won't see again on the mission, and got to get my teeth fixed! Haha all good things! It's hard to pick the work back up after being gone, but it's going well! </div>
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I found out that President wants me to serve on the outer island paradise of Lae!! I will probably be going in the next month and there is a good chance of me ending my mission there! So I will come home ultra weird! Haha it's like 90 miles from Kwajalein and it's about a 9 hour boat ride! Idk what size boat in gonna take, but it's not gonna be too big I believe! Haha in a way I'm sad to leave Ebeye though I have a lot of friends here!! But a lot of them are from Lae and I hope to be able to meet their friends and family there! I'm way excited for this adventure. It should happen in the next month or so! More details when I figure them out!</div>
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So yeah this last week was a fun time spent on Majuro!! Then coming back was fun! I never realized how much I liked Ebeye until I left it .It's just so different and I feel like the people here are so respectful and like missionaries so much. Everywhere I go I just seem to love really. I will love getting transferred home too! That might be the best area! Some weeks it's hard but most weeks they are good and I love being out here. I guess it's the same for anything. I wish I could do this my whole life! Well, maybe be able to talk to you guys a bit more and sleep in every once and while! Haha but this is just such fun work. I wish I could do it forever! I never thought I would wanna serve a senior couples mission, but I think that would be pretty fun! Have you and Dad ever thought about doing that? You guy would be the most popular ones in the mission that's for sure! </div>
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Oh yeah since I'm going to Lae some stuff that would be sweet if you guys could send me in a package to Ebeye ASAP would be: those drink packets!! Like alotttt. Way nice!!, maybe some of those instant potato bag things, add water gravy packets, any kind of just add water foods, the infinite atonement book, etc did you ever send those new scriptures to me or those new pants? Because I never got them on Ebeye and when I went to Majuro<span style="color: red;"><span style="color: black;"> there was no package.. Just checking hopefully you just didn't send it! Hope it's not lost in the mail</span>...[</span><span style="color: red;">I did send him a new set of scriptures and case and two new pairs of pants and so far, that package hasn't arrived. So disappointing that the boxes of food and candy always make it, but a package like this is the one that never arrives. MOM]</span></div>
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Also sorry for not being able to email last week I was just able to write Dad before I had to leave in the plane! I hope you aren't too upset! I remembered it was Father's Day so I thought I would write him just a quick note! </div>
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I heard a cool story this week. This not so popular kid had a crush on his girl classmate in high school and he always wanted to go up to her and ask her on a date but he knew he wasn't that cool and scared as to what she would say so he never got the confidence to do it. One day a football player came up to him and asked him if he would go give this girl a note asking her out for the football player. He instantly gained the confidence to go talk to her and he did, walked up to her, talked for a minute, then handed her the note for the football player! The moral of the story is, yes, he was afraid to ask her out, but when he had someone else's message and realized if she said no, she wouldn't be rejecting him, but someone else. That's what is it with me. I sure would be scared trying to walk up to people and try and be friends with them. I'm way too scared of rejection just like everyone is. But the thing is, this is the message of Jesus Christ. Not ours. People aren't rejecting me, but our Savior. All I am is a messenger. I thought that was so cool! So everyone needs to share about Jesus Christ and how he is our Savior and how he atoned for our sins. So yeah hope that makes sense!</div>
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This week in my studies I focused really on spiritual identity. I'm gonna do my district meeting training on that and, boy, have I learned a lot. Sometimes I feel like the trainings aren't that good, but I sure learn a lot in the process!! It's so cool reading about who we are and all the things that we can become. I learned a lot this week. Also I'm doing a district wide challenge to everyone to speak Marshallese for one week straight! I usually just do days or something. It's gonna be especially hard because we have 3 elders here that are all just about 7 weeks out and they barely can bear their testimonies so this will be an especially frustrating week for them, as well as me because they won't be able to understand everything I try to say to them. But they will figure out in the first 30 minutes if that week what they need to learn and what they don't know. I remember hearing Logan doing something like that in Sweden and I thought that was so cool! So yeah every Ebeye missionary us going to do it!! Right now our air conditioning is broken so it's about 95 degrees in our house with no fans for breeze so we are staying with the companionship that worked the north part of the island. It's fun but their house is smaller than your bedroom at home! I will take pictures! It gets small but these guys are legit. And just before I left I don't know if I told you but Elder Hix got transferred to the north and I'm still in the south. We are both finishing up the training if these new Elders that just got here. They are like 7 weeks out. I work with a guy named Elder Barlow. He's from California. He's pretty cool. He came here on his way to go to Ujae, which is an outer island, but when he got here, President called and made a change and said that he was just gonna stay here and work with me. He was super bummed out about it and that's been pretty hard to deal with. I can relate for not going to Ailinglaplap, but still. He's super young and just doesn't know a lot yet so it can be frustrating. Hopefully things get better, but no matter what I will work hard with him and teach him as much as I can. I really miss Hix. That guy was one of my favorite companions!! He's the man though and he's training at 6 months which is incredible! That's super young and unheard of! I wish I could say I helped that out but he is way good at the language and really knows his stuff! We sure loved to study and help each other out. It's difficult sometimes because pride comes into it and I don't wanna ask for help and he doesn't wanna ask for help cuz me being pretty old it gets embarrassing if I don't know a word that he does or something like that. But once we got over that and just put it all on the table we really took off. I wish I could have done that with my other companions. Pride really kills me. And not just my fake saying I'm the best but the fact that I'm embarrassed to ask for help. That's the kind of pride I struggle with. But it's all good!</div>
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So yeah life's good! Prayer for Elder Barlow and I that things go alright and he can be happy to work with me here in Ebeye. He will learn quickly that this place is awesome. I hope you are doing well too momma! I just can't wait to hang out with you while I'm home! Especially going to the gym! I have taken upon myself to be your personal trainer and your diet counselor. We're going to get ripped whether you like it our not! So if you wanna get a head start I would start now so you don't die on the first day of Abs by Dallin!! Haha okay I better let ya go I'm pretty past my time limit but know that I love you and think you're cute :) take care and have a good week! </div>
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Dallin is flying to Majuro because he lost a filling in one of his front teeth and needs to get it repaired. It is causing him a lot of pain so it needs to be taken care of right away. He is not sure what will happen after it's fixed - either he will go back to Ebeye or he will stay in Majuro. I guess we will see. He was not able to send a very long email because he had to get to his flight and by the time he gets to Majuro, his pday will be over! I guess we will have to wait to hear from him until next week! He was able to write a quick email to Dad for Father's Day so that was nice! --Dallin's MomHi! That's me!http://www.blogger.com/profile/06184113926570167549noreply@blogger.com0