Mon 8/23/10

Subject: I can flip people off and get a way with it.

Hello family. How are you all? You all know that when I ask that Q you can answer. I don’t get to hear how everybody’s doing. So if you want you all can tell me in short emails. That would be sweet. This was a hard week for us. On p-day elder Conover jacked up his back and could do much for like 3 days. He fine now but it sucked for those days. We didn’t get much done. Then the thing that happened for me last p-day I jacked up my finger. It’s my middle finger on my left hand and It’s the top knuckle. So after it happened I put a splint on it that I made out of a plastic knife. Put ice on it and took some drugs. That was all my life saving skills. I have so many skills. I even hav comtuter hacking skills.J/K Than I called the mission nurse and she could me to do all of those things I had already done. My finger is kind of stuck at a 45° angle. They think I ruptured a tendon. So i have to keep a splint on it. So if it’s not better in 4 to 5 weeks they are going to cut into my finger to fix it. FUN TIMES! Oh well stuff happens. We had a lot of appointments cancel this week. It wasn’t fun at all. So our #’s didn’t look so good. But it’s not about #’s. it’s about people. So anther thing that was pretty fun was we got to go to a Tongan wedding. Can I tell you how much food they had? They had a whole pig. I mean the whole pig. The only thing that wasn’t there were the intestines. It was so good too. They know how to cook. There were 2 things that weren’t good about the wedding. The 1^st was that it was outside and it was so hot. The 2^nd was we didn’t know anybody but like 3 families so it was a little different. We still had a good time though. Then yesterday we went to teach this less active family and there daughter hasn’t been baptized. So we are trying to get them back to church so she can get baptized and so they can go to the temple. They are a very good family I just wish they would get their priorities strait. The dad knows what he needs to do. He just needs to get his wife on broad. I think they will come back to church but it might take some big life changing thing to do it. It shouldn’t take some thing like that to get people to come back to church. I hope that it doesn’t come to something like that. So the best thing that happened this week was we asked Britney noble to be baptized and she said yes! It’s set for Sep 5^th. We hope that it will work. So I can’t think of any thing else to write about so I will talk to you all later. I love you all and miss you all sooooo much.

Love Elder Tyler Scoble

Mon 8/16/10

Subject: no emails again? i'm not feeling the love.

Well hello family! How are you all doing this week? I’m doing good now that it is a little cooler. This was the hottest week for the summer so far. It got up to 103 and 70% humidity. It was so hot!!! We had a good week thought. We sweat so much its crazy. So we met with one of our investigators that missionaries in the past taught. Her name is Britney Noble. She is 13 and her mom is a member. I think I can get her baptized. She is very smart and I think she has clamed down from when the last missionaries taught her. There are a lot of members that have said that she was hard to teach because she was so hyper. But every time I have met her she isn’t that way. Maybe I just haven’t got to see that side of her yet. We are going to teach her this week. So I hope that will be good. Ok so do you all remember the story I told you at the first of my mission with the girl that was in that car crash and me and Elder Clayton went to give her that blessing in the middle of the night? Good because I saw the lady who asked us to come and give that blessing. Her name is Heather Spiva. Her granddaughter was the one in the accident. Heather wasn’t a member then now she is. But one thing that is bad is that she has stage 4 cancer. So she doesn’t have much longer to live. The thing that was the funniest is that she didn’t remember who the other missionary was that gave the blessing with elder Clayton. so as we were sitting there she said that her granddaughter was coming over. (The one that was in the accident). So I told her that I hadn’t seen Tabitha (that’s her granddaughter) since Elder Clayton and I gave her that blessing. That she was like “That was you!” and I said yes. She said “I couldn’t remember your name. Thank you soo much for ding that for her.” So I told her it was one of the most spiritual experiences on my mission. So then we started talking about that then Tabitha showed up. I asked her to come back to church because she hadn’t been I a long time. She didn’t come but I will get her to come. So it was a good time. So we got to play football with the ward on Saturday. That was fun. Elder Conover isn’t that good at football. But I still had fun. Than right after we finished playing we had to go help with some service. It was this think in downtown KC. This origination gives furniture to people that don’t have all that much. So we were moving a lot of stuff. There were so many people there too. Some of the people weren’t very thankful for the things that they were getting for free. Some people were like gimme gimme. But I put my tetrais skills to work. We put this table and 4 chairs and a whole lot of crap in to this Van. I’m not sure how we got it to fit but we did. Well I can’t think of any thing else to write about so I will talk to you all later. I love you and miss you all sooo much!

Love Elder Tyler Scoble

Mon 8/9/10

Subject: peace out girl scout.

Hello family! How are you? I’m doing soooo well. Things are looking good for most of our investigators. We had to drop one of our investigators this week. All‘s he did was bash with us and we could get any where with him. So we had to say goodbye. I know we were going to drop him and I was going to do it because my comp hadn’t ever done it. But it did the right thing when we did drop him but he just did it to many times. We are supposed to bear testimony and leave. My comp boar his testimony like 5 times. Every time I tried to leave he would bear testimony. So we were there like 5 times longer than we needed to be. But it was ok I just told him what he could do better. We did a lot of biking this week we were on a lot of exchanges this week as well. I went on one after we had zone conference. It was a good zone conference I’m not going to have anther one for 2 months. How crazy is that. So every other transfer we will have a zone conference. One thing that is pretty cool that we did this week is we went to this fair that the state put on. It was an Emergency preparedness fair. So that was a lot of fun. We had a booth too. We put out a lot of stuff for people to have. We had a lot of DVDs and pass along cards and other stuff like that. That had a lot of other people show up that had booth as well. The fire dept was there the army, wal-mart, the air force est. They even an Apache helicopter show up. It was sweet. We had a lot of missionaries there to help with the booth. We didn’t talk to as many people as we wanted to. But it was still good. Things are still good with me and my comp. I’m still trying to help him be a better teacher. It’s slow but it will take time. Yes I did get the DVD. Thanks sooo much for everyone who helped make it or was in it. So thank you all soo much. Well I can’t think of anything else to write about so I will talk to you all later. I love you all and miss you all sooo much.

Love Elder Tyler Scoble

Mon 8/2/10

Subject: this is the fun V the hum drum V is back there.

Hello family! How are you all? I’m doing grate. First off want to answer mom’s Q’s. I don’t know if I want a credit card I don’t spend money other then what’s on my card that the church gives me. One thing that you could send me is anther belt. This one will still work but it might not last much longer. Oh and one other thing I think the battery in dad’s watch died. So I’m using this crappy watch that I found in our apt. I would like some thing else if at all possible. Did you get my letter that I sent with the address of my apt? If not here is the address again.203 B SE South Ave. Blue Springs, MO 64014. I didn’t send the whole thing last time I emailed. It’s nice seeing people that I have seen before. I don’t have to get to know them and that makes things nicer. And some of them remembered me. Not all of them. And yes it’s the same ward I started in. Ok that should be all of you Q’s. So we had a good week. It was a long week. It always a long week when you have to bike. And now that I’m full time bike again it’s going to be a lot of long weeks. So we had some super sweet things happen this week. We got 3 new investigators this week. The first 2 are and husband and wife. Their names are Brandon and Rachel. They are pretty nice. Her dad is a pastor so they know a little bit about religion. But we have anther app with them this week and we hope the read the BOM. And the other investigator is a girl named Ashley. She is very nice. She is married but her husband is not interested. She is 27 and he is 39. That’s a little bit of an age difference if I say so my self. But she asked some good Q’s and I hope that I answered them right. She wanted to know a lot about families. Than we saw some people that I wanted to see that I remember from this area. And it’s been a lot of fun. Elder Conover has clamed down the longer we have been to gather. He seems to be kind of a show off. But he is getting better. I’m working really hard trying to get him to be a better teacher. It’s working slowly. I’ll just keep working with him. We have zone conference this week so that should be fun. It’s going to be 2 months before our next zone conference because the church is going to start some thing new in the missions. They are going to try to get missionaries to be better teacher and to get them to invite people for baptism right at the beginning. So the will be cool. I have been trying to do that more. Well I can’t think of anything else to write about so I will talk to you all later. I love you all and miss you all so much.

Love Elder Tyler Scoble

P.S. did Austin get my gift? Also I hope dad feels better.