2014 February

3rd February

 

It sounds like life at home is going great.  Hopefully you are able to work out visiting with Jerret and Lisa and the kids, as well as being able to head out to Maryland. To update you on the little service projects, this past Friday we were able to take Olive Garden to a homeless Shelter in Laguna Canyon. It was awesome to be able to help out with that.

Elder Beckstead is getting Married!? Holy Smokes!

 

Thanks, again, for the mini patriarchal blessing.

 

I am hoping that things begin to look up as far as the waether goes. How is Zach doing with the extended break from school? Is he happy or is he frustrated with the probable increase of chores at home? (if there has been an increase in chores)

 

As for Specific volunteer opportunities that we have been able to work with, last Tuesday we were able to help a group, I don't remember the name, lay out a whole bunch of mulch to start the creation of what is going to be called the Incredible Edible park. It is going to be a sort of vegetable garden park thing where parents can take their children to play around and that sort of stuff. And if anybody ever gets hungry, there will be little healthy snacks growing all around them that they will be able to pick and eat. That is one of the more recent things that we have helped out with.

 

Anyway, I hope that you are all enduring the weather fairly well. I hope that you will all be able to enjoy the upcoming week. I love you all.

Love,

 

Elder Jastal

 

10th February

I will have to figure out how to get Gabe to respond to me. I haven't heard from him in forever, and I kinda don't know if I expect to hear from him before my mission is over.  Thank you for the quote though. That is going to be really helpful. 

 

I bet Zach was super excited to be able to have the time off from school.  He told me that he spent a bit of it playing minecraft with some friends.

 

I would say for Spiritual Experiences, my last district meeting was a great one. My district leader had felt inspired to have a meeting that was more counsel from all of us rather than him instructing us for an hour and a half. I learned from all of the District what I have been feeling the need to work on personally. It was great.

 

Anyway, I hope that you all have a great week. I love you all.

 

Love,

 

Elder Jastal

 

25th February

 

Hey Mom!

 

To tell the truth, I was kinda rushed towards the end of my e-mailing so I completely forgot to e-mail you (last week).

 

It is fun to hear all these little bits about my nieces and nephews so often. Especially Spencer. That little guy is super funny.  IT is exciting to hear about having another little one that is almost here.

 

As for how we are doing here, I would say that tings are going well, but I will also say that the drought is certainly having an effect out here. There usually isn't a lot of rain in southern California anyway, so the drought isn't good news. I am having plenty to eat though. The members have always been good with helping the missionaries out, so we have dinner pretty much every night of the month. As for the clothes, I have a few ties that I am trying to find out how to get fixed. the back seam on them is coming undone. Also, I got a couple new pairs of pants with the money from Sister Berry yesterday. The biggest problem I would say I am facing out here, is the fact that it costs a lot to replace anything out here, if I need to. It cost about $70 to get 2 pairs of pants.

 

I guess I have to look forward to the next Google hangout a bit more now. I will probably have made  bit more improvement by that time anyway, so I will probably sound a bit better as well. 

 

Anyway, Thanks you so much for the scripture. I love you mom!

 

Love,

 

Elder Jastal