Brad's Mission

Jamie!!!

Happy Birthday!!!!!!

30??? How are you 30 already!?

I sent you a birthday letter!!!

I hope you had the best b-day ever!!!! from the e-mails it sounds like it was pretty awesome!

One of the first things I think of when I think of memories with you is 1, baby airplane!!! haha We had a couple other ones that I forgot the names too, but baby airplane was by far the best!!!

And the best...me and you and Tessa chillin in the hot tub and tanning and jamming and cooking and all sorts of craziness every morning when you lived with us!! haha that was the best. I loved every morning. Sooo bomb!

Jamie is AWESOME. All in favor? Any apposed by the same sign?

I sustain jamie as the best sister in the universe.

 

To Brady: Yes, Elder Bednar said stupid. A ton!!! Like, a lot.

 

Yall!

This week was pretty cool! Kinda slow workwise cuz we had some stuff going on that we had to do. Boring zone leader crap! We had to do stake reports of all the missionary work in on of the stakes we cover. We do those once a month and it's so boring!!

Then we had to give the AP's a ride all over Irvine, but that was awesome cuz I got to see Irvine again!

Then we had to give the New Port Beach Temple tour which was way fun but it took all day. I'm actually going to send you a copy of what we covered! Along with my Ukulele and an SD card.

 

So you guys. I am making friends with the coolest kids I've ever met out here. I got to see Elder Schwenke yesterday and today which was awesome! He's probably one of the coolest friends I have right now, if not thee closest. And I feel like I've been getting close with all these amazing friends that I'll be friends with for the rest of my life. It's the coolest thing I swear.

 

Other than that it's been pretty the same this week! Not too much going on. OOOh other than this ground breaking awesome thing.

 

Ok, so. We had a lesson with Kaylyn. She is the one who has been learning for 6 months and almost got baptized twice but the past missionaries ruined it. So we were teaching her the other day and we taught this great lesson that had to do with the plan of salvation. We talked for a long time about the atonement and at the end she looked like she had something to say so I was just like,"you look like you have something to say" and she just smiled and said,"I'm ready to be baptized now." and just started smiling!! It was soo awesome! She is getting baptized on Cinco de mayo! It's going to be a spiritual feast indeed!

 

I'm so sorry to hear about Gramma Keyes! Give her my best and tell her I'm praying for her!

 

OH YEAH! Things are coming back yall. So today for p-day we went and hiked carbon canyon again. about 10 minutes into our hike we were just messin around close to the trail when Elder Knight goes,"Oh my gosh look at that!" so we look and about 10 feet away from us is this HUGE probably 6 foot Rattle Snake!! So what do the other missionaries do? Throw the rock they're holding at it. It started rattling like crazy! It coiled back and was sooo pissed off! We all instantly scooted back when we first saw it so it was farther away when they threw it, but it was so ticked! Just then a biker drives by and it's this like 50 year old guy and he sees what's going on and stops and he's like,"Grab a big stick!" so he goes and grabs this huge stick and by that time it had already gone into this bush. They tried gettin it back out of the bush, but it was too far in there just going crazy. It was intense!!! That thing was massive and had a massive attitude! I can only imagine Chad(Safety Supervisor's) face right now! So that was awesome and then we continued hiking on a different trail and saw a swarm of bees!!! And you'll never guess where they were.. right above our heads!! And you'll never guess what else what we ran into? Another rattle snake! It was small though. only about 3 feet long and it immideately slithered away when it saw me and Elder Knight. So Carbon Canyon is crazy!! I felt like I was in an indiana jones movie! Fun P-day

 

Alrighty you guys I think that's all I got.

 

p.s. Me and Elder Bartholomew are staying the same!

 

I love you!  I miss you guys!!

Expect a package this week!

Love

Elder Keyes