We need some posts and photos from our other Liberty Ward Missionaries families :)

Trinity's 1st letter from MTC

Hola! Well this is my first email of my mission. I prewrote this and only have half an yhour on the computer. It turns out as of now I think I can only email my family. but we'll see what happens. It's crazy how much work we do here. It's literally nonstop from 6:30 a.m. to 9:30 p.m. Here's an example of a day. shower and prepare at six thirty breakfast at seven personal study from 7:30 to 8:30 Classtime including teaching "investigators" from 8:30 to 11:30. Lunch till noon or so. gym for 45 minutes. another hour of personal sudy after fifteen minutes of getting showered and dressed. An hour of language study on the computer than an hour off the computer. Dinner for half an hour then class for three more hours. An hour of personal study then planning for the next day!  By this time it's 9:30 and you're completely exhausted. I love it. Learning spanish is so tuff when they're just throwing everything at you at once but we've learned so much already. Supposedly they've made drastic changes in the curriculum and we're the first group to have them. It seems to be baptism by fire. ha. Hermano Stornetta es nuestro maestro. He's fabulous. He relays his meaning really well through body language. Mi companero es muy obediente. He is a cabeza rojo! He's a great guy. Everyone in our district seems to be really serious about the work and so helpful. We're trying to memorize Nuestro objetivo or purposito en expanol. Es dificil. Repentance is muy largo en espanol. ha. I've talked to Elder Clegg and Elder Malone some. They're doing great. I've seen a lot of elders and even a couple hermanas from BYUH. It's weird learning Spanish with gospel literature and trying to teach the gospel in spanish at the same time. it feels like we have to do so much more than just one or the other. Well in general the MTC is amazing. There are some obnoxious people in our residence hall but other than that everything is fantastic. If anyone wants me to write them I need their address.  Well I miss you all I love you all. Let me know what's going on down there in tejas. All is well in Zion.

 

                                                              Love,

                                                                         Elder Waddell

La Iglesia de Jesucristo de los santos de los ultimos dias

Trinity leaves

Well Trinity left Texas this evening for the MTC in Provo, Utah. We started our days journey with Trinity and his dad getting a haircut....that missionary cut appropriate for all LDS missionaries. They both look good! Then we took some family photos before we picked up Sammi at her house. It is always fun taking family pics! After we picked up Sammi we headed to President Banks home where Trinity was set apart as a full time missionary for The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints. It was a wonderful experience and Trinity's whole countenance seemed to change immediately. When we arrived at Houston's Intercontinental airport we discovered his plane was delayed an hour. I was happy to have a few extra minutes to share with him. Oh, but when it was time to go it was hard. D'nel lost it and started crying first which of course caused a chain reaction. We were all in tears, but they were bittersweet. We watched as he went through security and was finally out of sight. He will be in the MTC about 8 weeks learning Spanish and then will fly to his first area in Alaska. Will keep you posted.

MTC address for Elder Waddell


Elder Trinity Q Alaka'i Waddell
MTC Mailbox # 321
AK-ANC 0926
2005 N 900 E
Provo, UT 84604-1793

The MTC Experience

Missionary Program

Missionary Program

Elder Clegg's MTC address

Elder Samuel Joseph Clegg

MTC Mailbox # 245

ID-POC 0809

2005 N 900 E


Provo, UT 84604-1793

I thought I would add this to the blog to give everyone an idea of where Veracruz Mexico Mission is. John is very excited about being in Mexico for 2 years serving the Lord and the good people of Mexico. I am excited for him and so are his Granparents, Great-Grandma, Aunts, Uncles & Cousins. *Edited: As well as his Sisters and Brother.

Liberty Ward Missionaries as Young Men

I am trying to start a blog because we have 5 outstanding young men in our small ward in Liberty, Texas that have been called to serve a mission. It will be fun to have our ward family follow their experiences through this blog. Elder Thomas is currently serving in the California, Arcadia mission. He left in October 2010. Elder Clegg leaves July 20th for the Idaho, Pocatello mission, Elder Waddell leaves July 27th for the Alaska, Anchorage Spanish speaking mission, Elder Escobar leaves in August for the Massachusetts, Boston mission, and Elder Tellez leaves in September for the Mexico, Veracruz Spanish speaking mission. We are so very excited that these fine young men have chosen to serve the Lord.