HELLO ALL!
Loved all bday letters, messages and emails! I miss all you guys! Thank you so much! And some of you I've only met once but you feel like lifelong friends and family. My birthday was awesome! Dinner with awesome familes I have grown to love in Medina and felt like it was actually my birthday! love you guys! They even asked me to play their piano :) wait.... I'm 20.... ?
Ha ha. I took the truth serum when I got set apart so nothing but the truth!
1) Sweaters? I love cardigans and California Republic! I am not sure if cardigans are with in mission rules but I'll figure it out. Cali repub is comfy for sure! Great for the -20 stay home days...ughh!
2) Ice cream cake was great and had a ton of frosting!! ha ha... I got the cake delivery!! thank you so much momma! the guy that came to deliver the cake knocked on our door and asked for Stacy with a really concerned look on his face... I said that you were my mom and he let out a huge sigh of relief and said, "You opened the door and you were all dudes!" hahaha thank you momma!!
3) We did go to Longhorn already and LOVED IT!!! it was so good!! Dinner for 2 (not a date...) was sweet!! AMAZING BACON WRAPPED SIRLOIN!! we spent $45 and keep 5 to go to Olive Garden! I can use the same card!! SHWEET! SO DOGGON GOOD!!!! Elder Luster said, "That was probably one of the best meals I have had on my mission." and he has been out for around 16 months. Steak is where it is at in OH! Then mexican VERY close behind but the pickin's are slim.
4) Favorite present I don't know if I can narrow that down. there were so many good ones! i loved longhorn i loved playing the piano, I loved the v-day stuff and letters, plus it all was coming from my friends and family!! Its been a good week.
5)Comp Luster loved his v-day stuff and package! He has a rough situation at home right now and so do the other 2 who live with us. We all share the packages when we get one to spread the love of momma T and the T-Team! :)
6) Do we all get along? It has been more difficult then the past but we have talked about things and are doing MUCH better now! :) we love each other but are just very different people and are learning to accept it. He hates hugs....... he won't say i love you........ he loves math....!!!!!!!! i am really starting to learn how prideful i am and learning to search more fully for the good and happiness in all things. Guess i got worse at that because i just let my pride go, so i am reeling it in and getting back on track :)
Sister Seiter is AWESOME!! I love their family as well as the Huffakers (Sis Huffaker is a Seiter)! Awesome family all together. the Tyhursts are awesome too!! they have 3 little girls and are so funny! they love singing!! haha I am very well taken care of here as you are learning and WE are starting to teach more!! Teaching is mostly with less actives that we are working with mostly and it is incredible to see people remember their fire/love for the gospel, or even help them gain a testimony for the first time!! i love this work!! so cool to be a part of what really matters!!
Thanks for this quote by Brad Wilcox "Questions are not a sign of weakness but a sign of growth. The weak are not discovered by their questions but by when they stop questioning." I Love it!
I wish i could go to an operating, officiating temple!!!! i have heard of the movies but havn't seem a SINGLE ONE!!!!! i can not wait to go to the temple at home again!! Imma thinkin' we will do a "Tucker" and go straight there to do a temple sesh after touchdown!! that is what I have wanted to do since the start! love you momma!! love the temple and love my father in heaven! Enjoy cleaning the temple today for me too and i feel your hugs often. Tiara is a trooper as ALWAYS!! sending my love!!
Our bishop is reading that book too, "The Power of Everyday Misionaries" and we are doing a pilot class for the ward to see how we can apply that book to our lives! Another Elder that serves in the ward with us (elder clegg) and i went to that class and it is awesome so far!! I would love to read that book but we can only read books with the church seal on them so it will probably have to wait. but that is ok :) I haven't heard about the investigators reading the Book of Mormon by subject/topic...teaching them how to answer questions by study and then how prayer works, but I was actually thinking about that a few weeks ago, actually last week I think but I really like that. I want to try to apply that here. Elder Luster and I will talk it over. thanks pop!! I love you dad!!! You are an amazing example to me in humility and service. Not just serving for the blessings, but becasue you recognize your calling and truly love those you serve!
'Atta boy Chad Lester!!! 1 boy and 3 girls, Wow! Can't wait to hear of those mission calls Lauren, Kendra & Rebecca. Sisters are rolling in all the time ... where are the men at? Let us be men and Elder Christofferson said it. Accept our calling to serve and use our priesthood for good rather then standing idly by and letting our priesthood condemn us rather then exalt us! What do we have to do to be damned? Nothing. Don't do anything and you are stopped and can progress no more. Let us be men and lift where we stand. It's like cleaning a room that has been destroyed so badly that you don't know where to start. Stop it. Look at where you are, and start from that point. there might be some things that we don't want to clean that we would rather just let it sit and deal with it later, or not at all. Work with your leaders and clean it together. (All of this is just flowing right now so i am rolling with it :) I needed to clean a few things too... it took some help... it wasn't all skipping on rainbows and moon beams, but it was worth it to look at my "room" (life) and know that it was cleaned by the love and power of my savior, Jesus Christ. I am grateful for the family support and strength we each share here in the TTeam. Sad that there are many Elders/Sisters who don't have it as good as we have it. I get to testify of the power of God, His eternal plan of Happiness within our own families and how it can strengthen theirs also!
Love you to the moon and back again after going through oodles and gobbs, and piles and heaps!
Fight the fight, stay the course and keep the Faith!
Elder Tr3y Toolson!
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FYI: These Photos are from the Seiters in OH at Christmas ...They have been great and even helped with Trey's Birthday Celebrations by not only feeding him but also picking up gift certificates for us to give to him :))) Thank You!!!
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