Well everyting or anything that i thought would happen didn't happen! lol i thought for sure i was going to leave the area or that Elder Woollard would leave but we are both staying here in the area for another transfer! :) ha I'm not sad or anything like this is what i wanted and what i have been praying for so it will be nice! that means that the next transfer i should be gone, not saying i will be but i bet i will. the next transfer is also only 4 days before Karie and John have the baby, well Karie has it ha but you know what i mean.

This last Sunday the Bishop gave the 5th Sunday lesson in a combined class and he talked about missionary work and he said that we have two of the best missionaries we've had in this ward with us right now so we need to make sure that we are inviting our friends to be taught by them. i dont know what it is but i always love hearing things like that from members or the ward. i mean i dont have a big head thinking that i'm the best but it sure helps me want to try harder so they will invite their friends to be taught.

President Christison leaves in like 29 days so everyone is trying to get things ready for the new mission President to come in so he can just pick up and continue to have things rolling because i guess when President Christison came into the mission it was in a slump and it took him 6 months to get it up and going so he is doing all that he can to make it easy on the new mission President. i'm going to miss him so much,

i'll let you know as i find out. this past week has been kind of blah it has been really hot and humid so when we are out all day i get really sweaty and gross ha i dont like it! the only plus is that it's helpin me lose weight faster.

oh we did start teaching this one couple that wants to be baptized they have 5 kids and aren't married yet, they just thought they didn't need to i guess but they told us that they want to get married so they can be baptized, i dont know how soon we will be able to get all of that done but at least we have started and i know the Lord will provide a way to have it all get done in a timely manner.

we still go over to the Gaus family and the Paula families home once a week just to continue to try and keep them going strong. they are all such great families.

On monday for Memorial Day we went to 2 barbeques! :) ha it was so good, i miss barbequeing food! the members treat us so well here i love it. we haven't had any opportunities to give service work any time recent which kind of stinks but i'm sure something will pop up.

it is so great being a missionary not having to worry about anything besides trying to help other people whether it's sharing the Gospel with them or helping them with whatever they need help with. you can totally forget about yourself and not worry about what you need. I'm glad i chose to come out here and do this.

well i cant wait to hear back from you, i hope everything continues to go well. thank you for all that you do. i love you and miss you all so much! let me know if there is anything i can do for you. love you!!! :)

Love Randy

of course i know you too well mom, ha so i made sure to let you know that i wasn't going to email later than normal because you'd probably go crazy and wonder why i didn't email. but it was a good reason, at least i think so maybe you wont think it is. ha

so we had this competition type thing within our zone. Because we are supposed to get 40 hours of accountabliltiy each week, which is like 20 hours of tracting and 20 lessons taught. i hope all of that makes since ha. but if you got 40 hours of accountability 2 weeks in a row then they put the companionships name in a hat and drew 3 companionships and ours was one of them. so we got to go to the temple this morning at 10 and President and Sister Christison went with us, then after that they took us out to lunch. so we had a great day today! :)

Also we had our last interviews with President last Thursday. i loved being able to talk with him, he is so awesome and he is always so inspirational. he was telling me how he has loved serving as my mission president and how he has seen so much growth in me since i first came out. he told me that he see's me having a great future with whatever i do. he also said he couldn't wait to meet my wife and 7 kids lol i was like no President i dont plan on having that many kids and he said my wife will have a say in that! ha

i have mixed feelings about what will happen this upcoming transfer i kind of think that i will stay here again but then again i think i'm leaving so i really dont know. what do you think will happen?

i had the chance to give another baptismal interview sunday morning and the baptism was sunday evening it was pretty funny because they just set the person with the person with the baptismal date the night before and he was baptized the next day then moved away the next day after that ha.

the work has been going kind of slow lately, i mean we have Wryley set with a baptismal but that's not 'til June 19th and we dont have anyone that close, so we continue to do lots of tracting trying to find people to teach. everything has been going really well though. i'm enjoying it.

well i hope y'all have a great week. things are going good for me, and i cant complain. i love hearing from all of you and want to thank you for all that you do! :) keep in touch.. love you!!!

love Randy

I agree i cant believe that we are so far into May already... time continues to fly by and the weeks seem like days and the months seem like weeks. ha. things have been going good for me the weather here is still crazy, it has been nice for the most part but these past few days it has been raining and blowing so that kind of stinks but rain is a lot nicer to do missionary work in than snow at least i think.

Well we have Wryley set with a baptismal date, it isn't 'til June 19th but it's set. it isn't 'til then because his little sister is going to be turning 8 and so they want to do them together that way family can come in and be there. i'm so excited, since we been going over there and teaching the family they've done a complete 180 from where they were, it's so awesome to see all the good things the church can do for people.

So like mid last transfer probably late March we tracted into this lady that had been a member but was not anymore for certain reasons, but anyways we talked with her and she was saying how she needed to come back to church but just didn't think that it was time yet. so Saturday we got a phone call and it was her and she was like i want to come to church on sunday where is it and what time, so she came! :) it was awesome, we are going to start teaching her in the next week or so. but she wont be able to be baptized for awhile because of certain things.

we went over to the Paula families home again earlier this week and visited with them and shared another lesson, i love that family so much, they are great people. The ward has been so good to us, it is awesome to feel the love and support they give us as missionaries, all we need them to do now is give us referrals lol.

so yeah my last interview with President Christison is tomorrow, i'm excited and am looking forward to that but at the same time it will stink knows it's the last one. we've been doing lots of tracting as always just because we dont have too many people to teach so we are out there trying to find people that we will be able to teach. i hope with what we have going on in the area that i'll be able to stay at least one more transfer but i guess we'll wait and see.

Elder Woollard enjoyed the package and told me to tell you thanks, the little note that you wrote with it he put up by his desk. ha he had a great birthday and he said it was one of the best he's had.

i hope that everyone has a great rest of the week, thank you so much for the email and the updates. i miss you and love you all! keep in touch! love you!

love Randy

So i woke up this morning with like 3 inches of snow on the ground lol, the weather here is so crazy, it's the middle of may and we got snow. but i guess it's supposed to melt off by this afternoon. how has the weather been for y'all back home? it was so awesome being able to talk to all of you on the phone Sunday i cant believe that it will only happen one more time... i always love hearing the families voice. Morgan's voice sure has changed since when i was back home, it is so crazy. but yeah i like to think back to all the memories of growing up and talk with the siblings about it.

thank you for sending the ensign and some other misc stuff, i hope i get it today just cuz i love getting mail! hah i did get the pizza and everything and when the delivery guy came this time i knew it was for us ha, and i gave him a $3 tip or something like that. thank you again for doing that!

since we talked on mothers day not too much has happened, we've went out and done some tracting, shared some lessons and given service work so it's been a pretty well balanced week. a member in the ward called us and asked if we would come help him put his transfer case back into his suburban so we went over there monday night from like 7-9 then from 10-1 on tuesday morning. i loved being able to wear normal clothes and do like actual physical work! ha i miss them days... but today for pday we are going to go over to one of the church buildings and "Rocky" the Denver Nuggets mascot is going to come because he is in the zone leaders ward, anyways he is coming and is going to give out a bunch of free stuff and he is bringing trampelines and we are going to jump on them and dunk it and stuff like that. i guess he competes in competitions and so he is going to show us how to do it. so i'm excited. we have some apts lined up throughout the week so it will be good.

i hope that everyones week continues to go well. i loved being able to talk with everyone, thank you for all that you do and for the great family that you are! :) i miss you so much and love you!!!!! take care! love you!!!

love Randy

hello everyone! only like 4 days left 'til i get to talk to you. it seriously seems like we just talked not too long ago, what will there be to talk about. ha just kidding i'm sure we'll find things. oh and i'm on the computer that the question mark doesn't work again! anyways how has everything been going for everyone. life has been treating me well.

so i was just rubbing it in Elder Allred's face that Alison and the softball team
went to Royal and beat them in both games! lol i love giving him garbage! i think today we are going to go out and run routes and throw the football around so i'm excited to get a good exercise and have a good time doing it! that really stinks that the weather has been so crummy up there with the wind and all. the weather has been decent down here, yesterday the wind was blowing a little but today is a beautiful day so i'm excited to get out!

well we got to go to the temple this morning and we woke up at like 5 so we could get there early, but i didn't even fall asleep 'til like 1:30 ha a little later than i'm supposed to be going to be but yeah i'm not even that tired! ha i love going to the temple and once your there not having to worry about everything else that is going on outside just being able to relax! i took a couple more pictures of it.

last pday was pretty fun being able to go to the Rockies game and all. so we bought these cheap $4 tickets at a grocery store that wouuld be like nose bleed tickets and then when we got to the game this guy came up to me and started talking with me and he was saying how he was a member just not active anymore anyways and he was like i got season tickets right by the first base line and i'll talk with the person that watches the seats and see if he could grab you a couple so you can sit by me, so he went in and talked with this guy and then called us up and told us we could sit by him, he was such a great guy he bought us all soda's and pretty much anything we wanted, so we payed $4 for really nice seats pretty much! ha..

we went over to the Gaus families home again and shared the first lesson it went so well, me and my comp were both suprised because Wryley has ADHD and cant sit still and is always talking about weird random things but before the lesson we said hey if you sit still and listen to us we'll talk with you about whatever you want once we're done. so we shared the lesson and he participated and answered lots of questions and at the end of the lesson he said "i really liked that message, thank you for sharing that with us" you could feel the spirit so strong in their home, and we knew that he felt it as well! he told us that he wants to be baptized and so we think that his will probably be in late June because his little sister turns 8 in June and so they want to do them both together so family can come. the baptism that is coming up this sunday is going to be at 5 in the evening

on monday we had a amazing zone confrence! like it was probably one of my favorite ones yet! it was on the Savior and his love for us all, the thing that was cool is that the training was silent like no one talked it was just on a presentation that President made and we all sat in the chapel and read from it and we were marking scriptures and allowing the spirit to teach us. i really enjoyed it.

well i look forward to talking with everyone here in like 4 days! i cant wait and i hope that everyones week continues to go well for you. i miss you so much and love you even more! :) take care, bye bye

love Randy

So what's the weather been like back home, the weather here has been awesome these past few days, almost too hot ha... but just last week we had thunder storms and tornado warnings it was pretty crazy how much it rained there for a couple days!

This week has been going pretty well, we had dinner with the Paula family monday night and talked about the program for the baptism and we are pretty sure that we are going to do it Sunday evening right after church but they seem to be really excited and i'm glad taht i got to stay in the area for another transfer that way i could see the baptism. i'm not sure what time i will call home on mothers day, whatever time works for you it doesn't really matter to me.

we are going to call from a members home, his name is Josh Mosher. he is a recent convert and is the brothern that we went with to the temple a couple weeks back because he recieved his endowment. Yesterday we got to go over to his house and help him with yard work and i got to mow the lawn! haha i miss mowing lawn, i dont know why and that is weird i know but i miss doing it so it was awesome! he didn't have a sweet riding lawn mower but it got the job done. ha he said since we helped him with all of that he wants to feed us a steak dinner sometime so i'm way excited haha or he said he could get some lobster ha who knows but i cant wait! he is a great guy.

we were out tracting one day and we were talking with this lady and then we asked her if we could help her out with anything and they had just moved into this place and had a bunch of heavy things that she couldn't move around so we asked if we could do it for her and she said yes so we got to help out for a couple hours. i dont know why but i love helping people out with service work, whatever it is i just love doing it! it sometimes softens peoples hearts that might not be receptive to the message and first. she told us to come back next week and we can share some things with her so that will be good.

Oh so there is a family i think i mentioned last week, the Gaus family well they had us into their home last week and we shared a lesson with them and then we have an apt again tonight so hopefully we'll be able to set their boy with a baptismal date tonight. he is 10 almost 11 and so we hope we'll have another baptism within the next month.

we did get Elder Woollards bike fixed but then just yesterday he got a flat again ha i think my companions have the worst luck with bikes! but we got it fixed again so it is nice to be on bikes but this high altitude gets to me!

well we are heading out here in a couple minutes to go to the rockies game so i'm excited for that. look for us on the tv haha. i hope that everyone has a great week thank you so much for all that you have done and continue to do! i cant wait to hear back from y'all. i miss you and love you all so much!

love Randy