Monday, September 1, 2014

August 20th Email - Second Baptism!



August 13 Email - Cant Really Type Today

uhm i cant really type because well i was trying to adjust this new fan we got a couple days and it was on full blast and my finger somehow slid through the cage and it broke the blades and it slashed my finger pretty good and my nail i talked to president douglas already we both kind of laughed about it but yeah it took it like three hiurs  to finally stop bleeding i have pictures but im not going to send a big letter today lol.

August 6th Email - Its been about 4 weeks since ive written..whooops lol

              Sorry everybody its been a while that i have written we didnt really get to use the computers for the last 4 weeks but anyways heres a little breakdown of whats happened in the past couple of weeks. First i finally got to baptize somebody myself and it was awsome and nerve wrecking but mostly awsome. His name is henry and hes about 11 or 12 and i was happy i got baptize somebody small because i didnt want to baptize somebody whos huge and me fall into the water or something haha. I had to redo it twice becasue his hands didnt go in the water or something i dont know im just glad i didnt screw up on the spanish i was practicing the phrase all day in my head haha. Second I got a new companion his name is Elder Salazar and im currently still in the same area. Hes knows martial arts or something like that i dont remember exactly.
          Things are going really good im glad that i know the area and really good friends with the people so thats always a good thing. I got another infection in my eye so i went to the mission doctor and he said just buy the same drops that i got last tiime. well 700 pesos later jeez medicine is exspensive here like well anything like that and stuff from america haha. Its nice with my new comp becasue i finally feel like im working in the mission because i feel like my 8 months in the mission ive sat back and watched how things are done but now i feel like im doing stuff and really helping with the work so its been nice and exciting and many other things.
        Our mission president is so awsome today for pday we watched here comes the boom with kevin james and tangled haha. Our mission president is a really super interesting guy some of the stories he has told me have blown my mind he seriously needs to write a book maybe one day i will write a email about the stuff he has told me and also i have pictures from the baptism but it takes forwever to send pictures and it doesnt allow me to talk with people until its done downloading. as far as the area is going things are going super good and i feel like we are getting trust from the members which is super awsome but anyways thats all i reemember haha Bye!!!

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-Elder Tanner Gothard

July 9th Email - aye haste tu sickness!

      Well i cant really share anything this week because i have been in bed rest recovering from chingkunggoya sorry i dont know how to spell it basically its a fever. YOu get a really high fever arthritus, rash, and no energy and no desire to eat or drink. Luckily i only had it for 3 days but it was the worst thing i have ever felt in my entire life just give you a idea lol. I was so bored in the house because there is nothing to do and i would try to read scriptures or liahonnas but i got tired really quickly haha. So yeah but i am all good now i am healthy and much skinnier so thats a bonus whoo hoo!!! Well thats all i can really share for this week sorry its so short... love you guys!!

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-Elder Tanner Gothard

July 3rd Email - Another Week in the DR haha!

       Hey everybody! Well this week in the DR has been somewhat difficult for me this week. Mostly because my eye has been really red for almost 2 weeks and since sunday i havnt been wearing my contacts because its really annoying wearing contacts with my eye. IM pretty sure i have an eye infection becasue there is a white spot or thing on my eye where its really red. So ive been practically walking around blind for the week which is causing me headaches and and my eye is a having a little pain. I was suppose to go to the eye doctor yesterday but we were in nagua which is the farthest area from santiago which is about 3 to 4 hours. SO we didnt have time to go... but i am going on friday finally.
       As far as investagators we have we are going to finalize his baptismal date with him tomorrow because he finally got married. So we should hopefullly have a second baptism here real soon. IM praying that we do. Its a big problem here with marriage. The goverment makes it real hard to get married here and the men simply dont want to get married even if they have been with the same girl for 20 years and have like 5 children together. For missionaries here its really difficult to find a couple that is actually married so it makes the missionary work way harder then it needs to be. Well i dont really have anything crazy this week like dogs almost attacking me or almost getting hit by cars haha. Love you guys talk to you next week!!!

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-Elder Tanner Gothard

June 25th Email - This week has been fun haha!!

Well this week has been great as usual im loving it here in mao! The hermanas had a baptism this week which was awsome. Its great to see the area progressing and me and elder henriquez are expected to have another baptism soon which is exciting! Me and him are like the perfect team which is good when it comes to lessons and we get along and hes wierd just like me so everything works out haha. Its been really great to see the spirit work because with the people that have been baptized after they have been baptized they always start crying it just shows me that what we are doing is real and its great that we are helping others come unto our savior jesus christ.
      This week i almost had a problem with some dogs lol. ME and Elder henriquez just finished some service and we bought some ice cream and i went to go throw my wrapper away in this trash can and there was a dog behind it and i tryed to hurry and throw it away and all of a sudden i hear it barking and i booked it as fast as i could and there were two dogs that almost came after me becasue they came around the fence but luckily the owner was right there and stopped them so that was good i do not want rabbies and i dont want to go to the hospitals here either no thank you. Today  we were allowed to ride bikes today.... it was so scary i felt like iwas going to get hit by a car. The traffic here is insane traffic laws do not apply for jacksquat.
      

       Its wierd now for me everything here is normal but i forget these things are not normal in the United states. Ive honestly forgotten what its like in the Untited States haha. Also there has been a really bad flu going around from mosquitos called ching kung gooya or something like that and its bad like one third of the dr is expected to get it. I dont know how i dont have it becasue i get chewed up like crazy and i swear we have given so man blessings to people with this flu its insane! Something interesting that i read in the book of mormon this week was nephi and his willingness to always serve the lord. I love 2 nephi 4 16. It basically says me soul delights in the things of the lord and i love that verse so much its something that i can improve on and something i am trying to learn on the mission. Well anyways thats all for this week love you guys talk to you soon!

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-Elder Tanner Gothard

June 18th Email - My First Baptism!

       Hey everybody well this week has been great and its also transfer week. Luckily im going to stay another transfer with Elder Henriquez hes awsome love the guy to death!! Anyways i have exciting news I had my first baptism this week! also what was awsome is we were able to get our president and his wife to come and she played the violin while we sang. It was great you could really feel the spirit. It was great to see the look on demiras face when she got baptized. I could tell she was super excited and ready for the gospel.
       


She was all teared up which was great to see you could tell that we wanted to do it for herself and and follow the example as should we all. He is our savior and redeemer and we should always strive to follow him in everyway possible. I want to share my testimony that i know that the church is true from all sincerity of my heart and it has been such a blessing in my life and ive seen bless the lofes of others. I know jesus Christ lives and died for all men so that we can one dday return with our heavenly father again. Im grateful for this oppurtunity to  help people seek change in their lifes and mine as well. I say these things in the name of jesus christ Amen. Love you all hope to talk to you all soon
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-Elder Tanner Gothard

June 4th Email - This Week has Been Awesome!!

       Well what a great week this has been. We got permission from our mission president to go to the temple in santo domingo with our ward. We got perform baptisms for the dead and it was neat to see the recent converts do it for the first time. We all had a good time and I got to say hi to one of my teachers and it was nice to finally to be able to communicate with her because i can speak spanish somewhat haha. OH i dont know why but on the way to the rutas or the buses that took us to santo domingo all these dogs started barking at me like 20 of them i thought for sure i was a dead man or would survuve but i would have rabies haha.
      Then yesterday we had a special training with president douglas and hermana douglas which was really awsome. President wanted to do an example of how to teach and so he said i need to magnificent elders to come and teach and no one did anything and i see my comp stand up and i was like noooo what are doing lol. I went up there and we were sitting there and my comp was teaching and my heart was pumping becasue we had to teach in front of three zones so like 50 people not to mention president was there haha.
       So it came to me to end and the spirit just took over and i actually started getting a little emotional which was embarrassing but oh well thats the spirit for ya. Then president asked everyone how we did and everyone said we did great for the most part. THen president said they did really well and the that was a precious testimony lol. So yeah then my district had to sing in front of everybody and my comp sings loud!!!! like super loud and when someone sings loud i song loud to so the poor hermanas you couldnt even hear them. IT was a great training really enjoyed it. AS far the work we have one lady getting baptised this week which im looking forward to becasue its my first baptism and we should be having another one in 2 weeks!! Ohhh today i saw like 7 porsches 2 ferrari´s and a jaguar it was the most beautiful thing i have ever seen lol. Well that was my week of interesting things love you all hope to hear from you bye!!

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-Elder Tanner Gothard

May 28th Email

       Well this week has been a real busy with mostly service. Yesterday we went to do service at 8 in the morning. We were painting her entire house and lets just say the hermanas and us had a little bit of a paint war to say the least lol. It was a great time it was a great way for me to get to know the other elders and the hermanas. Theres one hermana her name is hermana henderson and shes new  so ive been talking to her a lot just checking how shes doing becasue i remember when i first got in my area and it was rough with language and adjusting to the culture. Tomorrow we are going to have more service and friday so its going to be a fun time. This week also we got permission to go to santo domingo and go to the temple so it will be cool to talk to all my teachers and actually understand what they are saying. Me and my comp are going to eat Krispy Kream im so excited haha.
      As far as lessons everything been about the same we were suppose to have a baptism on monday but they needed get thier papers for marriage so yeah but we should be able to baptize them in 2 weeks we are hoping. well i have to go becasue we have to go and setup for an activity. I cant even begin to describe how much the mission has changed my life and how much im coming to love it. Its not always easy but ive learned a lot in these 6 months and i cant wait to see how much ive changed in a year and 6 months. Love you guys talk to you next week!!

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-Elder Tanner Gothard

May 14th Email - The Past Two Weeks!!

        Well the past weeks have been full of interesting things to talk about. Biggest news is i got transfered out of Nagua so no more beaches for me sad face but im happy im ready for a new area and a new comp becasue me and elder lopez wernt getting along very well so its a nice relief to start in a new area. THe day me and another elder in the house had to leave it started raining hard and we had to go to the zone leaders house in san fransico which is like an 1 hour and 15 minutes away. There was no other transportation to take besides a truck and so we had to put all of our suitcases in the back of the truck and we had to sit in the back with our stuff in the rain for an hour and 15 minutes with pouring rain haha.
            It kind of stinked but it was a fun experience for me also. Also my new comp is Elder Henriquez and he was actually elder morgans trainer and he lived in the same house as me for 3 months and we are really good friends. So i was really happy about that and things have been going super great with him couldnt ask for a bettter comp. OH i forgot to mention my new area is mao. THe area is super cool and the members are super nice. Our area is very poor with dirt roads and shacks but the people are so humble and nice i love the people here to death they are super legit. We have been working with this member and weve been doing service with him. We have been tearing down his kitchen and we were busting things like crazy with a hammer and stuff it reminded me of dwight from the office when he was fixing pam and jims kitchen lol.
       Yesterday we were shoveling dirt in the rain and i was drenched. SOmething im really trying to teach myself is forget myself always and think about others and its coming along little by little. Then this morning we went to the doctor in santiago for elder henriquez for his ankle because he hurt his ankle running or something. HEs fine he just has to rest it and not walk so much. THen we went to a supermarket and i got so trunkie because it was so beautiful seeing all the food i use to eat but i cant really anmore because of the areas im in lol and plus im poor missionary haha. Well thats all that happened in the past 2 weeks that i remember nos vemos yo les amo!!!!

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-Elder Tanner Gothard

April 23 Email

Well this week has been kind of rough but also a good one. Well to begin I have a really bad cold right now. Ive had it for 4 days now and i stayed home for 2 days but its not going away. Its bad to where its affecting my voice and sometimes i cant even talk. Ive also been coughing a lot lately and havnt had much energy. Hopefully i dont get worse. As far as lessons things are moving along we a couple investagtors with dates but they dont seem to interested so we will see how things go. We are getting like 25 lessons a week which is a lot here. I dont know for me as missionary yes numbers are important but i pick qaulity over quantity.
     Well this week i found out that one of the new elders that i we have in our área was about to go home because he was having a lot of problems. He was going to go home yesterday but he decided not to. We did exchanges on monday and we started talking and we got on the topic of why he wanted to go home and why he decided to change his mind. we were talking for 2 hours about everything and i still didnt really know this Elder very well but after the whole discussion and trying to help him out he said he was so thankful that i talked to him about it becasue he said he felt that he couldnt talk to his companion really about it. I basically told him that the misión is probably one of the hardest things you can do in this life.
      I shared some struggles and i how feel about the misión but it i told him when it comes down to it going home has never been an option for me because i know how much the misión has already changed me as a person and i told him that i dont care if i dont get one single baptism on the misión becasue all that matters is that you work as hard as you can and you served the lord and changed for the better. The misión is to prepare you for the rest of your life. Talking to him that night made me realice a lot of small blessings that i have recieved and i didnt even know it. Its it wierd to know that we recieve blessings all the time and we just dont notice it. FOr me ive realized that for me the misión is preparing me to help others and ive already helped a lot of my friends and just being an example for them. This misión is hard but rewarding as most things are in life. I love you all and im thankful for all the experiences i was able to experience with you to get me to this point. I hope everyojne had a good easter!!!

April 16th Email - this week dude!!

Hey everbody!! well this week has been really hectic!! Mostly becasue we are putting appoinments every half an hour or so. Which is good im practically senior comp because my comp is still new in the area and so i have to lead us everywhere we go and plan everything. So yeah its a little difficult at sometimes. Especially trying to do it in spanish which isnt to hard. Right now we have 2 people with a baptismal date which is sweet hopefully my first baptism!!! For me its crazy to think that ive alredy been out for 5 months!! Time has gone by fast but slow at the same time if that makes sense. Im still trying to get use to my comp but its not really working at the moment to say the least.
     My spanish is getting better and better everyday little by little and patience is key to learning a new language. I finished the book of mormon this week and this is the first time i unstood everything and took the time to learn and apply thethings i learned in my life. I can say with assurance that i know the book of mormon is another testmant of jesus christ our savior and it gives all the fullness of the gospel that our father in heaven wants us to know so we can find that  peace and happiness in our lifes. I know this book blesses lifes because ive seen it bless mine and becasue of it i know that this church is true. We should constantly read it and pray to know its true and apply the things that we learn from it in our lifes. I know the mission has changed my view of the church forever and it has changed me as person spirtually and i know that this gospel blesses the lifes of others. I know a mission is one of the greatest experinces and one of the hardest experiences of a life time but i wouldnt change it for anything. For anyone who is skeptical about going on a mission i encourage you that you do it you will have a much stonger relationship with your heavenly father and you will come to know him as well. en el nombre de jesucristo amen

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-Elder Tanner Gothard

April 9th 2014 - General Conference was Amazing!!

Hey everybody!!!! Well this week was really good becasue of conference. I really enjoyed the talk by President Uchtdorf talking about how even in situations when we feel troubled we should always thank God for everything that we have. I know this is something i can work on in my life as with everybody else. The important thing to always remember in times of trials and afflictions we need to have faith in our savior Jesus Christ and remember that he not only died for our sins but for our afflictions as well. He knows how we feel and what we are going through in any moment in our lifes and I like Helaman 5 12 becasue it says if we have a strong foundation of christ in our lifes satan can never drag us down.
      Also in Ether 12 27 its important that we all have weaknesses but we have weaknesses so we can grow and become strong and ive defiantley seen this personally happen to me because a mission is not easy especially being put in 3rd world country learning a new language and being away from friends and family is never easy but with faith in jesus christ anything is possible and ive seen this over and over again. I found a really great scripture that i feel is important especially in this world. Its in ether 12 verse 4 and it says wherefore whoso believeth in god might with surety hope for a better world, yeah, even a place the right hand of god which hope cometh of faith, maketh an anchor to the souls of men, which would make them sure and steadfast always abounding in good works being led to glorify god. Hope and faith are the things that keep us going and having hope and faith in our savior jesus christ all things are possible.
     Something ive been really trying to work on lately is ch 6 from preach my gospel and that chapter is the attributes of christ. For me personally you cant change someone else unless you have changed yourself so thats what im going to work on for the rest of my mission actually the rest of my life haha. I want to end with my testimony that this is the church of jesus christ and we should constantly look for ways to improve ourselves and with the atonement of christ we can feel that peace and that love from our heavenly father in any situation in our lifes. I can personally say ive seen it in my life and ive felt that love from my heavenly father. I encourage all of us to strengthen our relationship with our heavenly father and get to know him personally and that he knows us better then anybody else and he has our best interests at heart. I share thse things in the name of jesus christ amen

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-Elder Tanner Gothard

April 3rd Email

   Well this week has been hard, and fun all at the same time. Ill start with why its hard. Well mynew comp elder lopez he is a great missionary but he acts like my mom and whistles at me like im a dog so irratating. He also is a numbers guy which is good but for me personally its more that you show love to the people and take time to be their friend and not treat them like a number. Hes also very impatient. This is definatley morework then what i was use to with elder jenson.
Which is good ihope to learn many things from elder lopez but this will help my spanish alot so im glad about that!! Well for the fun this same old usual sitting in the back of trucks with the crazy drivers. Also we got to go to this beach that us elders call the missionary beach becasue we can go in the water and stuff becasue its shallow enough.
    IT was so beautiful its super legit i have pictures but iforgot my camera.... i have a picture with me and elder morgan doing an engagement photo haha. Well this week has been the best numbers ive had on my mission which is good in some aspects. A verse from 3rd nephi that ireallylike says be the light to the world. FOr me and for missionaries this isvery true and it applys to all of us. We need to be the light for all the darkness in this world.
     We need to invite people to follow unto christ. We should always take a second to talk to everybody and bring happieness into their hearts and allow them to have the oppurtunity to feel that sense of peace and love from our loving heavenly father. Thats i love the people here they are always willing to listen and they are some of the nicest people on this planet. They are so humble. There one couple we are teaching who are pretty much living in a shack. It is the worst house ive seen in my life and no person should have to live like that. They are so humble andare thankful for everythng they have. They are a great example to me and help me realize that whats important in this is life is our family and how the gospel of jesus christ blesses our families. Well thats all ihave this week loveall you guys. Thanks for being one of the main foundations in my life

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-Elder Tanner Gothard

Sunday, March 9, 2014

Hey Family - March 5th

     Hey guys! Well this week has been kind of rough just because my stomach has been really weird since like Thursday. So yesterday I finally went to the doctor and I had given them a "sample" and stuff.... so weird. The thing that’s weird is that my results were fine. Soooo yeah I’m not sure what’s wrong with my stomach. So we will see how things go. OH I miss doctors in America the hospitals here are so sketchy and yeah. Ohhhh happy early bday dad I love you and I’m so lucky to have a dad that raised me right and helped get to where I am today love you so much have fun on your bday!!! 

    Well this week we are making some progress. Mostly with the inactives but its getting better I’m getting more comfortable with the members and me just being myself with them. They are really cool people and they are funny. I really love the people here they are always willing to hear what we have to say! 
   
    This week has been crazy because there have been a lot of deaths for some reason so we have gone to a lot of funerals like at least 7 (unfortunately). At one funeral a girl was sobbing so hard  I felt so sorry for her. I don’t know how that feels to be honest so I feel bad for the people who have lost loved ones. The funerals here are weird because they can’t really preserve the body so they do a funeral right after they die. One person died like at 9 o clock at night and my comp asked "do you want to go to the funeral tonight?" and even though I was already out of my church clothes and everything I thought forget yourself and go to work. 
That’s one thing I’m really trying to change is not worrying about what I want. IM getting better at it I think. 
  
   OH Clint emailed me in Spanish I actually understood a lot of it so that’s progress right ha-ha. Anyways not much else is going on we are going to Samana next week to go zip lining so that’s going to be super fun!!! Also I’m almost done with the book of Mormon I’m in Helaman right now. I can’t wait to get to 3rd Nephi I’m really looking forward to it!!  Well that’s about it for this week sorry it's a short email, email me back so we can talk love you guys!!!!
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-Elder Tanner Gothard

Thursday, February 27, 2014

Hi Everybody!

Hey guys!!!
       Ok I will write Tayler so sorry if this email is a little short but this week has been great! We have been having lessons mostly with inactives but it’s been good. I still don’t understand a lot of stuff I only understand a lot of Spanish when we are talking about doctrine.
  Oh and dad I forgot to tell you I’ve read all the gospel books that I had. They are really interesting I actually read all of them like a month ago haha. Every time I watch the Joseph Smith movie I seriously get teary eyed. He has done more for this world than any other man next to Jesus Christ.
    I’m having fun with my companion we are working hard and enjoying serving the members. I got a haircut today and the guy totally messed it up and so the other guy there fixed it. He is an inactive but he’s a super cool guy. They also are all about the hairlines and using razors on your neck and stuff my hair actually looks really good ha-ha. Oh so on Sunday there was this white guy from Samana the place that I went to a couple of weeks ago and he has a zip lining company over there and so my comp asked president if we could go and he said yes!!!! Our president is so cool he lets us go paintballing ha-ha. I’m going to record a video of me going down the zip line and I’ll send it to you guys I’m so excited ha-ha.
     Oh and yes mom my memory card still works don’t worry I will make sure to get pics with elder Morgan elder Henriquez and elder Jensen so yeah no worries. Oh mason is painting me something for my bday and I told him to talk to you about shipping it with whatever you are going to send me for my bday so yeah. Preston emailed me and said he decided to serve a mission and I’m so glad he’s going! I knew he would he is going to be awesome!
    I have some sad news one of the missionaries in my group at the MTC went home his name was Elder Virgin he was my really good friend in the MTC. He went home for personal reasons and things going on with his family but he’s going to talk to his bishop and is going to come back as soon as possible. So yeah anyways email me back so I can talk with you guys!
Love you guys!

-Elder Tanner Gothard

Saturday, February 22, 2014

Feb 20th - Email


Hey Guys!!!! first off that is amazing that dad got that big of a raise just wow that is just wow amazing I read that and I was like noooo way haha. I was so happy about that what a blessing!

 To help you with your talk mom for Sunday emphasize the importance of doing family history because if you think about it there are so many of your family members that are just waiting to receive those blessings and to receive those covenants and their work isn’t going to be done on their own and those people are in heaven and have been waiting forever for their work to be done and personally for me since I went through the temple 6 times in the MTC I felt the spirit so strong knowing that these people have just been waiting to have their work done and they are sooo thankful for your service and you being worthy to go through the temple. Sooo I hoped that help.

Wait so the churches are still in Arizona I thought they moved to Texas... it’s weird to think their brother gets off his mission in like 3 months how exciting!!! IM glad everybody is doing good though I think I might fast tomorrow just to show heavenly father how thankful I am for everything he has done for our family I think you guys should to but that’s just me ha-ha. Any ways this week has been good for the most part. So one of the members in the ward knew I played guitar and so he just gave me his acoustic guitar!! I was sooo happpy like you have no idea it’s just nice to be able to play it at night after a long day and just clear my head.

Another weird thing that happened was when elder Morgan and I were at the church there were these two dogs and a chicken and the two dogs were chasing at it then the dog grabbed it by its neck and just it was crazy lol. As far as the work here like we’ve been busy but it’s been slow like we just don’t have any investigators right now and we are mostly teaching less actives. Ohhh yeah today is my 3 month mark in the mission isn’t that crazy and when I get to talk to you guys on mother’s day it will be 6 months’ time is truly going by fast for me...well maybe not for you guys lol.

Also a lot of people are saying that my Spanish is really improving and I actually can talk with the Hispanic missionaries ha-ha it’s kind of fun makes me feel really good when I can speak the language. As of right now I’m hoping to finish the book of Mormon within a month and I started reading it since December so yeah I really love the scriptures now,  just AHHH they are so amazing! I’m almost done with Alma so I’m getting to all the wars and battles its getting super interesting. Well that’s pretty much what I’ve been thinking about and what’s happened these last couple of weeks. Ohh mom we have something like a washer and it works pretty good but we have to hang our clothes up on a line so yeah and the food is getting better I’ve been cooking myself cheese burgers, tacos, sausages, oatmeal, eggs and yeah anyways love you guys I wish I could talk to you guys more I miss you guys sooo much love you guys!!!

-Elder Tanner Gothard

Saturday, February 15, 2014

Feb 12th - Good & Bad Week


    Hey guys!!!! I really want to talk to you just because this week has been just all over the place. So lately I have been a little down and upset about the language and the lack of progression in our area. We are all working hard but it is frustrating. Then the other day something told me to read those letters you guys gave me. I read Tayler’s first and I started tearing up then I read Trinity’s and it keep coming and then I read yours mom and that was it, I had tears going down my face and the part that stuck with me at that moment was pray to heavenly father. So I did and after that I felt soooo much better I just felt at peace and it just motivated me to work harder. Soo for the past couple days I’ve been working harder and I’ve been getting out of my shell and saying more and sharing some of my fav scriptures. I’ve been getting more confident lately. I don’t know I’m doing everything I’m supposed to do I wake up at 6:30, work out, do scripture study etc.. Lol.

   Ohhhh so my camera is broke but the card works and I got a new camera friggen 200 dollars later but it’s a good camera so yeah. Tell Tayler to continue working hard and pray for heavenly father’s guidance with work and her life in general.  Thank you for texting Aiden by the way he said his computer broke so I haven’t heard much from him lately. Oh I have pictures of our house mom I just keep forgetting to send them to you so sorry I’ll do it next week. Did you guys get a chance to look up that hotel in D.R. yet? Anyways if you are home right now write me back if you can so I can talk to you before I have to leave. Love you guys I also got the pics of Tatum and her drawings lol. I miss her soo much you have no idea and of course I miss trinity & Tayler!

Sorry it’s a short email this week
> --Love you guys!
> -Elder Tanner Gothard



Some Silly pics from MTC & P-day!