June 30th

Hi Scott,
How are you doing?  I hope your second week in the field has gone well.  We were a little concerned with your comp.  Not sure if he was being a good trainer or not?  Hope you were able to get that taken care of with the mission president!! :)

Life is good here.  So hot we could die!  Temps have been in the 103 * range.  Yuck!  I know SLC has been a lot cooler than that!
The boys got home from the high adventure camp.  They had a lot of fun.  I think it was a really hard hike for them all.  They hiked in 8 miles!
Does not sound very fun, but they all loved it and had a great time.  Now it is just back to normal.  We still need to get all the camping equipment out of the living room and off the dining room table!  Everything is a mess right now, but hopefully tonight Dad and Jeff will work on that.

Well, the big news is that Dad & I are taking another trip to Europe!!  Dad has to go to Belgium again, so I will tag along with him.  We leave on July 7th, and return on the 18th.  We will go to Scotland (in honor of you) and Ireland this trip.  Also, we are planning on seeing Normandy France.  Anyhoo, it will be a good trip I am sure.  Don't panic if you don't hear from us!!!  I will try and send you an e-mail though.

Hope you have got the box I sent.  I also hope the garment tops were the right ones.  Don't lose any more of those! :)

You had asked for some addresses:

Brooke & Chad Combs
5987 Wallis Drive
Frisco, TX  75034

Michael & Megan Owen
2316 Del Mar Ct.
Denton, TX  76210

Angie Owen
908 Yukon Drive
Lewsville, TX  75077

Grandpa & Grandma George
1682 No. 1515 E.
No. Logan, UT  84341

Stock Family
4906 St. Lawrence Ct.
Plano, TX  75094
Leslie Owen
leslieowen@verizon.net


Let me know if you want any others.  I also will send off your meds this week, so watch for them.  How are your knees doing?  I am not sure what to think of that?  Aleve works the best!

I am now at the end of Mosiah in my BOM reading.  I love it a lot!!  It has been so good to be reading the scriptures on a daily basis.  I know you are learning a lot too.

Well, better go, Dad just got home and we are having Spaghetti for dinner!
Love you lots,
Mom

Hey Hey!

Elder Owen!

I love getting your letters and hearing how great you are doing.  How fun to be out serving the Lord and not having to worry about anything else!  I hope you are enjoying and learning lots.  

We have been spending every day in the pool!  I love it.  Nate has been taking swim classes everyday for the last 5 weeks and still has about 2 more weeks to go.  Its more of an infant swim/survival course, but he is doing so great.  He loves to swim and thinks he is just as good as Carli.  They love to jump off the water fall, and Carli can even jump off and swim all the way to the edge.  Both of them are of course getting very tan as well.  Chad is now trying to get them to dive for things.  I just kick back, hang out and watch.  

Well, Nate just woke up from his nap so I better run.  Sorry this was so short.  I will write again soon.  

We love you.  

~~Brooke Combs~~

First Week in the Field

Hey hey hey!

First off all I want you to be keeping all of my letters that i am sending home as a journal. If you could be printing them off and saving them for me please. And fix any spelling because i dont have time to even do that here!!! Haha thanks!


My first week was nuts!!!!!! Non stop go go go go go go!! Very long days and lots of walking all day long! We get dinner everynight except our PDays. But we just call someone up who has been wanting to have us over and have dinner then! So ya about every night we get dinner. It is great because like last night when they dont have time they just take us to a Subway or out to eat real quick and buy for us. On Monday we have a zone meeting everyweek and we all went out to Wendys after for lunch. Well the was a member in front of us in the line and they bought for all 18 of us! They just told us to order whatever we wanted!!! That was really nice of them! It tasted even better because it was sa free and such!

About the iPod. Im glad you have not sent that out yet. I can only have one that can't play movies on it. So only an iPod Nano would work. Thanks for doing that again. And some speakers. We dont have a boom box or anything, but i would need my own for the next transfer in 5 weeks.

Well right now i am not sure if i am going to be learning spanish or not. I may be later down the road but there i would be put into a spanish district. Ill keep you informed on that if anything changes.

We have a bap. this sat! Chris Brown is his name and now his sister is most likly going to get bap. as well!!! I am almost postive she will. They are both really cool and are fun to talk with. It could just be because they have a little pug dog and it looks like buster! We also have two more bap. coming up. About one each week. I bet by the end of this transfer we will have over 5 bap! We have several more people that are coming along really well in the lessons and seem real interested. So i think they are on the right path for bap also.

Everyweek we can go to the temple if we do have a ride. We went again today. Early 7:00 session again! Then we went to Wal-Mart again to get some goods and home. Started some warsh (not a spelling error) and came to a church to do email. We do this in the family history center on the computers in here. These computers are SO SLOW!!!! No wonder they are all PC's! It takes about 2 mins to bring up the internet and 5 mins to load you email account! 

Well now you have requested more about my comp... Lets just say whenever we go and teach someone the only words i get to say is in the prayer!!! He talks and talks and i never get to say a thing hardly. Its basicly a one man show. He is also not training me at all. When we are meeting a family I have not met i try to ask him about them so im not left in the dark and he says you will find out when we get there. So i dont know if they are members, bap, or what!!!! He just takes over control on everything including what i can buy at the store with my own money. He says no you dont need that you need this. And he also loves to talk and argue with the real anti mormons and then says things like "ya we hate christans also just like you" and "who cares if joesph smith saw jesus christ and heavenly father we dont." He is not training by the book they give trainers but by his own way! So i talked to the District Leaders and set up a time to go and talk with President Sonne. This is not helping me at all. The only thing i have really learned is our schedual. When we get up shower eat leave...... I dont teach or learn at all. So I really hope i can get a new trainer because this is horrible at the moment. I am his second person to train and he told me that he just wants to train me a differnt way. So ill be talking to the president tomorrow sometime during our big Zone Con. I talked to my old comp from the MTC and asked if he was being trained the same way and he was not. I dont think he is a bad missionary but yes to a bad trainer. So anyways enough of that mess! Ill have to get that fixed.


The boat mess sounded like fun. I just think that happended because you were going without me! I am glad things are going well at home. No i never did get Dads letter. If it was a dear elder at the MTC they will just trash them because it is a free service and they are not going to pay for postage. I asked them. so i hope you still have it saved somewhere. Sorry about that. Well all mail and packages I get Tuesdays night when the ZL's come by. So FYI. I have to go and do a driving test sometime to prove I can drive. Then depending if i get relocated because of some issues... I may get to drive. My knees are also really killing me when we go out. No I dont think it is because i am out of shape its just my knees hurting. We cover two different stakes and we always go from one end of our area to the next which is a few miles. I dont know if there is anything I can do about it. I have to stop every so often and just sit because i just cant go any farther. Its not that physically demanding because we are only walking. Its not like i am tired. Its odd. My elbow is normal now. Im not sure if i told you last week or not but it is great! 

Also If you could go ahead and send me more meds. We are not supposted to get low at all! I know it will take sometime to get it to your home and then to ship it up here and then i have to wait till my next PDay. So if you could just plan sending it up way ahead becuase i know i will forget.

Also i need you to get me everyones mailing address. If you email it to me i can print it off. I want M and M's B and C's and Angies and G and G and anyone else you thing i would write to. 

Oh the nice watch that Matt gave me fell apart and quit working. One of the buttons fell out and the time just stopped working. So i dont know what to do about it. I says it has a one year warrenty but i dont have an address to mail it off to. The brand is Heco or Hero or something like that. Could you look that up and get me somewhere to ship it off to? I can ONLY go to a few websites, email, lds.org and mormon.org.


Well Love yall lots! I have to do a weekly letter to the president right now and then get going. And you know some hard mail and packages would really not hurt at all!!! Haha...


Love your fav Missionary every
Elder Owen

Love to Elder Owen

Dear Scott,

 

How great it was to get your thank-you card and know your email address.  We will write to you now.  I am not so good at sending regular mail but this will be much gooder. 

 

Grandpa and I are very proud of you and the courage you are showing by doing well at the MTC.  It is hard to do!!!!   Wonderful, but hard.    When you get out into the field, it will be easier but you will be working hard for the full 2 years. We hope you will learn to love all the people you will be associating with in all the small towns and branches, as well as in the wards.  Let us know where you are being sent to--how exciting to learn about new places and what is going on in this big world. 

 

Search out those good people who want to know the truth about who they are, and what will become of them when they die.  Just to know about who God is and that He is so loving and caring about us, is a miracle to people in the world. 

 

I have a testimony that the work you are doing is true.  I have felt the Spirit so many times in my life, helping me and directing me to live my life as I should.  THE GOSPEL IS TRUE, only the people in the 
Church are not perfect and we must love them anyway and help them all do better. 

 

KEEP BEING GREAT!!!!!!   Love forever to our wonderfu grandson.  

 

Grandpa and Grandma

Letter from Home :) June 20, 2009

Hi there Scott,

I wanted to take a few minutes and write you a letter today.  Things have been busy, crazy here.  I am so glad you got your big box, and you are out in the mission field now!  We got your e-mail and were so happy to hear all about things!  We also got a letter from you in the mail that same day!  Keep them coming.  We would love to know what stakes you are serving in, and more about your life!!!  Tell us everything you can.  We were so glad to hear from you.

This past week, I went up to the cabin with Mr. Mark, Michael, and Megan, Anna, and Blake.  Michael was needing to take the boat up and use it at his wards high adventure.  We left about 8 p.m. on Sunday night.  We were loaded up!  Anna and Blake were so excited to ride the 4-lers.
Dad & Michael fiddled with the lights on the trailer/boat, and the tires, etc.  What a pain.  We were hoping to make it without having a tire blow out on us.  We almost made it!  Right when we were crossing that old bridge into Broken Bow, we heard a funny sound.  I thought the breaks had locked up, but NO, it was a tire that had blown on the goofy trailer! :(  We were not happy!  Michael drove really slow, and we pulled over at the Tyson Chicken Plant....you know, with the "Gravity Flow" system!  We were lucky to make it there, because we did not have a flashlight, and their parking lot was lit up.   Anyway, we took off the tire, the whole wheel well was bent to pieces, and the tire was a disaster.  After the tire was off, the brakes just fell apart!!!  Plates came off, and the hydrolic brake line was cut!  :((((  What a mess.  The robo-cop security guard at the chicken plant was sa nice...(Paul Blart) and helped us with a flashlight, and a better jack.  We were on the phone with dad, and trying to figure out what to do and such.  Anyway, we got the spare on, and took the trailer to Stewarts tires the next day, and they fixed it, and the brakes.  Big Pain!!! :{{{{{{{
Well, that was the worst part of the week.  The rest of the week was great, the boat worked great, (we put it in a slip) and all the scouters were happy campers.  We even got Anna and Blake out on the tube.  Mark is getting to be quite the wakeboarder!  He did great, and even pulled off a "180" out there.  He was so proud.  The lake was absolutely gorgeous, and the water was glass every day.   Goofy gas at the marina was 3.99 a gallon....what a rip-off! :)  Any hoo, we all had fun, and came back on Thurs. evening after a little lunch at Papa Plabano's.  Yummy!  Michael & Megan took some pictures, so maybe we will try and send you some.

Finally, the city came and picked up all the broken branches, tree limbs from the storm.  It was a mess, and just sitting out there killing our grass.  We will still need to cut down and big tree now.  That will have to wait until Dad is back from Scout camp with the the boys.

Speaking of scout camp, the day today...Saturday, had been spent getting packs ready for the trip to New Mexico.  Chad came over and helped the boys and Dad.  The house looks like a bomb went off in it!  They are having fun rounding up all the hiking junk.  Remember when you went to Philmont?  Dad got some new hiking boots, and so did Jeff, Dad also bought a "back packing" tent.  They are all into getting things ready to go.  They leave at 4:15 a.m. on Mondee morning.  4:00 a.m. was to early, so Bro. Brassfield pushed it back 15 min!  Ha ha!  I also gave the boys haircuts this morning!

Well tomorrow is a double holiday!  Father's day and Mr. Mark's 13th birthday.  Everyone is coming over for dinner, we are having a taco bar.
Mark wanted a fudge cake with marshmallow frosting on it.  We will take some pictures for you.  Mark is all excited for his big day, he is counting down the hours now!

I am still reading the BOM, and I am loving it.  I think I have learned so much more this time with my reading.  I am in Mosiah.  I should finish the reading by the end of August if I stay on schedule.  I have such a strong testimony of the BOM.  I feel the power in it while I read.  I love it!

I am attaching a few pictures for you, a cute one of Nate by the pool, and the grandkids by the pool eating fudge bars!  Also, a storm picture or two!  Brooke had Kyles picture taken, so I will send that too.  Cute nieces and nephews for you, remember they all look up to you, and you are setting a great example for them.

We are so proud of you, we know you are doing an important work.  Tell us more about your comp.  Elder Pearl.  I hope you are learning a lot from him.  Your apartment sounds great.  I bet the members there will spoil you!  I was so happy to hear you made it to the SLC temple.  Do you know if you get to go the the new Oquirrh Mountain temple?  I know the open house has started now for it.  I would love to see it. The pictures look beautiful.  We will try and send you the IPOD in a while.  Right now, just focus on your scripture study out of the books.  You do have some of the CD's I gave you, I think they were Tab. Choir?  Does your comp. have a little boom box?

Dad wants to know if you got the letter he wrote to you last week...you should have got it on Wed, but you may not have because you left the MTC early.  I wonder if they forward those on to you?  Let us know.

We don't know what has happened to your garm's?  They are not at G&GG, we don't have them here.  You must have lost them at the MTC, or got them mixed up with someone else's laundry?  I know we had them for you.  I guess if I need to, I can buy you a few more and mail them.  I think it would be easier for you to buy them up there at distribution.  Let me know what is going on with those, and also, what happens at Mr. Mac with your suit!  I think they will take care of you, you should not have a problem with that.

Love you lots, keep up the good work! :)  Mom

Week 3! In the Field!

Well I made it out of the MTC and can live to talk about it! Today is our P-Day because we were tied up with getting into the field yesterday. It will normaly be on Weds though just this one time it happended like this. Just FYI! Well my new comps name is Elder Pearl or as he refers to himself the Black Pearl! He is from South Africa and has been out 17 months. He is very smart and a go getter it seems. We got out of orentation yesterday around 3 and then had a dinner appt and two lessons to go and teach already! I never even got to unpack all the way. I still have not had time to today and it is my P-Day!!! We went to the temple today. I guess we can go every Pday if we can get there. We spent some of our time today helping move a new member who was baptized on Sunday. And we also went to wal mart and got some food. I only have $47 this month but normarly ill have $110. Well after our trip to wally world im down 15 already! Our area does not have a car but it is small enough. The District Leaders have a car so we just bum rides off of them and members lots. Every 6 weeks we will get transfered and depending where we go we may or may not have a car. Theres about 65 cars in the mission and 90 comps. I sent yall a had written letter yesterday with a pic of the mission president and I so you can look forward to that. There is also more info about our mission so i wont spoil it for you! We went to temple square and did a quick two hour tour and went back for more meetings. They served us breakfast and lunch because we are the greenies. 

I got your package yesterday at the mission home. It was there waiting for me when i got there. Everyone was wanting to run off with it! Thanks so much for the shirts and the treats. I really love them! The Zone leaders will go to the mission home once a week to pick up the mail and get it to me usualy on P days FYI. So email works just as good now that i cant Dear Elder everyday like i did in the MTC. Its up to you. I wil not complain about any sort of package at all!!!! Keep that in mind!

Our apt is in the basement of a members home. It is really nice! we have a kitchen and washer and dryer and its pretty roomie down there. The only thing is that the ceiling is so low that if i was any taller i would have to hunch over to walk around. We are the only companionship there so its nice. The best part is the washer and dryer!!!! Yay we dont have to pay to wash clothes! 

One of the people we tought yesterday was another new member. She is wanting to get her patrical blessing so we talked to them about that. Her husband is a member and he helped out with the lesson and we took a ward member who helped because my comp is stuck with me! (So right now he is down a person!) Anyways the new members husbands is the 2nd richest guy in Utah my comp says. He was here from the last transfer and baptized her. Their house was really nice. They were very very nice humble people though. The other lesson we tought was the member who we helped move today. So they are now out of our area. 

Our dinner apt was with the ward mission leader from one of the stakes he just took us out to dinner! We went to some nice cafe. He was also the one who took us to the temple at 6:15 this morning. I think we are having dinner with him again tonight. he is a really nice guy also. 

Well maybe by next week i will be able to mail you some CD's of all of my pics so far. What I would like to do is have two SD cards so we could mail them back and forth. That is the best way everyone says. That would save me from having to buy blank CD's and spending that time burning them. I have hardly any money so you will have to tell me what you want to do. I only have one 2 gig SD card so if you buy a new one and send it up then i can swap you and keep in touch that way. I can also have an iPod with ONLY Mormon Tab Music but we can have the scrips and teaching lessons and lots of things like that to listen to. So if dad sent me up one of his 20 different iPods clean or with some of that music stuff on it then i could use it. I would rather have some sort of iPod speakers instead, if you could send me an iPod then a boom box. That way we could plug in an aux port into any car when we have one. No iPod touch though. Nothing with internet features. Something like an iPod Nano or Classic. Not a shuffle because that would do me no good!  So if you could look into that for me and maybe get some of the scrips off of the LDS.org and music so i could use it right away. Off of the website you can get all that for free and I would like it in Spanish also. I can get onto iTunes from one of the church computers and rip my CD's to an iPod and get things from other Elders so i think it would be a great learning tool for scripture study mainly because I learn better audioly it seems.

That brings up another subject!!! Here was my big suprise, we are in a very big Spanish speaking area so guess what they want me to start learnig? Spanish! My  comp is going to start teaching me. He wants me to learn not really the mission president or anyone else but 45% of our baptisems are spanish members. And the elders who can speak spanish baptize more! So i am going to try and start learing. Most of the elders were called to english but have learned spanish while they were here and not in the MTC. So I am kind of excited about learning spanish because i wanted to learn it. It would be great help teaching and for down the road like Michael. 

Well i am still a deer in headlights here but i am leaning as quick as i can. (theres tons of things i have to learn on rules and things we can do!) I think my comp will help me and do a good job even if his accent is hard to understand sometimes. He is a good guy and has lots of faith in me and during lessons just puts me on the spot and makes me learn by fire! How very nice of him! I guess they have a guy commited to baptisem on the 27 this month if thing go well with him. I have not meet him but look forward to! We are expected to do 2+ baptiems a month so this is good. Our Zone is the Parley zone and our area is Monument and Foot Hill Stakes. Yes we cover two different stakes as one set of missionarys! 

Well i think i am out of things to say here but for thanks for all your love support and prayers! I know i keep buggin you for things and am sorry but I dont have the money to buy all of it!  Being able to listen to the scrips would really help me learn during my personal study and keep me going and not falling asleep at 6:30! It is a lot to ask I know but it would help me more then you know. I would need some sort of speakers to play it off of also. Without it the ipod is worthless! THANK YOU so much again. 

Oh mom the iPhone Password should be: 112544
I think what it is asking for is the iTunes password when you download and app. If it is have dad set up your phone with your iTunes account so I dont get charged of my debit card. He knows how. Just sync it with the iMac. That is the only password i can think it would be. If that is not it try sowen2209  
If either one of those dont work just wipe it clean and start fresh with it. But one of those should work.


Well I am already working my tail off and this is noting yet. I know that the lord will bless me and you for my service. Bring others unto Christ is one of the most important things we can do here on this earth. Thanks for your love and support again and all the time you spend getting me started out here. I know that this is the one and only true church on earth and that Joesph Smith did restore it in this dispensation. I am excited to learn the ropes and spanish out here so keep me in your thoughts and prayers! Call my cell phone if you want to chat! Haha

Love
Elder Owen

Week 2 MTC

"I wish I could call all your mothers and tell them how wonderful you look." - Sis. Bednar

What is going on family? How is the real world treating everyone? Well week two here was just as busy as week one! They are now letting people leave for their missions if they pass some health test or something. Speaking of me leaving the MTC my final departure date is now on the 17th. This is the final word! We got our travel plans from the MTC yesterday. 

So everyone wants to know what the typical day is here so here it goes. 
Wake up by 6:30 
Breakfast at 7:00
Classes are according to the teachers schedual so it varys. We typicaly have two classes a day though.
Lunch 11:30
Personal Study 
Comp Study
MDT Time (Missionary Derected Time)
Dinner at 4:30
LGM (Large group meeting)
9:00 Planning for the next day
10:15 Quite time
10:30 Lights out!

So that is the basic lay out but everything is moved around as far as our classes and our study time goes. Mom those thank you notes are off in the mail now. They went out on monday! I am sa good an such! Now you can keep writing me! Haha!
I know everyone is on edge for this letter only to hear about my comps BO problem so here it is! He did warsh his towel last p day and i about died! My prayer was answered. Well i thought that would be the end of that problem but the next DAY it was back just as bad as ever! So the lengend lives on of the stinky towel! Stay tuned for next weeks report!

This sunday was not the best day for me. I woke up and did not feel good at all. I went and got checked out by the nurse and i had to stay in my room all day! I was almost in prison it felt like. They keep anyone in their rooms if they have any sign of sickness at all. Mine was just very minor coughing and that stuff but they wanted me in my room all day. There is also one of the elders in our district that got the swine flu. He was sent into isolation for 5 days and is supposed to be getting out today. That is if he has survived this punishment! 

Well we had our typical Tuesday night Devo last night and i bet you wont guess who came! Elder Bednar! He was so good. He talked about being a "good boy!" He said to listen to the promptings of the spirit and dont worry if we think it is us thinking it or the spirit. He said if it is a good thought then it is the spirit and we should just act on it! One of our teachers room mate works as a robo cop here and knew it was Bednar coming. This info they keep top secret! But our class knew he was coming! I was able to be a Little Debbie Cake on this saying it was going to be Bednar. On Tuesdays its all the talk about who is coming. Last week it was one of the 70.
"I wish I could call all your mothers and tell them how wonderful you look." - Sis. Bednar (This was typed by one of the sisters in my district. She acts like our mom here and wont let me get dessert until i finish my vegs. She is from Plano. She's cool though)


Well right now im just doing my laundry. We are planning on going to the temple latter today after lunch.  We went last P day also. I hope everyone has gotten my letters so far. I think i have only sent one to everybody so far. I will send yall some pics sometime soon of life here.

Hey mom how is that Moshi pillow coming? I also need two more short sleeved white church shirts. Neck size 16.5. Ones without the coller buttons please. I had a pen blow up on one of mine......

Well i hope all is well in good ole Texas! Keep in touch!
Love you very much and know that this work is very important! I am excited to hit the mission field. Ill have to talk to you later. Again only one min left!

Love
Elder Owen

Hello from the MTC

Well hello family! The first week at the Mtc already! I am glad that i don't have to wear an orange dot anymore or as the older elders like to say dork dots! I dont know if you have heard about the swine flu and flu spreading around here or not but it is really bad at the moment. There have been 10 confermended cases of the swine flu just yesterday. The MTC has also delayed sending anyone out this week. So anyone who was supposed to depart wont this week. I think they may delay it again. And today there are around 560 new missionarys coming in and they are running out of room to put eveyone. This has all made big news around here so you will have to look it up and tell me what you can find out about it. They use sealed plastic utincels now and paper cups and plates. They are not risking anything.Well i dont know if you got my cards yet or not but i had time to send one to Anna and just home. My comps name is Elder Williams and he is from Hawaii. He is cool but his towl which hangs right next to my desk smells like total BO! When we come back into our room the entire room smells like it! I hope and prey he is washing (warshing as they say here) it today! I have been very busy studing and working. They keep us really busy and we are supposted to be working on writing our lesson plans for investagors. Thanks for all the letters everyone has been sending me! Dear Elder is great! For now just use that and not my Email because i wont be able to check it till P Days. That way i can get the Dear Elder that day or the next one. How are all the grand kids doing? 

The food is alright. Not anything like moms cooking but its not bad. Better then what ill be able to make in the field. I am not sure what is up with my elbow. When i went to the Dr he said it was fine and would just take time to heal. The MTC Dr said by today i should be able to extend it all the way but i still cant. What do you think i should do? I can twist it fine but not extend it yet. I can do physical therypy here but im not sure what to do. 

On Sunday we had a tie swap which is what they do for people leaving that next week. Everyone puts in thier ulgy stained tie and then we draw from a pillow case. When they asked me to do it they all went nuts looking through my ties and wanted me to put in my new blue and white one you just bought me one. I was offered up to $30.00 cash for that tie right then! I told them no of course.

Well in one of your letters you asked what i would like and i need an new Moshi Black pillow. Mom i hope you know what i am talking about. the thing like marks spree pillow. The one i have now is getting really bad and we never had time to find a new one when we were up here. Plus mine has a few holes in it.
Oh i also dont know if you have gotten the rest of my Oakley order yet or not but when you do if you will send that up. There should be one more pair of sweet shades and cleaning cloth and some other random things for me. Those glasses would be the best to use up here. : )

Well i think if you send the dear elder by  around 12ish at the latest then i will be able to get it that day or the next so just keep that in mind. And mom if you would just send this to everyone you want to thats fine. I dont have time to send anymore then one today. I only had 25 mins after setting up this email today. And again tell them to do the dear elder or regular mail or else it will be a week before i get their email.

Sorry if words are mis spelled Angie can correct me after she tells me where that place in Florda is! I dont even have spell check on this email account so oh well! And i have been typing like nuts to get all this in.

I love you all and know that this is important work! I miss you and look forward to hearing from you soon! GTG 1 min left before i loose everything and this wont get sent!

Love
Elder Owen!