The Van Man.

Dear Family and Friends,

When you say "you're coming home soon" it's technically true, but not really. I always think 

"Hey, do you want a piece of candy?"
"Yeah sure."
"Ok, you can have it in 8 weeks."
"......"
So it's really not that soon when you put it into perspective. 

Anyway, to answer a question asked last week, I probably spend about 50% of my time proselyting in my own area, 30% in some other area, and 20% doing other stuff (meetings and whatnot). I think I just tend to write more about the 20% because it is new/ different. 

So we had a pretty good week. Here is the photo diary:

We found a headset in the apartment, and Elder Ray is pretty proud of it. He wears it all the time hahaha. 

Selfies 4 dayz. 

So on Monday we were playing ultimate frisbee in the gym of the church. Long story short, Elder Ray banged his face on the door and split his eyebrow. No stitches though, so that was good. He's still seducin'.

We drove out to Weatherford in the Van. As we were driving, it started to rain so hard. Haha it was nuts. You might recognize these fools. I served with all 4 of them (one was for a week and a half). 

This is McDonald's in Texas.

The Van Man.

​All of my friends are going home and it is wierd. I'm still truckin along out here. This friday we had board day with President, and we did the whole spanish part of the mission. I got a sneak peak at my new companion/ area and it was really cool. The only thing is, last night President told me that he had some impressions and that a lot of things have changed. Haha, so who knows. I'll be happy with whatever happens this next transfer. Next week y'all will know! 

Texas Forever!

Love,

Cole

Picture Essay

Hey family, we just got out of a long meeting about iPads so we are running late and short on time. Good news is that I talked to y'all yesterday. Here's some pictures.

This is pretty cool in the mission office #sneakyselfy

I got to go on exchange with Elder 'Otuafi and Elder Leavitt again (the two on the right).

One more exchange with elder Ramsey (He came out with me).

Our cool table of the atonement. Christ's suffering in Gethsemane, the cross, the resurrection, and the living Christ. 

Whelp, that's it for this week. The ankle is doing good, we haven't really had time to play b-ball so it should be good for a while. 

Love,

Cole

Que Paso Early Bird

Hi I have no time this week so y'all get the highlights

1. So we were talking to the mailman on valentines day and he told us "hey, y'all have got to do more than just bike around all day with your mormonites, check your mail every once in a while." Hahaha, mormonites. Later, he was telling us about his radio preacher or something that did a sermon about "If I were the devil..."

2. From talking to the mailman, we went directly to our investigators house. Haha, turns out, his house-mate set up a booth in the front yard and was having a women's underwear sale hahaha. I turned to Elder Leavitt and said, "If I were the devil..." Hahahaha.

3. When we were leaving a members house he told us "ok, bye, take care, don't talk to strangers" haha.

4. Could you please send me a up calender next time your feenin to send me somesing?

5. We went to 3 buffets this week with members and then y'all sent me packages (thank you, by the way!!) and so I feel like pure #fatcole. I'm starting my "6 months to sexy" diet early.

6. Haha, so I have killed 2 missionaries and I replaced a dead elder so now I have like 15 shirts and 15 pants haha I've got clothes for dayz.

7. The elders truck broke down so we had to find a ride to church from a member, and the only ride we found had to be there at 6 instead of 7 for a meeting. When we walked in, the member who gave us a ride goes "the early birds are here!" and Bishop yells out from his office "Que Paso early bird!" Hahaha, it was so funny at 6 in the morning.

Anywehy, I think that was longer than my normal emails. Talk to ya next weeek.

Love,
Cole

Bad Penny

I forgot my camera but I'll send pictures soon(ish haha).

So our new apartment is pretty nice. I'm a big fan of it. I miss my old bed and study chair though. One of my favorite things is when I go to a new apartment and I can just throw out all of the old, useless garbage that people have left, and re-organize everything haha. That is literally fun to me. I am mission-weird. 

The new area is good. It's a bike area and it's super small, but there are probably 20 or 30 if not more apartment complexes full of spanish speaking people. We don't have tonz of investigators right now, but it's warm outside and we're on bikes so it shouldn't be too hard to find a guy or two. 

Elder Leavitt is from Gunlock, Utah, near St. George ish. He's a cool guy. Even though he's a ginger. Haha jk. 

I got all moved in and it was super easy because I just threw everything into the truck and drove over, so packing wasn't hard. Haha, almost all of the spanish missionaries serve in Hurst twice, but I've achieved the rare triple-dip. I might as well move my records over here, I'm like a bad penny. 

But yeah, I think that's everything. If you have any questions let me know because I can answer questions but I never really know what to write y'all when I sit down here. Anywhey, have a good week!

Love,

Cole

Transfers

Hi guys. Sounds like y'all (especially Leena) had a big week. Mine was pretty boring so I just lived vicariously through y'all for the last 2 minutes while I read your emails.

I'm getting transfered, all the way to bedford, aka the closest area to mine haha. Same ward and everything. My new companion is Elder Leavitt. He's a real good missionary so we should have fun together. Here is us.

yup, he's a ginger.

Here are some other pictures.

Love, Cole