Monday, May 2, 2011 8:23 AM
Nobody even came close! All the guesses were all around it! Ha ha
New Mexico Albuquerque Mission!! (Pres. Miller)
Goes into the MTC on Wednesday, July 27th!
That gives him three months. We both know why . . . he needs to have surgery on his right eye because he's been having blood build up in it which is making his vision blurry. The doctor wants to do some kind of surgery to help it. We know the G.A.'s are truly inspired, don't we??!!!
Well, what do you think about that?
That's pretty cool. Maybe he'll get to preach to the Lamanites.
There are Navaho in the area! So maybe so.
Wow. What did you think about the Youth performance?
All I have to say is everytime I saw the drummers I would think of you sitting there and probably wanting to get up there and either join them or show them how to do it! ha ha
Sister King sent all the Missionary parents the link to watch it live, so Daniel and I were both watching it.
Did you say you got to go to the Temple dedication? When are you able to go through a session for the first time now?
Daniel has been doing everything you did, looking up everything he can find on New Mexico. Can't find a mission logo though. I think they just use the New Mexico state flag.
Sister King also let us know that all of you were safe from the tornados. I just talked to my friend, Glenda, that lives in Huntsville, Alabama and the tornados missed their house, but they've been without electricity since Wednesday. Tonight they are spending some time in Nashville, TN to shower and wash clothes and stuff and buy more ice for their freezer, so their meat doesn't go bad. I guess they are going back home tomorrow (Sunday).
How are you liking your new area and your new comp.?
I thought it was cool. The first bass in the drumline was in my first area. I really like that family. They were pretty good for how much time they were given to practice.
There was three youth I know that were in the choir. Most of the youth in my last area I saw, they were part of the cheerleading and football dance and most of them were in the front.
Yeah we got to go to both rededicatory sessions. So, we got an email from President King today. The Presidency of the Seventy said that we can't go to the temple anymore. I should be happy enough that I got to see it and be there for the open house.
Has he gone to the mission website thing?
Yeah, the tornado did some pretty big damage. Mostly in Alabama, I heard over 200 killed. I think Tennesee got hit pretty hard as well. I don't think Georgia got too much damage.
The area is pretty good. The companion isn't as bad as the last.
What? You can't go to the Temple anymore? What does that mean? That doesn't sound right. I would think they would WANT you to go, at least every 3 months or so.
That's really disappointing!
Missionaries asked President King about going to the temple and President King asked the Presidency of the Seventy and they said we can't. So we'll be without a temple two months longer than the Atlanta Temple district members were without a temple.
Did you have someone take a picture of you with the Atlanta Temple in the background, for your plaque?
Maybe you can crop it. I have pictures of the Atlanta temple but not with me in it. I should have taken one to be "prepared". I didn't think they wouldn't let us go to the temple anymore.
I don't know if I have a good program to do that. That's really a shame. Maybe you'll be able to get one before you come home.
Oh, maybe I could.
-Elder Garcia
Monday, May 2, 2011
Monday, April 25, 2011 8:08 AM
So you are now in the Conyer's Zone?
Yeah Conyers Zone and Stake.
The Post Office is right next to the Wal-mart!! (Which is right across the main road from Tyler's new apartments).
Hey, this is exciting for you. Looks like a great area. I hope you find a lot of investigators.
Yeah, it's pretty cool. Our apartment is actually in the Centerville Ward and we're closer to the bottom of our area. Past Centerville Hwy is our area.
Temy came home Thursday and Daniel got his call papers on Friday!
Daniel's not going to open them until this Friday night though, because that's when all his friends can be there. We're going over to the RS room at 7:30 pm. So you'll find out next Monday!
What have you been doing this week? How is the weather?
Oh, Kaleen said the 30th. Well it doesn't really matter for me since I'll still hear on Monday. So, I guess I better put my opinion in now on where I think he's going. I'm going to say St. George, Utah or maybe Provo. I don't really think he'll be going that far because he's blind in one eye and diabetic, but don't tell him I said that. Who knows, my other thought was somewhere on the east as well.
We've been doing a lot of walking, because Elder Sobers didn't have a bike. The assistance brought his bike on Friday morning and we still haven't ridden our bikes. Friday we went to the Temple with Elder Sobers' grandma and three cousins, he got permission because he's going home in July and his cousins live in the Atlanta mission. Saturday we did service all day helping a member move into a house still in the ward. Sunday was church and we had a teamup to come out with us. Today is P-day and later today we're going to do some more service with the same member. It's been raining like once every two days within the past two weeks. Mostly at night, one was a tornado warning, I think, yeah because a tornado came through somewhere close and I know one or two came through St. Louis, MO. Wednesday it's supposed to rain. And when it's not raining it's been pretty warm, a little humid.
We haven't really been able to do much work since we had to walk everywhere and the subdivisions are pretty far apart so it takes a while to walk some place.
That's exciting that Temy's back home. But I feel alone now, it's weird.
Colorado would be neat. I miss the west. It bothers me when people down here keep saying "mountain" for hills. Stone "Mountain" is just outside the mission and we could get permission to go sometime for P-day. But it really should be Stone "Hill", it's a huge rock and they carved Stonewall Jackson, Robert E. Lee, and the Southern President what's his name Jefferson?
But I could see Daniel going to like Boston or something, maybe he'll go to Pennsylvania haha.
When I talked to President King about calling home about Daniel's mission he said that too that maybe he'll come to this mission. I don't know if I'll train him (if he does come) because President King is thinking about making me senior after Elder Sobers goes home in July but no one really know until transfers, the Lord could have different plans.
Yeah a whole week wow I probably would have went crazy. How's everybody else doing? Like John and them. Johnny still hasn't written me back but oh well I don't expect too much from getting letters from people.
-Elder Garcia
So you are now in the Conyer's Zone?
Yeah Conyers Zone and Stake.
The Post Office is right next to the Wal-mart!! (Which is right across the main road from Tyler's new apartments).
Hey, this is exciting for you. Looks like a great area. I hope you find a lot of investigators.
Yeah, it's pretty cool. Our apartment is actually in the Centerville Ward and we're closer to the bottom of our area. Past Centerville Hwy is our area.
Temy came home Thursday and Daniel got his call papers on Friday!
Daniel's not going to open them until this Friday night though, because that's when all his friends can be there. We're going over to the RS room at 7:30 pm. So you'll find out next Monday!
What have you been doing this week? How is the weather?
Oh, Kaleen said the 30th. Well it doesn't really matter for me since I'll still hear on Monday. So, I guess I better put my opinion in now on where I think he's going. I'm going to say St. George, Utah or maybe Provo. I don't really think he'll be going that far because he's blind in one eye and diabetic, but don't tell him I said that. Who knows, my other thought was somewhere on the east as well.
We've been doing a lot of walking, because Elder Sobers didn't have a bike. The assistance brought his bike on Friday morning and we still haven't ridden our bikes. Friday we went to the Temple with Elder Sobers' grandma and three cousins, he got permission because he's going home in July and his cousins live in the Atlanta mission. Saturday we did service all day helping a member move into a house still in the ward. Sunday was church and we had a teamup to come out with us. Today is P-day and later today we're going to do some more service with the same member. It's been raining like once every two days within the past two weeks. Mostly at night, one was a tornado warning, I think, yeah because a tornado came through somewhere close and I know one or two came through St. Louis, MO. Wednesday it's supposed to rain. And when it's not raining it's been pretty warm, a little humid.
We haven't really been able to do much work since we had to walk everywhere and the subdivisions are pretty far apart so it takes a while to walk some place.
That's exciting that Temy's back home. But I feel alone now, it's weird.
Colorado would be neat. I miss the west. It bothers me when people down here keep saying "mountain" for hills. Stone "Mountain" is just outside the mission and we could get permission to go sometime for P-day. But it really should be Stone "Hill", it's a huge rock and they carved Stonewall Jackson, Robert E. Lee, and the Southern President what's his name Jefferson?
But I could see Daniel going to like Boston or something, maybe he'll go to Pennsylvania haha.
When I talked to President King about calling home about Daniel's mission he said that too that maybe he'll come to this mission. I don't know if I'll train him (if he does come) because President King is thinking about making me senior after Elder Sobers goes home in July but no one really know until transfers, the Lord could have different plans.
Yeah a whole week wow I probably would have went crazy. How's everybody else doing? Like John and them. Johnny still hasn't written me back but oh well I don't expect too much from getting letters from people.
-Elder Garcia
Monday, April 18, 2011
I'm now in Snellville, the Snellville Ward. Just one ward. Still on bike.
On Wednesday the 13th we went from 4 to 9 pm and my companion and I ushered (at the Atlanta Temple). This last friday we went again from 8 am to 5 pm. Our district leader picked us up at 5:45 am and we got to the Temple at 6:30 then we had a meeting at 7. This time we did parking. On Thursday we have district meeting/interviews inside the Temple. I think that's what President King said.
I've had fried okra for lunch at a place called Dick's Barbeque. It was alright it didn't really have a flavor. Kaleen said that Grandma used to make us grits when we were little when we were at her house. (Grandma made them Cream of Wheat! LOL)
I'm further away from Canton. None of the missionaries there (Canton, Jasper, Ellijay) got transfered. I'm probably 2 hours south east.
So...for the past 8 and a half months I've been on bike. I've never weighed myself until now, since my last apartment didn't have a scale, this apartment does have a scale. The average weight gain in this mission is like 30 pounds. Missionaries and members have said that it looks like I lost weight. During General Conference, a member told us this "diet", I guess you could say, that one of his companions, when he was on his mission, did. His companion ate two tuna fish sandwiches for 6 months and lost a ton of weight from it. Breakfast is the same and you can eat whatever the members give you. I'm going to try it, see if I can lose more weight. So I saw how much weight I lost I got excited to tell you. I was thinking about not saying and have it be a "surprise" when I get home. I lost 30 pounds! The belt I got at Men's Wearhouse is too loose so I had to go back to my old belt. My goal is to lose 30 more pounds by the end of my mission.
That must be exciting for Temy to come home. I almost have a year left!
Oh, President King said no about calling about Daniel's mission papers. Temy must be pretty lucky for him being able to see us and getting a call for my mission papers. "Bytheway" calling home for Mother's day, there's a family that has skype, I'm pretty sure. I don't even know if I want to use skype...yet. I don't know.
My companion is from Guyana. His name is Elder Sobers.
I think it depends on traffic. When I was in Alpharetta it usually took us an hour to get to Lilburn. Now I'm probably like 15-20 south east from Lilburn.
So my new area is the very top of the light blue (the small area that has the rabbit ears). The dark green very right is one huge area. The one with the three missionaries. I don't remember if there's still three, or two or four now since transfers.
-Elder Garcia
I'm now in Snellville, the Snellville Ward. Just one ward. Still on bike.
On Wednesday the 13th we went from 4 to 9 pm and my companion and I ushered (at the Atlanta Temple). This last friday we went again from 8 am to 5 pm. Our district leader picked us up at 5:45 am and we got to the Temple at 6:30 then we had a meeting at 7. This time we did parking. On Thursday we have district meeting/interviews inside the Temple. I think that's what President King said.
I've had fried okra for lunch at a place called Dick's Barbeque. It was alright it didn't really have a flavor. Kaleen said that Grandma used to make us grits when we were little when we were at her house. (Grandma made them Cream of Wheat! LOL)
I'm further away from Canton. None of the missionaries there (Canton, Jasper, Ellijay) got transfered. I'm probably 2 hours south east.
So...for the past 8 and a half months I've been on bike. I've never weighed myself until now, since my last apartment didn't have a scale, this apartment does have a scale. The average weight gain in this mission is like 30 pounds. Missionaries and members have said that it looks like I lost weight. During General Conference, a member told us this "diet", I guess you could say, that one of his companions, when he was on his mission, did. His companion ate two tuna fish sandwiches for 6 months and lost a ton of weight from it. Breakfast is the same and you can eat whatever the members give you. I'm going to try it, see if I can lose more weight. So I saw how much weight I lost I got excited to tell you. I was thinking about not saying and have it be a "surprise" when I get home. I lost 30 pounds! The belt I got at Men's Wearhouse is too loose so I had to go back to my old belt. My goal is to lose 30 more pounds by the end of my mission.
That must be exciting for Temy to come home. I almost have a year left!
Oh, President King said no about calling about Daniel's mission papers. Temy must be pretty lucky for him being able to see us and getting a call for my mission papers. "Bytheway" calling home for Mother's day, there's a family that has skype, I'm pretty sure. I don't even know if I want to use skype...yet. I don't know.
My companion is from Guyana. His name is Elder Sobers.
I think it depends on traffic. When I was in Alpharetta it usually took us an hour to get to Lilburn. Now I'm probably like 15-20 south east from Lilburn.
So my new area is the very top of the light blue (the small area that has the rabbit ears). The dark green very right is one huge area. The one with the three missionaries. I don't remember if there's still three, or two or four now since transfers.
-Elder Garcia
Monday, April 4, 2011 8:42 AM
The Atlanta Temple will be having their open house and everything pretty soon . . . have you heard anything about the missionaries in your area being involved with that yet?
The sister missionaries need to be there everyday, all day, Elders will be there at least 3 days. I will be there Thursday doing the booty covers for the special guests. Then I'm pretty sure we'll be there on transfer day. Then one other day after that.
Monday, April 11, 2011 1:12 PM
So what's the news about transfers? Do you know if and where you are going next? Do you know who your companion will be?
Will you be moving everything before you go to the Temple?
How are you coping with allergies? Are you getting and taking allergy pills? Do they help? Are the pollens hitting you pretty hard? I know it's terrible there, probably a lot worse than it was here.
Sooo...I am getting transfered. The odds were against me staying. We don't know where we go or who are companions will be till Wednesday. I haven't been to the temple yet. Our mission got canceled to work at the temple last week. I really don't know what's going to be happening on transfers because the mission is scheduled to be at the temple throughout the day.
If I don't take allergy pills my eyes just itch, and I'll sneeze a couple of times but that's about it so far. I do take the allergy pills. They help. The pollen right now isn't as bad as everyone says it's been. But it does get on everything.
If I go to the country I hope I'm in a car. If I go to the more suburban area I hope there's a Walmart in the area. That might be weird to say but I miss going to Walmart and actually being there and not being rushed.
Anyways...I'm excited to leave...finally...but I will really miss the ward, they've been great.
-Elder Garcia
The Atlanta Temple will be having their open house and everything pretty soon . . . have you heard anything about the missionaries in your area being involved with that yet?
The sister missionaries need to be there everyday, all day, Elders will be there at least 3 days. I will be there Thursday doing the booty covers for the special guests. Then I'm pretty sure we'll be there on transfer day. Then one other day after that.
Monday, April 11, 2011 1:12 PM
So what's the news about transfers? Do you know if and where you are going next? Do you know who your companion will be?
Will you be moving everything before you go to the Temple?
How are you coping with allergies? Are you getting and taking allergy pills? Do they help? Are the pollens hitting you pretty hard? I know it's terrible there, probably a lot worse than it was here.
Sooo...I am getting transfered. The odds were against me staying. We don't know where we go or who are companions will be till Wednesday. I haven't been to the temple yet. Our mission got canceled to work at the temple last week. I really don't know what's going to be happening on transfers because the mission is scheduled to be at the temple throughout the day.
If I don't take allergy pills my eyes just itch, and I'll sneeze a couple of times but that's about it so far. I do take the allergy pills. They help. The pollen right now isn't as bad as everyone says it's been. But it does get on everything.
If I go to the country I hope I'm in a car. If I go to the more suburban area I hope there's a Walmart in the area. That might be weird to say but I miss going to Walmart and actually being there and not being rushed.
Anyways...I'm excited to leave...finally...but I will really miss the ward, they've been great.
-Elder Garcia
Wednesday, March 30, 2011
March 28, 2011
Yeah, the "ring of fire" has started. Chile, Japan, other places in the ring of fire. Everybody is thinking that San Fransisco is next.
General Conference is my 10 month mark and I'll have two months left for my year mark. So Scotty Jr. III will be a year old when I get back.
I'm serious about the Macon mission being dissolved and that one area. Some things had to be re-done. A couple areas have been closed down. We don't have enough missionaries to fill all the areas we have. So some areas had to be combined. So missionaries can go to our missions new areas.
It's been raining off and on the last couple days and through this week. So it's been cooler.
I'll try to do better with the letter this week.
-Elder Garcia
(Note: this color is Mom's inserts)
(About the rededication of the Atlanta, Georgia Temple)
(An email to Kaleen)
Yeah we have schedules according to our districts. I'll be there April 7 or 8th I can't remember which one doing the booty's (coverings for the shoes before going into the Temple). And I think another day we go is when we have transfers which is the 13th. And one other day, but I don't know cause I don't know if I'll be in a different district. Right now I'm only 6 exits off the freeway, north of the temple. Once it's open we'll get to go once a quarter with our zone.
There's a storm coming through this week so it's been nice and it's raining off and on. The pollen is coming out and it'll get worse, it'll get thicker which will be interesting. Which means I have 2 months till I hit a year, yay!
I'm pretty excited too. I'll be the only one on a mission when he comes (baby Scott)! That might be weird to say. But it's kind of cool that I can say that.
It will be interesting to see what Ruger (Scott and Kaleen's german shepherd) does. You should take pictures of them two, showing what Ruger's reaction is.
-Elder Garcia
Yeah, the "ring of fire" has started. Chile, Japan, other places in the ring of fire. Everybody is thinking that San Fransisco is next.
General Conference is my 10 month mark and I'll have two months left for my year mark. So Scotty Jr. III will be a year old when I get back.
I'm serious about the Macon mission being dissolved and that one area. Some things had to be re-done. A couple areas have been closed down. We don't have enough missionaries to fill all the areas we have. So some areas had to be combined. So missionaries can go to our missions new areas.
It's been raining off and on the last couple days and through this week. So it's been cooler.
I'll try to do better with the letter this week.
-Elder Garcia
(Note: this color is Mom's inserts)
(About the rededication of the Atlanta, Georgia Temple)
(An email to Kaleen)
Yeah we have schedules according to our districts. I'll be there April 7 or 8th I can't remember which one doing the booty's (coverings for the shoes before going into the Temple). And I think another day we go is when we have transfers which is the 13th. And one other day, but I don't know cause I don't know if I'll be in a different district. Right now I'm only 6 exits off the freeway, north of the temple. Once it's open we'll get to go once a quarter with our zone.
There's a storm coming through this week so it's been nice and it's raining off and on. The pollen is coming out and it'll get worse, it'll get thicker which will be interesting. Which means I have 2 months till I hit a year, yay!
I'm pretty excited too. I'll be the only one on a mission when he comes (baby Scott)! That might be weird to say. But it's kind of cool that I can say that.
It will be interesting to see what Ruger (Scott and Kaleen's german shepherd) does. You should take pictures of them two, showing what Ruger's reaction is.
-Elder Garcia
Monday, March 14, 2011
(About the sweater vests I sent for winter?) They were pretty good. I used them a couple times. Next winter will probably be worse than this last winter since this last one was worse than last year and that was supposedly the "worst" winter Georgia's had.
Am and Charlie. How are they doing? and how is Kaleen doing?
I heard that a hurricane or whatever hit California that came from Japan like two or three days ago?
Our only real solid investigator is Don. He's somewhat progressing. He finally started reading the Book of Mormon like a month or two ago. He's still in 1 Nephi probably at chapter 14. Every time we go over he's on the next chapter and he asks questions about the chapter. It's starting to frustrate me because it's like he wants to know and learn everything there is you can learn in the Book of Mormon. But I'm just glad he's actually reading the Book of Mormon now.
Elder Jordan and I went to the wards scout auction on Saturday night. It was pretty fun. They raised like $5,260 somewhere around there. I couldn't believe how much money was being bet on some of these things.
So now that the Macon mission is being dissolved our mission got four new areas and they split the Lilburn stake. We now have the Conyers stake and the four new areas were added to that stake. I think a ward and a branch combined in the Athens stake. Three missionaries are covering an area almost twice as big as the Roswell Stake, isn't that neat? Well they're in a car so they're lucky.
Well I think that's about it.
-Elder Garcia
Am and Charlie. How are they doing? and how is Kaleen doing?
I heard that a hurricane or whatever hit California that came from Japan like two or three days ago?
Our only real solid investigator is Don. He's somewhat progressing. He finally started reading the Book of Mormon like a month or two ago. He's still in 1 Nephi probably at chapter 14. Every time we go over he's on the next chapter and he asks questions about the chapter. It's starting to frustrate me because it's like he wants to know and learn everything there is you can learn in the Book of Mormon. But I'm just glad he's actually reading the Book of Mormon now.
Elder Jordan and I went to the wards scout auction on Saturday night. It was pretty fun. They raised like $5,260 somewhere around there. I couldn't believe how much money was being bet on some of these things.
So now that the Macon mission is being dissolved our mission got four new areas and they split the Lilburn stake. We now have the Conyers stake and the four new areas were added to that stake. I think a ward and a branch combined in the Athens stake. Three missionaries are covering an area almost twice as big as the Roswell Stake, isn't that neat? Well they're in a car so they're lucky.
Well I think that's about it.
-Elder Garcia
Monday, March 7, 2011
We haven't been getting that much rain. The other night we had a thunder storm and it hailed and they were the size or marbles, it was pretty neat.
We live across the street from a fire station and alarms will go off for certain weather. Like one or two days after the thunder storm the alarm went off again but nothing happened that day, it was weird.
One other thing I keep forgetting to say. 3 or 4 weeks ago Michelle Obama was in my area. I heard she went to speak at Northpoint Community Church (a big mega church, I've been inside, it's pretty nice. Maybe I'll baptize Andy Stanley. He has three mega churches and both my areas covered two of his churches.) and I also heard that she was just driving by. Traffic was super bad. We were going to dinner and it took over an hour and it was probably like a normal 5 minute drive right down the road.
A member also told us that Jeff Foxworthy likes to go to the Home Depot in Alpharetta (it's probably the only close one around) which is right down the road from us too. It's right next to the Walmart we always go to.
-Elder Garcia
We live across the street from a fire station and alarms will go off for certain weather. Like one or two days after the thunder storm the alarm went off again but nothing happened that day, it was weird.
One other thing I keep forgetting to say. 3 or 4 weeks ago Michelle Obama was in my area. I heard she went to speak at Northpoint Community Church (a big mega church, I've been inside, it's pretty nice. Maybe I'll baptize Andy Stanley. He has three mega churches and both my areas covered two of his churches.) and I also heard that she was just driving by. Traffic was super bad. We were going to dinner and it took over an hour and it was probably like a normal 5 minute drive right down the road.
A member also told us that Jeff Foxworthy likes to go to the Home Depot in Alpharetta (it's probably the only close one around) which is right down the road from us too. It's right next to the Walmart we always go to.
-Elder Garcia
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