3/25/13

dude that kids awesome! little fridge child. it is wierd how old the little ones are getting haha. i dont like it really. my new area is extremely flat. a crap ton of trees and ponds which is both cool and not cool cause theres no distance anywhere. its like living in a box sometimes. the branch is pretty awesome though. lots going on it it and the testimonies of the people who go are very stong for the most part. they are growing so its good. this week the most mentionable thing was that i had the most gross dinner ive had yet on my mission. so nasty. just thinking about it kinda clouds all my other experiences. haha. the coolest thing i guess that happened was on tuesday. we taught a lady the plan of salvation. our second time meeting with her. she kept all her commmitments from the first time by reading the bom a pamphlet and she watched the restoration dvd. she told us she knew it was true and that joseph smith really had the first vision. so awesome. so naturallywe offer baptism.... not cool. she knew it was true but she said she grew up in her pentecostal church and has been rooted there and cannot be uprooted cause she loves it and her pastor. naturally this is saddening. we pretty much told her everything we could but she said she probably doesnt want to learn more for now. so heres the cool part. i was like "ok, so i have to say this cause its my job to bring you closer to Christ and if i dont i'll be leaving you without giving you a full chance. so, you fully understand and realize that you are following satan and a man instead of following Jesus Christ knowing that these things are true?" and she went back into her preacher being so great and all that crap. so we are gonna give her some time and bring some members over there and hopefully she will be able to slowly transistion in. it was just cool to say something so blunt, super sad though that even that didnt work. hopefully its stewing in her soul right now. haha. other than that. we have zone conference starting tomorrow and wednesday. not much else going on. oh we have a baptism this week too on saturday.

love you all.

E. Kyle Dalton

3/18/13

hello family,

dude coach reiter! i miss that guy. is he still coaching the waterpolo team. howd katie do in her meet. good job with the gym. i've stilll been doing insantity and p90x . i messed up my back last night stretching. something well outta place. i felt it haha. its a little better today after insanity so thats good though. katie driving is a scary thought. she bettter drive my truck to keep her out of trouble. theres no where to make out in that thing haha. why do you drive to lugo 4 times everyday? that seems a little excessive. ha.  thats crazy that so many daltons are getting married all at once.  have fun with youth conference. not much has been going on with me. my comp is still cool haha. we've gotten some new investigators this week that should be solid if they take the steps. for some reason it seems like people will be completely in and believe it all and know what it means, but once you ask them to move you can see there high excitement drop from their faces haha. action is not a requirement out here for most churches. oh well, we'll see. we still have a few baptisms coming up soon. probably in the next month we could have 7. if everything goes how it should. maybe more. i think me and my pres are doing ok. haha i havent talked to him in awhile so who knows. it doesnt matter either way. i'm trying to be more obedient so it'll work out either way. i could go for some pinapple upsidown cake right about now. i havent made anything interesting lately. i've been eating a lot of salmon for lunches. i'm excited for saturday cause a lady in our ward is gonna make us chicken and waffles. mmhmm. the foods been pretty good so far. theres some sketchy places we eat at but its all good. i havent gotten sick yet cause i believe in Jesus so its all good. prayer works ha. linger longers are always a good idea. people show up when there's food. its sad. but true. oh, dad. if you dont mind moving to mississippi, i may have found you a job. haha. probably a good one too. my branch president is in industrial building. i told him about you. just saying. well have a good week everyone. good to hear from you. love you all

3/11/13 New Mission Address

hey mom,

the lairds can email me. our mission president just changed the rules so we can email anyone thats not in our mission boundaries. kyle.dalton@myldsmail.net  whats the youth conference gonna be? so you destroyed yourself at the gym huh? haha. you should make sure you stretch definately. i've been doing insanity and p90x so ive been getting pretty flexible compared to how i was. its great haha. the videos always make you stretch before and after the work out. good luck giving out the bom. its fun. theres a lot more adrenaline to it when you arent a missionary and used to doing it. haha. good luck. love you mama. read dads email to get the rest.

The Mission address has changed to:
Elder Kyle Dalton
175 Burnham Road
Brandon, MS 39208

katie,

how are ya? being good? becoming athletic? getting good grades? respect yourself! love you

connor, love you man. miss you. go outside and scrape your knees. dont get soft on me.

3/11/13

Dad,

I heard that rancho was making a mission. thats pretty cool. good to hear your baptism happened. especially good to hear the your missionaries are still working. i wish i could train. it would give me more reason to work hard. its hard sometimes. haha. things are going really good here though. we've got baptisms just showing up. im trying to figure out how to handle all the people we are teaching and need to teach while finding still. its hard in our area cause its sooo huge and spread out. i havent mastered it yet but i think we are closer to figuring out how we want to attack it all. twill be interesting. we have zone conference this month on the 26th so im hoping for a general authority. it always feels good to get rebuked. haha. i need to work on creating relationships myself. i've lost some of it in the business side. any new advice? glad to hear your still working. i know why you are. When did jordan get home? i knew he was due but when was it. as for me. the coolest thing thats happened lately. we were teaching a new member with her inactive family. and she has a schitzophrenic uncle that never talks. and we were teaching her having a hard time explaining what a testimony is, shes ten. and all the sudden her uncle started asking her directive questions explaining what a testimony is. haha it was pretty awesome. weve never heard him do more than mumble before, but he was clear as day. pretty awesome. love ya. have a good week.

E. Dalton

2/25/13

hi family. well it was a good week. got a lot done. found out im getting transferred tomorrow to a place called collins mississippi. apparently its a really small branch with good members so hopefully its all good. im sure it will be. im actually gonna miss this place haha. shocking but true. i wont miss the smell of the paper mill or the brown drinking water but i will miss it. hopefully everything is good at home. we are definately baptizing at least one person on saturday. her names dani we've been teaching her for like a month or two. but shes ready to go. the other guy is kinda unsure but we are hoping he pulls through by saturday. of course i wont be here but its cool that they are going for it anyways. well not much else to talk about so have a good week. hopefully i get a letter from you guys some day. haha love you all. bye

2/19/13

hey dad glad the kidney stone is gone! i dont envy you but congratulations on that. are you excercising or is it cause your not healthy from the stone and stuff. either way cool. haha. i recomment insanity. actually you would probably die doing it haha. its sucky. i am getting stonger and more fit though because of it. its been hard though cause for some reason it seems like everyones been wanting to take us out to eat a bunch everyweek. its a blessing and a curse. anyways. wish i could be there for the blessing. life goes on. idk who the redds are i dont think. but cool. was the whole family there? we have 3 baptisms planned for the second but idk if everyones gonna make it that day. we got some distance to go unless some miracles happen. we'll see. love you have a good week.

hi mom.

thanks for doing that for me on vday. thanks to katie too. i really appreciate it. she is pretty great. i hope you didnt spend to much money though cause i'm broke. haha. unless you were planning on helping out ;) i love you! I'm excited for joanna. she seems like shes focused and happy. its awesome. makes me happy. anyways. this week was really good. taught some new and old investigators and i found out that something i said to an investigator has been tugging at his heart for a little while from the other missionaries. its cool to know. im outta time cause the library is about to close but basically good week. and we saw a girl get blown up, not hurt dont worry. elder flint ate it hard mt biking, it was awesome. and thats pretty much it. love you have a good week

2/4/13

Hey family,

Sorry to here life sucks in the dalton family. Hopefully it gets better quick. I don't envy you dad. Haha, that sucks. Good attitude though, keep it up haha. The weather over here has been on and off. It's been really nice lately though. I've been trying to be more healthy too, I'm back to my normal weight haha. I gained like ten pounds but I'm ok now. Me and elder flint actually started insanity today to so I should start getting pretty fit soon. Should be sweet. I take a multivitamin and vitamin c and fish oil everyday. That's all I can afford haha. I'll have to go back and see what janaes sleeping suggestion was cause I don't remember. But yeah, things have been good here. I'm trying harder to keep the rules more fully. We got some new investigators and 3 baptismal dates for march second. Hopefully we can help that happen. I think it will. I may or may not be here though for it cause this transfer is only going to be 5 weeks cause the MTC has to catch up with the new missionaries coming in. So we'll see if I'm here after that. It'll be 6 months soon. Pretty cool. Anyways. Love you guys, have a good week.

2/11/13

howdy

so i didnt get a letter. hope everythings ok. i assume its in the draft box or something. if not no biggie. hows the sicknesses? everyone alive and well.

this week has been pretty good for me. we had interviews and found some new investigators. the highlight was interviews by far. i finally got to have a whats the deal talk with my president how i know he didnt trust me and i resented him for it cause i didnt deserve it. haha. thats the very short version of it. but it was really good. we are both what seems to be on the same page now. it has made things go much more smoothly for me. it just feels better to have the burden of it gone. its bothered me for the last 4 months so it was time. anyways. still have 3 baptisms planned. johnny chris and danny. we're also teaching a few other people that hopefully pick up and we can move forward. things have been good. i've also been working out everymorning with e. flint. we've been doing insanity. this is our second week. the first week was horrible but its getting better everyday. feels nice to know i'm not gonna be fat for to much longer haha. anyways. thats pretty much it. have a good week. love you all

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1/28/13

hello family,

 glad to hear all is well for the most part. thats to bad about mount sac. guess it wasnt the one. at least some good comes out of your bosses surgery though haha. my new comps name is elder flint. hes a pretty cool dude, so everything is going smooth. idk how well our teaching has come together yet but we havent had any problems and have been getting things done. we have a few more investigators now and another baptismal date. we'll see if its solid or not soon. my teaching skills are whatever. haha. idk what great is but i think i do ok. i cant really tell for myself. you'll have to ask someone who knows ha. i keep up with my new comp just fine thanks. haha we are on the same page so its good. we're both trying to be obedient and trying to do work. last week we mapped out all of the inactives on a big map so we can get them all seen inbetween appointments and tracting. there was 165 of them so it took some time to map and number them but it should make visiting them much more productive cause we can see whos close to where were going and visit a bunch at one time. we did have a cold spell for awhile but its picking back up to warm. the weather has been nice on and off. its cold then warm then cold. its pretty spaztic. i got a new jacket at an auction for 15 bucks. so that was nice. haha we go to pec and ward council. ward council im not sure why but we go do rescueing splits after pec. we just visit whoever seems like they could use some extra attention or inactives. its kinda cool. our new bishop is allll about missionary work so its good. as for the new testament. i'm reading it too. its freaking good. i enjoy it a lot. the wisdom in Christ simplicity is way dope. to me anyways. ive been marking everytime the people are astonished by his doctrine too. its a lot. haha. i'm just trying to figure out how to do it too. i dont really know how to motivate myself to be honest. if im feeling lazy. i just have to get up and go. motivation usually comes through more work. once i talk to someone its usually back up. its just sitting around that makes it worse. i havent been motivated for a few weeks till my comp change. not cause my comp before was bad cause he was awesome. we were both just ready for a change. so theres another motivator. change. find some new scenery or a new way to do it. monotamy is a motivation killer in my book. to be honest too. i dont really care when we dont have anyone to teach as long as we work. haha. that might sound bad, but as long as im trying it doesnt bother me at all. i'm cool with planting seeds. theres really no point in getting down about crap like things not working out with people. its there loss. i just feel bad for them. my struggles come from others that i have to work with mostly. not even the missionaries anymore. haha. or the ward members. but i'll deal with those when the time comes. i havent got to eat anything fun lately but tonight we are having crawfish. i havent had that before so it should be good. i hear its a messy dinner, which means fun i guess? and the car is very very nice haha. especially cause we have a lot of miles. so we can go see people we normally wouldnt be able to. so all and all its been a good week, worked pretty well, helped some people. it was cool. work hard people. especially the little ones. john 7:16-17 its kinda my go to now days. its the only way ive gotten a testimony so i hold onto it haha. love you all. have a good week.

1/23/13

hellooo, i got my new companion yesterday, his name is elder flint. so far hes really cool. hes been out for like 9 months or something.i think itll be good. cause he wants to work hard and so do i. so we are both using it as a chance to kinda restart. should be fun. transfers were nuts this time around and completely unorganized. thus the reason no email on monday, cause pday was transfer day and there was no way for us to get to the library. anyways, good news! i have a car full time now. thats nice. not much new stuff going on for us besides adjusting living with a new person, but he likes things clean like i do (i know shocking) so itll be nice. haha. anyways.thats pretty sweet sister niles husband went to church! i dont think ive even met him. i got the picture of landon, hes lookin good. glad to here it all went well, is there any permanent stuff or is he all fixed up? thanks for writing since everyone else didnt haha. have a good week.

11/13/13

sup pops,

whats up? mt sac huh? is that gonna cover all the bills? haha i assume its a management position but what is it if its not? we currently have one investigator thats not really progressing except that she is reading the book of mormon which is cool. we havent really got to talk to her much about it cause of sickness and shes in the middle of moving. she'll still be in our area though which is cool. most people have been pretty flaky. they say we can teach and they never answer again haha. missionary work is so easy as a non missionary. if you seek the experiences they are everywhere. all you gotta do is watch for opportunities to ask a question about someone elses beliefs then tell them yours when they ask back. ha. so simple in the old days for me. people are complicated when you wear a tie. anyways. no biggie. hows connor doing in basketball? killin it? to bad to hear about bishop eggleston. hope that all works out. love you. keep your head up. E. Your son.

Hey mama,

sleep apnea, idk but i suck at getting to sleep. if i dont take anything it takes forever! melatonin has been a life saver for me. my brain just doesnt shut off. but ive also been told i stop breathing when im sleeping. like enough that i've had to be woken up cause it scared joanna. ha... i'm suprised you just realized that youre old, i guess water skiing doesnt qualify you as young anymore, what has this world come too. good to hear jays baby is ok and well. did he just have blockage in his intestines or what? i was pretty much sick all week and i'm still recovering so we didnt do much most the week, plus its been raining so i figure its not much of a good combo, i lied in dads letter though. we do have another investigator that we taught for a second time last night haha. his baptismal date is set for march 2 actually haha, hopefully that pulls through. it'll just be a matter of him having the courage.he's got good support though cause his wife is a member. not really anything else that has gone on. oh! i'm getting a new companion next week cause E whatcott is getting transferred. i'm kinda sad but excited, and scared cause i dont want anyone sucky or lame. we'll see though. it is what it is. anyways. have a good week. love you all.

Elder kyle dalton

1/6/13

yo,

Good to hear the baby is ok. poor thing is gonna have a holiday birthday, what a tragedy haha, i know how it is. oh well, anyways, sorry hunting wasnt anygood. our hunt hasnt been that successful either, life goes on. we keep finding potentials but then they bail on us. its great! poor folks dont know what there missing. i officially hate the phrase "have a blessed day" it drives me nuts. along with other phrases of the south, most of which involving massive amounts of ignorance and false doctrine haha. its all good though. i'm learning some stuff. its wonderful. i talked to the mission presidents wife about getting tested for sleep apnia. apparently i would have to go home to do a sleep study though. pretty lame. we'll see what happens with that. i probably wont be going home however. hope i dont die in this place haha. though theres parts of the south i really enjoy... most of it, eh... haha me and elder whatcott are getting along.thats nice. at least i assume he still likes me who knows. you never can tell now days haha. as for investigators. at the moment theres no solid anything. lots of potential though. glad to hear all is well. have a good week.

Elder Dalton

12/31/12

To be honest I'm not sure what youre looking for with the godhead. With the biology is just clicked how Christ can be him and God at the same time, probably not anything thatll help your lesson, but every human has 46 chromosomes, 23 from mom 23 from dad, Christ is the father because he has his chromosomes, just like I got dads, I'm dad in representation because I'm his DNA just like yours, I'm a dalton no matter what, I take you and dad with me no matter where I go, just like Christ. This probably is very elementary when you get it or here it but it worked for me, it's either easy or I'm rambling with no articulation. It feels good to speak English. Anyways, the best way I think of Gods love is the fact that God sacrificed his son instead of himself. Just like you'd die before you let me die I'm sure God would do the same, making it harder to do, requiring understanding that it had to be done by a mortal and by someone else. Christs love is shown to me by his willing ness to take the pain that wasn't required of him just so he can take care of us and know how it feels to feel alone. And I think his loneliness was the most API ful, but I also think its the most common pain for man. Separation from god wasn't something he expected in my opinion. The holy ghost, the one who lets us know we actually are loved. He's how we know we're forgiven when we sin, separation wise idk if you'll have to explain that much, but I have to remind myself that the greatest testimony of it is the fact that Joseph smith saw them separate. Rid probably doesn't help. But idk what you were looking for so yeah. We haven't had any cool contacts with Christmas to be honest but it was a good conversation starter and people seemed to listen more in general. Glad you enjoyed Christmas. Hope you're better soon. Love you

Hey dad,

I think I have sleep Apnia too. Have you ever taken melatonin? It's natural so you don't have to worry about all that. It works awesome for me. It helps anxiety too when I have my mouth piece in. Just an idea. I'm glad you don't have cancer! That's exciting.good luck hunting, kill a couple for me. Love ya,

Hey Connor, thanks brotha! I'll make sure I try real hard, I miss you too man, love ya tons

12/17/12

Hey hope mom feels better. I haven't had time to write but real quick love you all! And there's a package coming in the mail to our house for Joanna. If you could wrap it and give it to her on Christmas Day not before that would be awesome. She has no idea it exists. But she got a package today from me with all the family's gifts and Christmas cards for you to hand out. Love ya see ya Christmas!

12/9/12

Hello Family,

 

     Glad everything is going well! pretty excited about the new baby i dont know ha. its about time theres one that looks like a Dalton. i was getting worried. anyways, this week was pretty good. we got some potentials as usual but some look promising. we'll see on the go back. we need to find some solids real quick since we got no one to teach now. which is actually the best part about the week. Susan was baptized yesterday in the morning and confirmed right after that in sacrament meeting. prettty cool. she's definately ready and is going to be a great asset in the kingdom. its nice to know it for sure this time. haha. it was a really good baptism too. everything went well and a lot of the ward came to support which was awesome, cause thats not always the case from what ive heard and seen. the new bishop is all about missionary work though so things should be picking up soon hopefully. tomorrow(tuesday) is transfers but niether of us are going anywhere. we're both gonna be here for christmas and all that stuff. which is cool with me! theres a lot to be done out here. the whole excuse that the south is a dead zone is bull. i mean its not a baptize everyweek kinda place but theres definately people to be taught. eventually we'll figure out where they all are. haha. anyways, have a good week! Glad all is well. love ya.

 

Elder Dalton

 

for the gifts, i think i'd just rather have the boot money put into my account. the music thing really isnt that huge of a deal. and we found some little speaker thing that works well for 15 bucks at big lots.. as for the ipod! chit chat with joanna on that to make sure she doesnt have a plan with one that she has. whatever works best i dont care. but so you dont both send one. you could also ask her to help you with the music thing. love you all

12/2/12

Hello everyone,

 

Dude! this one was a rough one to read! especially in a library where there are people around haha. It's wierd having people be proud of me... and its especially wierd to be a good example. haha. Anyways, i did fine it was just rough. I'm pumped for Ryan! I knew it would come eventually, he's a naturally good guy. Just needed to come to the realization. haha. its a wierd phenomenon(if thats spelt right) eventually we get tired of being unhappy to the point that we refuse it. its annoying how it takes time though. it just shows that even the bad has to be done long enough to learn sometimes. timing is everything. good for him. Glad moms surgery went well. I figured it would. how's everything going with the job and everything pops? find a new one? keep the old one? whats the word? anyways, whys the area getting whitewashed? something bad happen? haha. we have transfers on the 11th and my 3 month trainging is over so either one of us could be moving. Probably elder whatcott if anyone but still. that would kinda be a bummer right before christmas but thats life. Susan is getting baptized sunday the 9th. i'm pretty excited for that! shes a rock. amanda has disappeared cause she got offended or something. once we find her she'll be fine but until then not much we can do. i'm just glad i know susans not gonna be that type. shes real. its shows cause shes been anti'd like crazy and it hasnt even phased her. not to mention she doesnt have support from most of her family. She's gonna be great though. It's like shes already a member. makes comments in class and talks to everyone. pretty sweet! we just gotta find some more people to teach now.haha. we've been getting shafted by a lot of potentials. which is fine but annoying. we even knocked on a guys door that didnt exist at the house the next time we went over haha. alright, now mom. dont be so hard on yourself. courage is a pain in the butt. just keep it simple, dont worry about if its the perfect thing, and if you want to get better at following the spirit all you gotta do is practice. i'm not even good at it yet haha, what i have been trying to do though and what i used to do when i was better at it, was just follow my thoughs. if i had a thought to talk to someone about something i would just do it. i'm trying to do that now too. but it's a lot easier to be a missionary when you arent one believe it or not. cause your normal and missionaries arent. another thing. its not your job to teach. just be happy and normal and informative then let the missionaries teach. you'll probably notice that most prompting are just to do or say something nice. then eventually the gospel will come up if you look for the opportunity. Here's what to be prepared for. rejection. haha it sucks no matter what. but it actually doesnt happen very often in the way people think it does. like this. hey wanna go to church? no thanks. alright cool well your welcome anytime. boom done. where you live you'll probably never have a person say something mean. and even if they do who cares. at least your conscience is clear for speaking up. thats actually mosty what i am aiming for. a clear conscience haha. when i dont listen to little thoughts i always feel crappy, but when i just suck it up i feel great. its nice.love you all. oh i need face wash and moisturizer. that would be extremely nice. =) Elder Dalton

 

 

Grandpa!!

 

What a pleasant suprise! It was super good to hear from you. Glad to hear everything is going well. Why the heck did Gpa need a heart stint? better work on that! if you die when i'm gone i'll kill you! glad it went well though. so since your balance is better does that mean you'll be playing basketball again? its like all we play here... i hate it. haha. we play every other day in the mornings as a district so it helps with excercise but its not my best sport. at all. speaking of the temple. i wish i could go to one! we dont have one in our mission however. its super lame. enjoy that for me ok. i love you Gramps.

 

Grandma!

I could hear your voice when you said you dont let anyone talk for you! haha. made me miss you! i'm glad youre spending so much time at my house since I'm not even there!! lame. So are you keeping grandpa in line? i dont know why i'm asking, of course you are. I Love you!

 

Kyle

 

Have a good week!

11/25/12

yo yo yo,

 

Thanks giving was good! there really wasnt much difference in the food however, at least not with the two meals i had. pretty much the same. Elder Whatcott and I were trying to find a football game but unfortunately out here, people only watch football. even though they are so huge into it, none of them play it, so lame.glad to hear you all had fun. we got pretty well taken care of. so what stage is grandma dalton in? idk anything about her.i'm glad you got to hang out with joanna a little for the baby shower. well played... haha. Mom Good luck with your surgery. i'm sure it will go well. Dude! i didnt know jay was having a boy! so dope. lucky! its gonna be cool having so many little weiners running around when i get back. i'm sure laura or someone will have a new one by the time i'm home haha. feel free to send me some pictures in the christmas box you'll be sending me. haha. speaking of which. i bought some boots and another special suprise that you'll get to see in my christmas card. but the total was around 150 if you'd like to make that my christmas gift! haha. mostly the boots would be nice. they were a little pricy. my shoes just werent cutting it though. idk what else you could really get me though to be honest. just a thought. Good times.anyways. missionary work.susan is planning on getting baptized this saturday or sunday! heck ya! shes awesome! i'm excited for her. she was so ready for when we got to her. but shes made some big changes. pretty cool. as for other work. its all potentials for now.we'll see if anything picks up. It's hard out here to get people to think haha. they all are aiming for Jesus, and they'll get him, but its hard to get them to see that they need to aim higher. this week has been a lot better with some things i've been learning, i've been able to focus better. I've heard back from jaron remington a couple times which is awesome. love that guy. well have an awesome week. love you all.

Elder Dalton

 

 Katie how the heck do you have unlimited everything? and how much do you pay for it?what the crap! good job on the water polo by the way. keep it up! dont forget though, youre a girl. so once the cap comes off you gotta go back to that. haha dont be a water polo player 24/7. To many girls didnt understand that played when i was in school ha. love you.

Tuesday 11/13/12

ello family,

well another eventful week, kinda. Amanda, the woman that we baptized is taking huge leaps now that shes baptized and has been definately becoming a brighter person with the love of christ in her heart. thats probably the coolest thing thats been happening this week. she's all excited about everything! haha its pretty sweet. much better than before her baptism. very cool. I havent figured out yet what i am supposed to learn from my experience with her yet but i'll let you know when i figure it out. all i know is that its fun to watch and to talk to her about the change thats come. when is the baby due for kristen? we share a car in our area so we have a bike every other week and a car every other week. my bike is currently broken however so we are walking. till tomorrow when we get the car back. we switch at the district meeting every wednesday. when it comes to voting i didnt get to cause i didnt have an absontee ballot but we are allowed to. pretty bummed how it turned out. everyone around here is pretty bummed too. people are pretty political out here. if they studied their religions as much as they watched fox news it would be a lot easier to teach them. instead they just listen to whatever their preachers say and thats it. they say they are saved by grace but it doesnt seem that their faith in Jesus Christ is worth much because most of them dont believe in revelation. its interesting how they think they can get answers to there prayers but not recieve revelation. its all take and take out here, not much give. pretty crazy. idk if that made sense. its just like the scriptures say. lots of religions counting on the interpretations of man instead of what the spirit can teach us. whatever. everything with our other investigators is moving along pretty smoothly. bumps but progression. there arent many who dont get a little taste of anti out here. but its all good. as long as they let us answer their questions it seems to turn out ok. studying is 100% my favorite thing out here even though its a little selfish. but really its for everyone so whatever haha. I have no idea what i could want for christmas. everything has to do with guns or music, out here. i could use an ipod player/ clock radio thing for our apartment. that would be nice. and if its full of josh groban and adrea boccili that would be good too. we have one of the josh groban cds though so make sure you ask which one before you buy any if you decide to do that. other than that there isnt much i could use. maybe some layrite palmade haha. if you could send me some money i could buy a gun and ship it home =) its a lot cheaper here for everything! and its legal to buy haha. anyways. idk much about the pictures i sent and the format. i just send them as they come. they worked for joanna so maybe you can see how that works. i wrote kenny a letter yesterday by the way. so he should be getting it by thursday or so. maybe longer. idk. its hard to write people when theres so much to do on mondays especially when we dont have a car. but its on the way for him.

Katie,

Nice work on the spanish test! alright water polo... something you have to figure out is the ability of each one of your teammates. so my advice throw it so your pass is always catchable but with speed. people gotta learn how to catch! but, adjust your speed to each player. in practice throw it fast enough that it pushes them to have to try harder and it will get them ready for a game situation. but keep it reasonable for them. a good player will make it so the team has to rise with them. but you gotta push them at a reasonable rate. thats all. idk how else to explain it. push them. but dont make them feel stupid. you play in a game how you practice. if your practices are fast your games will be better. speed speed speed. power. lobs are for sissies. thats cool that your friends are coming up to you. dont be scared to invite them to things. more will probably say yes than you think. keep up the good work.

Love you all, Elder Dalton

Monday 11/5/2012

howdy, i am in an apartment. its great not having to worry about anyone but yourself. haha. its nice to go home and not have to worry about being polite to someone. anyways. good luck with the extra missionaries haha. idk how we are going to be affected yet but i'm sure we will be getting a ton. the south needs it. everyone thinks we are going to hell. its to bad they dont know hell is before the judgement. here ive learned ignorance is ignorance. theres no bliss to it haha. its sad to see how closed off people are to truth because they are taught to fear it. if they would open there ears and eyes they would be much better off. ive realized that truth actually opens you up. its wierd, cause you'd think the more you know the more you would close off from learning about others religion. but i have no problem listening and trying to understand them. but people here refuse to try and understand us down here haha. its all good though. it makes it sweeter when we find people with a heart and a brain. make sure you dont hurt any of my stuff if you are moving haha. i dont have much to my name but whats left, i need for happiness, my surf boards especially. so be gentle. as for your missionary experience. if you pray for them itll happen, thats for sure. dont worry to much about it being perfect though. tell katie i got her letter in the mail by the way. so this parts for her. in math, if you struggle with the why. dont, just realize its how its done and it doesnt matter why as long as you get the right answer in the end. haha. find one way that works and dont try to learn all of the ways. spanish, practice writing words down. thats all you can do. write write write, dont look and write some more. thats what i did in anatomy.thats all i got for you. you should also see if joanna could help you out. shes good at spanish even though she acts like shes not haha. shes pretty busy but it would be worth a shot. get help. being sucky at school is just how it goes. find a way to deal with it. dont procrastinate. take good notes. enjoy waterpolo. release your aggression there so you can focus on your hw later. im thinking about playing when i get home, since i'll have more time hopefully cause i dont think i want to be a doctor anymore. but yeah thats what i got. glad youre liking dance. one more thing. if you think that schools not hard than its not. thoughts are the seeds of action. if you think its gonna be easy it will be. good luck haha love ya. back to everyone else/mom, we had our first baptism yesterday. pretty cool. amanda got baptized. that was nice. susan is still a working progress, shes awesome though. its fun to see her progress. we had a way cool experience this last week with her that i dont feel like typing but it was dope. the spirit was super strong. have a good week. love you.

Dad,

sucks being fat huh? haha im feelin it too. the food is killing me here. i havent gained a lot of weight but i am definately slower. and thats with working out. why does elder smart want them seen? just to say hi or cause they are inactive. its not my area but its in my district. i'll ask the other missionaries about them. as for being watched. amen brother. people are like hawks. our ward likes us but there is a way high standard for everything. people think we are the fix it crew too. not so but we help where we can. theres a little hipocracy if you ask me. as i understand it. at baptism we all become representatives of Christ. but i get what youre saying haha. anyways. i'm working on figuring out the balance of a follower of Christ. all in due time hopefully. have a good week. love ya

Tuesday 10/28/2012

Good to hear you got a job either way right now. Don't be scared to ask for a raise haha. Glad the truck is running I figured it was the battery. This week was pretty good, Sunday we had 3 of 5 investigators show up, one that wasn't there had a good excuse and is solid though. Our first baptism is this Sunday, her names Amanda, middle aged lady, real cool. So that's exciting. She was pretty prepared when we got to her, she has a friend in our ward that introduced us to her. Sweet. Anyways not much else new this week, same old stuff. Mostly teaching investigators which is nice. Most of them are moving right along, they mostly have baptismal dates but I don't want to count on them to much with how much crap we see going on with a lot of them, Satan is such a you know what. Haha  Good luck on your surgery mom, it's time to get that fixed ha, I'm doing pretty good at getting cleaner. The dishes are done right now and we aren't even home haha, trying to stick to the rule that dad talked about with the dishes. It's easier for me to focus when I study when the place is clean. I even make my bed and fold my laundry haha. So it's good. As for connors question, I haven't got to use the technique cause everyone is white where I am haha, total bummer. Have a good week people!