March 18 email: My camera broke!

Hey my camera broke is it under warranty? anyway life is going great my comp is in a bunch of pain cause he needs a root canal it reminds me of mine. but he is lucky because there are 3 Mormon dentists here. i think he got it to humble him hahaha, he is totally the missionary who talks about how he was state champion in everything and was gonna play college ball but got too many concussions hahahaah anywho there are 18 yr olds in the mission right now and also some weems too. i havent seen them yet though. transfers are next week. im hoping i stay here its a great area. you should go to the temple more it would be super fun. also do you have a copy of my setting apart blessing? i think i lost mine..... well Lindsay is doing super good she is working on getting her patriarchal blessing pretty soon. also i cant write more then one e mail per person anymore so sorry about that. but we can now write anyone we wont to, so you should get me a bunch of peoples email addresses.  well tell baby scar i love her and hopefully all is well at the home front. byeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee

A cute email from Elder Lee:
 Knaphus Family

hey how are you all doing? I lost your mom's email address, and i receive a letter from your mom.

I was about to write a letter to respond to Sister Leslie Knaphus but Im going back to home on June which means, not very much left.

So I want to say, Thank you for the letters and all the love and advise for me.

She also asked about my address and i got little confussed about that. Im not sure if she asked about my mission address or back home address cuz since im in CEM with Elder knaphus, it will be a same address for 2 years.

but anyway, sounds like Elder Knaphus and his boy are doing good(if one missionary trains new missionary, we call it as you got birth, so new missionary is Elder knaphus's boy), and im doing also good, i have 2 companions now which is 3 Elders. It is pretty nice.

 It was great experience with Elder Knaphus for me. We both learn a lot, It wasnt always easy for both of us, but that strengthen both of us too. His is a great missoinary. I also miss all the conversation that we had all together.

 It is ok if something doesnt make sense, cuz i dont know how to write good haha.

anyway you all have great day and see you again

Email March 11th:

Hey hows life going? things are going well here. how was your B day? what did you get? did loggy get lasik yet? transfers are coming up in the next couple weeks so one of us will be going:( but thats all chill. Innisfail is a really cool area with lots of things going on. we should have another baptism this next month. maybe i can score a birthday baptism. ha it would be pretty cool but unlikely. my birthday falls on a P-day so I'm super excited about that, we have a member in our ward from Antigua a little island in the west indies and he is so freakin funny he only eats cute animals haha he is the opposite of a vegetarian. his son is the one who will be baptized soon so it will be cool seeing him with his gnarly long dreads in the waters of baptism. and his name is bro Joseph so its like talking to a black Joseph Smith. well not much is new Lindsay was confirmed and her mom is feeding us this Saturday. oh her mom is gonna send you a letter, it will be a great missionary opportunity for you to write her back and talk about how the gospel has blessed your family so prepare yourself. if you do a good enough job she just might be baptized. she has a son who is a bit of a rebel so she is super impressed that we would serve two years so i think she will write you about how awesome i am hahahahahahah anyway i hear America is supposed to get bombed today so that would be a bummer hopefully that wont happen. you need to tell Logan to update me on the gun world. i hope all is well i sure do love you and I'm grateful i was raised in a home like ours. its crazy how many people don't have a good family anymore. Satan is trying hard to destroy families. well keep up the good work          eat drink and be merry- elder knaphus

We got this picture from the mission home today... It is from Christmas!!

Looks like a great bunch of missionaries!  Can you find Elder K and Elder Lee?

Right in the middle!!

Email March 4th: The Church is True

Well ill tell you about Lindsay's baptism a little bit.her mother came and brought a chocolate fountain it was pretty cool. Lindsey bore her testimony after the baptism she said i know from the softest part of my heart and the most logical part of my brain that this church is true. it was really cool. her mom started to cry and stuff it was nice. her mom is having us over for supper this week and we will teach her the plan of salvation so we are super excited about that. and we are starting to get lots of members really excited about missionary work so its really cool lots of people are giving us referrals and stuff so this area is really cool. throughout teaching Lindsay we have talked about her being the pioneer for her family and so at her baptism we gave her a plaque that said pioneer and had the definition on it, it was sweet. there were lots of people crying and what not. but its been a good week now we just need to find our next victim hahahahha

oh and Lindsay fell off a cliff while hiking and broke her back and leg and healed in 2 weeks because she was hikin with the young buck who baptized her and he gave her a blessing

 For my birthday Riley finally sent some pictures!!  Best present ever!!

 Beautiful Innesfail, Canada

 Funny Elder Knaphus

 Our study room!! (the basement of a members house)

 Here is my bed!!

  Crazy haircut "I did it myself"

Valentine treat from Tammy!!

 

 

Email: Feb 25th "Obedience"

 I'll let you know how Lindsay is doing. she is super pumped for her baptism and our last lesson with her was just going over the interview questions and set up the baptismal service. she is praying right now about who should baptize her and talk at her baptism.  im hoping she has some members from here do everything because then she will have a closer bond with the members. but i have a feeling she will chose one of us, oh well. but it's really neat because her family was very against her being baptized and they had lots of anti material and her mom decided to come meet with us and we taught her the restoration. and it was super powerful and she wants to meet us again. hopefully she will get baptized as well. she wants to have us over for supper and take a tour of the church with her whole family. but it will be exciting, ill be able to take my first pictures with someone I've taught getting baptized. im glad you have been reflecting obedience. it is the very first law of heaven. and is the only way to experience true joy in this life.  we have really been focusing on 100% obedience but it is a very hard thing. as missionaries we are expected to forsake all and follow Christ. as elder Holland said at judgement day we will be asked if we loved Christ if we really loved him and we are taught that if we love him we must keep his commandments and he that keepeth my commandment is loved of the father and by Christ and Christ will manifest himself unto us.  thats  a very special promise and god always keeps his promises. if you think about charity it really has many meanings we must love like Christ but also love Christ, that's why charity is the greatest of all of gods gifts. and like it says in Moroni if we are found possessed with charity we will become purified even as he is pure. well there is proof that i haven't been just wasting all my study time thinking about guns and stuff. you will have to tell Cody i love him. Well have a great day!!!!!!!!

February 18th email: "This *ish is the TRUTH"

well things are going good. so the girl that is getting baptized was getting opposition from her parents and so we met with her mom and were like this *ish is the TRUTH and she was like awwww crap. then we were like, we are gonna answer all your questions until you get baptized too. then she was like, wow your church is the bomb. so she wants to take a tour of the church and take the lessons. it was sick!  Lindsey the girl getting baptized was so stoked! and now we are going to eat supper at their house next week. so hopefully we will be baptizing a family soon. it was just cool cause they went from being totally anti to wanting to meet with us. well today i tried to send pics through the comp but the library doesn't let you...  well anyway today our ghetto shower broke. its just a little concrete thing and the floor broke haha it sucks. so now we have to take turns showering with 70 year olds. oh well.   a guy in my ward is gonna have me come to his house after he goes shooting to clean his guns for service haha   well tomorrow a bunch of 19 yr old girls are coming out and supposedly they are really cute. haha should be fun. dang you are going to have to tell co jay i love himm. i heard from elder lee the other day he is doing good it was funny to hear that cute asain voice again haha.  I;m prophesying that next conference they will announce that sisters and elders can be companions so that we can get married and serve the lord at the same time... kill two birds with one stone type a thing. tell stew to go on a mission. my companion does the hand rub thing that c diddy and garr both do it's really funny anytime he is excited. anyway hopefully i can date my comps sister when i get home cause she is a total weem. anywho stay classy and ill catch you on the flip side.

February 4th email:

 Man this week was just fantastic. im glad you are feeling better. people care about the super bowl but not as much.  I still dont even know who won... get logan a poster of jessica alba holding a gun for his birthday. hockey is the biggest sport here but all sports are played just like the US. yeah lots of people here are sick with the flu as well its crazy.

I asked is they needed a down comforter?:  we have like seven blankets each and elder George is doing fine. his family thinks he is dying though. they sent him a huge package with a heat blanket a sleeping bag and all sorts of silly things hahah

How is the weather?:   we have been having Chinooks so it stays pretty nice here. just stays around 0 degrees. elder George is dying though haha he cant handle the cold

Are you still doing p90x?:   we exercise but in this new area we can only really do ab ripper X so we do that every other day then i just do push ups the other days. ya my comp is a work out machine he played lots of sports.

Do you ever have a Dr. Pepper?:  i eat granola bars and fruit. the people we live with cook us B fast every morning. then i eat dank food with members for supper. i havent had soda on my mission. i sometimes eat at subway

January 28th email: Ripped my pants!

Things are going great here, my suit ripped, i have no idea how, but it did from my crack down to my knee so its pretty bad.... man Travis is a cutie pie i love him lots he will be an awesome missionary. well ill tell you the story of one of our investigators she is a really cute girl who was on vacation and she was in southern Alberta where everyone is Mormon and she fell and broke her back, ankle and arm. and she was stuck on a mountain but one of the people she was with was a Mormon and he gave her a priesthood blessing and she fully recovered in 2 weeks. and she knew it was the power of god so now she is meeting with us and the only reason she isn't baptized yet is because her parents are total D bags and are giving her a really hard time but she is super cool. there was a talk about pioneers at church and she mentioned that she is sad cause there is no one else in her family that are members and we told her that she was going to be the pioneer for her family and she started to cry and said she was going to talk to her parents. so that's really cool.   we are still living in the same place but we should be gone this week so i dont have an address for ya. the weird thing is the family we are staying with is on vacation so we have the whole house to ourselves. its pretty weird. hopefully we can get moved into a permanent place soon. well i hope C diddy has given you a blessing. it sounds like you got it pretty bad. its never fun. well i G2G byeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee love ya

 Things here in Innisfail are going really good. my comp is a stud and things are looking good we should have a baptism or two here pretty soon so thats cool. the ward here is super cool all the members are way strong and do lots of missionary work. i ripped my pants really bad this week luckily the lady we are living with is a jack of all trades and fixed them up for me. anyway not to much is going on we got stuck in snow really bad and some old farmer folk got us out with a tractor so that was fun. um the place we live in is freezing all the time so we do all of our studies in our bed to keep warm haha ummmmm