Dear Curtis,
I am writing this Sunday night. That’s a first. I will be at school tomorrow fixing the motor mount on Michelle and Jeff’s Honda. It is broken. Mr. Schirner is going to help me.
We got Clain’s Scooter back. It works now. The stater was the problem, so he is going to go get his permit renewed tomorrow so he can drive it. He is working 4, 10 hour days this summer.
We did not have a pigeon race Saturday because of bad weather it rained all weekend in Idaho. The other combine in Salt Lake let their birds out 500 miles and they still don't have birds. It was a good thing we did not fly so our 500 is next week. I have got to start training the young birds next week and get them going.
Grandpa Parkinson wants me to take your motorcycle to him. He wants to work on it. What do you think? Well I have got to go to bed so I can get up in the morning. I will check my email tomorrow at school. I Love You!
Love,
Dad
Hey, how are things going? I am doing good. Today we went to the seven waterfalls again with Elder Bartolomei and his companion Elder Essleman.
Things are going good. We have six people that have baptism dates for the twentieth of June, so we are pretty excited.
If grandpa wants my motorcycle, ask him how much he wants to pay and accept the offer and let him have it. Thank you so much.
Elder Goode
I don't think he wants to buy it. He just wants to work on it and fix it, then we can sell it.
If he wants to work on it, yeah. I know he loves to work with machines. But ask him if he wants the bike and if he does let him buy it or take it right now. It is not doing any good sitting there. Let him work on it and have it if he wants.
Okay I will talk to him. Clain is at the DMV getting his motorcycle permit renewed. Clain just called and he has his permit now. I have got to call and put the insurance back on the scooter. I Love You and will talk to you later.
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Monday, June 8, 2009
Monday, June 1, 2009
2009_06_01 Week 9 Valencia Dad
Dear Curtis,
How is everything going? This is our last Monday of school for the year. The birds have been doing good. I won the 400 last week and this week I had the first 13 from ID Falls. We ship on Thursday for the 500 Saturday. I have got the garden almost all planted. Everything is in except the second planting of corn. I will do that this week. I have waited 3 weeks, so it won’t be ready all at the same time.
Braiden reported his mission yesterday. It was really good.
Jordan Oliver got his mission call. He is going to Houston Texas South English speaking. I have gotten rid of the horses. Star really went downhill this winter. Blaine McDermott took her and a lady in Hooper took Lightning. She is going to ride her with the Back Country Horsemen, the group Don Bradshaw rides with. So she will be close. I still have the horse trailer and the tack. I don't need to haul hay. That is a good thing. I will be waiting to hear from you. I will check back later. I Love You!
Love,
Dad
Hey! How are things going? I am doing good. Hey, I am glad that you were able to get rid of the horses. Now you need to sell the tack and the horse trailer. Have you gotten the chance to put my motorcycle on KSL to sell it? Things are going good. I found out that last week when we had our baptism we baptised one of five in all of the mission. I got a letter from the President today that says thanks for the hard work and that the mission really needed the baptism. I think that that is really cool. Well I hope everything is going well.
Love,
Elder Goode
Monday, May 25, 2009
2009_05_25 Week 8 Valencia Clain
Dear Curtis,
How is having a new companion?
My new companion is really good. He has had some problems in the mission, but he is doing really good. We are being obedient now and I am doing my best to be a leader.
What does he like to do for fun?
My companion likes to watch TV. Before his mission, he wasn´t working or studying, so he was just at home all day, but we are working hard now here in Valencia.
Have you eaten all your jerky?
Yeah all of the jerky is gone.
Do you need more jerky?
I could use some more if you would send it to me. My companion really likes jerky too.
You are invited to my Eagle Scout Court of Honor on Friday May 29th 2009. I am working a lot. Everyone at work says hi. I have been paint balling with Skyler a lot. We go to the foothills of Farmington canyon every time. I am trying to get Braxton and Tyson to go with us but they won’t. I am doing well in school I have good grades. I am going to try to get my scooter fixed we have to take it to a mechanic in Roy who deals with scooters. The guy we talked to in Roy thinks that they can fix my scooter for me. I put it back together yesterday. It took me a while to figure out where the parts go. I took the dogs to Ogden Bay a few times so far. They liked it both times. They like to swim. They won’t come to the truck when I am ready to go home.
What do you want me to do with your motorcycle? It is in the same condition as you left it in. Do you want me to fix it and try to sell it or sell it as a parts bike or leave it so you can fix it when you get home?
I still go to Mission Prep every week. We talk about the same topic for a month then we move on to another topic the next. The elders come every week and they tell us things that relate to the topic we are studying that month that would help us on a mission.
Love always,
Clain
About my motorcycle put it on KSL to sell, but don´t take less than $500 for it. Just say that it is having problems with the engine and that we haven’t had time to look through it to find out what the problem is. So yea, sell it as is. Put it on KSL for $650, but accept the highest over $500.
Thanks buddy
How is having a new companion?
My new companion is really good. He has had some problems in the mission, but he is doing really good. We are being obedient now and I am doing my best to be a leader.
What does he like to do for fun?
My companion likes to watch TV. Before his mission, he wasn´t working or studying, so he was just at home all day, but we are working hard now here in Valencia.
Have you eaten all your jerky?
Yeah all of the jerky is gone.
Do you need more jerky?
I could use some more if you would send it to me. My companion really likes jerky too.
You are invited to my Eagle Scout Court of Honor on Friday May 29th 2009. I am working a lot. Everyone at work says hi. I have been paint balling with Skyler a lot. We go to the foothills of Farmington canyon every time. I am trying to get Braxton and Tyson to go with us but they won’t. I am doing well in school I have good grades. I am going to try to get my scooter fixed we have to take it to a mechanic in Roy who deals with scooters. The guy we talked to in Roy thinks that they can fix my scooter for me. I put it back together yesterday. It took me a while to figure out where the parts go. I took the dogs to Ogden Bay a few times so far. They liked it both times. They like to swim. They won’t come to the truck when I am ready to go home.
What do you want me to do with your motorcycle? It is in the same condition as you left it in. Do you want me to fix it and try to sell it or sell it as a parts bike or leave it so you can fix it when you get home?
I still go to Mission Prep every week. We talk about the same topic for a month then we move on to another topic the next. The elders come every week and they tell us things that relate to the topic we are studying that month that would help us on a mission.
Love always,
Clain
About my motorcycle put it on KSL to sell, but don´t take less than $500 for it. Just say that it is having problems with the engine and that we haven’t had time to look through it to find out what the problem is. So yea, sell it as is. Put it on KSL for $650, but accept the highest over $500.
Thanks buddy
Monday, December 22, 2008
2008_12_22 Week 9 Balzar Clain & Braxton
Clain,
Hey, how are you buddy? How many ducks have you killed this year? I haven't killed any ducks this year, but I did try to kill a person. This is actually really funny!
We were walking home from an appointment. It was a little before 9 in the evening and a drunk guy on a motorcycle saw me and decided to say "Hi." So he said, in English, "Hey, my friend." When he said this, he stood up on the pegs of the motorcycle and when he did this his motorcycle veered left. Another drunk guy on a motorcycle was trying to pass him as he stood up, so the second guy hit the first guy and they both hit the ground. They both stood up and started to pick up their motorcycles. At this point we started waking really fast and took the next taxi that came by, to the house. It was pretty funny.
Be careful buddy. No accidents, ok. They aren't fun. Trust someone that has been in one. Drive safely and DON'T hot rod, ok. I love you lots. Be good.
Hey Braxton,
How are you Buddy? What are you hoping to get for christmas? I'm not hoping to get much for Christmas this year. But tell mom for me that if Santa wants to bring me something to the house that a Money Maker goose call will be fine.
Tell dad to take you hunting a few more times before the season ends. I love you lots. Be good. Send me more pictures of the duck hunt! Ok? Thanks, Buddy.
Hey, how are you buddy? How many ducks have you killed this year? I haven't killed any ducks this year, but I did try to kill a person. This is actually really funny!
We were walking home from an appointment. It was a little before 9 in the evening and a drunk guy on a motorcycle saw me and decided to say "Hi." So he said, in English, "Hey, my friend." When he said this, he stood up on the pegs of the motorcycle and when he did this his motorcycle veered left. Another drunk guy on a motorcycle was trying to pass him as he stood up, so the second guy hit the first guy and they both hit the ground. They both stood up and started to pick up their motorcycles. At this point we started waking really fast and took the next taxi that came by, to the house. It was pretty funny.
Be careful buddy. No accidents, ok. They aren't fun. Trust someone that has been in one. Drive safely and DON'T hot rod, ok. I love you lots. Be good.
Hey Braxton,
How are you Buddy? What are you hoping to get for christmas? I'm not hoping to get much for Christmas this year. But tell mom for me that if Santa wants to bring me something to the house that a Money Maker goose call will be fine.
Tell dad to take you hunting a few more times before the season ends. I love you lots. Be good. Send me more pictures of the duck hunt! Ok? Thanks, Buddy.
Monday, November 24, 2008
2008_11_24 Week 5 Balzar Mom
Mom wrote to Curtis Mon, 24 Nov 2008 07:12:51 -0700
Curtis replied on Monday, November 24, 2008 at 11:40 am MST
Hi again Curtis,
Tell us about your week. What exciting things happened this week? Do you have new investigators?
yes we have many new investigators in palestina we have gladys and odalis in relicario we have jesus and a young woman named allison in balzar we have the family santillon they are the ones we taught the lesson on chastity to the family of ricardo and mariah. Mariah is the neice of a member and they are really interested in the gospel and they have four kids
How are your old investigators doing?
Most of them we have given up on and moved on to other people now
Did any of them come to church?
We had six investigators at church yesterday julio Espana, Hna. Beatrice and her son Julio part of the Fam. Santillon, Carlos de Barco, the father of a member came too. and in Relicario allison came
How is your smaller branch doing?
They are doing good I gave another talk this week on the importance of the book of mormon. there was 11 people there not counting me or my companion
On your letters to the mission president each week, you put down a list of numbers. Can you tell us what those stand for? Some of them we think we have figured out, but not all of them.
in order the numbers are baptisms, confirmations, investigators with a baptismal date, investigators that attended church, lesons taught with a member present, other lessons, investigators progressing, references recieved, references contacted, new investagators, lessons taught to recent converts or less active members
What is the most exciting thing you did this week?
probably the zone conference
Tell us about your very best lesson?
I taught obedience to the family santillon and I told the story of nephi getting the brass plates and shared the scripture 1nephi 3 7
Do you have any more baptisms lined up?
one this saturday with jesus the mother of antonia and then the 6 of december we have allison two members kids and carlos de barco so quite a few actually
How are the bugs and mosquitos down there?
they really aren´t a problem in balzar but my companion assured me that there are other areas that the bugs are really bad
Did you treat your sheets?
no I haven´t treated my sheets yet
Does the spray work well to keep them off you? Are you happy and healthy? I will continue to ask every week, so don't roll your eyes at me. ;D
yes I am happy and healthy
Tell us about your Zone Conference. Where was it held? Who spoke to you? What else did you do?
it was held in quevedo in a stake center elder bryan, elder ramirez, hna gamboa and presidente gamboa
Did you see any more of the elders you know at the Zone Conference?
no all of the other elders are serving in different areas elder bartolomei is in manta and elder felt is in peninsulare and elder fewkes is either in peninsulare or duran i´m not for sure which I don´t know where elder Smith is serving
Do you talk to many people while you are riding on the crowded bus with your knees squished?
I haven´t because MY spanish isn´t very good but my companion will sometimes talk to people and teach while on the bus
Do they have any kind of celebration at this time of year, like a harvest festival or Thanksgiving?
No just Navidad that is all
What is the most interesting thing you have seen?
I have seen motorcycles the size of mine with 6 people on it. it is quite funny actually
If I send Christmas Cards for President Ruiz and his family, and Sister Valdez, will they be able to read them in English? Should I translate the words first and write it in Spanish or let you translate it for them when you deliver the cards?
Translate them first it will be easier
We got your letter that you wrote on November 3rd with the scriptures in it. Thank you. It arrived on November 19th. It is postmarked on November 18th in Salt Lake City. That is kind of slow mail. Is there a return pouch that you are sending your mail through? Who paid the postage?
I take my letters to the district meetings and give them to my district leader he gives them to the zone leader and the zone leader puts them in a box and sends them on a bus to guayaquil where the elders in the office pick them up and sort through them and send the ones that need to go to the states and the ones that are in the mission they put into other boxes along with the other letters and things and send them the next week to the leaders of zones and they distribute them in the district meetings
I look forward to getting the one with your testimony in. The scriptures were awesome. I am glad you sent so many. We read them for Scripture Study the other night. Is the local mail unreliable in getting mail back to us?
I don´t know I just send them where I am told to send them
Do your district leaders go to the Mission Home every week to get your mail?
No it is through the pouch that they send on the buses my zone leader just goes to the bus terminal and picks the box up
How are the beds down there? Is your bed long enough for your big body or are your feet hanging off the end of the bed two feet? Is it too hard, just right or too soft?
the bed is good it is long enough but just barely
Where do you go to take out your trash? How often do you do that?
we put the trash in the gutter in bags and the garbage truck comes and picks it up about every other day
Do you clean your apartment every Pday?
yep we do
I wish you could send us some photos so we could visualize where you are and what you are doing. You said you would try to send them today. Is that going to work?
I don´t know I will try and see if I can send the cd through the pouch this wednesday I am working on the cd right now
Tell us anything else you think we would like to know.
I love you so much and I am so very proud of you.
Love always and forever,
Mom
Hi Curtis. Thanks for the answers. Have you heard from Michelle. She had good news to tell you. I know Braxton wrote about hunting and dad probably did, too. It sounds like you have been very busy. I am glad you had a good turnout at church. Do you teach a class for the investigators during Sunday School?
yeah we taught about the restoration of the church and yes I have heard from michelle
Do you have a large group in the Sunday School class, investigators and new members who attend? Besides listening to talks, what else did you do at the Zone Conference?
no there was four people in our class this week so it is small in zone conference I also had an interview with president gamboa ate a cookie an apple a package of 3 grahmcrackers and drank a bottle of cifruit
How long do the zone conferences last? What did all the elders do while President Gamboad did interviews?
all the other elders had their interviews the day before but since we are a hour and a half away from where zone conference is held they didn´t make us go the day before for our interview zone conference started at 9 and got done at about 1
That makes good sense. It sounds like they try not to waste any time. So you had four hours of talks. What did they teach you about?
how to effectivly use members and ward mission leaders to help our work. hna gamboa talked about eating breakfast and eating healthy and talking with our mamita about what foods are healthy and not to just serve us rice. oh Presidente and sister (Hermana in spanish or Hna. for short) send their love and told me to thank you for allowing me to serve a mission
That is cool. I will send a Christmas Card to them as well thanking them for taking good care of you. Are you eating a balanced diet? Do you eat pretty much the same things every day or is there more variety in your meals?
I am eating a pretty balanced diet rice with beans and meat or instead of beans something else like vegetables well I gotta Go I love you lots
I love you, too. Have a terrific week!
Curtis replied on Monday, November 24, 2008 at 11:40 am MST
Hi again Curtis,
Tell us about your week. What exciting things happened this week? Do you have new investigators?
yes we have many new investigators in palestina we have gladys and odalis in relicario we have jesus and a young woman named allison in balzar we have the family santillon they are the ones we taught the lesson on chastity to the family of ricardo and mariah. Mariah is the neice of a member and they are really interested in the gospel and they have four kids
How are your old investigators doing?
Most of them we have given up on and moved on to other people now
Did any of them come to church?
We had six investigators at church yesterday julio Espana, Hna. Beatrice and her son Julio part of the Fam. Santillon, Carlos de Barco, the father of a member came too. and in Relicario allison came
How is your smaller branch doing?
They are doing good I gave another talk this week on the importance of the book of mormon. there was 11 people there not counting me or my companion
On your letters to the mission president each week, you put down a list of numbers. Can you tell us what those stand for? Some of them we think we have figured out, but not all of them.
in order the numbers are baptisms, confirmations, investigators with a baptismal date, investigators that attended church, lesons taught with a member present, other lessons, investigators progressing, references recieved, references contacted, new investagators, lessons taught to recent converts or less active members
What is the most exciting thing you did this week?
probably the zone conference
Tell us about your very best lesson?
I taught obedience to the family santillon and I told the story of nephi getting the brass plates and shared the scripture 1nephi 3 7
Do you have any more baptisms lined up?
one this saturday with jesus the mother of antonia and then the 6 of december we have allison two members kids and carlos de barco so quite a few actually
How are the bugs and mosquitos down there?
they really aren´t a problem in balzar but my companion assured me that there are other areas that the bugs are really bad
Did you treat your sheets?
no I haven´t treated my sheets yet
Does the spray work well to keep them off you? Are you happy and healthy? I will continue to ask every week, so don't roll your eyes at me. ;D
yes I am happy and healthy
Tell us about your Zone Conference. Where was it held? Who spoke to you? What else did you do?
it was held in quevedo in a stake center elder bryan, elder ramirez, hna gamboa and presidente gamboa
Did you see any more of the elders you know at the Zone Conference?
no all of the other elders are serving in different areas elder bartolomei is in manta and elder felt is in peninsulare and elder fewkes is either in peninsulare or duran i´m not for sure which I don´t know where elder Smith is serving
Do you talk to many people while you are riding on the crowded bus with your knees squished?
I haven´t because MY spanish isn´t very good but my companion will sometimes talk to people and teach while on the bus
Do they have any kind of celebration at this time of year, like a harvest festival or Thanksgiving?
No just Navidad that is all
What is the most interesting thing you have seen?
I have seen motorcycles the size of mine with 6 people on it. it is quite funny actually
If I send Christmas Cards for President Ruiz and his family, and Sister Valdez, will they be able to read them in English? Should I translate the words first and write it in Spanish or let you translate it for them when you deliver the cards?
Translate them first it will be easier
We got your letter that you wrote on November 3rd with the scriptures in it. Thank you. It arrived on November 19th. It is postmarked on November 18th in Salt Lake City. That is kind of slow mail. Is there a return pouch that you are sending your mail through? Who paid the postage?
I take my letters to the district meetings and give them to my district leader he gives them to the zone leader and the zone leader puts them in a box and sends them on a bus to guayaquil where the elders in the office pick them up and sort through them and send the ones that need to go to the states and the ones that are in the mission they put into other boxes along with the other letters and things and send them the next week to the leaders of zones and they distribute them in the district meetings
I look forward to getting the one with your testimony in. The scriptures were awesome. I am glad you sent so many. We read them for Scripture Study the other night. Is the local mail unreliable in getting mail back to us?
I don´t know I just send them where I am told to send them
Do your district leaders go to the Mission Home every week to get your mail?
No it is through the pouch that they send on the buses my zone leader just goes to the bus terminal and picks the box up
How are the beds down there? Is your bed long enough for your big body or are your feet hanging off the end of the bed two feet? Is it too hard, just right or too soft?
the bed is good it is long enough but just barely
Where do you go to take out your trash? How often do you do that?
we put the trash in the gutter in bags and the garbage truck comes and picks it up about every other day
Do you clean your apartment every Pday?
yep we do
I wish you could send us some photos so we could visualize where you are and what you are doing. You said you would try to send them today. Is that going to work?
I don´t know I will try and see if I can send the cd through the pouch this wednesday I am working on the cd right now
Tell us anything else you think we would like to know.
I love you so much and I am so very proud of you.
Love always and forever,
Mom
Hi Curtis. Thanks for the answers. Have you heard from Michelle. She had good news to tell you. I know Braxton wrote about hunting and dad probably did, too. It sounds like you have been very busy. I am glad you had a good turnout at church. Do you teach a class for the investigators during Sunday School?
yeah we taught about the restoration of the church and yes I have heard from michelle
Do you have a large group in the Sunday School class, investigators and new members who attend? Besides listening to talks, what else did you do at the Zone Conference?
no there was four people in our class this week so it is small in zone conference I also had an interview with president gamboa ate a cookie an apple a package of 3 grahmcrackers and drank a bottle of cifruit
How long do the zone conferences last? What did all the elders do while President Gamboad did interviews?
all the other elders had their interviews the day before but since we are a hour and a half away from where zone conference is held they didn´t make us go the day before for our interview zone conference started at 9 and got done at about 1
That makes good sense. It sounds like they try not to waste any time. So you had four hours of talks. What did they teach you about?
how to effectivly use members and ward mission leaders to help our work. hna gamboa talked about eating breakfast and eating healthy and talking with our mamita about what foods are healthy and not to just serve us rice. oh Presidente and sister (Hermana in spanish or Hna. for short) send their love and told me to thank you for allowing me to serve a mission
That is cool. I will send a Christmas Card to them as well thanking them for taking good care of you. Are you eating a balanced diet? Do you eat pretty much the same things every day or is there more variety in your meals?
I am eating a pretty balanced diet rice with beans and meat or instead of beans something else like vegetables well I gotta Go I love you lots
I love you, too. Have a terrific week!
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