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What in the World is going on over there?

Hey everybody it's me. I'm first of all going to tell you that We got our transfer calls last night and I'm going to the Cajun French Capital of the World LAFYETTE! Yep they're talking me out of Gonzales. Man, I really wanted to stay too, but the Lord calls and you obey. Joel Velazquez and also the Ray family are both coming home today and tomorrow, so They will probably be baptised this weekend. I wish I could stay and see it, but Elder Durrant will take care of it. My new area is about 50 miles East of Gonzales if you want to check on google or something (I'm not 100% sure on the spelling of the city because everything down here is French or Catholic influenced). My new Companion(s) are Elder Fife and Elder Anderson. They're sticking me in a three-some. Elder Fife and I already know eachother and are friends. He is from Chicago. He lives in a pent house on the 26th floor of a building (aka: loaded family). He's cool. Elder Anderson has been out for 6 months, but President Woods told me that he may or may not be going back home this transfer. He has some slight Phsycological problems. This will definitley be an exciting transfer and Lafyette will probably be the last area I serve in before I "Die" ;-). I told Elder Durrant that If Joel and the Ray's kids don't get baptized I'm taking it out on him:-). I am happy and sad all at the same time, sad to leave, but happy to see new places. I've never been out to other cities besides Baton Rouge or New Orleans areas. It'll be fun. I cannot belive that Roseanne is pregnant again. Wow! I'm speachless. I love you Roseanne and I wish you the best of luck. I'll be home for this one :-). Todavilla no puedo creerlo como Elder Allred etaba diciendo en su ultimo email. Oh, for New years eve we had a blast.......sitting in our Apt. Before the 6:oo lockdown we went to a party that one of the members of the church invited us to. We ate amazing Gumbo, Jumbalyah, and a delicious sausage dip. So yeah. I'm still on my Perfect Pushup routine. I can already see results. I love it ;-).
So I do have a request if it is at all possible: for my Birthday or something could I get a new electric shaver and a white shirt that uses cuff links? I've had my shaver for over 2 years and they don't sell those razor heads anymore (aka:hurts to use now). I bought Cuff Links, but now I need to get a shirt that uses them. thank you Guys dearly.
So that pretty much sums up my life. Thankyou all for you prayers for me. I love each and every one of you. Bye..

-Elder Colvin
Elder Jacob Colvin

What in the world, the Elves have come!‏

I didn't have any sound, but what in the world is with the Elves! It was like watching a nightmare I once had.

Hello family in AZ
This week was super fast! Christmas Eve all 6 missionaries went to the Ward Mission Leader's home. He fed us an amazing chicken, sausage, and okra Gumbo and also the best pecan pie I have ever eaten. After we watched people outside shoot off their fireworks.It was great.
I had a wonderful Christmas or Navidad. First, we opened erethang and I played with my copter for ever. I also bought myself PERFECT PUSHUPS. My goal is that I will GET RIPPED before the mission's end. After, we ate at our next door neighbors house, and then we went to the Estrada's home where I talked with some people from Az, and then 5 of our investigators showed up and we all ate again, we watched The Nativity and then The Testaments. It was great and then we all went home.
The sad part about this week is that the Ray family decided to have a surprise trip to Mexico this last Saturday(that next day was when the kids were to be baptized). We don't really know when they'll be back. It's all good. I know that people still have their agency to chose, even if it isn't the most convenient for us. Thanks to who ever prayed for them last week like I asked. You can still do it if you want, that they'll get back soon. Joel will be getting back from Texas on Wednesday so he'll be getting baptized this weekend. Yeah! There is always something to be happy about if you really want to find it. You have two options in life when faced with a challenge; 1 sit there and sulk about how life is unfair and say the famous 'why me' thereby getting NOTHING accomplished. 2 get over yourself, roll with it, and do your best so that the Lord can do the rest. That's it, there is no other choice. I choose to roll with it. I can't wait to get some letters this week ;-). I love all of you so much. Thank you Bonnie Elias Colvin for all that you do :-).

Elder Colvin

P.S. it was pretty funny though, watching Dad act like a crazy Elf. :-)
Elder Jacob Colvin

hey you 12-22-08

How can I keep from singing,
Don't really know why my email started like that, but oh well. What is the status report of the current existence of people other than Roseanne, Trisha, and Mom? The rest of you are my family. It would be nice here and there to get a letter or email from ya. Don't you want to encourage your Brother Son and other in his missionary endeavors? Consider that your chastisement. Anyway life is going GREAT here in Gonzales. We had a miracle take place. I don't know if you guys remember me mentioning The Ray Family in my past emails, but something happened with them the other day. Brother and Sister Ray are members that were baptized in Utah when they were 17. Since then Bro. Ray had backslided into his old Lebaron Ideas (The Lebarons being a break off sect of our church). Missionaries for a long time have been working with this family and also to help their 3 younger sons get baptized. On Tuesday we went to go visit them. When we got there we talked with the parents for a few minutes and then Elder Durant boldly told him,"Your children need to be baptized." I was not expecting happened next at all, He said, "yeah I think that would be good for them. They've been telling me how they've wanted to pass the Sacrament just like the other boys in their class." I was like .......what? This was coming from a man who didn't even want his kids going to Seminary about 4 months ago. That resolved and they went, but I was surprised when gave the permission for this. It goes to show that God will answer the prayers of his children in his own timing. They are planned to be baptized THIS WEEKEND! Joel is still planned to be baptized this weekend too! PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE PRAY FOR THIS TO HAPPEN! My hearts desire is to see them get baptized before I leave this area, which is very possible in January. I'm going to be asking you guys if you did it during my Christmas call. Speaking of which; I don't know the approximate time of transmission on Christmas Day, but all I can say is around 4:00pm for you guys. The Estradas (the same family that invited us to Thanksgiving) invited us over for Christmas and use their phones. Junior and Adriana are still progressing great. It's a little hard right now to do much. We are still waiting for him to get his birth certificate and SS # from Idaho so that they can apply for a marriage license so that they can get married so that they can be baptized. We shared with them last night the Christams Story found in the Book of Mormon. Afterward he said to us,"I think I finally get now what the Book of Mormon is, it's like a book completely separate from what's going on in the Bible". I said,"Yes, it is separate in History but not in Doctrine, and it's scripture so that is why you need to read it and then pray about it." He committed himself to read the book that night after we left. Package updates: the Yard o' Beef is now 1/2 Yard o' Beef, the chocolates are going slowly but surely because the other three missionaries in our Apt get tons of stuff too. I got your Popcorn package the other day, Random but thank you Mom :-). I ate some immediately upon arrival. I also got the batteries today and again thank you Mommy. So Tuesday-Saturday were 80 degree days, then Sunday-today have been glacial! Louisiana and your random weather changes :-). It's fun. So, you are keeping the Gingerbread House making competition tradition alive huh? Good. I didn't get to see what every one did so send me a letter with a pic of everyones creation in it. Thank you. Hehe, Bonnie and Quin that's funny. I didn't think Bonnie would be dating so soon. Actually, it's been a month now.......wow time flies. Just remember Bub you promised that you wouldn't go and get married before I got home OK? :-) Well, That happens to be another successful email because of writing things down during the week. I hope Everyone is enjoying the Christmas Season. Remember, it's about Jesus Christ and not about dinosaurs and video games. I LOVE YOU ALL SOOOO MUCH. MERRY CHRISTMAS!!!!!!!!!!!!
-eLDER cOLVIN
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(wow this email might rival Ammon in length ;-) )


Elder Jacob Colvin

to all both near and far

It's Elder Colvin's Weekly Epistle,

Our cell Phone just went off in the library, How embarrassing. I have thought (this last week) that I would start writing down things that I think of during the week on a paper. This way I won't get Elders cramp when I get to the library. This is normally what goes through my mind when I get here,"OH wow cool a computer cool cool cool and I can use it, and I can even talk to my family Yeah!..............I just forgot what happened this week....". Now, after 19 months I'm learning. So here it goes. 4 items of agenda: Thank you everyone that contributed in sending me that GIANORMOUS package I got on Friday. Beautiful. I'm still laughing about the sheer volume of snacks you sent. A yard O' Beef, Oh Boy! a 2 lb bag of Sour Patch Candy, too funny. I Haven't opened the 2 wrapped things that were in it. We'll see what happens on the morn of the 25th. Should I read the letters now or on Christmas because I haven't done that yet. So, yes mom in responce to your question, IT SNOWED HERE!!!!!!!! WHAT THE CRAZINESS! I NEVER THOUGHT I'D SEE SNOW HERE! A few days ago I heard from a member that there might be a chance of winter precipitation mixed with rain. I really thought nothing of it because I was sure that snow wouldn't come here. The next morning I awoke to the Elders in my apartment Screaming,"It's snowing outside Aghhghgh!" I stared at it through the window still in denial then, .....we went outside and played in it like there was no tomorrow! We did every snow-thing we could. It was as fun as it was unbelievable. A member told us that the last time it snowed here was before I was born. El nino Strikes again. So, I got hit in the eye by a Frisbee the other day. I couldn't see out of it too well at first, but it's cleared up and I'm good to go 20-20. Sister Woods made me go to a Doctor just in case, and he said that there is no damage or anything. we saw a parade this week. It was cool. They definitely through out more stuff at you here. We didn't stay too long, but we did pass out some cards to Hispanic people while watching. wow, you see what happens Elder Colvin if you write down stuff to say. Oh yeah we had 5 people come to church on Sunday and they all loved it. Joel came and he is progressing great. This week was just full of blessings. We went to this one house out in an area we never looked before because a Man ordered the Movie Joy To The World. we delivered it to him and we talked for a little while. His friend came up too, during our conversation, and we shared with them the Message of the Restoration. They are now committed to baptism for the 3rd of January. It's great! I hope you all liked the stuff you got in my package. The thing that each kid got will work too. Well time is running short , but I want to end by saying again how much I love all of you and I hope that you all are Having a great Christmas Season. BONNIE HAPPY BIRTHDAY YOU CRAZY COOL CAT!
-Elder Jacob Colvin
Elder Jacob Colvin

hey

Does Bonnie's missionary email still work? I heard it still does until like=
a month after your mission. If she has a new one please let me know what=
it is. Thank you
EC
Elder Jacob Colvin

I have a good news for you‏

It's called the table,table,table
I'll always remember that song you showed us Robert. :-)

Hello Everyone,
What is going on? my week was great! We had the opportunity to go to the Christmas devotional. I loved it. It really was great. That was the first time I've gone to it. Last year didn't get to. Junior and Adriana came to the Ward Party on Saturday, Church on Sunday, and then the devotional that evening. I'm so happy they are taking this church more sincerely and doing the things we've asked them to do. Up until this Saturday the week was not the best in the world but, We finally got to light at the end of the tunnel. Saturday we were at a Flea Market passing out Cards for the 'Joy To The World' DVD. Last week they gave us a free booth because we were giving away free things but, this week we got there too late so we couldn't get a booth. They were already filled up. We decided, instead, to look around and look for Hispanic people to give cards to. Well we ended up talking to a man named Hugo from Durango Mexico. He was (I'm guessing) a Minister for some church. He was talking about how he was saved and we weren't and stuff and the Bible was all he needed and ...etc. Well it was basically a one sided conversation because he never gave us a chance to respond for longer than 10 seconds. However, amazing thing came from it; During Hugo's 'I'm more humble than you are' talk Elder Durrant contacted a Man named Joel that was walking by. Joel the next day called us and said that he wanted to come to church but he didn't have a ride. The sad thing is that we left our phone at the Apt. before we left for church so we didn't get the message until afterward. We felt so bad when we listened to his message, hardly ever does someone call us about coming to church. we met with him that night and he ended up coming to the Christmas devotional. We committed him for baptism and he said he would. He is a simple Jolly guy. I like him a lot. I am loving everything that is going on. I know the Lord is preparing people here to accept the gospel. I know that If we will put our Trust in our Heavenly Father he will lead us through all the Trials in this life and give us true Happiness: Success in righteous things. I love you all so much and I can't wait to hear from y'all in a letter or something. Bye
-Elder Colvin
Elder Jacob Colvin

oh what an annnoyance‏

I clicked on all of my email addresses and i accidentally pushed ERASE! I need Grandma's and Gabrielle's email Address because I can't remember em.

However, Hello Everyone I hope everything is fine in AZ. I still can not believe, even after looking at the pictures, that Sister Colvin is home. It is not computing. Oh well I hope y'all are having lots of fun and stuff. This week was moderately great. We walked up to this trailer that we knew had some Spanish people in it, and we knocked on the door. A guy opened the door and we told him who we were and that we had an important message to share with him and his family. He let us in like, "uh..ok." so we walked in and we see two women sitting on the couch watching their 'Novelas' or Soap Operas in English (That is ALL the Spanish channels are full of). It's night time and They are looking at us like, 'who are you guys?' So we say again and who we are and why we're here. The Older Lady gets up and walks to the door saying,"Everyone needs to here this," and she rounds up everyone outside and in their rooms to the front room. They are a cool family, actually they are 2 families. They are both living here together. Rosalita (the older Lady) is cool and she is fired up about reading the Book of Mormon and praying about it. I'm excited to see where this will go. Thanksgiving was good. I Kind of had a hard time sleeping that night after all was said and ate. We were invited to two homes; 1 our next door neighbor, and the Estradas in our Ward. We ate a ton at our neighbors Apt. and we played some horseshoes and it was fun. By the time we had to go to the Estradas we were still pretty full. Thankfully Hispanic people don't celebrate this holiday south of the border so they weren't accustomed to making a huge Feast. Therefore we didn't eat as much there so it was all perfect. It's been fun trying to explain what Thanksgiving is to our investigators. They call it, "Dia de Pavo" or 'Day of Turkey' in English. We met With Junior and Adriana Fabian last night and talked with them about why they haven't been keeping their commitments to read or come to church. Well, they just said that it was laziness and also they felt a little embarrassed about coming to church after we taught them the Law of Chastity because they didn't want to have people at church looking at them or something. Well we talked with them some more and told them we love them and invited them to keep Reading and keep coming to church. Well my life is going good. It's been a little rough this week but I always remember Aaron, Omner, and Himni's account in the Book of Mormon and it keeps me going. They didn't have any success until about 17 years into their ministry but, they were blessed to Convert the King himself of the Lamanite Nation. I love my mission and I love You Guys mucho.
Bye
Elder Colvin

Elder Jacob Colvin

ta da!

Man.......I don't even feel worthy to follow up on the email that Bonnie sent. It's like you guys are thinking,"Oh if only Elder Colvin was as Spiritual as Sister Colvin." :-) I thought Bonnie was going to be translated before her mission was up. In our Mission the people going home went home already last Friday. I thought Bonnie was going to be the same way and so I was VERY surprised to learn that She is currently still in her Mission. Have fun with her but don't do too much too fast. She might scream "Apostate!" and then explode! Well this week for me was amazing. We had Francisco and Raquel come to church again. That was cool. They brought all their Grandkids as well. It'll be a work in progress with Francisco but he'll be a member sooner or later. Hmmm Trisha you want something crazy that happened this week......... Well I'm staying here again for another transfer! Whoo Hoo! I love this Ward and area so I'm happy. It'll be my first area that I stayed in for 6 months. And the first area that I'll be in with the same companion consecutively. This week we finally had to use our Jackets to go out and about. It's been pretty warm here , a lot longer than last year. our next door neighbor gave us a 6 foot white colored Christmas tree. We feel more happy now and in the Christmas spirit. Also at Zone Conference Our Mission President gave us a new rule ....we can't email anymore! Just Kidding. WE CAN LISTEN TO CHRISTMAS MUSIC!! Trisha, send me your 'Handel's Messiah' stuff. I would also Like to get Mannheim Steamroller but y'all can decide. Please Someone send some Christmas music to your beloved Elder in Louisiana! Today is the Zone Prep Day before transfers. We will possibly be going to a Alligator Farm and then play Battle-Ball with the whole Zone (It's like dodge ball but with Tennis balls). It's fun ....no one gets hurt Mommy I promise :-). We found 4 way cool new investigators last night. They all committed to follow the answer that would come to be baptized. I Love it when people are truly sincere about doing what we invite them to do. It's surprising sometimes just how hard it can be for people to use a little faith to Read and Pray about the Book of Mormon. Just ...Just DO IT and you'll get an answer. This would be a perfect time to use Alma's Lamentation "Oh that I were an Angel." But I know that Salvation is not a cheap experience and so all I can do is do my best every day to cry repentance with the abilities I have been given. The Lord sees us exercise faith and he blesses us, but on his time line. It surely will come but it's when he lets it happen. I Must not be a Hypocrite and so I will keep knocking on the doors and Invite all I see. Happy Day of Giving Thanks! I love You All
Elder Colvin
Elder Jacob Colvin

Now I write big family letter‏

Family,
How are you? I miss you. I'm going to get some things today that I might send them to you. I am doing great here in 'Gonzo' and I think that I'm gonna try to writ as fast as I can. maybe not. We had a wonderful week. Two members moved into Gonzales so now we have more Spanish people to work with. Maria and Francisco moved into the ward last week. Francisco is not a member of the church but we committed him to be baptized on the first Sunday of December. We found a guy this week that had the most interesting name. His last name was 'Angeles' and his Parents decided to give him a first name of 'Jesus'. So in English it is Jesus Angles. I thought that was pretty different. Hispanic names are very Catholic influenced. Another time I met a Peter Cross. Anyway We committed the Fabian family last night to live the Law of Chastity and they said they wanted to get married ASAP. We gotta figure out how to get them a marriage license here in Gonzales. Sister Colvin sent me a white hair in the mail that she attributed to her mission. I'll vouch for her on that. I have my first white hair taped to my missionary Journal. We are all just a little crazy in the Colvin Family but hey, someone has to do it or how can we know what sane is? This is logic ;-) . Now, I'm currently looking at my black, white, gray, light gray, and dark orange striped tie thinking of something to say. My Spanish jumped a leap this week! It was like something clicked. I was able to have a 3 minute conversation with a guy all by my self. I found that He was living in Thibadoux right now but was looking for a trailer to rent here in Gonzales. He was baptized 4 months ago in Indianapolis and wanted to get back to going to church.

I'm Bi-lingual, so Bi- lingual, it's un-equal how Bi-lingual I am! (west side missionary story)

Yeah! I still have a LOT to learn but, thanks to God's tender mercies I can now pretty much hold my own. Well time is pressing and I must be going so please every one remember your Son, Grandson, Brother,Cousin, and Friend;
-Elder Colvin

PS. I love you all and don't run with sharp objects
Elder Jacob Colvin

AHGHGHGHGHG!‏

OH HOW I DISLIKE MYLDSMAIL SOMETIMES!

sorry, but my email was deleted...again. well I don't got much time but let me try to say something quick.
Thank you Bonnie and Baysingers for the letters. They make me happy. Junior and Adriana came to church for the first time on Sunday and Loved it. Junior really liked hearing Bro. Parilou's conversion story. Lorenzo and Amaris went to A.L. so they weren't able to come to church. I love you guys,
-Elder Colvin
Elder Jacob Colvin

daba di daba dye‏

Yeah, Like my Russian friend I'm running out of Ideas of what to put on my titles

Well This week went dandy. I received 2 letters on Halloween so that was fun. Thank you Roseanne for your love. My eyes are hurting looking at this screen so well see how long this email will go. we had a miracle of 7 people come to church this Sunday. The Ray family and Lorenzo and his Wife. They all liked it. Some great things are transpiring here in the Gonzales area. I'm loving it. The Stake President came this Sunday to our ward so our investigators got to meet him as well. It was all around good. I bought a bag of candy for Tricker treaters but sadly not a single person treated our place. I don't think I'll watch much TV anymore when I get home. Maybe occasionally for Movies and stuff but I really just don't like it anymore. What a waste of time. I want to make my own story line not watch someone else's. It's funny sight to behold when me and my companion walk to our apt at night. We watch how everyone else's apt.'s are glaring with the TV. It's slowly has been disgusting me. It's like they are addicted to a Zombie Screen. I want to go do stuff like Hiking camping...making a bird house or something. Anyway I love each and everyone of you. Bonnie was saying how she was going to prepare the way for me so I wouldn't be so shocked when I got home. That's my Bub, always looking out for me. well My Spanish is going like usual. I will be fluent by Jan 1. It's my ULTIMATE GOAL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! well take luck y'all and remember Jesus is our Savior and our Way. Be faithful and he'll carry you through. BYE

Elder Colvin
Elder Jacob Colvin

hello hello hello‏

well oh my goodness,
that was a massive load of emails to get through. now I hope everybody got my last email last week because there were reports that some people did not get it. Great news has been made manifest this week. Our Top two investigator families both didn't come to church. It was little disappointing and we were trying figure out what happened. One family from Guatemala called our Cell phone right as church started but the signal was bad and died and we couldn't call them back neither. Our family from Idaho(Fabians) didn't come neither so we went and saw them first after church. well they simply forgot about it so Elder Durrant came up with the Idea on the spot to go take them down to the church right then and there for a tour of it. They both loved it and said that they were defiantly coming next week. After that we went to our Guatemalan family to see what happened. Well they told us that they actually came to church building that morning. However, they saw that it already started so they didn't know what to do. They decided to call our phone but that didn't work so they got intimidated and went home. we had no idea that they actually came. We felt bad about their experience and apologized to them about the little misunderstanding. They said they will come to church again this next Sunday. It was such a shame that they all didn't come for one reason or the other because we had a great service and great lessons. Oh well it was probably for the best though. The Lord's timing sure is different than mine but that's why I know it's right. I love my Savior Jesus Christ. He is our Foundation our Rock. In Him we can find happiness and understanding in this life and Salvation in the next. I love you Arizonans so much. Have great week.


P.S. THANK YOU FOR THE PACKEAGE MOM
AND THANK YOU BONNIE FOR THE LETTER!
Elder Jacob Colvin

MY FAMILY!!! 10/6/08‏

Wow That General Conference was one of my favorites! I saw two of them in spanish. I understood about 30% of what they said. I loved it all though. Holland's, Wirthlin's, Ballard's, Packer's, that one 70 who just boldly testified about Jesus Christ. They were all good. I'm gonna read this one a bunch. this week were trying hard to get our investigators to the conference. We've been seeing that the Lord is preparing people to hear the gospel. The Puerto Rican Family is progressing (I think last week I said they were Cuban). They loved the Wilford Woodruf Conversion Video (it's found on the Doctrine & Covenants lessons DVD). If ya'll haven't seen it you should. I've seen it over 30 times. Also, The Testaments is a must see too. I really do like to get letters. It helps put a smile on your face on those 'not so good' days. I will now Publicly Declare a thank you on my emails when I get a letter during the week: Sarah, thank you again for your letter. What else happened this week. I saw my first 09 Challenger the other day, I loved it. I'm trying real hard to learn my spanish. If I speak slowly I can say it right. Sometimes I feel like Hispanics should get an ward for who can move their tongue as fast as humanly possible. Maybe that's why they love tongue tacos. Oh yeah did I ever tell you I had Cow stomach soup. mmmmm Menudo yummy. well I'm going to be going now. Carry on and never hesitate.

-Elder Colvin (or 'Coalbeen' in Spanish)
Elder Jacob Colvin

9/29/08 ELDER COLVIN‏

Well Well Well....
Things are going exactly to my design


Hello family,
How are ya'll?
I'm Fine
I received a letter from.....Sarah this week. Thank you mucho mas.
We have recently found two very nice families.=20
I'm so excited for this! One is a lady from Brazil who married a guy from h
ere and now they both live here.=20
It's funny but I can almost understand Portugeese.=20
We were reading the Introduction to the Book of Mormon.=20
I've heard many times in spanish but it was really neat to hear it in 'Port
ugues' as the Spanish say.=20
It was almost the same with a few different words and pronunciation.
The other was this family of three in a trailer.
They come from Cuba.
(OK I'll stop the whole 'new line for every new sentance thing, it hurts to=
read')

Anyway, they are nice and they are reading the Book of Mormon. It's all goo=
d. Well my Spanish is coming great. I have a goal to speak it by this tr=
ansfer, that's only two more weeks. It's going to take some miracles. The=
whole learning process has been a big miracle for me. I can't wait for =
general conference this week. That'll be good. Well not much else to say =
except I would always love it if I got more letters please. Thank you my =
wonderful family. !Hasta la Vista Bebe!
Elder Colvin


Elder Jacob Colvin

....yup

Hello units of friendship (I'm trying to mix up my vocabulry).
we had our interviews this week. Our Mission President talked about raising our game and becoming more like disciples and less like Pharisees. It was good. I forgot again the names of those other two cd's that we can listen to. This week we had found a great new person. he is named Orvin. he is very humble and willing to hear what he had to say. On Saturday we met with him over at a member of the church'es home. we found out that the member (Bro. Cecilio) and Orvin work together, so they hit it off rather well. we had a great spirit filled lesson and I felt inspired to commit him to baptism on the 4th of Oct.. he said yes! It was really great. With all solid investigators there comes these random out of nowhere trial(s) that try to get in the way of them getting baptized. Orvin's work called him in at the last minute so he didn't make it to church on Sunday. However, the work go forth boldy nobly and independent and He'll be at church this week. I think it was for the best anyway, that we didn't have to deal with a baptism during General Conference week. Either way God is over all and, despite the battles, God will win the war.
Elder Ludlow is a missionary that lives with me. He just said to me that his mom hates Motorcycles , but he read that she rode one the other day for the very first time. Go and do

dearest Everyone I know

hey,
hello,
hello hello hello!


There was a certain classical song I had in mind when I was writing that.
Well hello my loved family. Thank you so much Grandma for your letter I always love hearing from you. This week has been great. We've been working hard to make up for Hurricane Gustav. Hurricane Ike didn't do much here. We only had our power out for a night. It was a week with Gustav. We just got a little wind and some rain. Like I'm annoyed that Gustav interrupted us here but I was a little happy I got to experience one on my mision. It was a torn feeling. So much good came from it though. We had so many people just thanking the heck out of us for coming and clearing their trees out for free and there were lots of people asking questions about our church. It was cool. What's really funny is that I heard from a member here that after Katrina in 05' the media did a survey on which churches helped the most with aid/relief efforts. Well the Statiscs were : 1st place "The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints", 2nd was "The Mormons". I love it. I'm so glad that we were able to help so much. anyway I forgot to mention something last week.
At our last Zone Conference we got new rules regarding music. ugh hmm; We Can now listen to EFY cd's and Two other things which names escape me at this moment. If you want to, could you Please send me some EFY Cd's. I would be very happy. Thank you. This week we found a bunch new investigators. It's amazing that if we just go and do it the Lord will put people in our path way Everytime. I'm happy to know that, what a blessing it really is to know that. If we just do our best and rely on Jesus We will accomplish more than we ever thought possible. Well times running short again and eyes are hurting. BYE
Elder Colvin

1 mas cosa

We got transfer calls last night. I'm staying here in Gonzo and I will be serving with Elder Shepherd again. I was just with him in New Orleans. It's his last transfer too. He will endure to the end unlike El....... nevermind.
EC

1 mas cosa

We got transfer calls last night. I'm staying here in Gonzo and I will be serving with Elder Shepherd again. I was just with him in New Orleans. It's his last transfer too. He will endure to the end unlike El....... nevermind.
EC

it's a me!‏

Hello Everyone far and near,
It's been way too long since I have written you guys.
Gustav was the cuse of that. 1st of all I am fine.
I have NO time this week because I had to go thruogh a BAZIILION emails but heres is a shortened version of my last 2 weeks;

thank you 4 the package I loved it
I got it before Gustav
I stayed with a wonderful family called the Bascoms
We played ate and slept mucho
At Zone Conference I found out that Luz and Rienhard from New Olreans (my previous area) were Baptized !
Last Monday (sept1), Gustav hit and we had no power
Tuesday, we moved to Sister Bascoms Parents House (for A/c)
Wednesday, I dropped off Elder Romero at the Mission Office and Elders Pauyne and Wilks were my temporary companions for the rest of the week
Thursday, I worked with Mormon Helping Hands and went all around Baton Rouge Looking for people that needed help taking trees out of their lawns and off of their houses
Friday, Same
Saturday, Same
Sunday, We had little Sac. meeting and Elder Gay of the 70 was there, then we did more service
Monday (sept 8), nothing too exciting
Tuesday, tada I'm here with you

soo that is that. I was told by many residents that this was the worst that they've seen a hurricane take out Baton Rouge Ever. It was only a Cat 1 when it hit here. Imagine if it was bigger. I thank the Lord that it was what it was. This place got pounded!
Good bye and I love you
Elder Colvin

ta da!‏

well have you ever played solitare on the comp? You know how, when you win, A little fan fare music plays for your triumph. That's what I had in my head when titling this email.


Hello Everyone,
It's me. Everything has been fine. Poor Elder Romero is getting nervous about going home. Oh well, It's just one of those things I guess. This week in the adventures of Elder Colvin: I was on Exchanges this week with the English Elders. I went and taught a Chinese girl named Winki. The name was different but she was a nice 17 year old exchange student who was staying here for 10 mos to finish her senior year here. She is living some members of the church and we went over there and we had a nice lesson. It was a fun challenge to teach this girl who didn't have a Christian upbringing. Now I know how Sis. Colvin feels...maybe a little. Also, I saw the Biggest Grasshopper in the World! On Saturday, we were walking next to a bayou (stagnant river). and we saw this big ol black thing crawlin on the ground. It was cool. Yesterday a Tropical storm came through. We got a TON of rain. I mean this place rains a lot, but we were pounded yesterday. It rained ALL day. It was fun. Well I don't have much else to say but I Love all of you so much and please continue to pray for me.BYE
Elder Colvin