These two photos are of the Conroe college. Probably one of the smallest colleges on the planet, I thought that was funny. I'll send one more email in the next 8 mintues with more pictures then I'll have to log in again and send the real e-mail.
Conroe College
These two photos are of the Conroe college. Probably one of the smallest colleges on the planet, I thought that was funny. I'll send one more email in the next 8 mintues with more pictures then I'll have to log in again and send the real e-mail.
More Photos
-The Conroe Water Tower, it's the center of Conroe and is next to the railway. The tracks divide conroe in half. One on side is the white country folk, and on the other side is the ghetto where all of the hispanics live.
-Elder Astin and I on the shores of Lake Conroe, it's a nice looking lake. I'm told that Conroe is to Houston as Park City is to us. Or at least the parts around the lake, lots of golf courses and whatnot it's a get-away place for people that live in houston.
whoah snap out of time. I forgot what the 3rd one I just attached was anyway. I'll send another e-mail in a little bit.
Choke Sermon
November 23, 2009
Choke Sermon
Okay this is the real e-mail this time.
So it's a new transfer now. Our district was totally changed up and just as predicted we were scattered upon the four winds and only Elder Brown and I remain in the Conroe district, we got 7 new missionaries here. Well not new but new as in never been in Conroe before. 4 Elders and 3 sisters. My new companion is Elder Porter, he's a nice guy, very focused and very hard working but slightly insane, actually very insane, he's one of those brainwashed missionary types, singing hymns every spare moment and quoting scripture. Anyway he sent a letter to you, when I saw that there was a letter by the door that was addressed to you and from Elder Porter I was like "what the freak?" I asked him and he said that he was writing to you all and that he's done that with all of his previous companions. I asked him how he got my family's address and he had gone through the trash or something to find the discarded envelopes from the letters you all have sent me.... Yeah.... Didn't even ask me if it was okay... Not that I have a problem with it. Not really... Just to make to make sure there's not anthrax or anything like that in there.
So it's been another long week. We've done a lot of tracting. Our teaching pool was getting rather low at the end of the last transfer and when Elder Porter got here he set about to fix that and pretty much for three days straight we roamed up and down trailer parks knocking on doors. Heh, this one time, at night, when it was dark we were walking down a road in the middle of this ghetto and we see a man in his driveway are putting his trash in his trash can. Elder Porter says: "This one's yours Rice." I say okay, and walk toward him and said from 20 feet away: "HEY HERMANO!" The guy jumped and in the same motion flipped around and drew a gun from his pocket and pointed it at me. I froze and I noticed that Elder Porter quickly scuttled behind a fence out of the line of fire. I was saying: Whoah! Hang on a minute man!, when I noticed that he didn’t have a gun at all. He was just holding his hand like it was a gun. Then the guy busted up laughing and so did I, and when Elder Porter poked his head out and realized what had happened he busted up laughing too. So we talked to the guy, he was real funny and was interested. In fact I found out later that Elder Porter had signed us up to teach a Bible study class at the church this guy went to... Oh snap... It'll be a week from this coming thursday... Well Elder Porter will have fun with that. He always tells me that we would give one of his arms to bible bash with a J-Dub or whomever... I'm not so keen on that. The thing about Elder Porter is that he likes to pick fights, when we were teaching this crazy old woman he complemented her many pictures of Jesus that were plastered all over the inside this lady's trailer but then said that he didn't like the picture of the virgin Mary. And then he went into a long argument about why we shouldn't pray to Mary nor any other saint and blah blah blah. In the last few days he's argued with like 6 different people about Mary and all of this nonsense... I'm just there for the ride when these sorts of things happen. He also gets into arguments with members too...
Another amusing anecdote. So Elder Brown and his new companion Elder Lopez were out in Cut N' Shoot one day with the ar (that little red-neck town that I spoke of before) when they ran over a homemade spike strip which put holes in all of the tires. Luckily they were close to a member's home and they patched them all up and made it back. But they didn't tell us and left the hub-caps in the trunk. So when Elder Porter and I got back that night Elder Brown came outside and he said: "Hey... where's our hub-caps?" Elder Porter and I turned and looked and saw that indeed there were no hub-caps on our car. We concluded that some loser had stolen them. The next day was our car day and as we backed up we noticed that the front right tire was flat. Again we concluded that the same loser that stole our hubcaps had also let the air out of the front right tire. So we changed the tire and when we opened the trunk to get the spare we found the hub-caps. So when I went back into the apartment to wash my hands when Elder Porter was finishing up putting the hub-caps back on Elder Brown told me what had happened and he told me not to tell Porter. And I didn't so we went to fill up the tire at a gas station. We did, and then found the hole so we went to a tire place to get a patch job. They said the job would only take 15 minutes but it ended up taking two hours. During which we sat in the waiting room thing. Elder Porter was fuming during that whole time, that man does not like to waste a minute. I was okay though, there was a TV and it was the G4 channel and we watched 2 hours of old COPS re-runs, that was fun. COPS is lame but I like seeing the commercials, just to see what's going on the world, also since G4 is a gaming channel I got to see a few updates on what's going on the video game world.
Yesterday on Sunday we had a baptism. Well not really us. The Spanish sister missionaries in our zone had a baptism and the little 9 year old girl they had been teaching wanted me to baptize her, for whatever odd reason. Now Elder Porter wanted to go back to his old area in Brian that same time for a baptism of one of his investigators. So we had to go on splits with the members. I went with Pedro Ortiz, one of the ward missionaries who's like 22 and is leaving on his mission in a month to Oklahoma. So we went to the baptism and all went well. I was afraid that I wouldn't remember how to say it in spanish but I did and the girl, Leslie Batalla didn't have to get baptized in the Mormon church twice like Aidan did. So it was a mostly good night, though I'm getting tired of some of the ward members treating me like I'm stupid just because I can't fully communicate with them yet. Really some of them treat like I'm a retard and in special education or something... Whatever, I will endure.
Well that's all I got for today. Remember to send me my jacket and a flash drive. Oh and thanks Grandma for the cash, that will be put to good use. Okay, peace out. Love y'all, bye.
Choke Sermon
Okay this is the real e-mail this time.
So it's a new transfer now. Our district was totally changed up and just as predicted we were scattered upon the four winds and only Elder Brown and I remain in the Conroe district, we got 7 new missionaries here. Well not new but new as in never been in Conroe before. 4 Elders and 3 sisters. My new companion is Elder Porter, he's a nice guy, very focused and very hard working but slightly insane, actually very insane, he's one of those brainwashed missionary types, singing hymns every spare moment and quoting scripture. Anyway he sent a letter to you, when I saw that there was a letter by the door that was addressed to you and from Elder Porter I was like "what the freak?" I asked him and he said that he was writing to you all and that he's done that with all of his previous companions. I asked him how he got my family's address and he had gone through the trash or something to find the discarded envelopes from the letters you all have sent me.... Yeah.... Didn't even ask me if it was okay... Not that I have a problem with it. Not really... Just to make to make sure there's not anthrax or anything like that in there.
So it's been another long week. We've done a lot of tracting. Our teaching pool was getting rather low at the end of the last transfer and when Elder Porter got here he set about to fix that and pretty much for three days straight we roamed up and down trailer parks knocking on doors. Heh, this one time, at night, when it was dark we were walking down a road in the middle of this ghetto and we see a man in his driveway are putting his trash in his trash can. Elder Porter says: "This one's yours Rice." I say okay, and walk toward him and said from 20 feet away: "HEY HERMANO!" The guy jumped and in the same motion flipped around and drew a gun from his pocket and pointed it at me. I froze and I noticed that Elder Porter quickly scuttled behind a fence out of the line of fire. I was saying: Whoah! Hang on a minute man!, when I noticed that he didn’t have a gun at all. He was just holding his hand like it was a gun. Then the guy busted up laughing and so did I, and when Elder Porter poked his head out and realized what had happened he busted up laughing too. So we talked to the guy, he was real funny and was interested. In fact I found out later that Elder Porter had signed us up to teach a Bible study class at the church this guy went to... Oh snap... It'll be a week from this coming thursday... Well Elder Porter will have fun with that. He always tells me that we would give one of his arms to bible bash with a J-Dub or whomever... I'm not so keen on that. The thing about Elder Porter is that he likes to pick fights, when we were teaching this crazy old woman he complemented her many pictures of Jesus that were plastered all over the inside this lady's trailer but then said that he didn't like the picture of the virgin Mary. And then he went into a long argument about why we shouldn't pray to Mary nor any other saint and blah blah blah. In the last few days he's argued with like 6 different people about Mary and all of this nonsense... I'm just there for the ride when these sorts of things happen. He also gets into arguments with members too...
Another amusing anecdote. So Elder Brown and his new companion Elder Lopez were out in Cut N' Shoot one day with the ar (that little red-neck town that I spoke of before) when they ran over a homemade spike strip which put holes in all of the tires. Luckily they were close to a member's home and they patched them all up and made it back. But they didn't tell us and left the hub-caps in the trunk. So when Elder Porter and I got back that night Elder Brown came outside and he said: "Hey... where's our hub-caps?" Elder Porter and I turned and looked and saw that indeed there were no hub-caps on our car. We concluded that some loser had stolen them. The next day was our car day and as we backed up we noticed that the front right tire was flat. Again we concluded that the same loser that stole our hubcaps had also let the air out of the front right tire. So we changed the tire and when we opened the trunk to get the spare we found the hub-caps. So when I went back into the apartment to wash my hands when Elder Porter was finishing up putting the hub-caps back on Elder Brown told me what had happened and he told me not to tell Porter. And I didn't so we went to fill up the tire at a gas station. We did, and then found the hole so we went to a tire place to get a patch job. They said the job would only take 15 minutes but it ended up taking two hours. During which we sat in the waiting room thing. Elder Porter was fuming during that whole time, that man does not like to waste a minute. I was okay though, there was a TV and it was the G4 channel and we watched 2 hours of old COPS re-runs, that was fun. COPS is lame but I like seeing the commercials, just to see what's going on the world, also since G4 is a gaming channel I got to see a few updates on what's going on the video game world.
Yesterday on Sunday we had a baptism. Well not really us. The Spanish sister missionaries in our zone had a baptism and the little 9 year old girl they had been teaching wanted me to baptize her, for whatever odd reason. Now Elder Porter wanted to go back to his old area in Brian that same time for a baptism of one of his investigators. So we had to go on splits with the members. I went with Pedro Ortiz, one of the ward missionaries who's like 22 and is leaving on his mission in a month to Oklahoma. So we went to the baptism and all went well. I was afraid that I wouldn't remember how to say it in spanish but I did and the girl, Leslie Batalla didn't have to get baptized in the Mormon church twice like Aidan did. So it was a mostly good night, though I'm getting tired of some of the ward members treating me like I'm stupid just because I can't fully communicate with them yet. Really some of them treat like I'm a retard and in special education or something... Whatever, I will endure.
Well that's all I got for today. Remember to send me my jacket and a flash drive. Oh and thanks Grandma for the cash, that will be put to good use. Okay, peace out. Love y'all, bye.
Seek and Destroy
Hopefully the proceeding email with this weeks photos got to you already.
Anyway, it's been another long week, as they always are. So as you can see we had our 3rd baptism this transfer. Sergio Del Agula, it was yesterday but unlike our others it was done in Baring, which is close to downtown Houston in the stake center there because Sergio's cousin, Alex Del Agula, was leaving the following day to the MTC and he was getting set apart as a missionary. So that was nice and all.
Saturday was a rather stressful day, for it was transfer call day. Now after all of that nonsense that I spoke of a couple weeks ago we were pretty certain that there would be a lot of changes, it was just a question of who. So throughout the whole day everyone was stressed. The zone leaders finally called our district leader at like 9:45 pm with the info. Elder Astin is getting transferred to one of the downtown Houston Zones, he's not happy at all about that, I'm staying here and my new companion will be Elder Porter, I've only met him once at our last zone conference, he seems like a nice guy but also like a preachy wind-bag as he was the guy that sat front row and center and was making preachy comments every 5 seconds during zone conference. He's also pretty hard core from what I here, that he won't waste a second, so I guess I'll be tracting a lot during this upcoming transfer which will start on Wednesday. Elder Nelson is to be leaving as well and will be replaced with a new missionary, so I won't be the newbie in the district anymore. Elder Pitts is going home, his time is up, and Elder Dexter is going somewhere and they're to be replaced by Elder Beck, who I think played on BYU's football team, he's a Polynesian who was an AP for a while, and he will be training another new missionary.
Hmm... Other things that happened this week. We did quite a bit of service this week. On Tuesday we went with the english elders to a member's ranch at like 7 AM and fed their dozen or so horses and then spent the next five hours splitting logs. I'm still tired from that but it was fun. Then on saturday we went out to some red-neck country and helped a member put up a fence for several hours, we dug holes, put logs in them and packed them in, all around his several acres of property. It was rather fun and also rather back breaking.
Well that's about it. Oh I also thought of a few more things you could get me for christmas. You get me a calender, preferably a two year one, with a cool theme like medieval or Napoleonic battles or something like that. And you get me some electronic clippers and electronic shaving device, of which I know nothing about, so good luck with that. Maybe also a new camel back, this dog was chewing on the straps and plastic buckles the other day and the thing in general is only just holding together but it can hold out for the rest of this year so no worries.
Well that's all I got for today.
-- Elder Rice
November 09' Pics
A house where one of our investigators lives. Is was not hard for me to imagine dad cringing if he were there.
November 09' Pics
Some Texas long-horn cattle we saw when we were biking one day. They're huge, and they weren't very friendly towards us, the Lord's representatives either.
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