Exchanges Exchanges Exchanges

Hey!! Well another crazy week here in Great Falls!! I was gone out of my area for the whole week on exchanges with other missionaries! It was good i had a lot of fun with the missionaries and enjoyed trying to solve some of their problems that they are facing as a missionary right now! Its pretty stressfull cuz you find a lot of stuff out that is going on  in our zone and we have to find ways to fix it!! So yeah that was the week basically! hahah dealing But it was cool cuz when i was on exchanges i got to go with the great falls 5th ward elders which is my very first area!! so i got to sleep in my old bed and see siome people that i was teaching and some cool families, it was weird to think that a year ago i was living in that house haha it was trippy!! But yeah and then me and elder curtis were so happy to be back together in our area. Our Zone is doing really really good right now, we have 18 people on date for baptisim in november!!! Its the most in the mission right now so we are excited!!! Tomorrow is zone training so i have to give a 30 minute disscusion on "teaching simply" so thats gonna be fun. we had a lot of great food this week!! A lady gave us a gift card to Chillies!!!!! So that was like heaven!!! we spent half the gift card on our dinner and then the other half we got something to go and saved it for lunch after church.... smart plan! hahaha so yeah life is good!! we are still teaching a lot of people and helping them come closer to christ everyday and i love seeing the change in people when they makes steps towards our savior!!! hope its a good week in Brentwood!!!

Love, Elder Swishdaddy

39 Lessons!

BRENTWOOD!! MAn this week flew by!!! We had a great week teaching 39 lessons and helping 9 people pick a date for their baptisims!!!!! It was a fun week full of exciting teaching apointments!! we were none stop all week trying to fit as much in as we could! We had a lot of fun doing it which makes the work even better!! Well lets see here, my diet is back on so elder Curtis(my companion) has limited me to one serving at dinner and one serving of dessert and then for lunches I have to eat veggies....... "who the heck eats veggies for lunch elder Curtis, what do I look like to you a vegetarian?!?!?!" elder Curtis responds "No you look fat" hahahahahaha well hes got a great point there so I have just accepted it and will be eating healthy again! hahaha so word on the street is that my sister comes home this week?!?!?! CRAZY STUFF!!! I feel like she just left yesterday!!! Holy smokes Its crazy scary how fast time flys out here when your focused on serving other people!!! well I hope everybody has a good week and gives brook a big fatty hug for me! I still got 9 more months till get to hug her!! love you and miss you guys!!!

Love,Elder Swishdaddy

Mission Leadership Council

BRENTWOOD!!!! Well just another great week here in Great Falls!!! we had an awesome week teaching over 30 lessons and finding 8 new investigators!!! It was a lot of fun teaching and helping people see how christ can make a difference in their lives!!! So what exciting happened this week? lets see, i had to go to Helena for MLC(Mission Leadership Council) where all the zone leaders and sister training leaders come togther as a council and disscus the needs of the mission! So its cool cuz you get to see some of the people you have served around and gotten close with! So we have had facebooks for ever but the rules on them have been super strict but just this last week we have been allowed now to do a lot more with facebook! So ill be posting more pictures and stuff so feel free to follow me and like the pictures but please no commenting thats still against the rules hahaha so yeah thats exciting itll be fun to work with facebook more now! Not a whole lot of food stories this week... besides i lost 15 pounds and then my mom sent me a box with candy in it....im convicned it was my dad trying to get me to gain more weight so he can win our bet but yeah so the diet has come to a hold while i eat the candy and then it'll be back on....hopefully hahahaha well i think thats all i got for ya this week!! Hope everybody has a good week love and miss you all!!!

Love, Elder Swishdaddy

Leadership council

3 inch steak the size of my plate!!

BRENTWOOD!!!! man it is good to be back in Great Falls!!! This week was transfers so its always pretty crazy!! but i love my new companion!! i feel like ive known him my whole life, we swear we are the same person hahaha its scary! We have way too much fun together! hahah we actually taught a lot of lessons considering it being a crazy week! It is offically "suit coat season" here in the MBM and that is NOT good news!!! number 1: means its about to get freezing cold in montana! and number 2: wearing a suit coat everyday is the most uncomfurtable thing on planet earth!!!! hahaha but oh well i guess we look good in them....right? man i love being a missionary i just feel so happy all the time!! OH WAIT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! the best part of the transfer...... WE HAVE A TRUCK!!! KISS MY BIKE DAYS GOODBYE!!!!!! Heck yeah i'm so happy to be off that dumb bike!!! haha but me and my comp have made a goal to eat healthy and work out! so today is the start and yes i actually worked out!!! eating healthy is gonna be the hard part hahaha but i will get er done!! hahaha general confrence this weekend was sooo good!! Its cool to know that god hasnt stop speaking to us but that he has a living prophet who recicves revelation for all of his children!! Its always nice to hear some direction and feel the spirit so strongly! we had a non member come to their friends house to watch it and she was in tears by the end of it and we taught her about the restoration of christs gospel and she accepted baptisim!! it was a very cool experience that im gratfeul for. SOO my food story happened last night when we went to this members home for dinner..... he brings out these huge steaks!!!! they were just huge thats all i can say hahaha so elder curtis wants to be nice and gives me the biggest steak on the plate..... it literally took up more than the plate and was 3 inches thick!!!!!!! it was ridiculously big..... the first bite i took... yuck, it was the worst steak i have ever eaten!!!! and i had this big ol monster on my plate!!!! hahaha and i was challenged so i couldnt back down!!!!! so i sufferd through it and an hour later i ate the whole thing and was ready to pop!!! hahaha ive never felt so fat in my life!!! it was awesome!!! hahah well i think thats all  i got for ya this week! i hope you have a safe week!! I love ya and miss everyone!!!!

Love Elder Swishdaddy

Zone Leader in Great Falls

GOODBYE CODY:( Man I got the news that I'm being transferred!!! I'm headin back to where this whole journey started! hahaha Great Falls Montana here I come again!! But this time I'll be in the Two Rivers ward as a Zone Leader. But hopefully I'll get to see my old friends in the 5th ward!!! Yes thats right this is the place where the wind never stops and its gets colder than cold..... and I'm lucky enough to experience it twice in the winter!!!!;) brrrrrrr! I am sad to leave Cody but excited for a new adventure. It's been so good to be here I love it so much and the people here! I'll definitely be coming back!!!! Well this week was one of those weeks! hahaha everything bad that could have happened, happened!!! Some baptisms fell through and that was a bummer. Gotta take the good with the bad. Besides that I had the best dessert week of the mission! hahaha man so many brownies and so much ice cream! Its was great! I will get more ice cream tonight before I leave Cody. Tomorrow I start the long trek to Great Falls. Tomorrow I will drive to the mission home in Billings. Then on Wednesday we drive to Helena and then on to Great Falls. I have a great companion. His name is Elder Curtis and he is from Salem Utah. Well next time I write I'll be back in Great Falls so I'll talk to ya then!!! Have a great week!!!

Love Elder Swishdaddy

How do you like my tie? 

Rocky Mountain Oyster!

hey Brentwood!!!! Well it was a great week here in Cody!!! Have i mentioned i love it here? Well i do! its the best!!!!! So we went on a hike last week and saw a moose and a lot of prints of other animals and it was a beautiful veiw! But after gettin home and looking at the pictures of myself..... i have some awesome tan lines!!!! Im sure my mom will post the pictures! hahaha man especially the neck tan from my white shirts everyday!! hahahaha it looks like i'm wearing sleeves... i'm proud of it! hahaha Well we taught a lot of lessons this week which kept us busy and that's always good! Our goal is to teach 20 lessons a week. This week we taught 30! And then my comp came down with a bad cold!!!:( we spent one day kept up in the house. i thought i was gonna go crazy!!! i hate working all day everyday and then all of a sudden come to a stop! i cant stop moving or ill go crazy!! so yeah that was a long day but the next day he was still really out of it but i made him go out and work but i told him not to talk cuz he would scare people away hahaha he sounds horrible right now!! haha but hes a good guy and had fun just walking around!! well my food story.... ROCKY MOUNTAIN OYSTERS!!!!! hahaha man i was a little sketched out not gonna lie but i tried it and it was actually really good!! i am a fan!!! We got fed dinner every night which is a big step up in this cody 1st ward! hahaha so i'm still just gettin fat waitin till i hit 18 months to start working out again hahaha gotta stalk up for this freezing winter!!;) Well i hope y'all have a good week!!!!

Love Elder Swishdaddy

 

IT SNOWED!!!!

Howdy brentwood!!! Well just another awesome week as a missionary!! I am currently with the cody first ward. I am on another exchange with them and will be here for the rest of the week!! Its cool cuz they go to church in the mural building!! Its this church thats half a museum!!! Everybody needs to come to cody and check it out, its way cool!!! So yeah its been fun! Well this week.... IT SNOWED!!!!! It already snowed...like what the heck?!?! it just stopped snowing 3 months ago!!!!!!! hahaha so yeah we woke up to 5 inches of snow!!! A lot of the farmers took a huge loss, their beans were two weeks from being harvested and then the snow hit and wiped out most of them!! They went from being 240,00 dollars to barely 100,00 dollars if they are lucky. So yeah thanks snow!!!!!!:( hahaha so yesterday we got invited to go to a bbq with an investigator... we show up and there are 10 non members all drinking! hahaha reminded me of home with the swisher side of the family;) hahaha but yeah the bbq was kinda nasty so I was sketched out by the food, he said we were having shishkabobs and when he walked out of the house with them they were on dip sticks from old trucks!!!! hahahaha red red red red neck!!!!!!!!  hahaha they were pretty gross I won't lie but... I still ate like 5 of them hahaha cant help it;) well thats all I got this week!!! The pictures of the snow and my mission BFF that I got to see last week on temple day :) Love yall!!!

Love , Elder Swishdaddy