Twenty Questions from Elder Tomlinson

Things are going good here in Wyoming :) We are having transfers today and Elder Juarez and I are both staying here. Which is really good :) Still working on my Spanish. Elder Juarez says its really coming along...I disagree...

Its so good to hear about every one.  What all is Hannah up to? What does she do at summer school? Is she riding her bike a lot more now that she know how to ride it? Are you going to go on family bike rides again like we use to? Riley or Jake can use my bike. I'm not going to use it for awhile. Where is Jake going for scout camp? What merit badges is he trying to get?

Maybe Riley should get a second job..? The Price Chopper seems to have flexible hours so get a job with more hours and work around that one... Work at like Zona or something. Riley went to Scout camp too? or did he go to High Adventure? He only has a month and then he can go on his mission! 

Elder Juarez younger brother just put in his mission papers because he just turned 18. Crazy! A mission is the best thing ever. Really hard though. He will love it.

Grandma is there!!!! I was just about to send  a postcard to her house today. When will she get back? Nauvoo would be really cool. You could drive here :) Its pretty far... What movie does Hannah want to see? Yeah that all sounds like fun.

Linda and Leslie and you all together?!?!?!? That's just asking for trouble. I miss Aunt Shelly and Aaron. Wish I was there. Is jake liking the waterpark?

Not much going on here. We had stake conference this past weekend and so we went to the adult session on saturday night and then the sunday session. A lot of members from the spanish group are out of town and we had no investigators come to church because it was Stake Conference mostly because its in english. We were translating for them in the Relief Society room and no one was there. It was funny cause the Stake President started off by thanking the spanish group for being here and for the opportunity to have translators...and no one was there.. haha.

But work is going good. We still have a ton of investigators and 5 on date to be baptized July 5th. Im super scared cause I don't know how to baptize them or give them the Holy Ghost in spanish.... :/ There is no way I could do learn that by July 5th. Everything else is good. Spanish is better, not great.

I miss all of you so much :) I will email Riley and Jake but they got to email me back....Tell everyone that I love them.

-Elder Tomlinson

Heard from Devon!

Hey Mother :)

I'm sorry I didn't write last Monday. Our Mission President instructed us not to have P-day on Monday because it was a holiday and that it was a perfect time to find families. But we had no success. It sounds like you had tons of fun on Memorial Day. We went and did service to a family in Casper 1st ward helping them make a wall of rocks and then the McIntoshs invited us and a couple other missionaries over for some BBQing outside. It was fun. The McIntoshs are really nice and help us all the time. They are from Brazil so I try and speak Portuguese with them. Doesn't work out so well. I'm so glad that everyone got a job this summer. Here the weather is really starting to feel really good. 

Hannah is going to have fun at summer school. Sounds like that will be a blast. 

Keep on pushing Riley to get his Eagle done. And make sure he is ready to go out on his mission. One thing I wish I would have done is go out with the missionaries every free moment I had. Looking back on it I should have gone out alot more than I did.

This site will help: http://lds.about.com/od/programs3foldmission/tp/prepare_lds_mission.htm

And read Preach My Gospel all the time. It is your life out here.

I received my Ipod. thanks so much but I have to turn it in on Saturday because one missionary on the other side of the mission was looking at things he shouldn't be so ipods are not approved now. Which stinks cause I downloaded tons of Mormon Messages and was showing them to little kids and it was awesome. Plus I know of at least 10 missionaries in this zone that have ipods and President Anderson is coming to pick them all up.

Everything is going good. We are teaching alot of lessons. On Wednesday, we went on exchanges with our District leader which are the missionaries in Casper 8th ward. But I stayed in my area speaking Spanish and Elder Gardener was with me. He is a new missionary only been out about a month and doesn't speak Spanish. But it was really good. I taught 4 lessons by myself and had we had dinner with some investigators and its so much harder to just talk then it is to teach but it was tons of fun. But now they think I speak Spanish when i was just trying my hardest.Now they expect me to always speak an take over and what not. It was so hard. and now Elder Juarez thinks I can take over even when he is there. It was tons of fun.

this last Sunday we had "Break the Fast" and had tons of investigators come. It was a good time. 

About my visa. I emailed the travel agency and told me this:

Elder Tomlinson,

Your visa application is currently at the Consulate and not additional documents are needed at this time.  If at any point something changes we will notify you and your temporary mission office immediately.  There is not a standard wait time, each missionary will have a unique situation.  It is likely that you will have to wait until after the World Cup ends in July.  However, we will notify your mission president once a visa is received.

Thank you,

Yep so wont be getting my visa til after July. for more info go to:

https://www.lds.org/callings/missionary/missionary-travel/global-location/south-america/brazil?lang=eng

Well I love you so much :) How is everyone doing? How is Jake and Dad and Carly????

Can't wait to hear from you :)

-Elder Tomlinson