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Elder Zwick

Montana President and Sister Mecham

Jaromy in July

Great Week

Hey Family,

This week was a good week, it was the best week that we have had as far as the week goes so that was great, we were happy about that! 

Cutler, it looks like you are having fun with all the cousins there, I wish I could be there with you all, I feel kind of bad about not being there cause it looks fun with everyone there but I guess that I will just see everyone when I get up to utah. But everyone looks GREAT from the fotos! that makes me happy.

Lindo, no te preocupes, tienes que puro divertirte mientras estas en las vacaciones, por eso se llaman vacaciones. Pero no dejes que las cosas te molesten ve las cosas buenas de cada situación.  Gracias por escribirme de elder perez, yo estaba pensando en el esta semana entonces quise escribirle igual. 

Mom and Dad, that backyard looks FANTASTIC! great job, its gorgeous! way to go and mom, way to go with the party, it looks like you are all having a great time there. Take lots of pictures. 

Anyway, we had a pretty good week this week finding new people to teach which was awesome! Its good to finally have people to fill up our schedule with instead of trying to figure out what to do to find people.  Spencer is doing great! He is so willing to learn and work hard, but unfortunately many of the other missionaries dont know how to work and dont really want to so not many of them know what to do.. I feel lucky to have gone to Santiago North! But Spencer is learning great ways to find and new teaching skills so it is fun to see him learn and grow in that aspect. He really does love the scriptures and has a very strong testimony of the gospel so it is fun to be able to work with and teach with somebody like that. We are having a fun time together. Only two weeks left! 

We were lucky because yesterday at church some members brought a couple of mexican investigators which was fun because I was able to talk with them a bit. We scheduled an appointment with them for this week so it should be good! 

Anyway, im sorry this is so short but I dont have much time today! Talk more next week! love

Jar

heyo!

Hows it going fam?

I hope everything is going well for you all! It sounds like things are going pretty well so I'm happy about that, its always good to hear that you are doing well.  

Lindy sounds like she is having a good time there in Europe galavanting around =) Way to take the Essig's advice, I hope it is helping haha.  Just a few more weeks, can you handle it? 

Cutler, it sounds like it is getting pretty hot there, that or you just sweat a lot=) who knows. Its not too bad up here, some days its pretty warm but its alright. It really is beautiful around here though. But you sure sound excited about the family reunion! You are really lucky that you get to bet there, I am actually jealous! I think it would be awesome to see everyone. And you are going to have some fun activities to do and so it should be a good time. You just have to change your attitude a little bit and you might just enjoy it. Be careful ;) you wouldn't want to have a good time around the family, would you? 

Hey Mom! Great job with Steve, I'm proud of you! keep up the good work! And get crakin on those missionaries, make them go out and see him so that they actually do it, some missionaries are EXTREMELY LAZY and it kills me so just follow up with them to see if they have actually done anything. 

Dad, I'm excited for you! It sounds like you are busy! And it sounds like Z is gettin there, gettin better every week! Thats great. Just look at all the progress and all the blessings that you have had in the last few years, I think its quite amazing (granted it has taken LOTS of hard work but the blessings are undeniable). Anyway, keep up the hard work, it'll come=)

This week was a good one. We started off better than we had any of the other weeks which was good but then it kind of got slow which kills me. I like it when we are really busy. But we have a couple of good people to teach which we are excited about. 

One of those people is Fanny. She is a spanish speaker and last week we taught her with a member that we ate with and it was a really good lesson. She left for girls camp last week and we heard from a couple of the leaders that she had a really great time there so we were really excited about that. They told us that she bore her testimony at the end of the camp so that is really great news. She has a baptismal date for the 3rd of August which we are still shooting for but it was strange because she didin't come to church on Sunday and we dont know why...we'll see this week though.

Yesterday we had a really great lesson with the guy we are teaching out in the mountains and we are so excited for them! He is the guy that raised the bear up there.. But we taught him with Spencer's member friend from Three Forks and we taught the Restoration. So it was a great lesson and we got to the end and he said that he believed everything that we had told him.  He proceeded to tell us an experience that he had during the week when he was talking to a young man who came into his work that was an evangelical christian and he said that he was very very close minded. The point was brought up about having other scripture out there that is from God and the kid was 100% against it but then Mike (our investigator) started saying that he believed that the Lord could bring forth other scripture and truth. He spoke about the Book of Mormon and actually defended it which was amazing! He defended the LDS church and he isn't even Mormon! It was incredible, and I definitely see him and his son being baptized sometime here in the near future though I don't think it will be while I am here. It will probably be a couple of weeks after I leave but we are excited for them. 

Another strange thing happened. We were in the back of the chapel greeting people as they came into church for Sacrament Meeting and all of a sudden in walks a kid that was in my ward at BYU my freshman year! It was crazy! He is from Pennsylvania and he is out here for a family reunion visiting our bishop who is his cousin. Crazy right? So we sat together and got talking for a little bit and he told me that he didn't have any place to room yet so I told him that I if there was room with us in our place that he could room with us! I think it would be sweet! We didn't hang out too much before the mission but he is a great guy and lots of fun so hopefully it will work out. 

So I have been thinking about getting a bunch of rock climbing gear up here because I really wanted to get into it in the fall because it isso fun!  But the sweet thing is that there is a member that works at REI and she will get the workers discount for me up here and then on top of that there is no sales tax up here! So its going to be like 30% off or something like that so I figure that is well worth it.

Anyway, I hope you have a wonderful time with the family down there in SD! It should be a great time! Tell everyone that I said hi and I'm sorry that I couldn't be there but that i'll see most of them here pretty soon! 

Love you! 

jar

Elder Holland

No way! That would be awesome! I was thinking about him the other day and wondering what he has been up to, it would be awesome to see him! Its been a long time.

talk more next week. Love you and have a great week! I[m sorry that you have to be there alone, I'm sure that's not too much fun but I'm sure you can find great ways to spend your time.

love,  jar

On Mon, Jul 8, 2013 at 11:40 AM, Teresa Holland  wrote:

Yes, I will spread the word and change to your gmail email.  Did I mention Aubrey Holland just got engaged?  She just met the guy in June and is getting married in October!  Oh, remember Elder Purdue from Spain?  He is going to try and be at your missionary homecoming talk - very cool!

On Jul 8, 2013, at 10:32 AM, Jaromy Holland wrote:

I didn't think that that last email was going to work haha, the ability to send emails on this account is supposed to be disabled... but can you all start to email at my regular email now please? its jaromyholland@gmail.net just in case you didn't know it. thanks!

love ya, jar

On Mon, Jul 8, 2013 at 11:30 AM, Teresa Holland  wrote:

Not scary - two handsome missionaries!

On Jul 8, 2013, at 10:16 AM, Jaromy Holland wrote:

Woah, that's crazy! I have never seen a picture of dad as a missionary!~ That's cool! We look quite a bit  alike. that's scary.... haha =)

On Sun, Jul 7, 2013 at 12:05 AM, Teresa Holland  wrote:

Recognize this elder?

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Bozeman II

Hey Family,

It sounds like you are all doing pretty well. It was awesome to be able to see all the pictures from Cutler and his trip. Spencer and I have been waiting for those all week, we've been talking about how excited we are to hear about how everything went so GET THAT LETTER OFF SOON!! haha, we want to hear. I hope it was a wonderful experience.

Mom, Congratulations on having your houses up for sale, thats awesome! I'm so excited for you and you really are great at your job, you always seem to get the great offers and they often pay more than you are asking for haha! How crazy is that, when does that happen?

Dad, have lots of fun in all of your meetings while you are there in Utah and then in SJ, =) but really, there is always a bright side to things... somebody taught me that....

Mom, I can tell that you have a little bit of time on your hands because you went through all the old pictures and sent them to us haha! I had never seen one of Dad on his mission, that was awesome! I am excited to talk to him about it when I get back.

Lindy, I haven't heard from you which is probably a good thing haha, I hope it means that you are so busy and are enjoying yourself so much that you just forgot=) I want to know how your cruise was and what you have been up to for the last couple of weeks! You kind of are experiencing a mission in a way because you have a companion, Rachel, who you are with 24/7! It can be fun and it can be tough sometimes too, just don't get caught up on the little things that bug you, dont focus on the negative and this is what sister Essig always said, (it is her home motto) No Eat, No Sleep, No Talk. So if you havent eaten, and/or slept for a while (if you are tired) Dont talk! haha, its great advice. I hope you are having a blasst!

Time has gone by fast and slow. The pace of things here is definitely very different from things down in Chile. Surprisingly, it seems that there was more to do down there! We are trying out a bunch of different ideas that I picked up in my mission though and are just trying to rely on the Lord to give us people to teach.  It honestly, has been a bit harder to get back into this swing of missionary work than I thought it would for lots of different reasons but we are getting there. We met a couple of really cool people this week who should be good to work with.

We have been really trying to get members to do more work and to work with referrals from them. We identified an area that we wanted to work in and a couple of members that we wanted to work with that are younger couples that we clicked with pretty well so we are excited about them.

One of the great people that we met this week though who lives like a half hour away from us up this gorgeous canyon is named Mike. He lives out there with his family and it is a beautiful piece of property.  Fun fact about him, is that he raised a 700 pound black bear for 9 years =) crazy right? But he is a nondenominational christian but he studies the bible more than most people that I know. He has a lot of his facts straight and has a bunch of the right ideas. It is really cool to see. He has a friend from church (Steve, who Spencer met in 3 forks) who has talked to mike a bunch about the church and mike has been surprised by how much there is in common with what he believes. He is really smart and it is going to be interesting to see how he progresses!

Also we went to contact a referral the other day and as we were driving up to the house and parked, there was a man just a few trailers down that kept looking at us and then he would go inside and come back out and look at us and then go back in. We saw him do it a couple of times and decided to go contact him, his name is Alex and he just got out of prison. He is Mormon and he told us that he is ready to make the changes he needs to in his life so that he can come back to church and straighten out. We went over to his house yesterday and had a really great lesson with him and his girlfriend, sammy, and we are excited about them. We think that they are going to do great and are going to progress really well. We set up another appointment with them and we are going to go back with one of the young couples that we selected to work with.

It has been challenging but good to be up here in Montana. I am still learning like crazy, it is amazing how much there is to learn everyday and its amazing how much the Lord is willing to teach and show us everyday.  Im grateful to be out here and it has been really cool to see Spencer and all the changes that he has made in his life. He really does want to do what is right and to serve the Lord with all his heart might mind and strength and it is really cool to see that in him. His life is a miracle and the changes that he has made, I am so blessed to be here with him and am grateful for the opportunity to serve here with him.

Have a wonderful week and we'll talk next week,

Love,

Jar

Bozeman

Hey Family!

How is everyone doing, all spread out across the world, it is pretty cool that with all the technology we can be in the four corners of the world and still be connected (unless you are on a MWB trip and they cut you off from everything=) But when cutler writes, you have to send me his letter because I want to know how everything went for him.

Lindy, it sounds like you are really living the highlife there! How fun! Only a little less than two months left and you are going to be done with vacations for a while, will you be able to handle that? Can you handle two months of vacations? I think that I would get bored haha, I couldn't handle it. But I hope you are sending a bunch of pictures home so that I can see them, or at least I hope that you are taking a bunch of fotos so that I can see them all when I get home.

CJ, I hope you had a wonderful experience there in Zambia, I am going next year. Tell me all about it!

Mom, GREAT job on the work with that client and GREAT job with Steve, keep up the good work. I am excited to see what is going to happen next week.

Dad, keep up the awesome work there at Z, its always exciting to hear how things are going. I want to help out when I get back.

Anyway, as for us and the week it was a great week. I got into Billings on Tuesday morning (I tried

to get on the same flight as the other missionaries but it was all full so I couldn't, I ended up on my regular flight which was ok because I was able to talk to the girl next to me the whole way and basically share the message of the restoration with her which was cool. But we got here and went to the temple and the temple here is gorgeous! It really is beautiful. It was cool to see, there is a beautiful foyer with an open glass ceiling as you walk in. Also in the entrance there are a couple of fountains which are beautiful, it is a really neat temple. It was cool to go there on the first day with all the new missionaries, Pres Mecham and Sis Mecham.

After that I just kind of hung out with the APs and slept at their house and stuff. I asked a lot of questions as did they. We were trying to get a feel for the different missions and get a few new ideas.  This mission is really, really different from mine.  Some of the things I don't really like haha but don't worry Dad, I try to bite my tongue haha. President Mecham is just a whole lot more relaxed than President Essig and it affects the missionaries in many different ways especially because there is the chanllenge that everything is so spread out.

But I do love President Mecham, he is a really cool guy and it was amazing that he is letting us do this. He isn't very by the books, he tries to go by the spirit which I like a lot about him. It should be fun here, there is lots to learn.

But Thursday after all the boring training meetings I was driven out to Bozeman and I met Spencer. It was really cool, he is so different! He is really, really different but in amazing ways.. It has been fun to see him and how he has changed and he really does have strong desires to do what is right. It is cool to see that. I am excited to get to know him and we are going to have some great experiences together.

As far as the work goes, there aren't too many people that we are visiting right now but we know that that will change. We are implementing some ideas from my mission and keeping some from his so we have a hybrid work style going on here which should be good. The members are great and are very helpful, way more than any ward that I ever had in Chile. Lots of the members are very Missionary oriented and are engaged in the work which is great to see, its exciting. We selected a few young couples to concentrate our work on so we are going to work with them to see what fruits come. it should be great! thanks for every thing and I got to go,

Love
Jaromy

talk next week!

On to Montana.... And it came to pass...

And it came to pass, I got to continue my Mission in Montana with my brother Spencer for six weeks....

Hello Family,

How is everyone doing? I hope well and I hope you are enjoying having Lindy back! I can't believe that you went home early! Thats crazy! and you flew back on first class! loca! haha but I want to hear all about the trip as soon as I get back. And Cutler's Africa trip with pictures and everything.

It sounds and looks like you all had a fantastic family reunion in SD, I'm happy it was such a great time, I'm sad I missed it, it would have been fun to be there and get to know everyone better. It is crazy, either people are just growing up and changing way too much or there are a bunch of people in those family fotos that I don't know! haha I guess I'll just have to get to know everyone while I'm up there in Utah.

This week was another pretty good week here with Spencer, we are having some really good progress with lots of the investigators that we have which is cool to see. We are teaching several different latino families which is pretty cool. lots of them are progressing well and are coming to church which is cool. None of our investigators are going to be baptized while I am here but the next transfer should be a great transfer for Spencer so I am excited for him about that.

I got kind of sick while I was sleeping Saturday night and woke up not feeling too good so I had Brother Bowden and his brother in law bro Gage give me a blessing at church (while Spencer was teaching the gospel principles class) and then after church we did splits and I went to the Bowdens for the afternoon to just sleep it off while Spencer went out with a member to work which ended up being really great. He went and taught Johns family and it went really well and apparently everyone wants to be baptized now which is really cool.

Everything is going well up here and I only have about another week left and then I'm going to be headed back home! Thanks for everything and have a wonderful week!

Love
Jaromy