Week 29: Happy for hats

Congrats to Jake for the proposal and stuff! That's so exciting:) and I'm very glad y'all had a great week. Not a whole lot happened this week. We got some tracting hats so that's super exciting. Now we look like we are going on safari😂 safari mall cops😂. Love it. I'm petitioning the mission leaders to give us back a Chevy Malibu because I'm sick of sqaudding around in the mini van. 

Congrats to Jake for the proposal and stuff! That's so exciting:) and I'm very glad y'all had a great week. Not a whole lot happened this week. We got some tracting hats so that's super exciting. Now we look like we are going on safari😂 safari mall cops😂. Love it. I'm petitioning the mission leaders to give us back a Chevy Malibu because I'm sick of sqaudding around in the mini van. 

I'm glad y'all got to see Ben and Cher! It's been a hot minute since I've heard from any of the other family. Glad every one is doing well tho. It's so hot here♨️ literally I sweat through all my clothes like every day. But it's whatever. Me and elder Wales are still getting along really good which is awesome. I've almost hit my mile goal which is 5:45. The other day I got 5:47 seconds! I was so close. Next time tho. We race every morning which is fun because then it makes it competitive. We also this week convinced the Hermanas to make some cookies for us. So we are like a whole plate of like 30 sugar cookies in a little under 3 days. It's fine tho. We sweat out all those extra calories. 



Besides that we have a baptism coming up on the 28th I'm pumped for. The dudes name is Chris and we are homies. He's a very interesting guy. Everyone here in bowling green is. It's just different😆. Also this week me and Elder Wales saw someone getting arrested for stealing a motorized shopping cart from Wal-Mart. That was pretty sad. Besides that not much else. I was hoping to hear more details on the proposal so hopefully Jake will get around to that. I'm sad I'll be missing his wedding. But what can you do😂😂. Love you guys and I hope yall have a good week. 

Week 28: Happy 4th

Hey, I hope you guys are having a good 4th of July! We are out in the country having a good old celebration with some families from our wards. It's bomb. It was a super good time we had burgers and played volleyball it was good:) this week was a really good week here but it is hot as nuts. 99 degrees with this kind of humidity is something else. Hats are approved for tracting to keep the sun off of you so I bought a good old safari hat and I'm pumped to use it.

It's been a good week tho filled with lots of biking and talking to interesting people. It sounds like all is well there:) I miss all of you guys, it's crazy it's been 8 months already. I'm a 3rd of the way through this already. I can't believe how time flies. Me and my comp are trying very hard to get in really good shape. So we have been running a mile every morning and working out for quite a while. My fastest mile so far is 5:55. I want to get it faster tho. Today we aren't allowed to be out after 8 pm.  Maybe they think people will shoot fireworks at us or something. Or it could just be all the drugs and alcohol who knows. I've been craving some swimming lately. It's just so hot and everyone has a pool. I can wait another 16 months tho😂

Love you guys and hope you have a good week!

Week 27: Staying put

Hey family! Happy father's day dad! Thanks for all that you do for me! And having patience with me cause my emails suck! I did get my birthday package and it was awesome! I'm so thankful:) the mesh garments are gonna save my life out here. We sweat buckets all day every day. I'll get the package mailed off to you guys at some point with dad's hat and a belt I got from the corvette museum.


On to the other big news! So my comp Elder Satterthwaite is getting transfered to Linden Tennessee to be a district leader there. And I am going to be training!!!! And so will my district leader Elder Ellison! We will go pick up our greenies tomorrow and that will be there first day. I'm a little nervous and stressed about training but mostly just excited. It's going to be a blast! I'm going to miss Elder Satterthwaite tho. Besides that my birthday was pretty good. The Hermanas serving here made me some cupcakes which was cool. Plus district meeting that day was way fun to.

The family reunion looked like it was a party as usual. Wish I could have been there but it's all good:)

Let's see, besides that our gators have been doing well but the work has slowed down a bit because everyone is sick. But I just discovered a ton of new appartment complexes so when I get the Green bean we are gonna go hard. I don't find out who it is until Thursday but I'm sure Sister Stone will post pictures on Insta. So that means ill probably be in Kentucky for at least two more transfers. So that will make 5.
You all are the best and I hope you have a great week!

Week 26: Worth the wait

Hey family:) sounds like you guys had a pretty good week as usual! 

 

Well here is the highlights since last p day. On Saturday we had our first baptism in the area, and the first one for me on my mission. Hanna entered the waters of baptism and the spirit was way strong. She has some autistic kids that made the baptism quite the party. But it was an amazing experience. Watching someone and helping them go through the whole teaching process and even get married was so cool. 

Yesterday we were doing some service for this Hispanic lady in our ward. Her name is lina, she doesn't speak to much English but helping her is always a party. This time we carried a massive entertainment center up the stairs of her unfinished house and put it in her upstairs. While we were carrying it up there, I literally stepped through the ceiling.  I thought I was gonna fall through but I didn't. So that was good! 

Also we are teaching this lady named Cheri who is getting baptised on the 30th and she is so cool. Straight from Detroit, she's in her 70s and literally is like a mafia person she is just killing it in the lessons so far. Thanks for the package. I am excited to receive it, also on Sunday I'll probably find out if I'll be staying in this area or being transferred. Love you guys and I hope your all doing Well! See ya next week

Week 25: 6 months out

Hey family:)

Things are going well here! This last week there was like a corvette convention here or something.  Every direction you looked you'd see like 4 to 5 corvettes. It was cool at first but after a while is just got kinda boring. I haven't been to the factory yet, but I'll probably go in the next week or two if I stay here. I'm super pumped to Skype you guys on mother's day. Our investigator on date just up and left. He moved to Indiana, and blocked us on Facebook 😂 not quite sure what went wrong there but ohh well. We are teaching this really cool old lady from Detroit tho. She sounds like She was In a mafia or something but she's really nice. Her name is Cxxxx. Besides that things are warming up here and everything is way green.

 Like I realize now that we live in a desert, cause they don't even water there grass here and everything is just super green. It's all green. And I just wanna fish🤘 but I'll get my pole eventually.

I think I'll be staying with Elder Satterthwaite for another transfer and I'm okay with that. He's a good guy. 😂 so do you think Jake will be married before I get how then? That's kinda crazy to think about. So I hit six months yesterday and so I burned a tie and I have some pictures to send y'all. Bridger is doing really good. He's quite the missionary! He went zone leader at 6 months out which is a big deal. So he's got big things coming his way for sure. That's such a funny story about the steaks! Kenai sounds like a fun dog😂. We had a member feed us steaks the other day. I hadn't had one in so long it's nuts. It was way good. You'd be surprised mom I eat anything now. I love salad I really do. One thing I do miss tho is your cookies. And the brownies with frosting. Man those things were sure good. I hope y'all have had a good week. It sounds like dad is gettin everything with the house situated so that's good. Ohh also I wrangled an alpaca this week. Just got in the pen and grabbed it around the neck and wrestled with it a bit. Then they got shaved😂 it was a party for sure.

 So our church ends at four. So It will probably be sometime after that. I don't know maybe like 7:15 or somethin. I'll let you guys know for sure next Monday.

Elder Swanton

Week 22: Calm yourself in the storm

Hey family!

Yes I did get the package. It was quite awesome and very well needed. I did share the candy and the ties with my companion. And I really appreciate the picture dad drew of swiper.  I had forgot about it but it really made me smile. 

Things have been going good here in Bowling Green. I learned this week that I have a temper. We got in a bible bash with this dude and I haven't been that fired up in a long time, I'm going to have to watch my self because I have zero tolerance for bible bashers. Me and my comp just stood up and walked out of this dude house. We told him that we were leaving because he was filled with the spirit of contention. He tried to make us stay so he could continue yelling at us. Besides that it was a good week tho.

The days just seem to be melting together. It's crazy that we get to skype again in a month. Time is just flying. We have one investigator on date for baptism and I'm really hopeful that she will get baptised. She just really wants to follow Christ and become closer to him and God. It's just hard to get in contact with her is all. 

This week really flew by so I didn't take any pictures but I defiantly should have. That's okay tho. Elder Taylor called me on Friday night and we talked for a while. I really miss that guy he's such a baller. 

Anyhow things seem like they are going well at home. I think I'll be here in Bowling Green for a while but we will see. I love you guys and miss you lots. Have a good week! 

Week 21: International Church

Hey family,

This week was pretty good, we had general conference, and it was crazy. The changes in the church are pretty crazy, but it all just re affirms to me that we have a prophet of god on the earth. and it tells me that the lord is continuing to hasten his work.

Nothing to crazy happened this week. We taught a family from the Congo. they speak French Swahili and Congolese. Its kinda hard sometimes to sit through these lessons with our translators doing a lot of the work. I can keep up with French a little bit. but Swahili is way over my head. Im learning how to say the basic phrases in each of them. The refugee population here is huge. Its pretty rare that I meet just a English speaking American.


It sounds like everything is going good with Kenai and with grandma. I hope she is doing well and i hope the family is doing well also. Ethan is looking skinny as ever. We bike so much here. I am burning through my tires and tell dad when I go to the corvette museum i will take pictures.

It stormed pretty hard yesterday and we hard tornado warnings but it was nothing serious.


Thats my report. Love you all.

Elder Swanton