tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30737300109265172952024-03-21T09:31:53.661-06:00Elder Brendan SearleBrendan Searlehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15695902284828429218noreply@blogger.comBlogger117125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3073730010926517295.post-45141734698936536062015-11-09T21:29:00.000-07:002015-11-09T21:38:22.488-07:00The End of Elder Searle<br />
<span style="font-size: large;">Dear Family,</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Well, it's almost here, 2 years in the flat lands of Nebraska are almost over...I have sure grown a TON from this adventure. I am for sure not the same person that I was when I first came out. One thing that I have learned/really came to understand is that the Atonement of Jesus Christ is really for anyone and everything. I think we can all understand that yes, He died for ME, He knows what I'm going through but being able to tell these people I met, to the toothless people in Council Bluffs to the Air Force people in Bellevue to the Children of the Corn in Seward, that Christ's arm is ALWAYS stretched out towards us and that He knows what we are going through and how we feel and that He is there for us. My favorite scripture kind of has to do with this.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">3 Nephi 10</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">4-O ye people of these great cities which have fallen, who are descendants of Jacob, yea, who are of the house of Israel,<strong><em> how oft have I gathered you</em></strong> as a hen gathereth her chickens under her wings, <strong><em>and have nourished you</em></strong>.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">5-And again, <strong><em>how oft would I have gathered you</em></strong> as a hen gathereth her chickens under her wings, yea O ye people of the house of Israel, <strong><em>who have fallen</em></strong>, yea, O ye people of the house of Israel, ye that dwell in Jerusalem, as ye have fallen, yea how oft would I have gathered you as a hen gathereth her chickens, and ye would not. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">6-O ye house of Israel whom I have spared, <strong><em>how oft will I gather you</em></strong> as a hen gathereth her chickens under her wings, <strong><em>if ye will repent and return unto me with full purpose of heart</em></strong>.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Christ is the Hen, He wants to protect and help each and every one of us. He wants us under His wing, under His gospel and he is always there for us. Past, Present and Future.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Another favorite scripture is Alma 38:5 and what I like about this one is that you can switch out Shiblon and put your name in it!</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">5-And now my son, Shiblon (Brendan) I would that ye should remember, that as much as ye shall put your trust in God even so much ye shall be delivered out of your trials and your troubles and your afflictions and ye shall be lifted up at the last day.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">It has been a very emotional past couple three days (yes, couple three will now forever be in my vocab) I did a pretty good job bottling it all in but saying goodbye to the Dolezal's sure made the bottle explode. I lost it....not as bad as saying goodbye to Little Monkey, but it was sure close. Then to top it off, I had to say bye to Brandy after that. I didn't cry, men don't cry but I sure had something in my eye the whole time. ;) We were able to have one last party with Brandy and her family and we also burned a get up of mine. So, I'm not sure how long Elders have been doing this, or if' their still doing it but we burned a tie representing 6 months out, a white shirt for being a year out, suit pants for 18 months and a suit for 2 years!</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">So I guess to sum it up, I will surely miss the mission and the people that I have met, good thing we have Facebook and Skype! The mission has sure been a roller coaster but it has been fun and I have grown a lot. I guess I can sum it up with a scripture.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">6-For I am now ready to be offered and the time of my departure is at hand.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">7-I have fought a good fight, I have finished my course, I have kept the faith.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">17-Notwithstanding the Lord stood with me and strengthened me; that by me the preaching might be fully known. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">I love the people here in Nebraska and I'm happy for the chance I have had to be here and I can't wait to return home in 2 days!! I love you all and I will sure miss the people in Nebraska!!!</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Love you all!!</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">Elder Searle</span><br />
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Elder Searle and Little James<br />
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Anna and Elder Pacheco<br />
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Brendan Searlehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15695902284828429218noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3073730010926517295.post-63575308658525859332015-11-02T20:10:00.000-07:002015-11-02T20:10:32.823-07:00Final Week<br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Holy Cow....I can't believe that I have one full week left of my mission. Time has gone by sooo fast! I swear just yesterday I was home causing trouble, teasing Nana Bear, 4-wheeling, getting yelled at for bringing mud in the house etc. The mission has been great and it will be sad that it's over. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">We had an AWESOME week!! Alisha's baptism went well and it was super spiritual! Her grandpa was the one that baptized her and he had a very hard time getting the words out because of how emotional he was. There were so many people there! The youth had a hayride/tin foil dinner activity and they invited some of the ward/branches around us and a lot of them stuck around for the baptism so there were a lot of youth there to support Alisha. Even the branch president said this was the most people he has seen at a baptism here in Seward for the 9 years he has been branch president. Alisha sure deserved it, having to wait 4 years and still faithfully doing everything and just having the patience. It was also great to have one last baptism before I go home so can't complain at all.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">We did a lot of driving this week, we still have our normal miles, 1100, but since I will be gone next week and Elder Pacheco will just be with the zone leader we won't be needing our miles at all for that last week so that means...we can use them all in this 2 week period. So we have been hitting a different town almost every day and we have been having fun on dirt roads and getting Ashley (our car, we named her Ashley) a little dirty. We drove all the way up to Gresham and there was nothing there, but we found a telephone outside so Elder Pacheco was going to prank call another elder but it was $2 to call! They also had some old gas pumps so I acted like I was filling up so that explains those 2 pictures. The other picture of Elder Pacheco looking cold was pretty funny, we were at the church for district meeting and it was so cold in there! Then poor Elder Pacheco was just so cold that he walked around the church and found a Scooby-Doo towel and used it as a blanket, he also went and grabbed some wool socks from the back of our car and used them as mittens, it was pretty funny. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Fire Chief picture, so we were helping someone move and we found the apron and oven mitt and we were able to take them. I also had some glow glasses that I think you guys sent me?? So I put them all on and also acted like I had some oxygen pumping into my system, so I put them all on while Elder Pacheco was in the bathroom and oh boy was he surprised when he came out. Too bad I didn't have it earlier, could of used it Friday at Foodnet when everyone else came dressed up but I didn't have anything...oh well..</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">The mission president has really been pushing for us to teach short lessons, 30 min and to keep it simple and to also be able to teach the whole restoration lesson in 8 min. if we teach it on a door step. So I found a scripture in Acts 20:9 that says as Paul was long preaching, the guy fell into a deep slumber in a window loft and fell out falling 3 stories and was taken up dead. (if you read on he really didn't die but just that one verse makes it sound pretty funny). So I texted that scripture to a couple three sets of Elders and they found it pretty funny. :)</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">This last full week I have is going to be different, like tonight, the Foodnet crew are throwing a potluck/goodbye Searle party so we have that and another 2 little parties coming up. We will still have to work hard so time doesn't just drag on. I don't even know if I'll remember what real life was like, I will have to have T-Rav show me or something. I am excited and that kid better get out of my room. Also, there is no way I'm sharing a room with Smelly P, he can live outside in a tent or in the barn, hook up a tv out there and a microwave and mini fridge and he will be fine. Just kidding!</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">I have no clue how next week is going to work, I know I will be picked up sometime Monday so I'm not sure if I will email at the normal time or later in the day, but I'll get on one more last time. I would say you can start your countdown, but I'm pretty sure you guys have been counting down already. I love you guys and can't wait to be home! It's going to be sad leaving the mission and saying goodbye to certain people, but I think it's time. Love you guys!!!</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Sleepy Searle</span>Brendan Searlehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15695902284828429218noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3073730010926517295.post-37882999758967756572015-10-26T22:23:00.001-06:002015-10-26T22:23:28.068-06:00#Mormies<br />
<span style="font-size: large;">Dear Family,</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">It's getting cold!! Everything is dead and being cut down (corn) and everything is flat again...Speaking of cutting down corn, we went harvesting on Wednesday! Lori Johnson set it up for us to go with her dad while he was harvesting. I forgot to take some pictures because I was having too much fun in the combine, but holy cow those things are pretty fancy! The one that we were in wasn't one of the new ones, not the ones that drive themselves by GPS but it was pretty sweet. He did a couple three rows with us and was showing us everything, so now I can say I harvested some corn while I was here!</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Thursday night we had dinner with the Johnson's and they invited Brandy to join and holy cow, it was a roasting fest! The Johnson's daughter and Brandy roasted us, mostly to Elder Pacheco though. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Saturday was kinda a strange day, I got my super trunks in the mail...that would be my flight plans and everything and it's weird to think it's coming to an end, I know you guys have had them for quite a while but now I have it....IT'S SO WEIRD!! Just knowing that I'm holding my flight plans in my hands and all the questions that President Gardner wants me to answer...it's just crazy. BUT..to make my Saturday better, we carved pumpkins!!! We went over to the Bakers and ate dinner, had Mummy Dogs (pigs in a blanket) and we carved the pumpkins. They also made Puppy Chow and asked if we have ever had it and we said no, then they brought it out and it was Muddy Buddies!! I ate the whole bowl!! I guess it was supposed to be for both Elder Pacheco and I but I didn't know that. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">I guess Elder Pacheco has some skills when it comes to carving pumpkins and that I'm terrible at making cut out block letters. So I carved Book of Mormon into mine and Elder Pacheco did a CTR and #Mormies because that's what the Bakers call us. Then he carved Angel Moroni and he also later carved Jesus into it. So my little Book of Mormon pumpkin looks crappy compared to his. :)</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Friday was kind of a sad day, we helped 2 families move. The Bjournbergs moved from Friend to Idaho and then we helped P Hensley's dad move. The Bjournbergs will sure be missed, they were so funny and they are awesome!! Then since we helped move all day we missed the Foodnet, but luckily Brandy got us a box from it. We showed up right when they were done cleaning and everything so we were just chillin outside and Elder Pacheco heard the high school football game that was going on and he wanted to go watch it. So we went and watched the Milford game, they got destroyed and it was their last game, so kind of sad for that but it sure made Elder Pacheco's day. That is where the picture at the game came from, Brandy took it and sent them to us.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Sunday we spoke in sacrament meeting, we just had to talk for 5-7 min. about something that stuck out to us during General Conference so I did President Uchtdorfs Saturday morning session. I talked about keeping things simple and Am I Truly Happy. I also printed off Elder Hales talk since that is the one that stuck out the most to me, but that is just because it talked about enduring to the end and things that I can do/work on for when I go home so I will be studying those in a day or two.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">The baptism has been moved up to Halloween!! It is going to be sweet!! We taught her everything last night and will be having the baptism interview Wednesday and I'm sure everything will work out! So that will be exciting!!</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Hopefully we will have some more awesome experiences and things this week. Hopefully you guys have a good week!</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Love, Elder Searle</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"> Elder Searle and a bubble</span>Brendan Searlehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15695902284828429218noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3073730010926517295.post-62984614636740429742015-10-20T06:52:00.000-06:002015-10-20T06:52:31.655-06:00#NewKicks #Lutheran Church #Title of Liberty<br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">I sent all the Nebraska Football Memorial Stadium pictures last week but that picture of the waterfall if the biggest one that that company has ever done and it sure looked pretty cool. We pretty much saw the whole place, we couldn't go into the locker rooms or the weight room but oh well. They had a sweet three screen video that they showed all the Heisman Trophies that Nebraska has gotten on the highlight films and that was dope! They have a really awesome get up. I'm not sure if everyone was able to see the video of us getting pumped up and running out of the tunnel on to the field but that was a sweet feeling. I'm not even that into football and there were like 4 leaf blowers in the stands but it was super awesome! We met two of their players, Gangwish and some other dude I that I can't remember...if you look at their lineup, the one who's name I can't remember has the BEST mustache picture known to mankind!</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">We had zone training last week and Elder Pacheco and I were asked to give a 10 min. training on how can we increase our faith to change? We wanted to make this the most spiritual/awesome training we could make up so we were going to do the full Captain Moroni making the Title of Liberty, like wearing armor and ripping a shirt in front of everyone, but we figured we didn't have enough time. We were able to borrow some armor from our neighbor Mark who Larps and makes his own armor and stuff. We made the Title of Liberty and made it look all worn and it looked pretty legit. Then after training, we got some pictures of people wearing the armor. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Seward has been kind of a slow area lately...we have just been doing a lot of street contacting but really nothing is coming from it and we are getting low on miles, but good thing this Friday we will get new miles. Anyway, we were at the church playing a little bit of basketball to finish off our lunch break when we noticed two dudes were watching us through a window, well they came out and challenged us to a 2v2, there were about 10 of them and they were all seniors skipping class but it was still fun, we lost 12-10. After we played I soooo regretted playing, my throat was just on fire from the cold and also from still being a little sick but it was a fun game and they were pretty funny. At one point in the game one of the seniors was running around with a corn stalk trying to tickle us while we played and tried swatting the ball with it. Too bad we can't have Go-Pro's or something on us at all times recording cause it would have been super funny to watch!</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Saturday we went to St. John's Lutheran Church in Seward with Merlin, Merlin is the guy that took us to the zoo a couple three weeks ago. I guess he's done church swaps with missionaries before so one of these weeks he will be coming to our church but it was pretty cool to go. We talked to the pastor for a while and he was pretty chill with us. A lot of standing and sitting made it hard to go to sleep. :P</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">I also got some new tennis shoes!! The ones I came out with are pretty much destroyed...I was getting made fun of at Foodnet because we park in all these weeds and by the time I walk in Foodnet I have these long strands of grass stuck to my shoes because the bottoms were falling off. But good thing I have a good friend in Seward that takes care of me!! Brandy bought me some SWEET Puma's off Ebay and holy cow are they awesome!! That and they look pretty legit so that made me super happy. Brandy also hooked me up with a "Sick Basket" Friday to help me get better. :) Seward might be a place that is hard to get investigators or people that really want to learn about the gospel, but I sure have made some good, life long friends here and have sure learned/grown a lot from them. We have awesome people like Brandy that first of all keeps us in line and looks after me. The Dolzals who would do anything for us, that and she is pretty much mom to us, does our laundry, gives us meds when sick, gives us TP when we run out. :P and makes sure we aren't freezing to death when it gets cold. We have the Johnson's who's most likely going to take us to Harvest Corn on Wednesday, that will be fun!! We have the Bakers who invited us over to carve pumpkins on Saturday cause I told them I haven't carved any for 2 years and they said I could this Saturday. :)</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">This week should be pretty legit and full of fun adventure so hopefully next weeks email will be as good and as long as this one!! It has only taken me 23 1/2 months but I'm starting to figure out this weekly email writing. Have a good week everyone!!</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Love, Elder Searle</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span>Brendan Searlehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15695902284828429218noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3073730010926517295.post-37818627477510449902015-10-18T10:08:00.000-06:002015-10-18T10:08:26.341-06:00Nebraska Memorial Stadium Fieldtrip<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<br />Brendan Searlehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15695902284828429218noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3073730010926517295.post-28039941686817201472015-10-12T14:56:00.000-06:002015-10-12T14:56:15.333-06:00A Miracle and the Sickness<br />
<span style="font-size: large;">Dear Family,</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">This week has been awesome and crappy, like literally...I'm sick.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">Saturday night I thought that a wave of allergies just decided to hit me and I woke up Sunday morning and all through out the night to my throat just killing me...Yep, I have strep throat and either a cold or just allergies now. I can't tell but I'm pretty snotty. :P I just had to get sick on a Sunday where no clinics are open, so I did go to the ER. So if you guys get something from them, sorry...I LOVE YOU! :) So all of Sunday I spent sleeping and I'm still tired. You would think I would be fine by now but guess not.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">On a better note!! We had the coolest miracle known to man-kind. So on Thursday, we went and had dinner with the V family, who are awesome!! They are a part member family, the husband is not a member and neither is the daughter, but the mom has been faithfully bringing the daughter every Sunday and to every YW activity and she even goes to Seminary. The daughter is 14 and they have been doing this for years! 9 months ago the dad wrapped his truck around a telephone pole, he was driving home drunk, he has been sober since then and has been doing better. Well, we were having dinner with them and the dad just all of a sudden threw into the conversation that he would allow the daughter to be baptized. Everything just stopped, spoons mid-air with the soup falling off, everyone just stared at him. He was like "well, what are you all looking at me for?" Holy Cow it was awesome!! The daughter was soooo happy and the Spirit was soooo strong! It was a huge surprise to all of us. The dad said that she was pretty much a faithful member, just not baptized. So they are working on a date cause she wants her grandpa to baptize her and a day that her sisters could all be there, but they are going to try for Nov. 7th, which would be SWEET!! Just a few days before I go home, I told them if it doesn't work out doing it before I go home, that I would come back out. :) They are trying to do it soon though.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Something funny that happened this week, well funny to me was some big dude, like really big dude started talking to us, so what do we do? We go talk to him, he told us he was from Texas just visiting and asked what was all around here, we asked him if he has ever talked to us before and he said he sees us on bikes in Texas. We asked if ever talked to them and he said no because he would hit on them, oh crap!! Well, I left him with our card and told him to watch "Because He Lives" video, he said he wouldn't because what he's doing isn't very Christ-like, he then invited us (he was mostly talking to my companion this whole time) if we would like to come to his hotel that night, we said heck no and got out of there. He called us babes and said he'd call us. Well, he never did call us so that's a good thing. Luckily it was more towards my companion, but still. ;)</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Temple Trip!!! We had interviews with the mission president before temple so I got my temple recommend but the temple trip was awesome!! We got some sweet pictures that I think you guys will love. We tried making it look like General Authority pictures and I think we did a pretty good job at it.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">That sums up our week, today we are going to the Husker's Stadium so that's going to be awesome!! I'm still full of snot but my throat doesn't hurt too much anymore, but next week I'll have some sweet pics to send, I bet Grandpa will love!!</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Love, Elder Searle</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span>Brendan Searlehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15695902284828429218noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3073730010926517295.post-24810528285814853552015-10-12T14:31:00.000-06:002015-10-12T14:31:27.172-06:00Dying in the Corn<br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">So everyone already knows because mom couldn't wait till today to find out if I stayed or not, but hey, I don't blame you. I had to go cheat and find out myself if I was staying or not. :) So Elder Pacheco and I are still here. So this week wasn't the best for lessons and the coolest family in Seward just moved... The Hensly's took off to over by Nebraska City and we helped load up their U-Haul yesterday and said our goodbyes. So sad to see them leave, now who is going to feed us almost every Wednesday?!?</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Like for real, I have no clue what to write about this week. Elder Pacheco and I went "picture tracting" it was late and we took some pictures late at night to finish off our 2 transfers together, so that's where those pictures come from.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">General Conference was awesome as always. Poor President Monson didn't look like he was 100%, hopefully everything is alright with him. Some cool quotes I got from conference are "Fear not, your future is as bright at your faith" -President Monson. "Satan uses our weakness to make us feel discouraged" -can't remember. Elder Hales talk really stuck out to me, maybe that's cause he talked a lot about things I can do when I get home. So that might be why. lol</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">I finished reading the New Testament today!! I have read the Book of Mormon 4 times since I've been out and now the New Testament.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">So sadly, this was my week. Today we are getting haircuts and after that I will lose about 10 lbs! It's So Long!!! Then my Arizona kid is getting some winter gear cause he's cold. Then we are going to the Temple on Friday and we are having interviews with the mission president. I have to have an interview anyway cause my temple recommend expired, so I will get that done Friday. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Love, Elder Searle</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span>Brendan Searlehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15695902284828429218noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3073730010926517295.post-65718390725122325822015-09-28T14:58:00.000-06:002015-09-28T14:58:31.976-06:00Seward's Homecoming Dance<br />
<span style="font-size: large;">Dear Family,</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">I don't think I have a story that will top my Jello making story from last week but I'll sure try sometime. So last week we were able to go to the Trail Center and the zoo with Mark and Merlin, both railroad guys and oh boy was it fun!! Mark is borderline crazy but he sure made the trip fun! We got some new quotes from him that aren't really appropriate to put here but just know that they are pretty good! We didn't have that gorilla attack us while we were there because when we went to see him they just barely fed him so he was a little busy with that, but it was still fun.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">So a funny story that happened on Wednesday, I got asked to Seward's Homecoming Dance! LOL!! So long story short, she was asked by her boyfriend to go but he dumped her like 2 weeks ago and she was sad and didn't want to go with anyone at all but when we were visiting them she said she'd go if I went with her. She was somewhat joking of course but I technically still got asked...too bad this didn't happen when I was in high school. ;)</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Someone that we have been teaching is Alex and he has been taught by the missionaries before. His good friend is in the branch and we have been using him to see Alex. He should be watching some of general conference next week with us but he has been doing well. We had dinner with the people that he knows and we had a good meal and a good lesson with them. Both Alex and Ty are on the cross country team so they get along great.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">We also helped another guy named Mark that is over Foodnet, once a month they get a load from Pepsi Company of their expired/bad/damaged pallets so we went to the Pepsi Company and we loaded half of the bed of his truck up with pop and stuff in Lincoln. We also got a new saying, someone cut him off while we were driving with him and he called them a "jerkweed" I haven't head that one before!!</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">We helped a family move Saturday and oh boy are we still sore!! The move didn't start out the best, the dude got stuck in his yard and got mad and left but come to find out he only destroyed that plastic cover on the tailgate and that was it. We took a break for a bit then came back together and got almost all of their big stuff moved so that was good but oh boy were we tired!!</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">That's about our week, nothing too crazy. We do have a muddy car from all the rain and backroads we take and our phone broke again so we are phoneless so that's fun...This week is transfers so we will find out on Thursday what happens for my last transfer. Crazy to think I'm almost done...so weird!!</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Love, Elder Searle</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span>Brendan Searlehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15695902284828429218noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3073730010926517295.post-45807631792712152592015-09-26T20:06:00.002-06:002015-09-26T20:06:22.390-06:00Contestants for Chopped<br />
<span style="font-size: large;">Dear Family,</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Do you guys remember my story about how hard it was for me to make a PB&J sandwich with all those ants?? Well I have another story like that...so we were going through our apartment and we had either Beenie Weenies, Ramen Noodles or Jello. We are holding those Beenie Weenies till we have NOTHING left...so we decided to make some Jello, how hard could Jello be?? So we were making it and were looking for a pan that would work, well the best thing we found that was big enough was a lid. So we had it balanced and figured it would just be better to remove the handle so it wouldn't wobble, great idea!! It was flatter than the road kill we see out here, so we poured our Jello mixture into the lid and we were so proud of ourselves when we noticed it was leaking....well, we were so caught up on how flat it was that we didn't realize the hole was from the handle we removed...DERP!! So we had red counter tops and Jello falling down the counter tops. BUT... we poured it into 2 pie dishes so we saved the Jello, too bad the Jello tasted like crap!! I'm not sure if it's cause the Jello expired 2 years ago or if we didn't boil the water long enough, looks like we should have just used the Beenie Weenies. :)</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Also to show how good of cooks we are, I made some broccoli cheddar soup stuff and it was alright, just didn't really have any taste so I was looking around trying to find things to improve it and the best thing I came up with was cereal! So I just poured some cereal into it, Elder Pacheco didn't like it but I thought it helped. :)</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Here is our miracle for the week, so we got a text from a member saying that he had something for us and wanted to meet him in Seward, well we told him we'd be in Milford for a bit so he came to us and brought us Pizza Hut (which was awesome!) Well, he slipped both of us $100 and told us to go buy some winter gear. So of course we were like "oh no, no, no not this much man" Then I was telling him I will be returning to my people in the mountains soon so I don't need anything but he told me to go buy some nice ties or something. So that was our miracle, looks like those Beenie Weenies will be staying in the cabinet. It was even a better miracle for Elder Pacheco because his family was worried how he'd get his winter gear and he will be almost set by the time we go get his coat. There was a lot of gear left at our apartment from the past elders and a lot of it fits him so he's almost good. I have the windows open and in shorts and he's freezing, poor Arizona boy is so cold.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">We had our hog roast that the branch did and it was fun, played Minute to Win It games and it was pretty fun. We went to Taylor's softball game and enjoyed that, also taught mission prep class again to all 3 priests we have here, we also did a legit District Meeting with them and they enjoyed it. We also got a new investigator this week, he used to meet with the missionaries before but lost track fo them when he moved and he has just been busy, but hopefully we can get the ball rolling with him again.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">I bought a new suit!!! IT'S AWESOME!!! It is the strangest creme colored suit I've ever seen!! It was a whole $1 for the suit coat and I got the closest matching pants I could find for $4 at a thrift store in Seward. I wore it to District Meeting and that might be the only time I ever wear it. Everyone said they liked it but that could be just because it is totally different than our normal black and gray suit and then BAM!! Elder Searle the Wombat King in a gross creme suit!!</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Oh the picture of Fred the Fuzz that's on my knee is from Tami and Brandy, It looked super funny because with my shorts all you could see were his feet so it looked like someone was crawling up my leg, but yes, Fred the Fuzzball on my hairy whiter than white could ever be legs. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">So yep, very interesting week and a lot of funny stories, hopefully you guys enjoy those and yes we are working hard, having fun, we aren't starving missionaries yet so don't worry Shorty. ;)</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Today we are going to the Trail Center and the Zoo with Conductor Merlin the Train Man and his friend so it will be a good day. Well, hope everyone has a good week!!</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Elder Searle the Wombat out!!</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span>Brendan Searlehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15695902284828429218noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3073730010926517295.post-86596266750839746022015-09-26T19:31:00.002-06:002015-09-26T19:31:59.329-06:0022 Month Mark<span style="font-size: large;">Dear Family,</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Happy 22 month mark to me and Happy Birthday to the greatest mom in the world!! I hope you enjoyed the picture of me and the wombat that I had sent to you. So to explain the wombat...our Zone Leaders gave everyone in the Zone a spirit animal and I am the wombat...I'm not sure what to think about that but Elder Pacheco sure had a good laugh after the Dolzals showed us the picture of one. He isn't very happy what he got, which is a toad, they were going to give him either an ox or a gorilla but they felt like a toad was best.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">I feel and look so beat up lol!! I got punched by our recent convert cause I was teasing her so she gave me a dead arm..twice..and yes, she's only 14 years old BUT I've had a bruise for 2 1/2 weeks now! Then I cut my wrist from moving a TV, sliced up my elbow moving a custom 1000 lb. (felt like it!) entertainment center up from someone's basement. Then to put the icing on the cake, I got CHIGGERS!!! A whole 16 bites on my FEET!! OH MY GOSH they itch SOOOO bad!! I woke up in the middle of the night trying to claw my ankle out of my foot and I thought a had spiders attacking me. So we bugged bombed our place cause I thought "oh no, I'm not having ANY spiders attacking me again! Then we went to Mama Dolzals and had her play mom for me and turns out they are chigger bites. I couldn't get a very good picture of them. I don't want to wear shoes because they rub and make them itch sooo much. Just imagine having 3-4 mosquitoes bites in one spot, that's what 1 chigger feels like and I have 16 of them, they take a month or two to fully go away. I'm just getting old and beat up.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Had exchanges with the Zone Leaders and I went with Elder Pawlenchuck in his area and our first night sucked. It was raining, I didn't have a rain jacket and no one answered their doors or phones. Except one girl answered but hung up when we told her who we were. But, we were walking by some apartments and I found 2 $10 bills, there was no way to figure out who it belonged to so I decided to give them to my companion to help him out with money since he's low for the rest of the month. The next day we went street contacting at UNl campus and handed out like 20 cards and found someone that acted super interested and we talked to her for about half an hour. Then we were walking down the main part where they have booths and everything set up and we talked to some catholic kids so that was good.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Driving into Lincoln today we saw the Nebraska flag blowing in the breeze so I got a picture of that, it looked pretty cool. It's pretty close to the stadium but I took the pic for you guys to see. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">I think that's about our excitement for the week, on Saturday our branch is doing a hog roast so that will be pretty legit.Other than that, it should be a normal week. I've been enjoying the beautiful weather we have been having. It's sooo nice, my companion thinks it's freezing though, that darn Arizona boy is going to freeze when it really gets cold. ;)</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span>Brendan Searlehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15695902284828429218noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3073730010926517295.post-35200617910753783462015-09-08T17:31:00.000-06:002015-09-08T17:31:29.123-06:00Country Cruisin'<br /><div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Hey Hey Hey! How's all y'all country people doing in dem mountains!? :) This week was pretty darn awesome, especially seeing how we were able to watch the Nebraska/BYU game and oh boy was that a good game. This week also consisted of my first district meeting as a District Leader, my companion cutting down the wrong bush for an older lady, fishing, eating grilled pineapple and raiding a member's fridge.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Let's start with the district meeting, so the zone leaders had a meeting in Omaha, well Elder Colby just bought himself a cowboy hat so he wore that to the district meeting and wore it the whole time he gave us training and I wore my funny rainbow rooster tie! Elder Colby is training and I bet his kid was so confused what was going on, but it was fun! Then that night, we were at our place and I was like hey, I'm going to carry around some Plan of Salvation pamphlets in my hand, I have some in my backpack but I'm going to carry some, well, that night we went and saw a lady and she was like "I just don't know why I'm here or where I'm going?" And I'm all like "well, here's a pamphlet for you!!" So that was a pretty legit experience.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Wednesday we went and helped a lady cut down some of her flowers and she also decided to make us lunch instead of giving us $10 and a Subway coupon. She just told us what she wanted cut down and everything. She has a hard time going up and down the stairs and getting around so that's why she just told us while we were inside what to do. Well, my companion was like ok and went outside and went ham on a bush. Well, turns out it was the wrong bush! We were looking around her yard for the other bushes she wanted us to cut and then we went inside and was like "where were they at again?" That's when we learned we cut down the wrong ones...oopes!! Oh well, she still gave us food so I guess it's all ok? </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Thursday my boy got some packages in the mail and his family sent him his fishing pole and tackle box and he really, really wanted to use it. Well, we had dinner with a family out in Garland and they had this pond thing by their place cause they live in the country, so my boy got to fish for a bit and that made him happy. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Then the Nebraska/BYU game, HOLY COW!! That was so awesome!! Now us missionaries won't be able to do ANY work for AT LEAST a week or two since we are all now hated...I kid..it's not that bad. I can't believe the one game we got to watch was the most intense game ever!! It went well watching it at the Dozals, even though they were pretty sad Nebraska lost...it was still a great game though. :)</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Then Labor Day, I think everyone just really wanted to play football again so we played some football at Mahoney Park with a good group of Elders and some members and it was pretty fun, then we went and played basketball and now all of us are pretty much dead...none of us could walk and we all had a headache after, but it was fun and we all lost 20lbs. :P</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">There isn't anything too exciting for this week, I will hit my 22 months out mark on the 11th and then it's mom's birthday on the 13th!! I didn't forget!! :D </span></div>
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Brendan Searlehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15695902284828429218noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3073730010926517295.post-55213343448452052332015-09-01T20:57:00.002-06:002015-09-01T20:57:43.021-06:00New Rules and a Great Reward<br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">We started off the week with Zone Conference in Grand Island again and it was pretty legit. One of the things that we did were we all sat down and went over the rules we had and changed some/added some. Well, we no longer have to suffer with ONLY MoTab and conference talks. Don't get me wrong, they are great but not if that is the only thing you can listen to 24/7. Also our mission president gave us a challenge a month ago to memorize 12 scriptures and to pass them off to our district leader or in my case, the zone leader. He said there would be a great reward, well, he finally told us what the reward was at Zone Conference. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">If we pass them all off, we will be able to watch the Nebraska vs BYU game at a members house!!! WOOT!!! That's going to be sooooo awesome!!! So I had to memorize the crap out of the ones I had left and I got them all! I just have to pass them off tomorrow at district meeting since the zone leaders are going to be there. So Saturday we will be watching the game at the Dolzals. :)</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">This week went by really fast and we were busy most of the time, we planted the remaining 2 trees for Conductor Merlin the Train Man and we (I say we but it was either my companion or Merlin) cut the phone/internet line while planting one of the trees so we had to get that fixed.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">So some things we did this week, we made banana bread with a family, not to worry, no banana bread will ever compare to my moms! We sat at Napa for like an hour waiting for them to change the oil in the car, drove about 400 miles in a week, got to play at a playground while we waited for C to show up and that's about it. This week should be pretty fun seeing how we will be watching a football game! Love you all, take luck and have fun and hopefully the Huskers will destroy BYU!!! :D</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Seeing all the different religions and walks of life, especially if you compare it to little Morgan. Everything is green, but I would like the dry air and dead grass over green grass and the humidity here.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">He is pretty awesome, right now he gave us a mission commitment to memorize 12 scriptures in 30 days and for those that do it, they will get a great reward. I'm guessing the great reward will be we now know 12 memorized scriptures. :) I have the first 7 memorized.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">How tired we are everyday. :) I guess how easy it is now, now get me wrong, it is very hard and challenging but all you talk about is what comes from the heart, pretty easy when it comes down to that.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">So yep yep!! I'm staying another transfer in the good ol' open land of Seward. Elder Pacheco and I are still together and the only thing that changed is that I'm now a District Leader! It's still our same district, there's us, the Mahoney Elders and the zone leaders that always show up. So in Mahoney is Elder Colby, who has been there a transfer and his boy, so you have me, who's been out 21 1/2 months, Colby with his 15 months, Pacheco with his 2 months and the newbie with 4 days. The only downside to being a DL is that now I have give a training every week..oh well...it will be good. So now that I'm DL, I think that I'm going to stay in Seward till I go home, which will only be one more transfer after this one. It's like 70% of staying, which is a little better than the 50/50. I sure hope I can stay, it would kinda suck to leave behind all the friends I have made here and to go "die" pretty much in a totally new area with people that I don't know. So who knows! We will just see what the good Lord has in plan for me.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">It's getting really weird thinking that I'm almost done, I'm trying hard not to dwell on it but man....11 more weeks, that's only 11 more P-days, that's less than 100 days and then the "oh man, what am I going to do when I get home etc." Just a lot more thoughts coming to me now AND MY GOSH my boy is getting so much greenie mail!!!! Just Saturday, he got 6 letters and a package. What did I get? A wedding announcement for Elder Bywater....that's not going to help me keep my mind on my mission!! Lol!!</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">We did a ton of driving last week, in 2 days we went about 300 miles cause we had to use up our miles. We drove to a lot of different towns, you can look them up on the map if you'd like. We went to Beaver Crossing, Utica (twice), Ulysses (twice), Waco, Bee, Staplehurst, Gresham, Seward and Milford. Our car looks like we went through a car wash that spat out bugs, it's sooooo bad!! We washed it last week so we have to wait a little longer before we can wash it again, that and we went down a lot of country roads so it's just sprayed with dust and crap everywhere.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">On Sunday our Branch President gave my companion and I the stuff to help C read. My companion and I were looking at it and both of us, yes BOTH of us were like "I don't even remember what some of this means?!" We are going to be great teachers...I mean you guys know how well I do at reading and spelling. Just ask my mom what my emails look like before she proofreads them! Lol!</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">We went to a party last week, Brandy invited us to her boyfriends birthday party so we went. I didn't realize but we have gone to a lot of their parties. We went to both of her parents birthday parties, 4th of July party and now this. If we didn't like them before, we sure do now! :P I kid....they are so awesome!!! We had a good time, free food and good ol' company. It brought back some good ol' memories just chillin' up in the mountains with a bonfire and just chillin' on the tailgate. To be honest, it made me trunky...oh man I've missed the whole camping and chillin' outdoors.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Oh I forgot about the service we did!!! So we planted 5 trees and helped the Liesky's move for two days, not all day but like 6 hours of service. We helped Merlin plant trees then he was so kind to take up to the Senior Center where he eats lunch. So we got our plate of salad and I thought I was going to burst, I made it stretch to 3 pokes of my fork. Then they brought out the main course of a baked potato, carrots and some meat, we think it was turkey or a roast beef thing, couldn't tell. But Wait!! It gets better!! For our dessert we had 3 WHOLE...yes 3 whole slices of peaches. It was so funny and my companion was soooooo hungry. It was a good little story at least. My companion sat in Henry's chair and I sat in Bonnie's :)</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">I think that covers our week. I tried to make this one different than just throwing out what I did. Tried to throw some more thoughts and stuff into this email. So Tuesday we are going to Grand Island for Zone Conference, so that will be awesome!! They might make me do something at ZC though.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Love you all, have a great week!!</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Cool quote thing I found in a bathroom..it's nothing to grand, that and I mean it was in the bathroom but it said "The happiest times in our lives do not come from personal possessions and wealth, but rather they come from our relationships with our family and friends." I can testify of that, it's been awesome seeing and helping others to become happier and just helping out and hanging with all the friends I have made out here. Money can't buy that kind of stuff.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span>Brendan Searlehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15695902284828429218noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3073730010926517295.post-39728450916631282942015-08-19T08:21:00.002-06:002015-08-19T08:21:39.906-06:00Wave<br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">This week we were able to talk to C twice, the first time went well. The branch bought us a reading program that we can use with him to help him learn how to read. We haven't got it yet but it's all scripture based so we'll see how it goes. The first time we saw him we talked about the gospel of Jesus Christ and just gave him the basic run through then we talked about faith and repentance with him. Then we saw him again last night and he was higher than a kite, he was so stoned it wasn't even funny. It made us upset because he said he was done with all that. So we just talked a little bit with him then we just went on our way. Hopefully he is back to normal next time we see him.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">A funny little tale of how exciting our day can get, we had lunch at McDonald's and the guy helping us is a youth from the branch. My companion ordered first then I went. I was just joking around and asked him for a kids toy and I got one!! I took my food over and my companion saw my Bat-mobile Javelin Shooter and he was jealous! lol! 5 minutes later he got one so both of us were messing around with our Bat-mobiles. :) See how exciting our days can be? </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">So this week is transfers, I'm pretty sure Elder Pacheco and I will stay together for at least one more transfer. They normally train for 2 transfers. Elder Martinez is going home on Wednesday so I wrote in my planner to call him on Sunday. Well, he called me Friday night and we talked for about 45 min. Some cool advice he gave me was "God didn't call you on a 21, 22, 23 month mission, but 24, keep enduring, keep trying and finish strong!" I thought that was pretty awesome. We brought up some good ol' memories and talked about what he is going to do when he gets home. He lives in Kaysville so pretty close to us and one day we will see each other again, but it was really awesome to talk with him.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Friday and Saturday were the Milford Fun Days and we went to the Pancake Feed and went to the car show...twice..It's pretty small but it was pretty fun. We missed the parade because Lieskys came back into town and they needed some help so we helped tear down some wallpaper (good thing we had practice with that a week or two ago) tore some part of the ceiling down cause of water damage and helped paint a wall.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">The other day I was like "I wonder how much of the New Testament I have read?" So I looked and I'm almost done with it!! I'm in Acts right now. Hopefully I can finish reading the Book of Mormon and the New Testament before I go home. I just finished Alma today. :)</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Here's a cool quote Dallin just sent me,</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">"What are your eccentricities, if any? I think nearly all people have some. If so, then go to work. Classify them, weigh them, corral them and eliminate one at a time until you are a very normal person. "The Teachings of Spencer W. Kimball)</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Anyway, hope you all have a good week, love you all!!! :D</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Love, Elder Searle</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span>Brendan Searlehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15695902284828429218noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3073730010926517295.post-40887386093298422192015-08-10T13:47:00.000-06:002015-08-10T13:47:46.095-06:00Awesome Week!!!<br />
<span style="font-size: large;">Hey hey everyone!!! So I'm going to quickly recap what went down this week. So our neighbor Mark has been joining us in the mornings for our workouts, seeing how we now have a weight bench outside our apartment. Mostly Elder Pacheco and him use it because I'm inside doing stuff but we have been able to share some lessons with him while working out so that's been pretty legit. We also helped a less active tear down wallpaper in a room and we were there for about 8 hours. They fed us lunch and dinner so that was fun. He also gave us some jerky and some Slim Jims so I can't complain. The Dolzals, the family that let me Skype home for Christmas, came back from their trip to England and they brought us back some English Chocolate!!! We got 2 bags and they were gone in not even 2 days...THEY WERE SOOO GOOD!!! We got to listen how their trip went and they showed us all the pictures they took and oh man, I would love to take a trip to England one of these days.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">So a cool story, we have been meeting a kid named C in Milford. We have only seen him twice but he really wants to change, we set him for baptism on Sept. 12th so hopefully we can help him reach that goal. He is 20 years old and has to do 59 hours of community service and he moved to Milford to hopefully stay out of trouble. But we found out that he doesn't know how to read, like at all, so we are going to order a thing for him through the branch and we are going to start helping him learn how to read! We'll see how it goes!!</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">We had the Seward Fair going on so we decided to see what all was going on. Well, we walked into this big ol' tent and the Peterson Farm Bros were there. Look them up on youtube, I have seen some of their videos before so it was really neat to see them live, they make funny parody videos, one of them is called "Farmer Style" It's pretty funny so look them up. Other than that, that was our week. Some great things are happening here in Seward and it's going to get even better!!!</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Love, Elder Searle </span>Brendan Searlehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15695902284828429218noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3073730010926517295.post-30258883156695685202015-08-03T15:48:00.000-06:002015-08-03T15:48:01.189-06:00Visit to the ER<br />
<span style="font-size: large;">Dear Family,</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Hello everyone!! So yep...we had to go to the ER last week. We were helping the Liesky's move and Elder Pacheco and I were tying everything down in the back of the truck when the bungie cords we were using broke and it came back and smacked my companion right in the forehead and it came back and smacked me on the shoulder. So we went to get his head checked out. We went and they just glued it, the dr. said it was borderline needing stitches but they just glued it. In Nebraska you have to be 19 and since he was 18 they had to call his parents before they could do anything to him. It was kinda funny because he couldn't remember their numbers and the office had the wrong numbers because his parents changed their numbers so it took a little bit before we got it all worked out.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Another cool thing that happened last week was that we went to Branch Oak Lake with Brandy and her family. She invited us while we were at Foodnet and said we should come to her mom's 46th birthday so we went on up. We went in our "normal" stuff and they teased us they didn't recognize us. This drunk dude came up and started talking to us and just kept on talking and there were other people that I wanted to talk to so Brandy came and saved me but my comp stayed and talked to him...the whole time...no joke. I think he has a new BFF now. :) Something neat that happened was the next day I texted Brandy to thank her for inviting us and one of the guys at the party told Brandy's mom that God does some interesting stuff and he thinks these 2 missionaries were sent for a reason. Brandy told us she shared a scripture that we left with her a while ago in Ether about weak things becoming strong so that was really neat that she was able to share that with her mom.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Another cool experience was that we went and saw Margo, we haven't seen her for a month or two but we decided to stop by her little store she works at and talked to her for a bit. She is still reading her Book of Mormon and is almost done with it, she just said it would be a hard change for her. She did ask for the rest of our pamphlets we had and she said she would read them. We will be going back to see her but just really cool that the Spirit is still working on her and everything and hopefully we can keep helping her out.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">We also went to the St. John Lutheran Church here in Seward. We were invited from some people to go and watch their daughter sing in the choir so we were like, sure, we can listen. The choir was awesome!! So that was my week and this week looks like a normal week so far so we better change that up and do something interesting. Oh, some Elders gave us their bench press, so we use that now...my arms turn to jello when I use it, my comp can bench press 375!! </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Love you all!!</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">Elder Searle</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">love Nebraska sunsets</span>Brendan Searlehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15695902284828429218noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3073730010926517295.post-90651916826908425902015-07-29T21:10:00.002-06:002015-07-29T21:10:49.198-06:00Kicking Down Doors<br />
<span style="font-size: large;">Dear Family,</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Oh man oh man, this week has been different. So I'll start out with a good story. On Friday night we had our district leader, Elder Jones with us and that night we were up late talking when I could hear the storm outside. Well, my companion hasn't seen a Nebraska storm yet so we went outside to watch it. It was pretty windy and knocked our power out a few times and knocked a lot of branches off and uprooted a lot of trees. But anyway, we were just chillin' outside getting soaked when I went to go back inside and face planted into the door...the door locked behind us...GREAT!! Well, we were soaked and it was still pretty rainy and windy and we couldn't get any of the windows open, none of us had a phone or a card that we could card the door with and our upstairs neighbor wasn't there. So we did the next best thing...my comp kicked in our door!! :) Don't worry, we fixed it...sort of...the door now closes at least. :)</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Monday night we were able to chill in the the worst part of the whole mission, there is a shooting or two there almost every day! We were able to talk to some awesome people for a bit and it was fun! Then I had a surprise visit from the Erickson's who were in Bellevue 2nd with me, they came and visited me for a bit so that was awesome!</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">The trainer/trainee meeting on Tuesday was pretty legit. They had a break out session for each group, we had a chance to relax and did some yoga stuff and just talked about some funny stories and our peaceful spots so it was pretty fun and much needed.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">We talked to a crazy guy in Milford when Elder Jones was with us. He had just had surgery on his intestines and was showing us the scars and it was all greenish and nasty looking. He was telling us how he the nurses made fun of him because he messed himself and the dude just kept talking to us so we finally just walked away.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Elder Pacheco and I also spoke in church and I mailed you guys the talk so you should get that soon. Nothing too special or anything but figured you guys could check it out. One cool thing I've learned is how time is the most precious thing we have. What are we doing with our time? Are we wasting it away playing video games, watching TV, sleeping, smoking etc. So just something cool that I have been thinking about for the past few days. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">This week we have interviews with our mission president and I can't wait, I really do love him. I guess I'm getting used to the humidity, if you can ever get used to it. My poor companion is just hating it, I told him wait until it gets bad. I feel bad for him but he will get used to it. I think that's about everything. I'm doing well!!</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Love, Elder Searle</span>Brendan Searlehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15695902284828429218noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3073730010926517295.post-36565216175643917702015-07-20T12:59:00.000-06:002015-07-20T12:59:08.560-06:00Temple Trip<br />
<span style="font-size: large;">Dear Family,</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">We had a pretty crazy and packed week, we had something every other day so it was pretty crazy. We had zone training, temple trip and also a good ol' ride to Gresham. So let's start with the zone training, we had Matt, who comes out with us a lot, join us for the training. He is almost done with his mission papers and he is always coming out with us and I told him we had zone training and he hasn't been to one yet so he came with us! So that was pretty cool. Then that night, we had mission prep for the youth and we taught about how to keep the spirit in the companionship which was great because my boy got to share all the experiences he's had with his comps!! Oh wait..I'm his first one...so ya...that was a fun lesson to teach. :)</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Thursday we went to Utica and Gresham again and on our way there...it's about a 10 mile dirt road, we stopped and took some "corny" pictures. :) I haven't taken any yet and and wanted to make sure I got some before I forget and next thing I know, the corn is all cut. We also got some pics of us wearing some of Mark's chainmail that he used when he went larping. I forgot we had pictures of that.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Friday was our temple trip so that took most of our day. We had some fun for sure in the transfer van, which we named "The Space Shuttle". It's a 2015 Ford Transit van that really looks like a space ship. The temple trip was pretty awesome and when we were there, I saw Brother Dillion, who I lived with for 9 months when I was in Greenview. He was getting married again, I'm glad he recognized me, it was pretty cool to see him there.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Saturday we helped a drunk man chase his dog. We went to try some potentials and a guy was outside working and he was pretty wasted, but he opened his back gate to take his wheelbarrow out and one of his dogs ran out so we helped him track her down. She went a few blocks and it took us about half an hour, but we helped him get his dog back. So now my greenie has a funny story to tell!!</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">That's about it for our week, we did a lot of driving....I'm not sure if I mentioned in my last email, but I did some math and figured I have gone about 8k miles just here in Seward, so 8k miles since March...SO MUCH DRIVING!! Then we found out Saturday night that we have a trainer-trainee meeting Tuesday and I guess they are picking us up at 2:30pm today and we are spending the night with some elders in Omaha. I'm not sure why they are picking us up that early but whatever. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Elder Pacheco is getting his feel for things and starting to figure out that everything is not how it is in the MTC and that you don't just teach everyone and everything all the time. Things are going well so far! :) </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Love Elder Searle</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Elder Searle & Elder Jones</span>Brendan Searlehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15695902284828429218noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3073730010926517295.post-15177697053212919022015-07-13T13:34:00.000-06:002015-07-13T13:34:53.359-06:00Got Me a Boy!!!<br />
<span style="font-size: large;">Hey hey hey everyone!! So as you all know, I had to get a new companion because for some reason they don't let you roll solo...So Thursday morning I was enjoying my nice peaceful shower when Elder Magleby came running in with our phone that was ringing from President Gardner. Oh no, you know if you get a call from him you are getting some type of leadership and come to find out, I'm training!!</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"> Elder Pacheco is now my son, that is what President Gardner told me when he called. He is from Arizona, plays football and his arms are the size of his legs! He is freakin' jacked!! He is a huge football player and baseballer and won the state championship one year and took second another and boy does he have greenie fire. I feel like we are now in basic training for the military, checking the planner after everyone we see, wants to just go and go and go and is not afraid of tracking at all. Like he will be like, let's try this house and then I look over my shoulder and he is already knocking on the door. WHICH IS GREAT!! We have found a couple three good potentials that we will be trying again and hopefully something will come from it!</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">So now about my adventure in the YSA ward. FHE was Monday night and was fun, we played some guessing game thing that you had to act out and we had banana splits so that was fun. We street contacted at the UNL campus for a while and it was pretty cool to be walking around campus seeing things. Because the YSA elder, Elder Magleby is the lone Zone Leader, I got to go with him to all 3 districts meetings, got to eat out with all the elders in the zone for lunch and was able to receive the same training from 3 different people which was pretty cool.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">We sort of worked both areas, we were only in my area for two nights and we only saw 1 person each of those nights. The first one we saw in a boy named Chris, the YSA elders were teaching him but he moved in with his aunt in Milford so because Chris knew Elder Magleby they would be turning him over to us. Seeing how it's too far for them to drive to Milford all the time. He's a pretty cool kid and we will be seeing him again this week. One of the other nights we went and saw the Hensley's, we played basketball with them and then read from the Book of Mormon. It was really cool to have Elder Magleby meet them and talk to them and I was able to get some good advice from him. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">So Friday night, I picked up Elder Pacheco @ 4:30pm and then we hightailed it back to Milford to help out at Foodnet. I really wanted to go and see Brandy since she had shoulder surgery on Wednesday. Afterwards the Dolzals were nice enough to feed us then we just used the rest of the time knocking on a few doors and getting all settled in. Then on Saturday we went around and tried to see everyone we see in Seward so that Elder Pacheco could meet them, we also got a text from the Hensley's saying we could go set up for Taylor's birthday party so we did that. Then we came back for the party because they said we could come eat food. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">So this week is actually a very eventful week. We have zone training Wednesday and a temple trip on Friday. Thursday night we are having dinner with the Vavra's up in Gresham and seeing another family in Utica. P-day all today and also mission prep on Wednesday, so busy busy!!</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">I also got my super trunks in the mail on Saturday...I need to get all the info so they can start getting my flight arrangements all figured out. It's super strange and starting to hit me that I'm almost done...the end of Elder Searle is soon at hand....BUT...I can't get too trunky because I have a greenie!! :)</span><br />
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<br />Brendan Searlehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15695902284828429218noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3073730010926517295.post-12038158328712718462015-07-06T14:59:00.001-06:002015-07-06T14:59:39.022-06:004th of July City<br />
<span style="font-size: large;">Dear Family,</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Had an awesome and fun week last week. Started off the week by going to Grand Island to meet our new mission president, President Gardner and his wife and they are awesome! He is huge into the scriptures and memorizing them so I bet we will be starting that really really soon. They seem more talkative than the Weston's. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Thursday we were able to go eat at the Vavra's. Glad to see that we are getting in with them more often now and how the dad is starting to open up to us.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Friday we went up to Dwight and helped move a family out. They had so much stuff!! Who needs 9 couches? No one, it's just you and your husband. We helped out for about 5 hours and then Elder Hansen started packing, so that was our day. Most of the week has just been saying bye to people and doing what Elder Hansen wants to do. We did go with Cameron one day, he's someone that we haven't been able to actually go inside and talk with him for quite a while. We just mostly see how he's doing on his doorstep, but we shot off some fireworks with him. We probably shouldn't have, but thought we'd be ok. Well, Elder Hansen was lighting a sparkler and it shot right into his hand, he has a pretty good burn mark from it.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">So the 4th of July!!! It was crazy in Seward! Sooooo many people and things just everywhere! So we got in and saw the fire trucks having their water fight but we just drove by it. We started out on The Square and noticed they had an auto show that took up 4 blocks, us being boys....we got sucked right in and started going around it. They had so many cool cars, I took a few pics seeing how Travis will like them. Then we went to the air show and on our way over we realized that we missed the bed races...we were soooo sad!! We did see a couple three trailers go by and they had legit frames with some big old bed wheels on them. Looked like it was a lot of fun, but we missed it.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">At the airshow we got to see a Maserati race a plane, which the plane won. Got to see a guy land his plane on the top of an SUV and got to watch a Mustang fly, so that was cool. Then we just walked around and watched the madness and how crazy Seward was. We watched the Grand Parade with the Hensley's and they had some funny things in the parade. One thing that Seward does is that they go to the gas station that is by the freeway and they in short..."kidnap" a family and just stick them in the parade. So this truck went through the parade that just said "tourist family" and the family was just having a blast throwing out candy. That was pretty funny. I guess sometimes they get a crazy and out of control family, but this one was pretty normal. Their faces were pretty priceless the whole time. I got a couple of pictures of the random stuff in the parade.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Oh one thing that was funny was a guy was walking in the parade in an American Flag Speedo and sunglasses and was walking while holding an American flag, it was super funny and so random. He totally looked like a part of the parade. Well, then a police officer was following him on his bike and he started running down the parade, passing the other people, so clearly he wasn't supposed to be in the parade. :)</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Then we went to Branch Oak Lake and went and hung out with Brandy and her family for a bit. They are so funny and awesome and we just ate some food and talked and had a good time. I can't wait until I can go camping and just hang out at a lake again. Elder Hansen is sure going to miss her and all of the Foodnet crew, they are so awesome and we all just give each other a lot of crap! I'm really going to miss Elder Hansen, I have been with him longer than any other companion. I'll be with the Young Single Adult Elder just till Friday when I get my new companion, so not too long. I'm pretty sure I will stay here in Milford, they don't like to replace both missionaries in an area.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">I think that is about it, I will be with the YSA Elder and for Family Home Evening tonight we are going to play board games and have banana splits, so an all day P-day pretty much! :)</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Love you all!</span><br />
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Brandy with Elder Searle and Elder Hansen<br />
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coconut custard pie I made!!<br />
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4th of July parade and car show pics for my brother Travis<br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span>Brendan Searlehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15695902284828429218noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3073730010926517295.post-32275746938885669602015-07-04T15:21:00.000-06:002015-07-04T15:21:37.818-06:00Adventures of Seward<br />
<span style="font-size: large;">Dear Family,</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Oh boy, where do I even start? We had quite a few adventures this week. So our week started out eating cow heart. To be honest, it really wasn't bad. The only thing that was weird was that she cut it up all in front of us and everything...that and just the fact that you are eating a heart was kind of weird. Then that night we spent the night at the Mahoney Elders place since we are blitzing their area. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">So on Tuesday, Elder Hansen had to go get some things that he left in our car and so he took the keys and went outside and came back in and asked "where are you hiding the car at?" This is after he has already ran around the whole apartment complex hitting the panic button to find it. Well...our car disappeared....that darn thing got towed because we didn't have a parking pass. We have never had a problem before and same with the other elders that spend the night there a lot. So we had to go get our car out and that wasn't cheap...$134 to get it out....not a good way to start the day, especially since it has to come out of our own pockets. So Elder Hansen and I split the cost... not good it costs that much!</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Wednesday we were taking our daily morning job around Milford and we saw the Thompsons working on their house. They are putting up new insulation so they were taking all the siding off their house. We helped them out, we pretty much took off all the siding on the front of the house. It was so hot and humid that sweat just rolled off of you. Then Thursday we went up by Gresham and helped the "V" family, it was great because we were able to talk to the husband a bit and get to know him a little better. We cleaned out the gutter to one of his shops and it was just packed with stuff!! We filled up a bucket and a skid loader, there was that much stuff! He also had some welding he had to do and he allowed Elder Hansen to do it which made his day because he loves welding.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">We also have chiggers!! They are great!! Just little bugs that dig into your skin and live there. They itch like no other and you just dig the crap out of your skin. Poor Elder Hansen has about 7 on his back, 4 on his chest and a few on his legs. I just have 2 on my waist and one behind my knee and one where it shouldn't be. ;)</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">They also take a couple three weeks to go away. Elder Hansen also had a dog throw up on him, it was mostly water, but still gross. The dog is so annoying though, she barks and barks and runs all over the place. You have to keep throwing her chew toy because she doesn't bark when she's chasing it. I think she just drank too much water and then all the running around made her sick. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Also on Saturday night, Lynn and Alta came down to see Elder Hansen and to introduce her fiance'. They took us to Cafe' on the Square, it was pretty loud and funny and then you throw Elder Hansen in the group, it was pretty fun.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Sunday night was our Foodnet picnic for us since Elder Hansen is leaving us next week. It was soooo much fun!! Everyone that helps out at the Foodnet was there and a couple other random people. Ate some good food and enjoyed some good company. Then after the people starting leaving, just the main people were there, we started a water fight. We talked to some people for about 45 min. and answered some of their questions about the Book of Mormon and about family and it was really good! She has talked to the missionaries before and was kinda teasing us with some of the questions she had but they were awesome, I'm sure they will look into it a bit more.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">I think that sums up the most exciting part of the week. This is Elder Hansen's last full week, seeing how they will come and pick him up next Monday. I will just be chillin with the Young Single Adult elder which is going to be so much fun! I will get to roam around the Lincoln campus and go to their FHE so I will be looking forward to that. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Here is what we have planned for the 4th of July, watching the fire department water fight tournament at 9am, bed races at 10am and yes...they race beds on the streets! It's going to be so much fun to watch!! The air show is at 11am, auto show at 1pm, then the 2 hour long Grand Parade at 4pm, then we are going to see what we can figure out and try to watch the fireworks at 10pm. It's going to be so much fun here on the 4th!! Elder Hansen is calling it his retirement. Seward has about 8k people and the 4th of July bumps it up to 40k. Holy People!! We are just going to be walking around talking to people all day pretty much and enjoying all the stuff. :)</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Love you all!!</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">Elder Searle</span>Brendan Searlehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15695902284828429218noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3073730010926517295.post-81857994757938121122015-07-04T14:49:00.000-06:002015-07-04T14:49:05.861-06:00Miles For Days<br />
<span style="font-size: large;">Dear Family,</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">So this week started out with President Kearl, who is the first counselor in the mission presidency, he lives in Milford but he covers a lot of ground. He has been going up to the Sioux Falls stake that joined our mission a few months ago, and that is a 4 hour drive from here, so he has been busy. He took us on the outskirts of Gresham in his Mercedes. It was pretty fun and we finally got him on the ride home to show us the power it had, so next thing I know we're flying down the highway, it was super fun!! :) </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Anyway, back to the spiritual stuff, we went and saw the "V" family. The dad wasn't there, he was at his AA meeting and that's better for him than seeing us. We were able to talk to Sis V and their daughter and talked about how we can best help the dad. A is just waiting to get the ok from her dad so that she can be baptized. We will be coming back here to help him with some welding stuff. Elder Hansen will be able to help him with that and I'll just be doing some grunt work or something. I'll do whatever, as long as we get to help and talk to him. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Wednesday we had Zone Training so we were in Lincoln for a while, but that night, we were finally able to have a church tour with the "H" family. It was funny, Grandpa came and he was there for like 5 min. then just left because he saw everything that he wanted to see. LOL!! He is so grumpy and crabby all the time, but is so funny!! Church tour went great and we just so happened to plan it when the young men and young women would be there so Taylor was able to meet some of the girls! :)</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Thursday was a day in the car. Today was the last day for the 3 month mile allotment and we still had a lot of miles left we could use! So, we tried to use them all! We had a lot left because we didn't have to go into Lincoln twice so that gave us a good amount of miles to use. So we went to Seward, Stapelhurst, Ulysses and Friend. We went about 130 miles in one day and we still have 60 miles left over. We were just going through the list and tried people that we haven't tried before.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Friday we went to Mark and Laurie's for dinner and Mark took us to his hobby room and showed us all his table top characters he makes, his swords and axes, both real and for LARPing, he showed us his chain mail he is making and all his Pokemon cards and magic cards. He has so much $$$ in that stuff! He talked to us for like an hour and by the time we had dinner, talked to him and ate pie, it was time for us to go. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">We also had Stake Conference and Elder Carlson and Elder Scott of the 70 were there. Elder Scott has only been in for a month, he hit the mic and was straight up and bold about his talk about the Sabbath Day. We also slept over at the Zone Leaders place to save miles, we had fun!</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">We also had a cool experience this week with "B" She comes and helps out at the Foodnet and we just give each other a hard time and make fun of each other. She talks like a sailor but is starting to catch some of her words when she is around us. It's kinda funny when she catches herself, you can tell she's trying really really hard to hold it back. We went up to her place and talked outside for a while and to keep it short...she's had a really crappy life. Elder Hansen felt prompted to leave a Book of Mormon with her and she said she would read it. Then the next day, she sent us a 6 page text thanking us for coming over and how we asked more about her before we just left her with a Book of Mormon. She said she got in trouble at work for reading it and can only read it during break now..but hey!! That's fine with us! We will be going to see her today after P-day, we are going to help clean out her gutters and chop some wood. She's in her early 30's and has had an interesting life so far.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">I think that covers my week, Dallin and Chris keep rubbing it in that they have iPads in their missions now and make sure they send me pics of it and just how nice they are. I don't think my mission will get them till I go home, so I don't have to worry about it!!</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Love, Elder Searle</span>Brendan Searlehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15695902284828429218noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3073730010926517295.post-44136860146567019942015-06-15T14:49:00.001-06:002015-06-15T14:49:40.665-06:00The Adventures of a PB&J<br />
<span style="font-size: large;">Dear Family,</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">I am going to start off with the story of Elder Searle who was hungry. It started on a humid day in Milford Nebraska, we worked all day and just got home for the night and had just finished planning for the next day when Elder Searle's stomach was making noises. So I decided to make a PB&J! So I start making the sandwich and realize that I put the piece of bread in a mile of ants....so I throw it away of course, cleaned up the ants again for like the 15th time (we just can't get rid of them) so I start making another sandwich, I got to the same spot as the last sandwich when I realized I had little black spots in my peanut butter, so I look and I got ants on the lid, since I moved the lid to clean up the ants, I put the lid back on so now there are ants in the peanut butter....I gave up, threw it all away and made some gross oatmeal. Who knew it would be so hard to make a late night snack...so that's how my week started!</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">We had zone conference in Grand Island and this was the last time that we would see President and Sister Weston...so it was a kind of sad conference, President Weston gave us his departing interview questions to think about and they talked about President and Sister Gardner who will be taking over. So that took most of the day.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Wednesday was sooooo hot and humid!! It was just gross. The first thing we did in the day was to go help an older lady who we check up on, and she wanted us to pull weeds for her. While doing this, Elder Hansen and I looked like we were shining with all the sweat. Then, she normally gives us coupons and some money to go buy lunch but today she decided to make us a good "grandma meal" so she made us chili....Good Gosh that thing sat like a rock...nothing like a good ol' hot bowl of chili after a hard day of working. :)</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Thursday we had 3 1/2 inches of rain and are most likely getting the same amount from last night and today. We have had so much rain! The storm Thursday blew over a center pivot that is by Milford, across from the Poo Farm and those things are pretty heavy and I have no clue how the wind caught it, but it flipped it over and broke it.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Saturday we played Uno Attack with a family, they invited us over for dinner. The dad was on the phone most of the time with his son who lives in Washington, so we played the game with the wife and 2 kids. One just graduated and the other one is a sophomore I think. She is the one that threw the cat at Elder Hansen a couple three months ago. It was fun time and I won the game 3 times!!</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Sunday we were able to go over with Brother Thompson and talk to his neighbor. Bro Thompson called us and said that he set up a time with his neighbor for us to come over! :D First time that has happened to us where a member set up an appointment. We talked about the Plan of Salvation because he was just diagnosed with stage 4 cancer. It's in his lungs and the back of his throat. He is only 37, never smoked never did drugs. He is a really good man and just starting to want to figure out what all happens after this life and stuff about his family. So we were able to do that for him.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Also, the funny, silly pics that we took....that's what we are going to give our branch mission leader for his birthday!! We are going to frame one of them and give it to him today. We wanted to make sure that he would never forget us and tried to get the pictures as random and funny as we could get. :)</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Love you all!!</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Elder Searle</span><br />
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Probably what he was thinking with his ant sandwich :)<br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span>Brendan Searlehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15695902284828429218noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3073730010926517295.post-43353940583779597382015-06-15T08:55:00.000-06:002015-06-15T08:55:53.725-06:00Poo Farm<br />
<span style="font-size: large;">Dear Family,</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">I feel like the title of this email is correct. They are cleaning up or doing something with the cattle farm that they have by Milford and it smells soooo bad!! You can taste the nasty poop farm. I can't remember if I told you guys, but we found out they try to keep 10k head of cattle and that once it starts to warm up, they will be cutting down to 2 poops a day...So lets just say they do that now, that's 20k poops a day!! Then it rains and it makes it all muddy, then the sun dries it out and the wind blows it into Milford!! Yah!!!</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">We got a call on Tuesday from the people who run Foodnet and they wanted to know if we would be able to come over sometime and of course we said yes and she said "how about tonight?" Well sure!! She asked if we had dinner and we hadn't so we got to eat with them and enjoy their company. We found out that both of them have met with missionaries in the past. We have just been having small talk I guess you could say. We found out why the Mennonite women have their little things and stuff, turns out that they are in a round about way looking for a religion. They don't believe in a lot of their religion and really just go because it's close by and it's the church that she grew up going to. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">On Wednesday night, we both pretty much looked wasted! The lack of sleep caught up to us and we started to wear out while we were at the Hensley's for part of the night. We had dinner with them and also read the Book of Mormon with them. Then we helped them move a washer and dryer from the basement to the upstairs and that was fun since Elder Hansen and I were both so out of it. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Thursday we helped out at the Crossmakers and we helped them unload 2 trailers full of lumber. We went to the Huges Brothers Plant which is huge here and unloaded it by hand onto a giant forklift thing. It was kinda cool to see some of the plant. We then had Matt come out with us for the afternoon, he's 20 and just working to save up money for his mission, so he comes with us on his days off and helps us out. He is even hooking us up at Amigos where he works for cheaper food and free donuts after 8pm!! :)</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">We found out our less active is going back to jail, I guess she decided to go there rather than pay the fine. We were walking around Milford and were told there was a band/fundraising going on at the park, so we walked over there and there was a group called Tiny Hands and they help out with the stuff that is going on in Nepal. So we walked over cause we saw they had some food and everyone was staring at us.It's great!! So we donated some money and then could get some cookies and root beer floats while everyone is still staring at us. We had a guy come up and talk to us, he likes to debate with missionaries so we'll go see him one of these days. Then we had the main Tiny Hand guy come and talk with us for quite a while about how Christ has helped him in his life and stuff...it was pretty cool!!</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Saturday we decided we were tired of just walking Milford and Seward so we went up to Beaver Crossing and Utica and walked those areas for a bit. Beaver Crossing was hit by a tornado last year on Mother's Day and you can sure tell. I should have taken a picture, it's just destroyed and kinda creepy. All the trees are stripped down and stuff. We walked around and were suppose to see a family, but they cancelled on us.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Wow, long email here but I have one more day!! So Sunday, we get a ride to and from church from a family and the dad has to stay and do the tithing, so we were chillin' at the church for a bit and turns out the young women had their New Beginnings going on!! So we stayed and watched it, and it was pretty cool. I'm glad we were there because K was there, but her family didn't come (not surprised) so it was good for her that we were there for her. That night we went to Hensley's and watched some Mormon Messages and ate ice cream. Good way to finish off the week I'd say. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">So there's my week, tomorrow we have Zone Conference in Grand Island so we will be there pretty much all day. Weeks here are going by faster and faster....that it's just scary!! It's flying by!!</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Love you all!!</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Elder Searle</span>Brendan Searlehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15695902284828429218noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3073730010926517295.post-32577763181474624202015-06-04T17:44:00.001-06:002015-06-04T17:44:17.614-06:00Another Transfer in Seward<br />
<span style="font-size: large;">Dear Family,</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Since I emailed last week on Tuesday, this might be a shorter email. On Wednesday we were able to go to the Hensly's again and we had a campfire with them! We were able to eat and play basketball with the kids and I was also the catcher for Taylor because she wanted to practice her softball pitch. It was really fun, I smelled like a campfire, we read a little bit from the Book of Mormon with them around the campfire so that was cool.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Something kinda funny on Tuesday was, we were having dinner with a family and they were making Elder Hansen very trucky. Their daughter is like 10 and she was telling Elder Hansen that his girlfriend dumped him and that he is now single, then she said that she's not sure what his kids will look like cause she hasn't seen a picture of his girlfriend. He isn't trucky but that wasn't going to help! :)</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Saturday we went to a BBQ down in Crete with the Spanish Elders, they have a recent convert and they wanted to feed all of us so we went down there. We got eaten alive by all the mosquito's...it's sooo bad here!! Last I heard, we are either 2nd or 3rd on the list of the most rainfall in Nebraska for May, that means mosquito's everywhere!! We now speed walk everywhere we go so we don't get bit! It's great!</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Sunday was also a fun day, we had a good time at church. We then went to the elderly care center to see one the ladies that we don't get to see too much. We were going into the conference room when one of the other ladies wanted to join us, then they were like, "you should go get Grandma Howard!" We thought, sure why not, let's get everyone in here! We went around the circle saying how our day went and something good that happened...it was pretty fun. We also found out this day that Elder L. Tom Perry passed away.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">We're hoping to be able to go to Utica and Gresham and go see 2 families. We weren't able to see them last week because we didn't have any miles left. But...since it was a new transfer, we got our new miles!! There is a daughter that comes to church just about every week, she comes from a part member family and wants to be baptized. I guess her dad wouldn't let her get baptized before, she asked him again and he didn't say no this time. Turns out a while ago, he was drunk and destroyed a phone pole on his way home one day. That was his final thing for him, he decided to quit and he's been sober now for 4 months. We saw them 2 weeks ago and the dad is super cool and chill. They live on a dirt road in the country and have cars and stuff everywhere. It's crazy and would be super fun to live up there! He wants to talk to his pastor first so hopefully we can go see them on Thursday.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">I think that's about it for my week...I have a HUGE headache now because at the library, they are having some Hawaiian thing here for Summer and they have been smacking these HUGE drums the whole time I've been here. Hopefully it didn't mess up my letter much. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Have a great week everyone!! Glad to see that everyone survived the last week of school and that Travis actually graduated!!!! :)</span><br />
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Loves the older cars!<br />
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Elder Hansen at the cookout<br />
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Elder Hansen and I playing horseshoes<br />
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