Missionaries Now Have More Options to Communicate With Families

15 February 2019 - Salt Lake City 

News Release

Missionaries Now Have More Options to

 Communicate 

With Families

First Presidency guidelines seek greater family involvement in the missionary experience

Effective immediately, missionaries may communicate with their families on their weekly preparation day

 via text messages, online messaging, phone calls and video chat in addition to letters and emails.

 Previously, missionaries relied primarily on email and letters for communication. 

See the official notice to Church leaders.

“Regular communication with their families is an important part of a missionary’s service,” 

said the First Presidency in a statement. “One of the major purposes of this adjustment is to encourage 

families to be more involved in their missionary’s efforts and experiences.”

Under these new guidelines, missionaries are encouraged to use judgment in determining the length of 

phone calls and video chats and to be considerate of their companions. Additionally, to avoid disruption

 to missionary schedules, family members are asked not to initiate calls or chats but instead should wait 

for the missionary to contact them on his or her weekly preparation day. If a missionary’s parents live in 

different locations, he or she may contact each parent separately.

With so many advances in technology, this communication should take place at little or no cost. In those 

locations where families or missionaries do not have access to computers or phones, missionaries will be 

encouraged to continue using their current means of communication.

“We encourage missionaries to communicate with their families each week using whatever approved 

method missionaries decide,” said Elder Dieter F. Uchtdorf, a member of the Quorum of the Twelve 

Apostles and chairman of the Missionary Executive Council. “This may vary based on their circumstances,

 locations and schedules for that week. It is not expected that all missionaries will call or video chat with

 their parents

 every week. The precise manner of communication is left up to the missionary as he or she decides what

 will best meet their needs.”

In addition to weekly communication, missionaries are also encouraged to contact family on other special

 occasions such as Christmas, Mother's Day, Father's Day, parents' birthdays and other culturally 

significant holidays.

Elder Uchtdorf said the new guidelines offer several additional benefits, including accommodating varied

 family circumstances as well as better supporting those missionaries who would benefit from increased 

personal contact with family at home.

Currently, more than 65,000 missionaries serve throughout the world in a variety of countries and cultures

 as representatives of Jesus Christ. Serving full-time, they study the gospel and teach its life-changing

 principles to people who are interested. Young men serve for 24 months beginning as early as age 18, and

 young women may serve for 18 months as early as age 19. They gain valuable and life-changing 

experiences along the way, giving of themselves and serving others.

“We love the missionaries and know the Lord values their selfless service,” said Elder Uchtdorf. 

“We continue to try to find the best ways to support and help them and their families while they serve.”

This was released one week before Riley heads home. So great for the missionaries serving

Last Mission Email

Well it's crazy and nice to think that this is the last weekly email I'll have to write for a long time! 

This week has gone by super-fast. Not a lot crazy has happened this week other than the weather was decently nice! We got sunny and - 25 on Tuesday so that was a really nice break from the cold and grey skies. Did lots of service this week due to all the snow that fell during the rest of the week. We were out shoveling driveways most every day trying to keep on top of them. 

Had an apartment inspection from brother Borczuch this week so we had some cleaning to do, but not too much since it's me and Nelson over here. 

Later the day of the inspection the Borczuchs took us out to a place called the Great Wall and it had pretty decent Chinese food. 

The men put on a Valentine's day party for the sisters in the branch last Friday. They did pizza, a movie and some other things and it turned out pretty good! Was a little disorganized but hey they did pretty well for a bunch a guys!

Not too much else this week happened really to be honest. Just the usual.

Guess I'll see you all in the next little bit!

Love ya all talk to you Sunday! 

Oh You're Still Here?

February 11, 2019

This week has been pretty decent. It was a little cold off and all week but it only put us in for one - 40 day so I'd say that was good.

Monday, we did the usual stuff, shopping, emailing, being bored. The weather on Monday was pretty bad with the wind, gave us some ugly drifts as you might have seen from the pictures I sent out.

Tuesday was district council in the morning, the zls came and sat in on it and that went alright. Was kinda a gong show with Winkler and their internet connection. They don't have a church building so they have to go and fish off of Walmart or some other place, and they had a semi that kept pulling back and forth in front of them and it would cut off their connection to the internet at the place they were snagging it from, so we'd all be talking and then they'd just freeze n disappear so that made it kinda frustrating as we tried to keep having a good conversation going during the meeting. In the end though it turned out okay and everything that was needing to be say was said.

After DC we did lunch, then comp study. A little later we went over to Eric’s for dinner and to help him with a few things. For dinner we made pizza from scratch and it turned out pretty good. Ended up doing a little jam session with him on the guitar, and during this I started messing around and played a decent sounding tune to which Eric got all excited cause he figured we could write a song with it. So, we ended up there for a good while trying to think up some stuff to go with it. Finally, we just told him alright we gotta go but we can come back later in the week and see what we can do. 

Wednesday, we had the soup kitchen. It was a lot better this week then last week, had a few more people show. We were running a little to try and keep up with everyone that was coming in, whereas last week it was so slow and we had hardly no one coming in.

Once we got out of the soup kitchen we realized that it was - 41 out so... The was the day for us we figured. We did comp study and did what we could to do something effective, did have some time to work on that song though!

Thursday, we went over to the prior center to do some work there in the morning but about a hr or so after being there the power started to fail. They ended up having us sit around for a bit while they tried to see if they could fix it, but that didn't happen so they said we could head home.

We did however while waiting get to play a couple games of pool. Was kinda rough since we haven't played in so long but by the end I think we were starting to pick it up again. 

Did some stop bys later on in the day and our usual studies, but as for Thursday that was the day pretty well.

Friday, we got a text from Louis in the morning sayin he wants us over at the prior center if we could make it and see if we could finish up the jobs we had going yesterday. Had a little fun this time as we hauled some 80-100 lb bags of old paper from upstairs in that place down to the recycling area. We took a big piece of cardboard and laid it on the steps to make a sort of slide and then we let the bags go down it. K Nelson he decided that it would be fun to slide down the slide, but he's a bit heavier and not as spread out as a big bag of paper so he hit every step as he went down! It was pretty good! 

Did a few other odds and ends for jobs and then that was our day there.

Finally got around to our weekly planning. 

Got dinner dropped off to us tonight from bro Borczuch so that was a nice surprise. Said sis Borczuch want doing too well and could cook today for us so they did the next best thing and got us a pizza!

Finished off the night with shoveling out our old people in the branch and around town. All in all, it was pretty good day I'd say.

Saturday well we started off the day with some frozen tracting. Said it was only 

- 29 out but we think it was more like - 39, it was pretty cold. We did however find a couple people that said to come back!

K. Nelson he got a little excited when we got back from tracting and started making lunch at 11.30, by the time he realized what time it was he was too far gone so we did an early lunch which wasn’t all that bad.

Had a decent companion study up until the last 10 min where we both feel asleep while listening to a talk. 

Went out to long plain rez for the night and did some stuff it there. That was exciting just for a change of scenery.

Sunday, we had a decently full building so that was a plus! Everyone thought that I shoulda been gone by now. They kept sayin "oh your still here! When do you leave?!" guess they can't wait to get rid of the Nelson boys lol

After church at had the usual lunch with the judges and Jensen's.

Did our companion study and then finished off the night at Eric’s for dinner and working on the song we are attempting to write. Didn't get too far with the song since our lyric boy (k Nelson) was being a pain and not giving us a hand with thinking of lyrics. That and it took forever to get the recording stuff set up on the tv so we could record stuff. But oh well, it was still fun.

Well that was it for our crazy exciting week!

Love you all talk to you next week! 

You Can Stay Another Six Months

February 4, 2019

So, this week has been super cold, cold to the point of not going out for a day and a half. Tuesday it got down to - 50 so I'd say that was kinda cold.

Monday was a typical pday for us. Did emailing, shopping, haircuts, and waiting for 6:00 to come around so we could do something. 

At 6 we went out and did some service for people, we shoveled out all our usual people we hit every time it snows or blows. When we got to one older couples house they let us in after we got done clearing the driveway which led to us being there the rest of the night pretty well. It was good though, we talked about the cold, and got told some crazy stories about their life together and all that fun stuff! Before we left they even put together some food for us as "payment" since we won't take their money. 

Tuesday was spent all day inside. We had nothing to do all day cause we have a small area book and not very many try backs in our tracting book even with all the door knocking we do. So, we spent the day telling story's about home and things like that.

Wednesday, we had Winkler elders down for exchanges with us but they forgot to plug their car in that morning so they were a little late getting here. 

We started the day off with the soup kitchen and - 45 weather so we weren't too sure this would be an amazing exchange, but by the time we got done with the soup kitchen it was - 39 so turns out we could do some work.

By the time we did comp study and their personal study, and set district goals it was time for dinner so we did that. 

After dinner me and elder Stephens went out for an hr or so and did some tracting. Got yelled at on a couple doors but as usual I just kinda laughed and went on to the next one. We did find a potential so that was nice! 

Thursday, we had district council in the morning with Winkler at the church. We talked about the book of Mormon and the role it plays in conversion. About half way through DC I got a text from sis Hitchcock saying they'd be a little late for interviews coming back from Brandon, so once we got done DC we ran home and had a quick lunch before they got there.

Interviews took a good long while, we didn't finish up till about 3.15. Pres Hitchcock the first thing he said to me was well your extension is approved! You can stay another 6 months! I just laughed and he laughed to and then said it's gonna be hard to find another one like you. The rest of the interview we talked about home, marriage, plans for when I get home, home I'm holding up and if me and Keston love serving together. Mine was the shortest interview surprisingly.

After interviews we got Winkler on the road home cause they wanted to be home before we took k's for the month. Once they left we went and did some service over at the prior center moving old dishwashers around and what not. I had to cut a few hoses off one to make it moveable and the one when I did it flicked some water up into my face...it was clean water so I just kept cutting but it was kinda nasty.

Friday, we did the usual weekly planning which didn't take too long this week cause we didn't get a chance to meet with anyone, so that kinda made for a long day of finding. In all honesty I don't remember what we all did for finding and who we found but I know we did it, and I know it was cold. 

Saturday was another day kinda like Friday so nothing to exciting to talk about. Was a decently nice day though, - 27 I think. 

Sunday was cold and blowing again but it was good anyway. Church was kinda small today attendance wise but we made due with what we had.

After church we had the usual lunch at bro judges with the Jensen's so that was nice!

Did some companion study, some freezing outside and finished the I night off (after 9pm) with the movie trek. yes, trek was approved by pres. Hitchcock. 

It was an interesting one but funny. 

Well that was our week!

Love yak all talk to you next week!

19 days left according to some people. 

-40

January 28, 2019

So, this week was kinda all over the place, and I honestly can't remember a whole lot of what happened each day so this could be kinda all over the place. 

Monday was spent for the most part doing service for the prior center takin apart their kitchen in the back so that they can put a new stainless steel one in. 

If they'd have left it up to the two Nelson boys we woulda been in and outta there in 2 maybe 3 hrs, but rather it took us from 10-3 before we actually got kinda done. 

The old guys we were working with were very cautious and carful to not do anything to fast. Guess the Nelson dads did too good a job at making us work fast and efficient when it comes to that kinda stuff. But it was fun, was nice to do some physical work even if it took up most our pday. 

Tuesday, we had DC (district council) and that went okay. Kinda quiet now that elder Tarwater is gone. Was basically a district council with just me and E. Araujo cause we did all the talking pretty much, but it was good anyway.

After DC we went and helped out rbo Judge sand his floor upstairs in his place for just about the rest of the day after we did comp and a lesson with bro Isfled. 

Got a little dusty sandin that floor, couldn't move hardly without dust coming good off us somewhere and making a mess. About had a wreck with E. K Nelson when we put him on the big floor sander haha about took him for a spin into the wall, lucky he's smart and let go of the throttle! It was pretty fun.

Wednesday was a mess with the wind we were having, we couldn't even see across the road hardly with all the snow going around. 

We did have the soup kitchen in the morning so that was nice cause it kept us outta the weather for a good bit. Was kinda a mess this week there though. We made 50 plates but that wasn't enough for some reason, in the end we had made 70 plates and we ran out of soup... Not much of a soup kitchen if you don't got soup now is it! We made it alright though.

Thursday, we got up and drove into Winnipeg for exchanges with the zls for the day. 

Started the exchanges with the DL leadership call seeing how all the districts were doing. After that me and elder Sera went and did some street contacting at polo park mall. Just about froze to death doing that! - 38 with the wind... Needless to say people didn't want to talk with us to much in that kinda cold. Had one old guy in a bus stop tell us this wasn't a church, and we should come back Sunday! We thought that was kinda weird, we weren't even talking to him. 

Had a crazy dinner appointment with some members and us, the zls, and Y.S.A. elders and sisters. So that would be me, Keston, Kaysen (e shaw), Fowler, Sera, Tumalock, sis Irwin, and Burrell. It was a gong show especially since it was a build your own soup kinda deal with these weird pots full of broth set all along the table and we were to just put what we wanted and then eat it once it was cooked. It was kinda crazy.

After dinner me and elder Sera went out and did some tracting in a little Mb housing area which was pretty successful. One yard we went up to had some signs of a big dog but we saw no dog, so we went in and knocked on the door a couple times but didn't get an answer, so we walked back to the gate. As soon as we got to the gate this little girl opened the door so we went back to see if we could talk to her parents. That's when we heard their dog in the back barking and lucky for us this dog ran out the door past the girl and right for us! Sera he about lost his mind as the dog came for his hand and bit his glove a few times, me I just stood there and watched him get eaten haha the dog was just jumping at us and barking more than anything. Sera he eventually got himself over the fence into the next yard and me I was still standing there waiting for the lady to come to the door. Finally, she came and called her dog off that was still trying to kill sera even after he jumped the fence! I talked to her and all that, and if I remember right she said to come back!

Sera after we got done with that door started to worship me pretty much cause I stood there "like a boss" as he put it, and didn't take anything from the dog.

But that was basically our exchange in Winnipeg! It was pretty fun I thought.

Friday, we got up and did our morning stuff in Winnipeg and by 10 we were on the road back to portage to do weekly planning!! Only got 3 of those left thank goodness!

Did some comp study, some stop bys and dinner with the Borczuchs, and that was our day pretty well. 

Saturday that was alright, we drove up to St Laurent which is an hr and a bit away from portage to see a few la members out that way. Sadly, when we got there we found out that the town was mostly a summer spot so 90% of the town was gone for the winter, so that means our guys we went to see weren't out there.

By the time we got done with that drive it was about 5 so we went to Eric's for dinner. He had a date that night at 7 but when he went to start his car it didn't turn over... So, we being the best missionaries in the world we ran to Canadian Tire with his card and went to get some jumper cables to boost him, but as we got close to Canadian tire we realized it's 7pm its not going to be open! So, we ran to bro judges to see if he had any. About the time we knocked on his door a second time Eric calls and said hey I got it started! So, we basically Nicky 9 doored bro judge cause we saw him come to the door shortly after we drove off...

Finished the night with some - 40 so we didn't do much.

Sunday was a mess with the weather we had. Got a little bit of a storm blowing in during church, so after church we spent most the day with bro and sis judge at their place doing family history with a lady from Winnipeg that was training them on how to do their new calling. Gotta love - 40 days!

Well that was basically our week!

Love ya all talk to ya next week! 

 

Last Zone Conference

January 21, 2019

Well this week was kinda a gong show with ZC popping up in the middle of it, and people tryin to throw down with some of the elders in our zone at McDonalds after.

Tuesday was a bit on the cold and windy side of life, but wasn't terrible at some points. For the most last we managed to stay sheltered.

In the morning I did my first week of my plan (the program that they have dying missionaries do their last 6 weeks) so that was interesting. All it had me do was recognize the blessings God has given to me in my life, so I went through and wrote those down, super simple section. We'll see how the rest of the plan goes when we get to the dating and marriage section.

Drove out to a little town about 45min away from us to contact a referral that we got from one of the sisters in Winnipeg. She warned us in the referral note that the lady we were going to meet didn't speak a lot of English, but when we got out there the lady we talked to didn't speak hardly any... She knew "no English, only French" and "no English, sorry." guess that's what happens when you live in a small French community, you don't learn much English. So that was a fun road trip just to find that we couldn't talk with her, but we made the best of the situation and stopped by some members around the area as we drove home. 

By the time we got home it was past time for dinner so we did dinner, and then we went out and did a couple stop bys around town till about 8. 8.00 we did companion study while we waited for the Brandon elders to show up so they could stay the night with us.

Wednesday was ZC day, and my last one.

So, we all got up and got ready to go into Winnipeg and be seated at the church by 10. 

ZC was good, we learned a lot about key indicators and how we can bring those up and baptize every week in our mission and zones. 

Also learned about our new mission plan which used to me call the inspired plan, but pres. Hitchcock likes change so he did a similar thing like the inspired plan we usually get but slightly different. The inspired plan/ mission plan is basically a list of attributes and actions we will take and live as CANada WINnipeg missionaries.

Talked a lot about goals and the new way we are going to set baptismal goals as a mission. It's no longer a yearly goal, it'll be a monthly goal, so rather than a goal of 180 or 204 for the yr. it's going to be what we feel should be the month goal as a mission, which I think is a better way to do this.

Also talked about developing Christlike attributes, and how we can improve the use of safeguards with our technology. 

After ZC all 22 of us decided to go to McDonalds for dinner, so we all drove to the closest one and caused problems there for a bit. Before we even got there this McDonalds was already kinda busy, and then we walked in so everyone was squished in there kinda close while tryin to order food. By the time some of us had ordered there was some walking room again through the place so we spread out to try and not block up everything. I was over by the pickup counter with a couple other elders and sisters when we heard some yelling over by the other missionaries so we looked and there was this little guy getting up in elder Morganson's face sayin that he tried to trip him as he walked by, and how Christ wouldn't do that to someone! Even told Morganson's to come on outside and they could settle this haha Morganson is 6' 300lbs give or take, and this guy was mine and Keston's size! In the end they didn't fight but I'm sure if Morganson wasn't a missionary he woulda took him in on it just for fun. 

I guess another black guy was trying get some other elders to fight him to for some reason, so it was a wild McDonalds for the missionaries that night. Luckily nothing came of it.

Thursday was service at the prior center organizing the back room again. About froze to death back there cause it's so cold! Woulda been better off outside tracting from 10-2 then being in that place, but It was fun despite the cold.

After service there we went out and braved the cold for the rest of the day doing some stop bys and tracting.

The weekend was probably the coldest time we've had all yr. so far... From Friday to Sunday it was no warmer then - 25. 6.30 Sunday morning was - 45, had to kick the door open to get out of our place because the door was froze.

Most of Friday and Saturday we spent the day trying to keep busy with things inside but we did end up outside for a bit here and there. We found a guy named JoJo on Friday night so that was a miracle for us! Said he's Aries (our investigator) childhood friend, so that was a nice connection for us to make with him.

When we met with Aries on Sunday night we told him we met JoJo, Aries told us JoJo is a trouble maker ha-ha always causing trouble in school.

So, turns out elder Nelson and Nelson serving together is a gong show, a good gong show but a gong show non the less.

We wondered across the lake here out to an island where there some houses just to see what they looked like, but ended up in the middle of a golf course. We ended up turning around after we found a sign that said warning hole 9.... Whatever the rest of it said so that was fun, especially cause the snow was knee deep most the time.

Also found out we both have weak stomachs when it comes to 4 week old food that's been left in the fridge. I'm the better of the two of us cause K couldn't even be near the container without almost puking haha it was pretty funny. I may or may not have waved the container lid over the food towards him after he picked up the chin up bar and tried to keep me away from him. But in the end, we both about lost it while cleaning that container out. It was a blast!

We've been asked a few times by people if it's confusing having two elder Nelson's but I just tell them no we can usually remember who's who, after which K Nelson and I usually starts laughing cause we are so dumb it's funny. 

Well that was it really for our crazy cold week! 

Love ya all talk to ya next week! 

You Know It's Cold Out Here Today?

January 14,2019

This week has been good, a little cold but good. 

Monday was pretty decent did the usual stuff, and then in the evening we did some tracting in the snow. 

Me and Black started out on a walk downtown during pday to look at random places but we only made it a half block before we saw a Chinese buffet and decided to take a step in there for some lunch/dinner, and that concluded our walk about downtown. 

Tuesday, we had a long district council with Flin Flon and the Saskatoon zls. We got to the church at 10 and didn't start DC till 11.20 and then we didn't finish till 1 so that was kinda crazy. 

Had a meeting for Elder Black at 3 for the new district leaders in the mission which took us a while, but it was good to listen in on. 

Tonight tracting we had a fun experience with the people on the block we were knocking, a lot of people when we knocked in their door would open it a little or not even open it, and after we were done our little introduction would say " you know it's cold out here today, aren't you guys cold??" or "you know this is a dangerous place (meaning all of portage) to be tracting at night, you guys are pretty brave..." even had one guy warn us of a big black dog that had been wandering that area of town that isn't too friendly. There was one door that I knocked on and with my back to the window I couldn't see but black was saying a lady kept peeking through the window at us every time I knocked, so me being me I decided rather than just the usual 2× I knock I'd do three to see if she'd come and actually talk to us, and it usually works that way when we do that. Sure, enough after the 3rd knock she called out "who is it, what do you want?" I said we were missionaries, and that's when she flung the door open and cracked the screen door a bit and said " you know it's dark out here and it's very creepy! You don't knock on someone’s door a bunch when you see them in the window, you just go away! It's rude and it's very creepy when you keep banging on the door!" I had to try so hard not to laugh and give her a sarcastic remark. I mean I see where she's coming from but at the same time it's like for real. 

Wednesday, we had another district council, mine this time and it went alright. Did some training on preparing people for baptism, and then we did a little scripture chase.

Funny story though, elder black for some reason he didn’t wear his coat over to the church and when we got there the door was froze shut. So, there we are standing outside the church for about 10min playing with the lock trying to get it to open while black is freezing to death. We did get in, it just took some lock lubricant de-icer, and a little bending of the key...not the first time that doors froze on us.

Spent most of the day tracting and stopping by people which was alright, got a little cold but we survived. 

Had a different experience tracting that night. First door we knocked on for the night we got a guy that answered, and it was blacks turn so he tells him who we are and all that, explains the book of Mormon to him a bit and so the guy he reaches his hand out for black to hand it to him. The guy looks at the front, then the back, then we swing it into his yard! Tells us to never come back again (in a kind voice) and closes his door... So, I went out and got the book and put it on his door step, and we proceeded on lol. Gotta love portage!

Thursday was a crazy nothing went as planned day. Transfer train was supposed to be here by 1 but when we called them at 1 to see where they were they told us they had broken down just outta Brandon, so that meant they were at least another 2hrs away before getting here. 

Did some tracting and stop bys while we waited around, but by 5 we got a call from them saying they were just gonna drive on threw portage and do the switch tomorrow, so basically, we could have planned our day out normal and we coulda done it just fine since transfers didn't happen how they said they would.

Black wasn't too happy with them for pushing it all back.

Friday we finally got switched around! By the time we got k Nelson all settled in, did weekly planning, and comp study it was time for us to head over to Eric's to help him out before we all went out to the Plamer's for dinner and games. 

Elder and sister Jensen came out to the Plamer’s to and we all had a pretty good time together. Did some nerf wars with the kids and bro Palmer, Eric and the Nelson's were too powerful of a team cause no one could beat us, even if they had 4 more than us.

Everyone's decided by the end of a game similar to werewolf that the Nelson boys are trouble, cause we were both bad guys and conspired together without them knowing it was us, so we won. It was pretty fun.

Saturday bro Stewart called us up and asked if we wanted to come with him to support stake pres. Gruninger JV team out in McGregor so we said sure why not.

They were kinda sad games when you compare them to the JV teams from back home but hey it was alright, they ended up winning the tournament 53-35. The wall of girls in front of us wasn't too happy about that cause their team lost to ours.

In between games we did comp and came home and tore apart k Nelson desk so that bro Borczuch could bring him a new one on Monday. That was an experience and a half takin that big metal desk apart with limited tools we had but we gotter.

Sunday was pretty good, Eric got sick so he couldn't speak today, and the other speaker didn't show so that was messy. Lucky for us today was a day or miracles and brother oh man I can't remember his name right now, he's from Neepawa so I knew him back in the day, super good guy but anyway he was there for the stake and he helped us out and talked. Elder Jensen he filled up the rest of the time so that was nice, and they were both good talks.

After church us and the Jensen’s had lunch over at the judges, and that was good as usual, little on the long side though for us missionaries but good non the less.

Came home did my little thing with elder Jensen, did comp study, then it was time to go back to the church for the Y.S.A. devotional. By the time that was done we didn’t have much time left before 9 so we cleared out area book, and I mean cleared out area book... All our potential people and some investigators had no information about them, no address, phone numbers, nothing so it was just a name and that was it. Well that's no good to us so we deleted all of them. We now have 5 potentials... Gonna be a fun transfer rebuilding our area book up!

kinda a crazy week with transfers and everything going but it was still good!

Well love ya all talk to ya next week! 

Riley's last companion of his mission is Keston Nelson. How awesome to be companions with your cousin. I'll bet their great grands are looking down and smiling to see them serving the Lord together.