Good Morning 12/8

Hey yall how is it going?  So anything new going on it sounds like everyone is doing well.  Glad to hear Brother B is out of the hospital, that sounded a little scarry.  Aunt Glenna I hope she is doing well, at least she is in disneyland enjoying herself that should be a good time.  So I hope all goes well there.

 

So things are going great here.  As always I love it.  We work a lot and learn a lot.  And you know how i said I just wish I could skip the mtc and go out to the field well that is not the case anymore haha.  I now realize how far I am from knowing the language and everything I feel like a I need another couple months in here, but all well the best way to learn is to just jump into it.  But ya I can't believe i only have a month more in the mtc, I didn't believe it when they say time goes fast, but now I do.  Time is so weird, the days are like the longest thing ever.  But then all of a sudden a week passes by and your like wo where did that week go.  So I hope I'm getting the language down it's hard to see your own improvements.  But our teacher says we have improved a ton.

 

So dad to answer your questions.  Since i'm the District Leader now I pick up the mail everyday at lunch and at dinner.  That's one of our jobs.  So the mail comes anywhere before lunch and before dinner.  The place closes at 6 or so so ya I do that daily.  And when I say I want the missionary packet I mean just like the adress of my mission and all that information, so if you could just send that to me that would be great.  Just like all the adresses and numbers that it has in there.  Mom to answer your questions I don't really do anything different as a District leader we have like leadership meetings every tuesday and sunday.  I pick up the mail, and then I interview everyone to make sure there doing good.  And then just be an example and all that good stuff.  As for the boots, Elder Hopkins has these boots, that he got from missionary mall, i'll write a letter later and tell you exactly where they are and what they are they are really nice boots.  So don't send a bunch yet, I'll tell you more later. And also if you could send a camel back backpack, vic said that would be a great thing to have.  Just one that is black whatever you could find that could hold some stuff.  Also you can send treats if you want again haha not a lot just something little, haha that would be great.  And I figured out the camera a little bit I'm going to read through the manual today. 

 

Tell the ward thanks for the package that was very unexpected but very nice I loved it.  I hope everyone is doing well so send my best wishes to everyone.  And you all are in my prayers.

 

So this last week a lot goes on and I can't remember much.  We had class and more class and more study time and all that good stuff.  So fast sunday was cool we had fast and testimony meeting then a mission conference which is kind of like stake conference.  Then we just went on with our normal day.  We ate dinner at 5 and then for our devotional  we watched the first presidency christmas devotional which was cool.  So everyweek we do trc and it's awesome we have some sort of fundamental were working on and we go and teach random people who volunteer.  It is great the people usually teach us more then we teach them haha, because all of the volunteers are mostly returned missionaries ha it's great.  But this weeks fundamental was revelation through the book of mormon and that is something that is huge as long as revelation through prayer, those are things really need to focus on with our investigators, so they can know how to recognize the spirit and come to know that it's true.  We also have investigators that we teach, there our teachers but they role play as an investigator. It's good times we don't know much spanish so we have some funny moments.  But the spirit is the teacher, so if we have a plan and try our best and have the spirit with us the lord we'll make up the difference it is really cool.  One of our investigators we asked him to read Mosiah 24.  Which is when Alma and his people are being perseguted ha i don't know how to spell that word.  But they are being perseguted by Amulon and then the lord delivers them.  So when we were following up we asked him if he understood it and what he thought.  He was like so Is amulon perseguting his wife Alma haha and this is all in spanish and we were just like what no. Alma is a prophet. And he was like there are girl prophets haha.  No it was super funny.  I love it.  So on tuesday we had Elder Snow of the presidency of the 70 he gave a sweet talk, it was on mission work to inactive memebers.  He was just saying how focusing on them is just as important as those who haven't had a chance to receive the gospel.  And it was just how about we need to bring the lost sheep back into the fold and I loved it. My challenge for you guys is to read Luke 15.  Those are all the parables of lost sheep coming back to the fold.  It is really cool.

 

Well I love it here all is great.  I hope all is well with you guys.  Tell David to write me back.  As well as mckenna and Lindsey.  I love getting all of your letters and packages it's great.  And I love hearing from you guys I love you all so much you're the best.  I hope all is well and that everything is going good back home.  Keep me updated on all the happennings.  And let me know if there is anything else you want to know that I'm not answering.  Also that's sweet that sister Hadfield saw me.  But ya I hope all is well I love you all.  Can't wait to hear from ya.  Well got to go.

Love you guys

Love elder kyle chandler.

On Fri, Dec 2, 2011 at 10:08 AM, Kyle Chandler <kyle.chandler@myldsmail.net> wrote:

Hey can you send my mission packet and some ties my outfits are getting boring. maybe a nice adress book as soon as possible that would be great I love you all thanks so much I'll write you a letter later but if you get this send as soon as possible please.  Also camera takes blurry pictures at times do you know why? Thanks love you.

On Thu, Dec 1, 2011 at 6:20 AM, Kyle Chandler <kyle.chandler@myldsmail.net> wrote:

K here is the second letter.  So this week has been great at the mtc.  There is a lot that goes on so it's kinda hard to write all that has happened.  Aunt cathy you are right there is a lot that goes on that I don't talk about so if there is anything specific that someone wants to know just ask and I'll answer.  So ya.  Thanks for all the letters and all the support at first i didn't like getting letters because it made me think of home now i Love them, but it sounds like everyone is doing good.  That's great that sister bushnell is up beat and positive.  I guess that is exactly what the gospel is meant to do in situations like those keep people who are going through tough times comforted.  I hope all are doing well.  You're all in my prayers including the bushnells.  And aunt glenna, How is she doing by the way? And the carlisles?  Also dad can you tell me who is receiving my emails, that would be great thanks.

 

So everything is going great here I love it I love my district and my zone and I just love being around them everyone is so chill and we have such a good time together but we also work hard which is really good.  I thought everyone just works hard here, but apparently there a lot of problems that i don't know about.  So it is a great blessing to have such a wonderful hard working district.  So everyone in our zone is leaving within the next couple of weeks which stinks because I love them all so much.  It's amazing how close you get with the people here in such a little amount of time.  But ya so since that is occuring we had some changes.  I got called to be District leader which is cool.  And then Elder Hopkins and Barton my other roomates are the new zone leaders which is sweet.  So the next few weeks we'll be continually getting a new shipment of recruits which will be fun.  We got some new missionaries yesterday they seem like cool guys, but i haven't really got to know them yet.

 

So things are going great here.  I love it so much you work way hard and have fun at the same time.  There is such an amazing spirit here, it's hard to describe in words.  All I can say is it is just something you have to experience for yourself.  I whish everyone could experience this because there is nothing like it in the world it really is the coolest thing.  So thanksgiving here was good we didn't have a p day last week which kind of stunk but it's all good because thanksgiving was sweet.  We had Russel M Nelson come and he gave a sweet talk I can't remember about what and I don't have my notes with me darn I'll talk about it next week.  Then we did like a humanitarian service project, which was way fun we were putting one item in a baggy and passing it along.  While singing songs so we had like 1000 missionaries singing and working in the lunch room it was awesome.  Then we had thanksgiving dinner,  it wasn't as good as home but it was pretty dec.  The food here isn't bad but it's not great, but i adjust well because all i ate was hot pockets at home haha.  Then at night we watched 17 miracles what a great movie.  I would recommend watching it.  So it was a great day.  But it is so great here I love it I'm running out of time.  But yesterday our district had such a strong spiritual experience we role played as people from our life and Hmna wright and Elder hopkins were the investigators as there people and our teacher taught as the missionary.  It was so cool it felt like the investigators that they were being were actually there.  They both said that they felt like they were there investigators.  We were teaching how to receive prayer through revelation.  But he taught the lesson and it was just so strong and he was like if God was sitting here right now and told you the church was true would you join the church.  They said yes and then they prayed.  Hmna Wright prayed and it was like she was her actual investigator, she began to cry and man the spirit was so thick you could cut through it with a knife.  I love it.  Those are the types of experies you can't get anywhere else.  Everyday here something new happens and it's way cool because everyone is going through the same thing for the same cause.  I love you all and this gospel I wish you all the best love you.