mis~sion~ar~y (n) a young man who leaves his family for a short time so that others can be with theirs forever

Monday, May 28, 2012

Dear Family,
Well, I’m doing well. Madison has officially graduated from high school, summer has started, and I’m just the same here. Down to 11 weeks, pretty scared, starting to freak out, but that’s how things go, don’t they? I’m doing good with my comp, we should have some people next weekend to baptize, so that’s cool. Just gotta keep on pushing. The zone got changed, tons of new people here, everyone has less than a year, just me, my comp, one of sisters, and some other 2 that will hit a year while being here. So nuts to see that.

I’m happy. Just gotta keep doing good stuff. The trunkiness has kinda died, now it’s just a waiting experience, nothing else. That’s the weird part of it. Stopped thinking, and I’m glad. Maybe now its just time to live it up while I can. I’ve been trying, and doing some good things. I’m excited. Anyway. That’s about it. I left my camera in my backpack, and it ain’t here, so can’t send any new photos. Too bad. Have a great first week of summer, pretty soon getting down to the one digits on weeks, freakin me out. Love you guys a lot.

Love,
Elder Jace Reber
Madison,
Hey, yeah, weird stuff, I remember that first summer too. It was sad for about 3 days, then I couldn’t care less what happened. That’s always fun.

Yeah, I can’t believe it’s summer. I remember thinking that when summer came this year, it would be that close until I was home. Stuff that you think will never come does just that, and does it fast. Anyway. This should be a quick summer, and then I’ll be home, just takin up space again and doing nothing. Love you, ok? Have a good week, enjoy that first part as you have it.

Love,
Elder Jace Reber


Mis querridos ñaños,
Whats up, guys? Soo, schools out. Summertime. Pretty crazy to see that it’s already out. I hope that you guys are excited. I am, too. Love you a lot and hope that things keep going good.

Love,
Elder Jace Reber

Monday, May 21, 2012

Dear Mom and Dad,
Hey, I’m doing really good, I got to stay here in Calderon, so happy, and my comp is someone I’ve known since Santo Domingo, and he’s way cool. His name is Elder Baez, he’s the only missionary here from the Dominican Republic, and he was assistant, for, well, 3 weeks, then they dropped him for some stuff. I’m excited, though. He is a baptizing MACHINE, has over like 100 in his mission, and everyone he talks to gets in the water. I’m really interested to see how many I can hit up in June. Oh, and for my birthday, too.

What else? The girl we had been teaching got baptized, super cool, she was nervous. She actually got switched to a different ward, so it technically doesn’t count as my baptism, but I did a lot of it and helped out a lot. So I kinda count it. That’s good, right?

Well, that’s good. I’m happy, times countin down, should start to see a lot of stuff happening here, a lot of people that get in and out and are happy, and that everything is well. Love you guys a lot, can’t believe school already gets out this week. So weird.

Love,
Elder Jace Reber


Madison,
Hey, yeah, its pretty crazy that you are going to graduate this week. Like, super strange. Me almost ending the mish, and you ending high school. I hope that its a really good night for you, and that you can have a lot of fun in everything. I won’ lie, it’s gonna be sad. And really weird, more than anything. But what can I say? Life goes on.

Anyway. That’s all for that. Love ya, hope that this week goes well. Say bye to all of your hot friends for me. Please. Ok.

Love,
Elder Jace Reber

Tuesday, May 15, 2012


We're cooking stuff!

Workout time at the Park

Part 1

Part 2

First Presidency eating papas rellenas

First Presidency in the Park

Joana's baptism. Her grandaughter wouldn't let me be in it, so I just jumped in

Learnin how to make papas rellenas

The gayest picture of all time!
Dear Mom and Dad,
Well, don’t have a lot to say, said most of it yesterday, so that’s good, but it was fun. Can’t believe it was already the very last call. Weird to see and think about, but I guess it had to happen sometime, no? Yup. Cool beans. I’m still fine, and I’ll talk to you guys next week. I’ll think about the school thing, see what are some of my possibilities with that. It would be really weird though to have to just jump right in that fast, just not have any time to do much. I’m not sure. I’ll pray and see what God says.
Love,
Elder Jace Reber

Wednesday, May 9, 2012

Dear Family,
Hey, everything is going well. Still here in good ol Calderon, we had some success in the zone this week, which is awesome, and we should have a lot of baptisms this weekend. We ended with only 11 last month, but hopefully with this weekend, we´ll have around 13, and then still have 2 more weeks to baptize, so I hope that we can jump it good. That would be really good and exciting for me. We baptized a lady last weekend, super super poor, she pays like 30 dollars a month for rent, no light, her sons a friggin cocaine addict, but she is really humble, and everyone loves her. It was good. Showed up late yesterday, didn’t get confirmed, which sucks, but she will next week. I’m happy for that, I’ll send some pics.

What else? Excited for this weekend. I know that it´ll be good. Last one until I see you all in person, but thats ok. Not long now. But, I will probably get one at 4 here, so I think that would make it 3 there. My comp is gonna start at 3 here, but I don’t know if you guys will be home at that time, so I figured I could just wait an hour. It´ll be good. I’ll call on Friday or Saturday just to make sure that everything is good to go and at what time, so don’t worry about that. Good stuff.

What else? Thats all, I think. Have some divisions this week, got some new references to try and find, so that should be fun, and have a lot of goals that we wanna meet, so I’m pretty happy about some of the possibilities that we have for right now. Things are going well, I’m happy, its almost summer, which means absolutely nothing, already have plans to go get drunk on my birthday, now that I’m legal, according to US law, and also maybe go to Columbia, find me a woman, we´ll have to see. I’m glad I came here. I have seen a lot of stuff thats happened, a lot of miracles, and a lot of fun, and I know that God is going to bless me for everything thats happened. Thanks for all of you guys and your support for all of this. Have a good week, I’ll call Friday night, probably, to see how you all are.

Love,
Elder Jace Reber
Madison,

Whats up, ñaña? Hey, so yeah, this weekend should be pretty fun, last call before I get to see you all in person and start calling from my cell phone again, that´ll be super weird, right? That’s for sure. We baptized this weekend, it’s already almost the friggin middle of may, freakin out, and, well, I’m just a happy camper, as always. Just trying to stay focused on everything that I need to do, and thinking that I’m accomplishing it. Good stuff.

Hey, love you a lot and excited to see everyone on Sunday. I think that it´ll be good.

Love,
Elder Jace Reber


Dear Reber Children,

Hey, guys, sorry I don’t have a lot of time to write all of you, but I’m glad that you’re all happy doing all of the things that you wanna do, and being able to be happy. I’m excited to be able to talk to you and everything, and I think that it´ll be really fun to do so. I love you guys a lot, keep going good until the end of school, and keep trying at the sports things. You´ll get better.

Love,
Elder Jace Reber