Dear Mom and Dad,
Hey, this week has been good. The seventies guy couldn’t come, but freak, in August, hopefully before I leave, one of the 12 and two seventies are gonna come, awesome. Haha, with my luck I promise that it´ll be like August 15, the day after I get home, but oh well, that’s life sometimes. Everything else has been going well. We´ve been finding a lot of people, but they just aren’t coming to church and everything. It’s frustrating at times, but we´re trying. Time’s been going faster now than ever before. Weird to think that next week will be my next change. It’s possible that they send me somewhere new, too. Almost certain. I’m really sad for that, because who wants to go somewhere for 6 weeks, where you don’t know anyone, then have to go home. I’m hoping that isn’t what happens, but I’ve got a sneaky suspicion that yes, it will be. Freak. Ok. Just try my best. Talked to Pres about it today, said he´d take it into consideration.
Sounds like you guys had some fun stuff that happened this week. Fun. Lots of pain, lots of packing, lots of visits, lots of sports, glad to hear that you´re enjoying the summer. About the trip, anywhere is good with me, as long as it’s not some dumb excursion to the lake or something that dad will probably suggest. Ask the youngens what they wanna do, and I’ll just be happy to be there, that’s the truth.
Oh, my birthday is on Saturday, just so you all know, haha. All good. I’ll probably do something for it, too. Buy a cake, some pizza, a girl, we´ll see. I’ll take pics either way. Just send home the clean ones, though. The package didn’t get here, though, went in today to the offices to see, and its not. Haha, it´ll get here right on the day I leave, verán.
Yeah, Ammon is getting close. I saw him, Brandon Peña, who played Battle of the Bands with us, and Broderick Melling, all, in the MTC. Oh, and Mack Damavandi. Crazy stuff. They should all be getting close. Everyone is starting to pull in. Kyle is even starting to get up there on time. What, 6 months already, no? So nuts.
Well, that’s that. Next week, I might be somewhere else, maybe even outside of Quito again, that´d be weird. But kinda cool, too. We´ll see. I do see miracles all the time. My favorite thing I’ve learned here in the mission, and that I know is so true, is about the grace of Christ. 2 Nefi 25:23, "For we labor diligently to write, to persuade our children, and also our brethren, to believe in Christ, and to be reconciled to God; for we know that it is by grace that we are saved, AFTER ALL we can do." I really like this. We won’t get a single friggin blessing, or at least all of them, the diamonds in the rough, until we do EVERYTHING that we can. Every single little thing. After we have done that, God will do the rest. Man, its true. If I give 99.999 percent, but hold even a little back, God has no need to help me, and might not. We gotta give it all. So cool. I’m gonna remember that for the rest of my life. There’s a cool story in Ether 2, too, where God talks to the Bro of Jared. Jared tells God, something like this "Hey, man, what the crap should I do so we have light? You expect us to die? Come on." So God says "Umm, what do you want me to do about it? What will YOU do so that I prepare a way for you to be saved?" The Bro of Jared gets the pic, and goes and thinks, and starts to do all he can, and then the Lord does his part. SO legit, love it. Lets do that, yeah? Better that than nothing. Cool beans. Well, that’s that. I know that church is true. Love the mish, I was thinking today in the bus, how much I’m gonna miss the stuff here, the town, the people, all the little stuff I take for granted. But it´ll be made up for by my car, hahaha. Love you guys.
Love,
Elder Jace Reber
Madison,
Yeah, its getting close, pretty nuts. Who’s Solveig? Is it a girl? If yes, is she hot? That’s awesome, hook me up, duh. Ok, whatever, haha. Glad that you’re having fun during your last summer in your whole life. Weird to think about, right? Should be. Good stuff about the fam coming. Hope you enjoyed it. Keep enjoying it. The family is the most important thing we have. Get that up there through your skull and we´ll be all gravy.
Love ya, girly. Oh, and I gotta stress now the importance of going to church in college. It’s probably one of your roommates will be a member, so use that to go. Please? Love ya girly.
Love,
Elder Jace Reber
Dear Brooklyn,
Hey, I feel you on the packing thing. Imagine doing it 6 times, but with all of the clothes, books, and everything you own. It sucks, haha. I’ll probably only have to do it 1 more time, and it´ll be way easy and fast, and I’ll be coming home, so cool beans, man. I hope that you have fun back there. Enjoy the summer. I can’t believe its already almost July. I’m turning 21 on Saturday, so freakin weird. Haha, love you and miss you a lot.
Dear Whitney,
Sorry you’re sick. We went to an amusement park the other week, and I got way sick too. Almost threw up a ton. I think I’m getting old, like dad. Can’t do anything fun anymore. Just start to get mad all the time, haha. Well, I love you and miss you a lot. Have a fun week!
Dear Hunter,
Your leg is pretty nasty, but good for the girls. Haha, not really, forget that. I’m glad that you guys are going to do a lot of fun stuff there at home. That makes me happy. Keep doing it. It’s going by fast, huh. It is for me, a lot, But, thats ok. Love you buddy, have a good week.
Love,
Elder Jace Reber
Tuesday, June 19, 2012
Before anything, I think I lost my flash memory just barely, I can’t find it, freak, lost a ton of pictures from Carcelen Bajo, not all of them, but the majority of them, I’m losing everything, this sucks.
I said,“Back track,quick!It’s worth it.Maybe someone turned it in." He said:
We went to eat in a restaraunt, way far from here, and I think it fell out there. There’s no way I can get it back now.
I said,"Can you try?It makes me sick.I hate for you to lose all those memories.” And he said:
No, I can’t get back, its hard, but I dunno. God does stuff for a reason. I’ve lost a ton of stuff lately, I just set it somewhere and it goes somewhere else, weird. I’ll just have to accept it. I didn’t lose any bappy fotos, and those are the ones I want. So that’s ok.
Then about 15 minutes later, he wrote us this:
Dear Family,
Well, I’m well, apart from losing all of those pictures and everything, that really freakin sucks, happened 3 times in the mish. I think I’ve lost close to 500 pictures, but its better than losing all of them like some Elders. One got down to his last month, and got his camera robbed. I don’t know what to do, buy another flash, maybe, some disks or something. Whatever, I’ll try to get over it, sad that I’ll never be able to see them all again, though.
We baptized 3 little kids this weekend, awesome, and the mom should get baptized on my birthday, maybe. Hopefully we can have some, that would be super cool. We are excited to see it, and the ward as well. Hopefully that proves that things are going well here. I’m happy, that’s good.
What else? One of the 70 is going to come to us on Wednesday, should get some pretty cool advice and stuff to listen to and learn. I sure hope so. Help us out here. The zone is sucking it up, no one went to church yesterday because of Father’s Day, so that sucks. Whatever. Sometimes it happens. Only 2 weeks until its my last change. That’s weird. Time moving on.
Alrighty. Well, I love you guys a lot, and know the church is true. New stuff learning and doing, and just having a lot of fun with my comp and with the zone. So that’s all cool beans. I love you all a lot.
Scared the crap outta me about the Bandit thing. Get so close to coming home and the idiot almost dies, freak.
Love,
Elder Jace Reber
Dear Kids,
Hey, I’m glad that you guys are all good, have the tramp, summer is boring, and the summer games thing. I remember the fireworks and everything that they always put, those were always really fun for me to see, like them. Cool stuff. I’m glad that you guys are enjoying it so much, keep doing so. I love you and miss you all a lot. Have fun with the primos, yeah?
Love,
Elder Jace Reber
I said,“Back track,quick!It’s worth it.Maybe someone turned it in." He said:
We went to eat in a restaraunt, way far from here, and I think it fell out there. There’s no way I can get it back now.
I said,"Can you try?It makes me sick.I hate for you to lose all those memories.” And he said:
No, I can’t get back, its hard, but I dunno. God does stuff for a reason. I’ve lost a ton of stuff lately, I just set it somewhere and it goes somewhere else, weird. I’ll just have to accept it. I didn’t lose any bappy fotos, and those are the ones I want. So that’s ok.
Then about 15 minutes later, he wrote us this:
Dear Family,
Well, I’m well, apart from losing all of those pictures and everything, that really freakin sucks, happened 3 times in the mish. I think I’ve lost close to 500 pictures, but its better than losing all of them like some Elders. One got down to his last month, and got his camera robbed. I don’t know what to do, buy another flash, maybe, some disks or something. Whatever, I’ll try to get over it, sad that I’ll never be able to see them all again, though.
We baptized 3 little kids this weekend, awesome, and the mom should get baptized on my birthday, maybe. Hopefully we can have some, that would be super cool. We are excited to see it, and the ward as well. Hopefully that proves that things are going well here. I’m happy, that’s good.
What else? One of the 70 is going to come to us on Wednesday, should get some pretty cool advice and stuff to listen to and learn. I sure hope so. Help us out here. The zone is sucking it up, no one went to church yesterday because of Father’s Day, so that sucks. Whatever. Sometimes it happens. Only 2 weeks until its my last change. That’s weird. Time moving on.
Alrighty. Well, I love you guys a lot, and know the church is true. New stuff learning and doing, and just having a lot of fun with my comp and with the zone. So that’s all cool beans. I love you all a lot.
Scared the crap outta me about the Bandit thing. Get so close to coming home and the idiot almost dies, freak.
Love,
Elder Jace Reber
Dear Kids,
Hey, I’m glad that you guys are all good, have the tramp, summer is boring, and the summer games thing. I remember the fireworks and everything that they always put, those were always really fun for me to see, like them. Cool stuff. I’m glad that you guys are enjoying it so much, keep doing so. I love you and miss you all a lot. Have fun with the primos, yeah?
Love,
Elder Jace Reber
Tuesday, June 12, 2012
Dear Mom and Dad,
Haha, what did I say in all these letters? That I’m just dead? I’m still working, don’t worry, gosh. I have been thinking a lot about home, but we are still having people that wanna get baptized. I’m not dead. It has been kinda hard, maybe slacking a little, but I’m still here, the same as before. I know that I’m being blessed. Every other missionary that says they don’t wanna leave are lying. Everyone does, but its not the top of my life. Don’t worry about me, I’m FINE, haha. 9 weeks is still a while. Oh, and I know that I’m going in at like 10:45 no? Aitken called and said it came. Super cool. Well, I hope we fly in together. Day flight, get home way late, that sucks. Oh well. We´ll see how things go.
I’m good. This week was fun, we had some invasions, the people with date for baptism, we couldn’t ever find them, so that fell. Walking around, looking for people here. Only have a couple of converts here in this ward, but they are both excellent, and the other girl is in the other ward, but showin tons of progress. I’m really happy for the people that we´ve helped here. Maybe the numbers don’t show up so strong, but I know that God is helping us. Thats the most important. Ok, anyway.
Well, that’s that. I know that the church is true, that God lives, that he wants us to be happy, to pray, read the scriptures, go to church, have FHE, do service, help others, and magnify our callings. He loves us all, and he only wants what can help us. Please don’t think I’m just wasting time. It’s getting close, but its not over. Lots to do. I love you guys a lot, I’m way excited to come home, and see all of you, and keep progressing with my life. Have a good week.
Love,
Elder Jace Reber
Oh, by the way, I got robbed in the bus today, so I had to take out personal money. It was a stupid mistake, sorry. 30 bucks, that sucks, so I need more to use now. I’m fine, had to happen sometime.
Dear Whitney,
Hey, I’m glad that you had a fun sleepover, all that stuff. I hope that you guys are still doing the scripture thing at home, cuz that´ll help you more than anything else. I’m excited to come home, too. Enjoy the summer, ok?
Dear Hunter,
Fun, the championship game. I hope that you guys do well. Just do your best. I’m glad that you have a new friend on the team, too. That is always a good thing. I love you a lot, buddy. Have fun, ok?
Love,
Jace
Brooklyn,
Hey, sounds fun. Enjoy the summer while you can. Its already almost the middle of June, can you believe that? Super crazy. But it has to happen. Love you a lot, I’ll see you guys pretty quick.
Love,
Jace
Haha, what did I say in all these letters? That I’m just dead? I’m still working, don’t worry, gosh. I have been thinking a lot about home, but we are still having people that wanna get baptized. I’m not dead. It has been kinda hard, maybe slacking a little, but I’m still here, the same as before. I know that I’m being blessed. Every other missionary that says they don’t wanna leave are lying. Everyone does, but its not the top of my life. Don’t worry about me, I’m FINE, haha. 9 weeks is still a while. Oh, and I know that I’m going in at like 10:45 no? Aitken called and said it came. Super cool. Well, I hope we fly in together. Day flight, get home way late, that sucks. Oh well. We´ll see how things go.
I’m good. This week was fun, we had some invasions, the people with date for baptism, we couldn’t ever find them, so that fell. Walking around, looking for people here. Only have a couple of converts here in this ward, but they are both excellent, and the other girl is in the other ward, but showin tons of progress. I’m really happy for the people that we´ve helped here. Maybe the numbers don’t show up so strong, but I know that God is helping us. Thats the most important. Ok, anyway.
Well, that’s that. I know that the church is true, that God lives, that he wants us to be happy, to pray, read the scriptures, go to church, have FHE, do service, help others, and magnify our callings. He loves us all, and he only wants what can help us. Please don’t think I’m just wasting time. It’s getting close, but its not over. Lots to do. I love you guys a lot, I’m way excited to come home, and see all of you, and keep progressing with my life. Have a good week.
Love,
Elder Jace Reber
Oh, by the way, I got robbed in the bus today, so I had to take out personal money. It was a stupid mistake, sorry. 30 bucks, that sucks, so I need more to use now. I’m fine, had to happen sometime.
Dear Whitney,
Hey, I’m glad that you had a fun sleepover, all that stuff. I hope that you guys are still doing the scripture thing at home, cuz that´ll help you more than anything else. I’m excited to come home, too. Enjoy the summer, ok?
Dear Hunter,
Fun, the championship game. I hope that you guys do well. Just do your best. I’m glad that you have a new friend on the team, too. That is always a good thing. I love you a lot, buddy. Have fun, ok?
Love,
Jace
Brooklyn,
Hey, sounds fun. Enjoy the summer while you can. Its already almost the middle of June, can you believe that? Super crazy. But it has to happen. Love you a lot, I’ll see you guys pretty quick.
Love,
Jace
Thursday, June 7, 2012
Dear Family,
Hey, I’m doing well. Just here, pluggin away, little by little, chippin that old rock down to the plane. I’m well, we should have some bappys this weekend, good for that, like the zone, have some good stuff this week, and am just giving what I can. Nothing interesting happened this week that I can remember. I forget things almost instantly here. Sad, but true. Just like a life back there doing the routine, no? Haha, whatever.
Well, that’s that. I don’t have a whole lot to say, thanks for continuing to keep me updated and stuff, its really good to know and it makes me happy. Love you guys a whole lot. Have a good week.
Love,
Elder Jace Reber
Madison,
2 weeks already, huh? Weird stuff. Its weird to hear that you even work. True, really. But whatever, thats the way the cookie crumbles, like Mrs Duncan Always says, right? I suppose. Anyway. I’m good, sooooo trunky, but I’m ok. Just 70 days left. It’s been hard, but still passing so freaking fast, too. Cool. Well, thats about that. Saw a picture of that kid, your boyfriend. I’m not gonna have to talk to him at home, am I? I’ll kill him. Especially being Jenika’s brother. Freakin girl. Love ya, have fun on your summer vacation.
Love,
Elder Jace Reber
Dear Hunter, Brooklyn, and Whitney,
Hey, I’m glad that your first week of summer was good. It’s weird to think how back at home summer still exists. Lot of time and stuff left for all of that. Weird. I’m doing good with Elder Baez, my companion, and we are going to have some baptisms this weekend, of some little kids. It should be fun. Only 10 more weeks and I’ll be back there at home. Weird. I love you guys a lot. Have fun!
Love,
Elder Jace Reber
Hey, I’m doing well. Just here, pluggin away, little by little, chippin that old rock down to the plane. I’m well, we should have some bappys this weekend, good for that, like the zone, have some good stuff this week, and am just giving what I can. Nothing interesting happened this week that I can remember. I forget things almost instantly here. Sad, but true. Just like a life back there doing the routine, no? Haha, whatever.
Well, that’s that. I don’t have a whole lot to say, thanks for continuing to keep me updated and stuff, its really good to know and it makes me happy. Love you guys a whole lot. Have a good week.
Love,
Elder Jace Reber
Madison,
2 weeks already, huh? Weird stuff. Its weird to hear that you even work. True, really. But whatever, thats the way the cookie crumbles, like Mrs Duncan Always says, right? I suppose. Anyway. I’m good, sooooo trunky, but I’m ok. Just 70 days left. It’s been hard, but still passing so freaking fast, too. Cool. Well, thats about that. Saw a picture of that kid, your boyfriend. I’m not gonna have to talk to him at home, am I? I’ll kill him. Especially being Jenika’s brother. Freakin girl. Love ya, have fun on your summer vacation.
Love,
Elder Jace Reber
Dear Hunter, Brooklyn, and Whitney,
Hey, I’m glad that your first week of summer was good. It’s weird to think how back at home summer still exists. Lot of time and stuff left for all of that. Weird. I’m doing good with Elder Baez, my companion, and we are going to have some baptisms this weekend, of some little kids. It should be fun. Only 10 more weeks and I’ll be back there at home. Weird. I love you guys a lot. Have fun!
Love,
Elder Jace Reber
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