Dallin March 23

No this is not Dallin

"This is Cedrick.  He is about 3 feet tall, and loves MMA fighting.  He was showing us his MMA moves this one night.  I have a couple videos.  I told him to call me "best friend".  So 

that's what he does every sunday at church. "

 Conner March 24

Sup family.
Haha theres a guy in our apartment complex that always says "sup
Mormons" as he smokes his weed when we pass him. Haha we pass him like
every day, he's the funniest guy ever. Not interested in Jesus at all
but he's still cool. That's why I started with "sup family"...
anyways :) this week was pretty good. Not one that sticks out of any
other but every week as a missionary is good. We had a good
lesson with moses on Monday but he didn't come to church yesterday! We
think him and his wife got in a little tustle before church... We asked her where moses was and she said "not at
church" and then walked off.. Ha a little awkward but shes always like
that. :) good stuff
We had a lesson with a guy on Wednesday. (the guy that randomly came
to church last week) He's the RLDS guy so it was a little different
cuz he already believed in the Book of Mormon and Joseph smith. We
didn't really know what to do so we just got talking to him and
discussed the difference in the RLDS and our church and we just got on
the topic of the plan of salvation so we taught about that. I think we
thought he was more solid than he actually is. His testimony of the
BoM is no where close to what we thought it would be. He said he
"wanted it to be true". When we teach him this week we're going to
focus more on the basics and on the Restoration. We think that will be
the best for him.
Man before my mission I had no idea how awesome the Book of Mormon
is!!!!!!!!! It's freakin amazing!  Definitely better than the Hardy Boys.... ;)
We went on two exchanges this week which is always fun. when I was in
the zone leaders area with E Gregory, E Campbell got his bike
stolen.... So now we walk FOREVER. It's the worst and takes forever.
We took the bus to some place in our area and did a little bit of work
there and then walked all the way back to our apartment. it took like
2 hours. Hopefully he'll get a bike soon. But i'll probably be
transferred in 3 weeks anyways so.... yeah
well that's all I got, wow that's a pretty long one this week though.
Embrace it
peace love you :)

Road Trip to Boise (basketball tournament) for Tanner's Lone Peak 6th grade team...

 They won the whole thing...this team from UTAH

 I seriously prefer T-shirts to trophies---adds to the wardrobe.  But they got trophies this time.

Drew and Tanner enjoying Harry Potter on the way home!

Conner and the Longhorn

March 10

yo. This week was good. We still dont have a baptism date for moses
but it'll come! He's starting to get really comfortable in Elders
quorum and loves the feeling he gets when he comes to church. He's
freakin awesome!!!!!!!!! We got a random text from Granny Smith last
night. (the lady that dropped us because of her "spiritual mother")
she told us to come by tonight because the, what she calls, "non
believers" are gone until tuesday. We were pretty surprised. She was
telling us last night that she is super depressed and doesnt even know
who she is anymore. She realizes that what we shared with her is
something good!!!! We'll see how it goes tonight.
thats all i can think of. Gospels still true. Still working hard!
peace love you

Elder Conner Toolson, Fort Worth Mission, 9 months down!!

hello family! This week's been good. I had to email today because the
libraries were closed and the apartment lobby's internet was down..
But anyway.... Transfers are this week but elder Campbell and I are
staying! We didn't really expect to be leaving. There were a lot of
changes made this transfer though. P-days right before transfers are
always the best cuz we get to find out all of the changes and talk to
all the missionaries! The downtown elders are being replaced and that
area is going to be an ASL area now. So the other Elder companionship
in the district are both ASL Elders and theyre both deaf so district
meetings should be interesting haha. One of them can kind of hear with
his microphones so he will be doing sign language for his companion.
Exchanges should also be fun haha I'll learn some sign language!

We are starting to get a little more serious with this guy named
Moses. He's married to a member in the ward and we had a REALLY good
lesson with him last night. Hes probably about 25-30 but still a
primary child in the gospel so it is really fun to teach him. He's
really cool and we have a pretty good relationship with him. We're
just trying to get him more involved in the Elders Quorum right now.
Things are going great and im still lovin it!

p.s. dad... I had my hardest dunk last p-day ive ever had in my life.
:) caught the ball cutting down the middle, took one dribble, jumped
off two feet and cocked it back with my right hand and dunked it right
over another elder.... haha it was the best feeling ever. The holy
ghost is making me jump higher or somethin...
love you! peace

Elder Toolson, Aaukland New Zealand Mission, one year down!!!

Our New Zealand missionary, Dallin

"This week was alright.  We found a part member family on the ward list who we never visited.  She is a member, but her partner isn't.   We met him and he was friendly to us.  O ya, before that, I climbed on a non-member's roof (Abraham) and got all these kid's two rugby balls down.  They were cheering as I kicked them off the roof lol.  I climbed on the first "layer" of the roof, and decided that it was too dangerous to jump on the second layer, so the dad climbed up and lifted me up.  Then he helped me back down onto the 1st layer.  Abraham was too short to get off the base roof and on to the wooden fence (which I used to climb up) so I had to help him down.  We were talking about music and religion etc.. We had contacted his wife on the street so that's why we were at that address.  He wants to learn piano so we are meeting him at the chapel on Saturday...it wasn't a really set appointment, but we will see how that goes.   Thanks for the email love you too!"