Happy Easter and missionary mail!

Happy Easter Weekend!!  After almost a week in the hospital recovering from surgery, it is great being home and the kitchen smells like a spring Garden!  Thank you to all my friends and family.  I love you!

On the other hand, Mom can't do much right now, and was hoping someone would supervise the little boys in making their cookies.

Those aren't burnt, but just full of too much butter.  They actually still tasted ok, just a goop of carmel and chocolate!

Here's to my sweet Daughter (and to Andy) who kept the house and kids in order while I was gone!  She is incredible! Thanks Taryn!

The best part of the week is always the missionary mail.  I get one on Sunday and one on Monday.  Those are great days!!

Hi family
Happy Easter! Glad your surgery went well mom. Pretty crazy stuff.
This week was good. Still visiting a lot of less-actives and active
members. I love it! The ward seems like they really like us so that's
good!
Trying to think of what to write... Richards still doing well. Trying
to get him to the temple soon. He blessed the sacrament yesterday and
said it right his very first time! Wednesday night we went to the
church to talk to some people up there and then of course the youth
were all playing basketball in the gym after mutual so we stepped in
and schooled them in a few games of lightning before we headed home
for the night. It was pretty fun stuff!
Friday night a kid in the ward got baptized and asked us to give the
talks so we went to that. All the little kids in the ward think im
magic because of the thing where you squeeze the wrist and push all
the blood out and then let it all rush in. So now whenever they see me
they want me to do the "magic" trick to them. Ha its pretty funny
stuff!
We had a lesson on Saturday at the church for the first time with a
guy who's pretty interested. He says he doesn't shut anything out and
has always been impressed with the Mormons and the quality of lives
they live so he decided to meet with us and see what its all about!
He's a really cool guy!
And then of course easter was good! Sacrament meeting was awesome
yesterday and to make it even better, we had no extra meetings
yesterday!!! ;) haha jk
Well im doing well. Mission's great. Church is true. God is good. :)

Love, Conner

 This week we baptized "Chas".  He is a sixteen year old Maori kid.  We met him about 3 weeks ago, and he was really interested in learning how to follow God, and recognizing the Lord's voice in his life.  We met pretty much every day since, and long story short, he was baptized this Saturday.  He said it would be a good experience for him to go on a mission, and wants to raise his future posterity/family in the Church.  His cousin, Jasmine, it getting baptized on May the tenth. She has no concerns about the baptism, so that will be good.  They both came to a fireside last night, and loved it.  There is another investigator, Moana, who has a daughter who just left on her mission to Houston, Texas about a week ago.  We gave her a Book Of Mormon and told her to pray about it.  She came to church yesterday, and the Easter fireside last night.  We haven't followed up on her prayer yet, but she seems like she is very keen to come to many of the activities and events that are running.  There was a big black dog that was chasing me on my bike for about 10 seconds on...Wednesday I think.  It chased me across the street and was running after me.  Then a Samoan member honked at it to try to get it away.  We ate dinner at a members house on...Friday. They have two Autistic boys who have very gentle spirits.  I gave them and their other siblings pieces of gum, and showed them the pictures in the Bible of the predicted sites where Jesus lived; for an Easter spiritual thought for the family.  Peace out, love you , bye! Dallin

Yoooo
Im doing good. Just a normal week. We had interviews with president
ames on tuesday which are always awesome. cant really remember
anything after that until conference... haha But conference was really
good. I used to love conference weekend only because i got to sleep in
and not get ready for church but now i actually like it for the right
reasons haha. I took a lot of notes. I dont really know what my
favorite talk was but i liked Elder anderson and Elder hollands...
There was a lot of others that i thought were really good i just cant
remember them!
I really have no idea what else to write... Im still doing fine!
love you! Conner

Sounds like the surgery is a pretty big deal Mom.  Hopefully it will clear up.  i hope it heals fast..That wouldn't be good if it was cancer.  Thanks for the conference candy.... I bet Tanner and Drew will love being on the ocean, eating food and swimming.  This week we taught a Hindu family and found a lot of potentials.  There really is nothing new... Thanks for the package and writing me this week.  We taught some really good lessons this week.  Abraham was definitely not looking to join the church lol..We are teaching a 16 year old who is thinking about going on a mission.  We had 5 people come to sacrament, an investigators family, and the 16 year old.

3-31-14
Hola.
This week was pretty typical... haha nothing CRAZY. Still working on
Moses, but we werent able to meet with him this week which was a
bummer... Richard has been in the hospital all week and they "werent
allowed" to tell us which hospital he was in. Brother Oster (Richards
fellowshipper) got pretty mad at the people for not telling us... But
Richard called us early this morning and wants us to stop by tonight
so we'll figure out what was going on! hopefully nothing crazy.
We went on an exchange yesterday with the deaf elders again. It was
fun. It was the first Sunday exchange I've ever done so i didnt know
what to expect...Oh, CJ i met one of your friends that i guess was at
you and taryns wedding... I forgot his name but he was in the ward i
went to! Just thought it would be good to see how well the
missionaries work with the ward. Going there made me realize that our
ward counsel is actually pretty good... haha theirs wasn't.
Sometimes as a missionary you get really annoyed that the ward isn't
focusing on missionary work 100% of the time... haha jk but really. I
am now more thankful for our ward consel haha. If i'm ever a
mission leader i'm gonna give the missionaries a ton of time and have that be a big emphasis.
...Transfers are in 2 weeks so we'll see what happens there. I'm thinking i'll probably be transferred... I love this ward but i'm ready to move on haha guess that's how every area is.
Well that's all i got peace love you

This week was pretty good, I called a guy during weekly planning that I remembered we talked to and like a month and a half ago.  I asked him if he still wanted to have a chapel tour.  He accepted and we are meeting at the chapel on Wednesday.  We knocked on a door and met an 18 year old kid.  He let us in and we taught the Restoration.  The Spirit was strong and he accepted a Book Of Mormon.  We set him with a baptismal date for April 19th.  The next day, we went back in the evening.  His mom (another religion, Cook Islander)  told us he couldn't speak english very well, and that he didn't understand us the day before.  But we were sure that he was understanding everything we said.  She told us that he was moving back to the Islands soon. (She was probably lying).  We got her permission for him to come to church.  In the morning we went to go by and walk with him to church.  She said he had been drinking all night.  So nothing happened from it.  We talked with Abraham, and we are having a "piano lesson" on Friday.  If only I knew how to teach piano lessons... 

Dallin