Zack finds a zonkie (donkey/Zebra)

oh man I wanna help slade with his watering systems, im a pro now because I have been putting them in on a 10 acre plot with the member we stay with, the tractor vids were us doing that, digging and filling the trenches after putting the systems in. yea lost of dead animals :) we try to kill the possums around here, they are mean and charge your car they are not smart.  well my comp is way good at basketball which is fun! however my comp is also mega super homesick to the point where he doesn't want to do anything which is tough. I really dunno how to get him talking to people. we will go out and work but he will just space out and say nothing unless I make him teach the whole lesson. so that's tough. I love wilton though its great! we have a neighbor who gets drunk and starts shooting things so it sounds like we are under fire but its not like del paso gun shots because its not at us its Justin the air and such. oh dad I need you to send a pic in the mail one that's printed off and is a pic of me thanks so much I love you! well not much going on we have 3 baptisms coming up and one is a BLACKTISM!!! so im excited about that. I also found some sweet speaker systems so that's cool. and the weird animal you saw is called zonkie :) its a zebra donky I think its funky weird but its cool! I want to ride the zonkie but for now its just tractors. well I hope all is well keep me posted on everything and lemme know what I can do to help yall out! I aint got jasons letter yet :( love ya!!

Jeremy DL rallies his troops to service!

OLA COMO ES DAS SENIORO!

Hey Padre! So this week has been a crazy one. Being District Leader again is fun... hahaha We had a pretty good lesson this last week and I think I got my point across that some of the people in the District need to stop looking at people as numbers and that they need to gain charity in their hearts or go home. I was pretty relaxed about it and the mission pres was there for it. Pressure was on haha It went well, he just told me that I needed to be less relaxed and that I needed to be more "Leadership". I promptly told him that I will definitely make it more official but also reminded him of a talk that we've had a lot about how I am who I am and if my personality doesn't seem to fit something I'm not making him keep me in area's of leadership haha I'm waiting for a reply so we'll see how it goes. Things around the mission have been really crazy, their is a lot of unneeded stress and its been drivin me a bit nuts haha I know its because of the mission split and all the other big moves so I understand  his point of view so I'm doing my best to be understanding and patient. So you'll be getting a call from a Dr. Clifton soon. He's my Chiropractor and it turns out one of my legs is 21mm shorter then the others! YAY!!! Apparently I jacked one of the Growth plates in my leg when I was 17 or something and now its an inch shorter. So I need to get shoes built up and so forth.... Dope huh.. He'll let you in on more details but apparently its just like I need to get 3 nice shoes then get the soles built up in em so that it evens me out, then my back will be fixed! As for Emperors New Grove, I've been crackin jokes from that for the last little bit so its crazy that you mention it. I'm sure Elliot is pumped to be out now! Sounds like errybody is doing the usual haha Haven't gotten a letter yet but I'm looking forward to it. Tell Jason thanks I love gettin letters, its like Christmas every time one comes in ha Tell Darlene happy Bday for me and so on. I've been dying to go golf the last little bit, I actually had a dream about it haha The stomach is much the same and I'm trying to eat less and less at a time and only do protein and so on but I'm losing pant sizes so I'm gonna get some more pants soon and a belt haha. I'm gonna be a skinny dude when ya'll see me again.. Well I love ya'll and I always love hearing from you! Take care and have a good one!

Elder Jeremy Larsen

Zack learns chinese from his new greenie!

I don't wanna train haha! he is a cool guy we have some things to work out. he is straight from hong kong and speak mild English he is 18 yrs old and already done a year of college at UVU and two semesters at BYU-I  he is teaching me bad words in Chinese though which is funa nd of course we have tons of fun with Asian jokes :) he doesn't understand the rules so he doesn't wanna follow em which makes things hard so im doing my best I feel I keep praying to be a better leader but I dunno what will happen. his name is elder wong and I asked him if its racist that his first baptism which was last Saturday was a Japanese girl and so will the next one :) we have a baptism set up for june 7tha nd two for july 20tha nd hopefully one more for the end of june and they are all solid! well I do love you all muchly and the letter I sent home is for mrs coleman but the SD card in the letter is for you! I love you all and things are going well! the ZL is one of my old comps the one who was a firefighter as well and lived 5 mins from our house so im excited to be around him again! well LOVE YOU ALL MUCHLY I aint got jasons letter yet but still waiting I love you bye!

Zack is a trainer! (and gets an ego boost)

dad- well dad im glad that everything is going well. im glad the camping trips were fun and that kevin is still alive, we have had 4 fatalities from skydiving here in Lodi california. well my trunky companion is very depressed now because he is from oklahoma 20 mins from the city of moore and there are more tornadoes on the way. but his town is ok last we saw. also im training now. i told president its a badchoice to trust me to train but he seemed confident haha! we will see what happens but it looks like ill be in wilton california till at LEAST august. lots of birthdays huh? sounds busy. well all has been well here in fact someone saidi look like bradly cooper (place face on the A team) which boosted my ego even more :) we have a baptism this week and next week which is exciting! anyway i love you! and your all awesome! thanks for the pics keep sending em :) your all great and im excited to see yall again later! keep meposted on stuff :) oh by the way we have a great sushi place thats just as good as tsunami if not better hereits called mikuni AND I LOVE IT!  also jason GF is famous huh? thats exciting lemmeknowwhen the wedding is :)

Jeremy moves to the Oregon Salem Mission and is a DL again!!!

Well it was just awesome to see all ya'll!!!! I hope that all of my mothers day letters got there safe and sound, let me know if they didn't. So hey, you should send me names and birthdays for everyone. (kevin jason lisa steph lia darlene ashley you... everyone!), cause I'm lame and can't remember. So transfers have come and gone. I'm staying with Elder Gardner for the next 6 weeks and I'm the new DL in Albany. Woo. We are throwing a birthday party for all of the new missionaries coming out in our district as our first D-meeting so that should be fun. We have 3 greenies coming to the area so we will see how this goes haha I'm officially in the OSM... I'm kinda glad but sad at the same time. A few good buddies of mine will be in the OEM and I'll miss them for sure. Tammy and a few guys from my MTC district will be down in Eugene still so I won't see them for a long time... pretty lame. President Young has been super stressed over the split and everything. He's been kinda going nuts on everyone, its been pretty crazy. He was upset with us this weekend for no reason. He mainly got after Taumoelau and Richards (our ZL's) because we were over at there place staying with Richards while Taumoelau was visiting with another family cause he was leaving. He was upset because it was a poor use of an hour on our part, which granted we could've been doing other stuff that would be better, but it wasn't a huge deal. He was super upset with both Tammy and Richards though, it was pretty lame.  Pretty much its just been an eventful week this week haha A little stressful but I'm looking forward to this next transfer, we've got two new ZL's and I'll be DL so i'll be able to go out and be with a bunch of really chill  Elders and be able to help them out. I'm pretty pumped so I'll let you know how stuff goes. I'm glad to see that you all are doing so well and I'm excited to hear about how Ashley's wedding goes! Tell errybody I say whats up. Love ya Padre

Elder Jeremy Larsen

Zacks Trunky companion

dad- that is a short letter. well first off ill start withthe things im asking for :) i need daves address, i aint got it yet :) and now to fun country stories :) first off we went to see a member and he was riding his ATV in his garments on his 5 acre property which wasfunny, but he is away nice guy i love him he makes me laugh a lot!  also im getting a southern accent pretty bad haha! everyone here is from lousiana and arkansas and oklahoma and stuff haha! so im getting it badand my comp is making fun of me. my comp is WAY TRUNKY!! he goes home in 3weeks and its all he can talk about! he just talks about howmany P days he has left and reading his family letters to me about how much they miss him andi jsut say DUDE SHUT THE FREAK UP! i aint goin home so dont make me trunky. on the other hand its easy to get away with stuff because he is the district leader so he just approves anything i ask to do :) so i have learned a lot of magic tricks since i been out here and i share them with all our younger investigators, im pretty sure thats why theparents let us in to teach em because i occupy them with magic first :)   although one strange thing is we have a 12 year old girl who wants to be baptized and taught, but not by us because she feels all guys our age just objectify girls for thier looks AND SHE IS 12 YEARS OLD! 12 and already a feminist. grantid i like girls but thats not ALL i do i also rock climb and stuff hahaha!! ;) hey quick question, whats the first and last anem of our family in tiwan? well love ya! oh also we had a guy see us drive down his road at night and he came out with a shot guna nd racked it and i said hey its themissionaries! and he said oh crap! and realeased all the shells, he said not a lot of people come down his street at night and was afraid we were robbers which was fun!

kevin- yea i know we need to be super duper obedient, but you know me haah i always have a hard time with the rules. im so cool i dont follow any rules except for my own ;) if you get that quote. anyway its funny your town was wilson and mine is wilton :) anyway im workin on being better and i like Jr.position but i just get burnt out on doing the same thing i wanna train is what i wanna do hahah! ok so kevin there is an missionary in the city of herriamine, you know accross the valley. he is a spansih speaking missionary from the ward imservingin and having a hard time. go find himand see if they can have you go teach with em his name is elder triton taylor. go find him :) i love ya and i hope you are enjoying life asx it is. dont get married while im gone:)

kate- ill send the hate letter again :) anyway im glad chinchy is doing well that makes me happy :) i love ya!  gald allis going well for you! it sounds like the chem teacher is pretty cool sorry about madrigals and  the teacher leaving thats sad :( anyway im glad all isstill wellthough! idolove ya and your amazing! i have a request for you! can you get me marian crocketts address please? and send it in the mail to me byletter so i get it faster send it tomorrow :)

anyway i love ya! keep up the good work your amazing and im proud of ya!

Jeremy talks to Orange Juice Man

Well Padrero I really appreciate you hookin that up. I can only look back and see some of the things that you went through with me so I don't get the full affect of your side and how you dealt with my BS. Man its crazy to see myself in others and be thinking "wow, what a dick..." Then I look back and I think, wow I was a dick hahahaha So its just kinda what it is I guess. I love and appreciate you for putting up with me. So this week was an interesting one. Things have been kinda crazzy up in Albany. We met this guy who is absolutely insane. I'm not talkin small potatoes. I'm talking full blown the guy thinks hes a cup of orange juice crazy. So we are meeting with this PM family at a homeless shelter and there is this dude sittin there just trippin balls from what I think. However my Grandfather informs me that this is not possible. We go back the next day and the guy is still freakin out hahaha So we end up talking to him after the lesson and here are a few of the things that this guy said. "I'm a Jew from Taiwan and North Korea who was abused in the Elders Zone" (also but a batman voice to this and thats how he sounds) "I believe in the desecration of Mary to save woman", " I have a Chinese robot in my throat that has constant communication with my abusers, the radio transmission controls my body" (also his hands and head are just wiggen out the entire time we are talking), "There was more then one war going on in 2012! AND THE MORMONS WERE INVOLVED!", Then while he's in the middle of talking again he just blurts out, "MILITARY KILL THEM ALL! KILL THEM ALL!!!!!" So at this point I'm gettin a wee bit nervous that this guy is going to drive a stake through my chest so we start to back up. He then tells us to tell our Elders that "There is a Jew in the Elders Zone that has been victimized and Nazied, within the Elders Zone". This went on for quite awhile. Also this week I gave the greatest talk of my life I think. It was awesome! We finally got away but man it was crazy. I wish I could have filmed it and send it to ya'll you would love it. Pray for Ronald Richardson this week he is strugglin, W.O.W. and is currently not progressing unfortunately.. Things are still rolling along though, the mission keeps flying by. I love ya popaa and I appreciate you more everyday. You're a boss and I hope you and Darlene and the fam are doing well!

Nivek! HAHAHAHA Get totally wrecked on that deal, hey look at the bright side, you are off the hook for sunday meetings haha To be perfectly honest, the early morning sunday meetings are rough man. We say what we need to say then sit there with our thumb firmly placed up where the sun don't shine. But I do love being involved in the ward. This week I gave the best talk I've ever given I'm pretty sure. I felt super awesome about it! I've gotten a lot better at speaking in public. I think that I've just become a lot more comfortable with who I am and thats mad it a lot easier. I'm working on becoming good at being loving and bold with him so it's a work and progress. I love ya kev and hope all is well! Look at the thing above and give me a crazy story about some crazy people that you met with!

Katie Sue Bug Mclaughlin!

Well I'm sorry to hear that your teacher is leaving! :( that is a total bummer? How excited are ya for summer coming? Read about the crazy person and draw a picture of what you think the guy looks like and send me a picture! I would love you forever. YES, my love is conditional at time haha Kate you're gonna have to rock a solo for me when I get back! Start practicing comfortably numb or something haha I love ya and hope all is well. Sorry for the shaft of an email.. I'm lame but I gotta write my president to or he gets pissed... I love all of ya'll and pray for ya daily.

Elder Larsen Sr.