Kevin's Missionary Memories

So, because I'm such a good sister, and LOVE to procrastinate my actual homework. I have been working on a missionary journal for Kevin for a present for him when he gets home.  I will leave a page in between each section in which he can add his own memories, etc. but here is page number one. I figured this will make up for the lack of letters, cause I stink at sending letters, and he can add letters people send him in between the otherpages as well. It can also make up for not knowing what to get him for Christmas or birthday gifts... :( Sorry little bro. Without further ado, here it is. You can click on it to see a full version.

Kevin's Mission Pics!

YaKevin sent us a few pictures today because he had no time to write emails to us :( and kind of because I yelled at him for not sending us any yet. So there Kevin! He sent us this one, obviously from when he was still in the MTC in Provo. The building behind him is the Provo temple which is directly across the street from where he was living for 2 months learning Spanish and about the gospel.

This is his roommate/companion who he live lived with in the MTC. He said he is in Tahoe right now speaking Spanish as well. He is the only one in his MTC group who went to the same mission as him. The other guys all went to Fresno. You will see a few of them in later pictures from today. This is Elder Askham from I think he said somewhere in Washington State, it seems relatively close to where they are now, but I could definitely be wrong about the location. Usually they send west coast boys to the east coast. I'm not sure if that is correct. I will be posting these pictures on Facebook as well right now. Hopefully it will let me post the other pictures on here without having to log out... it might not, it's "waiting" right now. We'll see how it goes. These are Kevin's friends from MTC. They were in a district together which means they were in the same hallway, went to church together and were basically best friends.  This is Elder Glowa who we have heard all the crazy stories about obviously. I'm guessing that is his roommate/companion in the background because I can't read his name tag so I'm not for sure.  Elder Glowa is the one he created grief with at the MTC.

This is his first baptism! Yeah he already had  first baptism.  Actually it was the Saturday before last. Crazy huh, it is obviously just the little girl. She is ten, and her Grandpa baptized her. Kevin sprained his ankle running to the car to get a video they were going to show at her baptism. I'm not sure if she speaks English or Spanish, I guess we'll find that out later.  I don't know if we ever told you this, but he actually goes to four hours of church meetings on Sundays. He goes to an English sacrament, a Spanish Sunday school, combined English RS and Priesthood, then a Spanish sacrament meeting. He says there are only a few families in the Spanish ward though.. its sad.  His companion Elder Mendoza is in probably his last area he said, and he is from Mexico City, Mexico, so he is a native Spanish speaker. Kevin says they poke fun at each other a lot,  and call each other nerds.. so it looks like they are having fun as well.  You know how Kevin is, almost impossible to get along with, but almost impossible not to get along with at the same time. He gets under your skin then makes you laugh about it. Elder M seems to be handling it well. Kevin says that no one can pronounce his last name though, so they say it ... Elder Robert... not much different than how most people pronounce it now if you ask me. But, that's ok. We love him. Hopefully he has time to email later today, but for now, this is his update!