"Thou art called to labor in my vineyard, and to build up my church, and to bring forth Zion, that it may rejoice upon the hills and flourish. Behold, verily, verily, I say unto thee, thou art not called to go into the eastern countries, but thou art called to go to the Ohio. And inasmuch as my people shall assemble themselves at the Ohio, I have kept in store a blessing such as is not known among the children of men, and it shall be poured forth upon their heads. And from thence men shall go forth into all nations. Wherefore, go forth, crying with a loud voice saying: The kingdom of heavn is at hand: crying: Hosanna! Blessed be the name of the Most High God. Go forth baptizing with water, preparing the way before my face for the time of my coming." --Doctrine and Covenants 39: 13-15, 19-20

Thursday, October 27, 2011

October 10

Hi Mom and Dad,
This week is going good I pulled my hamstring playing football with some elders but other then that i have had a great week. Its not cold yet but it is suppossed to cool down at the end of the week and its possible that it will be snowing at the end of the month. I will go and check out dick sporting goods and see if they have any and then if not the UPS guy is pretty smart about keeping the boxes and not leaveing out in the open for people to steal. Well the halloween decorations are starting to show up around here and i think that its pretty funny. I guess on halloween we can only work during the day then at night we just have to stay at a members house tell we go back home to sleep. They must be scared that we will get jumped or something that night haha. I have been able to email carmen and i loved hearing from her she sounds like she is growing up more each day and I love the letter you sent me too thank you so much. I am glad that you and dad are still thinking about a serving a mission. The senior missionaires are great around here they help us so much and they are all so kind. Like elder holland said they bring a maturity to the mission that is so true. We actually have a senior couple in our district and we have been helping them move in and helping them learn how to teach because they only have a week at the MTC. But they are great people and i am so glad that you are still thinking about it. Well skylar and Tyler were not able to make it to church today tyler was pretty sick and didnt feel like going. So we pushed the date back to the 23rd but now their gradma is able to come to church more because she changed her work hours so she will start taking them now. I have been learning a lot from once i started to now and it is amazing. Love all of you and thank you for being great example to me i love both of you so much.
Dad,
Its great to here your humor over here in ohio. Long underwear looks good on me didn't you know haha. I would rather have a nice new pair then one from the DI just saying dad that pretty gross haha. I am glad you are still doing missionary work dad i really wish that we had member here that would do the same because that is where we get the baptisms its not from tracting even though that is good. I hope you keep handing out Books of Mormon to those you feel impressed to give them to. Member missionary work is amazing and like President hinkley said "There is no point to missionary work without the members" If the member dont help missionaries then those we do baptize will just fall away we need strong members to keep them active. I am sorry to say but we do not have to many lamanite brothers here it would be nice but i have not seen one yet I dont think they like the cold. Well thank you dad for all the good news and humor. I hope you know that my testimony is growing and I feel like i am learning so much everyday that i am out here.
Love,
Elder Ryan Furtney
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