How to be healthy

Illinois is good. Yesterday was awesome! We had 5 investigators at church, which was all the members doing (so in other words it was done how it was supposed to :) lol). But things are really going well. We've been really trying to get the members focused on missionary work, and it's starting to pay off. We had 3 people tell us about missionary oppertunities they have had. And the Bishop in priesthood opening expercises talked about a missionary experience he had. So it was a way awesome day.

I am still here lol. Neither my companion or I got transferred, so we're both still here.

(so I was asking/begging for information, jokingly said tell me what you had for breakfast :)  For breakfast I had oatmeal :) yum. lol. Last night I had organic salad and eggs! We have a member that's a health nut, and he grows hydroponic lettuce. It's pretty sweet how it works. He has fish living in the water that the lettuce grows in, and the fish eat the lettuce, then the fish fertalize the lettuce. He said it's like nature in a box. lol. Then a member gave us some eggs from their own chickens.

I've stopped eating processed sugar and such. No more soda or anything. Just all natural. My companion weighed 400 Lbs back in the day. Now he's 6' 5" and about 215 Lbs. He lost all of it by just cutting out processed food entirely. Pretty sweet, huh?

 

That's nuts about the weather! It rained here last night, but not very hard.

 

That's so nuts to me that Matthew is going to be almost 13 when I get home. I was actually just thinking about how deep his voice probably is getting. It's going to be a shock when I get home.

 

I'm doing pretty good with money since I've cut fast food and soda out of my expenses. I don't really use much money aside from the $150 a month (allowance the Church provides for his food, etc). I know it doesn't sound fun, but the best thing to send me would be just plain money. I can buy the clothes here so it would be a lot cheaper. It's free to put money in my account. It's expensive to ship things. The shirt fits fine. My waistline is getting closer to 32 than anything else, and my inseem is the same. Haven't gotten any taller. But really the best way for me to get new clothes would be for me to just buy them here. It's not like I'm all depressed because I don't get packages in the mail. I'm too business minded (or miserly lol) to think that way. I just think, Geeze! It probably cost like $15 to send this package when just sending me the money would be free! haha.

 

That's pretty sweet that you guys are on a fitness kick. You should tell Matthew to start using my weight bench. I regret waiting to lift weights. He would be better off if he started now.  I'm still fairly skinny. I'm about 194 right now, but I'm still shedding ounce by ounce. Just remember. All natural food. No persevatives or processed anything. It works.

 

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Hope you have a fantastic week!

This week's e-mail

It has finally stopped raining here. yay! lol. It was a really wet summer. Lots of flooding in Iowa. Luckily not where I was at at the time. It started cooling off here, but then it heated back up. So it's been mid 70's to low 80's this week. It'll get cold soon enough though, then I'll be sick of the cold and won't be able to wait for summer! lol.

 

Yeah, conference was pretty sweet. A lot more people are watching it at home. It was broadcasted at our ward building as well as the stake center. We went to our ward building and during the first session on saturday it was only us and one other lady. Then for the second session it was only us haha. It was interesting having the whole chapel to yourself during conference.

 

 

I got a pretty sweet story. We went over to this one families house the other day because we're teaching the girl that lives across the street from them, and their son was there who isn't a member. I've met him a few times before. He's a really funny and sarcastic guy. So we asked him what his opinion of religion was. She started it off by saying "you don't even want to know what my opinion is" lol. So we started talking to him about all sorts of stuff. It was really like a bashing session, but it kind of was at the same time. More like a heated discussion with difference of opinion. So after going at it for like 45 minutes, the atmosphere in the room just completely changed, and it was a lot more peaceful. The conversation lasted about an hour and a half, and it ended with him committing to read the Book of Mormon. He said that he had started reading from it before, but got bored of it so didn't get very far, so he was excited that we gave him some suggested reading because no one had ever done that before. As we were leaving he told us that after seeing us put up with what he just put us through that there was something that interested him. So it was a pretty sweet experience.

No way?! That's pretty sweet. We got a new bishop in our ward yesterday too! I'm pretty excited that Martin is now Bishop. I don't know about that Zach guy though... haha. Just kidding.

 

No, I didn't know she (Mallory) was expecting. That's pretty sweet though. do they know if it's a boy or a girl yet? that would be sweet if they had twins again lol.

 

Yeah. I got it (absentee ballot), signed it and sent it back. There is this guy in our ward that's really funny. He's way political. Pretty much radical conservative. He said that President Monson gets his direction from President Obama haha. He was just joking of course. It was pretty funny though.

 

There is nothing I can think of right now that I need. I have a coat. There was one someone left behind in on of my other apartments. But I'll let you know what I need if I think of anything.

Finally here is my current address... 1405 Eagle Ave #4 Washington, IL 61571. I'll find out next Saturday if I'm moving again or not. Hopefully not. I'm getting tired of learning new places haha.

  

Thanks :) I was pretty darn proud of myself during that talk too :D  (President Monson's talk at the beginning of Conference about missionary work)

 

Love you and miss you.

Hope you have a fantastic week!

Love,

Coop