April 13, 2010

Obviously Jason got online the second the library opened this morning as he knew there was suppose to be news and pictures of a new nephew. And he was right. Tons of pictures and information were waiting for him. You can tell by his letter that he is a little shocked and over whelmed. Enjoy!

I'M ON LOOKING AT PICKS OF JASON XIII

Yay! I have a little nephew now! Or a big nephew now. I'm not a fan of the nickname big mac, though, even if it is CAM backwards. lol. Who like MickyDees anyway?

Start teaching him to walk so he'll be ready to kick when I get back. Thanks for the emails and pics. I still expect many more.

But wait!

What do you mean that's his final name? What happened to Jason XIII Nathan IV Barnard? I thought we all agreed on that. Fine! I'll go with it. But I'm still calling him Jason jr.

--Uncle Elder Mace

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Hi Jason,

It's great to be a Grandpa, how is it being an Uncle for the first time?

Dad
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Wonderful. Can't wait to see the baby boy. :-) (Five months-- not to be trunky, but under the circumstances I think some trunky-ness is acceptable.)
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He should be walking by next week, probably running the week after that.
Maybe flying jump side kicks the week after that, we don't want to rush Camren to much yet, lets break him into Taekwondo slowly.
You can start the nun chuck training when you get home.
Dad
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That's the spirit dad!

And Kellie-- so what if he can't count that high. I can barely count that high, but it's okay. Dora can teach him-- in English AND spanish!
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(weekly email)
Hey family!

I can't think well enough to actually send a decent email, so you'll have to deal with the few jumbled thoughts that come out.

We actually did have a great week, but nothing as exciting as yours.

Our mission did great with talking to people. If you remember from my last email, our mission was working on that. And we saw a lot of miracles. the goal was 20 per comp. per day, and we had an average of 19 a day-- soooooo close! Elder Coltrin and I are especially happy with our efforts this past week. We talked to as many people as was humanly possible for us-- 257 people.

We also saw some great blessings come from that. We've been blessed with many new people to teach and they are doing great again. Our night tonight will be crazy with appointments-- we have to do an exchange to go to all of them. We haven't seen that in our area in a while.

Sister Porter, for example, mentioned that she had a friend who could use a visit. I didn't think much of it, but I asked about the friend and got the information from her. When we went by, we thought she was a member-- she had a stack of church books on her table. Everything from Gospel Principles to Preparing to enter the Holy Temple. Turns out that she has a nephew that is a member and he has been telling her about the church. We had a really great conversation with her. Her name is Amy, by the way.

And we've seen a lot of other things happen that just have to be blessings, because even in missionary work this stuff doesn't happen often.

I'll tell you more about the specifics later on, but it's really been great.

Love you all!
--Jason
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Sorry family! But I've got to get going. It's that time again.

Oh, BTW do you know a Gary Ray @ 4318 Egret Dr., Seabrook TX? He's related to someone out here. Is he in the ward?

Jason
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