February 22, 2010

Whats up? Man the mtc is really going by fast now I can't believe it. Ya I heard the same thing you did but I don't know if it's true I think we get our flight plans this week, then I'll know for sure. Good ya got the card lol. Hey I tryed to write Chelsea on her email thing but I don't think she got it. Well I'm still learning a ton but its tough. We saw pictures of the place I'm going and its definetly the best mission in the Philippines just kidding, I don't know but the rice things are the coolest thing ever and I can't wait to send you pictures when I get there they will blow your mind for real. Man I don't know what to write... it's the same freakin thing except for how much I am learning and I cant really type that lol but I am learning a ton. I finished the BoM yesterday and I started it the day I got here. I was going to do that thing to pray to see if its true and I started to do it and then I just stoped and I was like I don't need to do this it's a waist of time. I already know it's true more then anything in the world so I'm starting to read Jesus is the Christ now. Its a really good book too. I really had never known how important Jesus was in our lives. I always thought of God as the most most most important thing but I have really learned a lot about that and how Jesus is so important and after I learned that things seemed to go so much better for me and I just wanted to learn and teach and try to hard its awesome. Oh ya and the other exciting thing is that my teacher got engaged to his girl friend. It was awesome lol except he had it all planned out and stuff and he told us before he even asked her which surprised me but then when he went to do it it snowed and he recked and it
was horrible lol but he asked her yesterday and she said yes so that cool he is way way cool. Alright well that's it. Life for me might sound boring but it is not lol its the best. Love ya all. Try to be good lol best advise I can give from were I am lol.

Elder Riner

February 15, 2010

Hey guys. The MTC is pretty much the same thing. I'll try to send a CD home of pictures but I have a bunch that I am going to send today but the thing is it takes forever for mailed letters to get there and here. Ya I weight like 160 something now it's awesome our teacher told us to put on as much weight as possible so that's what I'm trying to do and I've gotten a lot stonger too and I do do diffrent kinds of pushups regualar spread and real close my comp has the things too his mom just bought him some and it came with a sweet workout that is way tough but its awesome. Ya the MTC is starting to go by the people that were right above us left today so were next. We learned how to barter this week it was so freakin cool. My first lesson in tagalog went really good too the guy we taught said he was really impressed with are tagalog in the MTC but i still have sooooo much to learn but im learning 25 words a day now which is hard and im always studing but it makes time fly by. Ive seen and talked to maralee and jacob a lot maralee was in my gym for a while idk if she still is. I almost broke this kids nose the other day in volleyball ive gotten pretty good at it lol and i nailed him in the face hard with a spike i felt so bad but it was all good and i saw him and apaligised today. Me and my comp has some investigators in the RC thing were you call people i think we have like 4 of them. some pople dont want the missionaries but they like talkin to uys so they will let us teach them so its pretty cool.Alright well i dont know what else to day everything is going pretty good i love you all and i hope everything is going good at the house.

Elder Riner

February 8, 2010

Nope ya missed me lol. I usually get on and read some and then get on later and write back. Anyways the MTC has been pretty good this week. We are suppose to be talking all tagalog but we were just really quiet and that was boring so it lasted about a morning when it was suppose to last tell we leave. But we teach the whole first lesson in all tagalog. And the crazy thing is i think im going to be able to do it. But i still have a lot fto learn. Tell dane i want a letter in tagalog though lol that would be sweet. Oh ya mom you letter said somehting about being scared of ghost but more scared of something else. i dont remeber exactly. But anyways the MTC is still going faster then before but i still just want to get out to the field. Even though im not ready at all i want the Do or Die. i Think thats how i will learn the best. Ya i saw ridge a bunch of times and we talked a lot but that freakin punk got to leave today that is so lucky. But anyways i dont know what else to say. Im learning a tun and i love it and learning makes the time go way faster. Oh ya i want Grandma and grandpa Nielson and Riners house address so i can write them sometime. oh and i got the pictures. Thank you so much i love them. Anyways i have nothin more to say. Have a good week. Love ya all and i hope to here from ya sometime. BE safe.

Elder Riner

February 1, 2010

Ya dont worry the only way i am coming home early is in a casket. I decided that a long time ago. One of my good frineds had to go home this week cause of depression he was so cool too it sucked. He is the one that called me pretty eye lol. Oh ya i never told you i had a black eye for a few weeks cause of backetball. Its brutal lol everyone guessed it was basketball too. Man i watched the Testiment last night and it is a really good movie i remeber seeing it at the house one time but it really put things into perspective. Its crazy how little this earth life is compaired to an Eternity. How important does that make every decission in our lives??? Very. And i never knew how much christ ment to the earth untill i got here. I use to only think that God was the real important one. Noone one this earth can comprehend what are savior did for us, and how easy he made it for us. But we ALWAYS have to be asking for forgivness and trying are best to stop making the same mistakes. Its so important. This 80 year life determense where we will be forever and ever and ever. The horrible thing is that we will think about that for 5 min then we'll be
like alright im going to step it up but then we forget. Man i have never been so scared for my family before in me life. I want to be with all of you forever. But its not going to be easy by any means. Its really hard, but our savior has made it possible. Learing about are father in heaven and Jesus and the Plan that they have for us has changed me so much and i want it to change you too. Read the Scriptures. Read them like you going too teach it to someone else. THats what i do and its so much better. Take notes while reading. Idk why i bring this up its just that we talk about this stuff a lot here and i think about my family so much and if i had one wish it would be to go back to the house right now and teach my family. I thought i knew quiet a bit but i know Nothing. But anyways i have to get going i got to go get my clothes. But i love this place its getting a lot lot lot better and easy and its finally startign to fly by, oh and i dont think i need anything for my mission. I dont need boots and if i did i can buy them there. Oh and they gave us filtration water bottles when we first got here so that was good. Alright well be safe family.
You never know when your time is so ALways be ready. Love you all. I still havnt got my freakin pictures. But i think i still might send a few home.

January 24, 2010

Alright. Before anything else i just wana know if aunt candice has devorced and remarried without me knowing casue she said
something about haveing a handsome husband and im not sure i know this guy. And everyone needs to get me there emails so i can
just email them rather then sending one and everyone reading it haha cause i wana talk back but i dont want everyone to read it...
And cheslea needs to made an email just for her so i can send one to it

Carson, Whats up little bro. have you started wrestling yet? Man im going to miss that so much i love watching you 2 little guys
wretle its amazing. And i promise to take u hunting a tun when i get back and yhour a little older. Love you

Payton, Dude i wana watch you wretle too. its killing me. i remeber when i almost got put in the red book i was way scrared you
stronger then me. we'll try to stay out of trouble. Mahal po Kayo!

Ash, thanks for all the letters little sis. Just so u know y0u got put on the crapy team cause your so good. and bagwell is cool
youll like him. Good luck with school.Love ya

cassi you still bballin it up or what? When do you start games?

madi, stay away from boys. Haha jk... kinda. Nope you need to stay away from them lol im not kidding haha jk jk but thats cool
basketball is coming around for you. Good luck with it and thanks for the letters. Mahal po kayo

Chelsea u need to get a seperate email so i can just mail you, but the MTC is going pretty good. I think that tradition thing
would be a great thing lol that is funny. Good luck with basketball and getting over this sickness it sounds like it sucks. I want
my pictures hobo you said you were going to send them forever ago.

Well the MTC is going Pretty good and its finally moving along. We get noobs tommarrow that are going to the philippines and we
have a bunch of people leaving today so its -pretty cool i cant wait tell the noobs come. Im going to speak only tagalog to them
so there freaked out :) cant wait. But the lessons are comgin real good we are on the second one and after we teach this a few
times we have to go back and start teaching in tagalog. By week 5 they said we cant talk english anymore. crazy! but im excited.
Learning the words is coming way easy all the sudden for some reason. But anyways i have a bunch of pics to send home but im
holding them hostage tell i get some. Alright LOVE y ou all talk to u next week.

January 19, 2010

ok writing me on this is ok but i get dearelder.com everyday and i only get to check this once a week on my p-day so dear elder is better but whatever one is fine with me its just that reading the letters takes time and i only got 30 min to read and write the letters. im getting fast at typing needless to say. but the mtc is gettting so much better. my district is the absalute best in this whole place. we got so lucky. ive been taking a lot of pictures now too. So i hav elder ward as a comp then in my district is elder farley, i call him chris, then its hale he is so freakin funny i LOVE him, then dallin he is way cool too, then its hardman and he is cool too he was a pretty good db in highschool too and everyone played except chris he brake dances wich is funny cause he is the whitest one in here. all of us are going to cauyan the same day and everything its nuts. so i found out our flight plan, were going to LA fist then to hong kong! that is so freakin cool! i cant even wait for that day. the language is easier then i thought but still way tough it will take a while tell im fluent and stuff but im not going to get frustrated. Send pics of the dog. i think i miss is the most cause i know it has like a 1 percent chance of being alive in two years haha i actaully dream about the dog more then anyhting. and i get crap almost every morning for yelling in my sleep lol its pretty funny, we go through the temple every monday morning and it is way fun. i aamost can do the whole thing by myslelf, man i am going to miss watching wrestling too. So cassi made the star team, bout time a girl in our family makes it, hahaha jk chels and madi, its hilarious how im 2 states away and can still cause contension in the house hahaha. But i am learning soooo much. Its cool. the call center is deffently my favorite. You just call random people and talk to them and try to let them invite the missionaries in and i was so nervse untill someone picked up then it was way way easy and i got more people to let the m,issionaries in then anyone else, i talked to this black lady forever and everyone was listening to me and like patting me on the shoulder and stuff cause it was intense lol the funniest thing was the black lady asked if we believed in the holy spirit. I was like "Shoot ya I feel it right now!" it was way funny. But this place is deffently getting better. I cant believe jon got jumped. And who the heck is blake dating? lol tell that guy to write me on dearelder.com, well i hope everything is going good at home. Thank you for all the letters i seriously love everyone of them, well the first day i was in here i was like come on when i got one from you but everyday after that its just awsome to get any kind of letter. So anyways send pictures if you can cause thats what i want the most, pics of ANYTHING. Haha laundry is to easy, all you have to do is press the right button, whites, colors or brights. But we still had help from the girls the first time lol. i have laundry going right now actually haha better get back too ut. Love you all so much and i hope everything is going good. Stay out of trouble

Elder Riner

January 11, 2010

"Hey guys whats up, MTC is nuts. Just imagine going to church all day, waking up at 6:30 and going to bed at 10:30 and in between all you do is church haha it's diffrent! Well I can't take any pictures cause I didn't have a memory card so if you want pictures you better get me one of those. The language is crazy. It's not very easy either but I guess we just started so we will see what happens in a few weeks but they said by week 5 that we won't be able to speak english at all anymore. I can pray in tagalog but that is about it. My companion is way cool though. He turns 22 next month but he is almost done with school. He is a lot like me in a bunch of ways too expecially how we teach and we teach really good together so it's pretty fun. No one I know but Daniel has liked it here though lol everyone cant wait to get out of here. But me and my comp get to go on a field trip tomorrow and were pretty stoked about that. We get to go to the dentist because his retainer fell out and I get to go with him. Yesterday we got to walk around the temple and I had to make the comment that I thought it was pretty dang sad that we found that as fun or
at least one of the funnest things we have done so far haha. But gym time is definetly the best here. Basketball is so much fun and I dont think I've lost a game yet, same with volleyball it's way fun to play but it's only for 45 min. We went through the temple today and that was pretty cool too. But mondays are my P-days and the only days I can write. But anyways I hope everything is going alright at home. Talk to you next sunday."

Elder Riner