Week 104-18=??

we went to the methodist church for a christmas eve service it was fun. good singing. the communion was different we got a piece of bread torn off and dipped it in grape juice. c:

Transfers are on wednesday. i am getting elder garcia. (born in honduras, from utah) (pic below)

If you have heard of the movie rocket boys (october sky) it was filmed 2 blocks from our church.

I can almost play a hymn with both hands. i am right hand and one finger on left hand.

While singing a hymn at church i read (Frost-y lights) but said "frost and lights" because y means and in spanish. auto translate. duh.




Baptist church sign "Lets meet at my house before the game -God" Jajaja.

we cereal it up here.

Southern frases...

"she is going to give you a blow when she gets you..." translation. "She will honk when she gets here"

Random fact. According to a girl named georgia (age 16) im color coordinated. who knew.


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Christmas Pictures #2

Sister Burningham (centerville, ut) Sister Whitehead (provo, ut) Me Elder Burnett (Pocatello Idaho)

Some Guy from Duck Dynasty. its HUGE in the south. 

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Christmas Pictures #1

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mtc district. makes me smile!

Good Pre-Christmas week in Knoxville.

Feliz Navidad a todos.

I filled up a mayo bottle with vanilla yogurt and the entire zone is talking about how i eat mayo plain now. a bunch of members have heard the gossip also. c:

Luis Gonzales (in dalton) got baptized on saturday. then he called me up to tell me the good news. says he might come down here to knoxville sometime.

The Nuclear Bomb was made in Oak Ridge just a few miles away. Can you believe a munch of red necks invented that!

I found a error in "el libro de mormon" hopefully i can report it to the church and they can fix it. looked in the books from ten years back and they have the same error....

We got to do service at the corryton food pantry. it was real fun. we gave away a couple thousand pounds of food. 1000+ stuffed animals and toys. plus socks, coats and toiletries. Helped over 700 people. 

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Luis G. & The Fishers - PICS

Luis Gonzales (Dalton, GA) He will be getting baptized at the end of the month. (they delayed it for an rm that is coming back)The Fisher Family (got baptized in Loudon) lives here in Knoxville with me!

Fwd: pic

Elder Koelliker and I. Yes he is taller than me. (Elder G.Smith in the background)

Serving in Knoxville, TN

The new address is:
6728 Langston Dr. #102
Knoxville TN 37918

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The ward threw us a going away party

Top: (l2r) Cleo Guerrero, Betty and Bautizar Bibian + Sophia, Sister Valenzuela, Sister Fraire, Bishop Torres and Julie, Luisa. (plus lots of kids)
Bottom (l2r) Back: Me, E. Vincent, Bautizar Bibian, Sophia, E. Kamoe, E. Chavira, S. Fraire, Front: Veronica, Betty, Laura, Alma

Re: Hi elder!

Johnny Howard and Elder Tyler Huffaker

we went caving today. 10/7/13

Elder Garcia, Chavira, Vincent (my comp), huffaker, me, grandy

elder huffaker had dinner with us so we snuck a pic for old times sake

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still in dalton georgia

when ever mexicans nedd to get my they say "con permiso" which means "excuse me" we were thinking that at the running of the bulls, in spain? they all say con permiso hundreds of times...

we walked in on some people watching power rangers - stranger danger. the guy looked just like elder lefevre in the mtc. jaja

elder kamoe called me an ebayista... haha meander a lover of ebay in spanish.

Remember to pray for everyone even obama.

i found a bunch of cool talks that i have been reading. maybe i will share my favorite.

i smashed my finger in the door a few days ago. it hurt like something that hurts really bad.

We had a spanish conference on saturday. it was fun. good to see everyone in the misson that speaks spanish. less than 20 of us.

can send pics if i had rememberd my camera cable...

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We are blessed

We were very blessed last saturday with an experience tracking around 8pm. We had knocked for about an hour with no success, not even a pray was permited. but we kept going. We found a small street with four mail boxes and decited to trackt the house with a spanish last name. As soon as he opened the door he welcomed us in and had us sit on the couch without mentioning who we were. (at first we thought he was a preacher wanting to bash) but he turned out to be a very open young man who wanted to better his life and was extreamly open to the gospel of jesus christ. His parents have been eternal-investigators for 16 years. but most of the time he did not pay attention to the lessons. He has had a book of mormon (3) in his house since he can remember. and after a brief re-explination and commitments he was on the trail to baptism (should be the 21 of september)

Fight on. Elder Toomey.

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elder ready

told me this (joke). its funny.

if spanish people are talking about you and judging you tell them "I.... Know who's gay" that means "dont judge" but its spelled in spanish "ay, no juzgue"... haha

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A good week in dalton

-I learned how to do a rubiks cube. (thanks elder chavira) my record is 2 minutes. he can do it in 45 seconds. i dont know the world record although a girl at efy did it in 5ish seconds.
-I got 150+ mosquito bites on my legs a couple days ago. haha.
-I think i wanna take piano 101 or something. (remember thomas s monson's only regret...)
-I had a dream that kylie was pregnant... (and also ryan died.. but thats not important)
-Yesterday was my 15 month anniversary
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The district

 

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Good week here in Dalton

I got to give a talk in sacrament. In spanish>
Mexicans make rice and beans. everyone knows this. but the ones here
mix rice and spagetti...
We got to eat pig skin.
We visited the same family twice in one day when we split up with the
zone leaders. haha.
We went over 100 hours with out trackting. wow. record for mission.
We went to khols and i was looking up wedding registrations and found
a "Kobe Bryant & Lebrony's wedding" haha
There are new scripture masterys this year. huh. including Genesis 2:24
----24 Therefore shall a man leave his father and his mother, and
shall cleave unto his wife: and they shall be one flesh.
the church want people to get off there but and get married after their mission.

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Pics from Dalton

1. They have billboards in spanish here. (also board games at walmart)
2. Missionaries eat a lot of peanut butter.

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Good week here in Dalton

I got to give a talk in sacrament. In spanish>
Mexicans make rice and beans. everyone knows this. but the ones here
mix rice and spagetti...
We got to eat pig skin.
We visited the same family twice in one day when we split up with the
zone leaders. haha.
We went over 100 hours with out trackting. wow. record for mission.
We went to khols and i was looking up wedding registrations and found
a "Kobe Bryant & Lebrony's wedding" haha
There are new scripture masterys this year. huh. including Genesis 2:24
----24 Therefore shall a man leave his father and his mother, and
shall cleave unto his wife: and they shall be one flesh.
the church want people to get off there but and get married after their mission.

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random twitter info found on lds.org

breaking news from lds.org 7% of church members use twitter.

"Twitter currently has approximately 140 million active users who
tweet about 340 million times per day. During 2010, an average of
300,000 users joined Twitter each day. To accommodate this growth,
Twitter recently moved its technical operations infrastructure to a
new data center in the Salt Lake City area. According to a recent
survey by the Church's Research Information Division, 7 percent of
Church members use Twitter."


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The Catholic Church Adventure

To this choir... :)

All things are good here in Georgia.
I think that there are more Title Loan Places than Churches here.
Also its wicked humid here. I would compare to the feeling immediately
after spraying mosquito spray.
Elder Kamoe is from Hawaii. He says that Hawaiian Haystacks are NOT
from Hawaii. First time he had them was last transfer in NC.
a Tumi (pronounced Toomey) is a spanish sacrificial knife.
Funny story. at night i said "quien se toca" which means "whose turn
is it (to pray)" but it can be mistranslated very easily to mean "who
touches themselves" :)
There are 9 stakes in AF. 9 in PG.... and 11 in the entire state of TN.
Happy Pioneer Day (on wednesday!)

The most exciting thing we did this week was going to St. Joseph's
Catholic Church.
Los Caballeros de Colon
Everyone was very friendly to us and *20+% of the people greeted us.
We were the only white people. (it was a spanish mass) I was the only
person over 5'9"
As it begain there was a band. (2 guitars, and a pianist, 3 singers)
Everyone (we did also) stood up and would do things such as;
-Clap your hands
-Greet your neigbor and say "Jesus Lives"
-Smile at your neighbor
-Turn around twice
-Sit down and stand up
Then they would do a shout
Give me a -J-, Give me a -E-... What does that spell? "JESUS!!!" (also
Maria) (mary)
Then they did a train (congo line) where you hold the persons
hips/sholders and walk around.
We did not do this. stayed in our seat and clapped our hands to the band.
they had to;
-Turn around half way
-Tickle their nighbor
-"jump around like a little horse"
and some other stuff.
We didnt sit down for more than 10 seconds for the first 45 minutes...
Then some lady gave a 10 minute thought about a scripture. (dont remember which)
Then some priest asked who was here for first time... We were the only
two standing.
We came up front and introduced ourselves. then they had a line of
30ish people come up and greet us by name.
Lastly a catholic priest (who is a servent of god, everyone else is a
servent of a servent of god) gave a talk about the difference between
idolds and art/symbols. it turns out they dont worship idols. They
just have a bunch of art to remind them to be good christians. The
early chrisians survived on symbols, no scriptures for a long time. It
was a pretty good talk. informative. Felt the spirit. Emphasized on
how we should only worship god. (they pray to mary also but dont
"worship" her) Also joked about how he went to another church and
their band had a 75k budget so sorry for the lil member band they had.
Remember all this was in spanish so i was pretty happy. there was only
3 words that i had to write down because i didnt understand.

mormon church was also great. better. a convert of 2 months gave a
talk (16yo) and it was better than my farwell talk. Strong spirit on
hers (about obidience) and sister elizabeth's about temples.

Thats all i got.
Love and amor.
Elder Toomey


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fun with the chicken man

tenemos bien divertido con el vendedor de pollo.
se llama adislado. los otros le ensenan. el ha de ser baustizado en el
sigiendo mes.


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soy un baloncestista.

jaja.
Super good week.
My trainee got his visa so he is going to argentina. :) / :(
My spanish is still improving indefinately. thats pretty cool. I can
understand pretty much everything. (ex: we went out on splits, (a
missionary and a elder) and as we did the hometeaching lesson and
stuff i understood. even the argument they were having and random
scripture quoting) yup. very blessed. The spanish here is very
spanglish. Elder Bennett will have to learn a few works because
"park-ear" is not a work. nor is "car-o" ni "truck-a" jaja.

4th of july wasnt terrible. I remember Matt (at jcw's) said that it
was the worst day of his mission. luckly i only have one on my entire
mission. yup. It was raining terribly and so we stayed inside that
night and got to watch documentaries a couple of the prophet. no vi
ningun cuete. no fireworks.

While i was in morristown i was working with two spanish people.
Yolanda and Pedro. Yolanda got baptized 3 weeks after i left. (2
months ago) and then pedro got baptised last saturday. Very good eh?
We found Pedro knocking doors so thats cool. pretty much.

Thats all for this week. Love and peace.
Que les vaya bien.

Elder Toomey


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Happy Canada Day!!!!

nope. its not a big deal down here. but yup.

unorganized thought that wont mean much to you...

-My spanish is growing a lot here in Dalton, two reasons. everyone
speaks spanish. and Elder Chavida is a native. (from utah) so he
answers my questions. The dictionary has lots of false doctorine in
it. yup. "that doesnt work" he tells me a lot!
-I have learned why most spanish people dont like mexicans. haha
theyre real cool to me but the spanish isnt very good. they do a lot
of spanglish down here. "Carpeta" means carpet, "yarda" is yard and so
on...
-Also they dont conjugate right. They use present tence for
everything. "lo compramos" can me "we bought it." "we are buying it"
and "we are going to buy it." real nice. yup.
-We get a lot of excuses from people why they dont want to talk to us.
most of the time (in tennessee not here) its "ive been saved" which
means they have said one prayer so they think that theyre going to
heaven guaranteed. even if they kill someone. but this week some dude
said "im in the Jehova Witness Protection Program" haha. didnt have
any interest but made for a good laugh.
-I remember in Mission prep sometimes they would have us teach it to
the teacher, to see what we understood. so this week i taught a bunch
of kids about the restoration and then had them teach it to me. it
worked out good and they understood. yup. thanks
-There are lots of beavers here in dalton. Also Lightning bugs and stuff.
-Sometimes we are persistant when we try to teach someone. Elder
Bennett had a strong feeling about this one house. We had knocked it
5+ times in the last two weeks and no answer. but we did it again
and.... yup got to teach them and they were really interested.
-I accidently said "plenitud of the gospel in a prayer" my companions
didnt notice... haha (plenitud = fulness)
-Did you know Alex Cooper's dad's name is Ether Moroni. (his grampa
was an apostle, in some breakoff sect)


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The Life in Dalton

Ive started eating PB&J's more. I premake and entire loaf so whenever
i get bored i can go at em.
We found a pleasant grove st.

Other notes from this week

Elder Chavira bet me the heat would lose game 7. haha. he owes me lunch.
We even saw a church with a "beat the heat" on their billboard. boo.
There is a new cool word. "quiete" it meens be quiet. pronounced
c-why-et-tay. jaja
Big announcements last night about how missionaries are going to start
using blogs, facebook, and text with investigators, less actives and
members. not sure when that takes place.
We listen to lots of talks by Troy Dunn. he is good
I go to the dentist. to much.
We are <100 miles from the temple... still cant go.


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The Life in Dalton

Ive started eating PB&J's more. I premake and entire loaf so whenever
i get bored i can go at em.
We found a pleasant grove st.

Other notes from this week

Elder Chavira bet me the heat would lose game 7. haha. he owes me lunch.
We even saw a church with a "beat the heat" on their billboard. boo.
There is a new cool word. "quiete" it meens be quiet. pronounced
c-why-et-tay. jaja
Big announcements last night about how missionaries are going to start
using blogs, facebook, and text with investigators, less actives and
members. not sure when that takes place.
We listen to lots of talks by Troy Dunn. he is good
I go to the dentist. to much.
We are <100 miles from the temple... still cant go.


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K buen pan

The mission famous bakery
La Esperanza. "QUE BUEN PAN"

"Thats Delicious Bread"


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New Address for Dalton

Likely for the next 8 months. It will be...

1108 Walston St
Apt C103
Dalton GA 30720-0306


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dalton pics 2

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dalton

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Pics - Im now in Dalton Georgia!

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Pics

Sister Joane Theadore and her husband Bob. (they drove us to farragut
to visit the rich lady's house). Gonna get baptized soon. (loudon)

The Fisher family :(


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pict

CORN DOG DAY at sonic!!!
my side burns were too long


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leaving loudon. heading to chilhowee (rumors say)

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joe

joe carr and i.


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yup

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:)

district photo (and ap's)


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pics again!

working at habitat for humanity.


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pics.

we changed an out of buisness sign...


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mirror pics.

we got a mirror pic in some random lady's house.


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pics

we got to ride with Joane and Bob Theadore in a "1969 mustang" but it
was really an '04


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more picture happy.

we bake. cookies and mac n cheese.


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