Tyson's email 11/13/2007

things here are good. i will find out this monday what will happen with me, being transfered or not, im thinking im gone, but i guess we will find out. this saturday in the planned baptism, but she didnt come to church this last sunday, and she didnt read the chapter we left here and i think its cause her 1st husband is back in town , she has had 2. anyway he is like a pastor at his Baptist/Christian church, and he sure wanted to talk about the bible with us. ha, man o man that guy new his stufff, he was annoying. its kinda crazy to think sometimes that im expected talk with this guy,. who has been studying and preaching for that last 10 or 15 years.. ha. anyway, we did, and we pretty much put him in his place. then i had a talk with susana, and retold her the impotance of joseph smith and the book of mormon, and she told me that she was going to pray about it..then she said something about her husband and his church, and i just stopped her and said, you know what? yeah, he knows alot about the bible, probably more than i do, and he can teach you alot about God, but he cant teach you who God is.. and she kinda looked at me, and i could tell that she was really listening, and then i told her that when i looked deep into that guys eyes, there was something that wasnt there, a complete knowledge that we have, that can only be given through the Holy Ghost. so hopefully she will pray and find out for her self,. i think if everyone would just take the faith they have, use it, put into practice and really expect an answer from God, and then come to chruch and try it, millions would be baptized, but you cant make someone use their faith, you can help em, and show them how to do it. but you can never make them....but yeah things are good, my comps good, he has changed alot for the better, he is starting to figure it out, and is alot more obedient, and close to the Lord, and we are having alot of fun together and teaching alot,..thanks love ya

Part of Tyson's email from 11/06/07

things are good here, we have another baptism coming up. its exiting. susana. a single mom, whose husband kinda left here and now he got deported. she has 3 kids, all way cute. the date is the 18th. she has come along way. my bday lands on the 21st, which just happens to be the date that i could be transferred, so in my interviwes with pres, i told him that if i get moved, to move me somewhere nice.. ha. he luaghed and said he could do that. hes a good guy, i like him alot. and at the temple i saw E. Tall again for the fist time in about 7 months,>>> it was so crazy exiting. we were both yelling and huging and stuff. it was awesome, i love that kid.also, every transfer the mission sends out a news letter thing. it has a letter from pres. some pics and quotes from the mission, pics of the new missionareies and the ones leaving, then on the back, its got names of ppl that baptized, and who got baptized, my name was there(again), and this time there was a little extra box, that said" Congratulations to the missionaries who have baptized each of the last 3 transfers." then it had a list of 8 missionaries, (about 150 in the mission) ,..and i was one of them. it was prety sweet.

Just a quick posting from Tyson's last e-mail.... I will write more later.... Joey everything is wonderful down here, its sittin about 70's. pretty sweet stuff. not to hot, not to cold, no rain(knock on wood) its perfect. so we went teachin with one of my recent converts and it was amazing. he is so strong in his testimony. we were teaching a couple, one from peru ,catholic, and the other a white guy from virginia who is a jew and speaks a little spanish,. it was good, francisco who is kinda of a shy 19 yr old from guat was sooo powerful. i felt the spirit so strong and the ppl we were teaching did too, at the end of the lesson i asked them how they felt, and she just said interesting.. and i said what? and she was like, he just seems so sure.. like he knows. and iwas like. yeah , hello,. he does. anyway love ya. things are good, we are going to the temlpe on halloween