CLAYSON FAMILY

Ok, so I haven't been the best at posting Ty's emails the last 3 weeks, but in my defense, my life has been crazy busy at work since the week of Thanksgiving....since our receptionist quit, and me and one other girl have had to split the front desk duties for the week, and still find the time to get our own jobs done....so you will just have to give me a break.....please.... ;) anyway, Ty was finally transferred to a new area. This was pretty exciting news, as you will read. Joey (sorry about his spelling.....I don't think he proof reads....anyway, that should keep you busy, Heather...haha) From November 19, 2007 go cougarsoh my fricken gosh i have so much adrenaline pumping through me rightnow... too much stuff going on! im going to lose it!and i got news,,.IM GETTING TRANSFERRedyeah, about time, 7 and a half months here, 5 transfers,. i found outthis morning, i am pretty exited. this was an aweseom area, good ward,good companions and some way good recent converts, .. with 2 baptismsthat i will get to come back and see. but i wont find out where imgoing till wendsday.. man im so stoked! too much stuff to think about!transfers.. byu.. utah.. thanksgivin.. bday.. scriptures! ah i love itgo cougars i dont know what to think about the cougs utes game.. im soscared, i made it throughtr the other games pretty well, but this oneis already gettin to me,... i got too much blue clayson blood in medang it!thats cool that beck is going to start, man i hope he does well, weneed another good qb int he nfl.go cougarsabout tthe scriptures, im thinking black or blue... suprise me.. sograndma tells me taht shes sending somehtin, i think she said that shesent it to the office, thats good, cause im outta here! im glad imleaving, a change will be very good, and i knwo i left this areaalllllooooooooot better off than when i got it.go cougarsso for my day i will be getting transfered and a new comp and newarea... everyone in my district is guesssing that i will english.causeeveryone that is spanish has to spend their time over in englishatleast for a little while. my comp was there for about 8 months. butmy Zone leader was only in it for 2 months,. i hope i never have to .. From November 26... 2525 st christopher ave #1615League City TX 77573thats the new address, im down more in the small city now, its weird. im so used to being right smack in the middle of everything, now we are about 45 minutes away from houston.my companions name is Elder Marsh. its funny cuz i took his spot when i got to my last area, he was the elder i replaced. now im here with him. because he was elder griffins comp and mine, i heard plenty about him, mostly good things, elder griffin always told me that me and marsh would get along really well.... and we do. ha, we are going to have so much fun this transfer,. he has been in the mission about 4 months longer than i have, and is the District Leader. Hes way cool, and he loves me, he tells me all the time how he has missed having a funny comp. He is a good missionary. but i think him and his last comp were a little disobedient, and me being with him will make him a better missionary, he has already told me that i have. its kinda funny that he is district leader, but i have to control him somtimes. ha. but hes not that bad, we get along way good. i just think pres. is figuring out that if he puts me with a cool comp, that is good, but has some problems being obedient , that i will fix them, and they will still have fun. it worked with E. Hildreth.so to be completely honest, my bday sucked, ha, like the worst one yet. pretty much cause i spent it with alot of ppl i ddint know, and it would have been was awesome to have spent it with my odl ward and converts. but thats ok. i did get the package from dad with the trail mix and folder and stuff, thanks. i love all the food, especailly the pistacheos(spelling>?) , its all good thanks.so my new area is waaaaaay different than my old one.1st. we have a huuuge area, and a car, im talking like 4 towns big.2nd. i live in an apartment that house 4 missionaries. its way fun, the other two missionaries are way chill as well.3rd. our complex has its own gym. its not that big, just a bench machine and a few treadmills, but of course i still love it,. i am buying some protien powder today, and i will see what i can do..so things here are very good, and we had a good thanksgiving.now... on to the important stuffGOOO MIGHTY COUGARS!!!heck yeah@! man i was soooo scared, we were home for lunch and planning session during the 3 and 4th quarters of the game, so i would call a news station called "tell me" and check the score about every minute. i cant wait to watch the game. 10 - 9 with like aminute left. thats nuts. ha. i was soooo exited. man oh man.so what is byu ranked now? what are all the utes fans saying? ppl down here are happy and sad, i guess texas a&m beat the longhorns. by a few td's.i havent got a packagge from grandma yet, so soon hopefully. if she sent it to the office or mission home, it could be a while untill i get it, we live a little ways away from the office. so when you send things, probably better that you send them right to me, so i get them a few weeks earlier. atealst thats what my comp tells me.thanks for everything. love yaust brown. ha.racist.and since i wont be here in this area, i have no idea yet whats upwith thanks giving. im hoping for some good turkey though.go cougars!wow, thats soooooo sweet that the cougs are ranked, .. jsut anotherreason for the utes to hate us.man i hope we win!thanks for everyting, love yaPS.. go cougars! From December 3... things are good here, i only so far got the one package, with the quad.. thats by the way, its soooo sweet. cause it went to the mission office, pres and sis allred brought all the mail down from the office to our chapel for our interviews, and they watched me open it, i was sooo happy, pres and sis allred were laughing at how happy i was. it was funny. but its way nice, ive been marking it up and stuff, thanks a ton. interviews went well, he told me how he needs me to be a leader, although im not in a leadership position yet.as far as how many investigators we have... ha... when i got here there was 1. yeah, 1. thats right. i left my old area with like more than 10 that vould progress, 3 recent converts, and 2 ready to get baptized. here. 1. no recent converts. nothing. my comp straight up told me that he and his old comp didnt work a whole lot. thats pretty obvious. ha. 1 investigator. and the whole time my comp has been here he has never even brougth anyone to church.. that is untill this last sunday. when we had 3. and they are amazing and maybe going to have dates this coming week. it just feels good to work hard, and see the fruits come sooo fast. i love it here. its kind of a weird situation. im still in spanish,. but we dont have a ward, or even a branch,... we have somehtiing called a "group". its about 40 ppl. we are technically part of the english ward here, so i spend alot of time meeting with english ppl. my bishop and everything like that is english. its soooo weird to be in all these english meetings. ha, i miss pure spanish soo much. we eat alot with english members and its honestly kinda awkward sometimes, ha. i miss spansih food too. so we are going to try and get ymca passes, to the local ymca. im in pretty good shape, but i wanna come home about 190, without changing a belt loop. im at 180. so we will see if they can work us a deal. we are really close to the coast here, we drive by it about every other day. From December 11.... yeah i got the package you sent me with the pics and the cd monday after we had went to the library. ha. the cd is pretty funny, my comp was laughing at how the whole thing revolved around byu. ha. i wasnt suprised at all. its funny, sometimes during the cd you all just get talking to each other about nothing, like you forget that the tape is running. but it was cool, cause it felt like i was right back home..good pics. i like em alot,. especially some of the close ups on the cougs. i could find everyone in the pics,.. except josh. did he get to go? i even spotted steve and blain-oso yep. its warm here. it was about 77 when we got outta the car. it is alot different. it feels nothing like christmas, its weird.ok, so the scriptures are from gma. i will thank her for them then.Elder HIldreth called and told me that he had a packafge from gma. so i shojld get it on the 14th at the mission conference.so there were 2 ppl that we have been working with that i helped find. and we have been teaching them for about 2 weeks, and they have come to church. so we extended a baptismal date to them thursday for the 23rd of this month, and they accepted. so we are reaaalllllly exited about that. there hasnt been a baptism in this area for a while.my comp and i are getting along very well, he tells me about every 10 minutes how I am his favorite comp ever. hes too cliniging. ha just kidding, we are like best freinds. its really good. my spanish is good, im still working on it, its still amazing how 10 months ago i couldnt speak hardly anything or understand anythin, but now i would definantly consider myself fluent. and i love speaking it.by the way, i made a christmas card to send out to ppl. so im going to send some to youu guys, like 5 or 6. and let you decide who to send them to. i will send one to grandma and erica and georgio,. but you should be getting that this within this week. its pretty goofy, as usuall.so we are still workin out at the YMCA. i broke my record of bench and put up 185 and then 190. so im feelin pretty hot about myself right now. hagood to hear that things are well at home. i will be praying for the stagg family,. love ya