AHHHHHH

........Well after much prayer for patience I have gotten over the Loss..... K not really but I'm content hearing that Brons isn't hurt and that Dad's guys did well.  To be honest like 2 pages of my journal entry yesterday were only dedicated to the game. Bro Wilcox sent me some updates and man i was dying!! Why offense, WHYYYYY!!!! 왜!!!!!! anyways yeah, i actually did really good at not thinking about the game yesterday. I woke up and read scriptures (it was Sunday) then i didn't want to disturb the spirit so when i was getting dressed i whispered the BYU fight song to myself. Well man i wish i could see how brons did! But it's OK, since you don't play them again till i get back tell the offense to cowboy up and have some "GET" (as coach web/doman always say).

 

OK this week has been awesome! Ihad my first transfers which was weird but a neat experience! So much has changed but I know that it changes for the better because I know the President Christensen is inspired by the spirit. So I got a new companion! Or should I say "WE." Elder Warren and I got a new companion, Elder 박세진! He is supposed to go to new york but he is having problems getting a visa so we are his companions for a couple of weeks! Like I said I know that President Christensen is inspired because I know that Elder Pak will help me to progress so much in this language. He has already helped me so much! Plus he helps add to the "greenie fire" so now we are just rolling the missionary work in 강남 along without stopping. it's especially good because this is elder warren's last transfer and it is easy for him to get trunky. We are keeping him in check.

Well it has been a busy busy week. We have seen so many miracles this week. Literally every day a miracles so another blessing from the lord. One of the more interesting ones had to be when we got home early and we went garbage shopping....ha sounds weird but it's awesome, we needed a new desk and chair. I broke my chair last week....it finally snapped when i leaned back in it ha so I'm still a big boy,  and elder Pak needs a desk. Anyways we had searched all these back alleys for like an hour and a half and we were pretty discouraged, so elder Pak asked if we should pray and we were like YES! so I prayed to the lord that we could find the means to be more productive in the work so we could better do his will. Well we kept searching for like 20 minutes and ran into these guys on the street and contacted them it was great. In my mind i was like "there is our answer, we needed to find those guys on the street that's the real reason we are out here." We went home. About a block away from our house in a garbage corner there it was....A desk and a chair. So I heaved the desk on my back and we carried it home and washed it and it fits perfectly in our study. Doesn't sound like much but it really was a miracle.

 Another one I guess was with our most progressing investigator Teresa. She is planning to get baptized next week but we are prayerfully debating it. She still is stubborn with coffee, but the miracle was that our lesson with her yesterday, brother Takeyama didn't go off on random scary doctrine. He actually came in before the lesson and told us that he doesn't want to talk a lot anymore and that he wants me to teach more. It was perfect because I have been praying to the lord to help me become a better teacher and the best way to do that is to actually teach. Usually elder warren does all the teaching but He let me lead the past 2 lessons and he actually didn't really say anything but bare testimony. So my prayer was answered and I was able to teach the plan of salvation to a different investigator then teach the law of chastity and tithing to Teresa! Then she was having doubts about there being so many commandments and I bore powerful testimony of the blessings that can be received through keeping the Lord's commandments. A quote that i came across the other day from an apostle or something said, "Those who truly understand commandments, look for more of them." I feel the spirit so strongly when i testify of the commandments of the Lord. The Lord's hand is truly pushing this work forward in ways I will never see, but the few glimpses that I discern; are enough for me to say that I know Heavenly Father loves me and the Korean people, and I will never deny that. So my commitment for all of you this week is to try harder to keep the commandments and then after keeping them look for how it has blessed you. Ha I'm really so blessed to be the "rule monster" here ^^*

 

 FATHER: DARN UTESSSS!!!....DARN OFFENSE!!!!..... dad I'm so mad we lost, holy cow! I'm not gonna lie i felt it coming....every year we are so afraid of Utah and we have no confidence and just play dumb football! it's so frustrating! for goodness sakes why can't we just play them how we should.... LIKE WE OWN THEM! Well no use wasting my typing over it.  Anyways, i love it here. things are great, and i eat so much so don't worry, the lord blessed me to serve in 강남 because the members feed me and know that i eat a lot. I went to this buffet called VIPS with one, ( it's like tucanos) and i had 10 plates of food... ha it was awesome! but man i looked like you after Sunday dinner. I laid down when we got home and couldn't move. kinda ruined my workout plan that night but oh well. Well I love you dad and am so grateful for all you've taught me. Keep being an amazing bishop and father!

 

MOTHER! O my mother how i love you! Things sound busy as usual, tell Bronson to be the best son to you until I get back! and to serve you more and do anything you need!! Does he drive my darling car dora around?.... I heard you and lex went and had you feetsies done! that's awesome! Keep spoiling yourself because you deserve it! Oh mom I know that you take the BYU Utah loss as hard as all of us so I'm sorry. It's just that cougarette blood you've got! Like i said i sent my chip and a letter so hope you get it soon :) It has a ton on it. I hope you like it. Not gonna lie I miss all that you did for me mom. I'm my own mother/ i basically mother our 5 man house. I make the food, do the laundry , wash the dishes, do the cleaning and vacuuming and man i get so sick of our house mates because they are a mess! I realize now that the reason i had such an amazing childhood was because i felt the spirit so much at home, and that was because of your cleanliness. I love you mom!

 

SISSY!  So you are in American heritage with my softball lady-friends. Did you ever give them my letters i wrote them all the first week in the mtc?! you should tell them to write me out here because no one really does ha and i just love hearing from people. But yeah tell them hello from me and that I miss them. Anyways....ITS ALMOST YOUR BIRTHDAY!! SOOOO EXCITING!!!! do you want anything from the land of Korea? not really a lot to offer here but I'm up for suggestions! it will probably come late too but i want to get you something! So what exactly do you do for your job? All mom talks about is how much you work and i wanna hear more about it! So are you and brons going to the same singles ward now? ha did they give you a sick calling!? Well i love you SISSY! you don't have to get me anything but if you do see something sweet you could send it to me :)

 

BROTHER! WHYYYYYYYY OK no more talk about the game other than how you did?! dude i hear you're hanging out with zig and taysom right now, fun stuff! ha your first semester of college, i remember those days... but don't forget that life doesn't revolve around you. find time to serve the family, especially mom. she needs all the help she can get. What's your church calling?... I'd love to hear about it. Are you taking care of my car, Dora???? O man i get a bit trunky thinking of my majestic maroon mistress of the road.... haha jk. Well dude any mission advice? you were the bomb missionary and i wanna hear about how i can become more like you, but ultimately how i can become more like Christ! so send me your tips and stuff. I love you bro!

 

LITTLE BROTHER! DUUUUUUDDDE You are tearing it up on the football field!!! ha 2 receptions for like 30 yards?! that's unreal, they should pass it to you every time!!! man i love hearing that we have someone in the family that is catching the pigskin!!! dude tell me all about your games! have any sweet plays, you gotta send them to me in detail! You Staying clear of the women? i hope so... ;) help mom and everyone out. I talked to this guy in our stake presidency and his sons go to Timpview! here are their names :Joon young Jeong and Jae young Jeong. they are jr. and sr. look for them! ha he made me talk on the phone with one of them. So who do you hangout with now a days? make sure your friends with everyone, it's such an important Christlike attribute to have love and charity for all. I Love you DEV!

 

LITTLE SEESTER! YOUR KNEE IS GETTING BETTER!  Such a blessing from the lord! I pray for it to heal every day! so it's an answer to my pray to hear how well you are doing! don't push it too hard too fast though, re-injury is terrible! Sounds like school is fun, what classes are you taking? Who's your favorite teacher. Are you a social butterfly like the rest of us and get in trouble during class for talking? What's the name of your boyfriend that your hiding from me.... i know you have one! Just because you turn 16 doesn't mean you have to date, you could just not date till i get back. it's a very good way to go about things! Taking care of your dog Josey right? go on walks with her and just love her, i wish i had her right now. I would cuddle with that dog everyday! Be obedient to mom and dad, and keep reading and praying daily! I LOVE YOU! oops, i forgot to tell you that we played a massive soccer game last p-day and i did a bicycle kick and scored ;) i totally felt like you and thought of you!

 

 

Well once again another successful email to the fam.... some things i forgot. Please thank the Wilcox's they are so amazing and nice to me! Um yeah i don't think i need anything now, I might need some new tennis shoes and socks in like a couple months but they are fine now. everything is fine. it's raining a ton right now so we are stuck inside doing mission work. Um someone should write little Kenny and Sammy boy. Thanks for the pics lex!  Keep enduring to the end! LOVE YOU ALL!!!

Corbin's address

A lot of people have been asking me for Corb's address so here it is!

Letters:

Elder Corbin Kaufusi
Korea Seoul Mission
Gwanghwamaun PO Box 210
Jongno-gu
Seoul-si 110-602
South Korea

Packages:

Elder Corbin Kaufusi
Korea Seoul Mission
Samcheong-no 9 gil 45
Jongno-gu
Seoul-si 110-230
South Korea

Pappanwa

Don't deny me your gifts jacob!- my random quote from the testament movie haha we watch alot of church movies out here. dad i've seen the stonecutter like literally 6 times.... haha it's fun

 

WELLL HELLLO FAMILY  안영하심니까!! Man i won't lie, i get sooo excited for emails every week! It just makes me soooo happy to hear from all of you. Really families are such a blessing, I just love it! Well alot has happened this past week and so I will try and make it quick. so monday was p-day, very fun! we went to a place called 수지 which is the border of our mission. our missionaries and the 대전 elders share the chuch building so a ton of seoul missionaries and daijun missionaries met up there on p day and played baaskebtall!! i love basketball, ha don't worry dad im being safe... in fact i filmed some stuff just for all of you to see how fun playin bball is on p day! So mom im sending you my chip in a letter today so it should get there sometime in the near future... anyways tuesday we had alot of rain....again... but it's ok, i stayed super productive and called like 30-40 people on the phone and tried to set appointments in my broken korean. haha it is way fun because i say all that i need to say then they just start talking and im like..uhhhhhhh then aske them to say it agaain...then i still don't understand it all so i hand it to elder warren ha but that's only if they haven't hung up on me already ;) so wednesday we went and had zone conference and it was so great. Man i love setting goals! it is such a huge help in building up the Lord's kingdom. Then making more goals to accomplish goals is just sweeetttt! i challenge you all to set a spiritual goal this week, then set smaller goals each day so that you can accomplish your main spiritual goal.  So after zone conference i went on my 2nd exchange with our zone leader Elder Christensen. Man it was so great, we taught and he's a very good teacher! He's from kaysville and leaves in 2 transfers. his korean is amazing! It was such a neat learning experience to see how he taught and what not. He even let me teach a little bit, so i taught about keeping the sabbath day holy and the blessings we can recieve if we do. I just love teaching! And when you teach with the spirit nothing can go wrong! Well at their apartment that is on the 13th floor...(dad it was soo scary).... i finally got to weigh myself! Of course this was at lik 1130 at night because elder christensen kept me up talking to me to better know me, but i weighed in at a whopping 250lbs!!! huzzzah! don't worry it isn't all fat... But yeah very happy when i saw that. anyways next day met back up with elder warren, and i was so grateful. I loved the exchange but it just wasn't the same as being with my companion, and sleeping in our fun 4 man house.   Thursday we had an appointment with 이금영, she is this nice little mom and her whole family has pink eye! sad... but we teach her english then gospel. She is progressing so well, she's amazing. she actually kept our commitment of reading all of Alma 34! she thought it was weird but she read it! ah i knew the spirit was working in her. Well we proceded to teach the second lesson and i had asked our member before hand to share his testimony about the importance of the atonement in the plan of salvation. He did wonderful when i asked him to share it in the lesson. the spirit was so stron.  Friday we had weekly planning which is weird but fun! we made a workout and diet plan since my companion goes home after this next transfer! he wants to get all prep'd for the RM life! but I told him I wanna work hard and to minimalize  the trunky talk ha just so we can be more focused and have the spirit in greater abundance. We bought brown rice  so we don't get the fat white rice cheeks. that night we had sports proselyting and we went to another missionary's ward to play basketball. it was fun, i also got to practice the piano with one of their ward members. saturday was sweet. I had a very spiritual experience that i'd like to share. So on saturday we had alot of time to proselyte so we were out doing our usual massive intersection technique. (we meet tons fo people doing it). But even though i talked to alot of people, no one was very interested in what i was saying. I felt a bit down and just said a prayer in my heart saying, "please Heavenly Father,  I know these people need to the gospel in their lives. Help me to find someone that is prepared." After saying that i felt the peace fo the spirit. So i did as elder bednar said and i pressed forward with faith. i walked by a little shop and out on the curb was this man. I said hi to him and walked forward a bit. Then in my heart i felt that i should talk to him. But it would've been so awkward to turn around and just go back up to him! Then the spirit put a very profound thought in my head "When did awkwardness ever get in the way of the salvation of someones soul?!" i was grateful for that slap in the face. So i turned around and just plopped myself down on the curb and started talking and teaching him about the gospel. He was sooo nice and actually interested. I was able to get his number, give him a book of mormon, and hopefully we will meet with him this coming week! Anyways that experience was a real faith builder for me. I knew that the lord heard my prayer and could see the discouragement in my heart. So he gave me a little push and helped me find my answer, and built me up. Another spiritual experience we had was on sunday we were able to teach teresa, the lady i asked  to be baptized. She was supposed to pray about baptism all week so when she came to church and we taught her she was sooo happy! She just expressed to us how much she looked forward every week to coming to church and feeling the peace that came with it. And that she woke up this morning and couldn't wait to come meet with us. It made my heart swell hearing her testimony of how great church attendance was. Hearing spiritual witnesses from investigators is one of the most rewarding blessings that heavenly father allows us to have. Anyways, the sunday be3fore we gave her a gospel docterine book and she had read the entire thing! It was a miracle to hear that she exercised her faith enough to do that! The spirit is just incredible. Then she said, "when can i get baptized!" it was great! but we decided to push her date back a couple weeks so that she could be more prepared. she's still struggling with coffee. after church we met with a student named eddy. we hadn't seen him inlike 2 weeks so it was great to see him. He had alot of good questions and elder warren and i were able to answer them all and use alot of scripture. The spirit was so strong with us and so we taught sooo well! he was so curious and we challenged him to read 3 nephi 11 because he reallly loves the history of the book of mormon.  it was just amazing. This work is just the greatest. I find whenever I work harder and strive more to do missionary work/feel the spirit i am so much more happy! it's the greatest thing in the world!

 

ok this seems really long but really for some reason im just typing super fast today!! and im not pausing to look up to much in my journal. Um ok home life! Wow I love hearing about how everyone is doing. literally it brings me so much joy and happiness to hear about my family!

 

DAD: YOU WINNER YOU!!!! i'm so happy to hear that byu is doing good! keep it up!!!! geeze i get so pumped hearing about the team and stuff. Your players seem to be doing great. except that one bronson  kid....he looks a bit skinny in these pictures so beef him up a bit more would ya! How's the singles ward treating ya? I bet it's supperrr busy with the new semester and what not. K dad major question i've been thinking about....did our hill ever grow back?!!! how's the front  yard?! we slaved over that thing for hours, remember?! I hope our work wasn't for nothing. I watched the joseph smith restoration movie yesterday and it showed him and his dad working on the farm and i thought of you. Im so grateful for all the hard work you do for me. I love you dad!

 

MOM: OH MOTHER!!!!! you are wonderously fantastically exuberatinglyamazinglyspectaculoushously  GREAT!  I love you so much! loved your update on the family. seems like everyone is doing well. how are you? you and brons and dad should go to the temple every week to make a tradition!! that'd be great! did we do a garden this year?.... i don't know why but im thinking about the tomatoes we would grow...yummmy.... well mom how's school board and church stuff? anything fun happening? Well I love you so much, don't forget it! ;)

 

ALEXIS: SWEET MOTHER OF LIZA! Woman! i lvoe you! i miss you, and all the fun we had. But you can try and have fun with brons. How's pearl....i hear she's coughing up blood and dying. poor girl she was such a fun lil thing. You should drive her into a lake as her final resting place!... and film it of course. So hows american heritage? you dominating it or what?! How's porsche is she really fat?... So ya dating anyone?... ha when in doubt you could always go out with James (snuka) hahahaha im sure yall would havev a fantastic time! I hear you're growning your hair out again! I want a picture of it!!!!! like every month so i can see the change! Just nkow i love you!

 

BRONSON: BIG DADDY B! ok bro so hearing about your sack made me so happy!!!! holy cow man i just wanted to go crazy! brother wilcox sent me a text that said "Big # 90, bronson kaufusi, gets an 8yrd sack!" I literally almost "rent my coat" when i read it! I'm so proud of you man! Ha i never told you but it was a dream come true seeing this pic of you in a byu uniform. It made me a bit teary because i am so happy for you and so proud to be your brother! Keep up the good work man. But remember you need balance! you need to read chapter 8 of pmg about wisely using your time! you still use a planner right?... dude use what you've learned on the mission to be the best you can! school isn't hard unless you make it hard and don't put in the time! Trust me I know! and Girls are great but don't let them run your life! well not till i get home at least haha. One mistake i made my first semester was staying up late every night.... worst idea ever. So don't suffer the same way i did! set limits and guidelines for yourself so you can progress in school football and your on going quest for an eternal companion! And don't froget.... I love you man!

 

DARYL: YOU"VE BEEN HEALED CHILD! HALLELUJAH! but really, that's awesome to hear that you are walking! Just don't do anything that might re-injure it.... and don't fall down in the bathroom and break your nose cuz bronson can't stand blood  ;) Fun to hear that it's almost your birthday! but i was expecting you to make a comment about how you can't wait to DRIVE....NOT date!!!! I swear you cna't go on a date with-out clearing it with me ok! O tell all your little friends hello! i miss picking you all up for lunch and jammin in the car haha you are all such sweet spirits. Anyways how's josey? the people that live beneath us got  a dog and duct-taped its leash to the wall outside....and that's where it lives. and it cries all night because no one plays with it. Is that Josey?....i sure hope not! Well i love you, and don't forget to show josey i love her too!

 

DEVIN: HEY THERE STUD!!!!! Dude you sound like you are doing so good in football! Ha keep it up. have brons show you a few moves and stuff and you will do awesome. who's your coach? i can't remember. Dude are you pumped for the Utah game?.... I AM! shoot i made it a new tradition that every game day i wake up at 630 and sing the fight song! How's school? you still being that social butterfly? how are your women?! dude write me a letter all about your lady life because i know you got a sweet lady life going hahaha. Something taht will help you dev is reading the scriptures and praying everyday! really it has been amazing to see how great things go after i've studied the word of god and prayed about the day. Let heavenly father help you out, he will give you so much more than you can imagine! I love you snorlax!

 

Well everyone it has been good! i love you all so very much, i wish you could see the smile on my face during emails haha it's great. Elder warren gives me the weirdest looks when i read your emails and laugh out loud! Tell Lizzy thanks so much for the email. it was great and im so blessed to hear from her. Tell the whole paxman family i lvoe them. O brons, the kid i baptized is 홍정민 (hoeng-jung-meen) he is a smalll skinny korean with glasses. his favorite shirt is a brown polo. sorry that's all i got on him. maybe you could look him up on the byu website. Well Ma heavenly father continue to shower blessings upon you all! I Love you all so much. 많이사랑합니다!!!!!

 

elder Kaufusi, 208 cm. 114 k.

도리ㅏㅗ이ㅏ풎도히노이횐어패ㅑㄷ (that is how good at korean i am....it means absolutely nothing... ahhhaha)!

My most amazing loving family in all the world! I LUBBBAAA YOUSSSSS!

and BYU WONNNNNN WOOOO WOOOO!!!! ha brother Wilcox sends game updates to all the missionaries so every like 20 minutes i was getting so pumped to see the update! k why can't our offense just learn to score and not get all the way down the field and just settle for a field goal?! makes me frustrated anyways yeah so happy BYU won! Not gonna lie, every text that came in i was looking for the line that said "SACK BY BRONSON KAUFUSI!!! THAT"S ELDER KAUFUSI's BROTHER!" but I guess I will have to wait till next week to get like 20 of those texts right Brons ;) Dude don't be a head case out on the field! We had this conversation before your mission about the difference you had between your Jr. and Sr. years of high school! Don't think just be a dumb ape and go! "just follow your heart, that's what i always do..." -Napoleon Dynamite

Ok, sorry I just had to schpeel that to Brons. now family I love hearing how things are going! Things here in Korea this week were kinda slow.... I was a little disappointed in the speed the Lord's work progressed this week. Anyways hmmm what happened OK so yeah Tuesday the "typhoon" was supposed to role in and cause havoc and i was supposed to pull a Moses and calm it and save hundreds of Korean children from falling buildings and bring thousands of souls to repentance and baptism!....but the typhoon was nothing more then a couple of gusts of wind. It was horrible because all our appointments fell through because everyone locked themselves inside for the day. We couldn't proselyte to anyone! So we went to 서초 elder's church and made calls and watched church films/ping-pong. then after we played monopoly. it was all fun, but in my heart i was just soo sad because it really was a waste of the Lord's day and yeah it just wasn't great.

Then Wednesday we had district meeting and it was good! After I did Korean pass-off requirements with our Zone Leaders. I passed so now I'm about half-way through my pass off before i can become senior companion. I love learning Korean it is so fun and hard but I know that the Lord is baring me up so much. that night we met with one of our ward members and her boyfriend... it was an interesting lesson. So i we started talking and the guy was SOOOOO mad.... him and his girlfriend must have just gotten in a huge fight because i thought they were gonna breakup in front of us (they've been dating for like 4 years). He doesn't see a need for religion and believing in God which made my heart ache a little bit. I bore testimony of how even though i grew up in the church i had to find our for myself whether Heavenly Father loved me and if he was there and how he did and can help me in my life. It seemed to soften his heart a little bit, but he still just wants to learn about our doctrine just because it's his girlfriend's religion. I pray that as we teach him that his interest will sky rocket, and the spirit will take over.

Well Thursday it was another bummer day. it rained really hard and no one in Korea goes outside really in the rain so we did some work at our church then went back home. Friday we had weekly planning and that's always good. i love having the spirit with us as we discuss the needs of our investigators. After we had sports proselyting so we took the subway up to the 노량진 church because i guess they had a lot of investigators and contacts to play with. I went hard. I did an around the back then just slammed it soooo hard! ha every time i touched the ball i felt like Lebron James! the hoops aren't exactly 10 ft. they are probably 9.8 or something but man the investigators/contacts loved it! one of them was way good, he went to the Bronx and played at rucker park in the Bronx and so he could street ball like crazy! haha. He wants to play with me again, hopefully i can use this to help ease him into church interest. After that I went on my first exchanges with elder Nye! he is from Ohio and he is in my older district from the mtc! he is amazing he's just like a taller Boden! I love him to death. We were good friends in the MTC and now here we are doing mission work in Korea together! i love it because even though he's in his 2nd transfer and I am in my 1st we got the GREEENIE FIREEEE!!!!! so fun! ha in fact everyone here calls me the white hand book guy/general/cop. So many people out here just want to do "fun" things and not follow the rules exactly, but I know that exact obedience brings miracles.

So I'm trying to help everyone else out with obedience! anyways, elder Nye and i did great! we had super meaningful studies and things flowed really well. We worked out way hard too. I'm trying to do at least 100 pushups a day and 30ish pullups, 300jump ropes, and run the hill outside our house like 3 times a day. it's killer but i gotta stay in shape! I feel so much more ready and productive for the work when i workout. anyways, elder Nye and i had 1 appointment the next day together. it was a huge deal because it was his 2nd appointment ever! they haven't had a lot of success in his area and so he only proselytes so this was a huge deal, especially since 2 greenie missionaries were gonna teach! haha so nerve racking but it went sooo well because we just flowed and did how to begin teaching and the guy really liked it. the spirit was helping us out so much. other news, that night i did the stake youth activity.

Ha this guy in the stake asked me to do a 10 minute talk then do a basketball clinic. it was fun, the talk was a bit shaky...it was all in Korean...it lasted only like 5 minutes. but it went well then i taught them how to do lay-ups it was fun! ha Yesterday aka fast Sunday was soooo busy. Sunday's are always our most busy days of the week! We had like 3-4 lessons and it was crazy. Our most progressing investigator, Teresa, came late and we taught her after church. I asked her to be baptized and she got really hesitant and just acted weird. She just went off about hwo she won't be prepared and that she still has to read the book of Mormon and she doesn't wanna stop drinking coffee. but our ward mission leader told her about how we pray for her every night and how we prayed about the 16th. She seemed a lot nicer after that. so she softly committed, so hopefully we can help her to reach that date! anyways OK time to talk to yalll!

Dad: Great Game so proud! I hear you are also doing awesome as bishop! I'm so proud and happy that you are fulfilling your priesthood duties and calling! I'm so blessed to be your son and I will try to bring "honor to our family" -mulan. I love you dad!

MOMMA! O mom you are beautiful amazing happy generous kind and fantabulous! I love you :) I'm sorry for all the grief i caused you... I will try and make it up as much as possible out here serving with all my heart. hang in there, and rely on the Lord. Loved hearing about the temple!

Alexis: sis how are you?! i miss you! you still having a ton of fun without me? it's OK because bringing souls to Christ is crazy fun! plus after you and i can have some fun hangin out and getting taco-bell and stuff....I ate at McDonald 4 times this past week....i might die. but im working out hard so i can show you that I am better looking than brons ;) and that my body is amazing! haha I love you!

Bronson "son of the brown man" Kaufusi.... I still love you and miss you! be a good boy. tell me more about what you are doing. i wanna hear every detail! love all your pics! how did you meet Steph's sisters Katelyn and Megan?!..... (they're my crush!.....they are darling....and the little girl Georgia aka dotta is my fav!) hahaha. I love you bro! keep telling me things

Daryl! ALLL I HEAR ABOUT IS YOUR LOVE FOR BOYSSSSS!!! WHYYYYYYYY!!! jk....i guess you can date someone....NOT! I will slice him with my new tykwondo skilllzzzz. i hear the knee is doing so much better! I'm so happy to hear that! keep working hard with it. do good in school!

Devini skeeenni weeenni: Thanks for the Email bro, i thought you died!(Mom must have really got on you for me to receive an email) anyways football sounds fun! i love hearing about you, tell me the details about your sacks and stuff. Ha glad to hear that there's another social butterfly in the family. that makes 7.... Don't be disrespectful to teachers though! cuz if you are you might get an -A when you deserved an A because you called your teacher bald....... Well love you!

Porsche......MEOOOOOOWWWW WOOOOW WEOOOOOOWWWMMEOW.... LOVE YOU

JOSEY....Bark....bark bark bark.....rufff ruff bow wow

Love you all! so awesome to hear everything! tell me more. don't worry about peanut butter in the box, i get that from Costco! maybe some sort of candy but i don't need much...maybe acne cream ha my face looks like the wippdy dippdy pizza factory! ahaha brons now I am the Himalaya mountain face! I LOVE YOU ALL SOOOOO MUCH! O lex your birthday is coming up! exciting!!!! what's your favorite pro soccer team?...