Little Known Facts by Elder Uibel

Dear fam­ily,
Yes­ter­day the library was closed due to an unknown Holiday.
Because I am lim­ited on time and I find that sen­tences that have been put into fact form are more infor­ma­tional and less fluffy, I will give you the facts.
Facts:
–Today we have inter­views with Pres­i­dent Kunz. He is com­ing here to Bro­ken Bow (not bro­ken cross bow) for trav­el­ing interviews.
- We need to clean our apart­ment of the dust near the walls, most espe­cially in the bathroom.
- On the way here we checked the mail and I got a post card from Jeff­ster. He is in the Yukon of Canada and on his card stated, “I promise you that, as you do so…great bless­ings will…”  That and “ENDURE TO THE END” is all it said. That’s Jeff for ya. I also got a let­ter from Grandma Cov­ing­ton­ster. I have not read it yet but tell her thanks for me.
–Yes­ter­day I got a let­ter from Lind­say O’Dell. She is get­ting mar­ried appar­ently and invited me to the recep­tion on Octo­ber 15th! Well, if you could tell her thanks for the invi­ta­tion but that I’m going to be busy doing things in Bro­ken Bow Nebraska, 45 miles away from the near­est Wal­mart, that would be great. But tell her she’s awe­some and I miss her!
- We received a phone call yes­ter­day from a ward mem­ber. The ward decided that they are going to dress us up like pump­kins and make us eat a choco­late kiss for every gospel ques­tion that we can’t answer. Sounds like tor­ture! Why would I agree to that?! I should ask my com­pan­ion why he agreed to that…
- I got to go back to North Platte last week for an exchange! It was great. I took a video of it for ya’ll. We went for an exchange/baptismal inter­view after my first ever dis­trict meet­ing. Any­way, we went and saw the Cory’s who were the first peo­ple I saw on the first day of my mis­sion. It was pretty cool. They have a new cat and we played with my laser pointer and brother Corey was hav­ing a riot. It was great. I tried to see some old friends/ peo­ple we bap­tised but all of them didn’t have a phone num­ber in the ward direc­tory! No luck there. I do keep in con­tact with Syd­ney Bent­ley and I told her and she was all for it. Haha
- The library cat is wan­der­ing around…he’s so old.
- After the exchange in North Platte, I had a lead­er­ship train­ing meet­ing in Omaha. We met in Kear­ney and I for­got to bring my com­pan­ion with me to the next city. So that was a mess up and, well, every­thing was just a big mess. But things were fine and every­thing worked out. Not enough infor­ma­tion being told and too much being assumed. That night in Lin­coln a fight broke out in the park­ing lot of the church and that was a mess. Then I slept in an 80 degree apart­ment on the top floor of the build­ing. At that point I had had fast food for the past 4 days straight and had to say a prayer that I wouldn’t get sick. It worked. “Believ­ing that ye shall recieve and it shall be given unto you.” My body was so fatigued from all the dri­ving that I got out of the trans­fer van and did a lap around the church build­ing. My com­pan­ion and I got home at 1 in the morn­ing Fri­day night after we stopped at a Wal­mart in Kear­ney at 10 pm for cheap food.
- We are good now.
- I was think­ing last night that the first movie I want to watch when I get home is Prince of Egypt. I’ve never seen it before but I’ve heard the music a mil­lion times! I bought a Pixar sound track at Wal­mart the other day that I have wanted for­ever.  It’s great!
–Mother grapes galore! That’s great! And a new Pot 3000 –very cool
- Dad, done film­ing? Does that happen?
- Becca and Rachel– a date?! Sweet­ness! I like the idea you had to ask them. I will have to take you on a 10 minute date FIRST when I get home that way I will always be your #1 date! Haha, or maybe #2 since dad has prob­a­bly taken you out some­where at some point in your 16 years of life.
- Keep up the good stuff fam­ily. And you should dress up like char­lie brown char­ac­ters for Hal­loween :D
–I’m not very good at buy­ing and eat­ing fruit. But I do have meat!
- It looks like a storm is com­ing. It has been rain­ing all week.
–Mormon.org is pop­ping up here and there. We have dis­trict meet­ing on Thurs­day and zone con­fer­ence in Lin­coln on Tues­day. More dri­ving. We went 60 miles on Sun­day to our dinner.
Well fam­ily, it looks like that’s the gist of things. Hope you’re doing well. Have a great day!
Love, Elder Uibel

Broken Bows and Well-Read Cats

John has been trans­ferred to the town of Bro­ken Bow, Nebraska.  He is serv­ing as Dis­trict Leader and will be com­ing home on 11/11/11.  Hur­rah!  We received a box of his per­sonal belong­ings this week in the mail.  Among other things, there was a bro­ken cross­bow.  We laughed that his garage sale pur­chase pre­ceded his lat­est and final trans­fer location–Broken Bow. 
Dear Fam­ily,
Well another trans­fer, another week, another p-day.
So I’m sit­ting in a library in Bro­ken Bow, yes–dead cen­ter Nebraska. There is a “Library cat” here. Yes, it’s a real cat. I pet­ted it.  It’s old and prob­a­bly likes to read. Things here are authen­tic. Every­thing here is authen­tic, from our new truck to the cool fam­i­lies in our ward.
So my first night here we were sit­ting on the couch hav­ing just got­ten back from Lex­ing­ton and unpacked every­thing. Then a bald guy with a cow­boy hat and a suit and tie knocked on our door. It was a mem­ber mis­sion­ary! We went out and knocked on some doors with him and then decided to go to cub scouts at the ele­men­tary school where his fam­ily was. We walked in with our white shirts and ties as a bunch of cow­boy dads and moms stared at us along with 25 mini blue-shirted cub scouts. “Hey, hi there, hello.” The bald man we were with does power tum­bling (he’s 25 years old btw) and some kid asked him to do a trick. So, my new com­pan­ion who also hap­pens to know power tum­bling joined him as they did a round– off back-handspring. After that the mem­ber (whose name escapes my mem­ory banks) intro­duced us to every­one and then we called it a night. That was the first night.
So a lit­tle about my new companion:(Actually, a lot about him…)
–He does power tumbling
–He was a cheer leader
–He can play any song on the piano by ear. Just name a song.
–He has hardly any feel­ing in his hands and feet…apparently. (They’re fire resistant)
–He does parkour
–He loves to do Chris Angel magic tricks and can do just about any­thing. (Video footage to come)
–He has a girl­friend but can’t remem­ber what she looks like on occasion
–He has a lot of knives
- Etc.
–Fact: This is the 4th Elder Hansen I’ve served with
That’s him.
The church here is really nice. We spent all the ses­sions of Gen­eral Con­fer­ence there watch­ing it. My back is done with those chairs though.  It was fun, I got to play with a cute lit­tle baby boy who ran around and made funny faces. There are some cool fam­i­lies and some cute girls too I have to men­tion. The best part wasn’t the cute part, but the fact that they’re cute and down to earth hum­ble!
So about our apart­ment. You walk in and.… well, you walk in and…Well, you just, walk in! It’s basi­cally a one room deal. There is a bath­room and bed­room but it’s pretty small.  Every­thing is con­nected. Elder Hansen black light cleaned it. Lit­er­ally. He has a black light.  He didn’t check my toes.   I have scars on my arm from chig­ger bites. Darn bugs.
I have pic­tures for you from our back­yard. I also brought two cocoons from the last area and trans­ferred them here. One monarch and one…beastly thing that I don’t know what’s going to pop out.

Back­yard Grafitti–Mission Style

Hey, only 38 days! But never mind that.
I hope that grandma gets to feel­ing bet­ter. I appre­ci­ate her and everyone’s letters.
We have some cool inves­ti­ga­tors, some of which are get­ting ready to be bap­tized! What a great thing. Yes­ter­day we were talk­ing to some less actives and an inves­ti­ga­tor on their porch as they threw wrenches at each other. One less-active young woman to us she was mad at some­one so we pulled out our scrip­tures and Gen­eral Con­fer­ence quotes about pray­ing for those who despite­fully use you, lov­ing your ene­mies, etc. Then we promised her bless­ings and told her to pray about things. Revenge is never the answer!
Well, it’s prob­a­bly time to go. I hope you are all doing well. We will keep up the work and fol­low the prompt­ings of the Holy Ghost. Today the big Media cam­paign starts and every­one is excited. I told my dis­trict “The first one who sees a Mormon.org add wins…something.”
Things are going well, I have dis­trict meet­ing in Lex­ing­ton this Wednes­day. Fol­low the prophet.  He’s an amaz­ing per­son and we should all look up to him.
Take luck, I’m off to go buy a blan­ket or two so I can sur­vive the night since my elec­tric blan­ket on hight doesn’t do the trick. bye!

Love, Elder Uibel

Puzzling Statements!

Fam­ily,
This week has been a good one, full of black peo­ple in the hood. But as a for­mer gang mem­ber explained to us after he mis­took us for the FBI and lied to us about being who he really was, he told us that we’re doing awe­some things com­ing to the hood and min­is­ter­ing to those who really need it. He’s a cool guy. So he should be a new inves­ti­ga­tor soon if he actu­ally calls us today.

Cart­ing the Debris Away

Our pri­mary pur­pose with mem­bers is to get them to cre­ate Mormon.org pro­files. Have you made one fam­ily??? We are help­ing pre­pare peo­ple to know what to say when some­one asks them about the bill boards and other media efforts the church is using to help peo­ple under­stand what we believe.
But most of all,
Happy Birthday Rachelooo!!!!
(Sorry about the color statement)
 I haven’t really had time to get you any­thing cool or even had time to look, unless you want some­thing from costco. What? Muffins?
I didn’t even send a let­ter! I feel bad so for­give me, ok. :( sniff
Good news! I got more let­ters to the puz­zle! Yes, my puz­zle. That puz­zle? Yes, that puzzle!
I now have a B(from becca) an I, L and U.
Now ya’ll have con­fused me!
I am still wait­ing on a let­ter from the Cal­i­for­nia cousins. Are there 8 pieces to the puz­zle? Because accord­ing to our recent research, it could be MALIBU LX or what­ever the end may be. How­ever, the gift “in the pic­ture” is not of the make or model of “Mal­ibu,” it is a Honda. So, what kind of trick­ery busi­ness are you play­ing?! Unless you bought me brother Garrett’s house I don’t think it’s actu­ally in the pic­ture. Unless you allowed the car to be smarter than you. All sources are throw­ing me off! I need to run to the FM office and see if I got more mail!
So I hope you enjoy the pictures.
The tem­ple is now fer­til­ized and watered, the tree branches are off the Facil­i­ties Main­te­nance roof and all debris has been cleaned up with the leaf blower. We pretty much do the same type of stuff every day all day.

Over Archiev­ing Inch Worm

If you have ques­tions, com­ments or con­cerns, please write.
Love, Elder Uibel
P.s. I will get to the bot­tom of this puzzle!!


New Digs

Well this weeks email might be a lit­tle short since this is our 3rd p-day this week due to trans­fers. Yup, trans­fers hap­pened and we’re liv­ing right down the street from the trail cen­ter in a newly refur­bished apart­ment. We are only going to be there for a month until the new FM (Facil­i­ties Man­age­ment) cou­ple moves in. It’s a very nice apartment.
Today we are doing emails at the trail cen­ter! We are slowly becom­ing the first Trail Cen­ter Elders, haha. Sis­ters don’t like that idea too much. We are in the “dun­geon” in the base­ment where they have work out machines, com­put­ers for call cen­ter and a bed for sick people.

Signs of the Times!

We just had a bunch of new sis­ters come in this trans­fer and they all just took the offi­cial tour up stairs in prepa­ra­tion for them­selves to take oth­ers on a tour. I got two post cards today.  Actu­ally they’re from two sis­ter mis­sion­ar­ies. Syd­ney Bent­ley, from North Platte who is now in Mis­souri and Sis­ter Barns­ley from Canada, eh? She served here. The cana­dian just went home.
As for mis­sion­ary work here, there are two other Flo­rence mis­sion­ar­ies that we are coor­di­nat­ing with tonight to see what we can do. We have din­ner with them with a mem­ber tonight.
Well, since we don’t have a car any­more because the sis­ters are now in our new apart­ment and car we are hitch hik­ing a ride off the Julan­ders today at noon to go to the store. It is Sis­ter Kuchinerek’s birth­day tomor­row and she’s awe­some so we’re going to make her a cake.
We have a very steep hill to climb every morn­ing to get to the FM office. There was a big storm here the other day with a flash flood and hail big­ger than golf balls that took out a bunch of tree limbs and branches and even our neigh­bors win­dow that we helped him fix.
Well fam­ily, I can’t think of much else to say…

Love –Elder Uibel

Cooks, Cookies and Winter Quarters

John has been trans­ferred to Win­ter Quar­ters on the out­skirts of Omaha.  He helps with tem­ple and ceme­tery main­te­nance by day and tracts and teaches by night. Go John! He just hap­pened to meet up with good friends from Amer­i­can Fork while they were on a fam­ily vaca­tion of the church his­tory sites. After a great visit, they left him with a bag of his favorite “healthy” cookies.

Won­der­ful Sur­prises Around Every Corner!

 

Dear  Fam­ily,

Sorry i didn’t email you on Sat­ur­day, it IS my p-day but we were busy man­ag­ing a project again. Hope­fully that won’t hap­pen this week again. Oh boy, I think more sweat has come out of my arms in the past few days than it has my whole life. Why my arms? I feel like I’m turn­ing into Dad with sweaty arms. Hmm, odd…

So I got your let­ter and pack­age of goods and emails and what­not. Sounds like an adven­tur­ous week. I got a pack­age from my Granny.  It was a giant pack­age of almonds, cook­ies and brown­ies. Also Blue­ber­ries that were no longer frozen.
Our apart­ment is still a mess and smells Hor­ri­ble. There is some­thing dead in our apartment.…either that or some­thing ALIVE, I don’t know which one’s worse at this point. But it smells, and our apart­ment key doesn’t let us in the front door and we need to update our names with the man­age­ment there. It’s all very com­pli­cated. I’d pre­fer the smell of Sudanese people’s apart­ment over our apart­ment, they make good smelling food.

I’m still enjoy­ing the pro­tein bars. I have two packs at home and 4 in the fridge at the facil­i­ties man­age­ment office. Yum.

Lets see, what did we do today:

1. We took a  new route to the trail cen­ter today to save two miles and almost got in an acci­dent on the way there
2. I pulled the dead flow­ers out of the flower…pens at the Tem­ple
3. Watched a giant branch fall in the ceme­tery off a tree.
4. Weed whacked some weeds at the trail center.

Sur­gi­cal Tub­ing and Lawn­mow­ers: Just Mixin’ it Up

5. Watered some stuff
6. Did a thor­ough job of clean­ing the Facil­i­ties Man­age­ment Truck and watched as they came back with a Brand NEW One! (Could have told me you were just going to BUY a brand new 2011 GMC 2500 pickup!)
7. We cleaned out our car and pres­sure washed it and the truck.
8. Sat in the hot 100 degree weather
9. Got ice cream with the Jew­lan­ders
9. Went to the other office to see if my clothes had arrived yet. (not yet)
10. Went home and show­ered
11. Came here!

The End

Or is it…

Thanks for the let­ter Dad, it was very help­ful and I found some good insight in it. About 98% of it was accu­rate. I have been try­ing to get help myself in that regard lately as I do strug­gle with myself often. “Darn Neu­ro­tox­ins!” I’m try­ing to remem­ber more of it but noth­ing comes to mind. “Darn Neurotoxins!”(Ask Becca and Rachel, they’ll know) :p

Becca, my sis­ter! Very cool walls! That looks fan­tas­tic!  You should put some good char­lie brown quotes on there too, that would be awe­some but you’ve prob­a­bly already thought of that.

So, I don’t think any of you have cre­ated a Mormon.org pro­file. Omaha, Lin­coln and Hast­ing in Nebraska are going to have bill boards and signs every­where start­ing next month and they want every mem­ber here to make a pro­file. Sup­port our troops. Donate to the cause. Tell a friend! Invite! Please.

Rachel! You look like a small native Indian from the prairie land of desert– nowhere.

John’s Sis­ters Par­tic­i­pated in a Pio­neer Trek

Mom and Dad, don’t worry about try­ing to make it out here at the end of my mis­sion. I think it would be cool if Lizzie were able to come to when she gets back, maybe next sum­mer or some­thing but then again it might never hap­pen with us old folks and our age and jobs and school and what­not. Hmm. Most mis­sion­ar­ies take half their mis­sion to think this through but I just go with the flow, ya know? But you would enjoy it.

Any­way, think, pray, pon­der, persist!

The rocks look amaz­ing! Very good use of space and…rock.

I must go or we will be late for our din­ner apt.

Love you all,

Bye!

Love, Elder Uibel

Flooding Hamburg with Service

[Check out this arti­cle from USA TODAY describ­ing the flood­ing where Elder Uibel is serving.]

My dear, dear family…,
I have formed a list of sub­jects for which I wish to speak to you today. First, we’ll start with the flood­ing of our area. On…Friday? we went to Iowa to help move peo­ple out of their homes in Ham­burg. It’s sup­posed to be 12 feet under water in a few days to a few weeks. We took every­thing this lady had and moved it into a big tri­an­gu­lar church.  Our church was the only one rep­re­sented there that day. On our way down the big bridge that takes you across the river, one lane was closed because the water was halfway into that lane. Water is every­where! There is a park­ing lot that every­one dri­ves to to see the flood­ing progress and it’s only an inch from flood­ing over into the park­ing lot. They have 80 thou­sand gal­lons per sec­ond flow­ing out of Gavins Point dam right now and by Tues­day they are sup­posed to release 150 thou­sand gal­lons per sec­ond. So we’re sup­posed to get the worst of it pretty soon depend­ing on how fast it moves down stream. Any­way, on our way to Ham­burg there were peo­ple fill­ing sand bags and they had built bunkers around all of the build­ings like the gas sta­tion, Wendy’s, a hotel and the elec­tri­cal boxes. It was pretty cool look­ing, it looked like a war zone. Some­one in our ward is going to have to take a boat to work every day to the nuclear power plant nearby. That could be disastrous.
Next sub­ject, Music. My com­pan­ion and I have not music. Elder Robin­son made the com­ment at our mis­sion con­fer­ence to my com­pan­ion that he had bet­ter like Fid­dler on the Roof. Basi­cally what that means is that I have no music and nei­ther does my com­pan­ion. Long rides to Lincoln(although that might come to an end pretty soon since we’re sup­posed to be flooded in) need music, which we have not. But if I had I would give. (Scrip­ture…) So, if you could send some sooth­ing tunes of some sort, that would be fantastic!
Next sub­ject; Tur­tles. Well, tur­tle… you see, on our way to Syra­cuse yes­ter­day (where our bishop lives), we were trav­el­ing down a dirt road try­ing to find our lost and weary way when all of a sud­den I came upon a tur­tle in the road. My com­pan­ion was on the phone with the bishop try­ing to get direc­tions to his house and I jumped out of the car and left him to go see Mr. Tur­tle. He says hello. The tur­tle that is. I got a video of him which you will prob­a­bly see some time soon. I guess my mem­ory card has more mem­ory than I thought.  I will send that soon.
Next sub­ject: House. We have been work­ing with, around, behind, above and below Drey Platt, one of our ward mis­sion­ar­ies, while try­ing to see inves­ti­ga­tors and help him with the house that he’s build­ing. It’s been a fun adven­ture and he says they should be mov­ing into it in about 2–3 weeks. It’s been cool to see the progress, giv­ing him cool ideas and help­ing out. I do so enjoy it. I was try­ing so hard yes­ter­day to focus on church and the sacra­ment and the mean­ing of church until he pulled out his phone and showed me that he has  $$$$$ in stock or some­thing like that. Then I couldn’t stop think­ing about work and busi­ness for my life. Why Drey, why? We also couldn’t stop laugh­ing dur­ing high priest quo­rum while all the old farm­ers argued over how the church used to spend tithing on church build­ings. But it was good. The stake patri­arch told me good job last week on my talk in sacra­ment meet­ing, grabbed my hand and gave me one of those eter­nal stares into my soul and then said “I bless you in aaal­lll that you do.” and then walked away. He’s an amaz­ing person.
Next sub­ject: Tract­ing. We have been try­ing dili­genly this week to find new peo­ple through tract­ing. I don’t much like fum­bling through the area book for old for­mer inves­ti­ga­tors in the car on a hot day. We found a bunch in the city of Union but who knows how or if they will let us in when we come back to teach them. I hope they do. The Lord has blessed us with a lot of new peo­ple lately but we’ve only had one other les­son this last week. We are sup­posed to round up all the recent con­verts this week and get them to church.
I have been try­ing to be more obe­di­ent to the rules and what-not lately and so far it’s work­ing. It does pay off. The morn­ing sched­ule has been really hard for me my whole mis­sion but for some rea­son it has come a lot eas­ier with my new com­pan­ion. We are get­ting along great. He’s a hard worker and I enjoy work­ing with him.
I miss you all! I bless you (and not just when you sneeze) and hope you have a great day! Keep me posted!
Love, Elder Uibel
p.s. Now that it’s sum­mer, I know you have time so send me cookies


Come Unto Me As a Little Child…

He’s out­stand­ing in his field!

Dear fam­ily,

Today I was awak­ened by my com­pan­ion. “We’re going golf­ing again.” So this makes week three that we’ve been golf­ing with Brother Williams. Today we went to a dif­fer­ent golf course. It seemed to be eas­ier but the grass seemed to be harder. I ended up with a 60. About twice as much as par.
Any­way, I have 8 min­utes, let’s get to the points. Yes­ter­day we set 3 peo­ple for baptism:
Jonathan Sailors (Boy of a less active fam­ily)  He doesn’t have an exact date yet :(
We also set Macin and Shailee for June 22nd. They are…adopted? By a fam­ily in our ward and accepted the bap­tismal com­mit­ment! We are excited for them. We had a mini tes­ti­mony meet­ing after our les­son and they bore their tes­ti­monies. It was great.
So basi­cally that’s about all the good news. I hope you’re all doing well! Becca and Rachel seem to be doing all right. I hope you get to feel­ing bet­ter mother and that you dont slip into silent slum­ber father. Tell granny to get bet­ter. And tell Aunt Zola  that she’s in my prayers.
I miss you all and it was good talk­ing with you. I’m going to be hon­est and say that for some rea­son I didn’t know it was your birth­day last week Dad! Happy Birthday!!

Have a great day!I love you all and want you to know that I know this church is true!

Love, Elder Uibel

Brother Williams and Elder St. Clair post-P-day golfing

Adja­cent to 9-and-three-quarters platform

You can’t beat that blue!

Dear Fam­ily,
For­give me if this email is a lit­tle weird. I woke up sick this morn­ing at 1 am and right now I’m on Dayquil and some pain killer thing. My throat is all sore and cov­ered in welts again. I don’t know what the prob­lem is but this has hap­pened about every other trans­fer my whole mis­sion. Anyway…
We went golf­ing this morn­ing at 9am with a mem­ber here, Brother Williams. He’s a cool guy with a crazy fam­ily. We ate din­ner at their house yes­ter­day. Oh boy, you should have seen how I was hit­ting this morn­ing. I was all over the place. This med­i­cine is mak­ing me quite loopy. I think I hit a few cars. I think I got the ball to go straight twice. Made me a lit­tle frus­trated with out any emo­tion. Hmm “Darn neurotoxins!”-Series of Unfor­tu­nate Events
Tonight we have a les­son with Mason and Shaylee, two young kids who need to get bap­tized so we’re going to ask their par­ents if we can give them a date tonight. I’m think­ing pop­corn at the movies.
Guess what?! I got a new cam­era! Yup, I tried to find it every­where and nobody would sell the dis­play so I went ahead and got it at Wal­mart. I LOVE it!! Its got some coo­lio fea­tures. I attached some pic­tures for you. This dumb com­puter won’t play any of the videos, though. I’m kinda mad. I’ve been wait­ing to see how the qual­ity ‘n stuff turns out. It looks really good on the cam­era, so…
Looks like we have 4 gen­eral author­i­ties com­ing to Nebraska to speak. That will be good, except for the fact that its on the one and only FREE FISHING DAY of the year. We watched Mike the flower guy reel in two Cats yes­ter­day (cat fish for those who are unfa­mil­iar with Nebraska fish­ing lingo). We also mowed both of Mikes’ lawns for him. He owns a flower shop here in town so he’s basi­cally everyone’s favorite guy. He also took us to din­ner at Park­ers the other day which is a deli­cious place to eat.
Any­way, we have two Mario’s that we’re teach­ing now. One has funny sto­ries and the other has two her­ni­ated disks. So we gave him a bless­ing. We were on team-ups and I think the young pre-mission guy who was with us was ner­vous. It’s always inter­est­ing when you know you’re in a strange home where the spirit does not reside yet the spirit is there help­ing you teach or give a bless­ing. Two very dif­fer­ent things.
I got a let­ter from uncle Chuck­les today. He seems to be doing well with his humor and every­thing. Did that make any sense? Sorry, I’m still a lit­tle out of it.
So how are things back home?
Love, Elder Uibe

On the banks of the Mis­souri (which is flood­ing right now)

p.s. could you look up a spir­i­tual mes­sage for me since my brain isn’t work­ing right now? Okay, bless­ings to you!!!
Hi sis­ters!

To my family,
Well, the other day I had my cam­era out and acci­den­tally dropped it! This is mon­u­men­tal! In a bad way! I have never dropped my cam­era! :( I had it on my lit­tle tri pod on the car and it flipped over onto the cold back asphalt. Every­thing works and looks fine but the lense is stuck and wont go all the way in. I tried tak­ing it apart but found that it’s too stress­ful deal­ing with micro springs and levers.…I just gave up after almost not being able to get it back together. Hey Lizzie, we’re cam­era­less! :(
I’m going to miss my High ISO, wide angle lense cam­era with Manal set­ting func­tion and 10X Zoom.
They should defi­nately up the anti on that cam­era withe some HD footage cap­tur­ing capa­bil­ity, 2000–5000 FPS(Frame Per Sec­ond) Slow Motion Cap­tur­ing and top that off with some In-Camera Movie/ Photo Edit­ing Software.

Any­way, some good news is that:
- I made those peanut but­ter bars and they turned out quite fabulous.
- We were given tons of food by a con­se­crated mem­ber of the Church of Jesus Christ of Lat­ter Day Saints
–I real­ized that we have about 4 peo­ple we can set for bap­tism and bap­tize. My com­pan­ion has yet to bap­tize someone.
–We had all the less actives that we vis­ited this week at church. (First time ever) (5 people/ families)
–We had a les­son with a girl who needs to get bap­tized and Elder St. Clair resolved their family’s concerns
–We got some cool pic­tures before my cam­era broke.
I hope you are all doing well. I have an awe­some fam­ily with awe­some cool traits. Tricks of the trade. Tricky traders. Hmmm…Beeeccccaaaa…I know you’re there.…
Rachel! I totally found some really cool rocks the other day at Mario’s house. He’s our mex­i­can friend.
Father! I don’t know why but these past few weeks I’ve been think­ing a lot about you and how hard you have worked your whole life and what a great exam­ple you have been in my life…And how hard I’m going to have to work when I get home to make up the dif­fer­ence which isn’t really pos­si­ble but I’ll try. Fam­ily, you should know that you are extremely blessed to have a dad who was once not a mem­ber but is now a good strong one who holds the Priest­hood and is will­ing and able to do all things for you. Not too many guys out here on will­ing to do such things. It just shows us our poten­tial, who we were and how far each of us has come.
Mom, the pri­mary gave me a book of Mor­mon to hand out to some­one a few months ago and I handed it out the day before I left O’Neill so I don’t really have a story to write back to them unless you want me to try. I gave it away to a less active grand­mother and told her that more that 40 chil­dren want her to read it. And the only way she was going to read it was if 40 kids told her to. Per­haps you could pass that story along to who­ever sent it to me.
Lizzie! I am going to send you a let­ter today! Hope­fully. I have pictures.

Cat­tails in Nebraska City

There’s no de-railing this guy.

Returned Mail

ATTENTION

 

Many of you have reported hav­ing your mail returned to you. The address listed in the side­bar is, how­ever, cor­rect. This can mean:

 

  1. An Elder in the Mis­sion Office assigned to route mail is strug­gling with his assignment.
  2. An Elder in the Mis­sion Office is play­ing a mean prank.
  3. There is no Elder in the Mis­sion Office assigned to route mail.
  4. The postal sys­tem in Omaha is under-funded.
  5. The postal sys­tem in Omaha is over-funded.
  6. There is no postal sys­tem in Omaha.
  7. Anti-Mormon sen­ti­ment within the Omaha Postal Sys­tem is ram­pant. “No Mor­mon gets mail on my watch!“
  8. The Mis­sion Office doesn’t really exist. Rather, the whole thing is a sham and Johno has run off with the circus.

 

We’re try­ing to con­tact the office (Ha! So are you!) to dis­cover the rea­sons behind the let­ter issue. Please stand by…

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Elder Uibel’s Address

I’m now serv­ing in Bro­ken Bow, Nebraska. Pop­u­la­tion 3,491. It is a ship­ping cen­ter for live­stock, hay, and grain. It has fac­to­ries mak­ing cig­ars and brooms, two hotels, and an air­port. After the Post Office Depart­ment had rejected sev­eral pro­posed names, Wil­son Hewitt, a home­steader, sug­gested its present name on find­ing a bro­ken bow on an old Indian bur­ial ground. So there you go!

If I write home and tell you I’m up a tree, you’ll know why.

If you’d like to write me, send mail to:

Nebraska Omaha Mis­sion
11930 Arbor St Ste 203
Omaha, NE 68144–2998

Sorry, I’m not allowed to email any­one but close fam­ily.

Thanks for think­ing of me!

I'm a Mormon.
What They’re Sayin’:
charles on Returned Mail
6th Apr 11
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Elder Uibel on What’s a ‘Mission’?
17th Jan 11
Hey there everyone! Good to hear from you! Sister Lasalosi, we cooked 3 pounds of meat the other day and ...
princess lasalosi on What’s a ‘Mission’?
6th Jan 11
hi elder Uibel oh man how are you? you know what its soo hard to be back home..its not easy ...
Daisy Bateman on What’s a ‘Mission’?
18th Oct 10
HI john-o its me daisy ya know your moms piano student I really really really really really miss you!!! You ...
Elder Uibel on P-days are not my favorite…it messes me up.
20th Sep 10
Well Mother, it looks like you're getting computer savy. Haha, thanks!
My Current City: Broken Bow, NE
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