Last Transfer

Hey everyone,

Thanks for the emails. Im doing good. I dont have much time to write, because we are pretty busy getting ready for this last transfer. All 14 of the missionaries that are in my group are all going to be working in one area, Hato Rey. We will also be visiting the islands twice and doing some ministering around Puerto Rico in the different zones. Im super excited!! We'll all be living in the same house too! Well, as for school... I wanted to go to BYU. And what mom said confused me. So, lets just do the original plan. Take the spanish equivalency test during the summer and try to get into the Y the Fall semester. And i guess during the summer i can do the alarm selling to make money. Well, i love you all a bunch!

-Elder Bailey

Conference Was Great

Hey everyone!!!

This week was pretty good, conference was awesome, thanks for the birthday packages as well!!! Nothing new to report this week. We are still working with the family from Florida, just the wife isn't baptized. We also have some good refferals that we will be contacting soon. Hopefully we find some success in those. Next week is transfers, i don't know entirely what i will be doing but i guess i will find out when it comes around. Something to the effect of visiting old areas but i dont know yet. So, i didn't get accepted to BYU? Well, maybe i can get into UVU as a backup plan. Isn't that what everyone does when they get rejected from BYU? ha ha. Can you look into that for me? I guess for the summer i will be working for that alarm selling business hopefully. I don't know how else im going to make money. Yes, i trained the friend of Dr. Hess' son, but he's not from Boise he's from Las Vegas they just went to BYU together. I guess that is true what they said in conference, that after you serve a mission the next step is to get married. "...men are that they might have joy." 2 Ne. 2: 25. Joy is found in the family, Adam fell so that he might have joy in his family. He couldn't have a family without the Fall. It's the purpose of life and central in God's Plan of Happiness. Well, I love you all a bunch, Amber and Brandon, have fun in Mexico. Everyone else, stay classy.

-Elder Bailey

"Warning Carbon Monoxide!"

Hey everyone!!

Thanks for the emails and updates and everything. So today i got an email from the mission office, i have to give them some information about my flight home. :( Im pretty sure i will fly in Boise on the 18th. The office will probably let you know once they have the flight information. I did get the package last week, thanks for the cookies and stuff! So, here's the update of the week: We haven't been able to return to teach the family, which stinks. Our baptismal date fell. Still haven't been able to contact him. But a family from Florida just moved here and the wife isn't a member yet. So we will definately start teaching them and baptise her. Also, early Monday morning at about 5 we woke up to the sound of, "WARNING: CARBON MONOXIDE!" My first thought, "What the heck is carbon monoxide?" I ran out of the bedroom confused, looking for something wrong in the apartment... nothing. My companion suggests that the fire/ carbon monoxide alarm is just running out of batteries. So, during the day we bought some new batteries to put in the alarm. But to our surprize 12 am Tuesday morning comes around and the alarm goes off again. At this point we are a little scared, what if it really is carbon monoxide? So, we take out mattresses out of the bed room and move them into the living room next to the front door and we bring the alarm with us. We also turned on some fans and opened the front door to "air it out." 3 hours later... "WARNING CARBON MONOXIDE!" "What the...? Still confused, maybe a bit more now. We barracaded off the kitchen, maybe it was something in there. The bedroom as well, maybe it was the AC. We go back to sleep. It goes off again 3 hours after that. Wierd how it only goes off every 3 hours. We call the senior couple in charge of housing and it turns out the alarm has to have a certain brand of battery and that has been on the shelf at the store for less than a year. We felt like a couple of fools, barracading off the kitchen and stuff. ha ha. So that was the event of the week. Im glad yall enjoyed the photos i sent last week. Aubrey sorry this computer im on wont let me see the ones you sent. Well, i love you all a bunch! Have a great week!

Elder Bailey