12/30/2009

Well hello again. I am glad Cristmas went well for evryone. I already told you mostlyabout mine. We did have a good cristmas lunch but for dinner we did have a sack lunch but it was ok. At the end of the day we had the painter, greg olsen, come and speak. it was really good because he talked about visualizing christ being with us and that's something i need to know how to do. I haven't met the new Dutch Elders yet so i guess i'll tell you about them next week. They came in but they have a bunch of stuff to do because they're noobs. I heard some partially reliable news from an unsure source that the other Elders going to Suriname made it there this week. So hopefully it's true and it will work out for me when the time comes. Thank you for the letters of encouragement. I think I'm figuring out how to be myself and do this work at the same time. I'm starting to be happier this week because I only have 3 weeks left and i get to start over with new scenery. I think i really need it because this place has seemed like something that everybody just wants to leave so that's made kind of a negative environment for me. I'm going to try to make these last 3 weeks good though. Maybe I can help the new Dutch Elders have a more positive outlook. At the midpoint in the MTC they usually change the district leaders but not with me. Probably because it's not that stressful to be district leader over one person so they figured they would just let elder bastian handle it. I'm fine with the idea of minimum responsibility for me:) I hope you didn't worry about me e mailing late again. we couldn't go to the temple these past 2 weeks so i just did this during me temple time. next week i'll be doing this again sometime around 2 o clock. They just cloced for Christmas and cleaning i think....yeah the temple i mean. You can lecture me or ramble on all you want in your letters because i find your info very valuable. You two have done this bofore and i haven't. I think you could tell me and random thing and i would read it over and over again. Since Christmas this week hasn't been very eventful. It's just gotten snowy and cold and the only thing i can think about is the warm Surinamese sunshine. But the heat and humidity really don't sound that fun. One of the Dutch teachers was telling me what it's like there and he said the culture is very rasta. Everybodies rolling a duby all the time so i might want to think now on how to teach the word of wisdom effectively. So jase got a long board huh? he's only had me car for a month and he's already cheating on it....shame.... I want you to know that i really am doing better. Teaching is freaking me out less. I feel Pretty confident in my ability to get a message across, but being evaluated still bothers me. one of my teachers said she hated that too but when she got in the feild and was really do ing it she was fine. I love you all. I hope new years is great! Next time i e mail you i will have a week and a half left! love Hayden NOTICE: This email message is for the sole use of the intended recipient(s) and may contain confidential and privileged information. Any unauthorized review, use, disclosure or distribution is prohibited. If you are not the intended recipient, please contact the sender by reply email and destroy all copies of the original message.

Dec. 9, 2009

Nail clippers please! I look like Edward scissor hands.THings are goingg pretty good this week. The other Suriname elders left but they're going to new york and washington dc because the visas didn't go through yet. Hopefully that doesnt happen for me.Tell Grandma i recieved the manoy she sent.Could you send my line of authrity to me sometime?Tell them to put 2 Nephi 4: 19,20 on my plaque. Im sending a couple of pictures to yuo witht jase's letter so you can use one of them for my seminary thing.I've decided the shoes are fine. i just cant wear the hush puppies for a few days at a time then my feet recover so me feet are fine. Things are really cold here. We got dumped on this week. it snowed a couple days in a row. I just saw justin goldsberry. he looked a little nervous but that's probably the look i had on my face the first day. Haydne kelly is here. he's in my building so that's cool i get to see him every night.Now for snacks. the cheese and crackers were a great idea. im out of crackers but high on cheese. and jerky sonds good but make sure its more dry than the first batch.mold is badDad, did you go on the life flight call where that tow truck jumped the barrier and landed on a car last june? My teacher was the one in the car. It was a pretty cool story. He said he new that someone was protecting him and i'm sure its true because the whole car was smashed excopt where he was sitting.So haven't heard from tanner yet. Can you find out sometime if he got my letter?Ihave a teacher here that makes me terribly afraid to ge to class. he expects a lot of me so i guss that;s good, but he's just so intense i can't handle him sometims. He quits in a couple of weeks so maybe it for the best that i only have him for half the time.i wish i wasn't only 1/3 of the way done with this place. yesterday i taught my first lesson in Dutch. It went better than i thought. I couln't really understand what they were saying but i was able to get my point accross. i still have a hard time with those teacihing sim things. I f i didn't have those i would really enjoy the MTC.I haven't opend the package you just sent and i don't know whats in i but maybe if there's not a v neck sweater in there you should send me one because its real cold.Only cameron hadly has writtne me out of my friends so yes dad you can yell at people at tyler's fairwell. because i pretty much wrote everybody and onlly one resposne has come in. A teacher here htat went to Suriname showed me this sweet picture of a guy that was pulling a dead snake by a rope so he could take it home and eat it. he was high as a kite and looked like he had micky mouse pants on.I can't wait to get there. I don't know how ready i am but if they asked me to i would go this very second.I love all you guys. mom, dad jase. thank you for writing me so much. its uplifting to get letters on the bad days. which are about half of the days. by the good days make it worth it so i'm staying here for the next 6 weeks. I love you allLove Hayden

Nov. 25, 2009

Craziest week of me life! When i got here i hadd two companions. i now have 1. the one that got sent home was acting very strange the first day i got here. he then started doing things like casting out spirits. he wouldn't go talk to anyone about it for the first few days. the third day i had to yell at him to get him to talk to someone! he's at home now hopefully getting his head taken care of. but now everythings pretty normal. there are only 2 people in my district. just me and elder bastian. he's a pretty cool guy. he wants to be here but he didn't really seem to do much studying before he came here. the other dutch speakers are all great. they're the most hilarious people in the world and they helped me out a lot my first few days. i'm still gettin used to stuff here but things are runnin smoother for me now. I NEED A PAIR OF JEANS AND THE REST OF MY BELTS THAT I FORGOT ASAP! Elder Oaks spoke yesterday. it was awesome. don't remeber a word he said though. i'm taking notes next time. i feel really wierd about life right now. i'm just gettin used to livin like this so i'm in a wierd transition between espn all day to scriptures and dutch all day. by the way, keep the jazz updates coming. the dutch is going ok. the teachers expect a lot out of us so there's a lot of pressure to do stuff right. somedays we have to do these teachin sim things where we preach to actors pretendin to be investigators. it's kind of wierd but i learn a lot from them. that's the part of the week that i dred though. i don't remember being more nervous to do anything other then my fairwell talk. the temple is closed this week. what kind of missionary am i? i haven't been to the temple in 2 weeks! grandma said grandpa went to church again. i'm really happy to hear that. seeing him at my setting apart was probably the most memorable thing about it all. hmmm 8 minuts left and i don't know what did say. umm thanksgiving sounds like it's going to be great for us. another apostle is suppose to speak. they never tell us beforehand for security reasons because i guess we missionaries are prime terrorist suspects(joke). tell me any news you hear from tanner because my letters i just wrote won't get sent until monday. maybe give tanner my e mail and see if his mission pres lets him use it. hey jase how's AC2 going? don't get too detailed about it because i'm kind of a missionary now so be careful what you tell me. STAY IN SCHOOL!i love you all and miss you already! put my mailing address facebook. and when is nick leaving? you left that info out. and what mtc because theres one there happy thanksgiving!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Dec. 16, 2009

Hello my loved ones! Ok the only thing i do on p day is laundry write letters go to the temple and e mail. And i have a question about the 12 days of christmas thing you gave me. Psalm 23:41? that doesn't exist. So i don't know whether to just open or what. But THank you for that. It was a Great idea! I have some sad news. the bonzai tree you gave me will not survive:( it needs to be refridgerated and then you have to give it warm water. I don't have the resources for it so sorry.Did you remeber to get my paycheck at toad's? and if you did, did you pay the tithing on it. if not can you do that for me?I just found out that i won't be able to call home for CHristmas but dont worry i will be able to call when i get to the airport so my call just gets a little delayed. And you don't really miss me yet anyway right? I've been out a whole month! Half done with the MTC and hopefully I go straight to Suriname. Ok dad wanted to know some details so here are some. THe schedule is different everyday. Class is at seven sometimes and that is rough. I have 2 main teachers named bro. bradley, the intense one, and bro. griffin. They're both awesome but bro. bradlely scares me sometimes. He's quitting this week and we get a new teacher. Sis Baxter. She seems really nice. I hope that was more detailed. If not ask specific questions so i can answer them.The teaching sim things still stress me out and i don't know why. I have to do this thing to help train the noobies tonight for it. usually they have teachers talk to actors and the noobs just watch them begin to teach the actors. they want to start having "experienced missionaries" to do it instead of teachers. so me and elder bastian are the guinea pigs. its kind of exciting but I'm a little nervous.I started learning some of the Sranan Tongo language this week. I only get like 2 lessons on it while i'm here. THe oly thing i know how to say is "Fawaka?" that means how's it walking? or how's it goin i think.Dad you said you liked it here. Can you give me some advice because i'm really want to like it here but I don't know how to like it here? Maybe it's just an attitude thing. It's just hard to not be really stressed out sometimes. I'm glad to be half way done with the MTC, but i want to be happy with my time here. I'm not saying I'm miserable but i'm hoping to get more joy out of this. Maybe that will come when i get to Suriname.I just want you to know how much i love you guys. I really appreciate you writing me so much. I love that you write me even when nothing big happened. I love you Jase. I love you Dad. I love you Mom.I can't wait to tell how much more i appreciate you when i have to cook and do every thing for myself.Random thought. Keep up on food storage. I didn't hear an apostle say that or anyting bur preparation is a good idea.Merry Christmas!

Dec. 23, 2009

Hello again!Yesterday Elder Anderson spoke to us. It was really cool. he talked to us about how if we would be patient and pray about it and be humble we would eventually better know the condecension of God. So basically we would better know the savior and that's something that i really needed to hear. I can't hardly wait until the day when i can say that i really know who Christ is. But i guess i'll just have to be patient.I have met a few famous people. I've held the door for Sister Smart ...twice. And i eat lunch with Harvey Unga's little bro. Ya know the running back from BYU? And Donny Osmond's son is coming in next week and he's speaking Dutch so I'll get to know him pretty well.My travel plans probably won't come until a couple of weeks bofore i leave so i hope you'll have time for to change your schedules around to talk to me:) Hopefully that flight will be taking me to Trinidad and my visa works out. Also they don't let us call home on Christmas but they do let us write a letter so you'll probably be getting that on Monday.One of the sweaters you sent me is a bit too flashy so i will send that home but probably not til i send evrtything else home is that ok?I was able to see Tyler the day he got here but our schedules are really different so that's the only time i've seen him so far. sad:(I'll mail you some pictures next week. They're not very exciting though. Just pictures of how much better i make my bed than Elder Bastian.Those were some sweet nail clippers! it cleans up the mess for me.The ring Jase made is the most awesome thing i've ever seen! it's kinda sharp though but that will be good for self defense in Suriname. Thanks Jase!I feel bad because people have sent me so much stuff and i've hardly written anybody back. So tell Brenda Sherrie Shellie Mika Corinne thank you for me! It's so awesome that i have all this support.We can't listen to music here so i can't listen to the CD the Shellie sent me from tanner so that's a bit of a bummer. But hopefully when i take to with me after i get out of here i can find something to listen to it with there.Dad, Thanks for the advice with trying to make the teaching sims real. That makes me more motivated to do them. Also we were able to teach a real Dutch guy and his son so that was a good experience. I actually understood a little bit of what he said.Christmas here isn't bad. I think i'd rather be here for Christmas than in a foreign place. It's not way different and i get to heart the apostles speak! It's knida funny what the apostles say. You would think they would be really compassionate toward us because we're away from home, but they usually just say suck it up. But then they always say how blessed we will be if we do suck it up and go to work. So that is still a big comfort to me. Elder Anderson gave the congregation a blessing that if our focus would be on Christ then we would come to know him better. And what more comfort could I ask for than that?I'm so grateful to have a family like you. And for my little cousins that draw me pictures and the aunts that send me food and money.( stop sending both of those things by they way, I have way too much but thanks:)) It's going to be sad to not talk to you on Christmas but in only 3 and 1/2 weeks i'll be able to talk to you so fear not.So yeah i'm definitely hanging in there. tell the ward thanks too. and sue too. Plain City is just a great place.Love you Mom Dad Jase and other readers!