Elder Beadle

A little letter from Mom:

Dear Elder Beadle,

So many people have told me that they pray for you every day. Including grandmas and grandpas and MarDiene. We saw her last night. She's been praying for you for years and we know how that's turned out so... :) she's still praying for you. Also... there was a pretty girl who brought me two purple pens today at church because she knows you like purple pens. <3 <3

This Wednesday I have a Dr. appt. This will kind of let us know how things are going. Hopefully we've got some bone growth on my shin. Maybe you could say some specific prayers for that. Also, on the way home from dropping you at the airport, I got a wild hair, pulled over and called Weber State(I'M GOING TO COLLEGE!!!) . You should come to Weber State with me when you get home. I talked to Lauren tonight at Marilee's birthday party. She's helping me register. She's awesome that way. Now I just have to figure out how I'm going to pay for this. 

I'm so excited to hear about your week. Give me some details. Have you had a chance to go to the temple? Do you have everything you need? I sent a little box last week. But apparently I have to send another one soon because you left your CTR rings here. And ya know, the purple pens. 

Are you able to look at the blog? I am trying to keep it simple because it would be really awesome to document your whole mission. 

I love you so much. You are missed. Keep the faith, my Elder. 

Love, Mom >(:/:)<

A long letter from Wade(skip to the pictures if you want): 

yeah, let me know. I hope serving the Lord will help with your leg. that would be awesome. also, thank you so much for the prayers. they've been wonderful. i've felt them.

that's cool! maybe I will go to weber. dunno. hope they have a good music program or something. that would be awesome.

no chance to go to the Preston temple yet. it's being cleaned for the next two weeks. thankfully I'll have three weeks here in the MTC, so we will be able to go the last week. p-day is on Tuesday here in the Preston MTC.

some details: i'm district leader. I have one companion who can't stop flirting with the sisters for three minutes. I love my comp, and i realize that that's a story I've created. letting it go haha. my other companion is Elder Chand, from Fiji. it took him three days to get here with delays and such. it was crazy. got here all red eyed, hadn't slept much at all. i was able to give him a blessing just barely for his back because he hurt it during basketball. it was awesome.

being district leader, we've got some time to specifically speak to our districts. I shared that through the atonement, the Lord empties our lives, essentially helping us unbecome what we've become so that he can make us who we need to be n stuff. it was great. 

After the trip here, I was sick, feeling incredibly nauseated. debilitatingly so. the food didn't help either. it all felt fake. tasted fake. anyway, some of the elders who will be serving in Germany offered to give me a blessing. much needed. the sickness still lasted two more days, but drastically less intense. it's gone now. 

my class teachers are great. probably the greatest. I love them so much. their names are Brother Peel and Brother Webb.

i really do understand my comp's struggle with flirting. there is one sister in our district who is... wayyy attractive and wayyy spiritual. i'll probably marry her when i get off my mission. haha. crushin' on her a little bit, but that's NOT why I am here! i'm focused on giving the Lord all of my heart right now. 

we get to go to town today. and yeah, i'm buying toothpaste with fluoride in it... i know i know. but elmo just doesn't keep my breathe smelling or tasting nice at all... also suits here are supposedly really cheap. 30 pounds or something. don't know why. 

also, it's not cold here at all. what do you think? send you back one of my jackets? give it to another elder?

more later from Wade: Went to town today. bought stuff, went to kfc. love the elders here. I love my teachers. it's so foggy here, i love it. these pictures don't give it any justice. it was kind of cold. i needed a hat to keep my ears warm. though, to be fair, i will be traveling further north where it's colder. maybe i will wait until then to see if i should send my coat back. all the cars are so small. still getting used to the whole driving on the left thing. also, double decker busses just make sense. 

making friends here is pretty easy. everyone is nice. i'm missing my constant ability to practice piano. gotta make sure my companion wants to be there too. so i usually end up eating quickly and then just playing the piano in the cafeteria. 

We got a new MTC President. The transition isn't too bad. though i was really loving president Preston. good guy. i'm sure i'll love President Bunker, too.

anyway. if i think of anything else, I'll email you later today. when you're awake ;) how important is it that i keep everybody up to date? even though having the keyboard on my tablet makes emailing a ton easier, not really sure that emailing is going to be my favorite part of mission. what if you just take details from my email to you? and then put that in the blog? would that work?  i get the feeling that this is really mostly just between the Lord and me. people don't need to know, and when they need to know, i'll tell them. ya know? unless, of course, that since I created myself as "love" that means sharing of myself with other people. by emailing them.

love you, mom

response from Mom: I will put the important and interesting stuff on the blog. At least I hope it will be interesting. It is interesting to me.

My companions, Elder Chand and Elder Livingston

My district

He's really alive!!

Brother Peel's name tag, obviously

Lorinda's blog notes: I will try to get Wade to label his pictures. Those are awesome English street pix, but i wish I knew what they were. Do you think I should correct his capitalization? I often don't capitalize things as a style choice, but I plan on publishing this and if he's just being lazy... Also, what do you think of including my letters and news to Wade? Obviously I haven't included my whole letter, but I think some of it might be interesting for him later, looking back on his mission, what happened back home while he was serving. What are your thoughts? You can reply to this post or message me on FB or text my phone. Thanks for reading. I'm looking forward to documenting and sharing this experience. I kept up with Will's mission for almost 5 months. We'll see how this goes :)