Hey family! so i am going to see yall very soon! to tell youthe truth i have still not thuaght about it, i just came from my last interviewwith the mission president and all the missionaries were talking about home andwhat they are excitted to do. but i was still thinking i still get to teach twomore people tonight both are great people and i am very excitted! so tonightafter these lessons ill start thinking about home! but i am really excittted tosee yall and i am really excitted to play board games with yall.... :) !Tonight were teaching a part member family who is really cool Brother Parkerwho is a non mormon and Sister parker who is a solid member! he has read toheliman and at first he did think the book could possible be true, now it is hisgoal to get baptized shortly! we are also going to visit the Moore Family! theyare great freinds and we have not seen them ina while but they have still bereading the scriptures and praying everyday so that is really cool! The Mooresare also a Part member Family! we are also hoping to visit one more familytonight it is the pickering! i stoped by last night but they were all feelingsick, but they are a great family and love the gospel so i hope that we get tovisit them aswell! well i hope that yall have a great week ill see you soon!
Love ya
Elder Joshua Kiser
Thursday, April 5, 2012
Letter from Dad March 26, 2012
ElderKiser,
Itwill be so fun to have you home for conference weekend. Everyone iscoming home to see you. Rob and Melissa are driving in from Maryland,Scott and Amy are driving up from Newport Beach. We are all so very proudand excited to see and be with you. Rob will get in on Sunday afternoon,not everyone will be in town to meet you at the airport, but eventuallyeveryone will be in town together.
Notsure what else to say other than we are so excited to see and be with you andhear about your mission. I love you so very much and am so grateful forthe opportunities that have been afforded to you these past two years. Iknow for me my mission was life changing as I know that yours has been aswell. Not just the knowledge that the gospel has been restored, but theconfidence in the priesthood and the experiences that have been allowed to see,feel and experience the healing powers and authority of the priesthood. These lessons will form a solid foundation for our life.
Loveyou and we will see you on Thursday.
Dad
Itwill be so fun to have you home for conference weekend. Everyone iscoming home to see you. Rob and Melissa are driving in from Maryland,Scott and Amy are driving up from Newport Beach. We are all so very proudand excited to see and be with you. Rob will get in on Sunday afternoon,not everyone will be in town to meet you at the airport, but eventuallyeveryone will be in town together.
Notsure what else to say other than we are so excited to see and be with you andhear about your mission. I love you so very much and am so grateful forthe opportunities that have been afforded to you these past two years. Iknow for me my mission was life changing as I know that yours has been aswell. Not just the knowledge that the gospel has been restored, but theconfidence in the priesthood and the experiences that have been allowed to see,feel and experience the healing powers and authority of the priesthood. These lessons will form a solid foundation for our life.
Loveyou and we will see you on Thursday.
Dad
HEY Yall March 19, 2012
Heyfamily it is crazy that it is already March 19, that means in 5 days it will bemy two year mark. So everyone keeps asking me what it feels like, and itdoesn’t feel any different. This week was really cool, the Lewis family came tochurch as a family, and it was Tasha’s 17th birthday and she stillcame so that was really cool! SO I got a letter from Rob and he told me that hedid missionary work last week. He invited a guy he worked with to church! Hecame and committed to keep coming! It is great these are days of greatopportunity! Nephi tells us that angels have been sent down to prepare peoplefor us! We talked to a family the DiMaggio family! We were tracting rightbefore we a dinner apt. the family talked to us for 45 mins and we told them wehave to go! They were amazed that there family could be together forever! Thewife Lisa cuts hair and told that there are a few Mormons that get there haircut from her, and that they always talk about God around her. Do you think shehad been prepared? As a family they committed to read the scripters and to praytogether as a family! They also committed to repent of the sins they havecommitted! It is amazing to be out here and see many people who are ready tohear the gospel! The time is now to lift up your voice and help others comeunto Christ! The blessings of bringing others into the gospel far out waysanything you could give up or loose. I think the thing that stops one fromhelping a friend is that they might have to give up a habit, or that they maylose a friend. There is another Family we are starting to teach, I don’t knowif I have ever told you his name is Daymen and Melisa Divill, they have agreat friend that lives in Utah, his friend has told him a lot about the churchand has bore testimony of the truth and divinity of the book of Mormon! Hisgreat friend did not see the result of his testimony, but Daymen has read into2 Nephi and loves the feelings he gets while reading the book of Mormon! Theseeds that are planted help the work everywhere grow and such a rapid pace. Sothis isn’t as cool but it was still pretty cool! But we were at Wal-Mart buyinga cake for a elder that lives with us and as we were buying it a lady came upto us and asked who we were and she demanded to let her pay for the cake andfrosting. You could tell that this lady did not have much, but she did tell usof a story that in the past missionaries had helped her pack up out of Texas sothat she could move here. As we talked we asked if we could come over and shewas excited and waiting to say yes! She had defiantly been prepared! I loveyall tons I hope that you have a great week! Thanks for the love and thesupport! I’ll see yall very shortly! Keep planting and harvesting seeds till Iget home! Have a great week!
Loveyou brother.
ElderJoshua Kiser
Loveyou brother.
ElderJoshua Kiser
Hey family! February 27, 2012
Hey family!
how cow time is flying by it is crazy to think it hasalready been a week since i was sitting her last. it is kinda crazy but i thinkthe last like 6 times i have been to the librbary i have used the samecomputer! :) so this week was a pretty good week. we had a chance to meetwith a General authority Elder Clark. he is a cool guy i supose i learned alotof things! o ya last week we got to go to the temple! it was really cool! ireally like it! ao my new companion Elder Gentry is sooo funny! i really likehim! i think one of the reasons why i like him is becouse he is soo real! it isfunny because his name is genTREE and so i am joshuaTREE! o ya there was thisgrandma i helped and i guess she really liked me, so she sat down and looked atall her grandduaghter and chose one for me to marry.. so she called hedughter and her call me so basicaly this ladie called me and asked is i wouldwrite her daughter...... the daughters name is Alision, so we named our caralison, it is soo funny to be around my new compaion. plus we live with twoother missionaries who are awesome! it is a sweet last transfer! so did anyonewho read my last letter invite any frteinds to have a stronger faith is theSavior Jesus christ? it is soo much fun! you should try it! we basicaly told afamily that they have an oppertunity to meet God again face to face but theyhave to prepare by reading there scriptures daily! the Whole family went tochurch last week as a family and theres have ben reading there scriptureseveryday, ( everyone but the mom). the francio are basicaly goofy family. wellthey havent been ro church for three weeks or so, but you can tell a hugediffernce in there house when you go over.. it is crazy. it is not a peace fulland they get into fights, it is crazy, you call tall a huge differnce WHYwouldnt you then want to go to church! ( so i am typing to the metal gear solidthem song, and it is pretty sweet to type to! ) another young ladie is Shannonfontno, she has been trying to work things out whith her boy freind and itworks great for a while, wgile they are going to church, but as soon as theystop like that week all hell breaks loose it seems like and they startfighting... you can choose! my bud joshua says Choose YOU this day whom youshall serve, As for me and my house( family) we will serve the Lord! do youthink joshua maybe noticed the same thing!? one thing i really like about joshis that it is my name! annother thing is that invited, YOU choose this day. notthis dat ill make you. he did say look you retarted people have you not yetnotice how your life is with out it. but he says Choose this day whom ye shallserve.. he kinda forced his own family, but he invited his freinds with liveand i am sure there was some excitment! i bet you he has fun doing it! i loveasking people to choose this day who ye shall serve! i would invite all ofyou to choose this day who you will invite to ciome unto Christ by helping themrevive the restored Gospel! not becouse you have.. but becouse what youhave is what everyone wants, people send there intire lifetime serching doewhat you have. look at tghe two example. so dont share becouse you haveto, but becouse you want to show your love to the savior! you know that iswhy christ did every little thing he did, wasnt becouse he had to ( alough hekind of did) he did everything becouse he loved both us and Heavelyfather! i love in John when it talks about the savior as one who hasgreater love by laying down his life for his freinds! it tell us that we arenot servents but freinds, for a freind knows all that his masters kows and thesavior tells us all that he knows( or what we are willing to accept). it isamazing becuase everything the savior did was based of missionary work. it ismy WORK and my glory to bring to pass the inmortalitly and eternal life ofman.. missionary work! i have learned tons and tons in the last two years of mylife. most of the time it is when i am out doing work. i study every morningbut when i apply it is when it makes sence! so i would invite anyone andeveryone who is reading this to follow the saviors exsample and invite onefreind, family member to learn more about Jesus Christ! it doent have to beabout the Mormon church or the book of mormon, but talk to them about prayersor reading daily, possible keeping the sabeth day holy! be fore i go playbasket ball ill tell you of two great freinds i have met on my mission, Brotherand sister silverman, they were bolth raised Cathlic, sister silveman ( amy)has never learned much about other churchs. and brother silverman ( david) hasread the book of mormon and studied many differnt church. well we went overthere and didnt wip out the book of mormon we talked about prayer.. we spent 45mins just talking about how prayer is like a conversion with God, and they wereblown away about this new info! :) it seem soo simple, but to be able to talkto God! they loved it and is has helped build there faith! they had benprepared from god to hear that sound and true doctrine! i know that many of thepeople you know are prepared and ready to her the Gosple! the reasonswhy the silvermans let us in was becouse missionaries talked to them yearsago and they liked it! those missionaries have no idea that there old freindsare reading the book of mormon, but if it wasnt for them they wouldnt be wherethey are today! so even if your farind say NO it is okay becouse the seed isplanted and when you get to the feet of the Savior you can say i tried! you canshow forth fruite saying i am greatful for you have done! family i love yalltons and hope thatyall have a great week! thank you soo much for the supportand the prayer! i love yall and havea great week!
love elder joshua Kiser!
how cow time is flying by it is crazy to think it hasalready been a week since i was sitting her last. it is kinda crazy but i thinkthe last like 6 times i have been to the librbary i have used the samecomputer! :) so this week was a pretty good week. we had a chance to meetwith a General authority Elder Clark. he is a cool guy i supose i learned alotof things! o ya last week we got to go to the temple! it was really cool! ireally like it! ao my new companion Elder Gentry is sooo funny! i really likehim! i think one of the reasons why i like him is becouse he is soo real! it isfunny because his name is genTREE and so i am joshuaTREE! o ya there was thisgrandma i helped and i guess she really liked me, so she sat down and looked atall her grandduaghter and chose one for me to marry.. so she called hedughter and her call me so basicaly this ladie called me and asked is i wouldwrite her daughter...... the daughters name is Alision, so we named our caralison, it is soo funny to be around my new compaion. plus we live with twoother missionaries who are awesome! it is a sweet last transfer! so did anyonewho read my last letter invite any frteinds to have a stronger faith is theSavior Jesus christ? it is soo much fun! you should try it! we basicaly told afamily that they have an oppertunity to meet God again face to face but theyhave to prepare by reading there scriptures daily! the Whole family went tochurch last week as a family and theres have ben reading there scriptureseveryday, ( everyone but the mom). the francio are basicaly goofy family. wellthey havent been ro church for three weeks or so, but you can tell a hugediffernce in there house when you go over.. it is crazy. it is not a peace fulland they get into fights, it is crazy, you call tall a huge differnce WHYwouldnt you then want to go to church! ( so i am typing to the metal gear solidthem song, and it is pretty sweet to type to! ) another young ladie is Shannonfontno, she has been trying to work things out whith her boy freind and itworks great for a while, wgile they are going to church, but as soon as theystop like that week all hell breaks loose it seems like and they startfighting... you can choose! my bud joshua says Choose YOU this day whom youshall serve, As for me and my house( family) we will serve the Lord! do youthink joshua maybe noticed the same thing!? one thing i really like about joshis that it is my name! annother thing is that invited, YOU choose this day. notthis dat ill make you. he did say look you retarted people have you not yetnotice how your life is with out it. but he says Choose this day whom ye shallserve.. he kinda forced his own family, but he invited his freinds with liveand i am sure there was some excitment! i bet you he has fun doing it! i loveasking people to choose this day who ye shall serve! i would invite all ofyou to choose this day who you will invite to ciome unto Christ by helping themrevive the restored Gospel! not becouse you have.. but becouse what youhave is what everyone wants, people send there intire lifetime serching doewhat you have. look at tghe two example. so dont share becouse you haveto, but becouse you want to show your love to the savior! you know that iswhy christ did every little thing he did, wasnt becouse he had to ( alough hekind of did) he did everything becouse he loved both us and Heavelyfather! i love in John when it talks about the savior as one who hasgreater love by laying down his life for his freinds! it tell us that we arenot servents but freinds, for a freind knows all that his masters kows and thesavior tells us all that he knows( or what we are willing to accept). it isamazing becuase everything the savior did was based of missionary work. it ismy WORK and my glory to bring to pass the inmortalitly and eternal life ofman.. missionary work! i have learned tons and tons in the last two years of mylife. most of the time it is when i am out doing work. i study every morningbut when i apply it is when it makes sence! so i would invite anyone andeveryone who is reading this to follow the saviors exsample and invite onefreind, family member to learn more about Jesus Christ! it doent have to beabout the Mormon church or the book of mormon, but talk to them about prayersor reading daily, possible keeping the sabeth day holy! be fore i go playbasket ball ill tell you of two great freinds i have met on my mission, Brotherand sister silverman, they were bolth raised Cathlic, sister silveman ( amy)has never learned much about other churchs. and brother silverman ( david) hasread the book of mormon and studied many differnt church. well we went overthere and didnt wip out the book of mormon we talked about prayer.. we spent 45mins just talking about how prayer is like a conversion with God, and they wereblown away about this new info! :) it seem soo simple, but to be able to talkto God! they loved it and is has helped build there faith! they had benprepared from god to hear that sound and true doctrine! i know that many of thepeople you know are prepared and ready to her the Gosple! the reasonswhy the silvermans let us in was becouse missionaries talked to them yearsago and they liked it! those missionaries have no idea that there old freindsare reading the book of mormon, but if it wasnt for them they wouldnt be wherethey are today! so even if your farind say NO it is okay becouse the seed isplanted and when you get to the feet of the Savior you can say i tried! you canshow forth fruite saying i am greatful for you have done! family i love yalltons and hope thatyall have a great week! thank you soo much for the supportand the prayer! i love yall and havea great week!
love elder joshua Kiser!
HAPPY VALENTINES DAY YALL! February 14, 2012
HAPPY VALINTINES DAY YALL!
man time is really going by fast! we had our last transfercalls last night, that is why i am writing on a tuesday! i am going to finishin denham springs! i really like it here and i already know all the members andhave great Friends here so it works! although i am going to have a newcompanion tomorrow Elder Keller is trained and ready to go! it would benice to get someone who really likes to work hard, is humble and fun to bearound, and loves missionary work! but i think id rather have someone justopposite of that, that way i can learn new things! The other missionaries inthe apartment have not been getting along very well, and so we went on alot ofexstanges.. Well i went with Elder Williams who is Slow and steady.... Where iam really really fast! it was really fun to be able to see the differences! iwas extremely blessed this week, as i was reading the scriptures i really liketo see the things in them that maybe the nor would of missed it. i was readingIsaiah about spirit world and i thought that was really cool! as well as i readabout a standard in the later days. i just noticed in the last weeks differentthings that maybe i would of just missed if i wasn't looking! Just Like theAngle told nephi LOOK! it is really fun to learn, in Sunday school we talkedabout loving everyone. i brought up i think it was in the book how to winfriends and influence people, well i read like 5 pages out of that book and ittalked about how we need to ourselves in there shoes and have understanding forthem! if you understand them, then you will know who to love them, or how toshow your love to them! i thought it was a really cool idea and we talked alotabout that in church! there was also three investigators at church this week,and they all really enjoyed the lesson! Oya i was able to teach second hour! iwas really cool! Katie moore who has not been back to church since she was like15 and she is like 30 now came this week with her no member husband, they bothreally enjoyed it! anyways in second hour the started to cry a little witheveryone else! the spirit was really strong! we talked about Baptism for thedead and the plan of salvation. so church this week was really fun! O ya beforei forget it is fun that i am coming home! i am truly excited, i am so gratefulto have a family that really supports me in what i like to do! i logged untoMormon.org and there is a really cool guy he is a snow boarder it is a reallyneat video, in fact the Brighton Cabin is in the back ground of a part of it.well as i watched this video i really, really wanted to go skateboarding infact that is all i could think about, and for the next 3 hours i was justthinking about skateboarding and i couldn't really focus on what i was called todo. i love yall very very much and i only have 6 weeks to finish what i wascalled and chosen to do, and i would lovingly ask you to write me and give mesupport but when you do please don't talk about things that might take mythought off the savior! i am so great that i have this opportunity to serve theLord at this time and age! it is really a blessing to me and i am learning andgrowing! it is not a measure of blessings or success, but there is alot ofgreat people that are reading and praying daily, coming to church, as well asgetting ready for baptism! it is really neat to be here! i am loving life! i amtrying my best to focus on things that truly matter most! i am trying to seektrue doctrine from the father! the work again is great! thank yall very verymuch for the support! O almost everyone morning this week we have played basketball! i am still not very good but i think i am getting better! do you thinkthis is true the more you do something the better you get.. but at the sametime you realize how much more there is to it and so you are no thinking youare not really that good to begin with? ha ha that is now at the stage ofbasket ball! :) but it is alot of fun! we are going to play today all day! :)with a few other people! i love yall tons, sorry i know i missed spelt alot ofwords, next time maybe ill misspell one less! :) Elder Williams just said HI!he looks ALOT like Justin! just a little bigger! anyways i love yall have agreat week! thank you very much for the support!
love your brother
ELder Joshua Kiser!
man time is really going by fast! we had our last transfercalls last night, that is why i am writing on a tuesday! i am going to finishin denham springs! i really like it here and i already know all the members andhave great Friends here so it works! although i am going to have a newcompanion tomorrow Elder Keller is trained and ready to go! it would benice to get someone who really likes to work hard, is humble and fun to bearound, and loves missionary work! but i think id rather have someone justopposite of that, that way i can learn new things! The other missionaries inthe apartment have not been getting along very well, and so we went on alot ofexstanges.. Well i went with Elder Williams who is Slow and steady.... Where iam really really fast! it was really fun to be able to see the differences! iwas extremely blessed this week, as i was reading the scriptures i really liketo see the things in them that maybe the nor would of missed it. i was readingIsaiah about spirit world and i thought that was really cool! as well as i readabout a standard in the later days. i just noticed in the last weeks differentthings that maybe i would of just missed if i wasn't looking! Just Like theAngle told nephi LOOK! it is really fun to learn, in Sunday school we talkedabout loving everyone. i brought up i think it was in the book how to winfriends and influence people, well i read like 5 pages out of that book and ittalked about how we need to ourselves in there shoes and have understanding forthem! if you understand them, then you will know who to love them, or how toshow your love to them! i thought it was a really cool idea and we talked alotabout that in church! there was also three investigators at church this week,and they all really enjoyed the lesson! Oya i was able to teach second hour! iwas really cool! Katie moore who has not been back to church since she was like15 and she is like 30 now came this week with her no member husband, they bothreally enjoyed it! anyways in second hour the started to cry a little witheveryone else! the spirit was really strong! we talked about Baptism for thedead and the plan of salvation. so church this week was really fun! O ya beforei forget it is fun that i am coming home! i am truly excited, i am so gratefulto have a family that really supports me in what i like to do! i logged untoMormon.org and there is a really cool guy he is a snow boarder it is a reallyneat video, in fact the Brighton Cabin is in the back ground of a part of it.well as i watched this video i really, really wanted to go skateboarding infact that is all i could think about, and for the next 3 hours i was justthinking about skateboarding and i couldn't really focus on what i was called todo. i love yall very very much and i only have 6 weeks to finish what i wascalled and chosen to do, and i would lovingly ask you to write me and give mesupport but when you do please don't talk about things that might take mythought off the savior! i am so great that i have this opportunity to serve theLord at this time and age! it is really a blessing to me and i am learning andgrowing! it is not a measure of blessings or success, but there is alot ofgreat people that are reading and praying daily, coming to church, as well asgetting ready for baptism! it is really neat to be here! i am loving life! i amtrying my best to focus on things that truly matter most! i am trying to seektrue doctrine from the father! the work again is great! thank yall very verymuch for the support! O almost everyone morning this week we have played basketball! i am still not very good but i think i am getting better! do you thinkthis is true the more you do something the better you get.. but at the sametime you realize how much more there is to it and so you are no thinking youare not really that good to begin with? ha ha that is now at the stage ofbasket ball! :) but it is alot of fun! we are going to play today all day! :)with a few other people! i love yall tons, sorry i know i missed spelt alot ofwords, next time maybe ill misspell one less! :) Elder Williams just said HI!he looks ALOT like Justin! just a little bigger! anyways i love yall have agreat week! thank you very much for the support!
love your brother
ELder Joshua Kiser!
Letter from Dad February 13, 2012
HappyValentine’s day!! Mom and I sure love you.
Melissais in the hospital this morning. Looks like you may have a new nieceabout the time you receive this letter!!! It will be your 21stniece or nephew.
Wehad a fun weekend. Sam Taggart got married. Katie, his wife, isreally cute, there are some real similarities between Spencer’s Katie andSam’s Katie. Both are petite and very energetic. One isblonde and the other has dark brown hair. The weeding was performed atthe Salt Lake Temple and it was packed, lots of family. The reception wasat the Salt Lake Country Club. It think that her dad might be adoctor. I know that Spencer’s father in law is a heart surgeon, sothat may be another common thread. There was really good food and a liveband. The music was fun and lively. Everyone seemed to be having agreat time.
Itis fun for me to hear your stories of playing basketball. I loved thegame so much and almost spent as much time playing basketball as you didskateboarding. I was pretty good and at just under six foot I coulddunk. I never dunked in a game, but I did in warm ups. When Iplayed in college, the floor at Ricks College in Rexburg had a lot of flex, itwas like a trampoline and made it a lot easier to dunk.
Craigan Beccy came down for the weekend as well. Nate got Craig involved in apiece of property in Tooele and Craig is hopeful that they have a buyer for theproperty. So they came down to meet with some folks relating to thatproject. It would be nice for Craig if he could get out of thatinvestment. We all got together for dinner at Dad’s yesterday asBeccy fixed a roast and potatoes. It was nice to get together. I sure reminisced thinking about Grandma Kiser and the fun eventswe had at the house when she was around and fixed dinner for thefamilies. I miss her often and think of her a lot.
GrandpaDriggs birthday was last Thursday and many of the Driggs’ aunts anduncles gathered at Chuck A Rama for lunch.
Thestory about your purchasing a box of Magic Cards is inspiring. Relationships can be difficult and I am glad that you were inspired to dosomething that helped out with your companion relationships. Glad thatyou were all smiling and laughing as you stayed up late and played magiccards. You have learned so much as a missionary and I am so glad that youdecided to serve the Lord as a missionary. Mom has really worked hard onthis proposal she put together for APA. I am glad that she shared it withyou.
Thelegislature has been challenging, it always is. I chair an appropriationscommittee and lots of folks are asking for money. We are going to have totell a lot of people “no”. I wish we could help more, but itjust is not possible. Kathryn and her girls came up on Friday to theCapitol. I just happened to have a bill up for debate and discussion andthey were in the balcony of the chamber in the House to hear me presentit. Claire came down and sat beside me while I presented, it was fun forboth of us. In the ten years that I have been a representative, this isthe first time that Kathryn had come up while we were in session so it wasreally special for me.
Iam sure grateful for you and very proud of your service and devotion toHeavenly Father and Jesus Christ. We are so blessed to have thegospel in our lives and enjoy the spirit and testimony that comes from activityin the church. I have been reading in 2 Nephi as Lehi shares histestimony with his young son Joseph and tells him of the connection that he hasin the past to Joseph of Old and then proceeds to tell him that in the latterdays Joseph Smith will become the prophet of the restoration and bring forththe Book of Mormon. My testimony seems to be founded in the Book ofMormon and in Joseph Smith. I am so grateful that our families had thecourage to come across the plains and to settle in Utah and Idaho. Thatthey were so willing to make the sacrifice to come out and settle inZion. We have rich tradition with the Kiser, Robinson and the Driggsfamilies. I hope that our family will always treasure the richness of ourpioneer ancestry.
Gottago I love you so much. Keep focused on your work as it will end soquickly. You are awesome and an inspiration to me.
Loveyou,
Dad
Melissais in the hospital this morning. Looks like you may have a new nieceabout the time you receive this letter!!! It will be your 21stniece or nephew.
Wehad a fun weekend. Sam Taggart got married. Katie, his wife, isreally cute, there are some real similarities between Spencer’s Katie andSam’s Katie. Both are petite and very energetic. One isblonde and the other has dark brown hair. The weeding was performed atthe Salt Lake Temple and it was packed, lots of family. The reception wasat the Salt Lake Country Club. It think that her dad might be adoctor. I know that Spencer’s father in law is a heart surgeon, sothat may be another common thread. There was really good food and a liveband. The music was fun and lively. Everyone seemed to be having agreat time.
Itis fun for me to hear your stories of playing basketball. I loved thegame so much and almost spent as much time playing basketball as you didskateboarding. I was pretty good and at just under six foot I coulddunk. I never dunked in a game, but I did in warm ups. When Iplayed in college, the floor at Ricks College in Rexburg had a lot of flex, itwas like a trampoline and made it a lot easier to dunk.
Craigan Beccy came down for the weekend as well. Nate got Craig involved in apiece of property in Tooele and Craig is hopeful that they have a buyer for theproperty. So they came down to meet with some folks relating to thatproject. It would be nice for Craig if he could get out of thatinvestment. We all got together for dinner at Dad’s yesterday asBeccy fixed a roast and potatoes. It was nice to get together. I sure reminisced thinking about Grandma Kiser and the fun eventswe had at the house when she was around and fixed dinner for thefamilies. I miss her often and think of her a lot.
GrandpaDriggs birthday was last Thursday and many of the Driggs’ aunts anduncles gathered at Chuck A Rama for lunch.
Thestory about your purchasing a box of Magic Cards is inspiring. Relationships can be difficult and I am glad that you were inspired to dosomething that helped out with your companion relationships. Glad thatyou were all smiling and laughing as you stayed up late and played magiccards. You have learned so much as a missionary and I am so glad that youdecided to serve the Lord as a missionary. Mom has really worked hard onthis proposal she put together for APA. I am glad that she shared it withyou.
Thelegislature has been challenging, it always is. I chair an appropriationscommittee and lots of folks are asking for money. We are going to have totell a lot of people “no”. I wish we could help more, but itjust is not possible. Kathryn and her girls came up on Friday to theCapitol. I just happened to have a bill up for debate and discussion andthey were in the balcony of the chamber in the House to hear me presentit. Claire came down and sat beside me while I presented, it was fun forboth of us. In the ten years that I have been a representative, this isthe first time that Kathryn had come up while we were in session so it wasreally special for me.
Iam sure grateful for you and very proud of your service and devotion toHeavenly Father and Jesus Christ. We are so blessed to have thegospel in our lives and enjoy the spirit and testimony that comes from activityin the church. I have been reading in 2 Nephi as Lehi shares histestimony with his young son Joseph and tells him of the connection that he hasin the past to Joseph of Old and then proceeds to tell him that in the latterdays Joseph Smith will become the prophet of the restoration and bring forththe Book of Mormon. My testimony seems to be founded in the Book ofMormon and in Joseph Smith. I am so grateful that our families had thecourage to come across the plains and to settle in Utah and Idaho. Thatthey were so willing to make the sacrifice to come out and settle inZion. We have rich tradition with the Kiser, Robinson and the Driggsfamilies. I hope that our family will always treasure the richness of ourpioneer ancestry.
Gottago I love you so much. Keep focused on your work as it will end soquickly. You are awesome and an inspiration to me.
Loveyou,
Dad
HEY FAMILY! February 9, 2012
HEY FAMILY! i am Email late today! i woke up really earlyand studied so that we could go fishing in the morning! i caught i big 0! it isokay becouse if you take half of the 0, it would look like this ) and if youadd : it would look like :) and that is a smily face! it was still pretty sweetto go fishing! so would you like to know something sweet that happend thisweek! so the other night i was sick.. mega lame well i was at wall greensbuying medican Night quill and well i felt like i really needed to buy magiccards.. i was wierd because i NEVER play cards infact the cards you sent me igave to a kid for christmas! anyways wallgreens did sell magic cards ( the Cardgame) so i needed to drive to walmart down the road and they solid all sorce ofdiffernt packs and boxes, so i said a short prayer in my hart and grabed arandom box a little confused. we came in about 9:30 at night, and from about9:30 to 11 pm i waited to the other missionaries who live with us to come in toshow them my new tresure, well they had been fighting back and forth all nightcalled president wall and talked to him for a little while... well when theywalked into the appartment they both saw me smiling holding a Big box of MagicCards! Elder williams showed us how to play and we stayed up till 1 PM ( thelatest ive stayed up in two years! and we all were smiling and laughing by theend! it was amazing to slow down a little lift up our eyes and to be able tosee the things that matters most! the stupid thing they were fighting about wasovercomed by a peace and a joy! i belive dilligently doing the things thatmatter most will lead us to the savior! i think we are sooo cuaght up in ourown little world that we miss out on oppertunities and learning exspirances!for instance i would of never ever thought about the card game magic, i foundsomething that brought me joy. i found another thing that i can learn from! ilove miricals like that becouse there kinda goofy and i think God is kindagoofy! do you possible belive god allowed saten to do something to get theothers made so i could get those sweet cards and over all have a better night?O ya i also spent an hour drawing on exstanges while i was helping anothermissionary with a map! and it was soo cool! i drew a mountin with a sweet cave!i looks like a two year old drew it, but i also had fun doing that! i think oneof the coolest things i have learned on my mission is trying new things! o ya ithink i already told you last week! but there is another missionary who likesbasket ball so we were able to play every morning at six A.M.! and i wasteaching the lewis girls and when we walked into there house there was a basketball game and i watched it for about two mins...... those guys are really goodthere fast! so for the last few days i have tried dribbling, shooting andpassing really fast! i am realling liking trying new things, the only thing idid back home was skateboard and play wow! O ya mom thanks for the letter it iscool that you save the much for the schools! i told the missionaries when i gotit that my mom saved $1,222,023.63 (or something) last year, and there mouthsdropped a little... it is true, but then i informed them it wasnt her money! ithink if was your money i wouldnt tell anyone. we are having tons of success!it seems like the less i physically work, and the more i work with my brain themore work gets done! intersting! i am not working hard for the rest of mymission, what i mean by that is doing things that are less acftive that istiring! well i love yall and hope that yall havea great week! ill see yousoon! sam taggert i think you get married this week gratz brother!
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Elder Joshua Kiser
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