Monday, October 18th 2010

I did finally get the money mom sent down through Western Union and I bought some way cool stuff with it. I'm way excited to come home. I never got Bro Weidner's letter about giving a talk when I get back, but I got mom's message, so I will plan on it. He wants me to talk on the Articles of Faith - hum . . . . . . .

I am pretty sure I won't be able to use the internet my last Monday here to email, so this will be my last time using the internet till I get home. Next Monday I will be going through a "how to get back into the world" training thing. But otherwise I'm still working and things are going way great. My companion from my last area just wrote me and told me that he baptized the two families we were teaching over there and wanted to know why I didn't come - since I was the one that taught them everything. And it look like that's what is going to happen to me again. We are teaching two families right now. But I will be gone before they are ready to be baptized. But hey, I started it, right. Well - I have got to go, see you all soon.
Love Ya, Elder Woestman.

Tuesday, October 5th 2010

Hi Everyone. This is Andy's mom. Below is Andy's letter from this week. We were able to communicate online yesterday trying to work out a way to get him some money. I had just sent him a debit card because his earlier one expired. Not confident that he would ever actually get the debit card, I sent it through the regular postal service anyway. And to my surprise, he actually did receive it, only to have it eaten/stolen at a fake ATM machine. So - we worked out a way to send him some cash through his Mission President. He only has 22 days left before he heads home and wants to buy some gifts/souvenirs. Andy will arrive back home on Wednesday night, October 27th. Dan and his family, and Anna will be in town to see him. After a short time here, he will head out to Denver and Seattle to visit with Maria and Robert and their families for a week. Then after Christmas Andy will head back to BYU-Idaho to start back to college. Thanks for your support, it has been a blessing to him and to us - we appreciate your prayers and your concerns. -Lots of Love, Laura

ANDY'S LETTER:
So - Mom, you asked me about the condition of my clothes. I don't really have any clothes besides church clothes. The clothes I brought for p-days are torn up bad - I super glued them together so they will last my last few weeks. My white shirts look so bad, and my garments are horrible. So the thing is, I don't really have anything to bring home to say the truth. I mean I don't own anything. I want to buy some clothes here because they're cheap and yea - some gifts. I could probably fit it all in one bag of luggage. So I'm not too worried about space. But now to my week;
So the week was pretty awesome, and why you might ask? Well it was general conference weekend. O-Yea! So that just made everything awesome. But besides that we went on an exchange Wednesday and that was way fun. We also had another special transfer, so now we have a new missionary in the zone. But he is not really new at all because he was the first kid I trained. :P, which is awesome. I love that kid so much. Also we received 3 referrals this week. One is an awesome family. So things are progressing really well in the investigator section. I just hope that they are already married. Why is it that nobody is ever married? But yea that was my week. I hope every one else had an awesome week.
Love Ya, Elder Woestman