No Rest for the Weary…but happy!

Ha I dont know about rested but I did survive...  I don't know when the heck he got time to write a letter haha he must have snuck it in when we were working at the office sometime. (his companion wrote home last week, but he didn't.  To his credit, he warned me I might not hear from him)    It was crazy though, but really fun.  Everything actually worked out according to plan this time too!  But man 35 missionaries is a lot.  And a lot of luggage.  They fly on a little plane from Detroit to Cleveland and they took up the entire thing.  They had too much luggage too so they ended up driving it down from Detroit, haha I felt like some sort of travel coordinator the whole time.  It is so fun with the new missionaries especially in such a large group.  They just kind of flock around you and ask you a billion questions and do anything you say.  The smaller groups aren't really like, that but for some reason the big ones are. I was loading luggage one morning and I overheard some missionaries talking and one says "Man I lost my mini Preach my Gospel!  I need to find a Deseret Book when I get to my area, I hope they have them in Spanish"  hahaha! Poor kid, I don't think he has ever been outside of Utah.  I just smiled haha.  President and Sister Vellinga were champs too.  Elder Ingersoll and I entertained the whole night while they pounded through interviews.  I didn't think he was going to get them all done but man was he in tune that night.  It was really cool to see.  He finished at about 11 and we started our transfer meeting.  He knew exactly where everyone should go.  It was cool to see him work.  We went to bed about 1:30 and got up at 4:30.  Took 8 cars to Kirtland, did the tour and had the biggest transfer meeting ever.  It was really cool but after departures were over my mind was just fried.  President and Sister Vellinga had to leave that day to go to D.C. for a Mission Presidents seminar too.   Kristen (Pres. Vellinga's daughter) texted us and told us they were at Panda Express and brought us back fortune cookies to make us jealous. haha  I am excited to see what President learned at this seminar though.  The rest of the week is kind of just a blur, just trying to get caught up and everything updated.  We created 2 new zones and called 8 "sister training leaders"  so there has been a lot to update and stuff.   We are up to 88 companionships in the mission and 9 of those are triple ups.  We were at like 62 when I first started as an AP.  I counted a couple days ago and by next transfer we will have 99 missionaries out 6 months or less which is a little over half the mission.  And when Elder Ingersoll goes home we will lose every former AP and most of the current or former Zone leaders.  We are losing a lot of the little things training wise too because we have so many new missionaries training other new missionaries.  The little things are falling between the cracks.  There is just a lot of work to do in the next few months haha.  

Last week was a good week though.  I cant remember much of it but we finished up interviews with President.  We had kind of a cool experience in Youngstown though.  We were doing interviews and we were just sitting in the foyer eating lunch and some guy walked in and started asking about the septic tank and stuff.  I assumed he was a member with the FM group because they are always there.  I started talking to him and asking if he does the other buildings and then I just said wait are you a member of the church?  He said no so I asked if he had ever been in a Mormon church before and he said no so I asked if he would like a free tour and he was like really excited and said yes.  We took him on a tour of the church and talked about baptism, the priesthood, family history and the sacrament.  It was really fun! I am not sure how interested he was in meeting with missionaries but we got his number and gave him a Book of Mormon and stuff.  Oh and that morning we met President in Akron to drive out with him.  We met at the church at 7:30 and when we got there, there was a missionary car in the parking lot.  We thought that was weird for that early in the morning so we went in to see what they were doing.  We walk into the gym and 2 missionaries were asleep on the stage and like flew up and came down and were scared to death.  It was soooo funny.  I think they thought they were in trouble.  They were just there for seminary that morning and took a nap before studies at 8.  But they were pretty freaked out.  We got a text from the ZLs later that day saying "I don't know if this makes a difference at all but Elder ... is a great missionary and a great district leader"   I decided to call the missionaries and let them know they weren't in trouble or anything.  They were a little freaked out.  I guess any one would be if the AP's walked in on you asleep in your building at 7:30 am unannounced.  It was so funny though.  

So I think last week you asked about leaving blessings in homes.  We have been doing that for a while now. I don't know if we have seen a ton more success from it but we definitely get into doors we wouldn't have otherwise.  But I don't really know, I have tracted like 4 hours the last 5 months haha.  

I am glad you got to see Schoephle!  That is cool.  I hope I get to come back soon after my mission.  That is too bad his family isn't very open.  I am sure they will at least soften up as they see him progress.  

It was weird, we were at dinner last night at the Barnard's and was looking at the pictures on their fridge and saw David Sorensen!  I didn't really remember him but I was like hey what is that guys name?  I know him!  It was funny I guess Sister Barnard is really good friends with his wife.  The Barnard's area cool family though, I like them.  Cute kids too.  That is so weird those kids (the Bury twins) got their mission calls…  I forget everyone else's life keeps going when you are out here haha.  

Love, Elder Skalla

The Blessing of Panda Express

Hi,  Sorry it has been a crazy day...  This last week has been busy and this week is even worse...    Im not even sure where to start so I guess I will just tell you day by day haha.  We spent most of the week meeting and going places with President.   Tuesday we had mission council which went really well.  I remember when those were like the highlights of my weeks haha.  It really is a cool meeting to be with some of the best missionaries you know, President Vellinga and Elder Sorensen and talk about the needs of the mission.  Wednesday we were out on interviews with President.  We went from Cleveland to Akron to Medina to Wooster to Massillon to Canton and back to Akron then back home.  It was a long day.  That night we had a few good appointments with some less actives and recent converts.  The recent converts we ate dinner with about gave me a heart attack.  We were talking about what we were going to do after our missions and stuff and I told them I was going to USU when I got home and stuff and she was like oh thats cool so you are going to go to BYU Logan?  I just kinda thought they weren't sure what it was because they were new members so I explained to them it wasn't a church school and they were like no I think BYU just acquired it.  She like pulled out an article and everything and showed me and I was sooooo mad and like freaking out and told her to show me on another website because I didn't believe her and she was frantically trying to pull it up and then she found out it was an april fools joke.  But it about scared me half to death.  Then I was thinking that you could seriously mess with missionaries,  like we are so disconnected you could tell us anything and we would believe it.  Anyway I was glad to hear that was a joke haha.  

Thursday was the best day of my mission....  We were on interviews again.  We went to Fremont, Bowling Green, Findlay and Lima.  So I am sure I have told you there are no Panda Express' in the entire mission.  Well we heard a rumor they put one in the student union building at Bowling Green State so after much convincing, President let us stop and look.  He stayed in the car and Elder Ingersoll and I were like running around campus looking for this place because we only had 30 mins before our next interview.  We finally found it and the 21 month void in my stomach was filled.  It was so worth all the driving.  When we went to pay we handed the lady Presidents card and she asked for ID.  We said we didn't have any and then she started laughing and said "well if I can't trust you guys I can't trust anyone" and let us go haha.  President has been making fun of how excited we were ever since.  We had to go see a missionary that went to the hospital that night too and Elders Weaver and Berryessa were there too (they are companions now by the way)  and they were soooo mad at us. (for getting Panda without them)  haha President doesn't understand why we all love it.  I told him we want to go back and buy like 30 of them and sell them for 50 bucks each to missionaries.  I also told him I would gladly be transferred to Bowling Green now haha.  

Friday was Cleveland interviews.  This included ours.  I am with him so much and tell him everything so I wasn't really sure what we would talk about.  We ended up having a great interview and talked about a lot of things and one sparked a question that I took to prayer and to General conference that was answered this weekend.  I love when that happens.  He also gave me a temple reccommend interview.  Hard to believe that expires this month.  That went really well too.  It was amazing to me how much more those questions meant to me this time than the last.  I feel like the answers came more from my heart and I understood the importance of them now. It almost brought me to tears.  I cant wait to go back one day.  We have a former temple president that just got here a couple weeks ago from Mississippi and they work in the office some times and man do they have some cool stories.  Saturday and Sunday we spent the whole days watching conference and working on transfers with President before and after sessions.   We had dinner with the sisters in our ward at the Vellingas Saturday night.  They are like the most distracting members to eat with, its funny.  I really loved conference though.  I hate that it was my last one on my mission.  I liked hearing Elder Golden speak.  He is the one that came to Youngstown last year.  In the past 2 conferences every general authority I have met has spoken.   I think my favorite talks were Elder Callister, Elder Bednar, Elder Corbon I think it is and President Packers testimony at the end of his talk.  You ought to go back and listen to his phrasing of that testimony.  Incredible.

Well transfers are next week and I am staying as an AP for another transfer, looks like I will only get one more in the field...  This transfer has been such a trick though.  We just dont have enough places and trainers.  We are getting 24 this transfer so we also had to split 2 zones.   What made today crazy was the surprise Salt Lake gave us.  We are getting 11 additional visa waiters with this transfer...   So we had to find places and trainers for 34 missionaries.  It has been stressful. we still dont know what we are going to do with them all.  Last time with 29 we had that extra day that President spent the whole time interviewing.  This time we cant do that because President has a MP seminar to go to right after transfers.  We still dont know what were going to do.  They come in on Monday afternoon and Transfers are Tuesday afternoon and we need to figure out how to get 34 people interviewed, dinner, some sleep at who knows where and then to Kirtland in less than 24 hours...  But it always works out.  They come in on Monday too so I wouldn't expect an e mail next week.  I am not sure how that is going to work.  We are going to be running. 

Tomorrow we have trainers meeting Wednesday and Thursday we have interviews and Friday we have our final Transfer meeting with President and Elder Sorensen so we aren't going to get to work much in our area. 

Man every week I just blab to you how busy we are haha but as stressful and hard as it is its all for the right reasons and it really is a good time!  I wouldnt want to be anywhere else.  I know this is where President needs me and the Lord needs me and I will give it everything I have for another transfer. 

That is so cool you got to meet Elder Ingersoll's family!  Last night at like 11 we were finishing things at the office and Elder Ingersoll got that picture from his mom but it didn't explain why you were there so we were trying to figure out why you would be at the Taco Bell arena haha.  That is cool you got to go to the Davis cup too! I am jealous. 

Well I gotta get going! Pray we survive this week and next!  Love and mss you!!

Elder Skalla 

Kirtland Missionaries for a day

Hey! 

 

Sounds like you had a good week!  So did I!  It was really a fun week too.  Way busy though.  Last night after numbers I was really burned out.  I have just put everything I have had in the tank into the last 3 transfers and it has been great but man it weighs heavy sometimes.  I don't know if that feeling means I am getting released this transfer or what.  I guess we will see what President and the Lord have in mind. 

I did get your package!!  I liked the tie and I wore it yesterday!  I was mad at you for sending candy but I just put it in the office candy jar thingy.  I was talking to Sister Vellinga last night and she feels the same way about Jared.  She says he doesn't like candy or food sent to him but she feels obligated as a mom to send him something so I am assuming that's how you feel too :) So that is really funny about the matching purple ties thing cuz guess who got matching purple ties?  Elder Ingersoll, President and I haha.  I don't have a picture yet but I will get one soon.   It was funny we bought them and then Elder Ingersoll and I both wore them to staff meeting last week and were asking President if he thought it was an ok tie and if he would wear it.  He has to be super Conservative with his ties so we were taking a risk getting him a purple one but it was so funny because he thought we were legitimately concerned that our ties weren't ok and when we asked him he was like well I don't know what do you think? Is it too much? What does your handbook say?  Then we gave him his and he said he had to pray about it to see if he could wear it haha.  He is such a goof, he liked it though.  President asked us to go to interviews with him around the mission over the next few weeks to meet with companionship's and do some training on Area books and planners so we were in Kirtland and had quite the experience.  We all wore our matching ties to interviews and all the sisters just thought it was adorable haha, they are funny.  But he tells us we have to be at his house at 7:30 so we can drive to Kirtland Thursday morning.  I get a call at 5 am Thursday and I was like dead asleep and he says Elder Skalla?  Ya?  Guess what?  Uh I don't know, what president?  You have an hour to be at my house, I messed up on the times.   It was funny just getting a call from him at 5 with him saying guess what haha.   So we go to interviews and man it was rough.  It went really well but it was just like the same thing over and over with each set of missionaries.  Then President had about 2 hours of interviews with senior couples where we didn't have anything to do so we went and talked to Elder Sorensen, the sites director and he let us be Kirtland sisters for a day!  haha We probably had a little too much fun but we got to go in their little call center chat room which is like forbidden for Elders and got to chat!  You each have your own computer but you chat to someone as companions.  We talked to a few crazy people but then taught this really sweet guy that was like almost too good to be true and committed him to baptism over the Internet.  We thought it was someone messing with us but he was totally real.  We were like getting all excited in the lesson and high fiving each other and then got all excited when he said he would be baptized and said that they should get like a bell to ring when that happens.  The sisters kept having to tell us to be quiet and that it was a sacred place haha, but we were just having too much fun.  It was a pretty cool experience and we are like the only Elders who have ever done that so it was fun. 

Friday and Saturday I was on Exchanges in Akron again so I got to see more people I knew down there so that was good.   Easter was pretty quiet.  Well Kinda.  We taught primary 3rd hour with the sisters since all the teachers were in the combined thing so that was a little crazy, but the rest of the day was quiet.  We practiced our musical number we are doing in church on the 14th and then we had dinner with some members and met with President for a lot of the day. 

Sorry you got released from YW...  I am sure that was hard but you will be fine in any calling you are in!  If you lived out here would have already been relief society president twice and every other leadership calling you can think of. 

I did get Tina's e mail!  And I would be soooo tempted if you went to the temple with her!  Is it bad if I get sent home for sneaking  to Columbus to go to the temple? haha Last time I told her to just wait till July and fly out to Denver or Salt Lake and go there.  I am glad she is preparing well though. 

Well we have a super busy week with Interviews, ZTM's, mission council and starting to get ready for transfers.  We have a couple lessons this afternoon.  We had to schedule them on P day because we have no other time during the week that worked.  It is going to be weird having a full one again. 

I love you and I am so thankful for all you do for me and the support you give me.  Have fun in Boise!  That's where Elder Ingersoll is from.  His mom has run into 2 of his companions that are home and the parents of another so I wouldn't be surprised if she runs into you some crazy way. haha 

Love and miss you!!

 

Elder Skalla 

Happy Easter

I know its not much of spring here either.  It is snowing right now.  We got about 4 inches last night.  I am so sick of it it has been a long long cloudy winter.  I am ready to see some sun and green.  
Man I wish I was complaining about 200 in a sacrament meeting! haha That's pretty darn good for here.  So do you still meet in the stake center or are you back in our building?  Its going to be so weird coming home to so many changes.  Speaking of coming home stuff.  I get home July 12th now.  We had to move that transfer back a day.  Second I am pretty sure registration for next semester is soon.  You may want to talk to Brandi or someone to see about getting me back in school.  I also need somewhere to live... I don't even know where to start with that.  oh and a new Ford Raptor if you have time... :)  haha Sorry I am so needy but there is not much I can do from here.  I think I gave you a folder before I left that tells you how to do everything.  Lake Powell sounds good to me! haha I don't care what we do.  I just hope I don't fry in the sun.  I'm pasty white now unfortunately. Its going to be weird without Ali and Ty.  And Jenni is a mom now so she she isn't fun anymore.  And Dad is an old man it sounds like now so looks like me and Ryan are going to be the only ones that can have any fun... haha kidding.  I am excited and it all sounds great to me.  Not like I have any plans.  
That is sad about that guy.  If only he understood what the gospel could do for him.  I will keep him in my prayers. 
This week was pretty normal.  A bunch of meetings and exchanges.  We had our training meeting with all the new missionaries and their trainers in Kirtland.  Man was that a trick.  It was like 2 zone conferences. There were 63 missionaries there.  We let them watch the Kirtland video and the sister take them on a short tour and then Elder Ingersoll and I did some training for another 2 hours.  It was fun with that many people.  We also picked up 25 pizzas for lunch.  I probably told you about him last time but we bought the pizza from the same local pizza place and man does the owner love us.  He was all giddy 6 weeks ago when we ordered 12 pizzas you shoulda seen him with 25!  He was buttering us up big time.  I think he likes our money.  
We got a couple new investigators this week.  One is a guy a member met outside of Walmart and another is a La's boyfriend.  His name is Durio.  Which is my suggestion for Ali's sons name.  You say it like Darito but without the T.  
So I got like the best news of my whole life last night!  Brother and Sister H went to the temple on Saturday and got endowed.  Man that made me soooooo happy.  Its like the ultimate goal you strive to help people get to and they made it.  They are finishing up the adoption process for C and then they will go get sealed. Smoking and Drinking to Active, endowed, young mens president in less than a year.  No one will ever be able to tell me that someone isn't ready to be invited to prepare for the temple.  It is President Monson's rescue working perfectly.  You have so many people say "oh well they aren't even active or living the commandments we cant invite them to prepare for the temple, they aren't ready."  Not true.  It worked for them! 

That's funny I was thinking about that letter from Easter last week!  The Atonement is a miraculous thing. 

I hope you have a great week and a good Easter! Love and miss you!! 

Elder Skalla 

More thought, prayer and effort…

Hey!! 

 

Sorry I am e mailing a little earlier...  President switched the schedule around a little because we have to get some missionaries going to Brazil to the airport.  They finally got their visas. 

This week was really good!  Semi normal.  We were across the mission from Bowling Green to Ashtabula going to zone training meetings and picking up visa waiters.  We actually got some time to find this week too!  We have been working with the mission on finding the elect and using every tool we have been given to find and not just mindlessly tracting.  We need to be more confident in the message we share and start to find because we are struggling.  Elder Ingersoll and I kinda cracked the whip on it in the Zone meetings we went to.  This week I finally got to practice what I have been preaching and do some finding for the first time in like 6 weeks.  We planned to stop by a few formers and tract some specific places and set goals on what tools we wanted to use and how we were going to focus our efforts on the days we got to go out.  Over 3 days we knocked on 4 doors and got in all 4 and taught lessons and set 2 return appointments.  It was awesome. I have never had that much success in such a short time.  We had planned to go a lot longer but every time we got out we knocked on the first door we felt impressed to and they let us in every time.  I definitely have a testimony of putting a little more thought, prayer and effort into finding.  Hopefully one day ill get to go back to the field and use is more haha. 

When we went to Youngstown ZTM we showed up and Dylan was there in a suit!  The Elders there invited him to the meeting.  It was fun to see him and talk about how he was doing and see him get excited to go on a mission.  I kinda embarrassed him I think because I pulled him up in front of everyone and talked about his miracle of how he prayed about a date that was 1 week away and we had to get moving to make sure he was ready and everything was set for the baptism.  He got a lot more comfortable though and by the end was practicing and talking with all the other missionaries.  It was cool to see. 

I did get my running shoes in the mail, thank you! Sorry for the short e mail.  I hope you had a good week!  

Love and miss you!!

 

Elder Skalla

Survived "the flood",

HEY!!  

Well we did survive... barely.  It was an absolutely insane week.  Just about everything that could have gone wrong went wrong and the weeks we spent preparing and making plans got thrown out the window and we just had to wing it, but we figured it out and everything worked out!  

President got a call Monday night at 12 am saying that the flight the 29 of them were supposed to be on got cancelled and told him all the other options.   They also said there would be 30 coming so we had to scramble to find a trainer and an area and all that kind of stuff Tuesday morning.  Then we just had to wait on word from Salt Lake. Then at presidents on Tuesday morning we got a call from the "travel leader"  from the group that was coming.  (the travel leader is someone they give a paper of flights to and its whoever s last name starts with A haha)  Anyway this sister calls and he answers and she was like "uh ya is this our mission president?  We're at the airport and our flight got cancelled and we don't know what to do" haha.  There was like a million missionaries talking in the background trying to figure out whats going on, haha it was really funny.  Then he gets a call from the missionary department to explain what was going on and they were mad because the missionaries are supposed to call them not the mission president and it was just a mess.  We felt bad for them at the airport though.  They ended up splitting up onto 5 different flights coming in throughout the afternoon so we were back and forth from the airport a lot.  It was weird, I have never spent so much time alone on my mission.  We had to drive alone to the airport and all these other places. So we get them all and take them to the stake center with only 2 lost bags.  All this while Sister Vellinga is sick.  (She is better now)  We fed them dinner and got them all to the different places they were staying.  Elder Weaver and I had to go back to the airport at like 11pm to get the lost bags.  We got to bed around 12 that night and woke up at 6 the next day.  All day Wednesday we had training while President interviewed.  Sister Vellinga came and interviewed too even though she was like dying.  She was a champ this week.  Elder Weaver and I did every kind of training you could think of from 9 am to 6 haha, it was a looong day but it actually went really well and we had a lot of fun with them.  Wednesday night right when we were about to go home we had one missionary pretty much pass out so we had to take her to the ER with president.  We got back about 11.  She was ok, she was just tired and stressed and had a little anxiety. We started to pick trainers up and all the stuff we have to do before transfers.  We got to bed a little after 2am Wednesday and took a nap till 4am.  We were on the road with all of them packed in 5 cars to Kirtland by 6am.  Did the Kirtland tour and everything and got ready for transfer meeting.  It was by far the biggest transfer meeting we have ever had.  It was so cool to see.  We got everyone where they were supposed to go took care of departures that night, got home at 11 and I just crashed. Then woke up and ran 2 miles the next morning :)  It was so exhausting and so busy but such an amazing and unforgettable week.  It was part of church history.  Being on a mission and being involved when "the flood " came haha. The best part is in 6 weeks we get to do it all again with 27 more!  

The other cool thing is that we decided to put sisters in our ward! We just don't get a ton of time to proselyte so I think it will be really good.  They are awesome sisters too.  1 brand new one and then one who just got released from being the training sister.  It was funny, they were like celebrities at church yesterday haha, no one even noticed Elder Ingersoll and I haha. We are just old news now.  President just walked in and handed us a goodie bag from sister Vellinga and he said she felt bad that everyone at church gave all the attention to the sisters and not us so she made it for us.  haha She is so funny.  I have never worked in a ward with sisters though so I am excited.  

Sounds like you had quite the sacrament meeting!  That is way sad they split the ward... It was bound to happen I guess.  

(As for picking him up….)I figured you guys would want to.  That trip is what everyone usually does when their parents come to get them.  I would love to do that but I was talking to president and I guess the brethren  discourage it.  He also said its just really weird for the missionary too which I totally agree with.  Its not the same when you are with your family and you are still set apart.  PLEASE PLEASE let us come out in the Fall though.  Ohio is beautiful in the Fall anyway.  Then we could do some of the fun things around here too since I wont be a missionary.  My original release date was July 18th.  But because of transfers you usually stay about a week longer than when you went to the MTC, but now its 2 days short of it.  

By the way I loved Brother Driggs.  He was one of the good ones haha. *(a Seminary teacher that is now in our ward)

We got a missionary from the Castle Rock stake.  Elder Houser.  I told him he was my new favorite missionary since we were the only ones from CO.  He liked that! haha It's funny how much the new missionaries think the AP's are so amazing when were not haha.  I guess I was the same way,  I was reading my journal this week and on my first night I wrote "I hope one day I can be as good of a missionary as the Ap's are"  haha made me laugh.  

It is an amazing time to be serving a mission.  Miracles are happening every day and I love every minute of it.  I hope you got my letter I sent this week!  

Love and miss you!!

Elder Skalla 

Another Crazy Week!!

Hey!!

 

Sorry you are sick!  That's no fun.  Well you guessed right it was another busy week! We are throwing the last second things together today and then tomorrow is when they all come! I am actually really excited but just hope nothing goes wrong.  It is going to be interesting seeing 29 missionaries come out of the terminal at the same time.  I am sure they will turn heads.  I wish I could video it or something.  We are still working out some kinks.  Just pray everything will run smoothly.  Even the weather.  It has been snowing the last 4 or 5 days but today it is beautiful so I just hope it lasts. 

Even amongst delivering furniture, planning travel arrangements, working on transfers and a million other things we actually had some good lessons this week!  We haven't handed David off yet but we taught him about the Book of Mormon this week and invited him to read it and this morning we got this text (see picture)  It was sweet.  He is doing great. 

We had our trainer meeting this week which was way cool meeting with 29 trainers.  Elder Curtis is training too!  So I get my first grandson!  Well half.  Him and another missionary are training together. But I am proud of him.  I am just bummed he is getting transferred so I wont get to see him train but oh well. Our transfer meeting was interesting.  I think I have told you about that but the one where the 3 of us come in fasting and pretty much stare at the board all day long and move people.  It was hard finding places for everyone since so much of the mission is tied up training. The picture is what we stare at haha.  Elder Weaver is getting transferred and my new companion is Elder Matthew Ingersoll.  He came out 1 transfer after me and Elder Weaver trained him in the Tallmadge ward so we have served together before.  He will be awesome. 

I hear ya about time flying by...  I cant believe it is almost spring.  I am not complaining about that though I am sick of winter.  This one was way worse than last year.

That is exciting about all those mission calls!  Even though I feel like some of those people aren't old enough haha.  It's weird Ryan turns 18 next month… 

Well speaking of time flying, I don't know if I have talked to you or if you have thought about it but I don't want you to come pick me up.  But I would love to come back shortly after I am released :)  Then we can do the fun stuff.  Not that there is a whole lot to do in Ohio but like Cedar Point and the Hall of Fames and stuff. 

Also for Easter can I have some razor blades?  No shaving cream I just bought some.  Oh and remember NO FOOD :) 

Sorry I am just spitting out random thoughts.  My mind is a million different places today.  But we gotta go and wash some cars and set up the church for tomorrow.  Please pray for us this week we need all the help we can get!  haha 

Love and miss you!!!

 

Elder Skalla