December, 8, 2008
Thanks for your letters its good to hear you guys are doing good. Whats this marissa is saying about dad going to the emergency room hopefully everything is okay. This week was a fun week we had our christmas zone conference and it was a ton of fun and it was a great spiritual expierience. Elder southworth and I got to go to the Devotional last night it was awesome i love listening to the prophets. Its crazy we didnt hear that Joseph Wirthlin died till later this week. Its cool to hear that cassie is finally gonna have her baby send me lots of pictures next week. This week we went tracting alot and one day it was negative 30 it was fun im getting more used to it but its still cold. We found a couple potential investigators but there not quite there yet well good Luck to you guys and have fun this week.Love Elder Rushton
December 15, 2008
Its good to hear cassies and mike and Kamery are doing well the pictures were great im excited to be an uncle and you guys are finally grandparents your getting pretty old I dont have much time to write so ill try and write a letter later today. This week went really well we havent found anybody new yet but we will get some soon. The ward is really taking care of us pretty well i never realized the love people have for missionaries they have given us alot i am very grateful this week transfers come up so theres a chance i might get tranfered before christmas or my companion were not sure whos gonna go but we know at least one of us is which stinks but itll work out all right. Thanks for the package the jerkys almost gone. Thanks for all of the love and support Love Elder RushtonHows Taylor doing
December 29, 2008
It was good to talk to you guys on christmas it was fun hearing from you guys. im glad to hear everything is going good for ya. Its pretty funny we've been having a problem with our door the handle gets stuck so it won't close sometimes so my new companion didnt know that so yesterday when we left for church he just shut the door and we left for church. we were gone for about five hours and when we got back the door was opened about a foot or two and it was negative 35 or 40 yesterday so are apartment froze it was pretty funny we took some videos ill have to send to ya the apartment was below zero so we shut the door and then i turned on the oven to try to start heating it up then we called a member and he brought over a bunch of heaters and we started heating it up. we got pretty lucky none of the water pipes broke it was pretty funny the toilet water was frozen i got a couple of pictures the only bad thing was that one of the heater lines broke they use water to heat the apartment but it was a minor problem and we allready got that fixed . It was pretty funny sister dance called this morning to see how we were doing and we told her what happened and she just laughed and asked for pictures. It was pretty funny when we first got in the apartment we just laughed and then we took a video and some pictures. Everything is still going good here we didnt get to go icefishing today because it was to cold but we might be able to go in a couple more weeks. Thanks for all of the love and support. Love Elder Rushton
November 10, 2008
Dear Family,My first transfer is over and i get to stay here with Elder Southworth for six more weeks it will be fun i have a good feeling about this transfer. This week was a crazy week it was fun. One of our zone leaders appendix burst so we've been going on splits to try and help them out hes recovering pretty quick so its good. I think im starting to get used to the cold a little more because its not that bad anymore and ive learned to layer up more also. Its exciting to here how things are going back home and its cool to here that Kenneth comes home this week thats pretty crazy. Its amazing to see how things go by so quick. These last couple of weeks went pretty quick i can see how the lord has already blessed me so much i love being out here and i learn something new everyday. If you guys get Taylors address let me know it would be cool to write him and see how he doing. My companion and I were wondering if you could send some more jerky the missionaries up here loved it, it was pretty funny it didn't last very long. I was also wondering if you could send up my sweat pants if you can if you cant dont worry about it. Well thanks for your letters its good to here how you guys are doing and that all is going well. Love Elder Rushton
November 17, 2008
This week was a good week we had alot more appointments and the work is starting to pick up which is cool and the members are also getting more involved which is fun the members here are awesome. This week we also got to help an investigator butcher a deer which was way fun then he gave us some jerky and it was way good. And if you get a chance when you send the package could you send up somemore pictures i dont have very many and everyone and to see the family. I was also wondering if theres a portable cd player laying around if you could send it i have speakers but no CD player i think there might be a couple in my drawers of somewhere in my room. Well everything here is going awesome thanks for all of the love and support.
Love Elder Rushton
And tell Abbey i laughed pretty hard when i heard she almost hit a pole.
November 24, 2008
I'm sorry to hear that Taylor had to come home thats stinks that he has to have surgery hopefully it goes well so he can get back out there does he have to go to the MTC for 9 more weeks when he goes back. Tell him good luck for me. Its starting to get colder its actually not that bad its kind of fun sometimes the other day the fur on my hat froze around my face it was pretty funny. Its crazy when we go out side the inside of your nose freezes and your nose hairs its weird. Its also good to hear that you guys are doing well even though some people hear make it sound like the worlds going down the drain. Its good to hear that grandpa and Karen and the hithcocks are coming for thanksgiving tell them hi for me and make sure abbey gets the Cd made for the boys I promised i would get that for them. This week was a good week we found a family that were now teaching and they seem really solid they didnt make it to church but we have another appointment and were praying to put her and her kids on date itll be good. Its also good to hear that Andrea had her baby thats pretty cool cassie wont be long to follow. Well have a fun thanksgiving Were going to some members homes so itll be fun. Thanks for all of the Love and support.
Love Elder Rushton
