Tuesday, November 30, 2010

Thanksgiving Week-end in Twin Falls

Cute kids making a tape for Elder Dalan Lerwill



Forever Buddies

Macie sledding


Isn't this the cutest picture! Grandpa helped Macie build this cute pumpkin snowman.

Stockton found his pockets, it was so cute. He is such a handsome cowboy in his wranglers and boots.

Snowflakes

Bailey, Macie and I made snow flakes and Macie really got the hang of it and loved doing it. She divided them all up between, us, them, and grandma. I told her I would bring them home and hang them up, so this is for you Macie. Love You!

THANKSGIVING 2010


We tried something new this year and brined our turkey. It was yummy and moist, I would do it again!

Anyia, Jacee, and Bailey the three teenage girls, how did that happen???

Keeley and Zack

Sklyer, Logan, Karson, and Dillan

Keeley, Jaden, Tukker, Payton, Skyler, Jessani, and Zack




The kids had a ball sledding. It was cold outside but they didn't mind.

Nicholas

Now that is a pile of wet winter clothes.

game playing

lots of talking


Our Children's Lives


This is a lot of pokings! Just thought I would show this, I don't know how long we have used this container but we started a new one again.

Mesa Arizona Temple

Mesa Arizona Temple with the Christmas lights

Transfer News, Staying with Elder Hiatt, Spanish Speaking

Hello how are you all doing?! :) i hope all is going well and you are having a awesome Tuesday in Idaho! all the pics yousent me are crazy! i cannot believe that there is so much snow there already but it is december! that is so crazy i cannot believe how fast time flys by! so we go transfer news and they did split the area! they are bringing in 2 more elders to help us out! it will be amazing! me and elder hiatt are staying together! :) we are so excited! i am stressin though, because i officailly got moved into full spainish work! we are still covering 2 english wards and also all the spainish work in the entire stake! so hopfully through lots of study and prayer i can learn fast! :) i am way excited! i am already picking up on alot of it really fast. it hepls alot being around it all day and listening to it and teaching lessons in it! haha all i can do right now is testify on certain points throughout the lesson but i can follow it all and reconize where we are in the conversations! so with any luck her in 6 weeks i can convay my thoughts! :) i am way excited! we are still in a car because our area actually got bigger because now we are covering the whole stake! so we are so blessed that we get to keep it!


we had a great thanksgiving here, ate lots of food and slept for 4 hour!! it was amazing! i just got back from walmart and i made some christmas cards! haha, so i will send those out to all the family! kinda fun! :)

i got to go to the christmas lights on saturday night and work there from 5 to 10 at night! it was a blast, you get to talk to a ton of people and it is georgous!! so amazing how many lights there are! i am so fortunate that i am in a mission that has 2 temples, christmas lights, and a easter pagent! its so amazing, no i dont have a schedual of when i will be working at the lights but it will be a few times a week till the end of the year! so it will be a blast! :) i am sure i will end up running into some one i know there at some point in time! haha it was 40 degrees there and i was amazed at how chilly it got while standing there on concreate sidewalk for 5 hrs! haha, but it is a blast! you asked if we are in suit coats everyday now and yes we are, but i am doing great! i have wore the other one a few times so it is working out great so there isnt a huge rush on gettting a new one but thanks so much for doing that for me for christmas! :) that will be great! as of right now i am not wearing my slacks at all but during the summer that will be all i wear except for at meetings or other formal things, but i have a perfect number. it all is working out really well! :)

thats way exciting for micheal! he will be great! thats really kool that they came out and did some things with the family the night before he left! thats really kool. i will have to get him a letter off soon! do you have his mission home address?!? if i could get that i would appreciate it! :)

Nathan will be home in 4 months! WOW time flys. that is so exciting. i cant believe how fast things go by as you just go to work! :) I love the christmas season so much and sence we get to work at the lights it gets so exciting! :)

but things are going awesome here! me and elder hiatt are so excitied to be able to stay together through the hollidays! :) we have so much wonderful work still and so many amzing people to work with. the hispanic culture and people are amazing! i am so excited to be able to work with them as well. we really have the best of both worlds! :) so we are really excited and doing well!

i am glad to hear you all had a good thanks giving and wish you all happy hollidays! keep being safe, dont hurt your back shovling grain dad, and please be safe! have a wonderful week and take care!

Love

Elder Dalan Lerwill

Tuesday, November 23, 2010

Tuesday November 23, 2010

Hello every one, how are things going there? sounds like a little snowy! haha that is insane, i cant even imagine snow! my blood sure has thinned out cause it gets down to 45 and i think i am going to die! haha, but things are going awesome here!


that was insane that you got a limo for the dance! looks like they had a great time! really kool that it all worked out and had a good time! :) ya i got the package from cary and family! the popcorn was soo good! :) thanks so much, i have been meaning to get everyone writtin back but time is in short supply! and ya i got savanna's as well! that was really nice! it always brighten my day to get some mail and here from everyone there! :)

that is way kool that you had a good time fishing dad! sounds like you picked the right weeek to do it! haha, it is so hard to think of all the hwys beeing closed and skool out when its sunny here! haha but this week the weather has changed durastically! its been getting into the low 40's at night and only getting up to about 65 during the day! its a little different from idaho!

i cant believe micheals taking off already! that is so exciting, he will do great! :) i am excited for him and that is so funny about the suit pants and what you told him about church! haha, i dont even know what it feels like to go to 3 hrs of church any more!? weird! but ya the pants are the most comfortable thing ever now! but i really did struggle with them at first! haha i am sure it is a little differnet picturing micheal in a suit! haha, he'll tear it up! :) i would like his misson home address as well so i could drop him a note as soon as he gets in the field cause those can sure be some challanging times! :)

ya my suit fits great! its a 40 S or at least that is what i says in the coat! haha and you told me a color...probley just a black or some dark color! thanks so much! :) i dont need any thing fance! :)

so there has been lots of crazythings going on here this week! i have been in meetings with the a.p. s and on the phone with them a lot this week because of all the work that is going on here in our area! they have decided to split it and bring another set of missionaries in to cover the other half of the work! we have so much that we cant cover it all! it is so exciting! :) so there are going to be lots of huge boundry changes and we will be officially be coving a spainish branch!! so guess what?! i really need to learn some spainish! haha :) it is exciting and it will be a blast! there are so many amazing people here that i love so much and are making amazing changes in their lives! so fun and neat to see and be a part of! :) transfers are next tuesday! WOW how time goes by! :) so we will find out exactly how it will all work out this saturday when we get the fax from the mission office but i am sure i will be in contact with the assitance again before then to get everything nailed down! :) but we are stoked about the changes and what will be happening this up coming transfer! :)

ya we have some spainsh people that we are workign with and here soon when we will actually be coving a spainsh branch we will have a few more! haha ;) so excited!

for thanksgiving we are going to eat with some members and play football with the ward teams as well for a turkey bowl! :) so it will be fun. today is only a half pday, we have to be our working to day at noon then on thanksgiving we will have that day be a whole regualar pday! so it will work out awesome!

the christmas lights at the temple will be startign the night after thanksgiving! i am so excited for that! from all the pics i have seen and what ppl say it is a incridble sight! i will get to work at them several times thoughout the hollidays and talk to ppl! it will be amazing! so the next few weeks/transfer is going to be crazy awesome and exciting! :) we will stay busy and it will be a blast! :)

so needless to say things are going awesome here! we will be having a bap here in a few weeks. we found out that he is on parol and so we have to wait a few weeks for him to get off and have him interviewed by president then we will be good to go! he is such a amaizng guy! his name is bryan mcfaddin and he is so sincere, he has read the entire standard works and jesus the christ while he was in prison and knows alot about it all so our lesson some times go pretty deep! haha we have 7 bap dates right now but with the split we will loose 3 of them and pick up 1 so it will all level out! :) we are excited!

i sure hope you enjoy beeing snowed in and go downstairs and watch a good movie! :) enjoy the day there and take care, be safe in the winter weather! i love and miss and appreciate all that you all do for me! thanks for all the support and making this wonderful expirence possible! have a wonderful thanksgiving and enjoy all the family! take care and have a good one!

Love you tonz,

Elder Dalan Lerwill

Long Thanksgiving Break

How lucky Bailey is! We are having a winter blizzard. Yuck, but I am always happy for no school days. Bailey didn't have school yesterday or today so she has the whole week off because of the Thanksgiving break. Fun for us! It is so nasty outside and looks like it will be this way all day today. So we will enjoy it and get ready to eat turkey. Yummy!

Correction

Oh I must correct myself they are saying the Royal Wedding will be 40 million now. So glad to know they are scaling back. Desperate times call for desperate measures. Isn't that how it goes???

Saturday, November 20, 2010

What...????? Did I hear right??

O.k. I heard this on the news the other morning and it has been bothering me. How messed up is this world. Too crazy to even think about. One early morning news program has done a poll and and they said that in their survey 39 % of people think marriage is becoming obsolete. How sad is that. Also with the news of Prince William getting engaged to Kate who ever, they said that their wedding would be upwards to 75 million dollars. WHAT!!! How STUPID!!!!!!!!!!!! This world is so crazy and out of sorts. When will we get back to the basics and the most important things in life?? What ever happened to SIMPLIFY and GOD and MORALS!

Steel head fishing trip-Lerwill Brothers November 14-17,2010

Stacy got the awesome opportunity to go with his brothers Jeff and Ryan and go on a steel head fishing Trip. It was a great time for him and he even caught 1 fish. I am so proud of him, he took the new camera we bought for him to take and he used it and got some great shots. Here are a few of them. Some of them are gorgeous! 








Stacy's Fish

The biggest fish he has ever caught.


This is Stacy's normal size fish, white fish. ha ha


Rugged, beautiful country.

Cabin where they stay in. Built in the mountain basically. No electricity or indoor plumbing, or cell phone service. It was a long three days for Bailey and I not being able to talk to our man!

They get to the lodge (Arctic Creek Lodge) by jet boat (an hour ride from Corn Creek which is past Salmon, Idaho)




A ddesperate man's bath tub. No really it was awesome, Stacy said the water was around 103 degrees. Perfect hot tubing temp.Stacy was so cold this night so this was perfect.





Last catch of the trip, just as the boat was loading up, also the biggest fish the whole trip. Notice it has both fins on the top of its back so it is a native fish so he had to be put back in the water.