Hello everybody again, so this week has been pretty good. we had another baptism this Sunday and it went amazing. we have both been so tired this whole week, its hard to wake up in the mornings. The weather has been horrible this week and made it extremly hard to work this week so not much got done because its been too windy, snowy, or cold to go outside no matter how much we wanted too. Its hard to stay sane when the weather won't coperate with you. Well lets see what happend this week.....oh on monday my companion got really mad at my Rubiks cube because he couldn't solve it and I was already mad at it so we took it out behind our apartment along with a golf club driver and now its in pieces, all over the place, it was fun. We took video of it and it was awesome. We also spent a lot of time over at a recent converts house staying out of the bad weather. We have helped them a ton because they are filing for bankruptcy which is not fun, so we try to help. They are both doing great and the male member is going to be ordained a priest this coming sunday. They are doing amazing! They want to know and have everything now and they really like missionaries so its good both ways. Well I love you all and hope you have a great week! Elder Tayrien

Hello everybody!
This last week has been pretty crazy. Sunday, President Talbot came to church in Fayette to interview somebody we are teaching also the day before we had a wedding and it was crazy the whole time! Lots of stress involved. Friday was and awful day because we planned until 2:00 then left and had a poopy day. We went over to visit a less active member that we found and found out that he had been arrested and will spend 30 years in jail for robbing a convenience store when he was drunk. So, working that day was not fun at all. Also, we had zone conference That was all about planning and using our time wisely. It was nice to go to a place with a bunch of missionaries and feel the spirit all day long. Sunday was just as crazy as the rest of the week. The Branch President finally got back from traveling so this was the first time that I was able to meet with him, and I just so happened to make most of the branch mad at me. In PEC before church, we had a huge list of things to go over with the branch president. We had been asked not to do the sacrament by our mission president because it's not our responsibility and that the members should be fulfilling their own priesthood callings, so i brought this up in PEC and made everybody mad at me. At least they're finally stepping up and doing something now. Nothing ever gets done in that meeting at all. It's just a big story time with he members and I get there and have an agenda and want them to actually do something they get all huffy and puffy. I have a job to do and I don't care if I have to step on your toes and kick you in the bum to get my job done, because in the end I will either feel regret or accomplishment. They also talked about home and visiting teaching and about how much more convenient it was to not do it and that they are not the visiting type of people. You can see why this branch is still a branch. Gaaah! I need to stop ranting. Well, all in all I'm having a ton of fun up in Fayette, there is a ton of work to do and lots of people to see, teach, and find. I love you all and hope you have and amazing week!
Elder Tayrien

February 9 email

Hey Dad,
well this week has been fun, lots of hard work followed by lots more hard work. Tomorrow is zone conference so we have to leave to spend the night in Manchester at the district leaders apartment, so that will be "fun". This past week we went to a dinner appointment and the guy works at a place that makes pig food. They get all the factory reject candy and stuff and they turn it into pig food. So pigs aren't corn fed, they are candy fed. We walk in and he brings us a giant brown bag, its about as tall as Brittany, and it was full of crunch bars. So, we have a ton of crunch bars and nerds rope. The only thing wrong was that some of the crunch bars are white so we just open the package and if its white we throw it away. We dumped them all out and buried myself in a ton of them. The other day we went to a return appointment and there was a puppy pit bull outside. We went inside and see a little naked girl running around, and the dog is jumping all over us. The lady told the little girl to go into the other room with her daddy, then she yells at the dog, TUCKER! STOP! GO OUTSIDE! So the dogs name was Tucker.Ii always tell my companions that my name is something that you name a dog, a horse or a fish, and this just proves that it's a dogs name. The weather has been amazing here, it got up to 36 degrees yesterday and i walked around without a coat on! I'm sick person to think that anything above freezing is warm, heck even 30 degrees feels warm enough to take our jackets off. Our cars fan stopped working one really really cold morning. The car barely started and while driving down the road we find out that the fan doesn't work. So we get to where we are going and i remembered reading a story in the Friend about how a family's car was broken down and the last thing they did after all that they could do was say a prayer and it started to work. So the first thing we did was say a prayer. We left the car and went into a drugstore to wait for the car Elder to call back so we go out and start the car and the fan works! So we where able to work that day because of i. So by small and simple things are great things brought to pass. Just remember that no matter how simple it seems the Lord cares and will bless you. Well I've got to go. I love you all and have a great day!
Elder Tayrien

so i got kicked of the transfer wagon in Fayette. a podunk little town in the northeast corner of the state/mission. but we have a car full time, a mazda 3. its really nice, probably the nicest car i will drive my whole life. anyways its been a busy three days. my new comp elder trodder is a pretty nice guy. we also had a baptism (arg spelling) on Sunday so it was nice to actually see one. this little town is a college town and its not very big at all. we have the second largest area in the mission, it borders the Manchester area and covers all the way to Minnesota and Wisconsin. we have a base miles of 1300 a month for our car and we will probably use them all going to all the little towns trying to find people to teach. there is absolutely no teaching pool here. there are no investigators, no potentials nobody after the baptism yesterday. there is another baptism coming up and she is the only other person we have left. so we will be tracting a lot. in one week we plan to beat the record of tracting hours for the mission. the record is 25 hrs in one week and we plan to do 50 hours in one week. but since that's all we have left to do we are going to do a lot of it and do it the best. hopefully we will find a ton of people to teach. these last three days has been a rush to get 10 hours of tracting. the minimum for one week is ten and we had to do it in three days. we are so tired of it already. So we have a lot to do. well sorry for all the complaining and everything, today we have to drive out of our area to shop at a Wal-mart. that's how podunk our town is, no Wal-mart, only a little drugstore with inflated prices, so we have to drive a long time to do our shopping. well not much has happened so now you know where i am, well love you all and have a great day.
elder tayrien

This is Elder Tuck's Dad. I decided to start a blog spot for him to make it easier for family and friends to see his most recent letters and pictures. I will do my best to keep it current, but I can only work with what he gives me to work with. I will start with February's emails and with a slide show of pictures I've received as of today. If anyone has anything to add, just email it to my address above and I will do my best to get it in.