Six Months on Friday... Elder U's 1/26/2010

Hey Guys,

Happy birthday last week! Last week was alright. We didn't do as well with investigators but we did get a TON of people to church who don't normally go.
That is so rad about Collin's call! Tell him to learn some Brazilian jujitsu.
Tell Andrew to do a fast, that will definitely help. Transfer calls are on Saturday, I'll let you know were I'm off to.
Sad story: We were teaching this lady and her spazy kid wanted to play outside. But right when we got out there this lady ran out of her house screaming and holding her baby. The little dude had just had a mirror fall on his face and he was bleeding everywhere. He had about a 4 inch cut above his lip which was all the way through. What really surprised me about the situation was the lack of action. I totally had to yell at a guy to get a towel to cover the cut. It was really weird watching all these adults just stand there, while the little dude was freaking out. The kid's fine now you'll be happy to know. We visited them the other day.
Happy story: I got a tour of a Kingdom Hall (Jehovah's Witness Church). We were getting picked up in the church's parking lot, so we thought we'd go in and check it out. It's just one big room but it's really nice. Everyone there was really nice/scared. It was really funny. Elder Anderson (my DL)(District Leader) almost got the head guy to take a Book of Mormon. We then went outside and directed traffic for Bible study. It was way fun.
I'll let you know next week where I end up. I love you all and I hope your doing good.

LOVE
Elder Uppencamp

50...Elder U's letter from 1-20-10

High-ho everyone,

Rad, Awesome, Week. Sorry I didn't email yesterday but it was MLK day. We taught 50 lessons! It would have been a record but Forks taught 51. Darn. I don't think we're ever gonna get that many again though. We decided were gonna try and make um high quality from now on (not that these weren't).
The baptism was sweet, apart from the the fact that the kid didn't tell us he's afraid of water. It took three times to finally get him under. Yesterday we went to a game park, it was the coolest thing ever. It's one of those things were you drive through and feed animals. It was scary but awesome. I got a bear to wave at me, and I kissed a bison.
That's way sweet about Silas! Tell him I'm stoked for him. Paul's the man. Tell him to look at Governor Boggs' tombstone. Tell Andrew that he can still totally get ripped. He's just gotta keep at it. If I can gain this much weight than anything is possible.
Did grandpa Brown ever send me monies? I also need a refill on my prescriptions. I have a very short attention span. I love you all and I hope your doing good. Tell Jacob happy birthday for me.

LOVE
Elder Uppencamp

That's Rad... Daniel's letter from Jan. 9, 2010

Hey Fam,

This last week was a lot better. We taught 31 lessons, but we had to drop a bunch of people. Tueller got a new bike, and yes I am feeling a lot better. No rad awesome stories from last week, but it was still good. We're meeting a bunch of new people who freaking love us. That is so rad about Eammon!
Make Andrew go to his farewell and give him a crushing hug from me. PAUL! On a mission! That's amazing! The Independence Missouri mission is doing way good from what I hear.
What is all this "Be thou humble" stuff? Do I detect a subtle jab? (a recommendation to read the hymn and scripture from Mom) Teehee, yeah I'll totally read those today. That's sweet about Grandpa Brown. (Moving to Tuscon)
We're finally having a baptism! I'm way stoked. Uhhh yeah. Fun times. You gots to let me know when Collin gets his call. I love y'all so much.

LOVE
Elder Uppencamp

Down with the Sickness... Jan 4, 2010

Sup Seeps,

That's way sad about that little mouse. Not cool, just make it a cardboard box or something.
Matthew is a far worse speller than I am. Rachel uses the proper amount of exclamation points. It's sweet that Jacob is becoming a New Scout, and more importantly a Deacon. There is no "Eagles Nest" in heaven (maybe in on of the lower kingdoms).
Dad, it's way hard to say which place in Washington is so far. Probably......Tacoma? Rain sucks, but whatever. How did Dad change the font on his e-mail? I love hearing those kind of conversion stories.
Yeah, last week was kind of lame. I got way sick for 2 days so we got a lot less done than we wanted to. The holidays kind of suck for missionary work.
Tueller got his bike stolen last week too, it was weird. Someone cut our lock, but they only stole his bike. But despite all that we still got 27 lessons. Neat, huh.
I set up that gym thing and its pretty sweet. This weeks gonna be alot better though with everyone getting back. I'm wrestling one of my recent converts today, that should be fun. Things are going way good out here, despite the opposition. I think that just means something big is in the works.
Lemme know how Gabe and Nathan are doin' You guys are the bomb diggity.

LOVE
Elder Uppencamp