Still Slow But Getting Better... Email from 6-28-10

Hey Fam and other Intersted Parties,

I am doing great! We have a bunch of people we're teaching but only the crazy one will come to church. We got a bunch of inactive people to come though, so that's sweet. I'm having lots of fun but I'm kinda bummed at how slow the work is going.
Which Paul got baptized? The Paul I know is on a mission in Missouri right? That's so sweet that Andrews Metal buddies are getting baptized. That's a great missionary experience for him. If he could baptize someone himself before his mission that would be awesome.
GET HIM TO TELL ME ABOUT COURTS FIGHT!!
That's good that you got to throw down with that liberal dude at the polls. Being on a mission in the middle of were all that stuff gets tried out has only solidified my position.
I'm almost at my year mark! That's freakin insane! I don't feel too different (except for the extra 30 pounds) but I've met some of the coolest people ever, and then baptized them. That's probably had some effect on me. tee hee. I love you guys and I hope your summer's going swimmingly.

LOVE
Elder Uppencamp

O MY GOSH! Email from 6-21-10

Dudes,

COURT WON!!! That's awesome! We had a pretty cool week. We're starting to get a system down. Our crazy investigator came to a baptism and loved it.
I was feeling a little sick and my allergies are ridiculous out here, that kinda slowed me down. But we found a Samoan investigator! YES, I love Samoans.
Uhhh... That's about it. Get the fam to write me some questions so my emails will be longer. I love you all! Get Nathan to send me some cake.

LOVE
Elder Uhhhhpencamp

Good Times...Email from 6-14-10

Sup Peeps,

Hey Everybody! What's the happs? That's way sweet about Robby and Tristan, soooo cute. Way sweet about Cort too. That's ma boi!( Cort Magee in the Ultimate Fighter. He was a trainer at Throw Down here and is a good guy.)
Graham's pretty cool. It's another one of those areas that has a rep for being way slow. Having lots of fun though. It's beautiful right now.
My new comps pretty cool. He served the first half of his mission in Mongolia. He's here now cause his visa got messed up.
Tracting is not as fun without the ghetto.
Get the Judkins to hook me up!(They have family in Graham)
Ummm...We're not really teaching anyone too solidly except this one lady who I suspect might be schizophrenic, but I'm sure we'll get some good folks soon.
Give Nathan a huge hug/awkward smooch from me and tell Andrew to tape Cort's fight for me. I love you guys and I hope your trucking just fine.

LOVE

Elder UppenGraham

Email from 6-7-10

Dudes
I sent you the right memory card. I think it might have been wiped. Lame. (We thought the card he sent was blank, luckily it wasn't!)
You got the sizes right I think.
Ohhhh... by the way. I got transferred to Graham. Keep on sending my stuff to the mission office for now though. My new Comp is Elder Warner.
The Aberdeen story is thus. We had to get A baptismal suit for Alexis. She's a bigger black lady, and we didn't have a suit in her size. So we spent all day calling around to locate one. The Aberdeen missionaries called us at like 9 on Saturday telling us they had one. So we drove down to Aberdeen to gets it.
Fun times, I gotta go though. Love yeah! See's you later.

LOVE
Elder Uppencamp