Motschiedler Madness
Its been an eventful month for the Motschiedlers. Little Harris was very cranky for the first 5 weeks of his life and required lots of serious bouncing at all hours of the day. We discovered he had a protein allergy and was allergic to the cows milk in my system. When I wasn't very successful at eliminating dairy from my diet, the doctor suggested we put him on a dairy free formula along with a probiotic drop and within days he was a new baby. We're a much happier household with this baby and don't miss the other one at all! Since then he's been sleeping great and his smiling and cooing.
Desh has loved being a big brother. He's very sweet with him and shares his toys and gives him lots of hugs and kisses. When Harris cries, Deshy yells out: Uh Oh, Baby!!! Desh's vocabulary has continued to improve. He's putting words together to create sentences and repeating everything we say. He gets to go to My Gym on Saturday mornings with Daddy, which is a lot of fun for him.
I have been busy with two kids and play dates. I'm also working for the school from home and doing bookkeeping for our apartment complex. I've started working out again to try to lose the baby weight. It all keeps me very busy but I wouldn't have it any other way.
Look, I have to go. I love you all! I hope things are well in your lives. I pray for you all every night. Keep the faith. God is real. He loves His children. I know this is the true Church of Christ without a doubt. Christ lives! And he will come again. I promise you this with all the authority I have as a representative of his. Be safe and please protect yourself from the world by reading your scriptures, praying daily, and being active in the Church. I love you!
Elder Boggs
~Elder Boggs
Missionary Email from Sister Chelsy Boggs
Desh has loved being a big brother. He's very sweet with him and shares his toys and gives him lots of hugs and kisses. When Harris cries, Deshy yells out: Uh Oh, Baby!!! Desh's vocabulary has continued to improve. He's putting words together to create sentences and repeating everything we say. He gets to go to My Gym on Saturday mornings with Daddy, which is a lot of fun for him.
I have been busy with two kids and play dates. I'm also working for the school from home and doing bookkeeping for our apartment complex. I've started working out again to try to lose the baby weight. It all keeps me very busy but I wouldn't have it any other way.
Ken is busy at work. He was asked to learn a new software program that his company is preparing to implement and train his coworkers. He is also busy with our business, still looking for more apartment complex to purchase or land to build on, and getting ready to sell our current complex. Its been a real eye opener but also interesting and exciting.
Overall, we're all happy and healthy and looking forward to warmer days ahead.
Allyson
Missionary Email from Irma Mica Duran
April 1, 2013
Transfers were today and I'm still here with Irmã Baer! Oh man, I'm so excited for this transfer! This is Irmã Baer's last transfer and I know we're going to see miracles.
Boa Páscoa ontem! Yesterday we went Praia, an Elders' area, to have Easter dinner with the their branch President and his family. Praia is where the US Air force Base is at. IT WAS AWESOME! It was little America! It was SOOO weird to talk to so many people in English, but more weird to talk to people from AMERICA!?! Wow. =) President Brown is a fireman in the Air force and he and his family have literally traveled all over the world following him around on his deployments. They're from Utah and have 3 boys and 1 little girl. It was so strange seeing little blond haired, blue eyed children running all over the place. They are a sweet family =). Their house has all the luxuries from back home. Let me tell ya, the whole time all us missionaries were saying, "You have what?!" or "Oh My Gosh! Look at that!" There we 6 of us. This island only has 6 missionaries. We were all there. It was so much fun! The Browns gave us all little Easter Baskets with AMERICAN candy, como...reeses cups, laffy taffy, nerds, twix, a cadberry egg, jelly beans, and starburst. Ahhh...heaven, man. (Ps: the islanders here say "man" after everything. On the main land they say "Pa" after everything.) BUT! It gets better! We had HAM in a CROCKPOT! OOOHH! We all freaked out. They don't have crockpots here. I know. Sad days. We also had salsa, 7 bean layer dip, fluffy rolls, funeral potatoes, asparagus, brown sugared carrots, koolaid, several different kinds of pie, and MILK from the USA! Oh man! Tenho saudades, pa! The Browns also have US plug-in-outlets and a toilet just like at home where the water swirls down! It was SO weird and cool! It was so great to visit with them. They gave us boxes of cookie crisp and honey grams as parting gifts. You guys have no idea how good you have it. =) Seriously.
Com Amor,
-Irmã Durán
Missionary Email from Elder David Boggs
April 1, 2013
Hola!!!
This week was a little slow. But it was still a good week. I can't believe that it is already april! time is going by so fast! Gonna send a shout out to Rebecca Gage. Your birthday is on thursday. hope it is amazing! i would send you a gift but i dont have the funds! oh well. Happy Birthday!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Anywho. Awesome news. Kevin and Carolina got baptized. he is 9 and she is 8. they wanted to get baptized together which was really cool :) the baptism was a nice way to celebrate Easter. President Reyes (our branch president) did the baptism. Elder Foell gave a talk, the someone in primary welcomed them officially into primary, and i sang. it was a simple baptism but it was really nice. i made sister Gomez cry... i sang "I need thee every hour" in spanish. i love how singing in spanish is easier than speaking :) Yesterday was a great day :)
We had a training meeting on ...*checks planner* wednesday. we had to go all the way to frederick (sp?). i slept most of the way there. there were 12 missionaries piled into a van. it was a good meeting. lots of good information :) then friday my companion had to go to a leadership meeting so i went in a tripanionship (say that ten times fast) for the first part of the day. working with english elders is interesting. i can definately say i like spanish work better :)
The Gomez family... well sister gomez and her oldest daughter. are getting ready to go to the temple!!! and we probably get to go with them!! im super excited! but i knever knew how hard it would be to teach about the temple. thank goodness for the "preparing to enter the holy temple" pamphlet thingy. it's super helpful just an fyi :)
The weather is finally starting to feel like spring! its wierd wearing short sleeves though :)
Love y'all!
~your favorite spanish speaking missionary in Annapolis
Some photos from David.....
May 25th
April 1st
Sister R, Kevin & Carolina
Also from David....
April 8, 2013
Hola de Annapolis!!
Holy crow. Conference was AMAZING!!!!! It was a little weird not having mom's potatoe salad inbetween the sessions but i still really enjoyed it! watching it and being able to think "i'm one of those" every time they mentioned the number of serving missionaries really cool! Of the 20,00 with calls, 19 are coming to the MBM at the end of April, 26 in June and last i heard 20 in July. This mission is getting HUGE!!!! there are going to be soooooooo many new missionaries!!!
New temple in Cedar City ? I almost cheered! but i probably would have gotten a few funny looks for that so i didn't... Any who...
One of my favorite quotes from Conference is from Boyd K. Packer. "There are few things more powerful than the prayers of a rightous mother." I couldn't agree more. The faith of a mother when she prays for her children is more powerful than any other force in the universe. It's amazing to think of being loved by such an amazing and strong woman. Love you mom!!!!!!!!
The talks were amazing! It seems as if the General Authorities are getting more and more blunt. It is amazing to be able to listen to the Apostles and Prophet! It would be cool if the entire world were to watch General Conference. So much good would happen if everyone would just live by the standards that were talked about this past weekend! I cant wait for the May Ensign to come out!
guess what i did last monday? I ran into a parked car. never slam your face into a car. it hurts. a lot. I was unable to open my left eye and could hardly move them and i was slightly out of it so we had to head home for the night. It made for an interesting bike riding recovery this week. but i am well and fully functioning! I love being a missionary!
Gotta run! love Y'all bunches!
April 8, 2013
This week has been good. Slightly exhausting. It’s kind of surprising how much General Conference can wear you out. I can’t tell you off the top of my head what my favorite talk was but they were all good. I know one of my favorites was Saturday morning. I don’t think I have ever heard Elder Perry that gruff before and elder Packers talk sounded to all of us missionaries in oak ridge like a farewell testimony. All though we are hoping it wasn’t. It is so cool to think that I am one of those thousands of missionaries out in the field that they report on. Being a missionary is an awesome thing. I took notes the whole way through, I didn’t color and I stayed awake! I have to say I missed watching conference at home though. Sis Connelly, one of the ward missionaries fed us both days, in between sessions. We had hamburgers and hotdogs on Saturday and grilled chicken and funeral potatoes on Sunday. She also fed us Sunday before conference. We had scones! They were soooo good. They taste really good with fresh lemon juice and powdered sugar on top. We had an investigator at all four sessions of conference, and he came to Sis. Connelly’s for food too. Bill came to conference. He soooo is ready for baptism, I just wish he would realize it. He is a dry Mormon. He does everything. He is even better at reading the BoM than some members!
I got my first taste of deer this week, it’s really good. David F. fed us this week on his birthday. I personally think he wanted to spend his birthday with someone. Man he can cook. Have you ever had mashed potatoes made with cream cheese? It is heaven. Anyway so he fed us dinner, we brought dessert. We made him a birthday cake and sang to him. We had a lesson afterwards so it was a good evening.
Anyways sorry for the short email this week. All the other missionaries in the District are coming to hang out with us. The weather is perfect outside so we are taking advantage of it. And we still have to go get haircuts and do shopping.
hope ya'll are doing great and i hope to hear from ya soon.
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Love always
Sister Boggs
