Things are great out here in Maryville! Crazy
experience . . last night we popped a tire, pulled into a parking lot of a
restaurant, and put on the spare. 3 Giant dudes in BYU hoodies walk out
of the restaurant with the head coach of Northwest Missouri football.
Northwest is the college here in Maryville. These past two years, they
have won back to back D2 NCAA National Championships in football and
basketball!! The 3 BYU people were Ed Lamb, the assistant coach, one of
their linebackers named Jan Jorgensen, and the defensive coach, Steve
Kafusi. We chatted with them for a while and they were excited to
randomly see two Mormon missionaries! We let them know our zone leader
is Zach Katoa, who's playing for them when he's back. They couldn't
believe it. They raved and raved about how much they love Katoa haha!
We took a pic with them and he is going to send it to your cell, Dad! 
More
cool stuff . . we had Dalton Carrol, Taylor's friend come to church this
week! We taught him the first discussion and he wants to learn more. He
and Taylor kinda have a thing for each other. So we are questioning his
true motives in wanting to meet with us hahaha. But hey! Even a general
authority said during conference that he took the lessons just because
of a girl! So the Lord works in mysterious ways I guess! ;)
We
got to have Zone Training on the grounds of Adam Ohndi Ahman! I gave a
little training/ General Conference highlight, and talked about Thomas
S. Monson's talk on the Book of Mormon. It was cool to be able to share
my testimony on the truthfulness of that book, and the peace it can
bring with the Zone! We have such an awesome zone. There is an awesome
new Sister in our zone from Brazil named Sister Apolonio that's a super
good singer. We've been jamming out on p-days! Stuff like that makes
things fun! The Zone leaders are the best I've had my whole mission.
Elder Zach Katoa is one, and he's the best missionary I've ever met. He
is so talented, and all around is the most humble and balanced dude I've
ever met. He's playing running back for BYU when he gets home! Go check
out his highlight tape online hahah he's crazy! He was number one
offensive player in Utah and #88 on ESPN's top 100 running backs! He
committed to Oregon State, and then their coach came to BYU and so he's
going there now.
We
played "Be Still My Soul" at Zone Conference Piano Guys style!! I'll send
it to you. Here is the link . . click here to listen! I've loved being able to play so much music out here. I miss
singing with Elder Amosa! Speaking of him, since he's been home he was
in a car accident heading down to St. George. His uncle was driving, was
going too fast, lost control of the car and rolled the car twice!!
Luckily they are all perfectly fine...
Well,
on the kinda scary side of things, Elder Griffiths had a seizure when
he was on exchanges about a week ago, and another one with me LAST
NIGHT. He bit his tongue really bad both times. It woke me up in the
middle of the night and I had to pour water all over his face to wake
him up. He has type 1 diabetes . . I don't know if I told you that. He's
never really had seizures but he thinks it's caused by his blood sugar
being too low in the night. Scary stuff!
I
finished writing another song! Song writing has been one of my fave
things to do in our few moments of spare time haha. I'll send you a
recording of it! Click here for the link! We had the craziest thunderstorm ever this week, I love
Missouri storms! Now everything is SUPER GREEN! I'm loving life here!
Much luv!!
Tanman
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