Happy Email's Day!

Aidan Darcey	1:14 PM (1 hour ago)
to David, Dia, Ian, Jackie, Brian, me, Terina

Hello Everyone! It's seems like it's been a whole day since I last talked to you! Except I know it's only been 15ish hours because Yesterday was Mothers Day! 

We gave a talk in one of our wards that morning and I talked about a ton of different cool memories about mom! Like how she made a full chain mail armor set for me out of pop tabs, and other cool stuff like that! Anyway my mom is Awesome!

Tuesday was ZONE CONFERENCE! I forgot it was this week until I started typing this Email. Anyway it was a real blast! one of our mission presidency from when I came out was there. (he had been released a few months ago) anyway, before his training (which are always loud and full of energy) Prez Nelson got up and "warned" all the missionaries that had never met him. "Just by the way, President Hall is a high energy speaker!(laughter) So don't be too scared, Listen to the spirit, and don't make eye contact!(more laughter)"

Also this week we got to help at the food handout again! That was a blast! There weren't as many people as last time, and so there was a lot of food leftover unlike last time.

In other news, I am going to try makin' those pies today and Wednesday when we go to district council.

The most part of this week was spent with a killer headache. So that's been fun. It is however going away quickly so I am probably not going to be sad in the future. We have also been doing a ton of cleaning in the place we are staying. Previous missionaries (nine years of them) have simply left whatever they didn't want to take with them. and so there was about 9 years of mess in the place. We have gotten it down to probably 4 or 4.5 years now. Anyway, while we were cleaning, We met a small brown friend that has been living in a pile of socks that we found in the corner of our place. We named him "Furry Houdini" because when we went to catch him, we had him cornered behind a small box. We moved the box and he had pulled a disappearing act on us! We haven't seen him since and we assume it's because he doesn't like the clean-r room that we now have.

umm... oh

Rose this week was that we were given "brownies" at one of our dinners but they weren't actually brownies. they were just Fudge. man that was good.

Thorn was my headache and stuffiness.

Hey Elders Can Call Home Now

Hey all. It's Email time.

I am going to Email quickly.

We can call home now, weird.

I don't know how often I will call, but I will figure it out later.

Anyway this week was great. Like I said Tuesday we went to the Temple, and had a great time. Then Wednesday we did some service and a ton of other stuff. basically walked around for the evening.

Thursday we went to Zone Conference! It was Awesome! Someone from the Mission Office showed up and talked about how we could make the mission do better. Using better planning and Goals. It was really cool.

Also We had a great training on the Book of Mormon. Basically we were told to be using the Book of Mormon more, because It is the big difference between our church and every other church. The one thing that stuck out to me was he said "All of you are out on your mission because you know the Book of Mormon is true. Invite people to find out why you are on your mission... By having people read the Book of Mormon" 

Anyway Friday morning we went to correlate with the other missionaries and halfway through the meeting I got an Email... about calling home... and that ended the meeting as everything devolved into chaos.

Brother and Sister Roberts took us to dinner and took this photo and sent it home to my mom. 

Next Sunday we are speaking in one of our wards. so hopefully my talk doesn't stink.

the work is going great, and the lord is blessing us!

-Elder Darcey

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Elder Darcey

More than 16 months out despite what he says to people...

Where is he?

ASHTON

(for more than a month and a half)

Mailing Address:

Packages & Letters:

Elder Aidan Darcey

2304 E. 1100 N.

Ashton ID. 83420

Mission Office:

Elder Aidan Darcey

351 W. 14th St.

Idaho Falls ID. 83402

Pictures?

FIND THEM HERE

Email?

Aidan.Darcey@missionary.org

This Week, on the Email Trail

Hey. It's time to Email.

The 2nd half of this week has been crazy. The first half, not so much.

Basically we got haircuts on Monday, and Elder Taea said goodbye to several families, he packed, I cleaned, all good stuff.

Thursday morning rolled around, and we got ready for Transfers. we had a last Breakfast, because several Elders were leaving. So after that we all headed down to Rexburg to the transfer site. 

A little waiting later, the *transfer "train"* arrived. Elder Taea went to Sugar City, 

AND My new companion Elder VanOrman jumped off, and joined me in Ashton. We went up unpacked, cleaned a bit more, then went to dinner. We showed him off to lots of people and introduced him to some of our ward leaders.

He is:

from Washington near Seattle,

as old as I,

a movie enthusiast,

hungry,

fairly funny (this one takes time to figure out),

a good missionary,

fun,

shorter than I,

and that's it.

Saturday we ate a ton of Shrimp, and Elder VanOrman's pen exploded and we got it all out with rubbing alcohol.

Sunday we went to a ton of church, taught missionary prep (fun as always) and then taught an awesome family that just moved up here and are really interested in the gospel. Super Fun!

anyway I gotta finish this email in 10 minutes and my pictures say they are going to be another 40....

-Elder Darcey

RETURN of the EMAIL

Hey Everyone! It's time for another Email!! 

This Week it's Easter and Transfers! 

So I will start by talking about HOW MANY PEOPLE ARE IN WEST YELLOWSTONE my word there are a lot of people. And we are are told that it's "still slow" whatever that means. 

Anyway while there we visited an awesome family. They had a ton of kids over from other families so it was very helpful to meet a ton of people at once. Also I helped the kids design a blanket fort. 

The other abnormal thing was on Sunday we went to church as usual, but out of the four sacrament meetings we attended that day three of them had a (surprisingly skilled) young girl singing a cool song about the atonement. It's just after the third time hearing it, there was nothing I could do to stop it from being stuck in my head for the rest of the day.  so that was nice.

anyway, The BIG news is transfers! of course, I am not going anywhere. I have only been here for a short while, and so I didn't have to worry. However, my companion, Elder Taea, has been here for a while... and is no longer going to be up here. He is being transferred to Sugar City! Just down the road.

My new companion is Elder VanOrman. I don't know him, but a few missionaries say I will like him... we will see... He is coming from Rigby. so not super far.

anyway Super exited for that!

Easter was a blast, This transfer was a blast, and everything is going great!

-Elder Darcey

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Hey, Email!

Hey everyone I sent this email at 8 this morning and just realized that I didn't put any recipients in the 'to' field so I am re sending my email sorry

Hi everyone! Sorry for the crappy email last week! I just wanted to say that it's been super rainy and so that's why. 

Anyway I wanted to first talk about conference. What an amazing thing that we get to hear from living prophets and apostles, multiple times every year! It's a wonderfully opportunity to reflect and learn and listen to the spirit. I hope you all have listened to at least one of the talks again, if not get on that. Start with President Nelson's. 

Anyway this week has been pretty normal. We visited a ton of people, drove a ton of places, and did more service! Actually fun story about the service. Thursday. There is a monthly food bank handout Ashton. And volunteers help with all the labor that morning. So naturally we are there. But the funny thing was when they started pulling food off of the truck I recognized some of the pallets. I realized that I had helped pack similar pallets of food just a month previous also at a service activity at the food bank. It was great, odd, wonderful,  to see them here. 

Right now I am typing this out on a crappy Bluetooth keyboard at 9am in our apartment because It is unlikely that I will have anytime at an actual computer to do this. Oh well. Last week I had that hope and look what happened there. 

Anyway probably the coolest thing that we did this week was we taught Mission Prep again, and this time we knew about it beforehand and were able to prepare effectively. I think it went really well! We had a blast talking about the Atonement of Jesus Christ and why it was important as a missionary. It was super cool and a really good time.

Anyway just some random stuff before I go, 

Bill (the member we live with) has a grandson living with him as well now. He just got back from his mission is Nicaragua and is going to BYUI.

There is officially no snow in Ashton anymore. It only took an extra two months than the rest of our mission. 

West Yellowstone still has snow. 

Anyway that's all for now! Hope everyone has an awesome week, I have some pictures from service, so check that out, and that's it!

Elder Darcey

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Short, Sweet Email

Hi Family, 

In response to your questions:  

Basically nothing has been cooked recently! we share our home with a member and our cupboards that we have are FULL OF JUNK LEFT BY OTHER MISSIONARIES! AGG. so I have avoided using the kitchen until I can clean it out and make it nice.

Who has been his Companion?

Elder Anderson

(for 4.5 months total)

Elder Cluff

(for 1.5 months)

Elder Eck

(for 4.5 months total)

Elder Harvey

(for 3 months total)

Elder Hicks

(for 1.5 months total)

Elder Taea

(for 1.5 months total)

my new(old) companion is Elder Taea. he is from Hawaii and is quieter than even I am! Crazy! anyway he is a blast. he makes ties, and basically will make a new one every few days. 

The area is weird. Because it is big. we don't have a ton of time in IP and West, but they seem like there is a bit of work up there. 

The number one thing is... space. there is so much nothing up here! houses are miles apart! it's crazy!

anyway I might not be able to email this week because we are going bowling in just a bit. But I will definitely try!

Elder Darcey

Email: Endgame

Hi Everyone! I don't have a ton of time this week!

A ton of stuff happened though! It was CRAZY!

and General conference! wow!

and West Yellowstone!

and we taught Mission prep!

woo

favorite talk (for now) was probably Elder Eyring's

anyway got to go!

-Elder Darcey

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Emails are GREAT

Hi All, 

Just face it!   I am bad at email.

This Sunday we got transfer calls I am going to Ashton to be with Elder Taea. I don't know who he is...

Also Saturday I got to be with My trainer again and we went through the temple with the first person I baptized in my mission! It was crazy awesome! then We rushed over to another baptism that I had helped teach, and while I was doing all of this my companion was also!

That's actually all that I was able to write last week before not sending a letter or writing anything else. Oh well. Hopefully I do a lot better this week and I am able to finish my thoughts. 

Anyway to finish my last thought I was talking about Saturday the 10th when I went to an Endowment session and a baptism while my companion Elder Hicks went to his own baptism at the same time! It was a crazy awesome day. Anyway nothing else important happened that week so I will now skip to this week! 

Sunday we received transfer calls and I knew I was going to be in Ashton with Elder Taea. I didn't know him at the time but now I've had three days with him and I can say that he is awesome! He is from Hawaii near the Temple! 

The last frantic days in IFWest were filed with making sure the area was ready for different missionaries, saying goodbye to a few people that I had gotten to know real well, and stuff like that. The district had a breakfast on Wednesday where I made a cake... And the sisters made the exact same cake totally unscripted! Later we found out tat it wasn't the exact  same cake, but it looked the same from above. Also for that breakfast I made scones, and they were not very good. :[

continued from last email

continued from last email:

Thursday was crazy! We were up early to finish getting ready for transfers, The other missionaries in the district were coming over to have breakfast and to take us to the transfer site. 

So we made pancakes and some other good breakfast stuff. It was a blast. 

Then we went to the site and saw a ton of missionaries, and headed off north. We drove past my previous areas as I headed to the Rexburg transfer site. 

And now it's today!

I might not be able to fix my "ED an Overview" document today, but definitely check it out in the coming weeks for my new address and info stuff.

-Elder Darcey

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Weekly Email l l l l l

Hey Everyone! Another week passes and so another Email sends!

This week was great! we got so much done! We went to a ward party, moved a ton of furniture, taught some lessons, slid around in the ice, went to a mission prep class, and spoke in one of our wards!

-Elder Darcey

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jk that's not all I'm going to write.

But that is a really great description of this weeks activities. 

I guess the only crazy thing that happened is that Elder Hicks and Elder Schabel hit their year marks, and so they burned some pants. It was super snowy and cold that night.

The other AWESOME thing that happened is that I received word that the first person I ever taught/baptized in the mission hit their year mark (24th of Feb) and are going to the Temple the 9th of march. And I get to go to that also! I am so excited! The last year has been a blast! I am stunned that it has been so long already! The last year has really taught me a lot, and I am so thankful that I have been able to do this.

Anyway I discovered a really cool thing in the Gospel Library app this week, STUDY PLANS. It lets you put in a date that you want to study x thing by, and it splits it up into breaks and then you can have it remind you to read the part for that day/week. it's really cool and I highly recommend using it if you find that you aren't being consistent in your scripture/conference/saints-vol-1 reading. It's really cool.

Anyway that's All I got for this week right now, I will be back for more another day!

-Elder Darcey

Tues. Feb. 12, 2019   Continued...

Hi.

We went to the Temple this morning. So our P-day was today instead of yesterday.

This week was meh. I was sick the whole week and Elder Hicks wasn't feeling the best either. at least we got a lot of studying in. but i'm still not quite caught up with my own challenge oops. Anyway I made cookies on Tuesday for the District to try and spread my misery but no one else got sick. Elder Hicks and I are getting a lot better though and will definitely be able to get back to work saving souls. 

I don't remember what I wanted to talk about so I won't.

Today was pretty cool so far we got to go to a really cool store in IF called WeeBee Toys. they had lots of cool over priced awesome stuff. Another Elder got a yoyo because there was a really cool guy there who impressed us all. then we went and had good cheep mexican food. Now we are Emailing and then soon we are going to hang out and play some games. Then we are going to go and teach a cool family. It's going to be great.

Anyway we have to go. But I can Email all the way 'til 5 so if there are questions you guys want answered I can do that. Also I will be uploading pictures until then also.

That's All I got. 

Humidifiers are the greatest man made invention

-Elder Darcey

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Emails from Sick People

Tuesday, Feb. 12, 2019

Hi we are going to the Temple this morning. I will Email later today.

I don't have a lot to talk about this week because we were sick the whole time. So can you let me know what paople want to hear from me? 

Ok, hope you feel better. Ok, I'll let you know. Ok, I will.

Mon. Feb 4, 2019

Hey Family! i HAVE A TON OF STUFF TO TALK ABOUT AND i MANAGED TO TALK ABOUT A WHOLE LOTA NOTHIN IN MY VOICE RECORDING SORRY OOPS i JUST REALIZED i AM ON CAPS LOCK

Anyway Transfers were this week Elder Harvey is in Menan and My new Companion is Elder Hicks. He is great. 

Anyway go listen to the Recording then read the rest of the Email.

Transcript of the recording:  

Hi Everybody this one is going to have to be pretty quick.  It's 8:42 on the fourth of Feb 2019.  This is the Monday after transfers and I have a new companion named Elder Hicks.  He is not from the South, but from Arizona.  I really don't know him yet, but we're getting there.  Its been a great week. Lots of stuff, but for Friday when I was sick.  

Elder Harvey and I went around to lots of people and told them of the change and got ready for Elder Hicks coming in.  We had a great time.  As far as other stuff we did, there wasn't a ton of it as Elder Harvey packed and I cleaned the apartment.  That is all the goal stuff until Thursday.  Elder Harvey is now in Menan, between and he is training somebody and I am 

He just last served in the IF Central stake and has come to join me and it will be a great time.

I just got really messed up by transfers, we got a ton of stuff this one.  Basically there were two sets of missionaries, along with us the Sisters served.  After transfers they took one of our wards and two of the Sisters wards and made another area for three sets of missionaries in the IF stake.  Prior to this they were Senior missionaries there the Savitches.  Long story short, all four sets of us are working in the stake and that's crazy since I've never heard of more than two sets.  We typically have 5 or 6 wards, now we have 3.  Also, super convenient for the new elders is that they got our best wards and I'm not salty about that or anything... at all.   I'm grateful for the opportunity to focus more.   One of our wards would take all of our time, Taylors Crossing.  They are the furthest ward away from us and we would walk down and back and four days a week.  Now we can focus on Grandview Ward that is falling apart and that's a good thing.

Transfers, 11:30 we went to mission office, dropped off Elder Robinet and got Elder Hicks and got some quick shopping and headed to the apartment and started planning and that got disrupted by a lesson teaching and then introduced Elder Hicks to some of our bishops.  Elder Hicks is a real funny guy and was with his previous comp. for eight months that is unheard of.  He was in his other area 9 months which is pretty much close to the record of one year.  He has siblings, he's 21 and he has a ... well, I don't know much.  That's all I got.  

I had to go turn down the oil and now I've forgotten where I was.  Friday we woke up with a sore throat and I kept working because I'm an idiot, apparently.  I got up and had to go down to the visitors center and correlate and so that was really cool to have eight of us in this tiny room and we were talking and helping them feel better about whitewashing and that means they came in together and they are both new to the area.  We helped them and the sisters helped and they were really glad to have more information.  

In walked some members from my previous area and we went to the office and picked up supplies and headed over to grab lunch but I was too sick.  I was out of it and eventually the housing coordinator came over and we were shoveling and I had to sit down half way through and I went in and came back out and I was exhausted and had shivers and at about 4:45 we stopped and dinner was at 5:30 and I was sitting in the bathroom on the tub wall and I was really feeling sick and then I was barfing and then we cancelled dinner and I slept off the evening.  That is the first time I have been sick so I'm lucky.  

Next day we were able to do a ton of stuff and...

I just went and checked my scone bread and it's looking pretty puffy.  We have two sets of Elders coming over to eat breakfast with us and so I gotta go.  I'll write later.  

Later:  So Saturday we also went to a Baptism That Elder Hicks and his previous companion setup before transfers. then we did a ton of other visits in the evening and then it was raining all day and Elder Hicks slipped on Ice and landed in a lake.(big puddle) it was not cool. After that a member took up for Ice cream to end the night. 

Sunday was great. except no one was available because of the superbowl... ow-well. but we did have a weird experience in the evening when we decided to randomly drop in on an elders quorum pres. here and we found ourselves within a few short minutes giving a blessing of comfort to some (I don't know them) random person. that was a cool experience.  Knock, knock, come in can you give a blessing? sure. 

I will get more pictures with Elder Hicks in the coming days as I have none yet. oops.

-Elder Darcey

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