Where Oh Where Has the Email Gone?

Hi I am emailing on Tuesday because we went to the temple today!

We went down to Rexburg early this morning, and went to the temple. After that we did a quick shop and then we went to lunch, and now we are up here in St Anthony Emailing, after that we are going to wash the car then have our last interview with President Nelson (President Hurley gets here in two days) then we are going back up to Ashton, and who knows what we will do!

Anyway this week. This week has been awesome! We went to west on Friday and Saturday, and while we were up there, we were given a ton of pizza. So much that we dumped a few on some people we were teaching and then dumped some on another set of Elders, and then ate some ourselves. It was kinda bizarre! Anyway, the other days were cool too!

On Tuesday we went to Zone Conference! That was awesome! It was the last one for a lot on missionaries I know so that's sad, oh well. We learned about teaching in interesting ways, and about making sure that we are having fun in our work. Also President gave his departing testimony :( it was super awesome. I am going to have to go over my notes and write down exactly what I can remember him saying. 

On Sunday some people we have been teaching and trying to get to church for the last several weeks CAME! woo! It was an awesome Sacrament meeting to come to also! The ward had a returning missionary give his talk, and he was an amazing speaker about all sorts of cool experiences on his mission. it was super powerful and A great first church meeting to come to.

Anyway I have to run!

I left some new pictures and I think that's all left.

-Elder Darcey

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EEEEEMAIL

Hi All, 

 I didn't have a lot of time this week oops.

Anyway cut to the chase. I learned how to make ties a while ago, and have recently gotten aLot better at it. So Question for all, if you find fabric that you think would make a cool tie design, can you send some to me>? 

Rose: Talking to Dad and Grandmas on Sunday

Thorn: not much

this was a really great week. We went to West Yellowstone on Sunday, so that we could meet a ton of people. But, it was Stake Conference. so we were watching a webcast from Ashton. and half way through, it cut out. And I considered going and asking if I could help, but by then someone came back and said there was no saving it. so Stake Conference ended an Hour early.

This upcoming Tuesday we have ZONE CONFERENCE! THE LAST ONE WITH OUR MISSION PRESIDENT! AGG

That's all I got.

-Elder Darcey

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What about Pointed Emails

Hi Everyone, it's another Email! What a surprise!

This week was awesome! Definitely high points were, Today we visited mesa falls, Sunday we gave talks, and on other days we did other stuff.

I have a lot of pictures from Mesa Falls, It was really pretty when we went this morning. I just wish we had been able to spend more time there. oh well.

My talk I gave was about Missionary Work! Super Convenient! I recorded it and I guess will send it to you, but be aware, I wrote it in the time that Elder VanOrman was speaking before me. Oops I still put off talks til the last moment and that isn't good.

Anyway, if you would rather skip the 'figuring out what to talk about while talking' then I am actually going to write about it now because I think it's really important for everyone to know.

I spoke about how easy it is to share the gospel, in our daily lives. I specifically talked about how in Idaho missionary work is all about the members and without them nothing happens. Anyway, I mentioned how Aaron started teaching simply when he needed to teach king Lamoni, and how we need to be simple and caring in our invitations. We shouldn't walk up to random people and invite them to meet with the missionaries. 

That doesn't work (in Idaho) But, we can still invite our friends to church activities and family activities because that is where the spirit is present, and the spirit is how people know this gospel is true. That's why missionaries push the Book of Mormon so much is because when you read it the spirit is present and as you recognize that then you know it's true.

Anyway,

Rose: best crepes I have ever eaten. they had strawberries and Nutella and happiness inside of them.

Thorn: A family we are teaching still hasn't come to church. :(

if you find this either you are cool or something helped you...

-Elder Darcey

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NOT NECESSARY EMAIL -- I could be doing this in my spare time.

Hi

Transfer calls were this Sunday. They really snuck up on me this Transfer. The last six weeks have gone by in a real blur. Anyway. Elder VanOrman and I are staying in Ashton for another 6 weeks. And I am so excited for this next transfer. It's going to be a blast. 

I had the opportunity to go on Exchanges this Tuesday with our District Leader. That was an absolute blast we did so much stuff and met people that Elder VanOrman still hadn't met so that was funny to tell him what we did that day. We got to share a message with someone who had been meeting with missionaries a while ago, but had stopped. That was great. Also we had a really awesome dinner where Elder Cano (DL) met someone who was serving where his grandparents lived in Uruguay when they got baptized. So that was also odd.

On Wednesday We had District Council. I didn't make anything good this week, because I learned the morning of that we did not have a pan big enough for my brownies that I wanted to make :/ But after District Council we were able to help setup a blood drive, then a few hours later we were able to give blood! (What is a fast time to give blood? mine was 3.59) The rest of the day we ate a wonderful dinner and then lethargically wandered around Ashton until we passed out from blood loss. rip.

Friday as usual we went to West. Lots of people. Lots of wind. Fun.

Speaking of not fun, my trip into ACTUAL Yellowstone died. Elder VanOrman was going to be staying with another set of missionaries on Monday, so I could go. But the other set of Missionaries decided to take their P-Day on Tuesday to go to the Temple. So rip my trip.

That's all for now

rose: staying in Ashton for another transfer

thorn: rip yellowstone (for now)

-Elder Darcey

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Mesa Falls

Attempting to Retrieve EMAIL - voice recording

Hello Everybody,

It's Elder Darcey I'm sending a voice recording because we got over to the Family History Center at about nine am and we realized it's Memorial Day so I can't email on a computer as we are now driving to Driggs for a Zone activity.

I'm sending this quick message instead because that's my besst.

This week has been awesome so much good stuff happened.

On Thursday we went on exchanges with one of the AP's and it was a blast and we visited a ton of people and we spent from 5:30 to 7:30 at a community fundraiser for the fireworks for the fourth of July.  The more they make, the better the fireworks are that year.  It was put on by the four different religions in the area in Ashton.  We were serving pulled pork and potatoes and there was a ton left over.  Each church served different food and it was great and we talked to two or three hundred people that night.  It was so cool..

Lots of stuff fell through and lots of challenges in peoples life are starting up because summer is beginning.  I no longer wear long sleeve shirts and though it's only 70, not warm, but warm for here.  There is no snow, in West or Island Park.

That was a weird night.  Friday night we spent in West, in one of two places, more hotelish, or rent a cabin place.  It's really nice, oddly nice.  We were there this week and they put us in one of their best cabins and it was very, very nice.  Watch for the video in the album. 

Rose, this week was definately getting home Wed night and we walked into our house and the guy who lives with us fixed our shower.  We had the worst shower in the mission.  NO Exaggerating.  Go to your sink so some of the water is barely dripping out and that was us. 

Thorn,  probably oof, just how many people had to bale for how many different things going on.  I can't control that.

District Council I was going to make brownies, but that morning went too fast, and the night before I made another key lime pie and they had family over and it was a great time.

Lots of photos and videos.

Elder VanOrman is awesome.  Okay bye,

Elder Darcey 

I'd like to have an Email

Hey Everyone! This week has been Great!

Other than being congested. 

Ignoring that though, I have been feeling great! So much awesome stuff is going on!

First order of business. Key lime pie was amazing. I made it for district council along with a pumpkin pie, and they were both very good. President Nelson (mission prez) was there, and he talked about making sure that we were diligent in our work and all sorts of cool stuff like that.

also Tuesday I went on exchanges with Elder Wheelock. And had a great time trying to keep up with conversations where I could only say Hola and Adios.

That afternoon (Wednesday) we had a ton of pouring rain. In fact the last week has been filled with nothing but overcast and rain. Man has that been nice. Anyway, we had a lesson while walking around a track in the rain. That was a real blast. We are going to be doing that again this week but it looks like it won't be raining as hard. :/ 

Friday morning we went to Island  Park.  

There we helped a guy tear apart a deck from his cabin on Henry's lake. We burned a lot of stuff, moved a lot of stuff destroyed a lot of stuff. That was a good time.

 Also when we got outside, we found a bird (hawk?) hanging out in a room full of windows and no exit. The poor bird (bird?) couldn't find a way out so I had to pick it up and carry it out. We were scared it wouldn't survive because it had just been ramming it's head on windows for the last few minutes. But a little while after I put it down outside, I was surprised when it flew away. 

Then in west we ate dinner with a ton of drama people. They were doing rehearsals for a show they do all summer and we were invited to "Taco Christmas" so that was weird. 

Anyway, That's been my week!

Rose: Carrying a bird (cat?)

Thorn: Not getting a snow cone every day.

-Elder Darcey

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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