April 30th 2012
Well Jamie just emailed me the Gender of the Baby! I shared
the Dr. Quote with the zone and they loved it. So this week was slightly better
than last week. It was hard to push through working hard because i go home so
soon and it would be hard to work hard without seeing success all that time but
i did stick it out this far and now it seems a lot easier to work hard for only
two weeks. I mean football camp was a whole week and i could work hard all that
time so yeah its going to be good. We have a lot of work that needs to be done.
On monday evening we went and said bye to Jason. He left for I think Georgia
tuesday morning but had to be in a Hotel by 10 on monday night. So we went by
their house to say bye. It was really sad to see a Dad have to leave his wife
and 3 little boys. The oldest is like 4 and then 2 and barely born. But in six
months they will fly his family out to North Carolina where he will be
stationed and they will live there for like two years. So now i have a good
collection of people i will know in North Carolina so i will have to go out
there and visit everyone. Tuesday was good. We had interviews with President
Lewis. It was really good. We just talked about being a good Model for the Zone
as a zone leader. He said even if we aren't seeing success we still need to
work hard so others will when they aren't seeing success. They set up my
Departing Interview and it will be on May 8th so a little bit before i go home
but it will be good. They gave me a Return Home Plan worksheet to fill out
before that interview. It wanted me to write down what i want for my life in
Family, School, Career and Church then to set goals and make plans to achieve
the goals. It was pretty hard actually and i started having a similar feeling i
had in the MTC when i was staring at 2 years in front of me and i was scared
and overwhelmed. Its going to be scary starting my life and family and career
and it was overwhelming filling it out. But i did remember an awesome
experience my second day in the MTC. I was feeling super overwhelmed of the
task ahead and it was making the day really hard to focus and what not. So i
prayed and asked God to help me feel comfort and to not think about how long
and hard it will be but to just focus on whats happening now and do what i need
to do now to produce my future goals. I didn't even notice that my prayer was
answered until the end of the day when i realized that since that prayer i was
so distracted with things to learn and practice that i was no longer sad and
down. It lifted me right up and so i gained a big testimony of prayer and
answers to prayers my second day in the MTC. I even wrote that experience down
in my journal and i have gone back and read it a couple of times. So as i
started the worksheet for going home and i began to get those feelings i knelt
down and asked God to comfort me and help me Focus on the now and in minutes i
was able to focus on the worksheet and write everything down with faith and
excitement. I didn't feel overwhelmed at all through it. I do still feel it a
little bit when i think about my future life but its all good. But yeah so we
had interviews this week and it was good. We had to go down to the building
thats next to the temple for our interviews. So we got there a few minutes
early and we walked around the temple. It was pretty warm out but it was a nice
walk. I love the Sacramento Temple. Its pretty. You should come check it out
when you come here. We saw a lot people all day and we were able to teach
someone so that was good. We switched up for exchanges at night. I went with
Elder Wyatt in his area. It was fun. He goes home the same time as me. I told
him he can meet you guys. He is super cool and i like hanging out with him. We
stayed up a little late talking. The next day we were on bikes cuz their area
is a bike area and it rained all morning then stopped till dinner then from
like 6 till whenever it stopped in the middle of the night it rained again. So
it was fun. Its a lot easier to go out and bike all day in the rain knowing
that you don't have to do it the next day and if you did it would only be for
three more weeks. So we had a good time. Thursday we had District Meeting. It
was really good and we enjoyed it. We don't do anything anymore so its fun
receiving trainings again. We had a couple of appointments but they all fell
through. So we had a member with us name Brother Paugh. Its said Paw. Hes white
but his wife is phillipeno. So he was with us so we went and saw Delores. She
is an older lady.h She tells us the craziest stories about how everyone
is out to get her. She told us one once and it was awesome so i went home and
wrote it down. I doctored it up a little to make it more intense but it was
pretty good already. I'll have to tell you all my stories i've thought up out
here. I think they're pretty good. But we taught her and she wants to get
baptized but she needs to come to church. Shes in the hospital a lot because
she is old and frail. So she didn't come this week cuz she had Kidney stones
but hopefully next week. Friday we had weekly planning which was pretty cool.
We planned for the week. During lunch i have been working out a little so i can
be in better shape when i get home. Things are going good. I was doing really
good on my diet but when i was with Elder Wyatt we went to Godfather pizza
buffet. So it backed me up a couple of days but as of today i am at an all time
low! So yeah. I'm not going to make it as far as i wanted but i think i'll hit
my original goal. So thats good. We saw a lot of people again on friday. We
didn't see much from it but we did work hard and we set up a couple of return
appointments with people. Saturday was pretty good. We helped our mormon hands
on over to Ancel Hoffman park which is a golf course/nature reserve. The nature
reserve is called Effie Yeaw. It was cool. All the California was doing Mormon
Helping Hands last weekend and the weekend before that. Thats why i said we
helped our mormon hands over there. Just in case you didn't get that. The Elder
Quorum in our ward was in charge of re-roofing a big huge bird house so we
helped with that. I have never done a roof but i learned a lot. I learned how
to cut wood. Use a hammer. Use a nail gun. Not fall off a roof. Balance. and
put all the crap on that a roof needs. It was fun. It took a while but it was fun.
We had to redo like everything. We had to make the trusses and stuff. It was
fun though. They had a guy there that was filming with a camera. Someone said
he made video of it and they said i was in it a lot. So the guys said he'll
email it to me but you won't see it till i come home or else it will expose my
weight loss to you. So yeah the roof was cool. I got a little bit of a sunburn
but its almost gone now. We did some other cool stuff so that was awesome.
Sunday was good. We went to church. I liked it. Someone signed up to feed me on
my birthday. Its the Plenerts. They are super cool so i am excited. My
birthdays on wednesday just incase you forgot... So yeah that was my week. I
hope everyone is doing good. I am getting excited for my friday fun when i get
home. I should probably start sending some stuff home... cuz i don't know if it
will all fit in my bags. Or... you can just have extra space in your bags that
i can put it in... Let me know. I am going to get my blue suit dry cleaned this
week so i can wear it when i get my black suit dry cleaned next week. I want to
wear my black home on the plane but i want it to be nice. So i'm getting dry
cleaned and i'm not wearing it till the day i go home. So yeah its exciting. I
love you! bye...
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Love, Elder Tyler Pete Arnett
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Love, Elder Tyler Pete Arnett
So for those of you that haven’t seen facebook, Jamie and
David found out today that they are having a boy! We are all so excited. The doctor’s quote that Tyler refers to in
his letter is that when Dr. Holmes first started doing the ultra-sound, he
commented immediately that he already knew what it was. He then started doing measurements and making
sure of everything and this was his quote:
“There is no doubt, something is sticking out!” So a boy it is. Also for those of you that don’t know it is
only 2 weeks and 3 days left until Elder Arnett returns. We again are so thrilled and can’t wait.
Marilyn
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