June 22, 2010 - Elder Herring got a picture with an apostle :P

this week has been really sweet alot of cool things happened. on Saturday we had Colin's baptism. and today we decided we wanted to hike waterfall canyon. it was way sweet. it's probably 2.5 miles but it's like straight up i attached a picture of a missionary in our district and I standing beside the waterfall. i was so tired and out of shape. we want to eventually be able to hike up Benlmond but I'm way to out of shape for that right now. the other picture i attached is a picture of my companion and I with Elder Robert D. Hales. we caught him coming out of the tabernacle after being the guest speaker at a stake conference. we went over and shook his hand (after getting past security) and asked if he had time for a picture because no one would ever believe us if we didn't get one, he kindly said "I always have time for the missionaries" first time I've ever got to see an apostle in real life, now i just have to get a picture with the prophet. Elder Attridge and I are getting along really well our motto "work hard play harder" so we always work hard and have fun together. this week we made up a game its sorta of weird but it's funny. the person in the front passenger seat pulls the bar up to adjust the seat and then the driver (me) slams on the brakes and flings them forward :) lol I'll have to get it on camera its pretty funny. but that's all that happened pretty much this week. but i love you all keep sending letters it's really nice to get letters during the week. love

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Elder Tyler Herring

June 15, 2010

so this week was way sweet i got a new companion, his name is Elder Attridge he's been out about six months. he got here on wednesday. all this week we've been looking for new investigators. going through the unbaptised list and the part member family list. another thing we've tried is "blitzing the ward" where we visit every house in the ward and see how there doing with the ward mission leader. its been very successful. this upcoming saturday is colins baptisim. after he gets baptised we wont have anyone else to teach. :( this week we should be picking up 4-5 baptism dates. but one funny thing that happened this week was i dared elder attridge to jump in a pen with a billy goat. it kept trying to ram him and he just grabed the horns and hanged on till he could get away. it lasted for about 5mins it was way funny. but all is good in hooper i hope ill stay here for a long time. only thing i dont like is we live next to a pig farm and it smells so we cant really open the windows cause of the smell so our apartment is always hot. but its ok its a tiny sacrifice

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Elder Tyler Herring

June 8, 2010

so transfers happened. im staying in hooper. my new companions name is Elder Atrig. todays really busy because Elder Ramsey has to pack still and wants to visit all of our converts and really sweet members in our area. but i pick up Elder Atrig tomorrow morning in the mission office. he seems like a pretty cool kid, we'll find out tomorrow. on sunday Leeanna was confirmed and got the holy ghost. been a really good week though. im going to miss elder ramsey. he as made a zone leader in syracuse. sorry the email is short but love you guys

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Elder Tyler Herring

June 1, 2010

this week was sweet we had leeanas baptisim and i got to go to one of my recent converts, wess, wedding. wess's wedding was sweet i was lucky enough to be a grooms man :) check out the flower. it was really cool to see wess marrry the woman of his dreams. he's only got a year until he's going to be getting married in the temple and ill still be one my mission when that happens, so ill get to go to that too. leeannas baptisms was yesterday on monday. it was a really good service her boyfriend baptised her. this week has been alot of fun. yesterday after he baptism i was going on exchanges with Elder Olson. we had way to much fun while driving i saw a sign that said fainting goats for sale, i slammed on the brakes and whipped into the drive way. we ran up and knocked on the door and asked if we could play with there goats. i got in the pen and hid from some of the baby ones and jumped out and scared them surprisingly one of them fainted it was so funny. ill attach a link of a youtube video of them. but transfers are coming up and i have no idea where im going i asked to stay but we'll see. love you guys

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Elder Tyler Herring