Sorry i only have one minute to write you. Case is looking super cute and i love that kid. Would you send me some pictures to hang up. I hope you are all doing well. i love You.
Thursday, May 12, 2011
Thursday, May 5, 2011
Letter from Sam
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From: William Mellor
Date: Thu, Apr 28, 2011 at 11:14 AM
Subject: Re: from mom. I think I already sent this!
To: Kim & Sue Mellor
Hey everyone,
This week in the MTC has been kind of crazy. All the schedules in the MTC were changed on Monday, so it has taken some getting used to. They got rid of all MDT time, which is alright because it ended up being wasted anyway. Also we no longer use T.E.'s. We just have one scheduled TRC every week. All of our study time is scheduled for us, which i like because I wasnt of fan of having to decide what to study when. Since we got here we have had some awesome sunday night and tuesday night speakers. For my first Tuesday we had Richard G. Scott. It was really good and we were lucky because the district from our zone that had left the day before never got to hear from an Apostle. The next sunday we had the Director of MTC operations, but his previous job had been an executive producer for the mormon messages commercials for the last like 30 years. All he did was show us old mormon messages, but he applied them to our mission and it was really good. For our Devotional this week we had another Apostle, Dallin H. Oaks. This was only the second time in the History of the MTC that two Apostles had spoken in consecutive weeks. We have a pretty awesome zone. There are three districts, with 17 elders and 4 sisters. 15 of the elders are going to argentina and all the rest are going to Stateside spanish missions. Hopefully we will get a new district this next week, because it feels like ours is really small.
Its crazy how time works here. The first three days felt like weeks, but after they were over it seemed like a flash. I still can't tell if i have been here two weeks, two days, or two months. But i'm having a lot of fun. The days are long and tough, but it is worth it. I do need to know if i have had all of my Hepatitis shots, so if you could mail or email that to me, whichever is faster preferably. My P-day is on thursday, so that is the only day that i can check emails. Im glad the delivery of Baby Ry went well, and you definitely need to send some pictures in the mail because i cant print these ones on my off. Tell dad that cool about the backhoe, although im sure finding and fixing whatever part is broken will take at least the next year like usual. I love you all and i miss you.
Sam
On Fri, Apr 22, 2011 at 7:00 PM, Kim & Sue Mellor wrote:
Dear Sam,
I am sorry I didn't write right away. My whole week has been kind of a blur also. Michelle went into the hospital Thursday morning at 7 and by 12:02 baby Ry was born. Your dad was in on the delivery. This delivery seemed to go better than the other two which is nice. I was then BUSY with two cute little girls!
Your dad flew home Sunday and I came home last night. Baby Ry has a high Bili though and so is under the "lights" at their home. It is a bed that when he isn't eating he lays on and is velcroed in with a light underneath and a light on top. They go back in this afternoon and have another blood test done to see what his numbers are.
I read your letter that you sent home. Sounds like a rough few day. I am glad things are going better.
John has a JV game in Ritzville this afternoon that your dad and I are going to go see in just a few minutes.
Your dad stayed at the hospital last night with a sick baby with pneumonia. The baby's name was Rye.
Well I better go get your dad and head to the game. I will attach some pictures of Ry and Elle and Liv.
Think of you and hope all is going well. I love you and I am so proud of you and appreciate your sacrifice in serving a mission. Love, mom/.
From: William Mellor
Date: Thu, Apr 28, 2011 at 11:14 AM
Subject: Re: from mom. I think I already sent this!
To: Kim & Sue Mellor
Hey everyone,
This week in the MTC has been kind of crazy. All the schedules in the MTC were changed on Monday, so it has taken some getting used to. They got rid of all MDT time, which is alright because it ended up being wasted anyway. Also we no longer use T.E.'s. We just have one scheduled TRC every week. All of our study time is scheduled for us, which i like because I wasnt of fan of having to decide what to study when. Since we got here we have had some awesome sunday night and tuesday night speakers. For my first Tuesday we had Richard G. Scott. It was really good and we were lucky because the district from our zone that had left the day before never got to hear from an Apostle. The next sunday we had the Director of MTC operations, but his previous job had been an executive producer for the mormon messages commercials for the last like 30 years. All he did was show us old mormon messages, but he applied them to our mission and it was really good. For our Devotional this week we had another Apostle, Dallin H. Oaks. This was only the second time in the History of the MTC that two Apostles had spoken in consecutive weeks. We have a pretty awesome zone. There are three districts, with 17 elders and 4 sisters. 15 of the elders are going to argentina and all the rest are going to Stateside spanish missions. Hopefully we will get a new district this next week, because it feels like ours is really small.
Its crazy how time works here. The first three days felt like weeks, but after they were over it seemed like a flash. I still can't tell if i have been here two weeks, two days, or two months. But i'm having a lot of fun. The days are long and tough, but it is worth it. I do need to know if i have had all of my Hepatitis shots, so if you could mail or email that to me, whichever is faster preferably. My P-day is on thursday, so that is the only day that i can check emails. Im glad the delivery of Baby Ry went well, and you definitely need to send some pictures in the mail because i cant print these ones on my off. Tell dad that cool about the backhoe, although im sure finding and fixing whatever part is broken will take at least the next year like usual. I love you all and i miss you.
Sam
On Fri, Apr 22, 2011 at 7:00 PM, Kim & Sue Mellor
Dear Sam,
I am sorry I didn't write right away. My whole week has been kind of a blur also. Michelle went into the hospital Thursday morning at 7 and by 12:02 baby Ry was born. Your dad was in on the delivery. This delivery seemed to go better than the other two which is nice. I was then BUSY with two cute little girls!
Your dad flew home Sunday and I came home last night. Baby Ry has a high Bili though and so is under the "lights" at their home. It is a bed that when he isn't eating he lays on and is velcroed in with a light underneath and a light on top. They go back in this afternoon and have another blood test done to see what his numbers are.
I read your letter that you sent home. Sounds like a rough few day. I am glad things are going better.
John has a JV game in Ritzville this afternoon that your dad and I are going to go see in just a few minutes.
Your dad stayed at the hospital last night with a sick baby with pneumonia. The baby's name was Rye.
Well I better go get your dad and head to the game. I will attach some pictures of Ry and Elle and Liv.
Think of you and hope all is going well. I love you and I am so proud of you and appreciate your sacrifice in serving a mission. Love, mom/.
Letter from Dad
On Thu, May 5, 2011 at 9:14 AM, Kim & Sue Mellor <ksmellor8@gmail.com> wrote:
Hey Elder Mellor,I hope I'm writing this early enough for you to get it today. We just got in from Auburn last night and basically spent two days in airports. It was fun to see Lauren and you know how much I like to keep up on all the fashion trends. How's the spanish. I'm jealous that I'm not learning it with you. I did manage to draw out the timber frame garden shed on the airplane so hopefully we can get it framed this summer. Not much else is new here except as you know its mom's birthday and tomorrow we are driving to Seattle for Malia's wedding. Can't believe how fast everything is going. You're half way through the MTC. Have you heard whether or not there are any problems with visa's going into Argentina.Well, I've got patients waiting so gotta go. Keep up the good work. I'm proud of you. DAD
How was the trip to auburn. Tell lauren she needs to write me. Dad that is pretty awesome about the garden shed. You definitely need to send me picture. And liv needs to hurry up on that picture album for me.
This week was pretty great. We got a new teacher named Hermano Chandler, because Hermana Carlson graduated and you cant teach at the MTC unless you are a student. Hermano Chandler is really great though. He is exactly opposite personality wise from Hermano Wells, which is really nice because i couldnt handle six hours of just hermano well. On saturday we woke up to about three inches of snow. Elder Gifford from Vegas was pretty excited, but it all melted by about noon. We had a substitue teacher named Hermano Jimenez. He is from Mexico. He taught us alot about Latin-American culture and things we should and shouldn't do while we are there. One interesting thing was how we say "i'm sorry" so much in America. We say it for everything, even if we don't mean it, and it has really lost its meaning a lot of the time. In Latin America they will only say it if it is something serious or that they really feel sorry about, which i thought was cool. Sunday was fast sunday. It was really great even though i was starving all day. We spent the whole morning writing our talks for church, because we have to write one even for fast sunday. Than we had mission conference instead of priesthood. It was really good, but really long so i fell asleep a few times. The presidency talked a lot about internet safety, which i think is a precursor to them giving laptops to missionaries in the near future. Fast and Testimony was really good. Everyone gave powerful testimonies, mostly about the atonement. Then we had our temple walk. That night we had President and Sister Bertasso of one of the District presidencies speak to us. THey talked alot about how the lord will answer our prayers, whether they be big or small. I love sunday nights because we get to watch movies. We watched Mountain of the Lord which was about building the Salt Lake Temple. It is a really great movie. Nothing really happened on Monday except that night Elders Harris, White, and Robinson locked themselves out of their room . I learned that night that you can open a door with an envelope, dental floss, a hanger, and a vacuum. Tuesday night Devotional was given by Elder Stephen G. Wells of the Seventy. He talked a lot about faith as missionaries. And on Wednesday morning we had our third TRC. We taught an Older lady named Sister Gonzales. She was nice but pretty tough on us, which was good. I am loving the MTC and the mission. It is not always easy, but i know it will be worth it. I really learned a lot about the atonement this last week. It made me think that Christ has already atoned for all of our sins. Now it is our job as missionaries to make sure that all of those drops of blood he shed will be taken advantage of. I am loving the gospel more and more every day, and i am excited for the next two year. I love you all so much
Monday, May 2, 2011
Who is this Hermano?
This was from sam from the first few days in the mtc. Anyone who has watched Arrested Development will appreciate it.
Hey,
How is it going. I'm technically only supposed to write my parents, but since you are the only one that wrote me, i think this is alright. The MTC is great. They got right into things. I literally dropped my bags in my room and went straight to my class. We have two teachers, Hermana Carlson and Hermano Wells. I know right. All i could think of that first day is Gob saying "who is this Hermano." I swear those first few days felt like the longest days of my life. I kept thinking how am i supposed to study for that many hours every day. But now i look back and they are all a blur, and all i can think is i don't have enough time in the day to study all that i want too. But the language has been going awesome. My companions name is Elder Crane. He is from Riverton, Utah. He is a great guy, kind of like me in many ways, so we seem to work well together. We have ten elders in our district, all going to Resistencia. Their are over 100 missionaries in the MTC right now going to Argentina. We had a big meeting with the consul from Argentina yesterday, which was pretty good but not really all that informative. But overall the week has gone by so slow and so fast at the same time. I think the highlight was definitely our devotional last night. We heard from Elder Richard G. Scott. He talked a lot about humility, so i definitely got some good info out of it. Also the food is good, but it always seems like either all three choices are really good, or they all kind of suck. The language isn't bad, and i think it will come. You definitely need to send me some pictures of Baby Ry. I'm excited to see him. I love you all.
Elder Mellor
P.S. I probably wont email mom and dad this week but i will write a letter.
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