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Tuesday, March 19, 2013

Ok here is the rest of his letter :)


I tried to do something and it didn't work that's why you got that first weird E-mail.
So Sat. and Sun. we didn't do much. We had class took pictures with out teachers and went to church and some Devo's. Monday we got up at 0145 to get ready. We got the the airport around 0400 and we went to check in our bags and I look over and saw... Val Nuttall! I say her name and she looks over, and her face when she saw me... ooo PRICELESS!!! So she sprints over and tries to give me a hug, I tell her I can't give her a hug so we shake hands and then we go through security get on our flight and take off to Denver. The flight was about an hour long we landed around 0700 and our next flight didn't board until 0935 so I borrowed a friends, Elder Young's, calling card and called my dad for 30 or so minutes and then I called my brother Chris because it was his B-day. So after we flew out of Denver to Darango, a 39 minute flight. We landed and then walked off the plane onto the airport ground and walked in and meet Pres. and Sis. Batt. After we got our bags and drove to the mission house we had an orientation meeting and Pres. Batt did all 25 interviews. After the Orientation was over we had about 2 or 3 hours to sleep so we all crashed in the living room. Before anyone feel asleep Elder Hirschi said, "Someone should play the piano to put us to sleep." So I got up and played for like 2 hours straight. I played Cristifori's Dream and then almost all of the hymns I knew. Also Elder Provard and I had been playing Go Fish the past few days because we were bored so thank you Jessica for sending that in my B-day package. :) Sadly enough for Elder Provard he has never out right won a game of Go Fish. He's either tied or lost when we've played. haha. :) So after I played the piano for two hours we had dinner and went to the mission office, which is under a church, and had a testimony meeting. After that, some members came and got us and let us stay at their house for the night. I stayed in a Camping Trailer, a really nice big one. So Tuesday morning we got up and head back to the mission office and when we walked into the chapel there were a bunch of other Elders and Sisters already there. We had a couple meeting then we started to get assigned our trainer and area. Drum roll please... my trainer is ... Elder Edwards from Texas, although he's moved like 18 times so he's lived almost everywhere because his dad was in the military and my first area is............................................................................Blanding Utah!!!!!!!! Now some of you might be thinking, "Blanding, well that sucks, you didn't even go out of state." Well guess what, I've been here less than a week and I FREAKING LOVE IT HERE!!!!!!! So Tuesday after we drove 2 and 1/2 hours from Farmington to Blanding we went and had dinner with the Kyle family. Bro Kyle... let me explain him to you like this, 6' or 6' 2" big black guy that loves to talk. He's freaking histerical!!!!! Also before that we went to my first house visit, this house had not 1 not 2 but 3 MASSIVE German Shepards! Like these dogs would put there front paws on Elder Edwards shoulders, btw Elder Edwards is 6' 6", and look him dead in the eyes. Freaky but awesome. The dogs were actually really nice. Oh and we were in a 3 som. The other Elder's, Elder Amott, companion didn't show up till Friday so we just worked on his area from Tues to Fri. Elder Amott is freaking awesome he's super funny and easy to talk to, the only bad part about him is that this is his last transfer. So I don't really remember much from wednesday and Thursday cause it wasn't our area but I do remember this. Every morning we go and work out with Bro. Ford. Now Bro. Ford is a World Champion MMA fighter, that can kinda give you an idea on the work outs we do. I FREAKING LOVE IT!!!!!!! So on Sat. we started to open our area cause Elder Edwards and I are both new to Blanding so we met with our bishops and ward mission leaders. We have a bishop named, Bishop Moses. Ya, freaking awesome, and, he's a seminary teacher. He also took us around to meet some people that he wanted us to work with. On Sunday we went to church for close to 7 hours with all our meeting and then we had our first dicussion in our area. It went great, it was with Benny and Shiloh who are both less active but want to come back so we read the BOM with them then came home and Elder Edwards had to take care of some District Leader stuff cause he is also the District Leader. So for those 2 and a half ours Elder Amott and I talked about whatever came to our heads. Elder Amott's companion is Elder Sobczak (sob - check) So It's been a fun week but I can't wait to really getting working in our area.
The letters I have gotten are alway appriecatied and I will write you back if I get the time. Also when writing me letter they must have my first and last name or I will not get them until the next transfer! If you send me a package it must be sent using priority first US Mail, NOT UPS OR FEDEX OR ANYTHING LIKE THAT ONLY US MAIL!!! Pictures should be coming soon! :D
Thanks for all the support!
Elder Chipman

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