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“.. but hearken unto the words of the Lord, and ask the Father in the name of
Jesus for what things soever ye shall stand in need. Doubt not, but be
believing, and begin as in times of old, and come unto the Lord with all your
heart, and work out your own salvation...”
Elder Mitch Coleman (Germany Munich)
Lommelstrasse 7
81479 Munich
GERMANY
Birthday: February 15th
Hey everybody!!! I hope Christmas was way good for all of
you!!  For Christmas we had a eating appointments for the 3
days, so Christmas is 3 days long here and on Christmas day
there were 8 of us elders and we played games and called
home before we went to our eating appointments it was
awesome!!! My goals for  my mission are to keep going
strong and not too slow down. To use my time in the best way
possible.  I am so thankful for everything I have learned so far
out here.   I am loving it.  I love you guys!!! Love GUS
Anziano Tyler Gibbons (Italy Catania)
Via G. Corsaro, 84/7 (Parco Inglese)
95030 Sant’ Agata Li Battiati (CT)
ITALY
Birthday: December 12th
Hey Elders, i am doing well. Christmas was amazing really a
good humbling experience. My goals for this year are to put
everything i have learned in the last 22 months and put it into
practice to help my investigators to baptism. I also will use
what i have learned on my mission in my life when i get home.
I understand more fully now the atonement of Jesus Christ then
i have ever before. I want to help bring souls to Christ it is
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Mormon 9:27
something that helps me find peace and comfort and helps me
be a good example to my family and friends who are not of our
church. Remember the invite Christ gave to his brothers and
sisters Venite a me! Remember how the apostles help bring
each other to him. Come see for yourself. This should be our
invite to everyone we meet. Do as i am doing come see for
yourself and follow Christ. This is my goal. Looking forward
to hearing your goals. Love you all Anziano Gibbons
Elder Ryan Swayt (Missouri Independence)
517 W. Walnut
Independence, MO 64051
Birthday: October 31st
Hey Elders,
I just wrote a huge email to all of you and it failed to send and
got erased so here goes the short version...
First I love all of you. I loved Christmas and have an even
stronger testimony that Christ lives and has his hand in this
work. I spent 10 months in my last area and got transferred
right before Christmas. It was way hard to leave but I am
serving with my MTC comp again. We are way good friends
and have been wanting to serve together our whole missions.
So life is great right now! One of my goals this year is to read
the Book of Mormon in the first 60 days of the year. We are
doing it as a mission, I can't wait. Another goal is to have these
last 4 months be the most successful months of my entire
mission. I want to be crazy about this work until the last day of
my mission, and then be crazy about being a member
missionary! I have to run but I love you Elders! Work
HARDER! Don't let up! The Lord will bless us! Love, Elder
Swayt
Elder Greg Metcalf (Louisiana Baton Rouge)
12025 Justice Ave.
Baton Rouge, LA 70816
Birthday: April 19th
Hey all ya'll, Well i had a great Christmas and i hope all the
Elders of the kawalla's had a good one. We were invited from
some investigators to come over and spend it with them. We
were about the only ones not drunk but we still had a good time
and had some awesome southern food. I got to talk to the best
family in the world. Im grateful for the family i have and the
support they give me. I am also grateful for the friends i have.
Well for the new year goals, i would like to finish the mission
strong and have no regrets and learn as much as i can while i
have the spirit with me so much and have such great leaders to
teach me. I would just like to help people change their lives
and make this world a better place. But i love ya'll and hope
your tearin' it up out there scattered around the world. Man its
crazy to think about how were so far apart but still doing the
same work! Love ya'll do work peace.
Elder Robbie Frank (Spain Bilbao)
C/Bidarte 6 - 4 ˚
489 Las Arenas (Vizcaya)
SPAIN
Birthday: September 8th
Sorry yall I have no time but I love ya and my goals are to
work the hardest in my next 5 months than ever before so I am
super pumped and I love yall so much and I can´t wait to
destroy yall in LO and God bless.
Elder ¨Handsome Rob¨ Frank aka SPACEBALLS
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Elder Dallin Schwendiman (TN, Nashville)
105 West Park Drive Suite 190
Brentwood, TN 37027
Birthday: January 6th
Holy Smokes Kawallas! Happy New Year!
How the flip is it already the new year. I swear we just started our
missions. This Christmas was one of the best i have had yet. Its
was so much fun. early morning we got up and had the fattest
breakfast known to mankind. Sausage(jimmy Dean)(2),
Bacon(large rack), Eggs(12), Toast(8), Milk, Cereal, it was so
way good. After that we took turns opening our stockings which
we filled for each other. That was so fun watching someone
opening something that you bought them. I love that part. Then
after that we played monopoly for hours on end. I got my hine
parts kicked. I sucked way bad but i got free parking all the time
so it was fun. So in the afternoon we went over to our friends the
Neuhaus' they are such a cool family. they are about to have their
9th kid here in a couple of months so their house was such a
party. I got to talk to my family which was way sweet. it gets
funner and funner everytime i talk to them. we played basketball
with the kids and we played air hockey and a bunch of other
games with them as well. that night we went to the Rankins'
which are my favorite family in the ward. 4 kids in the fam,
Allison, Natalie, Ben, and Jonathan. We started our own band
with them called "Sacrament Distractions" its way sweet. So we
went over to their house and played catch phrase, bananagrams,
and last word(such a loud game)perfect for us k-dubs! so
Christmas for me was Too legit! I guess some of my goals for
the rest of my mission are to break down Preach my gospel, and
study the guts outta it. Then i wanna get thru the Book of
Mormon just one more time. I wanna get to the point where i can
practice anything to the point where i can't get it wrong, but right
now, im not even close. We Kawallas ya'll are the bomb sheezy! I
love ya'll tonz and cant wait til we meet like Alma and the sons
of Mosiah! thats gonna be sicky! This pic is "Sacrament
Distrations" Straight out of A Nashville Living Room! GOD
BLESS Elder Schwendiman
Hermano Landan Gollaher (Mexico Chihuahua)  work! Christmas Eve we took once with a member familia in
Calle Ojinaga #2210 A, Antes Morelos
Colonia Cuauhtemoc
31020 Chihuahua, Chihuahua
MEXICO
Birthday: April 20th
HEY KAWALLAS whats up, Man this was a great chill relax
christmas. i found out my sis is having two babies. its going to
be weird. ha so this christmas basically we worked all day.
Then i talked to my family at like 6 then i went to a dinner at
seven and in the dinner bullets were falling on the house haha
so the owner was like what is that. he opened the door and saw
bullets and was like its better i don’t go out. cause a stray bullet
will fall on me ... haha then i got back to the house and called
home again. haha. i love my family and all of you guys. i cant
wait to see you all again. we really for real have the sickest
group of friends. well my new years goal is.... hmmmm.. serve
serve and serve. be one of those people who is always ready to
help in what ever it is. i love you guys. there is no other way to
greater happiness then to serve others as Jesus taught. as we
have done it unto the one of the least of these my brethren ye
have done it unto me. KAWALLA SHOUT OUT.. happy new
years homies. t mix landan
Elder Brent Larsgard (Georgia Macon)
5082 Forsyth Road Suite A
Macon, Georgia, 31210
Birthday: February 11th
Hello Elders,
Christmas was wonderful. I read the Book of Mormon all day
and then we went out to proselyte at 6 p.m. It was pretty neat to
spend a portion of Christmas with random people we didn't
know. It's too bad on that day of the year is when what most of
would be cold hearted people change for a season; I wish
they'd stay that way. I'm not too fond of New Year's
resolutions; however I'm very excited to contribute my all for
the missions' goal of 1000 convert baptisms in 2010. What a
wonderful time in our lives we're in. In 2010 I'm going to
continue to do what I did in 2009; give it my all. I pray
everyone else will too. I love you Elders. ~Elder Larsgard
Elder Sean Owen (Chile Vina Del Mar)
4 Norte 1112
Vina Del Mar
CHILE
Birthday: May 19th
¡¡FELIZ NAVIDAD Y BUEN AÑO NUEVO de Chile!!
HEEEY!!! What´s up everyone? I was so filled and am still
filled with so much Christmas spirit that I´m just pumped to
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the ward here in Viña. We ate some meat, puré and a fruit thing
for desert. Christmas day all 7 of us elders that live together
had a chilean BBQ up at our apartment. It was sweeet! There
was some helicoptor that flew over like 5 times to fill itself up
with water from the pond right in from of our pad cause there
was a huge fire on the other side of our hill. It flew right by us
it was TIGHT!!! Then we all went down to the office and
called the family at about 5 and we got to talk for 30-40
minutes. It was so great to hear the families voice! With this
new year I decided to go all out with the New Years resolution.
My main goal is based on the scripture found in John 17:3. I
have gained so much love for our God and Savior and want to
continue growing that love so that is why I picked that it. Also,
my other New Years resolution is to finish the mission strong
and to stay focused until the very end. I´m so stoked to get out
of the office and be able to work normal. I´m gonna baptize the
world!!!!!!!!! A special goal that I have set and am excited to
achieve is planning out the man I want to become. By the end
of this year, I want to have on paper the man I want to be so
that I can set the needed goals in order to become that man. I
know that God blesses us with revelation in order to reach our
goals and I know that He will make our weaknesses strengths
if we humbly set goals and rely on His help to achieve
them(Ether 12:27). Elder Owen Misión Chile Viña del Mar
Elder Kurtis Roberts (NY New York South)
85-69 60th Drive
Elmhurst, NY 11373
Birthday: August 25th
Hey Gang,
The Holidays have gone way too fast. Between October and
Now has just flown. Christmas was great I hope all of yours
was great as well. I got to talk with the fam, which was really
nice. They are the best, cant wait to see them again. On
Christmas for dinner we went out to Plainview (Long Island)
to Benihana, the best restaurant in the world. it was a pretty
chill day. we got to use our cell phones this year so we didnt
even have to leave our pad. Im Still in Staten Island. Its still
slow as ever, but i like it a lot. The members are the best. That
doesn’t mean im not ready for a new area tho. ha Transfers are
in 3 weeks and im probably out of Staten. My goal(s) for the
new year.. hmm.. I guess just don’t die as a missionary, just
keep workin hard & and make the Big Finish. Thats probably
my biggest goal. We all know it gets discouraging but miracles
happen if you just work hard, ive learned that for a fact. I hope
you all are doing good. love ya doods. PEACE Kurtamir (P.S.
everyone talks so much halo smack, i guess i'll just have to
remind you all who really is the master chief. ME K-ROB!) 9
Mo Months! y'all'll be cryin like babies!
Zhang Lao Chris Weinberger (Taiwan Taipei) Jordan Gerber (Peru Arequipa)
Floor 4, No. 24, Lane 183 Peru Arequipa Mission
Jin Hua Street, Taipei Cassilla de Correo 1884
Taiwan Arequipa
Birthday: August 16th Arequipa
Peru
Well what we did for Christmas? My companion and I had Birthday: February 11th
some extra pancake mix...Yes I know pancake mix in
Taiwan!.... But we tried to make breakfast as elegant as we Trey Maxwell (California Los Angeles)
could. It didn't really work out but we tried. Opened presents 1591 East Temple Way
talked to the family! We tried the whole caroling thing to find Los Angeles, CA 90024
investigators. Like we went and knocked doors and before they Birthday: June 24th
could say no we just started singing Christmas carols........ It
didn't really work. Some people actually got pretty upset with Sup Kawallas. I was sick on christmas eve so that was cool. On
us. Caroling in Taiwan I guess doesn't bring the warm fuzzy Christmas day we went to a homeless shelter and gave out food
welcoming like it does in the states. It was kinda funny though. and slippers. it was alright. I had my new companion for
We had a couple lessons one being with a Jehovah's Witness. Christmas, he is straight from home. No Mtc. Its freaking weird
Another shout out to you boys in the south! You guys are man, but Christmas was good. Talked to the fam and that was
awesome. All I am going to say about the lesson is that my just about the best thing ever. As for 2010 and goals.... I am not
Patience Was Tested ha ha:)! I was able to get through with no much of a goal setter you all know that. I will probably think up
arguments. Just kinda bit my lip the whole time. Well for most some real quick this week tho. right now I will say a couple
the time. For dinner my companion and I just went out to a goals right off the top of my head. Ok I want to be happier in my
restaurant. We spent alot of time outside contacting. On the mission, and I want to learn Spanish better. Its so easy to slack
way we were able to set up two more people for appointments. on Spanish here. Also I want to get a better beard for when I get
One of them being a Family! Then the night ended with us home. thats my goals. Thanks for everything schwendimans,
teaching a community english class. It wasn't what you call a your the bomb dig. Love you all.
"Traditional Christmas". But the feeling of sacrifice was well
worth it! My goals for next year are simple. Like Elder Elder Andy Tucker
Bednar's talk I wanted to be Saturated and Sealed! I want to 9562 South Cobalt Circle
turn everything I have over, and having the end of my mission Sandy, UT 84094
and the work done be sealed by approval of the Holy Ghost! Birthday: March 8th
Leaving it all on the field!
Love you all. The gospel is true. **New Callings

**Notes

Happy 21st Birthday Dallin!

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