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Ammon’s Music Class Graduation

Mom, silly Ammon, and teacher Mrs. Nelson

[S8E2] Root Canals mean week long exchanges!!

1: So, about that root canal Elder Kerbs had some bad dental work done before he got out here, and so his teeth have been killing him. Dude has been taking so many painkillers the CIA is asking who his dealer is. As a result of his drug habits Kash “money” Kerbs has been a sleepy boy. We’ve been on babysitting duty all week long, just bouncing back and forth between apartments.

2: Scrap metal is a terrible business plan We were doing service for a guy named D-, where we would go pick stuff up for the salvation army. We saw a lot of scrap metal, usually from boat-related things. An anchor, some chains, parts of a buoy, etc.

3: Crackhead named D– Nothing too much to say about that, but its worth a mention.

4: Beach time! We went to the beach this morning, it was real nice, the water was cold, and the sand was course, rough and it gets everywhere.

5: My dang glasses broke!! After just trying to out them on in a normal way, the weld that holds the leg to the frame snapped!! What!? It’ll be an easy fix, I just need a souldering iron, and a member who has one.

6: Easter Egg roll! (Not an Asian egg roll) so we had Easter dinner with the Baughs (pronounced ‘Baws’) and their kids. We got to participate in one of their Easter traditions, an egg roll down their steep driveway! I won the farthest distance, but Seth (13) won the least amount of cracks.
That’s really all I’ve got for this email, this week wasn’t really eventful due to babysitting elder Kerbs. Hopefully next week will be a better email.

Ya boi

Elder Berky

Writing to James

Rosel Hyde and the FCC

LaReita reports: I just got off the phone with my cousin Meri Hyde Leslie. She is with her dad (Rosel) today doing family history work on the Hyde family. Out of nowhere Uncle Rosel said, “You know the story about Henry, the Hyde name, radio station and the FCC?”

When Aunt Nina and Uncle Rosel Hyde moved to Phoenix in the 1960’s they stayed with mom and dad (D Henry and Grace Leavitt) at the 1615 W. Mission Lane home for a few weeks until they found their own home. During that time dad had become acquainted with a man that was trying to buy a radio station in Phoenix.

Since dad made some trips back east for his conventions, he told this man that he’ll go to Washington DC to the FCC (Federal Communications Commission) and talk to them about the radio station. The head of the FCC had just retired, and his name was Rosel Henderson Hyde.

When dad showed up to the FCC office, no appointment, and spoke to the secretary with a smile, “I just spoke with Rosel Hyde yesterday”, there were wide eyes. He was ushered right in to see the right person!

That’s our dad! It’s not what you know, it’s who you know!

Rosel couldn’t remember what became of the rest of the situation, but this was fun to hear this nonetheless!

Replacing part of the fence

Put the boards up for sale – most of them were sold in May

Another Family Walk

[S8E1] Oh, look, the ocean!

So, I did it, I got to the coast during the summer! I’m excited. But you know what I’m not excited for? 2 hours of commuting each day.

1: Complaining time So, our apartment is out of our area, which is okay, the springfeild apartment is out of it’s area. It happens, you just have to do the best you can when it comes to the apartment situation in OR. But our apartment is 40 minutes out of our area, one way. It takes F O R E V E R for us to get anywhere. The reason?? We have no car, and the hills are alive with the sound of my complaining. The Coos Bay area is so dang hilly we loose 2-3 hours a day just walking.

2: Complimenting time My companion; Elder Robinson is pretty cool, he’s from St. George and is a hard worker for only having 3 months left. We are in a ward share with another set of elders, and they’re pretty cool. We’ve got Elder Kash “Money” Kerbs and Elder Zach “Served with me in Spring-a-ding” Hyer. They cover one half of Coos Bay, and Robinson and I the other. We hang out pretty often (Is this what college feels like?) Last night we stayed up till 1 playing Trivial pursuit (Jesus version) The people here are pretty cool, I haven’t really been able to get out tracting, but the people we have talked to are pretty cool. The food around here is nice, there’s this one REEEAAALLLLYY good place called Vinny’s. The whole place just has that Guy Fieri aesthetic to it.

3: It is very rainy. (Who’d’ve thunk??) So yeah, first day as we were walking to somebody’s place it started raining lightly. Because I am a silly boy, I thought that all I would need was a sweater.

I got soaked. That light rain starts to get heavier as you’re walking through it for 40 minutes. Lesson learned, take rain jacket. Maybe even invest in an umbrella?

This should be a good transfer, I’m going to work hard despite my challenges (These dang heck’n gay Hills) and prove to President that I should train. He’s going to need some trainers in the upcoming months. We have a group of 30 missionaries finishing up in a few months, and we’re going to get a group to replace them. Gotta let president know that he can trust me.

Love ya lots, here’s some basic white girl pictures that we took on the beach! <3