Nick's email April 9, 2012 and April 10,2012

april 9th
hello everybody,
so i only got one e-mail this week from uncle brian(thank you)......it
was nice to hear from him. i really liked that stroy about the
baptisms. it was kind of funny dont worry i wont do that!
well dang im kinda sad nobody wanted to e-mail me.
guess what else i realised this morning i have been out for 10 weeks!
i strating thinking about it and than i realised that i am 1/10 done
of my mission. i got to thinking that theres 52 weeks in a year times
2 is a 104 divid by 10 equals about 1/10. boy is time flying by i feel
like i just barely came out like last week.
 so this week was a really interesting week. so i got my new companion
and everything. it was super tough getting a new companion i dunno i
guess it was jsut werid like my new best friend elder sommerfeldt was
leaving and i had some random new guy come in. i dunno i guess it just
kind of felt like it was just me by myself.
so this week was kind of interesting
   this week i had my first bible bashing experience. it was a
ctually pretty cool and pretty fun to bash with a jehovahs witness. me
and elder johnson also got to hear a man play his gutair for us it was
pretty cool and almost funny how people can get so into their music
and sing about god so in depth. haha but yeah we had a  really cool
experience just with talking to this guy.
  kira- kira was confirmed this week. it was another one of those
amazing experiences where you could  just feel the spirit so strongly!
brother hampshire the 93 year old guy set kira apart and gave him the
holy ghost. it was really cool during this he said that kira would be
a missionary to the world. this was really cool because kira has
really shown a lot of interest in teaching the gospel to his parents.
he is an amazing kid except he wont be in brantford for much longer.
at the end of this month he leaves for china he is going back to his
homeland in shang-hi. here i think he will have an oppertunity to
influence thousands of people with the gospel. he is on the path and
has the potentical to do a lot of amazing things to push the work
forward in china.
   wu's- this week was another great week with the wu's they are an
amazing family i just love being with them. it has gotten to the point
to where when i am there i feel as if i am home. george is awesome.
even though he is blind he still acts like a normal 7 year old boy.
just running around jumping on stuff climbing around everything. he is
a wonderful kid. he pretty much considers me part of the family, just
like his big brother. his mom says that everyday he asks when is elder
strobel coming over. jack wu the 10 year old also loves it when we
come over because that means he has somebody to play basketball with
or to show off his hockey trophies to. his team won the championships
for  their league. katherine is the 11 year old girl she is probably
the best figure skater i have seen in my whole life. her parents
showed us the video camera of her skating preformance. she looked just
like one of those people that could be in the olympics. she won best
skater under 12. and beat out other girls that have been skating their
whole lives. she was good their were only 2 girls that were better
than her and they were both seniors in high school. also this week the
wu's had an amzing experience in their life john wu got the aronic
priesthood. john is really good at basketball and he is going to come
play with us today at the church.
   phil walbourne- has been coming to church quite  frequently. he
is really awesome. i dunno if i told you this already but since he and
his wife have been coming to church that have received a lot of
blessings. one of those being that cynthia his wife was pregnant.
cynthina is a member of the church but phil isnt yet. this week we
will be going to go visit him sometime. and try to get him ready to be
baptised.
  elder johnson- elder johnson is a pretty cool guy he is about 24
years old. he has been out for over a year. he had to go home and then
come back out for medical issues. which i know of but dont really
wanna say because it is akward to talk about.he is from branwell
alberta. something really cool is that his girlfriend is waiting for
him and has been waiting for him for over a year! gives me a little
hope that kandis could wait for me. his girlfriend sends him all those
cool packages and love notes and what not. its really cool to see! me
and him are going to be thinking of some cool things that we can send
our girlfriends! hahaha oh yeah another thing he is doing is kroshaing
a blanket for his girlfriend! haha it is really funny to see him doing
that.
  well i hope everything is going alright at home. and i love all you guys.
                                                             love
elder strobel.


April 10, 2012
dear mom(ill probably send this to austin because for some reason he
gets my emails the fastest.)
I REALLY LIKED SEEEING ALL THE PICTURES OF THE FAMILY AND ........
THAT KID NAMED SPENCER THAT YOU SENT ME.
sorry this is kind of short but i dont have much time to email today
maybe just 30 minutes!
umm but today was amazing i got a random package in the mail from
someone it had chocolates and treats in it. it was from a local
company here in town but it doesn't say who it was from. so maybe
whoever sent it to me could tell me! whoever sent it thank you. :)
also sister jones gave me an easter basket! it was really cool it came
with this really nice silver and pink tie.
 today also we had interviews with the mission president! it was
quite amazing it was wonderful just to talk to president scott. he is
a great man and is very inspiring. it was wonderful to see him again
it is kind of cool because i have seen him a lot more than everybody
else in my district! i just love seeing him and sister scott. also
since he came he brought the mail from the office! so i got the
package you sent the only problem is that we have just been so busy
today that i havent been able to open it yet! it looks like something
nice and big! :0
 elder sommerfeldt got transfered to brampton. he is about an hour
and 20 minutes away. i probably wont be able to see him anytime soon.
his new house is called the mission mansion. he moved up to zone
leader and lives with the ap's right next to president.
  elder johnson's story goes like this about his girlfriend. he got
sent home early for a medical issue and he wasnt planning on coming
back out. he started dating this girl named kyile for like 3 years.
they went ring shopping and were about to get engaged when elder
johnson got the feeling he should go back out on his mission. so that
probably why i made it sound like he was way into her. i just guess it
was the first thing we bonded with is that we both have girlfriends
that we love.
things i need to be sent to me
1. so it is like 80 degrees here so i kind of already need my short
sleve shirts it would be nice if you could send those to me.
2. also i told elder johnson able that blackhead popping tool. if you
can find those things you should send two of them.
oh yeah tell john and jan and austin and his wife and becca and kandis
and katie and ben and jake and matt and james and zach that i love
them! :)
  p.s. i liked to make it akward when i mention austins and beccas
signifacant others........
                                                        love elder strobel