Email from 1/13

whats up sis
im doing well guess the weather is 5 c so its like 32 f or something warmest it will get for a while cause its supposed to be like -20 or something next week not really looking forward to that but will see how that goes im excited cause on the 23rd a girl named elizabeth is getting baptized crazy huh! we are going to teach her all the lessons within 2 weeks so were trying to break it up well enough for her to understand. so what is going on with the fam? everything good tell kenyon i hope that he gets a better position for work. love you guys

Elder Narayan

Email received on 01/06/10

Hey so since this going on the blog( thanks by the way ) ill say whats up to the whole family. So whats up Narayans! My companions are Elder Gardner who will be my trainer he is younger than me by the way and has been out for 5 months. He is crazy spiritual and has trained another elder before me and is district leader crazy huh? But my other companion is Elder Peterson who is the tightest elder you could ever meet to bad he goes home today... so anyways Canada.. COLD..Snow,White, and Windy All the time crazy. My first area is Raymond home of the comets which i already love so much. The people here are amazing i love them all. One family the Bartsoffs is the best family and are always inviting us to come over they always have the greatest dinners too. Ive only been here for a week and they have fed us atleast 4 times. Ive taught atleast 20 member lessons and we have 31 this week crazy! We only have one new "Gator" he is lacking the desire to be baptized but we are trying to work with him to see how he feels about coming to church. Well i hope all is well i love karyn and the rest of the family thanks alot for the support.
Love, Elder Narayan

Email received on Wed 12/30

Hey Karyn, what's up? My mail address is the mission home in Calgary so if you want to send me "stuff" thats where to send it. Well write you next Wednesday, which is my P Day. Ok you're the best. Tell Kenyon I said Hi too.

Phone call from the airport

Elder Narayan called me on Tuesday afternoon from the airport. It was so exciting to talk to him. I can't believe he will be in the mission home tonight and out in the field. Kenyon and I both remembered our first night in the mission field. It was lonely, you don't really know your companion and you're in a foreign country for the next 1-1/2 to 2 years.

I guess sometimes it's hard to appreciate the freeedoms and the country we have until you live in a different country. I remember when I landed in Florida on my way back home to Hawaii from Chile when I looked out the window and saw the US flag I started to cry. It was such an overwhelming feeling to be back on US soil, even though I was still about 12 hours away from Hawaii. I am so grateful to be a citizen of the United States.

Letter from Elder Narayan on December 21, 2009

Banfields:

Thanks a bunch for the package. My companion and district loved the mamba's and the pooping jelly beans. So today was kinda fast we love Mondays because Sunday is no mail and barely any on Sunday. The food here is making me really sick feeling and all we do is sit around after we eat. It kind of stinks. So we're working on the plan of salvation. it's hard to teach and actually more hard to find a connection with certain people. I can't wait for next Tuesday we leave for Canada t 2 and arrive at 4. So did you get my letter? If not Dinesh has it. i didn't have ryour address so it was hard to figure out what to do. So I just mailed it there. How you guys doing? I think about family only when I receive letters. LOL. My mind is on studying more. I don't want to look dumb in front of my first investigator. Well it's time for bed. Love you guys.

Your Brother,

Elder Narayan