Re: pool house

just a reminder I set up a new blog. you should have received an email that should say. you have been invited to the pittfamily11 blog. please accept and write for the month. mom is dying for pictures. love you all mir

JASON JENNY PITT <jjpitt5@msn.com> wrote:

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>Family, We have arranged the pool house so that it will be easy for everyone to use. We put the calendar online at google calendars. The username is centervillepoolhouse@gmail.com and the password is swimbabyswim. You will see when you go online that every family has their days assigned. Nights are reserved for that family after 5:00 pm. Before 5:00 pm it is open for anyone. We do ask that if you want to plan something please try to plan it on our families day and put it on the calendar. If you need to switch with another family please call or email them and then go switch it on the calendar. Everyone is a manager of the calendar so everyone can make changes. The hope is that with a greater visibility and the ability for each individual to schedule what they need the pool house will be used more and without any conflicts. If you have any questions please talk to me and I can try to explain them to you. Thanks Jason
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pool house

Family, We have arranged the pool house so that it will be easy for everyone to use. We put the calendar online at google calendars. The username is centervillepoolhouse@gmail.com and the password is swimbabyswim. You will see when you go online that every family has their days assigned. Nights are reserved for that family after 5:00 pm. Before 5:00 pm it is open for anyone. We do ask that if you want to plan something please try to plan it on our families day and put it on the calendar. If you need to switch with another family please call or email them and then go switch it on the calendar. Everyone is a manager of the calendar so everyone can make changes. The hope is that with a greater visibility and the ability for each individual to schedule what they need the pool house will be used more and without any conflicts. If you have any questions please talk to me and I can try to explain them to you. Thanks Jason

Isaac's letter

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Date: Mon, 22 Aug 2011 15:09:55 -0400
From: joseph.pitt@myldsmail.net

well everything is going really well. i love every second out and here, although i am starting to get frustrated and not liking how i just cant talk to everyone and just enjoy the mission. Right now the language is really hard for me the progress is really slow but i am trying hard. i will work a little hard this week to really work on it but thing other than that are really good. I get tired a little bit throughout the week since you work all day everyday but i love it non the less. i love all the latino people and everyone is just so friendly and nice. well that is a stretch. lets say the members are good. its a branch yeah. just one. anyway everyone else is like were penicostle we don't want to here your or i am a catolothic to heart. ha ha we just laugh and share our message anyway. the worst spanish here is from Dominican Republic, i cant understand a thing. As far as the spanish, i understand almost everything but i just can't talk so we will see how this next week goes.

I love all the food it is so crazy, i have to get used to picking out my own chicken bones though in like every meal cause they just throw it all in there and i guess it just adds with the flavor and everything. there is always a lot of fruit drinks, which have been really good, but the last one was cantalope whatever... terrible. um... every meal now seems to have rice for sure the corn tortilla which i have fallen in love with, i could eat them all day long they are so good. and then lettuce too... for some reason it is always part of your meal and you just put everything on the lettuce. it has been really good and i have come to like eating the hot food. there is always pico salsa on everything and the jalapeno sauce. i just love it. Actually the normal food now, never sets well in my stomach i need the spanish food.

um... i dont think there is anything that i don't like everything is just amazing. i will tell you a few stories now. Luiz Mendez.. he had met with the missionaries before and been taught a few times but he didn't really make any progress or go anywhere. well we have been teaching him. on my first visit with him we talked about the plan of salvation and more of what are purpose is here. we committed him to be baptised and he excepted so he is going to be baptised on the 17 sept. we are just helping him prepare and he is doing really well. he wanted to go to the temple so we went to the temple visitor center in dc. that temple is amazing, but luiz had a really good experience and he is loving the church. it is hard sometimes to get him to church because of work but we are doing our best. Another story. we were going by a potencial and they didn't answer so we were walking back to the car and Elder Crawford want to knock this one door. we had met the parents before they were penicostle and we didn't really want to knock cause we knew that they didn't want to listen but we did anyway. we knocked and then knocked again. nothing.... we started walking back when this kid comes out of the house. he told us to come back up. we told him we wanted to share a message with him and he let us in. i guess we had woken him up, but i think the spirit moved him alittle to come to the door. our lesson was amazing. we talked about the restoration. right after the joseph smith story he got really interested and he was just really feeling the spirit. it was amazing. but we asked when we could come back and he said that he works in washington dc from 5 to 10 everyday and we just happened to catch him. um... so we are trying to work things out cause he really wants to listen. um... other than that everything else is just normal, trying to help the recent converts out, or the less active. we teach alot of lessons to them. he actually helped this latino lady lay down her wood floor. we just had to cut it with a hand saw and fit everything together. it was pretty ghetto if you ask me, but she loved it and it was some good service. anyway i got to go... tell everyone hello.

love,

elder pitt

Descision

So I here that Im in charge of the PP now days which is just fine. Anyway what I was thinking was setting up a new blog and reminders that each month we need to write. For you guys close it might not be as exciting but now that half of us are away, Im thinking we need to be better and write every month. Just a brief summary of the month, not necessarly about each child, and pictures. I think mom is really missing all the grand kids, so pictures would be great. respond to this or email me what you think. would you all just like it printed out like we used too? I know mom prefers that but I know all of us like the computer so let me know MIriam

A more detailed letter from Isaac...

Here is the email Isaac wrote when he had more time.  I thought I would pass it along...and I tried to fix it up a bit so it is a little easier to read. :)

Family,

Hey, everything here is going really well. I love my new companion he will train me very well i think. His name is Elder Crawford. Me and him are actually a lot alike it is crazy. He is pushing me a lot which is good because it will make me learn faster. The first day I got here I had an appointment. Marco was his name. Of course all in spanish so it was crazy and I just bore my testimony which he said that he was only able to understand half of it but that is alright. My spanish is getting better slowly. Everytime we go to a less active members house or recent converts i alway give the lesson. Just a scripture and some thoughts about it so it has been good.

Well the area is nice, trashy and really crazy but it is good. They just split the area so that wasn't very good because we don't have any investigators right now. So we have been trying to find people this week and we are having no success. This week is going to be a finding week. We have a goal for 6 new investigators this week so we will see if i can make it. The Spanish people are so nice and i have met a lot of awesome recent converts. The branch here has about 50 people in it. I am surprised sometimes at how much the members want to help. It is going really well. I am not too worried about the speaking I know that it will come in time. Tonight I am supposed to invite luiz to be baptized so we will see how it goes. My first contact was on the street it went pretty well it was with a Guatamalan named Julia. She just took our number but I knew that she wouldn't answer. My first door contact was a very drunk hispaninc man that would listen but i am sure that he didn't remember us the next day so that is pretty cool. Anyway i love the branch and the people. I just can't help but love them and i am really enjoying everything that is going on. Last night we had an appointment with a guy named juan hernandez. He wants to get baptized but he is waiting for his wife. Long story but I don't think he will get baptized soon, praying hard that something will happen. Umm... one of the recent converts omar just finished the book of mormon and his favorite parts is the vision of lehi, he is so awesome.

Umm... my first meal was with the castillo familia they fed us inchile which is just like a chicken with a ton of hot sauce and stuff with peppers and tons of spices. You just take one of there homemade corn tortillas and pull the chicken off the bone with it and eat it. You eat everything, sometimes it looks a little gross but you just eat it anyway.  Also had fried eggs with corn tortillas. Everything is with corn tortillas. I love everything that is going on and I love the work. I don't know how many countless times the Lord listens to your prayers and answers them for you. He has performed many miracles here. About my finger no need to worry, I don't even pay attention to it and I know that Lord will take care, i know that i am just working hard and don't worry about the lord will let my finger get back to full range of motion. I am at about 75 percent right now so all is well. I know the Lord has called me here for a reason and i can't wait to find out. I don't like right now that i can't talk to most people but it will get better. Anyway hope all is going well at home. oh um...
my new address is: 136 Willowdale dr. #31

                               Fredrick MD, 21702

 

That is my apartment or you can just send it to the mission home either one. anyway i hope you are doing well and that things will start looking better and that there wont be anymore accidents. well love you all!!!

elder pitt

Note from Isaac

hey just wanted to let you know i am here in baltimore. all is going well. my compainion is elder crawford. my address is 136 willow dale dr. #31 fredrick MD, 21702. anyway we have a meeting in 15 mins so i have to go. know that all is going well. we went to the ward mission leaders house. awesome didnt know anything but its alright. love you guys. got to go to my first investagators house. by.
loves elder pitt