Mission Pictures-My Big Project , Melissa's Big Headache

I used to be so skinny I weighed about 130 my entire mission, Melissa fattened me up pretty good. Anyone who doesn't know i served in the North Carolina Raleigh Mission from 11-1994 to 11-1996

Recently I started going through all of my missionary stuff, Journals pictures etc.I have been trying to get everything put on the computer, my journal is done, many of things i got on my mission such as my missionary call, all of the letters I have ever received, I even have most of my bank statements, it's interesting to see how I somehow managed to live off of $155.00 a month, I still haven't tracked down my blue weekly day planners, I kept every last one of them. I intend to get those on the computer too.

Lately I have been focused on scanning my pictures into the computer. Who knows how many pictures I took, more then i probably should have, My camera went just as many places as one of the blue Book of Mormons did when I went out, which basically means everywhere. As of right now I haven't finished scanning but here are a few of my favorites. The plan is to eventually get a movie made, I should start that soon.



This is of course me, Danny Gaytan who I baptised, Rosalinda Gaytan his wife and Elder Hopper



Elder Hopper ended up being my favorite companion, not sure why really we just got along very well, Elder Hopper came from a cowboy background, so of course that came with him on his mission, I remember walking down the road one day, a car drove by, and they flipped us off, next thing I know Elder Hopper has his hand in the air returning the favor, not exactly appropriate for a missionary but funny anyways!



Day at the Ocean!

Fort Macon

Zone or district i don't remember, I only remember about half there names, Starting Back Row-?, Elder White, ?, Elder Cole, ?, Middle Row- Elder Pettey, Elder Long, Elder Wyatt, Elder Hopper, Elder Galbraith, Elder Adams and Bottom Row-?, ?, ?.



I Just can't get any privacy! Oh well when you gotta go you gotta go!



These where all taken when i was in the Swansboro/Jacksonville aria i was there the longest about 7 months and i have a ton of pictures from there, about 200 scanned so far, and I'm not done yet. it was one of my favorite arias, and very pretty. Swansboro was right along the waterways on the east side of North Carolina.

Happy Easter!!!

hospital bill

If anyone is interested, A approximate week stay in the hospital for RSV runs over 11000.00, Ervin is worth it, but thank goodness for insurance anyways.

Erv's home yeah!!!

Erv's came home on Thursday and is doing great!!!, the first few days and nights where horrible, Melissa and I are still trying to catch up up on sleep. Ervin had oxygen tubes in his nose, a stomach tube up through his nose down to his stomach, a polsacks (excuse the spelling, spell check couldn't find a correct spelling, it's that pulse monitor thingy) thing on his foot, sensors on his chest , a IV, and the suctioning out of his nose nose was awful. but thankfully, Ervin sounds and looks great now and is very happy, it was nice to see his happy smiles and his cute laugh back!

And in the immortal words of one of my favorite groups-"I have a dream, a song to sing, to help me cope with anything, if you see the wonder of a fairy tale, you can take the future even if you if you fail, i believe in angels, something good in everything i see, i believe in angels, when i know the time is right for me, I cross the stream, I have a dream."

-ABBA "I Have a Dream"

Little Erv

Erv was admitted to the hospital last night with RSV, he is doing okay, please everyone keep him in your prayers. Thankyou.

All Dressed in white for my blessing

Don't i look cool!
I was blessed on 2-1-09
My Daddy blessed me and i was really good!

Hi it's me, Mr "T"
Take a guess at what Evie did or should i say said!

We are starting to get smiles!


Melissa thought i got this for me, i thought she would like it, pretty rude of her, don't you think!

Don't i look cute!

Okay so we haven't blogged in a long time, the baby has kept us busy, at least Melissa, little Erv is permanently attached to her 24/7. But such is life! But we all love him, and we are happy to have him in our home!!

Short Blog but let me leave you with the immortal words of one of my favorite singers.

"Sing as a song in search of a voice that is silent" -Neil Diamond