Greetings, all! I FINALLY got some pictures from Elder Chidester today! I was super excited! He has been a very busy boy and doesn't have time for silly things such as sending pictures. (; Actually, the mailman just hasn't been very reliable lately. We're gonna drop kick him next time we see him probably. Anyway! Lots has happened in the world of Elder Chidester recently! He's had quite a few baptisms and lots of investigators! Transfers were recently, and he stayed in Kansas City. He did get a new companion named Elder Miller. They're working hard and are loving every minute of what they are doing! (: Now for the good part... STORIES!! :D
This is a story I probably should have told the minute it happened... it was crazy and I probably can't do it justice so I'm just gonna let Justin tell you. A-HEM! In his words...
"Story time. It's 9:10 at night (this is in Manhattan by the way), and we are getting home for the night. I get to our apartment (on the top, aka 3rd floor of the complex). I go in, get a drink and put it away. About three minutes have passed, then we hear this loud destructive mass of catastrophe outside. We're like... "hmm, weird." So we look outside, over the rail, and we see a CAR lodged into the side of our apartment building where the stairs are! It was super epic! The car was still running and revving, smoke everywhere. People running around in slow motion (it really happened!) There were no signs of life in the car. Someone kicks the car door open and comes barreling out of the smoke with an AK47........ okay, no one did that, but how intense would that have been?! So anyway, back to the story. So there are no signs of life in the car. Someone finally opens the car door and turns the car off. It turns out that some dude was warming up his car and went inside to talk to his friends. His car apparently decided to "take the parking break off itself" and take a joy ride down the hill into the apartment complex. The crazy thing is, was that we came up those stairs only three minutes earlier. So if we would have been a little later it could have hit us. Good thing the Lord has got our backs!"
Here are some pictures of the building (car removed, unfortunately.)
Needless to say, we're pretty glad he and his companion are alive!
On a happier note, here are some pictures of the construction of the
K.C. Temple! Super cool! (:
This is a picture of a baptism they had back in... January(?) I believe...
Elder Combs, Kathy Grimlin, Elder Chidester
Another baptism around that same time,
Elder Chidester, Brian Hill, Elder Combs
This isn't relevant, but how cool are these suckers?! :D
He didn't send me one. :( Stinker... (;
The District!
I'm assuming this is on Christmas... Elder Chidester/Spiderman
...and FREDDIE THE LLAMA!! :D
Oh, Freddie. (: I was sorely tempted to keep this little guy,
but you know... I figured he wanted to see Kansas! (:
Elder Chidester's Christmas loot! Woo hoo!
Elder Chidester, Elder Jensen, and rubber ducks...
...Because every missionary has to have some.
Elder Jensen, President and Sister Wangsgaard, and Elder Chidester
(This is where they spent Thanksgiving.)
Today, Elder Chidester has been out for
18 MONTHS!!! 6 months to go! Yay!
Elder Chidester and his companion were able to spend Thanksgiving with the Branch President, President Wangsgaard. The lady they've been teaching for a while now was also baptized this last week! Justin was also able to meet Elder Richard G. Scott! He said he was a really neat guy, and it was a great experience! They've hopefully got a few more baptisms in the next few weeks. (:
