Hello my dear and amazing Family! WOW!!! You really made my Birthday so special! I can't thank you enough for the fun packages and cards! I'm so grateful that you had a fun day and got to have some yummy treats! I have enjoyed them so much and I have read your cards a lot! You really made the day so special! Thanks again!! Today for P-Day, it is going to be so fun and very hot! It is supposed to get up to the high 90's with lots of humidity and so we will have to bring lots of water for our Manhattan trip. We are very excited to go see some sights and I can't wait to see the Stucky Family! We are going to play frisbee in Central Park and that has been the plan for a while now but I got an email from the Stucky Family and they said that they will be riding bikes in Central Park all day!! How perfect is that? It couldn't have worked out more perfectly! So they will play frisbee while I talk with the Stucky Family for a while! I have to admit, it feels pretty wierd to be meeting someone that I knew from back home! We will play it by ear but we are for sure going to go to the Brooklyn Bridge and Battery Park City near the World Trade Center and so it will be a ton of fun! Who knows, this might be my last time going to Manhattan for a while. I will upload lots of pictures as I take them and I hope that we can chat back and forth! I had such a great and fun week and it's cool to think that I can say that I have celebrated 2 birthdays in the Bronx! Pretty cool thought! We will have such a fun time together and the weather will be perfect! I will be talking back and forth with the Stucky Family to see where we can meet up and I will let you know once I see them! I hope it all works out because New York City is huge and so we might just "bump into each other!" Hehe! I got an email from them telling me that they will be riding bikes all day in Central Park and so we will work something out where we can meet! We have been planning for a long time now to go play some frisbee in Central Park and so what are the chances that they would spend the day in Central Park! Things are lining up so perfectly! So we will have a blast and I'm excited to email you during the day! The Wi-Fi is really good in the city! Well, this week was so awesome and fun so here it goes!!!
Wow! Last P-Day was a lot of fun and we got to do so many fun things! We got to relax a little and clean the apartment and we also got some haircuts and so we look nice and neat! I bought a cake mix and some cream cheese frosting and we also want to order some pizza together with our roommates and so it will be a very fun Birthday! I'm really excited for it because I get to open your package! I can't wait to see what's in it! I only have 1 more Birthday on my mission which is really crazy to think about! It was so wierd to think that I might have a special someone next year! It will be fun to go out and celebrate together next year as a Family! We got to get haircuts and Elder Mitonzi applied for his Pathway program! It has been wierd to not have P-Day on the free museum day because the Bronx Zoo and other museums cost money and so we have had fun being creative and finding fun stuff to do like taking walks! We were getting a cold drink in Rite Aid and right as we walked in, we saw a manager peeking around the corner of an isle and we couldn't see what she was looking at. But when we turned the corner, the manager yelled "Put them back or I'm calling the police!" He was terrified and reached into his pocket and pulled out 2 pints of Haggan Daas ice creams and then the manager knew that he had 2 more and he pulled 2 more out. We looked at the prices and found out that they were selling each one for $5.49 each and so just the 4 little containers that he stole, was over $22.00 worth of ice cream and he had on a big trench coat and he was in his mid 30s. He told the manager that he was going to go trade them in and get $25.00 at a different store that was selling them for more. Prices can be outrageous sometimes here and so people take advantage of the stores. We had a really fun Family Home Evening activity and we came up with a game called Scatagories with LDS Gospel terms and had a lot of fun with all of the members and investigators that came! We had a great turnout and the game went so well! It was such an amazing day and I was so thankful for your emails! Love you so much!
Tuesday was another very awesome day! We had a lot going on and so it made it even better! I just love being a missionary and the many blessings that come from helping others. I truly know that this is where I'm supposed to be! Heavenly Father knew that there would be a mission reorganization and he knows where I need to be for the last 7 months of my mission. I'm so grateful that I was able to go to school before my mission and the blessings that have come from that 1 semester of school! It has been fun to hear how old the other missionaries are and a lot of the missionaries that are just coming out are older than me age wise. Elder Ihalmo is 21 right now and still has a year and a half left and Elder Palmer is almost 20 and he has only been out for a few months. We had an awesome District meeting and we all set a goal to work more with the youth and contact all of the youth that live within our respective boundaries. We had some lunch and did some language study afterwards and it has been fun to help Elder Mitonzi with his pronunciation and grammar! Then I got an email from the Stucky Family and they said that both Jaci and Cade are coming so I was really looking forward to seeing them! She said that they would let me know on Monday what their plans were. We went to our next 2 appointments but they weren't home and so we did some street contacting on trains and talked to as many people as we could. We met a really awesome guy from Honduras and we had a 30 minute conversation with him on the way to our next appointment. He talked to us about how he tries to eat healthy foods and so we talked a lot about the Word of Wisdom and how the revelation came to Joseph Smith. He is a Catholic and goes to Church as much as he can but doesn't have a lot of time for Church. We had lots of investigators come to basketball but Jonathan has totally disappeared and we have no idea how to contact him. He was progressing so well but he hasn't been answering his phone or door and so we don't know what to do. We had about 7 investigators show up who are in between the ages of 8 and 16! It was really fun to have a packed court and we played for a little while and shared a message about prayer and we told them the basics of praying and they thought it was really cool! It was such a great day and I was excited that we were 1 day closer to your Anniversary and my Birthday! Love you all so much!!
Wednesday was a very awesome day! It was one of the most humid days that I've seen on my mission. It was so humid that if we wanted a drink, all we had to do was open our mouths! Hehehe! Just kidding!
Friday was another really great and beautiful day! I was thinking back at my Birthday and what a fun day it was! It's definitely not the same without you and spending time with you but I was so excited to think that we will all be together next year! I totally loved your email when I woke up and was so thankful for it!!! I love it when I see that I have an email from you! It makes my whole day! Elder Mitonzi's Birthday is August 24th 1998 and so I am a few months older than him and he is really excited to turn 20! That will be his last transfer in the mission field and so he will be itching to head home. I really appreciated all of your love and support! You really made it a special day!! We got to go on a split with our roommates and I got to be with Elder Palmer in their area for the day! Usually, we go on 2 splits per transfer and so this might be the last one before the mission merge! It is so hard to believe that the mission merge is actually going to happen so soon. It's hard to imagine exactly what it will be like with the New Mission President and the changes that happen. I enjoyed eating your treats and writing in my new journal so much! I loved the cards and envelopes so much and I will really enjoy writing some thank you notes! Be watching out for one soon because I can't wait to write you one! I loved the treats and really loved the Utah truffles! It was a nice touch of home and it was fun to eat candy that was made in Utah! Elder Palmer and I had a great day! We got to talk to a lot of cool people! We talked to this guy on the bus and he did not want to talk to us. We would ask him a question and he would tell us to leave him alone. It was funny! We had a really amazing day and so many cool things happened! They are having the same struggles in their area with appointments falling through because a lot of people go out of town and it seems like no matter how many times we remind them, they still forget but we keep a smile on our faces and keep going because that is when the coolest things happen! We met this really awesome kid who is also 20 and he told us that he was baptized in Africa and we just couldn't believe the chances of us running into someone who is a member! He hasn't been to Church ever since he moved here but it was really awesome! Then we had a great lesson with their most progressing investigator named Tyrone. He is really cool and since his son was there, we taught them all the Restoration! Then Elder Palmer told me that a Family from his home ward would be going to a Yankee game that night and so he was excited to maybe bump into them! The Yankees were playing the Tampa Bay Rays and so it was very busy around Yankee stadium! It's always such a cool atmosphere to have a professional sports team close by and it has been so fun to be so close to the action! We went to go visit a recent convert kid who is 14 years old named Ariel. He is really cool but has a hard time going to Church because it is expensive for him to ride the subways. We travelled down right next to Yankee Stadium and went to visit Ariel! We read a chapter out of the Book of Mormon with him! We could see Yankee Stadium from his window and we could hear the pregame music! Then when we got on the train to go, we saw something so cool! The train passes right next to the Stadium and as we passed by, we could see into the Stadium and it was a packed house! I was wondering if you were watching the game! I could see pretty much the whole stadium for about 10 seconds as we passed and it was quite the sight to see into the Stadium and the sea of Yankee fans! It was something that I will never forget! It was so fun to see the bright lights and even see the players as we passed! Love you all tons and thanks a ton for the Birthday wishes and packages! I had so much fun eating some delicious and yummy treats! I'm trying to enjoy them for as long as I can because they are delicious!
P.S: I have kind of a funny question! Hehe! So I was watching your birthday video again and I was counting all of you and I realized and asked myself, "Who is recording!?!?!" I was wondering who else was there because all of you were singing to me. Hehe!
P.P.S: Did you get a chance to watch the Rays play the Yankees tonight?
Saturday was a really awesome day of hard work! The weather has been so nice the last 3 days and the humidity has been really low and so it hasn't felt very hot at all! I was glad to be back with Elder Mitonzi and keep the great work going! We got to clean the Church again to help out the ward get it done faster and like the saying goes: "Many hands make light work!" We got it done really quick and went to a referral appointment from the Sister Missionaries but unfortunately, he gave them an address that didn't exist and a phone number that was something like 646-664-6444. So then we studied and I have really been working hard to hit my goal to read the whole Book of Mormon in 48 days. I started in the very 1st day of this transfer and I will finish when President Teuscher gets here. It has been a fun goal because I have been able to read a lot each day! I'm reading Helaman right now and so I have about 120 pages to go before July 1st. I'm pretty excited about it! We had a very awesome lesson with Emmanuel Opoku but his wife and son weren't there and so we just taught Emmanuel. We showed him the video from President Nelson about the Book of Mormon. It was really cool because he started to cry because he felt the spirit. Then we met some really cool teenagers from Ghana and they both play soccer each week. It was fun to talk to them because they are so humble and very respectful. They answered our questions by saying "Yes sir." They go to Church each week and asked us for directions to a printing store so they could print out a PDF file that they had and they thanked us for helping them find the store and giving them directions. Then we got to do a few lookups but a lot of people are gone for summer vacation and so we talked to everyone we could on the streets. We were by the Church and we passed by a group of guys who were in their early 20s and apparently telling someone to have a good day isn't always the best idea because he thought that we were being rude because he thought that we were trying to be better than him because of how we were dressed and walking around telling people about Heavenly Father and Jesus Christ. He talked to us for a good 15 minutes about how we shouldn't be in his neighborhood and then he told us about his religion and he is a part of an Egyptian religion that believes in many gods. It was very interesting to learn about what he believes but it was hard to teach him because he wouldn't let us talk. But we kept a smile on our faces and kept pushing forward! We knocked on the door of Chris, who we taught on our split with the Zone Leaders, and he was home and he told us that he would be coming to Church! We always like to take time sometime on Saturday and just call and invite anyone that we can to come to Church. It really is a good reminder for them to come the following morning! It was a beautiful day but we looked at the weather forecast and heard that it was supposed to get up to 96 degrees with lots of humidity on Monday for our P-Day. Can you believe that!?!? I'm really excited to see a familiar face though and I'm excited to take a picture and send it to you! I enjoyed writing in my new journal tonight and reflect on the day! I always have so much to write about and write down what I'm learning! Your treats are just so awesome that you sent and I really appreciated everything that you sent so much! I hope you all had a wonderful day! Love you!
HAPPY FATHER'S DAY DAD!!! I hope you have an amazing day and can feel my love from New York! I appreciate you so much Dad and all that you have taught me! I'm so thankful for your work ethic and how many memories that we have made together! You are the best Father ever and I'm so thankful for the many moments that we have been able to spend together! You are the best role model for me and have shape many aspects of my life! I wish that we could talk face to face and Skype today like we did on Mother's Day but I will be sure to make you a special Father's Day breakfast next year! Thanks so much for being an amazing Father to me! I look up to you and appreciate you so much! As you can guess, I was extremely excited for your email and pictures!!! It was another pretty day and the humidity wasn't too bad. We had some great speakers and lots of memories about Fathers. We all looked back on our lives with our Fathers and I teared up a little bit just thinking about Dad. He means so much to me and I look up to him so much! We had something funny happen in Sacrament meeting. I was asked to pass the sacrament and as we sang the Sacrament hymn, we realized that the senior couple missionary and Frank didn't stand up to break the bread and so when the hymn was done, they stood up and realized that they forgot to break the bread and so there was a few minutes of silence before we started to pass. We got to teach the Gospel Principles class and we were asked 2 minutes before it started by Brother Darko to teach the lesson and so we read through the lesson and it went really well! Then while we were eating lunch I got a crazy email! I found out that my MTC companion, Elder Whitmore, went home. I'm not sure why but he told me that he went home to Virginia and a sister missionary that was in our district, is serving in his home ward! It was crazy to think that He was home and can't be a missionary anymore. Then we got to go to a lesson with 3 kids that we found a few days prior! They are all so cool but very involved with their own Church and so we explained the Priesthood authority to them really simply but they still had a hard time understanding that the Priesthood authority is back in the Earth. Then we were walking back to the train to have some dinner and I felt prompted to go down a different street. We were up North and so there are a lot of houses with yard that are converted to 2 or 3 apartments and there was a lady doing some yard work all by herself and we offered to help even though it was Sunday. She didn't want us to help since we would get dirty but we started a conversation with her and we had a really special conversation with her. She told us that she woke up feeling just so sad and down because it was Father's Day and her Husband and 18 year old son passed away a few years prior. She told us that she knew that Heavenly Father was watching out for her because she sent us to meet her! We gave her a Plan of Salvation pamphlet and testified that she would see her Husband and son again! It was really awesome! I had so much fun reading Grandma Evans' emails while we ate dinner and had fun reading about how Melinda and her boys came to Nibley and spent a few days! I'm so excited for your Family reunion but I sure will miss not being there! We got to meet with 2 recent convert boys who are 10 and they are really awesome! We got back to the apartment and I was ready for your pictures and emails! Had a blast seeing all of your pictures and reading your email! One more thing that I forgot to mention! Jonathan is BACK!! The Sister Missionaries ran into him on the street and invited him to Church and he came!!! He has just been really busy and travelling all over the place! He wants to keep meeting and loved Church! I keep forgetting to get a picture with him! Also we found out that the Sister Missionaries went to visit the lady that we met! She is in her mid 60s and they told us that she is so awesome and ready for the Gospel! It looked like such a fun Father's Day! Your emails were so awesome and I was so thankful for them! We are so excited to go to Manhattan tomorrow! I was so thankful that your Anniversary was so fun, you had great food, and had a fun time with the Dunns and Grandma and Grandpa Lindberg! You are having so much fun and I'm so thankful for that! It makes me so happy to hear all of the fun things going on! HAPPY FATHER'S DAY DAD!!! LOVE YOU ALL!!
Well my dear and amazing loved ones, it was so great to type up this email and I hope that we can talk a lot today! I hope that each of you has an amazing and fun day and week! I think about you every single day and remember you in every prayer and I feel lots of prayers as well! Thanks again for all of the fun Birthday wishes and cards and packages!!! I was just so excited to see your videos and so thankful for everything that you did to make it a special day! I will say hello to the Stucky Family for you! I hope you have an amazing week and have so much fun at the Family reunion! I will be thinking about you a lot as usual and wishing you a fun time in everything that you do! You motivate me so very much each day and I'm so proud to be your Brother and Son! Have another amazing week! I will be letting you know the news as soon as we get it on Saturday night! We are pretty sure that tons of changes will take place and so we are prepared for whatever happens! We think that either Elder Mitonzi or I are getting transferred just because he old has 2 transfers left and I have 5 and so I might get transferred and then stay there for the rest of my mission! It will be a very exciting day full of news that's for sure! You all mean everything to me and I'm so thankful for all that you do! Have an aweosme week! LOVE & MISS EACH OF YOU SO, SO, SO VERY MUCH!!! 
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Love You Always!
~Elder Lindberg
~Elder Lindberg
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