bear hunting next week

hows it going things are good here it seems
like things are goin good at the home stead
im trying to take as many pics as i can but
its hard but i will probably send them home
in a few weeks so everythings good here we
had a babtism last sat that went really well
and now we have a few more coming up but the
latest is we just set up to teach a guy from
india english lessons so that should be
interesting we will probably just read out of
the kids book of mormon or something but they
try to feed us crazy food when we go over there
so that kind of sucks but things are awesome we
have been doin quite a bit of service with chad
like puttin up fences and stuff we are not going
on the bear hunt tell next week it opens the
first i believe and were going that next wednesday
so hopefully we will be able to get one but i will
definitely take pictures of that and probably video
too so its been awesome in st johns i dont want
to go down to the valley so hopefully that wont
happen for a while but i love you
love elder knaphus

Hibben caught a Hoowney tooad!

"I CAUGHT A HOOOWNEEY TOOAAD"!!

When Britton was about 5 years old we were in St. Gorge and caught a horny toad. He was so excited he started jumping up and down and yelling, in his funny hoarse voice. We have it on video and it is soooo cute! Come by and I will show it to you. I wonder if he yelled when he caught these ones? At least he can pronounce his "r's" now!!

email #2

Garr sends almost everyone an email, here's what he wrote chris:

st johns is incredible as always this week is set to be
a good one we have a bunch ofdifferent celebrations
this week theres a huge bonfire, a pancake breakfast,
a steak dinner, a bean and cornbread
dinner, there are 3 rodeos we are going to 2 of them
and so its just going to be a huge fun celebration so
im excited.  the work is really going good we have a
babtism this week her name is jade cummings, fielding
taught her in the valley then she moved up here  this
summer with her grandma so we taught and are babtizing
her saturday so that should go really good. then were
teaching a girl who is 18 she is E K's niece ek is one
of the coolest guys he's a recent convert and
for the most part he's an awesome member but still
smokes so were trying to get him to quit so he can
babtize her but he's stubborn so we got to keep workin
that one then were babtizing another 18 yr old name
randy brooke who has already had the lesson but his
mom is anti and told him he cant get babtized
tell he's 18 so were reviewing the lesson with him
and babtizing him right before he goes off to school.
then were teaching a 9 year old indian girl this one
is a little tougher cuz they have a hard time coming
to chuch and the steak pres said they have to come 8
weeks in a row so we will see if we can get
them babtized this transfer but it will be tough
those crazy indian you never know what theyre up too
and we also just started teaching a guy from puerto
rico who is really religous and already believes in
the book of morman and has been coming to church for
a couple of weeks so hopfully we can babtize him before
he leaves off the page next month so thats about all
the people we are teaching its going really
well and its all because the members are so amazing.
all the missionary work comes from the members here
we get so many refferrels and we have some of the
neatest people were we havethe lesson at their house
like the lee's and the rabans they are just incredible
they are so missionary minded and it their whole
families even theyre kids so its just been awesome
i love my mission and if i could ask anything of you
guys try to help the missionarys in are area all you
can because it makes such a difference when the
members are reliable and really care about missionary
work so if you ever see the missionaries around talk
to them but i love you guys
love elder knaphus

24th of july - bear hunting - phil doens't think you are supposed to hunt on your mission

well im doing pretty good and it seems like everyone is doing good back home. i think my pres is really cool i really like him. we cover 5 wards and 2 of the wards suck at feeding us but its fine because we get fed most the time anyway so cant complain i do miss home made ice cream but its ok this week is the 24th festivities that we get to go to like 2 rodeos and a bunch of dinners and stuff and theres going to be home made ice cream so we will see how that tastes. but yeah you can send me some more music most of it isnt approved that you send me and my comp is pretty strict and wont let me listen to it but keep sendin it cuz you never know. the video camera is also cool it is tuff to video though and and i have been so busy lately because of the transfer. it was really really tough at fist because i didnt want e. fielding to go i didnt feel ready and then he did and so it threw into change where i had to take over and i didnt know what to do so it took me a little while but everything is under controll now we have a babtism saturday she's 12 so thats cool and we have a few more coming up so the works really going good and were trying to make it even better we dont have anything really fun for this p day but next week were going to the temple then were going out with chad new and going bear hunting so that will be freakin awesome so i love the area of st johns i cant complain im glad to hear about my plack haha i just picked a pretty random scipture but i hope everything is all well this week so i love you all
> love elder knaphus

First peek of Elder Garr in Arizona

Many of you may know, Elder Garr does not trust wild animals!! More pictures from Arizona will be coming!! I hope you are all ready for the "Hooorneey Tooaadd"!!

It is good to know Britton took the "force" with him from the MTC!
Mr. Brown Suit!

Part Two

it is day 2 of emailing i got my new comp last night. it was funny i was down in eagar waiting for the eagar elders comp to be dropped off and meanwhile elder coles was dropped off at st johns and i didnt meet him tell 800 that evening he taught a lesson with out me with one of our awesome ward mission leaders but i met up with them during and he is a good guy. he is from west virginia and has been out 18 months so its my first day with him so we will see how it goes. he is really friendly he cooked me breakfast this morning so thats cool i think we will get a lot of work done but we will have to see. things are getting pretty crazy up here in st johns cuz of the 24th its going to be fun we are already signed up to help make pancakes and grill steaks up so thats going to be fun but thats about it for now im doin pretty good it seems like not too much is going on back but let me know whats up i love you all
> love elder knaphus

Monsoon Season

Here is Garr's email to Leslie this week... hello how is it going im doing good i recieved the 2 packages just fine 2 days ago so that was awesome i cant tell you thank you enough everything is awesome but anyways how is it going whats new im doing really good except my trainer got transferred and we had to wake up at 4 30 and he left so im kickin it with one of the elders in eagar so i get a new comp tonight so that will be interesting and i dont know what we will do today but everythings going good the babtism went really well one of our investagotors came and she wasnt serious at all and then after the babtism she asked her aunt how soon she can be babtized so that was way awesome we will get her in the water soon and we have a few more this transfer. i got a hair cut too its pretty short but its not bad the girl who did it was pretty cool too mandy would have liked her salon too. the monsoons are startin up its crazy how hard it rains and the lightning has been awesome i have got some cool pictures and the people say the storms havnt even been bad so it will get better and the weather has been really nice it hasnt got over 80 this week so i have been lovin it i feel bad for my comp going down to the valley so i thinks thats about it im doing great and i love you
> love elder knaphus

MTC Pictures

It is good to know they have ice cream in the MTC! We were worried that Britton would go through withdrawals.

We finally got some pictures from the MTC. It is so fun to see Garr in his brown Filipino's suit. Pretty styling Elder K!

The secret of the Matrix was passed down from Phillup!

Special delivery from home! Cookies! (and a few other treats)

pictures are in the mail

hey how is it going China sounded like it was cool
but yeah i dont know if i could really handle it
but thats fun cebu sounded way fun man i wish i
could work on the that temple but oh well dad will
just have to build one of the many their puttin
down here but anyways the work is really pickin
up its crazy people  are just falling in our
laps so hopefully we can capitalize  today we
went out on this guys ranch for p day his name
is chad he is awesome he is just a red neck but
he's the coolest guy in the area and we went
and found old indian pottery pieces on his ranch
it was pretty cool i love st johns its a neat
little town not to much new has happened we got
our truck back and its gettin near monsoon season
so its startin to rain and cool down so thats cool
but anyways everythings good love you '
love elder knaphus