TRANSFERS

well things are going good. i got transferred but its all good im in an area called skyline its in east mesa. its way cool and we have a really nice appartment with 4 elders who are all really cool. my comp is elder pettit from south jordan. and i have been here for like 2 hours and i already had in and out so that was cool. and now we are at the stake center playing basketball and emailing man im terrible at basketball but it will come back. not too much to write about but i will probably send a package home soon and i will send a picture card home really soon. but it sounds like everything is going swell back home thats cool that riley has a game i miss football and now i dont get to watch all the cool kids in st johns play anymore. thats funny that logan trashed the house but it will be nice to have him home lets be honest and that is cool that your still helping out service is where its at the other day we did a whole day of service where we picked a whole backyard full of 4 ft high weeds and then went and chopped wood for the rest of the day so i love service now, so i dont know too much about my area. we cover 5 wards one is a branch that is for senior citizens and we have 4 people on date so its going to be sweet i cant wait to go out and start meeting people and working i think its going to be a really fun transfer so i love you so much and keep up the good work.
> love elder knaphus

The Happy Hunter

Hunting for some leads? Kinda scary!

this weeks email

hey hey hows it going it seems like everythings going alright. the olympics have been really neat we saw phelps win his 7th gold were he won by a hundreth of a second and we have seen some beach volleyball and a little track we catch a little every once in a while i wish we could just watch and its tempting cuz the other night we came home to house and the tv was on and no one was home so that was rough but it was just the news highlights but anyways everythings is going really good quite a bit has happened this week there was a plane crash that was crazy it was a 3 seater and the chad was one of the first people there and they came stumblin out on fire he said it was the worst thing he has ever seen they still dont know if they will live, we had 2 babtisms that went really well, we met the coolest guy the other day who is a vietnam vet and he lived in hawaii for a few years and he looks just like rambo so he is way cool but wont come to church because what happened in war he has been through a lot hopefully i can stay and work with him and we are picking up a few new people to start to teach so its been good and today are whole district went to eager went on an indian ruin tour deal that was really cool but it made me want to rock climb really bad then we had a barbecue so things have been fun but im in a hurry so i love you lots
> love elder knaphus

This is the last of the pics, I hope Garr sends more soon...

Beautiful St. Johns, Arizona. Notice the Dust Devil.

Britton's bedroom in St. Johns. Notice the Bengals blanky!
Maybe I need to send him a red U of U pillow case!

Is this where they look for investigators?
Keep your water bottle close, or this might happen to you!

extremely long email

well things are going good the football team
here is a lot like olympus they have their red
and white game friday so we are going to try to
make it to that and the olympics are awesome
i wish we could watch them, sunday night
we were at dinner and they were watching them
so we got to see china and us in the womens
olympics so that was alright  but i would have
liked to see swimming or basketball or track or
somthing a little more exciting. thats crazy that
andy is leaving today man i cant believe it
everyone is gone but on my part this morning has
been quiete the dissapointment we woke up and called
the zone leaders for permission to go out early
to hunt and they said to call the assistants and
the assistants said call president and president
didnt want us to go so im kind of mad at the zone
leaders cuz they were cool with it last week
but oh well i will have to come back some other
time. but yes we have 2 babtisms saturday the first
one is randy brook he is an 18 year old who took
the lessons a year ago and is way cool his mom just
didnt want him to get babtized until he was 18 so
now we have just been reviewing and reteaching and
the other one is danielle and she is a 9 year old half
navajo and half apache so its been a tough one but
we have met the requirement of getting her to
church 8 times and taught her everything so her
babtism should go well hopefully she will keep
coming to church. so thats who we are babtizing
we are working with a few other people but nothing
to serious yet so we got to keep finding new ones but
interviews are tomorrow with the pres so that should
be good its also pretty cool and this transfer is
already almost over its crazy how fast it goes it
will be interesting to see if i go down to the
valley i probably will but its ok i missed the
most of the summer so thats about it i love you
and take it easy   love elder knaphus

he did go hunting

hows it going things are going good here
things have been going pretty good here we
have a babtism saturday and 2 the next
saturday and we have been teaching this new
guy who is pretty crazy he wont let us talk
so its kind of hard but i think we might be
able to babtize him in the long run but we
still need to find more soon and i didnt
email yesterday cuz of the hunt it was really
fun but we didnt get a bear we came pretty close
though we saw elk and deer so it was cool we
walked like 9 miles so we were exhausted but
we are planning on going out next wednesday
too but everythings going good i love you lots
love elder knaphus

Home, Home on the Range

Just getting a little shooting practice in...

Hope these antelope stay far away from this missionary