I know I haven't been very good about keeping this updated, but I wanted to update that Cory is coming home.
Wednesday, November 18, 2009
The End Cory's last email!!
Hey family,
SO things have gone by way to fast and I can't believe that its time to come home. All day yesterday and today my stomach has been turning over and over iam way excited to come home. So things are going a little crazy lately satan has been working hard on me. Last week my watches battery died then on sunday my camera broke and wont charge I even bought a new battery thinking that it might of been that well its not. I got a flu shot from a docter in the ward and the secretary told me that they would cover it well i got a bill in the mail and it was 20 dollars, so I set 20 dollars a side to pay for the shot well I got up this morning and the money and the paper are not in the spot that I left them. So I have to fork up 20 more dollars. I have just had a lot of crap happening to me lately. But were pressing forward! Sorry that the letter was so short there wasn't to much to say. Iam really exited to coming home on thursday and to see you all. I miss you and love you I can't wait to talk to you on thursday. we do go to the mission home tomorrow. well ill talk to you all later bye.
Elder Cory Alan Downward
SO things have gone by way to fast and I can't believe that its time to come home. All day yesterday and today my stomach has been turning over and over iam way excited to come home. So things are going a little crazy lately satan has been working hard on me. Last week my watches battery died then on sunday my camera broke and wont charge I even bought a new battery thinking that it might of been that well its not. I got a flu shot from a docter in the ward and the secretary told me that they would cover it well i got a bill in the mail and it was 20 dollars, so I set 20 dollars a side to pay for the shot well I got up this morning and the money and the paper are not in the spot that I left them. So I have to fork up 20 more dollars. I have just had a lot of crap happening to me lately. But were pressing forward! Sorry that the letter was so short there wasn't to much to say. Iam really exited to coming home on thursday and to see you all. I miss you and love you I can't wait to talk to you on thursday. we do go to the mission home tomorrow. well ill talk to you all later bye.
Elder Cory Alan Downward
11/2/09 e-mail
Hey family so this is going to be short I think maybe 1 paragraph. jk So things are going good we are having alot of things start to work out for us. We dont have anyone else that we can set with a baptism date but we are trying to find someone. Acctually do you remember me telling you about michele the lady that I baptized in roanoke. Well her grandson that is 8 got baptized on saturday. So i gues that we planted more seeds there then we expected. WEll here is the good news for this week. Brittney is set with a baptism date! yay and not just any day it is the 15 of november the last sunday I have in the mission field. She is way excited and ready for it. We taught her the plan of salvation and things went really good. I really hope that we can find one more person and set them with a date before I leave. Things are going really well I can't believe that I only have 16 days its going way to fast I dont want it to end. When we were teaching brittney I wished that I could extend my mission. ( but we know that mom wouldn't allow that) jk It hasn't hit me yet that I will be home in no time I am still in shock. I dont think it will be real till iam on the airplane. we had our interviews on saturday and man can you say fast. All president asked me was how was elder chymboryk doing and what srengths he had. That lasted 3 min and then that was it i was out of there. I Bet he was just waiting till this last one to have a longer one. I hope atleast. Well I dont know what else you really want to know. Oh thanks for finding out what time I get released. I dont feel like I have been out for 2 years. There are some members in the 3 ward that are having a BBQ and a bon fire next week for me to have one last hurahh. They are pretty cool. They have a daughter out at BYU that keeps telling them to invite me over:D jk For Halloween we carved pumpkins and went out to dinner with the other lynchburg elders. It wasn't nothing special. Oh here is a funny story for you. On sunday morning the alarm went off and I jumped up and got in the shower and then was shaving and then all of a sudden our cell phone alarm went off. It hit me it was day light savings time. I was so mad I blew it. We got back in bed and took a hour nap just to get that hour sleep:D Well I love you all and miss you guys can't wait to talk to you in Two weeks:D :D :D :D :D :D :D :D :D :D :D :D :D :D :D :D :D :D :D :D :D :D :D :D :D
Love you Bye. Love Elder Cory Alan Downward
Love you Bye. Love Elder Cory Alan Downward
Wednesday, April 15, 2009
march 19th e-mail
HEy Family!
So things are going good out here. This Last week was transfers. Elder Weathersby is my new companion. It has been pretty fun. WE had zone conferance yesterday that is why i didn't email you. Sorry i forgot last week to tell you i had so many other things on my mind and didn't even think about it. WE Learned alot about working with members and how we can help them to do missionary work. I am really excited for this new program that we are starting to do. I can't wait to see how the work picks up and starts to move along. WE only have one real progressing investigator his name is "investigator joe" he is married to a member. We set him this past week for baptism during general conference. He has some really good concerns and is just waiting to have a spiritual experience. I cant wait to see how he progresses and starts to make progress. We dont have any other invesigators that are moving along. We are really close to dropping the other invetigators. WE havn't had any luck with finding a new investigator in the past couple of weeks. Its been really hard to get things moving here. I am sort of frustrated with it. I feel like i get put in these areas where there is nothing going and its up to me to get it moving along again. This area used to be a really good area. a missionary was here for seven months and had seven baptisms. He had really good social skills and could get along with anyone. I feel like the investigators that he was teaching here were more intersted in having a friend ship with him and not real interested in the church. I could be wrong but that is what i have felt so far. Dont worry about the helicopters we are to busy to play with them anyways. But thanks for doing that for me. I saw some pictures of the draper and the other temple." I dont know how to spell it" I got onto the churchs website and saw what they looked like. I dont need anything. I should be good till the end of my mission. I would like a peanute butter egg and iam sure elder weathersby would too. If possible get two extras because of the university elders. TEll grandma thanks. It was elder Westover that wanted the peanute butter egg recipe. Way to go dad on the pop I havn't had any candy sinse halloween. And i actually gave up pop a week ago so iam now doing pretty good with that. Dad now that you have some free time maybe you can finish reading the book of mormon? I am in Alma ch.34 and this is my third time on my mission. This saturday we might be doing a 5k run for a member that was in the singles ward that died a while ago. I will let you know how it goes. That would be cool to have a wii i really like them. I Had a blast the one time that i played it. The boxing game on it is really fun. Oh When i was in lynchburg i was teaching a Part member family and had them set for baptism when i left. The guys name was "Baptisee". Well they got baptized last transfer. I saw there name in a mountineer. like you said you never know what kind of seeds you are sowing in the areas you sserve. Well that is mainly it I love you all and miss you guys so much have a good week. Bye Love ELder Cory alan Downward.
So things are going good out here. This Last week was transfers. Elder Weathersby is my new companion. It has been pretty fun. WE had zone conferance yesterday that is why i didn't email you. Sorry i forgot last week to tell you i had so many other things on my mind and didn't even think about it. WE Learned alot about working with members and how we can help them to do missionary work. I am really excited for this new program that we are starting to do. I can't wait to see how the work picks up and starts to move along. WE only have one real progressing investigator his name is "investigator joe" he is married to a member. We set him this past week for baptism during general conference. He has some really good concerns and is just waiting to have a spiritual experience. I cant wait to see how he progresses and starts to make progress. We dont have any other invesigators that are moving along. We are really close to dropping the other invetigators. WE havn't had any luck with finding a new investigator in the past couple of weeks. Its been really hard to get things moving here. I am sort of frustrated with it. I feel like i get put in these areas where there is nothing going and its up to me to get it moving along again. This area used to be a really good area. a missionary was here for seven months and had seven baptisms. He had really good social skills and could get along with anyone. I feel like the investigators that he was teaching here were more intersted in having a friend ship with him and not real interested in the church. I could be wrong but that is what i have felt so far. Dont worry about the helicopters we are to busy to play with them anyways. But thanks for doing that for me. I saw some pictures of the draper and the other temple." I dont know how to spell it" I got onto the churchs website and saw what they looked like. I dont need anything. I should be good till the end of my mission. I would like a peanute butter egg and iam sure elder weathersby would too. If possible get two extras because of the university elders. TEll grandma thanks. It was elder Westover that wanted the peanute butter egg recipe. Way to go dad on the pop I havn't had any candy sinse halloween. And i actually gave up pop a week ago so iam now doing pretty good with that. Dad now that you have some free time maybe you can finish reading the book of mormon? I am in Alma ch.34 and this is my third time on my mission. This saturday we might be doing a 5k run for a member that was in the singles ward that died a while ago. I will let you know how it goes. That would be cool to have a wii i really like them. I Had a blast the one time that i played it. The boxing game on it is really fun. Oh When i was in lynchburg i was teaching a Part member family and had them set for baptism when i left. The guys name was "Baptisee". Well they got baptized last transfer. I saw there name in a mountineer. like you said you never know what kind of seeds you are sowing in the areas you sserve. Well that is mainly it I love you all and miss you guys so much have a good week. Bye Love ELder Cory alan Downward.
March 9th e-mail
Hey Family,
Thanks for the email it was great its hard some times to only get a short email from you guys once a week. Thanks for understanding. Dad Sounds like you had a good time fishing and that you caught a lot of them. Your story reminded me of when we went up one time and it was freezing cold and windy. So I tried to build a wall out of snow. Then the other time we went and I got a lot of sun on my face and my freckles got really big. It looked like I had dirt all over my face. Those are some good memories that I had about ice fishing. Hear is some news for you all, this week was transfers. Last week in the mail all of the Zone leaders get a paper stating where everyone in the zone is going and who there new companion is. We were looking forward to it all week. Well it came and we ran inside and gave it a good look over. I saw where everyone is going and who is coming. I never looked at what was happening with me and elder Gerrard. Then he pointed it out and I was in shock. Elder Garrard was being released as a zone leader and going to be a district leader and my new companion is Elder Weathersby! I was so excited and I am still excited. I was hoping to be able to serve with him again. I was talking to one of the Assistants to the president the other day and he said that they had seen a big change in him the last little while, and were really excited for us to be able to get back together. This is going to be a great transfer we are going to get this area back on track. There were two zone leaders here a transfer before I got here that got doubled out. They had this place on fire. I really want to get it the best that we can. I know that this upcoming zone conference is going to be a really exciting one and should get the mission on track to what we should be doing. Last week was a really hard week we lost a couple of our investigators but I'll tell you about that in my letter. Its spring break here and the whole city has basically shut down. All of the students left for the week. There is none anymore. Its weird to think that the city is run by the school. I bet that this is how it feels in snow college. I cant wait to talk to you guys again in a little while. It seems like yesterday I was hitting 15 months now this Saturday will be 16 months man time flys by. Tell ashley and them that I say Hi and that I really miss them tell grandma also. Thanks for the email and all that you guys do for me I really appreciate this opportunity that I have in my life to be serving the lord and spreading the gospel forth. I love you all and miss you so much. have a great week. Love Elder Cory Downward
Thanks for the email it was great its hard some times to only get a short email from you guys once a week. Thanks for understanding. Dad Sounds like you had a good time fishing and that you caught a lot of them. Your story reminded me of when we went up one time and it was freezing cold and windy. So I tried to build a wall out of snow. Then the other time we went and I got a lot of sun on my face and my freckles got really big. It looked like I had dirt all over my face. Those are some good memories that I had about ice fishing. Hear is some news for you all, this week was transfers. Last week in the mail all of the Zone leaders get a paper stating where everyone in the zone is going and who there new companion is. We were looking forward to it all week. Well it came and we ran inside and gave it a good look over. I saw where everyone is going and who is coming. I never looked at what was happening with me and elder Gerrard. Then he pointed it out and I was in shock. Elder Garrard was being released as a zone leader and going to be a district leader and my new companion is Elder Weathersby! I was so excited and I am still excited. I was hoping to be able to serve with him again. I was talking to one of the Assistants to the president the other day and he said that they had seen a big change in him the last little while, and were really excited for us to be able to get back together. This is going to be a great transfer we are going to get this area back on track. There were two zone leaders here a transfer before I got here that got doubled out. They had this place on fire. I really want to get it the best that we can. I know that this upcoming zone conference is going to be a really exciting one and should get the mission on track to what we should be doing. Last week was a really hard week we lost a couple of our investigators but I'll tell you about that in my letter. Its spring break here and the whole city has basically shut down. All of the students left for the week. There is none anymore. Its weird to think that the city is run by the school. I bet that this is how it feels in snow college. I cant wait to talk to you guys again in a little while. It seems like yesterday I was hitting 15 months now this Saturday will be 16 months man time flys by. Tell ashley and them that I say Hi and that I really miss them tell grandma also. Thanks for the email and all that you guys do for me I really appreciate this opportunity that I have in my life to be serving the lord and spreading the gospel forth. I love you all and miss you so much. have a great week. Love Elder Cory Downward
Thursday, February 12, 2009
Feb 10th e-mail
Hey family! so i never got your email at all last week. Not even the one the that you resent. Of well as long as i get the package iam happy wiht that. SO what did you send to my last companion? He is really cool and fun. I called him the other day and he said that he is doing good with his new companion. Its about time that i get a letter from you guys. you said at christmas that you were goinig to write more i havn't got one yet oh well i will survive.I can't wait to go fishing we drove to a area here the other day and there was a really nice river that i wanted to go fly fishing on it so bad. The rivers here are to warm though for fish so it sucks. It is so beautiful up in the mountains i can't wait to see what it looks like here again in the spring. WOW its only a couple of months away. DANG there is only 3 months left till mothers day. Yahoo iam excited that is so soon then after that its time to come home. So you guys didn't catch any fish huh? That sucks. There is so many things that i want to do here on p-days but we hardly have any time to do anything with shopping, emailing, and writing letters. The weather here is amazingly warm its about 55 degrees and humid it feels so nice we all have short sleeve shirts on today.:D One thing that i wish is that it would snow like a foot. Our investigators are doing ok we lost one last week. I wil have to tell you about it in ly letter. But the other guy we had a horrible lesson last week so we fasted for him on saturday. We went back over last night and it was night and day. I love this gospel and Knowing that our heavenly father will answer our prayers. I had no idea that Rob served in christians burg that is so cool. I will tell you all abou what zone leaders have to do in my letter. Oh Yes we do have a cell phone all missionaries have one now.(all companionships) its nice now we can keep better trac of what is going on in the zone. Only the zone leaders get to text though. Tell bro Sokia and The ertals hi for me. Thanks! Hey can you get Josh's and Ryans new address for me. I want to write them and see how they are doing. Sounds like Aspen Brylee, and Porter are getting big i can't believe how much they have changed crazy. wow how fast time flys i was in my bed the other night and was pndering over the mission and it felt like yesterday that i just came out. It was wierd to think that i only have 9 months left that is so weird to me. I have learned so much about life and what our heavenly father expects of us. this is a great blessing to me at this time and will have an even bigger influence on my life. I got to go i love you all and miss you guys thanks for the email. Love ya lots. Love Elder Cory alan Downward
Monday, February 2, 2009
Exerpts from Cory's letter to Ashley this week!
"The weather here is the wierdest that I have ever seen. Last week it was -14 plus the wind-so cold! then this week it was 60 degrees, we were tracting wiht our sleeves rolled up. Now it is getting cold again! I wish it was snowing here, we have only got like 2 centimeters. I miss Utah."
"Things out here are going pretty good. This Sunday we had Michelle's baptism. It went great. I had the honor of performing the baptism. Everything went off without a hitch. "
Cory wants more letters!!!!!!
"Things out here are going pretty good. This Sunday we had Michelle's baptism. It went great. I had the honor of performing the baptism. Everything went off without a hitch. "
Cory wants more letters!!!!!!
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