Some Sweet Shots Out in the Field!

A visit with "a little awesome lady out in Duverge".

"So, I am now in Tamayo, The area i thought i was going to be in at first. Its a nice little place! The people are pretty crazy though but it makes it fun. I have been out there since Tuesday. Saturday we went to a baptism for 8 people in our branch. Thats was pretty sweet, but we need to get baptizing men to hold the priesthood. The only priesthood holder we have is the president. He is a way cool guy though. We are doing our best to help him out though. All is well, working hard, trying to get the members to help out. All the good stuff of missionary work."

May 18th 2009




Try sleeping with this little fella!



I get the impression that this picture is trying to show us how hot it gets down there. Well, it is the Caribbean!



A road with some trees.



David's companion. I still don't know his name, but I'm pretty sure he's about to eat something really tasty.



Bet you don't have one of these in YOUR backyard!

MTC in the D.R.

David's District in Provo before Departure...



David in his SWEET bunkbed. He won the top by armwrestling for it, I bet...



Santo Domingo Temple. I wish Ogden looked like that.



A bunch of good looking missionaries.



I'm pretty sure they were working really hard this day...



David was even too cool to fold his arms in the front row. Either that, or the guys still hadn't forgiven him for tying all their shoes together under the table at lunch. Some things we will never know...

Two MTC Weeks in the Bag

I don't have any new pictures to post from David right now, but he is really enjoying the MTC experience and has become great friends with everyone he is with there. He will be leaving for the Dominican Republic on Thursday the 19th. He is really excited. He will probably be calling from the airport on his way down there. We are so proud of him. Here is some from his last two emails to me:

(3/3/2009)
Hey, whats up? Well the MTC is pretty awesome. I'm learning a lot, the language is pretty hard but i guess i could have it worse like Russian or something... its cool tho, i think im getting it. My teachers are really cool and the leaders are awesome. Its pretty weird after wearing a suit for a whole week and then wearing jeans and a t-shirt on p-day. Its way weird thinking that u have only been here for a week, feels like a month or two... seriously. Its not like the days feel long they go by way fast but when i think back to even yesterday it really seems like a few weeks. Its pretty insane but at the same time its so awesome! I don't think i can send pictures while i'm in the MTC anyway maybe when i get out in the field, well see. well i have a line of kids... er Elders that want to get on here so till next week. I hope things are going good for you. Ill have a lot more next week im sure. Talk to you soon! I love you all!
-Eldar Kirschman

(3/10/2009)
"So this week wasnt as crazy as last, it has gone by SO fast! ... My whole zone is way awesome, we are getting some new kids in tomorrow. One district just left yesterday and they were pretty cool.They took off to Chile. Haha and the next one to go is us to the DR and we have been here the shortest! the rest of them are pretty jealous haha!...
well i better go. Tell everyone hi for me!
-Elder Kirschman"

He's Gone!

David left us with zero tears(from him) yesterday at about 1:00pm. We drove down to Provo, ate a few tacos at Taco Time(just getting him in the beans and rice spirit) and dropped him off.

Mom, David and Mary drove down in Mom's car, and Christin and I with our boys, Renee, Audrey and Alicia were in our van. As we pulled up to the MTC, there were people all over directing traffic, along with lots of big signs that tell you where to go, and where not to go. Well, on one side of the parking lot are two large signs reading "EXIT ONLY". I took that to mean that they did not want us to enter at that point, but probably somewhere else. So I drove to the front entrance and followed the directions of lots of nice people waving orange wands at me to park with no incident.

Mom on the other hand, when she read the "EXIT ONLY" signs apparently took it as a challenge, and broke David's very first(and fairly simple) mission rule for him by driving right on through the signs(past a very nice, confused, old orange-wand-waving man) to find herself a really nice parking spot under a tree. This resulted in David needing to drag his luggage all the way across the parking lot, down a long path to drop his luggage off at the luggage spot(which otherwise would have required simply removing them from the trunk and handing them over to a nice orange-wand-waving gentleman). This resulted in us getting in a little late to register Elder David into the MTC. Fortunately everyone in there is really nice, and there were lots of people later than we were.

Here are a few pictures I managed to snap with my cellphone of our experience dropping the wonderful young man off. Please enjoy.


Mom sticking his tag on..

David Looking on...


What A good looking guy!


Two good looking guys!


A bunch of good looking people!


A nice tag, complete with the "Celestial Dot" telling the world that he is new in the MTC(I seem to remember calling them something else...)

The Dominican Republic West Mission!

David leaves Wednesday!!!

Okay, he's off! Check back here weekly or so for new updates on David Kirschman's Mission! Have a great day.