Elder Jesse Guy Carter

Thursday, August 4, 2011

Way to Go Elder Carter - Training your 2nd Elder and now a District Leader -

The New Missionary for Elder Carter, Elder Dudragne from Canada,is 3rd from the right on the front row.

Happy Day Our Dearest Handsome Elder Jesse Guy Carter OXO‏

8/01/11

Elder JesseTo Emily Carter

From:	Jesse Carter (jesse.carter@myldsmail.net)

HEY FAMILY!!!!

It was super good to hear from you guys this week:) It sounds like everything is going pretty well except the lack of work issue:( I am kinda confused, if we can't build the apartments at grandma's place, than where are these potential apartments being built? Dad have you purchased more land somewhere that these will go up? Anyways, hopefully the Brian Head job will work out! Finding more work is always in my prayers:) well, here is the news on transfers. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . I AM STAYING! yay! President is throwing me all kinds of new responsibilites haha, I am going to be training AGAIN:( :) I am happy/nervous/scared about that. With training elder pace, I have realized that it is pretty hard haha, but I am excited. I am going to be giving birth to my child on wednesday! Most of the missionaries coming out are going to be spanish speaking, so hopefully the english ones are going to be really cool. President also wants me to be District Leader. Which is going to be different. . But I am going to be getting a car which is good! My area is already pretty small to begin with, so me and my new comp are really going to have to plan alot to do each day because we will be able to get from place to place very quickly. But yeah, I am going to be in this area probably at least 3 more months! So That means by the end I will have been here 7 1/2 months! that is quite a long time in one area, but I am excited. The ward here is amazing, and hopefully we will be able to get some more missionary work going. We have quite a few investigators but most of them aren't truely interested and aren't progressing very fast or at all. So we are going to have to get out there and find!!!!! It was pretty fun we went to a departing missionary fireside last night, and 18 elders are going home! I was good friends with several of them so that was weird seeing them head off. They were all super nervous haha. But I sat next to Elder Bigler aka my trainer so that was good to talk with him for a while. His family is buying a house in st george! So he is most likely going to move from black foot idaho to st george! That would be pretty awesome. But yeah, all is well. The district that I will be serving in is going to be very different from the one that we have right now. I am going to be taking over the DL spot from our current DL who is in manhatten beach. He is very excited to leave that area because the missionary work is super hard haha. But yeah, Elder Pace is going to be heading off. He is pretty cool about the whole thing, doesn't seem very nervous at all. I was very nervous when I first got transfered haha. So I am proud of him. He is going to be an awesome missionary wherever he goes. Thank youk for the package mom! It was amazing as usuall. Especially all that strawbery jam:) I have been loading up on that every day haha. Renka! It sounds like you are goin to be getting a car soon!!!!!! That is awesome:) That will make high school even more fun. Make sure you go to all the activites this next year, it will go by fast, and that is where alot of the good memories are made is with your friends at all the sporting events. I am still trying to grasp the fact that Blackie is gone:( But, it was his time. He was getting pretty dang old. He would have been in his 90's in human years! I GOT THE BEST KEYBOARD EVER!!! i don't think I told you guys about this last week, but this non member lady who I played the piano for on her kawai grand piano, hooked me up with a kawai S1 keyboard! It is a FULL keyboard! My ward mission leader looked it up on craigs list and it booked at 1000 dollars!!!! haha Mom I wil be sending you the lady's address is so you could send her a thank you card or something. After I got done playing for her I asked her if there was any good places around here that I could get a keyboard, and she was like, well, one of my students just barely got a brand new keyboard, and his old keybaord is just chilling at his house!!! So she talked with them, and they gave it to me for free! It has a music stand, a stand for the keyboard to sit on, and even came with a bench! haha I was super excited. I have been playing every chance I get:) Anyways, everything is going really well! Thank you for all the love and support. I know that we will be getting some work coming up, as long as we keep it in our prayers, and fasting for it would be a very good idea as well Mom. Thank you for all that you do.

Love, Elder Carter the 5th

On Mon, Aug 1, 2011 at 1:41 AM, Emily Carter <emi_3_76@hotmail.com> wrote:

My Dearest Handsome Elder Jesse,
I Love You!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Well we just had a Wonderful Spaghetti Dinner at Dustin and Hillary's with Ryan and Meagan. We played Rook and Kenny was the Grand Winner!!!!!!!!!!! Little Libby wanted me to hold her, I put my lipstick on her and showed her how pretty she looked in the mirror. She also wanted to wear my bracelet's and loved my grey rose purse. Trevy is getting SOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO Big and loves his house and his very own room. Dustin and Hillary's house is fixed SOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO cute as Hillary is very very handy and has made a lot of things.
Yesterday we went up the the Cabin and had a fun Steak Fish dinner with Shawn, Lindsey, Harlie, and Keegee. Kenny played the old piano and I danced with Harlie. The kids took us on a fun 4-wheel ride down the main road at dusk and honestly we saw at least 30 deer and 3 Mama deer with their little fawn's - One little Mama had a set of twin fawn's. One deer ran right out in front of us, that could have been bad when we were going along. We went down the main road for quite a ways and then they took us to a big swimming hole where the water come's out of a big pipe that was really pretty. We really had a fun time and wished that we could have stayed - we came off the mountain really late at night which probably wasn't such a good idea with the deer all around at night - Daddie is an Amazing driver. When we were driving up to the cabin a "sweet" black sport type car hit a deer and there were skid marks everywhere.
Well I hope you are receiving your packages on Friday as I forgot to put Perishable on the outside - I will try to remember. Your email last week was SOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO encouraging and we truly are proud of You and all of Your many Great Goals. You are an Amazing Missionary - California is really really Blessed by You and Your Spirit and Musical Talent. Right now Kenny is playing the piano that always soothes my heart and many thought's.
Daddie continues to work very hard as usual and always carry's a heavy burden with all the worries of work especially that of having work not only for us but for Dustin and Ryan and other workers. The Brian Head job is in a waiting mode as they have been drilling 1500ft for water and are not sure if they are going to find enough water for the water pump. There have been other problem's as indicated but Daddie was able to work all of those out so just pray that they will find enough water so we can do that job which we will not know about until the end of August. About the Apartment's for Grandma, well because of the city ordinance's we will not be able to build Apartment's for Grandma. She just had my old house fixed up and Ryan has helped her to get it rented for school coming up. There are a lot of tender memories' from my old house. But Daddie and Chad bought some property for a good price and have been really thinking about building their own apartment's - it's a big risk right now with the economy and difficulties' in the world as you know. I just told Daddie that we need to fast and pray and Heavenly Father will let us know if building the apartment's would be a good thing for us and the boys right now. Please pray with us as we really need work - Daddie and the Boy's have SOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO much Talent and Abilities - if you just look around the city we have pretty much built this city including the beautiful building's on the College Campus. It's hard to go down to the yard and just see all of our work trailer's just sitting there.
Moosey is SOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO funny, he just love's his pacifier and he Loves Me. Niki is SOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO funny because she loves to cuddle up next to Daddie and he claims that he doesn't love dogs.
Kenny will probably be getting a car this week as Daddie and Kenny went to the bank to get a pre-approved loan - Kenny has been saving his hard earned money his whole life and is really excited. Kenny is a really good driver - I can hardly wait until he can drive me to St. George again for a day of fun - he is Wonderful.
Daddie's garden is really looking nice - as you know just Daddie and Kenny weed the garden now - I try to keep the weeds down around our home and work on our never ending yard. Kenny has been spending hours on the yard also planting Beautiful flowers - Daddie pulled out some old stumps with some chains and the truck as some of the plants had pretty much died but had deep root's.

"Whistle while You Work"
"The Lord is my strength and my song."
Exodus 15:2
"Walk with the knowledge that you never walk alone."
I am sending You ALL My LOVE "Wrapped" in LOVE.
Remember, remember my Son - "Love softens the Heart"
"Where there is hope, there is faith, where there is faith, miracles happen."
Boy it seems like the summer has gone by fast - I am going to really try to enjoy every minute with Kenny before he start's school as a Junior. I was looking in a magazine yesterday and saw Halloween and Christmas decoration's - I could hardly believe it. One of my favorite things to do is to swing on the deck, smell the air especially when it is barely raining, look at our Beautiful Mountain, and remember You and Hawaii. I Love You with All My Heart and I am SOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO Proud of You.
I guess I will wash my hair - everyone is in bed and the babies (dogs) are asleep right by me.
Have an Amazing week and know that YOU are the BEST MISSIONARY in the WORLD!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Hey Jesse,
This past week I went on missionary splits. We fed them then we hopped in the car and I drove them to where ever they desired:) We first went to the Lovelands. The wife was just barely baptized but the guy I don't think had been . We taught them about missionary work and did a role play of me and brother Loveland it was pretty fun then after that we went to some other places down in the ghetto's of CC it was quite scary but sadly the people didn't answer their doors. One lady had her music blasting in the upstairs of her house but once we knocked she turned off the music so we would think she wasn't there then after knocking a couple times we saw her walk right past the door!! Once we started to leave she turned her music back on! It was way funny but also sad. Then we went to some other places but once again no one answered so we stopped by Elder Herr and Elder Garza's apartment and they showed me around it wasn't much but I'm sure that's how all missionary places are. haha It was quite the experience but It was awesome to see how a missionary's life is. Elder Garza taught himself the piano and even made his own keyboard with clothes pins haha but I told him to come to our house on his p-day's so he could practice. On Friday me and Dad went to Mountain America and got pre-approval for my loan:) I'm gonna spend 6,500 on the car and put down 1,000 so my loan will be like 5,500 I'm pretty excited. Keith is going to look on his site for some cars and then show me on his big screen what he can find then on friday is when the auction is so he'll probally go down to vegas and get it! So in just a few days I'll have one so hopefully next time I'll tell you what kind I got. But that's about it for me so hope everyting's going well and I'll talk to you later.

Love, Kenny

Jesse,
It was good to hear from you last week. It sounds like you have really loved this area but if you are transferred you will learn to love your next area just as much or even more! We will probably not know for a couple of weeks about the Brian Head job. They will be finishing up the well and then decide if there is enough water to proceed with the project. I think we will start on the preliminary work for the apartments as a filler until we decide to either proceed with the apartments or find some more work.
I am very proud of you and your hard work. Brother Beckstrom was over at our house today. He had a missionary experience with his wife on a fishing trip to San Diego and he said it immediately reminded him of you. Many people ask about you and how you are doing. It is nice to be able to report that you are doing so well.
Love,
Dad

Wednesday, July 20, 2011

Two Handsome Missionaries - Elder Jesse Guy Carter and Elder Keith Christopher Barnes serving the Lord - Elder Barnes just returned from his Mission in Long Beach California

Friday, July 8, 2011

One Year Older and Wiser Our Handsome Elder Carter - Happy 20th Birthday on July 15th - OXO -

Tuesday, June 28, 2011

Elder Jesse Guy Carter would Love to Hear from His "Famila" -

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Elder Jesse Guy Carter
California Los Angeles Mission
1591 E. Temple Way
Los Angeles, CA 90024-5801
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Monday June 13, 2011

Hey family!!!!!
It was good to hear from you guys this week! The baptism went really well on saturday! It was a little bit stressful because we were relying on some missionaries in the ward next to us to get the baptismal font filled (we had to have the baptism outside of our stake due to the scouts using our stake center, and the building was really alot closer to us anyways, which complicated things a tad bit), and the baptism was at 11 and 1035 rolled around and the font still wasn't being filled! I was like what the heck is going on! haha and Andrea (the lady who we baptized:)) gets really stressed out if anything isn't perfect, and basically it was my responsibililty to make sure that everything ran smoothly since my comp. e. pace has only been out a month and doesn't really know what is going on still haha. So needless to say, it was a little bit stressful. But we ended up having the baptism at like 1115 saturday morning and it went really good! The spirit was really strong there. There was like 8 missionaries there because andrea has gone through quite a few missionaries, and they were all there to see her get dunked! We were all super happy. It was definately a group effort to get andrea baptized over the past 3 years. But the job is done, the letter is sealed, the concrete has dried. . . . (I figured I would use that one due to the fact that we are accompanied with concrete quite regularly in this family haha) Anyways, it went fantastic and felt really good to see some of the fruit of our labors! I haven't had a baptism since the middle of january so I was running a little dry! But all is well. I was super sad not to get an email from you guys last week, but I figured something was up with our comp haha. It sounds like the house is going under some sweet improvements! With the bathrooms, and the kitchen sink, and the front yard and what not! I have to say, I did miss helping you plant the garden this year dad, but next year I will arrive home JUST in time to help eat up all the hard work from the summer harvest haha. No worries, I will definately help eat the corn:) I don't know how the corn rows are gonna do this year though, cause I am not there to tend them each and every day. Those rows of corn were like my 2nd home out there in the garden. I spent soo much time weeding out there, that I developed names for each and every one of the stalks of corn:) haha I hope you can feel my sarcasm. . . . But I DEFINATELY weeded more than Dad did last year. I will say that much is the spoken truth! But yeah, I also gave a talk in sacrament meeting yesterday. The 2nd counsilor in the bishop rick called e. Pace and I saturday night at like 7 and asked us if we would fill in for the speaker that wasn't able to make it. . . . I played it off on e. Pace like he was gonna have to be the only speaker! And that he was gonna have to pull off a 40 minute talk haha. This was his first talk in the field yesterday, but he actually did really good! We didn't have much time to study due to ward counsil in the morning, and also general priesthood meeting sunday morning at 7! So we both just kinda wung it. I talked on hope, faith, and humility and how they are all requirements of each other if you desire to develope any of them. The topic was the 13th article of faith which was funny cause that is the article of faith that you always recite to all of us mom! haha so that was good. I actually enjoy speaking in sacrament meeting now. That was my 3rd time speaking on my mission in sacrament meeting, and I definately felt really comfortable up there which was awesome! It's amazing if you put in the study time before hand, and if you go up there with a prayer in your heart, how Heavenly Father will inspire our utterance with the holy ghost. I notice this with sacrament meeting talks and also when I am giving lessons to people, that often I realize in my head that it is almost like I am not even the one speaking. I am just miraculously speaking words that I didn't think to say. One quote from one of the general authorities that I really like, I can t remember which general authority but they said, "I know when I am speaking with the power of the holy ghost, when I leave the pulpit learning more from what I said." something to that effect. . But that willl be awesome to have the summer games this week! I bet you are all stoked! I am gonna miss those fire works, but for the 4th of july I hear that redondo beach is gonna have a sweet fire work show that I just may happen to slip down to the pier to observe:) Of course not step on the sand, but be right there in the fire work show:) That would definately be sick. So dad do you think that you are gonna start on the apartments? It is sorta risky, but if we dont' have any work, than we a better time to build them than right now! Especially cause the economeny is struggling right now so people would sell building supplies for super cheap I would imagine. But yes, there is always risk involved which is well. . . . . risky haha. But I know you and uncle chad will do whatever is best for the company:) Renka! It sounded like the trek was bomb digity! That is awesome! I wish I would have gone on a trek:( That will be awesome to play some summer games soccer! ahh I am gonna miss that. I see people playing over here all the time, and it makes me want to get out there and join them! But I know there is a time and a place, and this is not the time or place at the moment haha. But good luck! And continue to have fun driving! Mom or Dad. . . how is the money in the bank doing that we plan to get on a CD? Have we been able to get it on a CD yet? just curious, it would probably be a good idea to let that start building on itself asap! Thank you for the package mom:) I always love getting them each week! If there is one thing that I can rely on, it is a package:) I was tallying it up the other day on how much it costs to send a package each week for 2 years and it is ALOT! I will have to pay you back some day or something haha. And than times that by 6! (Due to 6 of us have/will served:)) Anyways, the piano is still going really good! I don't feel nervous playing in front of people any more! I am super happy about that, and plan to start playing in sacrament meeting alot! But thank you for the email, and for everthing that you guys do. Sorry if this email is too long, my fingers were just flyin today for somereason! But yeah, all is well here in redondo beach california! May the spirit be with yal this week:) Bye Bye

Love, Elder Carter the 5th

Monday June 6, 2011

Hey family!

I didn't recieve an email from you guys this week:(:(:( I guess you guys got caught up in some stuff or somethin. But it's all good. This week went really really good! Probably over all one of the best weeks of my entire mission! We taught alot of people, and picked up several new investigators and made andrea who has a baptismal date for this saturday really solid too! I also had the opportunity to play the piano for 18 people after dinner this last sunday! In our ward we have a break the fast with all the empty nesters in our ward, and we are invited as well, and I played valentine, over the rainbow, and love one another for all of them! They all loved it and kept on saying wow you really need to thank your mom for all the lessons. Instead of saying I played really good, they said I need to thank my mom this week haha. They also said it sounded really good, but I thought that was funny. So, officially, THANK YOU MOM for all the piano knowledge and ability I have, cause without you, I would be just like most of the missionaries out here. . . completely foreign to the idea of being able to play the piano. But the funny thing is, is alot of the missionaries always tell me how they played the piano for a couple of years, but than got sick of practicing so they quit, but that was the worst decision they ever made! So many people have said that to me it's crazy. Including several members in the ward, namely brother hales, and brother carter. Yes there are alot of carters in my ward. I don't know if i have told your or not, but the bishop is Bishop Carter haha. It's pretty funny. But yeah, everyone always tells me how much they regret not sticking with the piano. So I am super glad that you kept pushing me to keep playing through all the years! Cause now it is really paying off. And it is really relaxing to be able to just sit down, and play what ever music is in front of me. A couple of weeks ago we visited a lady that had a piano, and I forgot the music that I usually carry around with me, so she busted out all kinds of older piano songs by bach and songs like the swan and what not. It was amazing how I was able to just play them! Even though I haven't practiced hardly at all for 7 months! It really made her happy too:) Than we another experience we had just yesterday, we were knocking doors, and we knocked into this little chinese lady named ming. At first she really didn't seem interested in what we had to say at all, and she had food in her hands cause she was cooking dinner, she didn't understand english very well but I noticed a piano in her front room so I asked her, do you mind if I play you a song? She was like. . . wait what?? And thought that I said that I wanted her to play me a song haha. But I said it again and said, yes I play the piano and I would like to play you a song on your piano if that would be ok. . . will you allow me to play a song for you? Than she hesitantly let us in, and I went straight in and started striking up a convo as I cleared her piano from her music and busted out love one another. I started playing and she was like, wow. This really good. Wow. Wow haha. I was like yes, this is a song from our church! Despite never playing on her piano, and not knowing her at all, Heavenly Father really helped me play well, and it really invited the spirit into her house. After I was done, her husband came out from the back room where he was listening, and said thank you and said goodbye to us. We unfortunately didn't get a return appointment, but we left them a card and most likely planted a seed for the next missionaries that come around. Yes, she may not let them in unless they can play the piano haha but at least she felt the spirit for a few moments. Anyways, that is what happened this week! Elder Pace and I are really excited for the baptism this saturday! Andrea is definately ready even though she has her ups and downs. She is bipolar so we have to be really careful with how and when we present things. But yeah, things are going well:) Thank you for all that you guys do! I hope that this week went really well, and this next week will go really good:) I will talk to you guys next week. Bye Bye
Love, Elder Carter the 5th

Monday May 16, 2011

Hey Family!

It was so good to hear from you guys! Sorry this email might be a little shorter cause I am running out of time. It looks like Kenny's party went awesome!!!!! I saw all of the pics and it looked like a blast! That is really nice that you guys have ryans place just right there that you can use and what not. So. . . apparently I am still not looking any older yet haha. Especially this past week, everyone comments on how I looke 14 to 15 hahaha. I just laugh at it, and sometimes go along with it. And tell them how I don't know how I was allowed to come out here so young. . they just look at me all weird and say, are you over 18???? Anyways, It sounds like things are going really well back home! You always do so much for all of us mom with all the parties over the years and what not. It looked like ALOT of work went into Renka's party too. But thats good cause now you will always remember your 16th birthday! But. . . . Training has been, well really stressful haha. I never knew how hard it is to be a father!!! My comp is literally dependent on me. When he first got on his bike, he looked like a new born girafe that was wabbling so hard to try and walk haha. He crashed 5 or 6 times the first day, than the second and third day continued to just fall over at random times. I got a pretty sweet video of him walking his bike up one of the hills in our area hahahaha. I speed up the hills than just look behind me like 200 yards and he is walking his bike up the hills. It makes me giggle for sure. But, I really hope that his inability to effectively ride his bike won't slow down the work in our area. We have alot of potential right now, so I will just have to be really patient with him, and not get frustrated casue that is when the spirit leaves, and the work would be worthless. But we have been finding alot of really good potentials! The hard work and prayers elder moss and I, and also Elder Pace and I have been doing is really starting to pay off. Andrea Bartling who is our baptism in june 11 is going really well too! We are super excited for that, and happy to see all the positive change that she is making in her life. But yes, I am really going to have to work on patience with elder pace. It might be difficult, but I know with the lord's help I can perservere! But I am officially out of time, so I hope everything is going really good back home! Good luck with the wedding! That is so awesome, I wish I could be there, but I know that this is where I am supposed to be.

Love, Elder Carter the 5thHey Family!