Ian's Mission Letters: July 2018-March 2020

  The Squad     Ian Durrant   <ian.durrant@myldsmail.net> Wed, Jul 25, 2018, 9:14 AM to jokerty24@gmail.com , captainkulikowski17@gmail.com , bzywth8@gmail.com ,      Techcrazy17@gmail.com Hey my bois. How goes it back home? Im about out of time for today but Im having my dad forward you guys a quick email.  Ive said pecado like 100 times in the past few days and I always think of all the good ol times when we were in pecado winning PUBG which was actually never because we SUCK. I wanna hear if you guys have won at all or anything. Miss you guys ill send more next week when I have your emails

  From:  Ian Durrant < ian.durrant@myldsmail.net > Date:  July 25, 2018 at 8:50:23 AM MDT To:   karlak@cachemeadow.com Subject:   Letter numero uno Hey everyone! Its kind of a crazy feeling that im the one writing home now to everyone but this place is pretty cool so thats ok. Wednesday the 18th was one of the longest days of my life. I just had tons of places to be and lots of stuff to do and it was exhausting but its really starting to pick up. My companions name is Elder Bowman and he is a really fun guy. We laugh together a lot and we are both glad to be here. Weve had to teach a few lessons to a fake investigator and that has been going alright. Sometimes she says something and look at each other because we have no idea what was said but hey, its only been a few days so its fine. So spritiual experience of the week.  We had a devotional last night and a lot was just how missonaries should act and all that good stuff but one of the presiden...

  Long Day     Ian Durrant   <ian.durrant@myldsmail.net> Tue, Jul 17, 2018, 6:30 PM to smdurrant, karlak Hey everyone, finally got to the MTC around 6 PM. Its been a very long day and im tired and hungry but this place is pretty cool, kinda reminds me of tahiti. Just super crazy all the time. Im in district C branch 9 just so you know. I guess im supposed to tell you that. My P-Day is wednesdays but not tomorrow so youll here from me next week. havent found my companion yet. Also i need the email addresses of the rest of our family. Josh, Tyler, Chad, Matt, Heidi, Michelle, and Kenzie if you could get me those that would be great. Doing good ill talk to ya more next week!

  Letter the Second Part the Second   Mario Durrant   <mario.durrant17@gmail.com> Tue, Jul 31, 2018, 1:37 PM Hi again hijo mio,   I have some more addresses for you:   Chad:   chad.yorgason@gmail.com  (until September 4)   Matt:   matthew.gatherum@myldsmail.net  (as of Wednesday August 1)   Kenzie:   kenziespencer1999@yahoo.com   Heidi:   heidikofoed12@gmail.com  (although Heidi tells me you’ve already been emailing back & forth…)   Michelle:   michfelix8@gmail.com     Also, I have had a couple of people comment on the great email you sent last week, something about an insight into the Tree of Life and I have searched back and can’t find whatever email they’re all talking about.  Including Father Mateo quoting you in his...

  From:  Ian Durrant  < ian.durrant@myldsmail.net > Date: Wed, Aug 1, 2018 at 7:58 AM Subject: Letter 2 To: < kkdurrant9@gmail.com >   Hey everyone! This week has definitely been better than the last one. Gone by much faster and we are now in a pretty steady rythmn. But i{m starting to get burned out of sitting in a classroom learning spanish and fake teaching. I{ve always hated fake teaching because the teachers expect you to be so serious and teach with the spirit but it{s very difficult to do that when it{s all staged. I haven{t really been homesick at all but i{m starting to feel homesick for Chile which is weird since i{ve never been there before so that{s cool. Spiritual experience of the week... At the temple last tuesday we went into the room where get your clothes and there was a painting behing me on the wall behind me that I didn{t see going in but I saw it on the way out. It was a painting of Christ during the atonement. He was dressed ...

  Letter 1 (first part)   Mario Durrant   <mario.durrant17@gmail.com> Wed, Jul 25, 2018, 7:51 AM Hi Ian,   I’m very interested in how your first week in the MTC has gone and the people you’ve met.  I am not sure what time you’ll be writing so I’m sending off this first part of my letter quick and a longer letter is coming later.  Let me know what your P-day schedule is likely to be for the next 7 weeks (at least when in the course of your P-day you’ll likely be sending off emails).    This has been a long week for work.  I finally got a day off yesterday and proceeded to spend it doing pretty much nothing.  It was Pioneer day yesterday, a commemoration of the day that the first wagons with Brigham Young entered the Salt Lake Valley and he declared it was the place he had previously seen in vision.  It is a day that we sho...

  Fam stuff   Ian Durrant   <ian.durrant@myldsmail.net> Wed, Jul 25, 2018, 8:22 AM to smdurrant, karlak, alexjdurrant91, audreyannad18, ryan Hola mi familia! So wendesday and thursday were both long as a butt. But after those two days its really picked up. Im having a great time and I havent been stressed at all really. Spanish is dumb and stupid and hard but i like it anyway and im getting better everyday. My companion is named Elder Bowman and hes a tall goofy guy and we joke all the time. It makes the MTC a lot easier. Ive made a ton of new friends and my district is just a bunch of studs. so thats awesome. K real quick story time. On last thursday we were sitting in a classroom doing our normal studying with my district and I look to my left at elder bowman and I see what looks like a small bird fly under his desk so I doub...