Aug. 26,2013 email

I'm preparing to audition of Thursday. :) My week was great. I'm learning sooooo much! haha. There's a saying at the MTC, Days feel like weeks, weeks feel like days, and it is RIDICULOUSLY true. Last Monday, we had a food eating contest as a district, and I ate three entrees and a side in 12 min. Well, I won. hahaha...by a lot.

The picture you sent is just the 6 or us in our room. There are 12 more people in our district. Haha. But from left to right there is: Me, elders burgoyne, Skidmore, Mullins, Nelson, and Jackson. We have a great time together. Elderr Mullins is...wild.....I wish I could explain how much of a character he is.

There 5 of us going to Ft. Lauderdale, 1 going to orlando, 3 to Tampa Bay Florida, 5 to Boston, 4 to New York.


Thrid week is almost over! Weird! We had our first TRC (training recourse center...or something) Random people come and act as themselves and we have to teach them. They were all members, and that was difficult, but we taught one guy that is native to Haiti. That was neat. Elder Burgoyne and I are getting increasingly better at teaching. We've had our best lessons yet this week, and I love it. I'm getting more fluent in Creole. Is there anything specific Spencer wants to hear in Creole? I'll write some.

M kwe ke Jezikri sji Eksyasyon la e fe possible pu mwen ap gen pardon pou peche mwen. Me renmen fanmu mwen, zanmi mwen, Bondye, ak Jezikri. Me rekonenson pou opportunite ap preche lavinjil la nan Floride. 
Love you!!!
-Elder Felkins

I forgot to tell you, I did sealings in the temple today. It was cool. We can only be sealed as children of course, but it was awesome.

 Kyle sure looks  happy

 This is his name tag with the language he is speaking.

This is when he went to a devotional at the Marriott Center and listened to Richard G. Scott

Kyle's mission companion

Date: August 19, 2013

Area: Provo MTC

Companion: Elder Burgoyne

Sounds like everyone has been plenty busy. I wish you all luck as school gets started! When do you start? :)

 I'm doing fantastic! I love P-day because I get to email you and go the temple. This week went by a lot faster then last week. It's great to be learning so much. At last night's fireside, Via Sikahema spoke to us. I don't know if you know who he is, but he is a very successful football player, and now news anchor. He to told us that of all the things that he has accomplished in his life (and there is a huge list) a mission accumulates to far more than all of them put together. It made me excited for everything I will be able to do. It was a great reminder. He was really cool and got all of us really excited to serve, not that I wasn't already, but in a new way. 

I don;t know if you can find it anywhere, but we watched a video after the fireside called the Character of Christ. by Elder Bednar. Try top find it. It's wonderful. I;ve never been afriad of a General Authority before, but Elder Bednar scares me into wanting to the best I can. I have a lot to work on. Haha. I've never felt so humble in my entire life when that movie was over. He also talked about the pioneers a bit, saying that it's great that we rejoice in their faith so much, but what have I done to prove mine? I keep being reminded of my blessing when I was set apart, and I've been thinking of ways that I can and will be a pioneer, including proving my own faith.

i didn't audition this week for a musical number becasue I've had a sore throat and I'm just getting over and a stuffy nose. My voice has been super weak. Hannah auditioned the day after she got here and is singing at the new missionary meeting this week. I've seen her a few times now. It's awesome having my best friend as a missionary here too. It's hard not act like we did oin college sometimes though. Haha. It's a good thing we aren;t ariound each other all the time.

Creole is getting easier. It's getting hard to write, pray, and speak certain phrases in english, becsue I'm getting used to them in Creole. Haha. 

Tell Grandma/Grandpa I met Sister Ogden from Mesquite. She knows an elder in my district that used to live in Mesquite, Elder Lee. 

Mwen renmen ou!!!!!!!! 

-Elder Felkins

P.s. I am receiving your Dearelder letters. Thanks for them ! :D

Also, they told the wrong date for when I leave the MTC when we called before. I'm actually leaving the 17 or September if you could pass that along to Aunt Gwen and Uncle Cody. 

Date: August 14, 2013

Area: Provo MTC

Companion: Elder Burgoyne

Mwen Chari fanmi,

Yesterday, we had a devotional. We have one every tuesday at the Marriot Center at BYU. It was so cool to walk over with thousands of missionaries. It was the first devotional to ever be broadcast to the other MTC's world wide. I was in the choir for it, we sang "Jesus once of humble birth", and we practiced an hour before the devotional.  They don't tell us who is speaking until a few minutes before the devotional.  Elder Richard G. Scott's name appeared on the board.  Everyone was so excited.We all stood when he entered the room.I was also beyond excited to sing for him. I was one in 1000+ voices, but I got to sing for an apostle and it was such a blessing. He spoke on prayer, and it was so powerful. He blessed us with his authority over and over, especially the elders & sisters speaking foriegn languages dependant on our faith/diligence.

At one point, he got very emotional and told us why. He said that he had been praying that his wife who passed away in the 1990's would be with us in the devotional, and he was emotional because he was grateful she was there.

 Mwen renmen non!

Elder Felkins

Date: August 12, 2013 
Area: Provo MTC 
Companion: Elder Burgoyne

Bonjou tout monde! (Hello everyone!)



I'm having a great time in the MTC! It's a little crazy and hecktic, but I love the Spirit that is here. The food is great here, and I'm glad my classroom is on the top floor of our building, because the staris might help me from getting huge. HAHa. I love learning creole. It difficult, and I'm really slow, but my accent is good. I'm in a really big district. There are 18 of us. More Creole speakers then they have ever had. our Teachers told us we are pioneering the Creole language. It's fantastic. The rest of our Zone/branch are French speaking elders. They're a little wild for my taste, which kind of surprised me since they are speaking french. I loved going to the temple this morning and the devotionals here are wonderful!



A brief thought for everyone:



Think about the missionary purpose, maybe discuss it in family home evening. Then, talk about the purpose of the missionary purpose, and what that means to you. The purpose has quickly become so important to me, since we began to teach people in Creole two days after arriving here.



Love you all, and miss you!



Elder Felkins

Here is the other song Kyle sang for the Alive after 5 competition.

Here is Kyle singing in the Alive after 5 competition.

I've put together some pics from the Felkins Family reunion 2011. We logged in over 1800 miles on that trip and took the tent trailer up and down 10 times. But it was fun to see everybody and we can't wait to do it again next year.

Here is a video of Kyle in the play "Anything Goes" He is the comedy act in the play and he did a really good job, as you can see from the video. He is singing "The Gypsy in me".

Our Disneyland trip was really fun. It rained alot but that didn't stop us from having tons of fun. It was a great Christmas present for our family.

Alot has been happening since the reunion. Here are some pics of our last adventures. Including labor day vacation at Arches in Moab.

We had a lot of fun at annual family Felkins family reunion. This year we went up to Moon Lake and everyone camped at a group site. Ryan just bought a new camper and they really enjoyed breaking it in. Erin and Brandon also had a new camper which fit them nicely. I think we all enjoyed being together and the food was really good. Enjoy the pics.

Roosevelt 11th Ward Martin's Cove Trek

We had a lot of fun on our trek. It was hard but well worth it. Many neat things happened and it was a great experience.