Turn Around! Turn Around!

When Sawyer was getting ready to leave on his mission, he got some advice from President Fuller. One of the things he told him was that he didn't need to let his family know everything...especially the bad stuff that would make us worry. That's probably why he 'forgot' to mention a little driving incident that happened in Abilene. Dani let it slip while she was visiting, so I asked him about it. Here it is in his own words:

Elder Chapman got cut off and ended up driving the wrong way on the freeway and it was super funny! We didn't even realize it until we saw headlights in the distance coming at us super fast. I started shouting TURN AROUND, TURN AROUND!

They are nuts! How do you not know you are driving the wrong way on the freeway! I'm glad he thought it was funny though :)!

On a less stressful note, Sawyer loved General Conference! This is what he said about it:

We had investigators come to conference this past week! Oh my gosh, it was so perfect! We told them to pray and come to conference with a question, and that their questions would be answered. They were answered perfectly! It was so awesome to see the prophets and apostles touch lives. I tried that approach too, just to see if it would work, and the same thing happened to me! Those men are called of God absolutely without a doubt!

Happy 100 Days!

Sawyer reached his 100 days of missionary service! We sent him a fun package to celebrate! We wrote a list of the 100 things we love and miss about him. Some of them were pretty funny :)! Our package was all orange stuff, and we said 'Orange you glad you made it 100 days!'

Here's the first half of our 100 things we love and miss about him.

Here's the finished product!

Orange you glad you made it 100 days?

Happy 100 days Elder Varvel!

MTC Flashback!

A while after Elder Varvel had been in the mission field, he sent me his SD card with the rest of his pictures and videos from the MTC. He loved his time there! He had a great companion, a great district, and great teachers. 

This is Elder Varvel's district with Hermana Gibbons. She was his first teacher in the MTC, and they had her the whole time they were there.

This is Hermano Torres. He was their second teacher. He had to leave half way through their time at the MTC. He left to teach at the MTC in Mexico.

The district with Hermano Torres.

This is the district with Hermano Clarke. He replaced Hermano Torres once he left. 

Elder Varvel with Hermano Albaugh. He wasn't their actual teacher, but Sawyer said he might as well have been, because he helped them out with everything.

He claims he's doing a wall backflip, but we know better than that :)!

Sawyer found Curtis in the MTC! 

This is Sawyer's district with the sisters in his zone, the night they left.

Singing the night they left.

There are goblins in the MTC bathrooms!