Hello to all!
Hope everyone has a wonderful new Year! I have to be indoors by 5pm tonight so I get to stay up late tonight too! Like 1030pm! Woot Woot! But its all good because I dont like staying up late anymore. Its disobedient and as everyone knows...Elder Malone is very obedient. :) I didnt say greg i said Elder Malone so dont doubt me. :) But I am actaully known here a little bit as being one who likes the be effective and obedient. WHich some missionaries have a problem with I dont know why. You definitely are not getting up at 630 everyday and tracting everyday for yourself. I mean you do but also for the Lord mostly. :)
But it was really good to hear from all ya'll again. I will be sending the tape and camera memory card home soon so you can all look at those when that comes around. There are some interesting pictures on there abnd dont be afraid. Just laugh and that will take away some of the shock. But tis really good down here in Ahoskie. We were supposed that have abaptism on the 29th but he disappeared! Who knows where he went but he showed up in wal-mart randomly around a corner. and we are planning on meeting with him again. hopefully we can resolve his concerns. but he came to church! He didnt seem too interested after he reappeared. he just said he was out of town for a week. but he never told us and it was his baptism week! :( werido. but through much prayer we ran into him and hopefully getting him back on track. (sorry my typing is soo bad right now. just try to udnerstand my fingers wont obey. ) we had another lady felita getting baptized ont eh 5th but she smoked again so that got pushed back. we have not seen her in 2 days which is not good. we are supposed to see them everyday! and we usually do but she kinda disappeared too. she has a really tough time at home with her husband so we are really helping her. and the change the spirit makes is incredible! elder hall felt prompted to try her a 4th time last friday when we had 5 mins till we had to be home. So we did and she was there! but with a lit cigarette. so we talked and she cried and said how she is unhappy and things are not working. so we prayed, and read scriptures and she prayed and let me tell you. investigators say the best prayers ever! It was so heartfelt and personal that it brought me to tears. we all were! and she addressed it, dear Heavenly Father, this is your daughter...and how...im getting the goose bumps right now typing this but when we left the spirit was sooo much different there. we made her a calendar to help her eachday till the 12th (her new baptism date) with scriptures.(my idea) and we also gave her a journal to help her with writing her thoughts to see her progress. (my idea again.) so the spirit is awesome when it comes to personal revelation! and prayers are answered as well! it was raining really bad yesterday while tracting and I didnt bring my coat or umbrella. :( so I prayed that my suit, tie and BOM wouldnt get ruined. I woke up this morning and my suit was more clean, my tie is perfect and the BOM has NO water damage at all! So prayer really really does work. I hope all is well. Sorry its kinda short but know I love ya'll. Im loving it out here very much. Thanks for the support both personal and financial. I know its a strain but think of the blessings we will all get after this life and during it.
3 Nephi 13:25-33
Love
Elder Malone

Letter to Jacque 12/18

you will have to tell me If i have an accent or not yet. I think I might be getting one a little bit. Things are good though! I love my companions and we all get along realy well. We have a baptism this weekend and another one next weekend. Then one on the 5th i believe. But they were all set up before I get here. but they are all awesome! its so cool to see the changes and how they go through so much to be able to live the way the Lord wants them to do. I totally used that pizza mcdonalds thing at some ladies door the other day. i dont know if she liked it but i will backhand anyone who doesnt think it makes sense. anti is so dumb. did you hear about that one guy ed decker? yeah he is apostate. haha its missioary lingo for not doing whats right. like going to bed after 1030 is apostate. its fun. well i need to go but thanks for the email, support, love,care, packages, and all else! Love elder Malone

Letter home on 12/18

Well our church is pretty sweet. it use to be an old restaurant so it has drive-thru salvation. :) yeah it rocks pretty awesome like. but its a good size one. they will get a real chapel if they can have an average of 60 people come to church for 3 months i believe. yeah we only average about 52 a week. haha small eh? i gave a talk last week though about the gospel. i think it went well. i also taught priesthood and gave a prayer a few sundays ago so they are really putting me to work which is awesome. we have a car and we drive about 50 miles average a day. yeah its a huge area. it goes up to the VA/NC border. so its crazy how much we drive. and for zone conference on friday we have to drive up the Denbigh in Newport News. Like a 3 hour drive from our house or so, so we might be spending the night up in franklin. i got some pretty sweet ties. we swap some times and they are way nice. i guess polyesters are the way to go because they can survive the summers out here so if you send ties please make them polies. :) but i ride bikes occasonally. its fun but it can really wear you out. just to answer all weather questions...i can take my jacket off at 70 degrees and i have taken my jacket off almost everyday last week. but now this week we wake up to 30 degrees so where it went I dont know. but i got more name tags. a magnet one and another clip one. i love those things. but im all set as far as everything goes. just really focusing and putting my head into the work and blocking out most everything.

My comps are great! one is from sequim,wa and the other from modesto, ca. he doesnt know aunt carol but he asked his mom and she does! its nice to be able to bash on utah without having to throw out disclaimers. but its soo fun though. we have soo many inside jokes and just little things that make it more enjoyable. and we have only been together 12 days! its insane but way cool. we are singing 22 songs on sunday for Christmas. its the way the program is set up. yeah weird huh? we started reading the BOM as a companionship. 14 pages a day and its nice. it really brings the spirit but we cant study other things which is sad no time. :( but i highlight everytime it says Christ or another of His names and its really intersting to see it all. elder rappleye and i saw eachother on last fri and it went well so its nice to know we are still friends. just not companions. :) but its ok.

Well not too much left to say. just relying on the spirit and laughing my head off with these guys. we have different words of the day and everything. so its cool. well i have to go ok
Love Elder Malone

12/3 Letters to Dad's house

We received some hand written letters from Greg, I'll try and hit some of the things he said.
To Alex: He was full of teasing! He goes to bed early and gets up early, he says it feels good to get up and exercise in the morning. Says he's "pretty huge now". He says boys are mean and he gets bored with them! He tells her not to kiss boys, they don't brush their teeth! and neither do dogs, so don't be sneaking around and kissing Gus (our puppy). he says quote, "I am sorry I talk about you and boys alot. But I know it's not as fun to kiss people when you're young. When you're old and in love is where the magic is! Not that I know anything about that one......:)".

To Jacklyn:He goes into people's houses and they have little girls her age and it makes him think of her. He tells her that she should feed Gus brussel sprouts. They are really good for dogs! And it makes them fart alot too! So feed him brussel sprouts and then lock him in Alex's room!:)
say your prayers EVERY night!

To Dad: (We had to smoke 25 chickens for a ward party) He says: "Dad,
:( Stop smoking! It's bad! Even though it's "only chicken" it could turn into turkey, then beef and venison! And once you hit venison there is no return! And then *BOOM* excommunication!" He really wants a missionary picture at the Stake Center. So that we can look at his pretty face. He used ya'll in a couple of places. He says that Preach My Gospel is the ultimate guide to everything! pg 107 is an awesome one he uses all the time. He says that he is going to need a new book, this one isn't going to last 2 yrs because he uses it all the time. He's excited about his Grandma and Grandpa Donn getting their mission call to NYC Manhatten temple. He thinks it's funny that gpa will be living in the big city. He says it's been a growing experience to learn to love his companion and put up with him. He prays alot for himself and companion and it's helped alot. Read the Bible dictionary under Prayer and it WILL change your views and the way your prayers go. In a positive way.

To Jacque: The anti-morman stuff is big out there. Alot of people look into it, which is dumb! You don't learn how to make pizza by working at
McDonalds! You don't learn about the church by anti material! Go to missionaries or websites! He stays away from it. Sometimes people battle with you to get you to say things, but "I just bare testimony and walk away before the spirit does!" He suggests that we carry around an extra Book of Morman to hand out. He suggests having them read the Introduction (especially the last 2 paragraphs), The Testimony of Joseph, the 3 &8 witnesses & Moroni's Promise. Its a good combination. Preach My Gospel pg 107 is a winner with people who are struggling!

Letter 12/4...he's being Transferred!

Mom,

I am being transferred to a place called Ahoskie( a-hoss-key), NC (i believe its in NC) but its down in the Chespeake Zone and in whats called tide water. aka the "tidewater trap" its hard to get out once you are in i guess. I will be in a threesome with Elders Brockman and Hall. I dont know either one but I'm very much looking forward to it. I will greatly miss this ward. some office staff and the Zls cleaned the apartment really well on saturday. like mop, wash walls and clean the carpet and bathroom. which makes sense. They did because sisters are moving into our ward. elder rappleye is going to be going down to a place calles negs head. i think. its over by me.

well I have raked a lot of leaves lately. like tons and tons. After a District meeting on last wednesday, a car was broken down in the road and others were just honking and going around. so we stopped and I pushed the car into the turn lane, across traffic and then up a hill out of the road. but the thing is that as hard as it was I thought how cool would it be to have that angel help like the pioneers did in the picture on the wall in the office? well i thought it but the car just got harder and harder, ( mind you this is a boat of a car.) so as i pushed it across traffic(no cars don't worry) the car took off from me and went up the hill a lot farther than I could have pushed it. and I knew that in my moment of weakness, when i thought i couldnt push it anymore, the angels came and helped me. whether they gave me strength or whether they took it I dont know. But I Do know that they are there. Willing to help as soon as we are ready to collapse. Everytime. I know that I didnt push that car by myself. it was a nice size car and hill. We are not making really any progress with whitney. she knows its true and embraces all of our teachings but she lacks in the knowledge and thats what is keeping her back I think. Oh and please send me some CD's for Christmas too! Like From Cumorah's Hill if its LDS published, some MOTAB and EFY CD's. They can be burned thats totally cool. Elder Funk and I were on exchanges and we were running late. So to help us get home on time, The Good Lord gave us green lights for about 7 miles down Midlothian Tpke. That is unheard of on Midlothian. So we felt blessed there too. OH and by the way! Start sending everything to the mission home. because it might take a while to get to me if it goes to midlothian and then Ahoskie. so they will forward it to me. but make sure it is all USPS nothing else!PLEASE! well thats all for now. Love you lots! thanks for EVERYTHING! Love Elder Malone