Pictures 12.22.11

Looking good at Martins Cove

W/ Elder Pape & Elder Datillo

W/ E. Barker & E. Oxborrow & E. Bishop

Email 12.19.11

Holy Buckets!

Craziest week ever. Just so you know. Holy Canoly. we probably drove atleast 3000 miles this week. It was sooooooooo long. But wow. Such a good experience it really brought in the great spirit to us and we just love it.

The Bismarck Temple is gorgeous by the way. WOW. I loved that experience being with my bretheren in the temple. I really feel like the lord could of done anything in that temple. So great. But holy buckets I was looking at the elders sitting next to me and they were new I was like is that new? I dont remember that. It has been so long. But it was sucha great experience. We had 85 Missionaries in the temple. We split up into two groups. One group did a endowment session at 5 then the other group did baptisms and then we flip flopped. I ended up doing baptizing for a while and got changed and was in charge of the confirmations for about an hour. I figure we did close to 1000 baptisms/ confirmations. It was awesome. Man, I loved it!!!

Martins Cove was great as well. We watched 17 Miracles the night before we went and it made the whole event just mean so much more to me. I loved it soooooo much. I cant wait to take you to Martins Cove on the way to the Mission. Its great.

GREATEST STORY!!

So Siobahn we have been teaching her and really starting to work with her alot and we have invited her to church and everything she came once and all was good but she invited us to her Bible Study tonight at Calvary Chapel. Basically a big ole fatty church that is a non dom. So we totally went. We had a great study everyone was really really nice. Pastor Greg is the pastor and was very welcoming and we were even able to share some out of the book of mormon about the birth of christ and every one really enjoyed it. So we get all done with the study and we are talking to a couple people and siobahn is all by herself doing something and one of the members comes up to her and says: "You may not ever bring them back here. They are a cult and dont believe in Jesus. They are sons of the devil and do not belong here." She went crazy on this dude "You do not ever speak about them like that they are the nicest men I have ever met they are so wonderful. They are the epitemy of Christians and they truly represent Jesus Christ. (Side story. The ward council got together and had enough money to really really help someone out this christmas and the ward decided that it would be siobahn so the ward bought siobahn about 500 dollars in groceries and we packaged them up and put them on her door step) She continued to freak out on this dude "They brought me 500 dollars in groceries today!!! They wear Jesus Christ on their Tag. They are true Christians. She yelled at this dude and was like I dont even want to come back here." So we missed the whole thing while we were talking to the pastor and showing him a couple of things on LDS.org and we went out to look for her to say Bye and she was outside just crying. She said sorry to us like 50 times. We were like woahhh what happened. She told us the whole story and were like dont even worry about it we are so used to that. But she was furious. So all in all our devious plan worked :) I felt really bad about her crying but we knew that it would happen. Its happened to me every single time I have gone to another church. But if they invite us we totally go :)

But wow. Life just keeps rolling on and on. The work just keeps going faster and faster. I love this church and I know that it is true.

So, I am thinking about Skype. We plan on skyping at a investigators house the Beaumonts. Our church is at 11, and its the same time here as it is there so lets plan one o'clock. That should work out. If not, I will let you know but lets plan on one. Cant wait to talk to you all.

I love you!

Love,

Pictures 12.14.11

Far Away SUPER AWESOME

Up close

Gorgeous!!!

Thought it was super funny

Email 12.11.11

Hey There! :)

Woah crazy Transfer Week!!! Another day and another dollar. Another Crazy week ahead. We had 15 new missionaries come in on Monday. We spent basically the whole week working with all of them and helping them learn the ropes and the mission. Elder Hammond was given a New Missionary so I am now what they calla Grandpa in the mission it makes me feel really old. I dont like it. :( But super cool at the same time. We went out on transfers and took the new missionaries around and helped them get to their areas. Good news the good ole town of Wright is now back open to missionaries, Elder Oxborrow and Elder Klapp opened it up again and are living with members the Farnsworths. Super awesome! I love it! I stinkin love that town.

Oh yeah P.S. That whole deal about me being Un-Black-Dotted didnt happen. :) Super happy. President Layton wanted to get me unblackdotted but I didnt know the long process. He had to write a letter to the first presidency and they said no hahahaha! I am super excited, I do not want to drive but in the words of the first presidency they said: "Please let Elder Rudd know that he is still a good missionary and that he can still be your assistant he will just have to have a companion that is able to drive. :) Hahahaha! Good Stuff!

This week is all the Christmas Tri-Zones. So Me and Elder Pape take off for Casper tomorrow morning with the hawkes (senior couple) driving two vans. Full of the Rapid City Zone us in one van the hawkes in another. On our way own for Martins Cove. Super excited. We are there til tuesday at 1 then we load back up and come back to rapid to sleep and then wake up and head to Sioux Falls to deliver some furniture and sleep in sioux falls and then next morning about 7 am load up the sioux falls zone and then take off to Bismarck to the TEMPLE!!!!!!!!!!!!! OH YEAH!! We get to do two sessions in bismarck. I am super excited. I literally CAN NOT WAIT!!!!!! :) I love the temple. Its been a long time. :( But yeah :)

I have definitely been super busy and things are going well. But wow. Time is flying. I am so nervous.

I have not got my package yet. I will be looking for them for sure. I will definitely skype again for sure. I am so on it. We will have the same amount of time. Excited! :)

So no more Forgotten Carols????????????????? :( Bummer! But I am looking forward to the new Traditions though Cant wait to experience them.

I stinking love being a missionary just so you know.

Rapid City is such a conservative city and I love it. There are so many Christmas Lights out on Houses and so awesome. I love it. Super awesome city.

I cant wait to see that Church news. I will check it out too :)

I love you all so much. Merry Christmas. You have something coming too :)

Love,--

Elder Michael Corey Rudd

Assistant to the President

South Dakota Rapid City Mission

Email 12.5.11

Mi Familia,

Today is going to be a hectic day so I wanted to get emails out of the way. Today is transfers and we have 14 new missionaries coming out. We have 12 elders and 2 sisters! Its going to be super hectic. We are super excited but it is all on us as Assistants to go and pick them up and go from their. So yeah :) But today we start the transfers! The Rapid City Zone Leaders drive the first loop to Wyoming and then they get back tonight late and then me and Elder Pape pick up tomorrow morning at Six Am and take off to Sioux Falls then Fargo then Bismarck then Sleep and then wake up at 6 AM and on to Spearfish, SD and then onto Gillette and then down to Casper and then we are done! Back to Rapid City! :) :) It is very long!! :(

Good ole story to tell you about a man in the ward, Bill Davies, used to own the Suns and was a very prominent man and this past week he passed away. He was the only member of his family and they had his funeral all set up at the church and everything and then the church got a call from his family and they had cremated him and held a party at the Flying J Gas Station. :) I love this Mission. :)

This week has been awesome. I got to go to Gillette and Baptize Kim Crowder and her three girls. It was awesome!! Then we picked up and traveled back to Rapid and had a baptism of Denise Rafnson it was so sweet. Then after that a family took us to a Concert at the Civic Center it was a choir and orchrestra and their rendition of Handels Messiah. It was good but was not great. It was not super loud. :( It wasnt a Forgotten Carols :( But super good.

The mission had 11 baptisms. Super Awesome! I love seeing so much success in the lords vineyard. So far we have 18 on date for this week in the mission and 20 for the next week. We hope to meet 180 baptisms for the mission since july :)

Cool story- Kassi Blue, she is 20 she is on date for the 17th of December had not told her family yet and was kinda scared to. But finally got the courage to tell her parents and they did not like it they were not happy they want her to postpone her baptism and think about it and learn more and dont rush. Kassi really really wants to get baptized though. She wants to so bad. But she respects their wishes and we are working on them, BUT! that same day she talked to them afterwards, I get a text on my phone from Mormon.org Referrals and its HER MOM!!!! She totally referred herself and requested a copy of the book of mormon, but she said do not contact me I want to learn for myself. But me and elder pape being the stubborn Elders we are we were not just going to go drop off a book of mormon and call it good. We put together basically a huge packet for her. We gathered about 12 testimonies of members and all the teaching pamphlets, family proclamation, living christ and the book of mormon with my Momma's testimony in and then went over and dropped it off. Kassi said they loved it and we along with her know we softened their heart! :) OH YEAH! WE WERE SUPER SNEAKY! :)

I love this church with all my heart. I know its true. My heavenly father loves me and he loves you. Jesus Christ lives, dont you ever forget that. The son of god has power on this earth but only if we let him. I love him and I will serve him. Christmas time is so beautiful! I love it :) So much love in the air. But do not forget why we have Christmas. Christ! I like to break it down. This is going to be super cheesy but The word Christmas..... Christ.... MAS.. in Spanish MAS means more. More Christ. We all need to have more of our savior in our Christmas celebration. Remember he was born in the city of david all for us. Even if it was just Elder Rudd on the earth I know my savior would still come down and save me, because he knows us individually. When he looks at his hands he remembers us. Remember him and love him.

Momma, Elder Drabandt is the one you were thinking of. One of my best friends in the mission. He is awesome. I love him! He was with me in Casper now he is a Zone Leader back in Casper. He is super cool. I definitely want to hang out with him a whole lot. He is awesome. :) He is from where the goonies was filmed :)

Merry Christmas

Love,

Elder Michael Corey Rudd

Assistant to the President

South Dakota Rapid City Mission

Pictures 12.4.11

Denise's Baptism

All of us at Crowder's Baptism

Rapid City Zone

Email 11.28.11

Familia,

This one will probably be a little short.

I am very hard to hear of the passing of Grandma Rudd. It really hit me hard. I read that email this morning and was somewhat saddened by the news of her passing but I think the only reason it was is because it is common I think. But, I am very happy for her. She finally gets to be with her Eternal Companion. No more struggling, no more pain. All for her and her eternal salvation. Good news. I was bummed because I wanted to talk Rapid City with her. But, I am super excited. If there is anything I can do for the funeral let me know. You can just call the mission office whenever. We are always around. Sister Hawkes will let me know. But yeah.

My knee is swelling up pretty well. But its fine. It will just take some time for it to be completely healed up. Taking it easy and wearing a knee brace constantly. If it does have to do something with surgery I am looking for a really good brace to due me til I get home. So, we will see. But as of right now, totally fine. No big deal. :) Dont worry!!!!!! Please dont worry!!!!!

Good Ole Rudd Thanksgiving!! :)

So much good things happening in Rapid City. Elder Rudd & Elder Pape are taking this city down!!!!!! We have three on date!

-Denise Rafnson! Super excited! Loving the gospel so much. So excited for this saturday. She is going to do so well. Super solid!

-Kassi Blue- December 17th. She told her parents last night and it did not go well!! Her mom freaked and was like what the!!! So her mom wants her to wait a month and her mom wants to learn for herself. So today I got a text from the Referral center at the MTC and it was her mom!!!! So her mom asked for a book of mormon but said please do not contact me. So we have a plan to have all the members involved in Kassis conversion write their testimonies and we are going to put them in a book of mormon. But just not any book of mormon. My momma's book of mormon with her testimony inside!! Super excited!!!

Cheany Whalin- Trying to help her quit smoking. SHe has been taught for a while but no luck yet.

Also, Gillette called me today and Kim Crowder and her girls are getting baptized on saturday too so me and Elder Pape will load up and go to that baptism. Kim wants me to baptize her so I am super excited. It is going to be such a baptizing day because we will load up and go back to baptize denise!! Super cool!!

I love this gospel.

I am looking forward to getting the GPS info.

I love you all!!

Love,

Elder Michael Corey Rudd

Assistant to the President

South Dakota Rapid City Mission

Email 11.21.11

Familia,

Its another crazy day in the South Dakota Rapid City Mission as always but the good news is that it is pday! Gotta love it

Right now we are hanging out at the mission home. We have to go pick up Presidents family at the airport in a couple hours and President is on his way to casper. So, we get to do it. We have so much fun!

I got numbers done pretty early last night I was pretty impressed. I was really happy. Got done about ten o' clock. So it was really good.

I am going to tell you about some people. It is always so hard for me to explain all of these people, who they are and how they are doing.

Djaye and Joe. Djaye is a recent convert. She is 19 super super cool. Just an awesome girl. Joe is 22 return missionary and going to the South Dakota School of Mines (They specialize in enginering) he went on his mission to Michigan. I met Joe like a year ago at my first Zone Leader Council. They met and now they are getting married in the Salt Lake Temple on December 20th. Super Excited for them. Then they will come back and have a reception here in Rapid. (joe is from utah too) But it is super super cool. Djaye has such a solid testimony too. She is just awesome. They want to hide us and take us to Salt Lake with them for the Sealing. We had a plan that we would go on "exchanges in casper" and just keep going. But oh well. Super cool though!

Siobahn- She is doing well still struggling with Priesthood Authority with her. She is definitley socially converted right now for sure. She loves the church so much. But we are trying to work with her on Spiritual Conversion. We went to her 9 year old daughters basketball game. Had a blast and she did not care one bit that everyone was staring at her because she was with us. She introduced us to her parents and everything so things are going well but we hit a road block!

Ron & Wendy- We hit a road block with them as well. Cant quite get to meet with them or get them to church. Wendy is going to cut our hair today so that will be way good. We are excited. I am defintely going to get her daughters address and number for sure. I would really like whitney to go see them. I want her daughter to write her testimony in a book of mormon then send it to me. Then we can double team this effort and get them in the water :)

Kassi Blue- Doing awesome! Came to church. Loved it! Met a ton of people. We had her over at the McCormicks house (2nd Counselor) had like 25 people over had dinner and just partied! (If it sounds like all I do is party its true, I love rapid) But we got her introduced to so many and we ended with a testimony circle. Everyone shared their testimony. SO SWEET! She was crying, we were crying, everyone was crying. Djaye is like now her best friend. She is so done. in the water by the end of december for sure. :)

Denise- Oh man, she is awesome. She is doing wonderful. She has had alot of temptations to drink but she says no way, I'm getting baptized! She is so awesome. So excited! We meet with her like twice a week and have the members working on her hardcore. Baptized in two weeks! December 3rd!!!

The Mission had a good week. Just good. We had 6 baptisms. But we invited 83 people to be baptized and ALL TIME HIGH. Super good. We are starting to Understand our purpose as missionaries for sure. Our purpose is to invite others to come unto christ by helping them receive the restored gospel through faith in jesus christ and his atonement, repentance, baptism, recieving the gift of the holy ghost and enduring to the end. So the more we invite the more we understand. We are to be exactly as the savior taught. The savior would not wait until the 83rd lesson to invite them. The very first lesson he would invite them to follow him and be baptized. So the more we do that the more we become the saviors missionaries and represent him. It has been really interesting to see the mission numbers every week and to see how each zone is doing and each individual missionary is doing. I have never felt so much stress but, I have more love now for all the missionaries.

Sounds like Thanksgiving will be a blast. We picked up another dinner on Thanksgiving too. HOLY BUCKETS! I miss the Rudd thanksgiving it was always so much fun. I enjoy it.

Mom, that is always the hardest thing for me, looking back and looking at everything my savior has done for me and knowing that there is no way that I can fully repay him the only thing that I can do is to serve him. It shows me how unselfish he is. He wants nothing in return all he wants is use to come live with him and our father in heaven for ever. He has shown us the way. For those of you who are not following the savior. DO IT NOW. On my mission I have had no patience for those who are putting themselves in this whole Get up and go!!! Follow him!! Go to church! Read your scriptures! Pray!! The things are not hard. WE MAKE THEM HARD! If we are not doing them of course our testimony will fall. By small and simple things great things shall come to pass. That is the same for satan too. By small and simple things we FORGET to do. Satan has us by a tight grip. Do the small and simple things. The lord is not asking us to move mountains. He is asking us to be better today than yesterday. please wake up and get back on board!

I havent had a soapbox for a while that felt good! :)

I still have the gps.

I love you very much

Love

Elder Michael Corey Rudd

Assistant to the President

South Dakota Rapid City Mission

Email 11.18.11

Hello!

Sorry it took me so long to write the email this week! It was a crazy hectic week. We have been all over the place. We had to drive down to my old stomping grounds... Casper, Wyoming! Oh man it was so good to be back the only thing that was a major bummer was it was super windy and super cold. Just how Casper always is. So its super crazy! So yeah, I have made so many connections this week! Frank Thomas- Totally knows Grandpa Rudd so we are going to lunch this week and he is going to tell me all about grandpa when they were in the Air Force together. I started to cry when he said he knows Melvin Rudd. It was super super cool! So, Dad, I dont know if you have ever heard of Frank Thomas or know him. I can kind of remember Grandma saying something about Frank Thomas but maybe I am crazy. But It is super cool. I wanted to get a copy of Grandpa's life history too if I could. Please! Brad Porter- Totally knows Kymber's family and all that jazz. That is way cool that she called you too mom. His wives mom knows Kirk & Sharon too. Her name is Karol something. Sister Porter lived in Kirk and Sharon's ward. I am sure that they know them so give Kirk and Sharon a call too. Super Cool! But HOLY BUCKETS! I love Rapid City super much! The Exchange in Casper was super good. We took off Tuesday after Zone Leader Council. We headed out to Gillette and the Weather was great. Then we hit Wright and the Weather turned like CRAZY! We drove through a BLIZZARD and a couple White Outs. Super crazy. But we drive a truck. So we got through really well. We took it careful and took it about 30 mph most of the way to Casper. So, it was really good. Really Nice. As soon as we got to Edgerton, Wyoming. Little town of about 160 people the weather cleaned up and it was safe travels the next 40 miles to Casper. When you come into casper you can see Casper Mountain and the City Lights for like 30 Miles. Its so gorgeous. I love it their. When we tour the mission it will be summer so it will be awesome. But holy buckets i love it here. We just got back from a place called Story Book Island. Its an amusement park with a bunch of characters and all for the kids to play on and its free. its super cool. I loved it. It was right before I got their. All the missionaries helped and the stake helped. It was awesome. So tonight was a special premiere for the church only. So we had all of our investigators come. Super awesome. Siobahn- She is sooooooo close to being baptized she is doing everything with the church i.e. womens group lunch, appointments, just doing awesome her fellowship family the ostlers such an awesome group of people just super solid! They just moved here three months ago from Italy. Brother Ostler is a physical therapist in the Air Force. So he is out at Ellsworth Air Force Base. But she is doing super well. She loves the church we have invited Siobahn a couple times to be baptized and she has a problem with Priesthood Authority. But I think she just is a little nervous. She will be baptized!!! Kassi Blue- Super cool girl. She is scared to come to church but promised us that she will come to church and sunday and we will be having a party at a members house for her basically. So we have a couple girls her age coming she is twenty so we have them coming over and its going to be a party!! Ron and Wendy Beaumont- Super cool. Wendy is a hair stylist so she is going to cut me and papes hair on monday. I am going to have her do my eyebrows too. But their daughter lives in queen creek and I am going to get her number and address so, my sister whitney can hunt her down and be best friends and so that we can do a team effort in this battle!! :) I stinkin love Rapid City. I enjoy being an assitant too. Yeah, we are constantly busy and going crazy. But I enjoy it. It has been wonderful to be with President and Sister Layton. On monday we pick up Sister Layton and a couple of their kids and families at the airport in the Transfer Van. So Awesome! Super Fun! To be honest we dont get to do much teaching but the teaching that we do is the most effective and the right people. Also, on June 16 is Thomas Brouers (Recent Convert) & Tina Holloways Wedding they want me back for that. But it will be super fun. I love all the people here in Rapid City. They are awesome!! :) I seriously want a list of all my nieces and nephews. I seriously have no clue who is who! :) I see little ones like cayden and my heart just breaks. I miss all of them so much! Cant wait to meet these new ones! Super fun. I would love to see shannon and her sisters perform. Thats so cool. Tell them good luck. On Thanksgiving we have three dinner appointments. We will be up at the mission home at 1 and then 3 at Thomas & Tina's and then 6 at the Jensens. It will be a party. So much food. I have lost weight since I have gotten here. Super Cool! I will gain weight on thanksgiving for sure :) Thank you for all you do. I love you so much Jesus is the Christ! He is my Redeemer! He lives! I love you! Love,Elder Michael Corey RuddAssistant to the PresidentSouth Dakota Rapid City Mission

Pictures 11.14.11

Elder Rudd and Elder Pape

Assistants to the President

Our desks

Email 11.7.11

CHELLO!

Holy buckets! Super Long week. We have been super tired the last couple days. I had three blood vessels break in my eyes. I have been super tired! We took off to Fargo, ND and had a good time. But it was super long and super tiring. I love the missionaries and am so grateful that we can serve them in this calling.

Me and Elder Pape have been doing really well the lord has blessed us so much and I am so grateful for him and all he does. I love that man and he has such a wonderful conversion story and an awesome testimony. We work so well together. The lord is defnitely blessing our efforts and President Layton is very happy with the team. :)

We are in constant communication every day with President Layton and we plan and work with him 24/7. What a great man and I am so thankful for all that he does. He and Sister Layton work so hard. Sometimes President has to fly to Fargo or certain places of the mission because of the size of the mission. He and Sister Layton had been gone for two weeks and just got back they do that basically every month. We are so grateful for their love and support and their guidance.

So mom, I just found out some news about my return date mom. So, really weird I dont know for sure but, I was looking on the computer and saw my return date as May 3, 2012. Its a thursday. Dont know if that is doctrine or not. But if its in this program its probably correct. But, it really got me scared. Its very very weird. I go home by myself. Its really really weird. I do not like it at all! But there ya go. You have me home for mothers day. :) So, Christmas will be our last talk. CRAZY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I honestly would love a print out of all my neices and nephews and there ages and whose kid they are. I have NO CLUE ANYMORE. But if you could that would be awesome. :)

I can not believe that Elder Romney comes home so soon! So crazy!

I did meet a sister mccormick. I will personally greet every new missionary as soon as they land in Rapid. So that will be fun. Speaking of that we have an Elder coming her from Mesa who was serving in Russia and cant learn the language so they are moving him here so he will be in Rapid at 10:30 tomorrow night so me and Elder Pape and probably going to fall asleep on the chairs out there. But we are excited for a new elder. Sister McCormick has the best trainer in the world. Sister Hunt is awesome. Member all that struggle we had with them when i was ZL in gillette. Now they are teaching 25 lessons a week and doing amazing work.

Tell Cayden that I am going to wrestle him for my room. And I dont lose. :) I cant wait to play with my buddy. me and Elder Pape got our headbands with the feathers on them. We are wearing them around the office. Lots of fun. I really enjoy the office crew. We work super hard.

Gues what! We have someone on date! Denise Rafnson Oh yeah! December 3rd!! So awesome! Also the lord blessed us with 8 @ church on sunday!

- Siobahn

-Trenton (7)

- Briana (9)

- Ron & Wendy Beaumont

- Connor

- Denise Rafnson (December 3rd)

- Cheny Wahlin

- Jenny (members gf)

I am so thankful for all that the lord blesses us to do in this labor to serve him. President Layton taught me a great lesson this week. I want all of you to focus on your testimony right now. Think of where the basis of your testimony is. Is it centered on Jesus Christ? The basis of our testimony has to be centered on Jesus Christ. Way Way too often our testimony is a testimony of appendages. The book of mormon, the restoration, temples everything is because of our savior Jesus Christ. So when we bare our testimony we need to testify of the divinity of the savior jesus christ.

I love you al!!

Keep those letters coming! I love them! Please!

Love,

Elder Michael Corey Rudd

Assistant to the President

South Dakota Rapid City Mission

Email 10.31.11

Mi Familia,

Elder Rudd here. It is so weird the adjustment being assistant now. There is alot more that we have to do.

Schedule:

6:30- Wake Up
7:30- In the office.
Doing everything President wants us to do. Graphs, Numbers, Talking with Missionaries. Zone Leaders and everything.

5:00- Try to get out and work by 5 usually not til dinner.

Dinner and jam packed nights of appointments. We deal with alot of issues with missionaries. Disobedient ones, Missionaries who want to go home. So we deal with alot of issues in that way.

But every week we are on the road too. Basically we are on the Road or in the Office. Tomorrow we take off for Fargo, ND (10 Hour drive if you wanted to know.) :) Good ole SDRCM. I love this mission.

Elder Pape is quite possibly my favorite companion we have so much fun together. He is such an awesome missionary. He is from Meridian, Idaho right next to Boise. He is the only member of his family. He is a convert of two years. Such an awesome guy. We get along so well. His Mom and Dad are starting to take the lessons too. But they have such a testimony of missions. Elder Pape really believes they will get baptized. It will happen.

He wants to go to Embry Riddle Arenautical University is Prescott too. Way cool. He goes home in January.

We are teaching quite a few people right now.

Kassi Blue- 20 years old. On the brink of baptism!!!

Siobahn Gilleland- Most powerful lesson ever. She felt the spirit so strong she will totally be baptized!! She has two kids too that will be baptized!!

Cheaney Wahlin- Part member family.She is totally nervous ablout baptism because her husband is a total scripture guru. But she will be baptized too.

But there is alot of good things happening in the Rapid City ward.

So the Halloween Party on Saturay for the ward. WAY AWESOME! We totally partied! We had the best Idea ever. We had a Trunk-or-Treat. It was awesome. We decided to flip a bike upside and use the wheels to be like a wheel of fortune thing and took supplies from the mission office like old dvds and pass along cards, pictures and all it was so cool and just a blast. Me and Elder Pape were just screaming and trying to promote it and we totally won best Trunk. Oh Yeah! :) Way fun.

No I do not get more money.

Last night totally took a toll on me. Sunday nights are stinking crazy. Like No Joke! I had to put every number in for the whole mission. Like every area. Every number. All 17 numbers for every area. All 58 areas!!!!! Then I had to save each of the 6 zones numbers in either a PDF file or a regular exel file and send them to Elder Payne of the 70. Every Stake President. and so much more. Then we have to make a report for President Layton too. It took me from 4 pm to 11pm. HOLY BUCKETS!!! I was SO tired. But I did it all. :) So thats every sunday night for me. Elder Pape does something completely different. But, I have like a holy bucket load!

I love Rapid City though holy buckets its awesome! I love being in a big town. I love Rapid City.

I love you all so very much!

BE STRONG BELIEVE!!!

Sorry it took me so long today. I think that there will be alot of that. But know that I love you and will do everything I possibly can.

Love,

Elder Michael Corey Rudd

Assistant to the President

South Dakota Rapid City Mission

More Pics from 10.24.11

Me and Mason Odowd (Right) Ethan Dooley (Left)

Gillette District

Part of the Gillette Zone

Email 10.24.11

H-O-L-Y B-U-C-K-E-T-S!!!

That is all I have to say is HOLY BUCKETS. This week has been so crazy. I have been running around like a chicken with my head cut off and dont worry I had to stay in the whole week though. But I have never been so tired before in my entire life.

So, Surgery went well. I feel great. Went and got my staples out today. I have 12 staples in me. I found more. :) I have healed really well. I have 5 scars on my stomach right now. Not going to look to great. But oh well. :) But all the missionaries took really good care of me and watched me and helped me. I slept alot and to be honest it was really needed. I really think it was stress induced because of the last little while but the sleep and the rest was wonderful! I loved the sleep. I definitly had some cabin fever. I was on percosats. I didnt have any reaction it was good. I was fine. President Layton came by and saw me tuesday morning so that was awesome. He is such a great guy. But surgery is good its done I feel good. Still will take it easy but the work must go on! :)

Well transfers.....

they were crazy.... Elder Barker and Elder Oxborrow and the spanish elders went to breakfast at President Tews house and all the Elders came over and had transfer calls with me. So Elder Barker had our phone so Elder Thomas gave me his phone with President Layton on the other end.....

Elder Rudd: Hey President! How are you?
President: Good Elder Rudd we got a change for you.
Elder Rudd: Great! Who is my next companion?
President: Elder Pape
Elder Rudd: Sweet Elder Pape is being released.
President: No, We are bringing you to Rapid City to be my new Assistant.
(Elder Rudd Puking)
President: You are going to do wonderful. You have been a Zone Leader for quite some time and have been prepared for this calling for quite sometime. I know the lord has called you to this calling and he will support you.
Elder Rudd: Umm.. Thanks President.
President: Recover and see you in Rapid City.

HOLY BUCKETS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Well thats the news. Elder Rudd is getting out of Wyoming for good. He is being transferred to Rapid City, South Dakota to be an Assistant to the President. YIKES!!!

So all mail can be sent to:

Elder Michael Corey Rudd
2525 W. Main Street. Ste. 311
Rapid City, SD 57702

Because, I am going to be there EVERYDAY. holy buckets

So yes. Needles to Say it has been the weirdest week of my ENTIRE life. Start off the week with Surgery and End the week moving to Rapid City. WOW.

Definitly feel overwhelmed. Move from stewardship from 20 missionaries to 150!!! HOLY CANOLY.

So for these next seven months I will be serving is Rapid City. My last area.. ...

Other News.... Elder Rudd and BLACK DOT will never be put together again. As of this wednesday when I get to Rapid City. I am UN-Blackdotted.

Thats Basically my news to be honest. Everyone in gillette got transferred though its crazy.

Basically we drive around this mission and go EVERYWHERE. Next week we will take off to Fargo for a conference up there and the Whirlwind goes on. HOLY BUCKETS. The one thing I hope doesnt happen is that an apostle or a seventy comes that we have to drive around. Yikes!

I love you all so much. I am definitly going to need your prayers. I love you all.

If there is anything you could do for me. Walmart gift cards are awesome. Ties. Socks, (Brown and Black) Thats all. I love you all so much.

Be Strong Believe. (I am working on It)

Love,
Elder Michael Corey Rudd

Pictures 10.24.11

Kim and the girls, me, Elder Barker and Oxborrow

Me and Kim & the girls

Me and Elder Hastings.

Me and (left to right) Sis. Hunt. Sis Blackburn. Sis Jensen

me and the camps

Me and the Demonjas

me and the abrahams and friend

me and the melinkovichs