Great moments in Skinner History part 1

Mission Letters


Here is a letter adressed to “The Skinflint family”

Feb 19 1989

Howdy family!!!

Well here I am at the M.T.C Sorry about this paper if you cant read it too well. The M.T.C is great and it is full of love and kindness. We have 12 people in our district (Santa Ana district) two of which are girls. They have a real hard time because they have to be alone while the rest of us can go have fun and mess around at night in the dorms. This has been a spiritual and neat experience for me . I have finally learned to feel the spirit and know that this church is true. Yesterday we had missionary day and we had to go tracting around the M.T.C to fake investigators. We gave the discussion to one pair of missionaries but they where half asleep and we didn’t really get a taste of what it was really like. It was funner when me and my companion had to play the role of the investigator. When they asked us questions abou the holy ghost we could feel the holy ghost inside of us. The food here is alright it could be better but the spiritual food here is what I really like!!! Today in sacrament meeting they called Elder Bartholomew as our district leader. Tuesday we have a fireside by Vaugh J Featherstone it shoudl be good.

In case your wondering what my schedule is here it is.
6:00 get up 6:30 eat 7:15 class 11:20 eat 12:05 class 3:00 gym, 4:30 eat 5:30 class 9:30 quiet time 10:40 go to bed
So all we do is eat go to class and sleep. My p-day is Wednesday so we’ll probably go to the temple at around 6:00 in the morning.

I had to get my haircut Mom so I guess you didn’t cut it short enough. It cost $5. Dad do you remember Lakei Heimuli? He was a running back at BYU. Well his brother is in by district . He has a scholarship at BYU to play football but he decided to go on a mission. He is a cool guy. All the guys in my district are cool. I got a tetanus shot Wednesday but it didn’t hurt so that’s good. Well everybody be good. Hyun go on a mission you’ll love it. Love Elder Skinner

P.S where’s my cookies?

Coming soon page 1 of my mission diary here is a preview from the table of contents

My mission journal page 1

Experiences
My calling and election Page 25
Dear John Page 51
Earthquake Page 36
My prophey about Eilleen Rassmussen Page 39