Meet my Companion

After arriving in DC and doing a temple session it was back to the mission home in Potomac, Maryland. Ammon's first companion is Elder Brooks, he has been out for nearly 5 months now and is Ammon's trainer. Ammon says he is awesome and has learned a lot from him. They are in Olney Maryland, if you look at the map at the very bottom of this blog you can Olney at the top part of his mission (in the gray area) Olney is about as far North as you can go and stay in his mission area. Ammon says it is a tough area, but they have a great Ward Mission Leader who works hard and is getting them some great contacts. I think we are pretty much caught up, a rudementary sort of way, I will add new things each week if nothing more than Ammon's weekly letter home. Keep watching for new pictures and more information. Feel free to email me if you want to ask any questions or want me to pass something on to Ammon. He of course would love to hear from you. Look for his Mission Address here on the Blog.

Getting to DC

Well after the MTC it was off to Washington DC, the group left on July 7th at 8:30 p.m. they were to report to the travel office at the MTC and from there they all headed to the Salt Lake Airport. Once settled in it was wait for take off, gratefully they were allowed a call home and I got to talk to my boy for about 20 minutes and then it was time for him to board his plane. They arrived in New York and had to wait there for 2 hours before their plane to Washington DC was ready to bord. Here is a picture of one of the missionaries (Elder Saddeh) in his group boarding the plane they took to Washington DC. They were excited to arrive!

Once there they immediately went the Temple, the Washington DC Temple of course, Included here is a picture Ammon took of the Temple. It is a beauty!

The Beginning

I started this blog and was a little ahead of myself, I admit I didn't know what I was doing, I am certainly no expert yet, but have figured out a few things so I am backing up a bit to start from the beginning. The Call, Washington DC North Mission! Ammon was kind of hoping for a spanish speaking mission, but after he read where HIS mission was to be, it was all HIS, he was extremely excited and very happy in fact to be speaking English. He was excited to in his words, "hit the ground running". He entered the MTC on June 18, 2008.

It was definately a day of mixed emotion for Mom, as you all know he was my right hand man from the day he was born at 8 lbs. 14 oz. and 21.5" long until the day he left at 6'6" and 245 lbs. Takes a lot of love to grow them that big! He loved the MTC and his companion there, his name was Elder Hall from Idaho, Elder Medina and Elder Hall got along very well and made the most of their MTC time. They studied hard and worked hard and went to DC together and parted on July 8th for their separate areas.

First time ever on blogging, don't quite understand it so be patient and I hope it will look descent. Going to try and keep things posted here each Sunday on what is up with Ammon, I will put his weekly letter here and I will add some pictures as I get them from him. Hopefully this way you can all share his mission with me and enjoy his pictures and letters and what he is up to and how he is doing.