Monday, March 25, 2013

3/25/13 - It's a short one!

Hey yall,

How's everyone doing? I hope everyone is having a blessed day today... it really is such a blessing that we're alive at this time... and to think, we all have the opportunity to not only hear the restored gospel, but we all get to live it. What a blessing!!!!

So, to start off this weeks stories... this last Monday night, I came down with a BAD fever... and I wanted to be right as rain the next day so I could best serve the Lord and his people here in Peachtree City without skipping a beat... so I went to Elder Schlesinger and asked for a blessing before going to sleep. We got the oil, got the chair, etc... Elder Schlesinger anointed the oil, sealed it and then opened the blessing... and then he closed it without saying a single word. It was strange though... right as he closed the blessing, I had this feeling of comfort that it was the exact blessing that I was suppose to have been given at that time. Then the thought came to me that the Lord needed me to learn something from this experience... so I went forward with faith that the Lord had a reason for me being sick... and lo and behold, I ended up learning and experiencing some things that I know the Lord needed me to learn and experience, even if it meant that he allowed me to be sick and struggle through a trial for a couple days. I would share the things that I learned/experienced with yall but they're very personal so I'll have to keep those withheld for now... but why am I telling you this story? One of the things that I learned through all of this is to have faith, even through trials. Miracles and blessings come AFTER our faith is tried, not before it. I know its hard to remember it during those hard times... but the miracles and blessings we receive for enduring faithfully are always more powerful, meaningful and longer lasting than the trials the Lord allows us to endure to receive them. (read Ether 12 for more haha).

I'm out of time so this is going to be a super short letter (I ended up helping someone sitting next to me for a while) but I just want yall to know that I love each of you... I love each of you and all the things you stand for. Love the Lord, have faith and keep enduring to the end. I'm praying for each of you.

Elder Wahlen

Monday, March 18, 2013

Monday, March 18, 2013

Hey yall,
 
How's everyone doing? I hope everyone is doing well... it's beautiful out here in Peach Tree City... it's really starting to warm up!!! All the tree's and flowers are beginning to bloom and it's so beautiful out here!!! There's so many kinds of flowers and tree's here that I've never seen before... I'll have to take some pictures soon because it's just so gorgeous! Quick strange story... we were driving to an appointment the other day and drove through a MASSIVE swarm of bee's. It was BIZARRE!!! There was probably a few hundred thousand of them... just a giant cloud of bee's!!! Anyways... that's my random story for this week.
 
Not gonna lie... I wasn't the best at taking notes this week for this letter so it may be pretty short... but hopefully it will have something of worth in here for yall. So one night this week, Elder Schlesinger was praying before we went to bed... and after he did, he got up and said that he received a prompting that we were going to be tempted by the adversary to do something in the next day or two... and so we needed to be really careful (he also felt like we should sleep with our shoes on that night and to keep our light on in the room so we did that too). I ended up praying about it and felt that we did indeed need to be very careful.
 
Long story short, the next day we drove up to an appointment... the entire way up I just keep thinking about what we had talked about last night, about how we needed to be careful. We pulled up to the housing unit and both of us just sat there in the car... we ended up talking about how we both felt uncomfortable about being in the area for some reason and that we should probably leave. We prayed about it and indeed we felt like we needed to go... we called the investigator and apologized that we weren't able to make it (he was stuck in traffic anyways) and we turned to our backup plans.
 
Fast forward a bit... we went to visit a family that we've been working with... and when we got there, the mother and father were putting a car seat into the car and seemed VERY upset about something. We went over and asked how they were doing and if we could leave a blessing with them through prayer... the father then proceeded to begin saying all these terrible things about his little daughter (she's probably 6 or so years old) and how they were taking her to the doctor "because she's sick in the head". He even said some things that made Elder Schlesinger and I really worried about the little girls physical well being... we ended up leaving a blessing through prayer and walked away... we both felt EXTREMELY uncomfortable with the situation... I even turned around at one point to go back to say something to the father... but I felt like I needed to just walk away from it. We ended up stopping and talking/praying about what we should do as a companionship for about twenty or so minutes... we prayed and talked and prayed some more... eventually, we felt like we needed to have faith in the Lord that he would watch over this young child of God and keep her safe... so we walked away. It was SO HARD. It weighed pretty heavily on my mind for the rest of the night...
 
Fast forward to a couple days later... we went back over and it turned out that everything was fine. The little girl was happier than ever and the mother was in a great mood too... everything had worked itself out. I know that we made the right choice... but at first it certainly didn't feel that way... but we were warned and because we had been warned we knew what we needed to do.
 
So what did I learn from this story? ALWAYS listen to the warnings and promptings of the spirit... I don't know what would've happened had we gone back and said something or done something to try and fix the situation... but through prayer and faith, the Lord took care of everything. I'd invite all of you to keep this in mind going into this upcoming general conference (which we're SUPER excited about). The leaders of the church are there to guide us so that we can draw closer to Christ and to avoid those things that the adversary will try to use to ensnare us in his terrible and awful state of misery... please take heed to their words and their warnings... they speak with the spirit and as such, they speak the words that God and Christ themselves would say. I'd invite all of you to watch this upcoming conference with an open and willing heart to not only follow their guidance, but to actually do the things the ask us to do. All the things they'll talk about and all the things they'll invite us to do will bless us as we follow and do them...
 
Here are some scriptures for yall that I've found in my personal studies this week that have helped me out...
-3 Nephi 13: 33 and 34
-3 Nephi 12: 16
-3 Nephi 17 (I love this chapter... Christ is just so loving and compassionate towards us all)
-3 Nephi 18: 24 and 25

So... here are some more random things from this week. I went to the most amazing authentic Italian deli and butcher shop here in Georgia... it's called Spezzano's deli and butcher. We had the most amazing deli sandwhich... it's called the "Full Blooded Italian"... my Dad would love it.
 
Something pretty funny... I know some of you joked with me about how I'd convert Josh Smith, or maybe a member of Derrick Favors family... or some other ATL baller. So... turns out we're teaching a relative of Marvin Williams... and when I say relative, I mean a fairly close relative haha. I'll give more details on that situation as it progresses... "Let go, let God" is her saying though and it's something I've been using more and more each day. It's amazing how the more you turn over to the the Lord the more that he blesses you. I've really been trying to turn EVERYTHING I have over to the Lord lately... and it's hard... but I know that he knows best not just for me but for everyone.
 
I'd invite yall to examine your lives and ask yourselves "How can I have more faith in the Lord in my life?". Completely turn yourself and your life over to him and he'll lead you to exactly where you need to be at exactly the right time in your life. It's hard (trust me) but its so worth it... do everything you can to draw closer to him and to increase your faith. Faith is everything... and you can never have too much faith. Pray often too!!!!!!

 
I love yall so much... I hope with all my heart and soul that every one of you is having a blessed and good time in life right now. Thank so much for all that you're doing... yall are such amazing people and God loves yall so much. Thanks for all the letters... each one of them make me smile. Please keep writing and again, I'm sorry if I don't respond to yall. Just know that I read and cherish each and everyone I get (especially from you cousins!!!). I love you, the Lord loves you... and he'll never lead you astray.

Take care and have a blessed week,
Elder Wahlen
 
 
 
 
 

Sunday, March 17, 2013

A letter from this past week

Here is a letter that my mom and dad received this past week, and I swear I am not changing or adding anything...

Hey Beautiful Mother and Strong Father,

Another crazy P-day... I really am trying to find more time to write on p-days but its just getting crazier and crazier. Please keep writing though, your letters help me out so much.  If you didn't get my "special request" email then I will ask you now. Could you send me Paul's phone number and address? Also grandma and grandpas. Long story short, a man I met here is moving to Ogden soonish and is really looking and needs some people to talk to/do stuff with... his wife died and he just needs some company and love. I want him to contact Paul because he loves riding Harley's and is super excited to ride up there. I will try to tell you more about his story/situation next week. Just know that he is awesome and needs some help through love and care.

Thanks for keeping me updated on basketball stuff. I love knowing about the Jazz. I've been able to start playing more down here so that's helped a lot. Totally forgot about March Madness until someone at church talked to us about it.

For future packages... could you send some more pictures of Christ? We want to get our apartment a little more "spirit friendly". Also, could you send a copy of Elder Holland's "Book of Mormon" talk? Any Mo Tab and primary song CDs are welcome too:)

I love all the packages... tell Kristi thanks for the granola, its super awesome.

Tell all the cousins sorry that I haven't written back. I LOVE all their letters and pictures. Always makes me smile.

You would love this Mom, I am singing primary songs like crazy! Even in lessons! My new favorite is "Nephi's Courage".

I wish I had more time to write but I gotta go... tell Kristi that I'd love to hear from her and that I love her tons. I love you both so much... thanks for everything you do! Keep reading, praying, and going to to the temple together!

-Elder Wahlen

P.S. I didn't get transfered and neither did my companion. Also, tell Tyler and John that I'm going to try and write them soon. I loved their emails they made me smile tons.

Monday, March 11, 2013

New Pics


Another delicious rice meal I made!

 
This is with one of our investigators... we went for a run together on P-day

3/11/13 Email



Hey yall!! So excited to write to you today... today is a beautiful day here in Peachtree City and I'm so blessed to be here!!! Today is the day we find out if we're getting transferred or not... so I'll try and keep you updated as I write this. I may or may not get a call to get moving on Wednesday so we'll see!

This last week was great!!! Elder Schlesinger was feeling much better this week and we almost made it through the whole week without him feeling sick at all which was a huge blessing! We made it till Saturday before we had to let him get rested up but we've been having a great and blessed time!

I wanna start off by relating a couple of experiences I had to start the week... we went to a former investigators house one afternoon that we had scheduled an appointment with over the phone... we went up to the door, knocked and eventually it was answered. He invited us inside so we came in... but as soon as we walked in I felt like something was wrong. I just gross in there... just dirty and not good. I tried to push it out of my mind and tried to focus on how the Lord will see this man and his situation but something just wasn't sitting right with me no matter how much I tried to focus on good things... Elder Schlesinger started things off by leaving him with a blessing through prayer... the entire time I tried to feel the spirit but I just couldn't... it was like something was blocking it. Afterwards I just felt like leaving... I didn't know why but I wanted out of there!!! We ended up going over and sitting on the couch with this man and as we sat there (Elder Schlesinger was teaching/talking to him) I looked across the table by the couch... there was a bunch of DVD's laid out across it. All of them were titled with something like "Know the End of Times". It was a 10 or so DVD set about the end of the world and apparently what we needed to know about it. The pictures on the front of each of them were pretty terrible... pictures of war, the false prophet, famine, etc. As I looked over them, I just kept getting this feeling like there was something wrong... especially with those DVD's sitting there. It was almost like there was a dark presence lingering over them... Again, I tried to push it out of my mind and focus on this man cause Elder Schlesinger was trying to teach him... but I just couldn't. The man started talking about his beliefs pretty quickly after that... and man... without going into detail... lets just say that he has some very twisted views of things (bless his heart). I literally was sitting there in shock as he told us the things he believed... and then he started to try and convince us that we should believe them too. As he did this... his friend walked in and asked us "Are you with the church of Heathens? I'm a member... and it's all around us" ... needless to say, we were ready to go after that point. We thanked the man for his time and invited him to read the Book of Mormon (he had a copy) and then we got outta there!!! We got into the car and we both just felt gross. We drove to our next appointment without saying much... once we got there, we talked about how we were feeling... so we decided to say a prayer. That didn't help. Eventually we decided that something wasn't right so Elder Schlesinger raised his arm to the square... instantly after that we felt better. It was so weird. It was like taking a pair of sunglasses off. Just felt so much lighter and brighter and happier.

Later that same night we went to visit a member who is a single, recently widowed mother of 6 kids. Her husband died of a medical condition and now she's left with all the kids... we went there and when she opened the door... man, it was just instant spirit. She talked to us about her husband and about missionary work... and the whole time the spirit was just so strong! They both served missions and they loved having the missionaries come over... eventually we left her and her kids with a blessing through prayer... and during it, we could feel of her husbands presence. After I closed the blessing, she said "He's here, I can feel him here. It was like a warm breeze across my face"... and it was so true!!! It was so powerful... Elder Schlesinger ended up giving his own personal copy of the Book of Mormon to the little girl... it was just so powerful and the joy, happiness, and just great feelings of the spirit were so strong...

So why am I telling yall these stories??? I can't describe it, but the VAST difference between the two experiences just amazes me. The adversary is real... he's out there doing terrible things... but the Lord is real to, and he's out there inviting us to be happy and joyful and to have peace in our lives. I'll never forget that day... literally feeling the presence of both sides of good and evil... just know that the side of good is WAY better than the side of evil. Never let yourself be tricked by the adversary .. do everything you can to avoid him and his snares. Do the small and simple things to fortify and protect yourself (just as captain Moroni fortified and protected the Nephites from the Lamanites) Read the Book of Mormon daily. Have daily prayer. Serve your fellow man. Go to church. Attend the temple as much as possible (if you can). I promise you that as you do those things, the Lord will bless you and protect you from the adversary... but always look for more ways to continue to fortify and prepare yourselves. The adversary is only growing stronger... we need to be doing the same thing. Always look for ways to draw closer to the Lord each and every day of your life. It's not just something that would be good to do... it's something we MUST do. The outcome of this fight is too important... this is eternal salvation and eternal life that we're fighting for. There is NOTHING more important than that...
So... now other normal things :) One of our investigators gave me a crystal like rock and told me that its been blessed to help me... so I'm suppose to carry it around in my left pocket and pull it out and rub it when I'm feeling stressed. He also told me to think of all the things I'm grateful for as I do it... so I do! And it helps! Even just something small like that can help... I know it's helped me tons!!

So... Teancum is like the coolest dude ever, right? If you don't know who he is... just go read through the last half of Alma... he's a stud. Sorry if that's random, but he's one of my new favorite people in the Book of Mormon.
We had an awesome cleanup project with one of our investigators (he's actually the first one I ever taught). He is somewhat of a hoarder... and he has a hurt back so he can't get around to clean things up very easily. We organized the young men to come over one night to help clean up his house a bit... not even move stuff out, but just to vacuum the floors, dust, etc. And WOW!!! Even just doing those small things made such a HUGE difference. It really helped him to feel of the spirit too... he was really touched. Can't even begin to describe to yall how much stronger the spirit was in there after doing that... we had a killer lesson to end things off too. Doing service for your fellow man is SO awesome... it invites the spirit into your life and into the lives of those whom you're serving... I'd invite all of you to find someone that you can serve this week. You don't have to do anything big... but just even doing something small will bring the spirit and blessings into your life.

We had mission council this week which I was lucky enough to get to go to since Elder Schlesinger is the District Leader.... and WOW!!!! Changed my life... seriously. The things I learned in there... so awesome. I wish I could just copy my notes from it and send it out to yall. I'll just drop a few things from it real quick (go read Ether 12 too)... see everything through the eye of faith first! Miracles happen AFTER you have faith... really aim high and have faith that you can get there. the Lord bless you with miracles if you just have faith in him and his plan for you... but you don't limit him!!! Have that endless faith so he can give you endless blessings. Always try to help people have good, spiritual experiences. Experiences are what people build their beliefs on... and beliefs fuel actions... and actions give results. If you give someone good experiences, it will change their beliefs and subsequently it will change their actions and results. That's what we need to do as disciples of Christ! Always look to give good, spiritual experiences to people when they're around us so that they can have good, spiritual results in their lives.

Some things about the mission real quick... we've all been challenged to bring a soul into the waters of baptism by April 7th. That's one for each of us, two per companionship. It's an exciting goal and I know that we can achieve it through faith! President Harding also felt inspired to tell us to try singing "I am a child of God" during lessons... so we've tried it a couple times! Only with members, but Elder Schlesinger and I have gotten up and sang it all by ourselves... and man, it does really invite the spirit! If you're ever feeling down, just start singing that out loud and it will help :)

Other random notes... I talked Elder Schlesinger into coming with me over to the church in the mornings so I can shoot hoops haha. We're going to try and go over at least 3x a week... it helped me A LOT this last week so I'm pretty excited about that. It's been a HUGE blessing in my life and I can't thank him enough for being willing to come with me to do that...

I just want yall to know that you're not just stripling warriors... you're all Helaman's and Captain Moroni's!!! You're all leaders unto the word and unto the Lord's people... keep your testimonies burning bright and do everything you can to share the gospel. As you look and pray for missionary opportunities, the Lord will help and bless you in finding them. Don't be afraid to share the gospel!!! The Lord will bless you with what you need to know... and always live your life in a way that will be an example to others. Leading by example is the best way of doing missionary work.

There is soooo much more I wanna write about but I'm outta time... I love you all so much!! Thank you for all the letters, I'm still reading them all! Especially the ones from all you cousins!! I love your pictures and hearing about whats going on!! And yes, I'm having lots of fun!! It made me smile to hear that Brock is playing Minecraft a lot... I played with John a lot before I left haha. He'll have to show you what we built sometime!!
I love you all so very much... continue to draw closer to the Lord and he'll continue to watch over you and bless you in all the ways that you stand in need of. Love him with all your heart and always do everything for his glory.

-Elder Wahlen

Monday, March 4, 2013

3/4/2013

Hey yall, sorry this is so late today!!!! I forgot my day planner without all my notes about what I wanted to write about and all the awesome scriptures that I had found so I'm sorry if this email isn't as great as previous ones!!! I'll do my best to remember everything and hopefully I can go back and write letters to my fam that will include the scriptures/stories I wanted to share but forgot about!!!

 
Life is good here in the mission... it was FREEZING this last week. When it gets cold here, it doesn't get cold like it does in Utah... you get cold to your core here in GA with the humidity. My bones felt like the were freezing... it was crazy! Even "snowed" which everyone got excited about haha. Pretty much just a layer of frost... Elder Schlesinger laughed at how big a deal everyone was making about it. It's an awesome day today though! Nice and warm like we like it.

 
Elder Schlesinger is still having a rough go... we had to stay in the apartment for most of the day a couple times this week and one day we even did an exchange with the office Elders so I could go out to our appointments. I went with Elder White, who is also from Utah (can't remember exactly what part!). He's been out 14 months and is super cool! He has hearing aids in both ears but he hears the Lord just fine cause he's a powerful missionary!!! We went out and had a great time... talked a lot about missionary work and learned a lot from each other. He's one of my favorite missionaries out here that I've met for sure.

 
So we have another investigator with a baptism date! His name is Alex... he's incredible!!! He's only 17 (about to turn 18) but he's had a REALLY rough life. Drugs, drinking, girls, violence... just about everything you can think of, he's gone through it. He's still struggling with some things but he's made soooo much progress. He has court on Wednesday and so we're waiting to see what happens with that, but if all goes as planned we're hoping to get him baptized in about a month... but we'll see!!!
We had an AMAZING dinner appointment this week with an incredible family down here... the husband is a less active we've been working with but he's awesome. They made us flank steak, pita bread, potatoes, steamed veggies, kale and spinach salad, chicken ka-bobs... so good!!! The wife had some sort of Lebanese garlic sauce stuff that was soooooo good! I can't remember the name of it (I wrote it down in my notes that I forgot) but I'll send the name of it to my fam so they can post it up on here... everyone has to go find some and try it!! So good. That family has become my family here in Peachtree City... I love talking with them and they're so caring and supportive of me. I always feel like I'm at home when I'm over there with them. They take good care of us!!

 
We had stake conference this Sunday... Elder Hymus of the 70 was there... I got to meet him before the meeting started but I didn't even realize he was in the 70 until they announced it!! Haha, I felt kinda dumb for not knowing but he gave a stellar talk. All the missionaries in the zone sang in a "missionary choir" along with the perspective missionaries from the stakes... we sang Army of Helaman!! Only my most favorite song... (I had a hard time not crying as we sang it during practice in the morning) There was a lot of talks about temples... and just let me tell you, temples are so amazing! The work that goes on in the temple is the most important thing to do outside of missionary work... and guess what? Temples and missionary work go hand in hand! Temples are the "headquarters" for missionary work... everything about the temple filters out into missionay work... I hope all of you take advantage of the temples that are so readily available to you in Utah... its such a blessing. Just know this.... if you do nothing else this week, go to the temple. Also, I had this revelation given to me during a talk... whenever you read about temples, apply those things to yourself. "God has commanded His people to build Temples"... but guess what? That's just the literal structural temple... we're temples too!!! We've been commanded to build ourselves as temples. Just a way of changing your perspective on things... you know when they talk about the peace you feel when you go to the temple? How its a fortress of good in a world of evil? All those things should be able to be applied to yourself too... we should be able to turn inwards and feel that same peace and protection from the evils of the world within ourselves... and that's why going to the temple is so important. It empowers you to do that!!!! And know this... after you attend the temple, literally legions of angels go forth with you into the world. Please, if you're able to... make going to the temple at least once a week a TOP priority in your life. You'll be so blessed...

 
We have a new family we're teaching and they are so AWESOME!!! I wish I had time to tell you everything about them, but lets put it this way... the dad plays lots of video games at the age of 50, he has his own dedicated gaming computer, has a MASSIVE collection of action figures, they have a home theater in their living room and they have a collection of samurai swords hanging on the wall. Very cool story though... the mother is friends with a member down here... the member friend felt prompted to give her a BoM... but she didn't give her just any BoM... she gave her the one she grew up with and took notes in all throughout seminary, etc. When she gave it to the mother of this family... the mother told us that had it just been any normal copy of the BoM that she would've just trashed it, but beacuse it was such a personal thing for her to give her the one she grew up with, she felt like she should at least give it a shot. Long story short, she read it, knew it was true and now she's saying things like this "You read it... and it's truth! It's just the truth!" ... "I want to be baptized into this church and I want my whole family to be baptized into this church"... so crazy how prepared she is!!!! And it all came about because a friend followed the promptings of the Lord... I can't express to yall how important it is to look for missionary opportunities througout your life... we are all called to be missionaries! The Lord is hastening his work and we've all been called to gather his sheep and bring them into the fold in these last days... you can do it! Don't be afraid to talk to people about the gospel... when you talk them about it, you'll enable the spirit and the angels around you to help you say the things that need to be said. Just go forward with faith and he'll do the rest!!! But anyways, back to that family... we're just waiting for the Dad to jump on board... and I know he will. They're all about their family and once we got talking about eternal families and temples... (I cried during this)... the spirit was just so strong!!! I let them copy my family proclomation and invited them to read it... and I just know they're going to feel the spirit and see how this church and the gospel will help and bless their families. I can't wait for them to go through the temple together and get sealed... that's what missionary work is all about!!! I even told them, the only way I was willing to put off my own eternal family and come out here to serve was because I wanted every family to have that chance to be sealed and be together forever... its what gets me up in the morning. Just knowing that I might be able to be used by the Lord to give a family that chance to be together forever... nothing more amazing than that.

 
Everyone keep praying for Elder Schlesinger though... its been interesting working around his situation... I've started teaching lessons over the phone even haha. He's really having a hard time though... but just like all trials in life, he'll be blessed as he endures with a smile and good attitude and has faith in the Lord and his plan... and you know, faith is so important... it enables you to overcome any challenge you face in life. Just knowing that whatever is happening is happening for a reason and knowing that no matter how hard it gets that he's right there with you... its just so empowering. Faith, patience, love and prayer through all things... I tell myself that every day and it helps a lot!

 
Oh! I just remembered!!! We went in and helped out with a young womens activity this week which was a blast!! They had a "get to know the missionaries" game to start off which was fun... and then we split them into two groups and taught them each about missionary work. We even got them to role play talking to people about the church... it was a blast! I hope we can get involved with the ward and their activities like that more often... it was so much fun teaching them and working with them.
Alright yall, I gotta get running... sorry for the lack of scriptures to read and other stories.. hopefully I can get those to you via my letters. Keep doing the right things, pray for help, have faith, patience and love in all things that you do. I pray for yall every morning and night... the Lord is there for you! He always is!!!

 
Keep writing letters too!!! I promise, I read every single one!!! Thank you sooooo much for writing me. You have no idea how much it means to me.
ps: Next week is transfers... crazy how fast time flies!!! I'll let yall know next week if I'm moving out or staying.
Love yall,
Elder Wahlen

Sunday, March 3, 2013

Pictures from February 25, 2013


Elder Schlesinger working on the District numbers.


The wall above my bed of my absolute favorite letters to get! Thanks cousins!


Ready to go work out :)


One of the golf cart ways that I told Mom about in her questionnaire.


Me on exchanges with Elder Dematropolis. We had such a great time together!


This is what a missionary's desk looks like... The only space left is for my scriptures when I'm studying them!


One of my new awesome ties that Kristi will LOVE ;)

Friday, March 1, 2013

How to contact

So for privacy reasons we can't post Mark's actual address or email address on the blog because we don't want creepers to bother him. In one of his letters to us he mentioned that he doesn't have enough time to email everyone back and so he will probably be responding with actual letters. So if any of you want to write him an actual letter contact me (Kristi) via text or email and I will send you his mission home address.