Elder Andrew Bailey Timeline
WEEK OF:
Sunday November
30, 1997 - Andy's Farewell
November
30, 1997 at 2:30 Andy's Open House
12/3/97 Elder Bailey is
left at the MTC in Provo.
12/4/97 The Spirit is incredible
at the MTC. But Andy is
homesick. He
finds someone to talk to. His companion
is Elder Bracken
from Enterprise, Utah.
Feelings -
awesome, overwhelmed.
Elder Brown,
Christmas from Canada, Bailey, and
Bracken share a
room.
Class - eleven
hours a day.
12/7/97 He has never felt
so lonely and loved.
He is going to
bear his testimony each month.
12/11/97 Receive a big
stack of mail.
He went to the
Provo Temple.
Missions are
awesome.
MTC food causes
gas.
MTC food
scripture: Jeremiah 4:19.
12/18/98 Service Project -
cleaning bathrooms...luckily Andy
and his companion
just changed paper towels.
Chocolate Santa
from Aunt Nathalie - "drool."
Andy wants a yoyo
and seepa for Christmas.
12/23/97 He leaves SLC at
8:00 a.m. on United 2452.
He will arrive in
Omaha at 12:48 p.m. on a
plane from Denver
United 1078.
12/28/97 Andrew arrives in
North Platte, Nebraska.
North Platte is
train and old car country.
Train yard is
BAILEY YARD. Trains sounds all around
all the time.
FIRST COMPANION:
Elder GRAHAM.
They clean their
apartment...what fun.
They give a lady
a blessing who had a thyroid problem.
MEN IN BLACK!
1/5/98 Andy has been
gone a month. He learns the main
religion in Nebraska
is Cornhusker Football.
Begins working
with inactive members, and part-
member families.
Learns that
obedience is important!
Andy bears his
testimony at the ward.
The Elders bowl
on preparation day.
Andy buys a $6.00
suit!
First door
slammed in his face - oh, joy, anyway!
1/12/98 How are
y'all? The people are very "laid
back."
I can see why I
am actually out here.
"Card trick
Andy." He "blows Elder Preston away!"
Nebraska is
COLD...no snow.
Sixteen
scriptures memorized.
Their car is a
Chevy Cavalier.
Their toilet was
clogged for two days!
1/19/98 Andy can get to
bed and sleep earlier now!
They give 10
minute door discussions to people.
In North Platte
there is a Bailey Street and Elder
Street.
1/26/98 North Platte has
giant trucks but no mountains so
people go mudding
down river beds.
Darren and
Melissa decided to find a religion. That
same day Elder
Graham and Elder Bailey knocked on
their door.
They meet the
Moras who were recently baptized.
Marty is a
photographer. Alice is the mom; sons
Ian and Rob.
There is no place
to go sledding in flat North Platte.
Andy has
memorized 25-30 of the 41 scriptures.
2/2/98 Andy is out 2
months. Andy loves the Book of Mormon.
He is just about
finished reading it.
He was sick as he
went to a discussion but immediately
felt better upon
entering the house.
Earlier he was
prompted to knock on a door...they
found a girl they
didn't know about who had been
taught before but
her husband was inactive....they go
to church.
Another couple
comes to church. The man was an
inactive member.
Andy thinks she'll be baptized.
They help some
people move.
Andy has reached
3 Nephi 10 in his reading.
2/9/98 The Lost
Manuscript - Dad's letter arrives empty.
"Bummer" says Andy.
Food for the
missionaries from the Moras...Yum pizza
and Lasagna!
Andy invites
Kirsten Turner to be baptized.
Andy is reading
in Ether 10.
Zone Conference
coming on the 12th.
Andy's training
is about finished...on the 20th.
2/16/98 Kirsten to be
baptized Friday 20th.
Ken and Melissa
and Domer need to come to church.
Andy said he took
Utah for granted. Members need
fellowshipping.
Passed off
scriptures!!!!
Liz dreamed that
Andy came home with a beard!
Andy helps with
re-roofing of a house.
Four hours a week
is spent on service projects.
Andy helped kids
in baseball in Special Olympics.
Andy finished
training.
Elder Graham and
Bailey are given guitars by a
Church of Christ
couple.
A Church of
Christ couple taught but the lady put a
glove on before
giving them a "high five."
Andy finishes reading the "Book of
Mormon" and loves
it.
2/22/98 Open House time.
2/20/98 Kirsten Turner
was BAPTIZED.
2/23/98 HAS ROBIN TAKEN
OVER MY ROOM YET?
Good Open House.
It doesn't seem
like Winter in Nebraska.
About Ken and
Melissa - Andy and his companion were
both thinking
they were going to lose her. Andy didn't
think she wanted
to be baptized. THEN on their way out
she said she was
thinking of joining the church. Andy
and his companion were like "OKAY." And
then she said
"so what
else do I need to do to get baptized?" They
told her to stop
smoking and hear the rest of the
discussions. She
said, "okay." Her husband needs to
quit using
tobacco.
Picture - Elders
preaching to cows.
Andy speaks in
church...gave his forgiveness talk.
Exchanges or
splits in Kearney.
"I'm
learning to develop my talents."
"The
priesthood is awesome. We are advancing rapidly
due to the
priesthood restoration."
3/2/98 Melissa Millard
is BAPTIZED by Andy on March 7!
Elder Graham
confirms her.
Ken, her husband,
needs to stop chewing tobacco.
Andy has a dream
about dogs chasing him.
New Menu - sugar
smacks with oatmeal.
Elder Graham eats
pheasant!
He has sore
muscles from exercising so he and his
companion must
help each other put on their coats.
Windy bike trip!
Splits with the
Sisters.
3/9/98 Elder Preston and
Andy bike across town. Whew.
The Video Store
Incident - busy store - no one comes
in while they are
showing the video "The Lamb of God"
which lasted 25
minutes. Then when it is over -
customers come
in...
Community service
at an elementary school.
Reading "The
Truth Restored."
3/16/98 Zone
Conference A week of traveling.
Stake Conference
in Kearney. Elder Tingey spoke.
Spring Cleaning.
Andy cleans the stove.
They are working
with Melissa's husband.
3/30/98 NEW COMPANION,
Elder CARLSON from Kaysville, Utah.
Elder Graham goes
to Omaha. Pizza party before he
leaves. Andy
meets his twin, Pete - who sketches,
sculpts, does web
pages, computer graphics, stop-frame
animation,
flipbooks.
4/6/98 Andy will get his
own bike. "All mine!" $150.
Andy watches
conference. "Take a gander at it."
Andy's hour long
prayer! He fell asleep praying. His
companion didn't
know Andy had fallen asleep in the
kneeling
position.
His sense of
smell is better. "Le Nose, Le works."
4/13/98 Easter dinner at
the Moras.
His family at
home watch a movie on Robin's birthday
starring Andrew
Bailey.
4/20/98 In North Platte a
lady quits smoking and wants to be
baptized - Betty
Wood.
Melissa Millard
is back from Hawaii. Her son's eye
surgery went well
due to blessing.
Andy feels he is
might get transferred. He has been
in North Platte a
long while. THEN
Andy is
TRANSFERRED to hilly Hastings, Nebraska.
Before Andy
leaves Betty Wood was baptized. Andy
says goodbye to
the members.
Elder Bailey and
ELDER MICHAEL begin their work in
hilly
Hastings. It is a better place for
biking to
appointments.
4/21/98 "A scary
bug" discovered in missionary apartment.
Hastings is
"ready to harvest."
4/24/98 One day Andy and
Elder Michael companion see an eight
year old boy
"flying down the sidewalk on a bicycle."
He then crashes
on his bike. They go to help the
screaming and
crying boy. THE BOY HAS A BEE UP HIS
NOSE! So Andy
takes out his red Swiss Army Knife, uses
the tweezers and
the bee is removed.
The missionaries
go to the Hastings Museum. They go to
an IMAX movie.
4/27/98 Hastings has two
wards. Elder Michael is his
companion. Elder Michael is allergic to red
meat.
In Hastings they
have six-Elder dinner appointments.
5/4/98 Car trouble for
missionaries - transmission falls out.
5/10/98 Andy calls home
on Mother's Day. We all talk for two
and a half hours.
5/11/98 District Leader
Training in Grand Island which is 20
minutes away.
Elder Michael is District Leader.
As a mission the
missionaries are underlining
everything which
refers to Christ.
Shocking
lightning pictures taken.
Andy appreciates
and loves his family.
5/14/98 Zone Leader
Meeting.
This month Andy
put his foot in the wheel of his
bike while riding
on the handlebars! No injuries
except to Andy's
new bike.
This month they
meet slightly drunk, 50 year old Chuck
Tockey and teach
him. Later they enjoy a Tockey BBQ.
A surprise at the
BBQ - "bee victim" is Chuck's
grandson.
5/18/98 Andy receives the
tripod for his birthday. He really
likes it!
Chuck Tockey the
biker, sandwich-eater came to church.
They provide him
with a pair of slacks.
Renee was a J.W.
and is a recent baptism...wants a
calling. Andy is practicing a positive attitude.
For a service
project they work on Chuck's car.
A black fellow is
reading the Book of Mormon. He
leaves answering machine message to get PGP
& DC.
5/20/98 We call Andy for
his birthday. We play phone tag to
try find Andy! I
talked to Elder Park from Tabiona.
Then I talked to
Elder Wilde as I tracked
down Andy.
Andy eats a 4
pound hamburger in 38 minutes at
Grand Island,
Nebraska. So he got it free and got a
free T-Shirt. The
place is called "Grandmas."
5/25/98 Andy is still in
Hastings but at a different address.
His NEW COMPANION
is ELDER WELLS from Price.
The new apartment
was "a hole." But they cleaned it
up. It has a
small bathroom.
Elder Wells sets
a 17 year old for baptism.
ANDY REPORTED THAT PRES.
POCOCK PROMISED THAT IF THE
MISSIONARIES WOULD BE
OBEDIENT AND TALK TO 30 PEOPLE A DAY -
THAT THEY WOULD
BAPTIZE. So on Saturdays: June 13, 20,
27
Andy and his companion
had a baptism - four for the month.
6/3/98 Six-month mark!!!
6/6/98 Matt and Amy
Hawke decide to be BAPTIZED after hearing
the Joseph Smith
story.
Minnie Ingle
Bailey's GRAVE is found in Hastings.
Elder Bailey and
Wells dedicate the grave.
6/11/98 They are teaching
20 year old Seth. Seth has many
interested
friends.
Trip to Grand
Island.
6/13/98 Matt and Amy
Hawke are BAPTIZED. Andy confirms Amy.
Elder Michael and
Bingham "punk" Andy's apartment
with gelatin in
the toilet.
6/18/98 Catholic Marla
Mercer is set for baptism. She stays up
until early
morning reading the Book of Mormon. She
first saw Andy
and Elder Wells at IGA.
For five weeks in
a row = baptisms. Marla = #6.
6/20/98 Chuck Tockey is
BAPTIZED. Andy confirms him. They
give Chuck an
eagle they had sculpted out
of clay. Andy
rips his pants and is working on a
drawing of a rock climber...Elder
Michael.
He gets a new
mattress.
Bro. Stoetzel
pays to get Andy's bike fixed.
6/25/98 Andy helps Matt
and Amy Hawke with their tin roof.
It is 101
degrees.
Marla Mercer said
she wanted Andy to baptize him. She
would stay up
until 4 or 5 in the morning reading the
Book of Mormon.
She had seen the Elders at IGA and
said they had a
different aura about them.
The Elders Wells
and Bailey are FED. They buy some
lunch and then
remember they have dinner appointments.
They first are
taken to McDonalds and Baskin and
Robbins. Then
they go to another D.A. and have pizza.
They help Jack
Price build his house.
Andy sees
fireflies for the first time.
Pocock - 30
contacts a day continues.
6/27/98 Marla Mercer is
BAPTIZED by Andy. She once was going
to be nun. She
has a strong testimony of the Book of
Mormon. Andy had
a hard time bringing her up out of
the water. She
knew the Elders were supposed to find
her.
6/30/98 Zone Conference.
Success comes if we are adaptable.
Change so you
grow.
Pinnock chastises
some Elders.
The Elders are
going to play laser tag.
Andy finishes
writing his first missionary journal.
Temperatures
reach 104-7 degrees.
7/2/98 Seth set to be
baptized. As Seth prayed a smile spread
across his face -
that smiling feeling was all Seth
needed to know.
He decided to get baptized.
7/9/98 Wind and Downpour
in Hastings. Arby's intersection had
12-18 inches
pooling. Missionary car dies in
middle
of flood...soaked
Andy pushes car, Elder Wells steers.
Andy - the cookie
baker.
7/11/98 Seth the 20 year
old is BAPTIZED by Elder Wells. Andy
CONFIRMS Seth.
Seth quit smoking, drinking and STUFF.
7/16/98 NEW COMPANION
Elder BARROW from Ogden who has been out
in the field for
a year.
Andy is SENIOR
COMPANION. He can drive the Lumina now.
Andy is learning to be adaptable.
Andy talks to
Elder Graham before Graham leaves for
California.
7/23/98 Elders had
display at a Fair.
7/25/98 Allen Kelly/Bucky
Hawkes, 17 year old brother of Amy,
gets BAPTIZED by
ANDY. Naola, mother of Marla, will be
baptized Aug.1 if
her health is okay.
Underdog lunchbox
for Book of Mormons.
7/30/98 Elder Lowe cuts
Andy's hair. The Elders bowl.
Elder Barrow and
Bailey get caught in a 2 inch
downpour,
splashed by a car.
8/2/98 Liz bears her
testimony at church. We come home and
find a box from
Andy on our porch. We enjoy looking
at pictures. Mom
decides to fix his pants instead
of making a quilt
out of them.
8/6/98 Andy said to give
Liz a "high five" by proxy for her
testimony.
Elder Barrow and
Bailey help people "move in."
They attend Zone
Preparation Day in Grand Island.
Elders play lazer
tag.
Following-up on
media referrals.
Their district is
going to make a flag - standard
of truth.
8/13/98 Andy gets package
from home - mended pants, dried
fruit and
garments. For prep. day the Elders go to
Champions and
play on go-carts and jungle gym. Andy
has to turn down
a jetski ride offer.
8/20/98 Andy makes a
tape. "Ha" about Robin getting pulled
over. Andy goes
to Kool-Aid Days.
8/27/98 They teach Lori,
a single mother with 3 kids.
Zone Conference
time.
Andy kills a bat.
Andy does the
LEVITATION trick. Elder Escalante is
surprised. Marla Mercer is a primary teacher.
BAPTISM TOTAL FOR
AUGUST FOR THE MISSION = 79 SOULS.
That is the most
the mission has ever done!
9/3/98 Andy send Lizzy
Bee a necklace made from Young
Women's Values
Colors and a golden E on it for her
12th birthday.
Andy goes to
Grand Island for prep. day. They play
football and
bowled.
9/3/98 ANDREW HAS BEEN
OUT FOR NINE MONTHS.
Lori has read to
Alma in BoM. She and her son
attend church.
Elder Barrow is
his companion...one & one half mo.
He is from Ogden,
Utah.
9/10/98 Monopoly and
lasagna party for Elders.
Lori Crooks has
the 4th discussion.
Elder Young and
Andy play chess...Andy wins.
Andy finishes
reading Mormon section.
Sleeping Andy =
Eccl.5:12
9/17/98 NEW COMPANION is
Elder MORROW.
Andy is DISTRICT
LEADER in Beatrice over six.
Beatrice has
13,000 people.
He has a fulltime
car!!
Soccer coaches =
Elder Bailey Elder Morrow.
Bathroom = one
and a half Elder Baileys by
three fourths
Elder Baileys..arms extended.
9/20/98 Lori and Sky get
baptized back in Hastings.
Reading Alma 32
convinced her...
9/24/98 Andy in Beatrice
received forwarded mail
of Tabernacle,
many-stamped letter. Smile.
He catches a
catfish but lets it go.
Elder Morrow is
going to baptize Erika Hess on
October 10th.
HARVEST WEEK -
challenge 10 for baptism.
9/28/98 Letters home from
Pres. Pocock praising Andy's
success in
memorizing the first and second
discussion,
completing the six chapters of the
Missionary Guide,
memorizing scriptures, and
reading the
entire Book of Mormon, and keeping
the mission
rules.
"Andy is a
powerful tool in the hand of the Lord
to bring the
conversion experience to the elect.
I am privileged
to have the opportunity to serve
with
him." Pres. Pocock
What scripture in BoM
would make submarine drivers afraid?
1 Nep 17:50
10/1/98 Soon Andrew out
10 months!
Elder Morrow and
Bailey coach soccer.
Police check out
hard-working Elders.
Turtle City! Andy
wants one.
10/8/98 Beat mission goal
- 16 discussions taught.
Teach Ruth and
Leroy in Blue Rapids, Kansas.
An 80 year old
lady is taught.
10/15/98 District leader
training in Auburn.
On the 14th Elder
Morrow went to Omaha.
ELDER SANDERS is
Andy's NEW COMPANION.
He is from Loomis, California.
Erika baptized by
her father-in-law. later reception.
Winning 5th grade
soccer players.
10/22/98 On Prep Day all
the Elders go to Lincoln and play
football on
Husker Field.
Teaching Holly Dodge and Donita Bailey.
Erika confirmed
on Sunday.
10/29/98 In for Halloween
to play Axis and Allies.
Prep-day:
Mountain biking in Fairbury, BBQ steaks.
Part-member
family: The Williams being taught.
Elders Sanders
and Bailey switch name-tags for
Halloween.
Service - book sorting at the Library.
Andy dreams he
came home at the year point for a
two-three day stay. "I'm out of my
area!"
11/5/98 ELEVEN MONTH
MARK!!!!
William's family
is still taking the discussions.
Pastor tries to
convert Elder Bailey and Sanders.
11/12/98 Zone Conference
in Auburn. Andy's talk on charity.
Andy gets a flu
shot and feels sick.
Mr. Williams
prays about church. Andy wants Elder
Sanders to
baptize him.
On Veteran's Day
they help put up 200 flags around
courthouse.
11/19/98 Callan Williams
is set to be baptized on November 21.
Elder Bailey and
Sanders clean!
11/26/98 Thanksgiving
1998! Two dinners for Elder Bailey
and
Sanders. Andy will
have Elder Sanders as a companion
until Elder
Sanders goes home January 7th.
Elder Sanders
baptizes Bro. Callan Williams. Elder
Bailey confirms
him.
11/26/98 Cheryl is taking discussions.
Andy gets 27 page
letter from Robin.
Andy wears out his
first pair of missionary shoes!
ELDER ANDREW
BAILEY HAS BEEN
OUT A YEAR!!!
12/3/98 A year since Andy
entered the MTC.
Prep-day: played
baseball.
Mission Goal: Gift
to the Savior = Baptisms
Cheryl Phillips set for baptism on 26
December 1998
60 Degrees in
Beatrice.
12/10/98 Elder Sander's birthday.
Helped decorate the
William's House with lights.
Christmas Zone
Conference on 11th. Andy's district
sing "With Wondering Awe."
Tracted with a
puppy dog.
12/17/98 Elder Bailey and Elder Sanders make a video.
Andy has a fender
bender.
Cheryll and Landra
Phillips will be baptized the day
after Christmas.
12/25/98 Andy calls home at 7 a.m. on Christmas. He wakes us
all
up = awesome
surprise. We talk for about four hours.
12/26/98 Elder Bailey baptizes Landra. Elder Sanders baptizes
Cheryll. They are from Indiana...they were in Nebraska
visiting a
brother. This was Elder Bailey's
and Elder Sander's
gift to Christ for Christmas.
12/31/98 Andy writes a letter that takes a week and a half to
get to Vernal.
Andy uses
"y-all" and "reckon" in his letter.
He writes,
"We fish ewe a
mare egrets moose and a hippo gnu deer."
H A P P Y N E W
Y E A R 1999!!!!!!
01/07/99 Elder Sanders is home in California.
Elder Reynolds is a
new companion.
Elder Bailey feels
stressed and nervous.
Media Referral
April Outz has a discussion.
Thermals and cold
weather go together great.
0l/14/99 Zone Conference on the 15th.
Andy sends an 8
foot windmill.
01/21/99 Taught the Brakes in Blue Rapids, Kansas.
April Brakes may
write to Liz.
Elder Reynolds
burns rice..."holy smoke."
Elders teach RLDS,
Cleo.
Cheryll,
Landra,Callan, Erika are doing well.
01/28/99 Third discussion with Peggy Wolfe in Blue Rapids
Kansas.
Fellowshipping the Walters Family.
RLDS, Cleo comes to
church. Three kids (8,7,10)
come to church.
Elders meet Bill who was stripping
copper from wires.
Andy had a dream in
the mission field that he came
home and Vernal was
being turned into a big, fun
park called Fun
City. It was brightly colored.
2/4/99 Gene R. Cook tapes.
Alma 26:22; Alma 26-37, D&C 4
Elder chance to
meet Sister Tyler who had joined
in Las Vegas. Teaching the Roods with a 5 year
old with ADD and
Terretts.
The Buntings leave
the mission field for Bountiful.
D&C 88 Alma 26:22
2/18/99 Elder Reynolds has
flu - miss zone conference.
Elders Reynolds and
Bailey will be moving
into missionary
couple's apartment.
Andy sands some
rusty metal frames and his
arms become rusty
brown. Andy will be in Beatrice for
six more weeks.
Pres. Pocock comes to church in
Beatrice o
interview the Elders. Job 5:17
Work in Wilbur,
Nebraska.
Fairbury Elders:
Elder Jones and Elder Hoffman.
Cheryll and
children move back to Indiana.
2/11/99 Auburn meeting with
Zone Leader.
Sister Tyler taking
stop-smoking program.
Tracy found a
second time. Peggy Wolfe taught
by Elder Huddleston
while Elder Reynolds distracts
her children. II Nephi 12:16
2/25/99 Elder Bailey and
Elder Reynolds are in a new
apartment on Elk
Street. Andy loses his ATM card.
Service time in
Kansas at Habitat Thrift. Taught Duane
Rood family.
03/4/99 There are 200
missionaries in the NOM.
The Beatrice Elders like their new
apartment
since it is quiet
and dark at night.
Elders moving
across town. Elders teach
primary. Elders are
"getting along."
Cleo, RLDS, comes
to church. Bro. Garner
challenges her to
be baptized.
Teaching Holly
Dodge and Peggy Wolfe.
Trip to Lincoln
Thrift Store.
03/11/99 Paula Newman's baptism is on "hold" due to
surgery. Paula is
from a part-member family.
Elder Reynolds and
Elder Bailey = Tom & Jerry.
A whistle from
Andy.
Andy bears his
testimony in church.
It snows in
Beatrice.
Andy thinks March
is his last month in Beatrice.
03/17/99 Went to Pawnee City and met Miners who were
raising six grandkids.
Investigators:
Tracy Reinke, Paul Payne, Peggy Wolfe
and Paula Newman
(surgery).
SISTER WILLIAMS
FIXES ANDY'S COAT.
03/25/99 Had Zone Conference on March 18 and heard Elder
Johnson (English accent)
from the area presidency.
Teach the
inactives!
Teaching Delores
Smith, media referral.
Also teaching Peggy
Wolfe.
04/01/99 ANDY IS IN O M A H A!
He is thrilled! Ready for
a change. NEW COMPANION,
Elder Litchfield, from
Alberta,
Canada...one and a half months in the field.
Andy's district =
Oakview/Rich Area.
Awesome institute
building.
Andy thinks that
Delores Smith from Beatrice will join.
Easter package fun
with paddle balls.
Andy sends home his
worn-out missionary shoes and
"stuff."
04/08/99 Happy Birthday to Robin!
Twelve year old boy is
BAPTIZED. Andy is
driving the car again.
Missionaries in the
Zone are "Teaching Their
Testimonies."
Andy tells about an
apostate Trinity Lutheran Pastor
who used to be an
LDS Missionary.
Twenty pages a day
= delicious scriptures.
Pool-playing Elders
at the Institute!
04/15/99 Discussion Jeopardy at Zone Conference.
Andy likes the
discussion tapes from dad.
Tracting apartment
complexes.
Playing pool at the
Institute.
04/22/99 Many NOM missionaries going home in June.
Andy explains
policy of teaching at dinner
appointments
to the Relief
Society.
They are teaching
Chris Miller.
Sleep for
missionaries - Eccl. 5:12
04/29/99 Andy has a stellar week. Elders teaching RLDS Beth and
Sarah (18)
Vanbecelaere. Sarah accepts baptism
challenge.
Chris Miller
challenged.
05/06/99 Happy Mother's Day from Andy.
Andy hurts his
ankle playing basketball.
Andy looks forward
to Mother's Day Talk.
05/13/99 Andy sends "The Book of Missionary."
Elder Litchfield
transferred to a different part of
Omaha.
NEW COMPANION -
Elder Janeck from Portland, Oregon.
Pancake party as
Elders wait for transfers.
Janeck has been out
10 months.
Marla's mother is
baptized...wheelchair and all.
Elders working with
Chris Miller.
Good-bye to some
departing Elders.
Andy's district
becomes bigger - includes sisters.
Biking Elders are
asked to leave parking lot.
05/20/99 Andy treats Elders to pizza on his birthday.
Andy is 21 years
old.
Andy helps present
training at Zone Conference.
Andy = quivering
like a naked ninety-year old hiding
behind a leaf.
Birthday balloons
from McGraws.
$40 from
Connie $30 from Granny and Nath
Elders working with
the Kent Family (Rose & Bill)
05/27/99 Andy receives five letters.
Andy loves his new suit.
Andy and his
companion help two other Elders who
aren't getting
along.
SIX MONTHS LEFT!
06/03/99 (TAPE TO HOME) Elders are going to go to the IMAX
Theatre and Zoo.
They are working
with Rose and Sarah.
Elder Bailey is at
Elder Bailey's Apt.
30 Golden Questions
a day.
Eight missionaries
in his district:
Janeck, Stoddard, Ward, Sis. Hibbart, Sis.Pack,
Jones, Kline.
Answering Machine
Trick on Sisters.
06/10/99 Andy receives package of cookies, pretzels.
Elders are going to
a district BBQ with
volleyball.
Elders are on bikes
in heat and humidity.
Pres.Pocock as a
Youth cartoon.
Sarah wants to be
baptized.
06/17/99 Andy is teaching Jenny who is mostly deaf.
She will go to
Texas Christian University.
They are teaching
Rose Kent.
Elders went to Zone
Conference.
Elder Karren, AP,
is going home: John 15:13
Elders go to
College World Series Baseball Game.
JOHN RECEIVES AN
AWESOME FATHER'S DAY CARD.
06/24/99 Rose Kent will be baptized on July 4, 1999.
She owns a bar.
NEW COMPANION -
ELDER GREYSON from Nampa, Idaho.
He has red hair, 6
ft. 3 in. Elder Janeck is still
in Omaha.
Andy likes the tape
from home.
Sharing the Gospel
- greatest joy. II Tim.1:7-8
Great ward mission
leaders.
07/1/99 Elders go to the zoo and aquarium.
Elders excited about
a temple in Omaha.
Andy Williams, 18
year old to be BAPTIZED!!!!
07/08/99 Andy training new missionary, Elder Greyson.
Andy and Rose both
DELAY their baptisms.
Elder Stoddart and
Taylor go home.
Andy takes a
picture of LUCY MORLEY'S plaque.
Andy has a hot
Fourth of July.
07/15/99 Missionaries play volleyball, pool, ping-pong, chess
on prep day.
Elders are still
working with Rose and Andy.
Andy feels the
weight of missionary work.
At Zone Conference
Pres. Pocock tells the missionaries
to pray for
increased FAITH.
Andy gives training
on planning.
Elder Haderlie gave
a presentation on the ATONEMENT.
Andy writes special
entry in his journal.
ANDY PROBABLY WILL
BE COMING HOME ON DECEMBER 23, 1999.
Cheryll Phillips
husband, Bill, in BEATRICE will
probably be
baptized.
07/22/99 Missionaries are working with Californian Steve Riggs
to help prepare him
for a mission.
Grayson on
rollerblades.
Service project to
paint a lady's house. Service
project to send
1,000 quilts and toys to Oklahoma.
Interviews with
Pres. Pocock.
Apartment building
tracting.
07/29/99 Elders BBQ STAKES by a lake.
Service project
painting a house.
Elders teaching
Craig.
Andy interview Dave
by the spirit John 14:26
Dave's crazy drive
through town - no traffic
lights working.
"Coming
through! I got HOLY MEN in here."
Andy loves
missionary life. "I love it here."
08/05/99 John and LaRue's 22 Wedding Anniversary!
Elders are teaching
Craig Van De Walle.
He is set for
baptism on Saturday.
Elders see
departing missionaries off...bye
to cool Elder
Wells.
About missionaries
going home: "I feel
like an old man who
is talking about all
his friends and
relatives who have passed
on."
Elder Bailey is
reading in Matthew.
Elders go to an art
museum.
Elders enjoy huge
free slices of bread.
08/12/99 Elder Bailey and Grayson get wet in 10 inches
of rain. Swimming
photo of Grayson.
Craig Van De Walle
is BAPTIZED!!!
Andy see our Web
Site.
Andy hears about
Tornado.
Andy starts making
a Missionary Apartment
Flip Chart.
08/26/99 Andy decides to fly to SLC instead of into Vernal.
Craig and Elders go
to Mormon Trail Center.
Andy gets his
SPRINT papers.
Elders spend five
hours sheet-rocking a
Habitat for
Humanity House.
Elders find Rita in
Trailor Court.
Elders help set up
for a garage sale.
Andy write his tree
poem.
09/03/99 Andy sends Liz a penny with a footprint on it.
Birthday postcard,
and birthday card.
09/09/99 Andy has been in the Omaha Area almost six
months. They are working with Rita. Elders
tract in a trailor
court....talk to former
Hell's Angel.
Elders trade Book of Mormon
for salsa. Elders place "free" pamphlets
with contacts.
Elders still working with
Rose Kent.
D.C.
128:22
09/16/99 Andy leaves Oakview Area in Omaha.
TRANSFERED TO LINCOLN, N E B R A S K A.
He was transferred
on Sept. 15, l999.
Before leaving he
and Elder Greyson went
to The Mormom Trail
Center with Rita.
ELDER BOYD
(trombone player)is his new companion.
Andy spends part of
prep-day at Husker Stadium.
Andy has an injured
ankle...plays football anyway.
09/19/99 MTC Elder Bracken is his Zone Leader.
Andy reading Book
of John.
09/30/99 Sister Nelson asks Andy if he is going to be a
therapist since the
Elders counciled her how to
share the gospel.
Andy meets someone
who thinks people on earth are
being farmed by aliens.
Elders meet man
named Precious from Nigeria.
10/07/99
ANDY OUT ON HIS MISSION 22 MONTHS!!!!!
Elders watch all of conference.
Elder start teaching Peg, and Shannon.
Andy makes a tape for the Primary.
Elders start "new
approaches."
10/14/99
Elders talk to people as they enter stadium for game.
Elders teach Edie Marshall (Catholic)
George Harrison,(mason) and Heidi 21
yr. old.
Elder Bailey hits a dog with his bike
= both get
a scare. Andy is still battling his
fungus. It is
called "Tinea Versicolor."
10/21/99
Andy enjoys Lincoln, Nebraska and his companion
Elder Boyd and his cheesecake. Elders
continue to teach
George Harrison and Edie. Andy makes a cry-baby lemon
pie - it is very tart! Front porch
Bible-bash!
Elders go bowling. Andy uses stinky
lotion once a month
from neck to knees to rid himself of
fungus.
Edie has read to Mosiah.
"Pizza without the works is
dead."
10/28/99
Elders Bailey and Boyd give Sister Mitchell, church
organist, a blessing concerning her
knee. She is able
to come to church - a miracle.
Elders are still working with Edie
Marshall, Heidi,
and George.
Andy is fixing up his bike.
11/03/99
ANDY HAS BEEN ON HIS MISSION 23 MONTHS!!!!
Elder Andy Bailey receives word about
Elder Robin Bailey
going on a mission to Washington, D.C.
North Mission.
11/05/99
Andy buys shiny new shoes. Elder Boyd may be transfered.
Andy is happy he will see Robin before
Robin leaves.
Everyone who came out with Andy have
gone home!!!
Andy wants to baptize!
11/11/99
Elder Bailey's new companion is ELDER JOHNSON from
Idaho Falls = fresh out of the MTC.
Andy learns from
this awesome, humble, new missionary
as he teaches with
pure heartfelt testimony. Both of them
are tall.
Elder Bailey and Johnson meet PSYCHIC
couple named Julia
and Larry...they teach them a 1st
Discussion and leave
a Book of Mormon.
Andy is working on being bold.
11/18/99
Elder Bailey is to receive the Celestial Missionary
Award at the next Zone Conference!
Pres.Pocock sends
a letter that said, "All of our
missionaries recognize
the great effort that has been put
forth to earn this
award.
We are so proud of him and I am sure you share
these feelings with us."
Mike and Melany, less-actives, come to
church...they
haven't attended for 17 years. He will
soon get the
Melchizedek Priesthood.
They begin teaching the Torghele
Family..he is a member.
Also working with Michelle, Kesha. The
Elders make a
great team. They are working in a
poorer area. Heidi
is taking lessons from the sisters as
is Nicole Hope.
Elders are writing a Star Wars skit
for the Christmas
Zone Conference about Obi Wan Pocock,
Santa Vader, and
Elder Skywalker.
11/22/99
Elder Grayson writes and misses Elder Bailey. He said
that Brittney Rae Hersha, daughter of
L.Leeds was
baptized. Elder Bailey and Grayson
contacted her on
November 9th, l999.
11/26/99
Thanksgiving Day Andy's Zone meet and played football.
Elders shop and go to two Thanksgiving
Dinners.
Elders teach Cindy a Fourth
Discussion.
They teach Charlie an African
American.
Andy dislikes the mailbox stuffing at
the hospital!
11/27/99
Ground Breaking for the Omaha Temple at Winter Quarters.
Andy attends. Mike and Melany probably
will take the
Elders to the ground breaking
ceremony.
ANDY
WILL FLY FROM OMAHA TO ST.LOUIS 8:15-9:30 a.m. December 23
THEN
HE WILL FLY ST.LOUIS to SLC 11:13-1:25 p.m. December 23
12/02/99
Andy will attend Zone Conference on December 6th where
he and Elder Johnson will do a skit
about Obi Wan Pocock
Santa Vader and Elder Skywalker. Andy
will receive the
Celestial Missionary Award.
They are teaching Cindy and Steve. He
is excited about
them.
The Elders attend a Hospital Volunteer Christmas
Dinner....Andy wins a hardbound
Jokebook containing
2,000 jokes.
Andy's faith is increasing so much!
12/09/99
Only two weeks left in the mission field!
Andy attends Zone Conference on
Dec.6th.
The Elders: Bailey = Obi Wan Pocock
Johnson = Elder Skywalker
Fowler = Darth Santa
Landmeier = Thug 1
Cline = Thug 2
Hepworth = Bartender
Estes = Han Halladay
Mabey = Elder Mabey
Jones = Elder Jones
Present the skit "Santa Wars" at
Zone Conference.
It was a classic! Everyone laughed and
enjoyed!!
ANDY BORE HIS FINAL TESTIMONY TO THE
ZONE.
ANDY CRIED AND WAS SPIRITUALLY FILLED.
HE RECEIVED A SPECIAL AWARD FROM PRES.
POCOCK.
The Elders continue to teach Cindy,
Crista, Samuel.
The Elders go bowling and visit the
mall.
Andy sends out Christmas Cards!
12/16/99
Elder Bailey writes his final letter home!
He loved being a missionary in
Nebraska.
They set Shalla for baptism on
Dec.25th.
The Elders have a BBQ in the freezing
cold.
Andy is sad to leave but happy to see
the
Rocky Mountains again so mom will wear
a
sign that says "Rocky
Mountains."
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