I guess this is his Brad Pitt/Matt Damon look. :)

Hi mom,

I miss you too mom. I miss everyone there. It is funny the things you start to miss. I have come to have a lot of pride in Utah. It is such a good place to live. England is a good place, but it isn't home. Dad told me a pretty funny story about Grace, the one with Josh. Tell Pat, Bishop, and Josh to write me. I would love to hear from them. There are so many good people in the ward.

I always think of so much I have to tell you throughout the week and then my mind goes blank. That picture of Ali is crazy! she looks five years older than the Ali I remember. Tell her to lose all that make up. She didn't write me this week, that punk. I am so jealous that she got to go to a Red Sox game that would be so awesome. I am glad she is having so much fun.

So this week a couple of things happened. The first and foremost is that a man told me I look like a mix between Brad Pitt and Matt Damon, couldn't be a better compliment in the world. :) It made me laugh. These other peoople we are teaching call me Matt Damon. It is pretty funny. There are so many cool people. We teach this 18 year old named Milan and we are already good friends. Also we taught this really cool guy ????? yesterday. He made us dinner (fish and chips), it was so good. He was a chef for 30 years. Probably the best meal I have had since I left. The dessert was apple pie with ice cream, yeah, he spoiled us. I will try to send some photos. My companion is way into photography, so it should be easy. He has a canon 600d. Don't know if that means anything to you. This week was really good for the work. We had 14 teaches (lessons). Which is really good. Elder Freeman said he wants to get the area to 20 a week by the time he leaves. 

The ankle is doing well. I saw a doctor today, but it was usless, he just referred me to the hospital, so now I have to go there. I can easily walk without crutches now which is nice, but the boot is become a pain. I bought a rain jacket. It works great. It is not like a winter coat though,because it is so warm. I am going to try and send Grace a card and dad a letter for fathers day. Thanks for being such a great mom. I will get excited about your food again when i get back.

Love you.

Elder Hegerhorst



First Trip to the London Temple

Asleep on the bus :)

Cole's first field companion
Elder Freeman

Sent Monday, June 4th, 2012

Mother!

I am so sorry. There is absolutely no time. 

I have had a great week, so busy though. I went on two exchanges one with the zone leaders, who is Elder Oscarson, he knows Richard they were in the same mtc group. How are things in the biking world?  Dad said Bean is in Italy?  That is awesome. Ali is going to Boston, that lucky duck. haha.

England is so... different. I don't know how to explain it. Everything is more expensive and smaller. But it is so much fun. When we have a successful day we both just feel like we can do anything. The other day we handed our 8 book of mormons and taught like 3 lessons, which is a busy day in England. We have to do a lot of finding here, because the area is brand new. It is getting me good at talking to people so when I get home I will be like Dad. ha.

The ankle is doing a lot better. I can walk around without crutches. I don't go out without them because that would be slow and I want to take it easy. I think I  am more tired than I have been in my entire life. The Leppards cooked us a huge breakfast on saturday, eggs, bacon, sasuage, cereal, beans, hash browns. For some reason english people think it is good to have beans for breakfast, how dumb.

It is the queens jubilee tomorrow so everyone is celebrating. Does grandma still have that map of my mission? I am in the crawley zone and if you see epsom I am just south of that. Well I hope you are well mom. Thanks for everything.

Love you. Be safe

Elder Hegerhorst

Sent Monday, May 28th 2012

Mom,

Thank you so much for the parcel you sent! The food is always good to have since everything over here is just ridiculously expensive. I didn't get the star wars fruit snacks that you talked about in your letter, which really stinks. I was happy to see you sent me something. You should send me some ideas for what i can do for cheap, good meals since I have no idea. With the brace i am not sure. I am supposed to set up and appointment to see a doctor soon, but i really haven't had the time. I will let you know. I am still in the boot for another two weeks at the least, so I'll deal with it. I am almost able to walk without crutches. I think i will be able to do that around wednesday. We travel with our feet. Not many areas have cars, only the really big ones.

So here are some of the cool experiences of late. we have had a lot so I will try to just talk about my favorite ones.

On thursday of last week Elder Freeman and I were street contacting and a man came up to us and said, " I have a couple minutes, tell me what is different about your church". Where to begin!? So we told him about the restoration, which he didn't take too well, but then he told us he was in charge of a methodist youth group and asked if we could teach them that night, ( it was a such a hard choice;) but we said yes. So we went and taught them about the plan of salvation.  At the end this guy, Raz, told this group of like 7 that we were mormon missionaries. Then he asked them what they thought the difference between us and them was, and this was their answer " well, they know the bible a lot better than us and they have the Holy Spirit".  I was so shocked.  I just wanted to yell out BOOM! The best part of this story is Raz called us on Saturday and told us that he wants to meet with us, so we are seeing him tonight! awesome! nothing better. Ok that took too long to type.

I love you mom. Thank you for supporting me while I am out here. I will definitely keep all of you in my prayers!  Thanks mom.  Tell Lar that I sent her letter.

Elder Hegerhorst

Hello mom,

I will try to write you a decent sized email. I am not the fastest typer which also creates a problem. The city is very hilly (not sure if that is a word). I am in Red Hill it is this small little city, lots of old people:) funny fact about old people here, they are not like the ones at home. I know I know i shouldn't say it, but they are pretty bitter. They are the hardest ones for me to talk to. We live in a pretty small flat. It is so humid! Everything is damp, it takes my towel two days to dry unless i put it on this heater thing in the bathroom.

The food is good! Never enough of it though. My stomach is going back to the way it was in college. haha. Some people are so nice though. The second day I was here we had dinner with this Phillopeano family. They are not members, but they treated us like family. They were having this big party and they invited me and my companion in and fed us a feast. It was great. There is this family in the ward, the Leppard family. I already love them. The father is the ward mission leader so we work pretty closely with him. We had corelation at his hous on Satutday where his family sat us down and fed us lasagna for lunch.(wasn't as good as yours). Me and my companion usually make sandwiches for lunch. If we make dinner it is always pasta. He has this thing where he likes to put sweet and sour sauce on it with some cheese. It is acually pretty good.

My companion has to be the best missionary. He talks to literally everyone! Not only that but he is so good at it. I feel so overwhelmed with the task of trying to become like him, but he is patient and tries to teach me. He is smaller than me which is a little surprising. He is really into photography so eventually you with get a lot of pictures.

The ankle is doing a lot better. It was huge and swollen for most of the week, but yesterday it came down and now i am able to put a little wieght on it. I have to be in the boot for another three weeks at least. Not to happy about that. They told me i can get rid of the crutches in a week.

Welll i hope this was long enough for you. I'm doing good, but it is really hard. It will take time to get used to. I love you very much. Since being out here i have come to appreciate the way you raised me. Thank you for implementing the gospel so well. It makes all the difference I can see it so easily out here. I extetened a baptismal date! It was so spiritual! and she accepted. Her name is Pauline she is preparing to be baptised on June 16. I really hope it happens. I know it will bless her and her families life so much!

love you

Elder Hegerhorst

Mom,

Ok, so much is happening all at once i don't know what to even do. Basically we had to hurry and pack up and leave the mtc. I didnt have time to write because we were so packed for time. sorry. I have my trainer! hahah. heres the story:

So we left the mtc wednesday at like 6:45, it was like a 5 hour drive on a coach (bus). I sat by some of my favorite people from the mtc. We got to our mission home which is on the London temple grounds. We had some time with Pres. Shamo and his wife who are just amazing. You can tell they love us all so much. Everyone there was asking all of these questions about my ankle. Anyway, then they did this orientation with all of the new elders. It was boring. After that they brought the trainers in and assigned us. My trainers name is Elder Freeman, he's english. :) President Shamo told me that he is the work horse of the mission and in the top three best missionaries in his mission. Basically he is like dad on steroids. We went to the temple this morning, then they shipped us off to our areas. It's weird. I went in my first flat today. On the way here we talked to this couple. They are so prepared! When Elder Freeman recounted the first vision the sister started crying. It was... amazing, crazy, unbelievable. We are in this town called Red Hill. It is in an area that has not been open for 15 years and they just reopened it. Elder Freeman says it is golden. I feel bad that he has to put up with a cripple.  He is very nice and patient though.

Tell everyone else hi and sorry that I cannot write them.There really is just no time! It is making me stronger.  Let the family read this. I love you guys! Remember that this really is Heavenly Fathers church and that Christ is still at the head of it.

Elder Hegerhorst