Ramblin Rigbys

Here We Go Again!

2011-04-10T16:16:00.000-07:00

After two years of being gone....I thought I would put a few things on here to share with some of you who have been asking "what's up with the Rigbys?". In a nut shell....Zac's engaged to a beautiful girl named Danielle that we love and are so excited for her to join the family on July 23rd. Zane is on his mission in Bogota Colombia and is loving every minute of it. He has been gone almost 6 months now! Madison is in 8th grade and got her first 4.0. We are so proud of her. I'm still teaching kindergarten and Kyle is still managing his store in Murray. We feel so blessed to have such great family and friends.

Zac's Latest Letter (April 1st)

2009-04-05T20:04:00.000-07:00

Zac being Jospeh Smith
The cast of the play. Look who is the lead!

Hola Everyone,
How are you guys doing? All is well here in the D.R. Well I'm excited for General Conference this week. Yes it is pretty much Super Bowl Sunday/Saturday for missionaries. Im excited to hear from the prophet and the 12 apostles. It should be very interesting. Well everything is going well here in the D.R. WE have some good investigators. Olcidis is progressing very well. We tried to put a baptismal date with him last night but he told us he needs to work some stuff out so we are going to wait a little bit for him until he is ready. Miguel, Angel, and Rosy are doing well also. They are progressing and doing the things that are good! We also have some new investigators that are doing awesome and are excited about the church so it is sweet. Well this last week was a good week. We worked really hard and taught about 28 lessons which was the most we have ever taught together as a companionship so that was sweet! My comp. Elder Beddes is still doing good and he is learning a lot as each day passes. Well today in the morning we played Softball with a bunch of missionaries and that was really cool! We had a lot of fun. Tomorrow we have interviews with President so im way excited. I also hit my year and 3 mark! I cant believe it! Time is going by way too fast! Well nothing else much going on here! Thanks for all your love and support!
Con Cariño
Elder Rigby

Zaners!!

2009-02-05T17:34:00.000-08:00

It has come to my attention through some of Zane's friends, that I don't blog a lot about him and I don't have as many pictures of him on my blog and around my house as Zac and Madi. He could probably care less but I feel bad about it. One reason is that Zane doesn't like his picture taken and seems to disappear when the camera comes out. Zane is such an awesome son and he is so fun to be with. We are so proud of Zane and the way he has chosen to live his life. I am already shedding tears because he is leaving for college in a few months. We love you Zaners!!!

Latest Letter (Feb. 4th)

2009-02-05T16:58:00.000-08:00

Zac's says goodbye to Elder Capellen.

Zac with all the trainers in the mission.

Hey everyone,

How are you guys doing? All is well here in the D.R. This week has been an interesting week. On Saturday i got a call from President asking if i would be a trainer. So yes i have a brand new greenie here. His name is Elder Beddes and he is from Northern Cali. He is a good guy and he like basketball and stuff so we get along really good. I'm excited to be able to show him the mission and to be his first comp. We had a good P'day today. We went and bought some groceries and he unpacked a little bit. Tonight we are going to go to a few citas and show him around the area. I'm excited to work hard with him this transfer. Our investigators are doing very well also. Cristina got up on Sunday and bore her testimony and it was really good so i'm excited to see how that goes. All in all everything is going really good! Thanks for all your support and love!

Love

Elder Rigby

Latest Letter From Zac (Jan. 28th)

2009-02-03T19:51:00.000-08:00

Hola Everyone

How are you guys doing? All is well here in the D.R. So what is new with everyone. Well this week we had a pretty good week! We have been working pretty hard and looking for some more people to teach. This week we did some contacting in the rich part of our area. Some of these people have like cameras and microphones at the front gate of their houses its pretty crazy! ha ha but all is well. We have some investigators with some baptismal dates and they are progressing well. Yeimy is still preparing for her baptism and Barry and Cristina our preparing for their baptism and marriage. Satan is really working on them so if you could keep them in your prayers that would be great. Also Juan and his wife Nancy are progressing very well and we are hoping to put a baptismal date with them this week so all is well. We are hoping to put a baptismal date with Enriques wife Nanci also. Enrique is a member and we have been getting a lot of support from him so that is going well. Well today for P'day we played basketball in the morning once again with a bunch of missionaries and that was really fun. After we went and ate at TGI Friday´s and that was good. Believe it or not but there are only 2 on this island. ha ha That was really good! All in all it has been a good p´day. On monday we find out who is staying and who is going in the zone. I am pretty sure that im going to stay here in Las Antillas but i don´t know if my comp. Elder Capellan is going to stay or go. We will see on monday. We have had a good transfer and time is flying! I hit my year and 1 mark so wow that is crazy!
Well thanks for all your support and love!

Love Elder Rigby

Latest Letter from Zac (Jan. 14th)

2009-01-19T11:56:00.000-08:00

Hey everyone

How are you guys doing? All is well here in the Dominican Republic. This week was a pretty good week. We had interviews with the Mission President and those were really good. I was able to talk to President Thomas for a while and we had a good discussion about all sorts of stuff. We also had some really good lessons with our investigators this week. We have this family that is a reference from Raul and his wife. The spirit was so strong in one of the lessons we taught because the investigators husband just died like 3 months ago so they are still suffering a little bit. He was pretty young prob about 50 or so. You could just feel the Spirit so strong. I think me and my comp felt it stronger than anyone else but it was definately there. WE have some of our investigators going to church also. We had three in church on sunday and we are going to have a baptism this saturday. Her name is Yeimy and she is about 22 years old. She was a reference from one of the families and she knows a lot so all is good. She is way excited to be baptized. I am really excited for her because she knows a lot and she is so ready for the Gospel in her life. Well today we had a zone activity. We played softball with the Zone and it was pretty fun. It was hot but it was awesome. All in all everything is going good here. We are working hard and finding some more people to teach. Elder Capellan and i are getting along pretty well also. I guess its just another day in paradise.

Well thanks for all the support and Love!

LoveElder Rigby

P.s. Thanks everyone for writing on that poster and sending it to me. I got it this week and read everyones stuff so thanks a lot CP3.

Grandpa Don

2009-01-04T13:47:00.000-08:00

We are sad to have to say good-bye to our Father, Father-in-Law, and Grandpa. Kyle's dad, Don, passed away on January 2nd. We will miss him. He was the nicest and sweetest man you could ever know. We know that he is now in a better place and we will see him again someday.

Latest letter from Zac (Dec 31st)

2009-01-04T13:26:00.000-08:00

Hola everyone

How are you guys doing? All is well here in the D.R. Well Christmas was good here. Hot as usual but it was good. It was a little wierd not seeing snow and all but it was good! It was awesome to talk to the fam and get caught up with what is happening in the real world. For Christmas here, we went and ate at a members for Christmas eve and then for Christmas i woke up and opened my packages. Thank you to everyone that sent me packages! I loved them a lot. In the afternoon we called our families. All in all it was awesome. This week we got an awesome reference family from the assistants. They moved from their area to our area but they are awesome. They want to get married and baptized so everything is going good. We are still looking for more people to teach but all in all its good. Today we played basketball here and had a little tournament with a bunch of Elders. It was really cool and i really enjoyed it. We played on hard wood floor and everything believe it or not. Today is also my companions birthday. I have celebrated a birthday with every single one of my companions so i thought that was pretty funny! So how was everyones Christmas? Hope all is well. This week i learned something way cool in the scriptures. In 1Nephi 11:13 (i think) but it talks about how Nephi knows that God loves him but he may not know everything in the world. I was just thinking as long as we know that God loves all of us we don´t need to know everything in the world. We just need to feel that love from our Father! I thought that was really cool! Well thanks for all your support and everything! Love you guys. Love

Elder Rigby

Latest Letter from Zac (Dec. 17th)

2008-12-18T22:08:00.000-08:00

Hola everyoneHow are you guys doing? All is well here in the dominican Republic. Well this week has been a pretty crazy week. We had some awesome lessons with our investigators this week. We also got a reference from the other missionaries in Constanza and she went to church and everything. The only problem is that im not in Constanza anymore. ha ha actually it is not a problem because i am in a really cool area right now. Yes i did get transferred this week. I got a call on Monday morning from the mission president. He called me and asked if i would move up and be Senior comp. I told him ya. He said that i will be transferred to Las Antillas in the city. My area is right here in the city. Its a big area so that is cool. My new comp is named Elder Capellan. He is pretty cool. He is dominican and he has about 6 months in the mission. We live in a 2 man house and i even have a cell phone! Pretty cool huh? I miss Constanza a lot but i am also excited to be here. Its a lot more humid and warm down here that is for sure! Also Christmas is on its way. I cant believe that it is next week. Elder Hicks who i was living with is going home this week also. He is really excited to see his family. Well nothing really else going on. I had to say goodbye to the members in Constanza yesterday and that was a little sad but now i get to meet cool members again. Well i hope everything is going well with everyone. Have a good Week! Thanks for the support!

Love

Elder Rigby

Constanza's beautiful waterfall. I can see why Zac loved this area!

Zac playing Barbies!?! The little boy looks confused!

The Polar Express

2008-12-18T21:48:00.000-08:00

So........it's been a month since I have updated my blog.(loser!) I have been frantically running around getting my shopping done and trying to get into the Christmas spirit. I don't know why I feel so stressed out about Christmas this year, but I can't seem to get it together. Hopefully in the next few days I can get my act together and be ready for Christmas. My sister Leslie and I took Madison and her son Trey on The Polar Express train last night. I thought Madi might be too old for it, but she loved it. It ended up being a really fun night!

Latest Letter From Zac (Nov. 19th)

2008-11-19T16:12:00.000-08:00

Hola everyone,
How are you guys doing? Im doing good here in the D.R. Well as you guys know i did get a new comp last week. His name is Elder Bolquez and he is way cool. He is dominican which makes it even more fun. He knows a lot of english so I have been learning a lot. He has about a year in the mission so that is cool. He has about 1 transfer more than me. I dont know what it is but i have been really blessed with my companions in the mission. I have learned a lot from all of them and i think this transfer is going to be close to the same if not better. Well this week has been good. I had a good birthday. We baked a cake and had some fun. We found some cool people this week and we left a baptismal date with a family so hopefully that will go through. They are a really cool family. This week we have interviews with President so i am excited for that to talk with him and stuff. Also our temple trip is coming up soon. We are going there either the 9 or 10 of December and that is going to be really fun. Well in Constanza it is getting a little bit colder here but i really like it. It kind of reminds me of home with all the mountains and cold but its awesome. Well not much else going on. I hope you guys are doing good! Thanks for all your support.
Love
Elder Rigby

These are the mountains in Constanza that Zac was talking about in his letter.

This is one of Zac's awesome companions he talked about in the letter. He is at the airport coming home. Doesn't he look healthy and happy? Wow! Missionaries do come home!!!

Happy Birthday Zac!!!!!

2008-11-19T15:36:00.000-08:00

Last Monday (17th) was Zac's 20th birthday. To celebrate, we went to one of his favorite restaurants, Porcupine. We had a great time but we sure did miss him. We took these pictures to send to him.

Halloween Fun!

2008-11-03T20:24:00.000-08:00

I have to admit, Halloween is not one of my favorite holidays, but I actually had a great time this year. This was the last year I would be attending a Halloween parade at the elementary school because Madison is going into junior high next year. That makes me a little sad because it just shows that I am getting old and my baby girl is growing up!! We also ran out of candy and had to turn out the lights early. Kyle says I never buy enough and we run out every year so he says he will take over the candy buying for next year. I hope you all had a good time on Halloween! I turned on my radio today and heard Christmas music, so let the fun really begin!!

Madiosn, Mary, and Kyle carving pumpkins.

Zane and his friends. Can you guess which one is Zane?

Bob Marley (aka. Zane)

Madison the go-go girl and her friend Alice.(Mary)

Madison, Mary, and Chewbaka. If someone would have told me a year ago that I would have a little dog and I would dress him up for Halloween I would have told them they were CRAZY!!

Hiking in St. George

2008-10-23T15:19:00.000-07:00

We went hiking at Red Cliffs last Friday. The weather was perfect and we had a great time. Zane was too "busy" to spend anytime with his family, but we still love him. Lynnanne and I scaled those cliffs with the greatest agility. (jk) Kyle and Frank had to rescue us from our 3 foot fall we almost had. The hike was Madi and Mckell's favorite part of the trip.

Zac's Latest Letter (Oct. 22nd)

2008-10-23T14:37:00.000-07:00

These are the brothers that Zac taught, but was transferred three days before their baptism. He was sad he wasn't there, but was happy they were baptized.

Look at the Jackass!!!!

-Zane

Our farmer Zac, who knew???

Hola Everyone

How are you guys doing? WEll all is well here in Constanza. The sky is a little purple from the TCU game but other than that all is good! lol jk Well this week has been a good week. We found some awesome people that we are going to start teaching. We got a couple of families that could progress in the work. THis last sunday we had Stake Conference in La Vega so we went down there and were able to listen to the Stake Presidency and everything. It was way good and i learned a lot more about having hope in life. Well today we went over to a members house and made some dominican Dumplings and just hung out. It was way fun and very unique. Me and Elder Allen are doing very well together. I think he is working very hard still so all is well. He misses his family but he is doing well. Other than that nothing really happened this week. Hopefully the Lord will continue to bless us. Oh and i did finish reading the D and C with the manual so i was excited about that! Well thanks for all your support! Love all of you!

Love Elder Rigby

Latest Letter From Zac (Oct. 8)

2008-10-08T17:51:00.000-07:00

Hey Everyone,
I know I'm a slacker and I haven't updated forever but here are a couple pictures of Zac's new area. YIKES!!! It is called Constanza. Zac loves it!! His new companion is named Elder Allen. He is from Moab. His mom called me and I talked to her for over an hour. She sent me these pictures of the area. Zac says he will send some soon.

Mountain in Constanza

Zac's new shower!!
Beautiful View of farm land.

Ghetto??? I saw Zac's apartment in a pic. and it looks alot better than this. Thank Goodness.

Hola Everyone

How is everything going? All is well here in the D.R. and in Constanza.Well a lot to talk about this week. First off Constanza is awesome. Its so wierd to think that we are still in the Carribean when you are up there. It gets pretty cold at night and we have to take warm showers. Its pretty sweet. Well the area is really good and big. I think that we can have a lot of success up there if we work hard. The church is only a branch up there right now but they are putting a chapel up there within a year. Right now its just a house so it will be good for them to get a chapel up there. This past week the 4 brothers up in Puerto Plata were baptized. It was really cool and im excited that the baptism went through. Well as all of you know General Conference was this past week. WE had a really good time. I enjoyed conference a lot this time. I learned so much and the talks were amazing. One of my favorites was by Joseph B. Wirthlin and how he talked about we just need to smile and have fun. It was a really awesome talk. Of course Thomas S. Monson had amazing talks like always. It was really an enjoyable time. Well yesterday we had interviews with President and that went really good! We talked about a lot of good stuff. We talked a lot about Constanza and hoiw the Branch is doing up there. It was really good. Our investigators up there are doing good also. We have a few baptismal dates so hopefully we can get them to make their covenants with Heavenly Father. Well today is P-day Santiago. We had to wake up at 5 to come into Santiago because we are so far away. Elder Allen is going to stop by an old area of his and visit some people. Me and Elder Allen are getting along realliy good. I think that we are going to have a lot of success this transfer! Well thank you everyone for your support and love!

LoveElder Rigby

Zac's Latest Letter (Sept 3)

2008-09-03T20:25:00.000-07:00

Zac and his new companion, Elder Guzman.Elder Guzman is an awesome baseball player and plans to come to the U.S. to play after his mission.

Hola Everyone

How are you guys doing? So what is new? Well everything is good here in Puerta Plata. We have had a lot of rain lately because another storm came through here but nothing bad at all! Well as you guys know i cant email back to everyone of you so if i dont have your address please send it to me. You can continue to write me and ill just send a letter back to you guys and you can also send me letters. Well everything is going good here in the mission! This week we met a new family named Francisco and Ingris. This family is awesome. Every time we come over they tell us that they feel something good. I love when you have the spirit on your side! ha ah We watched the movie The Testaments with them and they said that they really liked it a lot. They are even reading the Book of Mormon and praying. They are really awesome. Well this week we also had interviews with President. That was awesome and we had a good talk about the church and the Priesthood. Well today we went to the beach and played football in the sand. It was awesome and we had a lot of fun. Then we went back to the apartment and ate a little Mangu! Me and Elder Guzman are getting along really good. Sometimes we cant understand what each other is saying but we are way close friends and we have fun and work hard. We are also teaching 4 brothers and they are really interested in the church also. The oldest one wants to serve a mission and be like us so that is pretty cool! We arent in our usual internet center because the power went out (It tends to do that a lot here) so i will send a pic of me and Elder Guzman next week! Well all is well here! Thank you for all your support and love! I hope everyone is doing good!

Love

Elder Rigby

More Bear Lake Fun!!

2008-09-01T17:18:00.001-07:00

Kyle on the 4-wheeler. What a stud!!Madi and I kayaking.
Troy and Wendy, our gracious hosts. Thanks!
Kyle and the cuties.
The whole gang. We love them all.
Last weekend we went up to Bear Lake again with friends in our neighborhood. We had a BLAST!!!! We stayed at the Hanson's cabin and spent Saturday at the beach. We had a ton of food up there and all of it was so good. I was so mad at Zane because he thought that it would be funny to come out of the bathroom with the sling-shot on in front of everyone. It wasn't funny at all!!!! I about killed him. (Another proud parent moment.) The speedos that Jon, Zane, and BJ had didn't seem quite so bad after that but they were still pretty revealing. Haha. We are so thankful for all the friends that we have and for the Hanson's for having us up at the cabin. We had so much fun!!! Thanks.

BEAR LAKE FUN!!!

2008-08-13T16:58:00.000-07:00

Kyle, Madi, and I went to Bear Lake last weekend with my family. We rode waverunners and 4-wheelers and we had a great time. We love going up there because it is so beautiful.
Madison and my nephew Chase sitting at the beach
Madison waiting for the waverunner to pick her up.
Me, Madison, and my niece Samantha on the waverunner.
They said I go to slow and I wasn't any fun.

Me, Leslie and Lynn chilling at the beach.
All the kids playing on the water tramp.

Zac's Latest Letter

2008-08-13T13:51:00.000-07:00

Zac made these cookies for my birthday and sent this picture of him and Elder Echler eating them. How sweet! This pictures was taken today(Aug. 13th) He is at the resort eating at the buffet. They wanted to celebrate Elder Echler's last P-Day in the mission.

Hola EveryoneHow are you guys all doing? Im doing really good here in the D.R. So what is new? Well this week has been an interesting and tranquilo week. Nothing really going on. We are teaching a reference from a member in our area and their names are Thomas and Sujeri. They are really cool and we have really been close with them lately. They are progressing very well and she is suppose to give birth this week to a baby girl so that should be exciting. We had a really good lesson where the Spirit was so strong so hopefully they could feel it also. We also had Zone Conference this week which was really good! The Zone Conference went for 5 hours but i guess that is pretty close to being average while you are in the mission! ha ah We learned about the Plan of Salvation and also about Jacob 5. It was really cool and once again President Thomas is just amazing to listen too! Well today we woke up and played a little basketball in the morning and its Elder Eschlers last P-day so we tried to make it fun. After basketball we went to the Resort and ate at the buffet and so im really full right now! The food was pretty good. This next week is going to be a really crazy week because Elder Eschler is going to start packing up and going home. Hopefully i dont get too homesick. ha ha On monday i find out who my next companion is going to be. I am a little excited and also a little nervouse at the same time. I will probably stay up here for at least one more transfer unless they whitewash us and i get transferred somewhere else. I dont think that will happen though. Hopefully i get a good comp that will want to work hard like we have been the last 4 transfers. I dont have any idea if it will be a dominican or american. It could be anyone so we will see. Elder Eschler is getting excited to be home though a little scared but he is still excited. Well everyone that is all i have this week. I hope you are doing good and all is well. Thanks for all your support and everything you do for me.Te amoElder Rigby

Zane's Eagle Court of Honor

2008-08-03T23:20:00.001-07:00

We are so proud of Zane getting his Eagle. We had a great Court of Honor on July 27th. Zane and Jon Little received their Eagle Award together. Thank you to all of our family and friends for coming and supporting Zane. The talks that were given by Scott Smith, Cody Dingus, and Matt Babcock were really awesome!! Also thanks to the Littles' for helping us plan this event. I know that it meant a lot to Zane to be able to get the award with his friend Jon. We're sorry Zac wasn't able to be there, but we know he is where he needs to be at this time in his life. Zane and Zac were suppose have this Court of Honor before Zac left on his mission but Zane didn't make it before Zac left. Kyle and I are so proud of both of our sons for achieving this award.

Blog Face Lift

2008-07-18T17:06:00.001-07:00

Hey Rigby's, I told Lisa that I would try to put up the new background when I figured it out. I hope you like it. If it isn't the one you wanted please let me know. We love you guys!

Wendy

Madison and Chewy

2008-07-16T14:23:00.000-07:00

This is a picture of Madi and Chewy at Madison's Pet Day at school in May. (Aren't they the cutest!!!) On July 7th our Chewy got hit by a car. Luckily Zane was home and took him to the animal hospital where he spent 2 days. He is improving daily and we feel fortunate that he is doing as well as he is. He is on the mend and we believe he will be back to normal in no time. Thanks to Justin Schroepfer for running a few red lights to get Zane and Chewy to the hospital in just the nick of time!!

Latest Letter from Zac

2008-07-16T13:38:00.001-07:00

Hola Everyone,
How is everyone doing? Well im doing good. Another Beautiful day here in the Dominican Republic. Well I will tell all you guys what happened this week in the area. Well we kind of had a good old classic missionary (rough) week. Ha ha first of all we went to teach Daniela who is suppose to be getting baptized this saturday. Well we went to go and teach her about tithing on friday. Well we figured out that her mom bought a new house and they had moved two days before on Wednesday. She moved into a different area so we are going to be able to teach her anymore but its all good everything happens for a reason right? Lol well Tarsia and the family we have been teaching are doing really good. Tarsia is really sick in bed so she wasn't able to go to church on sunday but we left the movie The Testaments with her and she watched it twice with her family and really liked it so me and Elder Eschler are really excited for that right now. The kids are always happy and listen to our lesson and participate when we come over so we are stoked for them because we have had some really good lessons with them. WEll today for P-day we woke up and played some b-ball with our zone so that was really cool. We also did a little shopping because Elder Eschler wants to get some clothes before he goes home. Also i hit 7 months in the mission this week so that is crazy. I cant believe it time has just been flying by. Well everything has been going good down here in the Caribbean. How about for you guys how is life and everything going? Well have a good week.
Love Elder Rigby

RIGBYS ARE FINALLY BLOGGING

2008-07-16T13:30:00.000-07:00

Hey everybody, we thought we would get with the program and start blogging so you can know what is happening with our family. Especially Zac who is serving his mission in the Dominican Republic.