Since this has really effected Brady and his flight home, we decided we better cut and paste a BBC report on the volcano :)



The National Air Traffic Control Service (Nats) said earlier forecasts showed the ash cloud progressively covering the whole of the UK.

British Airways has cancelled all long and short-haul flights in and out of the UK on Sunday.

Officials warn that European airspace could be disrupted for several days.

Flight restrictions on flights in and out of the UK were extended from 1300 BST to at least 1900 BST in the early hours.


Lorna Gordon: "There's also a problem of this ash clogging the filters of cars"
Nats head of safety Paul Haskins said: "It's a very dynamic situation at the moment."

The disruption has affected hundreds of thousands of travellers since Wednesday when the Eyjafjallajoekull volcano began erupting for the second time in a month.

British wedding guests had to watch a bride and groom stranded in Dubai take their vows over an internet connection.

Sean Murtagh, 24, who is originally from west London, and his new wife Natalie, a 30-year-old Australian, were due to host a humanist ceremony for family and friends in London on Saturday but got stuck on their way back from Brisbane.

Mr Murtagh said the staff at the Millennium Airport Hotel in Dubai had become their unofficial wedding planners: "They decorated the lobby of the hotel. They made us a three tier wedding cake, set up a laptop with Skype and a projector...It's been an incredible day."

Meanwhile, one of the UK's biggest fresh fruit importers said business had ground to a halt because of the disruption.

Q&A: Volcanic ash cloud
Anthony Pile, chairman of Blue Skies, said the company was losing £100,000 a day as produce was rotting in Brazil and Africa.

"Losing a day is a disaster, losing three days is unbelievable and I don't know what we're going to do if we go into the middle of next week," he said.

A plume of ash 8.5km (5.3 miles) high was visible in Iceland on Saturday.

Prof Brian Golding, head of forecasting research at the Met Office, said it was likely the volcanic cloud would remain over the UK for several days.

Runway inspections took place during daylight for the first time at Heathrow
Royal Mail air mail deliveries to the US are being taken over land to be flown from a Spanish airport.

British Airways said it had no insurance against suspending flights and refunding customers as a result of the ash cloud, and would have to absorb the costs itself.

The Ministry of Defence said it was under the same restrictions as for commercial aircraft, except for essential helicopter operations, such as search and rescue, below 3,000ft.

In other developments:

• Eurostar added eight extra services on Saturday, but passengers are advised not to turn up without a booking

• P&O ferry crossings between Portsmouth and Bilbao are fully booked until Wednesday, as are those from Hull to Zeebrugge and Rotterdam over the weekend

• Thomson Airways, the airline for Thomson and First Choice holidays, said all outbound flights over the weekend had been cancelled

• Flights between Cornwall and the Isles of Scilly have been halted after reports of ash on an aircraft. They had been operating earlier on Saturday

• Ryanair cancelled all flights to and from northern Europe until 1300 BST on Monday. It will keep running in southern and central Europe, although flight restrictions are being imposed in Hungary and Romania

Unable to catch flights, many travellers across northern Europe have sought other means of transport, which has seen people filling trains, buses and ferries.

British glaciologist Dr Matthew Roberts, working at Iceland's Met Office, said the volcano was now producing less ash.

"There haven't been any further significant outbursts of volcanic ash from the eruption site," he said.

"However, there is still volcanic ash in the atmosphere and there's a lag effect between material being emitted from the volcano and the ash plume drifting into European airspace."

HEY hey mom

It’s so good to hear from you both. Well I guess mostly mom. But it’s great that you had such a good time in Mexico. That zip line sounds really cool, I have seen things like that before on animal planet and the discovery channel. They always sounded really cool. So when it comes to booking things for the executions I would like to do some scuba diving if that is manageable. I’m sure Cody or Jerame would go with me; it just would be really sweet to do that again. When you go to get me released could you try for Friday night to get me released. I really want to wake up and go swimming I really can’t wait to get into a pool. If you can do that I will stain the deck all by myself; and yes I will stain the deck I’m more than happy to help out and get things together for my party. I know that's why you’re doing it. Aaron is a real good lad I’m sure he told you that he was just talking to me before he called you right? If not I got a call that morning at about 10 and he was asking me about all the home coming stuff, I’ll be honest I could not remember at all. The address or what time it’s at.

Well mom if you could get a few things for me when I get home. The main thing is I will be needing some new "G's". I only plan to bring home about 3-4 home with me just so I have some in case I need them; the rest I plan to destroy. Also just that you can get me released Friday if possible if not Saturday. I would also like to get my teeth cleaned really soon they need a good cleaning; also I need doctor Jerame to help me out. I chipped my front tooth again but just on the back side not bad at all. You can’t tell just looking at it, but Jer can fix that up for me.

Well this past week I have been working on saying good bye. I hate good bye and this has been the worst one too. I have really been close to this ward; more then I have the past ones. I have really loved this ward and all the people in it. They all want to feed me before I go. And cuz they can’t, they are going to feed the new guy which I don't know who that is; I find out tomorrow I hope he is a good one. The ward had a very long list of guys without much personality. The youth girls were surprised when Grone went up and talked to them; they had forgotten Elders could talk or something, so since I have been here I have tried to talk to them as much as I would any other member. The youth here are class and I would like to stay in touch with them all; I just know I can’t, but Facebook will help. I’m excited to Facebook again. I’m going to have so many to add; 5 wards and branch's of people. Plus all the Elders.

Well we had zone conference this past week. It was good, we really talked a lot about conference. President Uchtdorf and President Eyring’s talks. In the priesthood session the sisters where a bit out of it but us elders where sharp since those tend to be everyone's favorite talks. The sisters are going to get a chance to watch the priesthood session. President is getting it together for them; they were very excited for that. There is one sister I have gotten really close with, her name is Sister Peterson. We have become great friends, we talk together pretty often. It’s really funny the sisters in the mission now have become really cool; they all talk with the elders. In the past for some reason they would not, so the new ones are class. We only have a problem with one sister she thinks of it all as some business and must not be friends with anyone. I don’t know it’s not cool with any of the elders. I also got to give my farewell testimony at zone conference. Those tend to be advice for the elders coming from experience. I had planned a few things in my mind and gave it. It went really well and president even used some of it in his training. He referred back to it a couple of times, and then also thanked me for it personally later. It was really good to hear it was enjoyed. After zone conference, we went on exchanges with the zone leaders in the area. I have been there before when I first came out. I was with Elder O'Toole again. He is really cool, he came out with the group after me; so we both have experience and it was fun to talk about the old mission compared to the new one. We talked about the old elders only we would know, and all that stuff. It was real nice. It was fun to be with him again and in a different light now that we have been out for some time now, I really enjoyed it. I have really enjoyed getting to know all the elders I will be sad not to be around a lot of them again.

Well like you said I do have mixed feelings about going home; mostly I’m excited for it but I am sad to leave all my friends and the members in this ward. Sunday dinner was a weird one for me; each week I always looked forward to that one and I realized I would never get the chance to have the same banter with them all. I am really going to miss that one. And then I had to say good bye to two of my most favorite people, the Douglas’ they are about in their 80's and they are so good. Oh I will miss them, but I am so excited to come home to the family, friends, the warm country and to see the mountains; I can’t wait for home.

Well sorry if this seems like a negative email I’m just letting you know my feelings.

I love you all so very much and can’t wait to see you all on Friday its crazy the time has come.

Much love

Hugs and kisses

Brady

Hey you two sun bathers,

Well I’m very jealous of you two in the sun; I wish the sun knew how to get out into our sky. I have not seen the sun in a few days. The weather has been very wet and very cold. On Tuesday it was so wet we got soaked through; we had to come in and hang our suits up and let them try to dry out and then get re-dressed in other clothes. By the way, we were on exchanges in Colerain. All the locals make fun and call it cold rain and it was very cold rain. It was more sleet then rain. We also were not using the car because we where tracting which made it not needed. It started to get better but the sun has not showed its face yet. At least the rain/snow stopped.

Well Easter has proved to also be a great time just like my birthday, I have gotten so many treats and candy and all the works. One of the real popular things is to buy big chocolate eggs and you give them away to people you like, we got 4. It was cool to once again see how well liked we are here. General Conference was awesome, we got to see it all but the last session, I will wait till I get home for that one and read it. President Uchtdorf was my favorite on patience; it was way good. I would consider myself a patient person but I must not have been as a child cuz school was never my thing. But I can socialize with the best of them.

Well we have been working with a new guy this week named Michael. He is a class guy; he really wants to know about the church and what we believe. So far he believes the same things, which really has been helpful. Like prayers, even though he grew up catholic; and the spirit world was another. He struggles reading due to he has dyslexia a real issue so he had his wife get online and download The Book of Mormon so he can listen to it; he is loving it- he can’t wait to find out what happens to Nephi next and really shows signs of progress. He came to conference and liked that; so he is doing very well. He has a pretty large family by what we have been told; but so far he has only refereed to 4 sisters. They have wee ones also, but I have not seen them. His wife has not been interested, at least she says, but we have caught her listening to The Book of Mormon also. She also said she wanted to come to conference to see what it was all about. She didn’t but we will get her. As they say; curiosity kills the cat, or in her case gets converted.

Well I’m going to cut this short because Jake has to use this computer also and I will be home soon enough. Janice is well also, we have had to push back her baptism date so I will not be here but that's okay.

I love you all very much, enjoy the cruise!

Much love,

Brady