This week was pretty horrible but good at the same time for real. So i think ill start with the bad stuff.
Scotts baptism is off.....hows that for a good start. He got back from detroit on thursday and i guess he blew up at his dad and apparently Scott is bipolar and he just crashed. Well after talking to his dad and stuff we called Scott that night and he basically said the baptisms off and he is going a different direction. When we asked what his plans were he said he was going back to the baptist church and cutting all ties with his dad. What the crap man. He said "you guys have more important things to do than waste your time with me" So that made me pretty mad to put it nicely. Im going to call him up tonight and tell him what we are even here on a mission for. ridiculous people man. They need to grow up, thats just it. Things were so good. he was done with everything. Ready for baptism, then this crap happens and he screws up that opportunity.
That was basically the bad thing that happened. Except Noel and Marcia didnt come to church. Plus the branch is freaking crazy, im going to have to rebuke them i think....They decided, without asking us or including us at all, to do splits every single night this week.....And we are supposed to come up with all the people to go see. So that means we have to find 20 appointments and shove them all into our 7-9 block of time..its just ridiculous im telling you. This branch is really focused on missionary work. but they dont understand what they are doing and they dont understand that the 20 lessons a week is a means to getting more investigators......i havent received one referral in the 3 months i have been here. They are focused way too much on lessons and not enough on anyhting else. we got 19 lessons this week and they were really dissapointed that we didnt reach 20.....so next week we are probably going to stand up in elders quorum and go over Elder Perrys challenge and tell them whats up basically. I love the branch, they are just missing the mark, most of my problems come from the Branch president and mission leader which is sad, and mom its going to be hard to stay away from that "wierd man" since he is our mission leader and he calls us like 8 times a day. But im doing my best, trust me. haha. He actually started calling private so we wouldnt know it was him...sneaky old man....
so on with the good stuff.
On wednesday we went on tradeofs with bear lake. I had Elder Bird.. hes a stud. We saw the Hinds who i think we have talked about and taught the restoration to the,. She brought up a bunch of questions about the priesthood and healings and stuff. Things that they had asked ministers and they didnt like the answers they had gotten. so they asked me the same questions and they liked all the answers, so that was good. but they are going to be hard. Storm started talking about how she knows she is saved and that she doesnt need to know about the Book of Mormon and Joseph Smith because she is already saved. They have both read the bom and prayed and never got an answer, so she still has a lot of questions and concerns with everything, eventually i told them to give the Book of Mormon another chance and i focused on praying sincerely and with real intent. and out of nowhere richard finally talks and he said " ya know what...We'll do it. We'll read it and pray about it" so hopefully they aren't too far gone and can read with open minds about it....crazy stuff.
Then we went over to see Noel! The young women came over before we started the lesson and brought some cookies and invited her out on wednesdays and it was really good. After they left she said she has been wanting to get back into youth groups and find some more friends. We taught her the plan of salvation, and it was awesome! she said it cleared up all her questions about it. The missionaries that had taught her in the past had confused her. She started bring up how they used tents and buildings to represent the kingdoms of glory and all this dumb clutter stuff. Thats why analogies and object lessons suck. Thank you Elder Jensen for saying no more to that. But it was good. i ended up leaving her with a soft baptismal commitment if you know what that is, she said yes and she told us she really wanted to come to church and she would come....but turns out they didnt. And crap i forgot to call them. Turns out she has a dang good voice too! We went to mancelona because they are having this festival up there and she made it to the finals in this singing contest. turns out she lost. She sang a Celine Dion song and i think thats why she didnt win..she hit all the notes and everything which was impressive, but its Celine dion......ya know?
We had interviews on Friday. They were a lot different than normal. We all met together in a room and he told us to think about what keeps us up at night, or something that is on your mind a lot, then think of the solution and then bear your testimony, and it was sweet. he started and then we went around the room. The spirit was there very strong and it was really good. Then we had individual interviews and he scared me a little not going to lie. He started talking about giving me "opportunities" and how he needs me in other areas for other tasks and stuff and he said that my shoulders are going to get a little broader with responsibilities....scary stuff. haha. This is what he opened everything up with "Elder Larsen, its been neat to see your growth and you are becoming a great missionary blah blah blah, and you might even amount to something." i was like wow President thank you, that means a lot. HAHA!!! Then he talked about how when we first came out with all the other mission presidents, they were all in a room and Elder Ballard got up to the pulpit and talking about the group he said "Its not much, but it will do." so it was in that kind of spirit....if that was supposed to make me feel better. haha. I told him i wanted to stay in kalkaska with Elder Lloyd one more transfer and he said its a good idea. but i cant promise you any more than that. so we will see what happens, transfer calls are this friday, so we will see how it all plays out then.
So things kinda sucked this week, but we have some new opportunities coming up, so hopefully we will see some good things happen this week. Something good is bound to happen after that crap, thats just how things work. So that my story and im sticking to it. love you guys, have a good one!
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\m/ ~ Elder Larsen ~ \m/
Monday, June 7, 2010
Sunday, June 6, 2010
June 6,2010
So Ryan went and broke the first bone in the family huh? Not a good door to be opening bill, hah. I hope you are doing good man, that sucks. You'll tell me how it happened of course. Im going to make a guess. You over-shot the landing and landed flat and your chest came down and smacked the handlebars....and you fell off the side of the bike and whimpered a little? thats my guess. Fill me in broseph! I hope you are doing good, you're in my prayers.
So last week we did really good number wise, and had some good results too! so on monday we went with Bro Mcduffie(our crazy mission leader)to help him with his hometeaching. well we got to the house and shared the message and he said we had to go, so we were there a total of like 10 minutes. When we got outside he said "I lied to those people.....Im not doing good, follow me to the hospital"......then he got in his car, so the whole time we were following him we were coming up with some pretty crazy conclusions about what was happening. We had heard that he has schizophrenia and minieres. So that leaves a whole slew of things, but after the 25 minute drive we reached the hospital and he gets out of the car and says. "im having a stroke, watch me walk in and make sure i make it." then he takes off.....leaving us more confused than ever and it was just crazy. Turns out they released him that night and everything was fine as far as i know. but dang man, He just drove 20 miles thinking he was going to have a stroke. Thats pretty crazy if you ask me. so that was our fun P-day night!
We went on tradeoffs with the ZL's this past wednesday. I love going with the ZL's they are always good dudes. we were actually able to see Christi Zattlin! i have tried to see her for months and finally got to talk to her and teach her. It was way cool. Shes an inactive member and she is way sweet. She has two kids that are way fun too. she said she will come back to church one of these next few sundays. so thats good. shes a recent convert that hasnt been to church in like a year or so. We are hoping we can start teaching her husband and maybe bring them all into the church.
So i cant remember if i told you guys, but this wednesday we have an appointment with the Kimblers, they are the family that we found a while back, We are mostly teaching Noel and Stephanie. But this wednesday we are going to go over and teach them the plan of salvation and 6:00 and hopefully we will get done with it by 7:30 because the young women here are going to stop by and meet her and bring some goodies(you know how girls are) and try to friendship her so she will come to church and feel welcome! How swet is that! If we can get these girls to church they are golden! So im way excited about it! We are having trade-offs that day too. And im going to have a young missionary with me, so it could be very interesting how it all plays out. im really excited for it though. that apartment is going to be crowded! ewww cooties.....
We saw grandma Haycraft again. She fed us dinner and we had a really good discussion about Prophets and the Spirit. She is so sincere when she asks too, ive never had anyone like that. I cant really pin her down yet, but i think she is a possible baptism in the near future. i call her grandma, because she is almost as sweet and nice and wonderful as my grandmas, so i go over there and sit down on the recliner and just chat with her. Shes just a little bit paranoid and crazy, hah. its all good. She wants us to come over one night with our guitars so we can sit around the fire and play for her. so that might be coming up.
We saw Scott a few different times last week. He is making progress with his coffee. or he is lying to us, im not 100 percent sure which one it is. But i have faith he will do the right thing. this is his last week to quit. The branch has been talking about setting up the food and everything for his baptism, so everyone is getting really excited about it, which is good. its been about a year since they have had a baptism. I hope i get to stay here one more transfer, i can see a bunch of good happening real soon.
Sister Wysocki had us over friday night to watch some fireworks, she buys a bunch of illegal fireworks and invites us over to watch them. haha that was sweet. We are going over there today to help her train her dog a little bit and golf a little and teach a lesson. So thats always good. This next week we are busy.....we have two sets of trade-offs, ill be staying in KKK(Kalkaska for short, or KaKaKa, like a crow would) for both of them thankfully, then we have interviews after that. plus we always have to come up with like 4 people for each split we go on with the members. so hopefully everything turns out.
This week i have been reading some of David A. Bednars training on Faith. It has been very very interesting, i wish i could remember everything from the first talk. This morning i read his talk on Asking in Faith. And i think it was very irefreshing how he brought up that asking in faith, isnt just praying its acting and asking What we should do. He used the example of Joseph Smith. When he was searching for the right church to join in his history he asks the question What is to be done? not simply what church is right. But which church should i join. He was asking for something that he fully intended to act on. he asked in Faith. He also used this example. And i have been guilty of this in the past..When we pray for the missionaries, we often say that they will be led to those searching for the gospel. and a lot of people dont know this, i didnt think about it before my mission, but missionaries are Full-time teachers, members are supposed to be the finders. in a perfect setting missionaries would never go out looking for people, members shold be giving them enough names to keep them busy so they dont have to find. There is a member here who went to Pocatello on his mission. He said he did a total of two hours of finding in his entire mission, thats becasuse the members were so good at finding for them. Elder Bednar said," Dont pawn your duty onto others!" hah so that was really interesting. just thought id share. But he said when we pray we should ask to have a missionary experience, someone to share the gospel with, pray for the strength to be able to share it and then when the opportunity comes up to do it! He said that if we would do that then missionary work would go forward ina remarkable way. And its true. Faith is the basis of everything in the gospel! everything rests upon our faith in Christ. And i know if we have enough faith, that we will grow more than we ever thought possible, and if we are truly willing to act, we will be given experiences here that will shape our lives for the better and strengthen our resolve for the work which we are called to do. I love you guys and hope everything goes well back home. Have a good week. The church is true!
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\m/ ~ Elder Larsen ~ \m/
So last week we did really good number wise, and had some good results too! so on monday we went with Bro Mcduffie(our crazy mission leader)to help him with his hometeaching. well we got to the house and shared the message and he said we had to go, so we were there a total of like 10 minutes. When we got outside he said "I lied to those people.....Im not doing good, follow me to the hospital"......then he got in his car, so the whole time we were following him we were coming up with some pretty crazy conclusions about what was happening. We had heard that he has schizophrenia and minieres. So that leaves a whole slew of things, but after the 25 minute drive we reached the hospital and he gets out of the car and says. "im having a stroke, watch me walk in and make sure i make it." then he takes off.....leaving us more confused than ever and it was just crazy. Turns out they released him that night and everything was fine as far as i know. but dang man, He just drove 20 miles thinking he was going to have a stroke. Thats pretty crazy if you ask me. so that was our fun P-day night!
We went on tradeoffs with the ZL's this past wednesday. I love going with the ZL's they are always good dudes. we were actually able to see Christi Zattlin! i have tried to see her for months and finally got to talk to her and teach her. It was way cool. Shes an inactive member and she is way sweet. She has two kids that are way fun too. she said she will come back to church one of these next few sundays. so thats good. shes a recent convert that hasnt been to church in like a year or so. We are hoping we can start teaching her husband and maybe bring them all into the church.
So i cant remember if i told you guys, but this wednesday we have an appointment with the Kimblers, they are the family that we found a while back, We are mostly teaching Noel and Stephanie. But this wednesday we are going to go over and teach them the plan of salvation and 6:00 and hopefully we will get done with it by 7:30 because the young women here are going to stop by and meet her and bring some goodies(you know how girls are) and try to friendship her so she will come to church and feel welcome! How swet is that! If we can get these girls to church they are golden! So im way excited about it! We are having trade-offs that day too. And im going to have a young missionary with me, so it could be very interesting how it all plays out. im really excited for it though. that apartment is going to be crowded! ewww cooties.....
We saw grandma Haycraft again. She fed us dinner and we had a really good discussion about Prophets and the Spirit. She is so sincere when she asks too, ive never had anyone like that. I cant really pin her down yet, but i think she is a possible baptism in the near future. i call her grandma, because she is almost as sweet and nice and wonderful as my grandmas, so i go over there and sit down on the recliner and just chat with her. Shes just a little bit paranoid and crazy, hah. its all good. She wants us to come over one night with our guitars so we can sit around the fire and play for her. so that might be coming up.
We saw Scott a few different times last week. He is making progress with his coffee. or he is lying to us, im not 100 percent sure which one it is. But i have faith he will do the right thing. this is his last week to quit. The branch has been talking about setting up the food and everything for his baptism, so everyone is getting really excited about it, which is good. its been about a year since they have had a baptism. I hope i get to stay here one more transfer, i can see a bunch of good happening real soon.
Sister Wysocki had us over friday night to watch some fireworks, she buys a bunch of illegal fireworks and invites us over to watch them. haha that was sweet. We are going over there today to help her train her dog a little bit and golf a little and teach a lesson. So thats always good. This next week we are busy.....we have two sets of trade-offs, ill be staying in KKK(Kalkaska for short, or KaKaKa, like a crow would) for both of them thankfully, then we have interviews after that. plus we always have to come up with like 4 people for each split we go on with the members. so hopefully everything turns out.
This week i have been reading some of David A. Bednars training on Faith. It has been very very interesting, i wish i could remember everything from the first talk. This morning i read his talk on Asking in Faith. And i think it was very irefreshing how he brought up that asking in faith, isnt just praying its acting and asking What we should do. He used the example of Joseph Smith. When he was searching for the right church to join in his history he asks the question What is to be done? not simply what church is right. But which church should i join. He was asking for something that he fully intended to act on. he asked in Faith. He also used this example. And i have been guilty of this in the past..When we pray for the missionaries, we often say that they will be led to those searching for the gospel. and a lot of people dont know this, i didnt think about it before my mission, but missionaries are Full-time teachers, members are supposed to be the finders. in a perfect setting missionaries would never go out looking for people, members shold be giving them enough names to keep them busy so they dont have to find. There is a member here who went to Pocatello on his mission. He said he did a total of two hours of finding in his entire mission, thats becasuse the members were so good at finding for them. Elder Bednar said," Dont pawn your duty onto others!" hah so that was really interesting. just thought id share. But he said when we pray we should ask to have a missionary experience, someone to share the gospel with, pray for the strength to be able to share it and then when the opportunity comes up to do it! He said that if we would do that then missionary work would go forward ina remarkable way. And its true. Faith is the basis of everything in the gospel! everything rests upon our faith in Christ. And i know if we have enough faith, that we will grow more than we ever thought possible, and if we are truly willing to act, we will be given experiences here that will shape our lives for the better and strengthen our resolve for the work which we are called to do. I love you guys and hope everything goes well back home. Have a good week. The church is true!
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\m/ ~ Elder Larsen ~ \m/
Monday, May 24, 2010
May 24,2010
So this week was pretty interesting.....gotta pull out the old planner/brain so i can remember it....so on tuesday we had splits. I went with the Duff man and did his hometeaching basically we read the article and they werent very interested so naturally i talked for like 10 minutes to hopefully get them discuss something with me. but no luck. So we left there and went over to Nikki Wilkes house and gave her a blessing for her health, it was kinda wierd im not going to lie, but the next day a member came over and told me that Nikki was really happy that we came over and that the blessing brought her a lot of comfort and peace, so that was sweet.
President is doing some wierd things lately, thats how im going to start this story off.....So there we were...in our apartment, we get a call from the Zone leaders and they tell us that president wants them and us to go on trade-offs with the sisters......my first thought was someone is lying or playing some joke on us. but nope. we went over to traverse city and met up with the zone leaders and cruised down to cadillac, turns out we show up 30 minutes late....the sisters are nowhere to be found.... we call them and they totally didnt believe us, so they ended up calling President and he told them that it was true. so they come down to the church and meet up with us. We watched them do their weekly planning and it was super awkward, they still didnt believe us by the way....so finally the moment comes when we split up and NOW they believe us. so me and Elder Lloyd went with Sister Davies, who has been out for 3 months, and the Zone leaders went with Sister Barras who is still in training and for the whole day we went to appointments with them and it was kinda wierd, the sisters were freaking out at first but things were good after that and we had some fun. So then we went back to Traverse City, and the elders apartment there was so cool. It has this balcony and it was on a hill so we could overlook a lot of the country around there and there were hills and stuff, so it reminded me a lot about home, so that was sad, but im over it now. Me and Lloyd stayed out there for like 5 hours that night so we only got 3 hours of sleep because zone conference was the next day, so we were up and like 5 and drove for over 2 hours down to mt pleasant. Zone conference was pretty sweet i guess. Darley brought me 6 big bags of m&ms, he comes over to me so our backs are facing everyone and opens up his backpack, like we are doing some drug-deal, and the entire thing is filled with m&ms haha! hes a stud. So heres some exciting news. On June 19th the entire mission is going down to Ann Arbor to see Elder Bednar with the Detroit mission! I dont know how PJ is doing all this but i like it. so im excited for that. I guess we are all just going to meet in the chapel and gym of the stake center and he is going to talk to us for 3 hours. Answering questions and teaching us. so thats way exciting!
We had a lot of canceled appointments this week which was frustrating because we were already 2 days out of our area, so our numbers suffered from that, but its all good. Branch President Thomas called us into the young womens yesterday and had us tell all the girls about our investigators Noel and Stephanie Kimbler, so they are going to go over to their house next wednesday and see them and invite them out to church! So that was really cool. Branches are so cool like that, we also had a good-bye party after church for two members that are moving to arizona, haha. Only in a branch, thats for sure. everyone is pretty close up here. Oh heres something funny. So this branch feeds us pretty dang good like 5 times a week about. but Bro hoover had to cancel, so he called up Brother Utykanski to ask him who he should call to have them feed us. Well he wasnt able to find anyone to feed us. So bro UTY caught me yesterday and asked if we got fed and i said no, but its all good people are busy, it happens.... things like that, and he looks at me and says Thats bull crap(edited for the delicate minds out there) then goes on about how we send these kids out and the least we can do is feed them so they dont starve to death doing the Lords work, and he just went off. he was so mad that we missed one day last week. HAH! This branch is so cool. i love it. We found out Scott is still smoking, i guess its down to one a day, but that was disappointing because he said he was done. We are going over there tonight to tell him to put away the childish things dadgumit!
This coming week is going to be good though. We have trade-offs with the Zls and there is an inactive lady that buys a lot of illegal fireworks and she is going to shoot those off and golf in her backyard, plus we might be going fishing with this guy that has been coming to church for 4 years that isnt baptized. so maybe we can catch something there(if you know what i mean), so it should be pretty good. So get this Austin Allen just emailed me and he didnt go snowboarding ONCE since i left! what the crap? he is in SLC right now finishing up his massage therapy school. he says he is graduating this fall, so thats good of him.
So life is good right now. Elder Lloyd is awesome! the work is picking up and we have some sweet goals for the rest of this transfer, so life is good, me and Elder Lloyd have gotten into some crazy discussions this last week about the gospel and the plan and its so crazy how God has made everything so complex...yet so simple. Thats always been the weirdest thing for me. At first glance, for example the Gospel, its really quite simple. We need to have faith, repent, get baptized and receive the Holy Ghost and endure to the end., but when you start to study its design and the why and how it gets so dang complex i have to take a nap every 10 minutes, its like a mind-grenade! But we dont really need to know, He just tells us to follow it. I have been learning a lot lately. Seems like this week it has been about Gods organization and how everything is in order and fits perfectly where it is placed. I cant give you an example or i would just confuse myself, haha. But God is a God of Order, when you start looking around you and when you start breaking things down...its all so perfect. and its when those things get out of order that when the world or an individual starts to digress. I hope that makes sense. i dont know how to explain it without going into too much detail, but back to the basics. God Loves us thats what i know, we wouldnt have such a beautiful world if he didnt, and we sure as heck wouldnt have the blessings that we do have, He is there, and He wants the best for us. God would never give us something or do something that would hurt us spiritually. Life is full of problems yes but those are the times that we grow the most and learn the most. Just like in Alma 7 when it is talking about Christ suffering for all our temptations and pains and everything, it says "that He may know how to succor his people." and so he can know how to have mercy. And something i was thinking about is we all do the same thing up to a point, its our own trials that we overcome, but when we do overcome those, thats when we really KNOW what it feels like for other people in that same situation, THEN we can help them because we have been there. so maybe our trials aren't necessarily for our own personal growth always, but for those people that we will come in contact with that are going through a similar experience. Chew on that! But of course we always have Christ. He is our strength and our hope, Only he can save us from the Fall and He has if we will follow His gospel and thats what ill leave you with, so i hope i wasnt in ramble mode there, but there you have it. So i hope all goes well with you guys this week. Love you bunches.
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\m/ ~ Elder Larsen ~ \m/
President is doing some wierd things lately, thats how im going to start this story off.....So there we were...in our apartment, we get a call from the Zone leaders and they tell us that president wants them and us to go on trade-offs with the sisters......my first thought was someone is lying or playing some joke on us. but nope. we went over to traverse city and met up with the zone leaders and cruised down to cadillac, turns out we show up 30 minutes late....the sisters are nowhere to be found.... we call them and they totally didnt believe us, so they ended up calling President and he told them that it was true. so they come down to the church and meet up with us. We watched them do their weekly planning and it was super awkward, they still didnt believe us by the way....so finally the moment comes when we split up and NOW they believe us. so me and Elder Lloyd went with Sister Davies, who has been out for 3 months, and the Zone leaders went with Sister Barras who is still in training and for the whole day we went to appointments with them and it was kinda wierd, the sisters were freaking out at first but things were good after that and we had some fun. So then we went back to Traverse City, and the elders apartment there was so cool. It has this balcony and it was on a hill so we could overlook a lot of the country around there and there were hills and stuff, so it reminded me a lot about home, so that was sad, but im over it now. Me and Lloyd stayed out there for like 5 hours that night so we only got 3 hours of sleep because zone conference was the next day, so we were up and like 5 and drove for over 2 hours down to mt pleasant. Zone conference was pretty sweet i guess. Darley brought me 6 big bags of m&ms, he comes over to me so our backs are facing everyone and opens up his backpack, like we are doing some drug-deal, and the entire thing is filled with m&ms haha! hes a stud. So heres some exciting news. On June 19th the entire mission is going down to Ann Arbor to see Elder Bednar with the Detroit mission! I dont know how PJ is doing all this but i like it. so im excited for that. I guess we are all just going to meet in the chapel and gym of the stake center and he is going to talk to us for 3 hours. Answering questions and teaching us. so thats way exciting!
We had a lot of canceled appointments this week which was frustrating because we were already 2 days out of our area, so our numbers suffered from that, but its all good. Branch President Thomas called us into the young womens yesterday and had us tell all the girls about our investigators Noel and Stephanie Kimbler, so they are going to go over to their house next wednesday and see them and invite them out to church! So that was really cool. Branches are so cool like that, we also had a good-bye party after church for two members that are moving to arizona, haha. Only in a branch, thats for sure. everyone is pretty close up here. Oh heres something funny. So this branch feeds us pretty dang good like 5 times a week about. but Bro hoover had to cancel, so he called up Brother Utykanski to ask him who he should call to have them feed us. Well he wasnt able to find anyone to feed us. So bro UTY caught me yesterday and asked if we got fed and i said no, but its all good people are busy, it happens.... things like that, and he looks at me and says Thats bull crap(edited for the delicate minds out there) then goes on about how we send these kids out and the least we can do is feed them so they dont starve to death doing the Lords work, and he just went off. he was so mad that we missed one day last week. HAH! This branch is so cool. i love it. We found out Scott is still smoking, i guess its down to one a day, but that was disappointing because he said he was done. We are going over there tonight to tell him to put away the childish things dadgumit!
This coming week is going to be good though. We have trade-offs with the Zls and there is an inactive lady that buys a lot of illegal fireworks and she is going to shoot those off and golf in her backyard, plus we might be going fishing with this guy that has been coming to church for 4 years that isnt baptized. so maybe we can catch something there(if you know what i mean), so it should be pretty good. So get this Austin Allen just emailed me and he didnt go snowboarding ONCE since i left! what the crap? he is in SLC right now finishing up his massage therapy school. he says he is graduating this fall, so thats good of him.
So life is good right now. Elder Lloyd is awesome! the work is picking up and we have some sweet goals for the rest of this transfer, so life is good, me and Elder Lloyd have gotten into some crazy discussions this last week about the gospel and the plan and its so crazy how God has made everything so complex...yet so simple. Thats always been the weirdest thing for me. At first glance, for example the Gospel, its really quite simple. We need to have faith, repent, get baptized and receive the Holy Ghost and endure to the end., but when you start to study its design and the why and how it gets so dang complex i have to take a nap every 10 minutes, its like a mind-grenade! But we dont really need to know, He just tells us to follow it. I have been learning a lot lately. Seems like this week it has been about Gods organization and how everything is in order and fits perfectly where it is placed. I cant give you an example or i would just confuse myself, haha. But God is a God of Order, when you start looking around you and when you start breaking things down...its all so perfect. and its when those things get out of order that when the world or an individual starts to digress. I hope that makes sense. i dont know how to explain it without going into too much detail, but back to the basics. God Loves us thats what i know, we wouldnt have such a beautiful world if he didnt, and we sure as heck wouldnt have the blessings that we do have, He is there, and He wants the best for us. God would never give us something or do something that would hurt us spiritually. Life is full of problems yes but those are the times that we grow the most and learn the most. Just like in Alma 7 when it is talking about Christ suffering for all our temptations and pains and everything, it says "that He may know how to succor his people." and so he can know how to have mercy. And something i was thinking about is we all do the same thing up to a point, its our own trials that we overcome, but when we do overcome those, thats when we really KNOW what it feels like for other people in that same situation, THEN we can help them because we have been there. so maybe our trials aren't necessarily for our own personal growth always, but for those people that we will come in contact with that are going through a similar experience. Chew on that! But of course we always have Christ. He is our strength and our hope, Only he can save us from the Fall and He has if we will follow His gospel and thats what ill leave you with, so i hope i wasnt in ramble mode there, but there you have it. So i hope all goes well with you guys this week. Love you bunches.
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\m/ ~ Elder Larsen ~ \m/
Thursday, May 20, 2010
May 17,2010
Hello all.
I got to go to the temple! Woot woot! It was really cool. Detroit has a pretty small temple, there was only one endowment room and a small baptismal font, but it was still the temple! It was really refreshing going back. I forgot a lot of stuff, so im glad Peej was able to get one approved. It was a long drive though! We left our place at 630 in the morning and got down there at 11, we ended up getting home at 6 or 7 that night. hah, so other than the kinked neck and the long drive it was pretty sweet. Oh and the awkward missionaries. I was kind of on one that day and so in the van i was just talking to everyone having a good time. getting to know the kiddies and there were two elders that were the most robotic, awkward missionaries i have come across yet. so that was fun. i ask them a question and they just give me a wierd look and turn around...whats up with that? there was a greenie sitting next to me that was more social than those guys. man im just venting now. It was a good time.
We talked to Scott last night, and he has been off of cigarettes since last wednesday! yay! We moved his date to June 12th, which is probably my last weekend here. So that worked out perfectly. now he just needs to get off of coffee and he will be set for baptism! im so excited for him. He is a stud. oh i just remembered that i still havent sent pictures to you guys, im a horrible person.
so i have been sitting here for like 10 minutes thinking of what else happened this week and i cant for the life of me think of anything....i even have my planner out. Im pretty sure it was just another boring week. Oh, our branch mission leader is kinda making me mad.....he keeps giving me all these assignments to do, like paperwork .....stuff that we shouldnt even be doing. And he calls us like 3 times a day. and he told us to be 15 minutes early to everything. its all so dumb. We were 1 minute late to a meeting that always starts 10 minutes late and he freaked out and told us that we were late, and now basically he is baby-sitting us, and its only a matter of time before i put him in his place..hah i just had to let that out. He called us this morning at 6:35...who in their right mind, besides missionaries, are up at 630? frustration is what it is. I know he is just trying to do his calling, but he is steppin over the line a bit and im going to break his leg. hah! not really, i just wanted to use that line. so hopefully next week i will have some good updates on that for you. But other than that i dont have much else to say. Im kind of in a stupor right now. So ill end this ridiculous email and say adio! love y'all
I got to go to the temple! Woot woot! It was really cool. Detroit has a pretty small temple, there was only one endowment room and a small baptismal font, but it was still the temple! It was really refreshing going back. I forgot a lot of stuff, so im glad Peej was able to get one approved. It was a long drive though! We left our place at 630 in the morning and got down there at 11, we ended up getting home at 6 or 7 that night. hah, so other than the kinked neck and the long drive it was pretty sweet. Oh and the awkward missionaries. I was kind of on one that day and so in the van i was just talking to everyone having a good time. getting to know the kiddies and there were two elders that were the most robotic, awkward missionaries i have come across yet. so that was fun. i ask them a question and they just give me a wierd look and turn around...whats up with that? there was a greenie sitting next to me that was more social than those guys. man im just venting now. It was a good time.
We talked to Scott last night, and he has been off of cigarettes since last wednesday! yay! We moved his date to June 12th, which is probably my last weekend here. So that worked out perfectly. now he just needs to get off of coffee and he will be set for baptism! im so excited for him. He is a stud. oh i just remembered that i still havent sent pictures to you guys, im a horrible person.
so i have been sitting here for like 10 minutes thinking of what else happened this week and i cant for the life of me think of anything....i even have my planner out. Im pretty sure it was just another boring week. Oh, our branch mission leader is kinda making me mad.....he keeps giving me all these assignments to do, like paperwork .....stuff that we shouldnt even be doing. And he calls us like 3 times a day. and he told us to be 15 minutes early to everything. its all so dumb. We were 1 minute late to a meeting that always starts 10 minutes late and he freaked out and told us that we were late, and now basically he is baby-sitting us, and its only a matter of time before i put him in his place..hah i just had to let that out. He called us this morning at 6:35...who in their right mind, besides missionaries, are up at 630? frustration is what it is. I know he is just trying to do his calling, but he is steppin over the line a bit and im going to break his leg. hah! not really, i just wanted to use that line. so hopefully next week i will have some good updates on that for you. But other than that i dont have much else to say. Im kind of in a stupor right now. So ill end this ridiculous email and say adio! love y'all
Monday, May 3, 2010
May 3,2010
Hello my wonderful family!
So its been a pretty bomb week. I have thoroughly enjoyed myself. So ill start with transfers! Im staying here and i am getting Elder Lloyd. I have heard really good things about him. Little served with him too(by the way im not sure when his homecoming is...ill find out later.) So we should have a pretty solid time. So thats exciting. transfers are tomorrow. We get to talk as long as we want on sunday so thats sweet. Ill be at church from 8:30am - 1:30pm my time. so at maybe 12:00 your time i can call you guys. thats if my comp doesnt call home first. Hopefully a member will be cool with us using a phone or something, so we can both talk all day, hah so ill plan on planning nothing that day so we can chat it up.
So we rocked it up this week. And we only went over like 120 miles! So hopefully PJ wont beat me like last time. haha. So heres what happened. Marcia Haycraft. Shes been an investigator thats just been chillin in our stew pot. We finally were able to get a hold of her and set an appointment. We went over on Splits. I was with Bro Chowhan, and we basically team taught the restoration. He still knows how to teach good! wierd. But it was a very spiritual lesson. She wants us to come over one night and have a campfire and play guitar and stuff, so that will be exciting! Shes a sweet lady, she says if she finds us a mormon husband then she will get baptized. haha! Shes like 65 years old! she complimented me for like 20 minutes about going on a mission and how we are going to be so much ahead of everyone else. and wont have to get divorces and about my dazzling looks. hah, shes halfway blind, so i just took it in stride. hah not really. so she came to church yesterday too.
Then the next day on splits once again. This time i was with Bro Brown, we went over to Scott Schrams! We have been really confused about what Scott needs and if he has been understanding everything, so its been a little bit tough. I taught a lesson on faith and repentance and halfway through i got the thought that i should relate it into the missionary purpose and how we are out her to baptize people, i didnt say it like that but thats the result. Then i gave him a soft-baptism comittment, which is basically when you come to know the church is true we would invite you to be baptized.(which we should have done like 3 lessons ago.) but he said yes...then i asked how he felt about joining the church and getting baptized, because i was still confused about it all, and he said "I want to do it! What do i need to do to get that going?" Hah so i about fell out of my seat, because we still werent sure about how he felt about his baptism in the RLDS church. But i comitted him to May 15 which might be too early, because he smokes......But we are going over that today, The stop smoking program. I think im going to go buy the stuff for him, because he is struggling right now to buy gas to go to work. Im going to make sure he is going to do the program, go over the whole thing and make sure he will do everything. then go pull the stuff out of the trunk. haha im way excited for him. He wants his dad to baptize him so hopefully his dads health improves so he can. see what happens when i go on splits! Miracles! haha Definately was helped there.
we picked up a new gator too. Shes an 18 year old girl, she is definitely searching. She started getting very dramatic talking about how all the religions are so confusing and nothing makes sense. She is going through the old testament and stuff. But she agreed to come over to her grandmothers house(who is a less-active member) every week and learn the lessons. WOOT! Shes golden man, im way excited for her. so those are the biggest things that have happened here. with many more to come! But the Lord has definately blessed me this week. I have been trying really hard to do everything right I slip into lazy mode every now and then, and im sick of doing that. So these past few weeks i have really been trying to do things the Lords way instead of always doing things my way, and its helped me out a lot. Im a lot happier now and im learning a lot more too. So hopefully next transfer we can have some more baptisms coming up, i swear it feels like we are on the tipping point where everything can go amazing and we can have a ton of success. So im excited to talk to you guys next week. I have started getting into the new testament again. Its hard work man. I have been reading one chapter at a time and then going to Jesus the Christ and reading about evertyhitng that i read in that chapter. Its a tedious process but i have learned so much and its made me so much more appreciative of the things that have been done for us. We are so blessed, i never realized how awesome the Bible is too.....dang utah boy. haha its amazing! Its increased my knowledge of the savior tons, who woulda thunk? I have felt the influence of the holy ghost a lot this week, i have said some things that normally i would never say. and im completely comfortable when i teach too, thats how i notice when he is with me in the lesson. I can just sit back and talk like crazy, so things are good in my hood, talk to you next week! bye bye
So its been a pretty bomb week. I have thoroughly enjoyed myself. So ill start with transfers! Im staying here and i am getting Elder Lloyd. I have heard really good things about him. Little served with him too(by the way im not sure when his homecoming is...ill find out later.) So we should have a pretty solid time. So thats exciting. transfers are tomorrow. We get to talk as long as we want on sunday so thats sweet. Ill be at church from 8:30am - 1:30pm my time. so at maybe 12:00 your time i can call you guys. thats if my comp doesnt call home first. Hopefully a member will be cool with us using a phone or something, so we can both talk all day, hah so ill plan on planning nothing that day so we can chat it up.
So we rocked it up this week. And we only went over like 120 miles! So hopefully PJ wont beat me like last time. haha. So heres what happened. Marcia Haycraft. Shes been an investigator thats just been chillin in our stew pot. We finally were able to get a hold of her and set an appointment. We went over on Splits. I was with Bro Chowhan, and we basically team taught the restoration. He still knows how to teach good! wierd. But it was a very spiritual lesson. She wants us to come over one night and have a campfire and play guitar and stuff, so that will be exciting! Shes a sweet lady, she says if she finds us a mormon husband then she will get baptized. haha! Shes like 65 years old! she complimented me for like 20 minutes about going on a mission and how we are going to be so much ahead of everyone else. and wont have to get divorces and about my dazzling looks. hah, shes halfway blind, so i just took it in stride. hah not really. so she came to church yesterday too.
Then the next day on splits once again. This time i was with Bro Brown, we went over to Scott Schrams! We have been really confused about what Scott needs and if he has been understanding everything, so its been a little bit tough. I taught a lesson on faith and repentance and halfway through i got the thought that i should relate it into the missionary purpose and how we are out her to baptize people, i didnt say it like that but thats the result. Then i gave him a soft-baptism comittment, which is basically when you come to know the church is true we would invite you to be baptized.(which we should have done like 3 lessons ago.) but he said yes...then i asked how he felt about joining the church and getting baptized, because i was still confused about it all, and he said "I want to do it! What do i need to do to get that going?" Hah so i about fell out of my seat, because we still werent sure about how he felt about his baptism in the RLDS church. But i comitted him to May 15 which might be too early, because he smokes......But we are going over that today, The stop smoking program. I think im going to go buy the stuff for him, because he is struggling right now to buy gas to go to work. Im going to make sure he is going to do the program, go over the whole thing and make sure he will do everything. then go pull the stuff out of the trunk. haha im way excited for him. He wants his dad to baptize him so hopefully his dads health improves so he can. see what happens when i go on splits! Miracles! haha Definately was helped there.
we picked up a new gator too. Shes an 18 year old girl, she is definitely searching. She started getting very dramatic talking about how all the religions are so confusing and nothing makes sense. She is going through the old testament and stuff. But she agreed to come over to her grandmothers house(who is a less-active member) every week and learn the lessons. WOOT! Shes golden man, im way excited for her. so those are the biggest things that have happened here. with many more to come! But the Lord has definately blessed me this week. I have been trying really hard to do everything right I slip into lazy mode every now and then, and im sick of doing that. So these past few weeks i have really been trying to do things the Lords way instead of always doing things my way, and its helped me out a lot. Im a lot happier now and im learning a lot more too. So hopefully next transfer we can have some more baptisms coming up, i swear it feels like we are on the tipping point where everything can go amazing and we can have a ton of success. So im excited to talk to you guys next week. I have started getting into the new testament again. Its hard work man. I have been reading one chapter at a time and then going to Jesus the Christ and reading about evertyhitng that i read in that chapter. Its a tedious process but i have learned so much and its made me so much more appreciative of the things that have been done for us. We are so blessed, i never realized how awesome the Bible is too.....dang utah boy. haha its amazing! Its increased my knowledge of the savior tons, who woulda thunk? I have felt the influence of the holy ghost a lot this week, i have said some things that normally i would never say. and im completely comfortable when i teach too, thats how i notice when he is with me in the lesson. I can just sit back and talk like crazy, so things are good in my hood, talk to you next week! bye bye
Monday, April 26, 2010
April 26,2010
Hey there,
So this week we didnt have a whole lot happen with our gators. It was kinda stupid but it happens. It was actually our worst week yet as far as numbers are concerned. And it was perfectly timed too, because we had branch council on sunday so we got to show everyone how bad we did. Hah it was a rough week, we dont have any miles to do anything and we had a bunch of cancelled appointments and stuff like that. The church is cutting back miles a ton. Its getting hard to do anything anymore. We have one of the biggest areas in the mission. It takes about an hour to get from the northern part to the southern, and we are only given like 900 miles for an entire month...so it gets tough sometimes but its all good, so nothing new there. But we were able to hand out about 250 pass-a-long cards before the parade started. It was way tight, we actually got a referral this morning from it. So pray that other people will call in so we can have more people to teach! We are hoping they flood in. But im kinda expecting only like 3 out of all of those cards. Hah maybe im just being pessimistic or something. so that was a fun time. We sat in our windows and watched the parade. then after we tried to talk to some people, but the street emptied in minutes, it was nuts. So then it rained the rest of the festival, so thats good.
We had a district meeting friday and SURPRISE! President showed up, so i actually had to tie my tie and tuck my shirt in. But it went really well actually. He talked to us about some good stuff. then we had interviews, and it was actually one of the best i have had. normally i get some kind of rebuking, hah. But he was giving me mad props about some stuff that i had been working on, so that was helpful. Hopefully he doesnt want me to train or be DL, that wouldn't be good. but i doubt he does. So nothing much else happened. We made a turkey yesterday. that was sweet! Im totally out of food so thats all we had left. I couldnt eat any more expired mac n cheese so we roasted a turkey, and i think it gave me diarrhea for a minute. so thats not good. We are going on trade-offs again! YAY! Darley is coming here and we are going to have a partay. So its been a pretty boring week. sorry theres nothing more to say. But things are going good with me. I learn so much, especially lately. I have been reading a ton. I study a lot, yesterday was raining cats and dogs and we couldnt use our car so we didnt do a whole lot. So i got to study and take a nap. That was refreshing! so ya. Thats about all that i have for you this week. I was going to tell you something sweet i was studying, but i cant remember now. Thats awesome that mom and bri are starting to read together. Everytime you open it you learn a lot. And another thing i noticed is that whenever im mad at my comp...well more annoyed than anything and i open the bom my attitude completely changes after im done reading and all that goes away. Just another testimony of its truth and the Spirit blessing my life every moment of every day. And it does, im beginning to see it more and more. And its always the times that are hard that i realize that i hadnt prayed or i hadnt done something right, haha so its so important to live so we can have the Holy Ghost because it blesses us more than we know. So i hope you guys are doing good. Thank you for your prayers, i need them. Love you guys so much!
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So this week we didnt have a whole lot happen with our gators. It was kinda stupid but it happens. It was actually our worst week yet as far as numbers are concerned. And it was perfectly timed too, because we had branch council on sunday so we got to show everyone how bad we did. Hah it was a rough week, we dont have any miles to do anything and we had a bunch of cancelled appointments and stuff like that. The church is cutting back miles a ton. Its getting hard to do anything anymore. We have one of the biggest areas in the mission. It takes about an hour to get from the northern part to the southern, and we are only given like 900 miles for an entire month...so it gets tough sometimes but its all good, so nothing new there. But we were able to hand out about 250 pass-a-long cards before the parade started. It was way tight, we actually got a referral this morning from it. So pray that other people will call in so we can have more people to teach! We are hoping they flood in. But im kinda expecting only like 3 out of all of those cards. Hah maybe im just being pessimistic or something. so that was a fun time. We sat in our windows and watched the parade. then after we tried to talk to some people, but the street emptied in minutes, it was nuts. So then it rained the rest of the festival, so thats good.
We had a district meeting friday and SURPRISE! President showed up, so i actually had to tie my tie and tuck my shirt in. But it went really well actually. He talked to us about some good stuff. then we had interviews, and it was actually one of the best i have had. normally i get some kind of rebuking, hah. But he was giving me mad props about some stuff that i had been working on, so that was helpful. Hopefully he doesnt want me to train or be DL, that wouldn't be good. but i doubt he does. So nothing much else happened. We made a turkey yesterday. that was sweet! Im totally out of food so thats all we had left. I couldnt eat any more expired mac n cheese so we roasted a turkey, and i think it gave me diarrhea for a minute. so thats not good. We are going on trade-offs again! YAY! Darley is coming here and we are going to have a partay. So its been a pretty boring week. sorry theres nothing more to say. But things are going good with me. I learn so much, especially lately. I have been reading a ton. I study a lot, yesterday was raining cats and dogs and we couldnt use our car so we didnt do a whole lot. So i got to study and take a nap. That was refreshing! so ya. Thats about all that i have for you this week. I was going to tell you something sweet i was studying, but i cant remember now. Thats awesome that mom and bri are starting to read together. Everytime you open it you learn a lot. And another thing i noticed is that whenever im mad at my comp...well more annoyed than anything and i open the bom my attitude completely changes after im done reading and all that goes away. Just another testimony of its truth and the Spirit blessing my life every moment of every day. And it does, im beginning to see it more and more. And its always the times that are hard that i realize that i hadnt prayed or i hadnt done something right, haha so its so important to live so we can have the Holy Ghost because it blesses us more than we know. So i hope you guys are doing good. Thank you for your prayers, i need them. Love you guys so much!
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Monday, April 19, 2010
April 19,2010
Buenos dias!
So i dont know if you guys know it...but mothers day is in three weeks. So thats good right!? So trade-offs were really good. It was nice to be with Elder Darley for a few days. He is such a stud. He said he was going to email you mom, so you will have to let me know if he did. email him back for sure. He is sweet. But ya i think we are doing another trade-off next week too, haha so thats sweet. He is supposed to do two, and we are the only other elders in his district, so yippie! This week we have interviews, so ill let you know how that goes. We had district conference, i think i told you about that. There is a guy in our ward, hes in his twenties. He come up to me and says "your mission president isnt like my mission president. Yours isnt a good speaker, he wont be a general authority, he might make it to stake president, but no further." haha it was so funny, then i told him the talk he gave was basically our zone conference. hah it was funny. finally someone that feels my pain! Its all good though.
So this week we did some good stuff, we picked up some old investigators, so that was good. I strategically shared a message about the book of mormon to break the ice a little when they straight up and told me all their issues with our beliefs. but they were way open to learn again, so thats pretty sweet, shes a nice lady. She feels bad we are away from our moms so she gives us hugs all the time, haha. thought you would like that mom. We keep having problems with our gators! Valorie cant come to church so we cant invite her to be baptized. I asked if there was anthing she could do to get sundays off or change the schedule around and she said it would be hard and that we are her excuse or church, she counts us.....And then we had a talk with Scott the rlds baptized guy and got into a discussion about the history of the church and where it split and where the priesthood authority went and the difference between us and them, but im not sure if it clicked that he needs to be rebaptized....so i dont know. He came to church again, so at least we didnt scare him off.
Basically thats all the exciting stuff that happened, we taught a bunch of less active people, but not a whole lot happened with them, just the same old same old. This week there is the trout festival, its a pretty big deal around here and i had all these great plans for it and they are getting smashed one by one.....its frustrating. These were my plans, There were some missionaries in our mission that made a ginormous Book of mormon to carry around. I was going to get that and go through the parade with it and get some other missionaries to come and pass out cards down the road. but for some reason we cant get in the parade. We were going to set up a booth at the flea market, but it turns out if costs 50 bucks to do it because they are almost full now.....And im not about to pay that much just so i can stand around all day and talk to a bunch of ignorant people. haha so basically everyhting fell through. Im still going to call PJ and have him bring the book of mormon up to us and i guess we will just walk around and talk to people. So that will be fun, and i was wondering if i could get some dough for the flea market this weekend. I hate asking for money, but im pretty sure im running low again, im not sure how..... so if you could that would be sweet, if not its all good. but ya, my friends are all doing really good. you keep asking and i think i forget to answer. But ya they are all happy. Adrian is getting a new comp soon. he is sick of finding he says. They find for like 35 hours a week, thats rediculous if you ask me, but whatev. So ya i think his bday was last week or so.....so ya and tylers i think is the 30th. I might have those two mixed up but i think im right. haha so ya, they are good. And im good and im loving it here. Im growing a lot and ecoming a better teacher. The Lord had blessed me a lot since coming here. My knowlege of his plan and gospel have increased and im just about to start the book of mormon over again. It should be about the 6th time i think! Its so sweet how much you learn everytime you read it. PJ gave the same bom challenge to the whole District up here so that was kinda cool. The church is true, Christ reigns, The signs of the times are here! They are popping up everywhere. I was actually reading in mormon last night and he talked about the 'vapors of smoke' and pollution in the skies' sounds a lot like a volcano i heard of right? and what the crap is up with the earthquake in Utah. did you guys know the wasatch faultline is waaay overdue for an earthquake? just an FYI nothing to be afraid of though! God is with us and if we die we die! who cares! haha so ya . Read the Bom and the bible. i cant wait until i can study Isaiah more. Its stressed so much in the Book of Mormon. Its pretty sweet. Nephi says to read it, Christ says to read it, Mormon says to read it and im sure there are more. But its pretty sweet. i study it in sacrament meeting haha cuz i kinda dont like that hour, except for the sacrament of course. so ya. Thats my food for thought...actually chew on this. Where do you think the 3 nephites are right now?, this doesnt have anything to do with salvation, but its fun to think about. Maybe i will draw you guys a picture of what i think they look/ed like and where they have been and what they have been involved in. Seems like im just rambling now so i guess ill stop typing.
I dont know if that garden could possibly be put back together. Didnt it kinda become the field? hahah You guys should make one though. Like maybe where the sandbox is. Put a border around it and stuff. make it real nice. that would be cool, cuz m pretty sure the end of the world is right around the corner, so maybe it would be wise. You know the apostles and prophets said to have food storage and a garden for like 40 years, and in the last few they havent even mentioned it. So maybe they think that if you cant remember or dont do it, then good luck to you. I wouldnt quote that on being their exact thoughts but maybe something similar.
Love you guys. Have a good week!
So i dont know if you guys know it...but mothers day is in three weeks. So thats good right!? So trade-offs were really good. It was nice to be with Elder Darley for a few days. He is such a stud. He said he was going to email you mom, so you will have to let me know if he did. email him back for sure. He is sweet. But ya i think we are doing another trade-off next week too, haha so thats sweet. He is supposed to do two, and we are the only other elders in his district, so yippie! This week we have interviews, so ill let you know how that goes. We had district conference, i think i told you about that. There is a guy in our ward, hes in his twenties. He come up to me and says "your mission president isnt like my mission president. Yours isnt a good speaker, he wont be a general authority, he might make it to stake president, but no further." haha it was so funny, then i told him the talk he gave was basically our zone conference. hah it was funny. finally someone that feels my pain! Its all good though.
So this week we did some good stuff, we picked up some old investigators, so that was good. I strategically shared a message about the book of mormon to break the ice a little when they straight up and told me all their issues with our beliefs. but they were way open to learn again, so thats pretty sweet, shes a nice lady. She feels bad we are away from our moms so she gives us hugs all the time, haha. thought you would like that mom. We keep having problems with our gators! Valorie cant come to church so we cant invite her to be baptized. I asked if there was anthing she could do to get sundays off or change the schedule around and she said it would be hard and that we are her excuse or church, she counts us.....And then we had a talk with Scott the rlds baptized guy and got into a discussion about the history of the church and where it split and where the priesthood authority went and the difference between us and them, but im not sure if it clicked that he needs to be rebaptized....so i dont know. He came to church again, so at least we didnt scare him off.
Basically thats all the exciting stuff that happened, we taught a bunch of less active people, but not a whole lot happened with them, just the same old same old. This week there is the trout festival, its a pretty big deal around here and i had all these great plans for it and they are getting smashed one by one.....its frustrating. These were my plans, There were some missionaries in our mission that made a ginormous Book of mormon to carry around. I was going to get that and go through the parade with it and get some other missionaries to come and pass out cards down the road. but for some reason we cant get in the parade. We were going to set up a booth at the flea market, but it turns out if costs 50 bucks to do it because they are almost full now.....And im not about to pay that much just so i can stand around all day and talk to a bunch of ignorant people. haha so basically everyhting fell through. Im still going to call PJ and have him bring the book of mormon up to us and i guess we will just walk around and talk to people. So that will be fun, and i was wondering if i could get some dough for the flea market this weekend. I hate asking for money, but im pretty sure im running low again, im not sure how..... so if you could that would be sweet, if not its all good. but ya, my friends are all doing really good. you keep asking and i think i forget to answer. But ya they are all happy. Adrian is getting a new comp soon. he is sick of finding he says. They find for like 35 hours a week, thats rediculous if you ask me, but whatev. So ya i think his bday was last week or so.....so ya and tylers i think is the 30th. I might have those two mixed up but i think im right. haha so ya, they are good. And im good and im loving it here. Im growing a lot and ecoming a better teacher. The Lord had blessed me a lot since coming here. My knowlege of his plan and gospel have increased and im just about to start the book of mormon over again. It should be about the 6th time i think! Its so sweet how much you learn everytime you read it. PJ gave the same bom challenge to the whole District up here so that was kinda cool. The church is true, Christ reigns, The signs of the times are here! They are popping up everywhere. I was actually reading in mormon last night and he talked about the 'vapors of smoke' and pollution in the skies' sounds a lot like a volcano i heard of right? and what the crap is up with the earthquake in Utah. did you guys know the wasatch faultline is waaay overdue for an earthquake? just an FYI nothing to be afraid of though! God is with us and if we die we die! who cares! haha so ya . Read the Bom and the bible. i cant wait until i can study Isaiah more. Its stressed so much in the Book of Mormon. Its pretty sweet. Nephi says to read it, Christ says to read it, Mormon says to read it and im sure there are more. But its pretty sweet. i study it in sacrament meeting haha cuz i kinda dont like that hour, except for the sacrament of course. so ya. Thats my food for thought...actually chew on this. Where do you think the 3 nephites are right now?, this doesnt have anything to do with salvation, but its fun to think about. Maybe i will draw you guys a picture of what i think they look/ed like and where they have been and what they have been involved in. Seems like im just rambling now so i guess ill stop typing.
I dont know if that garden could possibly be put back together. Didnt it kinda become the field? hahah You guys should make one though. Like maybe where the sandbox is. Put a border around it and stuff. make it real nice. that would be cool, cuz m pretty sure the end of the world is right around the corner, so maybe it would be wise. You know the apostles and prophets said to have food storage and a garden for like 40 years, and in the last few they havent even mentioned it. So maybe they think that if you cant remember or dont do it, then good luck to you. I wouldnt quote that on being their exact thoughts but maybe something similar.
Love you guys. Have a good week!
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