tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-61354429518227186322024-03-12T18:26:36.272-07:00Elder Webb in New HampshireAnonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07629339104994824454noreply@blogger.comBlogger111125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6135442951822718632.post-18943078484366902942017-08-29T09:48:00.001-07:002017-08-29T09:48:23.855-07:00August 29, 2017<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">He's home as of yesterday!! He's doing great and is already off to college today. (Already has a golf trip planned, too, with his Dad and Jared this evening :) We love you, Cam. We are so proud of how you have spent the last two years! Thank you~</span>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07629339104994824454noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6135442951822718632.post-61020483545372435782017-08-22T07:39:00.000-07:002017-08-22T07:40:02.256-07:00August 21, 2017<div class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="color: #222222; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Well, fam and friends-
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">It's crazy how fast it
goes. I'm in an area right now where we drive a lot so I've had a lot of time
to reflect on stuff and I actually think this has been the best 2 years. It's
definitely been the hardest, and most frustrating, most fulfilling, etc but so
worth it. I'm so grateful for the opportunity I've had to serve in New England
and to meet so many amazing people. I feel like when I hear the name "New
England" when I get home it will always hit me because it really is a 2nd home
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">I think one of the
biggest things I've learned on my mission is that I feel like I have actually
found myself and who I am supposed to be. At least at this time in my life.
Before my mission I wasn't very happy with who I was or things I did and I just
thought that was something I would deal with my whole life, and I definitely
have felt that on my mission, but I've learned that it's ok to make mistakes
and to have imperfections. I don't think it's a coincidence that a lot of
people "find themselves" on their missions because it is a time where
you truly are participating in the work that is individually, and for the
people you serve, your way back to Heavenly Father. I've learned that Christ
can make way more out of my life than I ever could and the only way to find
that is through pushing in his service to our limits. It doesn't make sense
that through our big rule book we have, and all the things we do every day that
a lot of people think are restricting, I have found myself and that I'm
actually happy with who I am unless there is some sort of divine
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">There's a quote that
has rang true to me for a while now and it's from Russell M. Nelson and it says, "Conversely, I promise that as you keep God’s commandments, as you live by
his laws, you will become increasingly free. This freedom will unveil to you
your divine nature and allow you to prosper personally. You will be free from
the bondage of sin. You will be free to be you." I honestly didn't think I
would find "freedom" on my mission but I've never felt it more, and
it's because the gospel is not a gospel of restriction but it's really there to
help us fulfill the potential that we have but we may not see in ourselves. It's
been my greatest blessing to live it more than I ever will in my life for these
2 years. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">I'm excited to
continue to be a missionary even though I won't have my name tag on anymore.
There are so many opportunities that cross our paths back home where someone
needs the Spirit, or questions answers, or things resolved, and I have made a
promise that I'm going to try to act on it more when I get home so that people,
whether members or not, can find the Spirit in more of an abundance, and it's
all of our jobs to make sure we remain worthy of it so that we can be the
vessels for that Spirit. This last week on Monday before I was transferred, I
quickly learned that you never know what impact you have on someone, which is
why I feel like it's a big part of my testimony right now. We were saying
goodbye to a member that I've grown close with and she told me in a little gift
book that a couple months ago when we were there for dinner, she asked my
companion and I to bear our testimonies and give our conversion story. Mine was
short and I felt like it was just another part of a dinner, but she explained
that the testimony I bore of my conversion to the gospel gave her daughter hope
because she's been struggling with her testimony and that it had a strong
impact on her because she knows her testimony will come over time as long as
she works at it. I started to tear up a little because it really made me
realize my purpose was way deeper than just teaching non-members or less-actives,
but any testimony can have an impact, even if it's short. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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and I have no idea what to say but I guess I want you guys to know that I've
loved my mission. Love you all and I'll see ya soon! <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Well this week was pretty crazy! We had so many exchanges so I hardly was even in Nashua, but throughout the Zone we had some awesome miracles. I went to Lowell for the first exchange and it's a pretty big city so it was really fun! We made it a goal to be uncomfortable the whole day, like trying to talk to everyone even if they are behind a closed fence, or if you see movement in a house go and knock on it....it sounds kind of creepy but it's not bad. But yeah we were walking and we saw this mom playing tennis with her young daughter in the driveway and so it's always awkward to interrupt people's activities but we went for it anyway and we started talking with her and she literally was the coolest person ever, like super well put together, very successful career, but still is struggling and she said "Man, it's like the craziest thing you guys came over....actually kind of weird". So I was like, "A good kind of weird?" And she explained that yes it was a good weird and that she just barely started her journey to find more spirituality in her life but didn't know where to find it. She said she also was looking for a church that was family friendly. She cried most of the time we were there too, especially as we showed the Prince of Peace video. When we were walking away from the appointment it was honestly kind of a sacred experience...like we weren't supposed to even be in that part of town at that time and we were going to park at a different street, etc. It was honestly crazy to see how the Lord helped guide us to her. I wish sooo bad I could have stayed there to teach her, but she is so awesome! Those experiences are so cool to look back on and see how we honestly seemed like the Lord's puppets haha like we were just there and were guided without knowing it. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">I then went on exchange with Elder Mann--he's an Elder I live with and so it was pretty ordinary, people just being people and not really listening, and then we ran into this guy named C-- and he's a black guy from the south but he claims he's from Utah. He said he lived there for 20 years. He then explained the only reason he didn't join the church when he was there was because of the doctrine of baptisms for the dead......so we taught him that and cleared up confusion. Haha it was so bizarre but literally he's like the coolest guy! He told us he graduated from institute multiple times too and has taken all the discussions and would go to firesides all the time, and he said he knows Jeffrey R. Holland. Hahaha I promise this guy isn't nuts--like he really knows a lot. We are meeting with him again this week. Pretty random but it was cool! Baptisms for the Dead.....it gets a lot of people confused. Classic. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Anyways. The week was pretty slow other than that, we just tried hard to get people at church and we had 3 come actually which was pretty cool! And our investigator R-- came again and he keeps hinting at joining the church.....but then he tells us not to push him too much hahaha he's such a funny guy. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Transfers came and I'll be leaving Nashua for the last little bit. I knew it was happening, President told me. So it's not really a surprise, but yeah I'm going to Peterborough literally in the same zone! I'm really excited. I get to be co-training a missionary until I leave so I'm excited to help him out as best as I can. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Honestly it's just crazy, everything that's happening, I can't believe I only have 1 more P-day. The past 3 months in this area has been the biggest blessing, it has pushed me harder than I ever have before with being in the Boston mission for half a transfer, and then merging the Zone from the Boston mission to ours, and all the things we've been able to do while here. The mission really has taught me a lot and in this area I think one of the biggest things I've learned is patience. It's ok to slow down and make sure everything is in its proper place and what I'm supposed to be doing, and it's ok that the people around me are imperfect because I'm more imperfect than they are. I've always struggled with patience, and I still do, but I think the plan of salvation would have ended at the very beginning if it wasn't for the patience of Heavenly Father. He knew we would make so many mistakes coming to earth, and we would constantly ask him to help us and forgive us, and then we would turn around and do it again over and over again! Honestly I've said so many prayers to Heavenly Father and asked him how he has so much patience for his children haha--like a lot. Because I'm so impatient with them sometimes! Especially myself. But it's ok as long as we are working on it then we will improve. And I actually do think I'm improving with my patience even though it's been a small improvement, but the improvement is what counts and I owe it all to Christ. Hopefully he can keep helping me haha. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Well--yup so the kidney stone is doing fine. I passed it the same day. Holy cow it was like the worst thing I've ever had to go through hahaha and mom!...l I have like 1 soda a week, and it's been like that for like 8 months! I've been doing good but yeah it really got me. Sorry Jared. I know what you feel like. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">The past 2 weeks have been pretty exciting! So we get this referral named R--, and so we go to contact him and no one was there. So a few days later we decided to call him and see if he is still interested in getting a Bible, and he was, so we set up an appointment to go see him the next night. We had a priest-aged kid with us the next night (he was teaching with us) and we go to see R-- and he wasn't home again. So we called him while we were on his doorstep and he answers and in tears and a way-shaky voice he says, "I crashed my motorcycle into a kid and I think I broke my leg please come to the park!" ..... k alright so we headed over there and he's just like laying in the bushes grabbing his leg and his motorcycle is laying to the side of him and he explained he was coming back to his house to meet with us and then a kid ran into the middle of the road and he hit the kid and launched himself off of the motorcycle and wrecked himself. His brother pulled up and we helped him up and got him into his brother's car. Hahaha man I shouldn't be laughing but it honestly was really funny because the priest we were with was so shocked and just terrified and then after we helped R-- into the car with tears running down his face he looks at me and says, "Can you come back over tomorrow?" Hahaha so we said, "Sure! Of course, if you'll be alright by then." It turns out he broke his leg in 4 different places. But he still kept the appointment the next day--it was priceless. R-- is a good guy. We are going to wheel him to church <span class="aBn" data-term="goog_689640116" style="border-bottom: 1px dashed rgb(204, 204, 204); position: relative; top: -2px; z-index: 0;" tabindex="0"><span class="aQJ" style="position: relative; top: 2px; z-index: -1;">on Sunday</span></span> in his wheelchair. He lives like 1 minute from the church. Haha the poor priest we were with....honestly, it was so funny. Good stuff!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">So we have really been working on rebuilding our teaching pool because we have a few great people, but not nearly enough so we've been working on that. It's always a frustrating process doing that but it will pay off and get back to running really well.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">We have this less-active we are working with--his name is Brother J- and he has no leg and has struggled with coming to church because he was just really nervous to go back, knows it's a struggle for him to move around, hasn't been in over 2 years, etc. But he finally came! We tried so hard to commit him to come for like 3 months and he finally came.....the thing is he's perfectly worthy, and because of his disability people have been bringing him the sacrament at his house but since he is coming to church now he's ok to exercise priesthood. So it was a really cool experience for me because less-active work has been a problem for me my whole mission, I feel like I've worked with so many people who were sooo close to coming but never really made the final push. But Brother J-- did, and what made it truly a cool experience was I got to push him in his wheelchair around to pass the sacrament to the congregation. He was so happy to be able to do that again, and for me it was just way sweet to be able to participate. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">I also was able to participate in a baby blessing! First time I've ever stood in on one. It was different, and the baby started to lose its mind mid-blessing. First time for everything! The past couple weeks have been good, we've taught a lot and found a lot, just trying to rebuild! </span></div>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07629339104994824454noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6135442951822718632.post-17963653351865458072017-08-02T14:20:00.001-07:002017-08-02T14:21:43.257-07:00July 31, 2017<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">Hey thanks for the clubs!! That was a sweet email to get. Sometimes I</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">act entitled to stuff when I shouldn't be, sorry about that. They look</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">way sweet though. And yeah Trevor comes home this week and same with</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">Big Red! They are all coming home ha it's weird. But hey I guess it's</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">coming up for me too. I don't know if it was like this for you, but it</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">just doesn't seem very real ha like it just seems like it will be</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">another transfer. Oh well! I'm excited though. I love being a</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">missionary but definitely excited to see everyone again and get back</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">to life. And wow you're pretty far! Keep it up!</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">Hey also this email is for mom because I don't have like any time to</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">write, I know I'm lame, and she'll probably be mad at me but I</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">promise I'll send a good email next week. One thing though--so we were</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">driving back from a meeting and all of a sudden there was a big thud</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">on top of the car and I was so confused so I pulled over and saw my</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">iPad laying in the road....I left it on the roof! It was actually ok,</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">but I had to get the screen fixed because it has like my whole mission</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">on it. Definitely sucked to have that happen. Also, I had to spend a</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">little money the past 2 weeks because some of our investigators didn't</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">have clothes for church and my clothes didn't fit them so if you see</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">I'm a little lower than normal, that's why. Gotta go but love you and</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">thanks again for the clubs! I'm excited to see you guys in a few</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">weeks!</span></span>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07629339104994824454noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6135442951822718632.post-59178321313484224402017-07-26T06:53:00.000-07:002017-07-26T06:56:31.608-07:00July 24, 2017<div style="background-color: white; color: #454545; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; line-height: normal;">
<span style="font-family: ".sfuitext";">Hey fam! This week was a way good week. <span class="aBn" data-term="goog_679070341" style="border-bottom: 1px dashed rgb(204, 204, 204); position: relative; top: -2px; z-index: 0;" tabindex="0"><span class="aQJ" style="position: relative; top: 2px; z-index: -1;">Wednesday</span></span> was awesome, we were able to go to the temple with our investigator, J-- which was so cool! It was really fun and a super neat experience. Although we couldn't go into the temple past the front desk or anything we were able to spend a lot of time walking around and enjoying the temple grounds. We taught him all about the temple and told him how special of a place that it is. He loved it a lot. He had a lot of great questions and we were able to have a good conversation with him about how it really is the House of the Lord and a truly sacred place. J-- is a champion. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: ".sfuitext";">Another amazing thing about going to the temple was on the way we went to the city of Lexington, Mass., which was awesome to see all of the cool history there as well as just be in the place that the revolutionary war started. Then after we went to the temple she pulled over at a cool spot and we had and AMAZING picnic--she made all kinds of great food as well as different lobster and crab stuff too, it was purely amazing. I love seafood. </span><span style="font-family: ".sfuitext";"></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: ".sfuitext";">This week we also had Zone Conference and those are always super fun, because the spirit is always so strong as well as a bunch of my other missionary friends being there. Part of the meeting Elder Thorpe and I had to give a two hour training which was really fun. We were able share a bunch of stuff on working with members, building trust in the ward, obedience and consecration, and setting goals and working to accomplish them. The setting goals part of the meeting was by far my favorite part to teach on. We had all the missionary's go outside and then we had an interactive lesson using water balloons and chalk. We had them throw the water balloons however they wanted and then after went and drew a circle around where it hit and told them that they did great. Then we drew a giant target in the middle of the parking lot and had them throw the balloons at the target and taught the principle of setting targets to shoot for instead of drawing targets at where ever we hit. It was really fun and a great way to show the importance of setting goals. Preparing for it taught me a lot. It was basically from the talk by Dieter F Uchtdorf where he says life without goals is like shooting an arrow at the wall and drawing the target around it. </span><span style="font-family: ".sfuitext";"></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: ".sfuitext";">We had some really cool experiences walking the street and running into people that were really prepared! It's always a cool thing to turn back and think about the experiences and see how the spirit helps us. Like random prompting to go down certain streets and run into someone outside, or feeling that even though a person may not seem interested to keep pushing, and keep trying to get them to open up, and then they start crying because they explain that the reason they stopped believing in God is because their Dad committed suicide, and then being able to testify that they can see them again one day and that Christ can help everyone to know that, and see their countenance change and their burden lifted.....it just doesn't happen anywhere other than the mission. Well, at least not as often. I'm lucky I get to do it every day! Trying to take advantage of it while I can. </span></div>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07629339104994824454noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6135442951822718632.post-69361363974388040832017-07-18T05:52:00.002-07:002017-07-18T05:52:47.679-07:00July 16, 2017<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">Hey fam!</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">Ok no problem for my homecoming, whatever works! And cool I'm excited</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">for that topic.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">Well this week was way awesome but it also was super long. It started</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">with a leadership meeting Tuesday</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;"> that went from 8:30-6:00</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">, then</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">District Meeting the next morning, and then another leadership meeting</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">that afternoon with President. Then we were given the assignment to</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">put together a bunch of excel spreadsheets for our stake meeting which</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">happened the next day too. So up until Thursday</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;"> we were completely in</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">meetings and I am not the biggest fan of meetings but oh well it</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">happened. It is hard to start your proselyting week on Friday</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;"> because</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">you set these goals and then have so little time to try to accomplish</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">them but we went at it and saw some amazing miracles. We have really</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">pushed to get our investigators to Sacrament Meeting. Doing anything</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">and everything we can. So we had a church tour with our investigator</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">D-- and took him around and showed him everything and it was really</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">spiritual and we felt prompted to try to set a date with him and he</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">did! August 26</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">! It was way cool. So we talked with him about the</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">importance of coming to church but he said he didn't have church</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">clothes so I gave him some of mine and I'll be honest he was looking</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">really good.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;"><br /></span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">So we get to church and first D-- walks into church and we were</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">really excited, so we walked with him into the chapel and then we saw</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">our other investigator, J--, and we were like "hey cool" and so they</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">both came and sat with us. My comp and I then looked at each other and</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">were like "Hey, we called C-- last night, I hope she will be able to</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">make it." And we then look over at the door and C-- starts walking</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">in haha cool stuff, but then while we were sitting, maybe like 15</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">minutes into the meeting, a member comes up to me and says "Come with</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">me" and so I did I started following him and he took me to the back of</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">the congregation where he said one of our friends was sitting and it</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">was a guy we met a few days earlier--haha I was so pumped he came. Then</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">I realized we texted our investigator J-- to come, too, and thought</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">"Hmm pretty sure he said he would come" and I looked over and he's</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">there and he brought his little family too! Then I look over at the</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">sacrament table and G--, the guy that was baptized about 3</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">weeks after I got in this area, was passing the sacrament. It was such</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">a cool thing to look around and have the spirit testify to me of the</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">power of missionary work. Seeing a recent convert passing the</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">sacrament and our investigators at church. It was one of those moments</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">where I am kind of ashamed to admit (only because I don't like doing</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">it), but I got a little emotional just seeing these people fulfill</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">their potential. At least taking the first step to fulfill it. Cool</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">stuff! Definitely made my week.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">I had interviews with President this week and it was really good</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">talking with him about stuff. It was really nice to know it wasn't my</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">exit interview haha-- I was able to have one last regular one! He is so</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">helpful and gives me good advice. Definitely lucky I have a mission</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">president like him. And his wife, too, she is awesome.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">It was a good week! Excited for the one upcoming. Nashua is such a fun</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">place to serve--there really are a ton of good people here. There are</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">ton of crazy ones too which makes every day enjoyable. If I proselyted</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">in a place full of normal people I would feel pretty out of place.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">Love you guys have a good week!</span></span>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07629339104994824454noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6135442951822718632.post-81180084349603716292017-07-12T10:01:00.002-07:002017-07-12T10:02:15.581-07:00July 10, 2017<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">Woahhhhh camping trip. And kkkk when did we get a UTV? Never got that</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">update. That's cool though! Glad the trip was good. Definitely the<br />group is shrinking but gotta keep it alive! Nothing better than<br />Wasatch. One of my favorite places in the world.<br /><br />Well well well this week was a good week. We worked hard this week<br />trying to get people to church. We were able to find a few people that<br />seem really solid. One of them is named J-- and we picked him up by<br />shooting baskets with him in his driveway. He's a YouTube maniac is<br />how he explained it, he posts trick shot videos so I asked him if I<br />could try one and he let me so I went and shot from like 30 feet<br />behind the backboard and had to make it over and I made the shot and<br />he lost his marbles. He posted it to YouTube because he said he was<br />filming it and said we would get good publicity from it. So hey, not<br />complaining. He probably doesn't have any subscribers so no one<br />probably could even find it but hey I made it on the internet so I'm<br />officially cool even if no one sees it. He also became an awesome<br />investigator so we are excited about him.<br /><br />So we really put a focus on sacrament meeting this week. We were<br />outside of our car at the very least a few hours a day and every soul<br />we met we invited them to church. Literally not a single person<br />crossed our path that we didn't invite to church haha we had some<br />awesome miracles come from that. They didn't necessarily come to<br />church but it was interesting to see their hearts soften to an invite<br />to church rather than an invite to meet with us....honestly from my<br />perspective I'd rather meet with any missionaries than go to some<br />random service I've never heard of, but hey whatever works I guess! It<br />was really good. We are going to continue to try that.<br /><br />We did have some people come to church though! The A-- family<br />from Iraq. Well, the 3 kids came because the parents had to work. It<br />was so cool though, because we tried SO hard to get them to come and<br />they finallyyy came. And they loved it so much! The ward loved them<br />too. One is 16, the other is 13, and the youngest is 7. They are<br />planning on coming every week now. It was really cool to see people<br />come to church and the young women came and swarmed them and instantly<br />became their best friends. They even participated in the classes from<br />what we were told, so it was awesome. Definitely a good way to end the<br />week.<br /><br />I've been seeking some advice from people about my last transfer and<br />it's been like the best thing for me. Legit--whoever reads this and is<br />on a mission, on your last transfer you need to find the balance of<br />preparing to go home but still staying super super focused, and asking<br />for advice is awesome because there are so many good ways to keep that<br />balance. I had a conversation with a rm in our ward last having dinner<br />at their house, and he got back like 6 months ago and we had a good<br />conversation. It was really helpful. So don't try to do it on your<br />own! Ask for advice--it's the best thing you could do.<br /><br />Love you guys have a good week!<br /><br />1. Nashua is full of crazy cool street art. Here's one example.<br />2. We have a sweet view outside of of our apartment window but you can<br />see it way better from higher up so I amped up my study desk🤘</span><br />
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07629339104994824454noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6135442951822718632.post-59504155240750074352017-07-12T09:27:00.002-07:002017-07-12T10:03:13.398-07:00July 1, 2017<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">Hey fam! Surprise! Our p-day changed because of transfers on Monday.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">Ps. I'm staying in Nashua for another! My last transfer! I'm definitely</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">excited to stay in Nashua though! I knew I'd stay because President</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">basically told me in my interview but to get the final answer was</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">good. There are so many awesome people here so I'm way excited.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">We had a crazy week, not too much finding. Which hasn't happened in a</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">while, but we taught most of the week! It was a good feeling to see</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">though because it shows that there finally is a foundation here with</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">the people we teach. Now it's just helping them progress and</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">continually rebuilding but we have some awesome investigators with a</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">lot of potential.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">So I told you about J--, the kid who accepted a baptismal invite</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">this last week and really understood everything well. Well we went and</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">taught him again this week and his Mom came in and joined us. She knew</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">basic beliefs of the church because she has a friend in our ward, and</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">they were the classics about polygamy and blacks and the priesthood</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">etc, and then tithing. We were able to manouver it well back to the</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">restoration and she kept asking about tithing so we explained the</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">basics and then moved on. At the end of the restoration she of course</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">brought up tithing again, and she said she has a problem with the</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">money going to pastors and evangelists and how they are millionaires</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">and have the nicest stuff and yet preach to give to the poor. We told</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">her our church's tithing goes straight to helping people and she then</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">said "well I'm going to talk to Sister Favey (the member in our ward)</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">and give her my 10% so I can pay my tithing to your church. I'm</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">excited to read the Book of Mormon so I can really know!" First time</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">I've ever taught the restoration and then afterwards they commit</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">themselves to pay tithing! It was actually really cool. They are a</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">solid family. We are excited to help them move forward.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">We also helped M--l download the gospel library app and he was</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">PUMPED. He's into technology, and as he was flipping through it he was like</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">"Wow, your church does well with the technology stuff". It's true! But</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">yeah he was way excited.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">I finished the Book of Mormon again this week and so I'm going through</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">each book that I read throughout my mission and going through all of</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">the markings and taking notes on them and it's been way interesting.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">I'm glad I did it that way on my mission. Picking up a fresh Book of</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">Mormon and marking it and then seeing how much different they are</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">because of the different positions I was in during each time I read.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">Don't even know if that makes sense but hopefully-- lol. The Book of</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">Mormon is just crazy cool. Finishing the Book of Mormon always is such</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">a cool experience reflecting on what you learned.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">Love you guys!</span></span>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07629339104994824454noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6135442951822718632.post-54679327983651630112017-06-28T10:48:00.000-07:002017-06-28T13:56:53.191-07:00June 26, 2017<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">Well this week was a good week. We saw a lot of cool miracles with</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">teaching people. We had a lot of logistical things to take care of too</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">because we have a lot of work to do before a specific meeting we have</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">with the stake pres. For work when I'm older I could never sit behind</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">a desk and just type on a computer. I would lose my mind. So when we</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">finished I was grateful to get back out haha. We started the week with</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">a meeting with the Lowell Spinners baseball team. It was pretty cool</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">going into their office and chatting. They are at our mercy too haha I</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">had no idea how bad baseball parks want things like "MormonNight" to</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">happen. And the 2 days that are our tentative dates to do it on are</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">August 11 and 28. Hopefully we can do the 11th if you know</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">what I mean. It was fun though! Hopefully we can get the ball rolling.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">We met with our investigator J-- the other day and it was one of</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">the best lessons I had been in. It's cool because he graduated just a</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">year ago so he's pretty close to our age and he's really mature which</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">is nice so meeting with him was cool. He asked us a lot of questions</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">about what we do and he was blown away when he found out our ages haha</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">we invited him to be baptized and he was like "oh yeah definitely like</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">when I come to know this is true definitely" the only obstacle is work</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">schedule for church and meeting with us so he is working it out where</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">he will have Sundays off. Hes a champ.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">I went on exchange with one of the assistants E Nelson and it was a</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">blast. I went on exchange with him when we both were brand new and it</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">was so funny because we had no idea what we were doing. So going this</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">time and working together was so funny to see how different we both</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">are now. He's one of my best mission friends so it was a good time.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">Things are good, we are finding a lot of new people now we are just</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">working on getting them to church and setting dates. It's been quite</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">the transition here haha but I feel like I'm starting to get the hang</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">of it a little now. I forget a lot of names though haha</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">Sorry I know I could be a lot better at emailing. I'm working on it</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">haha even though it's been almost 2 years still working on it LOL love</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">you guys! Btw happy birthday dad!</span></span>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07629339104994824454noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6135442951822718632.post-26929292278597405192017-06-22T13:24:00.001-07:002017-06-22T13:24:55.627-07:00June 19, 2017<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">That's awesome about trek! It's good to hear the new ward fam is</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">treating you guys well! Also, hope Dad had a good Father's Day! Did he</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">get my letter?</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">Alright well this week was another one for the books. We got our new</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">companions and I'm with Elder Thorpe and he's a solid kid. He hasn't</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">been out for very long and is a brand new ZL so it's been fun to help</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">him out and to work with him. He served in Wolfeboro and Bedford,too,</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">so it's been fun to talk about the people there.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">We had a good week though, we had an awesome zone conference with</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">Elder Snow from the 70, he came and gave us trainings. He interviewed</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">me after and wow he's a cool guy. After that we had a lot of time to</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">find. We had a really cool experience with a family that we found from</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">Iraq and we went in and taught them and the parents could speak</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">English better than they could hear and understand it, so the daughter</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">translated for us as we taught and it was UNREAL. We showed the Prince</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">of Peace video in the lesson and she translated it, and she got more</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">and more passionate as the video went on and it was so powerful. And</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">the family accepted it so well. One of the cooler experiences I've had</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">on my mission.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">Sorry, once again I don't have a ton of time but hopefully you won't kill</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">me mom. Love you guys! Have a good week!</span></span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" />Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07629339104994824454noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6135442951822718632.post-1253742833800020672017-06-13T09:38:00.000-07:002017-06-13T09:38:27.572-07:00June 12, 2017<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">Hey guys!</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" /><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">Crazy week. We have been working hard on trying to get everything</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">ready for the merge tomorrow</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;"> and I'm just excited to get it rolling.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">We've had a crazy amount of meetings with both mission's leadership and</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">also had a meeting with President Holland. Jeffrey's son. He is a</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">profound man like his dad. Definitely intimidating but way cool guy. I</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">went to a Boston Leadership meeting and it was really good, but I</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">realized how grateful I am to be serving in the Manchester mission.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">I'm just really grateful for President Blair and Sister Blair and all</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">that they do and the way they do things. It's been a crazy couple</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">weeks but I have really learned a lot here.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">I've been working on this idea since I've been here in Nashua and the</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">ball is finally starting to roll. So a lot of baseball parks have</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">"Mormon Night" where the baseball game is kind of themed that way and</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">they give a lot of tickets to the members and a famous Mormon will</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">throw out the first pitch and there are some other things too. I think</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">the Red Sox do it, I know the Dodgers do it, etc. So the Lowell</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">Spinners are in our zone, and we got their phone number and set up a</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">meeting to schedule a Mormon night at the baseball team's stadium in</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">July or August! It will most likely be a family night activity for the</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">stake and we will try to get our investigators and less actives to</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">come and have a good experience at the game especially being</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">surrounded by so many members and it being church-themed. And a good</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">thing to help member trust, too, hopefully. Our meeting is in about a</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">week and a half and it will hopefully go well. They seemed excited to</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">have us come to theme a game of theirs. We are coming up with other</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">ideas too but I guess we will see first with how the meeting goes.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">Ok I really don't have a ton of time which is why I've been really</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">vague I'm sorry I'm just running out of time but I love you guys and</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">am excited to update you next week on our investigators! We found a</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">really cool girl that was fellowshipped by a member and she wants to</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">learn and to be a part of the church because she is realizing the</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">truth behind her studies of the Book of Mormon. Really excited to try</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">to set something up this week with her and the member. To be</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">continued! Sorry again, I'll be better! Love you guys!</span></span>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07629339104994824454noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6135442951822718632.post-11446063007857504772017-06-08T10:38:00.000-07:002017-06-08T10:44:48.760-07:00June 5, 2017<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">Hey!!</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">This week was once again interesting. To sum it up I saw a dead guy, I</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">felt a dented head plate on a drunk guy, and I had a burrito that</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">tasted just like cafe rio❤️</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">Nashua is an interesting place, but I really like it a lot! It's so fun</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">to find people here because it reminds me so much of Manchester, you</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">just never know what you're going to find.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">I went on exchange with a missionary from my mission which was cool</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">because I felt like I was with someone that understands missionary</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">work the same way I do haha. It's been very interesting being with the</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">Boston missionaries but it's been good. It was cool though, and we</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">found some really cool people! It was too bad because they all</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">committed to come to church and none of them did. Nothing to update</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">with them just yet, but there will be soon. For lunch we went to this</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">Mexican place and it was crazy because it was like the first time I</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">had real Mexican food on my mission❤️❤️❤️❤️ and it actually had</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">flavor❤️❤️❤️ I love New England but their food could use some spice.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">Also on exchange we were walking the street and saw 2 cop cars. All</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">of a sudden they opened the door of the apartment that they were</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">parked in front of, and they were carrying a dead guy to this</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">van.....so we panicked and did the classic missionary thing and asked</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">if there was anything we could do to help. Pretty embarrassing moment.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">They said "no", if you couldn't guess.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">I met Aunt Miriam's sister and wow they look so similar haha-it was</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">funny to run into her. Miriam's parents were in town this week too! We</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">ran into them at 5 guys today also. It is weird seeing people that</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">know me. I'm so used to being unknown to everyone so when I see people</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">I have met or that I know, I get really awkward and I hate it haha but</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">whatever.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">Gary S. got baptized this last weekend and it went so well.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">He's such a cool guy. He bore his testimony at the end of the baptism,</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">and it honestly was one of the best testimonies I've heard. Good week</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">for sure.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">I like the challenge to read the Book of Mormon by then! I'll follow</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">up with you when I get back and see how it went! Love you guys!</span></span>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07629339104994824454noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6135442951822718632.post-91865751622483025712017-06-02T13:39:00.000-07:002017-06-02T13:39:42.614-07:00May 29, 2017<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">Hey everyone!</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">This week has been soooo crazy, really full of miracles and a bunch of</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">new things learned. The Boston missionaries definitely have a</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">different mission culture and way of doing things, so it's been really</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">interesting to see and learn how I can improve. My companion Elder</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">Woodward is a really good missionary--it's been really fun! With our</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">area book and transferring it over and trying to learn the area and</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">stuff....it's really hard. But I'll get there.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">We found a lot of success this week going around Nashua and just</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">talking with people on the streets. We had some really cool lessons on</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">the streets! We found a guy named M-- and his girlfriend who have met</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">with the missionaries before and knew who we were, so he let us teach</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">him on the spot and it was really cool! We gave him a Book of Mormon</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">at the end of teaching the restoration and he was like, "I'm really</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">searching, guys, like I won't let anyone's opinion get in the way</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">because I know that I need to know for myself" it was really cool to</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">hear--he seemed really excited to find out if it's true. And like 5</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">minutes after the lesson we were walking and came across a couple and</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">talked with them. The lady was faking a phone call and kind of</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">dodging haha but she heard us talking to her boyfriend and just</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">put her phone down and came and listened. She was like "wow ok this is</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">awesome!" And we taught the restoration and they thought it was really</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">interesting. I feel like we had a lot of contacts this week where</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">people were really hesitant but they felt the spirit of the message</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">and it softened their hearts. You could like see it on their face--it</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">was really neat to see.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">One of the coolest contacts we had was this lady named A--. She was</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">coming back from the bus stop with her daughter and we asked some</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">simple questions about her religious background and she said lately</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">she has been reading the Bible and felt like it had helped her a lot.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">So we gave her a Book of Mormon and told her it would add to her</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">blessings as she came to know this is true, and set up an appointment</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">for a couple days later. So 2 days later we go back and she had read</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">half of the Book of Mormon and was really sincere in letting us know</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">how grateful she was for stopping her and giving her this book. We are</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">seeing her again tomorrow! She is so cool.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">We are teaching this guy that will get baptized this upcoming weekend</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">and he's so cool. Brother S--. Every</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">time we go over there to talk to him </span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">he's so sincere and soaks up the</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">gospel and loves to bear his testimony about how he came to know it's</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">true. He is like a crazy successful and smart guy too, he is married</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">to a returning less active member and he is so cool to teach. This</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">area is a really great place! I'm really excited to serve here. I'm</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">excited for the craziness of this merge to finally stop and go back to</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">my mission haha rather than being in the Boston mission (no offense)</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">but it's just bizarre. I'm like cut off from my world aka my mission.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">Like I don't have a ton of contact with them ha but it's been a good</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">experience for me.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">Love you guys! This gospel is really powerful, I felt it this morning</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">really hit me because I was able to go to the Boston temple and do a</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">session and I was able to reflect on what the gospel has done for me</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">and the miracles we were blessed to see this week.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">Have a good week!</span></span><br />
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one really</span><br /><span style="background: white;">knows anything about it, even President said I'm basically on
my own</span><br /><span style="background: white;">so.....cool! I am getting a Boston missionary as my companion
for 3</span><br /><span style="background: white;">weeks and technically getting mission transferred but then
I'll be</span><br /><span style="background: white;">back lol, I have the 3
weeks to transfer our area book</span><br /><span style="background: white;">electronically and then to learn my area and zone and then
I'll get a</span><br /><span style="background: white;">new companion. President said I will become his new best
friend so I'm</span><br /><span style="background: white;">guessing I'll be talking with him a lot ha it is going to get
crazy</span><br /><span style="background: white;">but it's ok-- it's good for me, I'm glad I'll be kept on my
toes for my</span><br /><span style="background: white;">last 2 transfers.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><br /><span style="background: white;">Not a ton happened this week, the JSM was unreal with A—though,
he</span><br /><span style="background: white;">loved it so much! That place is so cool to go to, I'll
definitely miss</span><br /><span style="background: white;">being in Vermont. </span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><br /><span style="color: #222222; line-height: 115%;"><span style="background: white;">We met with T-- again. She is just about to finish 2 Nephi. She</span></span><br /><span style="color: #222222; line-height: 115%;"><span style="background: white;">will be baptized, just not sure when. Hopefully soon! Man I
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07629339104994824454noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6135442951822718632.post-30716900441171824042017-05-09T05:35:00.000-07:002017-05-09T05:35:30.921-07:00May 8, 2017<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">Hey everyone!</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">By the way, mom, I can Skype you guys at like 12:45 </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">eastern time. Does</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">that work?? I can get home from church pretty quickly to do it. Or</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">else I can do it really early but I'd prefer to do it then if</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">possible.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">Another crazy week here in Montpelier. We taught a lot this week and</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">it was a really good feeling because that doesn't happen too often,</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">usually the majority of the time is finding! We have been working with</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">A-- this week to get his baptism all organized for Friday </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;"> and it's</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">looking like things will work out well. He's so awesome. He told us</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">this week all the problems he is having with his family because they</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">don't approve of him getting baptized. He is very open about joining</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">the church and defends it and is willing to sacrifice anything to be a</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">part of it. It's actually pretty crazy, like a lot of his family isn't</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">talking to him because of it, so it's pretty sad. But I'm telling you</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">A-- lives by Romans 1:16 </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;"> like I've never seen. "For I am not ashamed</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">of the gospel of Christ: for it is the power of God unto salvation to</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">every one that believeth." Even in times of his own persecution he is</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">still willing to try to share the gospel. Definitely a big example to</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">me!</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">We taught our investigator B-- and he has a lot of really good</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">questions and has really good insights. This week he said "Well, when a</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">church receives persecution like Christ did, that's when I can see</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">truth in it." So we gave him the Prophet of the Restoration to watch</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">and he has already watched it at least 2 times and told us the last</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">time we saw him that he knows Joseph Smith is a true prophet! It was a</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">cool lesson to be a part of.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">We went to the Joseph Smith Memorial with E-- and another member</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">and it was unreal. That place is the best--especially taking the entire</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">tour and going and seeing everything around the grounds there. E--</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">really enjoyed it too. It was cool because on the way home he was</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">talking with us about serving a mission. It's funny because he said as</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">long as he goes to a place without vegetables he will be</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">fine........we let him down gently and just said there isn't a place</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">like that anywhere in the world. He will be alright, if I can learn to</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">like tomatoes than he can learn to like vegetables. He's such a goof.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">Other than that, not much too report on. We had a lot of lessons but</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">nothing too crazy. Things are good! Love you guys!</span></span>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07629339104994824454noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6135442951822718632.post-83527573742138700682017-05-04T06:20:00.000-07:002017-05-04T06:23:58.996-07:00April 30, 2017<div style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Wow this week was a really good week, it was definitely crazy with the weather change because so many people were outside and we were able to do a lot of finding, and I'll tell you what--the people here in Vermont are awesome. It's been a while since I have had this much variety with people, all sorts of interesting stories that maybe I'll tell another day but it's been really fun! Man I have missed my short sleeves though. It is so nice to be in them again! It definitely was a grind week though, not too many people were receptive but it definitely strengthened my faith with talking to everyone.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">A while ago on an exchange we found this guy named B-- and he is atheist but as we talked, we found out he grew up in Bountiful Utah for a while, and knew quite a bit about Mormons but obviously was never interested. We talked with him about what we believe and why, and it was a really good conversation respecting each others' beliefs and we went our ways, but we kept running into him on the streets! So we would chat and say hi and go on our way and finally we ran into him again the other day and he said "Hey, I was thinking that I'd like to come check out your church", so we invited him this week and he actually came and he loved it and wants to come next week! Our recent convert, E--, was an excellent fellowshipper too which is a big part of why I think he wants to come back. Good stuff!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Honestly don't have too much time but T-- had us over for dinner so that was cool, we taught her dad and the spirit was really strong but at the end he said, "So what about Brigham Young--where does he play into this" and gave a big grin. Definitely has heard a thing or two but that's alright--hopefully he will remember the spirit he felt. Our investigator A-- is going to be baptized this <span class="aBn" data-term="goog_1536239704" style="border-bottom: 1px dashed rgb(204, 204, 204); position: relative; top: -2px; z-index: 0;" tabindex="0"><span class="aQJ" style="position: relative; top: 2px; z-index: -1;">next Saturday</span></span> which is way cool. He is one of the coolest people I have met on my mission. Definitely lucky to have been able to work with him. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Sorry not too much time but I'll have more time next week! Love you guys! </span></div>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07629339104994824454noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6135442951822718632.post-7645961563221051062017-04-27T06:00:00.002-07:002017-04-27T06:00:38.277-07:00April 24, 2017<div class="MsoNormal">
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<br />
<span style="background: white;">Yes I got the package. Thank you! All of the candy is gone
already, I</span><br />
<span style="background: white;">ate it pretty quick. </span><span style="background: white;">Also, I talked with president and my release date is<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><span class="aqj"><span style="z-index: -1;"><span data-term="goog_1593085575" style="z-index: 0;" tabindex="0">August 28th</span></span></span>.</span><br />
<span style="background: white;">Lol-- I'll be in class the next morning. </span><br />
<br />
<span style="background: white;">Well this week was good. We got a surprise text from A-- at
the</span><br />
<span style="background: white;">beginning saying he went back to Michigan for a week or two
because he</span><br />
<span style="background: white;">needed to get his move started with coming full time here to
Vermont</span><br />
<span style="background: white;">so we weren't able to meet with him but he still is doing
really well</span><br />
<span style="background: white;">and went to church in Michigan and is still reading and
praying so</span><br />
<span style="background: white;">he's doing good!</span><br />
<br />
<span style="background: white;">We met with T-- again and she read into 2 Nephi a little so
she's</span><br />
<span style="background: white;">definitely making her way! She really is so solid. It's
awesome haha</span><br />
<span style="background: white;">but as we followed up with her on her reading, she then
pulled out her</span><br />
<span style="background: white;">bible and said she read the first 11 chapters in Genesis........let's</span><br />
<span style="background: white;">just say she had a lot of questions--hahaha--her first one was
"why</span><br />
<span style="background: white;">would Noah get drunk and pass out naked and then his grandson
tries to</span><br />
<span style="background: white;">cover him up and Noah curses him?"............yayyyyyy
Old Testament.</span><br />
<span style="background: white;">We told her we would read the Bible with her after the Book
of Mormon</span><br />
<span style="background: white;">but that she should just focus on the Book of Mormon for now. </span><br /><span style="background: white;">But yeah, she's doing well! </span><br />
<br />
<span style="background: white;">We had our MLC meeting in Manchester and I stayed at my old
apartment</span><br />
<span style="background: white;">with Elder Holt and it was really funny being around him and</span><br />
<span style="background: white;">reminiscing on the almost 5 months we were together. He goes
home in</span><br />
<span style="background: white;">just a few weeks so it was fun for probably the last time.
There is</span><br />
<span style="background: white;">some craziness coming to our mission here pretty soon so it
will be</span><br />
<span style="background: white;">interesting to see what happens.</span><br />
<br />
<span style="background: white;">We had a lot of time to find and it's been fun because we
have used a</span><br />
<span style="background: white;">new approach with people. We are going around asking for a
5-10 second</span><br />
<span style="background: white;">video about why they are grateful for their mothers and how
we are</span><br />
<span style="background: white;">planning on compiling all of them and putting them on the
internet</span><br />
<span style="background: white;">connected with a hashtag so that they can go back and watch
it. I</span><br />
<span style="background: white;">think the hashtag will be #thanksmom and then just relating
it back to</span><br />
<span style="background: white;">families and it's worked really well with people! We picked
up a few</span><br />
<span style="background: white;">new people from it and we are going to keep doing that until
Mother's</span><br />
<span style="background: white;">Day. We'll see what happens with it but now it's pretty much
happening</span><br />
<span style="background: white;">all over the mission, so there should be a lot of videos
coming in!</span><br />
<span style="background: white;">Makes for an exciting day.</span> </span></span></div>
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a good week!</span></span></span></div>
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And good to hear about Grandma. </span><span style="color: #222222; line-height: 115%;"><br />
<br />
<span style="background: white;">This week was definitely a good one. My companion was sick
for a</span><br />
<span style="background: white;">little bit of it but besides that it was good. Our new
investigator</span><br />
<span style="background: white;">A-- had us over again for lunch and we set a baptismal date
with him</span><br />
<span style="background: white;">for<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><span class="aqj"><span style="z-index: -1;"><span data-term="goog_813006426" style="z-index: 0;" tabindex="0">May 13th</span></span></span><span class="apple-converted-space"> and he's really excited. It is really cool
because a day</span></span><br />
<span style="background: white;">or two after we teach him he calls us and reviews it with us
again and</span><br />
<span style="background: white;">tells us additional things he learned from pondering the
lesson we</span><br />
<span style="background: white;">had. It's always a good thing when investigators remember
what we</span><br />
<span style="background: white;">taught hahaha especially when they ponder it. He's a champ--definitely</span><br />
<span style="background: white;">one of my favorites that I've taught on my mission.</span><br />
<br />
<span style="background: white;">We went on a mini mission with the Bishop’s son and another
priest in</span><br />
<span style="background: white;">the ward so it was crazy having 4 people going around
contacting and</span><br />
<span style="background: white;">teaching people but it was really fun haha they are cool
kids, and</span><br />
<span style="background: white;">what made it really cool was we went to go contact a guy
named B--</span><br />
<span style="background: white;">and so we knocked on his door and he answered it and was like, "Elders!</span><br /><span style="background: white;">come in, come in! I just cooked you eggs! Please come sit
down!!" And</span><br />
<span style="background: white;">so I was like, "Well, it sounds like you know the
missionaries pretty</span><br />
<span style="background: white;">well then!" And he responds "We don't just know you
guys, we LOVE you</span><br />
<span style="background: white;">guys! Our house is your house!" Hahaha it was so funny
but he was a</span><br />
<span style="background: white;">really cool guy even though the first part makes him sound
crazy. They</span><br />
<span style="background: white;">let us sit down and we taught them and also got to show them
the new</span><br />
<span style="background: white;">Easter video and it was really cool! We scheduled a barbecue
with him</span><br />
<span style="background: white;">in May.....Don't ask how our conversation led to that but
somehow it</span><br />
<span style="background: white;">got to BBQ and it's going to happen so I can't complain! So
the</span><br />
<span style="background: white;">priests were able to get a cool taste of the craziness of
missionary</span><br />
<span style="background: white;">life but also picking up someone new to teach. Fun times.</span><br />
<br />
<span style="background: white;">Easter was a pretty good day too, we had dinner at our Bishop's house.</span><br />
<span style="background: white;">Our Bishop and his family are like my favorite ever--they are
so cool</span><br />
<span style="background: white;">and so solid. They prepared a little Easter egg hunt for us
before</span><br />
<span style="background: white;">dinner and it was comedy, I totally felt 7 years old again
running</span><br />
<span style="background: white;">around with my bag filled with eggs--it was amazing. What made
it extra</span><br />
<span style="background: white;">good too was a video I watched on Mormon.org, it is the
"Compassion"</span><br />
<span style="background: white;">video from the new Easter initiative. It shed light on me
about</span><br />
<span style="background: white;">Christ's Atonement that I don't think of enough which is to turn</span><br />
<span style="background: white;">outwardly when we experience trials and how much it can help.
When</span><br />
<span style="background: white;">Christ's Atonement is used properly it truly brings a change
of mind,</span><br />
<span style="background: white;">not necessarily a change of situation. Even though people
sometimes</span><br />
<span style="background: white;">expect the situation to change, if we open our hearts we can
see as</span><br />
<span style="background: white;">Christ sees and bless other people as well as receive
blessings</span><br />
<span style="background: white;">ourselves.</span><br />
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<span style="background: white;">Love you guys! Have a good week!!</span></span></span></div>
Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07629339104994824454noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6135442951822718632.post-68529359400976810472017-04-13T12:25:00.000-07:002017-04-13T12:25:23.270-07:00April 10, 2017<div class="MsoNormal">
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<span style="background: white;">This week was crazy. We did a lot of planning for this Easter
event</span><br />
<span style="background: white;">Elder Braley and I put on this last weekend. It was a tour of
the life</span><br />
<span style="background: white;">of Christ. The event was<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><span class="aqj"><span style="z-index: -1;"><span data-term="goog_2141692168" style="z-index: 0;" tabindex="0">on Friday</span></span></span><span class="apple-converted-space"> and it went really well. We had the</span></span><br />
<span style="background: white;">different rooms set up for each phase of his life, and people
went</span><br />
<span style="background: white;">through them chronologically starting with Christ’s birth, to
his</span><br />
<span style="background: white;">ministry, to his death, and then to his resurrection. There
were</span><br />
<span style="background: white;">roughly 80 people that came. It was really cool because yesterday
in</span><br />
<span style="background: white;">sacrament meeting a lot of people got up and bore their
testimonies on</span><br />
<span style="background: white;">the life of Christ and tied it into missionary work. And one
high</span><br />
<span style="background: white;">councilman in our ward came up to us and said he felt like he
had a</span><br />
<span style="background: white;">prompting to come out and work with us more. So we did right
after,</span><br />
<span style="background: white;">and visited prospective elders and less actives. We visited this</span><br />
<span style="background: white;">family and it was a really spiritual experience. We are now
meeting</span><br />
<span style="background: white;">with them weekly! He wants to come out with us as often as he
can now.</span><br />
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<span style="background: white; color: #222222; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">It's funny because after
the event we felt like it went only ok,</span></span><span style="color: #222222; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><br style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;" />
<span style="background: white;"><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; float: none; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;">because a lot of the less actives we invited and committed to
come as</span></span><br style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;" />
<span style="background: white;"><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; float: none; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;">well as investigators, didn't end up coming. But to
hear the members</span></span><br style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;" />
<span style="background: white;"><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; float: none; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;">say how it impacted them helped us see that this non
denominational</span></span><br style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;" />
<span style="background: white;"><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; float: none; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;">event wasn't only for non members and our less actives, but
helped</span></span><br style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;" />
<span style="background: white;"><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; float: none; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;">strengthen the members in ways we definitely didn't expect!
It really</span></span><br style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;" />
<span style="background: white;"><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; float: none; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;">was a lot of fun though, and really a cool experience to
study the</span></span><br style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;" />
<span style="background: white;"><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; float: none; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;">life of Christ in depth at this Easter season.</span></span><br style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;" />
<br style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;" />
<span style="background: white;"><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; float: none; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;">We met with T-- a couple times this week and she's doing just
great. A</span></span><br style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;" />
</span><span style="background: white;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; float: none; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;">cool thing happened<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span></span><span class="aqj"><span style="z-index: -1;"><span data-term="goog_2141692169" style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; z-index: 0;" tabindex="0">on Sunday</span>.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>So she signed up to feed us which is so</span></span><br style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;" />
<span style="background: white;"><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; float: none; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;">cool because her boyfriend will be there so hopefully we can
talk with</span></span><br style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;" />
<span style="background: white;"><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; float: none; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;">him and soften his heart a little towards us. He doesn't hate
us--he</span></span><br style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;" />
<span style="background: white;"><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; float: none; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;">just isn't a fan of religion, so maybe we can just start by
being his</span></span><br style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;" />
<span style="background: white;"><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; float: none; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;">friend!</span></span><br style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;" />
<br style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;" />
<span style="background: white;"><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; float: none; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;">We had another really cool experience yesterday at church,
too. A</span></span><br style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;" />
<span style="background: white;"><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; float: none; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;">member here has been telling us for about a month that one of
his</span></span><br style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;" />
<span style="background: white;"><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; float: none; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;">young friends was going to come and we could teach him, and
he finally</span></span><br style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;" />
<span style="background: white;"><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; float: none; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;">showed up yesterday and we talked with him and he is so
prepared to</span></span><br style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;" />
<span style="background: white;"><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; float: none; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;">hear the gospel. No joke--he is probably the most prepared
person I've</span></span><br style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;" />
<span style="background: white;"><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; float: none; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;">met on my mission. We sat with him during sacrament meeting
and he</span></span><br style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;" />
<span style="background: white;"><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; float: none; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;">nudged me to go bear my testimony kind of joking with me. So
I went</span></span><br style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;" />
<span style="background: white;"><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; float: none; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;">up, and afterwards he leaned to me and said "Well, I dug
myself in a</span></span><br style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;" />
<span style="background: white;"><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; float: none; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;">hole because now it's my turn to go up isn't it." I said
"Well yeah!"</span></span><br style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;" />
<span style="background: white;"><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; float: none; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;">and he got up and bore his testimony and it was so amazing.
He talked</span></span><br style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;" />
<span style="background: white;"><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; float: none; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;">about how he has learned just a little about the church but
yet he</span></span><br style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;" />
<span style="background: white;"><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; float: none; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;">knows it's true without a doubt because of how we as LDS
members act</span>.</span><br />
<span style="background: white;"><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; float: none; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;">He said it's so Christlike that people would have to be blind
to</span></span><br style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;" />
<span style="background: white;"><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; float: none; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;">not see it. He then went up to the Bishop after the meeting
and</span></span><br style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;" />
<span style="background: white;"><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; float: none; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;">thanked him for carrying on such a difficult calling and said
he</span></span><br style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;" />
<span style="background: white;"><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; float: none; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;">really appreciated him. He then introduced himself and said
he is</span></span><br style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;" />
<span style="background: white;"><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; float: none; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;">planning on getting baptized within the next month or two. So,
usually</span></span><br style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;" />
<span style="background: white;"><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; float: none; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;">in a story like this, there is a hicup with the person, maybe
like a</span></span><br style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;" />
<span style="background: white;"><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; float: none; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;">mental setback or something fishy but no he is literally that</span></span><br style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;" />
<span style="background: white;"><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; float: none; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;">prepared!! Haha his name is A--. He is cooking dinner for us</span></span><br style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;" />
<span style="background: white;"><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; float: none; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;">tomorrow and having a lesson as well, and we are planning on
setting a</span></span><br style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;" />
<span style="background: white;"><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; float: none; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;">baptismal date with him. He met with the missionaries for a
couple</span></span><br style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;" />
<span style="background: white;"><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; float: none; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;">weeks in Michigan so he knows a little, but now he has moved
out here.</span></span><br style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;" />
<span style="background: white;"><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; float: none; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;">It was such a refreshing miracle that we were just blessed to
be a</span></span><br style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;" />
<span style="background: white;"><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; float: none; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;">part of. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I'm sure
there will be quite a bit to update on next week</span></span><br style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;" />
<span style="background: white;"><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; float: none; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;">with him!</span></span><br style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;" />
<br style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;" />
<span style="background: white;"><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; float: none; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;">Love you guys!</span></span><br style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;" />
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07629339104994824454noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6135442951822718632.post-83162594990612237362017-04-05T06:06:00.003-07:002017-04-05T06:06:38.509-07:00April 3, 2017<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">Hey, Fam!</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">Wow--weird to think Jessica is home, send a picture--I want to see! </span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">This week was a really good week. General Conference was amazing.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">Before my mission I was never much of a fan of General Conference--I</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">did all that I could to avoid watching it haha, but I just never gave</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">it a real chance. Now it's like my favorite thing. It's like a</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">missionary's Super Bowl--haha! We had one of our investigators named</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">B-- (he's new) come to Conference and he was there during the 2nd</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">session on Saturday</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;"> and so he was there for all the sustaining votes</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">and everything. Definitely had to clarify a few things for him. And</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">when President Uchtdorf would ask if there were any opposed I would</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">fake cough really loud so he didn't hear the people yell "opposed!" It</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">was probably annoying and he probably thought I had a serious problem</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">with my throat but it was worth it.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">We met with T-- a few times this week and she's moving on through the</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">Book of Mormon! She's doing really well. She didn't come to General</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">Conference for some reason though, we need to ask her what happened</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">but it's ok she could rewatch it. E-- is preparing to teach us the</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">discussions, now that we gave him a Preach My Gospel, and he's really</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">excited, He is going home teaching with the patriarch in our ward</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">so he's doing really well too.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">We had quite a bit of time to find this week, too, and in Barre it's</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">always an adventure haha--the people here are so interesting and funny.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">But we were able to find 2 really awesome people, and the one that's</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">the coolest is named A--. He's from Belize and is really looking for a</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">solid church community, and he loves families. We are meeting with him</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">this week so hopefully there will be more to update.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">Life is good here in Vermont! Today was pretty warm so definitely</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">praying it will stay. Love you guys!!</span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;"><br /></span>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07629339104994824454noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6135442951822718632.post-16263962840440818252017-03-30T06:16:00.002-07:002017-03-30T06:16:42.310-07:00March 27, 2017<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">Hey fam!</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">Well this week was definitely one for the books. It was full of a lot</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">exchanges with missionaries in our zone because of some stuff that has</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">been going on so it's been just peachy! We have driven at least 500</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">miles this week, so I'm definitely sick of the car.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">We were able to meet with our investigator T-- a couple times and we</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">had a really good lesson about the atonement. She kept saying "Wow, I</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">didn't know that!" Especially when we got to the Garden of Gethsemane.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;"><br /></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">She came to church, too, again and since her kids are so wild in church</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">she made them little kits so they can be distracted so she can listen</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">better--haha. It was also ward conference so the stake presidency was</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">there and they spoke, and towards the end of the meeting the stake</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">president got up to speak and he talked a lot about Easter and the</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">love of Christ. Like right in the middle of his talk--at a really</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">deep part, one of T--'s daughters takes off towards the pulpit. We</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">were so nervous because she is not afraid to do anything. So she just</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">runs up there not saying a word and goes right up to the stake</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">president in his talk and she just reaches up to hand him a piece of</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">paper. He says thanks and then she just reverently walks back to her</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">seat! He opened the piece of paper and it was a drawing of a heart and</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">in the heart it said "I love you" and the stake president just started</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">to cry. He was in the middle of talking about the love Christ has for</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">us and after that he jumped into how much Christ loves children and it</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">was really cool. Definitely scary! But good outcome. Afterwards we</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">talked with the stake president and told him that was our</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">investigators daughter and he wrote it all down to share in another</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">talk. It was cool.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">E-- is doing great. He went to the family history center at our</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">church to get names to take to the temple in a couple weeks, he's</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">really excited! And so are we!</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">Well we didn't even proselyte that much in our area because of our</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">exchanges but it was still a good week and excited for the next one.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">Sorry that my past few emails have been lame but I'm working on it!</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">Love you guys!</span></span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" />Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07629339104994824454noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6135442951822718632.post-13453262962771901062017-03-22T07:03:00.001-07:002017-03-22T07:09:23.711-07:00March 20, 2017<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">Hey mom!</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">Wow sounds like a good week, I bet Dad's face was priceless when he got</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">up on that ladder. And spike ball? Dang, I love that game. When I was</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">in Manchester we played that a lot on p-days....so I'm coming for</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">them!</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">This week was a good week! Full of a lot of craziness but way good. We</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">had zone conference at the Joseph Smith Memorial and it was so good.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">We have been doing lots of preparations for Easter and so we talked a</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">lot about that, and the new Easter video the church came out with is</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">super awesome. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">After the zone conference I went on exchange with one</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">of our Assistants, Elder Nelson, and it was so fun ha he's one of the</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">homies, and I got to go back to hometown Manchester. It was crazy</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">to proselyte there again, but so much fun. I got to go to dinner with</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">my last comp Elder Holt too since he's still there so it was a good</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">time. I definitely forgot how crazy that city is, though--haha. We ran</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">into a guy that knew the missionaries and to sum up the</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">conversation..."Hey Apostles! if you ain't been to jail you ain't a</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">true Christian! True story!" Good stuff good stuff.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">Well we had a solid week of teaching, we found 3 new investigators on</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">Friday and it was so bizarre because they were all named</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">B--.......after we realized this we looked what was next on our</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">schedule and there was a potential family that we found a few days</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">before and they had 7 kids (so basically Mormon, already!) pretty cool, and then</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">we realized the dad's name was B--......he wasn't interested ( but</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">it's all good he was really nice and he gave us root beer. T-- came to</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">church again and had a blast, since we last met with her she had read</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">11 chapters in the Book of Mormon! She's doing very well, she has a</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">baptismal date for June 6</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;"> and is making her way for sure.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">This week there was a crazy snow storm, we had 30 inches in a day.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">When storms like that happen we can't drive our cars so we had to walk</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">a few miles into town and carried our shovels and for like 6 or 7</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">hours just visited investigators and shoveled random people. We</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">found this lady named Katie and she was shoveling and we chatted with</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">her for a while and said she would be interested in meeting with us.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">So we stopped by</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;"> and her husband and 2 kids were there</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">and they are soooo solid. It was unreal. The husband was one of the</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">more intimidating people I've seen but he was like the nicest guy</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">ever. We are excited to go back and teach them this week.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">Good stuff up here in Vermont. I love it here, it's definitely an</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">adventure every day. But I'm just waiting for the spring weather like</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">you guys have in Utah!</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">PS mom I had interviews with President today and I talked with him</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">about the 27th of August . </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">He said he will let me know if it changes</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">but that should be the day.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">Love you! 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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;"> Cam's good friends in Texas--Elder Okelberry and Elder Toolson.</span>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07629339104994824454noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6135442951822718632.post-4656694547308700912017-03-16T08:00:00.001-07:002017-03-16T08:00:20.957-07:00March 13, 2017<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">Hi, Mom! Sounds like a busy week!</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">We had quite the week too. It started with driving to Manchester for a</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">leadership meeting and we were there all day Tuesday and got back late</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">that night. Then I went on exchange to Littleton, NH and got back</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">Thursday afternoon, and then had to drive up to Burlington, Vermont for</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">a monthly meeting with the Stake President about the missionary work</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">in the zone......then my companion got sick. It was quite the week of</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">driving and then staying in the apartment with my companion since he</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">was sick. Fun fun fun. Sorry mom, I know you wanted a big email but</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">not a ton happened! </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">The couple days we had to proselyte, though, we</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">were able to meet with T-- and set a baptismal date with her, and she</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">came to church again. She's doing well! Her kids are absolutely</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">hilarious, especially her 5 year old, A--. They love church so</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">that's a really good thing!</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">Have a good week! Enjoy the good weather in Utah.....it got to -27</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">this week and we found out it's supposed to snow 20 inches tomorrow</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">alone. Yay! I promise I will have more to update on next week, love</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">you guys!</span></span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" />Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07629339104994824454noreply@blogger.com0