sorry im just barely writing you now. i promise you´ll get your next email on monday.
this week.... what happened...... ummmmm.....
soooooo. ive told you about Laura the progressing investigator we have. she is so cool and is going to be such a convert. we taught her the gospel the restoration the book of mormon and gave her a church tour, and she is so ready for baptism. today we are going to eat at her house cause she volunteered to feed us, already acting like a member of the church, and we´re going to teach the plan of salvation a little bit, but last week cause she´s so awesome she naturally without us telling her or inviting her to, she went and talked with one of her neighbor friends who was struggling and told her about the church and how it has helped her and that if the friend wanted she could introduce her to us. so then we got to meet Carmen, also a really cool woman who wanted to know more was willing to come to church and to read was really interested And Carmen is a mother of two so the was the potential fo the family too. well after two really cool lessons with her, she told us saturday afternoon that she wanted to go to church and that she wanted us bring her the book of mormon.
we dont really know what happened she must've fought with one of her daughters or something and now she wants space and doesnt want to meet with us which is always LAME she had, and im still going to say has so much potential.
oh ya have i told you about my new comp yet? his name is elder olson, he's from farmington utah. he went to davis high, supposedly his mom's going to like try and ask you out to lunch or something... idk ahahahaha i havent given out your personal info so dont worry.
other than laura and carmen what happened. oh our ward mission leaders dad who we teach adn had a baptismal date for this satruday dropped the goal, partly cause he's an old man and doesnt get it and the other part cause his son has about the same level of understanding and conversion which is like zero so that doesnt help. we kind of dropped him unless he shows some sort of initiative more that just going to church.
oh we also got another little famiyl to church on sunday i almost completely forgot about them there is a woman who got baptised 7 years ago with one sunday at church she got confirmed the next sunday adn then she never came back. so we are trying to help her and then try to help her children get baptised. i hope we can help them cause they are really cool too. they never read so we went like three days in a row and read with them then they read on their own. which was super super nice.
Love you guys i'll write on monday
Elder Blotter
Monday, July 27, 2015
Tuesday, July 21, 2015
Week 78
So.... cause of the last week of transfers, my life is insane and i still forgot stuff -like emailing yesterday- and its always a good time.
im not really sure what to share from this week, cause it was the last week with elder norr, he went home so lots of teh appts. he was saying goodbye to the ward members and stuff and tons of people invited us to eat with them.
okay, so there was these three inv that we found like three weeks ago like pretty cool, excited the spirit was teaching whenever we went over solid inv. but she´s like an active member in some other church, and passing a sunday we went over and no one answered, over and no one answered. jbut then finally we go knock she comes out says we´re good, kinda dont come back if you want ill give you your blue book back.,........... ugh t hats the worst. something must have been like said or something in her church cause it was a change from night to day.
but she said before norr went home, we could come over. saweet so i think she thought we were going to like spend a ton of time saying bye we took the opurtunity to teach, we fasted the day before to know what to teach, we didnt feel anything more than like instead of giving us a topic to teach we were waiting for the spitit in the lesson. we decided to teach the Book of Mormon. i thought it was a good lesson, still probably not progressing but they all committed to read the book of mormon, nad we have a return appt.
also we were plannning on what we were going to teach laura our like perfect inv. we decided she like understands and stuff superficial lessons jsut dont cut it, so we decided to dive a little bit more into deeper doctrine. she´s sooo cool.....
then changes happened and its freaking busy im soooory i havent written you. i love you guys sioooo much. ill write you like a little bit more like in a couple days......... to finish this cause i like wrote this part a couple of days ago and i figured id get it to you......
LOVE YOU
Elder Blotter
im not really sure what to share from this week, cause it was the last week with elder norr, he went home so lots of teh appts. he was saying goodbye to the ward members and stuff and tons of people invited us to eat with them.
okay, so there was these three inv that we found like three weeks ago like pretty cool, excited the spirit was teaching whenever we went over solid inv. but she´s like an active member in some other church, and passing a sunday we went over and no one answered, over and no one answered. jbut then finally we go knock she comes out says we´re good, kinda dont come back if you want ill give you your blue book back.,........... ugh t hats the worst. something must have been like said or something in her church cause it was a change from night to day.
but she said before norr went home, we could come over. saweet so i think she thought we were going to like spend a ton of time saying bye we took the opurtunity to teach, we fasted the day before to know what to teach, we didnt feel anything more than like instead of giving us a topic to teach we were waiting for the spitit in the lesson. we decided to teach the Book of Mormon. i thought it was a good lesson, still probably not progressing but they all committed to read the book of mormon, nad we have a return appt.
also we were plannning on what we were going to teach laura our like perfect inv. we decided she like understands and stuff superficial lessons jsut dont cut it, so we decided to dive a little bit more into deeper doctrine. she´s sooo cool.....
then changes happened and its freaking busy im soooory i havent written you. i love you guys sioooo much. ill write you like a little bit more like in a couple days......... to finish this cause i like wrote this part a couple of days ago and i figured id get it to you......
LOVE YOU
Elder Blotter
Wednesday, July 15, 2015
Week 77
Soooooo... my p day got changed back to monday and its terrible there´s no time to do anything. but i figured id get you guys an email.
What do i have to talk about this week?
the biggest thing i think was that Laura the perfect inv. we took her to the church to give her a tour and to teach her abolut the sacrament and baptism, sh is literally sooo cool, we get into the church and sit down and she lists off like three or four questions, wer´re like hold up. we´ll get to that but wait a sec. lets start with a prayer, then we talked about the sacrament and the purpose of it and keeping the sabbath day holy. then we went and showed her the pila or the font and she´s like so what do i have to wear to be baptised? hahahaha perfect question........ and then we´re like laura will you get baptised? and she gets like this hard to get look, like she doesnt want to show how much she wants to be baptised, and says when......... ahhaha the 22ish of August. yup.
Anyways other than that its been busy here in the offices, last week of changes always goes a little nuts here AND i forgot to do the release papers for all the elders going home, ya so i had to do 22 of those........ that was fun......... hahahaha
love you guys a ton. dont have alot of time ive been having a blast and we´ve been super busy in the offices and in the area perfect combo.
foto weedwacking the church. haha in the rain.
Elder Blotter
What do i have to talk about this week?
the biggest thing i think was that Laura the perfect inv. we took her to the church to give her a tour and to teach her abolut the sacrament and baptism, sh is literally sooo cool, we get into the church and sit down and she lists off like three or four questions, wer´re like hold up. we´ll get to that but wait a sec. lets start with a prayer, then we talked about the sacrament and the purpose of it and keeping the sabbath day holy. then we went and showed her the pila or the font and she´s like so what do i have to wear to be baptised? hahahaha perfect question........ and then we´re like laura will you get baptised? and she gets like this hard to get look, like she doesnt want to show how much she wants to be baptised, and says when......... ahhaha the 22ish of August. yup.
Anyways other than that its been busy here in the offices, last week of changes always goes a little nuts here AND i forgot to do the release papers for all the elders going home, ya so i had to do 22 of those........ that was fun......... hahahaha
love you guys a ton. dont have alot of time ive been having a blast and we´ve been super busy in the offices and in the area perfect combo.
foto weedwacking the church. haha in the rain.
Elder Blotter
Wednesday, July 8, 2015
Week 76
hey mom and dad,
so this week was exhausting. hahaha
wednesday - we visited one of elder norrs old areas, then got back to teach like two lessons,
thursday - was a normal day. we went to visit a family that we think had been in teaching before and we knocked and they didnt really want to let us in, but we got in to go teach for like 5-10 my comp started teaching and it was pretty rote, not bagging on him at all we all do it sometimes, but i watched the people tune out so i completely turned the lesson around and the spirit was there, and they were more interested now that they were when we started so thats the hope. progress.
friday- went to polanco adn wasted like an hour and a half in line to have them tell me to redo all the paperwork i had done.......... lame. and annoying cause i had ot have like 15 missionaries companionships come in to sign and i was going to have to call them all in again. then in the afternoon the plans kiinda blew up but we did splits with a recent convert and it was pretty good.
saturday - we found laura. she is like such an amazing inv. she okay im going to tell you guys what she told us. she has a boyfriend thats a member of the church, he´s never been pushy or anything about her being mormon or nothing but she´s been interested in religion and supposedly he´s invited her. so a week before we were on the bus she saw us and called her boyfriend to tell him that we were on the bus with her, he told her to talk to us, she said she was scared but she´d talk to us if we got off at the same time as her. we did. the interesting thing was we got off late. as in we missed our stop for one reason or another. so she contacted us and then told us she´d never been baptised. hahaha yayayay so on saturday we finally got to visit her in her super fresa apartment building it actually has a doorman and an elevator. hahaha like really nice building. she had already read the pamphlet and was super ready to listen to us. so great. oh ya and in honor of the fourth of july we wore blue white and red ties and sang the national anthem.
sunday only one of the three inv. that promised to go to church went, thats always dissapointing.
sunday was uneventful in the area, we always go back home a little early on sundays to do weekly planning adn to study and sutff, and this sunday we had planned a dinner BBQ wiht the assistents, cause they always come stay sunday to take the reports and to report to pres. i made moms bowtie pasta salad, we even bought feta and put it in the thing i forgot were the pine nuts. we grilled hamburgers brawts had jello and watermelon. it was pretty good. hahaha
then monday we were working oon stuff in the offices, when pres called and asked if we had appts. in teh afternoon, the answer was yes, he said cancel them please. cause htere was an elder who had tried to kill himself, or OD on pills the night before and leaving the hospital pres wanted us to be with him to be on suicide watch before he went home the next morning so we went with pres to his super nice house to spend the day and night making sure the elder was okay, pres wanted that one of us was always with him even in the middle of the night like sitting in a recliner while he, the missionary, was asleep. instead of that cause that would have been a little awkward and semi degrading, so we decided to pull an all nighter and hang out with him all night long.
so we ended up playing monopoly 5 times, then we watched disney movies till like 330 ish before some of us crashed. so we all went to bed and my comp stayed up awake the other 2 hours before we had to be up at 545 to go to the airport. then we got back to the offices at 8 am went to bed till like ten cause i had to wake up at ten cause i had a ton of missionaries here to sign migration papers. annoying for them. then we went to the area and worked all day long. So that was crazy.
Have you guys seen the lego movie? cause i thought it was stellar.
In the afternoon on tuesday when we were all super tired we visited laura again, she had read like up to chaptre 17 in the Book of Mormon and she read the plan of salvation pamphlet. hahaha it was like a weird lesson to explain the book of mormon cause she already understood.hahaha and then she was like so church on sunday how does that go? hahahaha we´d love to take you to the church show you around and explain it. she was like ya that sounds perfect!
can you say golden?
and then ya today tried to catch up a little on sleep.
love you guys!
Elder Blotter
so this week was exhausting. hahaha
wednesday - we visited one of elder norrs old areas, then got back to teach like two lessons,
thursday - was a normal day. we went to visit a family that we think had been in teaching before and we knocked and they didnt really want to let us in, but we got in to go teach for like 5-10 my comp started teaching and it was pretty rote, not bagging on him at all we all do it sometimes, but i watched the people tune out so i completely turned the lesson around and the spirit was there, and they were more interested now that they were when we started so thats the hope. progress.
friday- went to polanco adn wasted like an hour and a half in line to have them tell me to redo all the paperwork i had done.......... lame. and annoying cause i had ot have like 15 missionaries companionships come in to sign and i was going to have to call them all in again. then in the afternoon the plans kiinda blew up but we did splits with a recent convert and it was pretty good.
saturday - we found laura. she is like such an amazing inv. she okay im going to tell you guys what she told us. she has a boyfriend thats a member of the church, he´s never been pushy or anything about her being mormon or nothing but she´s been interested in religion and supposedly he´s invited her. so a week before we were on the bus she saw us and called her boyfriend to tell him that we were on the bus with her, he told her to talk to us, she said she was scared but she´d talk to us if we got off at the same time as her. we did. the interesting thing was we got off late. as in we missed our stop for one reason or another. so she contacted us and then told us she´d never been baptised. hahaha yayayay so on saturday we finally got to visit her in her super fresa apartment building it actually has a doorman and an elevator. hahaha like really nice building. she had already read the pamphlet and was super ready to listen to us. so great. oh ya and in honor of the fourth of july we wore blue white and red ties and sang the national anthem.
sunday only one of the three inv. that promised to go to church went, thats always dissapointing.
sunday was uneventful in the area, we always go back home a little early on sundays to do weekly planning adn to study and sutff, and this sunday we had planned a dinner BBQ wiht the assistents, cause they always come stay sunday to take the reports and to report to pres. i made moms bowtie pasta salad, we even bought feta and put it in the thing i forgot were the pine nuts. we grilled hamburgers brawts had jello and watermelon. it was pretty good. hahaha
then monday we were working oon stuff in the offices, when pres called and asked if we had appts. in teh afternoon, the answer was yes, he said cancel them please. cause htere was an elder who had tried to kill himself, or OD on pills the night before and leaving the hospital pres wanted us to be with him to be on suicide watch before he went home the next morning so we went with pres to his super nice house to spend the day and night making sure the elder was okay, pres wanted that one of us was always with him even in the middle of the night like sitting in a recliner while he, the missionary, was asleep. instead of that cause that would have been a little awkward and semi degrading, so we decided to pull an all nighter and hang out with him all night long.
so we ended up playing monopoly 5 times, then we watched disney movies till like 330 ish before some of us crashed. so we all went to bed and my comp stayed up awake the other 2 hours before we had to be up at 545 to go to the airport. then we got back to the offices at 8 am went to bed till like ten cause i had to wake up at ten cause i had a ton of missionaries here to sign migration papers. annoying for them. then we went to the area and worked all day long. So that was crazy.
Have you guys seen the lego movie? cause i thought it was stellar.
In the afternoon on tuesday when we were all super tired we visited laura again, she had read like up to chaptre 17 in the Book of Mormon and she read the plan of salvation pamphlet. hahaha it was like a weird lesson to explain the book of mormon cause she already understood.hahaha and then she was like so church on sunday how does that go? hahahaha we´d love to take you to the church show you around and explain it. she was like ya that sounds perfect!
can you say golden?
and then ya today tried to catch up a little on sleep.
love you guys!
Elder Blotter
Wednesday, July 1, 2015
Week 75
sorrrryyy... i ddidnt really have time to send a really good email.
so this week was solid work kinda, wednesday to today. so last sunday like 10 days ago we got home a little early to study cause study time is during church and it was rainging so we used the time to do weekly planning cause being in the offices it doesnt make it easy to plan for the week daily planning yes but weekly we dont have time to dedicate to that, so sunday after noon, so we set a goal kind of a high goal of finding 10 new investigators and putting 7 fechas this past week, we started praying to know where god wanted us to contact in what part of the area, the road we felt and decided after like days of praying about.......... ya no one accepted us, but god gave us like miracle people who stopped us in the street or the less active sister who´s mom isnt a member we found. so we found a total of 8 inv. and put 2 fechas, a little lower but a huge improvement over two full weeks without a new inv. miracle and lots of the other miracle guys we didnt even find yet, now we just hagvfe to help thesee people keep learnign about jesus and work to go to church and read and pray adn receive testimonies.
another kind of cool exp. there is a family in our area the sister is a member of likke 22 years and the husband got baptised like 3 years ago has the melquisidec priesthood, is the ward mission leader and he doesnt read the scrips nor has family prayer goes to church in a t shirt adn jeans and does a bunch of stuff, and in his houe still has virgens and other catholic stuff like giant rosary beads.
so we out of love have wanted to help him for a while. Sooooo we went the other day adn we are teaching his father, the father didnt show up to the appt. so norr my comp asks me so are we doing this, i say yup. so norr asks a question about like his alter then like really lovingly honestly we very bluntly and straight forwardly and i say we.... mostly me, i teach a little about example and how our example as members means a lot, and that we need to be examples in word and deed and appearance, then talked about false traditions then how using examples of like apostles wont have these things in their homes and taht we need to model our lives after them....... it was a very blunt lesson, but the spirit was there and im like almost sure they werent offended. but we did it out of love. it was a cool lesson though, he thanked us for reminding him by a little yank of the ears... thats an expression hear.... i dont know how to say it in spanish....
loves you mom, and dad.
Elder Blotter
so this week was solid work kinda, wednesday to today. so last sunday like 10 days ago we got home a little early to study cause study time is during church and it was rainging so we used the time to do weekly planning cause being in the offices it doesnt make it easy to plan for the week daily planning yes but weekly we dont have time to dedicate to that, so sunday after noon, so we set a goal kind of a high goal of finding 10 new investigators and putting 7 fechas this past week, we started praying to know where god wanted us to contact in what part of the area, the road we felt and decided after like days of praying about.......... ya no one accepted us, but god gave us like miracle people who stopped us in the street or the less active sister who´s mom isnt a member we found. so we found a total of 8 inv. and put 2 fechas, a little lower but a huge improvement over two full weeks without a new inv. miracle and lots of the other miracle guys we didnt even find yet, now we just hagvfe to help thesee people keep learnign about jesus and work to go to church and read and pray adn receive testimonies.
another kind of cool exp. there is a family in our area the sister is a member of likke 22 years and the husband got baptised like 3 years ago has the melquisidec priesthood, is the ward mission leader and he doesnt read the scrips nor has family prayer goes to church in a t shirt adn jeans and does a bunch of stuff, and in his houe still has virgens and other catholic stuff like giant rosary beads.
so we out of love have wanted to help him for a while. Sooooo we went the other day adn we are teaching his father, the father didnt show up to the appt. so norr my comp asks me so are we doing this, i say yup. so norr asks a question about like his alter then like really lovingly honestly we very bluntly and straight forwardly and i say we.... mostly me, i teach a little about example and how our example as members means a lot, and that we need to be examples in word and deed and appearance, then talked about false traditions then how using examples of like apostles wont have these things in their homes and taht we need to model our lives after them....... it was a very blunt lesson, but the spirit was there and im like almost sure they werent offended. but we did it out of love. it was a cool lesson though, he thanked us for reminding him by a little yank of the ears... thats an expression hear.... i dont know how to say it in spanish....
loves you mom, and dad.
Elder Blotter
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