tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32119392874787232432024-03-19T01:11:28.950-07:00Southern Tex-HessUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger82125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3211939287478723243.post-38764824788522097812016-12-11T10:06:00.000-08:002017-01-14T00:19:12.335-08:00Obedience and Trying New Things Brings Success (Week #79)<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">My </span><span class="il" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">week</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">'s been pretty interesting! </span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">Elder H is a great guy. He's a really good replacement for Stone.</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;"> We get along super well. He's from Salt Lake and he was g</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">oing to go play D-1 football, but he tore his ACL his junior year. A</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;"> school in Iowa called William Penn gave him a full ride after his </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">mission. He's reallllly good. Super hardworking guy.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">Yeah Sister F is from Hillsboro. I don't know much about her </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">honestly. She's really quiet. She likes to run. Doesn't know anyone I </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">do.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">We're still working with M. Every Sunday something keeps him from </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">church. This last one was the closest yet though. He was literally in </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">the parking lot of the church at 10;30 and backed out cause he thought </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">it was over (lack of cars apparently...only 6 people at churchSunday </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">including us...). G has completely dissapeared...we tried by </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">everyday but she never answered...weird..</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">• Monday - Went to the H's like every pday and ate with them. </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">Taught a lesson about obeying parents (obviously I know nothing about </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">that...)</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">• Tuesday - Today we had a meeting in Corpus, where President Torres </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">came up and talked to the missionaries and the ward leaders. Basically </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">trying to get everyone on the same page and working together. It went </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">well but it's a little tough to plan with your ward leaders when you </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">don't really have any...</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">• Wednesday - We had a lesson with M and tried to help him get an </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">answer that Joseph Smith is a prophet...We testified super hard and </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">prayed with him, but he still doesn't get it..The spirit was really</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">strong. I don't think I've ever testified so hard, so many times to </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">one person, without them feeling it. Something's holding him back...</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">• Thursday - We had our monthly leadership conference thing. It was r</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">eally good. President changed things a little bit. Now we have an </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">hour a day where we go out and just knock doors. It's weird haha drove </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">8 hours...the whole day was driving and in a meeting. Craziness</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">• Friday - First day trying out the knocking doors was super weird. The </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">first one pretended they weren't home even though we saw him walk in, </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">the second was a JDub who tried to convert us and just about everyone </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">slammed the door in our face and turned us down. My sarcasm came in </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">real handy to keep a positive attitude haha but we found a really cool </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">lady named C who has buddies in Utah who are Mormon and wants to </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">come to church!</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">• Saturday - Finally got to see the G's again! They're doing good. </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">We're still working on church with them.</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">• Sunday - Had 6 people in church. We got to talk to M. He asked </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">us for a church tour on Wednesday which'll be cool.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">Sorta concerned about what M is missing. We've done just about as </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">much as we can. We'll see what happens.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">Finding C was a really cool thing. Good sign that obedience and </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">trying new things brings success.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">Elder H. He's a really fun guy and works and works and works.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;"><span style="color: #500050;">I</span></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">t's been super hot over here. It'll rain for like a minute and then </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">get so humid it feels like 115. It's nuts. So anytime we get water </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">it's a huge tender mercy.</span><br />
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<span class="im" style="background-color: white; color: #500050; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">What are you looking forward to this coming <span class="il">week</span>?</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">Teaching M and C and knocking doors everyday.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">I read a little bit about the atonement the other day. I felt God's </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">love really well when I read it. It was awesome.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">I've seen the importance of listening and obeying God's servants. We'd </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">never tracted in our missions before so it sounded a little crazy </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">before, but once we tried it, it was simple. Kind of like the </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">Israelites and the brass serpent.</span><br />
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3211939287478723243.post-57406890266699288692016-12-11T08:53:00.000-08:002017-01-14T00:19:31.518-08:00Jumping in Puddles and Such (Week #78)<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">The week's been real good! </span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">Elder Stone went down to be a zone leader in McAllen. My new comp</span><span style="background-color: white;"> </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">is Elder H from Salt Lake. He's a good guy. Yeah Elder Ho is</span><span style="background-color: white;"> </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">the District leader in Robstown now.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">Now we have:</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">Me and H in Sinton,</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">Ho and J in Robstown,</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">Sister St and Sc,</span><span style="background-color: white;"> </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">Sister E and E,</span><span style="background-color: white;"> </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">Elder L and P,</span><span style="background-color: white;"> </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">Sister P and F (she's from Hillsboro)</span><span style="background-color: white;">, </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">B and S,</span><span style="background-color: white;"> </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">H and W.</span><span style="background-color: white;"> </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">They're all really good people. Fun peeps.</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">Sinton is good. We finally got a ward list, so we can work by</span><span style="background-color: white;"> </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">knowledge instead of just hearsay...it'll be nice. We had 13 at</span><span style="background-color: white;"> </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">church. It was small again.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">Brother M connects with everyone. He's had a crazy life and a</span><span style="background-color: white;"> </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">really cool conversion story that he shares with everyone. He's only</span><span style="background-color: white;"> </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">been a member less than a year, and he's a better missionary than most</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">The new apartment is really big. Well bigger. I don't have any</span><span style="background-color: white;"> </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">pictures, but the old one was probably the size of the downstairs</span><span style="background-color: white;"> </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">bedroom in total and it had cockroaches everywhere....</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">• Monday-Last full day with Stone. We stopped by people so he could</span><span style="background-color: white;"> </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">say his goodbyes.</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">• Tuesday-Worked with Elder J while transfers were going on, and</span><span style="background-color: white;"> </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">took Ho by a bunch of people to introduce him.</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">• Wednesday- Stopped by M. Had a really good lesson with him and</span><span style="background-color: white;"> </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">he asked us to stop by on Friday to help him not drink. Also talked to</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">a recent convert named G, who really wants to go to church but</span><span style="background-color: white;"> </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">has tough health issues.</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">• Thursday- Really tough day. Worked suuuper hard in super hot sun and</span><span style="background-color: white;"> </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">then a random rain storm, and didn't get to talk to anyone. Literally</span><span style="background-color: white;"> </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">like 2 people, but they wouldn't let us teach...</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">• Friday- Stopped by M and he wasn't there.... Actually all our</span><span style="background-color: white;"> </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">appointments fell through. Turns out in these little towns, all there</span><span style="background-color: white;"> </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">is to do is watch high school football....Fridays will be tough for a</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">while...but we had a really good talk with L about Ether 12:27 </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">and</span><span style="background-color: white;"> </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">how we can help him with his weaknesses.</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">• Saturday- Appointments fell through again...But we got to talk to</span><span style="background-color: white;"> M</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">, and he didn't drink and he said he would come to church and</span><span style="background-color: white;"> </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">wants to be baptized.</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">• Sunday- Had a ward council in Portland and no one came to church..</span><br />
<span class="im" style="background-color: white; color: #500050; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;"><br />What has been your biggest challenge this week?</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">Keeping a good attitude. H wi</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">ll be a huge help.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">Finding something new to try, so we can change the area and make it really good.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">Teaching M has gone really well. He</span><span style="background-color: white;"> </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">feels the spirit really strongly.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">L. He's a huge help. Has us over to eat and jokes around with us.</span><span style="background-color: white;"> </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">Just an awesome guy.</span></div>
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<span class="im" style="background-color: white; color: #500050; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">What has been your most significant tender mercy?</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">Rain. It's a huge blessing no matter how hard it dumps. Takes away the</span><span style="background-color: white;"> </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">heat for a while. I mean it comes back twice as bad, but it's nice</span><span style="background-color: white;"> </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">while it lasts.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">We're having a meeting with president and all the leadership of the</span><span style="background-color: white;"> s</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">take, which should be a really good meeting. And we're going over to</span><span style="background-color: white;"> </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">help out L organize his house. And I get to see stone on</span><span style="background-color: white;"> Thursday</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">!</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">I've been studying PMG a lot and the chapter on finding is awesome.</span><span style="background-color: white;"> T</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">aught me a ton and gave me some good ideas to use here. We're going</span><span style="background-color: white;"> </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">to focus a lot more on service this week.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">I saw on Thursday, how much God trusts us. We were</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;"> having a real sucky day,</span><span style="background-color: white;"> b</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">ut God put us there for a reason. It was weird revelation. It was a</span><span style="background-color: white;"> </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">hard day, but we made it a lot of fun. Jumping in puddles and such.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">Love you guys a lot!</span><br />
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3211939287478723243.post-75783963737405738572016-12-07T11:32:00.000-08:002017-01-14T00:19:53.437-08:00We're Doing God's Work, What More Could We Want? (Week #77)<div dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">
<span style="font-size: 12.8px;">Things are going well! This week was really weird...it rained for the majority of it...so we didn't get to talk to anybody really because they all make excuses...super lame!!</span><br />
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Elder V only has about 3 months left. Yeah tomorrow is when the switches happen. We already know Elder Stone is leaving and I'm staying...So yeah...</div>
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"God Be with You" is a depressing song. I think we'll sing it at your funeral and dress you up in a clown outfit for the viewing. [Personal note to me, his mother--nice! Something for everyone to look forward to, but I have demanded no viewing when I die].<br />
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<span style="font-size: 12.8px;">Speaking of flooding in the south! I got a call from Bill Christensen this week! He said he was in Louisiana and wanted to come visit me! So I got permission from President and he drove all the way here and visited with us for a couple hours. Taught us some more harmonica and such. It was awesome! He's a great guy!</span></div>
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Church attendance was better but only because we had a huge family from Portland come to give talks. They asked me if I was related to the Napoleon Dynamite guy...we really should figure that out...</div>
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Yeah S doesn't really get what the Bible is trying to tell him and seems to be stuck on his conspiracy that the Pope and the Catholic "system" he calls it, is trying to take over the world. A bunch of random crap about how if you add things up it equals 666....weird stuff.</div>
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The best ways to find are pulling yourself out of your comfort zone. God's made you who you are for a reason. He's given you your talents and weaknesses too so why not use them both right?</div>
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The families we found have disappeared. I'll have to refind them...</div>
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<span class="im" style="color: #500050;"><br /><br style="font-size: 12.8px;" /><span style="font-size: 12.8px;">What are the main things that happened on the following days?:</span></span><span style="font-size: 12.8px;"> </span><br />
<span style="font-size: 12.8px;">• Monday- Regular pday stuff and visited the H family for dinner. They remind me a little bit of our family. They have a little 7 year old named M that's a lot like L.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.8px;">• Tuesday-We went to a meeting in Kingsville (about 45 minutes away) in some of the craziest rain I've seen. Like driving into a wall. Portland prepped me though. Not many people talked to us...Kinda depressing haha but we got to visit a guy who's not a member but he's helped the missionaries for 30 years or so. His name is L.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: 12.8px;">• Wednesday- Tried to visit people in Taft. Super tough day.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.8px;">• Thursday-We had splits with some of the members in Portland. I went with a guy named Brother Mu. He is the coolest guy I've ever met. He's only been a member for 11 months or so and he testifies to everyone. We had a tough time finding people to talk to but at the end of it, one of our investigators, M, was home. and we had the coolest lesson. We sat down and Mu just went off. I could barely get a word in but M was blown away. The spirit was really strong.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: 12.8px;">• Friday-We went up and worked with Beeville all day. Didn't get to visit many of the people I knew over there but I got to work with Elder Puga who's probably the funniest kid ever.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: 12.8px;">• Saturday-Went by L's antique store to check it out and visit him. He showed us all the cool stuff there and we got to share a message with him. </span><br />
<span style="font-size: 12.8px;">• Sunday- Tried to visit our investigators but nobody woke up to come to church...</span><span class="im" style="color: #500050;"><br style="font-size: 12.8px;" /><br style="font-size: 12.8px;" /><span style="font-size: 12.8px;">What has been your biggest challenge this week?</span></span><br />
<span class="im" style="color: #500050;"><span style="font-size: 12.8px;"> </span></span>Finding people who aren't afraid of the rain to talk...<span class="im" style="color: #500050;"></span><br />
<span class="im" style="color: #500050;"><br style="font-size: 12.8px;" /><span style="font-size: 12.8px;">What has been your biggest concern?</span></span><br />
<span class="im" style="color: #500050;"><span style="font-size: 12.8px;"> </span></span>I'm a little worried about transfers. Who my next comp will be. Me and Elder Stone had a ton of unity and it was the most fun i've had on my mission. I hope this next one's as good as he is.<span class="im" style="color: #500050;"></span><br />
<span class="im" style="color: #500050;"><br style="font-size: 12.8px;" /><span style="font-size: 12.8px;">What has been your biggest success?</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.8px;">I think the lesson with M was pretty great. He saw the light a little more I think.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.8px;">Who has been your favorite person this week? Why?</span><br />
<span style="font-size: 12.8px;"> Elder Stone, L or Bill Christensen. They're all super cool peeps.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: 12.8px;">What has been your most significant tender mercy?</span><br />
I think the new apartment is a big one. We have more room and it's not a tiny little cockroach infested place...<br />
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<span style="font-size: 12.8px;">What are you looking forward to this coming week?</span><br />
Seeing who my new comp is and who comes to the zone.<br />
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<span style="font-size: 12.8px;">Which scripture has had the biggest impact on you this week?</span><br />
I really like the scripture about Jesus casting Legion into the swine. It says that they came and worshiped him. They were afraid of what he could do and that's the same way Satan feels about us.<br />
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<span style="font-size: 12.8px;">How has your testimony grown this week?</span><span style="font-size: 12.8px;"><br /></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.8px;">I've seen a lot of how hard work helps out. There's a quote in PMG that talks about how work makes us happy as missionaries and it's absolutely true. We're doing God's work, what more could we want?</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.8px;">Love you guys!</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.8px;">Elder Hess</span></div>
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3211939287478723243.post-4778454256741216302016-12-04T19:48:00.001-08:002017-01-14T00:20:12.851-08:00A Fiery Pit of Misery and Torture (Week #76)<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">Singing was good. It sounded a lot better than when we practiced it. </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">It was us, Elder V, Elder J and the E family. We</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">sang "God Be with You Til We Meet Again." Never thought I'd be singing </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">that song at so many funerals....</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">The weather here...You know how they tell you that hell is a fiery pit </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">of misery and torture? It's a little like that...haha it actually </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">rained yesterday!! First time in like 3 months! It was awesome!</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">Church attendance was pretty good for here. </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">The people in Sinton should go to the Sinton </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">group and the people in Taft go to Portland. But if they have kids, </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">they go to portland because they have a Primary and Young Mens and</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">stuff there. It's doable..</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">We saw M and shared a scripture with his family. H</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">e's a super good guy.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">Brother J lives in Taft. His wife is getting chemo treatments </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">all the time so he can't help us as much as he wants to, but they buy </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">us groceries a lot which is awesome.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">S pretty much told us he wants us to spread what he's teaching </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">us...it was a little weird. He doesn't believe a lot about the Sabbath </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">and church's and stuff and he told us we have more influence on people </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">than he does so he talks to us to spread his ideas. yeah....Everyone </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">else has kinda dissapeared...really weird..</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">The H's are doing good. Yeah they help us out in Sinton. The </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">people in Portland come over here to help us out actually. It's pretty </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">cool.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">President Torres doesn't really tell us what to change. He basically told us if </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">you've never failed, then you've never tried anything new. So if </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">things aren't working then you have to change something and left it to </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">us to do it. We're trying to teach really spiritual lessons with </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">people using scriptures from all the books. It's working really well </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">so far.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">We do a lot of street contacting and referral work. we haven't had a </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">lot of opportunities to be creative yet.</span><br />
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<span class="im" style="background-color: white; color: #500050; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">What are the main things that happened on the following days?:<br />• Monday - </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">We went all over the place trying to find people and no one was home </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">for 3 straight hours...</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">• Tuesday - </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">We went up to have a district meeting with Beeville. We also got to </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">talk to Brother R. He's a less active but only because he's a </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">corrections officer in the prison. He said he'd do his best to get </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">work off on Sundays.</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">• Wednesday - </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">Went and saw S. He showed us some weird pastor talk he had on his </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">computer. The guy said some good stuff, but it wasn't amazing or </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">anything...IDK the true church seems a little better to me than some</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;"> guy yelling crap.. maybe that's just me..</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">• Thursday - </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">We had interviews with President Torres. He's an awesome guy. Just </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">talked about the zone and what we've been changing. Then we met with M's </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">family. We talked about seeds and growing them and how they </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">can grow their seed.</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">• Friday - </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">Elder C (one of the AP's) came and worked with us until </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">yesterday. We found a super cool family in Taft with a mom and dad and </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">2 little kids that are reaaally interested in the church. They said </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">they've been looking for God for a long time. So we're bringing them </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">to him.</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">• Saturday - </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">Found another really cool lady who had a Book of Mormon and had some </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">questions. She likes the idea of Christ's church being on the earth and </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">stuff. It's really cool to be able to answer questions with </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">scriptures.</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">• Sunday - </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">IT RAINED!!! Nobody answered the door BUT IT RAINED!!!</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">Still working hard through the sun. It's been reaally hot. It's weird, </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">whenever it's hot people don't answer the door, and then when it's </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">rainy they don't answer either...</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">Well, we dealt with the whole who-goes-to0Sinton thing. So that's </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">pretty much been solved.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">Finding people. It's always really exciting when you find people here </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">who are interested. It's so small sometimes it feels like missionaries </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">have talked to everyone. But there's always more people.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: 12.8px;">Church attendance was at 10 this <span class="il">week</span>... turns out people avoid testimony meeting because with so few people, they have to give their testimony.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: 12.8px;">So we found out this </span><span class="il" style="font-size: 12.8px;">week</span><span style="font-size: 12.8px;"> that everyone should be going to Portland and not where we're at...they need special permission to go to Sinton. So anyone who moves in or is baptized gets moved over to the Portland Ward. Some new family moved in and showed up asking where they were supposed to go and they got told they need to go to Portland even though they live in Sinton....yeah Portland isn't in our zone it's in the Corpus zone.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.8px;">The group leader is Brother J. He's a cool old surfer dude from Cali. Good guy.</span></div>
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<span class="m_6543917520993219295im"><span class="im" style="color: #500050;"><span style="font-size: 12.8px;">What are the main things that happened on the following days?:<br />• Monday - </span></span>We visited the H family. They're a really cool big family that go to Portland. We ate with them and shared a lesson with them.<br style="font-size: 12.8px;" /><span style="font-size: 12.8px;">• Tuesday - </span>We had MLC. Some really good stuff. Pretty much no one reached their baptism goal as a zone, so he talked about changing what doesn't work. He likes to use Powerpoint so he has some cool thoughts up there.<br style="font-size: 12.8px;" /><span style="font-size: 12.8px;">• Wednesday - </span>We've been teaching this guy named E. He's on parole for 4 more months, but he loves us going by. So we went by and explained about the Bible and Christ's Church and how they support each other.<br style="font-size: 12.8px;" /><span style="font-size: 12.8px;">• Thursday - </span>We had a zone meeting. We pretty much run those and we talked all about diligence and getting stuff done. <br style="font-size: 12.8px;" /><span style="font-size: 12.8px;">• Friday - </span>Met a kid named A. He apparently has a huge family and a billion cats (his neighbor says 17, sounds like a billion to me) but he was really interested in learning and was really nice.<br style="font-size: 12.8px;" /><span style="font-size: 12.8px;">• Saturday - </span>One of those days where you try to talk to everyone and no one is home and doesn't wanna talk. Super tough day. But a good one.<br style="font-size: 12.8px;" /><span style="font-size: 12.8px;">• </span><span style="font-size: 12.8px;">Sunday - </span>We had 10 people at church...kinda anticlimactic..<span class="im" style="color: #500050;"><br style="font-size: 12.8px;" /><span style="font-size: 12.8px;"><br />What has been your biggest challenge this <span class="il">week</span>?</span></span></span></div>
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<span class="m_6543917520993219295im">Talking to people. It seems like we spend a long time trying to get people to talk to us, but no one's home. </span></div>
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<span class="m_6543917520993219295im"><span style="color: #222222;">Well it's discouraging to think that no matter who we get to come to Sinton, they end up going to Portland anyways...doesn't seem to have much of a purpose if the kingdom can't grow here...</span></span><br />
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<span class="m_6543917520993219295im"><span style="color: #222222;">We've been really fired up to change things since MLC. So I'm excited to see what kind of changes we can make.</span></span><br />
<span class="m_6543917520993219295im"><span class="im" style="color: #500050;"><br style="font-size: 12.8px;" /><span style="font-size: 12.8px;">Who has been your favorite person this <span class="il">week</span>? Why?</span></span></span><br />
<span class="m_6543917520993219295im"><span style="color: #222222;">We found a less active named S. He's this funny guy who looooooves to preach. So we read a few scriptures with him and he goes off for like 20 minutes in some sermon where he's up throwing his hands around and stuff. It's hilarious. We just kinda watch him go.</span></span><br />
<span class="m_6543917520993219295im"><span class="im" style="color: #500050;"><br style="font-size: 12.8px;" /><span style="font-size: 12.8px;">What has been your most significant tender mercy?</span></span></span><br />
<span class="m_6543917520993219295im"><span style="color: #222222;">Well I found out Elder E chose to go home this last Friday...He didn't do anything wrong, he just decided it wasn't for him...And it was really tough for me. Felt like a failure as his trainer..I was pretty much awake all night. And I said a prayer and asked what I could have changed and done better. I'd never felt that "hug from God" thing before, but I felt it then and I knew it was going to be ok.</span></span><br />
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<span class="m_6543917520993219295im"><span style="color: #222222;">Well we have to sing at a funeral in a few hours so that should be fun....</span></span><br />
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<span class="m_6543917520993219295im"><span style="color: #222222;">Ether 12;6. That chapter has some great stuff. </span></span><br />
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<span class="m_6543917520993219295im">I've seen that God really answers prayers. He knows us and he wants us to be happy. I'm really happy to be here.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">Corpus, super confusing). So the Bishop there is in charge of </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">everything but there's a group leader guy who's in charge of sacrament </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">meeting.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">Reactivation is slow but it's going. There's a few people that seem </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">like they're right on the edge of it. They just need that little push.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">The Ns are doing ok. The mom works a ton, but the kids really want </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">to come. They didn't come to church, but they love when </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">we come by.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">We found a bunch of new investigators that should be really good soon. </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">Really interested people.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">Things are going fairly well. President Maluenda would always </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">say that being positive is just a decision, like a switch. And it is. but sometimes </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">it's tough to flip the switch. So I think about the reasons I'm doing </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">things and how I'm doing them.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">Zone conference was really cool. President flipped the work around a </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">little bit. He really wants us to focus on less actives and building </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">the kingdom. We have to build up the attendance. In the past few </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">years, missionaries have baptized a lot, but the attendance rate has </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">decreased which doesn't make sense. He wants us to change the way we </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">teach and work with people. Really awesome stuff. He's an amazing </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">dude. He was offered a pro soccer contract back a while ago and had a </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">really good company and left it behind for this and he doesn't worry </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">about it at all. The assistants have told us he like to walk around in </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">just socks and he takes greenies bikes out to the parking lot to do </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">bunny hops and stuff on em. I like him a lot.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">We walked around in super hot weather. One of those days where you </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">feel like nothing is happening and then super fast you find a few </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">really cool people in the last couple minutes of the day. Found the M</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;"> family. They were taught by missionaries before and they're </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">really nice. Gave us water and stuff (biggest blessing ever)</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">• Tuesday</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">We taught a girl named K. She really wants to learn and grow </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">and her 5 year old has really been bugging her about church. We taught </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">her about the restoration and she said it all made sense. we also </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">helped a member named Brother R out. He's</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;"> a good guy. His wife is super sick so while she had a doctors </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">appoinment, we set up a new air conditioner for her and cleaned up a </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">bit. Brother R used to be a Navy mechanic back in the day so he</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">gave us some Navy coveralls. haha Super cool.</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">• Wednesday</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">We worked in Taft. We've had </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">people try to sell us watches they've stolen and stuff. Met a less </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">active named Brother S. We'd talked to him before and he said we </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">remind him of the missionaries who baptized him. He's been really hard </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">to meet with him and he told us he's rarely sober. </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">Taught him about God's love and how he needs to work to get </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">closer to him.</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">• Thursday</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">Thursday we had zone conference so from about 8 to 5 we were in the </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">meeting or traveling. After that we found a guy named J who was </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">reeeeallly nice. He loves the missionaries but he's been at college. </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">He said he wanted to come to church and told us to teach his friends </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">at the skate park and said he'd teach us to skateboard.</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">• Friday</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">Back in Taft. All of our plans fell through and so we tried to find </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">some new places to work. Ended up in the middle of nowhere with fields </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">of hay surrounding us. We saw some apartments we'd never seen before </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">and said a prayer and the first door we knocked we found a lady named R</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;"> who's been going through a tough time</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">. We shared 3rd Nephi with her when Jesus </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">heals the people and she cried. a lot... and then the 2nd door we </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">knocked was a less active member who we didn't know lived there. She </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">was also raised FLDS so she talked a lot about how she was raised with </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">multiple moms and stuff. But she's super cool!</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">• Saturday</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">President set up this new schedule where 2 hours of the day are just </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">spent looking for less actives and reactivating. So we tried out one </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">of them and it turns out his son really wants to change and come to </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">church! it was a big miracle for sure. and then we went around </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">inviting everyone to church. Met a cool guy named S who wants to </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">learn.</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">• Sunday</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">Nobody came to church which was lame but we found a couple of new </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">people to teach .</span><br />
<span class="im" style="background-color: white; color: #500050; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;"><br />What has been your biggest challenge this week? </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">Finding a way to touch all the less actives. The majority have been </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">offended by something people have said in church and we have to find a </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">way to fix that through the scriptures.</span><br />
<span class="im" style="background-color: white; color: #500050; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">What has been your biggest concern? </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">We really want to build the kingdom here, but people are really slow </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">to move. So we have to try something new to get people to come.</span><br />
<span class="im" style="background-color: white; color: #500050; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">What has been your biggest success? </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">Finding the less active in the weird apartments. Turns out it was</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">someone the bishop in Portland had been looking for and asked about </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">the day before. We didn't know that.</span><br />
<span class="im" style="background-color: white; color: #500050; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">Who has been your favorite person this week? Why? </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">Elder Stone. I don't think there's another missionary I would like to </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">walk around with in this kind of crazy weather. We have a lot of fun.</span><br />
<span class="im" style="background-color: white; color: #500050; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">What has been your most significant tender mercy? </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">Finding R. She's a really sweet lady with some big problems. It'll </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">be nice to be able to help her out.</span><br />
<span class="im" style="background-color: white; color: #500050; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">What are you looking forward to this coming week?</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">We have MLC this week (Missionary leader conference). We do every </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">start of the month but we talk to President about our goals and get </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">trained and he always gives really good suggestions. It's awesome!</span><br />
<span class="im" style="background-color: white; color: #500050; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">Which scripture has had the biggest impact on you this week? </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">I've been marking up my New Testament to use it more and I love that </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">the sermon on the mount is like almost completely marked up. Toooons </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">of good stuff to share with people.</span><br />
<span class="im" style="background-color: white; color: #500050; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">How has your testimony grown this week? </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">I think my testimony of this work has grown more this week. It's not</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">about us at all. We're only here to help like Jesus did. Sort of like </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">mining. You have to dig through tons of worthless rock and tough times </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">to get through to the gold. Jesus went through way worse things than</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">any missionary has and helped out thousands. The least we can do is </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">help a few.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">Love you guys a lot!</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;"><br /></span>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3211939287478723243.post-27024092214353006072016-10-09T21:17:00.002-07:002017-01-14T00:21:12.353-08:00Either Way You're Stuck With Them (Week #73)<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">This week has been pretty good. Elder Stone is always the best. He's a </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">super good kid.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">Church attendance was lower this week. We had like 14 people there. </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">Reeeeaally small. But it's going to go up this next week. </span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">We haven't been able to find the Aloha lady at all. She disappeared. </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">Weird how you can do that in a city smaller than my high school...She </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">used to work on like the border of Aloha and Beaverton. Apparently </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">right on it. She thought it was hilarious that she "was in 2 places at </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">once"...</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">We've been working really hard on reactivating people but they're </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">really hard to find and we have a huge problem with people being </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">offended by things....a lot like it is back home (and everywhere I </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">guess).</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">We found a bunch of new investigators, a couple really cool families, </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">but they didn't come to church..so we'll fix that.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">We got moved to be an example area. It's one of the hardest </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">areas in the mission and he want's his "best" there. So he moved us </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">over here to show that the work is possible. It's going to be a zone </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">leader area for a while I think.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">My ankle's doing fine. I only feel it at night sometimes or when I </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">smack it on something. It's all good.</span><br />
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<span class="im" style="background-color: white; color: #500050; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">What has been your biggest challenge this week?</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">Focusing on the positives. We haven't had a ton of success here. But </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">once I changed my attitude, we started finding more and more people </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">and better things started happening.</span><br />
<span class="im" style="background-color: white; color: #500050; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;"><br />What has been your biggest concern?</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">We really need to reactivate some people. This place has been a group </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">for a year and since then it's gone down in attendance. So we really </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">need to do something.</span><br />
<span class="im" style="background-color: white; color: #500050; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;"><br />Who has been your favorite person this week? Why?</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">Elder P. He's one of the assistants. He worked with us for a few </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">days. He's the low key funniest person. I love working with him. He </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">has this weird thing about trains...I'm not really sure what it is but </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">he loves them. He could stare at them for days and never be bored.</span><br />
<span class="im" style="background-color: white; color: #500050; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;"><br />What has been your most significant tender mercy?</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">I've been getting a lot out of my patriarchal blessing which is huge. </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">I love studying it.</span><br />
<span class="im" style="background-color: white; color: #500050; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;"><br />What are you looking forward to this coming week?</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">We have a zone conference this thursday and afterwards, President T</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">orres is going to come work with us. It's going to be awesome!</span><br />
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<span class="im" style="background-color: white; color: #500050; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;"><br />How has your testimony grown this week?</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">I've learned a lot about the purpose of families and why we have them. </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">And the mission is set up the same way. God's got one crazy plan. </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">Stick you with a bunch of people and become a family and figure it </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">out, or be miserable but either way you're stuck with them. It's </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">exactly what we need to grow and learn. I've seen that through a bunch </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">of the families I've met recently.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;"><span id="goog_1748010409"></span><span id="goog_1748010410"></span><br /></span>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3211939287478723243.post-46637554787373577532016-07-18T12:07:00.001-07:002017-01-14T00:21:31.740-08:00God Loves Everyone (Week #72)<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjSH6XbZv6gx-DFMM_TwyEcNg69pelXiQ0ITkSM7x3jenDk6gjf_s9sVTijYC9g_Q2PUFNiFemBv3TC0MWEAIHAUASZBpagjJYZxPtTnglB94oaloXRcEZVuF56wuHU3hLtcRGW4p54l1g/s1600/13669035_10209206599576569_7733590071655440124_n.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjSH6XbZv6gx-DFMM_TwyEcNg69pelXiQ0ITkSM7x3jenDk6gjf_s9sVTijYC9g_Q2PUFNiFemBv3TC0MWEAIHAUASZBpagjJYZxPtTnglB94oaloXRcEZVuF56wuHU3hLtcRGW4p54l1g/s320/13669035_10209206599576569_7733590071655440124_n.jpg" width="176" /></a><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">This week has been pretty good. I'm serving in the same </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">zone and everything. They just had the zone leader area trade places </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">with the district leader area. So we switched places with Elder </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">V. I'm still with Elder Stone. We didn't really know we were </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">going to stay together but we knew the area was changing. We're </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">still in an English area.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">Church attendance....funny story about that. We work in a group now. </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">It's the smallest possible gathering of LDS people. There were 20 </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">people total at church this last week including us. And that's a </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">really good week...</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">The lady who was from Aloha was kinda weirded out and then we started </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">complaining about the weather and sales taxes together. haha It was </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">nice. We actually found another lady that used to work in Aloha here</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">. You could tell she wasn't from there though cause she used </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">the hard h.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">There's veeery few members here. We've spent </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">like 4 days here and 1 in another town we cover, and we've </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">talked to maybe 4 or 5 people total. It's nuts.</span><br />
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<span class="im" style="background-color: white; color: #500050; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">What has been your biggest concern?</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">We're trying to get 30 people to church total so we can have the </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">possibility of making this place a branch.</span><br />
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<span class="im" style="background-color: white; color: #500050; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">What has been your biggest success?</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">We were struggling to find people (cause no one's here) and I was </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">praying really hard in my heart to find someone. We went through the </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">ward list and found a family we felt like we should visit and went to </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">the address. Turns out it was a bunch of apartments and we didn't have </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">the number....so we tried one house and it turned out to be the family </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">we were looking for! And we met the mom (the lady who worked in Aloha. S</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">he was also baptized in Beeville), her family, and her sister's family </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">of 6 want to be taught.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">The G family. They love the missionaries and know everything </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">about them. M (the dad) took us out to eat the day we met them </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">which was awesome.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">Probably finding that less active lady and her family.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">Trying to find more members to reactivate.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">I was reading the story of Daniel a little this morning. He was really </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">in tune with the spirit.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">Going to a building where there's only 20 people there was a huge sign </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">to me that God loves everyone and He wants them all to have the same </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">chance to make covenants.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">I've been feeling pretty good. Ankles been ok. We walk a tooon here so </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">it's been a little funky. It was twitching last night, but it's all </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">good.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">We've been helping the E family fix up a house for them to </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">rent out and that's super fun. They're great folks!</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">Transfers have been partially announced. Me and Elder Stone are both </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">leaving but that's all we know. We think we'll stay together in a </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">different area in this zone but we don't really know. It seems like he </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">changed out a good portion of our zone. Only one companionship is </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">staying the same out of the 8.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">We're working with V a little bit and trying to find some new </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">people. We met a lady yesterday who just moved here from Aloha! Super </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">weird! She lived on Blanton. Tripped me out really bad!</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">My greatest success on my mission.... </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">I feel like I've really been a friend to people who've </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">needed it. I like to think about who i was called to an area for </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">afterwards. I think just about every transfer I can find someone that </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">I was there for when they needed me.</span><br />
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<span class="im" style="background-color: white; color: #500050; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">What has been your biggest challenge this week?</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">Keeping people focused. It seems like every last week of a transfer </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">people either go really hard and get good stuff going on, or they </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">think they're leaving so they tank...</span><br />
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<span class="im" style="background-color: white; color: #500050; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">What has been your biggest concern?</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">Making sure people are set up in this area for the people who are coming.</span><br />
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<span class="im" style="background-color: white; color: #500050; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">What has been your biggest success?</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">We had a zone meeting and we kinda told the zone off for having a lot </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">of pride...but it went really well and the spirit was strong and I </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">think a change is coming.</span><br />
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<span class="im" style="background-color: white; color: #500050; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">Who has been your favorite person this week? Why?</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">My favorite person is probably Mike E. He's a great kid. </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">He has a different background than </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">other people but he loves helping people out. </span><br />
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<span class="im" style="background-color: white; color: #500050; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">What has been your most significant tender mercy?</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">Having 5 people at church was nice. Good to see that we're doing good </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">things here.</span><br />
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<span class="im" style="background-color: white; color: #500050; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">What are you looking forward to this coming week?</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">Me and Elder Stone staying together (if I say it enough it'll happen right?)</span><br />
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<span class="im" style="background-color: white; color: #500050; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">Which scripture has had the biggest impact on you this week?</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">I've been reading a bunch about charity in 1 Corinthians 13. Trying to </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">put my heart in the right place all the time and have charity for </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">everyone.</span><br />
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<span class="im" style="background-color: white; color: #500050; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">How has your testimony grown this week?</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">That was unexpected. I'm not used to another question...I think I've </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">really seen how everyone is made differently for a reason. We're put </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">in the places we are to help those around us. I've seen ways Elder Stone can </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">help people that I can't and vice versa. God has a plan and he always </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">carries it out. If we can put our desires in line with his, that's </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">when success comes.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">I love you guys!</span><br />
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3211939287478723243.post-11481214189062475712016-07-11T20:40:00.000-07:002017-01-14T00:22:15.011-08:00Our Interview Blew My Mind (Week #70)<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">I've worked with Elder V a few times this transfer but I'd only </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">met him maybe twice before. He's a really good guy. We worked super </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">hard to find some new people to teach. We found a few. </span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">We met the new mission president this last week for interviews and had a day long </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">meeting with him yesterday. The guy is amazing. He's a little like </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">Jeffrey R. Holland. He's gonna tell it like it is and he doesn't care. </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">He has some of the highest faith I've ever seen.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">We haven't seen either R or his daughter this week....kinda </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">dissappeared. </span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">So V ended up coming to church this Sunday! She's finally in </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">town! So we're going to work with her this week. I think her brother </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">is just barely starting out on his papers. </span><br />
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<span class="im" style="background-color: white; color: #500050; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">What has been your biggest challenge this week?</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">We've been working super hard to reach our goal and it didn't happen. </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">We pulled our weight so I'm sure we'll see the fruits soon.</span><br />
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<span class="im" style="background-color: white; color: #500050; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">What has been your biggest concern?</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">We feel like something is up with the zone but we can't really put our </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">finger on it. They're not up to their potential so we're having a </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">meeting today to see what's up. We'll see how it goes.</span><br />
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<span class="im" style="background-color: white; color: #500050; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">What has been your biggest success?</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">The meeting yesterday left me pretty inspired. The new pres i</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">s an </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">awesome guy.</span><br />
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<span class="im" style="background-color: white; color: #500050; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">Who has been your favorite person this week? Why?</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">President Torres. Our interview blew my mind. He told us as soon as we </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">finish the prayer, he knows exactly who we are and who we'll be</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">. It was pretty awesome.</span><br />
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<span class="im" style="background-color: white; color: #500050; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">What has been your most significant tender mercy?</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">We met a guy who really needs our help. His name is Brother B and </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">he's super depressed. His wife died a few months ago and he's having a </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">really hard time. So we're going to snap him out of it.</span><br />
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<span class="im" style="background-color: white; color: #500050; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">What are you looking forward to this coming week?</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">We're going to work super hard with V.</span><br />
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<span class="im" style="background-color: white; color: #500050; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">Which scripture has had the biggest impact on you this week?</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">I was reading King Benjamin's speech this morning. Talked a lot about </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">service and how we can never fully repay the lord for what he's done </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">for us. He's given us everything and we can't really ever come close</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">to repaying him.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">Love you guys!</span><br />
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3211939287478723243.post-23415894713068893932016-07-11T20:30:00.004-07:002017-01-14T00:22:34.472-08:00Wants to Take Us Fishing (Week #69)<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">Life is really good! I went on an exchange with Elder V this </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">week! He's a funny kid. I stayed in my area though.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">We have zone conferences about every other transfer. I'm not really </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">sure if we'll get one with the new mission president but I'm sure we'll have </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">something.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">I have 11 transfers. I'll be on my 12th in about 2 weeks. We get 16 </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">total. Super scary....</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">R we saw in passing but that was about it. But we've been talking </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">to his daughter a little. She wants to take us fishing. haha</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">We had to go down to </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">pick up new phones for our zone and had to go drop them off. we drove </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">about 12 hours almost straight....It was a long day.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">We haven't had any contact with V but her brother really wants </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">to help us out in lessons and he's starting his mission papers!</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">Our goals doing ok. Some other elders told a guy who had been to </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">church a ton of times that he needed to be baptized and he said ok and </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">got baptized the next day. Missionaries had been working with him for</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">a long time. haha I don't know what changed!</span><br />
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<span class="im" style="background-color: white; color: #500050; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">What has been your biggest challenge this week?</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">finding time for everything. Driving to McAllen and back and all over </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">really took up some time.</span><br />
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<span class="im" style="background-color: white; color: #500050; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">What has been your biggest concern?</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">Just making sure everyone's preparing for this next month while </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">working for this one.</span><br />
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<span class="im" style="background-color: white; color: #500050; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">What has been your biggest success?</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">We had this girl call us who said she went on a 3000 mile hike </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">somewhere and on the hike some bishop gave her a Book of Mormon and </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">she read the whole thing and told us she wanted to join and wanted our</span><br />
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<span class="im" style="background-color: white; color: #500050; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">Which scripture has had the biggest impact on you this week?</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">I was reading in 2 Nephi again and it talked about the Book of Mormon </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">and how people will say they don't need another bible. I thought it </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">was super interesting how God calls them out like that. Calls them </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">fools and everything.</span><br />
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<br />Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3211939287478723243.post-78829943199439203972016-06-20T11:43:00.000-07:002017-01-14T00:22:55.038-08:00I Always Get Along with the Crazies (Week #68)<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">Our area is great! Still super huge! I don't know if I told you but the </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">Zone is just about a third of the whole mission. Yeah we travel all </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">over and go on exchanges fairly often. Went on one this week with </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">Elder B.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">This zone is way different because it's so spread out we don't see </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">much of everyone but we're working on it. </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">It seems like a good mix of older and younger missionaries. We're pretty young for zone </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">leaders which is crazy but yeah.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">R dissapeared. We haven't seen him in a while. But we met his </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">daughter and she's interested so that was cool. </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">We found a bunch of new people. We just have to make sure they're solid.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">We've had exchanges with the AP's a bunch because we're new. We</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;"> always play basketball in </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">missionary clothes so they know what they're getting into. </span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">I always get along with the crazies...cause I sass them and then </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">they think I'm a punk. exactly what didn't work on all my teachers in </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">school works really well for Texans...I get complimented a lot for </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">being myself and not a robot missionary...</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">E's son is awesome. he wants to go on a mission</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">. Really funny guy and he's super helpful. He gets along</span><br />
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<span class="im" style="background-color: white; color: #500050; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;"><br /><br /><b>What has been your biggest challenge this week?</b></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">It wasn't really a challenge, more like weirdness. As ZL's we're in </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">charge of zone meeting and making trainings and stuff. And it's weird </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">when people are taking notes of what you're saying...</span><br />
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<span class="im" style="background-color: white; color: #500050; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;"><b>What has been your biggest success?</b></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">There's a member who was leaving for his mission in Korea </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">but his flight got cancelled and his mom had to work, so we got to </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">work with him for a day. And he said we answered a really big question </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">he had during the day. I don't know what the question was but I hope </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">it was something good haha</span><br />
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<span class="im" style="background-color: white; color: #500050; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;"><b>Who has been your favorite person this week? Why?</b></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">Probably M, Sister E's son. We get along really well.</span><br />
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<span class="im" style="background-color: white; color: #500050; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;"><b>What has been your most significant tender mercy?</b></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">The car has been a huge blessing. We had a day that I swear felt like </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">130 degrees. It was so hot and we were walking around and i was </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">drenched in sweat. so we went back to the car and drove with the ac </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">blasting for a while.</span><br />
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<span class="im" style="background-color: white; color: #500050; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;"><b>What are you looking forward to this coming week?</b></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">We're going to see a ton of miracles going for our goal. It's going to </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">be awesome.</span><br />
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<span class="im" style="background-color: white; color: #500050; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;"><b>Which scripture has had the biggest impact on you this week?</b></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">I like 2 Nephi 2. It talks about Jacob and how he saw all things that </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">were to come, just like Nephi did. It's interesting how testimonies </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">can come if we ask.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: 12.8px;">In our zone we have 8 companionships </span><span style="font-size: 12.8px;">total. </span><span style="font-size: 12.8px;">They're all awesome missionaries. </span><span style="font-size: 12.8px;">We interact with them fairly often. Especially with</span><span style="font-size: 12.8px;"> the District leaders. Our job is to make </span><span style="font-size: 12.8px;">sure the DLs are doing their jobs so everyone else can do theirs. It's </span><span style="font-size: 12.8px;">an alright gig.</span><br />
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We're teaching an older guy named R. He came <span style="font-size: 12.8px;">to church yesterday! He's a good dude. And he loved church!</span><br />
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We have a car but we walk a bunch around our area. Lots of people are <span style="font-size: 12.8px;">outside here.</span><br />
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It's pretty weird to make zone goals. We have to make sure everyone's <span style="font-size: 12.8px;">behind it. If there's any doubts we won't reach it. </span><br />
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Zone conference was awesome. President Maluenda talked a lot about how the <span style="font-size: 12.8px;">mission applies to life after it. All the choices we make here are the </span><span style="font-size: 12.8px;">choices we'll make later. He talked alot about future wives and </span><span style="font-size: 12.8px;">husbands and stuff...Freaky....</span><br />
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<b>What has been your biggest challenge this week?</b><br />
Biggest challenge has been figuring out how to inspire people to do <span style="font-size: 12.8px;">better haha that's pretty much our job and I'm still figuring it </span><span style="font-size: 12.8px;">out...</span><br />
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Getting people to church. We worked suuuper hard this week and<span style="font-size: 12.8px;"> it paid off. </span><br />
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We worked in a trio with one of the APs for like 4 days and we <span style="font-size: 12.8px;">prossballed these kids in the projects on an 8 foot hoop and just </span><span style="font-size: 12.8px;">absolutely wrecked them...dunking and stuff. And then we were walking </span><span style="font-size: 12.8px;">by a park like 4 hours after and they started talking trash and </span><span style="font-size: 12.8px;">challenging us and stuff (in good humor. Not meanly or anything) and </span><span style="font-size: 12.8px;">so we played 8 on 3 with them on a 10 foot hoop and wrecked them again. </span><span style="font-size: 12.8px;">haha We found 8 investigators out of it and got a ton of respect </span><span style="font-size: 12.8px;">points from the local hoodrats too.</span><br />
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Sister E. She's <span style="font-size: 12.8px;">awesome! She has a super strong testimony and loves the missionaries. </span><span style="font-size: 12.8px;">She'd do anything for us. We go eat at her house twice a week and take </span><span style="font-size: 12.8px;">her son to lessons with us. They're super cool.</span><br />
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<b>What has been your most significant tender mercy?</b><br />
We got to know a lot of the members who gave us their friends to work <span style="font-size: 12.8px;">with. So we have somewhere to start with now. haha</span><br />
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<b>Which scripture has had the biggest impact on you this week?</b><br />
I've been rereading the BOM in Spanish. And I'm noticing a lot of the <span style="font-size: 12.8px;">mistakes Laman and Lemuel made. In 1 Nephi 15 (i think), Nephi talks </span><span style="font-size: 12.8px;">about asking with faith and following commandments. All they had to do</span><br />
was ask in faith and they'd have the same testimony Nephi did but they <span style="font-size: 12.8px;">never took the time to do it. Really dumb.</span><br />
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3211939287478723243.post-77447121770084184772016-06-20T10:14:00.002-07:002017-01-14T00:23:42.961-08:00Life Got Super Crazy Real Quick (Week #66)<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">Life got super crazy real quick....</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">I'm working in the biggest zone in </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">the mission. Same zone I was in earlier. Elder </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">Stone is my companion now! I've been hoping for it for a long time. </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">He's my best friend here. We're the zone leaders here. So we're in </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">charge of 16 missionaries and planning everything and helping them to </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">improve. Pretty much overblown cheerleaders.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">Elder N didn't get a greenie this time. </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">I think just about everyone told him he was going to </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">train.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">It's not too hot actually. We've had a ton of rain and a little </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">bit of flooding. Everything's been pretty cool so far. For Texas at </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">least.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">We're whitewashing our area. So we have no idea what's happening right </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">now. haha Our mission president goes home after this transfer and all </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">the higher up leaders in the mission go home soon too. So they pretty </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">much switched all them out for younger missionaries so they can learn </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">before President Torres gets here.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">We set a really high goal for our zone this month for baptisms. So </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">we're working really hard on increasing the faith of all the </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">missionaries so we can hit it. It's a goal that's never been hit here </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">before. We're trying to make history.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">We had a zone meeting with all the missionaries and we talked about </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">unity. We figured since me and Elder Stone are together, there has to </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">be a reason. We're super unified and this zone is really hard to have </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">unity in because it's so spread out. So we trained about it and I feel </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">like it went really well.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">Elder Stone!!! He's an awesome guy. Super funny.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">Last night, the zone leaders in Harlingen called me just to thank me </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">for my help last transfer. They said I helped the missionaries out a </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">ton there, and the fruits are coming now that I left. We struggled the </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">whole time to bring people to church and they brought 7 this last S</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">unday. Super cool. Nice to know the work doesn't go wasted.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">We have a zone conference with President this Thursday. It's one of </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">the last times we'll see him so I'm interested to hear what he has to </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">say.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">We want to baptize someone and get our goal going.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">We talked about 1 Corinthians 12:12-27 with the zone and focused on </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">how we're all different but have the same purpose.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">A was pretty dissapointing. He didn't come to church this Sunday </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">either but we talked to him the other day. I think he's sticking </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">around. </span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">This sunday we had I think 6 people who said they would definitely be </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">at church. 2 of them actually showed up. Their names are P and </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">D. I think they're 13 and 16 or something like that. The young </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">women in this branch are awesome fellowshippers. </span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">Members come out with us fairly often. There's a member named R who </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">used to go out with us, but he's kinda struggling right now. We're </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">helping grow the members testimonies more so they're more willing to </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">help out.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">The A's Dad was baptized just a few </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">months ago. This Sunday was the first time that their whole family</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">showed up to church. I'm good buddies with their 7 and 4 year old </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">kids, F and L. Funny little kids.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">The other English ward likes to do missionary </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">talent things and so they decided to do a musical thing. And I didn't </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">volunteer for any of the numbers but somehow I ended up in 5 of </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">them...And I'm too quiet to sing in the gym far away from the </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">microphone so that threw me off...</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">Transfers are tomorrow. I think Elder N will get a greenie to </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">train this next one. That's the only one I'm sure about. But I think </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">we could both go. Just a feeling I don't know. Elder N's doing </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">great. He's super cool. </span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">Staying focused in the area. We didn't hit any of our weekly goals </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">which was kind of a downer cause I feel like we worked super hard, we </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">just weren't seeing the fruits. So Saturday night I prayed that we </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">would see the fruits of our labors and we had 2 people at church! </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">Pretty cool stuff.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">I've been praying Elder N doesn't get transferred. He's been a </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">perfect companion.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;"><b>What has been your biggest success?</b></span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">I think finally getting people to church was a good one.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;"><b>Who has been your favorite person this week? Why?</b></span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">Elders M and R. We got invited to a baccalaureate thing </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">for the graduating class here by Sister D to show that we're C</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">hristians too. And me and N called </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">them 5 minutes before, and they came with us. It was kinda weird cause </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">it was in a different church but it was awesome. They're really fun </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">guys.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">At the thing at the other church, they had a guest speaker dude </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">who apparently has said some anti-Mormon stuff before. And he didn't </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">know we were there so he started talking and he looked at us and you </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">could see his eyes get big and he was super confused. But he said </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">stuff that felt directed at us. He said that no matter what the</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">graduates do, they should do it in the service of the Lord. He said </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">"no matter what you do, school, work, military, You will be </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">missionaries in a mission field." It was weird wording to use...</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">Seeing what happens with transfers and such. I hope not much changes.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">Keep getting those 2 to church and build off it.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">We've been sharing Mosiah </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">with a lot of people. I think it's </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">pretty simple. We follow the commandments and we get happy.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;"><br /></span>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3211939287478723243.post-29580675577593596932016-06-19T20:03:00.003-07:002017-01-14T00:18:50.541-08:00Played the Piano for Primary and We Didn't Suck! (Week #64)<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">Life is good! This week was pretty long but really good!</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">So yeah 3 day was all the leaders in the whole mission. Probably about </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">60 people. I learned a lot about having a good attitude and how to </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">change a bad one to a good one. Tons about the Book of Mormon and how </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">to use it in lessons and stuff like that.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">Elder Katieli is awesome. He's a super good example for me. I've </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">learned that when you work really hard in an area, even if you get </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">transferred from it, you'll still get the blessings in the next one.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">Soooo A....We went by him on Sunday to help him get to church and </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">stuff...and he told us his girlfriend is now pregnant and he has to </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">leave up north to work...Ironic thing is we taught him the law of </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">chastity last week and he told us after that he was going to do what </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">he wanted cause he's not baptized. Don't you love it when those</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">consequences come so quick? Fabulous.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">We've been trying to find a way to involve the members in the work </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">more and it's tough cause they work. But luckily we got to do splits </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">with the M boys on Saturday. It was a lot of fun. They're awesome </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">kids.</span><br />
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<span class="im" style="background-color: white; color: #500050; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;"><b>What has been your biggest concern?</b></span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">Well A was kind of a concern cause we knew he wasn't following the </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">LOC...And we see how that turned out sooooo yeahhhhh....</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">We've been working really hard with the A family to get them to </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">come to church and they came this week which was awesome!</span><br />
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<span class="im" style="background-color: white; color: #500050; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;"><b>Who has been your favorite person this week? Why?</b></span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">I got to work with Elder M on exchanges. He's a blast. Really </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">smart kid. </span><br />
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<span class="im" style="background-color: white; color: #500050; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;"><b>What has been your most significant tender mercy?</b></span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">Probably having the A family come. We also got to teach the youth </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">class on Sunday about mission prep and then played the piano for P</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">rimary and we didn't suck! So that was good.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">Working hard for the end of the transfer!</span><br />
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<span class="im" style="background-color: white; color: #500050; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;"><b>Do you have a goal set for this coming week? Tell me about it.</b></span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">We're going to find someone to baptize. We know there's a miracle out </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">there somewhere.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">I saw a parable I'd never seen before in Corinthians I think. It was </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">about the body of Christ and how we're all baptized into his "body" or </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">church. And all the parts of that body are different but all important </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">and all do some good. It was really interesting.</span><br />
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3211939287478723243.post-80238407683938314382016-06-19T19:34:00.005-07:002017-01-14T00:17:51.573-08:00Prayed Super Hard the Night Before and God Answered It (Week #63)<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">My weeks been really good. Lots of cool stuff happened.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">I was out of my area for 3 days for that big meeting thing so i didn't </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">really know what was going on over there.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">We've been pushing super hard and working really hard but nothing's </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">been happening for a bit, which is super confusing. We want to build </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">God's kingdom but we couldn't see the fruits recently. It seems like </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">everywhere I look, people talk about planting seeds and saving the 1 </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">from the 99, and I feel like that's what's been happening the last few </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">weeks.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">It wasn't really our success...we didn't do anything besides be worthy </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">of a miracle...but we had a guy named A show up to church who has </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">a member cousin and was taught by some missionaries about a year ago. </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">He reaaaaally wants to be baptized and is a really good guy. I'm </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">really excited for him. I prayed super hard the night before and God </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">answered it.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">Elder VK and Elder M. I got to work with them for 3 day, </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">and they're 2 of my favorite people here. Really fun, happy guys. </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">Elder VK goes home in about 2 weeks so it was good to see him </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">before that.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">Probably A showing up to church. I really needed that to feel like </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">we're doing good here.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">Meeting A some more and finding more people who need us.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">We're doing a district olympics to build unity and we're going to do </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">some fun little competitions and stuff.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">Probably the story of the 1 lost sheep. Sometimes all God needs is to </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">help that one. Like in Elder Bednar's talk this last conference.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">Love you guys a lot!</span><br />
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<br />Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3211939287478723243.post-71348942849260312012016-06-19T19:16:00.001-07:002017-01-14T00:17:26.078-08:00We Help Each Other Keep a Positive Attitude All the Time (Week #62)<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">Right now we don't have anybody really that's progressing. It's pretty </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">frustrating but we've been doing all we can so we know it's just a </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">trial we have to go through for now. Nobody came to church but we </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">had some less actives we've been working with like the C family </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">come which was really cool.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">Having to drop a lot of people. It's not fun but when they're not </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">going anywhere or acting we have to be patient and let them figure it </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">out for a bit.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">Making sure we're patient with ourselves. We're trying super hard to </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">find and to help as many people as we can but we have to follow the S</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">pirit to know if someone's going to act or not.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">Having the C family at church was awesome. They hadn't been in a while </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">and we finally got them to come which is an awesome step.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">Elder N. We help each other keep a positive attitude all the time </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">and we work together really well.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">We brought some mac and cheese to P, and she was super thankful </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">which was nice. She told us if we feel like we haven't helped anyone </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">here we've at least helped her out to gain a stronger testimony and </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">stuff. And she hadn't eaten in like 3 days because her surgery was </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">rough and the food is gross so she was really appreciative.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">We have 3 day this week. It's a meeting where all the mission leaders </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">get together and learn and stuff. I've heard it's awesome. but I have </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">to sing there which I'm not too excited about.</span><br />
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<span class="im" style="background-color: white; color: #500050; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;"><b>Do you have a goal set for this coming week? Tell me about it.</b></span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">Find some people to progress and help.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">I've been reading a lot of Preach My Gospel and developing Christlike </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">attributes. I like to learn about faith because I'm not completely </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">sure I understand the full power of it yet. But i learned a ton about </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">developing it in Alma 32.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">Btdubs I attached a musical number I did a couple months ago. Elder M</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;"> played the violin for it, and I sang the first part and Elder </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">T did the second and elder A the 3rd.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">Love you guys!</span><br />
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3211939287478723243.post-4012259942785822212016-06-19T19:09:00.000-07:002017-01-14T00:16:56.257-08:00He Legit Called Us Peter and James From then On (Week #61)<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">Life is awesome. I love Harlingen. Elder N is still the greatest. </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">The Elders and Sisters are doing great. Elder M was Elder S's </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">comp last transfer and he's a great kid. He plays pretty much every </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">instrument and such. Elder O is a good kid. Still learning about </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">missionary life. He's a convert of about a year and a half. Sister </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">H is super cool and fun. She's quiet but is down to do anything </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">to help people out. Sister S is </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">funny. Sister F is a boss. She</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">surfs and acts like it. Really chill, dedicated lady. Sister Sc </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">is super sassy, and she'll fire my sarcasm right back at </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">me. They're a great group.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">Church attendance isn't really happening right now but we'll get </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">there. We've been working for it, it's just a matter of being patient </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">now.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">We did play basketball but only a few people showed up this time. </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">That's expected when there's new missionaries though...</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">We have zone activities just about every pday. We play </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">basketball, have dart wars, etc. Today we're going to play indoor soccer. </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">All sorts of stuff.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">Elder Holland is really in tune with the Spirit so yeah he told </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">us himself he sends people home based on his handshake interviews. I </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">can attach part of the talk he gave. It was awesome.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">Making sure people are pumped to receive miracles. Being in charge of </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">missionaries is weird because you always have to be aware of how their </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">attitude is.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">We may have to drop pretty much everyone we've been teaching because </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">they're not progressing at all.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">Well, I was ordained an apostle. By a crazy investigator. We </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">were teaching him and all of a sudden he was like "I see you guys as </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">disciples of Jesus Christ (he meant apostles). And so from now on </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">between you me and Jesus your names will be Peter and James. (then he </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">crossed himself and said hallelujah a couple times)" So that was</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">pretty cool. He legit called us Peter and James from then on. Super </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">fun. haha</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">Probably the peeps in my district. We played soccer for our workout in </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">the morning and we have a bunch of fun together.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">We found a couple people that are really interested in us coming by. </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">It's nice to have people that may be interested after a bunch of </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">people who don't go anywhere.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">Not Skyping that's for sure....haha Probably getting to know our </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">investigators a little better and finding out how we can help them.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">I really like <a href="https://www.lds.org/scriptures/bofm/ether/3?lang=eng" target="_blank">the story of the brother of Jared</a>. He came up with a </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">suuuper simple plan and trusted in God enough to make it happen. Good </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">example for us.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;"><br /></span>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3211939287478723243.post-56675398720918920802016-06-19T19:00:00.000-07:002017-01-14T00:16:28.807-08:00She Swears a Lot...But She's Awesome! (Week #60)<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">This </span><span class="il" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">week</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;"> has been insane....</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">My new comp is amazing. I love him. I can already tell he'll be my </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">best one so far. He's from Grantsville, Utah. He's reaaaallly spiritual </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">and focused but also loves to joke around. We get along really well.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">Things have been great. They also added a companionship of Elders into </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">my district. I now have Elders M (Utah), O (Greenie from </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">Vegas), and Sisters H (the only one that stayed), </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">S (Dallas), F (California), and Sc (Wyoming). They're </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">awesome. Really good peeps.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">Well, our investigators didn't come to church, but they're progressing </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">a little bit right now..</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">So our members and missionaries basketball game kinda changed cause so many </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">members and nonmembers came so we just switched teams around and </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">played a bunch of 3 on 3 games. Elder N hasn't played in the</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">Elder H was excited because he's going back to an area he'd served </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">in before but he was sad to leave. He had been here for 6 months. </span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">We speak English at church but we still try to find Spanish speaking people.</span><br />
<span class="im" style="background-color: white; color: #500050; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;"><br /><br /><b>What has been your biggest challenge this <span class="il">week</span>?</b></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">Getting to know the people in my district...It was awkward because the </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">actual transfers happened on a Wednesday because bad weather delayed </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">the greenie's flight. So we had an awkward extra day to work and</span><br />
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<span class="im" style="background-color: white; color: #500050; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;"><b>What has been your biggest concern?</b></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">Finding people to baptize. They seem to be stuck in the mode of "oh </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">talking to the missionaries makes me feel good so that's enough" And </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">so we're trying to change that.</span><br />
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<span class="im" style="background-color: white; color: #500050; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;"><b>What has been your biggest success?</b></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">We've been working a lot with P. She has some bad health issues </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">and has wanted a stronger testimony of the Book of Mormon to help her </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">through her stuff. And so we've been going over every night and </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">sharing scripture stories with her. She said she feels more complete </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">now which is awesome. I love her a ton. We talk a lot of trash. haha S</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">he said she can trust me and knows I'm real because I'm an "A-Hole." </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">hahaha She swears a lot...but she's awesome!</span><br />
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<span class="im" style="background-color: white; color: #500050; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;"><b>Who has been your favorite person this <span class="il">week</span>? Why?</b></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">Jeffrey R Holland. He's the reason we didn't email yesterday. He came </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">down to visit the mission and to talk to us....Terrifying. I've heard </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">some scary stories about that dude. He shakes everyone's hand as they </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">come in and stares into their eyes for just a second. And he'll send </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">you home if the Spirit tells him you shouldn't be there. Thank </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">goodness I'm all good, haha but he trained us a lot on having the S</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">pirit and teaching by it. It was awesome. The spirit was </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">palpable...(that's right. I said Palpable...)</span><br />
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<span class="im" style="background-color: white; color: #500050; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;"><b>What has been your most significant tender mercy?</b></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">Having Elder N as a comp. Elder H was a good comp, definitely. Elder</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;"> N is a spiritual giant for sure.</span><br />
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<span class="im" style="background-color: white; color: #500050; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;"><b>Do you have a goal set for this coming <span class="il">week</span>? Tell me about it.</b></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">We're working on daily service as a district and so we're keeping </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">track of how many service things we do a day.</span><br />
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<span class="im" style="background-color: white; color: #500050; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;"><b>Which scripture has had the biggest impact on you this <span class="il">week</span>?</b></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">Elder Holland shared 3rd Nephi 17 with us when he's healing the </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">people. And he really pointed out the words "All" and "every one". As </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">in everyone is afflicted somehow even if it's not physical. We've been </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">sharing it a lot.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">Have a great </span><span class="il" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">week</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">! Love you guys!</span><br />
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Things are going great! It was a pretty good week! We found a couple new people who will hopefully progress. R came to church! It took a ton of work but it happened and he liked it!</div>
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Sister M got diagnosed with some gallstone thing and got some meds. She's been doing good.</div>
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S's doing good. We're meeting his whole family soon.</div>
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R's doing good but he's sorta stuck in his ways. He wants to be baptised but then in the same sentence will talk himself out of it.</div>
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I haven't seen G at all but I got to see M and V and all them! It was super cool!</div>
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That was one of the finding activities. We were going to do a member vs. missionary basketball game and it blew up. Like tons of people showed up. We didn't even talk to them but somehow it spread. We ended up with like 30 people. It was awesome. We'll probably do it this next week too. </div>
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So the free hugs thing. There's this resaca (manmade river) that runs through the middle of the city and at about 5 o clock there's a ton of people walking their dogs, running, playing at the park and stuff. So we stood there with a sign and offered them hugs. It was our whole district so if a lady walked up the sisters would hug them but if it was a dude, we hugged them. We had a fair few people stop but a lot of people were smiling and that was the goal.</div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><span class="im" style="color: #500050; font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-size: 12.8px;">What has been your biggest challenge this week?</span></span>Keeping everyone focused for the last week of the transfer. At the last week everything kinda winds down but we did really well this week.</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;"><span class="im" style="font-weight: bold;"><span style="color: #222222;"><span style="font-size: 13px;"><br /></span></span><span style="color: #500050; font-size: 12.8px;">What has been your biggest concern?</span></span><span style="color: #222222;"><span style="font-size: 13px;">Helping people progress. We've been trying to bring the Spirit really well into lessons and stuff.</span></span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;"><span class="im" style="font-weight: bold;"><span style="color: #222222;"><span style="font-size: 13px;"><br /></span></span><span style="color: #500050; font-size: 12.8px;">What has been your biggest success?</span></span><span style="color: #222222;"><span style="font-size: 13px;">Probably basketball night. We had some people miraculously show up to church. Like inactive RM's who hadn't been to the church in a long time. All through the holy power of basketball.</span></span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;"><span class="im" style="font-weight: bold;"><span style="color: #222222;"><span style="font-size: 13px;"><br /></span></span><span style="color: #500050; font-size: 12.8px;">Who has been your favorite person this week? Why?</span></span><span style="color: #222222;"><span style="font-size: 13px;">I got to see M and V which was awesome. They were really excited to see me, and I got their phone numbers and new addresses and stuff. I love those guys a lot.</span></span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;"><span class="im" style="font-weight: bold;"><span style="color: #222222;"><span style="font-size: 13px;"><br /></span></span><span style="color: #500050; font-size: 12.8px;">What has been your most significant tender mercy?</span></span><span style="color: #222222;"><span style="font-size: 13px;">Having R at church. We went by his house and knocked to wake him up, and he didn't seem like he was going to come but he came in. A little late but yeah.</span></span></span><br />
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I gave a talk on repentance and I shared the story in 1 Nephi 18 about the boat and the tempest and the compass not working. It was really interesting to think that it took Laman and Lemuel a couple days to realize how dumb they were being.</div>
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Love you guys! </div>
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Have a great week!</div>
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3211939287478723243.post-2099538913233665312016-06-19T18:40:00.003-07:002017-01-14T00:15:27.688-08:00Gets Me Pumped for the Second Coming (Week #58)<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">Everythings going good!</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">Elder H's doing great and so are the Sisters. They don't know </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">what's up with Sister M yet. I think she finds out today...</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">R thinks we're really rich and wanted us to pay to get his </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">car fixed so he could come to church but....We aren't rich. So we had </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">to explain that to him. S is doing great. He's really growing a </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">lot. I haven't learned anything about G. he was supposed to come </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">to conference but he didn't. So IDK.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">Keeping a good attitude. That's my goal as well.. Like we've been </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">working super hard. We're just not seeing the fruits yet. So we just </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">have to keep persevering i guess.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">Making sure our investigators are progressing. We need to help them </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">increase their testimonies for sure.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">The finding activities were awesome. They went really well. We did a </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">free hug day (we only hugged the dudes), a carol day (April 6th for J</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">esus' bday), and we dingdong ditched the members and left cookies.</span><br />
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<span class="im" style="background-color: white; color: #500050; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;"><b>Who has been your favorite person this week? Why?</b></span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">Probably S. He seems super happy when we come over. He recently </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">had a dream where he was in a cold dark space with no light and he saw </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">this tiny light that surrounded him and warmed him up. And he said we </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">need to come by more often so he can feel that more!</span><br />
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<span class="im" style="background-color: white; color: #500050; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;"><b>What has been your most significant tender mercy?</b></span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">A member yesterday let me start up their Shelby Mustang and that kinda </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">made my day. haha</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">We decided to keep the finding activities going cause they went so </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">well. So we're going to do more stuff!</span><br />
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<span class="im" style="background-color: white; color: #500050; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;"><b>Do you have a goal set for this coming week? Tell me about it.</b></span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">Keeping a good attitude like I said.</span><br />
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<span class="im" style="background-color: white; color: #500050; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;"><b>Which scripture has had the biggest impact on you this week?</b></span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">I've been reading a lot of Isaiah. Gets me pumped for the second </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">coming. haha Makes me work harder!</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;"><br /></span>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3211939287478723243.post-41008114131889642692016-06-19T18:25:00.000-07:002017-01-14T00:14:47.070-08:00Get. The. Stinkin. People. To. The. Stinkin. Church.... (Week #57)<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">Life has been good. We've been really busy...</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">The sister's are doing great. Sister M's been sick so she's going </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">to the doctors today to get a camera shoved down her throat. I told </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">the other sisters to film her afterwards so I can have a laugh.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">Sister D is the best. Her son served in Chile Santiago. He's </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">awesome as well.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">S is a good guy. We found out he has an orange shirt so that's a </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">plus. We had a really spiritual lesson and invited him to Conference </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">and he straight up told us "I'm lazy so i probably won't come" Soooooo </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">yeah he didn't come.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">I didn't know I was going to be a DL for sure but the zone leaders </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">told me they recommended me to the AP's and so yeah here I am. Buncha </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">punks.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">My bike is good. Just beat up. A year of a mission does that </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">apparently. We ride them at least twice a week. It's a mission rule.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">My favorite talk was by Holland. Suuuuper good.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">There's been a rumor of a temple for while now...They've been scoping </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">it out for a long time. But in order to get one, Laredo has to become </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">a stake apparently. It's suuuuuuuuuuuper close but not close enough I </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">guess. I was kinda upset we didn't get one but there are other places </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">that need it too.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">My interview with prezzy was good. We didn't talk about me at all </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">which was nice. We just talked about the sisters and how they're </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">doing. It was like 5 minutes long.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">We had everyone really committed to Conference and they were all </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">excited to see the prophet and then they didn't show up so that kinda </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">sucked...</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">A temple. I prayed really hard for it. It didn't happen but it will </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">this next Conference.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">The sisters got in contact with G and he's really interested in </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">coming back to church!!</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">Either the C family or P. M. The C are a really </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">nice older family that love the missionaries and are really cute </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">and P is the sassiest woman in the world. I think she hates me but </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">she really loves me. One of those weird things. She's one of those </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">people I can talk trash with like I do with Grandma. hahaha</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">We had a mission wide leadership conference thing where President </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">corrected all of us super hard because we've all had trouble reaching </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">our goals. He said a lot of stuff to apply and stuff I needed </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">to know that I didn't. It was great. Weird that I like being corrected </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">now...</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">This week I decided to do crazy finding activities as a district all </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">week. So we're going to draw the plan of salvation in a park like your S</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">isters did one day and have a free lemonade stand another day and a </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">bunch of stuff all week.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">I think Holland's talk was the best. (modern scripture so it counts.) </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">Satan's been trying really hard to get me down and he's done a good </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">job. And so Holland's was just a reminder to keep trying and working </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">so I can improve. It was awesome.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">Elder H's doing great and helping out a ton. Our area is awesome.</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;"> I was here for one transfer (my 3rd) and we covered Elder Stone </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">and Monnet's area combined with the one we have now. Elder H has </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">been here for 4 transfers now. Elder A is here as well yeah. Such a </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">good kid.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">The D's are awesome. Their son just barely got off of his </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">mission and he's like the perfect missionary. Teaching with him is a </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">lot of fun.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">Elder Stone is the DL in another district. There are 3 districts </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">in the zone. Elder Monnet is on his 6th transfer. So like 9 months in </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">real people time.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">Our investigators...we have a guy named R who had his head run </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">over by a car at some point and he doesn't remember much...but he </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">wants to see General Conference so that's cool. And we have a guy </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">named S who's really interested. We don't really know if he owns </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">a shirt though....he's always shirtless.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">District leader is going well. I only got trained for like 2 hours </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">once 3 weeks ago for it so I still am figuring it out but it's good.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">Getting people to church. We had a lot of people committed to church </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">but they all flaked again.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">We helped a kid to fix his bike and got to meet S through it. </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">Thanks mission bikes for needing to be fixed!</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">The D family. They're so cool. They help out the missionaries a </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">ton and really want to improve the work here. They're all geniuses. </span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">Water. That sweet nectar of life. Being in 95 degrees all day makes </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">you appreciate the heck out of cold water after a long day.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">GENERAL FREAKING CONFERENCE!!!!!! I love that stuff. I've been praying </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">they'll announce the Texas Mcallen temple this time. We need one.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">Get people to church. Like always.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">I had an interview with President Maluenda and he told me to read </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">Jarom and focus on leadership. I've learned some good stuff so far. H</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">ope everything's good for you guys!</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">There was no email for week #54. Elder Hess had transferred, and his new companion was sick for a number of days after he arrived. Good experience for Elder Hess.</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">In this email, he mentions a Sister who went to Southridge and was in Encore with him. Southridge is one of the high schools in our district and Encore is a regional youth choir--small world!</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">I'm doing good and Elder H is back to new again. haha The area is </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">awesome. Really weird being back in my old one. The branch here is </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">really great. The members help out a ton and are pretty good </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">fellowshippers. We also work with Elder Stone and Elder Monnet </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">(pronounced like saying money in a French accent. Try it. It's fun) in</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">our branch and it's awesome. I missed Stone. haha </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">We have a good number of investigators, but spring break makes it </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">tough to meet with them so no one came to church...</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">I'm feeling good. My ankle's ok. It hurts every so often but not too bad. </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">We're in a car area. I think God wants me to get fat....</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">Staying positive even though we couldn't work. It was pretty </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">frustrating but I got through smiling (or whatever it is my face does)</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">Well I'm a district leader now so I'm in charge of 2 other </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">companionships. Both of them sisters. And I have no flipping idea what </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">I'm doing. It's great!</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;"> I think I've applied the changes I've had on my mission to myself </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">now. I'm getting along really well and being patient with my comp. </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">We've both changed a ton since the MTC.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">The sisters! Our 4 sisters are Sister Montuy (California), Holloway </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">(Greenie from Nevada), Barton (Colorado, she's a boss), and Shickedanz </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">(she went to Southridge...and was in Encore with me...Trippy right?)</span><br />
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<span class="im" style="background-color: white; color: #500050; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;"><b>What has been your most significant tender mercy?</b></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;"> </span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">Having Elder H healthy again. He's a huge help when he's up and running.</span><br />
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<span class="im" style="background-color: white; color: #500050; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;"><b>What are you looking forward to this coming week?</b></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;"> </span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">Working for the full week! And possibly seeing G! You remember </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">him? Look him up in your archives of Elder Hess emails.</span><br />
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<span class="im" style="background-color: white; color: #500050; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;"><b>Do you have a goal set for this coming week? Tell me about it.</b></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;"> </span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">We're going to baptize. Somehow....</span><br />
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<span class="im" style="background-color: white; color: #500050; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;"><b>Which scripture has had the biggest impact on you this week?</b></span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">We shared 3rd Nephi when Jesus is healing everyone and it hit me how </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">everyone needs his healing. It says all who were afflicted. And at </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">some point we are all afflicted. Weird.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">Love you guys! Have a great week!</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">Elder Hess</span><br />
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