tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25051650454536625442024-03-13T22:58:56.763-07:00Elder Dallin Wrathall's Utah Ogden/Logan MissionAnn Wrathallhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14586721709330351607noreply@blogger.comBlogger107125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2505165045453662544.post-5016355695697200882016-02-02T11:20:00.000-08:002016-02-02T11:20:15.586-08:00To sum up my mission....<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span class="s1" style="font-family: '.SFUIText-Regular'; font-size: 14pt;">I have loved my mission, no doubt about it. I have had 10 areas, (Roy West, Syracuse, Ogden East, Weber Campus, Tremonton West, Mt. Lewis, Nibley, Logan Central, USU 2, and North Ogden) 19 Companions, (Elders Simbeck, Berg, Simpson, Buckley, Wood, Young, Coronado, Petersen, Alsterberg, Mika, Housman, Skidmore, Madera, Bayles, Rangel, Chaing, Nielsen, Florschutz, Clukey.) I have loved every single area, and believe it or not, every single companion. Each has helped me grow to be more Christ-like, each area I had the wonderful member support and the families that I have met have treated me so dearly. I will always remember many of those whom I have met on my mission.</span></div>
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<span class="s1" style="font-family: '.SFUIText-Regular'; font-size: 14pt;">Erica Brandenberg, Due to her friends' amazing example to her, she actually went knocking at her neighbor's door, asking them first, "Are you a member of the Mormon church?" Then subsequently asking, "How do I learn more?" She was baptized 3 weeks later. Very many cool stories with her, she was so spiritual, just on a higher level than me for sure.</span></div>
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<span class="s1" style="font-family: '.SFUIText-Regular'; font-size: 14pt;">The Felix Family. My goodness I love this family so much. Ashley and Jacob Felix were trying to get back on the path of discipleship. Their kid's, Ayden, Mason, and Madison were baptized in the process.</span></div>
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<span class="s1" style="font-family: '.SFUIText-Regular'; font-size: 14pt;">Jordyn Schrad (Mack). Mack... What a stellar woman! Never even heard about the church, came to USU for college, immediately she asked her roommates if she could come to church with them. The Wednesday after her going to church, we taught her the first lesson, asked her how she felt about it, she knew it was true, right then and there. Despite opposition from family, she followed the prompting some of the Holy Ghost and was baptized in 3 weeks, the same day that her mother was supposed to visit. Forgoing her visit with her mother to enter into the fold instead. After being disowned by her family shortly after, she went to the temple weekly to maintain her testimony. She just about a month ago, started on her mission papers, and plans to head out as soon as she can.</span></div>
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<span class="s1" style="font-family: '.SFUIText-Regular'; font-size: 14pt;">Vivianne, barely knew English at the beginning of teaching (From Ivory Coast) her, however even with that trial left behind her unsupportive family to learn more. Despite not knowing English very well, and having quite a few French Translators help us out, she was baptized 2 months later.</span></div>
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<span class="s1" style="font-family: '.SFUIText-Regular'; font-size: 14pt;">These are some of the people that I had the privilege of helping come closer to Christ, and there are even more miracles than this. This is just scratching the surface. I have learned many things on my mission. From not using fabric softener for laundry detergent, to having Christ-like love for strangers. From snowshoeing to meeting in-active RMs and learning how not to be like them. I would like to conclude by baring my testimony.</span></div>
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<span class="s1" style="font-family: '.SFUIText-Regular'; font-size: 14pt;"> <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>My testimony is that I know our Heavenly Father loves us, he wants us to have joy. He has given us families, and the gospel of Jesus Christ for that purpose. I know he has revealed the gospel to us through prophets of old, as well as a living day prophets (Amos 3:7). I know that God gave us his only begotten Son to die for us, that we may live with him again (John 3:16-17). Jesus Christ lived a perfect, sinless example for all of us, he taught the fullness of the gospel. There undoubtably is, and has been a tremendous amount of confusion on the subject of religion. Nevertheless I know, and I testify, that God has once again, restored his gospel through a prophet, and that prophet was Joseph Smith. My testimony of him roots from the fruit which he bore, that is The Book of Mormon (Matt. 7:15-20) . I have read this book, I have prayed about it, the words and the spirit it contains has changed my life. I know that it is truly God's word, because of the witness and power of the Holy Ghost (Galatians 5:22-23) . Joseph Smith was given the power and authority of God to re-establish Christ's Church, which is The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints. I know that this organization is directed by Jesus Christ himself, and contains the fullness of the gospel of which He previously taught. Everyone who actively seeks to know these things for themselves will likewise receive a testimony of truthfulness of these words (Moroni 10:3-5). I solemnly bare this witness and conclude in His name, Jesus Christ, Amen.</span></div>
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Ann Wrathallhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14586721709330351607noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2505165045453662544.post-5609585224132406522016-01-26T13:49:00.000-08:002016-01-26T13:49:11.640-08:00 I burned my suit<div style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">
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<span class="s1" style="font-family: '.SFUIText-Regular'; font-size: 14pt;">Wednesday: We had a world-wide missionary broadcast! It was pretty cool, it was basically a general conference, but for full-time missionaries. The topic was, "Teach Repentance, and Baptize Converts" We heard from Elder Dallin H. Oaks, Elder David A Bednar, and some other ones. It was a really good broadcast!</span></div>
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<span class="s1" style="font-family: '.SFUIText-Regular'; font-size: 14pt;">Thursday: When Tracting, we ran into Shawn, he let us in, and talked with us quite a bit. Early on he told us that he was a Master Mason, so we asked about that, it was very interesting! He basically told us that it was Satanic. After that we taught him the Restoration, he didn't seem to know very much about the church at all, at the end of the lesson, we invited him to be baptized. He responded saying, "yes, if I know that this is right I will." After having that lesson, we contacted some members so we could get one to come with us to the next visit, doing that let us know that Shawn removed his records and he actually served a mission in Texas, was married in the temple, and Elder's Quorum President before removing his record. The next time we went over he completely just bible bashed us. I asked him a few questions that made him think, then didn't have the answers to, but just went off on another topic how the Mormons are wrong. Sad to see.</span></div>
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<span class="s1" style="font-family: '.SFUIText-Regular'; font-size: 14pt;"><span style="color: #454545;">Friday: Definitely my favorite day out of this week. Why? Because we got a new investigator!! Her name is Tayla, she is about 16 years old. She was introduced to us by a member family who invited her to meet with the missionaries! Yay for member missionary work! Right off the bat, Tayla told us that she doesn't really feel comfortable joining the church. However, by the end of the lesson she was crying (Good Crying) and accepted to work towards being baptized </span><span class="s2" style="font-size: 14pt;">on the 20th of February</span><span style="color: #454545;">! </span><span class="Apple-converted-space" style="color: #454545;"> </span><span style="color: #454545;">She just wants to make sure that this is the right path, and she wants to make sure with her parents that this is okay. We assured her by that date that those things will be taken care of as long as she does her part. (EX. Pray, Read, Go to Church) Best lesson in a long time.</span></span></div>
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<span class="s1" style="font-family: '.SFUIText-Regular'; font-size: 14pt;">Sunday: A pretty depressing Sunday. We thought for sure Tayla was going to come to church. We were even speaking in her Ward so we invited her to hear us speak. Nevertheless, she was not there. :( They wanted me to speak on my experiences as a missionary, that was a really fun talk to give. I only had 5 minutes left after Elder Clukey got talking, but I couldn't keep it to 5.... I had to go over 5 minutes haha. Bishop thanked me for talking overtime, he said he wanted to hear more from me, so that didn't make me feel bad. Right after, in the same Ward. Apparently we were signed up to teach Gospel Principles. We didn't have any preparation for that, but the class was very good at discussion, so that made it easy.</span></div>
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<span class="s1" style="font-family: '.SFUIText-Regular'; font-size: 14pt;">Monday: We had the opportunity to where a older couple needed some help chopping wood. That was a lot of fun, tiring, but fun. I'm not sure if I have split wood since I was like 12 years old. I got back into the SWING of it! (Haha.... Punny) We spent 3 hours of chopping wood, I was dead tired by the end of it, no doubt about that, but they have a ton of wood now!</span></div>
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<span class="s1" style="font-family: '.SFUIText-Regular'; font-size: 14pt;">Thursday: Yay Tracting. We ran into a lady who is a less-active, she was offended by the policy change as far as the homosexual relationships go. We knocked on this <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>huge mansion. They gave us a tour of their house. The wife was active member but he is not a member. He is super stubborn though. They had a super cool house though, it was huge!</span></div>
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<span class="s1" style="font-family: '.SFUIText-Regular'; font-size: 14pt;">Sunday: We only had one investigator come to church again. Man we really want our other investigators to come to church! We met with one later in the day. WE walked up to the house and I saw her through the blinds and we made eye contact, but when we knocked the door. We didn't answer, we knocked three times! Then we went to the other door and knocked there as well, then her brother came an answered the door saying she was at work. I responded, "No... I saw her..." He was like, "Oh, one sec." Then went back into the house, we waited for like another 5 min, then her cousin got to the house and asked us why we were there, we told him, then he said, "One sec." Then went into the house. Finally after 2 minutes or so, she finally came out to greet us, just to say she is to busy. YAY... Haha, life as a missionary</span></div>
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<span class="s1" style="font-family: '.SFUIText-Regular'; font-size: 14pt;">Monday: Started the day off with interviews w/ President Allred. He is such a wonderful man! I love him so much. He told me that they are not doing departing testimony firesides anymore for the mission (Where anyone is invited to come to), Rather they are going to let family members only come to their home and have a departing testimony meeting there. That was sad to hear, thinking of all the people I have met on my mission.</span></div>
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<span class="s1" style="font-family: '.SFUIText-Regular'; font-size: 14pt;">Later in the day, we finally got a hold of Alissa, who we have been trying to get a hold of for 2 weeks. Turns out they went to Wyoming and didn't bring their phones. They just wanted to escape from the world. But now we can finish up Recent convert lessons and teach their other sister so she can be baptized.</span></div>
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<span class="s1" style="font-family: '.SFUIText-Regular'; font-size: 14pt;">Friday: So now that we are getting used to having our appointments cancel on us, we a learning, and developing new traits. We are basically not setting up appointments anymore. Rather, we just go over and try to teach a lesson. Therefore not giving them option to bail. We did that today and we got some good lessons. We met with Anna, who is lady in her 30s, she is so prepared, she readily accepted everything that we taught. She has never met with the missionaries before, but she felt the truthfulness of the 1st vision and all. Her only concern really is that she works on Sunday, so she can't get out to church. We are going to talk about that the next time that we go over there though. I think we can convince her to ask for those days off.</span></div>
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<span class="s1" style="font-family: '.SFUIText-Regular'; font-size: 14pt;">Thursday: Got back to our area, man was it good to be back! We had 2 lessons set up, which is pretty good considering it is Christmas Eve, however only one went through. We knocked on quite a few doors, we set up some return appointments, it went better that I thought it would, nobody got angry at us for Tracting on Christmas eve :) Our dinner we had egg rolls because that is the tradition of the family we had dinner with. I like that tradition! It was yummy.</span></div>
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<span class="s1" style="font-family: '.SFUIText-Regular'; font-size: 14pt;">Friday: Merry Christmas!! Opened presents in the morning, did our normal studies, then Skype home! :) After wards we went to a Bishop's home. During our time there, they skyped with their daughter who is on a mission. She has 6 months left, but their entire conversation was about, "When you get home...." I'm glad my skype call was not like that at all :) Good job family! We had dinner with the Bachmans, they smoked some prime rib, that was super good, then went to Bishop Petersens home. Their Son got a hover board for Christmas, so we tried that out! It doesn't really hover.</span></div>
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<span class="s1" style="font-family: '.SFUIText-Regular'; font-size: 14pt;">Sunday: Elder Clukey was sick all today, we made it out to 3 hours of church.... Man, 3 hours of church is not long at all!!! :) Shayla & Alissa were confirmed! We got to participate in that. For the rest of the day, we had our Zone Leaders come and help us out with split, one of them stayed in the apartment with Clukey, and the other went teaching with me.</span></div>
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<span class="s1" style="font-family: '.SFUIText-Regular'; font-size: 14pt;">Monday: It snowed all day! But it was a very lite snow shower all day, so by the end of the day, we had maybe a half an inch. We only had lessons with members today :/ WE have some of them getting to invite some of their friends over to meet with us though! The effects of the Holidays are still upon us, many people don't want to meet with us until the Holiday season is done.</span></div>
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<span class="s1" style="font-family: '.SFUIText-Regular'; font-size: 14pt;">Tuesday: I normally don't include Tuesday's... Because I am lazy. However, this time I have to include it because of what happened. In the morning we went to go shopping, and the grocery store is not to far so we just walk. On the way back, we were walking, and when passing by this house we hear someone yelling "Help!" Over and over again, we found out it was coming from the garage. Turns out, this lady had fallen in her garage and couldn't get up, We checked the doors and the doors were locked, so we asked her if she had any family we could call. We called up her granddaughter, she headed on over. When talking to the lady, she asked us who we were, we told her we were the missionaries. She began crying and telling us how 10 years ago she was praying for help in her life and missionaries came to her door and she was baptized, now once again she was praying for help, and we, missionaries come again to answer her prayers. That was quite the tear jerker.</span></div>
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<span class="s1" style="font-family: '.SFUIText-Regular'; font-size: 14pt;">Wednesday: The average day, half of our lessons fall through, and seems like it is the same people every time that fall through as well. I don't understand how so many people can just cancel their appointments, and I wonder if they feel bad doing it or not. But 50/50 is not too bad. </span></div>
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<span class="s1" style="font-family: '.SFUIText-Regular'; font-size: 14pt;">Thursday: So we got a new investigator. This one didn't take us much effort, that is for sure. His name is Brandon, he was already working towards having his father baptize him, and confirm him, but because his Dad took to long, he is turning 9 this Saturday and will now be counted as a convert baptism. Still got a little while to go till Dad get's to where he can confirm, but should be able to the 16th of January. </span></div>
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<span class="s1" style="font-family: '.SFUIText-Regular'; font-size: 14pt;">Friday: Ryan, the guy that we brought Root Beer to, we had another lesson with him. He is cool, the best way to describe him is that he is from Cali. Haha. Though he doesn't have to much real intent, like he is open to having us over and what-not, but when it actually comes down to business and doing things without us there is a whole other story. :/</span></div>
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<span class="s1" style="font-family: '.SFUIText-Regular'; font-size: 14pt;">We had another lesson with Alissa and Shayla, they are pretty solid for being baptized the 26th of Dec. They are so prepared, and they are excited too!</span></div>
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<span class="s1" style="font-family: '.SFUIText-Regular'; font-size: 14pt;">Saturday: This is the day when we try hardest to make daily contact with each of our investigators. It is make or break to get them to church, because that is the most important thing. Therefore, Satan is going to get them! We sent out texts, called, and stopped by some. Of course, though, even with them saying yes, all will not show. :/</span></div>
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<span class="s1" style="font-family: '.SFUIText-Regular'; font-size: 14pt;">Sunday: It was a rough day. We had 4 of our investigators that we were hoping would come to church, not come :( <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Church is often the hardest thing to get people to actually do. We really wish the came to church to, each Ward did a Christmas Program that would have been perfect for them to each come!</span></div>
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<span class="s1" style="font-family: '.SFUIText-Regular'; font-size: 14pt;">Later in the day, we got a text from a number we didn't know, saying, "Elders are you busy right now? Could use a hand for just 5 min? I can come to you?" </span></div>
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<span class="s1" style="font-family: '.SFUIText-Regular'; font-size: 14pt;">We knocked lots of doors, not many opened. We taught Rachel who is Alissa and Shayla's sister. The spirit was so strong, that at one point, Rachel just broke out in tears and left the room. She did not come back. Hopefully it was the spirit she felt anyways. It was right before we were going to invite her to be baptized. So we finished up the lesson without her :/</span></div>
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<span class="s1" style="font-family: ".sfuitext-regular"; font-size: 14pt;">Saturday: When confirming with a potential investigator that we had set up an appointment with, he responded saying, "Yeah we are good for tonight, hey, can you fellas bring a couple six packs, i'll pay you back next week, also, can you fellas dress down, i felt uncomfortable last time." We had no idea if he was joking or not, so we didn't reply. We didn't dress down, and we brought a 2 liter of Root Beer! Haha. Turns out he was messing with us, he had a good laugh that we brough root beer. We had a really good conversation with them and a good lesson, they said they would read the BOM and pray about it. Hopefully they are sincere! </span><br />
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<span class="s1" style="font-family: ".sfuitext-regular"; font-size: 14pt;">Sunday: We gave two talks. I gave a 10 min talk and a 20 minute talk. Okay, I will admit, it is starting to wear on me giving so many talks. I just feel bad for the listeners! I'm not that great of a speaker! Haha. Later in the day after church, we were roaming the streets of North Ogden and we see this guy pacing around in front of these </span></div>
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<span class="s1" style="font-family: ".sfuitext-regular"; font-size: 14pt;">The sad part of the day is we had 2 lessons fall through, we did however get some caroling in with one of the Bishops. That was fun to give some smiles on some faces.</span></div>
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<span class="s1" style="font-family: '.SFUIText-Regular'; font-size: 14pt;">Wednesday: In the morn, we drove up to Logan for a mission Christmas Party thing. They had a brunch for us, and the actual program was just a whole bunch Christmas songs. They put a lot more effort in to it this year rather than last year just watching the Grinch. Haha.</span></div>
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<span class="s1" style="font-family: '.SFUIText-Regular'; font-size: 14pt;">When we got back into our area we had a lesson with Trace who is 12, it's been rough transitioning back to teaching kids. I'm use to college students! Haha. But Trace is pretty dang cool, he likes church, and wants to be baptized. However, it's not his priority, or I should say, not his Mother's priority. It is hard to get them to come to church. Trace knows almost all the answers to the questions we ask him, he is a smart kid.</span></div>
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<span class="s1" style="font-family: '.SFUIText-Regular'; font-size: 14pt;"><span style="color: #454545;">Thursday: We have been trying to get a hold of Alissa & Shayla, who are sisters that we are trying to teach, they said that they wanted to work towards being baptized</span> <span class="s2" style="font-size: 14pt;">on the 12th of Dec</span><span style="color: #454545;">, but it has been hard getting a hold of them, to just have another lesson. We have called, knocked, but no answer. They are going through a lot in life, so they are busy.</span></span></div>
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<span class="s1" style="font-family: '.SFUIText-Regular'; font-size: 14pt;">We've been knocking lots of doors! This one contact we had, he let us inside, though his facial expressions and body language were kinda hostile. He asked questions like, "What do you missionaries teach if people are already strong in their faith in a different church?" Questions that were clearly letting us know he is not interested. He was overall nice though, when we left he said, "By the way, I have a grandson going on a Mormon mission next week." Then closed the door. Well fair enough I suppose.</span></div>
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<span class="s1" style="font-family: '.SFUIText-Regular'; font-size: 14pt;">Saturday: Dylan was baptized!! That was a super good baptism, his mom sang at the baptism. Elder Cruz came to baptize him. During the evening we did the Pageant again. We didn't have time for a dinner, but no need to fear, because at the pageant they had unlimited cookies!! That's a healthy dinner right?</span></div>
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<span class="s1" style="font-family: '.SFUIText-Regular'; font-size: 14pt;">Sunday: We had Dylan's Confirmation during church, and also fast & testimony meeting as well. Now that was pretty dang sweet! Dylan's Mom who was in-active, and still kinda less-active because she works on half of the Sundays, she got up and bore a beautiful testimony! It is always cool to see someone you worked with bear their testimony. </span></div>
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<span class="s1" style="font-family: '.SFUIText-Regular'; font-size: 14pt;">That night we finally got in contact with Alissa and Alaine, turns out they have been still reading the Book of Mormon and Praying about it! We re-committed Alissa to work towards the day after Christmas to be baptized, she is excited for it, she exclaimed joyfully, "Okay! I will come to church for sure!" </span></div>
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I'd be soo down to work for Jacob and Aaron! Did I also tell you I got offered a job at pizza-pie-cafe up in Rexburg when I am there in April? Thinking about it, not too sure yet.</div>
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<span class="s1" style="font-family: '.SFUIText-Regular'; font-size: 14pt;">Sunday: We were asked to give a talk on the welfare program of the church. Which I thought was ironic, because it talks a lot about self reliance, and we aren't self reliant at all. We ask for rides all the time, we live in a members home, the members feed us every day. Haha, oh well. It was really hard actually to give a talk on that compared to my normal talks on missionary work. We also gave a training to members of a different Ward how to do missionary work. We did a demonstration role-play of talking to their neighbors. I role played the member inviting his neighbor, so I, in the role-play, invited him over for steak and salmon at my house. Haha, so now the members know they need to step up their game with dinners ;P</span></div>
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Yeah! I was smart this time and didn't go to multiple thanksgivings. Though Friday we had a Thanksgiving too! That was awesome! Haha</div>
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Sounds like you had a super fun week this time.</div>
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Yeah I was super happy about the snow. We are not in a car area, I wish we were, our area is pretty dang big, and have a ginormous mountain in it. </div>
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It is December! That is crazy!</div>
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<span class="s1" style="font-family: '.SFUIText-Regular'; font-size: 14pt;"> So we are called to serve in the North Ogden Stake, so we drive an hour to get there from Logan, find our apartment, we go in and it is a complete mess, the missionaries even left a whole bunch of dishes in the sink. Thanks Elders :/ Even more so they had a HUGE beanbag <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>that took up the entire house it seemed. (We live in a shack in the backyard of a house.) So a quick call to the office, and we had some missionaries come and haul a whole bunch of stuff to the DI.</span></div>
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<span class="s1" style="font-family: '.SFUIText-Regular'; font-size: 14pt;"><span style="color: #454545;">Friday: To do weekly planning was much needed. To start off, we thought it would be a good idea to just text every number in the AreaBook and to try and set up an appt. So we sent out a mass text to a whole bunch of numbers saying, "Hey! It's the missionaries, we were wondering if we could meet with you this weekend?" By just doing that, we set up 4 appointments, 2 for other missions, but 2 of them were for us. We set up with a girl named Rachel, and a girl named Alyssa. Later in the day we met Dylan, who is also an investigator the missionaries were working with and he is planning on being baptized </span><span class="s2" style="font-size: 14pt;">the 5th of December</span><span style="color: #454545;">. Dylan is only 10, his Mom seems to be wanting to come back, however, the father is not interested. Sad to see, but Dylan is pretty dang cool!</span></span></div>
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<span class="s1" style="font-family: '.SFUIText-Regular'; font-size: 14pt;"><span style="color: #454545;">Saturday: So we got to meet with Alyssa, (The Random Number we texted to set up an appointment.) Turns out on Thursday, she just had a seizure, and she has also just had a baby born out of wedlock. She is living with her sister, who also has a baby out of wedlock, and also with their Mom. This family has been compelled to be humble for sure, but now they are so prepared to receive the gospel. We gave Alyssa a priesthood blessing, and also Shayla, her sister. We invited them at the end of the lesson to work towards being baptized </span><span class="s2" style="font-size: 14pt;">the 12th of December</span><span style="color: #454545;">. They seemed hesitant, but accepted to work towards it.</span></span></div>
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<span class="s1" style="font-family: '.SFUIText-Regular'; font-size: 14pt;">Sunday: Elder Clukey's First Sunday out in the field and we are to give a 15 minute talk. Clukey tells me that this will be his 2nd talk he has given in his life. It was about gratitude, so I actually had to look up some scriptures for it and what-not. Elder Clukey ended up speaking 10 min, but I was able to speak for 20 min. I feel bad for those who had to listen to me me speak for 20 minutes.... Haha. 3 out of our 4 investigators came to church! That was good :)</span></div>
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<span class="s1" style="font-family: '.SFUIText-Regular'; font-size: 14pt;">Monday: We don't have a good map of what our boundaries really are, so we spent a bit of time making some maps. I am determined to leave this area a lot better than I found it! Which as far as organization goes, won't be hard to beat what it currently is. Haha. We knocked some ghetto apartments, we had a old man just yell at us for 20 minutes about how the Prophets are just rich CEOs. I have definitely seen over the course of my mission how much more bold I have gotten. I just yelled over him bearing my testimony, he finally stopped, when I did that. I concluded by telling him that he is prideful, needs to repent and be humble to know that Thomas S. Monson is a true prophet. Afterwards we walked away, he proceeded to yell at us as we walked. <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>What a good experience for Elder Clukey. Haha</span></div>
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<span class="s1" style="font-family: '.SFUIText-Regular'; font-size: 14pt;">Things are going well here in North Ogden, I am super glad to be back down here, I love it here. People are calling me "trunky" whenever I tell them I have been out for 22 months. I totally am not trunky! I tell them I extended, then they just say I am scared to go back. I can never win with these people.... Haha.</span></div>
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This week went really well! We had over 25 lessons, Stef and Dallen are getting married so that Stef can be baptized and that they can live together! So they are getting their Marriage Certificate on Thursday. Then going to be baptized the following week! Megan didn't come out to church this week, and when we told her that we would have to push back her baptismal date to December 5th because of it, she was absolutely devastated. So much so that she basically covenanted that she would go to church every Sunday for the rest of her life! We in response were like, "Good, Good. That's what you should do! :)" She is such a cool young woman! She is so excited to be baptized, and just wants to do it now! She would literally be baptized in an hour if we called her and said she can if she wanted. We've only met with her twice, and that is how excited she is. :)</div>
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Mary Beh is being baptized on Friday, she is having a lot her family come. I am going to see if I can hitch a ride with her brother who lives in Ogden. Brodie another investigator is wanting to be baptized December 5th rather than this weekend. Which is understandable, we have only been meeting with him a week. He is really cool. Came to know and love the church because of a pretty face ;) She is going on a mission in January. </div>
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Tom, is opening up and becoming less stubborn. He is reading the scriptures everyday! Which is really cool, he is gaining a lot from it. He is still thinking about baptism in January, hasn't prayed about it yet.</div>
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We have two investigators, Sara and Riley, who both know the church is true and come every week, but want to be baptized in January.</div>
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Last night we had a pre-birthday party for Florschutz, and it was also where I got to say farewell to a lot of people, like Mack, Kathryn, Nate, River, Ect. Mack is thinking of going up to BYUI, she would start whe I would if she decides to go! I pressured her a little.</div>
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Overall, everything is fine and dandy here in the Cache Valley. Getting cold, but I don't mind. I just want it to snow!</div>
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<span class="s1" style="font-family: ".sfuitext-regular"; font-size: 14pt;">Monday: 8 Lessons in one day! I love days when all you do is go appointment to appointment teaching, there is no better thing. Dallen & Stef was a coup,e that we taught. They are so golden, Dallen is a Less-active member and Stef is not a member. Stef is excited to get baptized, but not about moving out from each other... So that conflicts the other. Also had a lesson with 4 born-again Christians. There was one of them that I really liked, he was humble, and had a sincere heart. Everyone else there not so much. They just bible bashed most of the time. I'm glad I had our Ward Mission Leader there who is an awesome guy! And helped out a lot!</span></div>
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<span class="s1" style="font-family: '.SFUIText-Regular'; font-size: 14pt;">Wednesday: Last 2 Transfers, it seemed we only taught girls. Girls are awesome. They are just so in tune with the spirit. They are so much easier to teach than guys. Now we are working with 2 guy investigators. It's rough. They progress sooooo slowly compared to girls. They are just so stubborn, and prideful. I'm glad I get to marry a girl rather than a guy. Haha, I feel bad for you gals. Haha. Tom is dating a Mormon girl, so that is what got him interested in learning more, he is not recognizing the spirit. That is his biggest concern is just "not getting answers". When we ask him how reading or praying went, he always replies, "Eh." But later on the lesson he tells us how he believes something is true, we are like, "How did you come to know that, that is true." He says, "Oh it just makes sense, it feels right." "That's the spirit Tom!!" He isn't to sure about it being the spirit though.</span></div>
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<span class="s1" style="font-family: '.SFUIText-Regular'; font-size: 14pt;">Thursday: We had to drop one of our investigators, Riley, because she is ready to be baptized, but doesn't want to until January. So there is really nothing that we can do for her. We handed her over to the Ward Missionaries. She is such an awesome girl, it was sad to drop her, but we have to spend our time elsewhere. We went on splits to tract out some more of the dorms. We knew that we weren't allowed to knock on dorms, but we thought it would be okay if we had a member with us. Nope. Elder Florschutz had someone complain about him. We got a call from our High Councilor to make sure we never do it again, and also our Assistants also gave us a call. Whoops. Well instead, we just stand outside the dorms and talk to people as they come out. Haha we have them surrounded!!</span></div>
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<span class="s1" style="font-family: '.SFUIText-Regular'; font-size: 14pt;"><span style="color: #454545;">Friday: A ward mission leader set up an appointment for us in his Ward. I'm not going to lie, whenever someone else sets up appointments, I usually have low expectations. This one though, it was amazing! Dallen & Stef, they are a couple that is living together, they are engaged for July. Dallen has been LA since age 15, Stef is from PA, and she is not a member, when asking Stef her religious background she said that her Dad is a southern baptist that wants to be Mormon, and wants her to be sealed in the temple with Dallen. Haha. If that's not being prepared by The Lord, I don't know what is. Haha. She accepted a baptismal date of </span><span class="s2" style="font-size: 14pt;">Nov. 21st.</span><span style="color: #454545;"> At the end of the lesson Dallen was so ecstatic, he said, "This was the first time I have felt the spirit since I was 15" It always makes me happy to see people so receptive :)</span></span></div>
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<span class="s1" style="font-family: '.SFUIText-Regular'; font-size: 14pt;">Saturday: Jorden's Baptism!!! We had the baptism at the Logan Tabernacle. The Baptism room only has normally room for a little less than 50. We had a little more than 90. It was really cozy in there. It was a really good Baptism though! USU is known for a party called the "Howl" tons of people fly in to attend it. <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>It is also basically made by Satan. The Howl is the day when most arrests happen all year. They apparently had like 40 cops around the howl this time. So with that going on, obviously they don't want missionaries in that environment, they were going to have all of us missionaries up at President's house and just watch a movie, but we had Stake Conference, so we just went to that. Afterwards though, they made us stay the night at the Assistant's House.</span></div>
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<span class="s1" style="font-family: '.SFUIText-Regular'; font-size: 14pt;">Sunday: Stake Conference! @ The Logan Tabernacle. They have this weird seating to where they have seats facing towards the congregation, but in front of the speaker. That is where we sat, with our Recent Convert, Mack. It was the most awkward seating arrangement ever. Didn't know where to look! Poor Mack had to give a talk in Stake Conference when only being a member of the church for a month. She was the highlight of the Conference though! She did amazing! We gave a 5 minute restoration during conference. President Allred and his wife spoke at our Conference too, that was really sweet! Hopefully that will increase the missionary work in the stake. </span></div>
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<span class="s1" style="font-family: '.SFUIText-Regular'; font-size: 14pt;">Monday: We had a lesson with Mary, she is solid, just waiting for first presidency approval. Jorden, we are just going to have her teach us for the Recent Convert lessons :) The whole Stake was going to a corn maze for FHE activity, so we went as well. As we went through the corn maze, people would say, "Hey it's the missionaries! Let's follow them, they know the right path!" or things like that. At one point we had a huge crowd with us, sadly, we didn't know we were going. So we had people fall away from following us when they noticed when we didn't know where we were going. Eventually we found a guy that was studying his map intently, we just followed him. Haha</span></div>
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<span class="s1" style="font-family: '.SFUIText-Regular'; font-size: 14pt;">Wednesday: Had 5 lessons this day! All of me went through. Such a blessing when people keep their appointments. Erica, a girl that we have been working with because she requested it, we had to tell her that we have to stop meeting with her.... Because she is doing awesome!! She has been going to church, she has a calling, she has been reading the scriptures and everything, so we told her basically that she is doing an awesome job and didn't need our help. She was sad about it, but understood.</span></div>
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<span class="s1" style="font-family: '.SFUIText-Regular'; font-size: 14pt;">Thursday: We actually got to do service!!! Haven't done that in a while, it was nailing weather strips along the side of garage doors for a church building. They have a dis-connected building that has 10 Garage doors on it. And we do 3 weather strips for each. So it takes a while. <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>We prepared some for Charlotte's baptism this weekend. We went over to talk to her about it, and very scary for us, was that she opened up about some doubts. We tried are best to smooth them out, but we left that appointment not sure if she was going to be baptized this weekend. We told her to keep working towards it in faith!</span></div>
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<span class="s1" style="font-family: '.SFUIText-Regular'; font-size: 14pt;">Friday: We asked Charlotte how she was feeling towards it, and she told us that she felt excited and ready! I am so glad for the power of The Spirit in conversion! There is no other way that this missionary work can proceed except by The Spirit! The Football game against Boise State happened, plus, it is fall break. So barely anyone was home, so it made it really rough to proselyte. When trying to find a fellowship to come with us to a lesson, we were about to give up, then came to our mind to bring Mack (Our Recent Convert) to the lesson. That was definitely inspired! Afterwards, she even texted us saying like she should go back to the investigator and talk with him. So she did, they had a super good conversation, where he opened up to her a lot, which he doesn't to us. Mack is the best! She is a natural missionary!</span></div>
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<span class="s1" style="font-family: '.SFUIText-Regular'; font-size: 14pt;">Sunday: Elder Florschutz was the one who confirmed Charlotte as a member of the church. It was a jam packed sacrament meeting. We had people having to sit up on the podium, and we were all shoulder to shoulder. They combined two wards, it being fall break and a lot of people went home. Those were the only two wards that I would say didn't need to be combined. All the rest of the wards were super small. Mack, who was baptized a month ago, got her Patriarchal Blessing! She was allowed to invite people, so she invited us! <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>It was really cool to be there for someone else's blessing! She had some really awesome specific blessings!</span></div>
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<span class="s1" style="font-family: '.SFUIText-Regular'; font-size: 14pt;">Monday: Now that we cover the 4th Stake again, we got to meet with Mary again, who is waiting for 1st Presidency approval for baptism! She is so cool, and excited for it. It has been 3 weeks since she was interviewed, so I am guessing another 3 weeks for approval to return. She is keeping the faith though. We had two other lessons of where with our investigators they are keeping every commitment, they just haven't received their answers. With both of them we are almost done with all the lessons, both come from active participation in another religion. It is getting hard to know what to do for them :/ Thank goodness for the Spirit!</span></div>
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Friday: This day was a great day. We finally had a lesson with Charlotte after 9 days without. We were super worried going in there because seems like she had been avoiding meeting with us. So we thought she might not have been interested anymore. But! We had a super awesome lesson, and in it, our fellowshippers asked what was holding her back from being baptized. She thought... And thought... And thought. But nothing came. So we invited her for next Saturday, and she felt the spirit confirm to her that that is good! Yay!!!</div>
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Saturday: We had lessons throughout the afternoon, which was sweet, but come the night there was nothing to do, and nobody was home. We taught Mack a Recent Convert lesson, but had a plan of salvation drawing contest, I will send you my drawing :) Then we had a lesson with a new investigator, Stephanie, who when we knocked the door, her Boyfriend answered, so I was worried that they were living together, but nope! They aren't even when they are engaged too! Yay!! They were pretty interested, but we can only meet with them once a week for these first three weeks they said, because they are so busy :( Later in the week, they texted us asking if they could have their friends come to who are interested! Sick!!!</div>
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Sunday: A Day full of meetings... 11 hours of church this time, We had a Sunday Night Devotional with Elder Brent Nielsen, he talked a lot about trials, and how trials is the purpose we came to earth. Good talk for college students. We had dinner with Jorden our investigator, she is such the nicest gal! She knows how to bake too! She made a chocolate peanut butter cake. It was super good. Rich but good. She is excited for her baptism next week! :)</div>
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Monday: The afternoon was rough because we had no lessons, well it fell through anyways. Come the night, it was very busy :) We had Charlotte's Baptismal Interview, she did awesome! Had little Caesar's twice for dinner. That was... gross. Then had a super good lesson with Eric. He understands everything besides grace :/ I feel like he has true intent though, and I believe that he will get an answer to his prayers :)</div>
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<span class="s1" style="font-family: '.SFUIText-Regular'; font-size: 14pt;">Thursday: We started to teach a NM that isn't even in our area, because our bishop wanted us to... We are being forced to poach!! Haha We'll hand them over to the right <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>missionaries, but we got to talk to bishop about it. He is dating someone in our stakes, and they are wanting to get married. So I guess that is why bishop wanted us to teach them. He is pretty hard to teach though, not very humble, comes from a Catholic background so he has a lot of that doctrine in mind.</span></div>
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<span class="s1" style="font-family: '.SFUIText-Regular'; font-size: 14pt;">Saturday: Watched General Conference over at our senior couple the Wilsons, they are such a sweet people, I love them so much! Priesthood session was super good, funny story about that. USU had a home football game going at the same time, so sadly, our priesthood session was very small. However, God has his hand over all, when Priesthood Session started, a storm came over the stadium with lightning and all, so they delayed the Football an hour and a half, about the same time that Priesthood was, so those that made the right decision of going to Conference could attend both! :) God is cool!</span></div>
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<span class="s1" style="font-family: '.SFUIText-Regular'; font-size: 14pt;">Sunday:Watched General Conference over at the Wilson's again! President Monson's talk was super powerful! Sad he is having so much health problems :( Of course, the best way to finish of the general conference day? Lessons! We had 5 lessons after. Kelton was one of them, recently just married but wants the gospel in his marriage :) I only got to teach him that one time, because we don't cover married people.</span></div>
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<span class="s1" style="font-family: '.SFUIText-Regular'; font-size: 14pt;">Monday: We had a good amount of lessons today! 6! sadly, one of them, a sister whom we are teaching, we talked to the Relief Society President about. Turns out she is actually a member who has been coming out to church. I guess she has just been messing with us, making us think she is an investigator. That's pretty lame. We met with Jorden! She was awesome! She went down to conference, and she felt like she needs to be baptized this month! So she is working towards the 24th, and she is so solid for that date!</span></div>
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Ponderize was probably my favorite talk, by Elder Durrant. You could just tell he was a mission president :)</div>
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PS I get to see Elder Giles right now! I'm hopefully going to go to a teaching appt. with him right now! <span style="color: #cc0000;">Elder Giles is Dallin's good friend from home although his family moved to Oregon this year. </span></div>
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colors! As expected, she is such a wonderful gal! We did quite a lot of street
contacting on campus, which really makes you realize how many members there
really are, it is rare when you talk to a non-member. Ran into Elder Andrus,
who was in my first Zone when I came in the mission, that was pretty cool!
Thursday: USU has been pretty good at not having lessons fall through,
but we do get the occasional bail. The other missionaries have set up
an appointment in our area twice, with the same person, but both times she fell
through. It's lame! We really want to meet her!! The rest of the day went well
though, and our appointments went through. Well Riley, who we have been asking
her to pray towards Oct. 10th, told us she prayed and got her answer for
January to be baptized.... What? Haha
Friday: Had a lesson with Jorden, she has a complete opposite
situation than Mack. Mack has everything bad going for her to accept
this gospel, but she does anyways. Jorden has everything good going
for her to accept this gospel, but she doesn't. Jorden has the concern
that she wants to learn more before being baptized. She knows
everything that we teach her already, she just needs to commit!
Saturday: Mack's Baptism!! I had the awesome privilege, because Mack
asked me to, to baptize her. It was pretty close to where we almost had
to do it again, because her legs came up, but there was a moment she was all
underwater, so it is all good! Afterwards she bore her testimony, and it was a
powerful testimony, best one I have heard in a while! Then later on, we had the
opportunity to hear from M. Russell Ballard, and Elder Clayton. They came to
the mission for a mission tour. We all got to shake their hands.
Sunday: Because just the mission tour with M. Russell Ballard wasn't enough, when we
got to church, the Stake President called us in, and told us that we need to go
to a mock ward council with Elder Ballard. So we had two meetings with him!
Spent the weekend with Elder Ballard :) Haha. They just focused really heavily
on Sabbath observance. Mack was confirmed, she hates attention, and that was
all that she got during that whole church block, kinda felt bad for her, but
that is the ward's job to do that :) Haha
Monday: We had meetings all throughout the day, can't get better than
that! We got a new investigator, her name is Megan, she is dating a
member, and she is looking for the true church. Something really cool,
is they have been dating for two years, but she is encouraging him to
go on a mission! How often does that happen!? We split up for a lot
of lessons, all of the ones that I went to fell through, Elder
Florschutz's lessons all happened though! Lucky duck! Haha
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Wednesday: Meet with our new investigator Riley for the first time.
She told us, when we were going over the Restoration, that she had
actually been to Palmyra, and to The Sacred Grove. After we recited
the first vision to her, she told us that she knew that Joseph Smith
is a true prophet. It's not everyday that you get an investigator who
has a testimony of Joseph Smith already. She likewise to a lot of our
investigators, just doesn't feel ready to be baptized.
Thursday: The night before, we got a text saying, "Hello, this is
Emisa". I responded saying, "Hello Emisa, this is the missionaries, is
there something that we can help you with?" She called us right after
then told us, "Hey, I haven't been coming to church for a while...
because of reasons..." Haha, did we just turn into the missionary
confession line? We met with her today, she feels guilty because of
a transgression. She was baptized just a month ago. It was cool that
she contacted us.
Friday: We've been riding our bikes more, but man, I feel Elder
Florschuts is the embodiment of my earlier self in the mission. I
remember how many bike problems that I had earlier in the mission, now
Florschutz is getting it. I don't think we rode our bikes a single time
where something didn't happen to Elder Florschutz bike. From the chain coming
off, to flat tires.... So many flat tires. Sadly, in the morning, we got a text
back from one of our investigators, who we texted a couple days earlier, she
said to us that she doesn't want to meet anymore, because she wants to stick
with her Buddhist faith. We tried to convince her to meet with us again, but
sadly, no avail.
Saturday: Had a lesson with Mack, she is still being reviled by her
mom. So sad how many people we teach, they know that the gospel of
Jesus Christ is true, but their parents don't agree. Therefore interjecting
their progression. True is Matthew 10:34-36 "Think not that I am come to send
peace on earth: I came not to send peace, but a sword. For I am come to set a
man at variance against his father, and the daughter against her mother, and
the daughter in law against her mother in law. And a man’s foes shall be they
of his own household. "I have seen the fulfillment of this doctrine repeatedly
over the course of my mission.
Sunday:We only had 8 hours of church this Sunday!! Woot! Mack, after
Sacrament, came out, you could tell that she had been crying. She
comes up to us and says, "THIS SATURDAY! We are doing it!" I was like,
What.. She had felt the spirit so strong in Sacrament Meeting that she
is determined to be baptized this next Saturday! Miracles! We had a lesson
at 3 with Charlotte, one of our investigators, she moved from the Philippines
when she was 14, her parents have joined the church already, now she feels like
she wants to join as well. She is more concerned about the "When" rather than
the "If".
Monday: Mondays are always busy days up at Campus, we started to
street contact up there, ran into a return missionary Elder Stalder
who was in my first zone. It was cool to see him, he didn't have any
referrals for me though... What the!! Haha. We had a lesson with a
Less-Active, who he parties hard, but what is really cool is he wants
to change! We invited him to meet with his bishop this Sunday, he said
that he would. He told us he has to drink 3 bottles of Tequila before
he even feels buzzed.... I thought that would normally kill a guy.
For the week we had 17 lessons, 2 new investigators, and 7 come to
church. Super good numbers, such a blessing to be able to be working
with all these people.
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<pre><span style="font-size: 12px;">Wednesday: We had Zone Conference, that went to 8am-3pm. It was about
the Restoration, and they went into very large detail about it, such
as the Great Apostasy. It was suer cool, because it was so different
than from any other Zone Conference that I have had. Afterwards, we
were lacking a ride, so we asked President Allred if he was able to
give us a ride. He was, but along the way he took us to "Sonic" and
got us Milkshakes. What a good mission president! Haha.
Thursday: A day with no teaching appointments is a hard day in the
mission. I don't know how those 3rd world country missionaries do it,
where they get like no lessons. God knows me well, and put me in this
mission for a reason.
Friday: Mack! Our investigator who is working towards the 19th to be
baptized, has been receiving a lot of persecution from her Mom, about
joining the church, just because her Mom from Illinois is un-aware of
the church teachings and whatnot. It got to the point, where her Mom
won't talk to her anymore. To make things even harder for Mack, the
19th is when Her Mom was planning to come out to visit with her. Mack
prayed about it though, and she feels strongly that she needs to be
baptized that day. I hope that her mom will come to the baptism. By
the divine guidance from God, we had Kellie, who is a recent convert
of 9 months, come to the lesson with her Mom, that when Kellie was
deciding to get baptized, her Mom was super strong against it. But now
with a change of heart, her Mom is getting baptized Nov. 7th. They
were both a huge support for Mack!
Saturday: Went out to lunch with the amazingly awesome Christensen's!
Went to Angie's ("Where the locals eat") Sadly we didn't have any
teaching appointments this day, however we met up with Ward Mission
Leaders. One of which said there was a girl in their ward that was
from a polygamy family down in south Utah, but she doesn't agree with
that way, and she wants to be baptized.
Sunday: Of course we had the 10 hours of church. Afterwards we met
with Vivian, the french speaker. She has been receiving a lot of
persecution from her family about going to this church. We brought
Elder Sutton, because he is from Canada, and knows French.
Nevertheless, it still took like 20 minutes each principle that we
taught, it is such a long process! She has a real desire to learn
more though, which is really cool. The aunt and uncle she is living with
are kicking her out of the house because of her desire. :(
Monday: We had the opportunity to meet with Viki Xiao, who obviously,
by her name, is from China, but she didn't want to take the
discussions in Mandarin, so we are meeting with her. We met her at
church on Sunday. She is so prepared, she doesn't know it.... but she
is! When we invited her for the 26th to be baptized, she was like, "I
don't feel prepared to be baptized, let me prepare." We were like,
"What are you going to do to prepare?" "I need to pray, and find out if
God is really there, and I need to read the scriptures to know if
they are true." "Yes! You do that Viki!" Haha
I am loving it out here on my mission!
Hope everything else is well for all of you! :)</span></pre>
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This could be the best week on my mission.... First, my companion is Elder<br />
Florschutz, from Wrangell, Alaska. He is 18, worked as a commercial fisherman,<br />
nevertheless quite the nerd.... Haha. So we get along well!<br />
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Wednesday: Transfer Day!!! Elder Neilsen went on up to Smithfield. I<br />
went to go pick up my Son. Elder Florschutz. Turns out the Lord<br />
changed his mind. I got an English Speaking missionary. Which was a<br />
very pleasant surprise. Went through some trainings by people in the<br />
mission office. Got to the apartment, right off the bat did some<br />
role-playing to see where his skills are at. Went right off to<br />
tracting. Miracles happened though. Our Ward mission leader set up a<br />
NM lesson, who Elder Florschutz was able to invite to be baptized. She<br />
said "I don't know" Which is a good first lesson response. Elder<br />
Forschutz was able to invite someone to be baptized on his first day!<br />
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Thursday: We had a bishop call us up and tell us that a young lady was<br />
coming in to see him, he told us that she was bringing a friend that<br />
wanted to meet with us. We met her! Her name is Mack. She is from<br />
Illinois and doesn't know hardly anything about the church, but she<br />
went to Church on Sunday. We invited her to be baptized the<br />
19th of September, she said that she will work toward it. She said she<br />
knew there was a reason why she felt like she needed to come to USU, and<br />
she told us she thinks this is the reason!<br />
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Friday: Since even the 2nd day of Elder Florschutz being out in the<br />
field we have been going on splits. I'm throwing him out into the work<br />
just like my trainer did. He is doing an awesome job, hasn't<br />
complained about it at all.<br />
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Saturday: Move in day!! So many people were moving into campus, we<br />
left our apartment at 8:00 to help those whom were moving in. We<br />
helped many people. Wasn't to difficult though, because college<br />
students generally don't really have much.... Sad but true. Haha.<br />
We got to know lots of people. Campus put on a chocolate slip n slide.<br />
That was interesting to watch. I was tempted to go down it. Just think<br />
of the mad trust from the college students if I did! A missionary in<br />
full proselyting clothes going down a chocolate slip n slide. Before I<br />
was able to think of it too long, the slip n slide broke... I guess<br />
God didn't want me to. Haha<br />
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Sunday:We had 10 hours of church meetings this day. I think I might<br />
have just made Elder Florschutz not want to be on a mission anymore...<br />
Haha JK. Afterwards we had the opportunity to meet with a girl from<br />
the Ivory Coast! She doesn't speak hardly any English, she speaks French.<br />
So we had like 4 translators/fellowshippers there. It was super hard to teach<br />
someone we can't understand, and going through translators gets rid of a lot of<br />
the spiritual aspects of the lessons. At the end of it all, she said she would<br />
pray about meeting with us again. Hopefully she gets the right answer!<br />
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Monday: Another miracle day! We went on splits again, but I talked to<br />
a bishop of a ward and he said that they had a non-member fill out a pink<br />
form (A form that is used to request membership records) and under the question<br />
"Convert or Child of Record" She checked "Convert" then put beside it, "In<br />
pending" Haha. Got to meet with her the same night and invited her to be<br />
baptized, she is working towards the 26th of September! :)<br />
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Elder Florschuts lives in a very rural area, so he isn't used to city<br />
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<pre><tt>Island off of Guam. Exciting times!
Wednesday: Sister Haines (The mission office secretary) called us,
letting us know that she had our stuff! (The stuff that was stolen last
week) Turns out the robber after thieving from us went out for
lunch, then left the bag that he stole from us (Which said "The Utah
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<pre><tt>it, and gave it back to the mission office. Pretty sweet! God looks
out for us, we didn't think we were every going to see those things
again.
Thursday: Eric always told us his reason for not being able to quit
smoking was because of his surroundings. So we had good news, Eric was
getting out of that house and moving into his Mom's house. We helped
him move, and had a lesson afterwards, he was so gun hoe (I think
that is how you spell it?? haha) about quitting after that.
Friday: Aaron, who was an investigator in my last area. Got permission
from the first presidency to be baptized!!! He is so excited, he met
with the missionaries for over 2 years, and he has been waiting for
permission for like two months. Good to see him to be baptized.
Saturday: We had a lesson with Eric, he is still struggling with the
Word of Wisdom. And this time, he seemed to take a turn for the worse.
Usually he is pumped and telling us that he is never going to smoke
one again, but this time he didn't seem to have the desire, he just
made a lot of excuses for not quitting to smoke.
Sunday: We went to one of the new wards that opened up because of the
people moving in. This ward was a Man's best friend... Haha. This ward
had around 75 girls in it, and 5 guys. It was so weird to see! We
helped pass and bless the sacrament, never thought I would
have to help in one of these wards up here with that. Eric our
investigator came to church!
Monday: We had MLT today, it was held at the Mission President's home.
I like the home feel that the meeting had, but it was certainly
squished at times with all those people in there. During MLT we
had Eric (Our only investigator) text us saying that he doesn't want to
meet with us for a time. He wants to come to church still but to take
a break from the missionary discussions. :( Sad. So now we have no
investigators... This is rough. I feel really bad for my Greenie who
comes into here when it is like this. Though school is starting up,
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<pre><tt><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Wednesday: We started to tract, we were knocking doors, none of them
were opening, finally, after like 30 min, one opens. So excited I say, "What's </span></tt></pre>
<pre><tt><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">your name!?" He replies, "I'm the landlord, nobody lives in these apartments </span></tt></pre>
<pre><tt><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">right now." It was so sad. Seems to be the case for a ton of the apartments in </span></tt></pre>
<pre><tt><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">our area right now. We had a lesson with Eric at the Temple! That was really </span></tt></pre>
<pre><tt><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">cool! We didn't got home because we went up to Clarkston (45min drive) and </span></tt></pre>
<pre><tt><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">served at the Martin Harris Pageant. Stayed over the night with Alsterberg up in
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<pre><tt><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">afternoon. We already missed them all, as soon as I learned of that though, </span></tt></pre>
<pre><tt><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">someone drove up to us, and offered us a ride. That was super nice :) When we got back to the apartment, our door was open, we both thought that was </span></tt></pre>
<pre><tt><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">strange, but kinda shrugged it off. Had lunch, then I noticed my watch box was gone, then Nielsen noticed his ipod was gone. We first thought it was just other missionaries playing a joke on us. Called around, nope. Called 911 and they </span></tt></pre>
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<pre><tt><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Dealing with that took a long time.
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<pre><tt><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Friday: Because of the lack of students around right now, we decided to start </span></tt></pre>
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<pre><tt><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Saturday: Met with Eric again, he is struggling really bad with the smoking, and this time I went to his house, and it all made sense. Everybody in his house </span></tt></pre>
<pre><tt><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">smokes, and it stenches with it, He did tell us that he bought 2 puppies to help him get over smoking, keeps him more busy, and makes him more happy. The miracles of puppies! Haha
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decided that he needs to get a new place if wants to be able to smoke, sad, </span></tt></pre>
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<pre><tt><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">baptized very soon, but very good for him to get out of that terrible place. He is such a good guy, he doesn't deserve to live there.
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<pre><tt><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">ride motorcycles before my mission, so easy to get a conversation with them.
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<pre><tt><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">already, Freshmen will be moving in on Saturday, everyone else, next Saturday.It's about to get busy!!! :)</span></tt></pre>
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