June 17th 2014

Well here is the week!

Tuesday: Consisted of helping Elder Pape pack, which took 5 hours... He had a lot of stuff, so I took a nap during that, the good thing was that he gave me a lot of free stuff as payment of my time lol. I had one of those storage tubs full of free stuff. Which ranged from black rice to a RC Car. lol. Then the rest of the day we went and did visits for Pape and Simpson to say goodbye to people.

  Wednesday: Transfer day!!! I hate transfer day.... haha, nothing ever goes according to plan. So Simpson needed to be at the transfer point at 8:30, Elder Buckley wasn't going to be at the transfer point till 11:30. So Said goodbye to Simpson :( and hitched a ride to the mission office. We were getting 10 new missionaries in the area so I wanted to see that because it is pretty fun to watch them get their "daddy". I saw a lot of MTC friends there as well. After that I headed back to the transfer point. Just read scriptures and did some planning for when we get back to our area. Elder Buckley didn't show up until 1:30... long wait. We did play chair soccer twice. (Everyone has a chair that has two lives, when it get hits by the soccer ball, it loses a life, once you are out of lives you sit down) which I learned is super fun! Once Buckley was there, we still had Pape's car, so we used that to drive back down to Syracue. We were told that we were going to be giving it to the sisters, so I called them up and asked them to meet up with us to give them it. They were like, "Was it approved by Elder Graves?" I didn't know it needed to be approved, the Zone Leaders just told me to do it lol. I called up Elder Graves, he told us to drive back up to the mission office because he has a different car he wants for the sisters. So we started making the 30 min drive back to mission office whence we came. When we almost got there, Elder Berg called us and told us that we didn't need to exchange the cars. So then we did a U-turn and went back and gave the car to the sister's... sooo much time wasted!
For the rest of the day, just tried to get him to meet all the bishop's and Ward Mission Leaders.

  Thursday: We had Zone Study, which part of it included throwing water balloons at our Zone Leaders lol. For how many people we had with a date, that is how many balloons we got. So we got 5! That's a lot haha.
After Lunch just contacted Bishop's and Ward Mission Leaders.
We had dinner with the Bell's, we played Carcassone with them. I love that game soo much! I know Jared has played it, but has anyone else?
More contacting after Dinner

  Friday: We had a lesson in the morning with Art and Jacee, they are soo ready to be baptized, we could have easily baptized them the next day. The thing that is holding them up is the ex-wife, she is not letting Jacee be baptized for some reason unknown. Sad :( Art smoked some Salmon that morning, and he gave me some.... SOOOO GOOD! haha. We had weekly planning, Elder Buckley isn't a bad companion at all. Of course sometimes he is annoying, but he really a good guy, and he wants to improve the area.
 We then had to get stuff ready for baptism tomorrow, we failed at getting Johnny Mitipok to go get his marriage license, so Julianna is not able to be baptized this week :( However, Norman and Tom are looking as Golden as ever :) We had to get suits, make sure baptismal programs are getting made and whatnot. Getting 2 baptisms on their way I learned is very stressful. I was undergoing a lot stress, also because I am just wnating to not spend my time on this stuff, I want to go and contact referrals and what not!

  Saturday: We had service in the morning helping with yard work, we were trying to get a stump out of the ground, which we learned is a lot more difficult than it looks, we spent 1 and a half hours on it but wasn't able to get it out. We had a to leave to go fill up the Font for Tom's baptism, the font takes 2 hours to fill. Tom's baptism was so great though! A huge turn out, and his stepdaughters whom are serving their missions in South Carolina and Georgia were able to skype in to see him be baptized! It was so cool. Teresa was dang happy about that lol. We had 18 missionaries there at the baptism, many of them whom had helped with Tom when they were in this area. President Hiers was there to, he is such a cool mission president :)
 Norman's baptism was definitely on the smaller side. I mean all his family lives in Nigeria, so they weren't necessarily able to come out haha. He was super tall though, the water only came up to mid-thigh, I didn't think they would be able to do it first try, but they did crazily haha. I learned afterwards that Norman wants to serve a mission. He is 23 now, but he wants to serve a mission as soon as he can :) So cool!

  Sunday: We were able to sleep until 6:30 on a Sunday! Because it was Father's Day, all of the meetings that we usually have were cancelled. We went to go and see Tom get confirmed. In his blessing, it included on how he was going to prepare to serve a full time mission with his wife. That is super cool too! :) They would make an awesome senior couple!! Norman's confirmation was really cool to, bishop had him bear his testimony afterwards, and he has such a strong testimony :)
We had dinner over at the Knight's, we played pictionary some, and had fajitas. I could tell the family wasn't in very good harmony though. Their daughter Liz seemed pretty out of it, and Jimmy (Father) and Shirley (Mom) are going through some things, and not living together currently. It's really sad. I received a really strong prompting from the spirit, "You need to help this family!" I heard it loud and clear. They are out of town next week, however I got all of their numbers, and I've been keeping in contact with them. I have talked a lot with Liz, and she has been going through a lot of depression, but she has no relationship with God, so I have been helping her with that. I have also been making sure they have family prayer and scripture every night. I love the Knights so much, they are really close friends.

  Monday: We had a lesson scheduled with a Potential Investigator at 1:30, Simspon and I found him just knocking on a door we were prompted to knock on. However he is YSA age, so I gave that lesson to the YSA missionaries. They later told me that he was golden and that they set him to be baptized on the 5th on July., they were really thankful for me giving them that lesson. It made me feel super good though, someone that we found getting baptized. I have been such a wimp lately, whenever someone comes to church after a super long time, or I hear some really good things happening to people I know, I get watery eyes, because I just love it so much!
Well, that was my week. A very stressful one, but transfer weeks are always stressful from what I hear. I think we did pretty good.

Love you!

Elder Wrathall

 

And that made it 5 times in a row having pizza for dinner.

Yep! I got my keyboard, and I gave the old one to Simpson, Simpson figured out how to work the old one, it is really annoying, you lightly tap the space bar and it works, but he is very grateful for it. Mine works perfectly! I am not getting transferred, however, Simpson is :( Sad day, he is going to Tremonton, up North. We used a shovel to get the spiders in. That's cool with all the mission calls! It is crazy that if Melissa left right now, she would still get home before me! Weird! That is crazy to think Addison is 8! I wish I could have been there!

Well onto the week.

 

Tuesday: Paint Balling!! Super fun! Was a lot better than doing it in the snow. I was able to see this time. After P-day we had a lesson with the Bowdens, whom is a super fun family, however, they are less active, and they aren't keeping commitments such as reading the scriptures, or praying. Lame! I really wish they would! Then we just had contacting the rest of the day.

  Wednesday: We had District Meeting, I did a training on "increasing people's desire to meet with us". It was the training I requested, so he turned it around on me and said, "would you like to give that training?" Lol, so I did, and it works, I feel like I learned a lot more than those whom I was training. We had a lesson with Norman, we taught him the commandments, and he was all gun hoe for that! So we set his baptism for the 11th. A Wednesday, which is also transfer day, so whoever is getting transferred in the area gets that baptism straight off. Lucky guy lol. We also had a lesson with Tom, he is still golden for the 14th, we just read Joseph Smith History with him. That was his first time, so he learned a ton, it was great!

  Thursday: We had an inspection for our apartment in the morning. We passed! We had lots of cleaning to do before hand though... Lol. After that we did Service for the Knights. We moved a lot of furniture around,  they were getting rid of a desk, and we need a desk. So we need to swing by sometime to get it lol. We also had a baptismal interview with one of our investigators, Julianna, I don't think I have told you, but she doesn't speak English, so it was super hard to teach her stuff, she speaks chekaneese of something like that. So at the interview, they had a translator, and she failed!! That's the first time I have heard of, but we set up a time on Wednesday to try again because she just didn't really understand the questions. They are not able to get baptized this week though. Johnny, her husband still smokes, and we have been trying to get him to stop, I don't really know how! He doesn't really seem to have a desire to stop. Simpson and I were told by our Zone Leaders, if you soak cigarettes in milk, the. Let them dry for 24 hours, then have them smoke it, they will feel super sick, and they throw up, and after that, whenever they smoke they get that feeling again. The hard part about that is getting cigarettes, we got two, but when I was taking them out of the milk, they ripped in half, so I need to get more. But of course we wouldn't buy them lol.

   Friday: Normal, somewhat boring, except for the lesson with Julianna, so we had the interview again, and I went in there knowing that she wont be able to be baptized the next day, because she doesn't have her marriage certificate. However, Elder Muntigah, tells her she can be baptized if she doesn't live with her husband, and she said sure, I'll do it, and he was fine with it as well. So here I am, Oh crap, I'm going to have to do everything for this baptism in literally 14 hours. That is super crazy! However, her brother got in in the conversation and he said that they need to wait next week. Lame... That would have been cool.

  Saturday: We had service in the morning, I packed boxes in a garage. All of our lessons fell through. Had burnt Pizza for dinner. And that made it 5 times in a row having pizza for dinner. Yep/... that's about it haha

 
 

 Sunday: We had to go on splits to make it to the meetings, and we also went to two different sacraments, it is kind of weird not to be sitting with Simpson at sacrament. Everybody kept asking, where is your companion! I sat with the Knights family. We had Elder Pape get dropped off with us at night, because his companion already left for home in the Philippines (Mom, spell that for me! lol) I did with the help of spell check. So we get a threesome until transfers!

  Monday: So Simpson was at Leadership training, so he was away from 11:00 to 6:00. So Elder Pape and I sacked out and played Risk all day.... Haha, JK!!!! However, all of our lessons did fall through :( Something super cool though is that we got senior couples in our area, their name is the Evertsens. They are super ready to work, this will be their third mission together, so they are well seasoned. They we're asking us like what more can we do to help, I was just like, "I don't know! I'm not used to this! lol" So it will be fun working with them. We stopped by the Murphy's, they have the Rottweilers... Have I talked about that before? I don't know. lol. but they have a female and male Rottweilers, and they had puppies so they are super cute! And they are super nice! I always thought that they were super mean. Now I kind of want to get  a Rottweiler when I am out on my own. Also, they are less active, so we aren't just wasting our time petting their dogs lol. Robi took Pape and I out for Dinner, to get Gyros! Yummm!!! When Simpson  got back he knew that he was leaving and going up to Tremonton, so we started making the rounds to say goodbye to everybody. Sad! At the end we had a family home evening with the Zone. We went to a bishop's home that was super cool, they have everything in their yard, Giant swing, fire pit, stream, peacocks, ect. and we found out where everyone is going. I am staying in Syracuse, with Elder Buckley! We went back to our apartment and played games lol.

Well hope you have a good week!

Love,

Elder Wrathall

 

Super awesome, sweet delicious brownie of a day!

Transfers is next week! Crazy how fast time goes by! I have not gotten the keyboard. The request takes 7-9 buissness days to be approved, then 5-7 days to ship. yeah... Long time. Good news is I don't need to return the one that is faulty. That is super cool about the motorcycle being sold! I saw on facebook! I guess I should get him a good father's day gift huh... lol

I don't think that the Elders will be able to help with the open house. I am pretty sure only sisters get to do that... Sexist! It just means that it is more important for the Elder's to be out in the field :P haha.

 

Okay onto the week!

 Tuesday: Zone Sports! We started off playing softball, however, some park people kicked us off the field because they had prepared the field for a game latter that night. But we ended up playing beach volleyball, which I like a lot better anyways. Haha. After P-day we had dinner with our Stake President, his wife made delicious chicken and salad. Then we had a meeting with the stake auxiliaries. And our lesson fell through... Yay.

  Wednesday: We had DM, but afterwards we did some service weeding. We had another companionship help us out with it. Early on we saw a ton of spiders, so us, being the boys that we are started catching them and putting them in a jar. At the end of the service project, we had like 12 spiders all in one jar. It was pretty crazy. None of us wanted to take them home though. We thought about going to a less active house, knocking on the door and releasing the spiders on the door, so when they came, all the spiders would get in. However, after long consideration, we didn't think Jesus Christ would do something like that :( We just let them go. 

We had like 6 lessons scheduled for the night, however 4 of them fell through. Lame!

  Thursday: So right across from our place is a Hawaiian shaved ice place... Super delicious place haha, they also give us discounts, so with that combination, we have been going there pretty often. Haha. We also have only paid  once out of the three times that we have been there because other people want to pay for us. What nice people! They have tons of flavors, my favorite thus far is, Lychee and Pomegranate.

   Friday: We had a lesson at 10am, which is the earliest I have ever had a lesson, so that was pretty weird. We were setting expectations from him. We asked, "What do you expect from meeting with us" His response, "Well I want to give you a story that you can tell your friends..." We were pretty sure he was high lol. Later after weekly planning, we had service with the Knight's family, which really just turned into a water fight, but it was super fun. Then we had 5 lessons in the evening, all went through :) We were astonished by that fact.

  Saturday: Super awesome, sweet delicious brownie of a day! We had speedball in the morning with the zone, then did some service landscaping a yard for a less active. She made us yummy sandwiches for payment lol. So we had 0 lessons planned for the day, but during making some visits, we were able to stop by some people and they weren't busy so we just had a lesson with them and there. The best one was with a non-member, who we were trying to meet with for a really long time, and she has always just been busy, so we kinda gave up on her. But, we had a promoting to swing by, even though it had been a month since the last time that we had contacted them. What do ya know! She is free to talk, so we got to know her, and she is completely golden. Like she was thinking right before we came over, "Where are those elder's whom used to come by." And when she had thought that, we knocked at the door, the very second lol. She has also had a very positive expire cues with the church. Her dad about a year ago had been baptized, and he used to be an alcoholic and mean to her, but ever since he had been baptized, he has been a lot better guy. So she just wanted to know what is about the church that made him so different. We invited her to be baptized, she did say no. But I think that was good, because her reasoning for not being baptized is because she doesn't know enough. She wants to be sincere about baptism. Super cool! We have another meeting with her on Monday.

  Sunday: Just a ton of meetings, and the most difficult lesson in the world. We taught a less active, and boy was she a talker. Every question that we asked she would take 20 min to talk about. Even when I tried to make the question specific to a yes or no. It did not work! She also said, "you know..." soo much!! I counted and she averaged 8 times a sentence, almost every other word, and about 25 times a minute. I seriously wanted to just die. It was soo difficult being in there for an hour and a half. Elder Simpson during it said that he needed to use the restroom, and after the lesson he said that he didn't really, he just wanted a break. Lol.

  Monday: Our lesson with Rose, (investigator picked up on Saturday) fell through :( We did service in the morning, helped plant some tree's. There were two young guys there, about 23 years old helping us. They were friends, and one of them was a non-member, but he was deployed in Afghanistan, and went through a lot of war. But he played off killing people like it was no big deal, and he talked about like self defense here in the states, and how he would have no problem killing someone who tried to rob him. One of his sentences were, "You slice his jugular just enough where he bleeds out slowly, so his friends come to help him, and you kill them to." So Simpson and I were just like, oh man, this guy is homicidal! He is just going to kill everyone lol. However, at the end of the service, he told us that he was actually a member, pretending to be a crazy guy, it was super funny.

Well thanks for the email! Hope you have a wonderful week. Love you!

Byeeeeeeeeeeee!

Elder Wrathall

 

Guess he is showing all the junk food he has.

 

The Birthday Week

Of course I watched X-men... haha just kidding! We had a ton of food though lol. I don't really like hot dogs, but I do love polish dogs, and brots, and similar things! Kayla did get me candy. I need to take a picture of my cupboard, I have lots of candy. Though I do grill up chicken quite often, so that makes it all better. You would get really mad at me if you looked in the fridge though. We have two 12-packs of Mountain Dew! Haha, I don't like it all too much, but we got it for free, so might as well. That is cool that you got to walk so much! I got to bike a lot this week! :P hjaha. I do miss the beauty of Georgia! I miss it soo much! However, there is beauty here, a different kind of beauty. I'd still much rather live in GA though.

  That was funny about the dinner disaster, but it was good that it turned out alright! Nice job on the German! You and Allison will be talking in secret combination when she gets home! lol I wish I could learn Spanish after being out here, it would be so nice to be able to talk to these people that say they can't speak english.
 Well, onto the week!

Tuesday: My Birthday! It was a super good Birthday! We did zone sports, and we played my favorite, Beach Volleyball! Then we also played another game that I like a ton, Ultimate Frisbee! I absolutely love playing sports with the zone. We went to the Bell's house, (a member) and we played board games with them, we played Dominion, Small World, Smash Up, and Carcassone. Super fun, she made chicken cordon blue for my birthday dinner, and also gluten free German chocolate cake. It wasn't as good as yours mom, but it was good. Then after the P-day ended, we made door contacts, not really anything interesting...
     Wednesday: We had my second B-day dinner! Lol the Knights threw a party for me, she made meatball subs which tasted oh so good! Then gave me a present, the present was a bag and removed the tissue paper and there it was. A toilet paper roll and a "nut roll" (kinda like a pay-day) in it. We all laughed, and then she gave me the real gift, and that was, creamies, which are the best Popsicles in the world!! And To Go. Nutella and dip in bread sticks. Lol.
We had a lesson with Tom Greenwood, and President Hiers was able to come to that lesson. I love our mission president, he is so cool, and has a good sense of humor. The sad thing, was that Simpson and I were only able to stay there for about 15 min, because we had another appointment that we had to go to, but President did stay there longer to just read the scriptures with them.
    Thursday: Oh man... The morning was the best. We had some service to tear down a gazebo, (have no idea if that it spelt correctly) and they didn't have sledgehammers, unfortunately. We used just normal hammers, and went to work on it. It was fun to tear down, I really should have gotten a picture of us, but when I thought of that, it was too late. At one point, the hammers weren't doing us much good. The owners told us, "Whatever you can find in this garage, you can use" so I went searching through, they didn't have much good stuff, however, I did find a lead pipe.... Haha, so I took that lead pipe and went to town with it!
Then we had some more service helping a less active family with their front yard. Yes... We do a lot of service. Haha, but we love to!
Robi (A member from Roy) took us out for my Birthday, if you have lost count, that's my 3rd birthday dinner :P. Took us out to crown burger, super good gyro. And her daughter in law made me a super cool cake! Coconut!
We had a lesson with investigators whom we haven't seen forever! They didn't continue reading the Book of Mormon :( but we read a chapter with them. 1 Nephi chp. 4. Love that chapter, not only because Nephi chops off Laban's head... Lol You can relate the experience to many different things.
    Friday: Weekly planning! Yay... We didn't have much planned for the day, but since we were slacking so much the other days with TTI's we set out to get as many as we could. We did have a lesson with Tom, but because of our desire for soo many TTI's we went on splits, I went to the lesson. The lesson was awesome, just talked about the baptism and how sick it is going to be and whatnot. When I rejoined Simpson, he got 6 TTI's within the course of an hour, super good! At the end of the day, we had 14 TTI's our new daily record! Haha. We have fun with it.
  Saturday: We had a lesson with the Knights, Love them!! We ended up helping them do yard work for about 2 hours, which was fun. Chopping down tree limbs, weed whacking, whatnot. Then after that, helped someone move. Then had dinner with an old couple who had a ton of small dogs. They all barked at us whenever we moved. It was crazy! The lady had a can with something in it that rattled, and she would throw it near the dogs to make them shut up, haha. It was a very interesting dinner. Then of course, our lessons for the night fell through, so we contacted people and got more TTI's.
   Sunday: Went to a couple of Ward councils. They were soo good! We got a ton of referrals from them, and got a lot of info on people. Being a missionary really just gives me experience on how to stalk someone. No, but like seriously, if you want information on someone, be a missionary! I feel like a detective a lot of the times, it is quite fun actually. Finding out whether people went to church or not, or if they are keeping commitments lol. We are God's law enforcement team. Haha.
We gave two talks... I just gave the same talk in both wards, Simpson did two different ones. In one of the meetings, we were the only ones that were speaking. So we both had to talk 20-25 min each. We actually had no problem. Haha, I spoke about the restoration, I can talk about that forever, that and The Plan of Salvation. Haha. I met one of our investigators for the first time. This was our second lesson and we were on splits on the last one. Norman is his name, and he is from Nigeria, he has been going to church for 6 months, we started the Restoration, and he knew every single thing in it. So I just asked him, "Do you already have a testimony that all these things are true? The Book of Mormon, Joseph Smith, the Gospel, Christ?" He responded, "Yes, I do, I know with the surety of my heart all these things are true." He already had a Baptismal date for the 21st of June, but I think we will get him baptized before then. Soo cool of a guy! :)
  Monday: Memorial Day! It was dang hot out, it was 85 degrees I believe. That killed us. We did go to a Ward party breakfast, which was delicious, then had BBQ with the Greenwoods, then BBQ for dinner. Haha, we did only contacting, nothing very successful, both of our lessons fell through. So lame! We did go to the Bells, because we hadn't seen them in a while, Bro. Bell recently won Google Glass for free, so he let us try it out! It was pretty dang cool. Worked pretty well. For me it was pretty blurry, but everyone else said it was crystal clear for them. Must just have been something with me... I'm unique lol

 

Also, my allergies are acting up... Lame! Not too bad though.

Love yuou!
Love,
Elder Wrathall

 

Dallin's 19th birthday Post

I got your package! And the shirts, however, that package showed up on the other corner of the block, thank goodness everyone here is Mormon... lol. I loved the package! However, with the keyboard for my iPad mini, the space bar doesn't work :( Where did you buy it at? I wonder if I could exchange it. Are you trying to tell me that I don't eat very healthy? With sending me fruit? lol I do like the fruit strips a lot! lol. I like the shirts a lot, I was kind of scared that they weren't going to be good, coming from missionary mall, but $22 each, they better be good! and they are, even though they are super long. But it isn't annoying.

That Turtle Roll cake is soo good. That is something I miss out here, nobody's recipe's seem to taste as good as your's. Especially when it comes to desserts, the desserts out here are decent, we will see how this German chocolate cake turns out tonight. haha. I will be hanging out with the Bells from 1 to 6pm lol, we are going to play lots of board games! haha

How could you not get a slice of cheesecake at the cheesecake factory! Being out here though, I do love cheesecake now. Sometime this week we are supposed to get a drop off of Snickers Carmel Cheesecake from a member lol.

That is so cool about the German, sounds like you are getting to know your stuff! Good job in reading the BOM too!

On to the week!

     Tuesday: 'Twas a busy P-day, we hanged out with Elder Weidner. We also had Zone Sports, Speedball :) Then of course! Played some board games back at our place! We had our Zone Leader come into our area for the night to see how we are doing, It was pretty nice to have a car in our area, lol, we got so much more work done haha.
    Wednesday: We were on splits, I went to the Knight's family for a lesson, and Simpson went to Tom's for a lesson. After my lesson, I knew that Simpson would still be at Tom's so I walked in and everyone was crying and all emotional and stuff, I was just like, "What is happening..." Lol, but later I talked to Simpson about it, and he said that was the best lesson that he has ever been to. Lame that I wasn't able to go, Tom apparently bore his testimony and everything! super Sick! That man is truly converted.
     Friday: Super good day, first, we had the Zone Leaders call us in the morning, and told us that some people moved in our area, that have been working with the missionaries and want to be baptized on the 7th of June! :) So we will be working with them. We had a lesson with Tom Greenwood, and after nearly two years of missionaries working with him, he said that he wants to be baptized on the 14th of June! That is big news!! 15 has always been his favorite number, so at first he said the next month where there is a Saturday or Sunday on the 15th I will be baptized, and we found January 15th, we weren't that excited, because that was so far away. Then we realized, oh man, next month there is a Sunday on the 15th! Definitely not a coincidence. Tom realized that too. The unfortunate thing about that date, is that is after transfers, and one of us will most likely be transferred by then :(
We also had interview for Will to be baptized, he passed! We ended the day by getting milkshakes with the Greenwoods.
    Saturday: We played kickball as a zone in the morning, followed by breakfast, then we did a lot of service together in a park. We spread rubber shreds mixed with sand around in a playground. Then a group of us went and painted the restrooms. There wasn't much air circulating in the bathroom, so we all got light headed and high, we just found everything funny. We are bad missionaries getting high off of paint! Lol :P After service, we had lunch... Hot dogs, still haven't adjusted to liking those... But then we played beach volleyball! Oh man how I love beach volleyball. Probably my favorite sport we have played so far.
 After having soo much fun, we had more fun by prepping the baptism. The font takes an hour a half to fill up. The baptism was so good, despite the lack of communication about when Elder Simpson and I share the first vision. It was pretty dang strong with the spirit! Super cool!
We had a lesson with a potential Investigator, to me he seems pretty golden, he really likes the people in our church, and wants to know why they are all so nice to him. He is really into studying the scriptures too, so he is going to read the Book of. Mormon, that right there will convert him alone haha.
     Sunday: Well we learned that there is another person in the house that the Zone leaders gave us that want to be baptized, so we got another investigator with a date. That makes us up to 8 investigators with a date to be baptized. We had a lot of meetings, we did a conformation of Will, and there was like 20 people in that conformation circle. Not really supposed to have big groups like that, but it was super cool. We missed the stake correlation... Again, we are so bad at that, we need to be reminded of stuff too!! Lol nobody ever talks about it!
  Monday: Probably the worst day of my Mission thus far. All three lessons went through, one of our investigators with a date dropped us, saying he wasn't interested anymore... What!? You're not interested in eternal happiness!? Okay. We had no TTIs, we tried, but for some reason we couldn't get one. Our Dinner fell through. Bike tube popped, service project fell through. We had the best week ever, then the worst day ever haha. But that's alright, tribulation just means that there are blessings around the corner, well... Only when you’re righteous, but I would say we are doing alright, I mean there is always room for improvement, but we are working on it! That's all The Lord asks.

 

Well, hope you have a good week! Love ya!

Love,

Elder Wrathall

I had a strong prompting to invite her to be baptized. I was like what??

I am super excited for my birthday package! I haven't opened Allison's, but it does feel like some yummy German food, so I am pretty excited. As of recently I have been eating sooo much though!!! Last night my stomach hurt from eating so much, and when I woke up I was still full. People have just been giving us such good food!

Still haven't got the shirts...

On to the week!

  Tuesday: We did a lot of Guillotine playing! Then our lessons cancelled.. Sad :( 

  Wednesday: At District Meeting, we (our district) won a competition for most invitations for baptism. Even though Simpson and I invited nobody this week, I felt pretty guilty. The prizes were "Apartment Treasures", So I got a never worn Batman Shirt. Not too shabby lol. In our district, the District Leader started a new competition on TTI's (Teach Testify & Invite) whoever gets the most as a companionship, he will take out for lunch. So that got Simpson and I pumped because we like food, especially free food. That Afternoon we got 12 TTI's when the Standard of Excellency is 3. Haha getting work done!!

Thursday: Today was a sick day, we did service laying down sod all morning, 9-12, it was some heavy work, but it was fun. It was a little more than a quarter acre of land in a park. We then did exchanges. I went with Elder Child in his area, he has been out 1 less transfer than me. The goal was to get 11 TTI's in his area, because we had no lessons planned. We only got 7 TTI's in the area, however, we did meet someone on the street, set up a lesson the same day, went there, taught the restoration. I had a strong prompting to invite her to be baptized. I was like what?? We have only been talking like 30 min! But I did as the spirit told me to, and she said, that is something she really needs right now. Sweet!! So we set up the date for her to be baptized, on the first visit! Super sick! Unfortunately, it's not in my area, so I don't get to baptize her :( I do feel good getting a date for Elder Child though :)

Friday: We were teaching the Plan of Salvation to Will Knight, and we were on Adam and Eve, Simpson said, "They ate the flippin fruit!" We all had a good laugh about that, the fruit was flipping all over the place. Simpson's bike got destroyed, the gear shifter got caught in the spokes when we were going pretty fast and it broke the shifter and several spokes. More bike problems... Yay

Saturday: We had a lot of people not answer their doors, as always on Saturdays. However, when riding our bikes, a member waved us down, because her mom just fell and broke her leg! And the men in the house didn't have consecrated oil on them, so by us being there, they were able to give her a blessing :) That brightened my day a lot. Some days we get some pretty bad numbers, however, we still help people and that's what we are out here to do. Makes me love my job!

Sunday: Mothers Day!!! Loved talking to you mom! Every member that we came into contact with was like, "Have you called your mom yet????!!" We had a lot of investigators come to church! 5 Investigators went to church! That's everyone except one! Like, sick!! And we ended up with 30 TTI's for the week. Don't know if have won yet. Probably, because we are good like that!

Monday: We had interviews with President, and I spoke to him about getting driving privileges, and he said it was a no go, but that's alright though. Makes total sense. We had to go on splits during the evening, but man! I was in surprise when we met up at the end of the night and Simpson told me that he picked up a new baptismal date!! Sick! So now we have 4 with baptismal date.

I am absolutely loving Elder Simpson, he was sad that he didn't say "Hi" over skype, I got to say Hi to his family. His family is crazy, not sure if I have told you this, but he comes from a family of 11 kids. He is second to youngest. So he had lots of nieces and Nephews running around lol

Love,

Elder Wrathall

 

 

An update and even a recipe!

      Tuesday: It was our last day with our District Leader Elder Weidner, so we played some basketball with them, and also went out to eat at Paces, (kind of like DQ, but better quality) Our dinner was with the Gunderaons, and he knows how to BBQ, he gave us delicious steak! Their children were watching frozen, so now I know a little about Frozen haha, from what I saw of it, I like tangled better. In the evening, we didn't have any lessons, so we just biked around contacting.

 

      Wednesday: Nothing really new or exciting happened, we had lessons with some les actives. Their excuses are almost always the same. Either they are too lazy to go to church, or they work on Sunday, those 2 excuses encompass 90% of our less active work. The other 10% is when they were offended by someone at church. It is super lame!

 

      Thursday: Again, nothing really new. We are working really hard to find new investigators. It is so hard when our area is only a square mile, it seems like we have talked to like every non-member out there already. Also, the stake has been told to work on prospective elders, and they aren't considered as investigators, because they are members! So all the referrals we get deal with less active work. We had dinner at the coolest family in the stake, the Bells. We had pancakes with buttermilk syrup! They also learned of my birthday coming up, and invited me to spend my birthday there. I probably will. My birthday is on a P-Day so the plan is to just go over there and play board games all day. Haha well except for after P-Day ends of course. But she is going to make me German Chocolate Cake! Just like you would mom! I'm sure it won't be as good of course.

 

       Friday: We had a lesson with an active family, because their kid is about to be baptized, and they wanted us to come over and just give a quick review. This happens really often. Though it was a super cool family, and they gave us a lot of referrals so it wasn't a big waste of time! Yay! We went door contacting on some less actives, and we ran into someone, who invited us into his home, and he was a super avid hunter. The walls were covered with heads, and had two bears. That's the pictures. For dinner, we had pizza dropped off at our place, this also happens quite often. I like it though, it is nice sometimes just to relax at home and eat! We had a lesson with Tom, and it didn't go very well, we could tell that there was a lot of contention in the house between Tom and Teresa, and Tom was stuck back on what it has been from the beginning, he feels like his baptism in the Baptist church is valid. He doesn't think its right that God wouldn't allow everyone to be baptized even by no priesthood. He seemed really prideful. We learned that he hasn't been keeping his commitments, he has stopped reading the BOM. Not good! He was doing soo good!

 

 

       Saturday: We met with some non-members who are being taught by the Ward because they don't want lesson from the missionaries, however, when we visited with them this time, they seemed more open to it :) So we will be starting to teach them. Dad is recently coming back active and is working on getting the priesthood, so once he is able to get that, he will be able to baptize them.

 

        Sunday: Lots and lots of church, we read in the white handbook that we should be going to all blocks of church. We usually have been just going to sacrament, and gospel principles sometimes, because we usually have something scheduled to where we can't go to priesthood. Well apparently we are not supposed to do that haha. It makes sense though. We had 5 lessons scheduled for the day and only 1 went through....

 

        Monday: We started off the day by cleaning for 2 hours... It was quite needed. I usually keep the kitchen clean, and do dishes all ye time, but the bathroom is a different story. We got a referral from church headquarters via text. So we went to that not expecting much, because they usually aren't very fruitful. However, we did meet a family of 4 Mom lives with her grandparents taking care of them, the grandparents are active members. However, mom and he three children are not members, but she wants her newborn to be blessed... So weird, never heard of a non-member wanting a baby blessing lol. They weren't to interested in meeting with us for the discussions, however we did convince them for a time that we could meet :) hopefully it goes well! So

Fun Facts:

- I know how to shuffle cards now!

- All those animals in his house are worth over $250,000.

 - A member gave us about 2 gallons of left over soup from dinner.

- So far on my mission, I have been offered to drive really nice motorcycles 4 times.

 

Oh and since my birthday is coming up, here is my list:

- Prince of Egypt

- IPad mini to HDMI cord (if that exists...) something to hook it up to a tv.

- A cool board game - My Sunglasses from home? If they are there?

- Candy is always good.... Lol Tropical Starburst is probably my favorite on my mission, because starburst are easy to carry around lol.

- Mints or even better, those listerine strips thingamajigs.

- IPad mini case with keyboard, that would be sick!

 

This is probably my cheapest birthday list ever! Lol

 

Oh! You should try this soup recipe, it is super good! I think anyways, I remember Jared would send some good recipes.... Lol And yes! The main ingredient is beans, strange from me huh?

 

White chicken bean chili

 

-3 cans of white beans

-1/2 pound of cooked chicken.

-2 packs of McCormick Chili White Chicken seasoning

-4 cups of water

-1 can of evaporated milk

-A little green chiles (optional)

 

Toppings

-Cilantro

-Cheese

-Sour Cream

-Tortilla chips

 

Throw everything in. Bring to a boil. Once it is boiling it is done.