I live in the country with the cows!

I live in the country with the cows! My new address is: 9216 N, 11600 W. Thatcher, UT 84337

 

     Wednesday: Transfer Day. This has probably been the best transfer

day that I have had, it hasn't taken too much time. I got all the way

up here in Tremonton by 10:30. I was super surprised! Once I got here,

it seemed like there was nothing here. It is so weird that all it is,

is pretty much farms. It is so dang gorgeous in the night though! You

can see the stars so clearly, driving on the open roads is really

nice. (Well, me not driving :( but Elder Mika.) Makes me want to live

in the country. We were able to pick up a new investigator, a 14 year

old. So weird to be teaching children again. Haha. They don't really

show any interests at all, however, when you pop the question, "Will

you follow the example of Jesus Christ by being baptized by someone

holding the priesthood authority from God?" They perk up and say,

"Yeah!" I don't get it... Haha, I'm pretty sure they don't even

comprehend it, I guess just other children at school just tell them

what a great thing it is. Good missionary work children!

 

     Thursday: Day 2 in the boonies! Well... I have learned what our

number one enemy is... MILES! We have 1,350 miles a month. Which seems

like a lot, but when you are out in the country, and everything is

super far away from each other. You have to plan carefully. I don't

like it. Haha. Wish we just had unlimited miles.

 

     Friday: Had a lesson with Jessica, whom is about 30, and it was

super good lesson, she felt the spirit, she shed a few tears. She

knows it is true, set her date for the 8th of October. It was one of

the best lessons that I have had on my mission. Now the sad part, I

was on exchanges and it wasn't in my area :( It did lift my spirits

higher though.

 

     Saturday: We met a dog breeder, whose mother dog is #1 in the

world for breeding Schnauzer. Sell the puppies for about 4k a pop.

That is the picture of all the puppies! The breeder told me to tell

you to go to RoyalSchnauzers.com. All of our lessons fell through, but

puppies make everything better right?! Haha

 

    Sunday: Man... The sacrament talks were really rough, it was super

difficult to not sleep during them. Haha. We had a meeting with the

Stake presidency, seems like they are pretty missionary minded people.

That is always a help, then we also had correlation with every Ward

Mission Leader. We got a lot of referrals. It is pretty funny here

though, because Mika has been here for over 6 months. He knows

everybody haha. We were driving down the street and there was a house

that just had the foundation built and a couple of walls, he points to

it and says, "That's the Hudson’s" in response, "Wait what? You know

who lives there before they even moved in?" "Yep"

 

    Monday: Had one of the weirdest lesson today. Mika says he has

never showed any weirdness before... but this lesson... Haha. When we

came in it was like pitch dark, and it was in the middle of the day.

All was pretty normal, but there were a whole bunch of wires going to

the table next to his chair. We asked him how he was doing and

whatnot, he is doing good. The normal things. But a weird noise came

from the ceiling, don't really know what it sounded like, other than

weird. He suddenly said, "Do you hear that!? That's the guy living in

my attic!" We were just like, "Wait, what?" "Yeah! There is a guy in

my attic trying to kill me, he has been trying to drill a hole so he

can shoot me." "Oh, well that isn't good..." "The FBI told me they are

coming tonight to get him out. He has been up there for 9 years" He

then pulls out this heat sensor with a laser pointer on it, and he

points it at the ceiling and says, "He moved!" Then points with it

over in the kitchen ceiling, "He is right there...". We just continued

and were like, "Well, can we start with a prayer?" "Oh, Of course!"

   So we pray, and start with the lesson. Shortly after beginning, he

pulls out another device thing and points it out the window to the

sky, "This is a (Big Words) it measures frequencies. I see drones

flying over the town and they submit around 60 frequencies. The

universe everyday at 2:30 sends out a frequency of 20." "Really, Oh

Wow..."

   Continues on with the lesson, the refrigerator turns off. He

shouts, "There he goes again! That guy in the attic controls all of my

electronics!" He presses a button on the table next to him and the

refrigerator turns back on. In a few minutes it happens again, "See!

That dumb guy wants my food to go to waste!"

   We prayed and left. I don't know if he is crazy... or telling the truth. Haha

 

Love my new area! Though it doesn't have much work going on, we will change that! We don't cover much of the city, just like a sliver.

I don't know my Job Description for District Leader. Minister unto people in the District Haha. On Sundays I get numbers from them and report to the Zone Leaders. I Call them as well weekly to see just how they are doing, how solid their investigators are, ect. We give a 2 hour training every week. That's about it.

That is cool Noelle and Corey are 30 min away, I still think that is close!

Yeah, they told us that Meet the Mormons is coming to Netflix, won't be too long, but I guess they wanted to receive some revenue from it. Just know that you are supporting it! I'm surprised it was even showing in the Mall of Georgia!

Thanks for writing!

Love you!

Elder Wrathall!

 

I forgot, did I tell you we get unlimited cereal? Haha It is super nice, free eggs to! Unlimited Fruits and Vegetables as well, so many gardens. (He says Malt O’Meal is there so there a lot of people employed there so they get the free cereal.)

Transfer news: I am leaving!

Transfer news: I am leaving! The new area where I am assigned is

Tremonton West, and will be serving as Co-District Leader. Elder Mika

is my new companion. I'm going to the boonies!

 

Wednesday: Usually I look back at my planner to help me remember these

days. Unfortunately my planner has been synced with my new area, so I

don't remember much. I think we had a lesson with Junior, he was

pretty cool. His girlfriend requested that we talk about the plan of

salvation and temple... What a good girl friend :P

 

Thursday: So in the planning session last night for this day, in the

planner there was written "Katie & Armando". I had no idea who they

were. I know that I was the one that put it in. However, no idea who

they are. So I prayed, that Heavenly Father could help me remember

them, because they must be important. Well I couldn't remember them

last night, however, when we were in the institute, I was talking with

this girl, and asked her for referrals. Her name was Katie, I hadn't

quite recognized, because there are a ton of Katie's. Shortly soon

after though, her boyfriend came up, I asked him what his name was,

"Armando"!!! They probably thought I was a mad man, because I gasped

loudly when he answered. Turns out they just needed to be followed up

on a referral they gave us last time, but it was cool God answered my

prayer :)

 

Friday: I received word that Tom Greenwood was going to the temple, so

immediately I asked permission for if I could go with them to do that.

Elder Simpson was able to come down as well. Baptisms for the Dead was

great. The temple president at the Ogden Temple allows us to

participate. So I baptized Elder Simpson, and He baptized me. T'was

pretty cool.

 

Saturday: Went to the temple again with Erika today though! This time

it took soo much time! It took us 3 hours to do baptisms for the dead,

we waited forever :( Sad that it was Erika's first time and that

happened. She told us she enjoyed it still which is good. Went to go

eat at Hug-Hes afterwards... Last time eating at Hug-Hes :( There is

when Elder Coronado & Peterson gave us the news, what are we doing,

and where are we going. Elder Alsterberg is going to West Valley, and

he is getting a step-son. Elder Holland was out for 3 weeks, and his

trainer went home, so he was in a threesome for the rest of the

transfer. Elder Alsterberg is going to train him correctly!

 

Sunday: I love fast Sundays they are by far the best! I learned so

much about how much about how our lessons influence members. Issa, a

ward missionary got up an bore her testimony about how she was at a

lesson with us, and when we shared the first vision it helped her with

her testimony a lot. Then right after, Brianna, a fellowship of one of

our investigators, came up and she said how much having us, the

missionaries around has helped her understand how important it is for

her brother to go out and serve, and she never really wanted him to

leave, because she is so close to him.

 

Monday: It was a sad day, but a really good day. We had a lesson with

Sal the Muslim. He such a cool guy, it was really sad telling him that

we can't meet again.

I spent most of the time in MLT though. (Mission Leadership Training).

It was a super good training for me. I learned that Elder Farmer is

going to be my Zone Leader again! :) So excited for that. Elder Mika

seems like he is a lot like me, so I think we shouldn't have too much

trouble with each other. Haha. I was concerned that there wasn't going

to be too much work up there, because all of the rumors of the North,

however I heard some good things from Mika! The rest of the day, we

had lessons galore, like about 8 all back to back, some of the people

I was surprised at their reactions to me leaving. I didn't think we

really had that strong of a connection or something, but when I tell

them that they are getting new missionaries, they are completely

devastated. Makes me feel loved. Haha. Still Sad for them though.

Love Elder Wrathall

 

A dream come true!

Well the Surgery News is that I would have to go home to get my nose

fixed. Kaiser Permanente would not allow the surgery to be done over

here for some reason. Lame!

I will just suffer with the broken nose for 16 months.

 

Tuesday: We were able to shop at Costco! That was nice! I got lots of

chicken and tortillas, eggs, and delicousness. Now I am set for like 2

months because of buying in bulk though... Haha

 

Wednesday: We had the opportunity to watch the movie, "Meet The

Mormons" Which is actually a pretty good movie, and it is supposed to

be a movie where we can invite friends to watch, however, I think that

would be one of weirdest things to do with a friend. "Yo bro! You

wanna go watch a documentary about my religion?" Haha, I don't know,

i'm sure it will help in a lot of ways.

We are meeting with a investigator, whom has the trial in life of

same-gender-attraction. That is quite the hard subject to teach about,

he has been reading the Book of Mormon, however, he did tell us that

he is not interested in joining the church whatsoever, so we had to

say good-bye, which was sad, because he is a super cool guy :(

 

Thursday: Had a lesson with Kacie. This lesson we didn't bible bash,

that was pretty nice, however, as soon as we brought up John 3:5 she

disengaged again, and didn't pay attention or listen. She doesn't

agree with it, I don't understand why not, it is in her own bible!

 

Friday: SOooooo.... I met Elder Edmonds, when he saw me he was like,

"You are Dallin Wrathall! From Sugar Hill Georgia!" I was

astonished.... Haha. We played poker with an investigator, then

related poker to the gospel afterwards, that was fun :) Haha. We also

had a dinner with a family and a non-member there, but also with

special guests... The parents of Elder Gordon! They were down here for

conference and they were having dinner with Elder Gordon's previous

mission families. That was pretty funny to meet with them. Also, we

were able to set up a return appointment a with the Non-member :)

 

Saturday: Met Tyler Tischner's Dad, whom Tyler is serving in the

Frankfurt Mission.

I also saw Bishop Stevens... That was cool too! I just walked past

him, but he saw me! He grabbed my arm and pulled me aside. Haha

Then on top of that, we met Brother Gallo! Our teacher from the MTC,

that was pretty cool to see him again :)

We had the chance to go to Priesthood Session in the conference

center! A dream come true!

Afterwards, was a mad house of course, everyone trying to get back

home, and Elder Coronado & Peterson's phone was dead. Krystof was

going to take us home, so I thought it would only make sense that we

meet at his car. Well Alsterberg and I waited there for about 40 min.

Then dying of thirst and he needed to use the restroom, we left a note

on the car saying where we went, and to not leave us.

Once we got to the restroom, we gave a blessing to this guy who was

crying, his cousin passed away :( Then we headed back to the car. We

looked over, and I saw that it was no longer there... I was pretty

upset, why would they leave us? Well we knew that the forerunner was

going to be at the station at 9:00 and it was 8:57, and it was about a

1/2 mile away. So we sprinted. Running in a suit isn't fun. We were

barely able to get on the train, while on the train Elder Coronado &

Peterson called, saying, "Where are you? We are waiting for you!" They

thought it was a funny prank, and they moved the car somewhere else in

the parking lot. Dumb...

 

Sunday: Twas a good day. General Conference is the best especially

that 2nd to last talk from Elder Bednar! Oh man! What a stud that

apostle is! Love him so much! It was really nice to just relax for the

day and listen to the talks. Elder & Sister Talbot hosted us, they

know how to do General Conference right! They had endless snacks and

treats, sloppy joes for lunch, cake at the end. Haha

Monday: We had every hour a lesson planned and then also a baptism for

6:00. It was a pretty crazy day. Sadly, we had 4 out of the 9 lesson

fall through, but we beat the 50% Haha! Ashton's baptism was really

awesome, they just made it the FHE activity for the ward, so there

were quite a few people there. Of course President & Sister Hiers came

in attendance as well. We had to rush out of there because we were

already late for a lesson. Baptisms are apparently supposed to take

only 30 minutes... I have never had one that isn't at least 45 min.

 

 

Haha, met a lot of people this week. I did not see Lauren there, she is not serving on temple square right? Yeah, 2 more baptisms, and then the one yesterday :) 3 more!

 

Loved conference! I have not met with Brother Groll yet, he said he was going to contact me when a time was good for him... He must be pretty busy :P Transfers is in a week! Crazy

Thanks for writing, some good stories! Love you Mom!

Love,

Elder Wrathall