"Do you want to be baptized?" "Yeah"

My next appointment for my nose is the 16th of September, Dr. Major didn't feel confident in doing this procedure, so he passed me on to another doctor, Dr. Thompson I believe. The new doctor is apparently really excited, Dr. Major told him I was a missionary, and he is active LDS, he said he would pay for my co-pays just like he did. It's nice to be a missionary in Utah. Haha.

 Sounds like you had a lot of good food this week :) How are you doing with losing weight though?? Haha, I actually gained 6 lbs this transfer so far. I have been eating way more than I have ever ate. I am starting to work out a lot more though, so hopefully I can turn it into muscle :)

That is cool that you got a lot of good memories with family, some things  that you will always remember, and will take with you for eternity :) I want to spend a lot more time with family once I get back. That means I can't really live in Georgia though... It is too far from everyone else! If Jared lives in Georgia though, so will I! haha

Tuesday: We had a meeting with the Bishop, and he gave us some
referrals for some less actives that he would like us to go visit.
Right after the meeting, we checked in the gym, because we heard that
there are 3 non-members that come and play basketball with the youth
on Tuesdays. 2 of them were there, so we changed and started playing
basketball. Of course, I didn't do very well, even when versing 13
year olds, I'm pretty sure they were still better than me. I did learn
that the 2 non-members are brothers, and they are staunch Buddhist!
OOOHHHH Something that we don't see everyday! Leon is 13, and his
brother  is 16. They weren't very interested in meeting with us :/

Wednesday: We had a ton of lessons scheduled in the evening, and we
had two wards that wanted to go on splits with us... So thankfully
Elder Young and Coronado were able to help us out for the night. I
went to a lesson with a part-member family. The husband is an active
member, while the wife is a non-member. She actually wanted us, the
missionaries, to come by and do family home evening with them.
However, it doesn't seem that she is very interested in joining the
church, she is atheist and doesn't believe in Christ or Heavenly
Father. So pretty rough case. However, the daughter's friend, Zoey
came over, she is ten, and she listened in at the lesson, and she
seemed really interested in what was being taught, so later in the
week I plan on stopping by her house and talking with the parents.

Thursday: I went on exchanges with Elder Armstrong, whom is a new
missionary, he has only been out for 2 weeks. Which I was really
excited about, because I want to be a trainer, so to go out on
exchanges with him, is somewhat like what it will be like training. We
had a couple "could be better lessons" but at the end, we had a lesson
with Franklin, who's sons just got baptized. Franklin, after hearing
me say that "We all make mistakes, especially me, I make a ton of
mistakes." He chuckled, I was like, 'What?" He said, "When you guys
say that, it always makes me laugh, you guys were born with Mormon
parents right?" "Yeah" "Well you guys never made serious mistakes."
"Oh... Well I wouldn't jump to that conclusion..." " Oh c'mon, have
you ever took your mom's car and crashed it?" "...Yeah" LOL We were
all laughing. I thought that was so bizarre that he said exactly what
I have done before. He was so shocked to hear me say yes to that.
Everyone laughed, Haha.

Friday: Went to Wasatch Care center, because it was requested that we
share a lesson with two people whom are there. That place is a sad
place.  A lot of old helpless people. I never want to go in one of
those! Hopefully the 2nd coming will come before that point. Haha. We
shared The Plan of Salvation with them, they were nice people, pretty
coherent to.

Saturday: We thought we had a meeting with our Stake President, we
were wrong however. So we went and contacted some referrals that we
had. Or tried to anyways. We ended up helping a lady mow her lawn. She
gave us peaches from her peach tree, so I think it was a fair trade
haha.

Sunday: We walked into a church building, and in the foyer, this man
stopped us, and told us that his grand-daughter is 17 and wants to be
baptized. She was sitting there, and we asked her, "Do you want to be
baptized?" "Yeah". So that is another date that we have for this
month. We also had a lesson with Kristi, who is on date for 30th, she
has been having her non-member friend for the lessons. SO we put her
friend on date as well!! So another for this month!

Monday: Elder Wood's Non-member friends came up from California to go
to Yellowstone, so on the way up, they stopped by and we took them to
the temple open house! That was pretty cool, and Elder Wood made them
promise that they would see the missionaries when they get home :)

Love Elder Wrathall

The temple is absolutely beautiful. I think it is actually my favorite one I have been in!

Tuesday: We went down to my old apartment and raided it for my food.

Also got a haircut :) Went tracting with Elder Cornado, it was fun. I

really enjoy tracting :) We met some really rude people, and some

really wonderful people. Cornado taught me that you can actually type

in the address of a house in the area book, and it will tell you if

they are members or not. Which is really useful! We found a non-member

who wants us to come over to do family home evening. I thought that

was pretty interesting, super cool though!

 

Wednesday: Had lesson with Steve, whom literally said, "I wouldn't

mind being baptized, however, my children, just expect me to stop

smoking when I do" lol, so we really just need to help him stop

smoking, the problem is that he doesn't really want to. Sad. Lose

salvation over smoking.

 

Thursday: Had a post-op appointment for my nose. I still thought it

was super bent, and Dr. Major confirmed that. SO for the first

surgery, Dr. Major said that he had gotten it straight, what had

happened now to here, I'm not sure. So what is going to happen in like

3 weeks, because I have to have my nose re-broke, and they are going

to do a more intensive surgery, and make sure that it is straight. I

have a new appointment for the 14th for more deciding of what to do.

 

 

 

Friday: We went to the first session open to the public for the temple

with our investigator. She has been working with the missionaries for

a year and she has certainly come a long way. She is now saying "when"

rather than "if" when it comes to baptism. The temple is absolutely

beautiful! I think it is actually my favorite one I have been in!

During the tour, after going through the celestial room, I was waiting

out in the hall because KB (Our investigator) wanted to go back in

because she missed something. I was looking at a familiar face right

in front of me... I was thinking, "Bro. Birch??" Then Sis. Birch said,

"Dallin! How are you!?" It is pretty crazy that I saw the Birch family

way out here! :) Sister Birch got a picture of us together, so you

will have to get that from her mom. Haha. Also after the tour, Elder

Fisher of the seventy came up and met with Elder Wood and I :) That

was cool :)

Interesting fact of the temple. It has the most polished stone out of

any temple. And it is all imported granite from Egypt!

The last visit of the night, we met a guy outside his house, and it

looked like he had gone through a major surgery in his leg, because it

had staples from his ankle to his hip. He told us that he had 362

staples in his leg, and around 700 Stitches. I can't remember what it

was for, some doctor phrase or procedure. Makes me glad all I have is

a broken nose.

 

Saturday: We had a zone blitz (Where all the missionaries go tracting

in a area at the same time) in a sister area, because all the sisters

are working in the temple a lot, so they have less time to be in their

areas. It was really fun, we got pretty lucky with the people that we

tracted into. Most of them were nice, set up 4 return appointments in

just 1 hour of tracting. We did have an odd visit with some members

though. They answered the door, they told us straight off the bat that

they were members. We were like, "Okay, would it be fine if we came in

and shared a spiritual thought?" She said, "Why? Did bishop send you

over here??" We responded, "No, we just want to invite the spirit into

your home and bless it." “Oh, no, we aren't really in need of that, I

have two grandchildren on missions and we are endowment holders." I

could tell that Elder Wood was getting pretty angry. "So you are

saying you don't want us in?" "Yeah" "Okay, well have a good day." We

just had to leave, because Elder Wood was going to explode. Haha. So

that was really interesting.

 

Sunday: After one of our Ward Councils, we started receiving a call,

and in it said that it was from the Weber State Penitentiary. We got a

call from a LA whom was put in jail because he was drinking the night

before, and his wife told him she was cheating on him. So he hit her a

few times. Now he is in jail. He is 19, she is 30. So we are trying to

get him out of jail. Elder Wood knows the relationship, and he says

that she is not a very good wife, and he loves her a ton, and would do

anything for her. So sad :(

  We had dinner with President Hiers, grilled Salmon. Sooooooo

goooooooodddd!!! Also homemade ice cream cake from sister Hiers :)

  Afterwards we had a lesson with the Thompsons, they want to do

baptisms for the dead in the Salt Lake Temple, that will be really

cool! :) I haven't been there for baptisms.

 

Monday: Went in the morning to go get my permanent tooth! The loving

Knight were there to support me. Everything went well, the tooth

wasn't quite perfect because it doesn't have the little white peaks at

the bottom point of the tooth like my others, he told me he could do

it, but it would take a week, so I decided it was good enough, which

it is :) Then had lunch with the Knights.

  In the afternoon, we had a lesson with Justin, whom is a recent

convert, he said he is choosing to go on a mission. Sooo cool!! We

also are going to do baptisms for dead with him soon, he wants to go

to the bountiful temple. Had another lesson with Stacey, a 9 year old,

we taught the restoration, using the cups, as the foundation of

Christ's Church. If you don't know about the lesson, i'm sure you can

find it on youtube lol. We did not sing though haha.

Love Elder Wrathall

We set a goal to baptize 7 souls, when we have 0 with a date.

 

Tuesday: Said goodbye to a lot of other missionaries and Sister missionaries.

 

We had dinner with President Spackman, tater tot casserole... Weird O know...

 

but good! Then I said goodbye to a couple

of people, I am going to miss so many people so badly :( We had a

lesson fall through, which was kinda nice, sad to say, because I still

had a lot of people to say goodbye too haha. We had my final Stake

correlation meeting, they all said so nice words to me, I am going to

miss them extremely. I shed a few tears leaving them :( The Evertsens

gave me kisses. Haha, The chocolate kind anyways. Then when we got

home we did my tie burning. With a bunch of friends.

Wednesday: Transfer day. Had to go up at the transfer point at 7:30. I

only had to wait there for an hour! New record! Went and dropped off

my stuff, went to the mission office to see the new missionaries

coming in (My favorite part about transfers). Now that I am APB the

things I do are a little different. I helped do the transfer board,

updated everyone’s information, like where they are and what leadership

position they are. So a bunch of paperwork... Fun! haha. Did that for

4 hours. Thankfully they tell me this is the only day we ever do stuff

like that.

 Went on splits that night, alone with a Ward Mission leader, and I

learned that the Ward mission leaders here rock! They have a whole

bunch of people to go and visit, and all I do is just take notes, and

accompany them. So cool! Returned home for the night. We did planning

and went to bed. So I am kind of in a foursome, we all plan together,

and it makes it really fun :)

  Thursday: We marched in the Ogden Parade for Pioneer Day! It was

pretty weird how missionaries are in a parade... but okay. I saw a few

people from my last areas! I saw Jesus who was from Roy and his gf. I

am actually writing her sister who is serving a mission in California,

because I knew her before her mission, and I will still be here when I

get back. haha.

The afternoon consisted of me studying, Elder Young was feeling sick,

so we just stayed in. I studied and wrote letters while he took a nap.

In the evening I went on splits again with a ward missionary, same as

the day before, just accompanied him. We met a LA lady who loves the

missionaries. She says the reason she wants to not be active, is

because if she was, the missionaries wouldn't come over anymore. lol

We had to come in a little early because we don't want to be out for

fireworks.... Sad.

  Friday: Surgery day! My surgery was at 11:30, I was able to meet the

Zone before I went in. Surgery went super well. Going under feels sooo

good. Waking up I felt super good too :) I don't think I said anything

weird. Elder Wood was with me, and the Knights were able to accompany

me too :) They laughed at me a lot.... but that's okay I guess. haha.

I was told to rest for the whole day, which was really sad, because I

felt fine and wanted to work. Just have to wear this splint for a

week. Lame!

  Saturday: We watched "Joseph Smith: Prophet of The Restoration"

with a recent convert family. The family is so solid, it is co cool.

The APs had to go take their van up somewhere north, about 1 hour one

way. So Elder Wood and I went to go do some lessons. We went to the

office to meet back up with the APs and they told us they forgot the

keys to the office on the key ring of the van. So they had to drive

back up to go get those. Elder Wood and I just went back to the

apartment for dinner. I just took a hour nap instead of eating. I was

so dead tired. We had two more lessons in the evening, only 1 fell

through. So far, all the people I have meet, kinda seem the same way

on things, Stubborn. That is really hard :(

 

  Sunday: We went to 7 sacrament meetings... Fun times lol. I did

pretty good at staying awake! We had a pretty normal day. Our area is

pretty dang big. I am not sure on how big, but at least 3 times bigger

than my last. So it ha been hard getting to know the area. We do have

a car as well, and I don't really learn all to well, unless I am the

one steering, or making the decisions turn left or turn right if you

know what I mean. Our lessons fell through, we did get a lot of

referrals to what seems golden people for baptisms. We set a goal to

baptize 7 souls, when we have 0 with a date. Pretty high goal, that is

for sure! At the end of the night, we were confirming appointment with

a nm, for tomorrow, and after we had 10 min till curfew. We decided we

should knock on one door. Elder Wood pointed at a house and said,

"awhat do you think?" I responded, "lets do it!". It was a member

family, and they gave us a referral of a girl who has been attending

church for 3 months, and has been getting LA girls back to church, but

she is a non-member! She has expressed her desire to be baptized 3

times. So we will go visit her, to get her dunked!

  Monday: We had a lesson with Stacy, a 9 year old girl who wants to

be baptized, and we set her date for the 16th. In the evening, Elder

Young and I went tracting. We drove to a street, and we were going to

start one house from the edge and inwards, however, we got a feeling

that we needed to start from the beginning. Sure enough, there was

Jessica there, and she was golden. We set up a return appt with her

for later in the week :)