The first week of each transfer is always pretty crazy, especially if you get a new companion. On Monday Elder H and I visited a couple members and an investigator so He could say goodbye and share a message. Tuesday we headed to tranfer meeting around 8:30. And I came back with my new companion Elder M. Elder M has been in Brooklyn for all of his mission, and hasn't driven a car for a year. So it was a little scary the first day that he drove, but now he's used to it again.
On Friday we had a really great lesson with a family that we have been teaching. A member works with the father of the family. The member Brother K invited the family to come over to their home for dinner and then we came over afterward and we had a really great talk with the family and the K family. It was amazing. It's incredible to see how much easier it is to share the gospel when the members are sharing the gospel with their friends.
On Saturday we taught 2 lessons to investigators and visited 2 less actives. And both the less actives came to church on Sunday! One of them just needed a ride and the other has to go with her husband around 1 so she's going to the 1st branch which starts at 9, that's better than not coming at all.
Last night we talked with Z and W. W's baptism is scheduled for the 13(this Saturday) and Z told us that she wants to be baptized on the same day. So next Saturday we are going to have 2 baptisms. They are awesome and they love the Gospel. They are reading the Book of Mormon and they love to come to church. I'm so happy for them. We taught them the Word of Wisdom and the Law of Tithing in the same night, and they accepted it like it was no problem at all. Z had been wondering how to pay tithing... now she knows :) they really are amazing and I can't wait for their baptism, it will be great. Hopefully our investigators will come to the baptism. It's almost an 85% chance that you will be baptized if you attend a baptism. Crazy.
Elder M and I get along great. He's from Moscow, IDAHO. He translated Sacrament meeting on Sunday and I finally got to take a little break. But I still had to translate Relief Society. A Spanish member was teaching the lesson, so I translated it into English. It was weird because i am used to doing it the other way around. A couple of times i started speaking in Spanish... they all laughed at me. ha ha. It was kinda fun to go to relief society, I'd never been before.
So... everything is going well. The area I'm in is THE BEST and the work is moving forward. I am excited to see what the future holds for us. Sometimes it's hard. Sometimes i feel like I'm tracking in Sodom and Gamorah. But then you find a family or someone who's been prepared by the Lord and it makes it all worth it.
Be happy and make sure you follow the Prophets counsel to do something, for someone every day.
I love you and I'll talk to you soon.
Monday, March 8, 2010
March 1 Last week of Transfers
This was a pretty crazy week. The last week of every transfer is a little crazy. Everyone in my pad found out where they were going on Friday morning, but I had to wait until Saturday night for "Transfer Calls".
I'm staying here for the next 6 weeks for sure. I'm happy because we have 3 Baptismal commits for this next transfer, March 13, and on April 10. And we have a lot of investigators that are very close to being baptized. P comes to church every Sunday and He and I are good friends. He's 23. He likes to sit next to me while i translate in the back and whisper words to me that I don't know. Sometimes he's wrong and it confuses me - ha ha. But he is really cool and wants to be baptized, just has a couple things to take care of first.
I'm a little nervous to see who my new companion is. But Elder P and J are staying here in Riverhead, so I'm REALLY happy about that. Elder P is one of the elders from American Fork and Elder J is from Sandy. They are both great missionaries and really cool people.
We went out to East Hampton on Saturday and we taught a really cool guy and a family that lives out there. The family drives an Hour to Church every Sunday and they have come 4 or so times. It's hard to go all the way out to East Hampton very often, but we need to do it more often. Hopefully we will be going out there more often with my new companion.
I'm glad to hear that everyone is OK, for the most part, in Chile. I've been worrying for the past few days. I hope that everything will be OK. Keep me updated on EVERYTHING. I'll keep them in my prayers. I haven't had the chance to talk to Sister S, the Chilean member, but she is from northern Chile, an hour north of Santiago, but I'll ask her when I get the chance.
It's been raining for the past week and it snowed on Wednesday and Thursday, it was a lot of snow but it's almost all melted. Supuestamente its going to snow on Tuesday and Wednesday of this week. I'm ready for spring. I want to go run around and play some soccer, get some of this flab off of me, ha ha. I'm definitely sick of winter and ready for spring.
For now, we still have Suzy, my new car, but when the little green girl car gets fixed we will get it back and had Suzy over to some other missionaries. This might happen at Transfer meeting. We'll see.
Tonight we have a couple of appointments with members and investigators,so Elder H can say goodbye. He has served here for 6 months so its hard to say goodbye. But he's doing fine.
I think that's everything, let me know if anybody wants to buy the house and what the game plan is.. If Dad is still planning on going down to Chile anytime soon, stuff like that. Just let me know. I will be sure to inform you about my new companion and everything next Monday.
I'm staying here for the next 6 weeks for sure. I'm happy because we have 3 Baptismal commits for this next transfer, March 13, and on April 10. And we have a lot of investigators that are very close to being baptized. P comes to church every Sunday and He and I are good friends. He's 23. He likes to sit next to me while i translate in the back and whisper words to me that I don't know. Sometimes he's wrong and it confuses me - ha ha. But he is really cool and wants to be baptized, just has a couple things to take care of first.
I'm a little nervous to see who my new companion is. But Elder P and J are staying here in Riverhead, so I'm REALLY happy about that. Elder P is one of the elders from American Fork and Elder J is from Sandy. They are both great missionaries and really cool people.
We went out to East Hampton on Saturday and we taught a really cool guy and a family that lives out there. The family drives an Hour to Church every Sunday and they have come 4 or so times. It's hard to go all the way out to East Hampton very often, but we need to do it more often. Hopefully we will be going out there more often with my new companion.
I'm glad to hear that everyone is OK, for the most part, in Chile. I've been worrying for the past few days. I hope that everything will be OK. Keep me updated on EVERYTHING. I'll keep them in my prayers. I haven't had the chance to talk to Sister S, the Chilean member, but she is from northern Chile, an hour north of Santiago, but I'll ask her when I get the chance.
It's been raining for the past week and it snowed on Wednesday and Thursday, it was a lot of snow but it's almost all melted. Supuestamente its going to snow on Tuesday and Wednesday of this week. I'm ready for spring. I want to go run around and play some soccer, get some of this flab off of me, ha ha. I'm definitely sick of winter and ready for spring.
For now, we still have Suzy, my new car, but when the little green girl car gets fixed we will get it back and had Suzy over to some other missionaries. This might happen at Transfer meeting. We'll see.
Tonight we have a couple of appointments with members and investigators,so Elder H can say goodbye. He has served here for 6 months so its hard to say goodbye. But he's doing fine.
I think that's everything, let me know if anybody wants to buy the house and what the game plan is.. If Dad is still planning on going down to Chile anytime soon, stuff like that. Just let me know. I will be sure to inform you about my new companion and everything next Monday.
Feb 22nd The New Car
I got the letter on Tuesday of last week, the 16th. (this letter was explaining to him that our house is for sale) Don't worry about me, I'm fine. When I was a little surprised, but I feel like its what the Lord wants. It's a little sad to think that I won't see my home again, but I'm OK. We had a really busy week and I didn't even think about it really. I have noticed that your mind doesn't really have much room for anything else when your on your mission. It takes everything you've got.
The car is still being repaired, but we went to the office on Tuesday and received a new car. A brand new car. The Fleet Coordinator just bought 2 2010 Subaru Impreza's to replace the two oldest cars in the mission. We have one of them until our car is repaired. When I drove the car home from Queens it had 24.2 miles on the entire car. I haven't ever driven a car that is that new. It's really nice, and I get to drive every day! woo hoo!
We had M's baptismal date for the 21, but we've ran into a little snag. She wants to wait for her boyfriend to get back from Guatemala before getting baptized, more or less. Its a little more complicated, but I don't want to tell you everything. But we set a new date for the 10 of April. Her daughter on the other hand Z, and her friend W, have baptismal dates for the 14th of March and they are both awesome. They love the gospel and have both received a witness of the truthfulness of our message. They come to church every Sunday and are very excited to be Baptized.
This is the final week of the Transfer. Elder H has served here for 6 months so we think he will leave, but you never know. President didn't tell me much in my interview. But we will find out either between Thursday and Friday if one of us is going to be a leader of some sort, or Saturday night.
On Wednesday we had our DEEP CLEAN of our house. It looks nice now, mas o menos.
It's a pretty old house. President Nelson bought a CO detector for every missionary pad, so there's no need to worry.
I went on exchanges with Elder F on Friday. He's a swimmer from Utah, I think we may have raced against each other before, but we haven't ever talked until the mission. He's a cool kid. His little brother swims as well. It was nice to spend a day with a swimmer and talk about stuff that no one else understands... ha ha. He's my zone leader and a really good missionary.
On Saturday we went and visited a less-active in the ward Hermana S. She is Chilean and she lived about 1 hour north of Santiago, by Vina Del Mar. She is super cool. we talked for a really long time. I was on exchanges with elder J and he speaks no Spanish so he fell asleep. ha ha. Just for a minute or two. But it was really great, and she came to Church Yesterday! Her Husband and Daughter are in a rock band and they are going to make their first CD in a month or two. They are really good, her daughter is the lead sing and guitarist and her husband plays the bass guitar. You should look them up and listen to their music, most of their songs are in Spanish but a few in English as well. The name of the band is "MR. NO-SHAME". She's way cool. Her husband is a member i think, but i'm not sure if her daughter is baptized, they all live together, so maybe we can teach them all one of these days.
Sunday was the 1st annual Branch Conference of the Riverhead 2nd Branch. So that was exciting. There was a lot of good talks and we had 4 investigators at church and they all really liked it. The translating went OK in sacrament meeting, but the combined priesthood-relief society meeting went really well. He talked slow and the talk was really good. I felt like i was saying exactly what he was saying and it felt really good to know that i was doing a good job. I feel really dumb when i don't know what to say. Not too dumb though, I just laugh at my self and the members do too... No they don't laugh at me, but they do look back and smile sometimes, when I seem like I'm struggling. I do my best, and it's getting better each week.
It sounds like we are all pretty busy. Keep me updated on the house situation and where everybody is. What are you going to do with Kodah and Bella when you move out? Just let me know whats up, and I will worry less if i know. As long as I'm working hard I don't seem to worry too much about home. I Pray for you, but then I go to work and focus on the people that need me most. You guys already know why were here on earth and what the game plan is. So I don't worry too much about ya. But I do love you and miss you. Thanks for all of your love, support and example for me.
The car is still being repaired, but we went to the office on Tuesday and received a new car. A brand new car. The Fleet Coordinator just bought 2 2010 Subaru Impreza's to replace the two oldest cars in the mission. We have one of them until our car is repaired. When I drove the car home from Queens it had 24.2 miles on the entire car. I haven't ever driven a car that is that new. It's really nice, and I get to drive every day! woo hoo!
We had M's baptismal date for the 21, but we've ran into a little snag. She wants to wait for her boyfriend to get back from Guatemala before getting baptized, more or less. Its a little more complicated, but I don't want to tell you everything. But we set a new date for the 10 of April. Her daughter on the other hand Z, and her friend W, have baptismal dates for the 14th of March and they are both awesome. They love the gospel and have both received a witness of the truthfulness of our message. They come to church every Sunday and are very excited to be Baptized.
This is the final week of the Transfer. Elder H has served here for 6 months so we think he will leave, but you never know. President didn't tell me much in my interview. But we will find out either between Thursday and Friday if one of us is going to be a leader of some sort, or Saturday night.
On Wednesday we had our DEEP CLEAN of our house. It looks nice now, mas o menos.
It's a pretty old house. President Nelson bought a CO detector for every missionary pad, so there's no need to worry.
I went on exchanges with Elder F on Friday. He's a swimmer from Utah, I think we may have raced against each other before, but we haven't ever talked until the mission. He's a cool kid. His little brother swims as well. It was nice to spend a day with a swimmer and talk about stuff that no one else understands... ha ha. He's my zone leader and a really good missionary.
On Saturday we went and visited a less-active in the ward Hermana S. She is Chilean and she lived about 1 hour north of Santiago, by Vina Del Mar. She is super cool. we talked for a really long time. I was on exchanges with elder J and he speaks no Spanish so he fell asleep. ha ha. Just for a minute or two. But it was really great, and she came to Church Yesterday! Her Husband and Daughter are in a rock band and they are going to make their first CD in a month or two. They are really good, her daughter is the lead sing and guitarist and her husband plays the bass guitar. You should look them up and listen to their music, most of their songs are in Spanish but a few in English as well. The name of the band is "MR. NO-SHAME". She's way cool. Her husband is a member i think, but i'm not sure if her daughter is baptized, they all live together, so maybe we can teach them all one of these days.
Sunday was the 1st annual Branch Conference of the Riverhead 2nd Branch. So that was exciting. There was a lot of good talks and we had 4 investigators at church and they all really liked it. The translating went OK in sacrament meeting, but the combined priesthood-relief society meeting went really well. He talked slow and the talk was really good. I felt like i was saying exactly what he was saying and it felt really good to know that i was doing a good job. I feel really dumb when i don't know what to say. Not too dumb though, I just laugh at my self and the members do too... No they don't laugh at me, but they do look back and smile sometimes, when I seem like I'm struggling. I do my best, and it's getting better each week.
It sounds like we are all pretty busy. Keep me updated on the house situation and where everybody is. What are you going to do with Kodah and Bella when you move out? Just let me know whats up, and I will worry less if i know. As long as I'm working hard I don't seem to worry too much about home. I Pray for you, but then I go to work and focus on the people that need me most. You guys already know why were here on earth and what the game plan is. So I don't worry too much about ya. But I do love you and miss you. Thanks for all of your love, support and example for me.
Feb 15th Fun in the Snow
This was a pretty crazy week. On Wednesday there was a really big snow storm. Wednesday night Elder H and I taught a lesson to one of our investigators in Flanders then we started on our way to Hampton Bays. On the way there we were driving on the 24 highway. The speed limit is 55 so hatch thought that 40 would be OK, but there was quite a bit of snow on the road. We slid of the road to the right and we hit a fence post, the front left corner of the car hit the post and it kinda swung us around and parallel parked us on the side of the road.(this was at 7:00 pm, mas o menos) We were fine, but the front left tire of the car was pushed back into the car a little. I think it bent the axle or something. Anyway... I got to call 911, so that was fun. Then about 25 minutes later an Officer came and he was a really nice guy. He gave us a ride home and I had a really good talk with him. Elder H didn't really say anything, he was just sitting in the back thinking... but he's OK, just bummed that he probably won't be able to drive for the rest of his mission, and now we have to walk everywhere. We should be getting a new car sometime soon, but we still don't really know when exactly.
Don't worry though, we're all good and nobody got hurt or anything, it was a little scary though for the 5 seconds that we were sliding of the road heading for a fence post.
The translation equipment worked really well this Sunday, I translated and all of the Spanish people had there headphones on for the whole meeting. and they all told me that they could hear really well. One of the members got sick of the bad antenna and brought us a new one. so that problem is solved, but the speakers still talk too fast and i can't translate everything. But this was probably the best Sunday in a while for the Spanish members.
I'm doing just dandy! I'm pretty darn tired from walking from appointment to appointment, (occasionally we have gotten rides from members and investigators, and when the other elders can, they drop us off in an area). But its been a lot of walking. We walked about 6 miles on Saturday and 3 on Sunday. I didn't keep track on the other days. But it's kinda fun. Not super effective, but a little bit fun.
Don't worry though, we're all good and nobody got hurt or anything, it was a little scary though for the 5 seconds that we were sliding of the road heading for a fence post.
The translation equipment worked really well this Sunday, I translated and all of the Spanish people had there headphones on for the whole meeting. and they all told me that they could hear really well. One of the members got sick of the bad antenna and brought us a new one. so that problem is solved, but the speakers still talk too fast and i can't translate everything. But this was probably the best Sunday in a while for the Spanish members.
I'm doing just dandy! I'm pretty darn tired from walking from appointment to appointment, (occasionally we have gotten rides from members and investigators, and when the other elders can, they drop us off in an area). But its been a lot of walking. We walked about 6 miles on Saturday and 3 on Sunday. I didn't keep track on the other days. But it's kinda fun. Not super effective, but a little bit fun.
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