19/26 May 2009 letter

19 May 2009 Letter

I totally called the new stake president. I knew it would be [C...] [T...] (Our new Stake President is our former Bishop).

This week went good. One of the guys I have been teaching we gave a baptismal date and he was way wishy washy about it. He didn't know if Joseph was a prophet or not. Last week we stopped by and asked how his prayers were going and he said good..... actually not at all. Then he told us he would have to pray if he wants to be baptized. Then later he is just more and more excited about it. He stood up in elders quorum and announced that he's getting baptized. We even got to move the date earlier because he is in the national guard and couldn't get baptized in June. We are very excited.

Transfers are coming up next week and I'll probably leave. That's all that's new.

Love E[...] M[...]

26 May 2009 Letter

Well, I'm getting transfered to Washington Terrace East in the South Ogden zone. My new companion is E[...] S[...] and he's only been out for 3 months. It will be fun to serve in a new area, but I will definitely miss Bountiful.

Last week we were tracting and ran into someone who knew J[...] S[...]. So we went to his house. He wasn't home so we went back later and caught him,. His family was having a family council which was just like back home. Arguing and all that fun. He played a song for us and it was amazing. It was "all of me." He even uses his forearms to smash the keys during some parts. He's amazing.

Love E[...] M[...]

12 May 2009 Letter

[ We spoke with him on Sunday. He is doing well. He observed that young men who spend all their time playing video games before their missions don't do very well-they don't know how to talk to anyone ].

[Now the letter:]

Yep so not much has happened since I talked with you guys. It was nice to talk with everyone and to see that everything is going fine.

Love E[...] M[...]

5 May 2009

Hey family,

For Sunday I'm probably gonna call during the afternoon. There were some pretty cool things about this week. J[...] F[...] (baptized in Feb) had me give him the Aaronic Priesthood and ordain him to a priest. It was a good experience.

J[...] H[...] moved down to Lehi, and still hasn't been able to quit smoking so he cannot be baptized any time soon.

D[...] was supposed to be baptized last Saturday, but [will be] next month. That sums up the week. Talk to you Sunday.

E[...] M[...]

28 April 2009 Letter

Dear Family,

The work up here is pressing forward. I gave my last talk on sunday, that I've been asked to do. I talked about building and sustaining your testimony and tied it in to missionary work.

We have 2 baptisms scheduled for this saturday, but 1 of them is going to fall through, most likely. This is because he is having trouble giving up smoking, and we keep setting goals for him to quit, but it hasn't happened yet. So we expect 1 for this weekend.

[...] is the smoker, and his whole situation is weird. He needs to be interviewed by the mission president because his father was a polygamist.

I was sick yesterday, but I'm feeling a whole bunch better today. I threw up for the 1st time in 8 years. Being sick isn't any fun.

Love, E[...] M[...]

21 April 2009 Letter

Dear family,

My companion is Elder E[...]. He is a good guy, been out 2x as long as me and is from N Carolina.

So I gave one talk on Sunday, cancelled one and moved another to this Sunday because of B[...]'s baptism and other things I couldn't get out of. I wrote a talk then didn't even use it. I just talked for 15 minutes about receiving revelation through the scriptures and how having faith leads to sharing with others.

B[...] was baptized and I'll send a picture. We are also teaching a guy named J[...] H[...]. Is used to be member of the RLDS church but now wants to be baptized into ours. He has the same mannerisms and a similar personality to J[...] T[...]. I really like teaching him and helping over his smoking habit. We had to move his baptism date to May 2 because of the smoking issue, but we have him down from 2 packs a day to 0 or 1.

Love, E[...] M[...]

Well, I am on the Family history computers and it has Windows 2000 and won't support my camera so next week I'll send pictures.

14 April 2009 Letter

Hey family,

I'm not being transfered but I have a new comp. His name is [...]. Thanks for the Easter basket and you can tell [...] that I can only write immediate family members from email.

Everything is good here and I'm glad to be staying. I have to give 3 talks next week and I'm not too excited for that, but I'll just write 1 and use it 3 times.

Love, Elder M[...]

7 April 2009 Letter

[...] Transfers are next week. [...]

This week we baptised E[...] M[...]. It went well. We have been trying our best to get new investigators and have not had much luck. So the Lord gives us some for our efforts. We started teaching this guy J[...] H[...] who wants to be baptized so he can marry his girlfriend in the temple eventually. The best part is he told us he wants to get baptized this month which goes right along with our 3 week conversion cycle. It shows that the Lord rewards hard work.

Love, E[...] M[...]