Ogden Utah Mission Boundaries

10 February 2009

Sent: Tuesday, February 10, 2009 11:50 AM

Yeah everything is good here. I'm going to write the d[...]s a letter today and you have the right idea about the emails. Also I can only check emails 1 time a week on Tuesdays so Its nice to get real mail so I can read it during the week.

We baptised two girls last week and have successfully reactivated their family. That is the major reason why we do child baptisms is because we teach the children and get the parents back to church so by baptising the kids we get the entire family back to church.

A man we're teaching T[...] J[...] is going great. I committed him for baptism last week and he gave up coffee cold turkey. He's one of those golden investigators. We had an issue yesterday. His neighbor called and said he couldn't be baptised because his son couldn't make it up here this week. T[...] couldn't understand how this could happen when we prayed and got the answer for him to be baptised on the 21. Then later that day we got a call from his wife saying the son got it off work so it will work out. Our next lesson will be going over getting answers to prayers and how Satan is going to try to impede whenever he can.

Love

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

3 February 2009 Letter

Letter from J family, 3 feb 2009

Sent: Tuesday, February 03, 2009 1:12 PM

Subject: Your Son, Elder M[...], visited us

Dear M[...] Family,

We had your son, and his companion visit at our home for Sunday dinner. We thought we'd send you a photo, and a note to say that he is doing great. It was great to meet him. He is a fine young man, and very diligent in doing the work of the Lord. We have a son on a mission now too, and know how much we would appreciate hearing anything about him, so we thought we'd do likewise. Your son is happy and healthy, and quite an incredible young man!

Hope you have a great day!

Sincerely,

D[...] J[...] and Family

Letter from Elder M, 3 Feb 2009

Sent: Tuesday, February 03, 2009 11:42 AM

Welllllll

On sunday we had dinner at a house with 11 kids. My comp has 12 in their family and it felt like sunday dinners back home. The parents insisted on taking pictures and sending them to you so now you know where they came from.

We have a new investigator named T[...]. His wife is a member and after a heart attack he started going to church but refused to be baptised. Now a year later he asked to be taught by the missionaries so we have taught him a lesson. He's wealthy, lives right by the temple, so it's kind of different working with him. [...] We're going to commit him next time[...].

We got to do service in the temple yesterday. We vacuumed the womens locker room and the brides room. It was really neat and probibly the only time we will be able to be in those rooms. My times up.

Love,

Elder M[...]

Letter from Elder M, 27 Jan 2009

Sent: Tuesday, January 27, 2009 10:53 AM

Subject: Re: retainers

Yeah I'm in Bountiful and this is not what I signed up for. In Tucson the missionaries are over 1 or 2 wards. I'm over 3 stakes and 25 wards, just me and my companion. It's really fun though. We tract too, but mostly we run into members, but that's okay and really effective. We were told statitics and 1 of 1000 people we tract into will be baptised, 1 of 350 referalls will be baptised, and 2 of 3 people invited to meet with the missionaries in the members home will be baptised. Members are the best way to do missionary work.

It has been going alright so far, I just went to the Bountiful temple. We get to go every P-day except for the one on tranfer week. We are baptising two girls so far in February. The works good.

Love,

Elder M[...]

Other pictures - Jan 2009