It was a great week this week, so much went on. But to your surprise I did not watch the superbowl:) Ha I really didn't even think about it. I didn't even know who won until I
read your letter but dad did just gave me the play by play on how the
game ended which stinks for Seattle haha. I haven't gotten the
family history stuff yet, it will probably come today so I'll look out for
it. They are having a black family history seminar close to here and I might
try and sneak by and see whats up. But
as for your member questions the ward here is great. It's pretty small
activity wise. There is probably 150 to 175 that show up each week and of
that we have like 5 families that are super solid on missionary work
that help us out all the time. They do feed us which is great, we average like 5
meals a week. but ya we do
have some great members here that help us out a lot.
As
far as the week! Man am I exhausted! It was an awesome week. Ringston is
now a member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints!! He
was baptized by his friend and the greatest member we got, Bro.
Baumgardner! The sisters in our ward had 2 more baptisms as well so the
Conyers ward is just splash city!! I'll send the pics. And the meetings
we had this week went great. The one on Tuesday was to help all of the
district leaders be more effective in there planning so that was good. And ya Elder Pehrson did get moved up to AP so its fun having those 2
brethren at the top cause we get to work with them a lot. Then on Wednesday we had the privilege to go to the stake presidency meeting and
sit and council with them on how the stake is doing and we are planning
on a big meeting with all the ward mission leaders, the bishops, the high
councilmen, and all the missionaries on how we can move the work forward better,
so that was pretty cool. Then on Friday we had our mission council down
in Fayetteville at the mission home and had some great discussion of new
things we are going to install in the mission. So it's been a pretty
crazy week still trying to meet with people and get that stuff down. But I have had a blast this week, It's moving fast, I cant believe we are in
the 3rd week of the transfer already!
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| Baptism Day! |
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| Work, Work, Work! |
February 9, 2015.....
Life is great here in
Conyers! And yes, this week finally felt like somewhat of a normal week considering all the days we have had. Some of the investigators we are working with, Robert and
his 3 nephews, David, Chris, and Dorian, we got
them into a members home this week to have dinner and a lesson and it
went very well. They are progressing and coming to church. Robert has
been coming for a very long time, so hopefully we
can get them all in the water but the ward loves them and they are
doing great. Kevin is
our other big priority right now. Awesome kid who is 16 and a friend of
a member family that has been coming for a few months. But he is such a
sharp kid who understands everything and really wants to be baptized. He is just making sure he is doing it for himself and not for anyone
else. He just doesn't want to be forced. So we are taking it a little
slower with him. But he is great and the ward has really latched on to him.
But
things are going great. I love it here in Conyers. The people are great. We had dinners with one of the greatest families I've ever met on my
mission and I hope I can always stay in contact with them, the Pierces. She cooks the best food I've ever had. She said
for you to send your soda cracker pie recipe so she can make it for me
cause I was bragging about it! So you should definitely do that. But we
do have the big stake meeting this week with all the bishops, ward
mission leaders, high council, stake presidency and president Harding so
that'll be great and hopefully we will see a big shift in working more closely
with the ward councils and missionary work to combine the members and
missionaries!
February 16, 2015.....
Things
went well this week, it was different cause we had so much going on that
we didn't have time to work in our personal area much. That, and I've been
dealing with a crappy head cold the past 3 days and its now just
starting to leave so its been a "blast" dealing with that. But thanks
for the package. I did get it and I loved the picture. That was super cool,
it made me remember all the good times. It's crazy how long I've been out
and how far I've come its so cool. But the stake meeting went very good!! We had all the missionaries, the stake presidency, Pres. Harding, all
the bishops, and all the ward mission leaders and talked about
expectations and new things that the stake was implementing. It was
basically a reproving with sharpness and love to do better! But it went
very well and I'm glad all the planning for that is now done. Then we
went on 2 exchanges this week. I was down in Jonesboro on Tuesday with a
greeny, Elder Clay from Idaho. That was a blast, we did a lot of great
work down there. and then on Friday we did a blitz down in Jackson which is super country and I got to be on
bike down there so it was good to do that again. Other than the fact that it
was below freezing.. (probably why I'm sick) but it was good they have
been struggling a lot and we got to help them with a bunch of stuff.
Overall it was a good week we are still working with a lot of the same
people, nothing to new with them. We had 5 people come to church this week,
a few part member families as well as Kevin. So we are excited for this
week to be able to work more in our area and get things going. And last
p-day was so sick. I'll send some of the pics of the cars. dad would have
loved it. and today we are having a zone elders P-day so that should be
fun just playing a bunch of different games!
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| P-day fun |
February 23, 2015.....
Have y'all had any missionary
experiences or opportunities lately? I there is something I can testify
of its the power of Member missionary work. It's so vital! I have
learned the good way to do it and the bad way since I've been out here. And I have also learned if you want to have the spirit more with you in
your life all you need to do is share the Gospel. That is why us
missionaries have it all the time is cause that is all we do 24/7. But
when we share the gospel it gives us the opportunity to bear our
testimony of what we know to be true and as we do so we will fill the spirit
testify through us to those that we are sharing it to. So I invite you
to always be looking for the opportunity to bear your testimony and
share the gospel. It might be hard in Utah but there are plenty of
nonmembers there. Read the book 'The Power of the Everyday
Missionary's". Its the best book ever, I love it! Its how we need to live
our lives. That,s my testimony for the week.
This week went great. We got to teach a lot of lessons which was
awesome!! We are working with the same people. Not to many people that
are new just trying to help the ones we have progress. The sick bug got
most of our people for church. But Elder Clayton and I got
some exciting news today. We are staying together another transfer! Weird to think its already been a transfer... but we are getting a new
greeny!! So we will be training as well! So I'm excited for that, to help
push us even more. Pres. Harding has been doing that lately, having the
zone leaders train as well. So it will be sweet. We are going to create a
monster in the mission field! So that's the exciting news this week!
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