Monday, December 26, 2011
Email Letter - December 26, 2011
Hi everyone! This is more for the people I didn't get to talk to yesterday. This week has been good, the highlight of course was Christmas when I got to talk to family and do nothing all day. The Tafua family is amazing. We spent the day at their house, they got both Elder Thueson and me a Nike sweater and some chocolate covered macadamia nuts imported from Samoa, which are delicious, and they offered up their home to us to talk to our families. It's great to have amazing people like them that we associate with on a daily basis to take care of us and love us as their own children.
As far as the missionary work went this week it was really slow due to the holiday. We knocked hundreds of houses because everyone cancelled appointments because they were going to be gone, or busy, or whatever. We did, however, have a really good lesson with a less active in the ward that's been coming back with her recently baptized husband, and we think she finally gets it. Before now we know she wasn't doing the things that she was supposed to be doing, that all of us are supposed to be doing like prayer, scripture reading and so on, because she didn't see the need. But now we think that she sees that it is only going to bring happiness to her and her family if she does. We think she finally gets it.
Sorry again for the short letter but that's all for today. I hope you all had a very merry Christmas, I know I did!
Sunday, December 25, 2011
Email Letter - December 25, 2011
Hey family, merry Christmas! I'll talk to you on the phone soon. To everyone else, merry Christmas as well, take care and have a good day!
---Elder King
3rd Nephi 5:13Monday, December 19, 2011
Email Letter - December 19, 2011
Hey everyone, things were good this week, it was really long because there weren't a lot of people that wanted to meet. A lot of people are out of town for the holidays and that sort of thing. As far as the work goes it's been slow because of that. But that's okay, it happens and we keep working.
I don't have a lot to say though this week. We're excited to have a lot of open time to meet with our younger investigators due to school break and that sort of thing. It's all going to be good this week, we have a lot planned and a lot going on, so it'll be a good week. Then, at the end of it, I get to call you guys, super excited for that! That'll be very good. Brother Tafua will be taking care of us all Sunday long next week so we'll be with him for the calling. I love that guy, he's like another dad to me.
Anyway, that's all for this week, sorry it's a shorter email but there isn't much to say, last week was boring. Take care all of you and for those not of my family, Have a very merry Christmas!
Monday, December 12, 2011
Email Letter - December 12, 2011
Hi everybody! It's been a good week in the CRM. We finally were able to get some service, we really need the blessings from it, so it was good to have it. We were able to help one of the members hang drywall and during the cutting and measuring period we raked up his leaves. I like to think we helped a lot.
We also picked up a new investigator, named Bill. He came looking for us and seems pretty promising, he is a client of a local chiropractor and through talking with him became interested. We started teaching him last Friday and when he had a kneeling prayer at the end we asked how he felt and he said that he felt he was on the right path to truth, but didn't want to jump in with everything until he knows more. We're very excited to see him, as well as our other investigators, grow. It's very good.
We had Stake conference yesterday which was really good also. We got to get together with all of the other missionaries in our stake, as well as with President and Sister Weston and their family. It was great to see them all and enjoy a good time with them. All of the talks were really good but one in particular stuck out. The young woman's president spoke about how our attitude makes a big difference in our spiritual growth. She shared a lot of the story of Nephi's positive attitude in contrast to Laman and Lemuel's negative one. One of the major points was that when we have a positive attitude as to what the Prophet, in this case Lehi, asks us to do we grow and learn from it, and instead of just doing as Laman and Lemuel did that we become what the Lord has asked us to become. It was pretty cool. One of the other talks from a member of the stake presidency completely denounced anyone that doesn't call us Christian because we don't believe in the Trinity, but in three separate Beings that make up our Godhead. That one was pretty cool too.
Sorry I don't have much to say this week but know that I love you guys and everything is going great. Take care!
Monday, December 5, 2011
Email Letter - December 5, 2011
Hello everyone! I have another fun story for you this week, about my adventure with Elder Tigges. Before I begin though, let me tell you about Tigges, this guy is a character! He grew up in North Carolina, and was homeschooled so he is a little on the non-social side, but this kid is a crack-up, his favorite jokes he got from his grandpa who was a member of the Klan, so you know what those are all like, he is a ginger so we give him a hard time for that. Plus, he's really creepy.
When I get my camera adapter back from another elder, whether today or next week I'll send video from my adventure with him. Until then let me tell you about it. The fog was awful, during the day we could see about 15 feet, at night we could see about 3 (maybe). Well, we were heading to dinner, it was dark, around 5:30 at this time, and dinner is about a 15 minute ride away. BUT dinner is also on the other side of this dirt path that has a 20 foot drop off of that path if you don't ride extremely carefully, that we could not see due to "the mists of darkness that were upon the face of all the land". So we had to take a detour through a field that had recently been plowed. So we were sinking into the middle of our shins as we walked through the field, the ground was too soft to ride the bike. Then, we end up on this ridiculously sketchy street that we did not feel good about. So we booked it out of there, good thing too because the member we were eating at told us that as he drove down that street shortly after we got to his house there was a car that was squished and an ambulance and all of that good stuff.
At dinner, a cat jumped onto my lap, so I punted it as I stood up and it dropped. It deserved it, the little devil. Kindly the member gave us a ride home and it was much better than walking across a "dark and dreary waste". Also, dogs chased us that day. Twice.
What a great adventure! The work has also been an adventure, we have a gator getting heart surgery in a week, that's interesting to prepare for. We have on that we're extending a date to this week, and we just found a family to teach! I'm super excited to start teaching them, we're working hard here and reaping the benefits of the Lord's trust. Everything has been lining up really well for us. That's just how it goes sometimes!
Anyway, that's all for this week. Take care everyone, I love you all!
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