Dear Family,
August 12, 2013
I love you all so much and the letters from Mom always lift
me up. Today we went to Slaines
Castle Carson's
I’m still trying to figure out everything but I think I
understand a lot of mission life. There
is always more to learn. I care about the members. I just believe the ward needs to love us in
order to have the desire to help us. Elder Holbrook is an amazing worker, he is always on task
but he has a hard time talking to people.
Sometimes I just talk to people just to have them not be afraid of
us. I’m saying all of this because we
went over to the Condies and they are grandparents and the son and his wife
live there until their house is built with their two new grandchildren, a lovely
family, and I talk about Zoey, Bryson, and Ivy the entire time. I am still learning from Elder Holbrook
every day and he knows more but I believe I am with him to strengthen myself
with talking to people so I am blessed.
Today was just a full day of learning. We had zone conference and I learned I need
exact obedience and that I do have to give it my all and be more excited about
things. It was weird because President
knew exactly who I was and my name and we just talked about how I’ve been
getting along with missionary work and things like that while waiting in line
for lunch. Tonight we went to see
Brother Davis. I love Brother
Davis. He is super funny and the nicest
man ever. He explained to me something
that I will live by forever. He told us
what had just happened with a girl he was planning on marrying and he told us
also how his first wife cheated on him and his second wife that he had a son
with died soon after and you would never believe all this man had been through
because how strong he is in the Gospel and how happy he is. He taught me two things: 1. Enjoy your mission because how hard it seems
now, life after will be harder. 2. Love is not enough, you need to DO all you
can for your wife all the time and hold on to her forever. Also if you aren’t willing to give her all
you got then she deserves better.
August 15, 2013
Today wasn’t too eventful, just a lot of weekly
planning. We also helped Sister Lamb
with moving things to her attic and I put together a shelf and a radiator cover
so it was fun just putting those kinds of things together. Elder Holbrook and my goal is to find new
interesting finding ideas and my mind always goes blank.
August 16, 2013
Today was just a really good day! We had a lot of lessons on the street and got
a lot of potentials out of it. Today I
think we saw a small miracle. We were
taking the bus to a potential investigator where we knew where they lived maybe
and they were perfect because they literally walked up to us two months ago and
said, “We are interested, could we get lessons or something?” But since we had to go to another appointment
we forgot to ask for their number and info.
Well anyway, we were on the bus to go to the place where we MIGHT find
them and they walked on the bus a couple stops after us and we had the biggest
smiles on our face and now we will meet with them next Wednesday.
August 17, 2013
Today was not a bad day.
We had some really good lessons and the sisters in the Bridge of Dawn
had an investigator that wanted to get baptized and was interviewed by Elder
Holbrook because he is the district leader and he got to the question of who
she wanted to baptize her and to do the ordinance and she said she didn’t know
any men with the priesthood and she just
asked if could do it and he was just like, “Sure.” But was freaking out on the inside. So anyway her baptism was today and even
though we never taught her, Elder Holbrook has 8 baptisms but that was his
first time performing the ordinance. I
don’t count it because I just went, but it does show that baptisms do
happen. We also ran into Jamie Wallis, a
kid with red hair about our age and was related to William Wallis but he just
said, “So what are you guys about? I see
you all the time and I’ve always wanted to talk to you.” And he said he is addicted to hard drugs and
he wants help off them. We said, “Well,
we can help.” I also found out Jeffrey
R. Holland (My idol) served in the Britton mission and I can relate to him
because he knows exactly how it is and went through the same experiences that
we talk about on his mission because things are the same all over the UK
August 18, 2013
Today was a really great Sunday. Surprisingly Sunday school and priesthood
were both about relationships and temple marriage. I did actually learn a
lot. It was Brother Davis’s last week
teaching Sunday school and he was an amazing teacher. I learned that if you want to have a
relationship you need to love God a little more and that I really need to be
the best husband and father I can be. I
know that I really shouldn’t be worrying about it but I just want to change
myself and let the Lord mold me to who He wants me to be.
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