ok well on the 31 of the month yulie (julie) is getting baptized. we have been working with her ever since ive been here. she is super.
we are also are teaching a girl named maggie. she has a bap. date for the 14 aug. ahe is amazing. we gave her a book of mormon 2 weeks ago and she is still reading in it everywhere she goes. she loves it she said it has changed her life.
on sunday we had 5 investigators in church. we have a lot of work for us to do. its hard to keep up on everybody.
i saw Ramon on thursday we baptized him when i was in assen. he is doing good, i saw him at the young adult centrum. he is still enthusiastic and we had a good time together.
we are still doing a lot of finding. yesterday we went and drew the plan of salvation in chalk in the centrum. im still trying to improve my dutch. its got room for improvement.
im so glad you all had a good time with jeff and kim and de mass. they are all awesome. elder de mass was an assistant when i came into the land so he was the first missionary i saw, he picked me up at the airport in brussels. he is one of the best missionaries ive seen out here. man sounds fun!
today we are having a district pday in groningen. we are going to bbq and then b ball and soccer. we dont really have the most talented group so i dont know how much of a challenge its going to be. im getting along with my comps well. elder crittenden is hilarious, he reminds me of Cam. we laugh all day long.
man everybody is in lake powell. man i feel bad for you guys, its a hard life you guys are living out there. i cant wait to go when i get back.
cameron i havent heard from you in forever, quit being a girl. same with you chany.
we ride bikes all day long my legs are getting pretty ripped again. well i aint got no more to say. i hope eveybody is doing good. courtney! whats going on. i hope everything is ok. love you all so much. dont forget about your brother. i got to go back to amsterdam on friday, we had a conference. it was good to be back home. my comps havnt really ever been there. the couldnt believe it. the were kind of scared it was funny.
ok tot maandag, ik hou van jullie
8.09.2010
7.12.2010
jordan 7.12.10
ok well i have a ton to say and no time to say it.
i have 2 new comps. oh man i could talk forever about them. so it was the hardest thing ever to leave amsterdam. i hope i get sent back. it was hard to say bye to everybody. im goin to miss it so much. it was so stressfull packing and then the day we moved it was hard and the day after. it is not fun leaving everything and going to a new city with 2 dudes you dont know. and plus you dont know anybody in the new city. so much has happened.
so i got here wed. we had a dinner appointment then got settled in. the next day was hard work. we found a lot and we set up 3 baptismal dates! we also had a ton of success finding. u see a lot of miracles after transfers. i think it is because the lord knows how bad it is and he want to bless you. we work hard here all day long.
the older comp elder rayfield is on his last transfer and works hard. i have another younger comp out on his second transfer. he is a little new. they both are red necks. e. crittenden is a "body builder" but i beat him in all the strength competitions. he talks about working out and drinking protene all day its sooo funny we kindof just sit back and laugh. man i have some funny stories already. he brought one suitcase full of weight lifting stuff and drinks a protien shake everymorning, he has met a robert now uh oh ha ah,they both love shootin guns. my other comp e. r. is 6 foot 5. loves shootin rabbits and country music, kindof annoying when it comes to hes mr in charge. really annoying.
holy cow sometimes i wonder how i ended up here ha ha its good for me though. my last comp elder sticht was a stud it was fun to work with him we had a ton of fun. i know alot of young adults here already because ive been here a few times. the ward is pretty big just a little smaller than adam. it is totally opposite though. here it is very dutch, very organized, and a lot of dutch people. not half as much diversity.
mom we live in the sisters old apt.
happy bday gr hansen, finn, andie brooke, kendall!!! court you were in the hospital! what? thanks for the package! dominated! mom i havnt got yours yet. what are you doing with kim and jeff? going swimming? tennis, pizzarea 712? treat them right. maybe make some dinner i dont know. i want to hear all about it though. have some fun!
oh yeah bye the way we have 6 baptismal dates set now. thats the most ive ever had at once.
its sooo stinkin hot! im drenched everyday riding my bike oh man it stinks.
hi to everybody! court get better! hi to cate! do you get my emails?! uhhm i know im forgetting so much to say.
oh yeah we watched the game last night, only until 9 oclock it too bad they lost. we could see our neighbors tv screen through a crack though so got to see a little more.
well i love you all so much! have a good day! write me!
love
e robert
i have 2 new comps. oh man i could talk forever about them. so it was the hardest thing ever to leave amsterdam. i hope i get sent back. it was hard to say bye to everybody. im goin to miss it so much. it was so stressfull packing and then the day we moved it was hard and the day after. it is not fun leaving everything and going to a new city with 2 dudes you dont know. and plus you dont know anybody in the new city. so much has happened.
so i got here wed. we had a dinner appointment then got settled in. the next day was hard work. we found a lot and we set up 3 baptismal dates! we also had a ton of success finding. u see a lot of miracles after transfers. i think it is because the lord knows how bad it is and he want to bless you. we work hard here all day long.
the older comp elder rayfield is on his last transfer and works hard. i have another younger comp out on his second transfer. he is a little new. they both are red necks. e. crittenden is a "body builder" but i beat him in all the strength competitions. he talks about working out and drinking protene all day its sooo funny we kindof just sit back and laugh. man i have some funny stories already. he brought one suitcase full of weight lifting stuff and drinks a protien shake everymorning, he has met a robert now uh oh ha ah,they both love shootin guns. my other comp e. r. is 6 foot 5. loves shootin rabbits and country music, kindof annoying when it comes to hes mr in charge. really annoying.
holy cow sometimes i wonder how i ended up here ha ha its good for me though. my last comp elder sticht was a stud it was fun to work with him we had a ton of fun. i know alot of young adults here already because ive been here a few times. the ward is pretty big just a little smaller than adam. it is totally opposite though. here it is very dutch, very organized, and a lot of dutch people. not half as much diversity.
mom we live in the sisters old apt.
happy bday gr hansen, finn, andie brooke, kendall!!! court you were in the hospital! what? thanks for the package! dominated! mom i havnt got yours yet. what are you doing with kim and jeff? going swimming? tennis, pizzarea 712? treat them right. maybe make some dinner i dont know. i want to hear all about it though. have some fun!
oh yeah bye the way we have 6 baptismal dates set now. thats the most ive ever had at once.
its sooo stinkin hot! im drenched everyday riding my bike oh man it stinks.
hi to everybody! court get better! hi to cate! do you get my emails?! uhhm i know im forgetting so much to say.
oh yeah we watched the game last night, only until 9 oclock it too bad they lost. we could see our neighbors tv screen through a crack though so got to see a little more.
well i love you all so much! have a good day! write me!
love
e robert
taryn 7.12.10
Hello Family!
Weve had an awesome week this week- well half of it.. My companion was sick for the first few days of the week. It was nice for the first hour or two, but then after that i was just antsy for the next day or two to get out and do the work of the Lord. I did a lot of cleaning and studying which was nice though. The remainder of the week we saw miracles that could not have happened without Heavenly Father's help.
We have been teaching a 13 year old girl (Nin) and her mom (Saa) for a few weeks now. I met Nin one night that we were pretty discouraged, we had gotten rejected harshly quite a few times that night. It was about time to go home, but I decided we should stay out for the remainding minutes. We had the prompting (though we didnt know it at first) to turn back the way we had just came. We didnt find anyone. We started to head home. As we were biking through a dark little narrow street (like most of the neighborhood streets in Thailand) my companion passed a young girl walking home from her extra learning (which almost all kids do here. they go to school and then do special learning all day long!) I had the prompting to stop and talk to her. We ended up walking her home and then she is the one that showed up to church a few days later. That week she had been telling her mom she wanted to go to a christian church and then we stopped to invite her. Her mom was fine with her changing religions, but would always say that she herself is Buddhist. Over the past week we have seen her 180. Earlier during the week she became more interested and started opening up more, i thank the members who have been helping us teach, they are amazing! they became friends with her and made her feel comfortable so that we could get to her heart! The miracle really happened when they came to the Elders' baptism on Saturday night. They told us they were both coming, but for some reason she just dropped Nin off and then waited outside. We sent sister dang (red) out to get her. She came in right before the ordinance. While they were changing the elders taught about God and also about baptism for the investigators there. I was sitting in front of her, i heard her sniffling and turned around to her crying. After the baptism she kept saying how she felt like she had finally come home and how she had never felt that way in a Wat (a buddhist temple). She felt so silly because after the baptism she was all red faced and swollen from crying. She didnt understand why she was crying. I explained how everyone feels the Holy Ghost differently and (sorry mom) i told her about mom and many women who cry usually when they feel the spirit strong. We set baptismal dates with her and her daughter for the 29 of August! Nin wants to get baptized sooner, but we told her it would be best to get baptized together.
Missionary work is amazing. It seems that most of our investigators speak thai as a second language. lots of people from hill tribes and a few from Buma (i cant wait for the day that burma opens for our mission, it is going to boom!) We are teaching a cute lady named kham who is getting her masters degree here but is from Burma. It would be so awesome if we could get her strong and then she can go help strengthen the branch there! they need some good english speakers so they can get more books like the book of mormon translated. the second time we met with her she hadnt tried praying or hadnt read anything. we decided we would give her one more chance. We really emphasized prayer. Then i got a call later in the week, she was very excited and told me that she got an answer. she has been trying to defend her thesis since april and things keep going wrong. she was hoping to defend last week. the night before she was supposed to defend she couldnt sleep. she decided to try out prayer and got on her knees and poured out her heart. the next day she said she actually got to defend, and said that the words just poured out perfectly and the judges?? we very impressed. she knew it was not just her. She told me this as we were sitting waiting for sacrament meeting to start and we both got the chills. It was fun to sit with her. She doesnt speak Thai so she had translator headphones on (we get a lot of visitors and also have a few members that live here from america.) i got to sing the hymns in english!its been so long. they sound so wierd in enlish, it was hard! all the words came to me in thai. the hymns at church are a little crazy because we have both languages singing at the same time.
I was reading this morning in Helaman 10. What a powerful chapter about the labor and great blessings of missionary work! Its amazing how the scriptures are understood so differently at every period of your life. The Spirit brings out and helps us understand the things we need for that time. It is amazing being a missionary. I am grateful for this special time.
It sounds like jord and morg are doing awesome as well! so cool that we are all out here together in different parts of the world spreading the message of true happiness! they are lucky enough though to get to be there for a little longer then i. the time is flying.
I got some awesome packages this past week. thank you so so so much courtney and barb! it felt like christmas and my birthday combined!
well, weve got to go a little earlier today, an investigator family is picking us up to go FHE at sister beantong's house..
i love you and miss you. stay safe, stay healthy, and choose the right!
love,
sister young
Weve had an awesome week this week- well half of it.. My companion was sick for the first few days of the week. It was nice for the first hour or two, but then after that i was just antsy for the next day or two to get out and do the work of the Lord. I did a lot of cleaning and studying which was nice though. The remainder of the week we saw miracles that could not have happened without Heavenly Father's help.
We have been teaching a 13 year old girl (Nin) and her mom (Saa) for a few weeks now. I met Nin one night that we were pretty discouraged, we had gotten rejected harshly quite a few times that night. It was about time to go home, but I decided we should stay out for the remainding minutes. We had the prompting (though we didnt know it at first) to turn back the way we had just came. We didnt find anyone. We started to head home. As we were biking through a dark little narrow street (like most of the neighborhood streets in Thailand) my companion passed a young girl walking home from her extra learning (which almost all kids do here. they go to school and then do special learning all day long!) I had the prompting to stop and talk to her. We ended up walking her home and then she is the one that showed up to church a few days later. That week she had been telling her mom she wanted to go to a christian church and then we stopped to invite her. Her mom was fine with her changing religions, but would always say that she herself is Buddhist. Over the past week we have seen her 180. Earlier during the week she became more interested and started opening up more, i thank the members who have been helping us teach, they are amazing! they became friends with her and made her feel comfortable so that we could get to her heart! The miracle really happened when they came to the Elders' baptism on Saturday night. They told us they were both coming, but for some reason she just dropped Nin off and then waited outside. We sent sister dang (red) out to get her. She came in right before the ordinance. While they were changing the elders taught about God and also about baptism for the investigators there. I was sitting in front of her, i heard her sniffling and turned around to her crying. After the baptism she kept saying how she felt like she had finally come home and how she had never felt that way in a Wat (a buddhist temple). She felt so silly because after the baptism she was all red faced and swollen from crying. She didnt understand why she was crying. I explained how everyone feels the Holy Ghost differently and (sorry mom) i told her about mom and many women who cry usually when they feel the spirit strong. We set baptismal dates with her and her daughter for the 29 of August! Nin wants to get baptized sooner, but we told her it would be best to get baptized together.
Missionary work is amazing. It seems that most of our investigators speak thai as a second language. lots of people from hill tribes and a few from Buma (i cant wait for the day that burma opens for our mission, it is going to boom!) We are teaching a cute lady named kham who is getting her masters degree here but is from Burma. It would be so awesome if we could get her strong and then she can go help strengthen the branch there! they need some good english speakers so they can get more books like the book of mormon translated. the second time we met with her she hadnt tried praying or hadnt read anything. we decided we would give her one more chance. We really emphasized prayer. Then i got a call later in the week, she was very excited and told me that she got an answer. she has been trying to defend her thesis since april and things keep going wrong. she was hoping to defend last week. the night before she was supposed to defend she couldnt sleep. she decided to try out prayer and got on her knees and poured out her heart. the next day she said she actually got to defend, and said that the words just poured out perfectly and the judges?? we very impressed. she knew it was not just her. She told me this as we were sitting waiting for sacrament meeting to start and we both got the chills. It was fun to sit with her. She doesnt speak Thai so she had translator headphones on (we get a lot of visitors and also have a few members that live here from america.) i got to sing the hymns in english!its been so long. they sound so wierd in enlish, it was hard! all the words came to me in thai. the hymns at church are a little crazy because we have both languages singing at the same time.
I was reading this morning in Helaman 10. What a powerful chapter about the labor and great blessings of missionary work! Its amazing how the scriptures are understood so differently at every period of your life. The Spirit brings out and helps us understand the things we need for that time. It is amazing being a missionary. I am grateful for this special time.
It sounds like jord and morg are doing awesome as well! so cool that we are all out here together in different parts of the world spreading the message of true happiness! they are lucky enough though to get to be there for a little longer then i. the time is flying.
I got some awesome packages this past week. thank you so so so much courtney and barb! it felt like christmas and my birthday combined!
well, weve got to go a little earlier today, an investigator family is picking us up to go FHE at sister beantong's house..
i love you and miss you. stay safe, stay healthy, and choose the right!
love,
sister young
morgan 7.12.10
Wow, okay so this week wasn't too great here in Carcassonne. It was a rough week. Me and my comp. get along fine. But it's Just there is ALOT of opposition! It started off fine just like normal. Then on friday I think it was, we just got done playing basketball (me and a 70 year old man took down 2 Teenage boys 7-3 by 1's and 2's) but were about to go inside 15 min early to shower and do calls. But I had the thought we needed to go see how George was doing. George is our investigator with a date for baptism Aug. 14. We go over to his house and he answered the door and looked awful! He told us to never come back. He never wants to see us again and it is finished. We tried to talk to him to see what was wrong but he wouldn't tell us. It was really really hard. Me and Elder Mayer were working with him so hard last transfer! That was a rough night.
It has really really hot here lately! Everybody is on vacation. We dont have very many Investigators right now because of all the vacations and we only had like 30 members at church here. Like half of the usual.
Vanessa is still awesome! she is so ready for baptism! If you wanna see something cool check out the Conf. Ensign the page right after the picture of the all the genral authorities in the center of the Ensign. the top right picture was taken in Carcassonne France. it was actually the Bezier elders who came to Carcassonne because they dont have a font there. COOL! haha. but not as cool as SAILOR and SKYLAR in the ensign!! so cool!! I heard that but I totally forgot! I was showing everybody my 2 super cute cousins in the ensign.
Elder Magnan is still super cool. We dont have the same personalities but he is really nice!
So the "soldes" are this weekend. Mom, I might be buying something so keep an eye on the account.
So there are a BUNCH of birthdays this month!! I got Chris' 2 week warning on my calandar. haha and so Happy Birthday all the birthdays this month!! this week it was Finn and then Andie the 16th and Papa the 17th. sorry if i missed ya. Happy Birthday!!
so the 14th of july here i hear is one of the most spectacular things ever! we are gunna try and get special permission from pres. to go watch it.
Thanks for all your support and all your emails!! court, get better and i will be waiting for that package. thanks so much! and mom, I got the package. Thankyou!! I made the white syrup lastnight. it is so good!! I kinda had to make a new recipe because I did not have alot of the same things but it was good. Elder Magnan really liked it!!
well I hope this week will be better than the last. I have got a recommendation for you all, go listen to or read the talk on Diligence by Pres. Eyring the Priesthood Session talk. So good!! my favorite line... "when my body begs for rest i say to myself 'remember him'... he is our captain." So cool!!
I love you all! Peace!
Morgan
It has really really hot here lately! Everybody is on vacation. We dont have very many Investigators right now because of all the vacations and we only had like 30 members at church here. Like half of the usual.
Vanessa is still awesome! she is so ready for baptism! If you wanna see something cool check out the Conf. Ensign the page right after the picture of the all the genral authorities in the center of the Ensign. the top right picture was taken in Carcassonne France. it was actually the Bezier elders who came to Carcassonne because they dont have a font there. COOL! haha. but not as cool as SAILOR and SKYLAR in the ensign!! so cool!! I heard that but I totally forgot! I was showing everybody my 2 super cute cousins in the ensign.
Elder Magnan is still super cool. We dont have the same personalities but he is really nice!
So the "soldes" are this weekend. Mom, I might be buying something so keep an eye on the account.
So there are a BUNCH of birthdays this month!! I got Chris' 2 week warning on my calandar. haha and so Happy Birthday all the birthdays this month!! this week it was Finn and then Andie the 16th and Papa the 17th. sorry if i missed ya. Happy Birthday!!
so the 14th of july here i hear is one of the most spectacular things ever! we are gunna try and get special permission from pres. to go watch it.
Thanks for all your support and all your emails!! court, get better and i will be waiting for that package. thanks so much! and mom, I got the package. Thankyou!! I made the white syrup lastnight. it is so good!! I kinda had to make a new recipe because I did not have alot of the same things but it was good. Elder Magnan really liked it!!
well I hope this week will be better than the last. I have got a recommendation for you all, go listen to or read the talk on Diligence by Pres. Eyring the Priesthood Session talk. So good!! my favorite line... "when my body begs for rest i say to myself 'remember him'... he is our captain." So cool!!
I love you all! Peace!
Morgan
7.11.2010
taryn 7.5.10
Hello!
To start it off, last week i got what we call in the mission "death papers". they are the papers that tell you that youre going home soon, thank you for your service, tell you to keep working hard to the end, and ask information about your home ward/stake ect to send things to them telling them your coming home. crazy.
We've had an awesome week this week. Missionary work is so stressful for me, i get so worried about where exactly we are supposed to be, what im supposed to say and do. im working really hard to give my stresses to the Lord. Its hard being a missionary because none of it is really up to you, you try so hard, but it is really all up the agency of the people. you have to give it to the Lord and hope he can help them choose the right path. im trying to remember that and not get so stressed.
Yesterday was a very rewarding day. We had 8 investigators at church!!! we had 0 my first 2 weeks here. It was really cool, they just kept coming in. The elders just kept looking at us like "what the?" i felt bad, with 4 elders they had 1 investigator. The 1 investigator was a guy that i invited on the street last week.. I think that it is easier for sisters. the women are much more ready usually, and the families that we are teaching, the men are more responsive to women. only half of them stayed all three hours, but I was still really happy with that. i hope to have them all and more be there for the whole time next week. we are still rocking with new investigators as well, we got another 10 this week! not weve got to just help them progress and help them begin their journey to come unto Christ.We have some really good investigators right now.
to start, we have nin and her mom. her mom is all for her learning, she just doesnt know how golden she is herself. they are both praying and reading, though nin was the only one who went to church. we taught them on sat, the mom was just leaving to take her dog on a walk. Heavenly Father pulled a miracle for us, the dog wouldnt go! she was saying how wierd it was, how he usually loves walks. we taught them both, and her mom, saa, was telling us how prayer is already helping her daughters life so much. now we just have to help her to realize it is for her too.
the lahu hill tribe family that we are teaching is kind of progressing. the mom and a few of the cousins are progressing, but we want the whole family. there is a very cute girl who is staying with them who is learning with us as well. bummer though, she is the most progressing, but is from mae ho song, way way up north where the hill tribe is. there is no church up there.. she is here for awhile because her daughter is in the hospital. we went to visit the hospital a few times last week, so sad. i realized i dont thing i can be a doctor anymore. ive never gotten sick from stuff like that before, but both times we went, sis josephson and i both had to "go to the bathroom" to take a break cuz we were both about to pass out. it was another thailand hospital experience. we went to the icu where it is dirty, lined with beds with people dying on them. no privacy for the families or anything. she is a little 8 yr old girl who was climbing up a tree to get some fruit and fell. she fell on the back of her head, im not sure what is wrong with her. she can move around, but it is like she is sleeping or in a coma or something. she just stares with her eyes open, tubes down her throat, and another coming out of the back of her head draining blood. she is such a cute little girl. we had a neat experience, brother giant came and gave her a blessing. it was a very peaceful feeling, i kept having to peek cuz to thought she was going to wake up right there. she still hasnt, but i know that it is up to the Lord. being in there made me realize again how precious and fragile life is. please please please be careful!
We have some other good investigators, like mint and her dad, and then we have some others that we might have to drop this week. i dont like dropping people, but i just have to have the faith that their time will come later when they are more ready.
Weve had some fun pday trips the past few weeks. we went to some wats(buddhist temples) 2 weeks ago, there are way too many of them in chiang mai, but they are beautiful. then last week we went to the zoo which was pretty fun: up on the mountainside/jungle and there was hardly any barriers-if any- for the animals (sometimes very scary!) then today was one of my favorite things that i have done in thailand. we went about an hour away up in the mountians, watched elephants play soccer, dance, and paint, and then got to ride them up over a steep mountain side and down into a valley with some hill tribe people. amazing how there are so many different people in this world with such different lives, but they are all of Gods children. i am excited for the day that people get called to the "hill tribe mission" to learn their languages and spread the gospel up there. as we were riding the elephants on a steep ledge, jungle all around, overlooking the city far away, and watching HUGE bugs that look like shrimp but bigger fly around, i couldnt help but think that i am in the coolest mission in the world. what an amazing place to be. i am so lucky to be able to serve here. not only for the fun things to do though, but the people are amazing.
well, its that time again. please stay safe, stay happy, and choose the right always! i love you so much and i just miss you more and more every day. you are the best.
love,
sister young
To start it off, last week i got what we call in the mission "death papers". they are the papers that tell you that youre going home soon, thank you for your service, tell you to keep working hard to the end, and ask information about your home ward/stake ect to send things to them telling them your coming home. crazy.
We've had an awesome week this week. Missionary work is so stressful for me, i get so worried about where exactly we are supposed to be, what im supposed to say and do. im working really hard to give my stresses to the Lord. Its hard being a missionary because none of it is really up to you, you try so hard, but it is really all up the agency of the people. you have to give it to the Lord and hope he can help them choose the right path. im trying to remember that and not get so stressed.
Yesterday was a very rewarding day. We had 8 investigators at church!!! we had 0 my first 2 weeks here. It was really cool, they just kept coming in. The elders just kept looking at us like "what the?" i felt bad, with 4 elders they had 1 investigator. The 1 investigator was a guy that i invited on the street last week.. I think that it is easier for sisters. the women are much more ready usually, and the families that we are teaching, the men are more responsive to women. only half of them stayed all three hours, but I was still really happy with that. i hope to have them all and more be there for the whole time next week. we are still rocking with new investigators as well, we got another 10 this week! not weve got to just help them progress and help them begin their journey to come unto Christ.We have some really good investigators right now.
to start, we have nin and her mom. her mom is all for her learning, she just doesnt know how golden she is herself. they are both praying and reading, though nin was the only one who went to church. we taught them on sat, the mom was just leaving to take her dog on a walk. Heavenly Father pulled a miracle for us, the dog wouldnt go! she was saying how wierd it was, how he usually loves walks. we taught them both, and her mom, saa, was telling us how prayer is already helping her daughters life so much. now we just have to help her to realize it is for her too.
the lahu hill tribe family that we are teaching is kind of progressing. the mom and a few of the cousins are progressing, but we want the whole family. there is a very cute girl who is staying with them who is learning with us as well. bummer though, she is the most progressing, but is from mae ho song, way way up north where the hill tribe is. there is no church up there.. she is here for awhile because her daughter is in the hospital. we went to visit the hospital a few times last week, so sad. i realized i dont thing i can be a doctor anymore. ive never gotten sick from stuff like that before, but both times we went, sis josephson and i both had to "go to the bathroom" to take a break cuz we were both about to pass out. it was another thailand hospital experience. we went to the icu where it is dirty, lined with beds with people dying on them. no privacy for the families or anything. she is a little 8 yr old girl who was climbing up a tree to get some fruit and fell. she fell on the back of her head, im not sure what is wrong with her. she can move around, but it is like she is sleeping or in a coma or something. she just stares with her eyes open, tubes down her throat, and another coming out of the back of her head draining blood. she is such a cute little girl. we had a neat experience, brother giant came and gave her a blessing. it was a very peaceful feeling, i kept having to peek cuz to thought she was going to wake up right there. she still hasnt, but i know that it is up to the Lord. being in there made me realize again how precious and fragile life is. please please please be careful!
We have some other good investigators, like mint and her dad, and then we have some others that we might have to drop this week. i dont like dropping people, but i just have to have the faith that their time will come later when they are more ready.
Weve had some fun pday trips the past few weeks. we went to some wats(buddhist temples) 2 weeks ago, there are way too many of them in chiang mai, but they are beautiful. then last week we went to the zoo which was pretty fun: up on the mountainside/jungle and there was hardly any barriers-if any- for the animals (sometimes very scary!) then today was one of my favorite things that i have done in thailand. we went about an hour away up in the mountians, watched elephants play soccer, dance, and paint, and then got to ride them up over a steep mountain side and down into a valley with some hill tribe people. amazing how there are so many different people in this world with such different lives, but they are all of Gods children. i am excited for the day that people get called to the "hill tribe mission" to learn their languages and spread the gospel up there. as we were riding the elephants on a steep ledge, jungle all around, overlooking the city far away, and watching HUGE bugs that look like shrimp but bigger fly around, i couldnt help but think that i am in the coolest mission in the world. what an amazing place to be. i am so lucky to be able to serve here. not only for the fun things to do though, but the people are amazing.
well, its that time again. please stay safe, stay happy, and choose the right always! i love you so much and i just miss you more and more every day. you are the best.
love,
sister young
morgan 7.6.10
Alrighty, so this week I thought forsure me and Elder Mayer were going to stay together! But, the Lord knows what he is doing. I am still in Carcassonne and I still have a french comp. His name is Elder Magnan. I was so scared to get a lame comp again but he is so cool! I love him! so far he is my favorite comp so far. But we will see, its easy to say that the first day. He is from Paris. Versailles to be exact. The same ville the temple is going to be. I heard it is beautiful. Not from him but other missionaries.
So last week was amazing. We set a goal which was huge for us. We set the goal of 20 lessons taught to an investigator with a member present. The most I have ever had is 11 the avg. is 9. I told Elder Mayer that we could do it last sunday and he thought I was crazy. He was telling me how it is good to be faithful but we need to be realistic. So after 15 min. of showing him how we can do it we set the goal. The week started off slow. Really slow. But with the help of the members and ALOT of prayers we ended the week at 23 lessons in the presence of a member. and 34 total lessons. That is HUGE for our mission.
So yesterday sorry about not being able to email. I had to go pick up Elder Magnan in Marseille. He served in Avignon last transfer. He hits his 1 year mark in August. So every single companion I have been with we have celebrated their birthday. Elder Gilmour at the mtc, Elder Christensen at Nimes, Elder Mcmullin at Nimes, Elder Mayer in Carcassonne and the birthday of Elder Magnan is the 17th I think... same day as dads!! Chouette!!
So last week we lost every single one of our baptismal candidates. 2 we cant get a hold of. Yasmine (Vanessa's sister) moved to Toulouse. Which I am happy because I think that ward will be better for her. Alot more young adults! Vanessa is planning the date of her wedding so we cant plan the baptism till we find out.
But we engaged George (a 50 year old crazy man from brazil) this week for the 14 August. We have a recent convert who wont stop having "set backs" haha with alchohol. it is really sad. Elder Mayer was crushed.
I am really excited for this transfer!! It is gunna be sweet! I am planning on running still. Actually for the past 2 weeks we have been running with a coulple of members who need to lose weight. It is cool! haha.
I am going to talk to Vanessa about Ash's blog. I already told her that she does the same stuff. Vanessa is hopefully going to make me a scripture case. We are going to try to talk to her fiancé about our message this week. We will see.
How was the 4th?? I cant wait for the 14th here!! I heard it is like world known for the fireworks at the castle. We might just have to be getting special permission to hop on the roof to watch. I think we are going to try and catch a glimps of the tour de France. so if you can give me info around the date of moday the 19th. or just when it is closest. Dad gave me a little info a couple weeks ago also.
Well I love you all!! I gotta fly!! we have Tons of RDV's this week!! Ash dont worry your getting a letter soon! thanks for the letter. and no, no package yet.
Morg
So last week was amazing. We set a goal which was huge for us. We set the goal of 20 lessons taught to an investigator with a member present. The most I have ever had is 11 the avg. is 9. I told Elder Mayer that we could do it last sunday and he thought I was crazy. He was telling me how it is good to be faithful but we need to be realistic. So after 15 min. of showing him how we can do it we set the goal. The week started off slow. Really slow. But with the help of the members and ALOT of prayers we ended the week at 23 lessons in the presence of a member. and 34 total lessons. That is HUGE for our mission.
So yesterday sorry about not being able to email. I had to go pick up Elder Magnan in Marseille. He served in Avignon last transfer. He hits his 1 year mark in August. So every single companion I have been with we have celebrated their birthday. Elder Gilmour at the mtc, Elder Christensen at Nimes, Elder Mcmullin at Nimes, Elder Mayer in Carcassonne and the birthday of Elder Magnan is the 17th I think... same day as dads!! Chouette!!
So last week we lost every single one of our baptismal candidates. 2 we cant get a hold of. Yasmine (Vanessa's sister) moved to Toulouse. Which I am happy because I think that ward will be better for her. Alot more young adults! Vanessa is planning the date of her wedding so we cant plan the baptism till we find out.
But we engaged George (a 50 year old crazy man from brazil) this week for the 14 August. We have a recent convert who wont stop having "set backs" haha with alchohol. it is really sad. Elder Mayer was crushed.
I am really excited for this transfer!! It is gunna be sweet! I am planning on running still. Actually for the past 2 weeks we have been running with a coulple of members who need to lose weight. It is cool! haha.
I am going to talk to Vanessa about Ash's blog. I already told her that she does the same stuff. Vanessa is hopefully going to make me a scripture case. We are going to try to talk to her fiancé about our message this week. We will see.
How was the 4th?? I cant wait for the 14th here!! I heard it is like world known for the fireworks at the castle. We might just have to be getting special permission to hop on the roof to watch. I think we are going to try and catch a glimps of the tour de France. so if you can give me info around the date of moday the 19th. or just when it is closest. Dad gave me a little info a couple weeks ago also.
Well I love you all!! I gotta fly!! we have Tons of RDV's this week!! Ash dont worry your getting a letter soon! thanks for the letter. and no, no package yet.
Morg
jordan 7.5.10
ok well talk about stress. transfers are my most hated thing in the world. i always stress so bad over them. anyways my time here in amsterdam is done. but i am so greatfull i got to serve here. it is definantly my most favorite city in the world. i will miss it. the people and the young adults especially have changed my life. they are friends that will last forever, we are planning a lake powell trip for next year with everybody. i guess the Lord has something else in store for me.
i am getting transfered to Groningen. it is the most northern city in the netherlands. ive been there a few times on exchanges. i guess it is a student city. my new address is D.D. Eisenhowerstraat # 38 9728 RW Groningen Netherlands I would love to get a letter from you.
this week was another slow week for missionary work still trying to find those people who are ready for the gospel. patrick came back from tilburg so that is good.
on the brighter hand nederland beat brazil in world cup soccer! ahh man the city was going nuts. they play uraguay tues.
oh man fast and testimony meeting on sunday was the craziest ive ever seen. some lady (investigator) gets up and starts baring her testimony oh man it was nuts she was walking all over the stage shouting with her arms in the air then when she was done she was still shouting till she got into her chair. then people started to clap oh man. amsterdam.
well family. this week there is a recent covert named kim who is coming to visit our family and drop some stuff off for me. she will be coming with Jeff Howell my last companion. it should be a cool experience. it would be really nice if the whole family could get together or something when they come. kim is super good at tennis, maybe do something outside. i dont know. but it would be a cool experience for the family to talk to them. and also it would be good if it was a special experience for them also. maybe do dinner or something. her family has fed me dinner a few times. now is a good chance to pay them back. i dont know how long she is staying and i dont know how long she is planning on staying with our fam. i have had dinner with her family now she gets to see what its like to have a dinner with the robert family. robert style. she is taking a lot off letters that have been sent to me home. and my camera cards and maybe my kite. and she plans on filling her suit cases up with clothes she will buy. it is too kind of her.
well i cant wait to hear from all of you next week.
happy 4th of july!! man last year i saw the magness fam and wade on 4th of july then the next day i saw the young fam, weird!
ok well see you later
love
e robert
i am getting transfered to Groningen. it is the most northern city in the netherlands. ive been there a few times on exchanges. i guess it is a student city. my new address is D.D. Eisenhowerstraat # 38 9728 RW Groningen Netherlands I would love to get a letter from you.
this week was another slow week for missionary work still trying to find those people who are ready for the gospel. patrick came back from tilburg so that is good.
on the brighter hand nederland beat brazil in world cup soccer! ahh man the city was going nuts. they play uraguay tues.
oh man fast and testimony meeting on sunday was the craziest ive ever seen. some lady (investigator) gets up and starts baring her testimony oh man it was nuts she was walking all over the stage shouting with her arms in the air then when she was done she was still shouting till she got into her chair. then people started to clap oh man. amsterdam.
well family. this week there is a recent covert named kim who is coming to visit our family and drop some stuff off for me. she will be coming with Jeff Howell my last companion. it should be a cool experience. it would be really nice if the whole family could get together or something when they come. kim is super good at tennis, maybe do something outside. i dont know. but it would be a cool experience for the family to talk to them. and also it would be good if it was a special experience for them also. maybe do dinner or something. her family has fed me dinner a few times. now is a good chance to pay them back. i dont know how long she is staying and i dont know how long she is planning on staying with our fam. i have had dinner with her family now she gets to see what its like to have a dinner with the robert family. robert style. she is taking a lot off letters that have been sent to me home. and my camera cards and maybe my kite. and she plans on filling her suit cases up with clothes she will buy. it is too kind of her.
well i cant wait to hear from all of you next week.
happy 4th of july!! man last year i saw the magness fam and wade on 4th of july then the next day i saw the young fam, weird!
ok well see you later
love
e robert
draped in orange
a random street in amsterdam.
world cup excitement.
everyone in orange.
people sitting at a table with their feet in a blow-up swimming pool.
world cup excitement.
everyone in orange.
people sitting at a table with their feet in a blow-up swimming pool.
taryn 6.28.10
Hello!
What a good week. THings are starting to really pick up in these parts of Thailand. We are getting new investigators right and left. It is fun seeing the numbers go from absolutely nothing to now growing higher and higher. We worked hard this week and taught many lessons, found many potentials, and also got 15 new investigators! ha the goal of the mission is for everyone to get 2 per week.. now our goal is to keep them progressing and coming closer to the Lord, our purpose as a missionary. what a great purpose. we dont have any with baptismal dates yet, but that will hopefully come this week as we teach our progressors. this week ive been getting a little startled, realizing how short my time is getting. so crazy. my goal is to keep pushing myself and this area to the max until i get on the train to go down to bangkok for the last time.
We are teaching a few families, which is the emphasis of the mission right now. they have figured out that the chances are much more likely for them to fall if they enter the church alone, and thailand doesnt need any more less actives, we already are overflowing with them. This past week they actually came out and said that if you are teaching and people single-y they have to come to church and get progressing quickly or they have to be dropped. it is neat teaching families that will hopefully sometime soon be an eternal family!
one of the daughters who is in her upper 20's was telling us how she was having a lot of problems in her life and asked for me to give her a special christian blessing. many think that we are nuns here. i explained about priesthood blessings, the elder will give her one soon, and then i said the closing prayer, in it asking Heavenly Father to help her.
one family we are teaching are from the hill tribes (we are actually teaching quite a few people from tribes) The family speaks lahu (a tribal language), most can speak a little thai, and the dad speaks english and lahu, not much thai. one daughter can read thai, so we have a lot of crazy cross-translating from many different languages. its an adventure! we are schedule to see them tonight, i hope and pray that we can keep them progressing and enter the waters of baptism soon!
we are teaching a few Burmese people, but the majority of them speak tribal languages as well and speak a little thai, and one girl we are teaching speaks english amazingly- she is studying here to get her masters and then will go back to burma. we are excited because we need some good english speakers in burma because there isnt very much burmese church material yet. man, it is hard teaching in english though! everything comes to me in thai first and then i have to translate it to English. sometimes i sound so silly because i end up translating directly from thai grammar and it doesnt make sense in English.
We rode our bikes to the house of a family far out of the city, i felt like i was back in Udon again. chickens running around, boys out in the weeds playing a game they love to play here that is like volleyball, but instead you cant use your hands! they do a one tosses is and another does a crazy kicking thing to serve it. they use all parts of their body but arms. the houses out there little wooden and metal shacks. what a fun place to live. it was beautiful, even more than udon because it was more green and here there are small mountains surrounding.
On friday night we had some appointments and back-up plans cancel so we went out to contact a potential. when we went to her house her husband and mom were there, they were really rude and first told us they didnt know where she was, and then saying she moved. then we asked about the neighbor and they said she moved too. its never fun to get turned down like that, im glad that i am serving in thailand where it is rare for a thai person to be rude (i feel bad for jordan and morgan! i know what it is like in europe and i wasnt even a missionary there!) it was almost time to go home, but not quite yet. we could have easily gone home, but decided to go back into the neighborhood and invite for minute. we didnt find anything, but then on our way out in a dark allley there was one young girl walking home that my comp passed, i almost did but then got the prompting to stop. we ended up inviting her to church and to english class, the usual. crazy thing is she showed up yesterday! she was soaking it all in, wanting to know which books she needed to study. we ended up going to her house yesterday evening and taught her and her mom. she said that she had been talking to her mom earlier that week and decided she wanted to go to a christian church that sunday. she got a little teary and said how God truly sent us. im excited for this family!
random, but we have 2 books of mormon in our house in other languages, one in chinese and the other dutch!! every time i see it i think of jord. crazy language.
well its that time again. i love you so so much! you are all so amazing. i have the best family ever. seriously. i am grateful for this time that i get to serve the Lord and his people, and i am grateful that i still have the months that i do to help others and also better myself a little more before i get forced back into the world again.
i miss you
love
sister young
What a good week. THings are starting to really pick up in these parts of Thailand. We are getting new investigators right and left. It is fun seeing the numbers go from absolutely nothing to now growing higher and higher. We worked hard this week and taught many lessons, found many potentials, and also got 15 new investigators! ha the goal of the mission is for everyone to get 2 per week.. now our goal is to keep them progressing and coming closer to the Lord, our purpose as a missionary. what a great purpose. we dont have any with baptismal dates yet, but that will hopefully come this week as we teach our progressors. this week ive been getting a little startled, realizing how short my time is getting. so crazy. my goal is to keep pushing myself and this area to the max until i get on the train to go down to bangkok for the last time.
We are teaching a few families, which is the emphasis of the mission right now. they have figured out that the chances are much more likely for them to fall if they enter the church alone, and thailand doesnt need any more less actives, we already are overflowing with them. This past week they actually came out and said that if you are teaching and people single-y they have to come to church and get progressing quickly or they have to be dropped. it is neat teaching families that will hopefully sometime soon be an eternal family!
one of the daughters who is in her upper 20's was telling us how she was having a lot of problems in her life and asked for me to give her a special christian blessing. many think that we are nuns here. i explained about priesthood blessings, the elder will give her one soon, and then i said the closing prayer, in it asking Heavenly Father to help her.
one family we are teaching are from the hill tribes (we are actually teaching quite a few people from tribes) The family speaks lahu (a tribal language), most can speak a little thai, and the dad speaks english and lahu, not much thai. one daughter can read thai, so we have a lot of crazy cross-translating from many different languages. its an adventure! we are schedule to see them tonight, i hope and pray that we can keep them progressing and enter the waters of baptism soon!
we are teaching a few Burmese people, but the majority of them speak tribal languages as well and speak a little thai, and one girl we are teaching speaks english amazingly- she is studying here to get her masters and then will go back to burma. we are excited because we need some good english speakers in burma because there isnt very much burmese church material yet. man, it is hard teaching in english though! everything comes to me in thai first and then i have to translate it to English. sometimes i sound so silly because i end up translating directly from thai grammar and it doesnt make sense in English.
We rode our bikes to the house of a family far out of the city, i felt like i was back in Udon again. chickens running around, boys out in the weeds playing a game they love to play here that is like volleyball, but instead you cant use your hands! they do a one tosses is and another does a crazy kicking thing to serve it. they use all parts of their body but arms. the houses out there little wooden and metal shacks. what a fun place to live. it was beautiful, even more than udon because it was more green and here there are small mountains surrounding.
On friday night we had some appointments and back-up plans cancel so we went out to contact a potential. when we went to her house her husband and mom were there, they were really rude and first told us they didnt know where she was, and then saying she moved. then we asked about the neighbor and they said she moved too. its never fun to get turned down like that, im glad that i am serving in thailand where it is rare for a thai person to be rude (i feel bad for jordan and morgan! i know what it is like in europe and i wasnt even a missionary there!) it was almost time to go home, but not quite yet. we could have easily gone home, but decided to go back into the neighborhood and invite for minute. we didnt find anything, but then on our way out in a dark allley there was one young girl walking home that my comp passed, i almost did but then got the prompting to stop. we ended up inviting her to church and to english class, the usual. crazy thing is she showed up yesterday! she was soaking it all in, wanting to know which books she needed to study. we ended up going to her house yesterday evening and taught her and her mom. she said that she had been talking to her mom earlier that week and decided she wanted to go to a christian church that sunday. she got a little teary and said how God truly sent us. im excited for this family!
random, but we have 2 books of mormon in our house in other languages, one in chinese and the other dutch!! every time i see it i think of jord. crazy language.
well its that time again. i love you so so much! you are all so amazing. i have the best family ever. seriously. i am grateful for this time that i get to serve the Lord and his people, and i am grateful that i still have the months that i do to help others and also better myself a little more before i get forced back into the world again.
i miss you
love
sister young
morgan 6.28.10
Hello Everybody,
Alright, so this week was a little more rough than the other weeks. It happens. I think it is because the whole week I was trying to be too serious. Elder Mayer during a companionship inventory told me that I need to be more serious. So I tried it, it didn't go so well. I just wasn't happy for the whole week. Finally on Friday I realized why. I can not pretend to be someone else I'm not. I am friendly, I joke around with people. Even people I don't know and they are just on the street, I joke around with them and I am myself around them. Of coarse I present the message along with it but for me it is a message of happiness. So I told Elder Mayer that and he was okay with that. It helped to be myself the last few days.
So next week is Transfers. It is possible that I get a new companion, I hope not but it is possible. I probably will be staying in Carcassonne, if I get transfered it would be really weird. It has been so hot lately! Really, it is rediculously hot lately!!
We played some b-ball again last sat. MJ was back on the court. First of all, the french in genral suck at basket ball. Secondly, I was sinking 3 left and right. We played 2 on 2, it was the missionaries vs. our 2 investigators. It was a little sad. haha. So we took a little break and played 2 on 1. It was ******* and ******* vs. me. I killed!! haha ******** shoots like a little girl. Seriously I might need to sneak a video next time. I am gunna teach him how it's done.
I am finally starting to get in to shape again! 3 transfers with 0 running really caught up to me. But I am back baby!! Ladies start taking your numbers for after the mish right now. (hint hint ********) haha.
Well this week the Fiancé de Vanessa came home from the army. She really wants to keep the law of chastity but he doesn't respect that. So, she was going to end it with him last that we heard. We see her again today and she said she was going to talk to him yesterday, so we will see how that went. If you can keep her and her sister Yasmine in your prayers that'd be sweet!! they are engaged for baptism on the 17 july. Yay Dads Birthday!! haha. Vanessa is so creative. Mom, you would love the little things that she makes, and also her house. It is you. She said she is gunna make me a scripture case. I think I might have already said that last week. Oh well. This last week we found a SWEET new ami!! (ami is friend in french, it means investigator) Her name is Marie-Pierre. She is very interested in our message and was very touched by Moroni 10:4-5 and the fact that we don't want people to just believe us. We want people to find out for themselves. She has been studying religion for quite a while and has never seen that. She has a daughter who is 16. She on the other hand has 0 religious background. They are both really cool. Thanks so much for all of your emails, and no I dont print the emails off. i just read them. it costs money to print. Maybe I'll start doing that.
Thanks for all you do!!
Elder Wimmer
Alright, so this week was a little more rough than the other weeks. It happens. I think it is because the whole week I was trying to be too serious. Elder Mayer during a companionship inventory told me that I need to be more serious. So I tried it, it didn't go so well. I just wasn't happy for the whole week. Finally on Friday I realized why. I can not pretend to be someone else I'm not. I am friendly, I joke around with people. Even people I don't know and they are just on the street, I joke around with them and I am myself around them. Of coarse I present the message along with it but for me it is a message of happiness. So I told Elder Mayer that and he was okay with that. It helped to be myself the last few days.
So next week is Transfers. It is possible that I get a new companion, I hope not but it is possible. I probably will be staying in Carcassonne, if I get transfered it would be really weird. It has been so hot lately! Really, it is rediculously hot lately!!
We played some b-ball again last sat. MJ was back on the court. First of all, the french in genral suck at basket ball. Secondly, I was sinking 3 left and right. We played 2 on 2, it was the missionaries vs. our 2 investigators. It was a little sad. haha. So we took a little break and played 2 on 1. It was ******* and ******* vs. me. I killed!! haha ******** shoots like a little girl. Seriously I might need to sneak a video next time. I am gunna teach him how it's done.
I am finally starting to get in to shape again! 3 transfers with 0 running really caught up to me. But I am back baby!! Ladies start taking your numbers for after the mish right now. (hint hint ********) haha.
Well this week the Fiancé de Vanessa came home from the army. She really wants to keep the law of chastity but he doesn't respect that. So, she was going to end it with him last that we heard. We see her again today and she said she was going to talk to him yesterday, so we will see how that went. If you can keep her and her sister Yasmine in your prayers that'd be sweet!! they are engaged for baptism on the 17 july. Yay Dads Birthday!! haha. Vanessa is so creative. Mom, you would love the little things that she makes, and also her house. It is you. She said she is gunna make me a scripture case. I think I might have already said that last week. Oh well. This last week we found a SWEET new ami!! (ami is friend in french, it means investigator) Her name is Marie-Pierre. She is very interested in our message and was very touched by Moroni 10:4-5 and the fact that we don't want people to just believe us. We want people to find out for themselves. She has been studying religion for quite a while and has never seen that. She has a daughter who is 16. She on the other hand has 0 religious background. They are both really cool. Thanks so much for all of your emails, and no I dont print the emails off. i just read them. it costs money to print. Maybe I'll start doing that.
Thanks for all you do!!
Elder Wimmer
jordan 6.28.10
oh man! i dont have much time . im going to go play tennis again! the members we play with are amazing.
well last week was a really bad one. our whole teaching pool was destroyed. people are moving and everthing we are trying to clean everything up find new investigators.
transfers are next week, i will know weather i go or stay next friday.
no that was not me dressed up in the dutch costume.
ok i will hopefully be back to finish this email.
e robert
hello im back
we just went and played some tennis. it is sooo hot outside. but its nice to play any sport.
so last week wasnt very good. it was pretty rough. patrick our most progressing investigator got kicked out of his house by his sister. cherrisa was sick all week. zin ching is moving to rotterdam. we have a spanish speaking investigator who is having a hard time and doesnt want to meet.
we did a lot of finding, we need new investigators. man we are in the busses and tram and metro all day and it is super hot inside of them. i want to start riding bikes. its not as handy because we have investigators all over the city.
nederland plays today vs slovakia. the city is going crazy again. there is water canals all over the place here and it is such a temptation to jump in.
i miss you all, thanks for everything. i need some pics, send some pics of the fam or something geez ha ha. mom tell chandler he has to write me a letter, i want to know how he is doing and all the other siblings. well amsterdam is still dominating i hope i get to stay here but we will see. thanks e robert
well last week was a really bad one. our whole teaching pool was destroyed. people are moving and everthing we are trying to clean everything up find new investigators.
transfers are next week, i will know weather i go or stay next friday.
no that was not me dressed up in the dutch costume.
ok i will hopefully be back to finish this email.
e robert
hello im back
we just went and played some tennis. it is sooo hot outside. but its nice to play any sport.
so last week wasnt very good. it was pretty rough. patrick our most progressing investigator got kicked out of his house by his sister. cherrisa was sick all week. zin ching is moving to rotterdam. we have a spanish speaking investigator who is having a hard time and doesnt want to meet.
we did a lot of finding, we need new investigators. man we are in the busses and tram and metro all day and it is super hot inside of them. i want to start riding bikes. its not as handy because we have investigators all over the city.
nederland plays today vs slovakia. the city is going crazy again. there is water canals all over the place here and it is such a temptation to jump in.
i miss you all, thanks for everything. i need some pics, send some pics of the fam or something geez ha ha. mom tell chandler he has to write me a letter, i want to know how he is doing and all the other siblings. well amsterdam is still dominating i hope i get to stay here but we will see. thanks e robert
morgan 6.21.10
Bonjour à tous,
Wow, so this week was pretty sweet. It was the baptism of Bruno Bellanti yesterday. It was the most bizzare baptism that I have ever seen. Okay, so here is the story; Bruno was introduced to the church by his friend Serge 8 months ago. Bruno has always had the desire to be baptised but just couldn't seem to give up smoking. He has had more than one baptism date cancelled because of that. So when I got here he was kind of just known as Serge's friend who we teach once in a while. We had a couple rendez-vous with him and he honestly didn't seem too golden. One day we decided to listen to the teachings of our Mission Pres. and give each person we teach an engagemet to baptism. So, we read Mosiah 18:8-10 with him and asked him if he wanted to be baptised the 19 june. He said yes. We then came up with a plan of how we are going to get him to stop smoking. All we did is gave him a calander of sc's to read, daily contact and a lot of prayers. The night pefore his interview with the President he smoked his last cigarette. He has stopped completely thus far. Very cool! He decided that he wanted Serge to baptize him. It was cool to have his best friend baptize him. The reason why I said it was the most bizzare baptism i have ever seen is because Serge has never baptized anybody before. He is not the smartest person in the world either. So him trying to baptize Bruno was like trying to give a dog a bath. Really. It took 3 times to finally get him under. The first 2 times he didn't even get close. haha. But he finally got under and it was a really good experience for them both. I just had to do some explanations to our investigators who were there that it is usually only 1 baptism. And it is usually alot more natural.
Running the other day was so cool! There was one of the most beautiful sunrises I have ever seen! I was so mad that I didn't have a camera. Speaking of camera, some kid that was in my photo class is in my district. So weird! He just got here. His name is Elder Nicholes. He is a funny kid.
Our ami Vanessa is really into making little things like on Ash's blog. She is going to make me a scripture case. I am so excited!
Thankyou so much for all the emails! I love you all so much! Happy Fathers day to all the Grandpa's but most of all for my Dad. I love you!
Elder Wimmer
Wow, so this week was pretty sweet. It was the baptism of Bruno Bellanti yesterday. It was the most bizzare baptism that I have ever seen. Okay, so here is the story; Bruno was introduced to the church by his friend Serge 8 months ago. Bruno has always had the desire to be baptised but just couldn't seem to give up smoking. He has had more than one baptism date cancelled because of that. So when I got here he was kind of just known as Serge's friend who we teach once in a while. We had a couple rendez-vous with him and he honestly didn't seem too golden. One day we decided to listen to the teachings of our Mission Pres. and give each person we teach an engagemet to baptism. So, we read Mosiah 18:8-10 with him and asked him if he wanted to be baptised the 19 june. He said yes. We then came up with a plan of how we are going to get him to stop smoking. All we did is gave him a calander of sc's to read, daily contact and a lot of prayers. The night pefore his interview with the President he smoked his last cigarette. He has stopped completely thus far. Very cool! He decided that he wanted Serge to baptize him. It was cool to have his best friend baptize him. The reason why I said it was the most bizzare baptism i have ever seen is because Serge has never baptized anybody before. He is not the smartest person in the world either. So him trying to baptize Bruno was like trying to give a dog a bath. Really. It took 3 times to finally get him under. The first 2 times he didn't even get close. haha. But he finally got under and it was a really good experience for them both. I just had to do some explanations to our investigators who were there that it is usually only 1 baptism. And it is usually alot more natural.
Running the other day was so cool! There was one of the most beautiful sunrises I have ever seen! I was so mad that I didn't have a camera. Speaking of camera, some kid that was in my photo class is in my district. So weird! He just got here. His name is Elder Nicholes. He is a funny kid.
Our ami Vanessa is really into making little things like on Ash's blog. She is going to make me a scripture case. I am so excited!
Thankyou so much for all the emails! I love you all so much! Happy Fathers day to all the Grandpa's but most of all for my Dad. I love you!
Elder Wimmer
taryn 6.21.10
Hey
we had a loooong week of inviting this week. oh man it was long! but because we were inviting that whole time, we found 10 new investigators, and beat the assistants goal of getting 40 potentials in a week with 44 potentials. The mission has a big focus right now to find families, so that is what we are really searching and praying for. We have found a few potential families that will hopefully become our new investigators. we also had tons of cancelled appointments. hah honestly nothing too exciting happened this week. We will hopefully be teaching a few people from Burma this week and also get lots of new investigators.
Friday we went to Yaay Laay's, we met her across from Chaing Mai University, she had a songtaw (a pickup truck with benches on the sides and a cover- a main form of trasportation here..) waiting for us, loaded our bikes in, and then we went up the mountian to her house. my dreamhouse as a child. it was in the middle of HUGE trees with HUGE leaves, a pond, and the the house was built on a steep mountainside and has been built piece by piece over the past 40 years, it is just a big treehouse. all different levels, sometimes having to duck down (well i had to..) to get through rooms, one of the rooms you had to go out and across a skinny bridge, and to get to one of the bedrooms your had to go up some wooden rickety stairs to a bathroom, and then there was stairs in the bathroom as well that led to the door of the bedroom. Im amazed at this little old lady that can climb all that all day long! She is really sweet, but I dont know what is going to come of it. She is one of the head people in her christian church here in chaing mai, but she is reading the book of mormon and hopefully she will be sensitive enough to feel the Spirit and the greatness of that book. For some reason there are more christians in chaing mai than ive ever seen in Thailand. Several of the people that we found last week are Christian. Teaching them is a lot different than what i am used to, its hard! I am used to explaining who God and Jesus Christ is, and helping them understand prayer.
We had interviews and zone conference as well. so motivational, but then it is time to go outside in the melting heat and work yourself to death and try to find investigators. its hard to keep up that motivation in that heat and getting denied. We are working really hard though to try and get this area going. MIssionary work is so hard sometimes!
Church threw me off this week, we have about 20 BYU students here for an internship/study abroad. It made me miss America so much! It was so wierd seeing normal, white, mormon byu students. Im trying to stay focused here, but sometimes my mind wanders and a long for the time that i get to see you all and get to be back at the Y! I know my attitude will change soon once i get to know and love these people, but it is hard being in a new area and not having an attatchment to anyone or anything around you. Its hard to not think about those that i love so much, who i get to see in 4 months. I know im still needed here so im not ready to go home just yet, but man it will be an awesome day when it comes!
Im sorry this letter is so short, im not sure what else to write, its been a lot of just the normal thailand missionary stuff: sweat, dirt, getting turned down, hearing the same thing over and over all day-"all churches teach people to be good.". seeing miracles, finding those that are ready for the word, missing home, eating bugs and other crazy things, feeling the love of Heavenly Father for all his children, and working hard.
I love you so much. I miss you!!!! Keep doing the little things that brings happiness: reading the scrips, praying, and serving!
love, sister young
we had a loooong week of inviting this week. oh man it was long! but because we were inviting that whole time, we found 10 new investigators, and beat the assistants goal of getting 40 potentials in a week with 44 potentials. The mission has a big focus right now to find families, so that is what we are really searching and praying for. We have found a few potential families that will hopefully become our new investigators. we also had tons of cancelled appointments. hah honestly nothing too exciting happened this week. We will hopefully be teaching a few people from Burma this week and also get lots of new investigators.
Friday we went to Yaay Laay's, we met her across from Chaing Mai University, she had a songtaw (a pickup truck with benches on the sides and a cover- a main form of trasportation here..) waiting for us, loaded our bikes in, and then we went up the mountian to her house. my dreamhouse as a child. it was in the middle of HUGE trees with HUGE leaves, a pond, and the the house was built on a steep mountainside and has been built piece by piece over the past 40 years, it is just a big treehouse. all different levels, sometimes having to duck down (well i had to..) to get through rooms, one of the rooms you had to go out and across a skinny bridge, and to get to one of the bedrooms your had to go up some wooden rickety stairs to a bathroom, and then there was stairs in the bathroom as well that led to the door of the bedroom. Im amazed at this little old lady that can climb all that all day long! She is really sweet, but I dont know what is going to come of it. She is one of the head people in her christian church here in chaing mai, but she is reading the book of mormon and hopefully she will be sensitive enough to feel the Spirit and the greatness of that book. For some reason there are more christians in chaing mai than ive ever seen in Thailand. Several of the people that we found last week are Christian. Teaching them is a lot different than what i am used to, its hard! I am used to explaining who God and Jesus Christ is, and helping them understand prayer.
We had interviews and zone conference as well. so motivational, but then it is time to go outside in the melting heat and work yourself to death and try to find investigators. its hard to keep up that motivation in that heat and getting denied. We are working really hard though to try and get this area going. MIssionary work is so hard sometimes!
Church threw me off this week, we have about 20 BYU students here for an internship/study abroad. It made me miss America so much! It was so wierd seeing normal, white, mormon byu students. Im trying to stay focused here, but sometimes my mind wanders and a long for the time that i get to see you all and get to be back at the Y! I know my attitude will change soon once i get to know and love these people, but it is hard being in a new area and not having an attatchment to anyone or anything around you. Its hard to not think about those that i love so much, who i get to see in 4 months. I know im still needed here so im not ready to go home just yet, but man it will be an awesome day when it comes!
Im sorry this letter is so short, im not sure what else to write, its been a lot of just the normal thailand missionary stuff: sweat, dirt, getting turned down, hearing the same thing over and over all day-"all churches teach people to be good.". seeing miracles, finding those that are ready for the word, missing home, eating bugs and other crazy things, feeling the love of Heavenly Father for all his children, and working hard.
I love you so much. I miss you!!!! Keep doing the little things that brings happiness: reading the scrips, praying, and serving!
love, sister young
jordan 6.21.10
well as you might know nederland won there second game in the world cup soccer. it was made clear to us buy many outragous drunk men raging through the streets of amsterdam dressed in orange with a beer in one hand and a horn in the other. oh little morgy porgy, i dont think france is doing so well thats weird.
anyway missionary work went well this week. our baptismal date patrick is serious about being baptised. we found out that he is addicted to smoking ciggaretes and the other green stuff. but who isnt around here. we are workin with him to get of of it . it is nice to see progress in our investigators. its been a while. patrick is shooting to be baptized on 24 july.
cherissa is doing well also. we found out that she has no parents they both passed away. she lives with her brother. she and patrick both came to church yesterday . and we taught them both a lesson after church. we went to cherissas house and her bro was there. we taught him to. i think cherissa has some trauma in her past. we gave her a blessing because she cannot sleep because of things from the past i think. she is very nice.
ive come to the realazation that here in amsterdam the world has a great hold on people. and its hard to pull them from satans dirty old hands.
well this transfer i have given more blessings than i have given my whole mission. probably 4 times as many. it has strengthened my testimony on the power of the priesthood. weve seeen so many miracles out of it, healings, strenght, reactivation, love, everything.
today we are gong to play some tennis with the zwaan sisters kim and joyce. it will be super nice to play.
ohhh yeah i almost forgot. yesterday in church im in the investigator class minding my own buisness. when david ( a good friend and young adult) comes into the class and askes me if i have an investigator by the name of, i cant remember the name something really weird. i say no. and he said well he just walked in the church and i told him to go to the duch class but maybe it would be better if you went and got him and brought him into the gospel principles class. ok sounds good so i went to the dutch class and there were not to many people in there. because the man that walked in was an islamic dude and he was telling everybody that we are wrong and we need to worship allah. he was very creepy. all the wemen took there children and got out of there. i was kinda like in my mind should i take this guy out? karaty kick? round house? full nielsen? no i just bought a brand new suit and i dont want to ruin it ha ha j.k. ( ps mom i bought a new suit at h&m my suits are struggling hope thats ok its a lighter gray.) so he was talking about mohamed and we needed to worship him kindof face to face with the teacher.the teacher said well we belive in Jesus Christ and we respect what you worship you should respect what we worship. he sais that Jesus was not the son of God and then this super cute old lady in the class sais well we believe in Jesus Christ in her old grandma voice it was so cute, finally one of the councelors came in and we went out in the hall. then the other councel and then the bishop. he just kept telling us that we need to worship allah and they said we have the same God we just choose to worship him differently and you need to respect that. then he was escorted out. he was a well mannered man didnt yell but just creepy and kindof quiet. well it was just another day in the amsterdam ward. i thought though that everyone of us wouldve stood up for what we believe no matter what. even until death. Jesus is the Christ and there is no other way.
g2g love you all
elder robert
anyway missionary work went well this week. our baptismal date patrick is serious about being baptised. we found out that he is addicted to smoking ciggaretes and the other green stuff. but who isnt around here. we are workin with him to get of of it . it is nice to see progress in our investigators. its been a while. patrick is shooting to be baptized on 24 july.
cherissa is doing well also. we found out that she has no parents they both passed away. she lives with her brother. she and patrick both came to church yesterday . and we taught them both a lesson after church. we went to cherissas house and her bro was there. we taught him to. i think cherissa has some trauma in her past. we gave her a blessing because she cannot sleep because of things from the past i think. she is very nice.
ive come to the realazation that here in amsterdam the world has a great hold on people. and its hard to pull them from satans dirty old hands.
well this transfer i have given more blessings than i have given my whole mission. probably 4 times as many. it has strengthened my testimony on the power of the priesthood. weve seeen so many miracles out of it, healings, strenght, reactivation, love, everything.
today we are gong to play some tennis with the zwaan sisters kim and joyce. it will be super nice to play.
ohhh yeah i almost forgot. yesterday in church im in the investigator class minding my own buisness. when david ( a good friend and young adult) comes into the class and askes me if i have an investigator by the name of, i cant remember the name something really weird. i say no. and he said well he just walked in the church and i told him to go to the duch class but maybe it would be better if you went and got him and brought him into the gospel principles class. ok sounds good so i went to the dutch class and there were not to many people in there. because the man that walked in was an islamic dude and he was telling everybody that we are wrong and we need to worship allah. he was very creepy. all the wemen took there children and got out of there. i was kinda like in my mind should i take this guy out? karaty kick? round house? full nielsen? no i just bought a brand new suit and i dont want to ruin it ha ha j.k. ( ps mom i bought a new suit at h&m my suits are struggling hope thats ok its a lighter gray.) so he was talking about mohamed and we needed to worship him kindof face to face with the teacher.the teacher said well we belive in Jesus Christ and we respect what you worship you should respect what we worship. he sais that Jesus was not the son of God and then this super cute old lady in the class sais well we believe in Jesus Christ in her old grandma voice it was so cute, finally one of the councelors came in and we went out in the hall. then the other councel and then the bishop. he just kept telling us that we need to worship allah and they said we have the same God we just choose to worship him differently and you need to respect that. then he was escorted out. he was a well mannered man didnt yell but just creepy and kindof quiet. well it was just another day in the amsterdam ward. i thought though that everyone of us wouldve stood up for what we believe no matter what. even until death. Jesus is the Christ and there is no other way.
g2g love you all
elder robert
6.14.2010
morgan 6.14.10
okay I am so sorry i have almost no time. sorry grandpa larry. my grammar is gunna be awful. okay so this week was incredible!! we have been so blessed. so we have a baptism this saturday his name is Bruno. and other than him we have 4 more baptismal dates. the Lord has blessed us so much. it is rough. we work a lot!! but it is good.
we played basket ball on saturday and the french are so bad!! i was like mj to all of them! their jaws were on the ground. i was dropping 3 left and right. i won everytime! haha. i think my giant comp was getting frustrated.
okay well today we are going to vanessa. her and her little sis. both have a baptismal date. she is 28 and her sis is 23. they are so cool! she reminds me of ash with all the stuff she makes and her house. but she is black so she doesnt look much like her.
okay well we have a rendez-vous so i really have to go.
I love you all!
Morgan
we played basket ball on saturday and the french are so bad!! i was like mj to all of them! their jaws were on the ground. i was dropping 3 left and right. i won everytime! haha. i think my giant comp was getting frustrated.
okay well today we are going to vanessa. her and her little sis. both have a baptismal date. she is 28 and her sis is 23. they are so cool! she reminds me of ash with all the stuff she makes and her house. but she is black so she doesnt look much like her.
okay well we have a rendez-vous so i really have to go.
I love you all!
Morgan
taryn 6.14.10
Hey!
Oh man last week was so crazy!!!
It started with Monday night at the President of Branch 2's house -prataan brichaa- 2 of our investigators camem, it was an awesome night, snacking on bugs before the meal, the kind you have to pull the wings off before you eat them. That night it took me a long time to get to sleep, just hoping that i wouldnt have to leave these people. they are amazing.
tuesday at the time when the call was supposed to come saying if we were moving or not, the elders called and said that moves was postponed until friday so we wouldnt find out until wednesday. we taught a ton of lessons, racing from place to place, and then english on tuesday night: 1/2 of it in the dark and way way hot because the power was randomly out so no lights or air (happens every once in awhile.) of course it was the day that we had about 70 people show for class, more than i have ever seen at english class before.
Wednesday the call finally came in the afternoon and told me that i was moving! right after studies we went to grab something to eat and then the elders called again while we were eating and told us that the meeting was moved again, that we would be leaving that night at 3 in the morning! we raced home, grabbed the d&cs and christ pictures that i had bought to give a few people and then went all over town delivering them and saying goodbye. so hard. we got home at 9 and then the packing began. its not easy packing up everything you own into a few small suitcases! sister niw (one of my favorite members ever. i love her.) and her husband came to pick us up in their truck at 2:30 in the morning, it was POURING rain. when we got to the bus station one of my investigators who is getting baptized in august and her new boyfriend King (a member who met her through us!) were at the bus station to say goodbye! so sweet. we piled on a bus and headed for bangkok, stopping all the way there picking up other missionaries. i got about and hour or 2 of sleep that night.
so now i am in chaing mai!!!!!!! ive had the best areas ever. i got the best area in bangkok, got to head way out to the essan (the east) and now i am in the only companionship of sisters in the northwest. ive gotten everywhere! i couldnt believe it! it is beautiful here (sorry the only pic ive taken so far is this morning with my comp) the bus ride up was crazy. we went on a public bus (after speeding there in the APs van- and i thought the taxi drivers were crazy- we were way late. i thought i was going to die!) we headed out at 10 pm, i finally got to sleep and then at 2 am they turned on the lights, blasted music, and made everyone get off and eat a meal while they filled up gas. im sorry but any food, especially thai food, does not taste very good at 2 in the morning. we got back on and then watched the beautiful sunrise and scenery of the north, driving through the hills. chaing mai has mountians!(well more of hills) i have missed mts.
im back to the start here. there is nothing! it is just a TON of inviting. we have found and taught a few people so far, 2 families who are from some hill tribes, the parents dont speak thai, they speak one of the hill tribe languages, so the kids have to translate. every once i a while i see a tribe family down in the city for some reason, all wearing their brightly colored beautiful clothing. crazy! i asked one of them how much it would be to buy an outfit, she said it would take two years to make first because they are all handstitched with tiny brightly colored stitches.
Yesterday we went to a funeral of a member whos family is protestant. oh man that was interesting. a thai-protestant funeral out in the boonies surrounded by bamboo, huge crosses on every grave (only about 30 of them). and old rickety truck pulled up with four thai men in the back holding the casket. the preacher doing crazy things with guitars and singing in the background. the other graves had food, water and alcohol on them, they are still a little mixed up with the buddhist way of offerings for the ancestors to eat. oh thailand.
this next week is going to be suuuuuper long, im not too excited for inviting all day long in the heat, but hopefully soon we can get this area going with the Lord's help!
i love you so much! i miss you!
love, t
Oh man last week was so crazy!!!
It started with Monday night at the President of Branch 2's house -prataan brichaa- 2 of our investigators camem, it was an awesome night, snacking on bugs before the meal, the kind you have to pull the wings off before you eat them. That night it took me a long time to get to sleep, just hoping that i wouldnt have to leave these people. they are amazing.
tuesday at the time when the call was supposed to come saying if we were moving or not, the elders called and said that moves was postponed until friday so we wouldnt find out until wednesday. we taught a ton of lessons, racing from place to place, and then english on tuesday night: 1/2 of it in the dark and way way hot because the power was randomly out so no lights or air (happens every once in awhile.) of course it was the day that we had about 70 people show for class, more than i have ever seen at english class before.
Wednesday the call finally came in the afternoon and told me that i was moving! right after studies we went to grab something to eat and then the elders called again while we were eating and told us that the meeting was moved again, that we would be leaving that night at 3 in the morning! we raced home, grabbed the d&cs and christ pictures that i had bought to give a few people and then went all over town delivering them and saying goodbye. so hard. we got home at 9 and then the packing began. its not easy packing up everything you own into a few small suitcases! sister niw (one of my favorite members ever. i love her.) and her husband came to pick us up in their truck at 2:30 in the morning, it was POURING rain. when we got to the bus station one of my investigators who is getting baptized in august and her new boyfriend King (a member who met her through us!) were at the bus station to say goodbye! so sweet. we piled on a bus and headed for bangkok, stopping all the way there picking up other missionaries. i got about and hour or 2 of sleep that night.
so now i am in chaing mai!!!!!!! ive had the best areas ever. i got the best area in bangkok, got to head way out to the essan (the east) and now i am in the only companionship of sisters in the northwest. ive gotten everywhere! i couldnt believe it! it is beautiful here (sorry the only pic ive taken so far is this morning with my comp) the bus ride up was crazy. we went on a public bus (after speeding there in the APs van- and i thought the taxi drivers were crazy- we were way late. i thought i was going to die!) we headed out at 10 pm, i finally got to sleep and then at 2 am they turned on the lights, blasted music, and made everyone get off and eat a meal while they filled up gas. im sorry but any food, especially thai food, does not taste very good at 2 in the morning. we got back on and then watched the beautiful sunrise and scenery of the north, driving through the hills. chaing mai has mountians!(well more of hills) i have missed mts.
im back to the start here. there is nothing! it is just a TON of inviting. we have found and taught a few people so far, 2 families who are from some hill tribes, the parents dont speak thai, they speak one of the hill tribe languages, so the kids have to translate. every once i a while i see a tribe family down in the city for some reason, all wearing their brightly colored beautiful clothing. crazy! i asked one of them how much it would be to buy an outfit, she said it would take two years to make first because they are all handstitched with tiny brightly colored stitches.
Yesterday we went to a funeral of a member whos family is protestant. oh man that was interesting. a thai-protestant funeral out in the boonies surrounded by bamboo, huge crosses on every grave (only about 30 of them). and old rickety truck pulled up with four thai men in the back holding the casket. the preacher doing crazy things with guitars and singing in the background. the other graves had food, water and alcohol on them, they are still a little mixed up with the buddhist way of offerings for the ancestors to eat. oh thailand.
this next week is going to be suuuuuper long, im not too excited for inviting all day long in the heat, but hopefully soon we can get this area going with the Lord's help!
i love you so much! i miss you!
love, t
jordan 6.14.10
well hello fam and friends. this week was good.
mon we ate crepes and yes we made white syrup ha with the help of cate.
this week we are having a fiesta. i made a pinyada last night. its pretty cool. we are going to eat navaho ( icant spell) tacos.
last week we had some good apointments and some bad ones and some fell through as usual. we had one with this black dude we met on the bus he was really excited to talk to us. he loves Jesus. well we went over and taught him the first lesson. he started to argue with us when i bore my testimony that i know that this is the only true church and commanded me "in the name of Jesus"with black man emphasis that i can not bare my testimony. but we learn as members of the church that our testimonies we give are recorded in heaven and someday will help people now or later.
our baptismal dates are doing ok but kindof flakey. we have one really solid one sharissa. she is a black "model" she is super nice and now we are teaching to of her friends. she hopefully is coming tonight.
yesterday we had a speciall stake conf for europe. bednar and pakker spoke via sattelite. bednar gave a really good talk except for he gave the same talk pretty much exactly one year ago when i was in the mtc.
ok its world cup soccer in south africa as you may know. you would think its here though this place is covered in orange the streets have orange flags everywhere. today nederland playes denmark. everybody is wearing orange.
im doing good. i think i might need some new shoes. mom i bought some plain toe shoes at di last year you could send those to me if you want i think it might be cheaper. dad should know which ones.
i love you all thanks so much for the emails!
love 3-p
mon we ate crepes and yes we made white syrup ha with the help of cate.
this week we are having a fiesta. i made a pinyada last night. its pretty cool. we are going to eat navaho ( icant spell) tacos.
last week we had some good apointments and some bad ones and some fell through as usual. we had one with this black dude we met on the bus he was really excited to talk to us. he loves Jesus. well we went over and taught him the first lesson. he started to argue with us when i bore my testimony that i know that this is the only true church and commanded me "in the name of Jesus"with black man emphasis that i can not bare my testimony. but we learn as members of the church that our testimonies we give are recorded in heaven and someday will help people now or later.
our baptismal dates are doing ok but kindof flakey. we have one really solid one sharissa. she is a black "model" she is super nice and now we are teaching to of her friends. she hopefully is coming tonight.
yesterday we had a speciall stake conf for europe. bednar and pakker spoke via sattelite. bednar gave a really good talk except for he gave the same talk pretty much exactly one year ago when i was in the mtc.
ok its world cup soccer in south africa as you may know. you would think its here though this place is covered in orange the streets have orange flags everywhere. today nederland playes denmark. everybody is wearing orange.
im doing good. i think i might need some new shoes. mom i bought some plain toe shoes at di last year you could send those to me if you want i think it might be cheaper. dad should know which ones.
i love you all thanks so much for the emails!
love 3-p
6.11.2010
amsterdam kite
these videos were sent to us from our new friend, cate.
these videos make a missionary mom very happy!
one day jordan got a gift.
it was from a member in another city.
this amazing kite.
jordan and members trying to figure out how to fly it!
enjoy.
white syrup
jordan wanted to make white syrup for a fhe group in amsterdam.
pam e-mailed the recipe and that night he made it.
jordan in amsterdam
pictures of jordan.
amsterdam.
by cate, a kind, sweet member of the church.
sent via e-mail from cate to pam.
jordan showing off his cast that he took off himself.
typical.
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amsterdam.
by cate, a kind, sweet member of the church.
sent via e-mail from cate to pam.
jordan showing off his cast that he took off himself.
typical.
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easter weekend.
showing off easter chocolate.
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doing a little service work.
easter weekend.
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jordan and his favorite companion.
elder howell.
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outside of church in amsterdam.
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it seems that everyone from the netherlands is good-looking.
it seems that everyone from the netherlands is good-looking.
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outside of the temple.
the hauge.
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a bird.
perched on top of the statue moroni.
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jordan's favorite companion is home now.
jordan's favorite companion is home now.
his new companion is 2nd from the right.
6.07.2010
taryn 6.7.10
Hey!
Well we have transfers this week, everyone keeps telling me im outta here (udon) i hope not. things are going incredible! i have an awesome companion that works hard and also knows how to have tons of fun. We have 9 investigators with baptismal dates and we will hopefully get another 2-3 this week!! hah on thursday we were racing everywhere, didnt have enough time to even get all our studies in! we taught 8 lessons that day! its really rocking here. its amazing to look back in my old journals and see how you if you endure through the hard times you are truly blessed. that is definitely the theme of my mission. looking for the rainbows through the storm and then experiencing the peaceful cool beauty once it lets up. Its the storms that humbles us and keeps us remembering our Heavenly Father, and helps us appreciate the beautiful moments. I wish i could be better and learn to be humble at all times, depend on the Lord at all times. But, were human. the natural man starts to seep through and we need another reminder from Him.
elder booth, and elder that 'dies' or finishes his mission with me was telling a member that he only has three 'moves' or transfers left. that hit me, i didnt realize how little time i have left. crazy. i cant believe that. exciting and sad at the same time. thats as much time as i have been in udon!
thank you for the birthday package! the zone leaders went to bangkok for a meeting and brough it back. thank you thank you! delicious and so cute. it was perfect! the bad so cute, im wearing the headband right now, for the 4th day already. the candy and cake, american! the letters, the best. thank you so much! coops, thanks for the chinese lantern:) ive been gone for 3 of the past 4 birthdays, last year there 4 days before the mtc! hah i wonder where ill be next year?
last tuesday morning we were inviting and got into a house teaching them when the assistants called us twice in a row, we left quicky because we thought that it must be really important and called them back. They called because the zone leaders were telling them about how good my peanut butter cookies were on Sunday and were reserving a batch for thurs night when they would be coming on switchoffs. Elders!!!!! Luckily before we left we got their number and went back on Thursday. Hah 3 of them werent too interested, they would stop talking and then left to buy illegal lottery tickets, but noi stayed and learned with us. she is awesome! im really excited about her.
We dont have much time:( I wrote the above a few hours ago, but as we were writing the power went out, so we went and served/visited an investigator and now we're back, though now dont have much time!
We found and taught a man named Win and his family in a catholic school the other day! It felt wierd teaching about our as ours. I havent taught many christians. Its so hard! im used to teaching who God and Jesus Christ are and about prayer for the first few lessons. His wife isnt interested, she is way catholic so well have to turn him over to the Elders:( It was neat though, we asked him why he wants to learn with us and he said "yong my im phrakamphi" or im not full/satisfied with the scriptures. he feels like there has to be more. It is such a blessing to be able to tell him that there is!!!!
ok im running out of time, but want to quicky throw in a few "only in Thailand" things:
we were visiting our recent convert guy's mom's house (her mom and family thinks that she is wierd for always reading scriptures and going to church so we went to be friends with her) haha she is scared of us! she would hardly even talk with us! she is scared that we will convince her to change too... :) anyway, we were there and an old lady with like 2 teeth came by on her rickety bike selling dead bats that she had caught for people to eat.
Also, one of our recent converts always wears a necklace that looks like a little case with seashells in it. i commented on how i liked it to be nice. she told me that they were a few of her mom and dad's teeth! hah sorry mom and dad, im not doing that...
Before i forget, can you send me a lasagna and a taco recipe, a member asked me for one and i said id ask my fam to email me one:)
ok g2g the church is so so true. it is the way to true happiness if we will just follow its teachings!!
i love you so much!
love, t
Well we have transfers this week, everyone keeps telling me im outta here (udon) i hope not. things are going incredible! i have an awesome companion that works hard and also knows how to have tons of fun. We have 9 investigators with baptismal dates and we will hopefully get another 2-3 this week!! hah on thursday we were racing everywhere, didnt have enough time to even get all our studies in! we taught 8 lessons that day! its really rocking here. its amazing to look back in my old journals and see how you if you endure through the hard times you are truly blessed. that is definitely the theme of my mission. looking for the rainbows through the storm and then experiencing the peaceful cool beauty once it lets up. Its the storms that humbles us and keeps us remembering our Heavenly Father, and helps us appreciate the beautiful moments. I wish i could be better and learn to be humble at all times, depend on the Lord at all times. But, were human. the natural man starts to seep through and we need another reminder from Him.
elder booth, and elder that 'dies' or finishes his mission with me was telling a member that he only has three 'moves' or transfers left. that hit me, i didnt realize how little time i have left. crazy. i cant believe that. exciting and sad at the same time. thats as much time as i have been in udon!
thank you for the birthday package! the zone leaders went to bangkok for a meeting and brough it back. thank you thank you! delicious and so cute. it was perfect! the bad so cute, im wearing the headband right now, for the 4th day already. the candy and cake, american! the letters, the best. thank you so much! coops, thanks for the chinese lantern:) ive been gone for 3 of the past 4 birthdays, last year there 4 days before the mtc! hah i wonder where ill be next year?
last tuesday morning we were inviting and got into a house teaching them when the assistants called us twice in a row, we left quicky because we thought that it must be really important and called them back. They called because the zone leaders were telling them about how good my peanut butter cookies were on Sunday and were reserving a batch for thurs night when they would be coming on switchoffs. Elders!!!!! Luckily before we left we got their number and went back on Thursday. Hah 3 of them werent too interested, they would stop talking and then left to buy illegal lottery tickets, but noi stayed and learned with us. she is awesome! im really excited about her.
We dont have much time:( I wrote the above a few hours ago, but as we were writing the power went out, so we went and served/visited an investigator and now we're back, though now dont have much time!
We found and taught a man named Win and his family in a catholic school the other day! It felt wierd teaching about our as ours. I havent taught many christians. Its so hard! im used to teaching who God and Jesus Christ are and about prayer for the first few lessons. His wife isnt interested, she is way catholic so well have to turn him over to the Elders:( It was neat though, we asked him why he wants to learn with us and he said "yong my im phrakamphi" or im not full/satisfied with the scriptures. he feels like there has to be more. It is such a blessing to be able to tell him that there is!!!!
ok im running out of time, but want to quicky throw in a few "only in Thailand" things:
we were visiting our recent convert guy's mom's house (her mom and family thinks that she is wierd for always reading scriptures and going to church so we went to be friends with her) haha she is scared of us! she would hardly even talk with us! she is scared that we will convince her to change too... :) anyway, we were there and an old lady with like 2 teeth came by on her rickety bike selling dead bats that she had caught for people to eat.
Also, one of our recent converts always wears a necklace that looks like a little case with seashells in it. i commented on how i liked it to be nice. she told me that they were a few of her mom and dad's teeth! hah sorry mom and dad, im not doing that...
Before i forget, can you send me a lasagna and a taco recipe, a member asked me for one and i said id ask my fam to email me one:)
ok g2g the church is so so true. it is the way to true happiness if we will just follow its teachings!!
i love you so much!
love, t
jordan 6.7.10
hello. this week was a good one. the museums were amazing. i think i like the van gogh museaum better. the rijks was amazing but a little repetative. although the Rembrants were unbelievable!
this week we had a lot of joint teaches set up with our baptismal dates. but a lot of them fell through. it is really frustrating when you have somebody come along to help teach and the person we are teaching doesnt show up. on the other hand we have alot of investigators. and they are serious. they are reading and praying everyday to find an answer. except for one guy who says he wants to recieve an answer without reading the book of mormon. he sais he doesnt want the book to convince him. he doesnt undarstand. he got into a lot of weird anti stuff and has a hard time believing. on the other hand we had some great lesons. we had kim come with us to teach a girl. they really connected. kim is a recent convert of 3 months super stronng.
one of our investigators is chinese. great guy. its nice to teach somebody that is smart. he really thinks about things and has good questions. he is reading everyday and praying 4 to 5 times a day! this one will be baptized. we have another south american girl we are teaching who only speaks spanish! we have to take a translator. we promised her if she were to read in the BoM for thirty min eveyday for a week she will recieve an answer. on sunday she told us she has been reading for 15 min each week and is going to do it for 2 weeks. ha ha. man its hard to get people to come to church out here.
this week we as a companionship had 5 in church. its not bad but we can do better.
well today for pday we are going to go eat at my new favorite restaurant. it is a tall glass building. and it is on stilts above the city. its a 360 degree view of amsterdam so cool. you cant see it from the ground. i didnt even know it was there. a member took us there this week.
MOM ok i need the recipe for the white syrup that our family makes for crepes! i need it now because we are going to make them tonight with all the young adults and i am going to blow their minds and taste buds off. so will you send the recipe with instructions right when you read this to *************** its catherinas email she told me to tell you to send it to her. her and her sister tried to call you yesterday to get it ha ha they are awesome. they gave me a 1 year present, a tie and some drop ( black liccorice!) tell them thank you.
i was on the computer the same time as morg today!
chandler you need to right her on facebook(cate)!
thank you so much for the package! i already read the joseph smith book! its good. went and taght kids how to skate this week. im starting to get in with the family.
love you so much e robert
and yes i can get pics mom but i didnt get the ones you sent.
this week we had a lot of joint teaches set up with our baptismal dates. but a lot of them fell through. it is really frustrating when you have somebody come along to help teach and the person we are teaching doesnt show up. on the other hand we have alot of investigators. and they are serious. they are reading and praying everyday to find an answer. except for one guy who says he wants to recieve an answer without reading the book of mormon. he sais he doesnt want the book to convince him. he doesnt undarstand. he got into a lot of weird anti stuff and has a hard time believing. on the other hand we had some great lesons. we had kim come with us to teach a girl. they really connected. kim is a recent convert of 3 months super stronng.
one of our investigators is chinese. great guy. its nice to teach somebody that is smart. he really thinks about things and has good questions. he is reading everyday and praying 4 to 5 times a day! this one will be baptized. we have another south american girl we are teaching who only speaks spanish! we have to take a translator. we promised her if she were to read in the BoM for thirty min eveyday for a week she will recieve an answer. on sunday she told us she has been reading for 15 min each week and is going to do it for 2 weeks. ha ha. man its hard to get people to come to church out here.
this week we as a companionship had 5 in church. its not bad but we can do better.
well today for pday we are going to go eat at my new favorite restaurant. it is a tall glass building. and it is on stilts above the city. its a 360 degree view of amsterdam so cool. you cant see it from the ground. i didnt even know it was there. a member took us there this week.
MOM ok i need the recipe for the white syrup that our family makes for crepes! i need it now because we are going to make them tonight with all the young adults and i am going to blow their minds and taste buds off. so will you send the recipe with instructions right when you read this to *************** its catherinas email she told me to tell you to send it to her. her and her sister tried to call you yesterday to get it ha ha they are awesome. they gave me a 1 year present, a tie and some drop ( black liccorice!) tell them thank you.
i was on the computer the same time as morg today!
chandler you need to right her on facebook(cate)!
thank you so much for the package! i already read the joseph smith book! its good. went and taght kids how to skate this week. im starting to get in with the family.
love you so much e robert
and yes i can get pics mom but i didnt get the ones you sent.
morgan 6.7.10
okay so this week we got 2 baptismal dates. president carter is big on commiting our investigators to baptism each lesson. so we tried it. it worked with one. and then we were kinda scared to do it with this other girl because we had only taught her twice but we had a sweet lesson and she really felt the spirit so elder mayer says simply "we can set a baptismal date if you want." haha she did!! i have never heard someone give a baptismal date like that. we will see if they pull it through. today we are really hoping to get another date today.
okay so this week was really cool. it was a blessing from our rough week last week. we had 6 amis at church ( not much to jordans 17 but its alot for here. no worries jord we will get there!) yesterday was really cool. we had a really really good testimony meeting. testimonies here are really scary because we dont know what some of the crazy members are going to get up and say. but it was good.
also yesterday after church we went up to the castle and contacted all the way down to the river and along the river trail. it was rough. alot of denial. ALOT of denial. haha so i said a little prayer in my heart to find someone. right as i said that a family comes waking around the corner. haha i was so happy i walk up to them and say "hey me and my collegue.." i didnt get a chance to finish before the dude says he doesnt want anything to do with it. well the next person was sitting down on a bench he says "hey your the mormons" which is really rare here because everyone thinks we are jahovas witness' so we say "yeah we are do you want to hear our message" and he starts laughing and says "NO!! your a sect!!" haha so we explained our message anyways and he was interested. thats not the end.. haha so we try like 20 more times and we stroll across 2 24 year old dudes. drinking of coarse. we start off the contact and then ask if we can talk to them another time. they told us why not now? so we sat down and gave them all 3 lessons in an hour and a half. ones dad died recently and they are cousins. we gave away 2 book of mormons to them both and the one whos dad died askes us if he can get another for his mom. haha so we tossed him another. it was so cool. they are coming to play soccer with us saturday and have a lesson after. they are also coming to stake conference. i am so excited!!
okay so anyone who doesnt know, my mom is awesome!! she just ran a 50 mile race!! haha and about 5 miles in 2 feet of snow. I love you mom!! thanks for all you do! talk to you all next week!!
morgan
okay so this week was really cool. it was a blessing from our rough week last week. we had 6 amis at church ( not much to jordans 17 but its alot for here. no worries jord we will get there!) yesterday was really cool. we had a really really good testimony meeting. testimonies here are really scary because we dont know what some of the crazy members are going to get up and say. but it was good.
also yesterday after church we went up to the castle and contacted all the way down to the river and along the river trail. it was rough. alot of denial. ALOT of denial. haha so i said a little prayer in my heart to find someone. right as i said that a family comes waking around the corner. haha i was so happy i walk up to them and say "hey me and my collegue.." i didnt get a chance to finish before the dude says he doesnt want anything to do with it. well the next person was sitting down on a bench he says "hey your the mormons" which is really rare here because everyone thinks we are jahovas witness' so we say "yeah we are do you want to hear our message" and he starts laughing and says "NO!! your a sect!!" haha so we explained our message anyways and he was interested. thats not the end.. haha so we try like 20 more times and we stroll across 2 24 year old dudes. drinking of coarse. we start off the contact and then ask if we can talk to them another time. they told us why not now? so we sat down and gave them all 3 lessons in an hour and a half. ones dad died recently and they are cousins. we gave away 2 book of mormons to them both and the one whos dad died askes us if he can get another for his mom. haha so we tossed him another. it was so cool. they are coming to play soccer with us saturday and have a lesson after. they are also coming to stake conference. i am so excited!!
okay so anyone who doesnt know, my mom is awesome!! she just ran a 50 mile race!! haha and about 5 miles in 2 feet of snow. I love you mom!! thanks for all you do! talk to you all next week!!
morgan
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