ok well i will first start off with the bad news. ok you know the muslim girl that i told you about that maggie took in because she had no place to stay? well she stayed with maggie for a few days and we actually played tennis and shared a little of the gospel with her. well she left maggie last week sat. maggie told her not to leave. but she went. (this girl was running away from her father who was trying to kill her because she lost her virginity) maggie got news that she jumped in front of a train and killed herself. maggie took it hard she has already gone through so much. she is doing really good now though. we taught her about how true conversion come through going through many hard trials.
well conference was good! it is always long for missionaries because we have to watch it in the church. we watched for 6 hours yesterday.
poupina is doing good. last night we had a talk with the bishop with her. the bishop is kinda wierd sometimes. the bishop asked who she wanted to baptize her and she said elder robert. then he asked my comp if he has baptized anyone and he said no, the the bishop said i think it is good if elder crittenden baptizes her. it was kinda weird. it was hard for me to accept at first. i didnt say anything but in my mind i was like WHAT! well it will be good for my comp and a lesson to learn for me. i will be giving her the holy ghost. we are all on the same team.
tonight we are making pizas. for family night. "a member wanted to bring some cheap pizzas" so we are going to buy some good desert to make. then we are playing volleyball we need to find some more investigators here we always need more!
õh man im getting old my hair is thinning. mom can you send me some ib prophen?
maggie is doing good she is giving a talk at poupinas baptism! and we asked her to give a 10 min lesson tonight. well see how she does!
Alena is doing good too she is soo awesome in our last appointment at the end she said i want to say something and she pulled a paper out she said im not a good talker so i wrote it down. she said im so greatfull that i met you guys and i see myself starting to change and i want to thank you so much. except it was in like a poem form. it was nice of her. she needs your prayers and prayers in the temple her name is Alina Pietrus. she also has three kids. she is planning on coming to poupinas baptism. the night she read that i was in heaven a highlight on my mission. well g2g
ps my favorite quote of yesterday was, if you dont have a goal or destination then it doesnt matter which path you take. so what kind of goals do you have? are we striving to become gods? also i learned that we are accountable to God. and in everything we do in life we are accountable to him. so we should always keep that in mind. the strongest relationship we should have is between us and God.
i got to go later skater!
10.24.2010
9.27.2010
morgan 9.27.10
Hello,
Oh wow where do I start? Well I will start with Albertino. Okay, so Albertino is the friend of J-lo. He came to his baptism and that is how we started teaching him. He is a very different kid. Super shy and a little weird but he is humble and ready. He was baptized by J-lo last saturday. Its increadible how the Lord is blessing us in Périgueux. Me and Elder Baret got along so well together.
That brings us to the next subject. Elder Baret is getting transfered. Well now he is transfered. I am in Toulouse waiting for my new comp to arrive from the MTC. Yes, I am training. I am super excited but at the same time super nervous! Along with my new call as trainer I have also been called as District Leader. I am so nervous to train. It was hard saying goodbye to Elder Baret. One of the hardest things I've had to do on my mission. We did some serious work together and he made me realize that the mission can be fun. It should be fun! Oh well, I gotta teach that same principle at my new greenie or "blue" as we say here in France. Since I am here in Toulouse I can finally get my camera. YAY!! Ugh... transfer days are so stressful.
So my schedule here in Toulouse is that I chill here like it was a normal pday. At 6 I have no clue what me and the other 16 trainers are going to do. Tonight I dont know where I am sleeping. Tomorrow I will surely meet my new comp sometime during the day and for the rest of the day I am not too sure. I am not sure if I am coming home tomorrow or wednesday. So yeah, I am kinda just going with the flow.
Sounds like the mountains are beautiful and colorful. So cool! I miss that! Sounds like Jord and TY are dominating the missionary work. Crazy that TY comes home soon! So weird! The mission is so crazy. Each time life start getting easy the Lord switches something up and EVERYTHING changes! But each and everytime it makes us grow. Its crazy because before I know it I will be in the same position as TY getting ready to go home. But for now, I have a mission to do. I have people to teach, new people to meet. Thanks for all that you guys do. I love you all!
Elder Wimmer
Oh wow where do I start? Well I will start with Albertino. Okay, so Albertino is the friend of J-lo. He came to his baptism and that is how we started teaching him. He is a very different kid. Super shy and a little weird but he is humble and ready. He was baptized by J-lo last saturday. Its increadible how the Lord is blessing us in Périgueux. Me and Elder Baret got along so well together.
That brings us to the next subject. Elder Baret is getting transfered. Well now he is transfered. I am in Toulouse waiting for my new comp to arrive from the MTC. Yes, I am training. I am super excited but at the same time super nervous! Along with my new call as trainer I have also been called as District Leader. I am so nervous to train. It was hard saying goodbye to Elder Baret. One of the hardest things I've had to do on my mission. We did some serious work together and he made me realize that the mission can be fun. It should be fun! Oh well, I gotta teach that same principle at my new greenie or "blue" as we say here in France. Since I am here in Toulouse I can finally get my camera. YAY!! Ugh... transfer days are so stressful.
So my schedule here in Toulouse is that I chill here like it was a normal pday. At 6 I have no clue what me and the other 16 trainers are going to do. Tonight I dont know where I am sleeping. Tomorrow I will surely meet my new comp sometime during the day and for the rest of the day I am not too sure. I am not sure if I am coming home tomorrow or wednesday. So yeah, I am kinda just going with the flow.
Sounds like the mountains are beautiful and colorful. So cool! I miss that! Sounds like Jord and TY are dominating the missionary work. Crazy that TY comes home soon! So weird! The mission is so crazy. Each time life start getting easy the Lord switches something up and EVERYTHING changes! But each and everytime it makes us grow. Its crazy because before I know it I will be in the same position as TY getting ready to go home. But for now, I have a mission to do. I have people to teach, new people to meet. Thanks for all that you guys do. I love you all!
Elder Wimmer
jordan 9.27.10
ok well this week was a ok week. it was kindof stress full.
maggie lost her house this week due to friends that are not so much friends any more. but she found a new one and moves in on sat. she has lost pretty much everything its really sad but she just keeps on pushin through. she is as tough as nails. i sent a letter home mom to tell you all about it.
well today is transfers and me and my comp are staying together for our third here. poupina is doing good we meet with her today. have i said anything about alena yet?? she is one of my favorite investigators i have found. we found her on the door and she is a mother of three. she is rad. she is always so happy and laughing. she is going to come to general conf. i have a good feeling about her. we have an appointment on friday with her.
this week we had zone conf in utrecht a gen auth spoke to us elder sterri. it was pretty cool.
we have been out of money for about 2 and half weeks. our money is supposed to be coming in but it has been taking forever. when is t.y. coming home? weird. i cant believe you get to hang out with harry! he is the biggest stud. tell him hi for me! tell him i say "beware of pride boy" and "i will pop you" he will know what im talking about.
well thanks for all the juicy emails fam. it makes my week.
later skater e robert
maggie lost her house this week due to friends that are not so much friends any more. but she found a new one and moves in on sat. she has lost pretty much everything its really sad but she just keeps on pushin through. she is as tough as nails. i sent a letter home mom to tell you all about it.
well today is transfers and me and my comp are staying together for our third here. poupina is doing good we meet with her today. have i said anything about alena yet?? she is one of my favorite investigators i have found. we found her on the door and she is a mother of three. she is rad. she is always so happy and laughing. she is going to come to general conf. i have a good feeling about her. we have an appointment on friday with her.
this week we had zone conf in utrecht a gen auth spoke to us elder sterri. it was pretty cool.
we have been out of money for about 2 and half weeks. our money is supposed to be coming in but it has been taking forever. when is t.y. coming home? weird. i cant believe you get to hang out with harry! he is the biggest stud. tell him hi for me! tell him i say "beware of pride boy" and "i will pop you" he will know what im talking about.
well thanks for all the juicy emails fam. it makes my week.
later skater e robert
taryn 9.27.10
Hi!
well, I cant believe that september is over. crazy.
the area is still doing so well, we're trying to place Heavenly Father at the head of everything we do. it can be hard sometimes, we as humans rely so much on ourselves. i think if we could remember to turn to Chrst and our loving Heavenly Father more, life would be so much better. the spirit would be incorperated into our lives. its a constant, lifelong struggle. haha maybe by the end ill have it figured out.
As we were leaving the church the other night there was an elephant on the lawn! our church has a big nice grassy area and trees, the 2 men decided to let their elephant have a break from the city on our lawn. only in thailand. im gonna miss this place.
We have a baptismal interview scheduled this week with pong and noi, a couple in their 50s weve been teaching for a few months now. missionary work in thailand is amazing, but much slower that most of the world. its such a different thing, it takes awhile. hopefully in the next couple of months they will be having a ton of baptisms! pong and noi will hopefully be getting baptized next week, the 10th:) they are awesome, they have started to sell things on different days so that they can go to church. they both drank a lot of coffee and 2 weeks ago we taught them the word of wisdom (we gave her a box of hot chocolate, her friend from taiwan gave her some and she loved it-hard to find here..). they both stopped that day, had horrible headaches the last time we saw them, but then by thursday it was gone, ma noi says because Heavenly Father helped them. These people are full of faith.
khaawfaang, the girl that is waiting a few months to get baptized because her aunt has to work a few things out first, has so much faith. she is 9 years old. her primary teacher told me that she told her she was at the zoo the other day and a little boy got lost. she prayed and then she was the one that found him.
saturday we taught another family, naam and dechaa. at the beginning of the lesson they were hesitant to go to church- they sell on the side of the street all day every day. at the end of the lesson naam, the mom said "if we work 6 days and give 1 to the Lord we will be blessed." the spirit works miracles. then she, her husband and 2 daughters showed up to church in their cute karian hill tribe dresses. during relief society as people were sharing stories, she started bawling so loudly. when she finally got control of herself she stood up and shared how much having us go over has helped their family and how they are going to give up sundays working. she loved church. missionary work is wonderful, getting to take a small part in these miracles wrought by the Lord everyday.
i read a talk last week, it fit perfectly with you dad. you mentioned how you took your 10 yr boards last week. the talk was from e cook about his brother who has taken the boards 6xs, (hes old) and how every 10 years the questions are the same, but the answers are different. it helped me realize how much the world changes, and how we have to constantly learn, study, and prepare ourselves our whole life. never finish learning, never finish growing.
I love you so much. stay safe. CTR and stay happy!
love, sister young
well, I cant believe that september is over. crazy.
the area is still doing so well, we're trying to place Heavenly Father at the head of everything we do. it can be hard sometimes, we as humans rely so much on ourselves. i think if we could remember to turn to Chrst and our loving Heavenly Father more, life would be so much better. the spirit would be incorperated into our lives. its a constant, lifelong struggle. haha maybe by the end ill have it figured out.
As we were leaving the church the other night there was an elephant on the lawn! our church has a big nice grassy area and trees, the 2 men decided to let their elephant have a break from the city on our lawn. only in thailand. im gonna miss this place.
We have a baptismal interview scheduled this week with pong and noi, a couple in their 50s weve been teaching for a few months now. missionary work in thailand is amazing, but much slower that most of the world. its such a different thing, it takes awhile. hopefully in the next couple of months they will be having a ton of baptisms! pong and noi will hopefully be getting baptized next week, the 10th:) they are awesome, they have started to sell things on different days so that they can go to church. they both drank a lot of coffee and 2 weeks ago we taught them the word of wisdom (we gave her a box of hot chocolate, her friend from taiwan gave her some and she loved it-hard to find here..). they both stopped that day, had horrible headaches the last time we saw them, but then by thursday it was gone, ma noi says because Heavenly Father helped them. These people are full of faith.
khaawfaang, the girl that is waiting a few months to get baptized because her aunt has to work a few things out first, has so much faith. she is 9 years old. her primary teacher told me that she told her she was at the zoo the other day and a little boy got lost. she prayed and then she was the one that found him.
saturday we taught another family, naam and dechaa. at the beginning of the lesson they were hesitant to go to church- they sell on the side of the street all day every day. at the end of the lesson naam, the mom said "if we work 6 days and give 1 to the Lord we will be blessed." the spirit works miracles. then she, her husband and 2 daughters showed up to church in their cute karian hill tribe dresses. during relief society as people were sharing stories, she started bawling so loudly. when she finally got control of herself she stood up and shared how much having us go over has helped their family and how they are going to give up sundays working. she loved church. missionary work is wonderful, getting to take a small part in these miracles wrought by the Lord everyday.
i read a talk last week, it fit perfectly with you dad. you mentioned how you took your 10 yr boards last week. the talk was from e cook about his brother who has taken the boards 6xs, (hes old) and how every 10 years the questions are the same, but the answers are different. it helped me realize how much the world changes, and how we have to constantly learn, study, and prepare ourselves our whole life. never finish learning, never finish growing.
I love you so much. stay safe. CTR and stay happy!
love, sister young
9.20.2010
jordan 9.20.10
ok this week was a good one, poupina is dominating she will be baptized. she is rad.
so monday was another success we had a lot of people and a lot of fun. tonight we are making pankakes for family night. its nice because maggie and poupina are helping us so much we are teaching poupina 5 times a week. she is soaking it up.
on thursday before the other young adult activity we were giving a lesson to melissa. we had a member there to help us. 5 min into the lesson we hear a knock on the door it was another investigator named tim who we are now teaching so he sits down and we explained a little bit of what we had talked about. 2 min later another knock on the door. its another investigator, her name is ananda she is now a new investigator, so she sits down. i was like oh man, 2 min later another knock on the door it was poupina and maggie they sat down. so there i was teaching 4 different investigators with 2 members it was so awesome because you had maggie testifying about how awesome it is to be baptized and poupina talking about how much she has changed already. the spirit was so strong. there were also a lot of investigators that night.
so on sunday we rode all the way down to zwolle for stake conference. poupina came and maggie it was really good the area president was there and our mission pres along with another gen authority. i guess the day before they had a meeting about the work and one of our members from the ward was there and he said the area authority got word about how good groningen was doing and how they had 10 members and 10 investigators at there jovo centrum and he talked about it. The hauge is supposed to be the model ward here and they only had 3 investigators. after the stake conf on sunday the mission pres came up and i thought he was going to tell me to cut my hair or something, but he sais yeah everybody keeps telling me how great the work is going in groningen. then we talked to another member yesterday and he said that he has never seen the work go so good the whole time hes lived there. Taryn still makes me look like a little girl with her 18 investigators in church! how is that possible. i want to be companions with her for a few days i think it would be so fun. then i could see how she dominates.
well i hope all is good thanks for the letters mom and everybody thanks for the emails. have a great week
love you all. blijf sterk! e robert
so monday was another success we had a lot of people and a lot of fun. tonight we are making pankakes for family night. its nice because maggie and poupina are helping us so much we are teaching poupina 5 times a week. she is soaking it up.
on thursday before the other young adult activity we were giving a lesson to melissa. we had a member there to help us. 5 min into the lesson we hear a knock on the door it was another investigator named tim who we are now teaching so he sits down and we explained a little bit of what we had talked about. 2 min later another knock on the door. its another investigator, her name is ananda she is now a new investigator, so she sits down. i was like oh man, 2 min later another knock on the door it was poupina and maggie they sat down. so there i was teaching 4 different investigators with 2 members it was so awesome because you had maggie testifying about how awesome it is to be baptized and poupina talking about how much she has changed already. the spirit was so strong. there were also a lot of investigators that night.
so on sunday we rode all the way down to zwolle for stake conference. poupina came and maggie it was really good the area president was there and our mission pres along with another gen authority. i guess the day before they had a meeting about the work and one of our members from the ward was there and he said the area authority got word about how good groningen was doing and how they had 10 members and 10 investigators at there jovo centrum and he talked about it. The hauge is supposed to be the model ward here and they only had 3 investigators. after the stake conf on sunday the mission pres came up and i thought he was going to tell me to cut my hair or something, but he sais yeah everybody keeps telling me how great the work is going in groningen. then we talked to another member yesterday and he said that he has never seen the work go so good the whole time hes lived there. Taryn still makes me look like a little girl with her 18 investigators in church! how is that possible. i want to be companions with her for a few days i think it would be so fun. then i could see how she dominates.
well i hope all is good thanks for the letters mom and everybody thanks for the emails. have a great week
love you all. blijf sterk! e robert
morgan 9.20.10
Hello Everybody,
Well geeze, sounds like Brighams football team is doing some serious work! how is Orem High doing? probably not as well? Sounds like Sages team was doing work too. What is Sadie doing? and Tay what are you up to? and Ash and Sandy? Well I guess the Federer of the family (Chris) did work in the Robert Open the other day. haha Chris I laughed so hard at your email! So Cole is doing work in football I heard. What about the Wimmer side though... Nick. what is up with Nick? Well keep me updated!
So this week we invited this 17 year old kid from Congo to be baptized Oct. 9. He said yes. So that makes 2 baptism dates that we have been blessed to see for Oct. 9. I hope they go through. it is Junior (kid from congo) and Arturo (18 year old from Salvador). We did have another one with someone named Albertino (the friend of J lo) but we moved his to this weekend. I hope it goes through! Albertino is pretty strange. He doesnt talk much but is really nice. He is willing to respect all the commandments and he has a good knowledge of the gospel. Its just he forgets really easily. He definately isnt a J lo, but he is ready.
We are continuing to do our Sunday night Film and our Saturday Sport. The Films that we have watched are The Testaments, The Other Side of Heaven and lastnight we watched The Prince of Egypt. That is about all the films we are aloud to watch apart from all the films of the church. Mom, do you think you can try and see if Joseph Smith the prophet of the restoration is available to buy yet. There are 2 Restoration films one that is like 30 min, I have that one. And one that is like 1hr and a half, thats the one I want. If you know of any other films made by the church give me some ideas. I already have like 10. but some are a little too cheesy to show in public. haha like 70's style. We get quite a bit of people to come to those. Less actives, Investigators, members and recent converts. We are going to try and put together a FHE here.
Transfers is next week. I think I will stay. But dont be expecting an email on monday because if I am not changing villes I am most likely training. We have 17 new missionnaries coming in!! That is alot for here!! Our mission decreased from like 140 to 62 and now we are going to rise back up. We have a lot of new villes opening up.
Thanks for all you do Mom and Dad! Dad get better soon! and Mom I got the package with shoes. thanks so much I really like them!! Oh yeah, and lastnight i made your caramel popcorn, they all loved it!!
Elder Wimmer
Well geeze, sounds like Brighams football team is doing some serious work! how is Orem High doing? probably not as well? Sounds like Sages team was doing work too. What is Sadie doing? and Tay what are you up to? and Ash and Sandy? Well I guess the Federer of the family (Chris) did work in the Robert Open the other day. haha Chris I laughed so hard at your email! So Cole is doing work in football I heard. What about the Wimmer side though... Nick. what is up with Nick? Well keep me updated!
So this week we invited this 17 year old kid from Congo to be baptized Oct. 9. He said yes. So that makes 2 baptism dates that we have been blessed to see for Oct. 9. I hope they go through. it is Junior (kid from congo) and Arturo (18 year old from Salvador). We did have another one with someone named Albertino (the friend of J lo) but we moved his to this weekend. I hope it goes through! Albertino is pretty strange. He doesnt talk much but is really nice. He is willing to respect all the commandments and he has a good knowledge of the gospel. Its just he forgets really easily. He definately isnt a J lo, but he is ready.
We are continuing to do our Sunday night Film and our Saturday Sport. The Films that we have watched are The Testaments, The Other Side of Heaven and lastnight we watched The Prince of Egypt. That is about all the films we are aloud to watch apart from all the films of the church. Mom, do you think you can try and see if Joseph Smith the prophet of the restoration is available to buy yet. There are 2 Restoration films one that is like 30 min, I have that one. And one that is like 1hr and a half, thats the one I want. If you know of any other films made by the church give me some ideas. I already have like 10. but some are a little too cheesy to show in public. haha like 70's style. We get quite a bit of people to come to those. Less actives, Investigators, members and recent converts. We are going to try and put together a FHE here.
Transfers is next week. I think I will stay. But dont be expecting an email on monday because if I am not changing villes I am most likely training. We have 17 new missionnaries coming in!! That is alot for here!! Our mission decreased from like 140 to 62 and now we are going to rise back up. We have a lot of new villes opening up.
Thanks for all you do Mom and Dad! Dad get better soon! and Mom I got the package with shoes. thanks so much I really like them!! Oh yeah, and lastnight i made your caramel popcorn, they all loved it!!
Elder Wimmer
taryn 9.20.10
Hey! Great week again, busy as usual.
Monday we went with a few of our investigators to a big farwell family home evening for an awesome member that is going on a mission. next month we are having 13 Thai missionaries come in!! the record for Thailand. Seeing him and his excitement made me a little jealous that he is just starting out. The end is coming so fast.
On wednesday we taught 8 lessons, almost nine but we didnt have an opening and closing prayer with her so it doesn't count. My new record! We were so tired mentally, physically, and spiritually be the end of the night. Missionary work is so much fun, but stressful and exhausting as well!
We have to sort through our investigators this week and see who is the very most ready for the message because we dont have the time right now to teach those that arent quite ready. Its hard to drop people, but i like to think about it as putting them on the shelf and they will be picked up again in the future when they are ready. I love them, all of them. Im sad, Im not going to be able to see many of them baptized. We were hoping for a lot of them to make that special covenant in the next few weeks, but it looks like they arent quite ready, and a lot of them have to get special interviews because of question 4. Its so sad how Satan has taken the world to a level that evil things are just the norm in the world. how grateful i am that we have the knowledge and direction and help from Heavenly Father to be lifted out of the world!
Thursday we drove in a songtaw and hour our to serve a member that the branch assigned us to. We got there, the middle of nowhere, surrounded by tons of tropical trees and rice. To serve them we helped them prepare the treats that they sell every morning at the market. We chopped open coconuts off the tree, drained the milk out, and then shaved the insides into little strips, and then sugar and fried them in a big pan over a fire in the backyard. Another one of those moments that makes me realize just where I am, what a special opportunity it is, and how much i love it here.
Saturday Elder Perkins of the 70- our area President came and spoke to our zone- haha all 10 of us that are up in the north..It was soooo good. So inpirational, made me want to be such a better missionary and person. Also, it made me want to really get to know the scriptures, i wonder if i can ever get to his level? President Smith said to him in front of everyone, "i wish i could clone this companionship. Sister Youngs parents dont know, but im not going to let her go home." I love him. It feels good to know that we are doing our best and helping President Smith along with the thai people.
Well, an investigator just called and asked if we could see her in 20 minutes because she cant later- got to go.. i love you all and miss you.stay safe, CTR, and be happy!
love sister young
ps the other day i had an "ive been in thailand too long" experience. first, 1/2 way through eating my food i found a huge caterpillar cooked in it, i just pulled it out and kept eating. then we went to the church and a HUGE spider was on the wall and i just pulled off my shoe and tried to smash it. I didnt realize how unusual this was for me until later that night when i really thought about it!
Monday we went with a few of our investigators to a big farwell family home evening for an awesome member that is going on a mission. next month we are having 13 Thai missionaries come in!! the record for Thailand. Seeing him and his excitement made me a little jealous that he is just starting out. The end is coming so fast.
On wednesday we taught 8 lessons, almost nine but we didnt have an opening and closing prayer with her so it doesn't count. My new record! We were so tired mentally, physically, and spiritually be the end of the night. Missionary work is so much fun, but stressful and exhausting as well!
We have to sort through our investigators this week and see who is the very most ready for the message because we dont have the time right now to teach those that arent quite ready. Its hard to drop people, but i like to think about it as putting them on the shelf and they will be picked up again in the future when they are ready. I love them, all of them. Im sad, Im not going to be able to see many of them baptized. We were hoping for a lot of them to make that special covenant in the next few weeks, but it looks like they arent quite ready, and a lot of them have to get special interviews because of question 4. Its so sad how Satan has taken the world to a level that evil things are just the norm in the world. how grateful i am that we have the knowledge and direction and help from Heavenly Father to be lifted out of the world!
Thursday we drove in a songtaw and hour our to serve a member that the branch assigned us to. We got there, the middle of nowhere, surrounded by tons of tropical trees and rice. To serve them we helped them prepare the treats that they sell every morning at the market. We chopped open coconuts off the tree, drained the milk out, and then shaved the insides into little strips, and then sugar and fried them in a big pan over a fire in the backyard. Another one of those moments that makes me realize just where I am, what a special opportunity it is, and how much i love it here.
Saturday Elder Perkins of the 70- our area President came and spoke to our zone- haha all 10 of us that are up in the north..It was soooo good. So inpirational, made me want to be such a better missionary and person. Also, it made me want to really get to know the scriptures, i wonder if i can ever get to his level? President Smith said to him in front of everyone, "i wish i could clone this companionship. Sister Youngs parents dont know, but im not going to let her go home." I love him. It feels good to know that we are doing our best and helping President Smith along with the thai people.
Well, an investigator just called and asked if we could see her in 20 minutes because she cant later- got to go.. i love you all and miss you.stay safe, CTR, and be happy!
love sister young
ps the other day i had an "ive been in thailand too long" experience. first, 1/2 way through eating my food i found a huge caterpillar cooked in it, i just pulled it out and kept eating. then we went to the church and a HUGE spider was on the wall and i just pulled off my shoe and tried to smash it. I didnt realize how unusual this was for me until later that night when i really thought about it!
9.14.2010
taryn 9.13.10
Well, Im not sure what is going on, but Heavenly Father is blessing us so much. We are keeping a flow of new investigators coming in, but also still have many of our old ones. We are racing from appointment to appointment, when we get home we are both so tired mentally, physically, and spiritually.
ha, Saturday night we were having issues trying to speak english while planning. We had 18 investigators at church yesterday!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Church started off with only a couple, which is the norm for the mission, the average companionship has about 1-2 investigators at church each week. but then right as the meeting started they just kept coming in. It was fun, but hectic as well trying to help them all sit by members or getting members to sit by them, while trying to be quite as the meeting was going. Luckily on saturday the spirit whispered to me so awesome. i dont know how or why Heavenly Father is blessing us so much, but He truly is pouring them out. We are finally getting investigators that are close to baptism, it takes quite awhile here because they have no background in any of this. Ive never had investigators that have had problems with question number four, but so far 3 of the 4 who we were hoping to be baptized by the end of the month have or have had issues with the question, the one on any serious crimes, homosexual relationships, or abortion. Im not exactly sure what to do for them, i asked president today in my email/letter what to do, im sure he will have good advice, he always does. He is an amazing president, i am so lucky to be able to serve with him and learn from him. he has done so much for me.
our investigator Gang called me last week almost in tears, she had just got in a little arguement with her mom about going to church. her mom says she needs her and A's help instead of going to church. (gang is 17 and read the bom in a month, A is a 12 year old cousin who comes into town on the weekends- she just finished the bom- a month and a half...) we prayed and prayed and prayed and studied a prayed some more, and then moved some appts around and went out there. it worked out perfectly that her mom didnt have any customers and we were able to talk with her. then on saturday we went and served them to help them prepare for the sunday sales- they sell food outside a protestant church for when the services get over- sounds alittle funny right?? cant go to church because have to sell stuff outside another church on sunday? anyway, we worked it out so that they can at least go to sacrament meeting for now.
well, sorry, another short letter. i had the intent of writing more today but had a surpise mom and grandma that were emailing and are more fun to talk to back and forth with than writing an email.. :) i love you all so much. thank you for all that you do for me. i am so lucky. Life is so good. i love this gospel. it is 100% true.
love,
sister young
ha, Saturday night we were having issues trying to speak english while planning. We had 18 investigators at church yesterday!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Church started off with only a couple, which is the norm for the mission, the average companionship has about 1-2 investigators at church each week. but then right as the meeting started they just kept coming in. It was fun, but hectic as well trying to help them all sit by members or getting members to sit by them, while trying to be quite as the meeting was going. Luckily on saturday the spirit whispered to me so awesome. i dont know how or why Heavenly Father is blessing us so much, but He truly is pouring them out. We are finally getting investigators that are close to baptism, it takes quite awhile here because they have no background in any of this. Ive never had investigators that have had problems with question number four, but so far 3 of the 4 who we were hoping to be baptized by the end of the month have or have had issues with the question, the one on any serious crimes, homosexual relationships, or abortion. Im not exactly sure what to do for them, i asked president today in my email/letter what to do, im sure he will have good advice, he always does. He is an amazing president, i am so lucky to be able to serve with him and learn from him. he has done so much for me.
our investigator Gang called me last week almost in tears, she had just got in a little arguement with her mom about going to church. her mom says she needs her and A's help instead of going to church. (gang is 17 and read the bom in a month, A is a 12 year old cousin who comes into town on the weekends- she just finished the bom- a month and a half...) we prayed and prayed and prayed and studied a prayed some more, and then moved some appts around and went out there. it worked out perfectly that her mom didnt have any customers and we were able to talk with her. then on saturday we went and served them to help them prepare for the sunday sales- they sell food outside a protestant church for when the services get over- sounds alittle funny right?? cant go to church because have to sell stuff outside another church on sunday? anyway, we worked it out so that they can at least go to sacrament meeting for now.
well, sorry, another short letter. i had the intent of writing more today but had a surpise mom and grandma that were emailing and are more fun to talk to back and forth with than writing an email.. :) i love you all so much. thank you for all that you do for me. i am so lucky. Life is so good. i love this gospel. it is 100% true.
love,
sister young
jordan 9.13.10
ok well this week was good. we got to go to brussels and listen to elder ballard talk. it was awesome to hear him talk. he talked about teaching. he said teach teach teach! if we dont have an appointment he said to call a member and go teach them. we are to master teachers. man i have a long way to go. i went home that night with a good feeling.
well we have a bunch of new investigators this week. and the young adult centrum is dominating more than it ever has. on thursday we had at least 20 young adults and half were non members. sorry about that one! and monday for family home evening was a sucsess! tonight we are making pizzas, home made and playing volleyball.
ok so we were at maggies and one of her friends came over. her name is poupina. she is from cameroon but has lived here for 6 yrs. she is in 2 months 18. and she is amazing. plus she looks like beyonce. she is really prepared plus we connected really good. she wants to be baptized so we set up a baptismal date for her on the 9th of october. she came to church yesterday and said she now wants to come every week. we meet with her 3 times a week . tonight she is coming to family home evening. she is coming an hour early so we can teach her. pray for her that she will make her baptismal date!
we also met with a dutch lady we met knocking doors a month ago. she is really enthusiastic and happy. she has 3 kids. we taught her then the doorbell rang and she sais oh i hope you dont mind i invited a friend to come listen too. ha ha ilove it when that happens. so we are meeting with them on thur. again. the guy that came in when we told him we were mormon. he said all ive heard is bad things about the mormons, we cleared that up and now he is really interested. if you say mormon it has a bad connotation out here.
maggie is doing really good. same with yulie. well thats all i can remember about this week. chandler! whats going on? how you doin?
oh yeah this week we walked past a skate park and i happened to know the kid skating and i happened to have my skate shoes in my back pack. before i knew it i had 7 kids watching and wanting to talk to me( i still had my church clothes on) then some old dutch couple that would never listen to us in a million years came up to me and started to talk to me asked me all about what im doing here and about the church. it was a great contacting tool.we couldnt get a person to talk to us all day. then all the sudden we had people coming up to us. it was fun.
cameron! whats going down son? talk to me. grandpa chris candy paint drippin off the frame son! dad! i hear you are pumping iron! so am i. i think i am in the best shape of my life. im getting pretty ripped. i love to work out because its the only time i get to use my ding dang body.
well mom thank you for being the amazing person you are. you keep me going!
love elder robert
well we have a bunch of new investigators this week. and the young adult centrum is dominating more than it ever has. on thursday we had at least 20 young adults and half were non members. sorry about that one! and monday for family home evening was a sucsess! tonight we are making pizzas, home made and playing volleyball.
ok so we were at maggies and one of her friends came over. her name is poupina. she is from cameroon but has lived here for 6 yrs. she is in 2 months 18. and she is amazing. plus she looks like beyonce. she is really prepared plus we connected really good. she wants to be baptized so we set up a baptismal date for her on the 9th of october. she came to church yesterday and said she now wants to come every week. we meet with her 3 times a week . tonight she is coming to family home evening. she is coming an hour early so we can teach her. pray for her that she will make her baptismal date!
we also met with a dutch lady we met knocking doors a month ago. she is really enthusiastic and happy. she has 3 kids. we taught her then the doorbell rang and she sais oh i hope you dont mind i invited a friend to come listen too. ha ha ilove it when that happens. so we are meeting with them on thur. again. the guy that came in when we told him we were mormon. he said all ive heard is bad things about the mormons, we cleared that up and now he is really interested. if you say mormon it has a bad connotation out here.
maggie is doing really good. same with yulie. well thats all i can remember about this week. chandler! whats going on? how you doin?
oh yeah this week we walked past a skate park and i happened to know the kid skating and i happened to have my skate shoes in my back pack. before i knew it i had 7 kids watching and wanting to talk to me( i still had my church clothes on) then some old dutch couple that would never listen to us in a million years came up to me and started to talk to me asked me all about what im doing here and about the church. it was a great contacting tool.we couldnt get a person to talk to us all day. then all the sudden we had people coming up to us. it was fun.
cameron! whats going down son? talk to me. grandpa chris candy paint drippin off the frame son! dad! i hear you are pumping iron! so am i. i think i am in the best shape of my life. im getting pretty ripped. i love to work out because its the only time i get to use my ding dang body.
well mom thank you for being the amazing person you are. you keep me going!
love elder robert
morgan 9.13.10
Hello Everybody!
Okay so this week was a good week. The girl that we set the baptismal date for the 25th of sept. isnt going to work because she still hasnt came to church so we are going to have to move it back. But we found 2 new people who want to get baptized Oct.9. One is named Albertino, he is 20 and super shy. He is the neighbor of J lo and we met him at j lo's baptism. The other is a contact we had a few weeks ago, his name is Arturo, he is mexican or something of the sort. He is also super nice but has some weird beliefs.
So we are continuing to do our activities. They are really working here. Last night we watched the other side of heaven and we had 2 recent converts there, 3 less actives (2 of which are reactivated if they come to church one more time and have a church calling), and 3 investigators. It is so cool to see everyone just have fun together. The bad thing is, is that we dont have very many more movies in french we are allowed to watch. If you have any ideas please let me know.
So last week we spent 2 hours of p day cleaning the apt. It is so nice looking now. It still can use some work though. We have been playing quite a bit of basketball lately. I taught Elder Baret how to play whiteball. Its not as fun when we arent at the Youngs. Speaking of the Youngs, T.Y. is coming home so soon! That is crazy!! But anyways, we have a soccer game this saturday against Brive (the branch not too far from here). I am so excited! we just have to find an investigator to come and we can go. We are probably gunna bring Arturo.
Right now we do not have that many people to teach. We are working on finding people. When we were contacting I contacted this black woman with her daughter. They kinda flipped the contact around and started contacting me. They were talking to me about some crazy religion. I thought they were Jehovah's Witness' by the way they were contantly reciting scriptures and all that. They want us to come over to talk to them and their family (the dad is a pastor). So they took down our name and number and we took down thiers and we will see what happens from there. haha.
So every freaking night I wake up to the buzzing of a freakin mosquito in my ear. SO ANNOYING! Elder Baret said the same thing happens with him. so every morning we wake up and there are 20 mosquitos inside and we go crazy killing them all.
Well sorry, boring week nothing else really good to write. So is Cole playing football? he better be! what about Cade? is he on Brigs team again? Keep me updated on all the sports and stuff your kids are doing! Thanks for all you guys do! I love you all!
Elder Wimmer
Okay so this week was a good week. The girl that we set the baptismal date for the 25th of sept. isnt going to work because she still hasnt came to church so we are going to have to move it back. But we found 2 new people who want to get baptized Oct.9. One is named Albertino, he is 20 and super shy. He is the neighbor of J lo and we met him at j lo's baptism. The other is a contact we had a few weeks ago, his name is Arturo, he is mexican or something of the sort. He is also super nice but has some weird beliefs.
So we are continuing to do our activities. They are really working here. Last night we watched the other side of heaven and we had 2 recent converts there, 3 less actives (2 of which are reactivated if they come to church one more time and have a church calling), and 3 investigators. It is so cool to see everyone just have fun together. The bad thing is, is that we dont have very many more movies in french we are allowed to watch. If you have any ideas please let me know.
So last week we spent 2 hours of p day cleaning the apt. It is so nice looking now. It still can use some work though. We have been playing quite a bit of basketball lately. I taught Elder Baret how to play whiteball. Its not as fun when we arent at the Youngs. Speaking of the Youngs, T.Y. is coming home so soon! That is crazy!! But anyways, we have a soccer game this saturday against Brive (the branch not too far from here). I am so excited! we just have to find an investigator to come and we can go. We are probably gunna bring Arturo.
Right now we do not have that many people to teach. We are working on finding people. When we were contacting I contacted this black woman with her daughter. They kinda flipped the contact around and started contacting me. They were talking to me about some crazy religion. I thought they were Jehovah's Witness' by the way they were contantly reciting scriptures and all that. They want us to come over to talk to them and their family (the dad is a pastor). So they took down our name and number and we took down thiers and we will see what happens from there. haha.
So every freaking night I wake up to the buzzing of a freakin mosquito in my ear. SO ANNOYING! Elder Baret said the same thing happens with him. so every morning we wake up and there are 20 mosquitos inside and we go crazy killing them all.
Well sorry, boring week nothing else really good to write. So is Cole playing football? he better be! what about Cade? is he on Brigs team again? Keep me updated on all the sports and stuff your kids are doing! Thanks for all you guys do! I love you all!
Elder Wimmer
9.06.2010
jordan 9.6.10
ok well Maggies baptism went amazing. she is so awesome. she did her best to tell everyone to come to her baptism. she asked her mother and her mother is totally against the baptism. she told her if she gets baptised she will never speak to her again. she got baptised anyway because she knows its true. it was so cool being able to baptize someone. it felt really good. it felt like the most success ive had yet. ive never seen anybody so happy, she was glowing. the ward did better than i thought they would on welcoming her into the ward. this is really a person that had changed her heart, and is putting her whole heart into it. on sunday she recieved the holy ghost and was crying. the spirit was strong. then after that people were bearing there testimonies. and i was sitting next to Maggie and Yulie the other girl we baptized a month ago. maggie told me the night before that she felt like she had to bare her testimony. but when we were sitting down she was so nervous she was shaking. she kept saying next month next month. but she got up the guts anyway and same with yulie. they both went up together. that was one of my favorite moments of my mission so far. hearing them both bare testimony for the first time. maggie started to cry and she said how greatfull she is. and also that she hopes her mom will one day accept the gospel and be sittting next to her in the church. oh man i was on cloud nine.
well tonight is the first family home evening and im in charge of it, i invited everybody i could. maggie is coming its going to be fun. we set 2 more baptismal dates its nothing compared to taryns 12. i felt like a little girl after i heard that. these people out here dont want to listen. its hard, but we fasted this week that the peoples hearts will be softened.
so. mom things that are wearing out. uuuhhhmm every sock i own has at least 2 holes in them. i cant believe you saw jann. crazy i hope she is doing good. tell nathalie hi for me thats cool she has been hangin out with the family. tell her she needs to write me.
school started today. soooooo many students. we are targeting the international student housing! genious. all the foriegn students come in and are humbled dont know there way around and are looking for friends. its perfect we just invite them to the young adult centrum. chinees students are really nice and humble. well i aint got much more time so till next week!
love you all cant wait to hear from you.
well tonight is the first family home evening and im in charge of it, i invited everybody i could. maggie is coming its going to be fun. we set 2 more baptismal dates its nothing compared to taryns 12. i felt like a little girl after i heard that. these people out here dont want to listen. its hard, but we fasted this week that the peoples hearts will be softened.
so. mom things that are wearing out. uuuhhhmm every sock i own has at least 2 holes in them. i cant believe you saw jann. crazy i hope she is doing good. tell nathalie hi for me thats cool she has been hangin out with the family. tell her she needs to write me.
school started today. soooooo many students. we are targeting the international student housing! genious. all the foriegn students come in and are humbled dont know there way around and are looking for friends. its perfect we just invite them to the young adult centrum. chinees students are really nice and humble. well i aint got much more time so till next week!
love you all cant wait to hear from you.
about maggie.......
Maggie Chisha is 23 years old. She was born a three days trip from the city in Zambia. She calls it the bush bush. She grew up there until she was 16. Living off of the land and walking 4 hours each day to fetch her very needed water carrying it back on her head. She had never seen so much as a light bulb let alone an airplane, car, house, anything having to do with modern technology, white people, exc... She lived in a mud hut cooking for herself everyday, making fire by hand. In her culture women dont go to school, therefore she never learned to read or write. She was happy. Her mother lived in the city and never had contact with her family, she worked at the hospital. While working at the hospital she met a Dutch man and fell in love. She then moved to the Netherlands. Wanting better for her family she went back to the bush bush to get her family. Maggies little brother and little sister were taken first, they tried to take maggie but her father didnt want her to go. They had to come back another time and forcilbly take Maggie. She was taken to the airport in the city. Having never seen anything like it before she was very scared. While getting on the plane she was startled by the engine and ended up running all the way to the electric fence to meet a new shocking feeling. They had to tranqualize her to get her on the plane. Maggie came into the Netherlands in the freezing cold winter. Everything was new and different, white people everywhere. New things such as lighters, televisions, computers, and houses. She had a hard time adjusting. The first duck she saw she grabbed it broke its neck and took it home to her mother to eat. Her mother then having to explain to her that thats not how we do things here. The years go by and she started to get used to the european lifestyle. Clothing, nightlife, busyness, and bills. One day while in the Center of Groningen two sister missionaries overheard her talking about God. Maggie not knowing these missionaries still gave them her information. The sisters tried contacting her later with not much success. Then the sisters were transfered. They gave her information to us the elders and we gave it a try. Finnally getting contact with her we made an appointment. At the appointment we gave her a book of Mormon, and unfortunately she explained to us that her Father had passed away one week before. The next appointment she was excited about learning more and told us she could not put the book down. Then the next appointment she was even more excited and said that she feels herself changing, she didnt want to do the things she did before, she said she never felt alone anymore. Having already set a baptismal date she was well on her way. She explained that she feels like she is becoming the Maggie she used to be and wants to be. Moving in closer to her baptism she recieved many trials, friends falling away and even turning against her because of the changes she was making. Even down to her own mother telling her that if she were to be baptized she would never speak to her again. But Maggie already having a testimony of Christ and the Book Of Mormon there was no turning back. She was Baptized into The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints on Sep 4. and confirmed the next day. After her confirmation she courageously got up to give her testimony of the things she knows are true, and continued in tears wishing one day her Mother would be sitting next to her with the same testimony of the Book of Mormon. I being a missionary have never felt so much joy then to see someone turn their life to Christ and recieve so much happiness. Im so greatfull for this Gospel and the eternal happiness it brings. The Book of Mormon is true and has the power to bring souls, no matter where you come from or who you are, unto Christ.
taryn 9.6.10
Hey family!
Sister Naegle and i are lucky enough to still be here in Chaing Mai. Were loving it. I love this area, and i love my companion. Im supposed to be training her, but i have learned so much from her as well. Im on my last transfer now, i cant believe it. Time is flying. Im not sure what to write in this email because i feel like i just barely wrote you. sorry you didnt get my email last week, ill try to send it again.
Most of our investigators are doing awesome! tum and khaawfaang will hopefully be interviewed for baptism next week, and maybe a few others, were not sure yet. A few of our investigators are getting scared and some are waivering. we also got some good families last week! we found them both after appointments cancelled. we made a rule for ourselves that when an appt cancels, we have to invite the closest person nearby. we have found some good sucess! sometimes Heavenly Father sends us somewhere for other purposes than we think. both families are very similar, they are both from the hill tribe karian and they are both protestant! we have been teaching quite a few christians lately, its hard the first few lessons, i never know what to say with them, im so used to teaching those that know nothing about Christ, God, or prayer. The families are awesome though and hopefully they can progress and be eternal families some day.We have felt the Hand of the Lord in everything lately. I know that none of this sucess is because of me or because of my companion. Heavenly Father is preparing everything before us, all we have to do is to work hard and do our best and reap in the harvest.
Im sorry, ive been horrible at writing lately, everything just blends together and im not sure what to write about. I want you to know that i know this is the Lords work. 100%. I know that this is the true church of Jesus Christ and i am grateful that i get to be one small instrument in this enormous work. I hope that i can be an instrument in His hands for the rest of my life. I am so deeply grateful to Joseph Smith, for all that he sacrificed to bring forth the Book of Mormon. I love that book. So much. I am excited that i have the opportunity to study it every single day for the rest of my life. It holds the power of God between its pages and all you have to do is open it and read with and open heart and that power will come flowing into you. I am also grateful for the temple. oh how i miss it! seeing members dream of being able to get to go someday, and also not being able to go for over a year has made me appreciate it that much more. before my mission i really took it for granted. i cant wait to go back and enter the house of the Lord often, serving others and also getting filled with knowledge and peace. I am grateful that i have such an incredible family, the best ever, and because of the temple and your good decisions we get to live together forever!!! I love missionary work. I love this gospel. I love Thailand. I love these people. I love the Lord. I love you! I am the luckiest person in the world, i get to serve here and also have such an awesome family at home. please stay safe, ill see you soon!
love,
sister young
Sister Naegle and i are lucky enough to still be here in Chaing Mai. Were loving it. I love this area, and i love my companion. Im supposed to be training her, but i have learned so much from her as well. Im on my last transfer now, i cant believe it. Time is flying. Im not sure what to write in this email because i feel like i just barely wrote you. sorry you didnt get my email last week, ill try to send it again.
Most of our investigators are doing awesome! tum and khaawfaang will hopefully be interviewed for baptism next week, and maybe a few others, were not sure yet. A few of our investigators are getting scared and some are waivering. we also got some good families last week! we found them both after appointments cancelled. we made a rule for ourselves that when an appt cancels, we have to invite the closest person nearby. we have found some good sucess! sometimes Heavenly Father sends us somewhere for other purposes than we think. both families are very similar, they are both from the hill tribe karian and they are both protestant! we have been teaching quite a few christians lately, its hard the first few lessons, i never know what to say with them, im so used to teaching those that know nothing about Christ, God, or prayer. The families are awesome though and hopefully they can progress and be eternal families some day.We have felt the Hand of the Lord in everything lately. I know that none of this sucess is because of me or because of my companion. Heavenly Father is preparing everything before us, all we have to do is to work hard and do our best and reap in the harvest.
Im sorry, ive been horrible at writing lately, everything just blends together and im not sure what to write about. I want you to know that i know this is the Lords work. 100%. I know that this is the true church of Jesus Christ and i am grateful that i get to be one small instrument in this enormous work. I hope that i can be an instrument in His hands for the rest of my life. I am so deeply grateful to Joseph Smith, for all that he sacrificed to bring forth the Book of Mormon. I love that book. So much. I am excited that i have the opportunity to study it every single day for the rest of my life. It holds the power of God between its pages and all you have to do is open it and read with and open heart and that power will come flowing into you. I am also grateful for the temple. oh how i miss it! seeing members dream of being able to get to go someday, and also not being able to go for over a year has made me appreciate it that much more. before my mission i really took it for granted. i cant wait to go back and enter the house of the Lord often, serving others and also getting filled with knowledge and peace. I am grateful that i have such an incredible family, the best ever, and because of the temple and your good decisions we get to live together forever!!! I love missionary work. I love this gospel. I love Thailand. I love these people. I love the Lord. I love you! I am the luckiest person in the world, i get to serve here and also have such an awesome family at home. please stay safe, ill see you soon!
love,
sister young
morgan 9.6.10
Hello everybody,
Well, yes. The Baptism of J-Lo did go through. It was really good. Although Friday night we had a little scare, we called the brach pres. to ask if he can be a witness. He told us actually he cant go because he got invited to a dinner. Yeah. So we got scared because there has to be someone from the brach presidency there. But the counselor saved us. Yes, the pres. here is a little special. The day of the confirmation he was welcoming Jonathan and he didnt know his name. haha it was bad. Oh well. But the baptism was really good. He is incredible. He is saying he is going to serve a mission now.
So this week we decided we are going to reactivate all the young less actives. so we made some activities such as Saturday sport, sunday night film and we are trying to find more. We had 10 people at the sport and 8 at the movie. it was so cool. There are so many less actives just simply because no one cares. it is so sad. but yeah guess who got the game winning 3 point shot?? yeah, MJ is back baby.
So still no camera. But thats alright. Yes, the baptism stll is on for the 25th. For now. She still hasnt came to church so we might have to move it back. Me and elder baret are still getting along great. We both love sports and just feed eachother compliments all day. it is so funny. I am teaching him english. He can speak it really well now. Our apt. is pretty nasty I am going to clean it this week.
I heard the best talk ever today! it is by Elder Holland. it is called "Safety for the Soul." WOW!! I recommend you all to go on youtube and listen to it. He is so intense! I love him. It is increadible how many people have sacrificed their lives for the book of mormon. How many people have attacked it and tried to disprove it. and it is still here. This cant just be any old book. I know that the book of mormon is the most correct book on earth. It is the most pure testimony of jesus christ. If this book wasnt true why would it recieve so much oposition. and on the other side the thousands of life who have changed their lives for the better. Joseph Smith died for this book. If this book wasnt real and if this church wasnt true wouldnt you think that when he was persecuted and brought to death he would deny it? I know that The Book of Mormon is true. and if you dont know that it is true. Read it. Pray about it. It will change your life.
I Love you all! thanks for all you do.
Elder Wimmer
Well, yes. The Baptism of J-Lo did go through. It was really good. Although Friday night we had a little scare, we called the brach pres. to ask if he can be a witness. He told us actually he cant go because he got invited to a dinner. Yeah. So we got scared because there has to be someone from the brach presidency there. But the counselor saved us. Yes, the pres. here is a little special. The day of the confirmation he was welcoming Jonathan and he didnt know his name. haha it was bad. Oh well. But the baptism was really good. He is incredible. He is saying he is going to serve a mission now.
So this week we decided we are going to reactivate all the young less actives. so we made some activities such as Saturday sport, sunday night film and we are trying to find more. We had 10 people at the sport and 8 at the movie. it was so cool. There are so many less actives just simply because no one cares. it is so sad. but yeah guess who got the game winning 3 point shot?? yeah, MJ is back baby.
So still no camera. But thats alright. Yes, the baptism stll is on for the 25th. For now. She still hasnt came to church so we might have to move it back. Me and elder baret are still getting along great. We both love sports and just feed eachother compliments all day. it is so funny. I am teaching him english. He can speak it really well now. Our apt. is pretty nasty I am going to clean it this week.
I heard the best talk ever today! it is by Elder Holland. it is called "Safety for the Soul." WOW!! I recommend you all to go on youtube and listen to it. He is so intense! I love him. It is increadible how many people have sacrificed their lives for the book of mormon. How many people have attacked it and tried to disprove it. and it is still here. This cant just be any old book. I know that the book of mormon is the most correct book on earth. It is the most pure testimony of jesus christ. If this book wasnt true why would it recieve so much oposition. and on the other side the thousands of life who have changed their lives for the better. Joseph Smith died for this book. If this book wasnt real and if this church wasnt true wouldnt you think that when he was persecuted and brought to death he would deny it? I know that The Book of Mormon is true. and if you dont know that it is true. Read it. Pray about it. It will change your life.
I Love you all! thanks for all you do.
Elder Wimmer
8.31.2010
jordan 8.30.10
ok hello well this week was another busy week we had meetings about the young adult centrums. in my city we have one of i think 5 young adult outreach centers. it mainly includes activities for the young adults. we have one monday and thursday. my comp and i are completely in charge of the one on mon. we have to organize everything and i love it. we are going to have fun and we will get alot of people coming. it is mainly to bring in young people to the church. we were "hand chosen" our pres said to do this. we are also told to focus on young people and bring them into the church and use the centrum to bring them in. it is handy because they can come to the church and dont have to go to "church" they come to play sports or something else.
well maggie is doing good still. she is ready and excited for saturday.
today for pday we climbed to the top of Martini tower. it is a huge tower in the center of the city. it was facinating. 500 yrs old or so. mom sam nyman wants you to add him on my email list. ahhhh i aint got much time we are going to go teach this dutch girl who has had alot of contact with the church and has friends in the church but this is her first lesson tonight! we are going to set a baptismal date with her. also shayne and mike i met your next door neighbors sister the guy who just moved in across from you. her boyfriend is from here and was in church yesterday. he is really cool. they are going to come to maggies baptism on sat! and hopefully we will start teaching him. i have to call him to get an appointment. small world.
mom that was so nice of cate to send all that stuff with nathalie. did she find a car? well g2g homies. thanks for the letters and prayers. next week i have to go down to brussels for a mission conference.
have a great day! e robert
well maggie is doing good still. she is ready and excited for saturday.
today for pday we climbed to the top of Martini tower. it is a huge tower in the center of the city. it was facinating. 500 yrs old or so. mom sam nyman wants you to add him on my email list. ahhhh i aint got much time we are going to go teach this dutch girl who has had alot of contact with the church and has friends in the church but this is her first lesson tonight! we are going to set a baptismal date with her. also shayne and mike i met your next door neighbors sister the guy who just moved in across from you. her boyfriend is from here and was in church yesterday. he is really cool. they are going to come to maggies baptism on sat! and hopefully we will start teaching him. i have to call him to get an appointment. small world.
mom that was so nice of cate to send all that stuff with nathalie. did she find a car? well g2g homies. thanks for the letters and prayers. next week i have to go down to brussels for a mission conference.
have a great day! e robert
morgan 8.30.10
Hello everybody,
Well my camera is still not found. Bummer. I will have to ask Elder Magnan and Elder Mayer to send me some of thier photos. Okay, so this week was a week of miracles. Really. So maybe I told this story already, maybe not. Last Sunday we were walking to a lesson when we saw a woman standing on her balchony. We didnt think anything of it. So we kept walking for probably 200 meters and I told Elder Baret we have to go back and talk to her. So we flipped a U and went to talk to her. She told us to come talk to her tomorrow. The first 2 lessons we had with her werent that great. Just yesterday we called her to find out if we can come and she was super sad. So we went to go help her out, we watched the restoration dvd. We left her in tears and with a baptismal date for the 25th of september. It is amazing what Joseph Smith did, if someone really watches that dvd with an open heart there is no way you cant gain a testimony.
J-lo is still good for this saturday. I am so excited to see Elder Baret baptize him! His story is so cool! So I told you that in our mission we give away Book of Mormons like crazy now. well, J-lo was walking in a park and found a BOM that someone had thrown on the gound. He grabbed it, read a little and called us up. Ever since he has had a very strong testimony that this is true. He was someone ready that found us. The cool thing about that, is that one month ago the branch of Périgueux did a fast for 40 days. Each day one family would have a fast. and they fasted specifically so that the people who are ready can find us. This is the 2nd baptism we have had here because of that.
So me and Elder Baret are still getting along very well, he is still my favorite comp. so far. We do run in the mornings, every monday wednesday friday. I am really liking Périgueux. The members here are okay. I am so excited for the baptism on saturday!
Mom, no i dont have the package quite yet. probably in 2 weeks at the zone conf. Thanks so much for all your help everybody. Mom, Do you want to send me a camera or do you want me to buy one here? if you want me to buy one here email me next week. I am going to look for one today just in case. But I wont buy one until next week so email me and till me if you want me to buy one or send me one. Keep praying that itll turn up! I love you so so much!! thanks for everything!!
elder wimmer
Well my camera is still not found. Bummer. I will have to ask Elder Magnan and Elder Mayer to send me some of thier photos. Okay, so this week was a week of miracles. Really. So maybe I told this story already, maybe not. Last Sunday we were walking to a lesson when we saw a woman standing on her balchony. We didnt think anything of it. So we kept walking for probably 200 meters and I told Elder Baret we have to go back and talk to her. So we flipped a U and went to talk to her. She told us to come talk to her tomorrow. The first 2 lessons we had with her werent that great. Just yesterday we called her to find out if we can come and she was super sad. So we went to go help her out, we watched the restoration dvd. We left her in tears and with a baptismal date for the 25th of september. It is amazing what Joseph Smith did, if someone really watches that dvd with an open heart there is no way you cant gain a testimony.
J-lo is still good for this saturday. I am so excited to see Elder Baret baptize him! His story is so cool! So I told you that in our mission we give away Book of Mormons like crazy now. well, J-lo was walking in a park and found a BOM that someone had thrown on the gound. He grabbed it, read a little and called us up. Ever since he has had a very strong testimony that this is true. He was someone ready that found us. The cool thing about that, is that one month ago the branch of Périgueux did a fast for 40 days. Each day one family would have a fast. and they fasted specifically so that the people who are ready can find us. This is the 2nd baptism we have had here because of that.
So me and Elder Baret are still getting along very well, he is still my favorite comp. so far. We do run in the mornings, every monday wednesday friday. I am really liking Périgueux. The members here are okay. I am so excited for the baptism on saturday!
Mom, no i dont have the package quite yet. probably in 2 weeks at the zone conf. Thanks so much for all your help everybody. Mom, Do you want to send me a camera or do you want me to buy one here? if you want me to buy one here email me next week. I am going to look for one today just in case. But I wont buy one until next week so email me and till me if you want me to buy one or send me one. Keep praying that itll turn up! I love you so so much!! thanks for everything!!
elder wimmer
jordan 8.23.10
ok well an interesting week. it is only me and e crittenden now the other one went home on wed. it was weird for the first day but now its fine. i just have to do a lot more work and baby sit my comp some of the time.
so we have run into some opposisition this week. we were finding and we ran into a psyco who just started to yell at us. and get away and dont come back. its hard because you know you can help him but he has his agency.
we have been working even harder now that its two of us. we had some awesome appointments with maggie this week. we got to know her backgroung. she is 23 yrs old she was born in Zambia in the middle of nowhere, a 3 day travel from the nearest city. she grew up living in a mud hut no electricity no fridge no nothing. she would walk for 2 hours each day to fetch water that she would carry on her head and two buckets in her hands. she had never seen an airplane, her mom moved to the netherlands with a dutch man she met and left her behind. her dad would leave her by herself and she had to take care of her younger brothers and sisters who were babies for months at a time. so she would strap one of the babies to her back when she would get water. not to menchon that she lived completely off of the land. sugar cane sweet potatoes all kinds of fruit, bugs, rats bunnies, you name it. she would make evrything by hand from the earth. she didnt have shoes. ect...
when she was 16 yrs old she was brought to the netherlands to live with her mother. when she got on the plane to come here, she was waiting for the plane to take off. right when she heard the plane start she got scared and ran off the plane. they had to tranqualize her to get her on the plane. she was just thrown into modern day civilazation. she was amazed. she showed me her photo album when she first arrived in the netherlands. there was pictures of the first time she was on a computer or saw a computer or a tv. she said it was really weird that you just go to the store and buy things. she said why dont the just grow it or hunt it? she saw a duck while she was playing with her freinds and grabbed it and broke its neck and took it to her mother. her mom had to explain thats not how we do things here. when she went to the zoo for the first time she couldnt figure out why the animals were in cages. she started to take animals out of their cage and let them free. she said "i couldnt understand anybody because i didnt speak the language. now she has learned dutch and english. she started to get adapted to the normal city life giong out shopping, to parties, but she never did bad things.but she said she wasnt happy.
before we knew her we found her in the area book for the first time and decided to call her and get an appointment. she had met the missionaries on the street but nobody followed up on her. so we got an appointment and gave her a book of mormon. the next visit she siad she couldnt put the book down. our second visit she said im starting to change, i just dont like to do the things i did before. the next visit she brought friends. and she said she loves the book so much. she agreed to live all the laws. and loves to meet with us. she now meets with us almost everyday. she is the most prepared person ive ever seen. a few days ago we gave her a liahona and we came back the next day and she had read the whole thing. she ponted out points that she had never thought about before such as modesty and missionary work. she told us she now understands that she needs to share it with all of her friends and her family, at church on sunday she told me she had met a lady at the bus stop that was having a hard time. she told her that she had found something that had helped her. and she made an appointment to go visti her the next day. she took a book of mormon to give to her. it is only now that i realize the power of the book of mormon and what it can do to peoples lives, no matter where you come from. she said she now feels happy. she asked me on sunday if i would baptize her. so i will be baptizing her on the 4th of sept, pray for her.
well my time is up got to go. mom thanks for the bom study guide it is perfect. love e robert
so we have run into some opposisition this week. we were finding and we ran into a psyco who just started to yell at us. and get away and dont come back. its hard because you know you can help him but he has his agency.
we have been working even harder now that its two of us. we had some awesome appointments with maggie this week. we got to know her backgroung. she is 23 yrs old she was born in Zambia in the middle of nowhere, a 3 day travel from the nearest city. she grew up living in a mud hut no electricity no fridge no nothing. she would walk for 2 hours each day to fetch water that she would carry on her head and two buckets in her hands. she had never seen an airplane, her mom moved to the netherlands with a dutch man she met and left her behind. her dad would leave her by herself and she had to take care of her younger brothers and sisters who were babies for months at a time. so she would strap one of the babies to her back when she would get water. not to menchon that she lived completely off of the land. sugar cane sweet potatoes all kinds of fruit, bugs, rats bunnies, you name it. she would make evrything by hand from the earth. she didnt have shoes. ect...
when she was 16 yrs old she was brought to the netherlands to live with her mother. when she got on the plane to come here, she was waiting for the plane to take off. right when she heard the plane start she got scared and ran off the plane. they had to tranqualize her to get her on the plane. she was just thrown into modern day civilazation. she was amazed. she showed me her photo album when she first arrived in the netherlands. there was pictures of the first time she was on a computer or saw a computer or a tv. she said it was really weird that you just go to the store and buy things. she said why dont the just grow it or hunt it? she saw a duck while she was playing with her freinds and grabbed it and broke its neck and took it to her mother. her mom had to explain thats not how we do things here. when she went to the zoo for the first time she couldnt figure out why the animals were in cages. she started to take animals out of their cage and let them free. she said "i couldnt understand anybody because i didnt speak the language. now she has learned dutch and english. she started to get adapted to the normal city life giong out shopping, to parties, but she never did bad things.but she said she wasnt happy.
before we knew her we found her in the area book for the first time and decided to call her and get an appointment. she had met the missionaries on the street but nobody followed up on her. so we got an appointment and gave her a book of mormon. the next visit she siad she couldnt put the book down. our second visit she said im starting to change, i just dont like to do the things i did before. the next visit she brought friends. and she said she loves the book so much. she agreed to live all the laws. and loves to meet with us. she now meets with us almost everyday. she is the most prepared person ive ever seen. a few days ago we gave her a liahona and we came back the next day and she had read the whole thing. she ponted out points that she had never thought about before such as modesty and missionary work. she told us she now understands that she needs to share it with all of her friends and her family, at church on sunday she told me she had met a lady at the bus stop that was having a hard time. she told her that she had found something that had helped her. and she made an appointment to go visti her the next day. she took a book of mormon to give to her. it is only now that i realize the power of the book of mormon and what it can do to peoples lives, no matter where you come from. she said she now feels happy. she asked me on sunday if i would baptize her. so i will be baptizing her on the 4th of sept, pray for her.
well my time is up got to go. mom thanks for the bom study guide it is perfect. love e robert
taryn 8.25.10
Hey family! Im sorry for not writing until now, the past week has been crazy!
Im in bankok right now, but my cute greenie is still up in Chiang Mai! Oh man what an adventure! Saturday the elders called us and told me i had to come down here on monday for a new training thing that they are starting to do- the church is changing a lot of things in the way missions work. I about passed out because there is no way we could leave our area for almost a week. We arranged it so that a thai member is living at our house being her companion this week! she is so brave, im proud of her. there is no way i could have done that as a greenie! i drove down in a big van with 8 elders. the first half was amazing. so beautiful. driving through the jungley mountians of northern thailand, every once in a while passing a tiny rice farming village. huge jungle trees, green everywhere. i saw a HUGE snake on the side of the road that had been smashed. biggest snake ive ever seen. scary! hah then we hit a dog. the driver stopped, looked at his car, and then kept going, didnt say a word.
then the second half of the drive was horrible! i felt so bad. i got really sick half way down on the 13 hour drive and was throwing up in the nasty nasty thailand bus stop squatter toilets for like 30 min as the elders had to wait outside. we got in the van and i held in my throwup until we stopped to pick up more elders, threw up in their house, and then held it in until we got to the hotel in bangkok. longest 5 hours of my life! yesterday was awesome though, i felt like i was in the mtc again. we had a spiritually packed day, 8-8 at night. way motivating, it makes you just want to get out there and preach the good work and work even harder. it was fun because almost all my elders from the mtc, and sister oniel and larson were there cuz it was a leadership training meeting, only way sisters go is if they are training.
tonight after pday i get to switch off in saphaansung!!!!! my greenie area! i am so excited! then tomorrow were back to training and then leaving thurs night or fri, im not sure.
we have 12 investigators planning on getting baptized. so awesome! im sad though, i wont be here for some of them. the area is rocking, we are teaching machines. we had 29 lessons last week! because all the talking with people in apts, talking with as many as we can in between apts, and the fact that i have to do most of the talking, my voice is getting shot. every night my voice is so scratchy and hurts. any ideas what i can do? im getting to the point that there is so so much to write that i dont know what to write, and also im coming home soon so i can just tell you about it then!
we have 2 cute cousins we are teaching, age 12 and 17. the 12 year old rides a bus 45 minutes into chiang mai every saturday to sleep at her cousins so she can go to church.they have been learning only a little over a month and are both storming through the bom, the 12 year old 1/2 way through alma, and the 17 year old just finished it! she has the most incredible questions. we are trying to get the rest of the family to learn, but they just arent intersted "dont have time" which is everyones excuse here. The book of mormon is so powerful, thats something that i have been realizing more and more through my mission, and even more yesterday through training. if we can just get people to read that book, there is no way that they can deny it unless they really try to deny the holy ghost!
im sorry i dont have much time today to write, things are crazy this week. i promise a good email soon! i love this gospel. it is the only way that we can have true happiness, live with heavenly father again, and live with our families for all of eternity! i love the book of mormon. love it. i also love these people. so much. i dont know how im ever going to leave them. i love you all! be safe, take care, choose the right, read the bom every day!
love,
sister young
Im in bankok right now, but my cute greenie is still up in Chiang Mai! Oh man what an adventure! Saturday the elders called us and told me i had to come down here on monday for a new training thing that they are starting to do- the church is changing a lot of things in the way missions work. I about passed out because there is no way we could leave our area for almost a week. We arranged it so that a thai member is living at our house being her companion this week! she is so brave, im proud of her. there is no way i could have done that as a greenie! i drove down in a big van with 8 elders. the first half was amazing. so beautiful. driving through the jungley mountians of northern thailand, every once in a while passing a tiny rice farming village. huge jungle trees, green everywhere. i saw a HUGE snake on the side of the road that had been smashed. biggest snake ive ever seen. scary! hah then we hit a dog. the driver stopped, looked at his car, and then kept going, didnt say a word.
then the second half of the drive was horrible! i felt so bad. i got really sick half way down on the 13 hour drive and was throwing up in the nasty nasty thailand bus stop squatter toilets for like 30 min as the elders had to wait outside. we got in the van and i held in my throwup until we stopped to pick up more elders, threw up in their house, and then held it in until we got to the hotel in bangkok. longest 5 hours of my life! yesterday was awesome though, i felt like i was in the mtc again. we had a spiritually packed day, 8-8 at night. way motivating, it makes you just want to get out there and preach the good work and work even harder. it was fun because almost all my elders from the mtc, and sister oniel and larson were there cuz it was a leadership training meeting, only way sisters go is if they are training.
tonight after pday i get to switch off in saphaansung!!!!! my greenie area! i am so excited! then tomorrow were back to training and then leaving thurs night or fri, im not sure.
we have 12 investigators planning on getting baptized. so awesome! im sad though, i wont be here for some of them. the area is rocking, we are teaching machines. we had 29 lessons last week! because all the talking with people in apts, talking with as many as we can in between apts, and the fact that i have to do most of the talking, my voice is getting shot. every night my voice is so scratchy and hurts. any ideas what i can do? im getting to the point that there is so so much to write that i dont know what to write, and also im coming home soon so i can just tell you about it then!
we have 2 cute cousins we are teaching, age 12 and 17. the 12 year old rides a bus 45 minutes into chiang mai every saturday to sleep at her cousins so she can go to church.they have been learning only a little over a month and are both storming through the bom, the 12 year old 1/2 way through alma, and the 17 year old just finished it! she has the most incredible questions. we are trying to get the rest of the family to learn, but they just arent intersted "dont have time" which is everyones excuse here. The book of mormon is so powerful, thats something that i have been realizing more and more through my mission, and even more yesterday through training. if we can just get people to read that book, there is no way that they can deny it unless they really try to deny the holy ghost!
im sorry i dont have much time today to write, things are crazy this week. i promise a good email soon! i love this gospel. it is the only way that we can have true happiness, live with heavenly father again, and live with our families for all of eternity! i love the book of mormon. love it. i also love these people. so much. i dont know how im ever going to leave them. i love you all! be safe, take care, choose the right, read the bom every day!
love,
sister young
morgan 8.23.10
Hello everybody,
Well fist off I want to thank all of you who sent me an e mail. It really does mean a lot. I love getting e mails. This week was really good, until I lost my camera. Yeah, I lost it Friday. I have no idea where it is. I don't know if I left it on a train, or someone stole it, or maybe it is hiding somewhere in the apartment. I have no idea. I am so sad! I had ALL my photos of Carcassonne on this camera. I have tried everything. I have asked members, I called the train station, I have been praying A LOT!! I don't know what else to do. I am so bummed. Mom and Dad, what should I do? ugh, This is when I would love to be able to call you guys. I really am so sad I lost my camera it is like all I can think about right now.
But anyways, Elder Baret is a stud! By far my favorite comp so far. He is athletic (very rare for France) and we have the exact same personality. He hasn't been out in the mission very long this is his 3rd transfer. We both are really wanting to start working out hard and get back into good shape. So yes, we are running. We went today for the first time and he told me after the run that he never wants to go again. Hopefully he is kidding.
Okay so our investigators... we don't have a lot. But we have one who is incredible. He contacted the missionaries like one week before I got here and now he has a date for Sept. 4. He was even talking to us Saturday about maybe going on a mission. He is 21 years old. His name is Jonathan Lopez (we call him J-Lo). He knows this church is true and he is super cool. That is about all of the "real" investigators we have. All the rest are just people who have been taught for years.
Here in Périgueux the branch is a little special. I didnt know what Elder Baret was talking about until I came on Sunday. Wow. During priesthood they were talking about consecrating oil. He then asks some person "Do you even know how to consecrate oil?" he said "yes I do" and so the bishop told him to give us an example. The first mistake this dude did wrong the Pres. was all over him. So the Pres thought he was all cool and he was going to show everybody how its done and it was so far off!! There are already many more stories about him. It reminds me of Nimes (my first ville). This branch is by far the smallest i have served in. There was like 20 or maybe 25 at church yesterday.
This city is really Frenchy. Like the image I had in my head of a French city is Périgueux. There is one giant cathedral and thats about it. Nothing too special about Périgueux. But I like it. I have a couple friends in the district so I am excited about that.
Thanks again everyone who has helped me thus far on my mission. It really means so much to me! I couldn't have gotten here without you. Thanks Mom and Dad for all that you do and have done for me. I love you all.
Elder Wimmer
Well fist off I want to thank all of you who sent me an e mail. It really does mean a lot. I love getting e mails. This week was really good, until I lost my camera. Yeah, I lost it Friday. I have no idea where it is. I don't know if I left it on a train, or someone stole it, or maybe it is hiding somewhere in the apartment. I have no idea. I am so sad! I had ALL my photos of Carcassonne on this camera. I have tried everything. I have asked members, I called the train station, I have been praying A LOT!! I don't know what else to do. I am so bummed. Mom and Dad, what should I do? ugh, This is when I would love to be able to call you guys. I really am so sad I lost my camera it is like all I can think about right now.
But anyways, Elder Baret is a stud! By far my favorite comp so far. He is athletic (very rare for France) and we have the exact same personality. He hasn't been out in the mission very long this is his 3rd transfer. We both are really wanting to start working out hard and get back into good shape. So yes, we are running. We went today for the first time and he told me after the run that he never wants to go again. Hopefully he is kidding.
Okay so our investigators... we don't have a lot. But we have one who is incredible. He contacted the missionaries like one week before I got here and now he has a date for Sept. 4. He was even talking to us Saturday about maybe going on a mission. He is 21 years old. His name is Jonathan Lopez (we call him J-Lo). He knows this church is true and he is super cool. That is about all of the "real" investigators we have. All the rest are just people who have been taught for years.
Here in Périgueux the branch is a little special. I didnt know what Elder Baret was talking about until I came on Sunday. Wow. During priesthood they were talking about consecrating oil. He then asks some person "Do you even know how to consecrate oil?" he said "yes I do" and so the bishop told him to give us an example. The first mistake this dude did wrong the Pres. was all over him. So the Pres thought he was all cool and he was going to show everybody how its done and it was so far off!! There are already many more stories about him. It reminds me of Nimes (my first ville). This branch is by far the smallest i have served in. There was like 20 or maybe 25 at church yesterday.
This city is really Frenchy. Like the image I had in my head of a French city is Périgueux. There is one giant cathedral and thats about it. Nothing too special about Périgueux. But I like it. I have a couple friends in the district so I am excited about that.
Thanks again everyone who has helped me thus far on my mission. It really means so much to me! I couldn't have gotten here without you. Thanks Mom and Dad for all that you do and have done for me. I love you all.
Elder Wimmer
morgan 8.16.10
Hello everybody,
WOW, Chris and Lisel are having a kid!! haha that is so cool! Congrats! Also congrats to Mike on the Leadville! well you will never guess where I am. Maybe just because you have never heard of it before. haha.
Okay so I got transfered to Périgueux. I dont know what to think of it quite yet because all day today I was out in the country side eating with a less active member with 2 birds that talk. It was super fun!
So my comps name is Elder Baret (yes my 3rd french comp in a row.) He is originaly from New Calidonia so he is Polynesian. He is really cool! So far my favorite comp so far but we will see, its been one day. He is fairly new in the mission he only has done 2 transfers. I am really going to miss Carcassonne but I am super excited for the work here in Périgueux. It is just a branch but it is the same size as Carca. The area is really beautiful here also.
Hey TY, you can send me some of your investigators that you cant handle and we can try to communicate with them... haha. Really, I am not sure how many investigators we have here. It sounds like we have next to none. Or at least none that are going anywhere. There is a lot of work to be done here. I am super excited about it though! Well I am sorry it is short but there isnt much to say I just got here. Thanks to all for everything you do!
elder wimmer
WOW, Chris and Lisel are having a kid!! haha that is so cool! Congrats! Also congrats to Mike on the Leadville! well you will never guess where I am. Maybe just because you have never heard of it before. haha.
Okay so I got transfered to Périgueux. I dont know what to think of it quite yet because all day today I was out in the country side eating with a less active member with 2 birds that talk. It was super fun!
So my comps name is Elder Baret (yes my 3rd french comp in a row.) He is originaly from New Calidonia so he is Polynesian. He is really cool! So far my favorite comp so far but we will see, its been one day. He is fairly new in the mission he only has done 2 transfers. I am really going to miss Carcassonne but I am super excited for the work here in Périgueux. It is just a branch but it is the same size as Carca. The area is really beautiful here also.
Hey TY, you can send me some of your investigators that you cant handle and we can try to communicate with them... haha. Really, I am not sure how many investigators we have here. It sounds like we have next to none. Or at least none that are going anywhere. There is a lot of work to be done here. I am super excited about it though! Well I am sorry it is short but there isnt much to say I just got here. Thanks to all for everything you do!
elder wimmer
jordan 8.16.10
the first robert is going to arive! Christian and lisel! congrats! i cant believe it! lisel try and not have birth for 5 more months after the due date! i cant belive it!. that little guy is waiting with heavenly father right now to come down and get a body. same with a ton more! thats going to be amazing.
well i just went out to eat with jeff howell and his dad it was crazy! he is a stud. he has changed a ton already. not a bad thing. it was great to get to talk with him it was weird walking down the street with him and he didnt have a name tag! well i still have my time to serve the Lord and get to know him better. i am staying in Groningen with my comp e crittenden, e rayfield is going home. its going to be rough for a while. we will have a ton of fun though!. this week was great. we taught a ton of first lessons to a lot of posotive people. first off maggie is doing great she is still on track for baptism, we taught a lesson at her house and she invited this black dude, i asked him his religious backgroung and he said yes im religious, im a prophet. i was like, here we go! ha ha . we introduced the book of mormon to him and read a chapter. his mind was blown, he felt the spirit so strong. we just talked about the basic principals of the gospel, faith repentance baptism holy ghost endure. he couldnt say anything. the world has corrupted the simple truths of the easiest things we can do. maggie was like a member in that appointment helping us teach, it was great.
we also taught a dutch lady who has had a lot of people die in her fam so wwe taught the plan, we was amazed and it made so much sense and felt good to her. i cant wait to teach her again, mom put Maggie's name in for me and yulie onrust, im still having bike problems, its really frustrating!
family have fun in leadville. geez go on all these vacations with out me why dont ya ha ha. there are so many students here its amazing. ok well dad find a good car for nathalie she is awesome. ok love you all so much! e robert till next week! mom thanks for sending stuff with elder howell i havnt checked it yet but thanks!.........nine dots
well i just went out to eat with jeff howell and his dad it was crazy! he is a stud. he has changed a ton already. not a bad thing. it was great to get to talk with him it was weird walking down the street with him and he didnt have a name tag! well i still have my time to serve the Lord and get to know him better. i am staying in Groningen with my comp e crittenden, e rayfield is going home. its going to be rough for a while. we will have a ton of fun though!. this week was great. we taught a ton of first lessons to a lot of posotive people. first off maggie is doing great she is still on track for baptism, we taught a lesson at her house and she invited this black dude, i asked him his religious backgroung and he said yes im religious, im a prophet. i was like, here we go! ha ha . we introduced the book of mormon to him and read a chapter. his mind was blown, he felt the spirit so strong. we just talked about the basic principals of the gospel, faith repentance baptism holy ghost endure. he couldnt say anything. the world has corrupted the simple truths of the easiest things we can do. maggie was like a member in that appointment helping us teach, it was great.
we also taught a dutch lady who has had a lot of people die in her fam so wwe taught the plan, we was amazed and it made so much sense and felt good to her. i cant wait to teach her again, mom put Maggie's name in for me and yulie onrust, im still having bike problems, its really frustrating!
family have fun in leadville. geez go on all these vacations with out me why dont ya ha ha. there are so many students here its amazing. ok well dad find a good car for nathalie she is awesome. ok love you all so much! e robert till next week! mom thanks for sending stuff with elder howell i havnt checked it yet but thanks!.........nine dots
taryn 8.16.10
CONGRATS CHRIS, LISEL AND DAD!!! what an exciting week! We had a pretty good week here as well It started with a call from President Smith on Monday night. It is always a nerve wracking thing to see his name on the screen. He called to thank us for our hard work and to say how impressed with us he was. He was happy with all the people that we had at church, and also commented on how we were one of only 2 companionships in the mission that reached at least 20 lessons that week. That was something very rare for him to do, i appreciated it a lot! It isnt about the praise at all, but it is good to hear from someone like that, that he is proud of us. I know 100% that it is not me or my companion. Heavenly Father is blessing us SO MUCH!
We had a lot of rain this past week, a few times during the day, and almost every night we had huge thunderstorms with thunder that sounds like bombs. so loud! one night the power was out, that was a hot night with our one in-room AC not working, and also the water works on electricity so no showering either.. i love the rain so much, but Thai people + rain= no good. lots of cancelling appts or not showing up. the week was still very busy, full of lessons, and trying to find time to study!
We are teaching a family from a far away hill tribe that has come to live here, three sisters and their families that all live in one tiny wooden shack. we havent gotten to the husbands yet, but the three sisters are doing well. bo is christian already, but hasnt been able to attend church because she just had a baby last week! my poor companion isnt used to seeing women with their shirts off breast feeding in front of you, old ladies naked, or men walking around in their towel or boxers. she will soon. the other two sisters have never studied christianity before, tum is really progressing, she has come to church with her 9 year old niece (who is from another sibling that doesnt live there) several times. tum cant read, but is way involved in the lessons. the cute little girl (khawfang) asked us for her own copy of the book of mormon to take to primary. i feel bad, for the past two weeks the whole mission has been out of BoMs! we will hopefully get some this week, it has been crazy with the new translation of it coming out soon. it is hard because the Book of Mormon is the keystone and its hard to convert people without it!
We finished reading the Book of Mormon today, we started last monday. it was actually much easier than i thought! what an incredible book. every time i read it i gain more faith in Christ and a stronger tesimony of the power that the Book of Mormon contains. Reading it fast like we did this week was neat because the storyline came much more to life and proved to me even more that like President Monson's dad said, there is no way that a man could write it unless through the power of God. i love the book of mormon. i am grateful that i have the blessing of reading it every single day for the rest of my life! it adds so much power into our lives, and every time we read it we get new insights from heavenly father.
we taught the cutest lady yesterday who is from the Lahu tribe, her thai is pretty choppy. we saw her cleaning the little park on the side of the street, her job.. i passed her and kept having the thought to go back. ha, we went around the one way streets around the block and invited her. we followed her to her her house yesterday, a little dirt pathway off a small street that opened into a whole neighborhood of Lahu people living on the side of the river. we crossed over scary wooden skinny bridges (that i would never cross except that we we following a motorcycle that could do it) and along a tiny dirt path as everyone was staring at us-i think were the first white people to ever go there. we taught under her wooden house with two other very old ladies that dont speak thai. i would speak to her in thai, which she isnt the greatest at, and then she would translate into lahu for them. such a cool language! it was one of the moments of my mission that i will never forget, sitting on the side of a jungle river under a house on stilts teaching three of Heavenly Fathers children. missions are the greatest.
i hit my year mark in country last week. i cant believe it. we went out for ice cream and my cute companion pulled out a candle to stick in the top of it for my "first birthday" in thailand. i wish we had hours to write to you, but i guess all the other stories will just have to wait a few more months! i love you and miss you SO much! you are amazing. all of you. thank you for your support and love.
until next week,
sister young
We had a lot of rain this past week, a few times during the day, and almost every night we had huge thunderstorms with thunder that sounds like bombs. so loud! one night the power was out, that was a hot night with our one in-room AC not working, and also the water works on electricity so no showering either.. i love the rain so much, but Thai people + rain= no good. lots of cancelling appts or not showing up. the week was still very busy, full of lessons, and trying to find time to study!
We are teaching a family from a far away hill tribe that has come to live here, three sisters and their families that all live in one tiny wooden shack. we havent gotten to the husbands yet, but the three sisters are doing well. bo is christian already, but hasnt been able to attend church because she just had a baby last week! my poor companion isnt used to seeing women with their shirts off breast feeding in front of you, old ladies naked, or men walking around in their towel or boxers. she will soon. the other two sisters have never studied christianity before, tum is really progressing, she has come to church with her 9 year old niece (who is from another sibling that doesnt live there) several times. tum cant read, but is way involved in the lessons. the cute little girl (khawfang) asked us for her own copy of the book of mormon to take to primary. i feel bad, for the past two weeks the whole mission has been out of BoMs! we will hopefully get some this week, it has been crazy with the new translation of it coming out soon. it is hard because the Book of Mormon is the keystone and its hard to convert people without it!
We finished reading the Book of Mormon today, we started last monday. it was actually much easier than i thought! what an incredible book. every time i read it i gain more faith in Christ and a stronger tesimony of the power that the Book of Mormon contains. Reading it fast like we did this week was neat because the storyline came much more to life and proved to me even more that like President Monson's dad said, there is no way that a man could write it unless through the power of God. i love the book of mormon. i am grateful that i have the blessing of reading it every single day for the rest of my life! it adds so much power into our lives, and every time we read it we get new insights from heavenly father.
we taught the cutest lady yesterday who is from the Lahu tribe, her thai is pretty choppy. we saw her cleaning the little park on the side of the street, her job.. i passed her and kept having the thought to go back. ha, we went around the one way streets around the block and invited her. we followed her to her her house yesterday, a little dirt pathway off a small street that opened into a whole neighborhood of Lahu people living on the side of the river. we crossed over scary wooden skinny bridges (that i would never cross except that we we following a motorcycle that could do it) and along a tiny dirt path as everyone was staring at us-i think were the first white people to ever go there. we taught under her wooden house with two other very old ladies that dont speak thai. i would speak to her in thai, which she isnt the greatest at, and then she would translate into lahu for them. such a cool language! it was one of the moments of my mission that i will never forget, sitting on the side of a jungle river under a house on stilts teaching three of Heavenly Fathers children. missions are the greatest.
i hit my year mark in country last week. i cant believe it. we went out for ice cream and my cute companion pulled out a candle to stick in the top of it for my "first birthday" in thailand. i wish we had hours to write to you, but i guess all the other stories will just have to wait a few more months! i love you and miss you SO much! you are amazing. all of you. thank you for your support and love.
until next week,
sister young
8.09.2010
taryn 8.9.10
Oh man what a week!
we still havent had time to long plan, which is supposed to be done on thursdays. we have been teaching, biking, and teaching again. Heavenly Father is blessing us SO MUCH! I usually try to talk to everyone that i can, but it has gotten to the point that i dont know if i can handle any more potentials and more people to worry about, we are having a hard time keeping track of and calling the ones that we already have. i dont know why heavely father is blessing us so much and is trusting us with so many of his children. weve had to study at the church a few days last week because we had appts in the morning and didnt have time to go home and study. we had 8 people at church yesterday, it was insane! my comp cant do much so it was really stressful trying to get members to friendship them and getting them herded from place to place. im getting so tired! it is hard because i do most of the teaching and calling and just about everything, im trying to help her do more. i need to be better at that. i think im doing too much for her and not giving her enough room to grow. she is an incredibly hard worker and determined to succeed in this work, i couldnt ask to train a better person. we are good friends, a lot alike. im sad she wont be home for a long time! speaking of home, mom you asked about my homecoming, probaby the later date, give me some time to think and relax a little. i cant believe it is coming to that! we had zone conference and interviews last week, my last ones! they just changed it to quarterly conferences. ill be home for the next one. my interview was about how i was going home soon and how to keep up the hard work until the end and leave a legacy behind. he said then from that time on, you can expect that everyone that follows behind you will do the same thing. i hope so. i and so so many others want strong wards, not weak branches, and a temple here! with all the changes that president smith is making, the work has really picked up. what a day it will be when these amazing members here get a temple. we are so lucky to live by many temples. i miss them. i cant wait to enter into the Lords house again.
its been raining a lot lately, its been nice, but ive been freezing! we saw a byu student and his dad eating in a "restaurant" and they were saying how hot they were. funny thing is i was perfect, if not on the colder side that morning. my body has become thai.
we have some awesome investigators that are showing good potential. we have dropped a few (sometimes a very awkward experience) but are gaining more of those that have hopefully been prepared by the hand of the Lord. last week after dropping an investigator i had the best feeling that Heavenly Father would be watching over her and her time would come in the future.
wednesday was a fun day, we ended up getting 10 new investigators! we were all over the place, my favorite was at night when we went over to giants house. he is such a cute old man. we taught him outside his tiny wooden shack that is filled- inside and out- with stuff. right as it was ending a huge storm rolled in. he gave us ponchos so that we wouldnt get sick (they believe that if your head gets wet from rain you will get sick. when it starts raining, most people fun for cover, wear ponchos, or at least have a plastic bag on their head. its really funny... ) we got the giggles so bad as he was making us put these huge ponchos on and then tying the little string around our faces so tight that we could hardly see. i love thai people. absolutely love them. then we rode home in the downpour. hardly able to see, roads all flooded. so fun.
a few of our investigators are really making headway, they have such incredible questions and comments. one of those is kham, the one from burma. last week she told us about the feeling that she had as they were passing the sacrament, an intense feeling of grattitude and also pain in her heart for what Christ had to suffer for us. I would love to set a baptismal date with her, but im waiting for her to ask because were not sure what to do. she will go back to burma soon to an area without the church. lots of prayers and patience to see what the Lords plan is.
we teach a recent convert nong mai every week. such a cute girl. she is so sweet, a little slow, but one of my favorite people in the world. she is 19, lives in a tiny one room appt by herself, doesnt have much family and they dont do anything for her. she works hard all day everyday and gets pretty much nothing from it. we met her at the church last week, anytime we meet there she asks me to play the piano for her. she loves it, she thinks its amazing. i taught her the beginning of jingle bells (one of her favorite songs) and then we had to go. the next day we were studying at the church and all the sudden i heard jingle bells coming through the wall, over and over. she was in there practicing. it made me smile so big. i am so so so excited to see the family, but it is going to be hard leaving these people.
times up. back to reading:) my companion and i started today, were trying to read the bom in 1 week, well see how it goes! we started it this morning after running (yes, i finally have a companion who will run with me!!!!) stepping over dead birds, snakes, and frogs..
i love you so much! i miss you! cant wait to see you
love, sister young
we still havent had time to long plan, which is supposed to be done on thursdays. we have been teaching, biking, and teaching again. Heavenly Father is blessing us SO MUCH! I usually try to talk to everyone that i can, but it has gotten to the point that i dont know if i can handle any more potentials and more people to worry about, we are having a hard time keeping track of and calling the ones that we already have. i dont know why heavely father is blessing us so much and is trusting us with so many of his children. weve had to study at the church a few days last week because we had appts in the morning and didnt have time to go home and study. we had 8 people at church yesterday, it was insane! my comp cant do much so it was really stressful trying to get members to friendship them and getting them herded from place to place. im getting so tired! it is hard because i do most of the teaching and calling and just about everything, im trying to help her do more. i need to be better at that. i think im doing too much for her and not giving her enough room to grow. she is an incredibly hard worker and determined to succeed in this work, i couldnt ask to train a better person. we are good friends, a lot alike. im sad she wont be home for a long time! speaking of home, mom you asked about my homecoming, probaby the later date, give me some time to think and relax a little. i cant believe it is coming to that! we had zone conference and interviews last week, my last ones! they just changed it to quarterly conferences. ill be home for the next one. my interview was about how i was going home soon and how to keep up the hard work until the end and leave a legacy behind. he said then from that time on, you can expect that everyone that follows behind you will do the same thing. i hope so. i and so so many others want strong wards, not weak branches, and a temple here! with all the changes that president smith is making, the work has really picked up. what a day it will be when these amazing members here get a temple. we are so lucky to live by many temples. i miss them. i cant wait to enter into the Lords house again.
its been raining a lot lately, its been nice, but ive been freezing! we saw a byu student and his dad eating in a "restaurant" and they were saying how hot they were. funny thing is i was perfect, if not on the colder side that morning. my body has become thai.
we have some awesome investigators that are showing good potential. we have dropped a few (sometimes a very awkward experience) but are gaining more of those that have hopefully been prepared by the hand of the Lord. last week after dropping an investigator i had the best feeling that Heavenly Father would be watching over her and her time would come in the future.
wednesday was a fun day, we ended up getting 10 new investigators! we were all over the place, my favorite was at night when we went over to giants house. he is such a cute old man. we taught him outside his tiny wooden shack that is filled- inside and out- with stuff. right as it was ending a huge storm rolled in. he gave us ponchos so that we wouldnt get sick (they believe that if your head gets wet from rain you will get sick. when it starts raining, most people fun for cover, wear ponchos, or at least have a plastic bag on their head. its really funny... ) we got the giggles so bad as he was making us put these huge ponchos on and then tying the little string around our faces so tight that we could hardly see. i love thai people. absolutely love them. then we rode home in the downpour. hardly able to see, roads all flooded. so fun.
a few of our investigators are really making headway, they have such incredible questions and comments. one of those is kham, the one from burma. last week she told us about the feeling that she had as they were passing the sacrament, an intense feeling of grattitude and also pain in her heart for what Christ had to suffer for us. I would love to set a baptismal date with her, but im waiting for her to ask because were not sure what to do. she will go back to burma soon to an area without the church. lots of prayers and patience to see what the Lords plan is.
we teach a recent convert nong mai every week. such a cute girl. she is so sweet, a little slow, but one of my favorite people in the world. she is 19, lives in a tiny one room appt by herself, doesnt have much family and they dont do anything for her. she works hard all day everyday and gets pretty much nothing from it. we met her at the church last week, anytime we meet there she asks me to play the piano for her. she loves it, she thinks its amazing. i taught her the beginning of jingle bells (one of her favorite songs) and then we had to go. the next day we were studying at the church and all the sudden i heard jingle bells coming through the wall, over and over. she was in there practicing. it made me smile so big. i am so so so excited to see the family, but it is going to be hard leaving these people.
times up. back to reading:) my companion and i started today, were trying to read the bom in 1 week, well see how it goes! we started it this morning after running (yes, i finally have a companion who will run with me!!!!) stepping over dead birds, snakes, and frogs..
i love you so much! i miss you! cant wait to see you
love, sister young
morgan 8.9.10
Wow, this week was a week of a lot of miracles!! Mostly with the family of Vanessa. So I believe I told you last week that we went to the Bishops house and he bore his testimony and the spirit was SO strong. Well after wards we gave everybody the invitation to pray as the bishop did and find out for themselves if it is true or not. Well, that night Vanessa did. She went into her kitchen and prayed. She prayed and prayed and even turned to the scriptures. She told us it was as she was praying when she felt an indescribable feeling come over her. She said she felt so good she didnt want to stop. I dont know how long she prayed but I am guessing by the story a couple hours. But now she knows without a doubt that Joseph Smith is a Prophet of God and The Book of Mormom is living proof of that . But, if that wasnt cool enough. Her fiancé Benoit (who after hearing the first lesson he simply said " I dont believe any of that") told her he believes in God now. He can see the difference that the gospel has already changed their lives. He told Vanessa that we are a "good church" and now he listens to the lessons and asks questions about it! I am so happy for them! They are getting married Nov. 20 and a week later she is getting baptized. We are hoping he is going to baptize her but we will see. haha. We just gotta keep praying for them. Oh mom, the blog for Vanessa is: *************** She makes some super cool stuff. She made me a scripture case yesterday, it is so cool!
Well as I said last week, transfers is this week. I think I am going to take off somewhere new. I kinda want to stay one more here but I will go where the Lord wants me to go.
As for our investigators with a date, Charles-Henri is still good. He is stopping with cigarettes and alcohol this week. It is still on for the 28th for him.
Jessy is lost, cant find her. We have another his name is Christian he is a super old investigator, he has been taught for the past 5 years but was just too prideful to be baptized. He has had some humbling experiences so now he is less prideful. Still not very humble though. His date is Sept. 11. YIKES!! haha.
This week we went to eat with our old ward mission leader and his family alot. He is so cool! He is Tahitian so he makes really good food too. It was so funny, so him and Elder Magnan raced. Elder Magnan got KILLED!! haha it was so funny! but then he said "Okay Elder Wimmer your turn". I beat him in a 100 meter dash by at least 10 sec. his little sister inlaw was making so much fun of him. So he took a rest and says "okay one more". haha I beat him even more the second time. It was so funny. They are so nice though. we got a call today before emails and they said "come down we have something for you." so we did and their whole car was filled with food. they said "take it!" haha I felt so bad but they made us. we have SO much food!! Its a good thing though because we have an extra companionship coming for the end of this week. I am so excited!! we are going to get so much work done!!
well thanks so much for all you do! I love you all!! Have fun in Leadville!! It sounds like a blast!!E. Wimmer
Well as I said last week, transfers is this week. I think I am going to take off somewhere new. I kinda want to stay one more here but I will go where the Lord wants me to go.
As for our investigators with a date, Charles-Henri is still good. He is stopping with cigarettes and alcohol this week. It is still on for the 28th for him.
Jessy is lost, cant find her. We have another his name is Christian he is a super old investigator, he has been taught for the past 5 years but was just too prideful to be baptized. He has had some humbling experiences so now he is less prideful. Still not very humble though. His date is Sept. 11. YIKES!! haha.
This week we went to eat with our old ward mission leader and his family alot. He is so cool! He is Tahitian so he makes really good food too. It was so funny, so him and Elder Magnan raced. Elder Magnan got KILLED!! haha it was so funny! but then he said "Okay Elder Wimmer your turn". I beat him in a 100 meter dash by at least 10 sec. his little sister inlaw was making so much fun of him. So he took a rest and says "okay one more". haha I beat him even more the second time. It was so funny. They are so nice though. we got a call today before emails and they said "come down we have something for you." so we did and their whole car was filled with food. they said "take it!" haha I felt so bad but they made us. we have SO much food!! Its a good thing though because we have an extra companionship coming for the end of this week. I am so excited!! we are going to get so much work done!!
well thanks so much for all you do! I love you all!! Have fun in Leadville!! It sounds like a blast!!E. Wimmer
jordan 8.9.10
ok well this week was another make or break for our investigators. f
irst it was Ng a chinese guy who we met by his apt and helped him haul some stuff into his house. he ended up coming to church , he told me "this is nice everybody is dressed like bill gates or they worked at microsoft or apple", it was funny. we met with him a few times. the first thing he did was go strait to the internet to find out all the "rules" so we showed up for an appointment and he was asking alot of questions. he loves our church and sais it feels alive unlike the catholic church where he goes and listenes and pays a little money and leaves. i cant spell. so the next appointment after that he was tottaly honest with us and said he was doing a lot of bad stuff and it was going to take him a while to change. he said he was cheating on his wife and some other things. so we said come to church and repent, his concience was burning, we probably wont see him as much, not until hes ready.
Maggie, she is still doing good and still telling everybody about the book of mormon, we are now teaching her roomate and we are setting a baptismal date with her tonight. our mission pres introdused a new thing for us, every first or second lesson we have to set up a baptismal calendar with the people we are teaching. it works pretty well.
we are still doing alot of finding. we found a family the other day and gave the mom a BoM she actually just walked into the library and is sitting across from me. i will talk to her!
ok well i dont have much more time transfers in on the 18, next week i think i will be staying. oh yeah i gave another talk in church yesterday, oh man i do not like public speaking, especially in a different language.
well mom jeff is coming out and you should call himto give him stuff. love you all and im praying for you all.
love
e robert
irst it was Ng a chinese guy who we met by his apt and helped him haul some stuff into his house. he ended up coming to church , he told me "this is nice everybody is dressed like bill gates or they worked at microsoft or apple", it was funny. we met with him a few times. the first thing he did was go strait to the internet to find out all the "rules" so we showed up for an appointment and he was asking alot of questions. he loves our church and sais it feels alive unlike the catholic church where he goes and listenes and pays a little money and leaves. i cant spell. so the next appointment after that he was tottaly honest with us and said he was doing a lot of bad stuff and it was going to take him a while to change. he said he was cheating on his wife and some other things. so we said come to church and repent, his concience was burning, we probably wont see him as much, not until hes ready.
Maggie, she is still doing good and still telling everybody about the book of mormon, we are now teaching her roomate and we are setting a baptismal date with her tonight. our mission pres introdused a new thing for us, every first or second lesson we have to set up a baptismal calendar with the people we are teaching. it works pretty well.
we are still doing alot of finding. we found a family the other day and gave the mom a BoM she actually just walked into the library and is sitting across from me. i will talk to her!
ok well i dont have much more time transfers in on the 18, next week i think i will be staying. oh yeah i gave another talk in church yesterday, oh man i do not like public speaking, especially in a different language.
well mom jeff is coming out and you should call himto give him stuff. love you all and im praying for you all.
love
e robert
morgan 8.3.10
Alright, so first things first. Sorry my letter is a day late. We had zone developement yesterday. Well mom, yes we did see the fireworks on the 14th. It was Incredible!! We sat on our window and watched it from our roof. So cool! For those who dont know there is a GIANT castle in Carcassonne that every 14th of July they have an amazing firework show. It was so cool!
Well the baptism of Jessy is still on but it cant be the 14th because she flaked out for church again. She has to come at least 2 or 3 times. So hopefully the 21st and we are going to try and push the date of Charles-Henri forward and have a double baptism the same day. Vanessa is still the most faithful ami we have. She is very honest in everything she does. When she says she is going to do something she does it!!
Sunday after church we went to go eat at the bishops house. His house is so cool!! I love our bishop! He lives 30 min from Carcassonne in a little village in the mountains. It is beautiful! We went there with Vanessa and her fiancé Benoit and her son Elvin (he is such a stud he is 4). After our little lesson we had the bishop bore his testimony on how he found out that there was a God. It was so powerful!! I really think he is going to convert. It might take some time but as for now he prays with Vanessa every night. Her little son Elvin prayed for the first time by himself it pretty much made me cry. It was so cool! We are still just waiting for a marriage date to set the baptismal date. It will probably be in October. I am most likely not gunna be here. I personally think I am going to leave in 2 weeks. But we will see. I want to stay though.
We just found out that we are getting the missionaries from Béziers in our apt. next week. There is a Feria in Béziers so they have to come here. It is going to be so fun. One elder is from orem. He went to school with me, he was in my photo class and just got out here last transfer. The other elder is from China. I am so excited to live with 4 missionaries. We are planning on doing what jord did and drawing the plan of salvation with sidewalk chalk with all the bishops daughters (he has 7 and 1 boy).
I talked to a guy on the phone the other day who knew dad when he was on his mission. He was English i think and he said that he served in Carcassonne like 20 yrs ago. I told him that my dad did too, I told him dads name and he said he knew him while he was here. Not well but he knew him. Cool!!
Well yeah here in France there are no sailboat races or anything like what Jord is doing up in the north but I taught a 42 year old man to ride a bike. He can do it perfectly now. How is TY doing with her new missionary? I would love to train. I think... we'll see.
Well Mom and Dad that is so cool you hiked timp at night, it reminds me of when me and jon did it last year. He was SO scared!! haha I love him! Brig! you ready for school? Sage, whats new with you? Sadie, who are you playing with lately? Cole, are you playing football this year? still going to orem? Chan, What the heck?! your papers started yet? where is austin?? Dad, next step, Bishop. haha. I am so happy to here Court is doing better!! Wow, that is scary!!
Thanks for all your help everybody I love you all!!
Elder Wimmer
Well the baptism of Jessy is still on but it cant be the 14th because she flaked out for church again. She has to come at least 2 or 3 times. So hopefully the 21st and we are going to try and push the date of Charles-Henri forward and have a double baptism the same day. Vanessa is still the most faithful ami we have. She is very honest in everything she does. When she says she is going to do something she does it!!
Sunday after church we went to go eat at the bishops house. His house is so cool!! I love our bishop! He lives 30 min from Carcassonne in a little village in the mountains. It is beautiful! We went there with Vanessa and her fiancé Benoit and her son Elvin (he is such a stud he is 4). After our little lesson we had the bishop bore his testimony on how he found out that there was a God. It was so powerful!! I really think he is going to convert. It might take some time but as for now he prays with Vanessa every night. Her little son Elvin prayed for the first time by himself it pretty much made me cry. It was so cool! We are still just waiting for a marriage date to set the baptismal date. It will probably be in October. I am most likely not gunna be here. I personally think I am going to leave in 2 weeks. But we will see. I want to stay though.
We just found out that we are getting the missionaries from Béziers in our apt. next week. There is a Feria in Béziers so they have to come here. It is going to be so fun. One elder is from orem. He went to school with me, he was in my photo class and just got out here last transfer. The other elder is from China. I am so excited to live with 4 missionaries. We are planning on doing what jord did and drawing the plan of salvation with sidewalk chalk with all the bishops daughters (he has 7 and 1 boy).
I talked to a guy on the phone the other day who knew dad when he was on his mission. He was English i think and he said that he served in Carcassonne like 20 yrs ago. I told him that my dad did too, I told him dads name and he said he knew him while he was here. Not well but he knew him. Cool!!
Well yeah here in France there are no sailboat races or anything like what Jord is doing up in the north but I taught a 42 year old man to ride a bike. He can do it perfectly now. How is TY doing with her new missionary? I would love to train. I think... we'll see.
Well Mom and Dad that is so cool you hiked timp at night, it reminds me of when me and jon did it last year. He was SO scared!! haha I love him! Brig! you ready for school? Sage, whats new with you? Sadie, who are you playing with lately? Cole, are you playing football this year? still going to orem? Chan, What the heck?! your papers started yet? where is austin?? Dad, next step, Bishop. haha. I am so happy to here Court is doing better!! Wow, that is scary!!
Thanks for all your help everybody I love you all!!
Elder Wimmer
taryn 8.2.10
Hello!
Weve had a great week, lots of hard work, lots of finding and cycling through investigators. The past few months President Smith has made a lot of changes in trying to help Thailand get stronger and hopefully soon get a temple. We have new rules like if we are teaching only one person, they have to be pretty golden to keep teaching them, and if it is a group they have to go to church pretty soon off or we drop them. It makes for a lot of going through investigators, but I know that this is inspired, we are seeing a few of them really stick and seeing those that are truly prepared by the hand of the Lord.
Nin is doing awesome, though we are trying to get her mom more interested, I don’t like baptizing young teenage girls without much support. Her mom is pretty 50/50 right now, I can tell she knows it is true, but she is being stubborn! I know there has to be more concerns, but we cant quite get to them yet.
Pa pong and ma noi are really progressing, we went way far out to their house last week with a member in the pouring rain and taught under their patio in the middle of their jungle-like yard. They came to church yesterday for the whole time, even though they needed to get things ready to sell for the night market. Ma noi is showing a lot of faith and will hopefully be baptized soon, and pa pong will follow her. He needs to gain a true testimony first though.
Kham, our investigator from the hill tribes in Burma is also awesome. she keeps having problems with writing her thesis and defending it, so time keeps getting pushed back. She is wanting to get home, I don’t blame her, but I think the Lord is stalling her here so that she can learn with us and then be one of the pioneers in Burma.
A few of our other investigators have gotten direct awesome answers to their prayers this past week. It is neat to hear each of them. It is interesting, I can always tell the investigators who really prayed and really want to know. If someone says that their prayers didn’t get answered, every time as I talk with them the conclusion is always that they didn’t have the deep desire, or they actually didn’t even pray. Prayer is such a powerful thing. Think how cool and what a blessing it is that we have been able to talk with God our whole lives. Every week I teach atleast a few people who have never prayed before and get to hear their first prayers. Sometimes they feel funny and aren’t sincere, some are too scared to pray, and some I know that they are opening the heavens and truly trying to talk with their Heavenly Father for the first time.
Right now I am studying prayer a lot in my studies and trying to make my prayers more sincere and have conversations with God like it says in alma 37, not just telling him everything. I love in I think it is the bible dictionary where it says that prayer is aligning our will with God’s will. We see lots of little miracles everyday, especially now with a greenie. I know that Heavenly Father is helping me so much, there is no way I could be doing this with His help. Lots of time on my knees and lots of reading in Preach My Gospel. For example, just the other night I had written someones name for a backup plan and I didn’t know who it was. We had some extra time so we biked around and invited and ended up at a girls house that we have taught once but sister Josephson left and I didn’t have her number. We went upstairs to her appt and she was just about to leave! I got her number and scheduled another appt with her, her name is om!
Sorry to cut it short, its time to write my presidents email. I love you so much and am getting excited to see you soon!
Until next week,
Sister Young
Weve had a great week, lots of hard work, lots of finding and cycling through investigators. The past few months President Smith has made a lot of changes in trying to help Thailand get stronger and hopefully soon get a temple. We have new rules like if we are teaching only one person, they have to be pretty golden to keep teaching them, and if it is a group they have to go to church pretty soon off or we drop them. It makes for a lot of going through investigators, but I know that this is inspired, we are seeing a few of them really stick and seeing those that are truly prepared by the hand of the Lord.
Nin is doing awesome, though we are trying to get her mom more interested, I don’t like baptizing young teenage girls without much support. Her mom is pretty 50/50 right now, I can tell she knows it is true, but she is being stubborn! I know there has to be more concerns, but we cant quite get to them yet.
Pa pong and ma noi are really progressing, we went way far out to their house last week with a member in the pouring rain and taught under their patio in the middle of their jungle-like yard. They came to church yesterday for the whole time, even though they needed to get things ready to sell for the night market. Ma noi is showing a lot of faith and will hopefully be baptized soon, and pa pong will follow her. He needs to gain a true testimony first though.
Kham, our investigator from the hill tribes in Burma is also awesome. she keeps having problems with writing her thesis and defending it, so time keeps getting pushed back. She is wanting to get home, I don’t blame her, but I think the Lord is stalling her here so that she can learn with us and then be one of the pioneers in Burma.
A few of our other investigators have gotten direct awesome answers to their prayers this past week. It is neat to hear each of them. It is interesting, I can always tell the investigators who really prayed and really want to know. If someone says that their prayers didn’t get answered, every time as I talk with them the conclusion is always that they didn’t have the deep desire, or they actually didn’t even pray. Prayer is such a powerful thing. Think how cool and what a blessing it is that we have been able to talk with God our whole lives. Every week I teach atleast a few people who have never prayed before and get to hear their first prayers. Sometimes they feel funny and aren’t sincere, some are too scared to pray, and some I know that they are opening the heavens and truly trying to talk with their Heavenly Father for the first time.
Right now I am studying prayer a lot in my studies and trying to make my prayers more sincere and have conversations with God like it says in alma 37, not just telling him everything. I love in I think it is the bible dictionary where it says that prayer is aligning our will with God’s will. We see lots of little miracles everyday, especially now with a greenie. I know that Heavenly Father is helping me so much, there is no way I could be doing this with His help. Lots of time on my knees and lots of reading in Preach My Gospel. For example, just the other night I had written someones name for a backup plan and I didn’t know who it was. We had some extra time so we biked around and invited and ended up at a girls house that we have taught once but sister Josephson left and I didn’t have her number. We went upstairs to her appt and she was just about to leave! I got her number and scheduled another appt with her, her name is om!
Sorry to cut it short, its time to write my presidents email. I love you so much and am getting excited to see you soon!
Until next week,
Sister Young
jordan 8.2.10
well well well ok i got no time. pres made me senior comp, i guess i better get used to it.
uhhmm julie is baptized!!!!!! she got baptized on thursday, she is awesome she is from columbia and loves the gospel. she was confirmed on sunday. baptizing one person at a time baby! the whole world will hear the gospel at one point! hard to believe right? well guess what, it will happen, God never gives a commandment without making it possible.
its goin good out here. were still working with a few more baptismal dates. its hard to get people to go to church out here.
on mon last mon we went to an old school boat race, they are huge sail boats maybe 150 ft long. a whole crew works on them. they were made from 1910 to 1930 they were beautiful. and man can they manuver, the dutch are amazing in the water. there were prob 15 boats. a cool member took us there. he has been having us over to his house to eat. his fam is awesome. he loves to work with us too.
one of my comps goes home in a couple weeks, that means i will be taking over the city.
the weather has been bad here. mom can you send me that book of mormon study guide. man taryn is training. sweeet! court hang in there! i am going to read ur letter when i get home. chan you are a stud. hows the summer treating you? cam are you getting serious or what? geez! mike and shayne thank you again for all you did to help me get out here i love you guys! Cade dude how are you? Brig! how is the summer? hayden! i know you are a help to your mom! why why wyatt! are you taller than me yet? what are you guys doing lately??? Cole are you doing any missionary studies? time is close!
i love you all mom thank you. ok g2g homie smell ya later!
e robert
uhhmm julie is baptized!!!!!! she got baptized on thursday, she is awesome she is from columbia and loves the gospel. she was confirmed on sunday. baptizing one person at a time baby! the whole world will hear the gospel at one point! hard to believe right? well guess what, it will happen, God never gives a commandment without making it possible.
its goin good out here. were still working with a few more baptismal dates. its hard to get people to go to church out here.
on mon last mon we went to an old school boat race, they are huge sail boats maybe 150 ft long. a whole crew works on them. they were made from 1910 to 1930 they were beautiful. and man can they manuver, the dutch are amazing in the water. there were prob 15 boats. a cool member took us there. he has been having us over to his house to eat. his fam is awesome. he loves to work with us too.
one of my comps goes home in a couple weeks, that means i will be taking over the city.
the weather has been bad here. mom can you send me that book of mormon study guide. man taryn is training. sweeet! court hang in there! i am going to read ur letter when i get home. chan you are a stud. hows the summer treating you? cam are you getting serious or what? geez! mike and shayne thank you again for all you did to help me get out here i love you guys! Cade dude how are you? Brig! how is the summer? hayden! i know you are a help to your mom! why why wyatt! are you taller than me yet? what are you guys doing lately??? Cole are you doing any missionary studies? time is close!
i love you all mom thank you. ok g2g homie smell ya later!
e robert
taryn 7.26.10
Hey!
happy birthday to all the July birthdays, especially paigey last week, and TODAY ash man! oh man i miss you all so much!
This past week was good, but oh so stressful! you dont realize how much your companion does to help until she is gone and you have someone that doesnt know much about the missionfield. you end up doing most of it, and then to help her grow make her do some stuff, but that takes even more effort. hah, i feel like mom and dad when they were making us clean the house- i know it would have been easier to just do it yourself, but you made us do it with all our whining. thank you for that by the way. it seems like every week i come to appreciate you mom and dad more and more. I feel like the whole area is on my shoulders right now. im trying to give it all to the Lord, but im so scared im going to mess up! I am training sister jessica naegle. she is way cute! shes from bountiful, utah and is actually taller than me! i dont feel like a giant anymore, it is so wierd! everyone called me training her, even those who met her a few days before and they didnt know i was training. when i saw her, i also i knew she was the one id be training. she is trying very hard, an awesome girl and is going to be an incredible missionary.
i guess ill start with tues of last week. for english class, every 6 weeks we have a game day where we do english things. last tues we had a talent show/ show and tell. we set up the cultural hall (yes, thats right, we actually have one in chaing mai!!! ) we had little tickets, a ticket booth, and the stage all decorated. we had some good talents: showing off artwork they drew, pictures of places they had gone, a man made a little wooden toy swing for it, and we even had a nurse bring in an electronic pulse taker thing (sorry my english isnt so great right now.. ) my favorite was kham, our investigator from burma. she showed the ctr right that sister josephson gave her the day before and explained what it stood for, it was cute. right after the show we headed to the bus station for a long night on the bus, a long day with meetings and trainings for trainers, waiting at the nasty bus station in bangkok with men from india hitting on us, and then another long night of trying to sleep on the bus, finally getting to sleep, and then the lights turning on telling you to go out and eat and stretch in the middle of the night.
at the moves meeting i found out some awesome and exciting news though! 4 of my investigators got baptized, and also a friend that i dont know. 1 was from saphaansung, lita! she finally kicked out her abusive husband who woulnt marry her and could get baptized! we have been writing back and forth and she wrote me a really cute letter with a pic of her and her baby from her baptism. then 3 girls from udon and their friend also got baptized!
weve been pretty busy, and when we arent busy we are inviting up a storm.
i think im going to have to drop some of my favorite investigators because they arent progressing. so hard, but i know that the Lord will provide for them and their time will come another time.
friday night i had a neat experience. we met for the first time with a girl named nui who came from english class. after teaching her she told us about a dream that she has had a few times about her in a pinkish room, wearing a white dress, and another lady there helping her in a white dress. she said it was so beautiful and felt so peaceful. she asked what we think this could be and we explained a little about the temple (well i guess i did, my comp didnt understand until i explained after.)
thais are funny about dreams, they talking and think a lot about them. sat we taught a recent convert who told us about her friend coming to her telling her she is hungry and asking what this could mean. we again taught temple work. then also sunday we had an investigator explain her dream and ask what it meant.
saturday we hurried place to place teaching 6 lessons! that is hard because chaing mai is so big, a lot of travel time. we started with nin and her mom who also forced us to eat japanese food. ha im glad im in thailand.... then taught a few new investigator lessons and recent convert lessons, one that i loved was taught to a thai-yai (hill tribe) girl who is alright at speaking thai. we taught in her family's tiny appt that really smelled like pee, but she was very cute and wants to meet with us again soon.
sunday was an awesome day after i got out working. well the beginng wasnt the greatest. haha it started with us biking fast to church, me about to turn a corner and a dog, i have no idea why, came sprinting around the corner. i had no time and ran right into it!!! it was startled for a min, and then ran off. my hands and knees are pretty beat up, and my muscles a little sore today, but my clothes were fine, we didnt have to go back and change!
sitting in church and then a meeting after isnt the best for someone who already had lots of anxiety and worrying about everything! for some reason i was just stressing about training and also about the area. i just didnt feel like i could do it. A byu student (she taught morg in the mtc! she served in s. france!) who i know Heavenly Father sent came up to me after church and congratulated me on training and then said things that helped me out so much like, "man, training is so hard, but you see so many miracles" ha i wanted to break down and cry right there. after church we went and dropped a booklet off at an investigator's house because i forgot to bring it yesterday. yes, im losing my mind... it was a blessing though because we got to talk with another family member that wasnt there the day before when we were teaching, and then ended up teaching her. i invited her to the district presidents house that night for dinner and she actually came! later that evening we went and picked her up, along with a few other investigators in a songtaw (a pickup truck with two rows for seats that are a common form of transportation here..) and we ate at presidents little house, sitting on the gorund on mats around ceramic pots with coals in them and a metal thing that you cook your own meat on.
ok, out of time. i love you so much. man i am getting so so excited to see you. it seems like i miss you more and more every day.
courtney, i hope that you are feeling better! know that there is someone across the world praying for you!
i love you.
sister young
happy birthday to all the July birthdays, especially paigey last week, and TODAY ash man! oh man i miss you all so much!
This past week was good, but oh so stressful! you dont realize how much your companion does to help until she is gone and you have someone that doesnt know much about the missionfield. you end up doing most of it, and then to help her grow make her do some stuff, but that takes even more effort. hah, i feel like mom and dad when they were making us clean the house- i know it would have been easier to just do it yourself, but you made us do it with all our whining. thank you for that by the way. it seems like every week i come to appreciate you mom and dad more and more. I feel like the whole area is on my shoulders right now. im trying to give it all to the Lord, but im so scared im going to mess up! I am training sister jessica naegle. she is way cute! shes from bountiful, utah and is actually taller than me! i dont feel like a giant anymore, it is so wierd! everyone called me training her, even those who met her a few days before and they didnt know i was training. when i saw her, i also i knew she was the one id be training. she is trying very hard, an awesome girl and is going to be an incredible missionary.
i guess ill start with tues of last week. for english class, every 6 weeks we have a game day where we do english things. last tues we had a talent show/ show and tell. we set up the cultural hall (yes, thats right, we actually have one in chaing mai!!! ) we had little tickets, a ticket booth, and the stage all decorated. we had some good talents: showing off artwork they drew, pictures of places they had gone, a man made a little wooden toy swing for it, and we even had a nurse bring in an electronic pulse taker thing (sorry my english isnt so great right now.. ) my favorite was kham, our investigator from burma. she showed the ctr right that sister josephson gave her the day before and explained what it stood for, it was cute. right after the show we headed to the bus station for a long night on the bus, a long day with meetings and trainings for trainers, waiting at the nasty bus station in bangkok with men from india hitting on us, and then another long night of trying to sleep on the bus, finally getting to sleep, and then the lights turning on telling you to go out and eat and stretch in the middle of the night.
at the moves meeting i found out some awesome and exciting news though! 4 of my investigators got baptized, and also a friend that i dont know. 1 was from saphaansung, lita! she finally kicked out her abusive husband who woulnt marry her and could get baptized! we have been writing back and forth and she wrote me a really cute letter with a pic of her and her baby from her baptism. then 3 girls from udon and their friend also got baptized!
weve been pretty busy, and when we arent busy we are inviting up a storm.
i think im going to have to drop some of my favorite investigators because they arent progressing. so hard, but i know that the Lord will provide for them and their time will come another time.
friday night i had a neat experience. we met for the first time with a girl named nui who came from english class. after teaching her she told us about a dream that she has had a few times about her in a pinkish room, wearing a white dress, and another lady there helping her in a white dress. she said it was so beautiful and felt so peaceful. she asked what we think this could be and we explained a little about the temple (well i guess i did, my comp didnt understand until i explained after.)
thais are funny about dreams, they talking and think a lot about them. sat we taught a recent convert who told us about her friend coming to her telling her she is hungry and asking what this could mean. we again taught temple work. then also sunday we had an investigator explain her dream and ask what it meant.
saturday we hurried place to place teaching 6 lessons! that is hard because chaing mai is so big, a lot of travel time. we started with nin and her mom who also forced us to eat japanese food. ha im glad im in thailand.... then taught a few new investigator lessons and recent convert lessons, one that i loved was taught to a thai-yai (hill tribe) girl who is alright at speaking thai. we taught in her family's tiny appt that really smelled like pee, but she was very cute and wants to meet with us again soon.
sunday was an awesome day after i got out working. well the beginng wasnt the greatest. haha it started with us biking fast to church, me about to turn a corner and a dog, i have no idea why, came sprinting around the corner. i had no time and ran right into it!!! it was startled for a min, and then ran off. my hands and knees are pretty beat up, and my muscles a little sore today, but my clothes were fine, we didnt have to go back and change!
sitting in church and then a meeting after isnt the best for someone who already had lots of anxiety and worrying about everything! for some reason i was just stressing about training and also about the area. i just didnt feel like i could do it. A byu student (she taught morg in the mtc! she served in s. france!) who i know Heavenly Father sent came up to me after church and congratulated me on training and then said things that helped me out so much like, "man, training is so hard, but you see so many miracles" ha i wanted to break down and cry right there. after church we went and dropped a booklet off at an investigator's house because i forgot to bring it yesterday. yes, im losing my mind... it was a blessing though because we got to talk with another family member that wasnt there the day before when we were teaching, and then ended up teaching her. i invited her to the district presidents house that night for dinner and she actually came! later that evening we went and picked her up, along with a few other investigators in a songtaw (a pickup truck with two rows for seats that are a common form of transportation here..) and we ate at presidents little house, sitting on the gorund on mats around ceramic pots with coals in them and a metal thing that you cook your own meat on.
ok, out of time. i love you so much. man i am getting so so excited to see you. it seems like i miss you more and more every day.
courtney, i hope that you are feeling better! know that there is someone across the world praying for you!
i love you.
sister young
jordan 7.26.10
well hello this week was busy. on friday i had to go down to brussels to renew my legality. i had to wke up at 4:50 in the morning to catch a train to brussels. i went from the very top of the mission and also the netherlands to the bottom of the missin. it took over 5 hours to get there then we had daleys so it took somewhere around 6 hours. then when i was in brussels i had to sign a paper then turn around and go back. andother 6 hours, man. i love brussels, its too bad its not a part of our mission any more.
Julie is getting baptised on thursday! she is doing so good. we are going to teach her right after this. we teach her on our p day. then after that we were invited to go to a ship race. i guess they race these huge old fashioned ships on big lakes out here. its going to be cool the weather is a little chillier out here now.
i cant believe taryn is training!! crazy. she is an amazing missionary.
chan! man your a stud saving peoples lives like its no biggie. your a stud! Courtney! man i cant believe whats going on, you are tough as nails. keep holding strong. i am praying for you, love ya! your amazing.
our investigators this week have been kindof flakey well one of them is going to have a baby and its also vacation time soo a lot of people are gone. we had a lot of doors slammed in our face. mom,dad, thanks for the shoes the are awesome they fit perfectly. im not sure what elder howell can bring me. maybe the other shoes. he might as well. he could bring me some hair supplies and deoderant. the Crew hair pomaid. its blue. cam knows what kind. and some axe stick deoderant. dad knows what kind is good.
uuum ok g2g love you all soo mutch. have a good week .
love
elder robert
Julie is getting baptised on thursday! she is doing so good. we are going to teach her right after this. we teach her on our p day. then after that we were invited to go to a ship race. i guess they race these huge old fashioned ships on big lakes out here. its going to be cool the weather is a little chillier out here now.
i cant believe taryn is training!! crazy. she is an amazing missionary.
chan! man your a stud saving peoples lives like its no biggie. your a stud! Courtney! man i cant believe whats going on, you are tough as nails. keep holding strong. i am praying for you, love ya! your amazing.
our investigators this week have been kindof flakey well one of them is going to have a baby and its also vacation time soo a lot of people are gone. we had a lot of doors slammed in our face. mom,dad, thanks for the shoes the are awesome they fit perfectly. im not sure what elder howell can bring me. maybe the other shoes. he might as well. he could bring me some hair supplies and deoderant. the Crew hair pomaid. its blue. cam knows what kind. and some axe stick deoderant. dad knows what kind is good.
uuum ok g2g love you all soo mutch. have a good week .
love
elder robert
morgan 7.26.10
Okay, I just got done chatting with Taryn through e-mails a few seconds ago. very cool!! she is an awesome missionary!
so this week was very interesting. We had zone conference on Wed. and it was so good! We talked about how important The Book of Mormon is in our contacts. So what we did is that our President gave us these big posters with the picture where Jesus came to the Americas and we go talk to people about that. And instead of contacting just focusing on getting their address or phone number we focus on giving them a Book of Mormon. He said if you dont feel the urge to ask for their number, dont! Just give them The Book of Mormon with my testimony and an invitation to read and pray to know if it is true. It is so cool to see the difference. We have so much more success when we focus on helping these people and not just numbers to send in to our leaders. It is so cool to see people walking down the street with B.o.M.'s in their hand.
So this week we found one new investigator. She is sweet! her name is Jessy. She has a baptismal date for the 14th of August. It is going to be alot of work to get her there but she is ready. She wants it. She has been searching. We also got into contact with the brother of a member named Charles-Henri. His only problem is the word of wisdom. He has been taught for the past year or 2. He knows ALOT about the gospel. We set a date for him to stop smoking Aug. 8 and for him to be baptized for the end of Aug. He is very ready.
Still no news on the date for Vanessa's wedding. She is still awesome though. She brought Benoit (her fiancé) to church yesterday and it was so good!! We are having a family home evening at the church (like every Monday night) but we are having a crèpes party!! I am so excited! we have quite a bit of people coming too. I will take some pics mom dont worry.
Well happy birthday to all the birthdays last week and this week! July is always nuts with the birthdays! Hope you all had a fun time! I am going to write my mommy now but thanks for all the support you all give me!
Peace!
Morgan
so this week was very interesting. We had zone conference on Wed. and it was so good! We talked about how important The Book of Mormon is in our contacts. So what we did is that our President gave us these big posters with the picture where Jesus came to the Americas and we go talk to people about that. And instead of contacting just focusing on getting their address or phone number we focus on giving them a Book of Mormon. He said if you dont feel the urge to ask for their number, dont! Just give them The Book of Mormon with my testimony and an invitation to read and pray to know if it is true. It is so cool to see the difference. We have so much more success when we focus on helping these people and not just numbers to send in to our leaders. It is so cool to see people walking down the street with B.o.M.'s in their hand.
So this week we found one new investigator. She is sweet! her name is Jessy. She has a baptismal date for the 14th of August. It is going to be alot of work to get her there but she is ready. She wants it. She has been searching. We also got into contact with the brother of a member named Charles-Henri. His only problem is the word of wisdom. He has been taught for the past year or 2. He knows ALOT about the gospel. We set a date for him to stop smoking Aug. 8 and for him to be baptized for the end of Aug. He is very ready.
Still no news on the date for Vanessa's wedding. She is still awesome though. She brought Benoit (her fiancé) to church yesterday and it was so good!! We are having a family home evening at the church (like every Monday night) but we are having a crèpes party!! I am so excited! we have quite a bit of people coming too. I will take some pics mom dont worry.
Well happy birthday to all the birthdays last week and this week! July is always nuts with the birthdays! Hope you all had a fun time! I am going to write my mommy now but thanks for all the support you all give me!
Peace!
Morgan
taryn 7.19.10
Hey Family!
Well yesterday i got a big phone call, my companion looked at me right before she answered it and said "its president" and then handed the phone to me. i didnt think i would be getting that phone call. my heart dropped. he started it by saying "sister young, im going to change your life around a little bit. you are killing someone off, and then are going to give birth." he asked me to train, and then talked for a minute about the importance of a trainer.
the past few weeks have been hard because my companion is going home this week. we are all old in the mission now, we went 9 months without getting any sisters. hearing her talk about home, the things she is nervous for, and the things she is excited for, it has been hard knowing she is going home to her family and difficult to keep my mind focused. this is going to be such a change! IM TRAINING!!! oh man im nervous. in almost every meeting president always mentions how the calling of a trainer is the most important calling a missionary can get, you are setting the pace for the rest of their mission. i still do so many of the things that my "mom" (sister hulme) did my first two moves here. we got a few sister in and he called me! i dont think im qualified for it. it is going to be hard but such a fun and neat experience. so... i am leaving tonight for bangkok to kill off my companion tomorrow, and then get a brand new greenie. its going to be an adventure! ill let you know about her next week.
Most of our investigators are doing great, though we have lost a few to the difficulties of trying to change religions when coming from a strong buddhist family. We got quite a few new investigators, we go through them pretty fast here.. one girl is named bong, we met her as we were biking through a neighborhood quickly to another appointment. i saw her walking and had the feeling to stop. i was so blunt, more blunt than i have ever been in an invite because we were in a hurry. i said something along the lines of, "hello, im a missionary. do you want to learn about Jesus Christ?" she surpisingly said yes, gave me her number and we were off. i called her quite a few times after that and she never answered. a few weeks later i prayed and told Heavenly Father that this was the last time i was going to call her. it rang and rang and then she answered and invited us over to her tiny one room apt the next day! she is very sweet, kept wanting to give us everything. she knows nothing about christianity, but is interested in learning, and also her mom died, the last of her family, 2 months ago. i have good feelings about her! im excited to go back and see her.
we have a lot of people we are going to have to see the end of this week because these first few days are shot with my comp packing and then going to bangkok. i hope that they all remember to pray and do their commitments!Our ward mission leader is in the mental hospital right now, im not sure why, but its something that acts up every once in a while ever since he was in his twenties. his sister was telling us about the place he is in, its like a jail with bars and everything. she then went on to tell us about the poor little boy that was next to him. all growing up his mom put him in front of video games. he played all day long every day. his life now is a video game, he does the motions, driving a car or playing with a paddle and even does sound effects, though there is nothing going on in front of him. so so sad. it was interesting because my comp and i had just finished talking about elder bednars talk from the ensign last month about computers and fake reality. you should all read it, its pretty long, but really good! we had just talked about goals for when we get home to keep our reality straight, time limits for playing on the computer- including facebood, blogs and things. so many good uses of the internet, but satan finds a way to make even those good things bad through over-use.
We met up with some Jehovas Witnesses the other day in the park and ended up talking with them for awhile. They had all the normal trying to bible bash scriptures. some of them i couldnt even answer and said i would ge back and study those things, but it just made me know even more that this church is true. i just smile and was nice to them, but inside i just wanted to show them how silly they seam. one of them was from australia, the other from belgium!!!!!!!! the australian was pretty nice, but man jordan i feel bad for you, the belgian was a stinker! she kept smirking and saying, "so why is america so special, does God not love me, im from belgium, i dont have scriptures from my country." and things like that.
I am so grateful for this church and that i was able to grow up in the strength of it. i know it is the only true church on the earth. i agree with the Thais, almost every single one when we invite them says "every religion teaches people to be good." usually it is their defence for not learning with us, but i do agree with them. every religion teaches people to be good, but they just dont have the fullness or the saving ordinances. i want to delcare it to the world.
well family, i think thats enough from this side of the world for the week. i hope you are all having fun and being SAFE in lake powel. i love and miss you so much! i really cant wait to the day that i get to see you again, not too long! you are the best family ever. really.
love, sister young
Well yesterday i got a big phone call, my companion looked at me right before she answered it and said "its president" and then handed the phone to me. i didnt think i would be getting that phone call. my heart dropped. he started it by saying "sister young, im going to change your life around a little bit. you are killing someone off, and then are going to give birth." he asked me to train, and then talked for a minute about the importance of a trainer.
the past few weeks have been hard because my companion is going home this week. we are all old in the mission now, we went 9 months without getting any sisters. hearing her talk about home, the things she is nervous for, and the things she is excited for, it has been hard knowing she is going home to her family and difficult to keep my mind focused. this is going to be such a change! IM TRAINING!!! oh man im nervous. in almost every meeting president always mentions how the calling of a trainer is the most important calling a missionary can get, you are setting the pace for the rest of their mission. i still do so many of the things that my "mom" (sister hulme) did my first two moves here. we got a few sister in and he called me! i dont think im qualified for it. it is going to be hard but such a fun and neat experience. so... i am leaving tonight for bangkok to kill off my companion tomorrow, and then get a brand new greenie. its going to be an adventure! ill let you know about her next week.
Most of our investigators are doing great, though we have lost a few to the difficulties of trying to change religions when coming from a strong buddhist family. We got quite a few new investigators, we go through them pretty fast here.. one girl is named bong, we met her as we were biking through a neighborhood quickly to another appointment. i saw her walking and had the feeling to stop. i was so blunt, more blunt than i have ever been in an invite because we were in a hurry. i said something along the lines of, "hello, im a missionary. do you want to learn about Jesus Christ?" she surpisingly said yes, gave me her number and we were off. i called her quite a few times after that and she never answered. a few weeks later i prayed and told Heavenly Father that this was the last time i was going to call her. it rang and rang and then she answered and invited us over to her tiny one room apt the next day! she is very sweet, kept wanting to give us everything. she knows nothing about christianity, but is interested in learning, and also her mom died, the last of her family, 2 months ago. i have good feelings about her! im excited to go back and see her.
we have a lot of people we are going to have to see the end of this week because these first few days are shot with my comp packing and then going to bangkok. i hope that they all remember to pray and do their commitments!Our ward mission leader is in the mental hospital right now, im not sure why, but its something that acts up every once in a while ever since he was in his twenties. his sister was telling us about the place he is in, its like a jail with bars and everything. she then went on to tell us about the poor little boy that was next to him. all growing up his mom put him in front of video games. he played all day long every day. his life now is a video game, he does the motions, driving a car or playing with a paddle and even does sound effects, though there is nothing going on in front of him. so so sad. it was interesting because my comp and i had just finished talking about elder bednars talk from the ensign last month about computers and fake reality. you should all read it, its pretty long, but really good! we had just talked about goals for when we get home to keep our reality straight, time limits for playing on the computer- including facebood, blogs and things. so many good uses of the internet, but satan finds a way to make even those good things bad through over-use.
We met up with some Jehovas Witnesses the other day in the park and ended up talking with them for awhile. They had all the normal trying to bible bash scriptures. some of them i couldnt even answer and said i would ge back and study those things, but it just made me know even more that this church is true. i just smile and was nice to them, but inside i just wanted to show them how silly they seam. one of them was from australia, the other from belgium!!!!!!!! the australian was pretty nice, but man jordan i feel bad for you, the belgian was a stinker! she kept smirking and saying, "so why is america so special, does God not love me, im from belgium, i dont have scriptures from my country." and things like that.
I am so grateful for this church and that i was able to grow up in the strength of it. i know it is the only true church on the earth. i agree with the Thais, almost every single one when we invite them says "every religion teaches people to be good." usually it is their defence for not learning with us, but i do agree with them. every religion teaches people to be good, but they just dont have the fullness or the saving ordinances. i want to delcare it to the world.
well family, i think thats enough from this side of the world for the week. i hope you are all having fun and being SAFE in lake powel. i love and miss you so much! i really cant wait to the day that i get to see you again, not too long! you are the best family ever. really.
love, sister young
morgan 7.19.10
Hello Everybody,
Wow, so this week was another rough one. Really discouraging especially towards the beginning. It has been really hard with all the vacations and everything here. Not very many people to teach. We saw alot of denial and not much success. But the success that we did see was really awesome. So after the whole week of denial after denial and raté-vous after raté vous (raté vous is a rendez-vous that doesnt work. such as false address or dont show up. we saw it all) But we were on our way to another raté-vous (running because we were a little late) and there were SO MANY tourists!! every person was american or english or chineese. it was awful! but we were running to our rendez-vous with someone we met on the road and in the huge group of tourists I had a feeling to talk to this one black dude. I stopped and told him we dont have much time but we would love to talk to him about the gospel of Jesus Christ. He accepted. We had a rendez-vous with him the next day. And it worked!! We invited him to be baptized on august 14 the day after and he accepted. He has a lot of problems and has a great desire to be baptised. His name is Isaac he is from North Africa, he was edjucated in Islam (muslum) but once his dad died his mom got baptized. He doesnt know much but we are going to do all we can to prepare him. He is super cool.
Vanessa still hasnt found a date for her marriage so the baptismal date is still on hold. She is still sweet though.
So there is This old ladie named Farida ( for the first 5 rendez-vous we thought it was Tarida) haha. But she is an old mulsum ladie who we helped with her groceries one time when i was with Elder Mayer. At first she was 100 percent muslum and tried to teach us more than we were teaching her. But now she is open to Christianity and the gospel. We help her every thursday at the morning market where she buys her fruit and we do too. It is so cool!
The morning markets are every tues. thurs. and sat. and everybody goes. It is where everybody gets everything because the grocery stores suck. But yeah... those are just a couple of our investigators. Some more are Alexandra, now known as the woman who was laughing her head off during testimony meeting. yeah, it was pretty bad. A member of the bishopric came up to us after and told us she was posessed and we are encouraging her. ouch. There is also Caroline, she is a friend of a member and is pretty weird. haha. She takes honestly 1 min. to answer every question. Maybe next time we should play 20 questions... haha. And there is Sophie, she is the woman that helped me with ALL my clothes when our washing machine was broken for 3 weeks. I couldnt take dirty shirts any more so I carried my huge bag of clothes around all day long. During the contact with her she asked me "why do you have that huge bag?" I explained, she let me use her washer that night and we taught the 1st lesson and taught her ever since. Well that is about the list for right now. All the rest are either on vacation or recently dropped us. I just gotta keep staying positive. We have so many cool investigators and I love them all!
I didnt get the chance to see the tour de france. There werent any members who were going today. It isnt as big over here as I thought it was. Sports in general are not that big. There was the world cup but that wasnt any bigger than what you see in the states. Kinda lame. Well I sure hope this week is better that last week because last week was rough.
Morgan
Wow, so this week was another rough one. Really discouraging especially towards the beginning. It has been really hard with all the vacations and everything here. Not very many people to teach. We saw alot of denial and not much success. But the success that we did see was really awesome. So after the whole week of denial after denial and raté-vous after raté vous (raté vous is a rendez-vous that doesnt work. such as false address or dont show up. we saw it all) But we were on our way to another raté-vous (running because we were a little late) and there were SO MANY tourists!! every person was american or english or chineese. it was awful! but we were running to our rendez-vous with someone we met on the road and in the huge group of tourists I had a feeling to talk to this one black dude. I stopped and told him we dont have much time but we would love to talk to him about the gospel of Jesus Christ. He accepted. We had a rendez-vous with him the next day. And it worked!! We invited him to be baptized on august 14 the day after and he accepted. He has a lot of problems and has a great desire to be baptised. His name is Isaac he is from North Africa, he was edjucated in Islam (muslum) but once his dad died his mom got baptized. He doesnt know much but we are going to do all we can to prepare him. He is super cool.
Vanessa still hasnt found a date for her marriage so the baptismal date is still on hold. She is still sweet though.
So there is This old ladie named Farida ( for the first 5 rendez-vous we thought it was Tarida) haha. But she is an old mulsum ladie who we helped with her groceries one time when i was with Elder Mayer. At first she was 100 percent muslum and tried to teach us more than we were teaching her. But now she is open to Christianity and the gospel. We help her every thursday at the morning market where she buys her fruit and we do too. It is so cool!
The morning markets are every tues. thurs. and sat. and everybody goes. It is where everybody gets everything because the grocery stores suck. But yeah... those are just a couple of our investigators. Some more are Alexandra, now known as the woman who was laughing her head off during testimony meeting. yeah, it was pretty bad. A member of the bishopric came up to us after and told us she was posessed and we are encouraging her. ouch. There is also Caroline, she is a friend of a member and is pretty weird. haha. She takes honestly 1 min. to answer every question. Maybe next time we should play 20 questions... haha. And there is Sophie, she is the woman that helped me with ALL my clothes when our washing machine was broken for 3 weeks. I couldnt take dirty shirts any more so I carried my huge bag of clothes around all day long. During the contact with her she asked me "why do you have that huge bag?" I explained, she let me use her washer that night and we taught the 1st lesson and taught her ever since. Well that is about the list for right now. All the rest are either on vacation or recently dropped us. I just gotta keep staying positive. We have so many cool investigators and I love them all!
I didnt get the chance to see the tour de france. There werent any members who were going today. It isnt as big over here as I thought it was. Sports in general are not that big. There was the world cup but that wasnt any bigger than what you see in the states. Kinda lame. Well I sure hope this week is better that last week because last week was rough.
Morgan
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