June 6 2016

The last couple of days I have dodged a few bullets. Training calls came out, and I’m not training. Purge calls came out, and we are not going to purge out of our area, and now I’m just waiting on the transfer calls that come out tomorrow. 

I really want to stay here for my last transfer. I do not want to pack up and unpack and spend the last 6 weeks in a new area and then leave right after that! 

The weather here has been nice, probably because its June, but we have been getting really nice weather for the pass couple of days. I’m sure that it is not as hot as in Logan. The warmest it’s been was 31.

We had a Golf Activity in the ward for all of the Elders and High Priests. We were able to attend, but we did not golf. I wish we did, and we could have, but we were there for the food, and we had an investigator and a non member there. It’s a nice course but I”m kinda glad that I did not golf because there was about a 6 minute down pour of rain that came from nowhere!  But the food was really good, I know that you are probably wondering what we had. Hamburgers and baked beans, and they were really good!

There was a meeting out in Lethbridge. It was about ward council. President said that he has had the feeling that the whole mission needs to know how to work with the ward councils, but everything that was discussed I knew. It was a good review but there are also a lot of younger missionaries in this mission, and having that meeting was good for them. While in Lethbridge we got an oil change so our car is now nice and happy with us! :)  

On Friday we had a lesson with Donna. We just recommitted her to stop smoking and talked about Church. That lesson went really well, We brought a member with us, Again having members come to lessons is so helpful! 

Saturday there was a wedding (it was not my wedding). There was a member in the ward who was getting married to a non member. We helped with the food serving, and clean up. It was really cool to see a wedding like that. The bishop married them, and there were a lot of non members who were there. It was good to get them inside the Church. There were lots of people who were impressed with all of the decorations and the service. 

We knocked on Bob and Marva's door. They were investigators at one point, but we dropped them about 3 months ago because it was hard to meet with them, but we taught the first lesson, about the Book of Mormon. Bob said that he was curious about it because they have one that we gave to them. After the lesson Bob said that we sparked his interest! 

We have another lesson with them today and we will teach about the Plan of Salvation. 

That same day we went to a party. It was with all of the singers in the community choir. It was hosted by one of the singers in his backyard, so there was a number of people there. All of them know us and they love us. Even John was there, the one who told me not to sing very loud. I enjoyed going there because I knew them all and I enjoyed talking with them. Bishop and his wife were there as well. I like to say that we were the only ones having fun because we were not drinking the drinks that were there or that people brought. hahaha 

Sunday we had a lesson with Grant. He did not come to Church, no one that we are teaching did. The lesson with Grant went really well, fellowship is where it’s at. Friends in the ward is what every investigator needs. 

Congratulations Tanner on your High School and Seminary Graduation! That is a wonderful achievement. Because you are speaking Spanish on your mission, and depending on the music rules in your mission, I have a bunch of Spanish songs that you can have that are okay in this mission you will have to let me know.. 

Love you all.

May 30 2016

You had a much crazier week then I had... alcohol bottle through the windscreen, call form Lethbrigde Alberta Canada, summer break, and teaching youth conference. 

I thought that was really funny dad when you were teaching and you got that call, I thought that might happen, but you have also been getting a few calls and texts from Canada. It is also kinda funny because that happens to us when he calls. The call drops and it’s hard to hear etc. We thought it was our phone for a while but now it sounds like his phone is the problem. I’m glad that you got that box of goodies. That is all Canadian candy. I wanted to send some Tim Tams but I found them a few days after Johno left. I will have to send that some time. They are way too good!  

Last week from today on Pday we did some fun things with our WML. We went drifting. He has a Nissan 300zx twin turbo. He took us drifting on this pad. That was alot of fun! I have a few videos of it I will have to show them to you later. There is alot of power behind those cars. Dad I think that you would have liked to be in the car. 

Right after that, we had a lesson with Ferne. We taught the lesson at the same members’ house again. We got there before Ferne did. Much to my surprise Ferne came, her daughter came, and also her granddaughter! There were 5 members in that lesson. That is a little much to have that many members in one lesson but the lesson went really well, and it was well controlled. 

So I guess if we were to chalk our numbers we could say that we had 5 member present lessons just on Monday. hahha!    

Our ward had an FHE activity on Tuesday, and we had a really good turn out. We taught the lesson, which was pretty easy. It was on Love One Another. We had a handful of members and 9 non members show up. One of them was Ferne. 

We have  been having a Romanian mom named Valley and her daughter come to church every Sunday for the past 3-4 months. They are not members. They come to all three hours of church. We have given Valley a Romanian Book of Mormon, Pamphlets, and a Gospel Principles book. They speak okay English, but its hard for them to understand. That is why we are not able to teach them. Valley said that she understands English better when she comes to our Church. 

Valley came with her husband and daughter to that FHE activity. I saw them and went up to say hi. I noticed that Daniel (Valleys husband) had a really cool watch on. I told him that I like his watch and asked if it was a Citizen watch, and he said yes and showed me the watch. I asked if it was a Blue Angels Citizen watch and he replied with a yes. He speaks good English we talked about watches for a while and what he does for work. He is a semi truck driver. It was nice to have something to talk about right when I said hi, since we both like watches. haha

We went on exchanges with the Zone Leaders last week. 

When we got out of an appointment with a less active, which went really well by the way, we got a missed call from the ward clerk saying that there was an urgent move and the people were not members and they had to be out that night because they were being evicted. We were able to help out with that for a bit. They were really thankful for the help that they received. 

We got permission from President to go to the Stake Man Camp/Fathers and Sons just for Friday. That was so fun to go to! I really miss things like that. I miss camping and fathers and sons camps. They had a lot more show up then they planned for and they ran out of food. Someone had to drive to the store and buy some more food. We were not able to stay for the fireside nor the night but it was good to be there for that short while. 

We are going to teach Ferne again tonight. Looking forward to that. 

Love you all.

May 23 2016

Prayers have been answered here. We have been praying and fasting for rain, here and up north where the massive fire is. It has been raining for the past 3 days! I love the rain, its not pouring rain but its a light rain, good enough for the crops to get water, and to wash the car. 

We had a good week. We have a new investigator, and we are teaching her tonight. She is older and good friends with some members. We had dinner twice at their house. The second time we shared the first lesson and she (Ferne) liked it. She had a granddaughter who served a mission. Ferne has two copies of the Book of Mormon with testimonies of her grandchildren in it, so she has had some contact with the Church, and she has accepted to let us teach her. She has had very little questions. Any question she asked was answerable, of course. 

We have not been able to get in contact with Donna for awhile. I was thinking about her and that we need to call her at the beginning of the week and when I thought that, the phone rang. It was her! She heard that Todd, her son-in-law, the one that we did the smoking program with was 9-10 days smoke free! She called us and said that she wants this program. On Friday we taught her the stop smoking workshop and she is committed and is on her way to be a non-smoker. Its really fun to teach it and best of all to see the success that comes from it and to see someone overcome the addiction of cigarettes. 

Tomorrow we have this ward FHE activity. I think they did this same activity 6-7 months ago and it was a success, so tomorrow we are doing it again, we are teaching the lesson. 

We are having another apostle come to this mission. President Nelson is coming here on June 11. I’m looking forward to that. 

Yesterday in Church Grant came with his wife, which was perfect! The talks given were exactly what she needed to hear. I’m glad that she did not have work and that she came, because she needed to hear what the speaker was saying. 

Love you all