tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1930436662202071162024-03-19T00:59:26.400-07:00Elder Rodriguez: Denver North MissionAnonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08826880225559763017noreply@blogger.comBlogger84125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-193043666220207116.post-66556550387223730172016-10-04T17:58:00.002-07:002016-10-04T17:58:37.617-07:00Last email!<div class="MsoNormal" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;">
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<span style="background-color: #666666; color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">It is crazy to be
writing my last email to you all in the mission field. My last week has
definitively been memorable. The Lord has blessd us with a lot of lessons to
teach and I had the opportunity to invite many people to baptism and
activation. We have a strong teaching pool in my area. I had my departing
interview with President Mendenhall on Thursday and he gave me some
good counsel. We were able to watch all sessions of conference, except for the
Priesthood session, at members' homes. Tuesday morning I will be
going to Westminster to the mission home and we will go to the Denver Temple
for the last time. Then we will have dinner and a testimony meeting and Wednesday morning
I fly home. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #666666; color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I will surely miss my
mission a lot. If I could stay out for a little longer I would. Not that I
don't want to go home, but I love this work so much and we are working with a
lot of people who have a lot of potential. I am so grateful for my mission. I
will see you all next in person!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #666666; color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Last full week in the
mission field. Last transfer the office called all the returning missionaries
and asked which airport they would like to fly into. This week was pretty good.
We didn't teach as many people as we would have liked but we still taught many
lessons. We are working with a ton of part member families in both of our
areas. Those families are gold mines for the Arapahoe Stake. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #666666; color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The English Classes
have been going great. There is a lot of support and service form the members
of the stake. The classes will now be moved to another church building in
Aurora, where there is a much more concentrated refugee population. I have been
to that church building and it is kind of a rough area. The classes will start
again next transfer so Saturday was my last time. One of the members took all
the missionaries out to lunch as well.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #666666; color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">We are working with a
part member family in one of the wards we cover and the husband is not a
member. He does marketing for Mucle Pharm, a protein brand, and he was so kind
as to give us a ton of free stuff. Sometimes I feel like a spoiled missionary,
lol. We went on exchanges with another set of Elders on Wednesday. I was able
to go with an Elder named Elder Long. He is from Hemet Califonia and he goes
home 6 weeks after I do. We did a lot of finding this week like always. Finding
which consists of knocking doors, street contacting, and talking to people,
will be something I will miss a lot. The more people you find the more people
you can teach. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #666666; color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">It's pretty crazy to
think I go home so soon. I had a lot of members yesterday tell me good bye and
good luck. The wards I serve in now have been great. I will miss a lot of great
members and families from these areas. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #666666; color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I think it's pretty
cool to have 5 general conference's on a mission. I still remember when I was
in a huge auditorium in the MTC watching it with all the full time missionaries
preparing to enter the mission field with me. We will be watching a couple of
sessions with members this weekend. I hope you all have a great week!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #666666; color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Happy Monday! P-Days
are just too busy for us now. There are 6 companionships in the zone and only 3
of them have cars. So we have to pick a companionship up and haul them around
where ever we go. We wish we could have some time to play sports or something
but we always run out of time. Our appointments went well. Almost all of them
went through. We were so busy last week and we found a couple of new
investigators. We have been setting up appointments like crazy too. We will ask
our investigators and less actives when we can meet and they tell us when. That
is very unusual for this area because it didn't happen the past 3 months but
it's happening now.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #666666; color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">We have an
investigator named Sean Dunlop who is probably one of our top progressing investigators.
He is married to a less active who has 5 kids of her own. And Sean has 4 kids
of his own. They all live in the same house so it gets pretty crazy. He is a
very busy person but he is also lazy when it comes to Church attendance and
keeping commitments. If he were to do those two things he probably would be
baptized by now. He's hard to pin down to get lessons but we are making slow
progress with him.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #666666; color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The English classes
are going great. We haven't been teaching yet, we have been doing the interview
process but we were told we will be teaching this Saturday. Last week we had
people from Iraq, Ethiopia, and Mexico. The emergency transfer went well. The
companionships seem to be getting along ok now, and I was happy to see one of
my past areas again. We had my last zone meeting on Wednesday and that was
great. We were able to go on exchanges with the AP's on Thursday. I went with
Elder Sekona. He is a huge football player from Hawaii and he goes home the
transfer after I do so I have known him my whole mission. It was a fun day with
him. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #666666; color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">This week will be more
of a normal week. There won’t be any big meetings or anything like that. It's
crazy to think I only have two and a half weeks left. I'm trying to stay as
consecrated as I can to sprint to the finish line. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #666666; color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The weather has cooled
down a little bit this week but then it got really hot Sunday and today. I'm
kinda ready for winter when I go home as well. I'll be sad not to see any snow.
But I am excited to come home!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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lot over here. I thought for sure I was getting transferred but Elder Gray got
the boot instead. I am staying in Arapahoe as a zone leader for the rest of my
mission with Elder Weller. I will be training Elder Weller on this assignment
as well. I've never served around him but I know he is a great guy and I will
do well with him. This past transfer we had 2 visa waiters. One that went to
Jamaica and his companion went to another zone early in the transfer. Another
visa waiter is going to Fiji today and his companion is going home Wednesday.
So the zone has shrunk a lot. Next transfer, there are a lot of new
missionaries to the zone. There will be two wards with a brand new set each.
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supposed to go to the Ft. Collins Temple Open House but our investigator,
Faith, bailed out on the very last minute. Elder Gray and I had our suits on,
Tyrone made arrangements at work to be able to drive us all, and while I was
shining my shoes she gave us a call and said she can't come. She said it was
for personal reasons that she wouldn't tell us. We were both so mad and
frustrated but we got over it. Tyrone took us to Golden Corral instead. The
temple is in the Ft. Collins mission still but the Boulder Zone is in our
mission now. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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crazy with transfers on Wednesday, new companions, and other changes. Yesterday
we had an investigator come to church. His name is Tyler and he has a brother
and a grandmother who are members. He is 20 years old and is suited for YSA but
if he doesn't want to investigate the church there we will keep him in our
area. He is on baptismal date for Sept. 10th and everything is looking good so
far. But we haven't taught him the law of chastity or the word of wisdom yet;
those might be some barriers for him. A lot of our investigators are still
stubborn and don't want to change. We are also teaching Tyler's mom, who has
been seeing missionaries for 8 years now. She believes that this is the true
church but doesn't want to give up smoking. But we will keep working with
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<span style="color: #222222;"><span style="background-color: #666666; color: white; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The weather has cooled
down a little bit here in Colorado. So Adora didn't come to church
unfortunately. We even went by her house about an hour before church started
and she was asleep. We did have one investigator come to church though. His
name is Lee and he has mental disorders. He understands a few things we teach
but he forgets a lot of things. Not sure if we will continue to teach him.
Eddison, is not doing well. He stopped reading the Book of Mormon for now and
doesn't agree with a lot of things we teach. His wife has been feeding him a
lot of false information. A lot of our appointments fell through this week
unfortunately. But we are still working hard and trying to get our
investigators to church. Zone Meeting went well. We have a senior couple in the
zone and they provided lunch afterwards. We are still getting fed really well
in both wards. That is a plus to covering two. The rest of the month is full.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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week of the transfers as transfers are next Wednesday. We will have to make
this week really count. Later tonight we are going to the Ft. Collins Temple
Open House. This is the only day full time missionaries can attend with their
investigators. Tyrone, the person we live with, is driving us and our
investigators, Faith and Victoria, out of the mission to Ft. Collins. Faith is
in her 60's and her daughter, Victoria, is 23. It should be quite an experience
and I'm really excited. I'll be sure to take a lot of pictures. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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exchanges with another companionship on Saturday. I was able to go with Elder
Wunderly, who is from West Virginia. He has been out a little less than me and
I've known him pretty much my entire mission. He's a funny guy and I like him a
lot. Nothing much is new for this week but we are going to be working hard our
last week. Hope you all have a fantastic week!<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #666666; color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">This week we were busy
as heck! P-Day was fun as always. Tuesday Elder Gray and I went on exchanges
with another set of Elders. I was able to go with Elder Ishibashi in his area.
He just arrived here in the mission at the beginning of the transfer. He is
from Hawaii and is a Visa waiter going to Fiji. He is an awesome guy and I wish
he was staying here. Wednesday was the Temple. We had the 6:30am session
and I was so tired during it. Not sure about the LA Temple but in the Denver
Temple they keep the Endowment rooms super cool to keep everybody awake.
Thursday was District meeting and our weekly planning as well, since we had MLC
on Friday. We did some more service for a young couple that just moved in on
Saturday morning. Tyrone, the Polynesian that we live with, likes to take us to
Golden Corral every other week and we went with him Saturday as well. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #666666; color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Our investigators are
not progressing as fast as we would like them to, but we still experienced some
small miracles with them this week. We are working with a young adult named
Adora. She is in her early 20's, African American, and is looking into the Book
of Mormon. We tried to contact her last week but had no luck until yesterday.
She texted us and asked if she can come to church this Sunday. She seemed
really excited. We picked Eddison back up. We had three lessons with him during
the past three weeks and we invited him to baptism on the first one. He said he
wants to learn more before he does it. The second lesson went down hill because
his wife is giving him anti information. He says he doesn't want to leave his
culture and we explained that he doesn't have to but that didn't sink in. We
will probably end up dropping him soon. Yesterday was busy as well. We have
ward counsel with the Fox Hollow Ward at 8am, then ward correlation at 10:15 and
then we went to the Smoky Hill Sacrament Meeting at 11am. We went to 2nd
and 3rd hour in Fox Hollow to finish church. Lots of driving around but
thankfully the ward buildings are close. This week we have Zone Meeting on
Wednesday but other than that, we don't have a whole lot.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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fast. Not sure if I will stay in this area for the rest of my mission but there
is a possibility that I will get transferred, who knows. </span><span style="line-height: 115%;">Monday August 15th,
the Ft. Collins Temple Open House will be open just for missionaries and there
investigators. We are going to try to get one of them to go and if that happens
we will be able to see it. We will have to get a ride though. I hope you all
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lot of good work this week. We found a lot of new investigators but not a whole
lot of them are solid. We'll need to follow up with a lot of them. We had a
couple of district meetings that we went to and I gave a training on asking for
referrals. We met with the stake president as well this week to talk about the
missionary work in the stake. He's not too pleased that the stake isn't helping
out the missionaries by giving them people to teach. He has invited a lot of
people to the Fort Collins Temple Open House and he said he has 15 people
going. On Friday we had a special meeting for all the zone leaders in the
mission. The theme of the meeting was the "School of the Prophets" It
was a really great meeting that helped a lot of new zone leaders. On Saturday I
went on exchanges with another companionship. I was able to go with Elder
Folau, the elder I trained about a year ago. It was an awesome day being back
with him. While I was with him we did service for a part member family. We
finished painting their bathroom then they fed us a great meal. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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lot of appointments scheduled and hope they all follow through. We also have
interviews with President and Sister Mendenhall on Tuesday and a couple of
exchanges throughout the week. Other than that nothing much is new. We will be
going to the Temple again on Aug. 3rd and MLC will be that Friday as well. The
ward didn't do anything for Pioneer Day. We just sang 'Come Come Ye Saint' but
the Pioneer spirit was there. I miss you all, until next time.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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one for me. Monday and Tuesday we did are usual and Elder Eldredge had to pack.
Wednesday was transfer day and it was fun catching up with the rest of the
missionaries. Elder Gray is a good guy. He is a hard working and I'm fortunate
to have him. Change is good but it can be very stressful sometimes. I hate week
1 of transfers. We have a lot of visa waiters in the mission. One just arrived
and is in our zone. He is from Hawaii and will be going to Fiji whenever he
gets his visa. Another one is in our zone and will be going to Jamaica this
Wednesday. We did a little service this week for the Frause family. They are
recent converts. Brother Frause just had by-pass surgery and is not doing well.
He asked us if we could wash his dogs to get the smell off them and we had a
blast. We went to a couple of district meetings this week to meet everybody new
in the zone. We have a senor couple in the other district named the Kartchners.
Elder Kartchner is the mission doctor that covers the Denver North Mission and
a couple of others up north. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #666666; color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Saturday we did
exchanges with the Assistants. Do you remember an Elder Takis? He was my
companion my first time in Westminster back in May of 2015. He is by far one of
my favorite companions and it was so good to spend a day with him. He is from
Logan Utah and goes home in 5 weeks. We met with one of the Bishops last night
to discuss a missionary lesson we will be teaching on the 5th Sunday of July.
The Bishop is very missionary minded and is one of the best ones I have worked
with on the mission. We have a Zone Leader Meeting on Friday in Aurora. I think
it is a training on how we can be better zone leaders; should be fun. Hope you
all have a fantastic week, stay cool.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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even though it passed. The libraries were closed yesterday so we had a little
more time to do P-Day stuff. It was a fairly hot day as well. Yesterday morning
we were able to attend a ward breakfast in a members spacious back yard. Over
half the people there were not members so we were able to talk to a couple. We
played a lot of sports with the other elders in the zone. We played basketball,
speed ball, and indoor soccer. The members fed us good too. For dinner we had
hamburgers, hot dogs, stake, ribs, chicken, and other stuff. They also had
other family visiting them as well. Today we have a stake wide ward missionary
training that we have to go to. President Mendenhall, the Stake President,
Elder Eldregde and I, and others will be giving training's. We have been
preparing for a while now and hope it goes well. Tomorrow is another Zone
Meeting and I'll be giving some input there too. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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of the transfer and many missionaries are calling it "P-Week". But
Elder Eldredge and I decided we will finish strong. I do have feelings about
next transfer. I think my time as a Zone Leader will have expired and I will
either be a district leader again or train. I honestly would love to train next
transfer; it was so much fun training Elder Folau. The Fort Collins Temple is
in the Fort Collins mission but there are a couple of stakes in the northern
part of the mission that will be in that Temple District. Westminster is one of
those and the youth in that stake will be participating in the youth cultural
celebration. The Temple will be dedicated at the end of October, right after I
get home. The Lawhons turned out to be less golden than we thought. We spoke to
Jeremy a couple days ago and he told us that his wife is stubborn and is a
strong catholic. She doesn't really want to read the Book of Mormon but she
will be nice and listen to us. We have an appointment this Wednesday and we
will see where that goes. So far no members have invited anybody to dinner.
Every time we call to confirm a diner appointment and ask them they seem to
take it as an offense. There are not a whole lot of members these days that
will do missionary work. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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service this past week for non members. About a month ago we were street
contacting/tracting and we talked to a guy and he said he would move out in a
month. We gave him our number and told him we would love to help and he
actually called us. We spent about 2 hours at his house and he bought us pizza.
We also helped move a non member couple that used to investigate the church.
Their daughter got murdered within the past year and the husband became supper
depressed and feels like God told him to divorce his wife. The wife is a strong
woman but she is going through very hard times and she is just not happy. She
has been very grateful for our service and she will be moving out today. We had
MLC on Friday and that was fun as always. This Friday we will have another MLC
but it will be shorter. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #666666; color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Its already week 5 in
the Transfer. Glad to hear you all are doing well. Its been pretty hard to find
people to teach in this area of Colorado. The Member referrals didn't turn out
that well. They wouldn't answer their door. We did a ton of tracting and street
contacting and taught a couple lessons. But they were those Lesson 1 only
people and didn't go anywhere. It has been pretty hot here too. I am so
thankful we have a car to drive. It not only hastens the work, but it gives air
conditioning. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #666666; color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">We found one lady
named Sherree. She has a daughter who has a really good friend who is on a
mission. She knows little about the church and we offered her some service in
her backyard. She happily accepted and we pulled out a lot of weeds for her and
trimmed her bush. We are planning to go back and do some more so we will see
what happens. We set up an appointment with a part member family named the
Lawhons. Jeremy Lawhon is the father and he has been less active ever since he
entered adulthood. His wife is a catholic but is somewhat open minded to our
message. We taught them the restoration and watched the 20 min video about
Joseph Smith on Saturday. She was a little intrigued and wants to read from the
Book of Mormon. Jeremy says he wants to get active again but he is trying to
get his kids baptized in our church and at the same time his wife is trying to
get them baptized in the Catholic Church. We have a return appointment on
Wednesday at 8pm and a member of the Bishopric will come with
us. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #666666; color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">We had District
meeting this week and our district came up with a vision to get more members to
give us referrals. We will be asking the members to invite a nonmember to every
diner appointment we have and Elder Eldredge and I will be taking a 5th Sunday
lesson in July. The stake President, Mission President, all ward missionaries
and ward mission leaders, and full time missionaries in the stake will have a
meeting to attend on July 5th. The meeting is designed to train ward
missionaries on their duty and how we can hasten the work in the Arapahoe
stake. President Mendanhall asked Elder Eldredge and I to give training's at
the meeting, so it will be interesting. Yesterday was Elder Eldredge's Birthday
so the member that we live with gave us $50 to go out. We went to Chillis and
had some good steaks. This Friday is MLC's again and the week after that will
be another MLC but this one will focus on the Fort Collins Temple Dedication
and Open House. A member of the Temple Dedication Committee will come down to
Broomfield to teach the missionaries how to use this in our approaches. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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instructions have been given to us about the 4th of July. We normally have to
go inside right after dinner on a holiday, but we will probably talk about it
at MLC. The 4th of July is on a P-Day this year so that will be interesting.
Hope you all are enjoying your summer despite the heat. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08826880225559763017noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-193043666220207116.post-22527356221118007112016-07-10T20:54:00.003-07:002016-07-10T20:54:21.329-07:00Biking<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;">
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<span style="background-color: #666666; color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Another week has gone
by and the transfer is already half over. I guess I'll be on the plane ride
home soon. Elder Eldredge and I did a ton of finding this week but sadly we
didn't find a whole lot of people. Everybody is just so wealthy and prideful
they won’t even take a card from us. I went on exchanges with another set of
elders on Saturday and I biked for the first time in a while. It was so hot and
we were so thirsty but fortunately we ran into a couple of nice people that
gave us water. I don't remember it being this hot in Colorado last summer.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #666666; color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">We had Zone Meeting on
Wednesday and that went well. I had to give a training because I'm a zone
leader and I went to MLC. But after a while, giving training's gets kinda
boring. Elder Eldredge and I had to report to the stake president on the
missionary work in the stake. His name is President Todd and he is not like the
normal Stake President. He is very animated and direct. He threw down on how
badly the missionary work is going and how the members aren't willing to do it.
He is right because not a whole lot of members actually do missionary work in
this stake. The members have given us a few referrals in the past couple of
days so we will see what comes of that this week. Until next time.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08826880225559763017noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-193043666220207116.post-88961673416091075212016-07-10T20:53:00.003-07:002016-07-10T20:53:27.612-07:00Dropping Spree :(<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;">
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<span style="background-color: #666666; color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Happy Monday again. Zone
Conference was pretty fun as well as car judging. The week went pretty well
too. We have been on a dropping spree for awhile now. The people in our
teaching pool are not willing to progress. On Saturday we taught a less active
couple that struggle with reading the scriptures. Actually just the wife does.
I invited her to read the scriptures everyday but she wasn't going to have it. She
felt we didn't know enough and that she was on a different level of
spirituality. We found a couple of new investigators but they don't seem all
that promising. They both said they will be at church yesterday but neither of
them were. But Elder Eldredge and I are planning to do a ton of finding this
week. Boulder is in our mission now, and from what the missionaries serving
there now say, it is pretty cool. The zone goes into the mountains a little, or
a lot, not sure.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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for us. We cover two wards but they both start at the same time. Whatever
investigators attend sacrament meeting, that is the ward we will go to. But we
attend two missionary correlation meetings, a ward counsel, and report to two
ward mission leaders. At least it keeps us busy and on our feet. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Meeting and the High counselor for Missionary Work will be attending as well.
He will also be providing us with pizza. One of the wards will be having a BBQ
Picnic at a park. So we will try to get our investigators and less actives
there. Other than that, nothing else will be happening. Just the normal week
again. I am certainly enjoying the warmth but not the heat. We live with two
guys in a town home and we don't have air conditioning. They are both
Polynesian and one of them is Less Active. But the active one's name is Tyrone.
He is married and has children but they live in Utah. He is living in Colorado
for work and visits his family every 3 weeks or so. I miss you all! Until next
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08826880225559763017noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-193043666220207116.post-38544065476253023242016-07-10T20:51:00.000-07:002016-07-10T20:51:07.003-07:00New Transfers<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;">
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<span style="background-color: #666666; color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Another Monday is here
and almost over. P-days fly by so fast. This week was super crazy. Tuesday
before transfers Elder Conlin and I saw so many people to teach and take
pictures with. Wednesday was transfer day and we spent a lot of time getting
missionaries luggage and bikes to the zones they needed to be in. And needing
to be with a companion 24/7 makes things more complicated. But it was fun
seeing my friends and catching up with them. My new companion, Elder Eldredge,
is awesome. He is from Georgia and I think we will have fun together this
transfer. Friday was MLC up at the mission office. We normally do it at another
building but since we got Boulder it became the new central building for the
mission. I think that's why they changed it. Arapahoe is actually a county so I
am covering a lot of Aurora. Coming back from MLC we were able to stop for dinner
at Cafe Rio in one of my past areas in Denver/Aurora. It was so awesome and
weird to be in an area I served in again. We call it being area trunky. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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wealthy part of Aurora which makes the work harder due to the pride of the
people. It's very hard tracting and street contacting. However, we have been
working really hard the past couple of days and found a couple of promising
people. Last night we were tracting and we knocked on a door that opened
up. It was a man named Marv who answered and he looked as if he was very not
interested in our message. Remarkably he let us in to do a quick survey. After
the survey we asked if we could share one of the lessons and he accepted as
well. He has a daughter that pasted away 3 weeks ago and wasn't doing well. We
shared the plan of salvation and he was very open to it all. You can tell that
the spirit was working on him. He said we could come back in 30 days and
he will pray and read about the things we taught him. Hopefully he does that.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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too. We cover 2 wards now so we went to sacrament meeting for one where the
bishop asked me to bear my testimony then we took off to the other ward for the
last 2 hours. Zone Conference is tomorrow and Wednesday so Elder Elderdge and I
will be judging cars tomorrow. Then Wednesday will
be our turn for Zone Conference. We will have a busy week.
President Mendenhall is famous for transferring missionaries at their last
transfer. I've seen him do it to so many missionaries and it might happen to
me. So I'm not sure if this will be my last area. The wards I cover are
awesome. We get fed in one a lot but the other not so much. Probably because
one is a lot smaller than the other. Arapahoe Zone is very small. There are
only 12 missionaries serving here and they're all elders. But it is
pretty cool down here, it is a lot like Parker. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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is definitely here as well. It has been pretty hot lately averaging
in the 80's. That's probably nothing compared to Whittier though. Tomorrow we
will have to go to Downtown Denver to get a light on our truck fixed. I love
Downtown so much. That's why I take pictures of it all the time and I
would love to serve there if I have the chance. I hope you all have a great
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<span style="background-color: #666666; color: white; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Transfers are tomorrow
and I will be getting transferred to Arapahoe CO. I will still be a Zone Leader
so I will have another opportunity to serve the missionaries in the zone. By
the time I go home I will have served in just about every zone in the mission
except for couple. My new companion will be Elder Eldredge. I'm not sure where
is from but I served with him when I was in Denver and he is an awesome guy. I
have been greatly blessed with awesome companions for some time now. I will definitely
miss Elder Conlin a lot. We got along so well and accomplished many things
together. He is staying in Westminster and will be getting another companion.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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and we got 2 new stakes from the other missions. We got Boulder stake from the
Ft. Collins mission and the Parker South Stake from the Colorado Springs
mission. However, we aren't getting a whole lot of new missionaries. So there
will be many missionaries covering 2 wards at a time. I will be doing that in
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<span style="background-color: #666666; color: white; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">I got my stitches out
last Monday and my scar seems to be healing properly. I absolutely loved
serving in Westminster. I will miss the ward members and the people we worked
with. Two less actives got the Priesthood on Sunday and I ordained one of them
to the office of Elder. There are two investigators that we are working with
that will probably get baptized sometime in the near future, I can feel it.
Suerina and her daughter Antionette. She is really sad that I am leaving but if
she gets baptized I might go back to attend. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Mission 5k run. All the missionaries in the mission came up to Westminster for
a 5k run. We all had to run/walk by zones. It wasn't a competition but in the
minds of the missionaries it was. It was a blast seeing all my friends and
missionaries I worked with. After that all the elders in our zone had a bbq and
played football on our last P-Day of the transfer. It was a really fun day. Until
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one for Elder Conlin and l. Last Monday was fun; we played basketball with a
couple of the other elders. Elder Brinkerhoff, a former companion, and I ran
into each other and collided eyes. He was unharmed but his hard rock skull gave
me a cut right above my left eye. It was bleeding pretty bad and the mission
nurse told us to go to urgent care and get it stitched up. I only got 3
stitches and I will get them out later today. First time ever getting
stitches. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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people to teach every week. We have an investigator named Suerina that we've
been teaching for months and we taught her daughter this week as well. Her name
is Antionette and she is 15. We took them on a church tour with a member from
the Young Womens presidency. She is pretty interested in coming to young womens
so we will see how that goes. We taught the Restoration to a man name Seth this
week. He is from Ghana and doesn't speak English very well but he understands a
lot, much more than most of the people we teach. He is very interested in Jesus
Christ coming to the Americas and we committed him to read the first 3 chapters
of the Book of Mormon. Hopefully he will progress in the coming weeks.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #666666; color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">We are also teaching a
less active named Phil. Phil was baptized many years ago but because of his
hard heart he got his name removed. He then got rebaptized in 2009 and has been
semi active ever since. He has done a pretty good job coming to church. On
average he goes 3 times a month. But he will be getting the Aaronic Priesthood
this Sunday. He is also really excited to get his Patriarchal blessing. Bill
Hockstad is another less active that missionaries have been teaching for a long
time. A couple months ago he got the Aaronic Priesthood and this Sunday he will
get the Melchezidek Priesthood. He is an awesome guy and he asked me to ordain
him. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #666666; color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">On Thursday we did
service at a place called Life Care. It is an assisted living facility and
since Elder Conlin is new, they made him watch a training video and take a test
in order to be a volunteer. I did the whole process a couple months ago. They
are a lot more serious than any of the other places I have done service at on
my mission so it felt a little weird. It's a fun place to do service at though.
Stella is doing a lot better now. She moved in with a friend across the street
from her old home and she is waiting to get new housing. She will know by June
8th.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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nice now; 70s and 80s. Transfers are going to be on June 1st, it's a Wednesday.
I will probably get transfered; I've never been in an area for 6 months and
I've already been here for 4 1/2. There will be some changes in the mission
boundaries probably starting next transfer. I heard we will be getting
Broomfield which was previously in the Fort Collins mission. People say we will
be getting Boulder as well, but nobody knows yet except the higher ups. Until
next time,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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she is moving now to downtown Denver. She used to live there and she will be
attended a ward she used to attend. Hopefully she will be retained. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #666666; color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">We had a pretty solid
week. Monday was Zone P-Day and that was a blast. We had a Zone Meeting on
Wednesday and that was fun. It was somebody's birthday and we all pitched in
and bought donuts and chocolate milk. Thursday we had interviews with President
and Sister Mendenhall. He is such a good Mission President and they do so much
for our welfare.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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able to find a couple of new people. We found an investigator and put him on
date o</span><span class="aqj">r June 11</span>th so we will see what becomes of him. This
transfer is almost over and they go by so fast now it’s ridiculous.<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>Well I hope you all have a great week!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08826880225559763017noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-193043666220207116.post-52797080739724918472016-05-22T23:00:00.000-07:002016-05-22T23:00:49.452-07:00Baptism! <div class="MsoNormal" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;">
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<span style="background-color: #666666; color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">This week was very
busy! Tuesday we went on exchanges with one of our district leaders. That day a
member took us to Olive Garden. The food wasn't really great. Wednesday morning
we went to the Temple and Deseret Book. That was a particularly great experience
and I definitely got a lot out of it. We found a new investigator on Wednesday
as well. Her name is Fabiola and she is 17 or 18. She likes to wear
inappropriate clothes according to our standards. She is really not that
promising but we will see what happens to her. Friday was MLCs and that was
really fun. This is the first MLC of the transfer and there were a lot of new
zone leaders that got called. Some of them I have served with in the past so it
was cool to see them there. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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day of the week. After studies and correlation meeting we had to get the
program printed out and everything else in order for the baptism. The stake
center's water heater is not the best so Elder Conlin and I had to go up to the
attic and push the "on" button for hot water at 120 degrees every
minute. For some reason it will stay on for that minute and then turn off. We
had to stay up there for about 45 minutes before the baptism. But the whole
program was great. President and Sister Mendenhall came as well as the spanish
sisters that worked with her first. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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skyping we still needed to do our weekly planning because we had to go to MLCs.
So we had a busy Sunday as well. The whole week was fun. Today is zone P-Day
and we will be playing toilet paper dodge ball and Elder Conlin will be making
Jambalaya. This week we will be having Zone Meeting and interviews with
president. So it will be another busy week. Well until next time,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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week. We didn't teach as much as we would have liked, but it was still a good
week. Thursday we did service at a place called Growing Home with a set of
sister missionaries. We started painting an office room and that was pretty
fun. On Saturday we moved into Brother and Sister Deters home. Every 6 months
the Elders rotate homes between Sister Ellis and the Deters. Brother Deters
used to be a counselor in the Stake Presidency and they are wonderful people.
We had to pack Friday night and get everything cleaned up. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Women had a fundraiser to go Girls Camp. They had a pasta bar and silent
auction. It was pretty fun and the young woman made so much money. I was
able to get a snowboard and boots for $10. It's a pretty nice snow board too.
The lady who donated it said she had to get rid of it because she doesn't
snowboard anymore. <span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">Yesterday we had to meet with the Stake
President to give an update on the missionary work in the zone and that went
well. This Wednesday we are going to the Temple for the first time<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span></span><span class="aqj">in 3 months</span>. Desert Book is always a fun place to go to
afterwards. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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me. Every day I look at the now capped mountains an think that home is on the
other side. Now that I have 5 more months left I am doing all I can to work
harder and hasten the Lords work. When<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span></span><span class="aqj">October 5th</span><span class="apple-converted-space"> comes
around I definitely won’t want to come home but at the same time I definitely
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08826880225559763017noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-193043666220207116.post-41234919486015196052016-05-22T22:55:00.002-07:002016-05-22T22:55:58.892-07:00Old Friends<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;">
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fun. Wednesday was transfers and Elder Conlin and I had to help with luggage
and making sure people are in the right place. No more snow for a while or
perhaps until winter. Our investigators are doing pretty well. We are
working with someone named Suerina whose in her late 40s. She said she watched
the Restoration video 3 times and believes that Joseph Smith was a prophet. She
definitely feels the spirit but she is not ready for baptism yet. She will need
more time. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Yesterday we showed them the Restoration video and they loved it. Sister James
got bold and testified the crap out of them after it was over. Vi and Esther
being Catholics said if the Pope were to take the 6 missionaries lessons he
would become a Mormon. But they took it very well and they are anxious to learn
the Plan of Salvation this Sunday. Stella is doing a little better. The only
thing that was keeping her from baptism is church attendance. We had a lesson
with her on Friday with our ward mission leader and taught her the importance
of attending church. We also showed the John Tanner video and taught the
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is the member of the RLDS (Community of Christ) Church. His great great
grandfather joined the church in Scotland from the efforts of missionaries and
made his way over to America. But his ancestors stayed behind with Lyman White
and the rest of the former saints. We showed him the How Rare a Possession video,
because he doesn't want to leave his church behind. He believes in parts of our
church and parts of his church and he says he still needs to pray and seek
answers. He will be moving to Fort Collins soon and maybe he will make the
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Westminster for the first time and I had a zone leader named Elder Brown. He
came back to visit with his brother from BYU Provo. They are staying with us at
Sister Ellis's home. It definitely made me trunky but it was really good to see
him.</span> I miss you all.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08826880225559763017noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-193043666220207116.post-16204487662401771052016-05-22T22:53:00.003-07:002016-05-22T22:53:49.615-07:00Spuds<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;">
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Elder Conlin and I are safe, thank goodness. Another 6 weeks in the Hidden Lake
ward. However there are lots of changes going on in the zone. And yeah we got
snow this past Saturday and Sunday. It probably contributed with Stella not
coming to church again. If she doesn't start coming soon I don't think she will
be getting baptized on May 8th. But the snow pretty much melted already but
Sunday morning we shoveled 3 drive ways before church.</span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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but some of the missionaries that are getting transferred will be missed. Some
of them I have served with in Denver and Westminster for 6 months. But I'm sure
the new missionaries coming in will be great as well. Our investigators are
making some progress but not too much. Stella is still Stella. But this week we
found another one named Bree, short for Brittney. She is in her late 20s or
something and she loved our message on the Plan of Salvation.</span> We are
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the Arvada Stake but live in a retirement home in our ward boundaries called
the James. They gave us a call and said they have a couple people for us to
teach. They have neighbors in the retirement home as well and we taught them the
Restoration last night. Their names are Vi and Ester. Vi used to be the mayor
of Westminster back in the 60s and is a hard catholic. Ester is a Hispanic lady
and is also a hard catholic but she has a couple of granddaughters dating
Mormons and they might get baptized. They weren't too receptive but were very
kind to us. We might progress with the lessons each Sunday though. </span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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the Spud Derby. We each carved uncooked potatoes into derby cars and raced them
on the track in the cultural hall. It was a fun night and Elder Conlin and I
got missionary action figures from another elder and used them as decorations.</span>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08826880225559763017noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-193043666220207116.post-85423278413080883502016-05-22T22:52:00.000-07:002016-05-22T22:52:03.825-07:00Finding Finding Finding!<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;">
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Stella. We had a lesson with her and a family from the ward on Saturday night.
That went well and Stella said she would be at church but she didn't show up.
She has OCD and she stays up all night cleaning her apartment and her girls a
soooooo rude and won’t cooperate. She says she has been off green tea still but
we will see what becomes of her. She is still on Baptismal date for May 8th,
Mothers Day. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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hasn't been too hot or too cold. It rained for the first time in awhile
yesterday. This morning Elder Conlin and I did a big bike ride for exercise. He
wanted to buy a new suit so this morning we went thrift shopping. Didn't find
anything though. We both got our haircuts as well. There is a less active in
the area who does free hair cuts for missionaries. She is not interested in
joining the church again but she is a very nice lady. We are probably just
going to play basketball again in a couple of hours. There was a non member
couple that took us out to eat on Tuesday for lunch. They wanted to give back
to us from shoveling their drive way when it snowed. They are neighbors to
Sister Ellis. We had another Zone Meeting on Thursday and that went very well.</span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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finding this week. We contacted a lot of Part Member Families, Unbaptized
children, and tracting. We were able to find 2 new investigators and a couple
of other people. There was a family that let us in on Saturday morning. It was
a lady and her college aged daughter. We shared the Restoration and you can
definitely tell that the mom felt the spirit; Elder Conlin and I did. The
daughter said she didn't. They said we can come back in a couple of weeks so we
will see what happens. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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on my mission where we have a 7 week transfer. And if I am with Elder Conlin
again he will be the companion I have had for the longest time. On May 1st we
will be moving into another members home. They rotate every 6 months with
Sister Ellis. They are very nice members so we don't have anything to worry
about. Hope you all have a great week and good luck with everything you need to
do. Until next time,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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This week was pretty packed with a lot of things. We went on two exchanges with
District Leaders and had MLC on Friday. We had a lot of appointments as well.
Stella is back on date for May 8th. She contacted us on Tuesday and gave
us a big apology and wanted us to come back. We taught her once with the first
counselor in the Bishopric and his wife. She says she is off of green tea and
drinking herbal tea now but we hope and pray she will make it to the 8th. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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along great. He got me hooked on Cajun food and we went to Popeyes on Friday
for dinner. We will have another Zone Meeting this Thursday because we had MLC
on Friday. This should be another great one. We have 14 missionaries serving in
the zone. I definitely got a lot out of Conference. We watched 2 sessions with
a less active named Phil, one with Sister Ellis, and another with the first
councilor in the bishopric and his family. The ward members here are so nice
and are a lot like the Pickering Ward. Just 2 more weeks and the transfer is
over. The fear of getting transferred is starting to boil in the missionaries.
I hope I stay another transfer in this area though. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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made it a goal to go outside for morning exercise every day this week. He jogs
and I ride my bike. I would jog but I just can't in this altitude. I will dry
gag way too much. The snow has all melted now and they have already put out
summer stuff in the stores. They say it is supposed to be in the 70's, and 80's
until summer with a couple of snowy days, but we will see. We are also working
with a lot of less actives but a lot of them aren't willing to change so we
have dropped many of them. Until next time!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08826880225559763017noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-193043666220207116.post-61800352398390133832016-04-10T19:04:00.002-07:002016-04-10T19:04:25.022-07:00Easter<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;">
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interesting for us. We did have a great Easter. We spent some time with a less
active and his family. He wanted us to share an Easter message to his granddaughter.
We shared the #Hallelujah video the church put out. We have been using that a
lot in our proselyting. After that we had dinner at the Hollingsworths, the
senior couple that work in the mission office. Another senior missionary and a
recent convert joined us as well. We got loaded up on candy and cake. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #666666; color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Wednesday we had a
huge blizzard that grounded all the cars. We didn't do any driving that day and
we had to walk to dinner. The restaurant we wanted to go to was closed due to
the snow and the only place that was open was an Indian Restaurant. I didn't
enjoy it but it was still dinner. We were supposed to have zone meeting on
Wednesday but we cancelled that because we couldn't drive our cars. But we will
have one this Wednesday. Now the snow is almost gone. It is in the 70's
right now I think. Elder Conlin and I played tennis this morning. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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through unfortunately. She was supposed to be baptized on March 26th and
confirmed on the 27th. We had our last lesson on Friday night, March 25th, and
she confessed that she still struggles with green tea. So we called President
Mendenhall and he said that she would have to make a commitment to us to stop
drinking tea if she is going to be baptized the next day. When we told her we
did our best to do it in the nicest way possible but she went off on us and
started cussing us out. We spent around 30 minutes at the door step
late at night.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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full commitment when we invited her to. We asked her "Will you commit to
stop tonight" and she kept saying "I'll try" and "I already
told you". She was just not ready. She also said she would not be baptized
the next day and that she doesn't understand why she can't be baptized even
though she drinks green tea once or twice a day. The next morning she would not
answer the door, calls, or text. It truly broke our hearts. Now we feel we need
to give her some space but we will keep her in our prayers and try again in a
couple of weeks. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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our investigators one by one, but one showed up to church with his less active
mom yesterday. That was Ricky, he said that he is kinda scared to get baptized,
probably because he doesn't know what to expect, and we didn't know that
before. So we are teaching him tonight and we will see if he will come around. This
week we have MLC again on Friday and that should be fun. Can't wait to see all
the movies I miss out on after the mission. Hard to believe I hit 18 months in
a couple of days. I hope everything is going well!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08826880225559763017noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-193043666220207116.post-74398079925776146712016-04-10T18:58:00.002-07:002016-04-10T18:58:33.071-07:00First Snowfall<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;">
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<span style="background-color: #666666; color: white; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">So it finally snowed
this past week. Friday morning Elder Conlin and I were shoveling the side walks
up and down our street and did a couple of drive ways. When it snows Sister
Ellis expects us to do all that. A lot happened this week for us. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Conference and it was amazing. It was also a grand reunion to see a lot of
missionaries. Thursday morning Elder Conlin and I went to judge cars for the
other half of the mission. After that we all went out to eat at this famous
Hawaiian BBQ place in Aurora. We've been teaching Stella Mendoza a lot this
week. President Mendenhall interviewed her for baptism on Friday and she
passed. She came to church with her 2 daughters yesterday but was 2 hours late.
So we sat with her in another wards sacrament meeting. The ward has made
baptismal arrangements for this saturday at 3pm. So hopefully Stella gets
there on time. She also wants the water to be extra hot.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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and we are going to play Chair soccer, Kick ball and a couple of other games.
Zone P-days, in my experience, are either really awesome or really bad. We also
have Zone meeting on Wednesday and a family history service missionary in our
ward will be training us on how to do family history work. This mission is
still extending the opportunity for a zone to go to the temple. Until next
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<span style="background-color: #666666; color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Elder Conlin and I had
a busy week. We taught many lessons and we even had 4 investigators on
baptismal date. We had MLC on Friday and that was great. Got to counsel with
many close missionaries. We did a lot of service as well. We go to a place called
Habitat for Humanity. It is pretty much a thrift store and we help move in
donations and move things around. We also helped an older man in the ward move
some filing cabinets and other furniture from his former office. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #666666; color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">We tried really hard
to get our investigators to church but none of them came. So now we have to
push back their baptisms except one. Her name is Stella. She was a referral
given to us awhile back and we gave her to the Spanish sisters. Stella now
requested to be in an English ward because its closer and the time we meet
makes everything easier on her and her kids. She has been taught by
missionaries since 2002 and has seen tons of missionaries. But it seems like
every time she tries to get baptized she backs out. For instance one time she
thought the water was too cold and another time the elder that she asked to
baptize her backed out right before her baptism. But she really wants to be
baptized on March 26th because that is her grandmothers birthday. Hopefully it
happens. I really think the adversary played a part in our investigators.
Ricky's mom got in a car accident this week and she had to go to the hospital.
Stella said herself that she had a skirt picked out for Sunday but her daughter
got an ear infection and she had to take her to the hospital and didn't get
back til 4am. Elder Conlin and I are going to fast this week to help them
progress. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #666666; color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Elder Conlin and I and
the sister training leaders met with the stake president yesterday to give him
a report of the zone. We have zone conference this week on Wednesday and
Thursday. Elder Conlin and I are doing car inspections with the rest of the
zone leaders. We don't have too many appointments this week unfortunately but
we are going to be making a ton of calls in the next couple of days. I hope all
is well, I miss you all!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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and my last companion, Elder Ah Nee<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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