New Transfer! New Area! New Companion!

New area to a degree! i am back in the anacostia ward but in the capitol heights area which is the little bit safer area of the ghettos. im glad to be back but i miss the patuxent ward! im excited to see what adventures come my way coming back! i miss the investigators we had in patuxent but im glad i will be able to go back to see the baptism on march 28th for jocilyn! its been a good one! my companion is Elder Jacob Hamblin from kaysville utah! i started in anacostia when he started his mission here and now im companions with him. we are excited to serve together! this week will be a new start to everything. the weather is getting warmer finally and more people are coming outside! this week has just been packing the first 2 days and saying good bye and then getting to know the new area which im glad to still be in car. its an upgrade to since its a van and not a tiny toyota corolla i like cars that i dont feel like im down on the road unless im driving in style like a low rider decked out. anyway i hope to have more for you next week!

HAVE A WONDERFUL WEEK!

#WASHINGTON DC NORTH

#LOVE YOU ALL

#CharlieMike

me and elder jensen bidding farewell to jocilyn and meghan in pax

at sister McCombs home 

last lexington park district photo for last transfer

FREE PANCAKE DAY!

Forson Family Dinner

Forson Family Dinner

Forson Family Dinner

Forson Family Dinner

Forson Family Dinner

Forson Family Dinner

Transfer coming to an end!

well this week was full of trips to dc. we went and took a tour of the capital monday. got a training for our new ipads on tuesday. and temple trip on wednesday. then we continued our week doing the normal. but saturday we found out what we are doing for transfers and we both are leaving the area. we are confused and kinda upset cauz we have a baptism coming up and we both are leaving and its hard cauz we know the situation and everything. we have been here the whole time. but its all good because the lord puts us where we need to be! sorry its a short one but not much has gone on but keep smiling and have a great week! #CharlieMike

What a Wonderful Month!

its been a great month. im almost to saying 11 months left next month. its going faster and faster. next thing you know ill be home even though i enjoy it out here. man dont have much to talk about other then we had a few snow days to where we were not allowed to use our cars. but we still managed to get work done this week and to still teach those we are ment to. this coming week we have 2 trips up by the temple. one for training from general authorities and the second is our transfer temple trip. so lots of car rides. but next week is transfers on Wednesday march 4th. so we will see what happens because we have solid friends (investigators) here. one on date and the other soon to come after. but i enjoy it down south! but all is well but here is some pics for the enjoyment of todays p-day adventure!

SLOW BUT GREAT WEEK!

its been slow this week but it has been good. i kinda have been sick but not bad enough to stop me from anything. i think its more of my blood pressure playing games but i try to keep myself healthy so it doesnt but it might be other things to. idk i feel weak and drained by the end of the day sometimes but idk. it will figure itself out. i tell myself to it that its not my time to rest im resting on its the lords. so i push through it all so i can work through it and continue the work.
     our friend Jocilyn is still solid and on here way to be baptized on march 28th! we are excited for her. the other day a young man she has been really good friends with asked her to be his girlfriend. well she said 3 months ago she would have said yes but now that she is changing its different. he has noticed it as well and finds it attractive. anyway she told him no because their relationship would not lead to the temple. which is solid how she has the goal of going to the temple to be married! he might investigate the church but she is hoping its not cauz of her but for him. but she is still excited to join and be baptized. she is awesome!
   well this week we are finally going to get snow and have a winter. we really havent got snow where we are but up north of us has had snow. so im excited for that. its funny people close up and dont go outside when there is only an inch. thats nothing. but we get heald inside because of it because, well idk why. but i think its fine. anyway its good we will have snow. im excited for it.

Have a wonderful week!

ONE YEAR LEFT!

     What a great week we have had! other then being sick Wednesday that i got over after being up all that night throwing up but the next day i was doing the normal thing. we did allot this week with the potluck we had for the ward and had a great experience helping do service at a museum. we also had a great week with teaching non-members this week as well. it has been a year since i have been out. that is crazy to know i cant believe its been that long. it doesnt feel like i have been doing it for a year. thats crazy! anyway thats what my week has been like. and what great joys have been there. i also did the traditional 1 year Shirt Burning. check out the video when you click over the highlighted words there or in the page i have marked as traditional burning section.

Have A Great Week!

POTLUCK

 PATUXENT RIVER AIR MUSEUM

What A Great First Month Of The Year!

     time is rolling by fast as i have been serving our father in heaven! my year mark comes up this thursday. i still feel like it has been way less then that. i still remember to this day leaving everything behind at home to come out and do this. im greatly blessed to be out here! soon it will be on of my brothers. whichever one that decides to go next. i hear colton is working on it and justin might be going shortly after his birthday hopefully!
      so the other day i heard from my mtc companion that went home 2 days before we came out to the feild. he said he gets to keep his same mission call to here and that he leaves on 18th (the day i flew out to dc from the mtc) he paused his mission but gets to continue it. im really excited for him. i cant wait to see him again.
      our friend jocilyn ( i call her friend cauz i fell if i call her an investigator i fell like it something im obligated to or another number but we are chill.) is still continuing on to learn and grow as she progresses to her baptism date of march 28. she is solid.  she is funny to. but her and the members she is friends with are really close. im greatful for all the harrington family does for her!
       sorry i havent posted for 2 weeks i have been so caught up in the lords work and have been busy in it. but i kinda forgot i had a blog for a little bit. but im still doing good. but its great out here. I LOVE IT!

     Anyway have a wonderful great week!

      so i thought i would share what i have recently been learning from others that sadly i have slowly forgotten how to do:
 "a fabulous Sunday meeting with the Elders where Elder Rose taught Elder Simons how to sew on a button on his jacket. Elder Rose had this idea about using a fork? It didn't work but it was fun watching him try" - sister rose on her post with these pics

MIRACLE!NEW INVESTIGATOR! NEW BAPTISM DATE! EXCITING WEEK!

           what a wonderful week the lord has blessed us with. last week i had a trial of a week as i went through some anniversary's and a death in the family. but also we hit our goal of 20 lessons last week with a 21 lesson total. its a goal the mission has been doing and with it we have been told that if we make that goal and strive for it we will be blessed. well this week we were blessed with a solid investigator.

           so how we met her was we were at a member meal and the daughter had a friend come over and they warned her they weren't setting anything up but warned her we were coming over and she still came. it was cool we had dinner, shared a message, then it lead to the member telling about what we do, then bared her testimony, then  invited her to talk to use and take the lessons. well this week we went over for the first lesson and it was a little shakey but it lead out well and we taught her that. when we came back the next night, cauz they asked us to come again, she had read the first 2 chapters of 1 nephi and read the last chapter of moroni. we were planning on just reading scriptures with her to keep it slow cauz we kinda felt it was going fast. well we read alma 36 which lead to the 2nd lesson of the plan of salvation anyway without us wanting it to but the spirit was so strong with it and we have been teaching strong with the spirit. there was one thing that touched her very much and that was when we told her through the atonement we can have a chance to be together as familys is a great place. he dad is an alcoholic and a youth preacher told her, her sister and dad that they were going to hell as a family cauz of it, but when she found out that wasnt the case she started to tear up and you could tell the spirit was there. she said that she had never felt like anything could be so. it is amazing how it came to be and she was amazed what  the plan of salvation had to offer. and that night we were impressed to ask her to be baptized on February 7th 2015. SHE HAS ACCEPTED THAT DAY WITH SURETY! we are excited for her hoping none of us get transferred this next transfer since it is next week. today we took her to the Washington D.C. temple visitor center and we watched meet the mormons with her and went around to all the exhibits since we were still waiting for our ride. we also explained about the temple and she thought that was cool. we also walked around the temple with her as well it was great! and we taught the 3rd lesson there which i have never taught 3 lessons in a row in one week like that nor have i had a true investigator till now. it is really cool because i will be out here when she has the opportunity to get her endowments done because if my family comes out i will still be around for it, but if they don't make it out i may have to beg to stay a week longer in the mission for it. but if she moves i am going to stay in touch so i can try to make it there to that event! her mom was a member at one time and i am not quite sure what happened fully but. but she was told by her mom she it wasn't because of the church but something else. she is adopted. but yeah she is amazing. she is so energetic and awesome! i am excited for her!

also me and my companion are staying together another transfer!

AT THE TEMPLE!

(left to right) Elder Simons, Elder Jensen, Jocilyn (new investigator friend), Meghan (member friend)

What a week! UPS AND DOWNS!

its been a great week for the most part. we got to have President Henry B Eyring talk to our mission. that was the up. the down was that i found out recently that my Grandma Reva passed away recently along with it was the one year mark of the passing of my great friend Ashlan! they both will be missed but i know that i will get to see them again and also that they are with peace. my grandma Reva was having strength issues, she seemed like she got tired real easy. i haven't told anybody about this but at the last party i was at that i got to see her i had a feeling inside that it was the last time i would ever get to see her. but i know she is in a happier place. but i feel within a year it will be my grandpa Marvin due to separation with her and heart brokenness. but it will all be good!

    so with president Eyring i didn't stand to far from him when i came into the dc temple visitor center. they were looking at the new display they put in the visitor center. its like the one they have at the salt lake visitor center with the temple cut in half where you can see the inside of it. and him and his brother, who is the visitor center director, were standing next to each other. its crazy i got to serve close to an apostles brother. he gave us great guidance about if we put ourselfs in the lords hands he will bless and guide us where we need to go and where we are meant to go teach. you could tell he was an apostle of the lord because as he was talking to us he would look at the mission missionaries and try to decern the needs of us and he would look and think he was to end then he would have the spirit strong and have inspiration to tell us of something we needed help with and i know he was right and he was inspired. no one will get to see what my thoughts about it all till after my mission when i put my journal up on this blog after.

    anyway its been great week! hope all is great with you! Enjoy your day!

President Eyring

President Eyring

Elder Eyring and his wife (President Eyrings Brother)

Elder Eyring and his wife (President Eyrings Brother)

Elder Eyring and his wife (President Eyrings Brother)

President Eyring and president and sister Cooke