Monday, March 2, 2015
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
Monday, February 23, 2015
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!
Monday, February 16, 2015
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!
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!
Saturday, February 7, 2015
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
Sunday, February 1, 2015
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
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
Saturday, January 17, 2015
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!
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| (left to right) Elder Simons, Elder Jensen, Jocilyn (new investigator friend), Meghan (member friend) |
Sunday, January 11, 2015
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!
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!
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| President Eyring |
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| President Eyring |
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| Elder Eyring and his wife (President Eyrings Brother) |
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| Elder Eyring and his wife (President Eyrings Brother) |
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| Elder Eyring and his wife (President Eyrings Brother) |
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| President Eyring and president and sister Cooke |
Saturday, January 3, 2015
HAPPY NEW YEARS! 2015! BRING ON THE NEW YEARS RESOLUTIONS!
WOW! it is a new year! 2015! it may take me till the end of this year to write 2015 on the dates but its great! im excited.
so some of the resolutions i made is to write in my journal all year and not put it off and say "ill do it later" then forget. also im trying to keep the one plate rule with eating. i have been strict on it now that the holidays are over and all the treats are gone. i have had to many treats. i have really appreciated receiving them and having a study snack. im grateful for the holiday gifts i received. i have had a great start out to the year. yesterday we got to go on our every transfer temple trip. it was great and i had a wonderful time doing temple work especially for the names i have from our family tree my sister sent me.
it has been great as we start the new year out. we also have a cool event coming up that im excited for. President Henry B. Eyring is coming out to visit our whole mission on the 10th of this month and to address us about many things of what he feels can help us more hasten the work. his brother is the director of the Washington D.C Visitor Center so that is cool! we also have a temple trip for specifically family temple names on march 11th 2015. so i need to find names to do baptisms. so if anybody in my family or anybody have names they need done i am willing to do some of those for you if you mail me out the cards. im still learning on how to use Familysearch.org. so yeah let me know otherwise i will try my best to find names to do.
i have realized this year i will serve the whole year on my mission even though i was a month off of last year but its cool i have a month till i will hit my year mark of my mission and i will be on the down fall of going home on a count down to going home. wow i cant believe i have been out a year it feels like it has only been a shorter amount of time then that. but i have enjoyed every moment of it and it has gone by fast and i keep my head up the best i can. sometimes there are ups and downs but for the most part there is more ups. so many miracles. but anyway it will be a great year as a missionary and a disciple of Jesus Christ!
here as some cool pics i last had!
so some of the resolutions i made is to write in my journal all year and not put it off and say "ill do it later" then forget. also im trying to keep the one plate rule with eating. i have been strict on it now that the holidays are over and all the treats are gone. i have had to many treats. i have really appreciated receiving them and having a study snack. im grateful for the holiday gifts i received. i have had a great start out to the year. yesterday we got to go on our every transfer temple trip. it was great and i had a wonderful time doing temple work especially for the names i have from our family tree my sister sent me.
it has been great as we start the new year out. we also have a cool event coming up that im excited for. President Henry B. Eyring is coming out to visit our whole mission on the 10th of this month and to address us about many things of what he feels can help us more hasten the work. his brother is the director of the Washington D.C Visitor Center so that is cool! we also have a temple trip for specifically family temple names on march 11th 2015. so i need to find names to do baptisms. so if anybody in my family or anybody have names they need done i am willing to do some of those for you if you mail me out the cards. im still learning on how to use Familysearch.org. so yeah let me know otherwise i will try my best to find names to do.
i have realized this year i will serve the whole year on my mission even though i was a month off of last year but its cool i have a month till i will hit my year mark of my mission and i will be on the down fall of going home on a count down to going home. wow i cant believe i have been out a year it feels like it has only been a shorter amount of time then that. but i have enjoyed every moment of it and it has gone by fast and i keep my head up the best i can. sometimes there are ups and downs but for the most part there is more ups. so many miracles. but anyway it will be a great year as a missionary and a disciple of Jesus Christ!
here as some cool pics i last had!
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| Last Visit To Festival Of Lights |
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| Death Temple Trip After Photo |
Sunday, December 28, 2014
Christmas is over NOW BRING ON THE NEW YEAR! 2015!
the new year is coming on. lets get excited! next febuary i can say i have a year left on my mission to countdown on! but im excited to bring on new resolutions to make myself better for the new year! christmas was great! i feel bad for my family they had an elder that was half asleep when they skyped me! but i enjoyed seeing them all!
thanks so much for those who sent me something for christmas i really appreciate it! here comes to a new year with a strict diet to keep the pounds off!
thanks so much to the chisholm family, my brother and his family, my grandpa snyder, grandma simons, grandma & grandpa horton, sister cottom, and to those of the patuxent ward that gave me something for christmas! i have been using the money i have received to build my tie collection so i have a better selection and newer to pick from. some ties i have are now bike ties because i got them dirty from biking and stuff. but i will put pics up of new things i got for christmas when i next remember to! i almost forgot about my blog this week because i was so busy and gone all day everyday! i will be gone allot this week with going to the temple to do volunteer work on the 31 and then temple trip on the 2nd and then to our stake center for a zone confrence and tomorrow to the vc by the temple for a performance and festival of lights! so lots of driving and being gone allot!
i hope you all had a great christmas and hope you enjoy this great new year! next time i post something on this blog it will be a new year! wish me luck and have a wonderful week and day!
thanks so much for those who sent me something for christmas i really appreciate it! here comes to a new year with a strict diet to keep the pounds off!
thanks so much to the chisholm family, my brother and his family, my grandpa snyder, grandma simons, grandma & grandpa horton, sister cottom, and to those of the patuxent ward that gave me something for christmas! i have been using the money i have received to build my tie collection so i have a better selection and newer to pick from. some ties i have are now bike ties because i got them dirty from biking and stuff. but i will put pics up of new things i got for christmas when i next remember to! i almost forgot about my blog this week because i was so busy and gone all day everyday! i will be gone allot this week with going to the temple to do volunteer work on the 31 and then temple trip on the 2nd and then to our stake center for a zone confrence and tomorrow to the vc by the temple for a performance and festival of lights! so lots of driving and being gone allot!
i hope you all had a great christmas and hope you enjoy this great new year! next time i post something on this blog it will be a new year! wish me luck and have a wonderful week and day!
Saturday, December 20, 2014
Christmas Time! #heisthegift #sharethegift
Christmas time is almost here! next week is the week! my family gets to talk to me on skype and we get to chat. It's going to be great!
Christmas is a great time of year! especially as we talk and share about the true meaning of Christmas! especially with the he is the gift is shared with everyone! it has been a great week so far as we have been helping others receive that message so that they have a greater Christmas. we are excited for Christmas to come. we have a great ward party we have been preparing for and setting up for that happens tonight. even thought this time of year is a little bit tough for me it is a wonderful time of year to celebrate the savior's birth! he is the reason we have Christmas in the first place! we need to remember it's not about the gifts or the fun we have, but for him who gave us all of this! we so blessed with what we have!
I'm glad to be serving in the area I am. I can say I have lived in California............Maryland and live down the street from Hollywood..........Maryland.
I really do enjoy where I am right now. you are well fed. every night a dinner. Every day we are busy. it feels like it is going by fast because we are working hard and focusing on what we need to! it has been almost 2 weeks into the transfer and that's crazy. I feel like I just got here!
anyway I hope you have a great week! thanks so much to patsy cottom, the miller family, and the bishopric for the Christmas cards I have received. have a WONDERFUL week! Enjoy this wonderful Christmas week!
Pics for this area
Patuxent Area Pictures
Christmas is a great time of year! especially as we talk and share about the true meaning of Christmas! especially with the he is the gift is shared with everyone! it has been a great week so far as we have been helping others receive that message so that they have a greater Christmas. we are excited for Christmas to come. we have a great ward party we have been preparing for and setting up for that happens tonight. even thought this time of year is a little bit tough for me it is a wonderful time of year to celebrate the savior's birth! he is the reason we have Christmas in the first place! we need to remember it's not about the gifts or the fun we have, but for him who gave us all of this! we so blessed with what we have!
I'm glad to be serving in the area I am. I can say I have lived in California............Maryland and live down the street from Hollywood..........Maryland.
I really do enjoy where I am right now. you are well fed. every night a dinner. Every day we are busy. it feels like it is going by fast because we are working hard and focusing on what we need to! it has been almost 2 weeks into the transfer and that's crazy. I feel like I just got here!
anyway I hope you have a great week! thanks so much to patsy cottom, the miller family, and the bishopric for the Christmas cards I have received. have a WONDERFUL week! Enjoy this wonderful Christmas week!
Pics for this area
Patuxent Area Pictures
Sunday, December 14, 2014
New Week, New Area!
So for those that dont know yet i am in a new area! the area is Patuxent! almost the southest part of the mission. we are the 2nd area to the last of the bottom of the mission. it is a car area so thats a plus. i also get fed every night so far. the people that i have met in this ward are solid and great! they are so missionary minded here that allot of them let us practice our lessons on them and they are solid on helping with service for less actives. it is great Our ward mission leader is amazing to he is solid and helps us get meals and has appointments set up for us or even has people we should go see. its great! i am just starting to get to know this area but it is going to be great! i may miss anacostia a little bit but its going to be great in Patuxent.
Here is pics to start it off with me and Elder Jensen! we had a great time at a place calle dflat iron farms for some Christmas lights! there will be more later!
Here is pics to start it off with me and Elder Jensen! we had a great time at a place calle dflat iron farms for some Christmas lights! there will be more later!
Friday, December 5, 2014
A Great Week To Start December #Sharethegift #Heisthegift
what a great month it is! what a great time of year it is with what the church is putting out and for us to take the opportunity to share the true meaning of christmas. i invite all to share the video and website: christmas.mormon.org. it has a great video to help show others the true meaning of christmas!
anyway it has been great this week! i have talked to over 70 people on the streets this week contacting. its crazy our goal is 100 by the end of the week. we are working on trying to get our teaching pool built back up. we really dont have investigators to teach right now thats why i have invited you all to have the missionaries over. see what you can do to help them. be the member missionaries they need! help them gain investigators and people to teach.
anyway i invite you to share the christmas spirit with all. help them bring the true meaning of christmas back into their lifes and not to be the commercial type of christmas but the spiritual and true meaning of christmas.
i will soon have a christmas list put together for those that want to send anything to me. right now i am at a lost of what i wish for or what i need. i should have a list put up next week! if you were a missionary in the past and you have ideas for my family email me some suggestions and i will send it to them or put it up on my blog!
Thanks so much, HAVE A WONDERFUL WEEK! as well as A BLESSED DAY!
anyway it has been great this week! i have talked to over 70 people on the streets this week contacting. its crazy our goal is 100 by the end of the week. we are working on trying to get our teaching pool built back up. we really dont have investigators to teach right now thats why i have invited you all to have the missionaries over. see what you can do to help them. be the member missionaries they need! help them gain investigators and people to teach.
anyway i invite you to share the christmas spirit with all. help them bring the true meaning of christmas back into their lifes and not to be the commercial type of christmas but the spiritual and true meaning of christmas.
i will soon have a christmas list put together for those that want to send anything to me. right now i am at a lost of what i wish for or what i need. i should have a list put up next week! if you were a missionary in the past and you have ideas for my family email me some suggestions and i will send it to them or put it up on my blog!
Thanks so much, HAVE A WONDERFUL WEEK! as well as A BLESSED DAY!
Friday, November 28, 2014
Thanksgiving was amazing!
What a great week to be Thankful!
coming to the end of this week i have got sick of eatting. i have had 2 big meals this week for thanksgiving. i feel like i need to have a big fast to get rid of the weight i have gained. but it means more diet and working out for me. anyway it has been great. it has been a great relaxed week. so with key indicators which are the numbers we count from our teaching. not many missionaries are going to have many numbers because either people were out of town or didnt want to be bothered by us while family was around. we still got to enjoy an amazing meal at a members home! i enjoyed it allot! the family that we went to visit their son is get5ting ready to serve a mission in the california roseville mission. he leaves to the mtc on the 3rd of december. he got his call at the begining of november! he is really excited! we have been sharing our experiances and stories with him so he is more pumped for his mission! i am excited for him! He will do GREAT! but i hope all has had a great thanksgiving and a fantastic BLACK FRIDAY!
I will have a christmas list up soon for those that want one or need ideas! one idea that comes to mind is subway giftcards! im still thinking of things to ask for!
pics of thanksgiving will be up soon!
coming to the end of this week i have got sick of eatting. i have had 2 big meals this week for thanksgiving. i feel like i need to have a big fast to get rid of the weight i have gained. but it means more diet and working out for me. anyway it has been great. it has been a great relaxed week. so with key indicators which are the numbers we count from our teaching. not many missionaries are going to have many numbers because either people were out of town or didnt want to be bothered by us while family was around. we still got to enjoy an amazing meal at a members home! i enjoyed it allot! the family that we went to visit their son is get5ting ready to serve a mission in the california roseville mission. he leaves to the mtc on the 3rd of december. he got his call at the begining of november! he is really excited! we have been sharing our experiances and stories with him so he is more pumped for his mission! i am excited for him! He will do GREAT! but i hope all has had a great thanksgiving and a fantastic BLACK FRIDAY!
I will have a christmas list up soon for those that want one or need ideas! one idea that comes to mind is subway giftcards! im still thinking of things to ask for!
pics of thanksgiving will be up soon!
Friday, November 21, 2014
THANKSGIVING WEEK COMING UP!
Next week is a great day to celebrate with family and friends! its a day of appreciation as well as the month. you may see everyone on Facebook posting things they are grateful for. you know i will make a list next week of what my gratitude is!
this week has been great getting things done. so today we went to the white house for a tour as a mission..... guess what my thoughts are..... some know me and would guess my reaction but its different from what you think..... sadly it was not worth it. i got exited for nothing. it was over in like 5 minutes. their visitor center was more exciting then it all. even the capitol building tour was more exciting. anyway if the showed more the white house and not only a fourth of it then it would had been more worth it. anyway yeah. so this week has been good. i have been staying busy.
Know what i have been thinking about is that it has been almost a year since a great Family friend has been passed away! he was a great home teacher for my family! their family has been great! he was in a sad car accident and it wasnt his fault. my heart is for his family!
this time of year for me is full of hard to think about anniversary's of things but i try to stay busy so they dont get to me to much! november, december, and january i have a hard time. im grateful for the plan of salvation to help sooth the feelings and to help me not feel to down. im grateful to be out on the mission for these anniversary's so i stay busy because a couple are coming on the year mark. some are comeing on a couple years since it has happened! i will always remember them for who they are and not what they did.
I'm Grateful For All I Have And What I Am Given!
Have A WONDERFUL Day And An Amazing Week
this week has been great getting things done. so today we went to the white house for a tour as a mission..... guess what my thoughts are..... some know me and would guess my reaction but its different from what you think..... sadly it was not worth it. i got exited for nothing. it was over in like 5 minutes. their visitor center was more exciting then it all. even the capitol building tour was more exciting. anyway if the showed more the white house and not only a fourth of it then it would had been more worth it. anyway yeah. so this week has been good. i have been staying busy.
Know what i have been thinking about is that it has been almost a year since a great Family friend has been passed away! he was a great home teacher for my family! their family has been great! he was in a sad car accident and it wasnt his fault. my heart is for his family!
this time of year for me is full of hard to think about anniversary's of things but i try to stay busy so they dont get to me to much! november, december, and january i have a hard time. im grateful for the plan of salvation to help sooth the feelings and to help me not feel to down. im grateful to be out on the mission for these anniversary's so i stay busy because a couple are coming on the year mark. some are comeing on a couple years since it has happened! i will always remember them for who they are and not what they did.
I'm Grateful For All I Have And What I Am Given!
Have A WONDERFUL Day And An Amazing Week
Friday, November 14, 2014
A WEEK OF MEETINGS AND GREATNESS
This week has been great. we have had the opportunity to have a area seventy come to do a tour of our mission! Elder Katcher has taught us allot of things regarding the mission and questions that we had! he was marvelous in what he does. we had a wonderful ward council meeting with all of the missions stakes and i think it helped the ward councils.(hopefully). and then we had a marvelous zone conference today with him! that was amazing! ill have to put my notes up soon! this week has been full of meetings! i have finished my christmas shopping for the family allready! check off my list of things to get done! im exited for thanksgiving! i get to practice my cooking skills next week for my fellow anacostia ward elders that i serve around. even though we will be at a members home for it i will pick a seprate day to do it with them. it will be magnificent! i continue to make great efforts in the great parts of the ghetto! its a great place to learn and grow. as it reaches the colder times, we try to stay warm and still invite others to come unto christ! some people think we are crazy to be out in the cold doing this and think we shouldnt be out. not many people are outside this time a year to talk to on the streets. but maybe people will let us in when its cold outside and maybe give us hot cocoa and listen to what we would like to share with them! maybe thats how will will bring up our teaching pool! its marvelous on what things we have that will want to have us come in if they are kind enough! but hopefully all will be well. last time it was snowing i was biking in the snow. so we will see if i do it again or if it may change next transfer. but im enjoying my time! thinking about it in a few months i will hit my year mark out on my mission then i will start counting down instead of up to my year mark! i noticed that i count the months going up, now when i hit my year mark i will be counting down! its a great pleasure of mine to be serving the lord in the greatest mission in the history of (my) life! in the great mission of the WASHINGTON D.C. NORTH MISSION! i cant wait to see any of my other siblings feel how i feel and see the great blessings that come from serving a mission!
But for now i wish you a great week and a blessed day! Email or write me anything you may have questions on or even to just say hello and i try to get back to you as soon as i possibly can! i always enjoy letters, emails, or even gifts. psych i dont need gifts, fore the poor and the needy need the gifts. help those in need for christmas! help the missionaries out on helping those in need! help other familys in need for christmas or thanksgiving! share your testimony with someone! share a meal with someone that is struggling!
But for now i wish you a great week and a blessed day! Email or write me anything you may have questions on or even to just say hello and i try to get back to you as soon as i possibly can! i always enjoy letters, emails, or even gifts. psych i dont need gifts, fore the poor and the needy need the gifts. help those in need for christmas! help the missionaries out on helping those in need! help other familys in need for christmas or thanksgiving! share your testimony with someone! share a meal with someone that is struggling!
Saturday, November 8, 2014
What do you do moe?
"What do you do Moe?" is another way of saying "whats happening?"
so this week has been great aside from not having a very big teaching pool. things do progress with anacostia central! man since daylight-savings it has been getting darker sooner then usual. but we continue to work hard! so this month is the great month of thanksgiving and a great month to appreciate what we have and what has been gifted to us by our loving heavenly father! we are all blessed to be here on this earth and to have the family's we do! what are you blessed with in your life? write in on a piece of paper and put it in a journal or have it for your family in the future! a great thing is that your future family will look in your stuff after you pass and something may be about them or even just something they can learn about you or just even when they do family history for you that's one thing they will find! but that's the great thing about family history and leaving something for your future family. also think of this: have you been doing family history? have you been using Familysearch.org? i have found so many cool things on mine so far. i have found the funeral service talks on my great great grandfather on my grandpa Snyder side. its such a blessing and i know that the spirit of Elijah is with you as you do the work. someone told me "those on the other-side of the veil are there to help us so that we can help them do their work.". i know as we do the work for our ancestors it makes the temple trip more meaningful and great! on my mission i have a goal to finish all 10 names i have been given do temple work. get this i have 10 or so temple trips left on my mission. that's crazy so i have that time to finish their work in the temple! so i invite you to look into your family search and do the same and find names you can do work for in your family. also try to do it as a family, maybe for a family home evening activity or lesson, and learn together of where your from, stories, pictures, where your last name came from or where it may have changed. anyway i know i have found that from both sides of my family has come from Sweden & Norway. its cool also its a little diffrent for me cauz i have 3 familys i look up the tree for. even though my real dad is out of the picture i still look at his family but i look at my moms, my new dads, and my old dads side. its still great! so down below is pictures i will have on my family tree so when i die people can see it when they look me up down the line in the future! also this blog will be on there as well so they can read all the stuff from my mission and as well as i was! i hope you all have a great day and give family search a try and see what you find! i know familys are a great blessing! i know family has had to deal with allot of crap with me around and with me not being around much either! i was a turd and unsupportive and wasnt home a whole lot. i always was someone that wanted to be alone but i appreciate my family alot now and cant wait till i start mine and it will be great!
so this week has been great aside from not having a very big teaching pool. things do progress with anacostia central! man since daylight-savings it has been getting darker sooner then usual. but we continue to work hard! so this month is the great month of thanksgiving and a great month to appreciate what we have and what has been gifted to us by our loving heavenly father! we are all blessed to be here on this earth and to have the family's we do! what are you blessed with in your life? write in on a piece of paper and put it in a journal or have it for your family in the future! a great thing is that your future family will look in your stuff after you pass and something may be about them or even just something they can learn about you or just even when they do family history for you that's one thing they will find! but that's the great thing about family history and leaving something for your future family. also think of this: have you been doing family history? have you been using Familysearch.org? i have found so many cool things on mine so far. i have found the funeral service talks on my great great grandfather on my grandpa Snyder side. its such a blessing and i know that the spirit of Elijah is with you as you do the work. someone told me "those on the other-side of the veil are there to help us so that we can help them do their work.". i know as we do the work for our ancestors it makes the temple trip more meaningful and great! on my mission i have a goal to finish all 10 names i have been given do temple work. get this i have 10 or so temple trips left on my mission. that's crazy so i have that time to finish their work in the temple! so i invite you to look into your family search and do the same and find names you can do work for in your family. also try to do it as a family, maybe for a family home evening activity or lesson, and learn together of where your from, stories, pictures, where your last name came from or where it may have changed. anyway i know i have found that from both sides of my family has come from Sweden & Norway. its cool also its a little diffrent for me cauz i have 3 familys i look up the tree for. even though my real dad is out of the picture i still look at his family but i look at my moms, my new dads, and my old dads side. its still great! so down below is pictures i will have on my family tree so when i die people can see it when they look me up down the line in the future! also this blog will be on there as well so they can read all the stuff from my mission and as well as i was! i hope you all have a great day and give family search a try and see what you find! i know familys are a great blessing! i know family has had to deal with allot of crap with me around and with me not being around much either! i was a turd and unsupportive and wasnt home a whole lot. i always was someone that wanted to be alone but i appreciate my family alot now and cant wait till i start mine and it will be great!
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