its been a great week! we have had allot go on and things just keep us busy but its been great. we had a general authority speak to us yesterday! it had answered allot of questions with how to change up our teaching! elder perkins was awesome!
anyway so we have a baptism this weekend if all goes well with our investigator! this sunday he will be baptized and then confirmed the sunday following. this ward hasnt seen a investigator baptism in a year. we have had child of record baptisms but not a new member! anyway it will be great. i think he is still deciding on who he wants to baptize him. also we will have one going on in september! i finally get to be in an area where i stay for the baptisms. i mean im staying in the same area and it will be 6 months of being here! then we will see where the stick me for me last 4 months after this. it will be great!
well i hope you have a great week!
Also I Will Get To Celebrate My Companions Birthday Monday! He Will Be 20 Also
Wednesday, August 26, 2015
Tuesday, August 11, 2015
TEMPLE TRIP, NATIONALS GAME, BIRTHDAY!
It was a great week and weekend! i had lots going on! as most of you know or by the title i went to the the temple and had an amazing time doing family ordinances. also i got to attend a nationals game as a mission and to be able to enjoy sports. the nationals won like it should be. it was 5-1 the Rockies ended their scoring in the 4th inning. also as you all know i had my 20th birthday and i don't fill 20 yet. i think i turned 18 instead. but it was good i had a party at my Filipino families home! i also got to have an amazing dinner with a family in the ward (the Robbins)! the made delicious food. the first picture shows me with my Filipino family! just missing the bro nikko. anyway we had fun. i cant wait to come visit them when i come out to the mission! sorry to those that posted on my Facebook that i didn't get to see the posts but im grateful for the happy birthday wishes.
Hope you have a great week!
Monday, July 27, 2015
what a week!
its been a week of hard work. we have done lots of service. we did lots of eviction help.and we had a member of the ward pass away that we would take the sacrament every sunday. he was fun to meet with. he was a double amputee and he was always looking his window waiting for us and had a smile upon his face when we came over. we will having his funeral this friday it will be good. but we have had lots of fun! well i hope you all have a good week!
Monday, July 20, 2015
What a week!
have been building relationships with family's in the ward to where we
basically are one of their kids at their home.
So this next weekend we have a baptism that we will be doing for an
investigator that just came to church 4 weeks ago or so and she has
just been a blessing from above. I have been the teach for the gospel
principles class and it's been only her in the class so we can just
focus on her. Then we had an event where some missionaries in
Baltimore came to our building and brought an investigator they have
been teaching and he had moved to Carrollton so we have another
awesome solid investigator. His name is Chich. He is really cool. He
is going to be put on date soon.
So we went to a why I believe event last night at the visitor center
and I got to see lots of friends I have made in other areas. I got a
cool picture that I really like. I thought I would share it. But I
hope all of you have a great week!
Monday, July 6, 2015
Same area, Same Companion, New transfer!
its coming to an end for this transfer and it has been great! im excited for the new transfer and the baptism i get to stay for on july 26th. i got to enjoy a temple trip on wednesday and lots of service but i would like to share some cool pictures with you that i got to do not yesterday but last sunday. they will be posted later! hope you enjoyed your 4th of july! mine was amazing but didnt get pics this time!
Monday, June 22, 2015
Families Can Be Together Forever!
this week has been a great and busy week! we have had lots of referrals come in we are working on contacting 158 people that have asked for missionaries or they have newly moved in and may need a new church to go to.
anyway so you probably wondering why i have this title to this post. so yesterday we were at the why i believe event at the visitor center we have each month and it was he head coach of the navy football team. the one off meet the mormons. he was talking allot about families and how its important to spend Sunday together and to make them a priority along with your heavenly family. it was amazing well after the event we were driving back with our recent convert maxwell and a youth in the ward named fortune. and we got talking there was 2 parts to the conversation i want to share.
first: we were talking about what stood out to us in the why i believe testimonies and the head couches testimony. with the head coaches talk he talked about how his family was in utah for their sons football game at byu and he was alone for fathers day but he felt he was ment to be there with us to talk. well as he was taking about it something stood out to me that even though heavenly father has some of his family in heaven he can be lonely when we don't offer a prayer because he wants to talk to us. yesterday i had a feeling in my prayers to mention to him "happy fathers day!". it just struck me with that when days like this come we forget about our heavenly family and only remember to say it to our earthly family.
Second: we got talking about a member in our ward that had just passed recently and maxwell was telling me how she was very spiritual and a dream she had, she had a dream of family in the spirit world type setting and she had some family members that could hear the ancestor on the good side but couldn't be reached because they haven't been baptized yet. and it reminded me of a dream i had that i told him about and it was long ago maybe a few months ago. anyway so it was similar, here is how the setting was, we were in a nice feild with flowers all around and for a second i thought i was alone in this feild but then my nana linda walked up and then my great grandma frank walked up with her and they asked me if i had forgiven the situation that happened at my great grandma franks funeral with the family situation that happened there. here is the story of what happened at the funeral for this dream to make sence. so after my parents got seperated my ex-dad had a new woman and family. well we have a restraining order against his wife. and we are not allowed to be around her. so we had the amazing funeral service and we came back to have the lunch in and one of my uncles walked up and said we had to leave because my ex-dads wife was coming to the lunch and we were disappointed because my uncle chose a family that was not related to the family over his true family. anyway trouble happened and the family split up and some of the family is on our side and the other part of the family i havent talked to in a while. But anyway to continue the dream the 2 of my grandmas walked up to me and said, "why haven't you forgave him" I told them I did not know. Then my grandmas both bared witness to me of gods love for everyone and that he needs his temple work done so that he can be with the family. They know he is suffering and need it done. And after that dream I will never forget what the spirit and my grandmas testified to me and how important it is to do temple work and to have godly love for everyone even how bad they screw up. And so I found his name on family search and he became my priority to do when we did mission temple work I felt I was ment to do it for him and he will be happy for it. My aunt Jolena felt it was right for me to do it.
I know the atonement is real! i am a person in the past that did not forgive real easy but being on a mission has changed that. i am easy to forgiving people. i have forgiven my uncle and did his temple work so that he can feel joy like we do! he is with his family i know that for a fact! he is with a loving family! i know my grandmas are proud of what i did! For those that dont do famiily history this is why this is important to look for your ancestors so you can do their temple work so they can feel the happiness we have when we get there as long as we live the commandments and do acording to gods will for us! SO DO YOUR FAMILY HISTORY! LOVE YOU GUYS! ENJOY YOUR WEEK!
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📝📲 Elder Cody Blaine Simons📲📝
Tuesday, June 9, 2015
What a great start to a new transfer!
It's been a great new transfer so far! I have a new companion elder Redmond! He is from Fallon Nevada. We have been working hard since we have the whole ward now. We have 30 investigators we are trying to fit into our schedule. They took the sisters out of the ward so we took their work on along with ours. The stress level is up but we keep working hard.
So the other day I asked the Book of Mormon what we should do for this are or how can we make this area go more smoothly and not have as much stress. Well when I opened it up I turned to alma 32 and that scripture talks a lot faith and you need to have faith for everything so as we went to church Sunday the topic was about faith as well. Then We had a miracle happen on Sunday, The miracles keep coming I love it. We had a lady come to church on Sunday and she said when she visited the temple visitor center she felt something so great that she has not felt in other churches so she asked the sisters where the closest lds church was and that's where we are. So she comes to church and tells us of her experience and she wants to learn more. She said her attention span is small but she said somehow we kept her attention to learn more so we are meeting with her yesterday. And she has a daughter that is 8 and would love to come to church. So we have received a solid investigator and she wants to learn more and to come to church here more often. So at the lesson she loved the message and she has softened her heart by the sounds of her change. She has felt that this is the true church and she has felt the spirit. She reads the Book of Mormon at her work and the pamphlets we send with her. She is solid and she truly wants to know. The most exciting news is that she has a BAPTISMAL DATE FOR JUNE 28TH 2015! AND ITS BEFORE THE TRANSFER ENDS SO I WILL BE HERE FOR IT! I'm excited for it and to be able to actually prepare for a baptism.
I'm loving this area and the work I get to do! I hope you all have a great week!
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Elder Cody Blaine Simons
Monday, May 25, 2015
Another transfer in Carrollton!
Well out of all 4 of us I am the one staying in Carrollton! I love this area and I get to continue working here! I have someone I am getting to know and working with that I have felt I am meant to met and help come closer to Christ! It has been good. There has been little struggle this transfer because of news I have received about someone getting cancer that is a great friend and scout master to me. Family friends passing away and many other things but it's all great in the end knowing where they go. Next transfer is going to be great with continuing on the teaching of those we have met and we get to celebrate the 4th of July! I'm excited. My last 4th of July here! I'm excited for the amazing fireworks like last year! But I hope you all have a great week!
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📝📲 Elder Cody Blaine Simons📲📝
⛪️Everydayamissionary.blogspot.com⛪️ Monday, May 11, 2015
Happy Mothers Day!
Happy Mother's Day! It was great to Skype the family! It was great to see how the family has been! Sadly it was only part of the family but that's ok the others are doing great! I have one Skype left before I go home. It was funny my little sister showed me how much time I have left. It's crazy how much time is left. It feels like I just started.
Anyway the week has been great we have been so busy that we have a hard time setting times in our schedule for new investigators. But it's great. I enjoy playing t! I love being busy but i hope you have a great week!
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Happy Mothers Day
It was a great day yesterday for a Mother's Day Skype! I enjoyed it! It was a great day to say the family and to talk to them and catch up on it all. I enjoyed the wonderful conversation! This is the photo of who could be there. Anyway it's been a great week sorry I haven't kept my blog up to date. When I realize I need to update it, it's almost time to update the next one. But I have been so busy in my area that we have a hard time adding new investigators to our schedule. But we love how busy we are. My little sister was funny she made sure to show me how much time I have left. Which to me is crazy I have that left.
Left to right (grandma simons, grandpa snyder (papas), mom, neilah, Zach, Lindeon, dad, duke)
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Tuesday, April 21, 2015
what a great way to start a transfer in a new area! part 1!
I am now in Carrollton with my MTC Companion that I had! It is amazing how much we each have changed since we started together! It's been a great week full of miracles! So the other day we went tracting after we talked with our potential investigator and we knocked 4 doors, got 3 return appointments and 2 new investigators! It was an amazing day! We have been working hard! I am enjoying the people of Carrollton!
Yesterday was my little sister Neilah's birthday and she turned 4! Time has flown with her life! I remember back when I was sitting in the hospital waiting to greet another sibling into this world! So I want to give her a shout out happy birthday! I got a couple pics from what she got and man has she gotten a little taller! She is growing to fast! Anyway here is some pics!
HAVE A GREAT WEEK!
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What a great way to start a new transfer in a new area part 2
Pday was an amazing blast! We got into a place where not just anyone can get in and the member that got us in said it is hard to get into! But we got to enjoy a tour of NASA! It was a blast take a look at the pics
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Sunday, April 12, 2015
Leaving good ol' Kensington to a new adventure!
What a great time I have had in Kensington! It's been great to get to know the members here, to be close to the temple and to have such an awesome district! My leg has been doing better. The knee is better the ankle is better. Just hopin nothin will happen again. Even though I know something will come up! So confrence was so amazing. To many talks about marriage for me. Hahaha I'm excited for marriage but it's to soon to be thinking about it. Anyway it was good when I noticed president monson didn't open confrence or close confrence like he normally does I worried so I found out that he had recently had a stroke. That's not good. Anyway also 2 apostles were missing at confrence. I have not figured out why but elder Richard g Scott and elder Robert d hales was missing till the end then hales came back for a talk he looked better then last confrence. But there was so many good talks. I love general confrence. It's something we look forward to with excitement on the mission. It's amazing. Easter was also amazing. I got to do an Easter egg hunt. To much candy. But still had a blast with the members. The photos below are ones that I thought would be the best to show from my adventure in Kensington.
Me and elder hall at the temple getting a pic together
Me and elder hall at the temple getting a pic together
Me and the DC 1st district. We took a pic of us and we were suppose to bring something that represented us but let's see if you can guess what mine is.
We had 2 missionaries in our district going home so we did their ending photo. The one that's on the right being a fish was one of my previous companions.
Have a wonderful week!
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Monday, March 30, 2015
What a wonderful week but cold week!
It is great here in Kensington other then it won't warm up yet, it's been cold and windy. But the weeks been good. We have been getting to know more of those in our area. This white wash is throwing me off a little bit but it gives practice to many things. It's a wonderful ward. I enjoy the mornings to where I can take a morning walk, walk around the temple, then come back. It's been great here in Kensington. I am back on bike. It's been great to bike. My legs feel dead from all the walking I have done but I enjoy it all together and do whatever it takes to get where I can. I also am trying to get to all your letters I have 30 that i am trying to finish. Then it will be good. But not much to say but have a wonderful week!
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📝📲 Elder Cody Blaine Simons📲📝
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Monday, March 23, 2015
Kensington Elders!
What a week it's been in Kensington Maryland. It's also a beautiful sight to have the temple right next to the church we meet in and for it to be a place we do our walk around in the morning.
So it started getting warm here but then it got cold again then snowed a little then it's starting to warm up again which is great! I'm excited for it to warm up here.
So I have another injury story. So at the beginning of last week we were moving apartments so we could be closer to our area and so when we were bringing a couch to the trailer I missed the step up there is to the parking lot and so I fell back on it and the couch went up the came back down and hit my shin and so I looked at it and put ice on it later that nigh cuz it really hurt after the move. So I called our mission doctor and he had me evaluate it step by step Cuz the ice made it worst I think. So I found out that it's a bruised bone and it's not Brocken. The funny thing is also is that it's on the same leg I hurt my knee on so that leg must be prone to getting hurt I guess. But it seems to be better the mission doctor told me just walk 8,000 steps everyday and take it easy if I bike, bike with one leg. But that's to hard so we will work on it and see what happens. Other then that it's been good.the cool thing is that it quit hurting when I went to do temple work last Wednesday so that was good then it kinda came back but it's slowly going away.
I'm excited for a new week and a new adventure.
In one week I get to see Jocelyn get baptized I'm excited!😄
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Tuesday, March 17, 2015
Same Transfer! New Area! New Companion!
so i missed putting this up till now because i had no access to a computer till now and my ipad doesnt get me on my blog.
a little about my companion his name is elder daniel hall and he is from japan and he is half japanesse and half canadian. his family just moved to where his dads from in canada but his mom is from japan and he grew up there!
Well this week i have moved to a new area due to some changes because of a mistake on transfers. but i have been moved to kensington which i like allot since the temple is in my area! the issue we have is that we need to get creative on our finding activities since the sister use our area to tract when they have spare time on their shift at the temple visitor center. its a small area though. i like it small since im on bike getting myself back in shape.
so this week we have a trip planned to go do baptisms at the temple so we have more names to do sessions for when we do our transfer temple trip. then we have interviews with president this friday so that will be good. thats when we get new ipads! the ones we get to take home!
tomorrow and thursday i will be moving apartments so we live in our area instead of driving 20 minutes to get to our area. we have some baptismal dates set up for the area so far before i got here. on the 28th i get to travel down to see the baptism of jocilyn and im excited for that! i cant wait! but not more to say yet about how the areas doing since i just started but there will be more next week!
HAVE A WONDERFUL WEEK!
Tuesday, March 10, 2015
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!
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| me and elder jensen bidding farewell to jocilyn and meghan in pax |
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| at sister McCombs home |
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| last lexington park district photo for last transfer |
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| FREE PANCAKE DAY! |
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| Forson Family Dinner |
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| Forson Family Dinner |
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!
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