-karen
April 22, 2013
Good P-day today! We didn't do a ton of stuff, mostly writing letters. The three things we did do were: go over to Taitus & Julianna's home and helped the kids with homework and just visited. After that we had dinner with the Gertch's (sp?). We had Chipotle, so that was GOOD! After that, we had a meeting with Sam & Heather. We talked about faith and it was a GREAT lesson.
April 23, 2013
Good day today! Tons of tracting and finding! Found some awesome new potentials and then had a sweet dinner with the Valles family. Mexican food night! They are so awesome with "member missionary" work. They did the homework assignment to invite others to church and activities! We had the pinewood derby tonight and met a few different non-members! Just a good night! Even though we had only one lesson today (with Troy, a recent convert), and everything else cancelled, it was still a GREAT day!
This link explains missionary work, why the LDS Church sends missionaries, and how members help the missionary work move forward.
http://mormon.org/missionary-work
April 24, 2013
Lots of fun finding-time. We found some sweet potentials who we set up return appointments with. We had a pretty good lesson with Jason. Please pray for him to receive and know that he is ready to get baptized on May 25th. The crazy part is that he knows what he needs to know, and he believes what he needs to believe but he doesn't want to commit to a baptismal date. It's totally fine if he doesn't want to yet, but both Elder Frandsen and I don't understand what's stopping him. After his lesson, we had a lesson with Aaron, a recent convert (Kepler's dad), and something SO COOL happened! Sioban, Aaron's wife was there and she is now an investigator! She said that she has seen such a change and bright light from Aaron and wants to have the same. SO GREAT!! :-) After that, we had a great time with Jacob Bradley. He is less active (in the church) and loves having us over once a month for dinner! He usually takes us out to eat, and this time he brought us to The Blazing Onion. It's like Red Robin. I got the usual thing I get at Red Robin, a grilled chicken ciabata sandwich, so then I could compare the two. Tasted the same as at RR, and it was gone in under two minutes!! YUM! I guess only WA has the Blazing Onion restaurant! We had a lesson after that about goal setting and where he wanted to be in a year or less, spiritually. He is just a straight-up awesome guy. And after the lesson, he gave me his ugly tie. He got it from his trainer (when he was on a mission) but never trained anyone, so he never gave it away, and I'm the first "greenie" (new missionary) he has run into since his own mission!
Looks delicious! Guess this place goes on our list of things to see in 2015! http://www.blazingonion.com/
April 25, 2013
Good stuff today! Lots of time finding people and we helped the Gertsch's move. Right after that we had a lesson on the Ten Commandments with Taitus & Julianna's family and guess what...Kristina wants to get baptized! She said she is a little nervous but that will go away! We made sure that she knew we were going to teach her everything she needed to know! After that we had dinner with Brother Lopez and his daughter. That was good! :-) Later we had an amazing lesson with Wendy & Alex. (Wendy is the mom, Alex is her 15 year old son. Both are less active in the LDS Church) Oh man...we watched Finding Faith in Christ video. The Spirit was so strong! I definitely recommend it! It's only about 30 min long. It's a great thing to do as a family or for FHE. Also, a guy yelled at us that he hated our religion. It was funny.
Here is a link to the Finding Faith in Christ video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=49CMaFK3C0k
Chris mentioned FHE above. That is an acronym for Family Home Evening. In the LDS Church, we are asked to set aside one night per week (traditionally Mondays) to be with our family. Usually, the family will have a short lesson, sing songs, have refreshments and play a game. Each family does things differently, and not all "FHE's" are the same, but the goal is the same: Family time. http://www.lds.org/hf/fhe/welcome/0,16785,4210-1,00.html
This is a lesson from the book the missionaries use to teach investigators (along with the scriptures) about how to recognize and understand the Spirit. Hope this helps define what he meant above by "The Spirit was so strong"
http://www.lds.org/manual/preach-my-gospel-a-guide-to-missionary-service/how-do-i-recognize-and-understand-the-spirit?lang=eng
Leave it to Chris to find getting yelled at funny. Maybe that comes from hearing all the airport stories I've told over the years!? :-)
April 26, 2013
We had a pretty awesome day! Weekly planning this morning, and then our usual studies...and then it got fun! We had 3 lessons tonight and for ALL 3, we read a chapter in the Book of Mormon. To start with, we had Troy, then Sheryl & Taylor, and then whipped cream on top with a lesson with the Moli family! Great experience with the Moli's - we had finished the lesson and went to make our plates (tonga boxes) (?? I will ask about this on Monday!). When we finished that and went back into the living room to get our backpacks, all three of the kids (twins, age 15 and one age 20) were reading the next chapter. They said that we left them with a cliffhanger in chapter 3 of 1st Nephi. "If Nephi and his brothers got the plates, then how did they do it the 3rd time?"
Here's the link to the scriptures the kids felt they needed to finish reading to hear the rest of the story:
I linked to 1 Nephi. If you choose to, you can start at the beginning and read about Nephi and his family. The Book of Mormon is scripture, so it reads likes the Bible with biblical-style verbiage. We believe that the Book of Mormon is the Word of God and another testament of Jesus Christ. The stories are a history of the people who lived in the Americas thousands of years ago.
April 27, 2013
Great lesson with Gail today. We talked a lot about the Pre-earth life, predestination and foreordination. Crazy topics, but good! Did some yard work at Sheryl & Taylor's house, so that was fun. We did get a lot of cancels this week.
Definitions...
Foreordination: http://www.lds.org/topics/foreordination?lang=eng
Pre-earth life: http://www.lds.org/topics/pre-earth-life?lang=eng
Plan of Salvation: http://www.lds.org/topics/plan-of-salvation
April 28, 2013
AMAZING day today! We had 7 investigators at church! SO AWESOME! We started out the morning with Paul Way and breakfast at his house. We answered a lot of questions he had for the hour time we had, and then we left for PEC and Church which were both good. We had an awesome dinner at Brother Farrar's and his family. Breakfast for dinner, again! :-) The one other thing that happened to me today was that the Primary President asked if I could come in and portray Joseph Smith, so I did that and it was a lot of fun!
PEC = Priesthood Executive Council. This ward leadership group meets regularly to discuss happenings within the ward and how to meet the needs of the members.
For those who don't know, Chris had the opportunity to portray Joseph Smith in the Summer of 2010 at the Hill Cumorah Pageant in upstate New York. That opportunity gave him a stronger testimony of Joseph Smith's life and the things he went through...and a desire to serve others. Also, that same summer, an artist by the name of Julie Rodgers painted Chris as Joseph Smith and that canvas is hanging in our home. It's so awesome that Chris had the chance to do that again for the Primary kids (ages 3 - 11). For any friends on the east coast in July, we highly recommend you go see the Hill Cumorah Pageant! It's a spectacular production with a cast of over 700 people! (And it's free!) Our family spent the summers of 2010 and 2012 participating in this amazing event. http://www.hillcumorah.org/Pageant/
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