Dear Family,
This week has been a good week but also boring! Just because I sat around and did nothing but clean for a couple days because Elder Dyerly got sick :P haha! (did Levi say he CLEANED??? YES! :)
Could you also send ties in that package?? :) I love ties :) Could I also get another journal? The same red one I got except I want to get the blue one? for studying?? :) THANKS
Well, transfer information! So, I am staying in Palatka, and my companion is staying and he got released from being District Leader so now we are just a normal companionship! And I live in an apartment. Most everyone in our mission is in an apartment! I live with 3 other missionaries! There is Elder Dyerly (my companion), Elder Wheeler (The New District Leader and he is really funny and has been out 17 months and he is pretty much one of the best missionaries I have seen) and Elder Riggs (he has been out a transfer longer).
We have a cockroach problem right now, so we actually just bombed our place and are hoping to not have that problem anymore :) haha! Oh and the bike has been really good by the way! I love it! And, Elder Dyerly and Elder Wheeler both think I would be a really good trainer :/ I dont know about that! (I'm sure he would too!!) But, they said they recommended me as a trainer! MEH! (I think he loves that...and playing it off! What a great opportunity!) So, apparently they think I will be training next transfer because Elder Dyerly has been in this area for 6 months at the end of this next transfer! So any advice on how I can prepare to train someone? Because I don't think I know enough yet to do that!
ANYWAYS,
GATOR UPDATE :) :
Monroe: He is starting to understand authority a little bit! He has been coming to church every Sunday which is really good! If we can get him to stop smoking he could get baptized this weekend and he wants to be baptized. He just needs to stop smoking! SO PLEASE PRAY HE WILL HAVE THE DESIRE TO NOT SMOKE :) I really want him to get baptized soon :)
Matt: Matt seems like he wants to know if its true and he is reading the Book of Mormon but he isn't coming to church! I hope he will come this weekend for General Conference :) I am soooo excited for that :)
Tamara: Tamara is the less-active. She came to church this sunday which I was really excited for! It was so amazing! They had this Young Women special this sunday and they did an amazing job!
We are struggling with the amount of gators right now. But we will find a lot this week :) So we had another less active besides Tamara come and his name is Wayne and he brought his wife who is not a member and she started crying like crazy during sacrement so I really hope we can make something come out of that!
And a Members grandson has been coming for a couple months and we are trying to set up an appointment with him too! We already know he wants to be baptized it is just basically finding time to sit down and go throught the lessons!
This area is going in such a good direction! I am so excited for it. We are getting a lot of less-actives to come back and will hopefully have some baptisms coming up :) It is really good! General Conference is this weekend and we get an extended curfew Saturday night because priesthood session goes till 10 for us :) Oh ya, haha! I can't wait though, I have so many questions I am hoping to have answered :)
We are also having a priesthood cookout from 6:30 to 8:00 which will be incredible because we are having a less active we have been working with for FOREVER and they are going to another church because they don't feel worthy to come to ours and they know the church is true. But they said they would come to the dinner and stay for priesthood session :) So that will be amazing! I am expecting big miracles this week with General Conference :) OH YA!
And wow, I have been studying charity and love, and listening all week this week and it has made everything so amazing! I feel so much more love and listening really will help a lot with following the spirit! It is incredible! I would say love and listening are the two most important characteristics in missionary work!
I am having a great time and I am doing really really well :) I love you all so much! Only 21 months left ;) haha! I am glad I got a lot of time left :) Elder Wheeler gets really upset sometimes because he is realizing he only has 3 transfers left :( I have a lot more :) hehe!
I love you all! Keep being amazing! STOCKTON AND MICAH, EMAIL ME :) STOCKTON, tell me how you are dominating :) Micah, tell me how everyone stares at your amazingness as you march around that track leading that massive Camas High School Band!
Love you very much!
Elder Wise
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