6-10-2013
I love Mondays! It was great hearing from everyone today! It always gives me that extra boost for the week. I am slowly but surely adjusting. I am learning to be a better teacher and so much more! We played basketball until we couldn't walk anymore. It was a lot of fun. We had dinner with the Butterfields. They take such good care of us. They are our family and home away from home. They are so good to us, whatever they have they give to help us! We had a hard time with missionary work tonight...our basketball game with the Butterfield kids went a little long...oops. We have a huge day tomorrow. We have to write up all the info of our investigators and ward members for the new missionaries. We are starting from the ground up again with finding new people. I love tracking.
6-11-2013
Patience is a virtue! A mission is full of unending challenges that require a lot of patience! The new 11th ward SISTERS arrived today. All I can say is they have a sweet spirit and are beautful daughters of God. The trainer has been serving for 14 months and "knows it all". She told us a few things that, she thought we should be doing better...which was just about everything. She will take some getting used to. It is hard handing all our investigators off to the Sisters. Sister Kimball is the other new missionary...today was her first day! She is rom Northern Utah and is nice. All I can say is it is so cool to not be the newest anymore! Elder Taylor and I did paperwork all day. We had to fill out and update all of our progress records for our investigators that we are handing off to the sisters...which is pretty much all of them. So it was a LONG day for sure. It is hard handing our work off, but I've been humbled in learning that this isn't my work but the Lords. We got one short lesson in tonight...I still have chills. We visited Anna, the cocaine addict. She sent us a scary text at 2 am and said, "Help, please pray for me." When we stopped by tonight she looked like she had been hit by a train. Both hands were swollen black n blue and bleeding from “shooting up.” She is very open with us about her problem. She wants to change so bad, but the drugs have completely consumed her life. She told us that she hides knives all over her room for protection from her hallucinations. She tells us that she knows she is killing herself. She doesn’t want to do it.... she hates it, but can't stop.. It is REALLY sad. It is the kind of stuff you only see on TV where we live. Tomorrow will be “opening day for the hunt.” The hunt for brothers and sisters to bring eternal joy too! We have nothing but tracting planned. "Summer nights, every body’s getting baptized!” ....isn’t that what Rascal Flats' song says?
6-12-13
Push it Push it to the limit limit cause were init to win it! This Highschool Musical Classic got me through my day! I sang it as I walked house to house loving the 106 degree dessert sun! We worked hard tracting most of the day. We didn’t find much success but our door approaches got a lot of practice! I know that there is someone waiting for us, we just weren’t on the right streets today. The spirit guided us to knock on Tim Martin's door tonight. We couldn’t have come at a better time, they are really stuggling. They are having problems with their daughter. We were able to give blessings to Tim and his wife. It was a great experience. I have such a strong testimony of being “intune” with the spirit!
Push it Push it to the limit limit cause were init to win it! This Highschool Musical Classic got me through my day! I sang it as I walked house to house loving the 106 degree dessert sun! We worked hard tracting most of the day. We didn’t find much success but our door approaches got a lot of practice! I know that there is someone waiting for us, we just weren’t on the right streets today. The spirit guided us to knock on Tim Martin's door tonight. We couldn’t have come at a better time, they are really stuggling. They are having problems with their daughter. We were able to give blessings to Tim and his wife. It was a great experience. I have such a strong testimony of being “intune” with the spirit!
6-13-13
Being Nice!
I'm learning a valuable lesson.. everyone is different in there own special ways...everyone has the light of Christ in them, some “sisters” you just have to look harder then others. Hint Hint. Elder Taylor and I have two new mothers on the mission.. Sister clements and Kimball. Today was another one for the record books. This afternoon I literally rung my shirt out and put on the second for the day.. no I didn’t go running through the sprinklers…! Tracting was great.. We were guided to 4 new investigators! Crazy thing is.. 1 of the investigators is Rimero's ex-wife and 1 is his son. (Rimero is the guy that I ran into at our apartment complex when I was on splits, amazing experience). The lord really needs us to teach them obviously. The other three are the Moralis family! It is a mother with a son that is 15, he seemed super cool and a daughter that is 8. Tonight was another mind blowing spiritual experience with Tim and Ashley Martin. They are going through problems trying to get full custody of their daughter. They feel torn apart when ever she is not with them and feel that they can not be sealed in the temple because of it. Elder Taylor shared his very heart wrenching powerful story of his mother and bore his testimony of eternal families and the plan of salvation.. I felt very impressed to teach about the blessing it is to have an eternal family and said “When you look at life in an eternal perspective, worldly things don’t matter.” I also shared the quote on the back of my planner “If God brings you to it, he will bring you through it.” The spirit was very profound in our teaching. We had the whole room in tears. This lesson once again put me in my place. I'm not sure why the Lord loved me so much to give me these eternal blessings here in this life. I am so blessed to have been born into an eternal family. Temple ordinances are of God and are given to us to be together forever. I received revelation during this, I know without a doubt in my mind that Elder Taylor was called to be my trainer for this reason...To wake me up to all of my blessings in this life. During this time, I opened my BofM and layed my eyes on 2NE 1:21. I thought of Elder Taylor's mother saying what Lehi told his sons, to us…"and now that my soul might have joy in you, and that my heart might leave this world with gladness because of you, that I might not be brought down with grief and sorrow to the grave, arise from the dust, MY SONS, AND BE MEN, AND BE DETERMINED IN ONE MIND AND IN ONE HEART, UNITED IN ALL THINGS, THAT YE MAY NOT COME DOWN INTO CAPTIVITY.” Speechless?...yeah thought so..welcome to missionary work.
I love my amazing mother, my christlike father, my valiant brothers, my angelic sister, and my pretty girl.
6-14-2013
Tired as ever..guess that means it was a good day. We had district meeting this morning. Each week we are required to have a 5 minute talk prepared and a memorized scripture, then two people are chosen randomly! For the 3rd time in a row.. I got selected to give the 5 minute talk. I guess speaking in stake conference wasn’t enough! On top of that, Elder Taylor and I had to give a lesson on getting members out to teach with us... the perks of having the highest numbers in the zone! Right after district meeting, we went to our return appointment with the Moralis family that we tracted into yesterday. THEY ARE SO SOLID. We taught them the restoration and got to know each other a little bit. The family WAS very strong in the Christian faith until her husband left them and she blamed the church. The family is so strong and I love them already. The 15 year old, Aaron was super intense with our lesson. He loved it and said it would bless his life so much. He dresses baller just like my ugly little brother. We connect so good, we have a ton in common. I showed him some pictures. We joked and laughed a lot, he jokes that he is going to Orem to steal “my shawtay.” Haha. I told him that “my shawtay” is racest and thinks Mexicans stink. We laughed pretty hard. The daughter drew me a picture that said, THANK YOU FOR THE SPIRIT. It all made sense to the mom and she loved it. Aaron said the closing prayer and it was AMAZING. Future missionary for sure. I didn’t feel right about inviting them to baptism, so for sure the next lesson. We were a little late to our lunch appointment with Jose Montoya. I look forward to it every week! We tracted starting at 3, until dinner at 5. We found 2 people that set return appointments, I feel good about one of them! My BS radar was going off on the other. Dinner at the Gonzales! I had a big water fight with all the kids! So so fun. We have to eat dinner with the sisters every night..I have to bite my tongue with Sister Clements, bless her heart. After dinner all 4 of us had an appointment with Chris Martin..my favorite investigator that is by far the most solid. I love Chris and Amanda and their super cute baby, that is my best friend. I was dreading this lesson because it was to hand them off to the sisters. When we walked in, Chris had the Heat game playing just so we could get a glimps of the score. He hates sports, but knows we love the Heat. Such a stud. When we told Chris and Amanda that we wouldn’t be teaching them anymore, Chris said,(right in front of the sisters), “We will move then, because you guys are the one's baptizing me, no girls are going to teach me.” It made my whole day haha. I hope we can work something out, because Chris isn’t happy with the new transfer. We had correlation meeting tonight.. and here I am typing 100mph before bed and shoveling mamma B’s granola down. I love you all!
6-15-13
I am having a hard time reflecting on my day today because I just got the news that I am giving a talk in church. My topic is prayer, so it won't be bad... but the 20 minutes on the other hand.. I am learning that being completely tired and stressed is all part of the game! We did a big service project this morning loading a trailer with stuff for young womens camp, then helped set up for a wedding. It took most of the morning, we ate lunch at the reception. I heard that the NBA finals are pretty intense! King James and D-Wade are just teasing the Spurs.. We had an awesome lesson with Chris and Amanda Martin along with the sisters. Chris wants us to be there everytime... he isn’t too fond of the sisters . He is so ready for baptism. Can't wait. Tonight we taught Manny and the Nigro’s. Bro. Butterfield came with us tonight. The Butterfields are the MOST amazing family you would ever meet....and like most every family have their own set of struggles. I'm learning so much about marriage and family relationships! I want to be the very best husband/father. I have always looked up to you (dad) in the way that you treat mom. You always put her first and will defend her to the very end. You always told me “Treat my best friend right, If you don’t ill bounce you off the wall... I am going to be with her forever” I usually heard that when I deserved to be bounced off the wall. Mom is a princess in your eyes, well mine too.. but you know what im sayin.:) Preparing for my talk is calling my name!
I am having a hard time reflecting on my day today because I just got the news that I am giving a talk in church. My topic is prayer, so it won't be bad... but the 20 minutes on the other hand.. I am learning that being completely tired and stressed is all part of the game! We did a big service project this morning loading a trailer with stuff for young womens camp, then helped set up for a wedding. It took most of the morning, we ate lunch at the reception. I heard that the NBA finals are pretty intense! King James and D-Wade are just teasing the Spurs.. We had an awesome lesson with Chris and Amanda Martin along with the sisters. Chris wants us to be there everytime... he isn’t too fond of the sisters . He is so ready for baptism. Can't wait. Tonight we taught Manny and the Nigro’s. Bro. Butterfield came with us tonight. The Butterfields are the MOST amazing family you would ever meet....and like most every family have their own set of struggles. I'm learning so much about marriage and family relationships! I want to be the very best husband/father. I have always looked up to you (dad) in the way that you treat mom. You always put her first and will defend her to the very end. You always told me “Treat my best friend right, If you don’t ill bounce you off the wall... I am going to be with her forever” I usually heard that when I deserved to be bounced off the wall. Mom is a princess in your eyes, well mine too.. but you know what im sayin.:) Preparing for my talk is calling my name!
6-16-13
I had a good day today. Sundays are always very refreshing. It was a little hard getting up this morning at 6:30 after getting to bed at about 2 a.m. I found out that writing a talk isn’t as easy when your amazing mother isn’t typing it up for you! HA. My talk went great, I was a little upset that I stayed up so late writing my outline because once I got up there I didn’t even use it! We worked hard tracting. We are trying to fill our board back up with new investigators. The people we tracted into today weren’t quite ready to hear our message! We spent a lot of time with the Butterfield family today as well. We had a quick message with Chris Martin again, I love his little family. I'm really looking forward to the 29th. Tonight we had the opportunity to administer to a non-member family. It is brother Nigros sisters family. They have been sick and going through some hard times. They were so excited for us to give them blessings. It was a great experience. It is such a priviledge to act in God's name.
I had a good day today. Sundays are always very refreshing. It was a little hard getting up this morning at 6:30 after getting to bed at about 2 a.m. I found out that writing a talk isn’t as easy when your amazing mother isn’t typing it up for you! HA. My talk went great, I was a little upset that I stayed up so late writing my outline because once I got up there I didn’t even use it! We worked hard tracting. We are trying to fill our board back up with new investigators. The people we tracted into today weren’t quite ready to hear our message! We spent a lot of time with the Butterfield family today as well. We had a quick message with Chris Martin again, I love his little family. I'm really looking forward to the 29th. Tonight we had the opportunity to administer to a non-member family. It is brother Nigros sisters family. They have been sick and going through some hard times. They were so excited for us to give them blessings. It was a great experience. It is such a priviledge to act in God's name.
I love every single one of you with all my heart.
Elder B
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