Zak forgot to bring his cord for his camera today so he could download some pictures. Hopefully, he'll send some next week! In the meantime, here is one of him looking in the mirror:
What Zak likes to eat for breakfast....looks like a bit of everything!
QUESTIONS:
Did you get my letter in the mail with
the stake paper in it?
yes! it was a good letter and
interesting to read the stake paper. I forgot I was going to bring that with me
so I could comment on a few things. grr. I've spent a lot of time working with part member families,
sometimes the member is reactivated and sometimes the non-member spouse is the one
who is initially intrigued
and it ends of uniting the whole family.
What about sending your pictures.....
Ever hear from your fellow missionary
with the washing machine pictures?
I forgot to bring my cord with me to
get the pictures onto the computer. sorry :(
I'll email Elder Wilding today about
the dryer pictures
HEY! You DID e-mail MUCH (hours)
earlier last week...new trend? Is it because of the new companion? New way of
doing things? Shocking, but nice.
ummm hard to remember. I think Elder
Holt had a lot of people to email last week.
Talk about e-mailing, where you go
(Library, I think), do you stand while doing it? Did you have to get a Connecticut
library. using a library card for a
missionary who was here probably 15 months ago. not standing, just sitting in a
chair. you're usually only allowed to be on for 2 hours, so normally we stay
the whole time.
I think the last time I lost a bet was
at BYU when I bet a friend I'd do better than him at a final. I mentioned that
I won a bet about getting in the dryer. often when people say something is
impossible I'll ask how many pushups they'll bet on it, but pretty much they
never will. That's really the reason the whole dryer experience happened.
that was an exciting email from you
guys!
I'll be interested to hear what Action
Jackson does. If he leaves I really hope it would be the patriots. It would be
kind of fun to see him play here. it seemed like the RB we just drafted was
sort of unimpressive though.
Free Jimmer!
about the ipod, I'm not going to need
it. If i were to get an mp3 player (not currently planning on it) I would get a
generic one that doesn't demand Itunes like Ipods do.
about Car-ice tracting: we don't really
do much tracting here, so it might not be the best idea. A better idea would be
to take members with us on splits and then do some impressive fishtailing. They
would be impressed with the focus and diligence that is manifested and then
promptly invite all their friends to church. I bet if a second edition of the
PEM comes out that's what it'll be all about.
Has mom been reading that book? any
thoughts?
sounds like kylie is just doing soccer
all day every day, and I didn't know she had been playing guitar again!
Whenever i see other people do musical things I sort of wish I had given in to
some of my ample childhood chances to build a talent there.
Call our ol' pal Brother Kent down to
help out with Griffin
I'll be excited to see the new ward
bulletin; does it still have a random question with a reward?
also, I would be interested to hear
kylie's reasoning behind going into that honor's class.
this has been another good, a bit long,
week for us. No big giant news pieces are coming to mind.
except transfers are a week early this
time. This saturday we find out what happens and the thursday afterwards is
transfers. It'll be shocking if I go anywhere, but Elder Holt has been here a
fairly long while. I don't think he'll go though.
We've been trying to juggle all the
different good things we can do and do what's best. between working with our
investigators (most important) and less actives, recent converts, a big young
single adult list we were given to track down and big (not young )single adult
list, working with members, and assignment from the bishop, etc, it's a lot to
organize. Much, much better to have a giant list of things to do than a empty
one!
In our Missionary prep class they've
extended 17 invitations to church activities in the weeks (between the 5 boys),
which is pretty cool. Most of the time the people actually came which is always
nice too. Kylie should take it as a challange and try to beat the class.
We have a baptism this sunday which is
awesome. It's all pretty much organized too; i'm giving a talk on the holy
ghost.
Yesterday was pretty good, Sundays are
mostly always pretty productive. I was joking with elder Holt though, that
there needs to be an hour long social every sunday just so we can have the time
we need to talk to/set up appointments with etc everyone we need too.
Afterwards we were able to have a good
meeting with a family and set up a few appointments where the father can come
with us to appointments with people on his home teaching list who we know that
he doesn't. We're trying to do a lot of that sort of thing along with talking
with them about doing missionary work.
At the end of the day we got to go
give a blessing to sister Lang. Brother
Lang was baptized like a week before I got here, and now she sort of slowly
getting reactivated. At first she sort of fought it, but Leo (brother Lang) is
totally converted and the kids like coming to church too. Her asking for a
blessing was a great sign. The gospel has had an awesome effect on the family,
it's been really cool to see, even though I wasn't there for the beginning.
Yesterday while we were teaching gospel principles (found out like 10 mins
before the lesson) we were talking about obedience and 2 people told their stories about the word of wisdom. The first person talked about how he had
random awful stomach pains his doctor couldn't figure out. prescribed him a
bunch of stuff that didn't work. Then we started living the word of wisdom (big
ice tea drinker) and they stopped. It wasn't till afterwards that he was able
to connect the dots. the 2nd person was Leo who's story was pretty similar,
except his diagnosis was a little easier since apparently he was an intense
alcoholic.
Today we're doing our regular things,
then playing basketball in our ward building with some people from our zone. It
should be really fun. I wished our ward's youth/elders quorum/whoever had a
weekly basketball game, even though we would rarely be allowed to go. It's an
easy thing to invite people (potential investigators, less actives, recent
converts, random friends) that has facilitated in a lot of people's
conversions. I guess that's unrelated though.
Also today as part of our shopping we
had to buy stuff to make cookies with because the winner of our mission prep
class's invite competition wins them.
Do the KFC's in the west ever have
buffet's inside? Here some do, so that's what we're going to do for lunch.
after the P-day part of the day we have a dinner appointment with an awesome
family (and not just because the father works for ESPN)(he's somehow in charge
of their pay-per-view products. I apologized that I never have purchased any.
he said it was ok). Then we have a lesson with an investigator to end the day.
I think that's just about mostly
everything! have fun in sunny hawaii
Cole family power!
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