Sunday, June 15, 2014

Received Monday, June 2, 2014

How was your Sunday?
Good! we had 2 investigators (both youth age) come for the first time and it was a great testimony meeting. We asked a lot of people to bare there testimonies beforehand to make sure it would be full of good ones. Lots of people talked about missionary work too, which is also fun. 

Some people mentioned they appreciated having us (missionaries) come over and get to teach the lessons with them. Both investigators really enjoyed it too. Afterwards we had a pow-wow with the bishopric and ward mission leader to talk about some missionary plans moving forward. that was very good too. Bishop celled today's meeting "monumental" especially with the transition from peoples testimonies including long long past missionary experiences or ideas to current, present tense missionary experiences. He was very up-beat and positive and grateful.
 
What will you do for pday?
probably basketball in Revere. Last week we did lots of volleyball

Do you find the ward members are asking you different questions since you are close to “dieing”?
yes. I'm temped to just start telling people i'm coming up to my "year mark" without specifying which year i'm coming up too.

What is the best meal you ate last week?
I remember on monday we ate something and I was thinking "next email I could tell mom this was a good meal". It was something Asian, by a mother who served her mission in taiwan I think. Rice with beef and broccoli and special friend rice and rice with  seafoody stuff.

Does Elder Tate get much mail sent by the post office?
Quick note: it's T-A-I-T (he gets that a lot). Not a ton. sometimes things come in.

Do you think of Paul Revere whenever you reference the Revere Ward building?
Not usually. It funnily took me a while to realize the city was named after him

(sometimes I get distracted by looking at my muscles in the mirror….)

How long has elder Tate been out….sorry, can’t remember?
Elder Tait has been out around 16 months

How are your investigators doing? Have you acquired some more?
Good. Linda was baptized last Saturday, confirmed sunday! Sara is still on track for June 21st and to have her husband baptize her. Others doing well. There is a family in the ward named the Hahns, they are great at missionary work. This week they went to 5-Guys Burgers and sat next to a family of 8 and became friends with them and invited them over for dinner this saturday and they really think the family may be interested in the gospel. Could be great!

How often have you born your testimony at Fast and Testimony meeting? Do you feel compelled to do it or not and let the Ward members have a chance?
There's a lot of people here, so not very often. I did when I first got here to introduce myself and haven't since. Usually I figure I want to let the others have a chance.


It was a very good week. Lots of great things. Most especially the weekend for Linda Bain. She did ask me to baptize her saturday, which was special. Her home-teacher who has already been great for her confirmed her yesterday. Much of her family (no members) came to see her saturday. The whole program (talks, people writing testimonies on note-cards while she was changing, etc) went great. She is so eager to share the spirit she is feeling with everyone around her. One almost too text-book example of this is during a lesson we watched a video with her on her laptop (Because of Him. Great one to see) and she immediately said she loved it and wanted to send the link to her friends. Very Lehi's dream (taking the fruit and looking for his family)-esque.

That was exciting to hear about all the missionary things going on in Arcadia, I remember that Lila girl. I think Taylor Jensen knew her pretty well too.

That's all for now!


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