October 14, 2013

Well everything is getting better, i have learned a lot about finding new investigators. i forgot to tell you that last week i did receive the package! and i love the watch! bad news...i found out after i plugged the wall clock in that it only handles 120v, and the outlets here put out 220v... it will make a good paper weight however! i love the pictures! super awesome! the chapstick hasn't been of to much use, the humidity here pretty much does the trick. it sounds like everything is going good over there, i am thankful that Maddy informs me of all the things that wouldn't normally be told to me haha. oh and Maddy thanks for the picture you slipped into all the photo's that were send, i had a good laugh.

      General Conference was super good! this was the first general conference where i actually wrote something down from every talk, from the priesthood session until the pm session on Sunday! super good talks, and very inspirational. one of my goals that i gained is to memorize all of the articles of faith, i have 1-4 memorized so far.

       Our area is pretty small, the only bad thing is we have to take a jeep to get into and out of it every day. its getting a little expensive, but i think we will be ok. we have been doing a lot of finding in our area, and it takes a lot of persistence to get the solid investigators, but as it quotes in the preach my gospel "nothing is done in missionary work until you find someone to teach"

  

      Ahhhh i miss the snow! i have been through about 5 umbrellas in the crazy rain here!  i am on number 6 right now. 

 The ward is always busy and we don't have any solid ward missionaries, its a wealthy area, and everyone works 24/7. and its a bit difficult to get investigators to come to church, for some reason i have had to accept, the leaders were inspired to start church at 7 30 in the morning.

    i did talk to one of the new elders in my old area, he said one of our investigators is getting closer to baptism. me and Elder Sabado are going to go to my old area on Thursday to show them some more parts of the area.

  I will have a mourning for my car later.

For a Christmas present that i can think off... what we do here in our mission is buy USB flash drives and put church music on them, and then use them in our DVD players. it would be cool if you could buy a USB and put church music and Joseph and the technicolor dream coat music on it haha.

Alright i will stick some pictures on here.

this first one is of my cool new watch (thanks)

the second one is of me and Elder Kmetzsch (my mission father) with our new trainee's (mission kids)

this third one is of this awesome place for a public toilet (right outside of one of a church building) i have needed one of these on several occasions while going to appointments.

there isn't enough time in P day anymore! there use to be a law irrevocably decreed under heaven that whoever was training obtained a full day P Day, they have revoked that rule, and now even if training, we have to go back to work at 6. i think i'll make it...

That reminds me of a great letter that the old mission president sent, it was about which way we face as members of the church, if we face forward with the leaders of our church, and accept what they tell us, or if we turn our backs, and question the new things we are told to do. 

Anyway i love you all, and hope you are all doing well, today is my 10 month mark of the mission, only 14 more fast Sundays left haha. 

-Elder Roy