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A collection of letters from LDS missionaries from the Kaysville, Utah area.Unknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger211125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5016994405391476019.post-7793398979593102922012-12-31T18:58:00.001-07:002012-12-31T18:58:25.261-07:00Elder Taylor Ferguson-- Dec 31, 2012<div id="yui_3_7_2_1_1357005034180_2073">
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It was really awesome to see everyone (and mainly my gun! jk) I am great and happy, I'm glad you noticed, but I am dying right now......,my hair is waaay to long! I feel like I need to get it cut all the time! haha</div>
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Yeah the Brawdy's said Brody, are super great, they helped us out a lot, then after we (Elder Cooper and I) finished skyping we went and ate some deelish BBQ! And they all loved the Baked bean the most! haha who wouldn't though right? But right as we we're finishing up our luncheon ( I feel old saying that) we got a call from one of our recent converts. But since we were at the meal we did'nt pick it up. Then the Bishop (brother Brawdy's father in law, whose house we were at) got a call from him too, so he answered it, and we found out that our recent convert Eric, died Christmas morning. Eric was a 20 year old guy, who was a little sickly both mentally (not enough to be unaccountable though) and physically. But not sick enough to die, we were very surprised as to his sudden passing. He had a really rough life, he and his family are very poor, he didn't have many friends, he didn't work. He had a rough life. While it was obviously sad, at the same time it was a very very faith building experience for us. The reason being, that Eric was a missionary find from this last spring. He was baptized on Jun 25 2012, and died Dec 25, 2012. Less than 6 months after he was baptized he passed away. Eric though his life like I said it was rough, however through all that stuff he always had a VERY firm faith in Christ. He was always searching for a church where he felt Christ wanted him to be, and one day he was blessed to find it. He took action and was baptized. Now the faith building portion of this story is this, that obviously there is no such thing as coincidence. And the fact that he was always searching, then finally found Jesus Christ's church, then passes away being released from some pretty heavy stuff shows that God is preparing people for us to share the gospel with, not just us missionaries, but everyone! It shows that we CANNOT judge people, because believe me if you saw this guy you'd never guess he had faith like he did/ I love that you and dad both talked about Pres Monson's talk in your emails cause it's exactly what I learned this christmas.</div>
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<br />Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5016994405391476019.post-54214285920212561812012-12-31T18:41:00.000-07:002012-12-31T18:41:10.095-07:00Elder Corbin Moore--December 31, 2012THEY CAME! Well this week was absolutely amazing. We were able to have a couple lessons with M and E. They were really powerful, and we got them to commit to come to church and to start reading the Book of Mormon. They came to church and had a really great time. They were excited to go to the gospels principles class, and when we got there the teacher wasn't there. So it turned out that I taught the class, and they still enjoyed it. We found a new investigator through a family in the ward. They are kinda less active, and so we went over there to teach the 18 year old son, and then his little, 9 year old, sister was there. We invited her to sit in on the lesson and she said yes. Then mom came in about 10 minutes later and said that she wanted to talk about getting C. (the little girl) ready for baptism. What a miracle. We went to the Visitors' Center with them and and a wonderful time, looking at the christmas lights, and listening to music. We also were able to have a lesson with Norma this week. We had Hermano S. come with us, and it turned out really well. <br />
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So we were able to speak on Tuesday. It was nice to be able to hear everyone's voices, and to talk with you all about how things are going back home. I hope eveyone is having a great holiday season, especially because today is New Years Eve. Don't party to hard. That means you too, Mom. I know your are turning 41, but you'll have to take it easy. Hahah. Mom hope you have a great birthday that is full of fun, and laughter. Have a martinellis for me. So what are the big plans for this special day? As for us we are going to be have a zone activity. But it'll just be the elders because the sisters are all performing tonight. So all the elders are going to be playing basketball, and then going out for some food. Then we will head up to the Visitors' Center to support the sisters in the zone. Should be fun. </div>
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This past week we had transfers. Elder Garrett got transfered down to Redondo beach, and so I stayed here in Penmar. My new companion is Elder Casper. He is from San Antonio, Texas. He came out the transfer before me, and I served in the same zone with him, when I first came to the mission. He is the second oldest out of 5. Both of his parents served missions, in Brazil. He is a hard worker, and we have had a lot of success since he got here. It should be a really great transfer. Well that's about it for this week. Hope everyone is well. </div>
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I am soooo pumped for Bronte! that is supes cool, probabally the 2nd best mission out there haha!!</div>
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So we'll let you know next week what time is best for us, will you write/co-ordinate w/ Bro B.(matt damon's Twin) so we can get everyone there? haha it'll be great</div>
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But anyway we saw a cool miracle this week. my favorite zone leader that I have ever had called and told me how awesome I was and I felt the spirit really strong as he was talking to me. Then I went out and testified like a lion. He is so great i wish i could be more like him...</div>
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I'm super happy for/jealous of Brookie and Bronch for being able to go to the temple! That is supes awesome! Tell me how it goes!? Yeah? you'll know why I loved it so much before I left!</div>
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Missionary work is super hard every night I cry and then I get over it and get stronger. Minus the get better part. Sometimes i miss you so bad mom...</div>
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The work right now is.....interesting, people are so "Busy" and use that as their excuse not to listen. Which is weird cause now should be the time they listen. but it's been really cool the last week, we focused really hard on talking w/ everyone we see, which makes for some great rejection, and meeting really interesting people. But we all know nothing happens in missionary work untill you talk to people! So we've found a couple new people and were working on converting them into potential inv.'s (into GATORS!)</div>
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1st) The 1st counselor in the Mission Pres. lives in our ward, so we talk with him a lot, and we hear this story yesterday about his nephew.</div>
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"he got his mission call packet this week, and when he opened it up, there was only 1 piece of paper on it, with 1 phone number on it. Thats all! So confused he called the number, which to his surpise went directly to Pres. Monson, who informed him that for the next 3 years he'd be serving in mainland CHINA!!!!"</div>
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2nd) Last Monday/Tuesday, during personal study I was reading in Alma, when I came across this scripture Alma 60:13, where it talks about sometimes the innocent are slain, to enable God to execute his justice on the wicked. I read it, it was cool, I thought about ambulance, and said to Elder C, "maybe this'll come in handy soon." then moved on. Then, saturday evening we we're talking w/ a widow, and she started talking about how the day before was her husbands death date, and how it was a really hard day for her, Then she decide to wind down, and watch the news, and she saw the stuff about the shooting. So as she was telling us this stuff she was just sitting there bawling, and all the sudden that scripture popped into my head, and we were able to really calm her down and give her some serious piece of mind. It was great to be able to help her out. :)</div>
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Love ya'll a lot, congratz BRONCHO! I'm supes happy for you, along with everyone here! (cept they secretly wanted you to come here, and make it rough on me HAHA)</div>
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Well I imagine that everyone is going crazy back home, getting ready for all the festivities. Remember what I said last week, about not getting too caught up in it, but also enjoy yourselves. Well there hasn't been a lot going on, seeming how I just talked with you all, 4 days ago. On Thursday, we had MLT, all of the leadership in the mission got together for a meeting with Pres. Baker, and it was really good. Then on Friday not, much happened because we had District meeting in the morning, and then we had to have another one in the afternoon. So we were just super busy, with all the meetings. Saturday was our ward Christmas party, so that was really good, we were in the kitchen serving everyone. We had Christmas tamales, and rice and salad. It was all really good. Then we did a musical number where Elder. G. and I sang, and Elder. P. and Elder. T, did the bottles and glasses filled with water, it was fun. We sang Jingle Bells in spanish, and everyone enjoyed it. That was all that happened. </div>
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How is everyone else doing? Hope everyone is just having a good time, and enjoying themselves. Hopefully there is somebody who will have a snowball fight for me, and then make a snow fort. Oh how I miss those days. And some ultimate sledding up in Eaglewood. Fun times. Well thats all I have for this week, take care. Talk to you all soon enough.</div>
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Man I think I would maybe be ok with visiting my mission in November;) haha That doesn't sound to awful to me;) That'll be so great to have Grandma there with us. We should have her there the whole time! I love being able to see her at the temple. She's amazing! I always feel the spirit when I'm around her. </div>
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I hope Josh can get out there! That will be awesome! I'll keep praying for him. Tell him I love him and miss him, and that he's best be ready to go to UVU in a year. What's the Choster going to do for Christmas?? How's mama Cho doin?</div>
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We will be able to skype again this Christmas so that'll be great! It might be pretty early in the morning that we do it. We'll let you know once we figure out when. </div>
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So last week it was awesome. We had a super cool Christmas Party for the ward. There were about 20 non-members that showed up so Elder G. and I were going around like crazy trying to talk to everyone haha, and then we got up on stage with the guitars and with a phillapino guy that's in our ward named Ray and we played and sang Feliz Navidad for everyone. It was so much fun haha. The two little kids of one of our investigators got up on stage with us and were dancing around in front of the whole audience. I'll have to send you the video. It was pretty funny. The crazy thing was that we didn't really even practice. We practiced it once and Rays house for like 15 minutes, and then ran through it once together before the performance, but it turned out great haha. </div>
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Well I hope you all have a great week! Keep looking for ways to spread the gospel. We're going to go caroling to non-members homes starting wednesday. Love you all! Hablamos pronto!</div>
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P.S.S. I had dinner sunday night with Brother Empey's brother haha. Small world right. They're down in st. george now right??</div>
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5016994405391476019.post-82851418456176318432012-12-17T20:39:00.000-07:002012-12-17T20:39:28.870-07:00Elder Garret Allen-- December 10, 201Well transfers have come and gone. Elder B. has now left and i will be<br />> with a elder from panama...you know where they built that canal haha.<br />> his name is elder A. he seems preety cool. we will see how it<br />> goes.Anyways it was sad to say goodbye. More for the fact that i am<br />> now senor<br />> comp and have to do all of that stuff....Yea...I am not to excited for<br />> that. Honestly I have no idea what to do from this area haha. I guess I<br />> just work hard and have hope that it is all going to work out. It should be<br />> a new adventure and a lot of stories. We will see how it all works out. So<br />> it looks like santa was right. I will be staying in good old tucuman the<br />> same ward as floresta. It should be good. it is a hard area but you just<br />> got to go forward. there isn´t a whole lot for you to do.<br />> I just need to go and look for what the lord wants because he knows.<br />> like you sad to weeks ago, we need to humble ourselves before him and<br />> he will make are weakness strong. He calls who he calls and he knows<br />> who he wants. he doesn´t make any mistakes, right?<br />> Anyways the end of this transfer was pretty slow. It was good to<br />> finish it off and move forward. I am actually glad that I was comps<br />> with Elder B...really it was a learning experience. I probably<br />> wont be forgetting him anytime soon. This week I dont have a lot of<br />> great story. Most of this week I spent traveling...There was an elder<br />> that had to go salta like three times and I was called to go with him<br />> and to make sure he wasnt a lone...maybe the dl should have done it<br />> but he asked me to and that type of thing doesnt bugg me. you need to<br />> help and elder out haha. So it was a lot of being in other areas and<br />> riding on buses. It was great. Besides that this week was pretty<br />> normal. We had a zone training and also this dec 14th is the christmas<br />> thing with president. We will be putting all of the zones of tucuman<br />> together. It should be interesting. we will see how that goes. I will<br />> keep you posted. besides that everything is just rolling right a long.<br />> I am 11 days from my one year mark. They say after that everything<br />> just go´s shooting down hill. we will see if it is true. Hopefully it<br />> doesnt go by to fast right haha. Anyways thanks a lot for all of your<br />> great counsel and help in the mission!!! You rock.<br />> So about the whole friends thing...it is cool. I understand you arent<br />> in a lot of contact with those people. I just need to write them some<br />> letters and see what is up haha It is weird...everyone is starting to<br />> come home now...It is totally going to be like a line of people just<br />> falling in...Justen comes home soon and caleb to...It is going to go<br />> by really fast. Only one year left to learn the most that i can and to<br />> become the best that I can...We will see if i can make it haha.<br />> SO how are things at home at this christmas time? Christmas here is<br />> going to be interesting...Mostly it is just a huge party...we get to<br />> call you the 24 of this month and we can use skype...I just need to<br />> find a place that has a camera...We will see if that happens haha.<br />> Anyways besides that everything is chill. The people here put up like<br />> 2 and a half foot trees and call it good. The cool thing is that night<br />> they light fireworks off so it might be like the 4th of july back<br />> home. we will see haha. anyways. everything is good here in<br />> argentina...I am dying of heat and that is about it. We will see how<br />> it goes with this guy from panama. i have hope that it will go<br />> well...it is always interesting when you have your new comp. you necer<br />> know what you are going to get. i guess that we will see. Anyways, i<br />> love you guys and miss you. I hope that everything is going well. I<br />> will be seeing you next year. I cant wait to hear from you and to call<br />> you. I will try to see if I can skype but it will be hard to find a<br />> place to do it. Anyways that is all for this week. Take care and enjoy<br />> the cold while you have it...I so miss the cold haha. LOVES!!!!<br />> <br />> Elder Allen<br />> <br />> Ps. this week I am going to be studying forgiveness and the importance<br />> of the book of mormon. Let me know what you are up to. Read pray and<br />> go to church. haha love youUnknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5016994405391476019.post-19097856526979772842012-12-04T07:36:00.001-07:002012-12-04T07:36:40.787-07:00Elder Garrett Allen-- December 3, 2012<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<br />> Hey flia,<br />> Well another week has come and gone in the mission. At the need of<br />> this week we will see what happens. It will be interesting to see how<br />> everything works out and to see who is going where. Mostly likely<br />> nothing will change and it will all be the same. I guess we will have<br />> to see.<br />> <br />> This week has just been a slow one. everything is just pretty much<br />> slow. I need to find a way to get things going again and get it all<br />> picked up. Basically I am in need of some serious revelation from up<br />> stairs. The most exciting part of the week was with Elder Viñas. He<br />> gave a great talk. He pretty much just made us feel good about the<br />> work. We talked about a lot with repentence and with the atonement.<br />> Basically he said that every missionary is a good missionary(yes even<br />> the missionaries that mess up) and that we are all trying in the same<br />> cause. Now we can do better haha. It was crazy...I was busting of<br />> scriptures left and right just out of no where. It was pretty<br />> impressive. He explain simple doctrine in a deep way. That is the best<br />> way to do it in my opinion haha. It was just great. I got to see a lot<br />> of my friends from the mission again and catch up a little. Elder<br />> Gallardo had a surprise for me.. He had his family send me a soccer<br />> jersey from the team where he lives. There is a photo attached to just<br />> email of that. It was Awesome! He is a great guy. From there it was a<br />> pretty normal week. We are doing a lot of walking because the people<br />> are never home when they say they will be. It gets annoying at times<br />> because I know that they wont be there but my comp is obsessed with<br />> the whole "they told us to come" so we end up going past the house<br />> like 3 times just to make him happy. It is a lot of walking back and<br />> forth from place to place. It is a great way to devolop patience I<br />> guess haha. But really I dont mind it. We can do it if it makes him<br />> happy. Plus it is fun to see him get pissed about them not being<br />> there...He calls them 3 times and everything. I dont know...for me it<br />> is whatever... I cant force them to listen to me. I can only try. And<br />> if i have to walk and knock the same door over and over again to save<br />> a soul then I will do it. It is worth it to me.<br />> from there everything was pretty chill. My comp and I are still<br />> there...I think that I might have made it through to him but we will<br />> see. He is a good guy. Just not some one that I could live with for 24<br />> hours a day and seven days a week but sadly for right now I have<br />> to...Whatever. He is great. I hope the best for him and everything. We<br />> will see if he leaves at the need of this week.<br />> So this pday we did a lot of cleaning. Cleaning here is<br />> interesting...It is nothing like it is back home. To clean the floors<br />> we basically pour bleach everywhere and throw buckets of water around.<br />> From there you us a things to push all of the water outside. It is<br />> like cleaning the windows of a car at a gas station but with the<br />> floor. Maybe it isn´t the best or easiest way but it kinda works<br />> right? haha. Cleaning here is just a battle. Anyways from there some<br />> other elders came over to the pentation and we ate together. We did<br />> this mostly because the transfer will be ending this week. It is like<br />> the last time to see everyone before they leave. So It should be good.<br />> Anyways, that is about all for this week. I have been studying dandc<br />> and the second coming. We are getting a lot of questions about that so<br />> I guess I have to study it. Mostly it is just making my brain hurt.<br />> Haha I think I just need to find the spirit of prophesy and then I<br />> will understand it. Like Mcconkie says, We need to look 5 minutes into<br />> heaven to learn more then all of the things that have been written in<br />> this world. Anways I am safe and doing good. I just need to find a way<br />> to beat the heat here. I think I am going to buy a hat haha. Anyways I<br />> hope that everything is going well. I would still like an update on<br />> Josh. I heard that justin got out of the hospital and everything is<br />> good there. It is crazy to think that he gets home in ten days....it<br />> goes by pretty fast. If you see him tell him Hi and that I love him.<br />> It would be nice to hear from him haha. Anyways For now I have To go.<br />> If there is anything that you need just let me know. I will try to<br />> help. Only one more year to go and then I will be seeing you again!!!<br />> Until next week.<br />> <br />> Your Son, Elder AllenUnknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5016994405391476019.post-60849220267360388842012-12-03T14:08:00.000-07:002012-12-03T14:08:24.493-07:00Elder Corbin Moore-- December 3, 2012 Well as Brayden would say, " My mind is being blown right now", because December is already here. Wow how the time flies when you are having fun out here in Los Angeles. This week was a pretty busy week, trying to get all the zone business done, and all the reports in for the end of the month. We had two meetings with our zone leadership to discuss our zone, and where we stand for the month of November, and came up with a pretty good vision of where we wanted to be for the month of December. So hopefully this month will go pretty well. This week is going to be a super busy and crazy week. We have a lot of meetings and a lot of trainings that we have to do. 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So Bernie is now 15, that is super weird make sure he doesn't get too crazy in the car. And no backing out of the driveway crazy. You have to be pro to do that and I'm the only one that is pro. Right mom? Right. So yeah that will be crazy that he is driving. What is new with Keyton? I got a letter from him but I haven't had the chance to read it. Sounds like Brayden is doing good, any new news on that situation? What are my parents up to? Any big plans for CHRISTmas? I know what I'm going to do. TRACT. What I great holiday activity. Maybe we can carol as well. Hahah. Well hope all is going well for the beginning of this month. How is the extended family doing? Hope every has that great CHRISTmas spirit. If not you'd better get it. Hope all is well, have a wonderful week. </div>
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So for thanksgiving we ate some super narsty stuff. We ate a Phillapino delacacy called Balut. It's a half-incubated duck egg. It was pretty disgusting. We filmed ourselves eating it and we felt like throwing up a couple of times, but we ate the whole thing. So the egg is warm, and you crack it open and some juice starts to come out so you suck the juice out. (That made me wanna barf haha.) The juice was like brown and didn't smell the greatest haha. Then you break away the rest of the egg shell. Well to my luck the first thing that I saw when I opened the egg was the long neck and the head all squished into the body. So I uncovered it more and asked sister W. what I do next. She said just bite into it all. So we just started eating it all like a boiled egg. There were a couple of times I felt a little bit of a crunch. (probably like the beak or something haha.) The egg white was pretty gross too. It was all down at the bottom and it was really hard, and tasted like we were eating crumpled up rubber. So ya it was a fun experience. Sister W. was just laughing the whole time, and then said well now you don't have to eat anymore all day. You just ate an entire duck haha. She's so awesome!</div>
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Thanksgiving has come and gone supes fast. And this week I finished my 2nd transfer, and training woot woot. haha, The week was....interesting. For thanksgiving day, we had a turkey bowl, which was fun, w/ a lot of the missionaries, and the ward. Then we went to The professional Skydiver/basejumper's house, kinda ate w/ him a little, which was good/sad cause he is going through some rough family stuff right now/recovering from surgery and he was all alone for t-givings. Then we ate w/ the H's (Brother H does some of the temple tours and is super awesome.) For the main meal, w/ the Portugese elders. Then went to the Young Women Pres house, and ate there a little bit...but that was it. It was a rough day.We had a lot of families cancel on us, and couldn't really go tracting...so it was rough. But we made it through that, and then on Friday, Elder Cooper was really sick so we just stayed inside all day, and I read the scriptures ALL day, which was good till about 6 at night. Thennnnnn I was bored. so yeah. It was great. haha. But our Haitian Friends were baptized on Sunday, so we were suuups happy for them. </div>
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Man I'm so jealous that Jaden is going to Peru! That's so awesome. Peruvians are the best. I've taught a couple of them on my mission. They're such great people. She should try and learn quechwa (spelling?) while she's down there. That's awesome about Brad as well. Tell him congrats. He's going to love Chile. We have people in our ward who are from Chile and they're super nice. They always ask if we are hungry or thirsty and want to feed us haha. Brad's going to get fat:)</div>
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It was so great to see Grandma in the Temple. She has such a good spirit about her. I feel like she's the one with the shining light. It was fun to talk to her there while she introduced me to everyone. She needs to come up to Utah when I get back and live with us!</div>
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Gertrude is doing great! He wrote me a big long letter talking about how KT Mafia is going to be restarted once we all get back, and told me a lot about how his mission is going. He seems to be growing a lot and seems to be doing a great job with the language. I'm excited to talk to him one day in Spanish. It will be fun. Tell Josh he needs to start learning! He's got a year still ;) (extension! Boo ya!)</div>
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The conference with Elder Schwitzer was so great. Kind of stressful getting everything set up and giving trainings, but it was great! The spirit was really strong. It's always neet when a General Authority visits the mission. President Cook came out to a couple lessons with us when Elder Schwitzer was here, and Elder Schwitzer went out with the assistants to a lesson. It was a neat experience. Elder Schwitzer's car battery died just as we were leaving with President Cook, so Elder Goble and I turned around and went and gave Elder Schwitzer a jump. </div>
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Things have been going well. I can't believe that we are already half-way through the transfer. We've been so busy that this transfer has just flown by. Elder Goble and I are getting ready to sing and play guitar together at the Christmas talent show. It's going to be fun. We're going to sing Nearer my God to thee. We'll try and record it.</div>
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So the first thing is about the whole empty house thing...so I think it is time to let you into my plan...well better said me and brandons plans. So we are thinking about moving into your home and living there for a while to finish school and get are lives started again. So if that is cool with you that would be sweet haha. It is just and idea but it will probably happen. So we could just live in the basement. Obviously i will be but it would be sweet with brandon too haha. Also we would help around the house so you would have to extra hands haha so that is in the works maybe it will work out and that way you wont be so lonely haha. We could put all of the box out of the way and basically just rock it up hah. so yea. that would be the plan...if we had to we could play rent haha so yep. Anyways just think about it. I dont want to sound trunky haha but it is just some plan that popped into my mind when you talked about be lonely. Anyways, so if brandon gets home before me you should let him live in my room until we get home and he can be like your son for 6 months bahahaha.</div>
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So about the whole coming to argentina thing....So if that is super exspensive then i dont know but it would be pretty dang interesting to have you guys come here and to show you everything...I am not sure how it all works if the parents come to pick you up so we woulf have to figure all of that out some how but yea. It would be pretty cool. It would be really cool if some how we could get to chubut to go the elder gallardos house but that would be hard to do. It is on the otherside of the country. so we will see...honestly if it is alot of money you shouldn´t do it...honestly i will have absolutely nothing in the area of money when i got home so that will be my challenge but god has my back so i have faith. I will just have to work hard. I lot of people thinks life gets easier when the mission is over but i only see it getting harder haha. </div>
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Well now to tell you about the crazy week that i had haha. So it started out pretty normal and then it turned out everyone has a lot of problems and as a missionary there is a whole lot that i can do. When family doesn´t have food to eat so it is go talk to the bishop, the second problem was my husband beats me so we say go talk to the bishop. After that the week got crazy. We had to prepare for the baptism and get everything ready...the problem with that is that the founts here done drain by them selves they pump them out but luckly for us the pump is broken and they didn´t fix it so we and my comp got to get the water out by buckets!!! Heck yea!!! Another thing to remember!!! so basically i spent 3 hours getting the water out. It was crazy and we both ended up some what wet. The things that we do to get it all worked out and going well. Crazy. haha. After that the baptism went well. So after that day i was blessed to go see M. and N. get married friday. That is right. i got promission to go see there wedding!!! It was amazing.M. and N. are my good family that threw me the birthday party and everything. so those are the pictures. It was so good to see them again...it was like a taste of coming home and seeing my family and friends and just being in that again. It was a huge blessing an now i am so very greatful to be so close to my old area. The lord really is watching out for me. It is a nice feeling. also I gave Elder Gallardo his jersey there an he basically freaked out. He is super happy and thankful for it. He says thanks. There is also a photo of that :) He also says that he will send you a present mom from the south of argentina so some day you might end up with a random package from Chubut argentina haha. Thanks for sending it. It meant a lot to him. So after that adventure we had a pretty slow week. it was hard for me to get my head into the game for some reason but hopefully this week will be better.</div>
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So that is basically my week. I will be printing off your email for later to copy haha. There are some good things in there. It basically makes me happy. I am super glad to be in the work of the lord. The truth is that right now I am struggling but you just got to stay positive and look for the lords will and not yours. There is a great mormon message about a gardener with that by Christofferson. If Josh reads this I think that he should wash it. It helped me out this week. I am very thankful for all of those people that are helping and praying for my. I am so very greatful for all of you and for everything tht you do for me. Take care of yourselves and be safe. I love you all and the church is true!!!! look for the lords will in your life and all we work out. Try to be better everyday and find the things that you have to imporove. The lord will help you. That is the gift of the light of christ. Be strong in the faith and sure the scriptures. HAVE FAITH!!!!</div>
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5016994405391476019.post-63830085284318658372012-11-20T11:50:00.003-07:002012-11-20T11:50:56.290-07:00Elder Corbin Morre-- November 19, 2012Well this week was a really good week here in Los Angeles. I was able to start speaking more Spanish with the members and the investigators that we have. I came back super quick, and now I'm basically back up to speed. We had a successful week, being able to see a lot of our investigators, and setting return appointments with them if they were busy. Hopefully we will be able to see all of them this week. This week we had MLT (mission leadership training), it was super good we were able to talk a lot about the stuff that is going to be happening for the holidays here in Los Angeles, and some of the stuff that the church is doing abroad. We are going to be trying to incorporate all of that in our teaching, and help our investigators and members, really have a wonderful experience this holiday season. <br />
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Im good! This week has been really good. Me and Elder Christensen are getting into a really good grove. I cant wait to see where we are at at the end of this move. Im also excited that we are still going to have thanksgiving here thanks to the Forsgren family. WE are trying to get alot of new people to teach! So we are talking to everyone!!!!! which has been hard for me because I have had a really bad sore throat for about a week. Hopefully it gets better :) Yeah so sense I sent pictures I dont have as much time but hey at least Im emailing my family unlike ELDER C. He is watching mormon messages. Haha it makes me laugh. <br clear="all" /><div>
Lets see funny story for this week. ummmmm so we went over to a DA this week and I was hoping I could gooo my whole mission w/ out having to worry about it but we went over to a Da and they made us Pizza. Perfect I love Pizza!! But I saw the first one they got out of the oven and it was covered with ham & pineapple!!!!!!!! NOOOOOOOOO. I asked he daughter if the other pizza was different and she said yeah . Super happy but then they brought out the other pizza and it was covered w/ chicken and pinnapple. I ate salad! :( (Still hate the flavor)</div>
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So yeah that was funny we also had a halloween party at our chapel. That was alot of fun. But we ran out of rubbish bins so the bins were over flowing. but what you going to do???</div>
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Don't worry too much about not being able to Write last week, It was an alright week last week, but this week was sooo great, time is flying:( the transfer is over half over!) and it is just fast fast all the time. This week we saw loads of miracles. On wed we got a media referral for a lady that just moved here fromh Haiti, and only speaks French So we show up and knock on the door, and this lady answers and we ask if she was the referral, and she said "no" but before we could even say we were missionaries she said "but I want to learn too!' so she opens the door, and it ends up that the referral was just inside but everyone (4 ppl) wanted to hear our message. B ut since there weren't any males there we had to teach the Restoration on the doorstep. We taught in English, to 1 of the ladies who can understand English, then she'd translate to Creole to make sure she understood. they were super pumped and when we finished the asked "so when are you coming back???" We said when would be a good time for you, and they said "everyday!" so we have gone back like 4 times since and it's 2, 30' year old ladies, a 16 year old son, a 14 year old daughter, and a 5 year old daughter. so all the people of the baptismal age totally have a date for the 17th, (super prepared so we feel good about making it quick) and they all came to church yesterday. they rock!!! so I'll keep you updated on them. </div>
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On Halloween, it was great, we ate at a members home, then were able to go to a temple tour w/ one of our investigators. It was really FUN, then when we went home to get the mail I had 2 PKGS! one from you(mom) and one from BRONTE :) it was great. but for p-day last week we (the district) all carved pumpkins and elder cooper and my pumpkins totally won! Its sweet action! </div>
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I'm glad ya'll are doing well. It was cool that one of the youth in our ward just got his mission call to CARLSBAD, CALIFORNIA! He leaves like jan 4, so I was super pumped when I heard that hahah :) BRYCE HILL. good kid. </div>
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Man it was a pretty crazy transfer. President Cook made two more zebra companionships. That's when he puts a Spanish Elder with and English one. He's been doing that with the Zone Leader companionships because we can get referrals for the Spanish elders while we're out proseliting. I stayed here in Vista and now have my new companion. His name is Elder Goble. He's great! He's from American Fork. He used to skate a lot and he plays guitar, so for the Christmas party we're going to play something together on guitar. </div>
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It's been a super crazy week. We have only been able to have studies once since last Tuesday. We've have Stake Meetings all week long in the mornings, and trainings to give to the ward mission leaders. It's been pretty hectic, but good. This week we're doing another 3 hour training to the Zone. We had zone leader council last weekend, and President Cook talked to us about the change in the amount of missionaries we were going to have. We are at 171 missionaries right now, and our compliment, or how much we have room for is 178, but by May we will be at 250 so we had to figure out what areas we could split up and put another companionship in. </div>
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Things have been going well with the work here in Vista. We're teaching a lot of people, and many of them are preparing for baptism. Elder Goble is a super funny guy, and we get along really well. Elder Rupp ended up going to Encinitas. He gets to train for the last transfer and a half of his mission. That's such a great way to be able to end. </div>
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Tell Grandpa I said happy birthday and that I love him and miss him. I love just sitting down and talking with him. He has such a strong testimony of the Gospel, and such amazing stories to tell. I always feel good when I'm around him and Grandma. Next Tuesday we're going to the temple so you'll have to let Nona know:) I can't wait to see her. It's been a while since I saw her there. </div>
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I just finished the Book of Mormon again and as I was reading the last chapter of Moroni I could feel the Spirit very strong testifying to me once again that the Book of Mormon is true. We had an interesting thing happen last weekend. We were walking into the post office, and we began to talk to a lady that had just gotten out of her car and was walking in as well. Well I told her that we were from Utah, but we love the weather down here in California. She told us that she wanted to go to Salt Lake and see the temple. So I asked her if she was a member. She said no, but that she had been a member of the Jehova's Witness for years, but then found out that there were some things that weren't true about it so she stopped going. She then said that she had walked into a store a couple years ago and the owner was a mormon and he had a book of mormon out on the counter. So she asked him about it, and he gave her one. She read a little in it, and liked it. She said that she knows that there's a lot of false things out there, like people thinking that we're a cult, or satanic, just like there's stuff about the Jehova's Witness. So we told her there was going to be a baptismal service on saturday at the bobier building and if she wanted to come. She said she would, and then we showed her where Christ visited the americas. She really wanted to read about that. So she came to the baptismal service and liked it. Then the sister missionaries gave her a church tour while we went to a meeting with the stake president. There was also a halloween play going on in the cultural hall that she decided to go watch. So we called her the next morning, Sunday, to see how she like the tour and the play. She said that she was apalled because there was a witch in the play that was flying through the air, and then walking around after, and said that we can't have witchcraft in the church. She then said that she went on line and did some research about mormons. She said that she found out that the word mormon comes from a satanic word, and that there are satanic symbols on the temple, and all this nonsense. So then I asked her where she got her information. She said, "well I googled it." I couldn't help but laugh. haha. I told her that she was getting all false information and that she needs to make sure she gets information from the right source. She asked me if I new what the symbols on the temple were. I told her that I've been through the temple, and know a lot more than what she thinks I know. I told her that she hasn't researched the Church until she's read every page in the Book of Mormon and prayed about it. Then she went on about how Joseph Smith was a free mason and how they were a satanic organization that doesn't believe in Christ. I told her that she was wrong there as well. I told her that we just interviewed someone who is a free mason for baptism. She then said did you ask him if he believed that Christ was his savior and reedemer. I said yep, and he believes that 100 percent. Then she said did you ask him if he prays to the father in the name of Christ. I said ya he actually offered the prayer just like that in the interview, and says he prays every day to heavenly father. Finally she just came back to the whole thing about a witch in the church. It was pretty ridiculous haha. I just had to laugh. It was like a 30 minute conversation on the phone haha. It's funny how people think anything you get online is true. </div>
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