5-13-13

Landon’s Letter

Hey my family

So not much has happened since last night. In fact nothing has really happened since last night. So no new news. Things for this week have been good. We had 1 of our investigators come to church on Sunday which was great. We are hoping that we can have some others come to church next week. So our time starts today trying to get them to church. Sorry this will be short. 

Rachel- Trombone is the instrument every. I don't know how you can play the trumpet with such a tiny mouth piece. Him not letting you change instruments was my same thought as you. You must be good!

Natalie- Nice car. I dislike our malibus but that one is smaller then the ones we have. So I approve it. You can even put my stamp of approval on it ;) I have your picture. Well a couple but the last one is the best one.

Annie- Hey how is the leadership responsablilty going? That is so awesome that  you get to have so many exchanges with other people. Do they come to your casa? Do you think you will die in this last area?

Megan & Justin- I am so excited for both of you. Really that is exciting! I hope that graveyard is going good for you Justin. It probably is just as any other graveyard. I am really excited for the both of you I can't say it enough!

Mom- I hope that you had a fantastic mothers day. It was good to hear from you and see you! When does school get out for you? Do you have anything you plan to do this summer or want to do? Any vacations?

Dad- Thanks I got the book today! Did you teach your class this year? When are your going to Western Graduation. I forgot. Wow that could have been me. I am glad that things are going good! 

I love  you all and thanks for all that you do.

Love your favorite Brother, Son, and Elder

 

Annie’s Letter

Clearly I'm still very excited about this piece of news :-) yayayayayayaya!

It was awesome to talk to you guys on Sunday! I'll definitely get you an address for the Packer's... next week haha. And I'll give Sister Groshong your email address. And I'll send a picture for Natalie's wedding. :-) Promise!
So fishing last pday was SUPER FUN! We just went to a little pond at a members house, )which reminds me, Meg could you get on facebook and add people? Sister Rine is asking to be added!) there are catfish and large mouth bass. I caught a large mouth. It was super fun! Yesterday for pday we got to go to Danville, which is where the Amish live. So we got to visit with them and hear Raymond's story of how he came to the gospel. He was the first one. It was super awesome. They have so much faith. I wish I had time to tell you all about it! But I really don't and part of it just wouldn't be good enough. So I'll just have to tell you later. Plus, we got to go to the bakery and buy some stuff there. Bread and jam and cookies... :-) So that was super fun. We are so busy here! I haven't been this busy my whole mission! I have so many more meetings now! We had zone meeting this last week, and I had to teach part of it. Plus I had mission leadership council (zone leader council) plus President asked us to go to another stake to help with the mini MTC there... it's just crazy. And leadership conference calls that last until like ... 11:30... Poor Sister Arnell, her training is getting seriously hammered because we never have time to study! She's awesome though. And getting good hands on experience which is better than book learning any day :-) We are working hard! Our planning is great! It's definitely the most effective planning that I have done on my mission. (Not that I was ever a bad planner, I'm just a lot better now!) We have been tracting probably 3 hours total since we got here, and we have found 7 new investigators! So that's exciting! Working with and around members is so great! And we are also really focusing on former investigators. In Montgomery, we didn't have any former investigators becasue the record keeping had not been good. But here it has been great so the Elders gave us a whole ton that are on "our side" so we have been working there and found 4 new investigators from contacting one of them! It's great! I think one of the hardest things to see is that people want to have peace and joy in their lives but they don't really know how to get it. And then we tell them how and they aren't willing to make the change. As if you can just keep doing the same thing and get different results! The definition of insanity! Raymond (Amish) is really big on the concept of "where you sow there you shall reap." He has shared it with some Amish people and they just can't contest it. LIke with the shunning and everything... I'll have to explain it better sometime. It's pretty awesome.

Well, that's really all that is going on here. I love you guys and hope you have a great week! It was awesome, again, to talk to you guys! Landon...next call home, I'll get to talk to you too! yay! It hit me... next time I hear your guys voices (except Landon's) I'll also be seeing your faces! Crazy! It goes so fast! Love you guys!!
Annie