August 15, 2011

 

Hey Mom,

Hey thank you for the package it was great. I really appreciate them. District Leader is over kill. All it is relaying messages to the district from the zone leaders, i Have to present 1 training a week to the district and to the zone leaders. i am still kinda nervous about that but i have buckled down and already have prepared my training. Last night we had a very long talk with the zone leaders on the phone explaining my concerns for the district and all that cool jazz. it was good to just talk to some one about problems...NOT! i wish they would focus more on the good and not so much on the bad its kinda depressing, but that is where we make the best missionaries. Elder Wise and myself had a great week we got so much accomplished it was amazing. We were able to have some super sweet lessons, we had one with Gabby, we talked about the Atonement and just got things ready for her baptism on Saturday. we are stoked for her. The Simpson Family are the best things that could happen for her they have taken her under their wings and have helped her so much its super awesome. We also had an amazing lesson with Bob this week. we focused alot on the Atonement and the Sacrament with him. We were able to teach him in the chapel and to help him feel the spirit. It was AMAZING. The spirit was so strong we watched a short film called Lamb of God, it goes through the last few hours of the life of Christ and really protrayes the love and the sacrifice that he made for us. it was amazing. We got a Head Quarter Referral this week, her name is Jessica, she is amazing we have had 2 lessons with her this week and she came to church and like it, she even signed up to feed us in relief society. Saturday in the lesson with her she was asking us what she needed to do to be baptized and all that cool jazz. she is really prepared its cool. She will be baptized some time soon. The Hickman family is doing great their sons are still retaining everything that we teach and are rapidly progressing to be baptized on September 17. The ward here is amazing they are so missionary minded especially the youth. Most of the people that we are teaching are youth age and we should be getting about 10-11 more referrals from the youth submitting names to the missionaries in nauvoo. we are so excited its amazing. Its kinda sad we are loosing a great ward missionary in September ironically she is going out to rexburg for school. but oh well we will have to train the rest of the youth.

These next 2 weeks are going to be nuts for us we have district meeting on Wednesday, thrusrday we have president interviews, Saturday we are helping a family move and Gabby's baptism, Sunday church, Monday-Tuesday i have exchanges with some in my district, Wednesday we have leadership training, Thursday i have some more exchanges, Friday is zone conference Saturday i conduct a baptism interview. and its just as crazy the week after that. it will be great.

We are doing great we hopefully will be getting a new apartment some time soon. we have a rodent problem and a mold and rotting problem and much more so we talked to president yesterday and we are going to be moving some time soon.

Elder Wise and myself are doing great we are getting alot accomplished, i am very grateful that i have the opportunity that i have to serve with him another transfer. even tho he makes fun of me for being so old. the whole airplane joke is getting old.

Thanks for everything i love you all.

On Sun, Aug 14, 2011 at 7:26 PM, Lori Bair <taberrose@yahoo.com> wrote