April 8, 2013
I will write Jacklyn today.
I am with the same companion.
Conference was really good! we watched it mostly at the church and then with a less-active family.
Well so much for it warming up! it has been in the mid 50's for the high and the mid 30's at night and then this weekend was even colder and we just got some more snow last night, about half an inch.
We had a pretty good week this week. Conference was great! We spent a great deal of time telling as many people as we could about it so we are hoping that we will get some calls or that when we follow up they will have just spiritually melted over the inspiring talks. It really is neat to watch them speak. When you listen to and watch some of those TV evangelists your just filled with doubt and skepticism, and sometimes even wanna laugh because it is so ridiculous. When they speak however it is almost undeniable that they are serious and they really are representing the Lord.
We had gotten a less-active part member family to invite us over to watch part of conference with them. We are teaching the daughter and missionaries have forever and the mom is very against her getting baptized but is fine with us coming over to teach. The dad was giving us and the speakers a lot of grief and bringing up all his 'issues' with the church and the daughter wasn't very excited about it either and told us she wasn't really sure she even wanted to keep up the church thing. We just persevered and just bore testimony of conference and so they sat through and by the end of just the one session they did a 180 flip and were super excited about it and they learned a bunch. It was really cool to watch just how powerful it was in bringing the spirit into their home.
it was especially uplifting to us because lots of the people who said they were going to watch it did not, even some members who said they would invite investigators and less-actives over.
That was the highlight of the week.
Hopefully we will get a ward mission leader here soon because I think things are slowly trickling off with our connection with the ward. We haven't had any meetings in a month so that really doesn't help. And with all the holidays and vacation stuff these past few weeks we haven't had much contact with the ward leadership. So we will see.
things are going good. I need to send a package home with a bunch of old letters and some other stuff and then there will be something for dad inside.
Also there are a lot of jewelry shops in town mostly hippie shops with crystals to release your inner energy but you can just use them are regular rocks from the ground :) so if the girls want anything let me know what they might like. maybe a favorite color rock or kind, something like that. earnings, necklace, etc.
Love Elder Leydsman
I am with the same companion.
Conference was really good! we watched it mostly at the church and then with a less-active family.
Well so much for it warming up! it has been in the mid 50's for the high and the mid 30's at night and then this weekend was even colder and we just got some more snow last night, about half an inch.
We had a pretty good week this week. Conference was great! We spent a great deal of time telling as many people as we could about it so we are hoping that we will get some calls or that when we follow up they will have just spiritually melted over the inspiring talks. It really is neat to watch them speak. When you listen to and watch some of those TV evangelists your just filled with doubt and skepticism, and sometimes even wanna laugh because it is so ridiculous. When they speak however it is almost undeniable that they are serious and they really are representing the Lord.
We had gotten a less-active part member family to invite us over to watch part of conference with them. We are teaching the daughter and missionaries have forever and the mom is very against her getting baptized but is fine with us coming over to teach. The dad was giving us and the speakers a lot of grief and bringing up all his 'issues' with the church and the daughter wasn't very excited about it either and told us she wasn't really sure she even wanted to keep up the church thing. We just persevered and just bore testimony of conference and so they sat through and by the end of just the one session they did a 180 flip and were super excited about it and they learned a bunch. It was really cool to watch just how powerful it was in bringing the spirit into their home.
it was especially uplifting to us because lots of the people who said they were going to watch it did not, even some members who said they would invite investigators and less-actives over.
That was the highlight of the week.
Hopefully we will get a ward mission leader here soon because I think things are slowly trickling off with our connection with the ward. We haven't had any meetings in a month so that really doesn't help. And with all the holidays and vacation stuff these past few weeks we haven't had much contact with the ward leadership. So we will see.
things are going good. I need to send a package home with a bunch of old letters and some other stuff and then there will be something for dad inside.
Also there are a lot of jewelry shops in town mostly hippie shops with crystals to release your inner energy but you can just use them are regular rocks from the ground :) so if the girls want anything let me know what they might like. maybe a favorite color rock or kind, something like that. earnings, necklace, etc.
Love Elder Leydsman