Nov. 22, 2011

honestly nothing really new or amazing happened this week, i am pretty much just excited for thanksgiving so i can get fat and then lose it all painfully by working out. but things are going good out  here, we are gong to see some more baptisms in the next month or so. our mission president really wants to make the yearly goal of 2400 baptisms this year and he is really pushing us to make that goal so hopefully with the baptisms in our area that will help out.

Nov. 15, 2011

the baptism on saturday went really well. thanks for asking it was actually a little funny too. but anyways so i baptized chris and then the next baptism, his name was michael and he is a little afraid of water because has like really bad ears and so when he goes under water goes into his ears really easily and so whenever he was baptized he would always jerk up and so it actually took 5 times to baptize him and his sister, cyndi, was baptized by my companion, elder behrmann and he is honestly not the best baptizer so he whenever he would try to get her down he wouldn't get her all the way down and so he tried 4 times and then he gave up and told me to do it so i went ahead and baptized her and then her younger sister crystal i baptized her also but it was a really good service and the next day on sunday we had them confirmed and so that was really awesome. and also chris and micheal were give the aaronic priesthood later in the day so now they are priests. but it was really aewsome teaching them and it was a great oppourtunity to baptize them.

but things are going really good out here. yesterday we actually helped some old people play bingo because we are teaching this one guy named sam, who is not going to get baptized until January, but it was really funny becuase we got a couple of missionaries in our zone to help and this old lady that i was helping kept on falling asleep and i am pretty sure that she had Alzheimers because she kept on forgetting if we were playing bingo but i pretty much played bingo for her, but anyways after wards she tried to get up and was like can you help me stand up?? so i had grab somebody to come help her. but anyways things are also going good, we have started to teach this guy named C.G. and he is a typical grease monkey and works on cars all day but anyways he is planning on being baptized on the 3rd of december, but i am really happy in this area, i really like clearfield when at first i thought that i would hate it, especially with the small apartment and all.

Nov. 8, 2011

 

things are going really well out here. our one investigator clara got baptized on saturday and it was really awesome to see her get baptized on saturday, she and her husband are really funny and awesome! i can pretty much see them in a year getting sealed in the temple which is going to be really awesome! but also this week we are gong to have another 4 baptisms of the Lee kids. so that is that one family who has the son whose name is also Chris and we were also born on the same day, but i am actually going to be baptizing him which is going to be really cool, so i am excited for that, which is going to happen this saturday. we have also been teaching this one guy named sam, who lives in a nursing home, and he really wants to get baptized and we actually have set a date for him on the 19th, but what happened was that the man who is going to baptize him is going to be gone on the 19th and won't be back until the beginning of december and so we moved up his baptismal date to this saturday because the guy baptzing him is going to be around, but then on sunday when we went to church with him he said that he wants to now be baptized in january.... so that is really gay, but if he has his eyes set on that date, that is good. so that was a little disappointing but oh well...

 

but we have been teaching this lady named jocelyn for the past couple of weeks and she wants to get baptized but she has never been to church and so we taught her on saturday night and she said that she was acutally pretty excited to come to church, but when we went to church she didn't show up which was really lame, so we went to go visit her afterwards and what had happened was that her little 4 year old daughter put their cat in a sleeping bag and jumped on the cat until it died... yeah it was pretty messed up but that was the reason why they didn't come to church, so anyways but she still wants to come to church and get baptized which is good.

 

Nov. 1, 2011

but this week has been pretty good, we spoke in 2 sacrament meetings
this week and all i did was pretty much speak on member missionary
work. it always seems that is always what i speak about...but i guess
that is because i am a missionary, but we have our
investigator, clara getting ready to be baptized this upcoming
saturday and we are really excited for that. but anyways she and her
husband tyler are awesome, i love them, i can honestly see myself
hanging out with them after the mission, but anyways  yesterday was
halloween and we had the night off, and so we got together as a zone
and we like spent the night playing pool at somebody's  home and we
watched the movie 17 miracles. 


but anyways nothing really cool happened this week, other than that we
started teaching this dude in this nursing home named sam, he is
really cool. he actually has quite a story of his life where he was
working at 7-11 and that some dude stabbed him with an ice pick in his
ear and then the guy just decided to stab him in his other ear... but
that happened like back in the 70's and kind of messed his head up,
but anyways he is so prepared to be baptized, he has actually been
going to the branch in the nursing home for a while and actually just
needs to hear the lessons to be baptized! so anyways we set a
baptismal date for him on the 19th and we actually met with him
yesterday and he already has someone planned for him to baptize him!
so we are super excited for that, but anyways when we were in the
nursing home we talked to this dude because he wanted to start talking
to us, and so there was this wall of all the people in the home, and
he was pointing us his picture and  there was a picture of this lady
who had a dog, and so i asked him if they were allowed to have their
dogs live with them and then he went on about how he had been married
for like 60 years and then i asked him again if they were allowed to
have dogs, and then he was like we have 19 great grand children and so
i was like ohh! that is cool, so are you guys allowed to have dogs?
and then he like didn't even answer my question and was like ahhh (old
man sigh)... but anyways when i walk in that place it just reminds me
of the happy gilmore nursing home.