Transfers again but Elder McLain will remain in Trenton. He said there is lots of work to do. And the countdown begins.......two weeks until Mother's Day! And that means I GET TO TALK TO MY BOY!! I think that will be my favorite gift.
Hi Mom!
Yes computer time is up to 2 hours! It IS nice.
Thanks for writing! Clark and Reese and I used to talk in unconjugated verbs back in the day... We still do haha. It looks like you had a good time in Paris! I got the box you sent (not sure if that's the one you sent from England) but it had beef jerky and 7 layer bars and all that jazz in there. It was a fantastic box.! I think the 7 layer bars are the best treat in the world. I may not need any for a while but next time Regan sends some, have her send the Rhubarb ones and the fudge brownie bars. That way we get some diversity going on, and I won't get sick of the 7 layer bars.
Ok, moving on. You're right, there's nothing like coming home. Not that that is in the forefront of my mind, but I do love that feeling.
We didn't have a baptism this week because the Stake President counciled our bishop to hold off. Fortunately, that is only one more week to wait for Richard. After that, we will know what will be the outcome of his situation and it will be more clear how we can best help him after baptism. I'm not sure what waiting until after the 7th will do, because regardless Richard will get baptized into the other ward, but we will listen to our leaders. I'm not worried and I know everything will work out better that way. Richard is really patient.
Yes, we are almost finished updating our ward list. We have found that many of the members have moved away. I guess that's good and bad news. But the ward council is all in on helping us find the rest of the members we don't know about. They have planned a night where each home teaching companionship will go out on a sunday afternoon and visit two names. That should get done in ~2 hours and will give us a large update. It shouldn't be long before we figure out where every one in our boundary is. Our biggest focus now is learning how to do missionary work through the ward. I'm not good at it, but the ward is working on doing their part to help us so we've got to keep up.
So to answer your questions:
- ummm I think I'm good. I can make rice just fine in a pot.
- We have a crockpot actually. So we're good on that.
- My white shirts are good for the most part. I have one long sleeve that I have had for a few years that is beginning to fray on the front. I just trimmed the strings and it looks fine now. That's about the worst of it. I don't need any new ones. However I could use new white and red tall tees (3X). Just one of each. No rush. Whenever you send the next package that it could fit in.
- I'm not sure if I got your package from England yet. It doesn't look like the package I just got was sent via airmail. But I'll let you know next week when I am sure.
- They are good, and perfect for basketball on Saturdays. But they are annoying because my shirt always comes untucked. They are like zero friction. So I think I'll just stick with Cotton Poly or what not, but with the wider neck. For when I need new pairs... I don't like the neck on the ones I have because they show when I am wearing a normal t-shirt. But they don't show when I am wearing a button up shirt so they are fine for now. Maybe in like a month or two I will need new ones, and I'll get a size large with the wider neck.
So my companion I think is good now but we still have a car for another few days. I think they'll just give it to the missionaries who will be opening up the new areas in this zone. We'll start walking again which I am happy about.
I have talked to all the T-Birds here. Elder Christensen, Elder Wells, Elder Key, Sister Collins and Sister Boshard. I think there is another few but I can't think of them. I think our high school has more here than any other high school, so that's good. And we'll get more soon! That's always exciting. I am happy for Chase deciding to serve a mission. That is going to turn his life around for the better. I knew he had it in him, and I am sure that Landon influenced him more than anything else. Which is a great thing, cause this work is true! I guess the Spirit worked on him.
I am reading the New Testament and some of the Old Testament and The Book of Mormon, still. So one day I'll study from one and the next I'll study from the other. It's been good - I have learned a lot from the New Testament. Old Testament, not so much yet. The books of Moses are interesting. Occasionally I'll cross reference in the D&C too, so I'm all over the place. Except in the Pearl of Great Price. I don't read that very often.
So you're getting a new calling. Maybe you'll be an artificial investigator in the MTC! I hated them! Cause they were either way too easily swayed into joining the Church or they were way too difficult. I guess that's sorta like the real world, but it was always hard to teach someone as an investigator when you can see that they are wearing church garments.
I can't think of anything else I wanted to mention. A new transfer! That will be nice. Almost nobody in our zone is leaving so that's good. A Chic-Fil-A gift card would be cool if you found one. That's the best place around here. I love it.
Ok gotta jet. I love you guys!
Love,
Tab
Tim's letter.....
Hi Dad!
I too am excited that I get to email for a little bit longer now. I usually am one of the two who all the other missionaries wait on before leaving the library. It has never been a big problem, but now I won't have to worry about them bugging me to finish up ;) I might be a really slow typist.
Well, this is the end of another transfer. I am happy to some extent but also dissatisfied. Not as satisfied as I have been with transfers in the past, of the few that I have been through. I am happy that we got to see a baptism in this transfer and soon we will have another - Richard - that I am really looking forward to. I wish that we could have worked harder. I've got to learn better how to do missionary work from home... phone calls, forms, planning, etc. Fortunately we got to do more work in this last week and in the past two days I have received a huge amount of motivation from ward leaders and their examples. We have an awesome ward missionary, Brother Jeff Johnson, who is returned missionary that never seemed to have lost the spirit of missionary work. I love him. He's really funny too. I think he is a BYU Alumni.
We had a correlation meeting last night with our ward mission leader, the Bishop, one of the ward missionaries and the zone leaders. That was a huge help to Elder Mullenaux and I. Their inspiration gave us a direction for the work we are doing in the Trenton area. I forgot my planner and backpack, so I took as many notes as I could on a mormon.org card. It was a great meeting. We also got fed by The Pethos. Sis Petho made chili rellanos and rice and beans, with flan as dessert. It was really good. I stuffed myself to the point where it was hard to give the lesson afterward because I could hardly focus or talk. I'm sure you remember a little bit what that is like. It went well.
I am excited for the new transfer. I am hoping that I can humble myself a little bit. In the movie "Between Heaven and Earth", Truman Madsen introduced a concept called "holy envy". I'm working on that.
Well I've got to write to Mom now. Thank you for you letter! I enjoyed it. I'm happy that I have a little bit more time to write home now. I look forward to hearing from you next week. Let me know how the yard work goes ;)
Love,
Tab
No comments:
Post a Comment