Monday, March 23, 2009

Hey, guys!
Not much happened this week at all. Hill and I are still together in Dunn Ave. Our new district leader is Elder Hendrickson. He has been out a year and is pretty sweet... his companion is Elder Parker who has been out 4 months and he is tight. Elder Mcnaughton got sent to Hilliard, so he is in my district again. I am pretty excited. He is coming down here for p-day. I am pretty excited. We're going to play some basketball. There is one family here in Dunn Ave... the Davis'... they are the sweetest family ever. Brother Davis is the elders quorum president and Sister Davis is the young womens president. They are so much fun... we stop by there house a couple times a week for water or stuff like that, but they have the coolest kids in the world.
Anywaysm we are kinda holding off with the Williams for right now because Brodrick is the only one that actually wants to get baptized and he can't come to church. Marvina's out of town for the week but we are planning on baptizing a Puerto Rican woman named Sixta Martinez this weekend... the zone leaders want us to get her baptized in March so we will try... the only problem is the only time we get to meet with her is on Thursday and we have only taught her the 1st.
Anyways, I am doing good. Sorry there isn't anything else to write about...I love you all.
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Monday, March 9, 2009

So, I don't think I told you much about the Williams family... I don't know how I overlooked it but it happened about a month ago... I had a dream and in the dream I knocked on the door of a house that was number 232. But I didn't know where it was. This girl answered the door. Anyways I woke up and told Elder Hill about the dream... We went out tracting and we were having a bad day. We were getting rejected everywhere and Hill was "like, let's go find your house." So we went driving down all the streets with 232 on them, and we finally found the one I had seen in my dream... So we knocked on the door, and who answers the door but the girl in my dream.! Her name is Tonya... she is black and has 4 kids and a husband. We couldn't meet with her for a while , but when we finally got to sit down with the whole family it was tuff.... the dad is very smart in his knowledge of the Bible... his name is Brodrick.

We taught the first and committed them all to baptism. They all said yes except him... but he told me that I had a light about me and he wanted me to come back. So, the next day we went over and taught the plan of salvation... he didn't like much of what Elder Hill said, and he didn't like the idea of three kingdoms... then he asked me what I thought of it all and I told him how we found their house and that God sent us here to change their lives... then I asked him if he knew if the Book of Mormon was true...(he had been reading it) There was a long silence where we just stared at each other. Then he said Yes, he did know without a doubt... then I told him he needed to be baptized on March 21st and there was another silence and he said , "ya, I do".

So, we set a date with Tonya, Brodrick, Lant-13, Jasmin-15, Asia-12, and Corey-11. Then we told them we would come over everyday at 5 to see how they are doing... The next day we came over and somebody we have never met answered the door. Her name is Lequida and she is 19 apparently and she has 5 kids.! So we invited her to church and told her we wanted her to get baptized with her family and gave her a Book of Mormon... She said she would pray about it... but she didn't seem too sincere. So on Sunday we went back because none of them came to Church. We talked to Brodrick for a long time... apparently Tonya had to go to the hospital because she has diabetes and she doesn't take care of herself. But the whole atmosphere of the house has changed! It seemed like we were trying to convince Brodrick before, but now it's like we are just telling him what he has to do and he believes and understands it all...
The gospel is so sweet!

Anyways Marvina is still set to be baptized on Sunday after church and she is still doing sweet... I am so excited! My first baptism found tracting!

I love you all! Trevon

March 3, 2009

Sorry I didn't write yesterday... we went to St. Augustine early in the morning... and I spent the whole day with Elder Mcnaughton visiting members... while the rest of the guys went to Ripley's and sight seeing... it was the freakin' sweet best p-day I have had yet.

Anyways I don't think I told you much of what has been going on with Marvina Scruggs... she didn't show up to her baptism because her son has scicle cell and she had to take him to the hospital. We reset the date for this Suday and we are going to the hospital as soon as I get off the computer to give her son a blessing and read some of the BoM with her. Marvina, mom is the one that we tracted into that just happened to have a sister in law whose family is Mormon! She is incredible but she works on Sundays so I want everyone to pray for Marvina Scruggs that she will be able to get time off on Sunday so she can get baptized.

We also found a family, the Williams, who are really cool. We set a date with them for the 15th. There are 6 of them and I am really excited because I have not baptized a family yet. The only hold back we know of so far is that Brodrick, the Father, works on Sundays and they only have one car so the rest of them can't make it to church. If I were in St. Aug then we wouldn't have this problem because we could get members to pick them up... but the members here are lame and won't help at all.

We are also working with another woman named Elizabeth and her son Emier who is 18. He is sweet and came to church and played basketball with us but he believes there is no one church, and his mom is just lazy. We are planning on going over tonight and setting a date with them. We will see how it goes.

We also got another guy named Charley Holmes who smokes, but he commited to me that he wouldn't buy any more...and he would make his last 10 last him until this Wednesday and he will be getting baptized on the 15th as well. He loves the Book of Mormon and can't put it down.

Well I am doing good I can't wait for a change of some kind though. The Bishop of this Ward got really mad at us because we were expecting too much of the members, (rides for our investigators) and that is kind of a pain when the Bishop of your area thinks your worthless but it's ok....we will make the best of it...

Isaiah Gathogo who we baptized last transfer has a van, so we will probably start having him pick people up for us. I think I am going to get transferred at the end of March but Elder Probert thinks that Hill will get transferred and Probert and I will stay here .I don't particularly like being Senior companion...I would rather be a follower... But if Hill was Senior companion not much would get done in our area... so I hear Jake had an emergency transfer. That would stink. Well I am going to leave my proselyting area now and go see Marvina... love you all.

Thanks for the letters....keep them coming!
Trevon.

February 23, 2009

Trevon and Mom emailing back and forth this morning - here are Trevon's little emails all combined into one, hopefully not too confusing... and some pix!!!

Shannon - Mom wants you to send the pix to Sam's Club!

so I don't know if its because i dropped my camera and broke it... or if my camera is just not suited for computers but i cant get them onto the computer for you to see...
so a new/better camera for a birthday present might be really cool.

I tried the cord and it still cant bring them up i am not sure my camera is very computer friendly.

Ya, I know I was hiding cuz I knew you would be mad at me..
:)
I am going to try to send some pix in my next attempt.. I don't need a new card
the pix of baptisms are the ones president newman goes to.

Ilost one of them... I only have one...
I was just kidding about you buying a new camera. I don't need one.

So the baptism didn't happen. Marvina never showed up for church so we have to reschedule it and we don't even know where she was or why she didn't come it was a pretty sad thing. But we will hopefully get to talk with her this week.

I won't be able to send a full one today the computer is being dumb and it keeps signing me off
the myldsmail.net isn.t working properly today.
sorry but here are some pictures.

Monday, February 9, 2009

So we went to the beach today down in southern Jacksonville. It was a lot of fun... the only differences we have had is we got a new district leader his name is Elder Probert... he just came from being a zone leader and he has been out one transfer longer than me... I did not like him at all and I was dreading him coming here but since he got here he has become one of my favorite missionaries in the mission. He is a really hard worker and a lot of fun.

Anyways we got Elijah confirmed on Sunday and we are still working with all our investigators and they are progressing slowly but surely.

We set a baptismal date with Marvinna, who was the girl that we found tracting last week. We are going to baptize her on the 22nd because that is the first time she can come to church. Our goal this week is to get her husband to have a desire and be baptized with her.

We also helped Michael apply for 30 jobs this week so we should hopefully have him baptized too. We decided to set a date with him to show our faith to the Lord... it is for the 22nd of March...that should give him enough time to get the money once he gets a job...

Anyways sorry its not as long as usual but we are kinda in a hurry tonight. I love you all so much
p.s. send me lots of letters!!!

Monday, February 16, 2009

Hello all...
So last week we got committed on Friday to teach 50 lessons and commit 20 people to baptism by Sunday night and Hill and I got all that done by Saturday. It was pretty sweet! It pumped us up a lot... this week we have to do 90 lessons and 45 commitments and we want for our district to have 10 baptismal dates from it. It's going to be a sweet week!

We can't go to the library this week because of the holiday so we are at a members house doing our emails and watching Aladdin... so I will send pictures next week.

Anyways... Marvinna is still getting baptized this week... on Sunday so it will be really cool! She is so amazing and ready for this. I am so happy for her. It's a blast to be able to see people change like this... Elder Probert and I went on a trade off last weekend and it was sweet. He has become one of my favorite missionary's in the mission. We get along so well ...it was a blast. He slapped my thigh today and there is still an imprint of his hand its disgusting ...it hurt so good.

So I heard that Terry Porter got fired! I am pretty happy. Hopefully we will just play the rest of the season really well... cuz we can... I saw all these rumors of Amare leaving and I am glad they decided to keep him at least for now.
Anyways sorry I don't have more to say but there are other people who need to write and we still have to go shopping... I love you all... I will send pictures next week.