October 26, 2009

so this week was really looong... Tuesday we had a really good day we taught alot of lessons and found a lot of new investigators...
Wednesday we had district meeting and then the Wednesday night class in the afternoon that I had to teach so we didn't get a lot done just a couple of hours to get everyone to come to the class.
Thursday was incredible though... at the beginning of the week we received a commitment from the aps to choose one day a week and teach 200 people and commit them all to be baptized... we chose Thursday.. so we went to the mall and went contacting there... it was so sweet I have never been more exhausted in my entire life than I was that night... we split up at the mall and I was running from person to person in the parking lot and in stores to teach, all the while we were dodging the police who we knew would kick us out if they had the opportunity.
It was sweet.... Elder Bagley found a girl named Cece who has been to church multiple times and wants to get baptized but he didn't get any of her information so now we have to find her again but it was a miracle none the less... we also set baptismal dates with: Tom, Don, Tillman, Vickie, Shani, Gladys, Coon, Johnny, and Johnie Mae.
Haha it was crazy we just made it though, we taught 204 lessons but we didn't quite get the baptismal invites but we still got really close...
Anyways that wonderful week kinda ended bad when none of those people came to church... but Elder Uchtdorf said that its when you keep doing what you have been told that you see miracles not at the beginning so we are going to do the same thing this week and we are going to see more miracles... everybody pray that I don't pass out cuz we are going to have to juggle one day with 200 lessons while trying to contact all of the 29 new investigators we found last week....
Anyways I love you all so much I hope to hear from you soon.
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October 19, 2009

**NOTE FROM MOM.....I am doing something different with Trevon's letter this week....I hope you will bear with me......I sent him a list of 20 questions that I wanted him to forward to me and change the answers hoping I would get more infor from him. I will send his letter first, and then try to paraphrase the answers to the questions.

Hi everyone.....
So, I am in Ocala , Florida. It is one of the most popular hose breeding towns in the State. apparently there are only 2 other cities that make horses as fast as the one here.....
I am living in a four man with Elder Huff and Zabriskie. Huff is sweet. He is one of my favorite missionaries in the field....
I really like my companion. He is Elder Bagley and he has been out for 3 months and he is from Idaho. We get along really well, and have a lot of fun. We have been working really hard and this week we are hoping to get some people baptized.....we don't have anybody planned yet, but we will see.....
The day we got here we found an old woman named Bernie ....she is probably in her 70's. We taught her our first and she would not accept being baptized but she said we could come back......anyways we came back on Saturday night and she prayed about Joseph , the Book of Mormon and getting baptized....and she feels that it is all true, but she still won't set a date.....she couldn't
come to church this weekend, but she said she will try next week. We have to get her some fellowship this week. We have a huge list of part member families tat we are going to see this week, and hopefully baptize their kids. We will see . Just pray that the hearts of the parents will be softened.
Anyways I love you, and hope to hear from you soon.

Questions:
Address: 2215 SE 14th Ave. #56
Ocala, FL. 34471

My apartment is: A DUMP! It has a lot of crap in it. the missionaries just moved so we have two apartments worth of junk inside.
It has 2 bedrooms, 2 baths, and we share with two other missionaries.
My companion was a farmer, and he played basketball. We get along real well.
My trial in this area will be: Ocala has a lot of really big hills.....its exhausting!
We are on bike! Did I say its exhausting?
I did see Elder Cox from Gilbert last week at transfers.....he was not familiar to me.
The most exciting thing about my new area is: I am totally in the country! Its beautiful!
We live: right next to the church.
The area is: Normal....not real rich and not poor. John Travolta lives in our area. He is friends with a lot of members. I hope I get to meet him. I will teach him if I can. Apparantly he came to church and the Ward freaked out, and many came up and asked for his autograph. It offended him, he just wanted to be normal and be there.
There is a FIREHOUSE SUBS HERE< ......Wooooo!
My back is doing better as long as I wear my brace.
I wear my brace always!
Elder Bagley has been in this area for 1 transfer.
The best thing I can say about the weather now is: It jut got really cold. The other day the high was 89 degrees, and then the next day it was 70. It was nuts. It will be cooler in this area this winter than what I had last winter.

Then another one:
He mom, I was hoping you could send me a Kamel Back. I don't want to buy one, cuz I can't get a good one, but I just want one that is really small that can hold a bladder and has a net on the outside, that I can slide my Book of Mormon into for easy transportation. My backpack is too big to carry over all of these ridicilous hills!
I love you mom!

October 12, 2009

Howdy...
So, I am getting transferred and I am not disappointed. I have tracted this whole area twice now... it will be nice to get a change... We are going to hopefully set up a family baptism for the next Elders that replace us... as soon as we leave. We had a really good lesson with the Sullivan's... I don't know if I have told y'all about them... Kevin Sullivan is one of the nicest guys in Florida and he loves Christ and absolutely adores his family of 6. The Sister missionaries used to teach him and I have met with him a couple of times to no avail... but last night we went to his house and played Elder Holland's talk for him... the one from last conference that talks about the atonement and then we bore very powerful testimony about the Book of Mormon and he promised us he would read Mosiah 4-5 before I leave on Thursday... so we will be going over on Wednesday night to see how it went... so keep Kevin in your prayers this week because prayers work... and he could definitely use them...

We also had a woman named Jennifer move into the ward area with her 9- yr old son Tristian who were being taught and want to get baptized. I'm kinda disappointed I won't be here for it.. but I am happy nonetheless.

Anyways today we are going mini golfing I am excited! That will be fun and I probably can't hurt myself doing that.. so mom you can rest easy today...

> Love you all I will send my new address next week.

September 28, 2009

So I got a back brace and I have to wear it everyday and it really helps alot. It takes away almost all my pain... I am not wearing it now but I will probably put it on before we go on with the day. We will head home from the library and then we are going to the mall. there is a dog store at the mall and you can like play with all the dogs... its probably my favorite thing to do in this area... hahaha

So this week Elder Chadwick and I decided that we are going to baptize somebody. I haven't had a baptism in months... we don't know who we will baptize we will give Chris and Aimee another try but I'm not overly hopeful. I am just expecting the Lord to prepare someone we tract into.... if we find womeone who has already been to church then we have no problem...

Conference is this weekend I am so excited... its been so long...

Anyways I am going to cut this letter short but I am attaching a story called the room that you might or might not have heard before but its incredible.. so I love you and I hope you like the story
Trevon