November 23, 2009

Sorry it's just really hard to come back to the apartment because we bike
so far away.  I will try to do better.
We get our transfer calls today.. and we are leaving to our new areas
tomorrow... so I will have Liz call you tomorrow night with my new address
if I get transfered... but I hope I stay this is a good area.
You need to send me some pictures of the house.  I can't picture it
yellow.
I think you should be sending me more of those newspaper clippings of the
Suns.   I want to know what's going on.
Also I was hoping that you could send me all of the Christmas cds from my
cd case it is almost Christmas time and I'm ready to listen to something
different..
Well Elder Bagley is meeting with the area dr. today to talk about his
depression so we will see how things go. I hope he turns out ok I don't
want him to have to go home but we will see.
If I stay we will be going to a members house for Thanksgiving.  They are
going to be making 30 pies I am stoked but that is only if I stay here in
Ocala...
Elder Huff thinks he might be leaving which I hope he is wrong cuz that
wouldn't be as much fun.
But wherever the Lord wants me to go.
We have a couple people we are working with but none of which are really
progressing... Tony the young man who got baptized last week actually
asked me to help him pay tithing yesterday which was sweet... such a cool
kid.... anyways sorry I don't have more to say but its starting to get
cold and I am excited to go out and work again... love you all.

November 16, 2009

Well, we got tony confirmed... he is such a cool kid he wants to go on a
mission and everything. I will be sending pictures home soon.
It was a good week. We met a woman named Ursulla Tracting and she was
balling as we told her about the restoration she has already read from the Book of Mormon
and she believes it's true she will be getting baptized the
weekend of Thanksgiving.
She is a sweet lady in her 60's and she wasn't able to come to church on
sunday but she stayed home reading the Book of Mormon..
It was sweet.
We also found a girl who has a family of 9. She isn't as interested but she
promised she would read and pray about it all.
We had President interviews on Friday. Mine were good like normal but Elder
Bagleys weren't... President said that Bagley has depression problems and
he might have to go home for them... the area dr. will be coming up to see
him soon and see if he needs to go home or not... that would be sad.  Well,
this Saturday is transfer calls which is wierd cuz I feel like I just got
here.  I really hope I don't get transferred because I want to stay here. I love
this area so much...
Anyways, I love you all and I really hope that I will get some letters this
week.
take care.

November 9, 2009

Tony got baptized... the highlight of the week by far.  It was Elder
Bagley's first baptism and he was so excited... it was really funny. Tony
is such a cool kid though... he wants to go on a mission right now!  I hope
that he can keep his enthusiasm for it and keeps it going.
Well I haven't gotten any letters since I came to Ocala.  I got one from
Shannon and one from Mistie...I don't know how anybody is doing at all...
what is going on at home...
Anyways Bagley has been getting really sick... he has something wrong with
his brain and he is getting migranes and he might have to go in for a
catscan or something soon... I hope he doesn't because it will probably
take forever... but his health is just as important as the work we do so
we will see...
i think he might have a little bit of depression problems as well.
Anyways I love you all and I hope that everyone is doing good we are
hoping to have a couple more baptisms lined up for the 22nd so keep your
prayers coming.

November 2, 2009

So this area is so incredible I feel like this is just where I needed to
be.  We couldn't get most of our baptismal dates to church this week,  but
we found a new kid named Tony who is 18 and we taught him the restoration
and the plan of salvation and he is excited to get baptized!  The only
problem is he is kinda an odd kid and doesn't have any friends and feels
really awkward around all of the (white) members of the ward.  He wouldn’t
leave my side on Sunday.  But we are going to go over there with one of
the Priests who is a really good guy this week and get Tony to come to
thier campout this weekend... he is so sweet... we are going to baptize
him on Sunday after church... Elder Bagley will do it because he hasn't
baptized anybody....

Bagley and Mcrae were teaching somebody named Matt who is getting married
to a member named Bridgett.  And Mcrae figured that he already knew
everything about the gospel so he didn't bother teaching him.  He would
just go over and hang out instead of teaching... which is very bad for a
missionary to do... President Hinkley said that we need to not be friends
with the people we are teaching but be guides for them...  anyways Matt
said that he didn't want to be baptized... and they stopped meeting with
him... Saturday we were going to see some recent converts and I saw a
woman walking to her car and I felt inspired to go talk to her, it turns
out it was Bridgette.   So she told us about how she is planning her
wedding and Matt and her will be getting married in December.... I told
her to pray about Matts heart being softened so he would decide to get
baptized... Meanwhile Matt was at work and he got overcome by the spirit
and sent Elder Bagley and email requesting us to come back.  He declared
that he wants to be Bridgetts priesthood holder... hahaha how freakin
sweet is that.... We are going over tonight to meet with them... and we
are going to teach the Doctrine of Christ by the power of God... not make
friends and chat... hahaha so pray.
I got the package you sent Mom.
It was sent to the wrong address but somehow it got to the office of our
complex and the manager came into our apartment and put it on the counter
and locked the door on the way out... which caused a problem... there are
a lot of comps that live right next to us so we don't lock our door and we
don't carry keys with us so Elder Huff and Zabriskie called us at like 845
cuz they had just got home and asked if we locked the door cuz they were
locked out, anyways since it was so late we had to break in... it was
kinda funny.
Anyways keep praying for missionary opportunities and help to bring about
the second coming... I love you all.