Tuesday, January 19th, 2010

Sorry I did not write yesterday ....the library was closed, it was a
holiday!
So this last week was good.  I will tell y'all a little more about my new
companion Elder Reiche is from Utah....he is a good guy.  We are working really hard... we contact all day almost
Everyday, so pretty much all we do is teach... it's pretty exciting...
We set 6 baptismal dates last week even though we couldn't get any of them
to church... it is an improvement.  I want to get at least 15 this week...
we started focusing on less active work...  we planned to go see a 20 year
old named Patrick Hoover and we took Harrison, a Priest in the ward who has
become my best friend..... he rocks!  We are even planning on rooming
together at BYU-I. Anyways, we took him to go see Patrick and on the way
there he asked who we were going to see.... and I was like" Patrick Hoover"
and he flipped out.  Apparently his older sister was the one that got
Patrick baptized so he was way excited... we went over there and talked with
him and got him excited to come to church on Sunday...  and he came..
. He is a cool kid... after church we went to see him again and his twin brother
Ed, who came to church, too was there and he was wasted.  He tried to hide a bottle
of vodka when we walked in. I laid down a rebuke and he said he would try to do
better but he was so drunk he probably didn't even know what was going on so we
are going to go over their again tomorrow night with Harrison and talk with him about
getting baptized...

we also got a less active named Vince Morales coming back to church... he lives
with his mom and he is like 35. Hopefully bringing him back to church will help
get him going again in life...
Other than all that not a lot happened...
O ya the funniest thing ever... I got asked out by a girl named Mistie
(spelled the same way) who works at Best Buy.  I was contacting outside
teaching this old guy and she just walked up and waited for me to get done
teaching and then she asked me if I wanted to go to a bar with her
tonight....  it was one of the most awkward situations of my life but I
was able to teach her but she is a party girl and doesn't want to change.
It was kinda funny ---I never expected it...  it was so random...
Yesterday we played soccer--- a bunch of missionaries from Gainesville came
down and Harrison brought a bunch of his friends it was a blast... I'm not
very good at soccer but I had fun just the same... Elder Huff is on a
trade off down here with us, it is good to have him back...
Elder Porter and I went on a trade off last week... his companion has some
mental problems that make him really slow in the week since he has gotten
here I have only heard him talk a dozen times & he won't even answer us some
times so President told Elder Porter to relieve himself by going on a lot
of trade offs with the district.
I'm having a good time though and I hope to hear from y'all soon.

January 11, 2010

 Well, hello there!
I wear glasses now... I don't think I look bad but I will probably get
contacts when I get home... if I bother at all I can still see well
without glasses but I can't read signs and stuff that are not real close
to me so it just might be a driving thing...

Cathy still is having trouble with Jermaine who refuses to leave.  We are
trying to make him feel as comfortable as possible so he wants to
leave...  hopefully it will happen sooner rather than later...

I added up all of my numbers from my mission and I have taught about 5200
lessons in 18 months... I decided my goal for the rest of my mission is to
teach 4800 more. I want to teach 10000 people before I come home... I am
going to have to teach at least 200 lessons a week and 1250 lessons in a
transfer for me to accomplish this.... I am so stoked for it it will
definitely keep me from being too trunky.

Anyways it was sad to hear about "the robber"........  I too am suprised he
didn't hit our house.   He might have forgotten I had a WII, because I had
invited him to play basketball so many times.  He knew that I was really into playing sports so he might
have thought that I didn't play video games...

Anyways not much has happened but we are going to work our tails off this
week.
I love you all.

January 4, 2010

So transfer calls came... Elder  Bagley is going to Interlachen on
Wednesday and Elder Rieche is coming here from Interlachen to be my
companion... Elder Huff is going up to Gainesville to be my Zone Leader
and Elder Williams is going to Jacksonville to be a zone leader... the
only two that are staying are Elder Porter and I.
We got our goal of 1050 for the year and we have got a new goal to hit for
2010... 3050  1300 baptisms and 1750 re-activiations...
Holy Cow...
Well we had a good week we found a family of less actives and got them to
church and they are excited to be active again.  We talked with Cathy's
family about being baptized and we will be baptizing the rest of her kids
and her grandkids a week from Sunday...  other than that not a lot
happened.
I am pretty excited for this next transfer though Elder Rieche seems like a
pretty cool guy... he has been out about 8 months so he is somewhat
experienced. I hope he likes contacting and riding bikes because I have
tracted all of the places within biking distance already... hahaha.  But we
will probably be doing a lot more member work for the rest of my stay in the
mission.

We have a mission conference in Jacksonville on Thursday to figure out how
we are going to do member work cuz no body in the mission knows how... all
we can do is baptize hahahahahaha.
Anyways I love you all and hope to hear from you soon.

December 28, 2009

So I probably won't write a lot today because I just talked to y'all on
Christmas...

Cathy was able to come to church on Sunday and her son Daunte got confirmed so we
will be working on getting her baptized this week...

Jermaine is a loser and she will hopefully be getting him out of the house
this week as well...that is her abusive boyfriend that is scary!

We shall see but keep praying for Cathy.... she needs it right now.
anyways I love you all.