Tuesday, May 17, 2011
Still hoping for Sunny Weather
We have been making progress on the planting, it has just been a little slower than we would like. We need some sunshine and warmth. We are running today and will be finishing up the irrigated. We are getting close. We drove up to the mountain Sunday and it is going to be awhile before we can run. There are still snow banks and lots of water. I bought the most wonderful roma tomatoes from Bountiful Basket and I got to restock our salsa shelf. It was too wet yesterday morning to run so Stacy helped me do all the chopping and we have 22 pints of yummy salsa. Now we just need to keep Stacy out of it so we can have it for awhile. ;0) Feels good to have some until tomato season is on here. I need to plant our garden, hopefully Bailey and I can work on that this week.
Monday, May 16, 2011
E-Mail 5-16-2011 Same Area still with Elder Thomas!
So great to finally read your emails and hear how all is going there. it sure does feel like a while sense i have done this! haha :) time sure does fly by though. this week has been really good, we found out transfers, taught a bunch and had a lot of people come to church yesterday! it was great!
I cannot believe that is still giving you that white stuff...that does not seem possible. it has been really quite nice here this week, i wish i could send some of the sun your way so you can get everything you to do done and out of the way. i had something happen to me this week that i have never experienced before. elder Thomas and I got into the car to go out from lunch and we had been parked in the sun. there were a whole bunch of bugs on out wind shield so i tried to squirt it but our wipers wouldn't work...they had melted to the glass...haha usually not something you have to think about in Idaho! :) i feel it a blessing though because it has stayed a lot cooler this year for a lot longer! usually by May we are in the 100's day and night. but we are staying cooler in the evenings! nice nice nice! :)
I am so sad to hear about zip, sounds like he has been pretty miserable though and that's no fun! good luck with that all.
I bet bailey is so excited to finish up school! good luck on all your finals and hope it goes well and you feel good about it. don't sweat it, i am sure you're prepared!...i am pretty sure that's why i hated it, i was far from prepared. and that is a general concept of life, if you are doing what you are suppose to and are prepared, there is no reason to fear! keep it up. :)
Well now with transfers...Elder Thomas and i are staying the same pretty much. we Lost the Grandview 1st ward...:( so we wont be in the Rudd's ward anymore and we wont be teaching Erika but it will be OK. haha kinda sucks but we are excited because in return we are now covering the young single adult ward! it will be so awesome. there is no work there right now because it has been full time visitors center sisters covering it so there has been nothing going on and the ward is really frustrated. so they are excited to have us and get things rolling again! the ward boundary covers the whole stake and a little more so it will a little different to work and finding efforts are completely different than in a family ward but it will be a blast! We are so excited to stay together for 6 more weeks! :) almost every companionship in our zone is having a change so there will be alot of new missionaries coming in that will be a blast to work with! we are getting new district leaders in both of our districts and they will be amazing. they are both older missionaries who work really hard and will bless the zone and their companions so much! :) Lots of exciting changes that's for sure.
The Stoneburg family is doing amazing!! they all came to church yesterday and had a wonderful time, they stayed for all 3 hours and they are just as elect as they come. Kim, the mom, in gospel essentials class was marking in her new quad and keeping notes and just soaking it all in! we are so excited for them all. they are going to have a busy weekend on the 28th, Hattie is having a birthday party on Friday, all getting baptised on Saturday, Church/confirmation on Sunday, then Monday-Thursday all the kids are going on the trek with the stake! it is so sweet to see them all get to know and be involved in the ward and grow as a family! it will be a wonderful day and it has been such a sweet experience to be able to find and work with them! :)
had a really crazy experience, on Thursdays we are starting to go to the ARP meetings with some of the people we are teaching and it is a great program that is helping them a ton. we showed up and were walking up the side walk. walking in front of us was Kent and Garrett Lyons! we said hi really quick and visited briefly then went to our meetings and came out after and Verna was there as well and we visited for a while, it was great to see them and talk. they said they might give you a call so you might already know this. but it was so sweet. small world. we will be going to these meetings on Thursdays now with investigators and they said that they are there at the seminary building every Thursday so we will bump into each other again! :)
this coming week is going to be absolutely crazy, we have to go to Scottsdale tomorrow and pick up 2 new elders for a overnight exchange, then have them back at the mission home at 9:30 the next morning, transfers will happen at 11 then we have 1 elder who will be training a new missionary so we will have to give him a ride back to his area, get him a bike, and all that fun stuff. then on Friday we have zone leader council all morning and afternoon, weekly planning on Saturday and then do it all again! haha, so its going to be a little busy and crammed. we have zone conference the next week and we haven't even thought about that yet so it will be interesting to see how it all plays out! we will be busy thats for sure!
we really are being so blessed here in the area and in everything else as well! :) my testimony is strengthened every day as we witness people change, find prepared people to teach, and some how keep doing it again. :) there is always something good waiting at the bottom of every crap hole! haha, it is a humbling experience to be a part of this great work and witness it move forward! thanks for all that you all do. i feel and recognize your support and prayers. i pray for all you success's in all that you are doing, hope things dry out soon for you and you can finish up the crop! i love and miss you all and hope you have a wonderful week!
Love,
Elder Dalan Lerwill
I cannot believe that is still giving you that white stuff...that does not seem possible. it has been really quite nice here this week, i wish i could send some of the sun your way so you can get everything you to do done and out of the way. i had something happen to me this week that i have never experienced before. elder Thomas and I got into the car to go out from lunch and we had been parked in the sun. there were a whole bunch of bugs on out wind shield so i tried to squirt it but our wipers wouldn't work...they had melted to the glass...haha usually not something you have to think about in Idaho! :) i feel it a blessing though because it has stayed a lot cooler this year for a lot longer! usually by May we are in the 100's day and night. but we are staying cooler in the evenings! nice nice nice! :)
I am so sad to hear about zip, sounds like he has been pretty miserable though and that's no fun! good luck with that all.
I bet bailey is so excited to finish up school! good luck on all your finals and hope it goes well and you feel good about it. don't sweat it, i am sure you're prepared!...i am pretty sure that's why i hated it, i was far from prepared. and that is a general concept of life, if you are doing what you are suppose to and are prepared, there is no reason to fear! keep it up. :)
Well now with transfers...Elder Thomas and i are staying the same pretty much. we Lost the Grandview 1st ward...:( so we wont be in the Rudd's ward anymore and we wont be teaching Erika but it will be OK. haha kinda sucks but we are excited because in return we are now covering the young single adult ward! it will be so awesome. there is no work there right now because it has been full time visitors center sisters covering it so there has been nothing going on and the ward is really frustrated. so they are excited to have us and get things rolling again! the ward boundary covers the whole stake and a little more so it will a little different to work and finding efforts are completely different than in a family ward but it will be a blast! We are so excited to stay together for 6 more weeks! :) almost every companionship in our zone is having a change so there will be alot of new missionaries coming in that will be a blast to work with! we are getting new district leaders in both of our districts and they will be amazing. they are both older missionaries who work really hard and will bless the zone and their companions so much! :) Lots of exciting changes that's for sure.
The Stoneburg family is doing amazing!! they all came to church yesterday and had a wonderful time, they stayed for all 3 hours and they are just as elect as they come. Kim, the mom, in gospel essentials class was marking in her new quad and keeping notes and just soaking it all in! we are so excited for them all. they are going to have a busy weekend on the 28th, Hattie is having a birthday party on Friday, all getting baptised on Saturday, Church/confirmation on Sunday, then Monday-Thursday all the kids are going on the trek with the stake! it is so sweet to see them all get to know and be involved in the ward and grow as a family! it will be a wonderful day and it has been such a sweet experience to be able to find and work with them! :)
had a really crazy experience, on Thursdays we are starting to go to the ARP meetings with some of the people we are teaching and it is a great program that is helping them a ton. we showed up and were walking up the side walk. walking in front of us was Kent and Garrett Lyons! we said hi really quick and visited briefly then went to our meetings and came out after and Verna was there as well and we visited for a while, it was great to see them and talk. they said they might give you a call so you might already know this. but it was so sweet. small world. we will be going to these meetings on Thursdays now with investigators and they said that they are there at the seminary building every Thursday so we will bump into each other again! :)
this coming week is going to be absolutely crazy, we have to go to Scottsdale tomorrow and pick up 2 new elders for a overnight exchange, then have them back at the mission home at 9:30 the next morning, transfers will happen at 11 then we have 1 elder who will be training a new missionary so we will have to give him a ride back to his area, get him a bike, and all that fun stuff. then on Friday we have zone leader council all morning and afternoon, weekly planning on Saturday and then do it all again! haha, so its going to be a little busy and crammed. we have zone conference the next week and we haven't even thought about that yet so it will be interesting to see how it all plays out! we will be busy thats for sure!
we really are being so blessed here in the area and in everything else as well! :) my testimony is strengthened every day as we witness people change, find prepared people to teach, and some how keep doing it again. :) there is always something good waiting at the bottom of every crap hole! haha, it is a humbling experience to be a part of this great work and witness it move forward! thanks for all that you all do. i feel and recognize your support and prayers. i pray for all you success's in all that you are doing, hope things dry out soon for you and you can finish up the crop! i love and miss you all and hope you have a wonderful week!
Love,
Elder Dalan Lerwill
Saturday, May 14, 2011
Dalan's Testimony of the Atonement
I had to share part of the letter we received today. Dalan is doing so well and we sure love him.
I love my mission so much! It has been the best thing I have ever done and I love every minute of it. In the phone call Dad, you mentioned something about you and Wes talking about your missions. I thought about that a lot through mine and in hard times it has given me so much strength. I remember being with Elder Mace and thinking, Dad did it. Wes did it, Ryan, Brett, Cary and tons of other people did it, I can do it!! Your examples have helped me so much and given me so much motivation. But mostly, my strength has come through the example of Jesus Christ. I had the opportunity to read through the New Testament in 6 weeks and that was so sweet. And since I have been out I have completed "Jesus the Christ" by Talmage. I have never, and am still SO FAR from fully understanding the Atonement and what all happened. But I do know that EVERY thing that He did, was for a divine purpose. Christ fulfilled and satisfied his Father's will perfectly! At the point in the Saviors life when he was suffering for our sins in the garden, his pain, made the Son of God himself, question the importance and necessity of what He was going through. He continued to pray and received the confirming answer that it was essential. He was humble, meek, and submissive. Completely surrendering His will, He made and completed the sacrifice that had been testified of since the beginning of time. Because of this single and incomprehensible sacrifice, we (as God's children) can find peace. Feel the healing hands of forgiveness. Be reunited with our bodies and return to the presence of The Father with our families. The blessings that come from the Atonement are uncountable, and it is such a blessing that He cares for us individually. Once we set Christ as our foundation and apply by living the gospel, accepting ordinances, and having a broken heart and contrite spirit. We have access and a right to these blessings. We are far from perfect, but through Jesus Christ the demands of justice can be satisfied by mercy. It is so profound and perfect, God is a God of law and there needed to be a way for this law to be fulfilled! :) As we do our best to follow the example of Jesus Christ by living the Gospel (simply, 1- having Faith, 2-Repenting, 3- being baptised by some one holding authority, 4-receive the Gift of the Holy Host, and 5- endure to the end.) We receive and get to be a partaker of his Grace, which comes after we participate in steps 1-5. We are so blessed to be a part of God's covenant people and receive all that comes with. That is one of the many reasons why a mission is so rewarding. I am able to help people access these blessings and see their lives change. Humbling process.Thank you all for making this possible. I love you with all my heart and miss you every day, but I am where I need to be right now! :) You're always in my prayers and am always excited to hear the latest!
I love my mission so much! It has been the best thing I have ever done and I love every minute of it. In the phone call Dad, you mentioned something about you and Wes talking about your missions. I thought about that a lot through mine and in hard times it has given me so much strength. I remember being with Elder Mace and thinking, Dad did it. Wes did it, Ryan, Brett, Cary and tons of other people did it, I can do it!! Your examples have helped me so much and given me so much motivation. But mostly, my strength has come through the example of Jesus Christ. I had the opportunity to read through the New Testament in 6 weeks and that was so sweet. And since I have been out I have completed "Jesus the Christ" by Talmage. I have never, and am still SO FAR from fully understanding the Atonement and what all happened. But I do know that EVERY thing that He did, was for a divine purpose. Christ fulfilled and satisfied his Father's will perfectly! At the point in the Saviors life when he was suffering for our sins in the garden, his pain, made the Son of God himself, question the importance and necessity of what He was going through. He continued to pray and received the confirming answer that it was essential. He was humble, meek, and submissive. Completely surrendering His will, He made and completed the sacrifice that had been testified of since the beginning of time. Because of this single and incomprehensible sacrifice, we (as God's children) can find peace. Feel the healing hands of forgiveness. Be reunited with our bodies and return to the presence of The Father with our families. The blessings that come from the Atonement are uncountable, and it is such a blessing that He cares for us individually. Once we set Christ as our foundation and apply by living the gospel, accepting ordinances, and having a broken heart and contrite spirit. We have access and a right to these blessings. We are far from perfect, but through Jesus Christ the demands of justice can be satisfied by mercy. It is so profound and perfect, God is a God of law and there needed to be a way for this law to be fulfilled! :) As we do our best to follow the example of Jesus Christ by living the Gospel (simply, 1- having Faith, 2-Repenting, 3- being baptised by some one holding authority, 4-receive the Gift of the Holy Host, and 5- endure to the end.) We receive and get to be a partaker of his Grace, which comes after we participate in steps 1-5. We are so blessed to be a part of God's covenant people and receive all that comes with. That is one of the many reasons why a mission is so rewarding. I am able to help people access these blessings and see their lives change. Humbling process.Thank you all for making this possible. I love you with all my heart and miss you every day, but I am where I need to be right now! :) You're always in my prayers and am always excited to hear the latest!
Tuesday, May 10, 2011
MORE CROCHET
These are kind of fun to make. This is the thing with crocheting, I think it is fun but not sure what to crochet that is really useful or neat. I made these poppy flowers and put them on jewelry pins to pin to your coat or outfit. They are really big. The orange one can be called a marigold. I tried making some baby booties and have not had very good luck. I am still going to keep trying. I made one and totally messed up and it became a hat for Rover, we all had a good laugh. Then I tried once more and even undid it half way and re did it and it still doesn't look right. Not sure if it is my pattern or my fault.
Mother's Day rose, it reminded me of both of my Grandma's. I miss them.
Monday, May 9, 2011
Mother's Day Phone Call
Notes from Mother's Day phone call.
Dalan is doing so good. He is happy, healthy, and LOVES his mission. He can't believe how fast time is going by. He feels so blessed (his exact words). Mesa Arizona is the perfect place for him and he loves the people and area. He says that Elder Thomas and him have seen so many blessings and miracles. They get a long so good and have so much fun together and are working so hard. He couldn't hardly wait to give us an update on the family that just showed up in their ward the week before. (After their special fast) On last Thursday they went to the Bishops house to teach them and when they got there, there was a man sitting with them. Well the Dad said if the whole family was excited about it he wanted to be involved to. They taught all 5 of them and Dalan said it was the MOST spiritual lesson he has ever had in his whole mission. So the Dad's name is Owen, the mom is Kim and they have a 20 yr. old. 14 yr. old, and a 11 yr. old. They are hoping that they will all be baptised by the end of the month. The father also gave the closing prayer. He had not done this before and Dalan said it was so awesome. The father wondered if he had been baptised but the bishop checked and he had been blessed as a baby and that was all. Dalan said it would be his and Elder Thomas's first baptism of a whole complete family. A missionaries dream. I so hope Dalan doesn't get transferred. He will find out on Sat. and then next Wed. will be transfers. He said that a girl named Erika will also be getting baptised at the end of the month. He said by next transfer he could have 8 baptisms. Wow! Dalan was so excited to tell us that in July he gets to go back to Snowflake and go through the temple with Aaron Nicholes. He also said that what he has learned the most and talked a lot about this last 3 months is "perspective". Perspective on himself, spirituality and time. He also told us this that we didn't know. His mission is the highest baptising mission in the country with SLC. He says it switches back and forth with the SLC mission. Pretty crazy. He says the members are the key. He says the Stake he is in now, is a well oiled machine. He says it is amazing how they run things. He is doing so well and we couldn't be prouder. Elder Thomas and himself are great friends and planning on coming home at the same time and being room mates at BYUI. They have so much in common it is weird. Like coming out the same date, in the same district at MTC, flying out together, across the seats from each other, getting to be companions, birthday one day apart and they celebrated together, and both coming home together and going to BYUI. Plus they had met at BYUI before but didn't know it til they talked one night. We talked for an hour and 17 minutes and reluctantly hung up. Five minutes later the phone rang and it was Elder Lerwill again (embarrassed) He walked out of talking to us and Sister Rudd asked if he had wished me a Happy Mother's Day. Oops, but that's o.k. So he called to say Happy Mother's Day and then said he wasn't going to say good bye and handed the phone to Elder Thomas. We talked to him for a moment and got his parents phone number. We hung up and then called them. It was a great Mother's Day gift for all of us.
Dalan is doing so good. He is happy, healthy, and LOVES his mission. He can't believe how fast time is going by. He feels so blessed (his exact words). Mesa Arizona is the perfect place for him and he loves the people and area. He says that Elder Thomas and him have seen so many blessings and miracles. They get a long so good and have so much fun together and are working so hard. He couldn't hardly wait to give us an update on the family that just showed up in their ward the week before. (After their special fast) On last Thursday they went to the Bishops house to teach them and when they got there, there was a man sitting with them. Well the Dad said if the whole family was excited about it he wanted to be involved to. They taught all 5 of them and Dalan said it was the MOST spiritual lesson he has ever had in his whole mission. So the Dad's name is Owen, the mom is Kim and they have a 20 yr. old. 14 yr. old, and a 11 yr. old. They are hoping that they will all be baptised by the end of the month. The father also gave the closing prayer. He had not done this before and Dalan said it was so awesome. The father wondered if he had been baptised but the bishop checked and he had been blessed as a baby and that was all. Dalan said it would be his and Elder Thomas's first baptism of a whole complete family. A missionaries dream. I so hope Dalan doesn't get transferred. He will find out on Sat. and then next Wed. will be transfers. He said that a girl named Erika will also be getting baptised at the end of the month. He said by next transfer he could have 8 baptisms. Wow! Dalan was so excited to tell us that in July he gets to go back to Snowflake and go through the temple with Aaron Nicholes. He also said that what he has learned the most and talked a lot about this last 3 months is "perspective". Perspective on himself, spirituality and time. He also told us this that we didn't know. His mission is the highest baptising mission in the country with SLC. He says it switches back and forth with the SLC mission. Pretty crazy. He says the members are the key. He says the Stake he is in now, is a well oiled machine. He says it is amazing how they run things. He is doing so well and we couldn't be prouder. Elder Thomas and himself are great friends and planning on coming home at the same time and being room mates at BYUI. They have so much in common it is weird. Like coming out the same date, in the same district at MTC, flying out together, across the seats from each other, getting to be companions, birthday one day apart and they celebrated together, and both coming home together and going to BYUI. Plus they had met at BYUI before but didn't know it til they talked one night. We talked for an hour and 17 minutes and reluctantly hung up. Five minutes later the phone rang and it was Elder Lerwill again (embarrassed) He walked out of talking to us and Sister Rudd asked if he had wished me a Happy Mother's Day. Oops, but that's o.k. So he called to say Happy Mother's Day and then said he wasn't going to say good bye and handed the phone to Elder Thomas. We talked to him for a moment and got his parents phone number. We hung up and then called them. It was a great Mother's Day gift for all of us.
Friday, May 6, 2011
Randomness
This is a frame I bought at DI some time ago. Pretty ugly color but great details.
Here is the after of the frame. I really like it. Just haven't figured out what to put in it yet??
Ground Beef that I bought from Zaycon Foods. It looks like it will be great!
Wrapped and ready for the freezer.
Daikon, new to me. Tastes like a radish. We used it in some stir fry and ate it plain, pretty good.
card crafting
Got these cool signs off line and had them printed. Love them, the colors go great in bathroom. I have beeen wanting to do something new and this was the ticket. Not expensive either, gotta love it!
I love, love, love this saying. Found it on line also and had it printed up. This is totally how I feel!
I have been so into crocheting lately. I am loving it. I made some headbands and flowers for Bailey. I am working on a new headwrap like the ones that are so popular. Can't wait to show it to you when I finish. Bailey has wanted one for so long, I bought her one(15.00) so I could see if I could figure out how to make it. I knew I could do it, but just wasn't sure how to do it. Well I found a pattern and we will see, but I think it is turning out great. I bought new yarn (3) and spent around 15.00, so now I can make lots of headwraps!
Monday, May 2, 2011
E-Mail 5-2-11 Tedd's Baptism, P-Day activities
Hello, it was great to get your email and be able to hear how all is going on there! :) sounds like you are still white and cold, wow thats so hard to blieve! it is a beatiful day here and we had a great fun morning with the zone! we got up at 6:30 and went and help some ppl at the church set up a bunch of chairs for some event they needed help with then we went shopping, studied, and then went to the ball park. it was a blast. we played softball for about 1 1/2 hours then ate lunch and just relaxed for a little bit with everyone, lots of fun! :) it has been a great day here so far.
We have had a amazing week, seen so many miricles. it has been crazy for sure. seems like after a whole bunch of trials something good is always waiting at the end for you. so blessed!
but before i get on with all that i will answer some of your questions. we will be calling home next sunday at 6:00p.m. i hope that will work with you, if not call the rudds and they can get ahold of me. we will be calling from their house so it will work great. they will have 2 lines so elder thomas and i can talk at the same time! i am excited to be able to talk to you all and hear from you. it sure is crazy how time flys by so fast, seems like just yesterday we were calling for christmas! but some how we are in may again. as far as transfers go i feel like me and elder thomas will be staying together for 1 more transfer but there will be a whole bunch of companionship's who are up for a change so thats what i was meaning. lots of different missionaries coming in so it should be fun. it sure is crazy how quikly you get out of the cirlce of things in the mission. you get caught up in your area and everyone here that you forget that there are an average of 10 new missionaries coming in every transfer so before you know it 3 transfers have gone by and there are alot of missionaries out here that youdont know! kinda surprising when you see missionaries you dont know. i think that there will be one elder in our zone who will be training a new missionary so it will be alot of fun to have him in the zone! they are always, for the most part, so fired up and ready to tear the world up! fun to see the optimism and zeal!
I havnt heard from james sence he left hardly, but thats so exciting for him, i am sure he will do great and tear it up! i hear from micheal every now and then and i havent ever heard from luke, i hope he is well! as you hear things from moms in the ward and people keep me posted because i dont hear any of that! :) thanks and if send everyone my love!
this coming week is going to be really long for me! we have our leadership training meetings this week, tuesday-Friday from 8-4 so i will be sitting alot. elder thomas will be stay ing in the area and going on exchanges with alot of the other elders so it will be good, but long and it is kinda hard on our area because we are compleatlty out of it for one whole week but some how it will all work out!
Tedds baptism went through on Saturday! it was so great to see him finally meet his goal and be able to enter into that covenant! he is so sweet. he showed up to his bap with a Mohawk!! haha, crazy kid. i was able to be awitness at his baptism and also stand in on his ordination. it was so awesome. pretty soft individual right now with all that is happening in his life and his challenges. i cant even imagine going through what and he has and is going to have to deal with. his faith is solid andhe know what he wants and he'll get there. way awesome!
We seen a huge miracle happen this week. we ate dinner at the Bluths house on Thursday night and their daughter, sage, had a non member friend there named erika, they are both 16. she told us that she had been attending church for the past month and wanted to take the lessons...how convenient right! so we visited with her that night a little then set up a time on friday, the next day, to come and teach her. she has been so prepared and is so ready. we were so bold with her and she took it really well. she has wonderful fellowship and great sincere desire. we set a baptismal date with her for the 28th of May. we are so excited to be able to work with her and help her get there. she said that her family is way supportive and wants her to be happy! so awesome how the Lord prepares people! she will do great!
On fast sunday we fasted as a comppanionship for our area. so that we could find ppl to teach who were really prepared. we had so much faith that things were going to take off despite all the trails we have seen in our area this week. We were so blessed!!! so it was at 1:00 and elm wood ward had just got over and we were talking with ppl and this member came up to us and said that there were some non members who just showed up and told us to go talk to them! we were blown out of the water, we didnt even finish our fast and we were being blessed. it is a family of 4, Mom Kim, 20 yr old son MJ, 13yr old daughter Hattie, 11yr old daughter kaytlyn. this is how she introduced herself " this is my family, my daughter here has been going to church in a diferent stake with her friend and wants to convert and i know that she needs to go to the ward she lives in so we dicided that we all would come to this ward and learn today together. i want to learn about what my daughter willbe joining. my whole family is open and willing to convert we just would like to learn a little bit more before."..............Jaw hanging to floor we gathered our composer and led them to class and in her intro to the class she said that she loves the church and that her whole family will be getting baptised!! we have a lesson set up with them for thursday at 7 in the bishops home! they are so ready and prepared its crazy. we have been so blessed! we will be setting a bap date with the whole family on thursday! :) its great and we are so excited!
so despite investigators getting thrown in prison and running away and dropping us, we are still some how managing to keep busy! the month of may is going to be great and we are really excited! me and elder thomas are working really hard and well together. having a blast and seeing tons of miricles! I am working on getting a tape filled up for you and ill get it sent with some of my old planners and things i have collected!
It really is starting to warm up here and with that comes lots of fun things, along with sweat and sunburns, scorpions! elder thomas and i have had a lot of fun this past week out at nights with black lights looking for them! we caught 8 of them in one night! so much fun! i took some good pics so ill send those today!
well it wont be long at all before i get to talk to you more so ill let you go but thanks so much for all you do for me. hope Bailey is enjoying her smooth teeth and is still getting good grades and is doing well with her sugars! keep it up! i love you all a ton and pray for you always! have a wonderful week and we'll talk soon! hope you can get the rug rolling soon! :) be safe and have a great day!
All my love,
Elder Dalan Lerwill
We have had a amazing week, seen so many miricles. it has been crazy for sure. seems like after a whole bunch of trials something good is always waiting at the end for you. so blessed!
but before i get on with all that i will answer some of your questions. we will be calling home next sunday at 6:00p.m. i hope that will work with you, if not call the rudds and they can get ahold of me. we will be calling from their house so it will work great. they will have 2 lines so elder thomas and i can talk at the same time! i am excited to be able to talk to you all and hear from you. it sure is crazy how time flys by so fast, seems like just yesterday we were calling for christmas! but some how we are in may again. as far as transfers go i feel like me and elder thomas will be staying together for 1 more transfer but there will be a whole bunch of companionship's who are up for a change so thats what i was meaning. lots of different missionaries coming in so it should be fun. it sure is crazy how quikly you get out of the cirlce of things in the mission. you get caught up in your area and everyone here that you forget that there are an average of 10 new missionaries coming in every transfer so before you know it 3 transfers have gone by and there are alot of missionaries out here that youdont know! kinda surprising when you see missionaries you dont know. i think that there will be one elder in our zone who will be training a new missionary so it will be alot of fun to have him in the zone! they are always, for the most part, so fired up and ready to tear the world up! fun to see the optimism and zeal!
I havnt heard from james sence he left hardly, but thats so exciting for him, i am sure he will do great and tear it up! i hear from micheal every now and then and i havent ever heard from luke, i hope he is well! as you hear things from moms in the ward and people keep me posted because i dont hear any of that! :) thanks and if send everyone my love!
this coming week is going to be really long for me! we have our leadership training meetings this week, tuesday-Friday from 8-4 so i will be sitting alot. elder thomas will be stay ing in the area and going on exchanges with alot of the other elders so it will be good, but long and it is kinda hard on our area because we are compleatlty out of it for one whole week but some how it will all work out!
Tedds baptism went through on Saturday! it was so great to see him finally meet his goal and be able to enter into that covenant! he is so sweet. he showed up to his bap with a Mohawk!! haha, crazy kid. i was able to be awitness at his baptism and also stand in on his ordination. it was so awesome. pretty soft individual right now with all that is happening in his life and his challenges. i cant even imagine going through what and he has and is going to have to deal with. his faith is solid andhe know what he wants and he'll get there. way awesome!
We seen a huge miracle happen this week. we ate dinner at the Bluths house on Thursday night and their daughter, sage, had a non member friend there named erika, they are both 16. she told us that she had been attending church for the past month and wanted to take the lessons...how convenient right! so we visited with her that night a little then set up a time on friday, the next day, to come and teach her. she has been so prepared and is so ready. we were so bold with her and she took it really well. she has wonderful fellowship and great sincere desire. we set a baptismal date with her for the 28th of May. we are so excited to be able to work with her and help her get there. she said that her family is way supportive and wants her to be happy! so awesome how the Lord prepares people! she will do great!
On fast sunday we fasted as a comppanionship for our area. so that we could find ppl to teach who were really prepared. we had so much faith that things were going to take off despite all the trails we have seen in our area this week. We were so blessed!!! so it was at 1:00 and elm wood ward had just got over and we were talking with ppl and this member came up to us and said that there were some non members who just showed up and told us to go talk to them! we were blown out of the water, we didnt even finish our fast and we were being blessed. it is a family of 4, Mom Kim, 20 yr old son MJ, 13yr old daughter Hattie, 11yr old daughter kaytlyn. this is how she introduced herself " this is my family, my daughter here has been going to church in a diferent stake with her friend and wants to convert and i know that she needs to go to the ward she lives in so we dicided that we all would come to this ward and learn today together. i want to learn about what my daughter willbe joining. my whole family is open and willing to convert we just would like to learn a little bit more before."..............Jaw hanging to floor we gathered our composer and led them to class and in her intro to the class she said that she loves the church and that her whole family will be getting baptised!! we have a lesson set up with them for thursday at 7 in the bishops home! they are so ready and prepared its crazy. we have been so blessed! we will be setting a bap date with the whole family on thursday! :) its great and we are so excited!
so despite investigators getting thrown in prison and running away and dropping us, we are still some how managing to keep busy! the month of may is going to be great and we are really excited! me and elder thomas are working really hard and well together. having a blast and seeing tons of miricles! I am working on getting a tape filled up for you and ill get it sent with some of my old planners and things i have collected!
It really is starting to warm up here and with that comes lots of fun things, along with sweat and sunburns, scorpions! elder thomas and i have had a lot of fun this past week out at nights with black lights looking for them! we caught 8 of them in one night! so much fun! i took some good pics so ill send those today!
well it wont be long at all before i get to talk to you more so ill let you go but thanks so much for all you do for me. hope Bailey is enjoying her smooth teeth and is still getting good grades and is doing well with her sugars! keep it up! i love you all a ton and pray for you always! have a wonderful week and we'll talk soon! hope you can get the rug rolling soon! :) be safe and have a great day!
All my love,
Elder Dalan Lerwill
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