Awesome DI Find

A couple of week ago went into DI and I found these metal fall/Halloween decorations. Fell in love with them. They are so awesome. They look like they are old, not sure if they are or just made to look old (the paint is so awesome looking). Stacy rolled his eyes (just a little) at me. He said if it were him he would of thought, " I don't want to store them til fall." Hence it is a good deal, off season plus second hand store. I paid a dollar a piece. So excited.

Bailey's Poster for her Educational Assistance Class

FINALLY SOME WINTER DAYS

Last week we did finally get a storm. Bailey was lucky enough to get out of school on Thursday and Friday. I LOVE LOVE LOVE those days.

Bailey had a great time helping her Dad plow out one day.

E-Mail January 23, 2012 Baptisms

Wow, there was a lot that happened there this week.  cool that bailey got 2 days off of school. That would be the last thing i would expect after spending this past week down here, it has been beautiful! Can't complain much when its in the 60's and 70's everyday, so nice!


we had a great week here and seen lots of miracles! Sorry i forgot my camera cord so your not going to get any pictures this week but we did have 2 baptisms on Saturday! they had family in from all over and there was a lot of ward support there. went awesome and after the service they fed everyone Navajo tacos! they were really good and it was fun to interact and socialize with them some after. such a great family and it has been fun to see them change and progress over the past 6 weeks!

Erica was interview for baptism yesterday by president Ellsworth and is good to go for this coming Saturday at 9a.m. After she had left the church and it was just us and president he told us that she was one of the most humble, knowledgeable and spiritual people has ever interview! and i feel the same for people that i have worked with on my mission. she is amazing and has so much faith in everything we share and invite her to do. She is from Brazil and is the most giving person ever. Her and Juan bought us ties and gave them to us at our last lesson, so sweet! we are so excited for them both. we are going to be teaching them at the visitors center this wed. and will be going over all the things for the baptism and teaching Juan what to do. he will be baptising her! so so sweet! I love honest and sincere people so much.

We also taught Destiny 2 times this week and she has been so prepared as well. on Saturday the whole young women called them up and went over to visit them. HUGE gain of trust there, there aren't very many young women in the ward but the ones that are active are way solid! they came to church yesterday and stayed for all 3 hours and absolutely loved it. so sweet to see her be so integrated into the ward! she will be getting baptised February 11th at 5pm.

doesn't feel like very long sense i have emailed you but there is always lots to tell. time is flying by here too, your not the only ones. seems like we have p-day, district meeting, weekly planning, church, and p-day again! crazy crazy.

So about this Bom reading program...:) haha, it is a sweet experience to read through it so fast so stick with it. if everyone gets busy you can break up the reading and have mom do it all one day and just tell the rest of you what it was about. i understand you are busy, but you can do it! I have done it once before on my mission and hope to do it again right along with you. thanks for the efforts and all your do and have do for me.

As far as cash goes, if i have it it seems to disappear really fast! haha, so i will just put the things i want and need on my card and that way i will be able to keep a hold of it all a little easier! :) thanks so much. i have had my eye on some things for a while and i cannot believe that i am at the point where it is time to do it if i want to do it at all! crazy.

Well i Hope that you all have a great week and keep safe happy and healthy. We don't have any plans here today besides write some letters and chill in our apt, it is so fun living with 2 other elders, they are staying the same for this next transfer. elder ricks is training so that will be fun. we have a awesome district, its pretty stacked with some really awesome elders and we getting work done! so good to see. hope you all see the same success there in your personal and family lives, the gospel simplifies life so much, how blessed we are to be a part of it! until next week.

Love,

Elder Lerwill

Book of Mormon Challenge

Dad, Mom, & Bailey
The Book of Mormon is the key. It is the key to conversion, the key to revelation, the key to peace in this troubled world. It is boldly the keystone to everything we believe and practice. How truly blessed we are to have this tool today!
Throughout the process and time I have served as a missionary, I have had the opportunity to meet, teach and serve hundreds of people. I have seen people change their lives and become better. I have also seen people stay in their ways and be miserable. The biggest difference between these two cases can be directly connected back to their testimony of and diligence in their reading of the Book of Mormon. Often "Anyone who rejects or leaves this church, it must be done by crawling over or under or around the Book of Mormon to make their exit".
My testimony of this holy book has been denied and attacked for the past 2 years, as well as assured and fortified. This book changes lives, it has mine and I know it to be true. God lives and Jesus Christ is our Savior and Redeemer. I pray an out pouring of the spirit upon you as you read through this book with me. I love you. Thank you. May God Bless You!
Love your son and brother,
Elder Dalan James Lerwill

Quote from Marian G Romney
"The Book of Mormon teaches us truth and bears testimony of Christ, but there is something more. There is a power in the book which will begin to flow into your lives the moment you begin a serious study of the book. You will find greater power to resist temptation. You will find the power to avoid deception. You will find the power to stay on the strait and narrow path. The scriptures are called "the words of life" and nowhere is that more true than it is of the Book of Mormon. Every latter-day saint should make the study of this book a life time pursuit."

Dalan wants us to read the Book of Mormon in 6 weeks. The last 6 weeks of his mission. He sent us a book with his testimony and the above quote. He has marked how many pages to read on what days. I will put a schedule here on the blog in case any of you want to follow along with us. (I am really excited to do this!)

Ready Set Go! :)
Start January 31, 2012
Finish March 15, 2012
DON'T GET BEHIND
(This sticky note is on first page of The First Book of Nephi)

Jan 31, 2012 Day 0/44 Read to page 13
Feb. 1, 2012 Day 1/44 Read to page  26
Feb 2, 2012 Day 2/44 Read to page 39
Feb 3, 2012 Day 3/44 Read to page 52
Feb 4, 2012 Day 4/44 Read to page 65
Feb 5, 2012 Day 5/44 Read to page 78
Feb 6, 2012 Day 6/44 Read to page 91 DILIGENCE
Feb 7, 2012 Day 7/44 Read to page 104
Feb 8, 2012 Day 8/44 Read to page 117
Feb 9, 2012 Day 9/44 Read to page 130
Feb 10, 2012 Day 10/44 Read to page 142
Feb 11, 2012 Day 11/44 Read to page 155
Feb 12, 2012 Day 12/44 Read to page 168
Feb 13, 2012 Day 13/44 Read to page 180
Feb 14, 2012 Day 14/44 Read to page 193
Feb 15, 2012 Day 15/44 Read to page 207
Feb 16, 2012 Day 16/44 Rad to page 219
Feb 17, 2012 Day 17/44 Read to page 232
Feb 18, 2012 Day 18/44 Read to page 245
Feb 19, 2012 Day 19/44 Read to page 258
Feb 20, 2012 Day 20/44 Read to page 271
Feb 21, 2012 Day 21/44 Read to page 284
Feb 22, 2012 Day 22/44 Read to page 297 HALF WAY THERE :)
Feb 23, 2012 Day 23/44 Read to page 310
Feb 24, 2012 Day 24/44 Read to page 322
Feb 25, 2012 Day 25/44 Read to page 336
Feb 26, 2012 Day 26/44 Read to page 349
Feb 27, 2012 Day 27/44 Read to page 362
Feb 28, 2012 Day 28/44 Read to page 375
Feb 29, 2012 Day 29/44 Read to page 388
March 1, 2012 Day 30/44 Read to page 400
March 2, 2012 Day 31/44 Read to page 413
March 3, 2012 Day 32/44 Read to page 426
March 4, 2012 Day 33/44 Read to page 439
March 5, 2012 Day 34/44 Read to page 454
March 6, 2012 Day 35/44 Read to page 464
March 7, 2012 Day 36/44 Read to page 474
March 8, 2012 Day 37/44 Read to page 486
March 9, 2012 Day 38/44 Read to page 492
March 10, 2012 Day 39/44 Read to page 496
March 11, 2012 Day 40/44 Read to page 500
March 12, 2012 Day 41/44 Read to page 504
March 13, 2012 Day 42/44 Read to page 514
March 14, 2012 Day 43/44 Read to page 520
March 15, 2012 Day 44/44 Read to page 531 THANK YOU- LOVE YOU

Tuesday E-Mail January 17, 2012 (57 more days until he comes home)

So good to hear from you this week and to know that all is well! Sounds like you had a busy week with the kids there and everything else that you were doing. That's so crazy that there insnt very much snow!? when you say that what do you mean? are the ridges bare? they are here! dirt is showing every where down here! ;) surprise surprise.


Well we have had a great week and so much good stuff has happened! we are seeing miracles left and right and it seems like they are just being given to us. We have awesome trust with the members and leadership in both of our wards and i think that this is what it needed to take to get that back so God has really been helping us.

Tina and Crystal are good to go for this Saturday at noon. its always a little bit stressful the last week or so before the baptism trying to get everything in order and interviews lined up to meet every ones schedule but we got it all straitened out and they are good to go. such a blessing, we set a date with them and started teaching them our first week here in the area now here we are 5 weeks later and they are finally getting baptised! so sweet to see.

Another sweet thing happened from us opening our mouth and being bold. Juan's wife Erica has been coming to church with him sense his baptism and she has seemed to really enjoy it but has been kinda sitting in the back seat. Sunday we walked up to her after Gospel Principals class and told her that we would like to meet with her some time and talk about why this church is different than any other (in particular the Catholic church which she was raised in) and she said that she had been praying about that and feels like that would be a good thing. We taught her last night, we could tell from first impressions that she had something on her mind and she looked pretty tender. we said an opening prayer and then she told us how she has been reading the Book of Mormon herself with out Juan even knowing and had been to the Visitor Center by her self and has been doing lots of praying about it all. then she told us that she wanted to be baptised. we taught the restoration of the Gospel and she will be getting baptised January 28, next Saturday! she is so prepared and ready for this its cool to see. its really cool to see the difference in their relationship between Juan and her sense they have both started this process. They will do amazing things and go far.

Last night we also taught Shea and Destiny. they were the ones where they came to church last week and Shea (LA) bore her testimony on how she wants to come back and how destiny wanted to be baptised. it was such a spirit filled lesson! They both have had some pretty sweet experiences over the past 2 months that have prepared them for this return and for Destiny the desire to learn. they are Apache Indians and are such giving and sweet people. really humble and completely submissive. Destiny has a baptismal date for Feb. 11. excited to be able and work with them!

This past week we also set a date with a 9 year old who is a PMF for the 18th of Feb. we just got to get the whole family activated and hopefully they will feel the motivation from their kids. they are awesome. her name is Asriel Rodgers. We found them through Former Investigators in the area book. We are being blessed!

we went to the temple this morning and that was a great time. what a blessing it is to be so close to one pretty much where ever you are in the world. the church is growing fast and the only reason it is, is because it is true! How privlaged we are to be a part of it! :)

I hope you got the package i sent you and your all doing well! I dropped you a post card in the mail this morning so be looking for that! I love and appreciate you all and all you do for you me and your support over the past 2 years. couldnt ask for more. Thank You! hope you have a wonderful week and you see many aswered prayers!

Love,

Elder Lerwill

Panter Boys Stay With Us

Yes call me an Indian Giver. The last time I was in nursery I would guess about 10 years ago or so I donated a bunch of our toys. The kids were big, we needed more room, and the thoughts of my kids growing up and having their own seemed like forever. I have regretted it several different times when I have been back in nursery subbing. I subbed here a month ago and they have so many toys and a friend of mine is the nursery leader. I told her that the farm use to be Dalan's. I wished I still had it and she said take it. There are so many toys! So I smuggled it out of the church that Sunday. Stacy saw me walking out with it under my coat and just laughed. I am so excited to have it back. Grandpa and Grandma Curtis gave it to Dalan when he was just little. Hard to believe that he could have his own kids in a few years, Wow! Bowdrie and Stockton both loved it and played with it when they were here.

Ready to go play in the snow!

Ready

Set

Go!

Got some doggie lovin, too!

What a cutie!

He did not want to come in but he was freezing!

Bowdrie eating yummy sweet potatoes!

What a cute bunch of kids. I miss the cute boys cheeks to kiss! We also really missed Macie!

Stockton had a bath two nights and the first night asked where Macie was. Wes and Katie said it was probably his first bath ever alone. How cute!