So HELLO all!
This week has been good but also a little slow as well. Most of our investigators have been like.... not there this week. but we still got to see a few people so thats cool.
Umm... We've been really trying to get people to Read the book of mormon this last week. Its amazing how little of an effort that would take but how hard it is for people to just do it. In Preach My Gospel it says to do everything that you can to get your investigators to read the book of mormon, and that the Book of mormon is the most powerful tool for conversion that we have. so like we have this one family that we have been teaching and its a 2 sisters and their Kids and then this guy and like we really just focused our last rendezvous on getting them to read.. so the next time we went one of the Sisters had read and she was SOOO excited to tell us what she learned and she really paid attention to what she was reading and basically told us the story of when Nephi goes and gets the pLates and it was way cool. and she was like ca ma fait du bien (....that me did some good... directly translated haha...you get the point) just like you said it would and so she's going to keep reading and we are SOO excited. it was funny because she told her sister that she had to read some and like it just reminded me of when Lehi sees the vision of the tree of life and he partakes of the fruit he just wants to share it with his family and its like exactly what happened with her!!! so cool.. they invited us to come eat with them this next week (they are from Maurice island... by madagascar) so we're excited. I Know that the Book of Mormon can change lives and i LOVE IT!!! this last little while its just been SOOO good to read i feel like i've learned like a Zillion things in the past week, its sometimes exhausting haha! (maybe thats just waking up every morning at 6h30...maybe thats it..)
ALso this last week was Zone Conference and it was WAY GOOD! and so ya... not really anything specific that stands out to me at this instant but it was great! and its always good to see missionaries together... this spirits always so strong.
umm but I think thats it for me!
I love you all! Have a great week!
ELder Laws
Monday, September 28, 2009
Monday, September 21, 2009
Sep. 21, 2009
so.... HELLO!!!!!
Hows everybody doing this week? i had another great week! so here we go...
umm on monday, basically what happened is that we hung out and Elder Walker packed... BORING!!! anyways so then the next day (tuesday) we went and passed a bunch of people so that elder Walker could say goodbye and stuff. we had a few rendezvous and we were able to teach Louis, Stefanie, Moses and Marie and also see our Branch President and his Family before he left.
So Louis is this great African man that has had a lot of crazy experiences this last little while. A year ago he was in a coma and the doctors said he had less than a one percent chance to live and wanted to just pull the plug but the family wouldnt let him and he came out of the coma, BUT he was blind, deaf, and weighed 30 kilos, which is like 70 pounds or so... anyways so NOW he can see, hear, and he's the Buffest person i've seen in my life... its crazy, he has such a strong testimony of prayer because he knows thats what saved him and has given him back his life.. HE's a great guy. anyways so he has told us his little workout program thing that he did after his coma to become the way he is, and basically it involved him doing pushups until he was doing about 1000 a day.... so i think i'm going to do that!!! sounds like fun huh? haha...
umm but so like we have some great Investigators that have strong desires to understand god better and its way cool.
So then on Wednesday elder Walker left to LYON. I went with him until Chambery because i had to wait with the elders there until my companion got to annecy because he Was in LUxembourg and well... it took him 11 hours to get down here... yikes! so that was our wednesday...
My new companion is named Elder Mason and he's from Huntington Beach, California and is probably the FUnniest companion that i've had. He likes to play soccer and he's a Pole Vaulter and ya its just been way fun to be around him this last little bit. Especially since we have been able to teach so much lately and just been blessed with SOOO many miracles. so its been fun.
umm Yesterday was probably the best day that we have had this week. We went to church and we had 4 amis there and we taught the GOspel principles class on Prayer and it was a great lesson. Then after that and church the ward had prepared a little luncheon thing (they do it after every 3rd Sunday) so we got to eat with them. Then after that we went and started to pass some people because we really wanted to get new amis and to teach people so we passed by some of our amis and stuff and nothing was really going on well so we decided to do some porting and this Old Man let us in and accepted the Book of Mormon and said he'd read it and that we could come back so that was GREAT!!! after that we talked to quite a cool people but then we went and had DInner and we were still a little lower than our goals, so we went out and passed like a bunch of people, one of them this guy that again accepted the book of mormon and said he'd read and that we could pass by again (it was actually his wife that we were going to pass and she said we could come by another time but if he wanted us too come by too that works!) then we passed by Marie again to share a quick spiritual thought on the way to another persons house and her, her sister, and this other guy that lives there were all excited to see us and ALL pulled out their book of Mormons and asked great questions and stuff it was great!!! They're so cool! and like we just felt like we got SO much accomplished on Sunday it was great and now today we are SOOO tired... its great. preparation day always comes with perfect timing haha!
Well so thats about it for me, thanks for writing me! its great to here from you all! Love You!
Elder Laws*
ps have a great week!
Hows everybody doing this week? i had another great week! so here we go...
umm on monday, basically what happened is that we hung out and Elder Walker packed... BORING!!! anyways so then the next day (tuesday) we went and passed a bunch of people so that elder Walker could say goodbye and stuff. we had a few rendezvous and we were able to teach Louis, Stefanie, Moses and Marie and also see our Branch President and his Family before he left.
So Louis is this great African man that has had a lot of crazy experiences this last little while. A year ago he was in a coma and the doctors said he had less than a one percent chance to live and wanted to just pull the plug but the family wouldnt let him and he came out of the coma, BUT he was blind, deaf, and weighed 30 kilos, which is like 70 pounds or so... anyways so NOW he can see, hear, and he's the Buffest person i've seen in my life... its crazy, he has such a strong testimony of prayer because he knows thats what saved him and has given him back his life.. HE's a great guy. anyways so he has told us his little workout program thing that he did after his coma to become the way he is, and basically it involved him doing pushups until he was doing about 1000 a day.... so i think i'm going to do that!!! sounds like fun huh? haha...
umm but so like we have some great Investigators that have strong desires to understand god better and its way cool.
So then on Wednesday elder Walker left to LYON. I went with him until Chambery because i had to wait with the elders there until my companion got to annecy because he Was in LUxembourg and well... it took him 11 hours to get down here... yikes! so that was our wednesday...
My new companion is named Elder Mason and he's from Huntington Beach, California and is probably the FUnniest companion that i've had. He likes to play soccer and he's a Pole Vaulter and ya its just been way fun to be around him this last little bit. Especially since we have been able to teach so much lately and just been blessed with SOOO many miracles. so its been fun.
umm Yesterday was probably the best day that we have had this week. We went to church and we had 4 amis there and we taught the GOspel principles class on Prayer and it was a great lesson. Then after that and church the ward had prepared a little luncheon thing (they do it after every 3rd Sunday) so we got to eat with them. Then after that we went and started to pass some people because we really wanted to get new amis and to teach people so we passed by some of our amis and stuff and nothing was really going on well so we decided to do some porting and this Old Man let us in and accepted the Book of Mormon and said he'd read it and that we could come back so that was GREAT!!! after that we talked to quite a cool people but then we went and had DInner and we were still a little lower than our goals, so we went out and passed like a bunch of people, one of them this guy that again accepted the book of mormon and said he'd read and that we could pass by again (it was actually his wife that we were going to pass and she said we could come by another time but if he wanted us too come by too that works!) then we passed by Marie again to share a quick spiritual thought on the way to another persons house and her, her sister, and this other guy that lives there were all excited to see us and ALL pulled out their book of Mormons and asked great questions and stuff it was great!!! They're so cool! and like we just felt like we got SO much accomplished on Sunday it was great and now today we are SOOO tired... its great. preparation day always comes with perfect timing haha!
Well so thats about it for me, thanks for writing me! its great to here from you all! Love You!
Elder Laws*
ps have a great week!
Monday, September 14, 2009
Sep. 14, 2009
Hello Everyone!
So i just was writing this email and everything got erased somehow so i will just start again and sorry that it wont be as specific... on monday we had an exchange with another companionship and so they came down during preparation day so we played a little basketball and it was fun. Then that night Elder Sheilds (a new missionary) and I had a couple of rendezvous scheduled and one of the went really well but the other one Got cancelled so we ended up just contacting and talked to this guy, asked him if we could teach him right then and went to his house and saw him.. it was really good and we have seen him a couple of times since then and he came to church so thats really cool.
Another cool thing that happened during the exchange is that we ported into this Lady that we are now teaching and shes really nice.
Then they went home and we were able to teach a ton of other people this week.
The best thing that has happened i would say is that for one of our rendezvous we had a member who brought pizza to share with us and the investigator. We decided to just leave her there with the Investigator and her family and she was there for like 2 hours just talking to them answering questions and stuff. anyways she came to church and liked it and while we were in a meeting they talked and she expressed a desire to be baptized and so like we're going to see her tuesday and we'll see what happens so it should be cool.
Ummm other than that transfers are this week and i'm getting a new companion so i'll let you know how that goes. its too bad because we have had so much going on but Elder Walker like has been here for 6 monthes so thats probably why its changing. But it should be fun.
Anyways I have to go
Love you all
Have a Wonderful Week!!
Elder Laws
P.S. Pass "Happy Birthday" to Grandma Laws for me!
How's she doing?
Hope you have a great week love you!
Elder Laws
So i just was writing this email and everything got erased somehow so i will just start again and sorry that it wont be as specific... on monday we had an exchange with another companionship and so they came down during preparation day so we played a little basketball and it was fun. Then that night Elder Sheilds (a new missionary) and I had a couple of rendezvous scheduled and one of the went really well but the other one Got cancelled so we ended up just contacting and talked to this guy, asked him if we could teach him right then and went to his house and saw him.. it was really good and we have seen him a couple of times since then and he came to church so thats really cool.
Another cool thing that happened during the exchange is that we ported into this Lady that we are now teaching and shes really nice.
Then they went home and we were able to teach a ton of other people this week.
The best thing that has happened i would say is that for one of our rendezvous we had a member who brought pizza to share with us and the investigator. We decided to just leave her there with the Investigator and her family and she was there for like 2 hours just talking to them answering questions and stuff. anyways she came to church and liked it and while we were in a meeting they talked and she expressed a desire to be baptized and so like we're going to see her tuesday and we'll see what happens so it should be cool.
Ummm other than that transfers are this week and i'm getting a new companion so i'll let you know how that goes. its too bad because we have had so much going on but Elder Walker like has been here for 6 monthes so thats probably why its changing. But it should be fun.
Anyways I have to go
Love you all
Have a Wonderful Week!!
Elder Laws
P.S. Pass "Happy Birthday" to Grandma Laws for me!
How's she doing?
Hope you have a great week love you!
Elder Laws
Monday, September 7, 2009
Sep. 07, 2009
Bonjour à tous!
this week was amazing.... we were SOO blessed. like i thought that last week was great but this week was even better! we had so many miracles.
We've focused on teaching and so we havent had tons of time to like find people but we still found a ton of people willing to talk and stuff.
On our way to one of our rendez vous we contacted like 4 people of which one wasnt very nice... the others we got there numbers and one of them we have taught like 3 times now and is a way cool way spiritual guy just looking for truths. Just trying to find God. he's awesome. This week we had an Exchange with the Assistants to the President and i was with Elder Sorenson, who just so happens to be one of my best friends so far on my mission and it was great! we had a bunch of rendezvous for both companionships and it was my first time driving a car on my mission! (they drove down) it was fun!
umm.... lets see... also like yesterday (sunday) the first time that we had like really scheduled some finding we talked to a lot of really cool people and stuff and in like the last building of the night we got let in to this families house from Kosovo and they are way cool. They have like 4 kids and its just a way cool family, way nice. and we're going to see them again tomorrow. umm... ya...
like its hard to think of specific things that happened because we had so many miracles, and we were just teaching all week! we are teaching this one African man from Guana and we showed up at his house and he had like some friends over, one of which from England, he was cool adn spoke with an accent. said stuff like brilliant, smashing... it was funny. anyways so his other friend as we were leaving was like i got your book (we had given him le livre de mormon) and he was pretty happy about it. man it was great.
This other lady that we are teaching had her friend over for one of the rendezvous and we saw the lady and she said her friend had started to read in the book of Mormon a little and like after that the problems that she had started to work out a little better and like she wanted to see us again! just so many unexplainable miracles happened this week and neither of us understand because we are just like missionaries basically we do nothing just try and get people to feel the spirit and once that happens its like GAME OVER... but instead of losing you WIN! haha! i'm having a blast.
Also umm..we had an amazing district meeting. the spirit was way strong... it was great....
umm... running out of time... ummm... i know i had something else i wanted to say but i dont remember anymore...
Well i guess thats all for me... Love YOU have a great week.
Elder Laws
ps Congratulations to JESSE!!!
this week was amazing.... we were SOO blessed. like i thought that last week was great but this week was even better! we had so many miracles.
We've focused on teaching and so we havent had tons of time to like find people but we still found a ton of people willing to talk and stuff.
On our way to one of our rendez vous we contacted like 4 people of which one wasnt very nice... the others we got there numbers and one of them we have taught like 3 times now and is a way cool way spiritual guy just looking for truths. Just trying to find God. he's awesome. This week we had an Exchange with the Assistants to the President and i was with Elder Sorenson, who just so happens to be one of my best friends so far on my mission and it was great! we had a bunch of rendezvous for both companionships and it was my first time driving a car on my mission! (they drove down) it was fun!
umm.... lets see... also like yesterday (sunday) the first time that we had like really scheduled some finding we talked to a lot of really cool people and stuff and in like the last building of the night we got let in to this families house from Kosovo and they are way cool. They have like 4 kids and its just a way cool family, way nice. and we're going to see them again tomorrow. umm... ya...
like its hard to think of specific things that happened because we had so many miracles, and we were just teaching all week! we are teaching this one African man from Guana and we showed up at his house and he had like some friends over, one of which from England, he was cool adn spoke with an accent. said stuff like brilliant, smashing... it was funny. anyways so his other friend as we were leaving was like i got your book (we had given him le livre de mormon) and he was pretty happy about it. man it was great.
This other lady that we are teaching had her friend over for one of the rendezvous and we saw the lady and she said her friend had started to read in the book of Mormon a little and like after that the problems that she had started to work out a little better and like she wanted to see us again! just so many unexplainable miracles happened this week and neither of us understand because we are just like missionaries basically we do nothing just try and get people to feel the spirit and once that happens its like GAME OVER... but instead of losing you WIN! haha! i'm having a blast.
Also umm..we had an amazing district meeting. the spirit was way strong... it was great....
umm... running out of time... ummm... i know i had something else i wanted to say but i dont remember anymore...
Well i guess thats all for me... Love YOU have a great week.
Elder Laws
ps Congratulations to JESSE!!!
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