Hey Family!
How are you all doing?
well so this week has been a lot of fun. we actually havent done anything way crazy or way fun but we did manage to play basketball again. sadly one of the elders sprained his ankle so we only had three people but we got around it, and played for a little longer.
we've done a couple of exchanges the last week because of the accident that happened for rendezvous etc. which has been a little crazy. on thursday i went with Elder Zarate to a couple of their rendezvous and then he had a dentist appointment so i got to sit in a little room by myself forever it was terrible! (it was only 45 minutes too!). ugh it brought back old memories and stuff, no i'm just kidding but it wasnt fun at all. luckily we had some ensigns with us so i got to read a couple of talks. idk... it was fine. (never want to have to do that again though)..
We have still been teaching a few people, no one is really progressing way quickly but things are going good. Most everyone understands (with the accent and everything haha) but the hard thing is getting people to act. which i guess isnt something we can make people do haha... (curse you agency!!!). We have also been working quite a bit with members. Its really cool to see that there are members that really want to share the gospel with everyone they know. its great!
we had a funny experience yesterday porting. we knocked on this guys door and he came out and said he didnt want to talk to us and we simply asked why and he started to talk a lot and he repeated himself a lot and said that the reason that we were there was to convert people and that he didnt want to waste our time etc. when in fact he took like 20 minutes of our time. it was funny, i just kept saying ok ok ok.... and those little letters just got him going even more. it was funny... anyways a lot of people think that the reason that we are here is because we are just trying to convert people to our beliefs etc. when really all we are doing is trying to share and present things that have blessed our lives enormously. its hard to get people to understand that.
other than that people have been telling us to come back other times and all that so things are going well and we have a lot of good stuff going on. its exciting!
umm... thats all for me. hope you have great weeks! love you all!
Elder Laws
Wednesday, February 24, 2010
Sunday, February 21, 2010
Feb. 17, 2010
hello family!
so this has been a fairly good week! we have been mostly focusing of finding people to teach and teaching and etc.. so it has been really good because we have found quite a few people lately that want to see us.
We actually had a really good Miracle that happened this week. we were porting and we got down to the first floor and this younger looking guy answered the door. When we started to tell him who we were and why we were there he stopped us and said we cant talk about that stuff out here come on in. so we did of course. then when we got in and sat down he said that he had seen our book before and that a friend had given him one actually without explaining anything. so we said thats why we were there and started to explain it and joseph smith and all that when he had to leave really fast because someone came to pick him up. but he asked whether we could see each other again and we said yes, we'll come get you tomorrow for church and we'll be able to talk there. so then the next day comes around. we get to his building go up the elevator, and his door is opening and he was waiting for us, because he saw us outside he came out to meet us. which is really cool. then when we got to church everyone went and talked with him, helped him out and all, it was great. after that when we were trying to find a time that we could see him again a member came over and invited him with us over to dinner the next day and so ya. that was a great miracle.
i absolutely LOVE our ward. the members here are sweet.
umm other than that on yesterday... haha. we had an exchange with the assistants that went really well. I was with elder Howell who was in the MTC with me. it was a lot of fun. we actually got let in to teach a couple people and had a lot of really good conversations.
anyways thats about all that i really have to say about me this week.
valentines came and went without and valentines... (which is probably a good thing haha). (not probably, it is a good thing).
anyways i hope you all have a great week and i LOVe you!
Elder Laws
ps good luck keshia! looking forward to hearing from you!
so this has been a fairly good week! we have been mostly focusing of finding people to teach and teaching and etc.. so it has been really good because we have found quite a few people lately that want to see us.
We actually had a really good Miracle that happened this week. we were porting and we got down to the first floor and this younger looking guy answered the door. When we started to tell him who we were and why we were there he stopped us and said we cant talk about that stuff out here come on in. so we did of course. then when we got in and sat down he said that he had seen our book before and that a friend had given him one actually without explaining anything. so we said thats why we were there and started to explain it and joseph smith and all that when he had to leave really fast because someone came to pick him up. but he asked whether we could see each other again and we said yes, we'll come get you tomorrow for church and we'll be able to talk there. so then the next day comes around. we get to his building go up the elevator, and his door is opening and he was waiting for us, because he saw us outside he came out to meet us. which is really cool. then when we got to church everyone went and talked with him, helped him out and all, it was great. after that when we were trying to find a time that we could see him again a member came over and invited him with us over to dinner the next day and so ya. that was a great miracle.
i absolutely LOVE our ward. the members here are sweet.
umm other than that on yesterday... haha. we had an exchange with the assistants that went really well. I was with elder Howell who was in the MTC with me. it was a lot of fun. we actually got let in to teach a couple people and had a lot of really good conversations.
anyways thats about all that i really have to say about me this week.
valentines came and went without and valentines... (which is probably a good thing haha). (not probably, it is a good thing).
anyways i hope you all have a great week and i LOVe you!
Elder Laws
ps good luck keshia! looking forward to hearing from you!
Wednesday, February 10, 2010
Feb. 10, 2010
Hey Family! How are you doing?
Well, this week was good. it was good.
On wednesday we went to the ping pong museum with a couple other missionaries. it was fun, its pretty cool too. Then! the greatest thing ever! we played basketball! yay! oh man... it was sooo nice. i felt right at home... it was good. i cant say anything else... haha it was good. nice weather. no wind... playing basketball. it was perfect.
Then on thursday we had Zone Conference. i thought it went really well, and the spirit was really strong the whole time.sadly i didnt get any mail though... hmm wonder what thats all about...
umm other than that we have had some great coupole of days. we had a cool miracle. we wanted to do a little exchange with the Elders from lausanne(they wanted to do it with us) because they are teaching some spanish speaking investigators that live in our ward boundaries. so they wanted to get a little integration going and all that. but they said, but after that we have to change back right away at 4h30. but i was like well what happens when we get let in at 4h25? so we decided to just make the exchange a little longer which was good. now we met at like 4h00, changed companions and then at like 4h25 we were only like a block away from where they were. and we werent porting or anything, BUT at about 4h45 we got let in porting and taught a couple the restoration which was way cool.
during zone conference we talked a little about how our the lord grants unto men according to their desires. well since then i've seen so many scriptures and things that talk about desires and all that so i set this goal, and i'm sticking to it, doing everything that i can. and so far, the lord is blessing us enormously. its cool.
umm then yesterday we did an exchange in Fribourg and sadly i didnt take my camera because it is a really cool city. anyways i went with elder Walton who is from Denver, and well it was pretty good. some of our plans didnt work out exactly but we still have good oppurtunities to teach, to find and all that so it was a good overall exchange.
umm...i think thats about it for me. umm lets see if anyone asked questions?
NOpE i'M dOnE
Love YOu
ELder LaWS
Well, this week was good. it was good.
On wednesday we went to the ping pong museum with a couple other missionaries. it was fun, its pretty cool too. Then! the greatest thing ever! we played basketball! yay! oh man... it was sooo nice. i felt right at home... it was good. i cant say anything else... haha it was good. nice weather. no wind... playing basketball. it was perfect.
Then on thursday we had Zone Conference. i thought it went really well, and the spirit was really strong the whole time.sadly i didnt get any mail though... hmm wonder what thats all about...
umm other than that we have had some great coupole of days. we had a cool miracle. we wanted to do a little exchange with the Elders from lausanne(they wanted to do it with us) because they are teaching some spanish speaking investigators that live in our ward boundaries. so they wanted to get a little integration going and all that. but they said, but after that we have to change back right away at 4h30. but i was like well what happens when we get let in at 4h25? so we decided to just make the exchange a little longer which was good. now we met at like 4h00, changed companions and then at like 4h25 we were only like a block away from where they were. and we werent porting or anything, BUT at about 4h45 we got let in porting and taught a couple the restoration which was way cool.
during zone conference we talked a little about how our the lord grants unto men according to their desires. well since then i've seen so many scriptures and things that talk about desires and all that so i set this goal, and i'm sticking to it, doing everything that i can. and so far, the lord is blessing us enormously. its cool.
umm then yesterday we did an exchange in Fribourg and sadly i didnt take my camera because it is a really cool city. anyways i went with elder Walton who is from Denver, and well it was pretty good. some of our plans didnt work out exactly but we still have good oppurtunities to teach, to find and all that so it was a good overall exchange.
umm...i think thats about it for me. umm lets see if anyone asked questions?
NOpE i'M dOnE
Love YOu
ELder LaWS
Wednesday, February 3, 2010
Feb. 03, 2010
Hey!
How is everyone doing?
Its been a pretty good week. we've had a lot of fun! the end...
no i'm just kidding.
So actually let's see. this week has been a little weird because we seem to have been late to EVERYTHING.... kind of annoying if you ask me. i guess we need to work on our planning or something but it's been ok.. we've been working with a lot of members and trying to help them get into the missionary spirit which has been very successful.
We went and ate with this older lady and a younger recent convert and she is really cool (and cooks good) so it was great. the recent convert is a younger guy from the Ivory Coast. its funny because everyone's getting excited for the world cup.. and the ivory coast made it in so he's excited. elder Zarate is the most excited of all i think and its not for a couple months and he wont even be able to watch it! thats ok though because i told him i'd watch a couple games for him :P.
other than seeing members we have a couple of amis that are pretty cool. One is this guy that is from bern (speaks like 5 languages perfectly...including english). I dont know why but everyone speaks english here (a lot of people) so i have to keep on top of the french or it will disappear! (not really but that would be sad.) anyways this guy is way way intellectual and anyways its good. then like a couple of people we are working with have already seen the missionaries before and were pretty close to being baptized which is cool because they still have good feelings towards the church and we're looking forward to working with them.
Yesterday we went on an Exchange with the elders from Dijon. They came here and i went with elder Ellis. He is like 6'5" and it was funny because everyone was like scared when they opened the door, and the members that we saw were like...YOU ARE HUGE!!! and stuff like that. it was funny. and fun because he's a way good sport and a cool elder.
we had a great exchange and actually it was the best exchange that elder Ellis has had on his mission i guess. so i was pretty happy. other than that tomorrow is zone conference so we've been working on what we are supposed to teach and like hopeing it goes well.
and thats about it for me i guess thanks for all your emails!
lets see if there are any questions...
well i'd rather not talk about school stuff but... i dont really remember what schools i applied for, i know i got accepted to SUU and BYU. umm oh and to get scholarships for BYU you have to apply for them i believe... also uhh... i wouldnt mind going to a school in idaho if i get a scholarship, boise state would be cool. but thats the only one i would want to (good football team!) oh sorry they didnt have any kleenex for you Kesh. thats too bad...
i dunno how alma knows about the questions that coriantumr has... very likely that it was the gift of discernment though.. or the spirit. (he was pretty good that alma guy...)
i'm good!
you can let me know what happens in the super bowl... :P
(this is me answering questions if you dont remember...in case you were lost)
oh this one isnt a question but i hear that bien venue chez les ch'tis is a pretty good movie...of course the jokes will be in french... so that would be hard but if you want you should check it out...
ok no more questions! love you have a great week!
Elder Laws
How is everyone doing?
Its been a pretty good week. we've had a lot of fun! the end...
no i'm just kidding.
So actually let's see. this week has been a little weird because we seem to have been late to EVERYTHING.... kind of annoying if you ask me. i guess we need to work on our planning or something but it's been ok.. we've been working with a lot of members and trying to help them get into the missionary spirit which has been very successful.
We went and ate with this older lady and a younger recent convert and she is really cool (and cooks good) so it was great. the recent convert is a younger guy from the Ivory Coast. its funny because everyone's getting excited for the world cup.. and the ivory coast made it in so he's excited. elder Zarate is the most excited of all i think and its not for a couple months and he wont even be able to watch it! thats ok though because i told him i'd watch a couple games for him :P.
other than seeing members we have a couple of amis that are pretty cool. One is this guy that is from bern (speaks like 5 languages perfectly...including english). I dont know why but everyone speaks english here (a lot of people) so i have to keep on top of the french or it will disappear! (not really but that would be sad.) anyways this guy is way way intellectual and anyways its good. then like a couple of people we are working with have already seen the missionaries before and were pretty close to being baptized which is cool because they still have good feelings towards the church and we're looking forward to working with them.
Yesterday we went on an Exchange with the elders from Dijon. They came here and i went with elder Ellis. He is like 6'5" and it was funny because everyone was like scared when they opened the door, and the members that we saw were like...YOU ARE HUGE!!! and stuff like that. it was funny. and fun because he's a way good sport and a cool elder.
we had a great exchange and actually it was the best exchange that elder Ellis has had on his mission i guess. so i was pretty happy. other than that tomorrow is zone conference so we've been working on what we are supposed to teach and like hopeing it goes well.
and thats about it for me i guess thanks for all your emails!
lets see if there are any questions...
well i'd rather not talk about school stuff but... i dont really remember what schools i applied for, i know i got accepted to SUU and BYU. umm oh and to get scholarships for BYU you have to apply for them i believe... also uhh... i wouldnt mind going to a school in idaho if i get a scholarship, boise state would be cool. but thats the only one i would want to (good football team!) oh sorry they didnt have any kleenex for you Kesh. thats too bad...
i dunno how alma knows about the questions that coriantumr has... very likely that it was the gift of discernment though.. or the spirit. (he was pretty good that alma guy...)
i'm good!
you can let me know what happens in the super bowl... :P
(this is me answering questions if you dont remember...in case you were lost)
oh this one isnt a question but i hear that bien venue chez les ch'tis is a pretty good movie...of course the jokes will be in french... so that would be hard but if you want you should check it out...
ok no more questions! love you have a great week!
Elder Laws
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