May 27th, 2014

Well I said I would email on Wednesday but we had a couple appointments fall through so we decided to email today instead. So Elder Wyllie and I are doing great together. We were able to teach a lot of people last week. Not all of them said we could come back but we are trying to work harder at talking to everyone and at least sharing a short message or scripture with them instead of trying to just set up appointments without a message that usually fall through. We have been able to see a lot of success come of it. We have been able to set 2 baptismal dates together and we are currently working on setting many more. The current baptismal dates that we have are for a guy in the Westhill Ward by the name of Joe Goyen. The other is in the Templeview Ward by the name of Casey Forkenbrock. They both have a current baptismal date for June 21st, 2014. We are praying that they will continue to progress and that we will be able to continue to meet with them and that their desire to learn more and that their testimony will continue to be strengthened. This week we will be having Zone Conference on Thursday, May 27th, and these are always really fun and have some great trainings. The only downside to Zone Conference is that it is from 8:30am-4pm so we get to sit in a chapel almost all day so it can be very tiring sometimes. Memorial Day was just another regular p-day for us. Which means we do our normal morning schedule routine and then from 10am-6pm we have free time to do emails, shopping, and zone activities (usually sports). The tree stumps were finally removed and taken to the dump after a lot of digging, axing, chain sawing, and truck pulling. That was quite the adventure but it was a lot of fun. So we have been biking a lot now that the weather is nicer and Wyllie found a bike that was left at the transfer site (the church building that we meet at during transfers). So far we have done around 40 miles together but unfortunately Wyllie will be losing his bike because the bike that Wyllie found belongs to another missionary. So he will be losing the bike on Thursday and then we will be back to walking. Um.....I believe that is all that has happened in the past week. It was a pretty eventful week and we are hoping for an even more eventful week full of teaching and sharing a message with everyone. I love y'all very much and hope y'all have another great week!!

May 19th, 2014

¿Hola como esta? Well this week has been super fun. Elder Wyllie and I have been doing quite a bit of service in the mornings and after noon for a lady by the name of Casey Forkenbrock and she is one of our investigators in the Temple View Ward and she has a lot potential. We are helping her to take out a couple of tree stumps and there is a picture below with us (Elder Wyllie, Curtis, Sherlock, and Araya) around the smaller of the 2 stumps. We were able to get that one out in around 3 hrs but we are currently still working on the much bigger stump. We have been able to teach Casey once and went over the restoration and she was really receptive and open. On saturday I was able to go out with Amanda and Mary and that was a lot of fun to be able to go out to lunch with them! We went to Olive Garden and have a great meal and be able to catch up on what all is going on in the outside world. Oh and unfortunately I found out last night that I still have high blood pressure and so I will have to call the mission doctor soon to find out what I need to do or who I need to go see. Elder Wyllie and I have some pretty high goals that we have set for the coming week that we both feel like if we buckle down and work hard that we will be able to achieve these goals that we have set. This area has a lot of people and a lot of potential for missionary work. Our hardest part is just catching people home for our scheduled appointments but we are going start a new tactic and start teaching wherever and whoever is home. Well I better go now but I hope y'all are all reading Preach My Gospel and follow that advice that we received at General Conference. I love y'all very much and hope y'all have a great week!!

P.S. - Here are a couple pictures. One is a picture of a service project that we are doing for one of our investigators. The other is a picture with my new companion Elder Wyllie.

May 5, 2014

Well Sorry I don't have a lot of time mainly because Elder Tovar is leaving today and we have to be ready to drop him off at 1ish and we still have some errands to run. Not a lot happened this week. We mostly spent time going and setting up appointments for this coming week and saying goodbye since he is going home. My new companion will not be Elder Badoni but it will be an Elder that came out with Elder Hernandez. I don't know anything about him yet but I will know moreon Wednesday we he comes up. Well I better go so Elder Tovar can finish getting ready to go home. I love y'all very much and look forward to Skyping and phone calls on Mother's Day!!

P.S. - Here are a couple of pictures from the shirt burning.

 

Pictures

James and Elder Badoni

Jake, Justin,Geoff, and James (I hope those are in the right order says Amanda)

James and Elder Tovar