tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4118450241683431632024-03-14T09:44:57.159-07:00OUR MISSIONARIESWhat a blessing it is to have 3 children serving as missionaries for the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints.This blog is where we will post their updates as we receive them.<p>
Matthew's email address: matthew.lebaron@myldsmail.net
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Letters/Packages for Matthew: 614 W Foothill Blvd,Arcadia,CA 91006
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Sarah's email address:
sarah.e.johnson@myldsmail.net
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Letters/Packages for Sarah: Washington Spokane Mission, 820 S Pines Rd # 101, Spokane Valley,WA 99206</p></p></p></p>(Let's) Go Fly A Kitehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15975482299041466181noreply@blogger.comBlogger153125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-411845024168343163.post-80413196115519633222018-04-09T13:28:00.000-07:002018-04-09T13:36:09.975-07:00ELDER MATT LEBARON - 3/26 - Boyle heights is the place to be<div class="nH aHU" style="position: relative;">
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">So this week has been pretty good it’s flown by! I am staying in the</span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: #783f04; color: #f1c232; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">area but got a new companion, Elder boulette. Me and him get a long</span><br />
<span style="background-color: #783f04; color: #f1c232; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">pretty well together and I think he will be my last companion since I</span><br />
<span style="background-color: #783f04; color: #f1c232; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">only have once transfer after this one is done. We have a visa</span><br />
<span style="background-color: #783f04; color: #f1c232; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">missionary in our apartment so now we have 5 people, I guess you can’t</span><br />
<span style="background-color: #783f04; color: #f1c232; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">beat 6 though haha.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">I’ve been slacking on the emails, Time is flying by so fast. It feels</span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: #783f04; color: #f1c232; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">like I was just with Elder Hansen, we were together 3 months and now</span><br />
<span style="background-color: #783f04; color: #f1c232; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">he’s in my first area, the Glendora 3rd Ward. I had a lot of fun with</span><br />
<span style="background-color: #783f04; color: #f1c232; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">him, so I wanted to sum up our last week together, I hope you’re ready</span><br />
<span style="background-color: #783f04; color: #f1c232; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">to take a nice little seat for this story. Nothing but exciting things</span><br />
<span style="background-color: #783f04; color: #f1c232; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">happen in East L.A reader discretion advised, haha just kidding it’s</span><br />
<span style="background-color: #783f04; color: #f1c232; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">not that bad. ;)</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">on Tuesday we went to East L.A, which we go to a lot lately. We were</span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: #783f04; color: #f1c232; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">riding the bus and this kid sitting next to us had a book titled “how</span><br />
<span style="background-color: #783f04; color: #f1c232; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">to better understand the Bible” so of course we struck a conversation</span><br />
<span style="background-color: #783f04; color: #f1c232; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">with him. He was really knowledgeable about the scriptures and even</span><br />
<span style="background-color: #783f04; color: #f1c232; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">started quoting scriptures at us about the structure of the church and</span><br />
<span style="background-color: #783f04; color: #f1c232; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">priesthood authority and all sorts of stuff. He said he was only 16,</span><br />
<span style="background-color: #783f04; color: #f1c232; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">and I was honestly pretty impressed like... when I was that age, I did</span><br />
<span style="background-color: #783f04; color: #f1c232; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">not care about the Bible, honestly still not too fond of the Bible</span><br />
<span style="background-color: #783f04; color: #f1c232; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">especially the Old Testament. 😂 so pretty much what happened was he</span><br />
<span style="background-color: #783f04; color: #f1c232; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">kept switching busses and so we followed him and talking to him, I was</span><br />
<span style="background-color: #783f04; color: #f1c232; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">pretty determined to pick him up as an investigator, and so we did. I</span><br />
<span style="background-color: #783f04; color: #f1c232; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">was worried that I was going to run out of tap money because I was</span><br />
<span style="background-color: #783f04; color: #f1c232; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">pretty low, and we ended up in the middle of L.A probably outside of</span><br />
<span style="background-color: #783f04; color: #f1c232; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">the mission riding the bus with this guy. The follow up appointment</span><br />
<span style="background-color: #783f04; color: #f1c232; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">sucked, I was on exchanges and Hansen doesn’t know how to talk to</span><br />
<span style="background-color: #783f04; color: #f1c232; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">people. The kid just looked up scriptures on google about how we can’t</span><br />
<span style="background-color: #783f04; color: #f1c232; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">be Gods and how there is errors in the Book of Mormon, pretty much</span><br />
<span style="background-color: #783f04; color: #f1c232; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">just a bunch of scriptures that don’t make any sense, taken out of</span><br />
<span style="background-color: #783f04; color: #f1c232; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">context. So whatever Eric. I’m just sick of trying to convince people,</span><br />
<span style="background-color: #783f04; color: #f1c232; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">it just seems like no one will just take the challenge of just reading</span><br />
<span style="background-color: #783f04; color: #f1c232; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">and praying. That’s how the last 2 transfers have felt, just trying to</span><br />
<span style="background-color: #783f04; color: #f1c232; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">convince people, it’s been pretty slow. Haha</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">I’m sorry this email might come across as negative, but I don’t know</span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: #783f04; color: #f1c232; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">how else to present these stories. 😂 this week we had another</span><br />
<span style="background-color: #783f04; color: #f1c232; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">incident of a crazy person on public transportation. East L.A is a</span><br />
<span style="background-color: #783f04; color: #f1c232; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">place where you don’t really feel all that comfortable, especially in</span><br />
<span style="background-color: #783f04; color: #f1c232; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">Boyle heights. I think the most terrifying thing to me is all the</span><br />
<span style="background-color: #783f04; color: #f1c232; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">homeless people that are on drugs and crazy. There was this guy on the</span><br />
<span style="background-color: #783f04; color: #f1c232; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">train when we walked in and he was facing the aisle sitting sideways</span><br />
<span style="background-color: #783f04; color: #f1c232; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">in the seats with his hood over his head. He was talking to himself,</span><br />
<span style="background-color: #783f04; color: #f1c232; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">so instantly I start heading to the back of the bus. I turn around and</span><br />
<span style="background-color: #783f04; color: #f1c232; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">Elder Hansen is about to sit right next to him, like STOP! I am not</span><br />
<span style="background-color: #783f04; color: #f1c232; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">sitting next to that guy. This is all non verbal body language</span><br />
<span style="background-color: #783f04; color: #f1c232; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">because I don’t want to engage this crazy guy and I get Elder Hansen</span><br />
<span style="background-color: #783f04; color: #f1c232; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">to at least sit across from him on the other side of the aisle, but it</span><br />
<span style="background-color: #783f04; color: #f1c232; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">still puts us in a spot where the guy is just staring us down. Elder</span><br />
<span style="background-color: #783f04; color: #f1c232; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">Hansen seemed annoyed that I made him change spots, not fully aware of</span><br />
<span style="background-color: #783f04; color: #f1c232; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">what’s going on. We sit down and I whisper to him “hey let’s go sit in</span><br />
<span style="background-color: #783f04; color: #f1c232; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">the back of the train” With a confused face he responds “what?” A</span><br />
<span style="background-color: #783f04; color: #f1c232; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">little louder “Elder let’s go sit in the back?” He face scrunches a</span><br />
<span style="background-color: #783f04; color: #f1c232; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">little more in confusion “what??” Feeling a little frustrated I</span><br />
<span style="background-color: #783f04; color: #f1c232; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">respond “ let’s sit back there!” Pointing to the back of the train</span><br />
<span style="background-color: #783f04; color: #f1c232; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">cart “ what are you talking about?” Ugh okay whatever, haha I just</span><br />
<span style="background-color: #783f04; color: #f1c232; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">accept it. Who cares, we are going to sit next to this crazy guy</span><br />
<span style="background-color: #783f04; color: #f1c232; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">talking to himself saying the craziest things. Elder Hansen is still</span><br />
<span style="background-color: #783f04; color: #f1c232; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">oblivious to the situation totally zoned out, he probably thought the</span><br />
<span style="background-color: #783f04; color: #f1c232; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">guy was on his phone, but I don’t think he was listening to what he</span><br />
<span style="background-color: #783f04; color: #f1c232; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">was saying. “You can’t kill my brother, he’s a motherf*******</span><br />
<span style="background-color: #783f04; color: #f1c232; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">vampire!” This is really a losing situation for me because I’m on the</span><br />
<span style="background-color: #783f04; color: #f1c232; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">outside seat. Why don’t I just get up and move to the back, right?</span><br />
<span style="background-color: #783f04; color: #f1c232; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">Seems like a simple solution, but I’ve tried that with crazy people</span><br />
<span style="background-color: #783f04; color: #f1c232; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">here, and they follow us! It’s like I can’t get a break. This guys is</span><br />
<span style="background-color: #783f04; color: #f1c232; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">starting to get louder and louder, saying terribly vulgar things that</span><br />
<span style="background-color: #783f04; color: #f1c232; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">literally don’t make any sense.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">At this point Elder Hansen looks at me a little concerned, finally</span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: #783f04; color: #f1c232; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">realizing the situation. I don’t even look at him I just keep looking</span><br />
<span style="background-color: #783f04; color: #f1c232; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">out the window, I’m not going to engage this guy. Obviously all the</span><br />
<span style="background-color: #783f04; color: #f1c232; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">things he’s saying is directed towards us, some how I thought that</span><br />
<span style="background-color: #783f04; color: #f1c232; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">this situation was just going to defuse itself, just be calm . Now the</span><br />
<span style="background-color: #783f04; color: #f1c232; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">guy is screaming at us, “hey you faggot murderers! You want to f******</span><br />
<span style="background-color: #783f04; color: #f1c232; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">fight?! Hey shut up! Shut your F****** mouth, I’ll kill you” so this</span><br />
<span style="background-color: #783f04; color: #f1c232; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">is a little disconcerting to me at this point. I’m a little worried to</span><br />
<span style="background-color: #783f04; color: #f1c232; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">what’s going to happen, since crazy people are so unpredictable. He</span><br />
<span style="background-color: #783f04; color: #f1c232; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">threw a pen trying to hit Elder Hansen, it flew past his face and</span><br />
<span style="background-color: #783f04; color: #f1c232; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">smacked into the window. Elder Hansen picked up the pen and with</span><br />
<span style="background-color: #783f04; color: #f1c232; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">frustration looks at our crazy guy with the expression of “what are</span><br />
<span style="background-color: #783f04; color: #f1c232; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">you doing” on his face, with his hands up. I shoot Hansen a glare,</span><br />
<span style="background-color: #783f04; color: #f1c232; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">like don’t you dare intensify this situation. The guy yells some other</span><br />
<span style="background-color: #783f04; color: #f1c232; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">threatening and sits down. He’s quite for a moment and then says “</span><br />
<span style="background-color: #783f04; color: #f1c232; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">look I’m sorry, I’m sorry I threw the pen” and then the train stops</span><br />
<span style="background-color: #783f04; color: #f1c232; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">and people flood in. Finally! More people! This might be a bad</span><br />
<span style="background-color: #783f04; color: #f1c232; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">situation but at least we won’t be the only people on the train. He</span><br />
<span style="background-color: #783f04; color: #f1c232; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">seems to quiet down and I think that it’s over, he just keeps mumbles</span><br />
<span style="background-color: #783f04; color: #f1c232; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">crazy, vulgar things to himself. Out of no where he screams at the top</span><br />
<span style="background-color: #783f04; color: #f1c232; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">of his lungs “IM NOT SORRY” and everyone on the train gasps out of</span><br />
<span style="background-color: #783f04; color: #f1c232; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">shock, everything gets eerily silent. There are a few more details,</span><br />
<span style="background-color: #783f04; color: #f1c232; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">but for the sake of time and your attention span I’ll cut to the most</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">One thing leads to another and now this guy is grabbing a support pole</span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: #783f04; color: #f1c232; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">along the side of a seat and shaking it as hard as he can screaming.</span><br />
<span style="background-color: #783f04; color: #f1c232; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">He then runs to the pole closest to us and starts doing the same</span><br />
<span style="background-color: #783f04; color: #f1c232; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">thing, he runs to the back of the train and sprints up to the front</span><br />
<span style="background-color: #783f04; color: #f1c232; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">just yelling nonsense. An older lady stands up pointing her finger at</span><br />
<span style="background-color: #783f04; color: #f1c232; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">this guy and yells “STOP IT STOP IT!” Obviously this situation is</span><br />
<span style="background-color: #783f04; color: #f1c232; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">growing increasingly out of control. He starts to point at random</span><br />
<span style="background-color: #783f04; color: #f1c232; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">people including myself “ you feel unsafe?! You feel unsafe right</span><br />
<span style="background-color: #783f04; color: #f1c232; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">now?!” Like freaking yes ! I feel unsafe as hell right now! The man</span><br />
<span style="background-color: #783f04; color: #f1c232; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">starts to scream, “They can’t contain me! Get me off this train! He</span><br />
<span style="background-color: #783f04; color: #f1c232; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">runs to the train door and pulls the emergency door latch as the train</span><br />
<span style="background-color: #783f04; color: #f1c232; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">is going full speed down the tracks. An alarm sounds and the trains</span><br />
<span style="background-color: #783f04; color: #f1c232; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">begins to stop. He starts kicking the door holding onto the side poles</span><br />
<span style="background-color: #783f04; color: #f1c232; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">putting his full body weight into it. The door slightly buckles under</span><br />
<span style="background-color: #783f04; color: #f1c232; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">the force and a crack appears at the top of the door. He reached his</span><br />
<span style="background-color: #783f04; color: #f1c232; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">fingers between and frantically tried to pull apart the doors. After</span><br />
<span style="background-color: #783f04; color: #f1c232; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">about 10 seconds the doors began to slide open. While the train still</span><br />
<span style="background-color: #783f04; color: #f1c232; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">moving, probably 5 miles an hour at this point. Our boy leaps from the</span><br />
<span style="background-color: #783f04; color: #f1c232; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">train and starts sprinting down the track. I felt relief at this</span><br />
<span style="background-color: #783f04; color: #f1c232; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">point, finally he’s gone! It was probably the longest 20 minutes of my</span><br />
<span style="background-color: #783f04; color: #f1c232; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">life. The whole metro got held up for 30 minutes because the train</span><br />
<span style="background-color: #783f04; color: #f1c232; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">door was broken. Our train was stuck on the tracks along with all the</span><br />
<span style="background-color: #783f04; color: #f1c232; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">other trains going our direction. They had to get a train technician</span><br />
<span style="background-color: #783f04; color: #f1c232; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">to come and fix it... man that was a long day. To sum up the story I’m</span><br />
<span style="background-color: #783f04; color: #f1c232; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">find everyone on the train is fine, it was just a Wild experience with</span><br />
<span style="background-color: #783f04; color: #f1c232; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">a roller coaster of emotions. To say the least I never want to ride</span><br />
<span style="background-color: #783f04; color: #f1c232; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">public transportation again. This is probably the 5th or 6th bad</span><br />
<span style="background-color: #783f04; color: #f1c232; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">experience I’ve had. So excited to have a car. 😂</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">I love all you guys, thanks for all the love and support you give me,</span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: #783f04; color: #f1c232; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">I love my mission it has shaped me into something amazing and I am so</span><br />
<span style="background-color: #783f04; color: #f1c232; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">grateful to the Lord for being able to have this time to grow, as</span><br />
<span style="background-color: #783f04; color: #f1c232; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">Imperfect as I am he still blesses me and has helped me through this</span><br />
<span style="background-color: #783f04; color: #f1c232; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">mission and will continue to do so the next 2 and a half months.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">Elder LeBaron</span></span><br />
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It
is so bittersweet. I've heard so many missionaries say that before, and
I always felt like they didn't give enough description. But now that
I'm staring the end of my mission right in the eyes, bittersweet is the
only word I have. I've never been so excited for the end of something,
and so sad to be leaving too. I have wanted to cry all day, but also
laugh and pack and get going. </div>
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This week was simultaneously the worst and the best, but I'll just talk about the good stuff. :) </div>
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I've
been doing really good at not eating sugar so much! When the hermanas
wanted ice cream the other day, and tried to convince me to just get
whatever I wanted, I went with the sugar free flavors, because I'm
committed dangit. And when the hermanas pulled out a box of thin mints,
and told me to "live a little" because it's the end of my mission, I
said "No! I'll eat thin mints at home, I'm committed!" It's been hard,
but I"m so proud of myself haha. </div>
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Well, we just decided that
today we want to go to Latah, because there are sweet places to take
pictures there, and it's way better than doing boring stuff here in
Spokane Valley, like shopping and cleaning. So..... this email is
short. </div>
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But I have an important announcement! </div>
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<b><span style="color: red;">My homecoming talk will be on the <span class="aBn" data-term="goog_278207709" tabindex="0"><span class="aQJ">18th of March</span></span> (yes, one day after I fly home. It's awesome) The address is <span style="font-family: "open sans" , "verdana" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"><a href="https://maps.google.com/?q=1455+North+Harris+Drive%C2%A0+MESA+,+%C2%A0+Arizona+%C2%A0+85203&entry=gmail&source=g">1455 North Harris Drive </a></span><span class="m_-5934472347834721332gmail-address__city m_-5934472347834721332gmail-ng-binding m_-5934472347834721332gmail-ng-scope" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "open sans" , "verdana" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"><a href="https://maps.google.com/?q=1455+North+Harris+Drive%C2%A0+MESA+,+%C2%A0+Arizona+%C2%A0+85203&entry=gmail&source=g">MESA</a><span class="m_-5934472347834721332gmail-address__separator m_-5934472347834721332gmail-ng-scope" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><a href="https://maps.google.com/?q=1455+North+Harris+Drive%C2%A0+MESA+,+%C2%A0+Arizona+%C2%A0+85203&entry=gmail&source=g">,</a><a href="https://maps.google.com/?q=1455+North+Harris+Drive%C2%A0+MESA+,+%C2%A0+Arizona+%C2%A0+85203&entry=gmail&source=g"> </a></span></span><span style="background-color: white; display: inline; float: none; font-family: "open sans" , "verdana" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"></span><span class="m_-5934472347834721332gmail-address__state m_-5934472347834721332gmail-ng-binding m_-5934472347834721332gmail-ng-scope" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "open sans" , "verdana" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"><a href="https://maps.google.com/?q=1455+North+Harris+Drive%C2%A0+MESA+,+%C2%A0+Arizona+%C2%A0+85203&entry=gmail&source=g">Arizona</a></span><span style="background-color: white; display: inline; float: none; font-family: "open sans" , "verdana" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"><a href="https://maps.google.com/?q=1455+North+Harris+Drive%C2%A0+MESA+,+%C2%A0+Arizona+%C2%A0+85203&entry=gmail&source=g"> </a></span><span class="m_-5934472347834721332gmail-address__zip m_-5934472347834721332gmail-ng-binding m_-5934472347834721332gmail-ng-scope" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "open sans" , "verdana" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"><a href="https://maps.google.com/?q=1455+North+Harris+Drive%C2%A0+MESA+,+%C2%A0+Arizona+%C2%A0+85203&entry=gmail&source=g">85203</a>-<wbr></wbr>3828,</span> and
you should all be there or be square. ;) (except my cute missionary
friends, I totally understand. Go serve the Lord :) ) The meeting starts
at 11, and I have 20 minutes to talk, so get ready for some tears and
some diatribes about how awesome missions are ok? </span></b></div>
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3 pictures from the corner of Best and Mission. Because who has the best mission? We do. ;D </div>
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that we did with most of the zone. We were searching through enormous
piles of trash in a guys yard to find glass, tin, iron... anything he
could sell for recyclables. I found some cool souvenirs for Sis Cardon
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bear my testimony one last time to all of those good people. I'm gonna
miss this place for sure. (Also featuring Elder St John and Sister
Hulsey from the original St Maries-Plummer squad. Man I missed those
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Ok
I love you all! Thank you for supporting me and praying for me this
whole time! It's been one crazy run, but it's been so worth it. Here's
to the rest of my life and all the adventures it has to hold. </div>
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Peace out for the last time as a Sister missionary. </div>
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Love,</div>
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Man have I missed you all this week. It's been a long week. </div>
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best part of the week though, was we have a new little investigator!
Her name is Dakota, and she's 9 :). We taught her a quick Restoration
lesson, and she's way cute! She understood pretty well, and is really
excited to get the Children's Book of Mormon we promised her at our next
lesson (because let's be real, who doesn't like the picture book
version better? Can't beat those illustrations). AND SHE CAME TO
SACRAMENT MEETING and brought her less active mama with her. It was
awesome :). I love her already. </div>
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Also this week we played the
most intense round of marshmallow dodgeball last Monday. I am definitely
going to miss that game when I go home. All my friends better prepare
themselves for a game at home when I get my life together maybe someday,
haha. </div>
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We got to have an interview with President Dymock this
week as well. I love President and Sister Dymock so much. They just
always have the right things to say to help me keep going when things
are tough. I'm going to miss them when I go. While waiting for Sis
Cardon in her interview with President, Sister Dymock told us waiting
missionaries a story about two turkeys who learn to fly. (I think it's a
story from a conference a while back). They learn to fly and see all
these amazing sights, and their instructor really helps them and they
love flying. When the day is over, they thank the instructor, feeling so
excited about how fun their day was, and then they walk all the way
home. We discussed some reasons that we, in our lives, sometimes "walk
all the way home" after we've experience the joy of the Gospel.
Sometimes it's because our instructor leaves, sometimes it's because
flying is uncomfortable for us anyways, etc. And then she encouraged us
to remember to fly all the way home instead, and to keep practicing the
skills we learn here on a mission, even if it's uncomfortable for us
sometimes. It was so good! </div>
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Also at district meeting, we
talked about how we can use technology more in missionary work. Elder
Lofgren is a really good district leader, and he used videos to
demonstrate how the Spirit can speak to us through technology. This
particular video gave me the feels, please watch it:</div>
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Oh!
I got to bear my testimony at sacrament meeting yesterday in the
Bowdish ward. I talked about how when I first got here, I thought things
would be fine, it was warm enough and the weather was nice. But then it
started to snow and I was so unprepared and terrified of being cold.
And then it snowed forever. And all everyone kept saying was that my
"blood would thicken" and I'd be fine. I did not believe them, that
sounded ridiculous! So I bundled up and glared at the clouds every day.
But then one day came along in the middle of the winter that it hit 50
degrees. Back home, 50 degrees is freezing, and you wear gloves and a
coat and drink hot chocolate and sit inside all day, right? That day
though, I took my coat off and wore just my long sleeved shirt, and
realized that my blood did really thicken. What once was unbearable and
horrible to me, had suddenly become something I could handle. I realized
that most of life is like that. Rarely do we ever feel ready, or
adequate to handle the crazy challenges presented to us. We look ahead
and think we'll never make it, even though everyone around us tells us
things will work out and you'll be fine. But every time we turn to our
Savior and ask for His help, and then do what we can and give all we
have to overcome that challenge, He helps our spiritual "blood" to
thicken. And then things just work out. :) He always takes whatever we
have, and makes it enough. And I think that is so incredible. Kind of
like when Jesus had the 5 loaves and the 2 fishes. He takes everything
we have to give, and somehow, our blood really does thicken, and we not
only survive, but we survive with grace and happiness to accompany us. </div>
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Also
Sister Douglas went on exchanges with the hermanas, and it was a blast.
The only pictures I have for myself this week are from our spa party.
Did I tell you I love face masks? I love face masks. And so does Sis
Douglas, so that's what we did. Haha best day ever. </div>
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It's been one more week on this crazy adventure. I only really have
2 more full weeks of missionary work, and then I'll be a regular
civilian again. We're getting close, people! Get ready for this Sister
to be an adult someday! ;D </div>
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Mostly this week..... was basic I guess? Not a lot is sticking out as especially fantastic. </div>
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Oh!
The hermanas moved in with us, and I love them so much. Hermana Mallett
and Hermana Wood are super cute and they help keep the kitchen pretty
clean, so that rocks. And we have fun talking after our long days of
work. Hermana Mallett thinks I'm particularly funny, so we get along
great. And she's always quick to comment on how great I look in face
maks (which it turns out are super fun to put on, regardless of if it's
really helping my face or not). </div>
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Oh Friday was really great!
We got to go and sing a song to a senior missionary couple whose mission
just ended over the weekend (but they live here in this stake, so it's
ok because I'll still see them). Another elderly sister from the office
had a friend rewrite the lyrics to "Popcorn Popping". It went something
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<i>I looked out the window and what did I see?</i></div>
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<i>Vacuums, lamps and pans and mattresses</i></div>
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<i>I went to the ER and what did I see?</i></div>
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<i>Sister McFarlane right there next to me</i></div>
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that just so cute? I love the McFarlanes. Sis McFarlane is the mission
nurse who took such good care of me when I had to go home. I want to be
her best friend. (Also she really does make stellar food.) </div>
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After
we sang to them we got to go to District meeting. And after district
meeting, the whole zone got together for lunch. Sister Banks and Sister
McFarlane made it for us, and it was the best chicken tortilla soup and
rolls ever. I just love those ladies!! </div>
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Hm... oh it snowed a
lot the other day and I almost got stuck in a retention ditch. But never
fear, this Arizona girl knows where the AWD button is, and was not
phased by the wicked white death! (Also I have waaaaaaay too much pride
to call the elders and ask for help digging us out. I'd go to almost any
length to just get unstuck by myself haha) </div>
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Well, the only
other fantastic thing from this week was last pday, where we got to play
volleyball with the Spokane Valley zone, and I got to see Sister Blake
again :). Also we taught the elders ballet, and it was pretty fantastic
actually. Elder Stewart is actually pretty good at it. The others try
real hard haha. </div>
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Otherwise that's pretty much it! I love you all! Keep smiling :) </div>
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turns out Android phones have "Easter eggs" to find. One of them is
this weird kind of cat app? Like it's not technically a game. But you
put "food" in a "dish" in your settings, and cats start showing up, and
you can name them? Like Pokemon go.... but not? Because you literally
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It's been another week! </div>
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Last week we
played a fantastic round of volleyball on Pday. It was so fun to not
even hesitate or worry about jumping and running and ducking and things.
I think I'm back to 100% since my surgery, and that is just the coolest
thing! </div>
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This week we also got a lot of snow off and on, and
I'm over it. The problem with Spokane snow.... is that it snows, turns
to slush, and then freezes that way, and permanently glazes all the
roads. I'm glad I have some rubber muck boots I bought, because they
have fantastic traction. I haven't fallen yet.... but we did have a
fantastically frightening drift around a corner the other day that
looked clear of ice.... but was apparently not. Good thing I practiced
handling the car in snow and ice last winter in Moscow.... haha. ;) </div>
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We
also got to have Zone Conference with President and Sister Dymock this
week. It was way cool! President again exploded our brains talking about
the Urim and Thummim, including theories of what it looks like and how
it relates to all these different parts of our culture. It's too hard to
explain over an email, but for real it's worth looking into. It was way
cool. And Sister Dymock gave us a great training on "Open Systems vs.
Closed Systems" of communication, and how in our lives we are so much
happier if we council together and are all open with each other, than if
we close down and one person just dominates direction. It was so good
:). I love zone conference so much. </div>
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OH on Tuesday, I had one
of the coolest experiences. We got to go to a lesson with a man who has
lost his testimony over time and through the really hard things he's had
to seen and go through. He told us he used to share the Gospel with all
of his friends, and saw many of them baptized, but he isn't so sure
anymore that God exists, because there's just so much horror out there.
We had a great discussion with him about the scriptures and the Holy
Ghost, and prayer.... and towards the end, I just felt like my heart
would burst over the testimony in my heart. I was able to bear a
testimony to him of the reality of God's love, and that all those things
he used to know so well, and used to feel and love, could all come back
for him. I have never felt so sure of anything in my life! But I know
that Heavenly Father is anxiously waiting for that guy, and each of us,
to reach back out to Him and ask the questions in our hearts. He'll
answer all of our concerns, if we are willing to hunt down the answers.
It was incredible, I wish words did the moment justice! </div>
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Lent
started on Wednesday, so I gave up sugar again this year. I always feel
much better about myself when I'm not eating sugar... And I've been
really good about eating fruits and vegetables too! It's such a
challenge to eat healthy sometimes, but it's empowering to know I can do
it :). </div>
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And on Friday, I was able to go on exchanges with our
STL, Sister Douglas. She is way awesome! We had so much fun talking and
getting to know each other. She's been all over the world, and maybe
someday we'll get to go on a trip together, because that would be way
sweet! I could learn a lot from that lady, I just love her. All the
same.... exchanges always make me grateful for my own companion.
Shoutout to Sister Cardon for being fantastic! It's so easy to
communicate with her, and we get good stuff done together too :). It
felt good to be able to report great things to the STL :). </div>
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Hm....
well, other than all that, this week was pretty basic. The two Spanish
hermanas are moving into our apartment today, because our apartment is
bigger I guess. It'll be an adventure. We'll get to have the Spokane
Valley zone at our Pday later though to play volleyball and dodgeball,
so that'll be awesome.</div>
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Love you all! </div>
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all the sisters in the zone. We made crepes! Sister Cardon is a pro
crepe maker, and she taught Sis Douglas how to flip them (that's Sis
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Ok here are some more pictures! These are from my exchange with Sister
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We found a castle! In the middle of
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Well it’s been another couple weeks
since I’ve written, so I bet you are all on pins and needles, eagerly
awaiting this letter. I hope it finds you well, and you are enjoying
your President days day! I unfortunately can’t poke fun and mention how
you guys are back to the grind of your regular work week while I’m on my
pday, looks like today we’re even, just keep that in mind for next
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Things have been so crazy this week, I
don’t know what’s going on but everyone is dying out here. Everyone is
falling apart, breaking their hip or foot, or having some kind of other
bodily injury that require us to give them a blessing. We’re running out
of consecrated oil here people ! No lie me and my companion have
probably given at least 15 blessings this week. That’s a record for my
mission. I’ve visited the hospital so many times, and even sisters in my
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Something
that’s funny to me about missionary work, is either there is nothing
going on and you’re trying to be productive, or there is literally not
enough time in the day to get everything done. It seems like people only
ask for help on the days you are super busy, and yet you still find
time somehow to schedule them in too. The other day we were waiting for
this guy to show up for a lesson (it ended taking up a looong time) I
just opened up area book and started calling people and we had some
lessons over the phone while we waited, and set up return appoints, we
didn’t have anything planned for that day, but believe me the work found
us. Sometimes it’s hard when you’re looking at your schedule and not
knowing how in the world you’re going to get everything to fit. So
stressful, but It’s a good problem to have, I wish it happened more
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We’ve been down to East L.A a
lot this week, and maaaan if my mission has taught me anything it’s what
I want and what I don’t. I’ve been in rich areas for a long time in my
mission and being in the ghettoes really makes me grateful for
everything that I have, I’ve had a good life. Everyone out here seems to
have such hard life situations, not to mentions some of these people
are spending so much money just to live in the ghetto, I don’t get it.
Glad I’m not going to be living in L.A when I go home, haha. What a
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Anyways
things have been going really well! I’ve actually really enjoyed being
district leader because of the interaction it gives me with other
missionaries, my whole mission I always said I never wanted to be a
district leader, but hey, I’m actually enjoying it, it’s pretty fun. Not
to mention the district leader can go into any of the areas that are in
the district, my district covers the whole zone, so it’s almost like I
have the ability of a zone leader to go where I want without question,
let’s just say Pasadena is pretty cool for meal appointments. ;) have a
good week! Love you guys! Dot be afraid to send me nice things, like
skinny floral ties, I love nice things!</div>
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Sister Hall went away.... A sister in the Ponderosa ward was a visa waiter for Zimbabwe, and she got her Visa <span class="aBn" data-term="goog_1851681401" style="border-bottom: 1px dashed rgb(204, 204, 204); position: relative; top: -2px; z-index: 0;" tabindex="0"><span class="aQJ" style="position: relative; top: 2px; z-index: -1;">on Monday</span></span> and left <span class="aBn" data-term="goog_1851681402" style="border-bottom: 1px dashed rgb(204, 204, 204); position: relative; top: -2px; z-index: 0;" tabindex="0"><span class="aQJ" style="position: relative; top: 2px; z-index: -1;">on Wednesday</span></span>! Because who wouldn't want to be in Africa asap? So Sister Hall gets to be over there in Ponderosa now. But not before we had an adventure together. Haha the elders had set up an appointment for us to go see a man named Lance that they met on a blitz last week. They'd given him a book of Mormon and he seemed super interested. But..... our members coming to the lesson found a sticky note and a book of Mormon by the guy's front door right before we showed up for the lesson.... it said "Sorry not for me". Haha I attached a picture, it's the first time I've had a book of Mormon returned to me I think?<br />
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Church was awesome yesterday! Everything was about agency and choices and it was really inspiring. One guy talked about the root word of pesticide, insecticide, herbicide, etc. Cide means to kill or terminate. And then he related it to the word Decide, and how we need to decide what we're doing, and that terminates the other options. So as we choose righteous things, it becomes easier to choose righteous things in the future, because it eliminates the wrong choices we could have made. It was a really cool idea. </div>
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Ummm..... otherwise this week was pretty basic. Schuyler came to church and that was SO GOOD! I think he loved it. Hopefully we get to see him this week, and he'll come again. :) He's seriously so awesome, I'm pumped to share the Gospel with him. </div>
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I love you all! Keep smiling, life is so good :) </div>
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-411845024168343163.post-72371620751186084822018-02-06T21:05:00.001-08:002018-02-06T21:05:24.576-08:00ELDER MATT LEBARON - 2/5 - JPLHey guys! So I wanted to at least send something your way his week!
First off I met the guy who invented the craft singles you out in your
sandwiches, he owns a ton of the company, also he’s a member too! Less
active but still a member!<br />
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This pday we got the opportunity to go to JPL
(jet propulsion laboratory’s) it’s run by cal tech, but they all work
for NASA, we got a private tour, and had the opportunity of walking into
the control center where all the space missions are operated. We saw
models of all the mars rovers, and got to see the computers that
controlled all of the different missions that are currently in
operations, so cool! They control Hubble, Kepler, and pretty much any
space operation you can think of. There is a member in one of the
Pasadena wards that works there and hooked us up. I wish you guys could
see it for your self.<br />
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Anyways have a good week guys! I’ll update you about the Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-411845024168343163.post-2081581144640040922018-02-06T20:45:00.003-08:002018-02-06T20:53:45.206-08:00SISTER SARAH JOHNSON - 2/5 - I can hardly believe it is February already,...<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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I can hardly believe it is February already, and that I have been back
on the mission for 2 whole months now! Just one month to go, and I'm
sure it's going to fly by. I blinked and this last week just disappeared
on me!<br />
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I have 2 cute new companions now. Sister Hall and Sister
Cardon and I have had a lot of fun going out and talking to people. And
of course, there has been a lot of laughter, because missions are boring
if you're not laughing. We found 2 new investigators last week!
Schuyler (pronounced Skylar) and Tony, and they are both super
promising. Schuyler especially was exciting to find though. He came to
us as a referral from a friend, and straight up in our first lesson with
him, he was all "I was reading in the Book of Mormon the other day, and
I just opened to a verse (it ended up being 3 Nephi 26:17-21) and it
talked about baptism, and I think it's a sign God wants me to be
baptized in this church". I admit, that is absolutely the first time
I've showed up for a first lesson, and someone had already been reading
the Book of Mormon, much less wanted to be baptized. WE ARE SO EXCITED
ABOUT IT. We got to teach Schuyler the Restoration of the Gospel that
day, and later on we got to share the Plan of Salvation, and it's all
just been so fun, because he's actually really into it. Pray for
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I made a transfer goal this
transfer, and it's to eat better. And I just wanted to report to you
all, that I had fruits and veggies every day in my new area. And Sister
Hall has tried everything I've made, and either I'm a pretty alright
chef, or she's a really good liar. Here's to 6 more weeks of better
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Also this week, we have made
contact with a bunch of people who used to have missionaries over, and
half of them set up appointments to see us this coming week, so that's
been awesome. It's probably been one of the most productive weeks of my
whole mission, if I'm honest. We all felt so good about our work this
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It's been kind of cool to be in this particular
tri-panionship. I've been out what, 17 months now? And Sister Cardon has
been out 6, and Sister Hall has been out about 5. They call me the
Senior companion (which I guess is accurate because sometimes I feel
like I"m 80 years old out here). But as a senior companion in my last
transfer, I've really focused a lot on what I have to offer these
sisters here from my experience as a missionary, and what I have to
offer the people here in Dishman Mica and Bowdish before I head back
home for real. It's been really inspiring and motivational, and I've
found a lot of purpose and happiness in looking at things that way. It's
made me pick out my talents as a missionary, and actually use them, and
work on my weaknesses. It's just been really cool. It's amazing to
figure out how to use the Atonement of Jesus Christ in my everyday life.
I'm not perfect at it by all means, but I think I'm starting to get it.
It's really just about developing all the good things we like in
ourselves, and slowly cutting out the things we don't really like in
ourselves. But mostly it's a focus on the good things :) because God
loves us no matter what. And when we understand that He really does love
us, we naturally want to become better. IT"S AMAZING OK. THE GOSPEL IS
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here are the three of us chilling at the family history center, because
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I have some news for you! </div>
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I am being transferred! </div>
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Back to where I came from!</div>
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And elders are taking over Grangeville! </div>
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So
I'm going to go be in a tri-panionship again, this time in the Dishman
Mica and Bowdish wards in Spokane East. My new companions will be Sister
Cardon and Sister Hall, and it's going to be one crazy adventure. I
don't know my address yet... but I'll be living literally down the
street from the mission office, so anyone who wants to send me mail, the
mission office will probably be just as fast as sending things directly
to me :). </div>
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This last week had some good highlights in it. </div>
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Monday
was a bummer because the elders all the way in Orofino had an early
dinner scheduled, so there would be no point to driving 4 hours round
trip to see them for an hour. Oh well. So we stayed home and pretty much
did nothing for pday, which was kinda nice too I guess. </div>
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We
got to finally sit down and teach Janet a lesson on Wednesday!! She and
Cowboy are our favorite people, they are just so awesome. She came to
Grangeville, and we got to share the Plan of Salvation with her. She
really liked it :). And then on Sunday after church, Cowboy came to the
regional conference broadcast with Brother Knutzen, and we got to teach
him the Plan of Salvation too! Now they're both on the same lesson. They
are literally the sweetest people. And Cowboy, without us bringing it
up, said he will get baptized into this church because the scriptures
say to, and he wants to!! The elders sweeping us out better take good
care of them, and go to Elk City all the time to see them, because I'm
going to come back and haunt them if they don't. These people are
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We actually got to go back out to Elk City on Thursday
:). I just love Elk City. If I could serve just in Elk City, I would be
so happy. The people out there are just a different kind of fantastic
from city folks. They're a trip. I love them all so much. Brother
Knutzen even fed us grilled cheese sandwiches, and Cowboy shared elk
burger with us. Everyone was just so nice. We also got to take lots of
pictures, I'll have to send some :). </div>
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Otherwise this week
consisted of a lot of Chocolate Dyno-Bites cereal, packing, cheering up
some elders, and seeing everyone to say goodbye. Grangeville is sad to
see sisters go... but we keep telling them the elders are going to be
awesome! </div>
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So here come my 14th and 15th companions in 13
transfers. Am I the crazy sister? Probably. But who doesn't like a grand
adventure, right? Maybe I'll hold the mission record for "most
companions" haha. </div>
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And of me with all the turkeys by Bro Knutzen's
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We did a puzzle over the last week, and it kept us sane. Isn't it awesome? It's 1500 pieces :D </div>
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And a picture of Jammie and Pete, some of our favorite recent converts :)) </div>
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This week absolutely ROCKED and I'm really pumped about it. Here it goes. </div>
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Monday
we got to hang out with the whole zone. It was pretty sweet. We played
some intense 4-square, and "Set me up" (which I played waaaay back in
the Moscow days of my mission). I came home with bruises everywhere, but
it's ok. Because at least it wasn't a marshmallow to the face this
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Tuesday.... well, Sister Sonenstahl got really sick,
and I didn't feel so hot either. We ate some questionable Dairy Queen
for lunch on Monday, and it was not a happy experience. So we stayed in
all day, and napped, and read the Book of Mormon, and cleaned the
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Wednesday we got to go out visiting people with our
brand new member, Sister Schellenburg! She and her new husband moved
here for an internship, and she is super super bored, so she comes with
us to stuff. Shout out goes to her for being the MVP this week. We went
to the thrift store and she drove us all the way to Craigmont for a
great lesson with our recent convert, Jeff. It was an adventurous day. </div>
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we had a great district meeting, and the zone leaders even showed up as
our special guests. I feel like the city missionaries have this air of
class, and sophistication (well, as much sophistication as 19 year old
boys can get I guess). And down here in the "up river district" we've
all kind of lost it. Like we're straight up crazy. Elder McChesney even
stuffed himself in the fridge. And while we all laughed, there was this
slight fear in the zone leaders eyes.... like they're not really sure
we're ok. Haha but it's all good, they can't really do anything about
it. We also had exchanges <span class="aBn" data-term="goog_52074048" tabindex="0"><span class="aQJ">on Friday</span></span>,
so Sister Nickle and Sister Hall came to hang out with us for the
night. Sister Nickle and I found a new investigator!! His name is
Michael, and he's 10, and from last Sunday to <span class="aBn" data-term="goog_52074049" tabindex="0"><span class="aQJ">Friday</span></span>
he had read all the way to 1 Nephi 10. His grandma and mom are members,
and it's been so fun to go over and talk to them and teach Michael. He
asks such good questions, and he likes us so that's been awesome :). </div>
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WAS THE BEST THOUGH BECAUSE WE FINALLY GOT TO GO TO ELK CITY!!! Wow it
was awesome. The Pierces took us all the way out there. It's the
furthest we can drive away from our mission home haha. I finally got to
meet our investigators, Cowboy and Janet. And Janet invited us to eat
Chinese food where she works on <span class="aBn" data-term="goog_52074051" tabindex="0"><span class="aQJ">February 2nd</span></span>.
Sister Schellenburg has offered to drive us, and I'm so excited about
that. But we did get to talk to Cowboy at dinner with a whole group of
our members out there. It was at the Doherty's house, and they basically
live in a medieval castle. The outside looks like a cottage, but it's
literally a medieval castle inside, complete with open fireplaces, no
electric heat, candelabras, bear furs, gargoyles, you name it. It's
there. It was awesome!! I'll have to send lots of pictures, but it still
doesn't do that place justice. We got to stay the night and everything,
and we almost froze haha. The dinner and the company were wonderful
though :). And Cowboy asked us what the difference between prophets and
disciples is, and we had the best conversation about it with him. He's
reading the Book of Mormon and everything, and wants to come to church
again this <span class="aBn" data-term="goog_52074052" tabindex="0"><span class="aQJ">coming Sunday</span></span> :). He's just one of the sweetest people ever, and I think he'll get baptized sooner than later. </div>
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just love Elk City, and all the people. I wish we could go live there. I
finally felt like I belong in the Grangeville ward, but it's an hour
and a half east of here..... haha. I'll definitely be going out there as
often as we can find rides (because I'm not sure I trust myself to
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prayers!! It's working, and we're going to get this place hopping. I'm
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Sister
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I don’t mean to pat myself
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This week has
been kind of slow, but it was a pretty good week! We started it out with
a zone activity last P-day. We had a BBQ and some fun games. It was the
most fun zone activity I’ve had my entire mission I think. I’m probably
in one of the coolest zones. Everybody is really relaxed and easy to
get along with. The sisters are really low maintenance which makes my
job as District leader a lot easier. We played a game called Wilson ball
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Did you know we were
going to have a baptism this week? No, well me either! Apparently the
zone leaders were teaching someone in our area and didn’t tell us,
typical, haha. The stake president found out and made them more wards so
we had their baptism in our ward. We were scrambling for a few days
trying to get everything set up. Their names a David and Shonna, they
both recently came to America from China looking for better
opportunities and freedom. David was recently baptized and had the
privilege of baptizing his wife, it was a pretty spiritual experience
that I was delighted to be apart of. I may have not been there for their
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We haven’t
done a very good job at finding this week, and it seems like everyone in
our teaching pool has either dropped us, or is ignoring us. Eh oh well.
I’m at a point in my mission where I’ve done a lot of reflection and
you just gotta roll with the punches. Up to this point, 95 percent of my
mission has been trying to find people, through long summer days, never
ending contacting, and being willing to let someone slam the door in
your face one more time. The other 5 percent I would say has been the
pure joy of working with people that are prepared to receive the gospel.
I have met and worked with people that have changed my life, and it’s
been what has made my mission a pure bliss. That 5 percent is the most
meaningful thing that I have ever experience thus far in my life, and
for that I am grateful. The mission is about laughing when it’s hard,
working through the tears, making friends with your companion and just
cracking jokes through the rejection. I’ve been feeling really grateful
for my mission lately, and even though I’m not home quite yet I’m
excited to make the most of the next some odd 4 and a half months I have
left. My sister Alyssa shared with me and reminded me of one of my
favorite quotes by Thomas S. Monson and I wanted to share it with you as
well. “Find joy in the journey now” this life we’re living is pretty
short, so make the most of what you have now. Love the people that
matter most to you a littler more, smile, laugh. Find happiness through
the trial, find peace through our savior Jesus Christ, who bore all
things for us. “Adam fell that men might be; and men are, that they
might have joy.” </div>
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tell the people you care most
for that you are grateful for them and what they do for you, most of
all, tell them they are loved by you. </div>
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hope you all can find happiness and peace in your lives today, I hope
you can feel gratitude for all the many blessings our Father in Heaven
has bestowed upon you and your family. He loves us and will forever
stretch his arms out to us. Thanks for the inspiration Alyssa. <img alt="😉" class="CToWUd" data-goomoji="1f609" src="https://mail.google.com/mail/e/1f609" style="margin: 0 0.2ex; max-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle;" /></div>
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-411845024168343163.post-44172932227445699732018-01-26T18:23:00.001-08:002018-01-26T18:26:43.440-08:00SISTER SARAH JOHNSON - 1/15 - It was a great week guys! <div>
Sister Sonenstahl and I have had so much fun talking and laughing
all the time. Man I am going to miss her when she goes... but it's ok.
Because we decided I'm going to live in her basement when I go off to
college. So we'll be real roommates, and real friends, instead of
assigned ones haha. </div>
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We had a couple of FANTASTIC lessons this
week! We got to read some of the Book of Mormon with a lady named B and
her husband Cody. They are awesome, and ask a lot of good questions. We
even got to tackle the polygamy thing, which is always an adventure.
And we had a great Plan of Salvation lesson with Pebbles and her
daughter Naomi. They are so sweet. After we finished, Naomi asked her
mom a question about spirits, and we got to watch Pebbles explain the
pre-earth life back to Naomi, and it just made my heart so full of
happiness! The Plan of Salvation is all about families and finding joy,
and in that one instant, I saw so much hope for that little family. I
love them so much. </div>
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Also this week, we got a smartphone!
Sister Sonenstahl and I ordered our own, but neither of them came in. So
since Sister Sonenstahl is going home soon, they gave her one of the
mission phones to use. We've been updating all of our old records and
information, and putting them into an online area book thing. It takes
foreverrrrr but it's been so nice to have things to do when it's dark
and cold and nobody wants to see us haha. And reading emails throughout
the week is a huge bonus, and I'm super happy about it. </div>
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got to watch President Monson's funeral with our district this last week
too. Again, the Plan of Salvation just brings so much peace. I didn't
feel sad at all that he's passed on, mostly because I just know how
happy he's got to be on the other side now. God's plan is just so good! </div>
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also decided that reading to the elderly people in the nursing home
every Friday is one of my favorite parts of the week. They're all just
so sweet to us, even if they only barely remember who we are. I love
learning all their names and shaking their hands after we read. You can
tell they just crave a little kindness and love, and that makes it so
much more rewarding to give. One lady this week even asked me all about
Joseph Smith, and asked how long I've been a Mormon. I got to bear the
shortest, tiniest testimony ever to her, and just said "I've been a
member my whole life, and I love it so much. It makes me so happy". Let
me tell you, I haven't felt so strongly about anything in a long time,
and I almost cried right there. Our testimonies don't have to be
anything eloquent or detailed for the Holy Ghost to testify to our
hearts that what we believe is so true. I love this Gospel and my Savior
Jesus Christ so much, it just makes me so happy! </div>
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we get to go to Lewiston for zone pday. Woo! We finally get to shop at
Walmart! It should be fun. We never get to see the city missionaries,
but half of them are legendary marshmallow dodgeball players, so
hopefully I don't come home with bruises. </div>
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-411845024168343163.post-48913214991146241172018-01-26T18:13:00.001-08:002018-01-26T18:13:25.564-08:00ELDER MATT LEBARON - 1/15 - Winter RainHello everyone!<br />
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It’s been another eventful week this week, all made possible again by<br />
East L.A. we started out the week with a ton of rain, luckily for us<br />
the first day it rained was on Monday, so we got to be inside for the<br />
most part, but on Tuesday it was still raining all day. We went to<br />
East Los to try and teach some lessons, but no one was home. A lot of<br />
the rain gear I had last year I wore a ton, and so I guess it’s not as<br />
waterproof as it use to be. I thought I didn’t get wet, but I was<br />
super cold the whole day. When I got home I realized that all my<br />
clothes were soaked. I changed really quick and some members picked us<br />
up for dinner and they had a fire place I sat in from of, that was<br />
super nice.<br />
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I think we finally found someone to work with. There is a girl that we<br />
picked up a week ago that is starting to progress, it’s refreshing to<br />
be able to start teaching things other than the first lesson. Some<br />
days we teach the first lesson on contact 5 to 15 times. Hopefully we<br />
will get more people to teach, but things are pretty slow around here<br />
even though there’s hundreds of people to talk to on the street.<br />
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This area is crazy man. We were riding the train back to Alhambra, and<br />
guess who sat right next to us? A drunk Jehovas witness. That was<br />
great. The guy technically wasn’t even a baptized member, but he was<br />
looking for a fight. One thing that sucks about people a missionary is<br />
people target you sometimes. I just want to ride the train back in<br />
peace is that too much to ask? People always start out by saying “you<br />
know I really respect you guys, don’t get me wrong... but!...” Most of<br />
the time on my mission when stuff like that happens I can just walk<br />
away, but we were literally cornered. He wanted me to say that Gods<br />
name was Jehovah, haha. Like come on man, I’m not going to agree with<br />
this silliness, But I kept telling him, “you know we just have to<br />
agree to disagree” things escalated and he started screaming that we<br />
were the anti Christ. We didn’t even bash with him I was just trying<br />
to ignore him. People on the train were super annoyed by this too, and<br />
a guy finally called out after him “ Hey shut up! No one wants to hear<br />
what you have to say!” That really pushed the drunk guy over the edge.<br />
Before I knew it there were metro police dragging the guy off the<br />
train. Thanks random citizen for taking the heat for that one, I<br />
thought they were going to fight for sure. A lot of the times on my<br />
mission I find myself asking, how did I get myself in this situation?<br />
Weird stuff just always happens.<br />
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Boyle heights and East L.A definitely have the most action out of all<br />
the places I’ve been before. It makes missionary work kind of<br />
exciting, I wake up and think, “I wonder what crazy person I’m going<br />
to run into today ?” It’s a cool area I like it.<br />
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This week I’ve been studying a lot about improving and always growing.<br />
The Lord really does have a lot of expectations for us. I think as a<br />
whole, most people run away from correction or chastisement. I know I<br />
do. A scripture that I really like is found in Proverbs 3: 11-13,<br />
which says:<br />
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11 My son, despise not the chastening of the Lord; neither be weary of<br />
his correction:<br />
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12 For whom the Lord loveth he correcteth; even as a father the son in<br />
whom he delighteth.<br />
13 Happy is the man that findeth wisdom, and the man that getteth understanding.<br />
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I hope to better apply this scripture in my life, and I invite all of<br />
you to do the same. I hope that you all enjoy your week, Happy Monday!<br />
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Elder LeBaronUnknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-411845024168343163.post-9238222285924450932018-01-26T18:11:00.002-08:002018-01-26T18:11:43.140-08:00SISTER SARAH JOHNSON - 1/8 - Hello my friends and family!! <div>
It's been a pretty slow week here in Grangeville... but it's ok, we had some success and there are good things ahead of us! </div>
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finally got to meet one of our investigators, Ryan, who lives in the
middle of nowhere. He seems like a really good kid, just unmotivated to
read or come to church or commit to baptism.... so.... we're working on
that. We have plans to finally go out to Elk City this week, and meet
our other 2 investigators there. That should be an adventure too! </div>
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also got to go on exchanges to Lewiston last week, and hang out with
Sister Nickle and Sister Hall. It was fun to be able to see some other
missionaries for a change. And we got to eat at Mod Pizza, which is
like Subway, but for pizza. Best place ever. And the sisters were super
nice to drive us around Lewiston and give us a pep talk about our area. </div>
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We
got to have district meeting as well, and see the other missionaries
serving way out here in the boonies. Usually during district meeting, we
do what we call "accountings" where we talk about the progress of our
investigators and ask for any help resolving concerns and stuff. But in
our meeting, we just have what we call "Sad Time", where we each stand
up, write a sad face on the board, and sit back down. Because nobody is
really teaching anyone.... except the Orofino elders. I have a story
about that!</div>
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So yesterday was fast Sunday, and Sister
Sonenstahl and I decided to fast for our district, specifically the
elders because everyone is sad and we wanted them to find people to
teach. And then last night, the Orofino elders called us to ask for our
goals for the coming week (to report to the zone leaders), and then they
said "WHAT DID YOU FAST FOR TODAY?? DID YOU FAST FOR A NEW
INVESTIGATOR?" and we were like "No, actually. We fasted for you guys
and the Kamiah elders, that you would find investigators?" and then they
were all "Dangit sisters, you're poaching our investigator!"..... turns
out their only investigator (who happens to be getting baptized this
month) is moving to Grangeville of all places. So.... well..... I guess
maybe this week we'll have someone to teach? It made us kind of sad
because that was literally the only light in Orofino. But our ward is
really good here, and maybe that's where Jeremiah needs to be? It'll be
an adventure, stay tuned. </div>
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Bishop Barela also gave us a pep talk yesterday. It was much needed, and we appreciated it. </div>
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Good things are going to happen, I just know it. We just have to put
ourselves out there to find the good things. Zone conference is
tomorrow, and we're getting SMARTPHONES!! :D So then I can read emails
throughout the week. And we can show videos to people. And maybe skype
our investigators out in Elk City. Things are looking up. </div>
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-411845024168343163.post-10231027579813057142018-01-26T18:06:00.001-08:002018-01-26T18:06:32.761-08:00ELDER MATT LEBARON - 1/8 - East L.AHappy P-day!<br />
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Not that that means much to many of you, haha, but it’s P-day again!<br />
The week seemed to fly by.<br />
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We spent almost our whole week in East L.A and Boyle heights. Since<br />
Alhambra is pretty wealthy and no one speaks English we figure it’s<br />
probably better to go to East Los where people are poor and don’t<br />
speak English. Here’s the thing though, it’s actually super expensive<br />
to live in those areas! A lot of the houses up there start at 800<br />
thousand, like why would anyone do that?<br />
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Something that I’m pretty excited for is not having to take public<br />
transportation ever again after my mission. Trust me, Southern<br />
California has probably one of the worst public transportation<br />
systems, ugh it’s so terrible. The buses are never on time, and a lot<br />
of the time bus schedules don’t line up so you’ll have to wait a long<br />
time between lines.<br />
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We were heading up our usual route, about 10 minutes in a kid threw up<br />
on the bus. You’re crammed between all these people with the<br />
overwhelming scent of vomit. It’s what nightmares are made of. Just<br />
stuck. I tried to convince my companion to get off and wait for<br />
another bus but he wasn’t having it, so we stayed on the bus for<br />
another 30 minutes. I was pretty relieved when we got to our<br />
destination. Public transportation lost a couple more points in my<br />
book that day.<br />
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A lot of the times it seems like we’re in a movie here are so many<br />
people walking around and so many strange things to see in Boyle<br />
heights and East Los, definitely going to have some stories from this<br />
place. We were talking to literally everyone, if you time it right,<br />
there are a lot of people to talk to on the neighborhoods, we picked<br />
up a lot of investigators this week. Nothing makes the time go by<br />
faster than preaching the Restored Gospel all day.<br />
<br />
Elder Oaks came to our mission on Saturday. I was able to shake his<br />
hand and listen to his wise words. It’s a pretty unique experience<br />
being able to be in the same room as an apostle of Jesus Christ.<br />
Something that stood out to me was how everything thought it was so<br />
amazing and incredible, and seemed to pay extra attention to the words<br />
he spoke, but when general conference comes around it seems people,<br />
including myself don’t take it as seriously. What a blessing it is<br />
that we have modern technology that we can hear from the prophets and<br />
apostles frequently throughout the year, of only that, but also be<br />
able to review their words any time we want. We truly are blessed in<br />
this Gospel dispensation. I invite all of you to fully take advantage<br />
of these blessings the Lord has so generously given us. I am so<br />
grateful for the ability to always have a large library of knowledge<br />
at our fingertips.<br />
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Thanks for all the love and support! Enjoy the start of the new year!<br />
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Elder LeBaron<br />
Sent from my iPad<br />
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1) Me with this chromed our lambo<br />
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-411845024168343163.post-56814819679360632692018-01-26T18:00:00.001-08:002018-01-26T18:00:43.670-08:00ELDER MATT LEBARON - 1/1/2018 - Happy New Years!I hope everyone had fun welcoming the new year, and is ready for all the
upcoming adventures, and challenges that will surely follow.<br />
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Things
have been pretty old around here. The area that I’m serving in is
really cool. We have a lot of diversity in the area, including people
and places. Alhambra has a lot of cool things, it has a pretty cool
downtown, it always seems like people are are up to so,etching around
here. Most of the people don’t even speak English, because there is such
a high population of Asian people here. It’s pretty fun. We also cover
East L.A and Boyle heights which is all Spanish... so pretty much no one
speaks English here. Me and Elder Hansen have been doing a lot of
finding this week. We don’t have anyone really in our teaching pool so
we have to build it all up. Ugh, mission life. It seems like my entire
mission has been finding. I’m excited to see some results though.
Something I’ve learned is that any time you work hard, you will always
see results, always. Maybe it might take a little longer to see, but the
results always come. </div>
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All the sisters that
came out with me are home! What the heck. They went home last
transfer... and I’m still here! It’s just crazy. At the same time I’m
happy to be able to have the opportunity to refine my missionary
skills. </div>
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Being district leader has been pretty
fun too, I have a pretty cool district, and so we can have a lot of fun.
Today we are going to get pedicures, next week we are going to go to
the driving range. It’s fun to try different ways to motivate people.
I’m also super grateful for the zone leaders in this zone, they are
super cool, and it makes my job a lot easier. </div>
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There
was a guy we ran into the other day, we helped him move. When we were
I. His house he told us that his dog was famous and had been in a lot of
korean dramas. So that was super cool. Couldn’t deny that photo op.</div>
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also met the drummer from the band Red Bone, he’s a former in our
teaching pool so that’s cool. If you guys have seen Guardians of the
galaxy they are the first song “come and get your love” so I definitely
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life is good. It’s hard work, but I’m really enjoying myself. Hope all
is well, and that you all enjoy this holiday season!</div>
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It's so crazy to look back on 2017 and see how much happened! I've
definitely learned a lot, and seen a lot, and put my whole heart and
soul into a lot of things that I wouldn't have if I hadn't been on a
mission. God knew what he was doing when He sent me out here to the
Spokane mission. I'm so grateful I still have 10 weeks left. :) </div>
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We
had an alright week. There's not a lot going on here in Grangeville, so
we're going to focus on finding some people who are looking for the
Gospel. I still haven't met our most promising investigators, because
it's just so darn hard to get out to where they live. But now that the
holidays are over, and the snow is currently melting, we could have more
chances at teaching them :). </div>
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We did get to help sort clothes
at the thrift store, and we read Chicken Soup stories to the elderly,
and we got to help Lynn organize some of her garage! Those were my
favorite things this week. But we also got to go to the ward game
night.... even though we're not allowed to play boardgames. Haha but our
neighbor, Ally came with us, so that was fun :). </div>
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New Year's
eve was pretty good too :). We got home from church and studied before
we went to dinner with the Brunsons! They're the family that fed us
breakfast on Christmas, and they're so cute. I love them. And then we
decided to bring brownies to the Astle/Wannacot family, because their
older son came to Gospel principles class and made half a dozen of the
best comments I've ever heard in a lesson on the sacrament. They played
"Signs" with us because it's not a board game :) and it was fantastic!
The two older boys might come play basketball with us and the elders
later today, which will be super cool. We get to go all the way out to
Kamiah for Pday (pronounced like Cami-eye haha). </div>
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I'm really
excited for the new year! I finished the Book of Mormon last night, and
I'm ready to read it one more time before I go back home. I'm going to
try to be more kind in what I say and do as well!! Somebody was talking
on Sunday and said "Words have meanings, and meanings have results", and
it made me think "Hm, Sistah J, you probs need to work on the words you
use", so I'm going to do better! That's what the new year is for,
little goals :). </div>
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of us at the park from sometime this week where we were just walking
around. Families each pick a tree to decorate every year, it's pretty
cute. :) </div>
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Here are some highlights from the week here in Grangeville. We had some good times! </div>
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Sister
Sonenstahl and I were able to read to some elderly folks in this cute
little home after a fabulous district meeting on Friday. We read this
story about the meaning behind the gifts from the wisemen, but where as
the wisemen entered the stable, each of their gifts turned into a
"portion of themselves". So, the first wiseman's gold turned into a
hammer, representing his greed because he hammered his wealth out of the
poor. He worries that the hammer will hurt the child, it's too heavy to
leave there. But the angel Gabriel tells him he must leave his gift,
and leave it to heaven. So he leaves his hammer and goes out rejoicing.
The second wiseman's bottle of frankincense turns into a bottle of
vinegar, representing how bitter his education has made him, and how
miserable comparison has made him. He too doesn't want to leave his gift
for the child anymore, but is told by Gabriel that he must. So he does,
and leaves the stable with a smile. The final wiseman brings his myrrh,
which turns into a spear as he goes to give it to the Christ child.
Gabriel explains to him that the spear represents the war in his heart.
The wiseman has always fought and competed, and it's time for him to
leave that portion of himself at the feet of the baby. The wiseman
worries it'll hurt the child, but is also told he must let this go so he
can be free of the war in his heart. He leaves it, and all 3 wisemen
hug each other and feel great because their burdens have been lifted.
All 3 of those gifts were tied to the future, at a time when the Savior
would again have to bear a hammer, vinegar, and a spear, but the story
also says that those are things we must leave to heaven, our duty is to
remember.</div>
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This is a very long story when I read it out loud,
so forgive me for not having all the details. But it really made me
think about what gift I need to give to the Savior this year. New year's
is coming up fast, and Sister Dymock challenged us all to write a
"letter to Jesus" and give him a gift, or a portion of ourselves. I
definitely have a lot of weaknesses that I need to give to the
Savior.... but this year I've decided to give Him my warring heart too. I
want to be able to love everyone simply because they are human beings
too. So if you all get a moment to think this new year's eve, consider
what you want to give to Jesus Christ as a gift this year. It's kind of a
cool experience, and Heavenly Father always has a funny way of showing
you just the area you need to work on. ;) </div>
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ALSO THIS WEEK SISTER SONENSTAHL AND I TOTALLY GOT TO GO TO CHRISTMAS EVE MASS. Haha it was "<span class="aBn" data-term="goog_52074028" tabindex="0"><span class="aQJ">midnight</span></span> mass", only we did it at <span class="aBn" data-term="goog_52074029" tabindex="0"><span class="aQJ">7:30</span></span>
because the little elderly nuns can't stay up that late. President
Dymock is the best for letting us go! We got some weird looks, like
"Hey, you're not on this team" kind of stuff. But we sang louder than
most of the Catholics so..... whatever. Haha there was a lot of standing
and sitting and chanting and singing and I was a little confused by the
end of it all. But it made me feel really grateful that I get to be a
part of the restored Gospel. That things in our church aren't just
rituals passed down, but that we are actually lead by the priesthood
authority of God. The contrast of our church in the morning, to mass at
night was a really unique experience. </div>
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Christmas was awesome!
We got a 2 hour nap, and beautiful breakfast, lots of fun little gifts,
dinner with the bishop, time to skype our families, and we even had time
for the only Christmas movie we have; Joy to the World. Haha it was a
good day. </div>
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Well, that's about all. Here are some pictures of
the Christmas festivities around here. I'll send more pics in another
email. I have some pretty good ones this week haha. Sister Sonenstahl
and I are already best friends, so it's a good time. </div>
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LOVE YOU ALL! Happy New Year :) </div>
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-411845024168343163.post-27675627491946458642018-01-26T17:33:00.003-08:002018-01-26T17:33:57.297-08:00ELDER MATT LEBARON - 12/18 - TransfersHello friends and family!<br />
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I know I have been pretty
bad about sending out a weekly email, but I’m going to try and be a lot
better in the upcoming weeks to keep you guys updated. Sometimes it’s
hard to write emails and explain what’s going on, it seems like
everything has just meshed into one event. </div>
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There
have been some changes going on, it feels like time is just going so
fast I can’t keep track of the days. It’s already been a transfer since I
picked up Elder McDaniel. Unfortunately, I got transferred to another
area today, and I am now serving in Alhambra. I just want to stay in an
area for a little bit, it feels like my last two just flew. I definitely
wasn’t expecting to get transferred this time around... I was only in
this area for 2 transfers, 3 months just isn’t enough time I feel. I
really started to love the ward and the people I was working with. All I
have to say is, I’m really loving the mission. It’s hard, there are the
ups and the downs, but it’s been the best thing I’ve ever done. I think
when you start getting comfortable that’s when president transfers you,
what a bummer haha.</div>
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The area that I’m serving
in is very Asian. We also cover parts of East L.A and Boyle Heights,
I’ve driven through before, so I’m pretty excited. It’s ghetto around
these parts. I’m ready, bring it on. </div>
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It was
pretty hard saying goodbye to all the members, but it was especially
hard to say goodbye to one of my recent converts, Steve. I got pretty
close to that guy. He was so good to me and my companions. I also will
miss Elder McDaniel, I couldn’t have gotten a better son! (Trainee) I’m
sad I won’t be able to finish his training, it’s okay, because one of my
previous comps in the field and also in MTC, Elder collings, will
finish his training. So that’s okay with me, technically I think that
means he’s getting trained by his uncle? I’m not sure how that works,
but anyways... it’s all good. Just starving and thriving out here.</div>
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The
Lord has really been blessing me a lot. I have been so humbled with how
things have been going for me lately. I’m especially grateful for
serving a mission. It’s kind of funny, because I already feel like I’m
being blessed for my service even though I’m still doing it. I’m excited
to see what the Lord has in store for me in the latter part of my
mission. I’m trying to become the man he needs me to become. I hope that
when I come back it seems like I changed at least a little bit haha. <img alt="😂" class="CToWUd" data-goomoji="1f602" src="https://mail.google.com/mail/e/1f602" style="margin: 0 0.2ex; max-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle;" /> I’m just getting adjusted to this area, but I’m expecting some good things from Alhambra! </div>
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Elder LeBaron </div>
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-411845024168343163.post-11441854006426798472018-01-26T17:32:00.000-08:002018-01-26T17:32:02.306-08:00SISTER SARAH JOHNSON - 12/18 - Hello again! <div>
It's been a wonderful week here in Snowkane. I realized one benefit
to snow, is that it doesn't seem quite so dark so fast, because the
city lights reflect off the snow. So walking around is only dangerous
because now the ground is ice, instead of because the streets are dark
haha. </div>
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Also today we got our transfer calls! And I'm headed to
Grangeville, ID for Christmas! My new companion is Sister Sonenstahl,
and she's literally one of my all time favorite people so this is going
to be THE BEST. She'll go home <span class="aBn" data-term="goog_52074009" tabindex="0"><span class="aQJ">in 6 weeks</span></span>,
so I'll probably take over the area and go home from Grangeville too.
Cheers to the last area I'll have on my mission! (probably)</div>
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I
loved this week though. Sister Lindsey is fantastic and we've had a lot
of fun walking around in the snow to see everyone. We had a choir
concert we got to sing a song in (there's a picture from the practice
down there somewhere), we got to decorate sugar cookies and deliver them
to a bunch of people, we got to bring Traci's 3 boys to their baptism
interview and THEY ALL PASSED :D, and we've had lots of laughs and lots
of good moments. Last year I hated the snow so much, but I think this
year I'm learning to appreciate how pretty it makes everything. I
uploaded a picture of our first snow, but on Friday we got something
close to 8 inches. Most of it has melted now though. Hopefully we get
some more for Christmas :). </div>
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Oh and we got to go to the
Addiction Recovery Program on Wednesday, and there was this quote on the
wall that said "Risk: Winners don't wait for chances, they take them". I
decided I want that to be my new life motto. I'm done waiting around,
let's go take chances! </div>
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Also on Wednesday, a lady talked about
how all of us have "Christ-sized holes" in our lives and our hearts,
and we have to decide whether we fill that hole with our Savior and his
Atonement, or with all the other things the world will tell us to fill
it with. Drugs, alcohol, sugar, sports, people, art, whatever..... it
all won't fill that Christ sized hole, because it doesn't fit right.
There's some food for thought, in case you were hungry ;). </div>
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Anyways,
I hope you all have a very Merry Christmas! I know I sure will. It's
such a beautiful time of year to be a missionary, because everyone just
feels a little closer to the Savior it seems. :) I'm so grateful to be a
missionary again, guys. This is the best adventure I've gone on so
far! </div>
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-411845024168343163.post-54618552680355967652018-01-26T17:20:00.000-08:002018-01-26T17:20:26.832-08:00SISTER SARAH JOHNSON - 12/11 - Hello friends!! <div>
I got to come back out to Spokane on December 4th, and man let me
tell you, it has been one crazy week jumping back into the swing of
things. I'm in kind of a quad-panionship right now with the 3 Spanish
sisters, but since I don't actually know Spanish, I've been with Hermana
Lindsey doing the work in their English ward for the most part. It's
been so busy! We have 3 kids on date to be baptized December 23rd. They
are the cutest family ever! They remind me a lot of Anastasia and her
family back in Plummer, actually. It's been really cool :). And I got to
go to the Spanish Branch on Sunday, and that was actually an
eye-opening experience! I could catch about 5% of what was said....
which was enough to maybe write a thesis statement about the talks.
Maybe next week I'll use a headset, but I kind of like trying to
understand what's being said. It keeps me awake. </div>
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Speaking of
staying awake, I forgot how tired missionaries are all the time. Holy
cow is it a long day of adventure todos los dias. I have gladly welcomed
back my old friends, "bagsundermyeyes" haha. I do have the world's
sketchiest top bunk though. Pretty sure if I sneezed too forcefully, it
would fall down and smash Hermana Mallett.... so I try really hard not
to have to roll over in the night. It's fantastic haha. </div>
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There
were some really great things that happened this week though! I ran
into a couple of incredible insights that I want to share with you
all!! </div>
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The first one was while we were teaching our on-date
family! The parents are Traci and Jeff. Jeff's not a member yet, and
neither are their 3 sons, but they're all awesome and they pretty much
believe everything and I'm certain they'll get baptized pretty quick
here. Anyways, we were teaching a lesson about keeping the Sabbath day
holy, and decided to read and dissect the Sacrament prayers with them.
We talked about the word "sanctified" for a minute, about how it means
to make holy or pure, and Jeff asked if it had anything to do with the
word "sanctuary". But in the midst of all the kids and the chaos, his
question got kind of lost in the lesson. BUT! I totally thought about it
the rest of the lesson. How does "sanctified" and "sanctuary" go
together? And apparently so did Jeff, because at the end of the lesson
he asked if "sanctuary" could be applied? Like a sanctuary in a war zone
(he's in the army). We then had a really good mini discussion on how
when we are sanctified by the gift of the Holy Ghost, we become our own
sanctuary. We become our own safe place to be, no matter what's going on
around us or how hard life has become, because we are sanctified. I
left the lesson feeling so excited about that connection! Because for
Jeff, it really spoke to him, because it applied to his life outside of
the church as well. Ah! The Lord is just so good at helping people make
connections. It's amazing to be a part of again! :D </div>
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And then
the other fantastic insight I came across was while we were sharing the
new #LighttheWorld Christmas video with a member couple after dinner.
(Go watch it again. It's good every time!) We asked them what they liked
about the video, and Sister Southwick said she liked how smoothly the
pictures flowed into each other, the present things with Jesus' life.
And I thought about that literally the rest of the night. That's the
goal! To smoothly transition the life and character of Jesus Christ into
ours. I thought about it a lot in context of going home soon (again),
because who I am here on the mission, with all the great things to do
and the desire to help and love others, needs to be who I am when I get
back home too. </div>
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The work is just SO GOOD! There's nothing like
being a missionary. This is going to be a fabulous 3 months you guys.
I'm so grateful to be here. :) </div>
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Love you all!! </div>
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Sister Johnson :) </div>
Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-411845024168343163.post-31016827497485369122018-01-19T18:25:00.001-08:002018-01-19T18:25:29.025-08:00ELDER MATT LEBARON - 11/23 - Training, thanksgiving, and meetingsHappy thanksgiving everyone!<br />
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Our P-Day got moved to
Thursday for whatever reason. I guess it’s because president knows that
it’s not a very productive day for missionary work. The problem with
that is that a lot of places are closed, and it’s harder to get things
done on a holiday. Other than not having a P-day in almost two weeks I’m
doing great, the bonus here is that P-day is on Monday again so it’s
coming up quick! What a blessing. I’m not sure if I will have a lot to
report, but I’ll try and send out an email. </div>
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First
off I just want to say, training is pretty fun. We went to the training
meeting last week and everyone was a little anxious to find out who
their companion was going to be. I think it’s funny because when I first
came into the mission I remember looking at the trainers and being
nervous about who was going to train me, but it still happens when you
are training. I kept looking around wondering, “am I going to train him,
or maybe him? I don’t know” a lot of the older missionaries always look
so confident and in control, I’m starting to find out that I still
don’t know exactly what I’m doing. I think everyone always assumes the
older missionaries know everything, but we don’t. </div>
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Once
you’ve been out for a little while, you get use to missionary life,
with all its challenges and difficulties. Something that has been
interesting is watching E. McDaniel go through the adjustment process, I
think I’m his first companion for a reason because I struggled so hard
when I first came in. It was a pretty hard transition, and I didn’t
think I was going to make it. All I can say is that I’m glad the mission
gets better the longer you’re out, training is always the hardest. E.
McDaniel is a stud, we are the same age and he graduated the same year
as me, but decided to do a year of college instead of going right out on
the mission. We get along really well, and it’s really nice he has
confidence when teaching or talking to people. I knew I was going to get
him because he was the most handsome of all the trainees, and I knew my
son was going to be handsome. </div>
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many meetings this week, holy cow. Elder Allard is district leader,
since he was training as well I was with him while we were waiting for
the greenies to come in. I had to go with him the a district leader
meeting, then the next day we went to the training meeting, the next day
we had district meeting, then Friday we had weekly planning, Sunday
church, and then yesterday we had a huge meeting at the office regarding
technology. We have had no time to do missionary work, it’s terrible. </div>
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I’m
glad E. McDaniel is in shape because the first couple days we were
together we probably biked a solid 40 miles, all our appointments just
seemed to be on opposite sides of the area. He’s a good sport, and
doesn’t complain about anything which is super awesome. If I was doing
this at the beginning of my mission I would have been a big complainer.
He’s still learning the right time to shift the gears, and sore as ever.
He keeps asking me when the soreness stops, I keep telling him that I’m
still sore from riding bikes for a year and a half. I don’t think he
likes that answer. Learning how to bike around town and in the gutters
is such a weird thing to do, I give him props for only crashing twice. I
always know he’s behind me because I can hear him grinding his gears
trying to peddle up those hills. Sometimes while we’re biking He’ll just
jump off his bike so he doesn’t crash. People always have a bewildered
look on their face as they see see this boy some acrobatics trying to
stop in time. Anyways he’s doing great, a lot better than I did when I
first came in. I love him.</div>
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Anyways thanks for
all the love and support. The mission really is so amazing. I am
starting to love this ward and the people I’m serving, there is always
that transition stage when you get transferred, but I’m happy I’m in the
hacienda heights first ward. They are so good to us. I love this
church, and I love the Lord. Do everything you can to establish the
church wherever you are, until Monday.</div>
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I can’t believe that another transfer
has flown by. It seems like I just blinked and it’s over. Being with
Elder Stone has been pretty good, we got a lot of good work done.
Transfers always make me a little sad. I think Change is just hard, no
matter how long you’ve been on the mission, when you leave or get a new
companion it’s always hard to make that adjustment. I’m glad that don’t
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Elder
stone got a transfer call, he’s heading out the the Filipino ward. I
think he’ll enjoy it a lot. I know I did for the 6 weeks that I was
there haha. I got a call from the assistants and it looks like I’m going
to be training. They switched up how they did training calls this time.
Normally if you’re training you’ll get a call on Thursdays, then they
have a training meeting on Friday, and you pick up your greenie on
Tuesday when they arrive. Thursday came and went so I already assumed I
wasn’t training. When transfer calls came that’s when they told me. They
switched around so now I won’t pick up my son until Wednesday. I’m
excited, but also a little scared. I just already had it in my head that
I wasn’t training so it really threw me. I’m going to try and be nice
to him, but I remember all the crap I got when I got when I first came
in from older missionaries and my trainer. I’ll be nice, but I’ll still
mess with him for sure, haha. Good luck buddy. </div>
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Steve
got baptized on Saturday! It was super awesome. This has been a long
anticipated event for Steve and us. We had a few ward members come, it
turned out pretty well. The only problem was that the water heater went
out. Luckily for me it was Elder stone who did the baptizing and not me.
Stone kept trying to be positive as he felt the water in the font. “
it’s at least room temperature so it won’t be that cold” but I could see
the fear in his eyes. I could f help but laugh a little as Stone and
Stephen winced as they got in the water... the water was pretty cold,
definitely did not feel like “room temperature” to me. Steve gasped as
he came out of the water, it was a memorable baptism for sure. I’m just
grateful that I didn’t do the baptizing this time, haha. </div>
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This
week has been good, there’s a lot of changes going on in the zone.
There are so many new missionary’s it’s crazy. The mission has changed
so much in the last year and a half. It’s almost unrecognizable to what
it use to be. I’m still loving the mission and the Lord. It will be
interesting to be a trainer, it’s a little intimidating, but I’m sure I
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This week hasn’t been too
exciting, but don’t worry I might just have a good story to tell. So
first off, I don’t know if I’ve mentioned this in recent emails, but
this area has a very high population of Asian people. I’ve been exposed
to a lot of the Latin culture around Southern California, but the whole
Asian thing is kind of weird to me. We have hacienda heights which is
more Chinese people than white, and then we have La Puente which is
mainly Hispanic people, it’s really weird. </div>
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We
have the biggest Buddhist temple in the Western Hemisphere in this
area. Buddhist people believe that if you are within a certain mileage
of a temple you get more blessings, or something like that. So there are
a lot of Asian people here. I’ve picked up on a little Spanish on my
mission, but Chinese is something so foreign to me. It’s been so weird
trying to contact people when most of them only speak Chinese. For that
reason alone we do a lot of work in la Puente so we can at least get the
Spanish people. That’s been exciting.</div>
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Update
on the bike situation, remember last week how I was saying that my
companion is a crazy fast biker? Well it turns out he’s not. On
Halloween we were biking up to the church to set up for the Halloween
ward party, and my companion was just zooming up those hills. I was mad,
I was furious. Why the heck is he biking so fast? I was peddling as
hard as I have in my life. Why was he doing this to me? Was this some
sort of punishment, or what? What did I do to deserve this? All these
thoughts were going through my mind as I caught up to him at a red
light, “Why are you peddling so fast!” My companion looked puzzled, “I
was wondering why you were biking so slow” this mad me even more mad.
When get got to the church I was soaked in sweat while E. Stone on the
other hand didn’t even look like he broke a sweat. As we were setting up
for the party I began to wonder if my companions comment was more
sincere than sarcastic. Thinking over this in my mind I realized that
there must be something wrong with my bike. After spinning the front
tire It was pretty obvious that there was something seriously wrong with
my back tire. Having broken my bike more than too many times on my
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I
don’t know if many of you are familiar with bikes, but when your axel
breaks, it makes your bike pretty much unridable. The wheel can’t turn
properly, hence an added measure of resistance... and then the epiphany
hit me. My axel has been broken for the last month, and I’ve been riding
it up these mongo hill from hell... FOR THE LAST MONTH. long story
short I had to get a new wheel... and you know what? I have been doing
intensive strength training for the last month, riding a fixed bike has
never been easier in my life. Now it’s my companion that’s suffering as
We’re riding up these widow making hills. It really felt good to get
that bike fixed and for me to realize that I’m not as big of a baby as I
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BUT ANYWAYS, I will always have a
story to tell about how my bike is broken, as most of you know. This
week has been good, there have been a lot of things that have kept us
from regular proselytizing. We had our Halloween party, that took up
ridiculous amount of time. That too Interviews with President, to more
bike problems... it seems like there isn’t enough time in the day. I’m
excited to see what this upcoming week has in store for us. It seemed
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This
up coming week we have a baptism for Steve. He’s a investigator the
missionaries have been working with for a couple months now, he has made
so many changes in his life it’s amazing. I thing that makes missionary
work worth it to me is definitely the people you get to work with. I
feel that when we try and teach other people they end up teaching me as
well. My mission has given me so much perspective on life, something I
couldn’t have gotten any other way. We’re holding down the fort in sunny
Southern California. It’s been getting in the 60s this week. You’re
going to laugh at me, but I’m starting to get cold. I am literally going
to die my first winter back, can’t wait. Just another update in the
LeBaron weekly. </div>
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