Hey Ya'll

Well, this week was an adventure.  On Tuesday we had our car in the shop to get a hitch on it and so we were walking while we were waiting for them to finish.  We walked all over South Lansing and talked to a lot of people who were out cutting their grass.  we stopped at a park for a little bit for a bathroom break and we ran into one of our friends Justin and Ashlee and their daughter, Evelyn.  It was a lot of fun talking to them because it's been a while since we have been in contact.  We were able to get a time set up to go meet them on Friday.  When we ran into Justin and Ashlee it was about 4 and we dropped the car off at 12:00 so we called U Haul and they said they had just barely started.  We ended up walking back to U haul which was a 1.5 mile walk back so that was pretty interesting but we got to talk to a lot of people on the way back.  When we got to the U haul place they still were not done so we had to wait a half hour for them to finish up.  In the meantime we got to talk to a guy who was waiting about the gospel and the cool part was he came to us! 

Yesterday we were out doing some door knocking and we knocked into this super nice guy by the name of Jason.  He was super interested and we talked to him about the restoration of the gospel right there on his porch!  After which we asked if he needed help with anything and he said he did. So we went and helped him move some sheep paneling and then he showed us his pigs and cows he had on his small farm.  We have a return appointment for this Wednesday so wish us luck!

On Saturday we helped out with a family history class for a couple of hours in East Lansing.  We didn't do a whole lot of family history.  We were more of the grunt labor type of help, with chairs and projectors.  It was interesting because the majority of the people there were nonmembers.  The spirit of Elijah is real even in nonmembers

Well, besides that we got authorized on Friday to do up to 2 hours of family history work each week. The reason being we can show the people we are teaching how to do family history.

Besides that thanks for the emails and support!

Nothing Too Exciting

We got our transfer calls on Friday and Elder Pancheri and I are staying in Holt and we are getting another Elder, Elder Anderson.  So somehow we are going to fit all three of us in a tiny apartment.  We picked Elder Anderson up on Monday and we were doing some stop-bys and this lady actually let us help her with her flower bed and so we are going to help her out today at 1:00pm for an hour or so!

Besides that, not too much happened.  We had a massive Easter dinner at our ward mission leader's home.  I was getting seconds on everything to be polite and I had my companion serve me up some mashed potatoes.  I told him to give me a little and he decided he wanted to make my life miserable and he plops a giant serving on my plate.  Needless to say I was pretty stuffed by the end of the night, but we had a good time! 

3 Trade-Offs and Zone Conference in the Same Week!

Well, it was a crazy week, to say the least.  We had Zone Conference on Tuesday and it was super good.  Our mission president gave a great talk about how somthing changed in 1820.  The population increased, the quality of living improved, technology and medicine drastically improved, and the jist of his talk was that we need to be confident about sharing the restoration because not only does the spirit testify of the restoration but statistics show that somthing changed in 1820 when Joseph Smith had the first vision!  I also almost lost my companion at this zone conference.  We all sat down and I was looking around and I couldn't find my companion so I had to go grab one of the charlotte elders and we found him talking to Elder Myers, one of the senior couples, in the hall.  I don't know exactly how it happened but I almost lost my companion!

3 trade-offs! Tuesday and Wednesday we had trade-offs with Charlotte and I went with E. Webecke.  He is super cool and loves mountain biking.  He is the first person I've met on my mission that likes to MT bike so I was pretty excited about that!  Then from Thursday morning to Friday morning we were on trade-offs with the Maridian elders.  I was with E. Conolle and we got a ton of work done.  We got probably 3 return appointments that day and we picked up someone new to teach it was a really good day!  But then right after the Maridian elders left we left for Lansing and had trade-offs with the zone leaders and I was with E. Wilcox and we got a bunch of door knocking done and met a lot of really cool people!  Friday for lunch the Zone leaders took us to this hibachi/chinese/sushi buffet.   It was so good and I ate so much food I wasn't even hungry for dinner! 

On Saturday we helped Allen move.  He is someone we are teaching currently and he is super nice and we are going to try and put him on baptismal date the next time we go over to visit him! 

I almost forgot, but on Sunday we got  to teach primary with  the stake president and I forgot how much fun primary was.  I wish I could go back!

Work!

Not to much happened this week.  We had two trade offs back to back.  That was kinda crazy but we got a lot of work done! We are having to cram 5 trade offs in 3 weeks because of the emergency transfer so we are going to have 2 this week and one next week in total this transfer.  I will have gone on 6 trade offs.  That is a ton!

We picked up a couple this week that is super cool.  We were going through our area book which is a mess and we were trying to clean up who should be a potential and who shouldn't and we stopped by them and got a return appointment.  They said we could come back so we did and we taught them the restoration and the spirit was so strong and after the first vision [he] said "it has to be true"  So were pretty excited for [them]!

Besides that, we have either been going through area book or stopping by peoples homes or we have been door knocking so we can start to build up our teaching pool.

What a Week!

Well,  last p-day we left for Lansing and we had trade offs with the zone leaders down there.  It was a good time.  I went with Elder Clarke.  He was a super cool guy and we got to do a bunch of teaching.  Tuesday night when we were supposed to be done with trade offs we got a call and they were extended for 24 hours so I stayed in Lansing and my other half went back to our area. It was a lot of fun there in Lansing because they have every restaurant you can imaging so it was kinda nice being able to have some variety.  On Wednesday, I met back up with my companion and we headed back to Holt and then we got a call the next day and we were getting an emergency transfer.  I was staying in Holt and E. Stolp was headed up North.  Anyway, my new companion is E. Pancheri.  He is from Idaho and he is a stud!  But on Friday I dropped of E. Stolp and I was in a trio for the day with the Miridain Elders.  We ended up spending all day cleaning my apartment.  We threw away so much junk I couldn't believe it but the apartment shines now!

It was fast Sunday this Sunday so me and my companion both bought a Little Caesars pizza and darn near ate it all.  I think we both tapped out after we had eaten about 3/4ths of the pizza.  Sunday was interesting.  I didn't know any one so we had a good time getting to know the ward.  We are basically white washing this area but we had a correlation meeting with our ward mission leader and I think that things are going to pick up because he is really on board with getting missionary work rolling in this area!