Training
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Monday, September 21, 2009
Todays letter Sept 21st
We are not on campus we are in charge of the married Students.
We are over the whole city of Davis but so is two other wards.
The single student ward and the family ward is all over Davis.
Its interesting. We do not get near 52 lessons. lol.
This past week we got 9. Its a slow area but we will fix that.
Since it was Stake conference we haven't really been able to get
the ball moving for the members but it will happen.
We are actually getting a new bishop next week so
i don't know what is going to happen there but
it should be interesting. There is one sister from the MTC there.
Yes Sis. Gardnier. Completely different from CC.
Its a college town. We mainly tract apartments.
My comp is Elder Donaldson. He is from Utah. my first from Utah.
He is pretty cool i like him a lot. We should do a lot of good work together.
He has been out for 6 months and the rest of the district which is only two
other guys are both at 3 months. Its weird being the oldest lol.
I have used my new camera. Its awesome. No worries i will deal with the card.
Love
Zachary
Monday, June 1, 2009
June 1, 2009
That would be awesome to see pictures of the Valencias. Tell them that i miss visiting them. Coming to the Valencias and always getting fed and climbed on. Going over to sister Wakefield and hearing all her cool stories about horses and all her experiences working around engineers. Good times. It has now been over a little over 8 months that i have been out on my mission. It feels like yesterday but forever since i was home. Its actually a weird feeling. Its awesome though. I wouldn't trade this time for anything.
This past week has been awesome and a set back at the same time. The person that was going to be baptized on the 20th will be postponed. She is having some problems and she is not sure if her decision was the right choice or not. If it was impulsive or not. Anyways she wants to wait until she knows for sure. On the other hand we have a baptism on the 5th of this week. She is 9 so its a convert baptism. She is crazy but really smart. So that is really exciting. other than that we got 2 new investigators who are really amazing. One of them we are going to be going to a sweat box with. It should be interesting. He came to church and he is just overall awesome. The other is a family. I have not met them really. We were on splits and Elder Norton went to see a media referral and they seem really excited to check out the church. They have been church shopping for like 5 years or something like that. So much is happening i cant believe it. We have 10 pretty solid investigators. This is the first time that this has happened. I was lucky to have one investigator period but now i have 10 solid ones. I love it. It is so amazing being in Crescent City. The only bad thing about it is that its cold.It never gets above 70. Other than that this could be the best area in the mission. Landscape and the work!
Love
Zachary
You know i have found a new appreciation for temples. Back home i liked going to the temple but now, esp as a missionary, the temple is like a vacation. When we go and come back I feel so spiritually uplifted that i am just ready to work even harder. The only bad thing about the temple is when we have all mission temple trips. It is still amazing but the Celestial Room is just way to crowded and loud but it is still very spiritual.
As far as the raps, there are a couple of brown people in those raps. lol. I am in the 5th song. I let you know where on the lyrics sheet. So you can look at that to tell exactly where i am in the song. It s toward the end or really i am the last verse. Thats awesome though that you shared that with them. What did you do with the songs?
Love
Zachary
This past week has been awesome and a set back at the same time. The person that was going to be baptized on the 20th will be postponed. She is having some problems and she is not sure if her decision was the right choice or not. If it was impulsive or not. Anyways she wants to wait until she knows for sure. On the other hand we have a baptism on the 5th of this week. She is 9 so its a convert baptism. She is crazy but really smart. So that is really exciting. other than that we got 2 new investigators who are really amazing. One of them we are going to be going to a sweat box with. It should be interesting. He came to church and he is just overall awesome. The other is a family. I have not met them really. We were on splits and Elder Norton went to see a media referral and they seem really excited to check out the church. They have been church shopping for like 5 years or something like that. So much is happening i cant believe it. We have 10 pretty solid investigators. This is the first time that this has happened. I was lucky to have one investigator period but now i have 10 solid ones. I love it. It is so amazing being in Crescent City. The only bad thing about it is that its cold.It never gets above 70. Other than that this could be the best area in the mission. Landscape and the work!
Love
Zachary
You know i have found a new appreciation for temples. Back home i liked going to the temple but now, esp as a missionary, the temple is like a vacation. When we go and come back I feel so spiritually uplifted that i am just ready to work even harder. The only bad thing about the temple is when we have all mission temple trips. It is still amazing but the Celestial Room is just way to crowded and loud but it is still very spiritual.
As far as the raps, there are a couple of brown people in those raps. lol. I am in the 5th song. I let you know where on the lyrics sheet. So you can look at that to tell exactly where i am in the song. It s toward the end or really i am the last verse. Thats awesome though that you shared that with them. What did you do with the songs?
Love
Zachary
Tuesday, May 26, 2009
May 25th 2009
OK so Crescent city is absolutely amazing.
I have only been here for two weeks now but it is
amazing. The area is absolutely beautiful.
We do something know as basking in the spirit
where after a lesson we just sit for 5-15 min
just sitting in the spirit talking about how
the lesson went and what we could have done
better and decide what we should do next time.
We just started this transfer and
I got to say it has helped tremendously.
We are so into the spirit at that moment
that we are able to decide exactly what
is best for that moment. Since we have done this
are lessons have become twice as good. Not only
does it help us with the lessons but the spirit
stays with us longer and stronger. Not only that
but we have the best places to bask. We usually
just sit by the ocean and watch the waves and such.
It is esp amazing when the sun is setting and we
are basking, it truly is an amazing feeling.
Ok so we already have at least one baptism set
for this transfer. Its a part member family and
the wife has finally decided to be baptized. It was
crazy though. She had come to church and she started
asking us questions about different things mainly about
if she had to change who she was and everything and
she mentioned that she didn’t know if the church was true.
We talked to her for about 30min and by the end we were
a little worried because we had a lesson with her later that day
which was yesterday and she was questioning everything.
The moment we went into their home and right after the prayer
she said "I want to be baptized. What do i need to do to be baptized?"
It was so amazing. She even asked Elder Norton to baptize
her since her husband is not able to. Then the lesson was just
Absolutely amazing. The spirit was so strong. We set the date for June 20.
The last Saturday of the transfer. She has two kids that might be baptized
as well but we are not sure about them yet and we may have a few
others as well. We have one that is going to be baptized in July but they
are going to be baptized in Medford or something like that and them we
have one that will be baptized in September as soon as he turns 18.
This area is so amazing. I seem to always be on a spiritual high I love it.
My leg falling into the water was an accident but i should have
known better. We were playing around on the rocks on the
beach and they had an area were there was rock on either
side on a little pond of water so i climbed on side when
everyone else climbed the other side because it was much
easier and then i tried to stretch my leg across for a picture
and lets just say i am not as flexible as i use to be so I
came up short and my leg went right into the water.
It was cold water too.
Today we are going to a combined ward lunch and hang out
and then we are going to have a work and the glory marathon.
We got our hands on all the movies so we are going to watch them.
I am going to miss doing the athletic stuff that I have been doing but
I will live. Saturday we did service almost all day long. We didn’t even
pros up until 7:30 at night. We originally only had one service project planned.
We went to that and we had to cut a hedge that was about 20ft tall and 30 yards
long back about 3 feet. It was pretty fun actually but then we got a call
seeing if we could do someone’s lawn so we went and did that.
Then we get another cal asking if we could help them out and so
of course we said yes. So we were cutting down trees and pulling
up roots and pulling all the limbs behind a truck and piled them up.
It was a lot of fun but by the end i was exhausted. They fed us dinner
then we showered and got dressed and went out and taught one lesson
then came back home to end the day. It was great.
Well that’s pretty much it i think.
Love
Zachary
I have only been here for two weeks now but it is
amazing. The area is absolutely beautiful.
We do something know as basking in the spirit
where after a lesson we just sit for 5-15 min
just sitting in the spirit talking about how
the lesson went and what we could have done
better and decide what we should do next time.
We just started this transfer and
I got to say it has helped tremendously.
We are so into the spirit at that moment
that we are able to decide exactly what
is best for that moment. Since we have done this
are lessons have become twice as good. Not only
does it help us with the lessons but the spirit
stays with us longer and stronger. Not only that
but we have the best places to bask. We usually
just sit by the ocean and watch the waves and such.
It is esp amazing when the sun is setting and we
are basking, it truly is an amazing feeling.
Ok so we already have at least one baptism set
for this transfer. Its a part member family and
the wife has finally decided to be baptized. It was
crazy though. She had come to church and she started
asking us questions about different things mainly about
if she had to change who she was and everything and
she mentioned that she didn’t know if the church was true.
We talked to her for about 30min and by the end we were
a little worried because we had a lesson with her later that day
which was yesterday and she was questioning everything.
The moment we went into their home and right after the prayer
she said "I want to be baptized. What do i need to do to be baptized?"
It was so amazing. She even asked Elder Norton to baptize
her since her husband is not able to. Then the lesson was just
Absolutely amazing. The spirit was so strong. We set the date for June 20.
The last Saturday of the transfer. She has two kids that might be baptized
as well but we are not sure about them yet and we may have a few
others as well. We have one that is going to be baptized in July but they
are going to be baptized in Medford or something like that and them we
have one that will be baptized in September as soon as he turns 18.
This area is so amazing. I seem to always be on a spiritual high I love it.
My leg falling into the water was an accident but i should have
known better. We were playing around on the rocks on the
beach and they had an area were there was rock on either
side on a little pond of water so i climbed on side when
everyone else climbed the other side because it was much
easier and then i tried to stretch my leg across for a picture
and lets just say i am not as flexible as i use to be so I
came up short and my leg went right into the water.
It was cold water too.
Today we are going to a combined ward lunch and hang out
and then we are going to have a work and the glory marathon.
We got our hands on all the movies so we are going to watch them.
I am going to miss doing the athletic stuff that I have been doing but
I will live. Saturday we did service almost all day long. We didn’t even
pros up until 7:30 at night. We originally only had one service project planned.
We went to that and we had to cut a hedge that was about 20ft tall and 30 yards
long back about 3 feet. It was pretty fun actually but then we got a call
seeing if we could do someone’s lawn so we went and did that.
Then we get another cal asking if we could help them out and so
of course we said yes. So we were cutting down trees and pulling
up roots and pulling all the limbs behind a truck and piled them up.
It was a lot of fun but by the end i was exhausted. They fed us dinner
then we showered and got dressed and went out and taught one lesson
then came back home to end the day. It was great.
Well that’s pretty much it i think.
Love
Zachary
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