This week was LEGIT! Elder B and I found a bunch of new people to teach and have a lot of baptismal dates set up! Our thanksgiving was awesome! We ate at the Talbots and had a HUGE lunch haha it was sweet! I gained like 5 pounds haha! Well this week went super fast because it was so filled with things! We went with Bro Talbot and did some service @ his hunting club this week! That was way fun haha it was a good/new type of service so it was nice!
Well, I'm staying AGAIN in SELMA! 12 and a half
months BABY! Crazy right? Well this week was pretty fast. I don't really
even remember what happened this week! We went to Montgomery for a
baptism and then when we were done a member took us to Tokyo (like
tepanyaki) it was LEGIT! But all is going well here in Selma! The work is going a
little slow but it is starting to speed up again so that is good! Oh, also, I
can't believe Mom and Dad went to Elder Fatiaus HOMECOMING! HOW INSANE! I
wanted to cry when I heard that haha I don't know why but I just did
haha!
This week was pretty awesome but SO FAST! Haha I really feel like there
is nothing big to write about. Our new approach is SO LEGIT! We got into
so many houses this week it was insane! But we are teaching this lady
named Rebecca and she is far beyond what we consider a "golden"
investigator here in the south haha. She has read through the BOM one
and a half times. She is so AWESOME! She already labels herself as
"mormon" and stands up for the church, she is awesome! But, the work is going to
great here! I had to talk this last Sunday, AGAIN haha. In the 11
months I've been here i've spoken 13 times haha crazy right? Well, I'm starting
Jesus the Christ AGAIN haha, it is such an amazing book I just want to
read it all the time! I got an SWEET old copy from the Magnolia Branch.
It's super old school and LEGIT! Well, hmm... haha I really don't know
what else to talk about! Bry is SO CUTE! Gall, she better still be
pretty small when I get home! I don't wanna miss all the good years when
they're little and cute. I don't wanna hit the obnoxious stage haha. Keep on being awesome and living the gospel! Ya'll are the best!
This week as LEGIT! "To legit, to legit to quit" haha! We baptized
Wesley in Magnolia and that was super awesome! He asked me to baptize
him so I gladly did! It is seriously the most AMAZING feeling! Those
first words "Having been commissioned.." are SO POWERFUL it's INSANE!
Well, I'm
glad that I am finally up and running again with full force. I've
started praying every night that I won't get sick again haha I hope it
works! But Elder B and I have found some pretty awesome people lately!
We started doing a new approach that we learned from the Fort
Lauderdale, Florida Mission and it is working like a charm! Since
they've been using it since last September they've doubled their
baptisms and then doubled again! NUTS RIGHT? They had 40 last September
and they had 150 this September! That's INSANE! But what it is is pretty
much you knock just like a regular door approach but when they answer
one of you says something along the lines of "we are representatives of
Jesus Christ sent to you to bless you and your family through prayer, do
you have a minute or two that we can bless you?" If they say yes, then
your in. If they say no, you bear testimony and promise them blessings
and then ask again. Then, the missionary who gave the introduction of
who we are what we're doing ask about their family, job and ask if their
is anything else we could include in the blessing. While one is asking
the questions, the other is listening and memorizing all the names,
jobs, needs ect. Then, that missionary who memorized it all offers the
blessing and instead of a prayer your literally bless the person and his
family with out the laying on of hands. You say "in the name of Jesus
Christ and by the power of the holy priesthood I hold, I bless you
that..." and your proceed to bless them with all the things the family
was doing or in need of one by one. It has been workings SO GOOD! We
have gotten into so many houses and got return appointments it's insane!
So that has been cool!
So I finished reading Jesus
the Christ this weekend. The end is SO LEGIT, my favorite part by far. I
have learned so much from the book it's off the chain! Well, I hope
this email was long enough for ya'll haha! Sorry they have been so
short! I love you both so much and you really have NO IDEA how much I
love you and how grateful I am for you! STAY STRONG in the gospel! You
two are AWESOME!
OKAY!! BRY is TO FLIPPIN CUTE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Holy crap haha
those pictures were off the chain, I loved them! Well, thanks so much
for your email! You two are seriously the best! I don't know what I'd do
without you two! I was sick up until Saturday this week :( bummer huh?
I've lost about 6-7 lbs total so that's not good! But, I mean hey, we
all have trials right haha? I guess being sick was one I was supposed to
have! Everytime I'm going through something like this I pray that I
will get out of it what he wants me to and it's amazing how much you can
learn even from just little things like sicknesses and what not. So
this week was a little better as far as that goes! I'm feeling better
right now, a little warm, but I'm good to go now haha watch out Selma
here comes Elder Tolman. I've had WAY TO LONG to rest haha so I have a
lot of energy now!
This week has been super legit though! We had
another baptism yesterday for a girl named Terrika, she is so awesome!
It's been raining here all week haha so that's been fun, I LOVE working
in the rain haha it softens hearts I swear. But this week has really gone way fast I can't believe
it. Transfers are already in a week and a half isn't that nuts? I'm so
STOKED for General Conference though, I have grown to love it SO MUCH!
I'm sorry to hear how sad you are since you were released, I know I'll
be the SAME WAY! That's how I know your heart was really in your calling
because you get attached to it. But, just like everything else, "there
is a time and a season" right? Some season are short some are long, but
they are ALL REWARDING and worth it! I know you'll do great in your full
time calling as a MOM though, I just know it! Well everything
is going so great out here, I love it so much! I'm so grateful I have an
amazing family like you guys, I couldn't have ever wished for more! I
can't believe you guys are parents and all grown up and OLD hahaha it's
crazy! Well, I hope your
hairs are still Brown and growing thick hahaha ;) dont you two--or
should I say three-- go getting to old on me now hahaha I LOVE YOU SO
MUCH!
