tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-47413371808926765282024-03-20T00:51:23.542-07:00Elder Calum Yule's Mission BlogAnonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07047938554541621031noreply@blogger.comBlogger72125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4741337180892676528.post-78423138939096533872017-01-23T21:56:00.001-08:002017-01-23T22:02:38.317-08:0022 January 2017<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">Hello Mum!</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">I'm glad your up there with granddaddy. He looks like he's gained some </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">weight. So that's good. It's sad to hear about him falling over when </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">he went to the bathroom. I remember when I left he was doing so well. </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">And poor little Riley! He seems to get sick pretty often. I miss him </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">so much. Will you send more videos of him soon? That's cool to hear </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">about those young men that gave granddaddy the sacrament. </span><br />
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<i><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">(From my letter to Calum.....Well, two handsome young priests from Dad’s ward just came over to the care center and </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">brought the sacrament. My, what a special experience that was. Both </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">in white shirts and ties. Kneeling on the floor of his room. I couldn't </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;"><span style="font-size: 12.8px;">stop crying.)</span></span></i><div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">I wish I </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">wasn't so reluctant to do that sometimes. I wish I did more home </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">teaching and stuff at home haha, but it's ok I'll do it when I get </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">home haha! </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;"><br /></span>
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">So Tuesday </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">evening we got a referral for a young women. </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">It was a self referral so she put her own name in to Salt Lake City </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">and they sent it to us. Her name is Brenda and she is from Brazil, but </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">is living in Lincoln. Well kind of... she is living in Roseville but </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">she lives in Lincoln on the weekends so she would go to church in </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">Lincoln. So she came to the church building yesterday (after church) and</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;"> we did a chapel tour and it was perfect! We had a member there and </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">the member is from Brazil too! So they really hit it off. We are </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">pumped to start teaching her. We also had a really good lesson with an </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">investigator we have had a hard time getting a hold of! She calls us </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">her angels. She has an incredible story about how she came in contact </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">with missionaries. She woke up one morning and just out of the blue </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">had revelation that she needed Christ in her life. So that day she got </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">back from grocery shopping and was walking inside when 2 young men all </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">dressed up starting walking over to her, she thought it was the </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">Jehovahs Witnesses. So she hurried inside before they could talk to </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">her. A few seconds later they knocked on the door. She started walking </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">away from the door but something told her to go answer it, she denied </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">the prompting once, then it told her again to answer the door. And it </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">was Mormon missionaries! So we are excited to see how she can progress </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">too. </span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">I asked for more to write home about, and God gave me some more </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">stuff to write home about haha! Transfers are next week. E</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">lder Cobabe </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">and I are staying together, which I'm cool with. I think it will be a </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">good transfer. I love you mum. Tell the girls and the little one I </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">love them too. Thank you for keeping me updated with granddaddy, it</span><br />
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07047938554541621031noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4741337180892676528.post-26062857241110681862017-01-23T21:52:00.000-08:002017-01-23T21:52:08.532-08:0015 January 2017<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">Hello Mum,</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">That's nice that you don't have school today. I forgot they had the </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">day off for MLK day. I'm glad your going up to </span><br />
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<br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">Not much to talk about this week, hopefully next week is more </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">exciting, so I have more to write about! I love you guys and I miss </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">you! I hope you have a good week. Tell granddaddy and my papa that I </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">love them!</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">Love,</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">Elder Yule</span>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07047938554541621031noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4741337180892676528.post-65179461552432324002017-01-15T15:49:00.001-08:002017-01-15T15:49:04.864-08:008 January 2017<div style="background-color: white; color: #454545; line-height: normal;">
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">This week was pretty good! Elder Cobabe got sick on Monday..... so really we stayed in the apartment all week. Which doesn't sound that great, but I say it was a pretty good week because the 11 and 13 year old kids I've been talking about recently got baptized on Saturday! It was so cool. Both of their parents are less active so it's cool to see their parents be involved in it. We got to stand in on the confirmation. It was a wonderful day. We also had interviews with President on Saturday. He's going to try to do them every transfer where he used to have them every other transfer. So they have to be shorter interviews. They can only be 15 minutes now, but President is a very loving and concerned and talkative guy, so they always take longer than that. Anyway, it was a good interview. It's always good to talk to President, it's just comforting. We had MLC on Thursday, that was good too. At least as good as an all day meeting can be. After MLC it is a tradition to go to Buffalo Wild Wings for dinner after. Well on our way back to Lincoln. I was getting on the freeway, and Elder Cobabe and I were talking , and Elder Cobabe looks over at the guy next to us, and he is just staring at us, so we start laughing. We thought it was a joke! So Elder Cobabe rolls his windows down and goes to wave to this guy and talk to him when out of nowhere this guy gets out this cup and slings some kind of liquid at us! So the window was down a little bit, so it got on each of us. More on the car but a little bit on us. First we thought, maybe it's alcohol, but it didn't smell like that, it smelled a little bit minty, so we though maybe tea, but we decided it wasn't that, it had a different consistency... so we think it was this guys dip spit. So all that spit you get in your mouth from chewing tobacco. You know how cowboys are constantly spitting in a cup. Yeah... it was pretty gross, but we thought, how cool is that!? Think about the apostles and Christ himself, they all got spat on. So we were pretty upset at the time, but thinking about it now it was a unique experience....that neither of us want to happen again. It has been raining a ton here! Yesterday was this huge storm, or so the locals called it. Apparently the news was saying there was a thing called an "atmospheric river" which to me sounds silly! It was a good rain but I think they were overreacting a tiny bit.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><i>(Here are a couple of stories from my mission to Okayama, Japan in 1985 that I wrote about....<span style="background-color: transparent;">Riley and I looked at the weather and saw that you have had rain much of the day. I guess that's when being in a car is a bit better than riding a bike. We were out rain or shine every day and night on our bikes. I did love my bike. I remember one time when it was raining so hard and the wind was blowing it completely sideways. We had to ride over a bridge over a river to get home, and the wind was worse over that. The water in the river was splashing and waving about. When we got home our wellies were full of water. We found out the next day that we had been riding through a typhoon. We got scolded by the members when they found out we'd been out riding our bikes in it. Another time we had a baptism that was going to be done in the ocean. It was another terrible rainstorm. The waves were crashing so high over the rocks. When I think about it now, I cannot even believe the elder and young woman went out into the ocean in that storm.)</span></i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Those sound like insane stories! Sometimes I feel incredibly privileged to be in a state side mission! Haha! Hearing all these crazy stories, and I'm in a 2017 Chevy Malibu! It's pretty crazy. In interviews I told President I liked being on a bike, which is pretty risky, if you say you like biking he knows who to put in a bike area haha! So we will see what happens. Hopefully I'll have cool stories like you. I can't even imagine trying to baptize someone in the ocean. You'll need to tell me more of your cool mission stories. I love you mum. You really do show me how to work hard. It seems like you're always up doing something. I love and miss you guys. I hope you have a better week this week. I love you.</span></div>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07047938554541621031noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4741337180892676528.post-16427989567518001062017-01-08T16:09:00.000-08:002017-01-08T16:09:16.033-08:001 January 2017<div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">
Happy new year mum! New Year's Eve looked fun! There is an awesome Chinese place here called Lincoln Chinese, a pretty standard name haha. There are a few good places to eat, we don't eat out a ton here though. There is this really good Mexican place called El Portel. We go there once in a while. Yeah the members feed us every night. There are a few nights where we don't have a dinner but they are really good about feeding us. We are teaching a little brother and sister, she is 11 and he is 14, they are awesome! They are being baptized this Saturday! I'm excited for them. They were already on date when I got here so it's not like I got them to this point or anything but it's been cool to be a part of it. There is this really cool less active family we visit pretty frequently. We do all sorts of stuff with them. We are going to do this cool art project thing. I'm not sure how to describe it so I'll just send pictures when we do it! No real investigators here though. We decided to make a goal for this new year, just Elder Cobabe and I, to find more people to teach, and getting members to help us find them. After dinner we share a spiritual message with the family that fed us dinner and we've been inviting them to invite a non-member friend over for dinner when we come next. I'm excited to see what will happen!</div>
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I'm so glad you went up to see granddaddy. It sounds like he wasn't doing very well. It made me sad to read some of that. But I'm am so thankful you are telling me what is happening. I'm glad you aren't sugar coating things. I'm proud of the girls for calling and texting everyone to cancel the Boxing Day party. I remember at home I never wanted to call people haha. I'm also thankful for Diane! She always seems to say things pretty straight forward, (whether good or bad) and on this occasion it really helped. That's cute that the girls made Riley's birthday cake haha!</div>
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My dark year ended yesterday. The dark year is the full year in the mission field. I spent all of 2016 in California. I now can say I go home this year. It's pretty crazy. I get to see you guys <span class="aBn" data-term="goog_755866841" 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;">in 9 months</span></span>. I bet I'll be home to see granddaddy as well. This year, and these last 9 months I'm going to really try to be better. Not that I've been bad necessarily, but there's always little things I can work on. I think that's when the real change comes. I'm going to try to change. I'm excited. I miss you guys and love you so much. I'm so glad you and Mikey went up to see granddad. I'm sure it gave him a spiritual boost as well as a physical one. I love you guys!</div>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07047938554541621031noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4741337180892676528.post-21961327182053086562017-01-01T17:42:00.000-08:002017-01-01T17:42:13.974-08:0026 December 2016<div class="adn ads" style="background-color: white; border-left: 1px solid transparent; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; padding-bottom: 20px; padding-left: 8px;">
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I'm so happy I got to see you guys yesterday! I'm always scared it's<br />going to make me super homesick, but it always makes me a little bit<br />more motivated. Not too much new has happened since yesterday. All I<br />can say is this Ward rocks. They have given us so much stuff. It's<br />been awesome. Make sure you send me pictures from Riley's birthday and<br />Boxing Day. I miss you and love you guys. I can now sing "I'll Be Home<br />for Christmas" haha!</div>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07047938554541621031noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4741337180892676528.post-45470822101605076102017-01-01T17:39:00.003-08:002017-01-01T17:39:50.890-08:0025 December 2016<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEizAYJcvXtbDE_Y0bxW_Lpuvt97b1BOJyQyuV1R4m0_ZeA3h8H4LLaEW1ZHyMIIEeJzQ533W9bNcgDKLL-eMEtmTWoTYFwG3Kv1H8avKTw5l2d16QPXy4BO9g9tHR4eTY7g2HvBq2VnKamj/s1600/IMG_5995.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"></a><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhm3XLadC0r4lSR0XRYhrRkbTwKYQWXkJM8takW7W4YarXy2v_0M8zucoRbeafS0HHAh0buj5Hd3IO4sCIY2qURLZ4v7Sw8q3kXzbgiGhoDaH8RFIVaCz_gHRQUhXDldi2Xk1JtJutIDj5I/s1600/IMG_5994.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"></a><br />
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07047938554541621031noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4741337180892676528.post-46094699178470283522017-01-01T17:27:00.003-08:002017-01-01T17:27:57.519-08:00Christmas 2016 Photos<table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: left; margin-right: 1em; text-align: left;"><tbody>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07047938554541621031noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4741337180892676528.post-61531790259666309602017-01-01T17:20:00.000-08:002017-01-01T17:20:04.292-08:0018 December 2016<div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">
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That's ridiculous that school is going for that long! I think that would be a fun Christmas Eve party! Just watch a movie and open some pajamas. Make sure you send me the Santa pictures! And pictures from the lights! It sounds like a good R<span style="font-size: 12.8px;">elief Society lesson.</span></div>
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This week was good here. It was pretty tough if I'm honest. When I get the idea in my head that someone is better or cooler than me I get nervous and self conscious. So that's how I was with Elder Cobabe for the first few days. I think I'm better now, haha. This Ward is pretty cool. So anywhere we've gone so far I've been quiet and shy. And I hate that. I will just have to warm up and relax I guess. But church was awesome on Sunday. The Ward is really good. They are all really nice to us! They spoil is a little bit! Our fridge is full of food from members. It's awesome! Last night we had dinner with an older couple, the Stewart's. She is from Belgium and he is from Scotland! So I feel like he and I really hit it off! We talked about tartans and kilts and where dad is from and all sorts of stuff. They asked to see my dad in his kilt so I showed them the picture of he and Riley when they went to the Highland games. They said he looks like a"tough" man. Which I though was really funny that they used the word tough haha <img alt="😂" class="CToWUd" data-goomoji="1f602" goomoji="1f602" src="https://mail.google.com/mail/e/1f602" style="margin: 0px 0.2ex; max-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle;" /> it was awesome! They told us we were welcome at their house any time! I'm excited to get to know them better. On Thursday it was pouring! There were floods in the streets and in people's backyards. Elder Cobabe was telling me about a crazy service his trainer went to. It was flooding really bad and they needed help so people called the elders and they sandbagged all day and got soaking wet and worked all day. Literally 10 minutes after that someone called us and asked us to come help sandbag! Haha! It was just a little job in someone's backyard, keeping it away from their door, but we felt really excited that we could do something like that! It was fun. I'm sooooooo excited to see you guys on Sunday! I'm not sure where or when we will do it yet, but I'll let you know. I love and miss you guys!</div>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07047938554541621031noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4741337180892676528.post-54145402120655643032016-12-18T15:51:00.001-08:002016-12-18T15:51:22.709-08:0011 December 2016<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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<br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">Yes I'm being transferred! I'm excited. Part of me is really sad but </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">the rest of me is excited. I'm going to the Lincoln 5th Ward with E</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">lder Cobabe. I know him a little bit. He is from Texas. He's a manly </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">man, all about guns, cars, country music and working out. So it's going </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">to be fun! And he's notorious for helping his companions build a ton</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">of muscle. So I'm pretty pumped. And I've heard so many great things </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">about the Ward. It's just going to be good.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">That time lapse video of you decorating the Christmas tree is so cool! It's so cute with the three of you guys. It</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">looked like Riley was very helpful! I remember last Christmas I was home </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">we had to have that fence around the tree so he couldn't get things. </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">You can probably send the packages to my Lincoln address. It's just </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">the apartments I'm living in now that are kinda sketchy. I'm sure the </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">new one will be nicer. The man I got the sweaters from wasn't a member. Or </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">an investigator really. You remember CM? She is the one we </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">baptized at the beginning of November. It was her step dad. We </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">actually set a baptism date for her mother though. I'm a little bit sad </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">I won't be here for that. </span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">I'm glad granddad is doing well. </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">I love when it rains here. I </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">love when it rains anywhere really, but it's just usually sunny here so </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">I'm happy when it rains especially.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">I'm quite jealous that you guys are watching those Christmas movies! I </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">miss those! The house looks great too. It's crazy to see wood in the </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">kitchen floor. Haha! I'm also very glad Riley's dentist appointment went better </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">than last time. He's a good boy, he is.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">This week was good for us here! We passed out a ton of Christmas pass </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">along cards! Apparently we left one with our phone number on a Pastor's </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">door. His name is Pastor Dan. He put our number in a big group text-</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">thing so we keep getting texts from random people with Bible verses and stuff. It's </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">funny! </span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">I'm sad to be leaving Antelope. I got </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">to know a few people really well. But I've heard incredible things </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">about Lincoln and I'm excited! I miss you guys and cannot wait to see </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">you on Christmas. I love you!</span><br />
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07047938554541621031noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4741337180892676528.post-21991919135309396642016-12-11T18:15:00.002-08:002016-12-11T18:15:51.670-08:004 December 2016<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">Hey Mum!</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">Transfers are next week, and I'm feeling 50/50 on whether I'll be transferred </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">at this point. It could go either way. </span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">I'm so glad you are doing the Light the World thing! It's cool to see </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">others do it. I liked how on the calendar yesterday said "attend a </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">church service, you are always welcome to one of ours." I just thought </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">that was kinda cute.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;"><br /></span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">So I made t</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">his vow when I was a greenie that I wouldn't listen to Queen my </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">entire mission. You know like if you go in a store and they have music </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">on, that's fine, but if it's Queen I can't go in the store. I don't </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">want to hear them until I'm home. </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">I refuse to listen to </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">them out here. They will sound so much better when I'm home!</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">Will you take a time laps of you guys decorating the tree? Elder </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">Osborne's mom did that with his family, I think that would be fun to </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">see! I'd love some pictures of the house. That's good to hear Granddad </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">is eating better. Do they have people come to their house and help him </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">and Nana out?</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">I get 140 dollars a month on my mission card. And yeah it's for food </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">and toiletries and stuff like that. That's all I ever really buy </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">anyway. The real thing is I eat out too much, but I haven't found </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">something that I really want to make at lunch everyday. I just bought </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">some taco/burrito stuff so I hope that keeps me set on lunch for a </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">few weeks. That's the only thing that I really have a hard time with </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">haha! I will try to do better. </span><br />
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<i><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">(From Mum: Here is my quote for Growth Mindset for this week “Think of times</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;"> other people outdid you and you just assumed they were smarter or more</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;"> talented. Now consider the idea that they just used better </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">strategies, taught themselves more, practiced harder, and worked their</span></i><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;"><i> way through obstacles. You can do that, too, if you want to.”)</i> </span><div>
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">I like that quote though. It's hard to </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">compare to others sometimes. But we know it's better not to. </span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">This week was great! We has a lesson with C. M's mother. Her </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">husband just passed away, so we taught her the plan of salvation. She told</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;"> us that she always had her own beliefs about God and religion </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">but she said she never ever disagreed with the LDS church. So we set a </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">baptism date for her. </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">We are excited for her. We also had dinner</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">with our investigator named M. She is awesome and just as </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">social as can be. She always makes us feel welcome and always is </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">interested in hearing about the gospel. We will hopefully help her </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">progress here soon. We are planning on getting all Christmasy this </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">week. Setting up decorations and a tree and going caroling and what</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">not. I'm super excited! We will take lots of pictures. It's going to </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">be a good Christmas season. I can't wait to see you on Christmas! Love </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">you guys.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">Love,</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">Elder Yule</span><br />
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We taught Zone Meeting today. Both of these sweaters were given to me by a man who passed away last week.</div>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07047938554541621031noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4741337180892676528.post-9120765134086535342016-12-11T18:05:00.005-08:002016-12-11T18:05:38.021-08:0027 November 2016<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">That sounds like an awesome weekend! I miss all the family. I miss fun </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">trips to Saint George! I was pretty home sick this week. But it was </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">still a fun week. There really wasn't anything notable that happened. </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">Thanksgiving was good. Elder Lewis left his iPad on the roof of the </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">car and of course it fell off. So it broke. We tried to find a place</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">that would fix it, but there we couldn't find anywhere. Finally Lewis </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">said a prayer. We were driving to go see someone and there was a big </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">poster outside this little place that said iPad repair. We went in and </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">there was a middle eastern man who was just awesome. He did everything </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">he could to get the price down for him and it ended up doing </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">everything for 85 dollars. And it's perfectly fine now. He was a </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">blessing haha. I've heard a lot about "terrorists" and </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">stuff like that and I absolutely hate it. It really bugs me that </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">people automatically think people from the Middle East hate Americans </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">and they want to kill us. We had Thanksgiving dinner at a member in </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">the Antelope 4th ward, the Castro family. They are really awesome. </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;"> It was so fun. I'm glad you guys had </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">so much fun down in St. George! I'd love more pictures and videos and </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">everything! Everyone looked so good! I can't wait for next</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">Thanksgiving haha! </span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">I'm sure you've seen the new Light the World video! </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">It's awesome! It really helps us out a lot! It gives us something to </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">focus on rather than just trying to make something up on the spot. I'm </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">really excited for the 25 days of service thing. Are you guys going to </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">do it? We really aren't working with anyone lately. It's kind of </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">boring. And finding people to teach is quite hard, haha. But we are </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">just trying to go hard on teaching less actives, they say that's the</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">place to find new investigators. So that's pretty much the basics of </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">our missionary work lately. I have a feeling I'm going to be </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">transferred at this next transfer. Which is on the 13th. I think </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">that'll be good. I've been pretty depressed lately. Over nothing in </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">particular. I can't stand it. I hope the holiday seasons cheers me up, </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">and kind of changes my mindset. </span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">I miss you guys so much, I can't wait </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">to see you guys on Christmas. Let's hope this week is more exciting </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">here, so I have something to write home about. haha. I love and miss </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">you.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">Elder Yule</span>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07047938554541621031noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4741337180892676528.post-52985240303390300132016-12-11T18:01:00.001-08:002016-12-11T18:01:23.724-08:00Thanksgiving 2016<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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So here is my first Thanksgiving meal. It was a family from the Philippines so it wasn't very traditional. They did have squid and clam which was kinda cool.</div>
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Then we went to the church after and a Polynesian family was having a big old dinner so they said "Elders! Come get food!:</div>
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This week was good. I came down with a bit of a cold on Thursday morning so zone conferences on Friday got the bad part of the cold. So it was kinda tough sitting through it. But it was good. They showed the Christmas initiative, it's a really cool video. They have a preview one out now, but the official one comes out on Friday I think. I'm excited for it. So you saw that we had to write talks about how the Book of Mormon has strengthened our testimony of Jesus Christ. So what happens is we all write a talk and while we are singing the opening hymn president writes some names on a piece of paper and gives it to whoever is conducting the meeting, then they just say the names. So we don't know who is going to give a talk. Well I got called on and gave my talk and what not, it was good. I was a little bit nervous with my sore throat. But I got through it and I thought I did alright. A. is doing great. She is coming to church and going to activities, she's gotten pretty close to some of the girls in the Ward. It's good. So no one in our Ward signed up to feed us on Thanksgiving. <span style="font-size: 12.8px;">So a member in the Antelope 4th Ward offered to feed us. </span><span style="font-size: 12.8px;"> I love the missionaries in my zone and I love my companion right now. </span></div>
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That's probably best for granddad not to travel to St. George for Thanksgiving. That will be a fun trip. I was just thinking the other day how fun road trips down to Saint George and up to Seattle were. I miss those a lot. I've gotten a little less scared of driving since I've been out here, Elder Lewis doesn't really like driving so I've been doing most of it here. So when I come home I will help out driving more! </div>
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I'm glad youre not giving in to what people want just to be happy. In our first Missionary Leadership Conference meeting, the new zone leaders are asked to stand and say what they want to accomplish while they are a zone leader. One Elder stood up and said "I just want to make everyone happy." And President kind of shut him down for that. Leaders are not supposed to make everyone happy. They are supposed to do what is right, and help others do the same. So it's cool to here that you already do everything that we are taught to do out here. I really miss listening to Queen sometimes haha! But I feel like I will appreciate them so much more when I get home.</div>
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Wednesday morning Elder Lewis and I were doing our studies when the smoke detector went off. Well we had a candle lit so I blew it out quickly, then fanned the smoke out. The detector stopped beeping so we think it's all good. Well a few seconds later our carbon monoxide alarm goes off...... so we are kind of freaking out, we left our apartment and just stayed away from it for the day, when we got back for the evening we remembered stories of missionaries sleeping with a carbon monoxide leak and dying in the night. So we called President a few times and he just didn't answer, so finally it was about <span class="aBn" data-term="goog_789381620" 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;">10:15</span></span> and we don't know what to do. We don't want to go to sleep and not wake up, but we don't want to do something President would not approve of. But we figured getting scolded would be better than dying.... so we shove 2 mattresses into our little Corolla... yes, 2 twin sized mattresses into our Corolla. We folded them in half, one in the trunk and one in the backseat, and we drove to the 4th ward elders place and we spent the night there. We called President in the morning and told him what happened and he said we made the right choice. He also told us that these kinds of monitors get dust in them really easily so to clean it out then see what happens... so we cleaned it out and it never went off again. So it was just a false alarm but it was quite scary, haha! </div>
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I love and miss you guys. I love those videos of little Riley. Anytime any of the guys in the district I'm in get frustrated they now say it like Riley in that video haha! They think he's so cute! And so do I! I love you and miss you. I hope you have a good week.</div>
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<br />Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07047938554541621031noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4741337180892676528.post-59902408605345579272016-12-11T17:38:00.003-08:002016-12-11T17:38:56.290-08:0013 November 2016<div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">
Hello Mum,</div>
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We have having zone conferences. They are always fun. The Christmas initiative is going to be introduced. Isn't that crazy? This is my second Christmas initiative.... they are always fun and missionary work is always good this time of year. (<i>From Mum: </i><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><i>My favourite scriptures that have strengthened my testimony of Jesus Christ are 3 Nephi 17. This is when Jesus blesses the children. He shows such compassion for them. That always touched my heart.) </i> </span><span style="font-size: 12.8px;">I really like that chapter too, I might use that one. </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><i>(I asked Calum: Next week I am teaching in relief society about 'how to teach the gospel'. One part talks about helping childen - thinking of young men or young women or primary age - to have their testimony and faith be in the gospel and the teachings and not in the the teacher. I know that was a big deal as a missionary. We did our part, but sometimes the converts had their attachment to the missionaries and when the missionary left the convert didn't always stay. So we really tried to help the ward members friendship the converts to help avoid that. What have you done to help the converts not have the attachment be to you as missionaries? How are you sure their testimony is in the church and not just a love of you missionaries?) </i></span>That's a tough one sometimes. Sometimes people just like the person more than the gospel. <span style="font-size: 12.8px;">That's a good way to do it, helping them have friends in the Ward. Really I think that's what the baptismal interview is for. All the interview is is bearing your testimony on what they've been taught. And you can tell if they actually have a testimony.</span></div>
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Sorry this email has been so short. I don't know why but I just am not in a super talkative mood right now. A few days ago we gave a man a blessing. He was on hospice and wasn't doing very well. When I gave the blessing I felt prompted to say that he would pass soon, and to release him into the next life. I felt scared to say it and I was shaking a little bit, but I said it. The family said that he had been cranky and mad and just not doing well, but after I gave the blessing they said he made his transition into the next stage of the process of passing away. I felt bad. But the family was happy to see him finally progress and be more peaceful. </div>
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I miss you guys. Send me pictures of all of you guys. How is everyone doing? Are you still walking every day? Are the girls dating anyone? I love and miss you.</div>
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<span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><i>“Mia Hamm tells us, “After every game or practice, if you walk off the field knowing that you gave everything you had, you will always be a winner.” For those with the fixed mindset, success is about establishing their superiority, pure and simple. Being that somebody who is worthier than the nobodies…Remember, in the fixed mindset, effort is not a cause for pride. It is something that casts doubt on your talent.” </i></span></div>
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That's a super cool quote. President Marston talks about that all the time. If we don't get any lesson in a day if no one answers the door, if we never baptize anyone, if we can go to bed knowing we did our best, then we were a successful missionary.</div>
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I did get the parcel! I was so excited! Elder Osborne and I were just talking about how much we loved the Reeses that were in different shapes and then you sent those! We were super excited!</div>
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And Riley looked adorable in his little costume! And I got the video of him singing All My Loving! That was the cutest one ever! Elder Osborne loves the Beatles too, so I showed him and he said it was the cutest thing he's ever seen!</div>
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Tell him I said I miss him and I love him! And tell him to keep going to school and keep singing!</div>
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Happy Halloween! Make sure you take pictures of you guys in your costumes! And videos too! Hes a cute little Captain America. </div>
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One thing I've learned is you can't make anyone do anything. They will do their thing and that's that. You can encourage and try to persuade, but they make the decision for themselves. But it's always comforting to know that whatever they do its what Heavenly Father needed them to do, and He knew they were going to do it, and it has a purpose. Thats a pretty deep subject for a little boy who just got shy, but it just got me thinking haha.</div>
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That's so cute about him snuggling before bed. I miss his little snuggles. You'll have to take some videos of him when he says all this cute stuff. I'm sure you dont have your phone on him every second but try to get some cute videos.</div>
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I did get the three letters. It is always nice getting something in the mail. We felt like Elder Stoddard is leaving. And we were right. Elder Stoddard is being transferred and I am getting Elder Lewis who I was in the MTC with! We weren't companions but we were in the same room, I love that guy so I'm excited! I'm staying next to the mission office for at least one more transfer. Also something else kinda cool is I hit my 13 month mark yesterday. October went by quick didn't it?</div>
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Update on my week, C. is still on track for baptism. It's going down this Saturday at <span class="aBn" data-term="goog_789381618" 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;">10 am</span></span>. I had to give a talk in sacrament meeting. It was a ten minute talk. Maybe I'll send it to you. I dont know how I feel about it. It was on the Book of Mormon. I don't think I've ever asked you what your favorite scripture is? What is your favorite from the Book of Mormon and the Bible? I miss you guys. I love you guys. I only have 11 months left! Haha thats crazy! Talk to you later mum. Love you.</div>
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<br />Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07047938554541621031noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4741337180892676528.post-58154883252263129232016-12-11T17:21:00.005-08:002016-12-11T17:21:48.230-08:0023 October 2016<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">We decided to do something different for p day today. All the elders in our zone went out to this big park thing and just rode our bikes around and just hung out. We also tried catching some squirrels haha! My companion E</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">lder Stoddard loves hunting and fishing so he's all about that kind of stuff. But of course we didnt have wifi. This week was good, we had a zone blitz in the Antelope 4th ward. Each missionary in the zone pretty much just went on splits with a Ward missionary in the 4th Ward and contacted some less active members. There were some miracles, not really on the route Brother Gurtz and I had, but some of them got in and even had some lessons with these people. That was really the only notable thing from this week. C. came to church again. She is on track for her baptism. We are PUMPED! She is solid as a rock. I love you! </span>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07047938554541621031noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4741337180892676528.post-33167342647442310862016-12-11T17:19:00.001-08:002016-12-11T17:19:23.055-08:0016 October 2016<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">Hi mum,</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">This week was alright. S., the one we </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">had to be bold with about coming to church pretty much dropped us. Our</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">relief society president called her and asked if she could give her a </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">ride to church and S. basically told her she was done going to church </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">and to leave her alone. When we talked to her she made it sound like</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">she was going to try harder this week, but apparently that's not what</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">she meant. So we will just have to see how things pan out. We are </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">still going to visit once in a while. The other women we have on date for baptism </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">is C. She is totally solid. She came to church yesterday and was</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">all dressed up and what not. It was awesome. We have a really cool </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">investigator in the YSA. I might have told you about her already but </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">her name is A. She is this really cool girl.</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;"> She is really cool and funny. Things are good here. The transfer </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">ends in 2 weeks I'm looking forward to it. I think the changes will be </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">good.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">I've grown to appreciate your patience in meetings. There are a few </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">extra meetings for zl's and it is brutal. I don't know how you do it.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">I think your relief society lesson on charity is a very cool subject. One scripture says that having </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">charity is putting away childish things, and how I took that was a </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">child does things for themselves most of the time. They see playing </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">soccer as more important than helping someone out. And to put childish </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">things away means to put someone else's needs in front of your wants. </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">Which is really cool. I'm sure you taught a great lesson.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">I love and miss you guys.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">Elder Yule</span>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07047938554541621031noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4741337180892676528.post-72295164055489393582016-10-16T18:06:00.003-07:002016-10-16T18:06:53.541-07:00Antelope, California<div style="text-align: center;">
It rained for the first time in months! It was awesome.</div>
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<br />Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07047938554541621031noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4741337180892676528.post-47478751498274443662016-10-16T18:03:00.000-07:002016-10-16T18:03:11.348-07:0010 October 2016<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">Hello Mum,</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">I dont think i sent you a picture </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">of my cake did I? I'll send you. I told you a sister in the zone made </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">it for me, it looked great! </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">We had Mission Leadership Council this week and I wore the tie you </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">sent me and EVERYONE loved it and complimented it. Also for my </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">birthday I might have told you this but we had to get tiwi put in our </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">car and the guy was really late, so we sat in the mission office until </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">about 4 o'clock. So really I had a 2 hour p-day on my birthday. We </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">usually just play some basketball with such a small zone.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">So our baptism candidates..... it's a little bit complicated with one </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">of them. It is a requirement for baptism for them to come to church at </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">least 3 times before they are baptized and S. hasn't and won't be able </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">to reach that with her date being on Oct. 22. She always cancels right </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">before her ride gets there. She wants to be baptized but can't make the</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">leap of faith that it takes. So she is not on date right now. We will </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">pick a new date this week I am sure. It is quite frustrating of </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">course, but we know if Heavenly Father wants her to be baptized at </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">this time, she will. Our other women on date, C., seems to be </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">solid. </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;"> We had a prompting to call her the </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">other night and just check in on her and see how she is doing and it </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">turns out that she had to have a kind of emergency surgery the day we </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">called, so she really appreciated that we were thinking about her.</span><br />
<br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">As for the rest of our area there isn't too much extra work. We are </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">teaching a young women in the YSA, her name is A, and she is </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">awesome. She always has really good genuine questions and she is fun </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">to teach! We took her on a chapel tour, and taught some of the Gospel </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">of Jesus Christ lesson. She is really cool. And she did come to church </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">yesterday. Thank heavens the people in the YSA are so friendly and </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">welcoming. The relief society president came right over as soon as she </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">walked in and introduced herself and asked if she wanted to sit next </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">to her. People like that make my job a thousand times easier. Also </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">there is this really big (not fat, really thick and muscular)</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">Polynesian guy in the YSA who talked to A. for a long time and </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">A. is this tiny little black girl, I'd be surprised if she weighs more </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">than 110 pounds. But she and this guy just hit it off and they talked </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">for ages. It was pretty sweet. Haha!</span><br />
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Hi Mum! Sorry I haven't written. Early today we had to get tiwi put in our car. I might have already told you about it but if I didn't, it's basically a monitoring system for our car so we don't go too fast or drive aggressively. So we were told it might take a few hours. Well the installation guy was late. So my P-day birthday started at 4. We had to sit at the mission office from 10-4 so it wasn't the best p-day/birthday ever, but it's been an awesome day still. We got to see some other cool missionaries.</div>
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From my letter to Calum:<span style="color: red;"> Well, I hope you have a lovely birthday! I am thinking about you and missing you very much. You are on the downhill slide. It's so hard to believe you have been gone a year. I think about you and miss you every day. But I never think about you being gone for two years. That's such a long time. I just think from one Monday to the next when I know I will hear from you. So I really only miss you for one week at a time. Have a wonderful birthday! Celebrate with your companions. Let me know everything you do. </span></div>
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I'll write more later. I love you mum. I'm thankful for you guys at home and I miss you.</div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">This is the Antelope, California Stake Center. It is a massive building! It has 2 chapels. They jokingly call it the Antelope Temple.</td></tr>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07047938554541621031noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4741337180892676528.post-76419953984095538972016-10-02T18:07:00.001-07:002016-10-02T18:07:26.631-07:0025 September 2016<div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; direction: inherit; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">
Something exciting happened this week too! It doesn't feel that crazy, but when you think about it it's pretty cool. We got an online referral for a women named CM. We go over there and meet her, and she wants to be baptized! <span class="aBn" data-term="goog_48778117" 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;">Within 20 minutes</span></span> we had settled on a date! It all just happened so fast it didn't feel crazy. Haha. So we have S and C on date for baptism. When a few weeks ago we had nothing going. It's weird how things pick up then stop then pick up and stop. It's a funny little cycle. Transfers were this week too. Stoddard and I are staying together as ZLs. We got a new greenie from Pleasant Grove. He played soccer there. I'm pretty sure we played them once? It's kind of weird, he and another greenie in the zone graduated in 2016. It doesn't feel like it's been that long. </div>
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<span style="color: #222222;">One year this Friday. </span><span style="color: red;">(Calum's one year mark was September 30th!)</span></div>
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So this week I did some laundry, and umm.... I left a pen in my pocket... my shirt pocket... my white shirt pocket..... so there are some blue lines on some of my shirts. A women in Chico told me to spray the marks with hairspray and wash them again so I'll try that first, but if you have any ideas let me know. And it's really not too bad. It's mostly just a few dots here and there. And they're hardly noticeable.</div>
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I hope you guys are being blessed for what I'm doing. I go out and get to feel the spirit all the time and have fun with some cool missionaries and you guys are blessed, that's a pretty "slick deal."(That's kinda trying to be like granddad) we sure are blessed. I dunno if I've already told you this but someone in Redding would always say "too blessed to be stressed" which I think is a pretty cool little saying. I love and miss you guys.</div>
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