Hi mum,
I've missed you guys a lot recently. Just you guys being in Seattle is so weird because I'm not there! It looks so fun! I miss my granddad too. It makes me sad to see those pictures. He is so small. But I'm glad all of you guys are there with him. Those pictures are awesome! Riley is so big! And you guys look awesome.
This week for me was pretty good. We seemed to teach more lessons than we usually do this week, so it felt good. It felt like we worked pretty hard. Friday and Saturday were both pretty cool. Friday we went to this big yard sale, just to check it out and there was this really sweet pocket knife. So I asked the guy what he was selling it for and
he said, "Ah you can have it. I've had it for 20 years. In another 20 years you can give it to someone else!" So I asked if he was sure and he said "yeah please!" That was really cool of him. I shook his hand and asked if he was going to need some help cleaning stuff up when the sale was over. He said he wouldn't be there, but his wife would. Saturday night we helped this women pack stuff up. Her husband had told her about us and she was telling us what he's like. He is a security guard for San Quentin prison... Which is one of the hardest prisons in the U.S. Charles Manson was in San Quentin. One of the only prisons in the U.S. that still has death row apparently. And a few years ago this guy was one of the guards on death row! So we have all these crazy theories that he confiscated the knife from a prisoner and now he gave it to me. Which is pretty cool if you ask me. Also on Saturday Elder Green lost his name tag. So we go all over the place to find it. We were riding past this street and Green says we should go down here, but he couldn't have lost it on that road because we hadn't gone down it that day. I said no let's keep going, but then I said, actually yeah let's do it. We ran into this women we've been trying to get in contact with for weeks! Her mother had just passed away, and we were hopefully able to comfort her a
little. So we set a time to go back and talk about the Plan of Salvation. She really needs it. Anyway so that was all the cool stuff that happened this week. I love you guys. Love and miss you.
Sunday, August 28, 2016
Monday, June 27, 2016
District Leader - 27 June 2016
(district leader buddy, or comp of a district leader) pretty much my whole mission, so I'm not terrified like I was for training. But it's going to be a little harder. Not a whole lot happened his week, numbers were low again. I wouldn't say I'm getting comfortable with kinda low numbers, but I've accepted that the work is at a lull and it will pick up. I miss you guys
20 June 2016
The weather here has been very similar to Seattle the last couple of days. It made me sad when I saw the pictures of granddaddy. He is tiny. He does not sound well. I miss him. Even his teeth and smile didn't seem like his teeth and smile. I loved getting emails from you in the middle of the week. It is always very nice. And I got the trousers. All the other Elders say you rock because of all the treats you sent. Haha! So thank you. The pants are a little bit too long now! But it's fine. And there are definitely people here who can fix pants. My companion and I are doing better. We are opening up and being honest with each other. Not that we were like holding back our feelings, but I have been able to tell him more things constructively and I think he has realized that it's because I'm trying to help him. It was a weird week. We had a meeting for trainers and trainees and it was really good. Again numbers were kind of low this week but I feel better this week. I only have about 7 weeks left in Chico. The president told me they need me down south, whatever that means. So I'm kinda looking forward to that. I miss you guys. And love you.
-Elder Yule
-Elder Yule
13 June 2016
So this week was pretty good for me. Not a whole lot happened. I feel like we did some pretty good missionary work this week though. I don't know I just felt good about our week. On Saturday for some reason, I just hit a wall. Just like a big wall of depression. I didn't know why. I just didn't want to do anything. I wanted to be anywhere but
the mission field. I wanted to listen to music I wanted to be with my family, or just lay in bed. So I took a nap during our lunch hour. I don't know where this kind of wall came from but it wasn't welcomed. It's often hard to keep a positive attitude. Not that people are mean, it's all just in my head really.
We had zone conference this last week. It was really good. We talked a lot about how the spirit has prompted is and how we were able to receive those promptings. Elder Kelly played "A Poor Wayfaring Man of
Grief" on the guitar for the musical number. It was incredible!
the mission field. I wanted to listen to music I wanted to be with my family, or just lay in bed. So I took a nap during our lunch hour. I don't know where this kind of wall came from but it wasn't welcomed. It's often hard to keep a positive attitude. Not that people are mean, it's all just in my head really.
We had zone conference this last week. It was really good. We talked a lot about how the spirit has prompted is and how we were able to receive those promptings. Elder Kelly played "A Poor Wayfaring Man of
Grief" on the guitar for the musical number. It was incredible!
5 June 2016
Now this week for me was alright. First, on Tuesday morning we went and got haircuts. Most places were closed for Memorial Day on Monday. We pass this place called "Bushwackers" just about every day and it looks super fun and unique and it was always a joke that we should go to Bushwackers for haircuts. Well Tuesday we did it! And I got the worst haircut I have ever received! No joke! The Elders volunteered me to go first. So when they saw my head they all made an excuse to the women and we all left! Haha! So then went to a place called "Gearheads" in downtown Chico. I asked the guy if he could just clean me up and make it look better if he could. I explained the situation, how we tried this new place, and I didn't have the heart to tell the old women she did a crap job, and I paid her 12 dollars for a no good haircut. So this guy fixed me up and I went to pay and he said I was good. He didn't even make me pay. It was so cool! Now I'm going to Gearheads anytime I need a haircut. The rest
of the week was pretty boring and quite frustrating honestly. Numbers were not good this week for Green and I. And yes I know "numbers don't show how hard you are working" but they are a pretty good indicator of how effective you are and how well you're planning and stuff. So I was quite frustrated and quite mad if I'm honest. And I didn't know if the numbers were all correct because our area book app wouldn't sync right. And elder green still doesn't know 100% how to put in lesson reports. I keep showing him, but I guess he still needs to be shown more. So some lessons weren't counting towards numbers. But I feel pretty good and I think next week will be better. So that's always good.
of the week was pretty boring and quite frustrating honestly. Numbers were not good this week for Green and I. And yes I know "numbers don't show how hard you are working" but they are a pretty good indicator of how effective you are and how well you're planning and stuff. So I was quite frustrated and quite mad if I'm honest. And I didn't know if the numbers were all correct because our area book app wouldn't sync right. And elder green still doesn't know 100% how to put in lesson reports. I keep showing him, but I guess he still needs to be shown more. So some lessons weren't counting towards numbers. But I feel pretty good and I think next week will be better. So that's always good.
20 June 2016
The weather here has been very similar to Seattle the last couple of days. It made me sad when I saw the pictures of granddaddy. He is tiny. He does not sound well. I miss him. Even his teeth and smile didn't seem like his teeth and smile. I loved getting emails from you in the middle of the week. It is always very nice. And I got the trousers. All the other Elders say you rock because of all the treats you sent. Haha! So thank you. The pants are a little bit too long now! But it's fine. And there are definitely people here who can fix pants. My companion and I are doing better. We are opening up and being honest with each other. Not that we were like holding back our feelings, but I have been able to tell him more things constructively and I think he has realized that it's because I'm trying to help him. It was a weird week. We had a meeting for trainers and trainees and it was really good. Again numbers were kind of low this week but I feel better this week. I only have about 7 weeks left in Chico. The president told me they need me down south, whatever that means. So I'm kinda looking forward to that. I miss you guys. And love you.
-Elder Yule
-Elder Yule
8 Months
This week pretty much rocked! I'm starting to get used to being a trainer. I can't think of a whole lot that happened.. On Tuesday or Wednesday we were riding around and we thought we should stop intothis man named Kenny, he's not very interested, in fact he's a bit crazy. He thinks Joseph Smith saw aliens and kinda weird stuff like that. But he's cool and fun to talk to. So we get there and we see these little kids like 9-10 year olds playing basketball so we stop and play with them. We've played with them before. So we're playing basketball with them and one of their moms comes out and gives us some water and orange juice. She kept telling us how thankful she was and how good we are to the community and a bunch of crazy stuff. It was awesome! So she invited us to have a bbq with her and her family the next week. So this week we went to her house and had some burritos and tostadas and a bunch of stuff with her and her family! It was awesome! Then we taught her the restoration. She is so interested. I can't really tell if she is just the perfect investigator who wants to know everything or if she's just being nice because we play with her son. Either way she is always telling us how great we are and asking questions. It rocked!
On Sunday I had a very spiritual experience. We had a Hymnimony in sacrament meeting. Which just means instead of going up and bearing your testimonies you go up and share a hymn that means something to you and then the congregation sings 2 verses of that hymn. I felt the spirit so many times. The spirit was there throughout
the whole meeting but there were times where the spirit just really hit me. Then Brother Jones went up and shared an experience with the song Be Still My Soul. Whenever I hear that song it, of course, always makes me think of Grandma (since we sang it at her funeral) and I get a frog in my throat, but I can usually make it through the song. Well on Sunday within the first 5 words I couldn't hold my tears back. At first I was a little bit embarrassed honestly. I was sitting in the middle of sacrament meeting crying. But then I had this feeling that I was ok. My crying was
because Grandma was with me. It was very special. And yes, I wrote it in my journal. It's hard to explain how awesome it was. It was an amazing day. And now you guys went and visited her grave today, which makes
things so special. I miss going grave hopping with the cousins. Tell them I'm doing great and I'm training! And tell them some of my favorite memories were grave hopping with them on Memorial Day.
I miss and love you mom. Tell the others I miss and love them too.
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