tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4409103153667224532024-03-05T02:23:49.112-08:00Elder Sterling WiserMissionary Momhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00481254671988313303noreply@blogger.comBlogger118125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-440910315366722453.post-71615467085855776582015-05-25T21:13:00.001-07:002015-05-25T21:13:47.409-07:00May 25, 2015 - Final Email<span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px;">Hello family!!</span><br />
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It was a really good week! I'm so happy about it :) the Lord blessed us heaps. me as well a lot. I felt completely normal this week. I was talking to Dean and he just said to plan times to think about home stuff. like packing and what not but other than that just focus as much as I can. so thats what I did. and it helped loads!! Dean is the man :)</div>
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I learned a good lesson this week though. Planning is soooo important. Out here we have weekly planning and daily planning. We set goals and plan things for each hour of the day. I'll admit I slacked a bit on that. we have some lessons that we get in late from and we just do a quick planning session and prepare for bed... so to all those future missionary's.. read some of chapter 8 of preach my gospel :) haha planning is honestly one of the most important things you can do to give your heart might mind and strength to the lord. get it done!!</div>
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Well I would love to leave you guys with my testimony. these last two years have been amazing! I love my mission so much. These last two years have changed my life!! I think about how much i have changed and honestly I just know how good it feels to do what God asks us to do. I know that with everything the Lord asks of us there is a blessing attatched. Nothing that satan gives will last forever, just for a short time. if we are on the Lords side we will not lose!!! I also love how God always gives us a way to get back to him as well. He gives us prophets, scriptures, prayer,church, family, and many more things. the moral of the story is that God is our loving Heavenly Father, thats something I know and something I will always try and help others find.</div>
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Joseph Smith was called by God to restore the gospel on the earth again. Thomas S. Monson is the prophet on the earth today. I know that he translated the Book of Mormon and that it is the word of God.</div>
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I know the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints is the true and full gospel of Jesus Christ. and that because it is true we have a way that we can truly be happy in this life.</div>
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to say I know is pretty bold :) haha if you dont know for sure read this and find out for yourself. its in the Book of Mormon. Moroni 10:3-5</div>
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anyone who is thinking about going on a mission... just do it! you will love it so much :) its not even a sacrifice because of how much we get back.</div>
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I love you guys so much!! thank you for all the things you do for me. I really really love you all.</div>
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I'll talk to ya soon.</div>
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love Elder Wiser</div>
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Missionary Momhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00481254671988313303noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-440910315366722453.post-22905090073057867582015-05-19T18:41:00.002-07:002015-05-19T18:41:45.881-07:00May 18, 2015<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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Hey Mom, </div>
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It is my last week!! what the heck!?</div>
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It is going to be so good. This last week was so amazing we have seen some miracles. </div>
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I have re-learned some amazing lessons this week. Elder Magda and I have been teaching a man named Dave for a long time. Dave is awesome. He is really intelligent and whenever we go over we always laugh but leave with something to think about. It has been super cool getting to know him. So he is a former investigator of Elders Packer and Sever. Sever is in Palu's group and Packer is about as old as me. He is one of Deans friends so we thought we would stop by. It has been an adventure!! He can think so deep into things I always view as simple it's crazy haha it has helped me dig though. At the beginning he didn't know that God was there... after about two weeks he received and answer that God was there and that he loved him. but he didn't really want to do anything with that. He was just happy knowing God was there... but if God is there that means we need to follow him and we can tap into so much happiness in life.</div>
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So last lesson we just got pretty bold... it was so cool to feel the spirit that strong. We just testified about the commandments and everything. It is so powerful to be able to say "I know that is true" and we know it is because God has answered our prayer</div>
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We could see the spirit working on him pretty hard,, he had a good time of silence and he finally said.. alright. when can I get baptized? haha!! so he is planning on getting baptised this coming week.. its going to be so cool!!</div>
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I had the lesson of being bold reconfirmed this week. This is a scripture I read this morning.</div>
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D&C 121:43-44..... dang good :)</div>
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How are people going to know we know something if we don't stand for it?? if you know that Jesus Christ died for you and everyone then you better stand for it as much as you can..</div>
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Its like a little house :)</div>
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So when we discover something we need embrace it, as soon as we have embraced it and seen the blessings ourselves then we will have so much power when we share it! its incredible how the Lord uses us as instruments to help other people.</div>
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Someone may be struggling really hard with a trial then one day just realize that God will help them so they when someone in their family has the same thing they can tell them how much God has helped them :)</div>
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I think that is so cool!! that means that each one of us is being fine tuned to strengthen our testimony so that we can help others strengthen theirs!!</div>
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"As soon as thou art converted strengthen thy brethren":)</div>
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I know these things are true!! everyone can find peace in the gospel of Christ. all we need to do is reach out and take his hand.</div>
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love you guys!! have a great week!!</div>
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love Elder Wiser :)</div>
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Feeling the spirit is so dang good!! we had a time the other day when Elder Magda and I were teaching different people in the same park. We were teaching a man named akin and these kids that were biking started to yell at us.. I thought they were just taking the mic but it turns out that they actually wanted to learn stuff so I went to teach them and after about twenty min or so I finished and came back... I walked into Elder Magdas lesson and I got hit with a wave of the spirit! it was crazy! he had just been testifying and it hit my like a wall it was so cool to feel.</div>
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Missionary Momhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00481254671988313303noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-440910315366722453.post-48653880845781892842015-05-10T20:59:00.001-07:002015-05-10T20:59:57.555-07:00May 5, 2015<div style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px;">
Hey!! haha I'm so stoked as well!! its just weird that when I see your faces all be able to see them in sixteen days after that!! haha what a flippin day... this is all so weird for me! I have been sitting in appointments when teaching just feeling so comfortable and so good. I'm going to absolutely cram my last few weeks... stay up late and wake up early haha I need to make a list of stuff I gotta do so I don't die my last week but I'm going to work so hard. We have a goal to teach twenty lessons this week.... we have started off pretty good :) im going to leave my mark here!!!! this is going to be great!!</div>
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wo!! BYU-I it is haha flippin heck... I really want to pay for schooling... the thing is is there is a car in there.... lap top.... like... thinking about it I just want to laugh haha I'm going to be so stressed when I get back... there will be no more buying candy all the time!! I'm going to be counting pennies :) I'm so excited to see what I can do though.... can I take the stresses of life on? I think so! its going to be great :)</div>
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<br />Missionary Momhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00481254671988313303noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-440910315366722453.post-65410931596495192252015-04-29T21:52:00.001-07:002015-04-29T21:52:37.062-07:00April 29, 2015<div style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px;">
Hey mom :) man your harley ride sounds freezing.... plus going fifty or sixty miles per hour... frozen!! some of the stuff people come out with now adays though is really cool.. I heated jacket haha man.. Dad is a legend :)</div>
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We had an alright week.. Elder Magda was sick at the beginning so we only left for appointments.. which means this week we are going to suffer a bit... if you don't find for a week it takes three weeks to get back to normal... I'm hoping a lot of the investogators we have now will hold for this week. We have some really cool people we are teaching.</div>
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I am able to stay focused :) I don't feel trunky in a way that I don't want to do anything.. I'm excited but I feel normal.. it doesn't seem real to me haha its just weird that in four sundays i'll have been out for two years and on a plane.... man its so weird!! last night before I went to sleep I got really nervous about coming home so I started to read the Ensign and there was a quote that said "as seedlings of God we barley blossom on earth, we fully flower in heaven" I thought that was pretty cool. I was a bit worried about learning everything I should have, and things like that but going home is just the next step in the plan... if God sent me here in this time and this place then when I go home there will always be work for me to do.. I'm in the process of setting some home goals :) so moral of that lesson... out here I need to do what I can.. not focus on the past or anything else that is holding my back.. so yeah that was a good lesson!</div>
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My comp is way cool :) it's way weird not having an American. haha I found that Elder Winder and I have loads of slang that we use that doesn't make sense to people here... so I have had to work on my English a bit. as well there is just a different view on how to do things which is great, we are going to have sick last transfer of my mission!!! yeahh!!!</div>
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man palu as well.. he is so flippin cool. I love being around friends, him and toupu are legends!! we are going to tear it up!!</div>
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So we had a pretty cool thing happen.. the sisters in city center refered a Hungarian family to us because of Elder Magda. We were stoked!! so it was around seven miles.. so we started the trek and it was pouring rain!! it rained till we got there and got of our bikes. taught this family of ten Hungarians.... ten!!!!! what the heck! it was so cool!! they didn't speak much English so i just listened until the asked me stuff about America but it was really cool :) so we will be teaching them well I say we but I just sit there haha two or three times a week. I don't know anything of what was said but they seemed happy and were asking questions so that means good!</div>
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<span style="color: #181100; font-family: Helvetica; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica;">A few years ago I had an experience with deceptive
appearances where the results could have been tragic. My wife’s cousin and
family were visiting us from Utah. It was a calm summer day on the Oregon
coast, and we were fishing in the ocean. It was pleasant, and we were having a
good time catching salmon, when for some reason I turned around to see a huge
eight-foot wave bearing down upon us. I only had time to shout a warning before
the wave hit us broadside. Somehow the boat stayed upright, but Gary, our
cousin, was thrown overboard. We were all wearing life jackets and with some
difficulty maneuvered the boat, half filled with water, to where he was
floating and pulled him aboard.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #181100; font-family: Helvetica; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica;">We had been hit by what is called a sneaker wave. It
doesn’t happen often, and there is no way to predict an occurrence. Later we
found that up and down the Oregon-Washington coast, five people had drowned
that day in three separate boating accidents. All were caused by the same
sneaker wave, which for no apparent reason had welled up off the ocean surface.
At the time we went out over the bar, the ocean was flat and calm and gave no
sign of any danger. But the ocean turned out to be very deceptive and not at
all what it appeared to be.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #181100; font-family: Helvetica; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica;">As we make our way through this life’s journey, we
must continually be on guard and watch for those things which are deceptive and
not what they appear to be. If we are not careful, the sneaker waves in life
can be as deadly as those in the ocean. (R. Conrad Schultz, “Faith obedience,”
Ensign may 2002)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #262626; font-family: Times;">I had great pleasure in training a
well-bred colt. He had a good disposition, clean, well-rounded eye, was well
proportioned, and all in all, a choice animal. Under the saddle he was as
willing, responsive, and cooperative as a horse could be. He and my dog,
Scotty, were real companions. I liked the way he would go up to something of
which he was afraid. He had confidence that if he would do as I bade him he
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restraint. He was ill-contented when tied and would nibble at the tie rope
until he was free. He would not run away; he just wanted to be free. Thinking
other horses felt the same, he would proceed to untie their ropes. He hated to
be confined in the pasture, and if he could find a place in the fence where
there was only smooth wire, he would paw the wire carefully with his feet until
he could step over to freedom. More than once my neighbors were kind enough to
put him back in the field. He learned even to push open the gate. Though he
often did damage that was provoking and sometimes expensive, I admired his
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<span style="color: #262626; font-family: Times; mso-bidi-font-family: Times; mso-bidi-font-size: 18.0pt;">But his curiosity and desire to
explore the neighborhood led him and me into trouble. Once on the highway he
was hit by an automobile, resulting in a demolished machine, injury to the
horse, and slight, though not serious, injury to the driver. Recovering from
that, and still impelled by a feeling of wanderlust, he inspected the fence
throughout the entire boundary. He even found the gates wired. So for a while
we thought we had Dandy secure in the pasture.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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gate unwired. Detecting this, Dandy unlatched it, took another horse with him,
and together they visited the neighbor’s field. They went to an old house used
for storage. Dandy’s curiosity prompted him to push open the door. There was a
sack of grain. What a find! Yes, and what a tragedy! The grain was poisoned
bait for rodents! In a few minutes Dandy and the other horse were in spasmodic
pain, and shortly both were dead.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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people! You are not bad; you do not even intend to do wrong; but you are
impulsive, full of life, full of curiosity, and long to do something. You, too,
are restless under restraint, but if left to wander without direction, you all
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but ya!!! its my last transfer!! what the heck!! its way weird but im just going to act like im getting transferred again ha to the best area on earth!! the land of never ending p days haha that's what elder winder called it all the time :) there is a bunch of stuff i need to figure out for home so ill be thinking about that.. my thing is.. with these schools... i haven't had time that i can just sit and think about it.. there is always something going. but can i wait till i go home for it make it or should i just focuse more on it out here?</div>
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im down with either... BYU would be a better church experience.. and Utah state would be crazy and loads of fun.. i think BYU would be better for me so im in a good environment. after all the only thing that matters on earth is the gospel. so i should put that first. i gave into the fun side already haha so ill tell smart i need some more time... but i want to have some guidance of where i should go. that's just sort of what i worked out myself.. i don't know anything other than what you have told me. thing is i trust you guys loads...if you said go to BYU i would do it. i got that a bit from dads email. ha i think you guys know my personality really well.. i need structure or i get lazy but i understand that i need to choose because this is the beginning of my flippin life.. man its scary. but when i make a decision ill feel loads of weight come off me. ill make the right one. im just going to try and take Sunday evening and pray about it.. ill have a fast as well.. but based off my own mind i feel like BYU would be better for my future. i wont have loads of money to throw around when i come home anyway so ill have to find some cheaper hobbies :)</div>
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man i wish i could talk to you face to face!! ha im going to keep gathering info though. the hard part is all of it is opinionated out here. i get to talk to you may tenth though :) which is like twenty days away haha ah man..</div>
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with the guys who are depressed... i have that happen every now and again... the thing that keeps me going is to just talk with people or bear your testimony.. or like i try and have a good conversation with someone.. just something uplifting.. because if that's what you look for you will find it.. i have read the book of Mormon before just at random for some positive energy</div>
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mom i gotta tell you i love you so much!! during the week i just have moments where i testify of the family and the gospel and i feel so much love for you guys. i see the blessings from this gospel everyday :) i love it!</div>
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every bad decisions i have ever made was driven from bad thoughts... each and everyone. disposition is like dwelling on negative or like thinking like man im doing this why don't i have this! omission is not doing something that is good. so like your not breaking one of the ten commandments or anything but you see someone who needs help and you don't. or you feel like you should share the gospel with someone and you don't.. commission is breaking rules knowingly... </div>
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like if for example lets say i have a tough companion... and i sulk about it all day.. i still do the normal stuff but im not happy to do it.... then i start to get lazy. like man why wont this dude help me GQ or something.... well im not going to.. i don't want to do everything.. and that leads to commission.. like listening to music to help yourself "feel better" haha rubbish. but i have learned that and i know that the only way to feel better is to repent and get back on track.. music or anything else we try and "feel better" with are just an illusion.. that is Satan's way of leading us down to the gulf of misery and endless wooooo haha if we follow the mirage? (spelling) that Satan gives us we will soon find that we have absolutely nothing.. one guy we are teaching has a disease called multiple sclerosis.. so when we are at his house he has everything he wants.. a great dog an Xbox and PlayStation a big tv..he has tried all these different drugs and everything he can do... (i felt like i was in a movie listening to this)... and he thought for about ten seconds and said... this is worthless.... i have everything i want and i have nothing.... there is a gap of want that i have that is never fully satisfied... dean was with us that day and he said.. man i used to do that same thing. i used to always thing ah man that new movie or song is coming out! then i would watch it one or two times and not again... or man i want to go there or get this motorcycle... but i never found anything that could fill that gap... until i humbled myself and asked god what i should do... he went on to testify about the gospel :) man!! cool huh? i am in a movie right now.... i read a scripture in Jacob the other day where he said that his life is passing away like it is a dream.. i feel that so much.. i have experiences where im just like wow... i bet that happened to alma haha its so cool :) i wish i could extend. </div>
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so my new companion is elder mogda! he is from szeged, Hungary, he is 26 years old and has been on his mission for 14 months. man i can already tell you guys this transfer is going to be so dang good :) we are going to work our guts out :) he is the new district leader here!! wooooo ha</div>
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Ha with stanton's letter... yeah it was good writing it.. I remembered lots of stuff I need to remember... I felt load of love for him as well... that kid is going to be something great... all covered in fluff :) haha remember that jackalope thing dad used to watch all the time? I honestly have so much confidence in him though its going to be fun to see how God uses him in Australia :)</div>
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Oh man ossie wrote you... that's cool :) He is an awesome dude! He is so flippin funny haha we will be walking to an appointment or something and he will just stop random girls and ask if they would give him the kiss of life if he passed out right then and there, hahaha it is so dang funny. I love that guy :) good old English humor.</div>
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Deans mini mission.... that was actually a pretty crazy week. ha! There wasn't loads to report on because all we did was find all week long.... we taught three lessons when we were with him.. he was really disappointed... he even had a day when he wanted to pack his bags.... he experienced what every missionary that serves experiences. There will always be times when you want to take the easy way out.. but only God knows what will happen if you stay :) because Dean was with us and all the hard effort we put in... we taught 18 lessons this week.. with ten new people who want to learn about the gospel. The week with Dean was a builder week :) but we didn't give up so God blessed us :)</div>
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We are teaching 2 familys.... which is my dream! it has been such a crazy week.. but we started fresh today so we have to do it again!! I fell like I'm finally finding a good system of how to be organized and not waste as much time running around contacting people that were not interested.. it works pretty good so far.. but I think we can sort something out so its better... we will see.</div>
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One girl is named Jodie. she is a referral from the other missionarys.. she is so golden!! we took brother marshal with us and taught the plan of salvation.. at the beginning of the lesson she said she had read moroni chapter ten... but wanted to learn more so she started from the beginning and read six chapters!! what the heck!!?!! her son likes her to read it to her as well!! how cool is that?? then at the end bro Marshall was giving his testimony about how he received his answer 40 years ago reading and praying... he said he prayed every day expecting not to get an answer until one day he felt a really warm feeling in his heart.. he said he laid on his bed and couldn't stop crying... that's how he know. When he finished she was like no way!! I had that exact same thing happen yesterday. She already knows its true :) How cool is that? She is really prepared. </div>
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One thing though... the number of people you teach dosent matter.... as long as you do your best and keep working your a succesfull missionary.. even if we didn't teach anyone this week we would have found all day just like the week before :) that's what we do!!</div>
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mom. I was thinking about it last night and I want to go to Utah state :) is that ok? Elder Smart and the boys said that they will call you and sort everything out.. but the thing is is that I have zero money.. ill be able to get a job for the times im not in school and stuff but Smart told me that Utah state was more expensive... so me personally I would love to go to Utah state. I prayed about it and I feel that God is leaving it to me. I'm going to let elder smart know that I'm in but when he calls you, if you think BYU I is better. lll do it :) I just want to go to school ha life isn't about always chillin with the homies.. I can make friends wherever I go.. Utah state... man I'm so excited!! your going to love these guys mom ha they are nuts.</div>
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thanks mom! sorry for how bad I suck.. I wish I could talk to you face to face.. we can in a month or so but yeah.. i'll check my email in the week when I'm with dean. if you have an email you want me to see just make an eye catching subject :) and not that tuffy died or something haha I wont be able to see the email because of tears.</div>
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Missionary Momhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00481254671988313303noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-440910315366722453.post-22779659884851138662015-04-07T17:57:00.003-07:002015-04-07T17:57:34.671-07:00April 6, 2015<span style="font-family: Helvetica;"><span style="font-size: 12px;">Mom!!! Hey :) Conference was so dang good!! I was on the edge of my seat the whole time. haha I took loads of notes... I don't know if your remember the little orange book I used to have, but I filled it up with this conference!! so I filled a full note book of notes! I dont have loads of time left for today, it's bank holiday today so we are emialing at Deans house. We are going into town today and meet Alex and Wei Wen! We are just going to have lunch and play some games or something.</span></span><br />
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Hey mom! holy cow.... its almost April!! that's my last full month before I come home!! ha I'm really looking forward it. there are some things I need to sort out but I think it will be really good to see how life goes.</div>
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first thing.. my companion.. Elder Winder.. is such a good dude! we are having such a good time out here. this area I think is going to be one of my favourites it has loads of potential and we are the elders that are going to get it done.</div>
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Mama bear!! :) hello!! time is going so flippin fast! I have been here for a half week already.... ah man... its so werid! I'm going to be back before i know it.</div>
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Missionary Momhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00481254671988313303noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-440910315366722453.post-14130712995697819532015-03-23T11:19:00.002-07:002015-03-23T11:19:25.245-07:00March 16, 2015<blockquote style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px;" type="cite">
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I'm totally down to hunt and fish!! I have tried hunting a few times out here I miss it so bad. I would have tried fishing but there is a huge fine if you get caught... so I probably better not... the Queen likes her fish haha we had a pond in Cheltenham and we found a fishing shop but i would have had to get a licence and everything... and only on p-day for a bit. I'm so stoked though to come home and chill :) I'm going to have to geta job really quick so I can survive without mooching more from you guys.. thinking about work... from your opinion. do you think I would be a successful sales man? thing is rejection is nothing to me since I'm out here. I can talk to people all day in the rain without crying. but maybe construction would be better for me. I would have to work my physical guts out and they pay pretty good.. maybe I could talk to Jack Briskey again and see if he has work.. what do ya think pop? sorry I'm so bad at making a decision. it only pops into my head today usually ha.</div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica;">holy cow!! Austrailia! That is awesome!! I think his personality will fit in so good there :) laid back. sunshine. and really good at creating relationships. I was thinking about what sorta missionary I think he will be based off of what I know.... Mom, he is such a good dude! He really is! he can take control of situations and lead but at the same time is patient and loving. what good qualities. I can't wait to see him when I get back! I can't wait to see you all!! its weird how I only have two transfers left... its so unreal to me.. a huge group of mission friends are leaving this transfer.. thats going to be tough.. Elder Higham is going home... i'll miss him so bad!!!!! If you guys are in idaho he will be giving his homecoming in Shelly. he is a stud!</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #666666;"><br style="outline-width: 0px;" />When was the last time you tried something you had never done before? As creatures of habit, we tend to eat the same foods, take the same route back to our apartment, and use the same GQ or door approach. There is comfort in the familiar—that is why we call it our "comfort zone.”<br style="outline-width: 0px;" /><br style="outline-width: 0px;" />But how many mission goals resulted from staying in our comfort zone? Our goals—including personal growth—happen only when we lengthen our stride, challenge ourselves, and reach out just a bit.<br style="outline-width: 0px;" /><br style="outline-width: 0px;" />The missionary who improves his or her second language, the shy missionary who tries to be more outgoing, the trainer who decides to rendered additional service to his or her new companion, the missionary who increases expectations and effectiveness near the conclusion of his or her mission—all leave their comfort zones and reach their goals. As a result, they become more abundant servants of the Lord and experience greater joy.<br style="outline-width: 0px;" /><br style="outline-width: 0px;" />Occasionally, missionaries share instances where they were not satisfied with a diminished experience and wished they had done things differently. They wished they had lived up to their potential and partaken of an abundant feast of spiritual opportunity. By hanging back, afraid to try something new, we risk facing that same regret. Therefore, let us “be doers of the word, and not hearers only, deceiving ourselves.” (James 1:22) <br style="outline-width: 0px;" /><br style="outline-width: 0px;" />Often it’s as simple as deciding to be a better listener or to perform a small act of service every day. Speaking more kindly to potentials, lifting an investigator’s spirits with a phone call—there are countless ways to try something new. When you become comfortable with uncertainty, infinite possibilities open up in our missionary efforts.<br style="outline-width: 0px;" /><br style="outline-width: 0px;" />Once we take that step into the unknown—even if it’s a small step—we discover that our comfort zone was actually holding us back. The satisfaction of conquering our weaknesses, the joy of expanding our ability to serve others, will more than make up for any "discomfort.” We may even discover some truth in the phrase "missions begin where your comfort zone ends.” <br style="outline-width: 0px;" /><br style="outline-width: 0px;" />Surely the Lord loves, more than anything else, your unwavering commitment to serve others even when things are a little uncomfortable. Thank you for not hanging back and for all your righteous endeavors. May He continue to bless you with abundant joy! <br style="outline-width: 0px;" /><br style="outline-width: 0px;" />With much love and admiration,<br style="outline-width: 0px;" /><br style="outline-width: 0px;" />President Rasmussen</span></div>
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Missionary Momhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00481254671988313303noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-440910315366722453.post-87436818225801773872015-02-18T18:24:00.001-08:002015-02-18T18:51:45.846-08:00February 9th, 2015<span style="font-family: Helvetica;"><span style="font-size: 12px;">sorry ma my time is so small!! I'll try and send a better email next week about my experices but things are going great :) My comp is way cool, we are working hard. And we are going to see some big big improvments... our goal is to try and planning and time effectivness..... I think those things will help me be so much more successful in life.. if you can do it on your mission you can do it at home!!</span></span><br />
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We have some way cool people we are working with. One chinese girl named Zingy.. prayed at the end of the second lesson and asked God if he was there... she thought for a bit and closed... and said "wow, I do really feel a warm feeling in my heart!!" ha how cool is that.. she did the same thing the first lesson but in her head asked for forgiveness for not praying for so long.. man I love chinese people.. there was this one girl named Grace who whenever she would pray would say.. "Dear Heavenly Father.. its Grace" and then go on with her prayer!! They are like little kids its so cool!! </div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px;"><br /></span>Missionary Momhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00481254671988313303noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-440910315366722453.post-31845076199815504012015-02-03T11:19:00.003-08:002015-02-03T11:19:37.910-08:00February 2, 2015<span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px;">Hey Mom!!! this are going great here :) Elder Sorenson is an old missionary!! he goes home in about 2 months.. so ll probably finish him off and then i'll go home right after that.. man thats a lot of home sickness battle I have ahead of me... </span><span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px;">He is from Washington State though :) he is pretty cool. we have a interesting few days at the beginning but we are in the zone now. Ha! you know when you sorta figure each other out and then hit it when you get there? yeah it was one of those. I met him when I first came into the mission so I knew who he was.</span><br />
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Tell Stant he is awesome and that I love him! he will do great at Divisionals this week.. just leave it all on the mat :) Man I am nervous for him.. before Elder Holt left i watched the highlight you sent me in Newport. I love it!! its going to be good to come home and wrestle him. He looks sharp in his photo.</div>
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<span style="background-color: #e7e6e2; color: #666666; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 16px;">Each person has been given the power to change his or her life. As part of the Lord’s great plan of happiness, all have individual agency to make decisions. Each can decide to do better and to be better. In some ways all of us need to change; that is, some need to be more diligent, less selfish, better listeners, and more considerate. Some have habits that need to be changed, habits that hold them back. Sometimes they may need a jolt to propel them into changing.</span><br style="background-color: #e7e6e2; color: #666666; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 16px; outline-width: 0px;" /><br style="background-color: #e7e6e2; color: #666666; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 16px; outline-width: 0px;" /><span style="background-color: #e7e6e2; color: #666666; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 16px;">God’s elect must be totally committed to change for the better. A Chinese proverb says, “Great souls have wills; feeble souls have only wishes.” Unless they have the will to improve, all the other steps that lead to change will be wasted.</span><br style="background-color: #e7e6e2; color: #666666; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 16px; outline-width: 0px;" /><br style="background-color: #e7e6e2; color: #666666; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 16px; outline-width: 0px;" /><span style="background-color: #e7e6e2; color: #666666; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 16px;">This is your one and only chance as a young missionary—here and now. The longer we serve, the greater is our realization that it is brief. Opportunities to help others change come, and then they are gone. I believe that among the greatest lessons we are to learn during our missions are lessons that help us distinguish between what is important and what is not. Let us use our time wisely and continue to help others to come unto Christ and change. As you continue to give your time to inviting people to come unto Him, your heart will change. You are extraordinary, Christlike missionaries! Thank you for helping others to change.</span><br /><div>
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Dear Laura my name is Alex (Find the most cute girl in the photo,that is me) and I am a chinese . Wiser is good at chinese now Hahahaha I am kidding,he only knows some simple words </div>
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<span style="line-height: 1.5;">just tell them i love them and that got the package my mom sent to new port 8 months ago. Someone who is awesome sent it to me!</span></div>
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Missionary Momhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00481254671988313303noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-440910315366722453.post-4242745749011582732015-01-28T05:21:00.001-08:002015-01-28T05:21:09.760-08:00January 28, 2015 --Bonus<span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px;">Hey Mom!!!! We had to come and get an investigator in contact with China so I though I would let you know that I'm going to stay in Harborne!!! I'm getting a missionary named Elder Sorenson. He is an old missionary... so we are going to pull out the old missionary broad swords and kill it!! This is the best time of my life!!!! LETS GO!! haha</span><br />
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The rap :) The end was Elder Allred its Elder Palus follow up trainer. Cool part is is that its not even close right now.. they still have to put the chorus in and an extra guitar line haha Dean is the sickest!!</div>
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But I gotta go :) having dinner with some friends before Elder Holt leaves.. he is going to Wales!! :) :)</div>
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Hey Mom!! I gotta say sorry as well.. I have used a lot of personal funds this week and last week... We had some unexpected stuff and we can't cycle back to the flat with out bikes so we had to eat in town a lot.. at least you can see my diet though right!! haha a lot of skittles and a lot of oranges.. but I'll be one hundred percent better this week.. I'm going to start making meals and taking them with me instead of just getting it in town.. we live like a 45 ish min walk from where we work.. but I'm starting to cook a little bit more so i'll be alright for college.. I just dont like the dishes and I take too long so I can't clean them before study....<br />
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Oh good news!! Elder Peek picked me up a package in Newport.. where you sent that package the first time!! then you just wrapped it and put the new address on it right? I think its the one!!! So some good person sent it back :) I don't know for sure but i'll let you know.. (**Note from Laura - I sent Sterling a half-way package, in June 2014 to Newport England, with books, letters, pictures and two new boxes of contacts. He never received it and we were really sick about it because he was running out of contacts. If you know Sterling very well you will know that he is super blind and his contacts a specially made and very expensive. Four months later the package showed up on my door step - the post office had returned it. I was so grateful!!! I added some updated notes, re-wrapped it, re-addressed it and this time, sent it to the mission home. He finally received it, while serving in merthyr, just before Christmas 2014, and was so excited he opened it in the bus stop, then he left it there......in the bus stop...and was just sick about it for weeks. We prayed that he would somehow be able to get his contacts. This little note above means that someone found the half-way package and found the original address and sent the package back to Newport where another Elder picked it up for Sterling and will hold it till he can get it to the mission home then back to Sterling who is now serving in Harborne!! Miracles Miracles!!!)</div>
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As well we had a cool thing this week... Elder Andrus and I on exchange found an iPhone 6 and turned it in.. before we did we made some videos of us being dumb and photos and stuff and left our number to let us know if they got it... they did get it!! They just said thanks loads and a few days after the kids mom texted us and said that her son had lost a baby a few months earlier and that phone was the only one with pictures of his baby... and how greateful she was.. so we testified of families and invited her to listen to our message... I dont know whats happening yet but she said that it sounded good :) cool huh!! God does stuff for people to hear his message.</div>
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Missionary Momhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00481254671988313303noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-440910315366722453.post-6817824275965075132015-01-26T20:26:00.003-08:002015-01-26T20:26:54.201-08:00January 19, 2015<span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px;">Did a lady named Anita friend you on face book? she is a lady that we were really good friends with in Merthyr.. she fed us soooo much. ha! Just like we would be at the flat and she would text she was bringing up a meal.. such a cool lady :) she was trying really hard to convert us to be a Jehovas Witness just like we were with her - but it created a good friendship so thats cool :) she left her keys to her house with us one time so we could let her dog out and when we went to do it there was lunch on the table. How cool is that? so we just ate everything and did the dishes. shows a bit of trust huh? </span><br />
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We have some amazing investogators named pearia and kimia :) they are persian and so so cool!! They are way humble and they are really good and recognizing sprirtual answers.. the plan of salvation was a way cool one.. they just were like ah man thats so cool I wish I knew that before!! Just with everything.. I love meeting with people who want to know what is right. There are some in the district that are just like that as well.. humble seekers of truth :) I love it!!</div>
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I found a cool scripture this morning in Alma 26 I think its verse 22. It talks about how if we are repentant and exercise faith and good works we will be an instrument in bringing thousands of souls to repentance!! so there is nothing stopping us from being like Dan Jones or Ammon or something. We just have to do our best to be humble and follow the spirit :)</div>
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I hear destry is coming home really soon... how is that going? Man everyone is coming home!! ha what the heck time is moving forward. who else is on the coming home list?</div>
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Missionary Momhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00481254671988313303noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-440910315366722453.post-3383728314890612832015-01-12T14:17:00.000-08:002015-01-12T14:17:02.062-08:00January 12, 2015<div style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px;">
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Hey mom!!! ahh man stant!! ha Richardson Memorial is a tough tough tournament.... I remember getting whooped by that Hardy boy.... haha man I'm so proud of him.. he is going to do so flippin good this year! this is his last year huh? man I feel so bad I'm missing it all, so include as much as you can in emails I love hearing about it.<div>
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Well I have a bit of bad news.. district p-day today!! so I'm super pressed for time.. I'm going to try and email later as well but I have to leave in about five min.. i'll send some photos later tonight though. next week i'll be able to email to my hearts desire! time is a moving!!</div>
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If this is all I get to send I want to quote dad.. "live in the moment".. it goes along with what you said mom. if your in a lesson and your thinking about finding or something, how can you listen to the spirit if your not thinking about the moment... it works for everything.. like texting at dinner. face book at church... whatever it is there is something better to focus on. I have seen that lately.. and we have seen some miricles from it. some amazing people we have been able to meet. the spirit is there if the missionarys are ready to get it done... little scary scritpure D&C 136 33 I think... it talks about the role of the spirit.</div>
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I love you guys!!! have a great day :) i'll send photos later!..........................</div>
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moooooommmmm!! district p-day was great but my flippin bike got stolen again...... so did Elder Holts.... in broad daylight in front of the library... gosh I'm starting to get so annoyed at this country.. It was locked up too....its killing me! it was in the middle of Birmingham as well. so I hope the police can find it.. if I see a homeless dude riding it I'm going to make headlines with that tackle. haha! Na im just kidding, it's just a little frustrating.. sorry ma! I really try to keep my bikes.. things like this don't happen in the promised land..well, if I can't find something I can build, i'll find one for cheap. But if not i'm going to walk for the ending of my mission. it's late I know but I wanted to tell you guys!!!</div>
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But on a better note district p-day was great! We had a huge district breakfast :) and I made, from scratch, gluten free pancakes :) they weren't the best haha but there are two other gluten frees in the district so we get sacrament and everything! how cool is that? sister stone and elder kerr is trying it out to see if it makes him feel better. we just played loads of sports. I'm really really tired! haha dad was totally right.. mission tiredness... it gets ya ha<br /></div>
I love you guys!! tell Stant I bragged about him all day. the dude is a legend!! I cant wait to see the highlight :)<br /></div>
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