Week 18: November 18 2013

well i had an awesome experience this week. we were teaching a part member family and the husband is not a member. he had been going to a jehovahs witness church for a while so he had some confused beliefs. We were teaching him the plan of salvation and things were going great. while we were talking about the purpose of this life we tied in the 5 points of the Doctrine of Christ. while we were talking about that he just said. "how does someone get baptised in your church" so i immediately invited him to be baptised on the 14 of December. funny thing about that is that a year ago some elders discontinued teaching him because of his lack of interest. then he had a stroke and while he was down he said that the only people who came to visit him and his wife were members from the church and that really softened his heart!! it was an awesome lesson!

Elder Park

Week 17: November 13 2013

sorry that my letter is a little late this week. the library was closed on monday and yesterday we had a general authority come and speak to us. it was awesome! well transfer new

s is in and im staying here in Raeford A. Elder Corbin is going to Raleigh to be a Zone Leader and Elder Mora from Raeford B ( in my district) is going to follow up train me and Raeford B is going to be made Sisters. this is the first time they are going to have spanish sisters in the mission.

Creepy Spider!

the baptism went great! even though not many people came, i think she prefered it that way because she is kinda shy.

  im doing great out here! its not too cold. from october conference to april we have to wear a sweater, suitcoat or jacket everyday ( we call it suit season) so i don't get too cold. plus if you remember me from when i rode the bus in jr high and sophomore year i didn't care how cold it was, i was going to wear shorts! so now in a shirt and tie and jacket im pretty warm. but probably will go get some gloves at walmart just in case it gets too cold. do the missionaries you see have a car or bikes?

sorry its a little short this week we don't have as much time as usual because its wednesday but i love y'all and hope your doing great!

Week 16: November 3 2013

North Carolina Raleigh Mission

This is what nic did for Halloween 

Gansta Missionary

there are a ton of missionaries here who are spanish in the ncrm.(North Carolina Raleigh Mission) its crazy! idk how many for sure but i know like 15 started their mission the same day as me who are spanish! ya we cover the same boundaries as the english elders but our areas are just a lot bigger. we cover like what 6 sets of english missionaries cover and before i got here it was double that. our area is huge!

your breaking my heart dad. 3 out of 10 birds was a turkey winner......... yep my heart is broken hahah. ooo ya im glad she got to go out and have some fun while i'm gone (I think he is talking about his gun, bessie) hahah. well thats great that y'all were shooting good! what???? 

well we have a baptism on Saturday and we are super excited! im out of time to email so sorry but i have to send some pics so this email is short this week i love yall!

Elder Park

Week 15: October 28 2013

well everything is going great down here! ya idk if the biking season will ever be over for me hahahaha. we do have a car and a lot of miles but our area is MASSIVE! it covers like 5 english elders areas. from one end of our area to the other is 80 miles. hahahha ya i think you might need to go to that. i can just imagine. " hi my name is dennis and i'm addicted to exercising"... " hi dennis" hahahaha 
hey thats the date when our next investigator is going to be baptized! so its going to be a great day for us both!   well im going to make it today so it is going to be awesome, i buy a bag of Doritos like every other week so i have a few bags hahaha well im sure going to miss those scones this and next year but hey ill get them after that right? i love y'all and hope you are all doing great!

 

so there is this family that has been active in the church for a few years but just haven't gone to the temple yet to get all those great blessings there. so me and my companion thought we should visit them, we had no idea what we were going to say, but then when we were talking my companion just started talking about family history work, and they absolutely loved it! they said that no other missionaries had told them about this before and they were so excited, i hope it will help them get to the temple. We built up a lot of trust with them when we did that, and the next time we came over they said hey we have a friend that wants to learn about the gospel, and we are just like great!!! they even caught ahold of the missionary spirit! we have a lesson in their home today actually so it has been great with them!