Hey Ya it's sunny outside.... you know what that means....... a letter to president:(.....:)
Good Morning President Jergensen
I starting to like this Des Moines area. I'm very glad to be serving here and to be with Elder Steele. If it wasn't for him I wouldn't know my way around town. It is nice to have someone who knows the members and the area well. I like his willingness to go and work, but we are going to have to work on the teaching skills, which is not a problem because that's what our studies are going to be focused on.
This district is great. I think that we kicked things off on the right foot with the District meeting on Saturday. Elder Mckeon had a great spiritual thought and that set the tone for the rest of the time. Elder Hanna and Elder Mckeon seem to be enjoying each other so far and so do Sisters Thompson and Neville. I see no problems there.
Our efforts right now are to focus on the part-member families and try to get these families to the temple. So far we have tracted during the time that we don't have appointments and some apartments not far from us have some good potentials in them. We knocked into a daughter of one of the families getting baptized in Waukee, so we will try to get her at the baptism and start teaching her. I can already tell from the success of tracting here that member work is going to play a big role in finding people to teach. Many of the doors that we have knocked have seen missionaries before so members will hopefully help us out there.
Now that I'm out long enought I'm starting a New Testiment study along with the Book of Mormon and it's good to see where some of the people we run into are coming from as far as beliefs. The Book of Mormon is still the focus and it will always be.
I love the area and the weather... Elder Gonzalez Des Moines 2nd
This district is great. I think that we kicked things off on the right foot with the District meeting on Saturday. Elder Mckeon had a great spiritual thought and that set the tone for the rest of the time. Elder Hanna and Elder Mckeon seem to be enjoying each other so far and so do Sisters Thompson and Neville. I see no problems there.
Our efforts right now are to focus on the part-member families and try to get these families to the temple. So far we have tracted during the time that we don't have appointments and some apartments not far from us have some good potentials in them. We knocked into a daughter of one of the families getting baptized in Waukee, so we will try to get her at the baptism and start teaching her. I can already tell from the success of tracting here that member work is going to play a big role in finding people to teach. Many of the doors that we have knocked have seen missionaries before so members will hopefully help us out there.
Now that I'm out long enought I'm starting a New Testiment study along with the Book of Mormon and it's good to see where some of the people we run into are coming from as far as beliefs. The Book of Mormon is still the focus and it will always be.
I love the area and the weather... Elder Gonzalez Des Moines 2nd
So at this library we don't get as much time as before so I'm going to try and pump out an email as fast as i can..\\
So yes the city of Des Moines is beautiful and the Laurels in the ward are even more modestly lovely and set a great example of how to charm missionaries..... I'll tell you what I think that President Jergensen is trying to test me or something because the second that sacrament got out i was swarmed by all these young ladies who were asking me where I am from and all that stuff.. the bishop got mad and them because he could tell that I was trying to get to the investigators that we brought to church... but I still gave them the Gonzalez eyebrow and a little smirk":)
so we do have an investigator witha baptismal day right now but it's clear for July 7 and that will get moved up because I'm not sure if they know or not but they can get sealed the sooner that they are baptized.... Elder Steele and I are going to be the witnesses for their marriage by a justice of the peace.
Elder Steele is from Atlanta Georgia by the way and he likes to drum and play rugby so it's all good here.
I love you all and will see ya next week..... you stay classy Des Moines....... Tony moment haha
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