So my week isn't as bad as what the intro is and by the way it goes to the tune of that one song
Dear President Jergensen
It's been an alright week. We weren't able to teach any of our main investigators right now and that's been the biggest downer for us. We do have some folks that are high on the potential investigators list that may very much be in line for new investigators this upcoming week.
Tonight we are going to teach Chris and Sheri and Quentin and that is going to put them right back on the path towards baptism and towards the temple. They haven't been to church the past few weeks and that's been letting the wind out of our sails, but we're definantly excited to teach them again. From what it looks like we may have to set the date back again just to make sure that they are trully ready for baptism.
Something that Elder Pope and I have been working on is having good member lessons with our dinner appointments and trying to have the members bring someone to the dinner. Our lessons have really varied depending on who we are teaching whether it's an older couple or a young family. I find I find more success in having the members commit to doing missionary work when we focus the lesson on the children.
I have felt some concern from Elder Pope this last week regarding our efforts here. He seems to be a very go get it done now person, and it's been a hard transition for him to be patient and pray and let the Lord work things out and then go when it feels right. Daily contact with our investigators has been a must and it's been able to get us on a more non-hostile level with the investigators.
I see great improvements in the 3rd ward with Elder Mckeon and Knight. I think that they are understanding more of who they are and what this work is all about. This past district meeting the assistants trained on being a "spiritually mature missionary" and that had a great effect towards the district.
I see the Sisters are doing better and I know that they are working hard, and I want to help them so much, and I'm trying all that I can with the district meetings to get everyone pumped and ready for the work. Prayer is one of the most powerful ways that I feel I'm helping out.
I'm so glad for the studies every morning in the Book of Mormon. It has been bringing so much more light and truth into my life. Both Elder Pope and I are excited to get out and share our testimonies of the Book of Mormon with these good people.
Elder Gonzalez Des Moines 2nd
Tonight we are going to teach Chris and Sheri and Quentin and that is going to put them right back on the path towards baptism and towards the temple. They haven't been to church the past few weeks and that's been letting the wind out of our sails, but we're definantly excited to teach them again. From what it looks like we may have to set the date back again just to make sure that they are trully ready for baptism.
Something that Elder Pope and I have been working on is having good member lessons with our dinner appointments and trying to have the members bring someone to the dinner. Our lessons have really varied depending on who we are teaching whether it's an older couple or a young family. I find I find more success in having the members commit to doing missionary work when we focus the lesson on the children.
I have felt some concern from Elder Pope this last week regarding our efforts here. He seems to be a very go get it done now person, and it's been a hard transition for him to be patient and pray and let the Lord work things out and then go when it feels right. Daily contact with our investigators has been a must and it's been able to get us on a more non-hostile level with the investigators.
I see great improvements in the 3rd ward with Elder Mckeon and Knight. I think that they are understanding more of who they are and what this work is all about. This past district meeting the assistants trained on being a "spiritually mature missionary" and that had a great effect towards the district.
I see the Sisters are doing better and I know that they are working hard, and I want to help them so much, and I'm trying all that I can with the district meetings to get everyone pumped and ready for the work. Prayer is one of the most powerful ways that I feel I'm helping out.
I'm so glad for the studies every morning in the Book of Mormon. It has been bringing so much more light and truth into my life. Both Elder Pope and I are excited to get out and share our testimonies of the Book of Mormon with these good people.
Elder Gonzalez Des Moines 2nd
So this is the last email that Tony will read from me as a full time missionary............. that sucks..... no more cool missionary letters..... no more talking bad about our companions......... no more dreaming about golf back home because he'll be doing it......... no more cool phone calls on the holidays......... no more getting letters into the mail before p-day is over........ no more complaining about being out of msf............... no more trying to not get trunky because your trunk is already packed.................. now i'm out here all alone in this place called Des Moines ........................................................................................................................................................................................................... looks like the only option that I have is to suck it up and just teach and preach and work as missionaries do
So i'm kinda excited for Tony to go home but then I realize what it must be like to not have the sacred oppurtunity to testify of Christ all day everyday and that is what quite frankly keeps the fire underneath me.... I'll tell ya what if President Jergensen said your going home I'd say
" oh heck no I ain't going back to the real world, with it's bills and school and worldly stuff and those things with a tail!" I love the missionary life even when life does get tough all I have to say is wow I'm a missionary and that means that all i have to do is jugle one ball and that ball is missionary work and it's the greatest task that I could ever have and to have to add more to that like school and a job and girls and car payments and insurance and a phone bill and all that nonsense is just a hastle. So in the mean time I'm going to be here in Iown hiding from all of that because there is certainly a lot of ways to hide from all of that out here.SOOO our week is alright we have been trying to clear out potentials list and try to get all of our area book up to date as far as who is even still a potential and that will make life so much easier in the future. We did have some cool lessons, one was with a man named Bill who worked with a good member of the church up in Minn and he is a researcher for a medical institution and the dude who he said he work with was a leader of the church over a really big group and he said that it was several different congregations, so I told him he was probably a stake president and he said that that sounded familier. So Bill has had some positive impact with members in the past and we are going to meet with him again on Wednesday and begin to teach him. He is bound to a wheel chair because of some tumors that he has had in his legs before and so he seems to be pretty humble towards our message.
Well once again the time is starting to fly here, I'm spending way too much time looking out the window of the library at the lake and watching the cars drive over the him never to be seen again.... kinda like Tony is going to fly away from OK and never be seen again hahahaha naaaaaaaaaaaa that ain't going to happen because we goin to go to some Thunder games later on and party it up hardcore... the righteous way of course..... but as for Iowa there ain't a whole lot of stuff to do here except go to the farmers market and look at all the corn and soy beans and corn and apples and corn and pork and corn and lettuce and corn and radishes and corn and corn and corn........... pretty exciting huh?
Take care family if I don't ever come home it'll be because some John Deere Tracker ran me over and I got turned into pig feed
One love Elder Gonzalez
ps I think that I'm going to get an Iowa drivers license because it's what true Iowans do.... maybe and illinois one but who cares
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