Hey ya family it's a good day today i guess that it's going to be 99 today with the humidity making it 105 so no biggy I'm a just going to die and get rolled under a giant tracker.
Dear President Jergensen
It's been a busy week with service projects taking a good chuck of our time as well as the zone conference that we had. Elder Pope and I are doing good. We had a little talk about what was on our minds and we went over D&C 121 and talked about how we can let the Holy Ghost be in our companionship. I know that he has had some tough times, but now we are doing much better and are looking forward to this upcoming week.
We had the Fakhouri family at church yesterday which is a big relief because they haven't been for over a month and they seemed to enjoy themselves very much. We are going to meet with them on Tuesday night and let the spirit really testify to them about the importance of baptism. Elder Pope and I will prayfully set a date for baptism with them and do everything that we can to make it possible.
We received some good referrals this past week from investigators and from members and they are solid. A lady that we are going to start working with on a regular basis is a lady named Teresa. She has a deadly virus but is in good health. She was good friends with a member in San Fransico and wants to learn much more about the church. We are excited to have the ward help assist us in her conversion.
Elder Pope and I have gone through the case study together and have picked out some of the priciples that we will impliment in our teaching and member effort. Some include trying to get a meal coordinator who can get us into the homes of part members and less-actives. We also want to have members give simple testimonies on fast and testimony meetings about the spirit that comes from member work. In all things we want to focus on the Doctrine of Christ and get things going even greater then what it now is.
Elder Gonzalez Des Moines 2nd Ward
We had the Fakhouri family at church yesterday which is a big relief because they haven't been for over a month and they seemed to enjoy themselves very much. We are going to meet with them on Tuesday night and let the spirit really testify to them about the importance of baptism. Elder Pope and I will prayfully set a date for baptism with them and do everything that we can to make it possible.
We received some good referrals this past week from investigators and from members and they are solid. A lady that we are going to start working with on a regular basis is a lady named Teresa. She has a deadly virus but is in good health. She was good friends with a member in San Fransico and wants to learn much more about the church. We are excited to have the ward help assist us in her conversion.
Elder Pope and I have gone through the case study together and have picked out some of the priciples that we will impliment in our teaching and member effort. Some include trying to get a meal coordinator who can get us into the homes of part members and less-actives. We also want to have members give simple testimonies on fast and testimony meetings about the spirit that comes from member work. In all things we want to focus on the Doctrine of Christ and get things going even greater then what it now is.
Elder Gonzalez Des Moines 2nd Ward
I like this place called Iowa it's such a good place to be. I'm just having a good time
So we had a fabulous zone conference this tuesday and it went really well with some great trainings from the senior couples in the office and from Doctor craner who is the mission doctor over 17 missions here in the midwest. It was really cool to have my posterity there it was Elder Harris(mytrainer) me and ELder Ashworth( my first born and birthright child) and Elder Pope my second born all in the same place.
So i do have some questions more for Dad.... We have bugs in Iowa and imparticular we have ticks and they are just unpreventable and so they are getting a few bites in..... how do I get rid of the s.o.b's for good because we vacuum and wash sheets all the time but they are just in the apartment and are probably from our neighbors dogs and cats that live next to us and above us and it doesn't help when we are on teh bottom level and we all know that shiz rolls downhill. so any advice would be much appreciated.
We gave about 24 hours of service in 3 days to the senior olympics here in Iowa and oh wow what a treat that was... nothing like watching old folks run the 100M and they fall and break their arms. It happened the paramedics had to come several times and it was sad to watch. It was really good though to get in contact with lots of people. We did shuffle board, granny basketball, high jump discus throw, javelin, softball and football toss, long jump, and other crazy crap to set up with the events. The whole zone was involved in it and it was just a blast.
SO not much work acually got done because we also helped a member tape and mud his newly replaced drywall and that was a new skill that I now have in the mindvault.
I don't really know what to say.... I hope that grandpa and grandma are doing alright and that they can get back on the road to recovery soon and that they will be able to enjoy the rest of their dry summer rather then a humid pool of chaos here in Des Moines.
So this week we got in a weird situation with getting called up to go and help a gay guy move some random stuff out of his apartment. It was extremely gross and he was partially drunk and it was something that just reafirmed to me that without the gospel and prophets.....life really sucks and it's a no go with the spirit.
I just want you all to know that I love you and I am doing just fine here in the fields of corn.... like the great movie Field of Dreams states " is this heaven?!?........ No this is Iowa" WELL I testify that this is a little piece of heaven and that the Lord is very mindfull of us all.
Elder Gonzalez Des Moines 2nd Ward
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