Monday 2/18/2013 – Sunday 2/24/2013

Monday we found out that our companionship will be the same as it has been. So we get to keep doin' work! Other than that it was just a normal P-day. We cleaned and emailed and shopped and then ball'd it up!

Tuesday we had District Meeting and that was pretty good. I also gave Sister Rappleye a blessing after District Meeting and I actually felt pretty comfortable doing it for one of the first times. Then we had our District activity. We went to Pitaria to eat which is a Greek place and it was way good! Then we had a lesson with Tabatha and gave her a blessing as well as a lesson. I am getting a bit better at this whole faith thing. Then we headed to Nero's, the "Golden" investigator. We taught very choppy, but it was still a good lesson. We also taught JJ after that. She is a less active we have been working with. Then we ate dinner at Sister Walker's. She is such a great lady and the food was great! Then we had FHE with the Looney's. Good day! Actually it was great!!

Wednesday everything fell through. We did teach Lydia about the Plan of Salvation though. We also saw Sister Granger in a recovery hospital type place and read the Book of Mormon with her. Then went to the family history center and did some of Elder Stewart's training and I did a bit of family history work as well for William Nephi Foster. I found a document to attach to him to prove that he is him basically. Sister Kelly also brought us a pizza because they had to cancel on us and she felt bad. It was Momo's pizza which was fantastic! Then we taught Jamie and Dave an awesome lesson. They are so cool and I can't wait to go there again. They both have some way good jokes.

Thursday we had our weekly planning session. We also taught Carly (less active) a quick lesson. Then we taught George who is another less active member. They both want to start coming back to church. Both of my companions fell asleep at George's house and I almost got a picture of Elder Lovell. I was laughing pretty hard about it. Then we had dinner with Brother Gorby our recent convert! It was awesome and I love that guy so much!

Friday it rained like crazy! So we ended up just going to the O'Connor's and Brother Gries’ houses to give them little lessons and see if they could tell us about anyone that they knew would like to hear our message. They are both active members. We also saw a lady named Anne and gave her a Book of Mormon. We had enchiladas at the Clawson's and they were so delicious!

Saturday was way rainy again and wouldn't stop. I do like the rain, but it makes it hard to proselyte. Not too much worked out. We did get to see Sister Malone (less active) and Michelle. Sister Malone is way nice and we will be going back and hopefully be able to get her back to church. We taught Michelle about the Book of Mormon and Joseph Smith and we will hopefully get to teach her again. Went to Chinese Super Buffet and Elder Lovell ran into a car which was pretty funny.

Sunday was Stake Conference and it was fantastic! They all spoke on God's love and everyone was way good! President Jensen spoke as well and he called up all of the full time missionaries to come to the front which was cool to be a part of and I was just thinking the whole time that it was so crazy that I was up there and that I am a full time missionary. It is so unreal! We also had a lesson with the Hood's, a less active couple and they are way cool and we are going to see them again this next week. Had dinner with the Harris' and had Chicken and Shrimp Scampi Alfredo. It was sooo good!! Then we went and taught Mary Copland that we met last Saturday and that was good! This week was really good!

Monday 2/11/2013 – Sunday 2/17/2013

Monday we did the usual p-day stuff. Played basketball again!! We then ate with the McClellen's which was some great food! Then we headed to Lydia's and had a little lesson, but she ended up stopping us and rescheduling. Prayed and felt we should go to Tracy's, so we did and set up an appointment. I also decided to buy a giant exercise ball for my study desk and it is great!

Tuesday we had District Meeting which, in my opinion, wasn't that great. I think the first one went better. Then most of our appointments fell through, so we decided to go to Alan's, the blind guy, and talked to him and set up a time to see him. Had dinner at the Lahtinen's. After dinner, a frog somehow got into our car and was hoppin around so we were freakin out for some odd reason trying to get the thing out. So I ended up trying to flick it out of the car, which didn't work. Finally it just went under Elder Lovell's seat so we decided that we would just go to our appointment. While I was stopped at a stop light, the frog hit me in the leg for revenge so I turned on the light, found him, opened the door and wacked him out of the car. Finished the night teaching a less active named JJ. It was a fun night.

Wednesday was slow and everything fell through. We did see the Palmer’s and talked to Brother Palmer about a bunch of struggles and tried to help him out. We also were able to set up an appointment to see Paris in about a week. We also had dinner with the Shannon's, which was too long so I felt way bad.

Thursday was a bit of a blurry day. I started out waking up sick. We did talk to a really nice lady that wanted to read the Book of Mormon, so we gave her one. Then we went to the Maynard's home. They are members and they told us a way cool story. It was a story about their ancestor’s conversion. Their ancestor had read the BOM and thought it made sense so he prayed, but didn't get an answer, so he decided it must not be true. As the day went on, he decided to pray again because he couldn't forget about the BOM. The Lord must have answered him because the next day he told his wife that they were going to get baptized that day. He told her two missionaries would be coming by that day. He said that they would come down the corn field, so they went outside to work. When it was close to dinner time, he told his wife to start fixin' supper cause the missionaries would be hungry. So she did and while they were fixin' supper it turns out the missionaries came walking down the corn field. But before they had come walking down the field the missionaries were actually lost. They couldn't find where they were trying to go so they knelt down and prayed and one missionary said they needed to go down a path, but the other didn't think that made sense. So they prayed again and ended up going down the path into the corn field not knowing why. When they got to the bottom of the field, the Maynard's ancestor ran out of the house and yelled saying, “we're ready to be baptized”. The Elder’s thought it was a joke, but nope it wasn't! They ate then baptized them and then were given a ride to the train which left right after they had got on. The end! We also had dinner with the Jones’ newlyweds and then went and taught Craig, but that was about it.

Friday we went out to Woodville, which is the most southern part of our area. It was fun, we saw less-actives and other members. We also taught the Tucker's. For that lesson, we mainly watched the October 2011 Conference. Then we had a trade off with Tally 1. Elder Wright came to our area.

Saturday everything fell through so we didn't do any of the service we planned, but we had a great day. Tried to contact referrals and less-active members. We also tracted and found some potentials. I had a way random bloody nose, but the good news is that it didn't get on my clothes. We randomly taught Lydia because everything fell through and we gave her a BCD of March 30th!! It was so awesome!!!

Sunday we had to wake up at 5:30 for a meeting that no one told us was cancelled. Had dinner with Brother Dougherty and his daughter. Very nice dinner. We didn't do very much the rest of the day because everything fell through and we had to do our studies.

Monday 2/4/2013 – Sunday 2/10/2013

Monday was great! Did the usual P-day stuff. Played some more basketball! Had FHE with the Looney's! Was woke up by our new Elder arriving with the Zone Leaders. He got here at like 11:30ish. His name is Elder Stewart and he is awesome!

Tuesday we had Zone Training. Learned a lot about what we can do to be more effective. Had 2 really good lessons today as well, 1 with Marvin at ShirleyAnne's house and 1 with a less active and her husband. Went shopping so Elder Stewart could get him some food. He is waiting on a visa to go to Brazil. He also has a great testimony!

Wednesday we tracted a lot! Elder Stewart did great! Handed out a ton of Book of Mormon's. We also visited with a Sister Moore from the ward. Very nice lady!

Thursday we had a long day of weekly planning. Tracted and found a new gator! He was a very nice guy so hopefully he is home when we go see him. Then we had dinner with the Blythe's at Momo's. HUGE slices of pizza! Good food and then had a great lesson at the Tucker's.

Friday we tracted a lot again! All three of our appointments fell through, but we did have venison at the Beyer's home. Wow it is always good! They also gave us cake because we had to leave. The guy we met Thursday fell through so we ate the cake that the Beyer's gave us.

Saturday we taught Tabatha and went over the baptismal Q's with her to see how well she remembered everything and talked to her about getting her to church again. She wants to be there! Had dinner with the Russell's. Then we had a cool experience going to a ladies house that a couple days prior told us she wasn't ready for the Book of Mormon. We all felt like we should go to the area and then Elder Stewart had the prompting to give her a Book of Mormon so we went there and gave her one. It was such a cool experience! We also had a great lesson with a less active family the Palmer's, so it was a good day.

Sunday was an amazing day at church! Great lessons and talks today. Then when we were studying, we talked about some spiritual experiences that we had. Then we headed out and went to see Jamy that we helped move the other day. We were able to set up an appointment! Great member missionary work by Brother Beyer! We also saw Sister Wise and set up a time to go see her. Then Sister Matkin brought us dinner because her family has been sick so she didn't want us to get sick.

Monday 1/28/2013 – Sunday 2/3/2013

Monday was P-day again and I really can't believe how fast time has gone by! First we went and I got a haircut because I really needed one. Cleaned and shopped and played some BASKETBALL!! Had dinner with the O'Connor's and went to Ross so I could exchange the belt I got. We also tracted and found a couple potentials.

Tuesday we walked to Oprah's, Lydia's, Betty's, Vanessa's, Elmore's, Phillip's, Ebony's, Tracy's and Jess's. They are all investigators or potentials. We talked to a lot of people and gave away Book of Mormon's as we walked. We had a good dinner with the Kelly's and a little spiritual lesson. Then we taught Sister Kent and the lesson went a lot better than usual. We have a bit of a tougher of a time figuring out her and how to teach her.

Wednesday we had a pretty good day even though we didn't reach the goals we set. We went and saw a former and a bunch of less actives. I think only one of those people was home so we ended up tracting a lot. We met a lot of nice people and one we will go back to tomorrow. Then there was a crazy rain/wind storm that was blowing branches and all sorts of stuff off of trees so we were told to stay in for the night. Had food that the Shannon's gave to us.

Thursday was the last day of the month which is just crazy! Goes by so fast. Today was just a bunch of planning. Dan did stop by for a bit so hopefully we can start teaching him again. We also had a lesson with the Tucker's and decided to teach them the restoration of the gospel. Had Cafe Rio style burritos with the Garrison's and the Blythe's were there. Sister Blythe also brought this delicious cheesecake type stuff. Then Elder Mower came and dropped off some doughnuts that Elder Lovell's uncle dropped off for him.

Friday was rough. I was tired all day and it made it a struggle. All of our appointments also fell through so we were left so we tried to follow the spirit the best we could. Then we had district training which was great! I really love those and they always come when I really need them. President and Sister Jensen are so inspired!

Saturday was fantastic! We went street contacting and while we were doing that I saw that we were on Golden Street. So I told Elder Lovell that there had to be a Golden investigator on that street. So I turned around and saw a house with a truck and said it was the one. Nero opened the door and let us right in!! We taught him and we scheduled an appointment to go back. We also stopped by Frank's, the deaf guy, and gave him the ASL book of Mormon. Then we helped Jamy move and he is a potential now. Stopped by and saw a less active named William for a bit. Cool guy so maybe his wife will be interested in the future. Then ate some food with the Polk's which was awesome! They also gave us a bunch to take home.

Sunday was a great Sunday! Fast and testimony meeting and a ton of the youth were getting up and bearing their testimonies and it was awesome listening to them! Taught Tabatha and found out that she wants to wait for her husband to get baptized in December. So I hope that I can be here for that, but if I need to be somewhere else then I would be fine with that. We also taught ShirleyAnne today to try and see if we can help her out. Had some deaths in the family. Then had a dinner with the Paget's and they are fun and their kids are so energetic.

Monday 1/21/2013 – Sunday 1/27/2013

Monday was a good day. Just basically did the usual. Cleaned, shopped, talked to the family! Then played some basketball!!! We also had a great FHE with the Looney's!

Tuesday was good. It was my five month mark and it was also the day that Kobe scored 81 points in 2006! Woo!! I also did my first District Meeting which seemed to go pretty well. The rest of the day was filled with appointments that fell through. So we headed to Walter's to play chess for the last time with him. We had to tell him that we can't play games anymore. Then I had a way good dinner with the Liebenhaut's! Holy moly that was some good stuff. I don't know what it was called. Then we OYM's before heading home.

Wednesday we helped Brother Feather's move his smaller stuff into his van. He also gave us a butt ton of food! Then we picked up Karsten to bring him to appointments that fell through. Went and contacted Sister Verdiano and talked to her and a couple other ladies for a bit. One was a non-member so I think we were there to plant a seed. She was very nice, but she wouldn't take a BOM. Then we had dinner with the Jones' and Dickson's in our ward. They are both really young couples.

Thursday was weekly planning and 3 appointments fell through. We ate at Sonny's and then went and had a lesson with the Tucker family. Worked hard trying to find people to teach. Then tried to finish weekly planning.

Friday we helped Brother Feather's with the big furniture and there was a lot!! After that, I got to do my first baptismal interview with Rosa. That was exciting! Then we took Brother Culligan to a lesson that fell through. He is a legit guy! Convert of 6 months and is in the National Guard. Then we had dinner with the Looney's. They made an all organic dinner and the chicken was way good!

Saturday was a really good day. First we started off at the flea market, but didn't find anyone.

Then we went and walked to some people’s houses and street contacted some people. We went and saw some less actives as well and talked to some nice people along the way. Then we tracted a bit and found a couple solid potentials. Then we taught Amanda. She is an investigator who came to church basically on her own and made her less active boyfriend come as well.

Sunday was Ward Conference and all of the lessons were way good and very inspiring. We also had a lunch with the Geiger's. Great food! Brother Geiger makes some way good meat loaf! Then we saw Brother Flannery at his home because his mother passed away so we wanted to go and see him and try to cheer him up. Then we went and saw France. She is a less active and her brother does hurdles at BYU and is the second fastest in the country apparently.

Love y'all back home!

Monday 1/14/2013 – Sunday 1/20/2013

Monday we emailed first so we could check the transfer board. We found out Elder Lovell and I are staying in Tally 4 and Elder Olsen is leaving to Pine Forest. I then found out that I am now going to be the District Leader. I am pretty nervous, but I will just do my best. So we shopped quick and then went to FSU to take pictures at the football stadium. Then we headed to the Long's for a delicious dinner of homemade pizza, then had a quick FHE with the Looney's.

Tuesday we had District Meeting and luckily I wasn't District Leader yet because I would not have been able to do it. Then we had some Stevi B's with the campus Elders. Then we headed out to teach Tabatha. She is doing very well! Then we had a lesson with Brother Gorby which was good. Then we went home for Elder Olsen to pack. Then we went to Sister Walker's for dinner and had some spaghetti. Then went home for Elder Olsen to pack some more.

Wednesday was transfers! First we picked up the campus Elders and then Elder Olsen and Prince left with our car so we had no car. So we studied with Elder Eldredge until someone came to get him because he is going home. Then we walked and walked and walked all day! Talked to a ton of nice people and accidently walked through FSU's campus because we were trying to find a house that was near it. We met Oprah...though it was not Winfrey. So it was a good day.

Thursday we taught Betty that we met Wednesday. We can't really tell if she understands the things we are teaching her. Then we weekly planned. Tried to see Oprah, she wasn't home. Then we had some amazing food with the Bishop family. Met some promising people tracting. Then had a lesson with the Tucker's on faith which went well.

Friday we did a ton of street contacting and found a couple people that we are going to teach. Had an awesome lesson with Karsten as well. He is a really cool guy and he wants to go out to do lessons with us. Had dinner with the Tensmeyer's and talked about the Priesthood with them. Then went to set up a few appointments. It's more effective to just show up at people's homes.

Saturday we first helped Amy move and that was pretty sad. I hope the best for her! She is an awesome person and I am so happy I could bring the gospel into her life. She gave us a thank you card and that was so cool to get. Thanks Amy! Tracted then taught Dave, he dropped us. Met a nice guy named Lee when we were tracting, but we can't teach him because he works every single day, but we gave him a Book of Mormon. Tracted some more then headed to a Chinese buffet with Brother Schank which was way good. Then we decided to go and to teach Elmore. That went pretty good, but he just doesn't show much emotion so it is hard to tell if he likes us there.

Sunday we had PEC and Ward Council way early. Then had an excellent church! It just refreshed me. Then had coordination after that and headed home to eat. We had an appointment with a deaf guy named Frank, but it fell through and we waited for a while for our translator, Sister Russell, to get there, but she never showed up. She probably got lost. Hopefully she didn't keep looking and just headed home. Then we had dinner with the Harris' family which was way fun. Their kids ask so many questions so it makes it really fun. Brother Harris also played basketball professionally for 10 years. Never was signed to an NBA team but any pro level is good. Then we went out to see some people and met a lady named Anne. She lived through some crazy stroke thing that I guess really did some damage. She was cool and she was very obsessed by the "Jesus star" as she called it.

Monday 1/7/2013 – Sunday 1/13/13

Monday was a great day! I got to play both basketball and volleyball! That was way fun and I don't even remember what else happened...

Tuesday we had District Meeting which was good. Then after that we had a trade off with the Campus Elders. Elder Olsen went to campus and Elder Eldredge came to our area. It was a good day. First we had a lesson with Amy and she seemed to be doing well. She is still reading and praying, but it is hectic because unfortunately she is moving back to St. Augustine. Then we went and taught Tabatha which went really well! We taught her about the Plan of Salvation and she had great questions that we were able to answer for her. She is moving towards baptism really well, but we aren't able to set a date with her yet. Then we tracted and found some potentials that seemed like they could be promising.

Wednesday we went and picked up Elder Olsen after studies to trade back. Then we had to go to the doctor for Elder Lovell. Then we went and taught Tabatha again and she is doing awesome. We found out that she can get baptized if she wants and that she wants to go to church she just has trouble getting there. She should be getting her license soon. Then we had dinner and then Family Home Evening with the Ogden's. That was way fun and enjoyable.

Thursday we went to the legally blind guy’s house that Dan referred us to. His name is Alan and he is way nice. He has 20/400 vision and he doesn't use a cane or anything which is impressive. He has his own radio station and has a ton of records that we looked at. Some that he has were Journey, ABBA, the BeeGee's, Beatles and Elvis. Then we weekly planned until dinner at the Lahtinen's. That was really good food! Then we went to the Tucker's and read from the JSH about the first vision. Great lesson! We invited Sister Tucker to pray about whether Joseph Smith was a prophet or not, but she didn't want to so she had me do it. That is something I had never done, but as I did it I felt the spirit so strongly testify to me that he was a prophet. That was so cool!

Friday Dan came over to get some supplies to work on another property so we were able to talk to him a bit and try to help him search for spiritual evidence and not physical. Then we just tracted a lot today and tried to find people to teach. Didn't have too much success. Then we went to the Kent's for dinner and to teach Sister Kent about the gospel. It was a weird lesson and it didn't seem like she really wanted to learn. The spirit wasn't strong either.

Saturday we tried to contact some people again because we have a ton of referrals. No luck so we went to lunch with Elder and Sister Mower. They took us out to Firehouse Subs, which was delicious! Then went contacting again and found a guy that is going to let us teach him. We also met his neighbor who is deaf and we are going to teach him as well. Then we went to teach Paris, but she wasn't home, just her sister, was so we talked to her and found out some good information.

Sunday was a great day! Church was awesome! A ton of great talks and then Gospel Principles was full and it was another great lesson. Priesthood was way good too! Brother Shannon did a great job with his lesson and the Lorenzo Snow manual is great! After church we split up, Elder Olsen took Keith to teach the Deaf Guy and we found out his name is Frank. Elder Lovell and I went tracting and found two solid potentials! Then we had a lesson with the Radabaugh's and talked to them about prayer and scripture study. They also have someone that they are sharing the gospel with and we might be teaching him in the future. Then we had dinner with the Gardner's and they made pulled pork sandwiches is what I think they were. Anyway, they were way good!! Then everything fell through in the evening.

Monday 12/31/2012 – Sunday 1/6/2012

Monday we did the usual. Cleaned, shopped, emailed and tried to get a haircut and the haircut places were closed again. Played some checkers and chess too. Then had dinner with the Russell's and that was fun. They gave us a few different types of jams. Then we had to go home because it was New Year’s we had to go in early.

Tuesday was the first day of the year! Holy crap where does time go? I am going to be 21 this year....I am so stinkin old! Well, today we went out and spent most of the time contacting referrals and finding people to teach. We went and saw Walter and decided that we probably shouldn't go there anymore even though we do help him. Usually we just play chess with him, but we found out that we can't do that. Also, had dinner with the Beyer's and had some venison burgers and hog pork chops. They hunt so much and it tastes so much better then beef. Contacting sucked though and we also went to Bill's. He rambled about angels and wouldn't really listen to what we had to say.

Wednesday we went to see if we could contact people that told us to teach them. We weren't able to teach them though, but we did our part. We contacted some members as well and taught some less actives. We also had dinner with the newlywed Jones' family. It was fun, but kinda weird being with people that are our age. Then we went and finally contacted and taught Josh S. He is an atheist and is a really nice guy.

Thursday was weekly planning. Then we headed out to teach Jim. He seemed like he wanted to bash, but we kept it in control and testified a lot! Then we went to dinner with the Oak's and had a really good lesson on faith with them. Then we went to the Tucker's and read the BOM and talked about church, reading and prayer.

Friday we woke up early and went to get DJ. He is a prospective Elder and we took him out with us all day. We started the day going to a lesson with Joshua who likes to talk about Christ and about the similarities. He is going to read and pray, but we probably won't get to teach him again for a while. We then went out to the boonies and split up. I went with DJ and we tracted and had no luck while Elder Olsen and Lovell went to see the Stansel's. Had dinner with the West's and when the dessert was being served, Brother West said, "This stuff will kill ya" and Elder Olsen responded with, "I'm ready to die." Haha! Then we went and read the BOM with a less active/part member family, the Kent's. The best part about the visit was when DJ fell asleep for like 20 or 25 minutes during the lesson. We laughed our butts off!

Saturday we taught Josh again, but he told us he has no desire to know if there is a God. He is planning on reading the BOM though. We tracted a ton as well and also had dinner with the Matkin family. That is the Bishop's family. Then had a lesson with Tabetha and focused on helping her dad learn of why it is important the BOM is true. Hopefully, he keeps reading and praying.

Sunday we woke up early again and had meetings. Had a full class during gospel principles and met a potential investigator through that! She is pretty interested. Had dinner with the Hodge/Berkeley family which was way fun! They are awesome. We also taught Elmore, but we can't figure him out thus far. We also found out that Amy is leaving to St. Augustine which is very sad, but I hope and pray the best for her! She will be fine after all she has the gift of the Holy Ghost! :)