Hey Family!
Sooooo this past week seemed to go by really slow I dont know why. Its not like things are sucking here it just feels like forever since I have emailed. But this past week was pretty good. It definitely sucks leaving Vacaville because i really like it there. Its hard getting transferred and having to start all over with investigators, ward, missionaries just everything. This area is pretty sweet though.. We are not in much of the ghetto as I wanted. Vallejo is just outside here which is the ghetto. We get to go there though because we cover part of it and our dinners are in Vallejo sometimes. its pretty sweet.
I got to teach my first district meeting last week and it went pretty good. I was really nervous going into it because I studied for it I just wasnt sure what I was giong to do for it but somehow it all worked out. District meeting didnt really go the way I planned it at all.. the spirit took it away. It was defintiley a life saver. I have to teach again tomorrow and im not sure how that is going to turn out either because I havent really had time to figure it out. hopefully I have a good study in the morning tomorrow. I love my District though. Elder Bezzant is in my District and he is from Brighton. Super sweet kid. My District does work though now me and my companion Elder Gunther need to do work. He is a cool kid. He is from Germany so he has a way thick accent so he is way hard to understand sometimes so ill just nod my head haha. Oh and I went to my first leadership meeting with the mission and i felt so out of place.. hahaha
We have these 2 investigators named Sheldon and Johndale. First wish Sheldon.. Sheldon is like 60 something and is in a wheelchair because he was hit by a car. He has been meeting with missionaries for about 25 years.. nobody knows why he hasnt been baptized haha but he is getting close I believe! We tried setting a date but he wouldnt because his family lives way by Oregon and isnt sure how to get them here or if he can get baptized there but we had a way cool thing happen the other day when we taught him. We had a baptism in the Zone and we wanted Sheldon to go. The mission has taught us to invite people to ordinances. So we got there and taught him and invited him to the baptism and he said I cant its too short of a notice and I just cant.. I knew he was coming up with excuses buti didnt say anything. I dont remember exactly how the conversation went but he started talking about church and the feeling he gets there. Then i told him "You will have that feeling again if you come to the Baptism. Baptism is the most Sacred Ordinance outside the Temple. What would be holding you back from feeling that? If Christ was here and asked you to go what would you say? We represent him" Those are some of the things I said to him (those are skills we have been taught recently) and he got out of his chair and went and changed super fast and we were able to barely make it to the baptism. That was his first one he has seen and he has been meeting with missionaries for 25 years. It was soooooooooooooo cool!! He LOVED it. Came to church and told the bishop how much he loved it. Such a great experience. Hoepfully we can set a date soon.
Johndale is an unbaptized child. He is 10 years old and has a date for June 1. He understands the lessons when we teach him but when we go back another time he forgets but last time he remembered everything. So that is giong well! His mom is LA but she has been coming to church with him so im super excited about all of it.
Those are basically our only investigators so were trying to FIND FIND FIND. Thats basically everything new with me.
Im glad to hear everything is going well. Its kinda hard for me to believe that grandpa is now in assisted living.. thats so weird to think. Poor guy.. I hope things go well for him there. :(
Tell Heather congratulations for me!! Thats way cool. I'm sure trenton wishes he could be there.. haha so weird how much goes on during the mission.
Well I love you all soooo much! I keep you guys in my prayers everyday. When life gets too hard to stand.... Kneel :) Keep that in mind I know it will help you guys in all that you do. Tanner out.
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Monday, May 20, 2013
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This past week wasn't too bad. I was struggling a little bit with grandma passing and I had a hard time doing the work and staying focused. Then I got a thought that passed through my head that said "If grandma sees me struggling because she is gone she would be so hurt." So i decided that I was going to change that and make her proud. I know she is in a better place where she will not be in anymore pain. It really is a blessing that we will all be resurrected. Grandma will have a perfect body where she wont have any of the problems she had before. I'm grateful for Jesus Christ and for all that he did so that we all can be resurrected and death is NOT the end whatsoever, On Sunday we had 2 of our investigators come to church. You guys are gonna get a kick out of what happened but first there is this girl we are teaching who is 14 years old. She is in a part member family and her parents are less active and her brother is taking lessons from the YSA Sister missionaries and now were teaching this girl. Her name is Roweena. She has been through a lot with her famliy and has now come to church 2 times in a row. We were on exchanges and i wasnt here but they had a super sweet lesson with her at a members house. We are going to try to set something up soon and get to teach her. The other guy that came is named Jim. Jim talked to us awhile ago and brought up some concerns and I told him lets solve those concerns so he took us into his home and taught him and his wife barbara. They didnt come to church last week but he came this week. Heres the kicker.. he got up in testimony meeting!!!!!!! He got up and said how he wasnt part of the faith but he was there because of the missionaries AKA us :) but anyway one of his concerns is blacks and the priesthood back in the day, but when he got up he saw a black guy in the congregation and said im grateful to see a black guy here!! hahahaha This african american is a less active member who we taught earlier that week and committed to church. What a coincidence right!!!?? hahahaha soooooo funny. All the other testimonies after Jim were about racism and women because another concern was he wanted more women in leadership. He left right after sacrament but were seeing him on Wed and seeing how he liked it. It was soooo funny though. Everybody came up to us and talked to us about it. It made testimony meeting very different and interesting.. kinda like when we all started standing up to sing the national anthem that one testimony meeting at home hahahaha gosh i love those moments. Thats basically the highlight to my week.
Now with Crystal.. she has been acting super weird lately. We were supposed to teach her at a baptism other missionaries were having and she didnt show up. We called and her step dad said she went shopping.. we were like uhh whhaa?? ok... haha but were gonna try to meet with her soon to find out her concerns and everything.
We picked up a couple new investigators. One really great guy named James who is african american and LOVED the restoration. We learned this new skill of having peple read the first vision and not us tell them so he read it and i asked how he felt and he said how unbelievable and undescribable it was. You could definitely feel the spirit even though we were on his driveway. He wants to meet with us at the end of the week and head out to lunch to learn more.
Sooo mom to answer your question. I only have a couple people actually handwriting me like Madalie, Marlies and like 2 others you dont know but a lot email me now. I am emailing tyler gee, grant garry, cody rogers, meagan mitchell, trenton, rachel corlett, aubree pearson, hannah belnap, zach farnworth, ryan head, adam maxwell, madi bernson, jordan tuckfield i think there is a couple more but yeah i keep in touch with a lot. What is cole morgans email?? thats sweet you see madalies mom at costco she is so cool.
I have some good news... I will be skyping you guys this weekend!!!!!!! I'm not sure what time or anything so i think ill have to give you guys a call after church to inform you the plan but im not exactly sure. I will get a hold of you guys sometime Sunday after 2 our time to let you know whats going down. I cant wait!!!!!!!!
Thats soooooooo sweet walkers got dirt bikes. Im definitely getting a motorcycle when i get home!!! Just sayin so be prepared to buy me one dad :).
We figure out transfer information on Friday.. so i will be letting you guys know what ends up happening to me on sunday when i skype you. Im not quite sure what I wanna do.. I want to stay ebcause i love this ward soo much but i think its time for me to go. We will see what the Lord wants from me.
Well... Not much more to say. Thank you soooo much for everything. I hope you are all doing better. I know this is really hard, but just know that our Heavenly Father, Jesus Christ, and grandma DO NOT want us to be sad.. If were sad it only hurts them. I love you all sooooooooooo much. Head up. Push through life. Eternal Life waits ahead :). Talk to you all on Sunday!!! Peace out bros!!!
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This past week wasn't too bad. I was struggling a little bit with grandma passing and I had a hard time doing the work and staying focused. Then I got a thought that passed through my head that said "If grandma sees me struggling because she is gone she would be so hurt." So i decided that I was going to change that and make her proud. I know she is in a better place where she will not be in anymore pain. It really is a blessing that we will all be resurrected. Grandma will have a perfect body where she wont have any of the problems she had before. I'm grateful for Jesus Christ and for all that he did so that we all can be resurrected and death is NOT the end whatsoever, On Sunday we had 2 of our investigators come to church. You guys are gonna get a kick out of what happened but first there is this girl we are teaching who is 14 years old. She is in a part member family and her parents are less active and her brother is taking lessons from the YSA Sister missionaries and now were teaching this girl. Her name is Roweena. She has been through a lot with her famliy and has now come to church 2 times in a row. We were on exchanges and i wasnt here but they had a super sweet lesson with her at a members house. We are going to try to set something up soon and get to teach her. The other guy that came is named Jim. Jim talked to us awhile ago and brought up some concerns and I told him lets solve those concerns so he took us into his home and taught him and his wife barbara. They didnt come to church last week but he came this week. Heres the kicker.. he got up in testimony meeting!!!!!!! He got up and said how he wasnt part of the faith but he was there because of the missionaries AKA us :) but anyway one of his concerns is blacks and the priesthood back in the day, but when he got up he saw a black guy in the congregation and said im grateful to see a black guy here!! hahahaha This african american is a less active member who we taught earlier that week and committed to church. What a coincidence right!!!?? hahahaha soooooo funny. All the other testimonies after Jim were about racism and women because another concern was he wanted more women in leadership. He left right after sacrament but were seeing him on Wed and seeing how he liked it. It was soooo funny though. Everybody came up to us and talked to us about it. It made testimony meeting very different and interesting.. kinda like when we all started standing up to sing the national anthem that one testimony meeting at home hahahaha gosh i love those moments. Thats basically the highlight to my week.
Now with Crystal.. she has been acting super weird lately. We were supposed to teach her at a baptism other missionaries were having and she didnt show up. We called and her step dad said she went shopping.. we were like uhh whhaa?? ok... haha but were gonna try to meet with her soon to find out her concerns and everything.
We picked up a couple new investigators. One really great guy named James who is african american and LOVED the restoration. We learned this new skill of having peple read the first vision and not us tell them so he read it and i asked how he felt and he said how unbelievable and undescribable it was. You could definitely feel the spirit even though we were on his driveway. He wants to meet with us at the end of the week and head out to lunch to learn more.
Sooo mom to answer your question. I only have a couple people actually handwriting me like Madalie, Marlies and like 2 others you dont know but a lot email me now. I am emailing tyler gee, grant garry, cody rogers, meagan mitchell, trenton, rachel corlett, aubree pearson, hannah belnap, zach farnworth, ryan head, adam maxwell, madi bernson, jordan tuckfield i think there is a couple more but yeah i keep in touch with a lot. What is cole morgans email?? thats sweet you see madalies mom at costco she is so cool.
I have some good news... I will be skyping you guys this weekend!!!!!!! I'm not sure what time or anything so i think ill have to give you guys a call after church to inform you the plan but im not exactly sure. I will get a hold of you guys sometime Sunday after 2 our time to let you know whats going down. I cant wait!!!!!!!!
Thats soooooooo sweet walkers got dirt bikes. Im definitely getting a motorcycle when i get home!!! Just sayin so be prepared to buy me one dad :).
We figure out transfer information on Friday.. so i will be letting you guys know what ends up happening to me on sunday when i skype you. Im not quite sure what I wanna do.. I want to stay ebcause i love this ward soo much but i think its time for me to go. We will see what the Lord wants from me.
Well... Not much more to say. Thank you soooo much for everything. I hope you are all doing better. I know this is really hard, but just know that our Heavenly Father, Jesus Christ, and grandma DO NOT want us to be sad.. If were sad it only hurts them. I love you all sooooooooooo much. Head up. Push through life. Eternal Life waits ahead :). Talk to you all on Sunday!!! Peace out bros!!!
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