Driving to the church to skype mama!



Singing Christmas carols at the catholic food pantry



What?

Dec 19th - Dec 26th

Crazy week!!!
We started with Zone Conference in Yarmouth Maine with all Maine areas, right down to Portsmouth, so I got to see and talk to Elders Owens, Miskin and Wasilchen! All Spanish dudes! It was so awesome! It wasn't so much of a training, it was more of like an encouraging conference, we saw a family skit from the Blairs, we watched some clips, talked about some Christmas traditions and had a wonderful lunch from the members in Yarmouth. Afterwords we sang songs and then called it and we where able to hang out and talk with other missionaries for a couple hours. So nice! haha For dinner we went with Belfast and skowhegan and Machias elders to the Portland mall and had some Panda Express! A rarity here in New England. Then headed home.

We had another awesome lesson with Tristen. We talked about the restoration and we bore a solid, emotional testimony. We both had a solid confirmation that the Wiermen family will one day walk into the temple and be sealed. Awesome

Elder Iverson and I went down to Bangor for him to get some final stuff for going home and we ate at Chick Fil-A and talked and joked and got to know each other a little bit better. It always nice to spend a day and hang out with your comp.

We had another awesome day at the cow farm, the whole Bissell clan was there and we talked and worked and got dirty and smelly and the sisters made fun of me and all that fancy nasty and not so fancy stuff. haha

We also went down to Skowhegan with the Newport Elders and Faroles at a catholic food pantry place. It was pretty fun, we met some awesome people and sang lots of carols and brought Christmas spirit to these people. It was great being with good friends.

For Christmas, we were able to Skype home and I got to talk with my family. I love them and miss them so much! Then we went to Randy Dows' and had a awesome dinner with him and John Marshall also. In the middle of dinner Randy's kid chandler comes running in and says "we are stuck!" So we went outside and pushed and pushed sister Atwaters car out of 4 ft of snow... dang, then came inside and ate the rest if dinner haha

The weather here is cold. Doesn't get above 30 and a low of -15 or so with a crazy windchill. Good thing my clothes are pretty warm haha

Another crazy thing that happened this week....

When we where getting stuff in Bangor, we got a call from our financial advisor Elder Allen and said
"Do you elders remember the conversation we had last week about your apartment being closed?"
"Uhhh... no"
"Well, you're apartment is being closed at the end of the month.."
"Ohh"

So the elders here in Dover are being shut down. Elder Iverson goes home Thursday and I am being emergency transferred to Bar Harbor Maine. My new companion is Elder Boyle. Great guy! We leave Tuesday latest. Dang dang dang.

What a wild ride a mission is, one day you're having fun, teaching, doing your thing then the next, you're leaving in an instant, who knew haha never done this before but we have been spending all our time getting it cleaned up and ready.

It has been a crazy week but a good one.

My new Address is; 16 Blodgett Drive Bar Harbor, Maine 04609

love you all and Merry Christmas.

Elder Vogel

Winter in Maine   Dec 12th - Dec 19th


What a crazy week this was! Dang. We had a lesson with Tristen Wiermen. Tristan is kinda.. disabled, he's about late 30s early 40s and when he was younger, he had a stroke that pretty much ruined his life as it was. He's had to learn how to walk, write, and kinda talk, but we had a lesson about the Mormon message "good things to come" and the spirit that was in the room was truly amazing. Tristen could clearly feel the spirit and at the end of the lesson, he told us he wants to be baptized. AWESOME! Haven't had an experience like that before! Amazing!


After we had a.. interesting meet with a guy named... Cory. Cory is kinda.. off haha . He claimed he was in the marine corp and because of "to many head injuries" he got discharged and now he literally lives in some psych ward place.. but, he called us and wanted to do family history, so after getting on many tangents of him "Biting" people and fighting in his youth, some farts and some threats, we got some Info, and then left. Never to be seen again, what a experience. That's one of those moments when I look at my comp and we both agree that experiences like that are only on a mission hahah what a day.

District meeting was pretty good, we where asked to send in a video of something we loved about the Blairs, so we did. It was awesome, I'll send the video. After a great role play and friendly chat with Sister Turley, we had a powerful, and sad testimony by elder Iverson. It was his last one before he goes home, spirit was strong.


We went to skowhegan again because elder Iverson had his exit interview in Waterville, so we headed down and had a fabulous time. Skowhegan elders and I went into town to get some things, hang out, look at other clothes and to try and see some people then headed back to the church for Iverson. After his interview, many tears and me talking to the Blairs and getting to know the new sister missionary, we headed to the skowhegan wards Christmas party and talked and hung out, ate awesome food and watched a funny play, we called it a night.

Here in Dover we are surviving, we had a huge snow storm and we got about 3.5 ft of snow, scary stuff... then, it rained and froze over. So the roads that where clear, have been iced over. For church, we only had sacrament meeting because no one showed up for church, the roads were to dangerous and we have had our cars grounded and when we walk, we slide everywhere. The linger longer was canceled sadly, so we are having it on Jan 1st, it's gonna be awesome!

Elder Iverson had a great talk that pretty much talked about goal planning, shared some experiences from his mission and cried about going home. Even though there wasn't many people there, the spirit was clearly strong and able to testify to us all.

We did however manage to have a dinner with the Page family, they are awesome family, full of love, jokes and good food, my favorite! Landon, their son, had his girlfriend over, and she's from china, so she is living with them for a while until she returns home, but I guess she's going to school here, so idk haha but we loved it, loved talking to them and getting to know them better.


Merry Christmas Everyone.

Love Elder Vogel

it is winter in Maine

This week was pretty eventful also, can't believe how fast they go, dang.

We went to Skowhegan for PDay and we went and hung out down in Bangor, went to the mall, some other little stores and outlets to get some city life haha. We are too lonely in the sticks haha. Then we went back to e mail and still hung out. Because it was snowing, we stayed the night at their place and left Tuesday morning for home.

We didn't do to much on Tuesday because it was transfer day, so we did some "my plan', language study and planned a little bit and tried to see some people that fell through. Wednesday we had district meeting from Elder Kulkarni! He's the new district leader because Elder Iverson goes home mid transfer, and that means I'll get a new companion then, or if our linger longer ( a social right after church) busts, we both may be leaving and no one will return... idk what's gonna happen haha anyway, to continue with our day, we continued to do some more my plan and language study until choir. We did that, then Elder Iverson taught Book of Mormon class, where, it was pretty good and pretty spiritual. We talked about faith, hope and charity, how we can use them, how they are important and how Christ used them. Very awesome, we then called it good.

Thursday we got up and headed to a lady named Zha zha (recent convert of a year) and covered her windows with plastic. For those of you that don't know what that is, here in New England where winters are brutal and is known for freezing people next to their fireplaces, people buy rolls of thick plastic and nail them to the windows to keep the hot air inside.so we did that while it snowed, for 3 hours... just us... that's gonna change. haha Afterwards we came home and grabbed a couple things and tried to see more people. No love  (see the video)

Friday we planned and planned some more for this linger longer we  are having, talked with the sisters and we are all trying to catch sister Hawes up to speed haha side note - sister Hawes and I flew out together, it's pretty awesome serving with another member of my flight group, especially when there wasn't very many of us! Haha anyway, afterwards we headed to the church and we helped prepare Thomas Atwaters baptism. It was  suppose to start at 6 and we got there at about 5:45 and no one was there and the font had not been touched.... you can guess how it went, we started at about 6:45 or so.. Mormons haha anyway, after that fiasco we called it a day.

Saturday we had another expedition at the cow farm. It was sister Hawes first time! I remember my first time lol I was scared out of my mind, so was she lol Elder Iverson and I were the cow wranglers. We went out and fed them, then to the stalls to get milked, pretty simple right? Nope.. as we where filling it up, a newer cow jumped right in and squeezed herself in, one to many.... and she was just glaring at us.. classic, so, we had to get her out.. fabulous haha so we smacked her leg with our smacking stick to get her out, then when she got out she panicked, rolled back (how cows do that, i'm not sure) and slipped and ate straight pavement.. heard that slap across the barn, then the other cows that where done where yelling and screaming, why? Because there where about 80 cows stuffed into a 50 cow holding grounds... awesome, so we let them out and they charged to the barn, slipping and sliding and humping and all that good stuff, all the way home... no me gusta bacas... me gusta caballos.. anywho, that's the exciting news about our Saturday.


Sunday was good, it was a spiritual day, the messages where centered around the temple and I honestly love the temple.

I can't even express my love for the temple, last time I went was with Elder Espinoza like 4 transfers ago! I'm due to go again! Dang! Well... I hope I can go sometime.. soon.. well on with my day, we went to second hour and third just getting people to sign up for our linger longer and we had a surprisingly great sign up! Super proud of them! Afterwards we cleaned the apartment because it was... bad haha oops, so we cleaned and waited until Skowhegan elders got here and we called it.


This week has been cool, I've been pretty happy and pretty excited for the linger longer, we are getting great results, I can see the lord working miracles here. Amazing! And a special thanks to everyone that sent me Christmas packages! I love them so much and I hope you all also have a great Christmas! :)

Love, Elder Vogel

singing at the branch Christmas party

Why don't you know the words to Frosty the snow man.

The poor cow that fell

Nov 29th - Dec 5th

So for Monday we went down to Skowhegan and had another exchange, we stayed for 3 nights. Sunday, Monday and Tuesday night haha elder Kulkarni and I went and talked to guy named Pedro, who speaks Spanish! I talked to him for a little bit, loved it. Love speaking Spanish! After, we tried and hit potentials then we went back home and did some studies for the rest of the time.
Next day was more work, more finding, and we didn't feel to good AND we got snow. No good

Wednesday we had our last district meeting of the transfer. Transfer calls were this week and I'm staying in Dover for another 6 weeks! Kinda saw it coming, Elder Iverson and I are also still together! Pretty awesome!

After district meeting we went and helped set up for our Branch Christmas party, we did that for 3 days, all day. Elder Iverson and I made a ton of snowflakes and a ton of stockings for it, sister Atwater seemed very upset about the short notice and little planning, but she asked us for help and we where able to help as best we can! All of us, elders, sisters and her family members where going crazy with all the prep! And, it sure payed off.

On Saturday we had it at 1 o'clock. (Weird time right?) and we had more people come to the Christmas party then there were at sacrament meeting! How awesome! It went great, we had tons of great food, lights, games, music, all the fancy stuff! I think I got s video I'll send.

After the Christmas party was over, we went to the barn to help out brother Bissell at his dairy farm. We got there and we didn't want to get in the nasty pit and milk, so we decided to help him with other things. We went and fixed a lock on a gate, then herded some cows out of the barn to the milking parlor and then we got to... wait for it... we assisted in mating a couple that where in heat.... HOLY SCARY! I don't care who you are, but when you are wide shouldered and tall and it's dark and there's a horny momma cow behind you just glaring at ya, you tend to poop yourself in absolute fear... I was on extreme caution, nope nope! After that little experience we went again to the baby calves and fed and played with them, then went to help the crippled cows get milked.. We where watching one (who was using only 3 legs) gonna go and jump up in the stall and get milked, well, she jumped, and fell.. hard.. the loud wailing and loud howling after you heard a snapping sound was terrible... this 1400 lbs cow was.. immovable. But, Brodie the wonder dog got her up, we milked her, and she went and laid down when she went back to her little corner, poor thing. Never heard something like that in my life, scary..

Sunday was very spiritual. We had fast and testimony meeting and shared that sister Mortimer was leaving. She went up and thanked the Branch for all their hard work and effort, after she spoke, sister Atwater got up and shared a story of her daughter that's on a mission and then, was emotional because of the gratitude she had that we where here right now. It was amazing, especially because she's a missionary mom, I got up and shared about my family and how much I missed them and how much of a sacrifice a mission is and how grateful we are to feel loved by someone in the area we serve.

What an eventful week, doesn't seem like much, but it made a wonderful impact on me and my mission. We currently have about 6 inches of snow, and it's still falling. But, I know that we will be protected, I also know that because we are staying here in Dover, that someone needs us, and we are going to try and find them.


I love you all, thanks for all you do!

Elder Vogel
 

Nov 21st - Nov 28th

It has been super crazy busy here the last couple weeks! The weeks have been pretty awesome though. This has definitely been one of the more interesting transfers of my mission. The work I'm doing has shifted a lot from the proselyting/finding and teaching stuff to a lot of meetings and coordinating with Ward and auxiliary leaders. Quick reason as to why.. The Branch I am in have had quite a few problems over the last couple years. I will not list them all, but I will give you one: They have been a high baptizing area for sure! Over the last 2 years, this branch had 20 that were baptized, but out of those 20, 4 still regularly attend. I will not go on as far as the problems go, but there is a glimpse of what's going on.

So when I met with President Blair and told him about all of the things I have observed over the last 5 weeks, we came up with a plan.

It was kinda weird/hard to hear the mission President tell me to stop finding, teaching, and baptizing. But it does make complete sense. Why would you keep pouring perfectly clean water (new converts) into a bucket of dirty water (Dover Branch)? You wouldn't. Been here done that, it's been a big portion of my mission so far. I feel like I don't get to teach much but it's preparing me for something big. He told me this could be my hardest area.. which I'm chill with, I'm staying another transfer because of plans and prep, but idk if I'll be around for 3. We have some events that's gonna make it or break it.


Please don't get me wrong, I LOVE the little Dover Branch! There are some stalwart disciples of Christ here. But something different needs to be done! Because what's been done isn't exactly working so well.. So that's what President Blair, Elder Iverson, and myself have started to do. Something different indeed.


We did however, teach Jason Tirrel and a miracle happened! We taught him about the new initiative and he told us about his kidney disease a while ago, but he found a doner! How awesome is that! He will have it in and hopefully functioning by Christmas! So happy for the guy, idk what that's like, but I'm happy for him and what a wonderful testimony builder. Awesome.


So over the last week, not only have we met with President Blair, we have met privately with a Stake High Councelor, our ward mission leader countless times, Elders Quorum President, relief society president, young women's, young men, activity coordinator, and the Branch president himself twice. We have organized 3 activities that are going to transpire over the month of December and I am worn out! I am finding that organizing ward activities, getting everyone on board and willing to participate is more tiring than walking around and knocking doors! Bless all of you who do this in your home wards. Wouldn't wanna be ya. But our first activity is this Saturday! Everyone pray that it goes well this week pleeaasseeee.


This week we did service at a cow farm and what an experience that was haha I definitely like horses more.. cows are completely... gross... nasty... ugh.. lol but it was super fun! I've used more Spanish yelling and threatening these cows and a Guatemalan have been giving me lip and a bunch of laughs haha I'll attach some pics and a video or 2. There was one of the cows that was fairly new at this milking process and it went ape wall crazy.. it's leg was flying out in the trench and smacking one of the workers and almost falling over on it's poop (Which would be super badzo..) it was super scary, reminded me of the time that a horse at the barn back home (I think andreas) was going crazy with the horse next to her and I was in shock, pooping myself, but also in awe. Same experience, kinda crazy. We got poop crossfires and milk flying and cows smelling and.. dang, whole new respect for dairy farmers. Whole new respect. I thought I was pretty rough guy, didn't think that I was any more city boy, I though Kelly broke that off me, but doing this, I still had some city left... and that was shattered, pooped on and flushed down the toilet and never to be seen again... me encanta caballos..




Love you all, thanks for all you do!!

zone conference

Nov 14th - Nov 17th

This week wasn't to productive. We had a lesson with Derrik and talked to him about faith. He's really awesome, we explained that faith comes through action and we all have to exercise that seed for miracles.
We had exchanges with Skowhegan and elder Morgan and I went to try and see a guy in jail.. probably not our most productive thing ever, but we did and we, fortunately, need to set an appointment up haha so.. we haven't yet but may think about it. We then went to do "12 Week" and talked about questions he had for me and really had a great heart to heart, pretty awesome.

We had a emergency exchange too because a few days later, elder morgan got sick, so elder Kulkarni and I went to get 2 new investigators! We went to go talk a guy named Melvin, who, when he saw us was talking a million miles per hour haha and we had a great doorstep lesson about the Book of Mormon and comités him to read it. Then we went to a lesson with a recent convert who introduced us to her friend Amber, who has a young family and is looking for God in her life, pretty awesome! She has no concept of God at all so we talked mainly about, that God is our loving Heavenly Father and He loves us and she was astonished and her husband looked pretty interested also. Very awesome.

This week we also had a Zone Conference about the new "Light the World" Christmas initiative that the church has made, everyone go watch and share the teasers! Super good! Anyway, I was able to see some old friends like elders Owens, Luu, Hardman and so forth. We mingled then took our seats and talked. Sister Blair showed us the new initiative and told us ways on how we can use them this Christmas season. We also got an advent calendar of service, it was way cool! After, we got some wonderful words from Pres Blair who not only made us almost pee ourselves laughing so hard, but also encouraged and helped us see that this year is where it's at haha it was way awesome, we then had a wonderful lunch, then we broke off into zones and had a zone meeting about the initiative and also about concerns and goals in the zone. Way cool, talked about being consecrated and better examples. After we got a training from the Assistants about the same thing, wonderful spirit and wonderful words.

One Saturday we had a emergency zone meeting where we talked about the zones and pretty much had a huge companion inventory and expressed gratitude and love for our zone and helped each other gain a desire again to reach our goal of 100 new investigators this transfer! We got 2 weeks! We can do it!

I have learned so much this last year on my mission, I have learned to love everyone. 

Truly have Christ like love. To constantly pray and have a good attitude about everything and
everyone, or else, Satan has you quicker than snot.
I have learned that I have a compassionate, but dedicated heart. I don't let things get me down, and I keep going strong. Like Spanish, we lost our Spanish area, but I still ask people if they know anyone
that speaks it and I see success. Always be an example also. Always

Thank you all for the love and prayers and many other gifts, I love you all and I hope to hear from you all this next week!



Con mucho amor deElder Vogel

what missionaries do when they are sick...

the goatie on the sick day

the dairy barn

Nov 7th - Nov 14th


Sorry for the absolute sad and short email this week.. you'll understand why haha Hasta - until

Monday hasta Wednesday- We where on exchange in Newport and I was with Elder Timothy! Elder Timothy unfortunately got sick so we didn't get to do very much, we did have a dinner and the husband served his mission in Spain, which, he doesn't really speak Spanish anymore and it sounded terrible lol but that's okay. We stayed the night over in Skowhegan and had district meeting, afterwords we went to try and find people and we came across a lady named Ruby. Ruby unfortunately wasn't interested, but she is from El Salvador and obviously speaks Spanish! It was awesome to talk to her and practice a little, she gave us directions to her family who are all from El Salvador and her dad doesn't speak English. Awesome, might hit them up soon! That's about it, and a bunch of no shows. But that's the life I guess.

Thursday hasta Saturday - we didn't really do anything because Elder Iverson got sick haha we watched the home teachers on Friday night, which half the people where sick also, and we didn't shave and we decided to shave Saturday and have go-ts, pretty cool. We also have been playing a game that I made up with string and hangers. It's pretty awesome. I'll send a video or something haha and we've just been a couple scrubs. We did however on Saturday night go to coordination at brother Brissel, he is a dairy farmer. We went in the barn in our nice clothes, which was not a good idea haha and we had coordination in there with the sisters. Sisters were all dressed in scrub clothes, all dirty and telling us what work there is like and us getting nauseous because we still are kinda on edge with our viruses. Lol pretty interesting.

Sunday - Sunday was kinda interesting. People were dead, I guess this sickness hit several dozen people haha anyway, I got to see Presidant Kilgour again, it was awesome! I love him so much, he gave us some awesome council about our meals and how do effectively plan them better, awesome. After sacrament, we had gospel principles which was.. different haha but it seemed to go well for the people there, then I guess every fast Sunday the primary bails and the missionaries teach it... that was a new experience, never done that before haha we only had maybe.. 6 kids, even Hanover had at least in the teens, but shoot. 6 of them little kids, couple 8 year olds, couple 6 and 7 year olds and a 5 year old... crazy, anywho after church we came home because elder Iverson still wasn't feeling the greatest, and we cleaned.

This week I've had a lot of extra time to practice Spanish, did it go anywhere? Idk haha I hope it did, my head hurts and every time I speak to someone, they seem to understand me haha but that's okay, always room for improvement.

My fav scripture this week is Moroni 10:8 "8 Y además os exhorto, hermanos míos, a que no neguéis los dones de Dios, porque son muchos, y vienen del mismo Dios. Y hay diversas maneras de administrar estos dones, pero es el mismo Dios que obra todas las cosas en todo; y se dan a los hombres por las manifestaciones del Espíritu de Dios para beneficiarlos."

And I exhort you, my brethren, not to deny the gifts of God, because they are many, and come from the same God. And there are various ways of administering these gifts, but it is the same God who works all things in all; And are given to men by the manifestations of the Spirit of God to benefit them. "Moroni 10:8

I like that because it shows God is still watching and still helping us, providing us with different gifts that profit us, and as missionaries, to help the work move on. I'm blessed to be here at this time, el barrio es muy loco y difícil, but we can do it haha Elder Iverson and I have definitely been humbled this week and we are determined this week to work super hard, to find those elect people, teach them, and help them get closer to enter the waters of baptism! I am grateful for all you do, thank you for the prayers and letters! They really help give me a booster!



Con mucho amor deElder Vogel

    

   Sis. Delgado, Sis Kuavaka and Elder Vogel. the only Latino elders in Maine

quick, Make a face

whoa, look at that!

Elder Iverson the companion

Oct 31st - November 6th

Monday - we had a zone P-Day down in Waterville with the Newport, Skowhegan, Farmington Elders and us, Waterville elders and sisters and Farmingdale elders. It was fun! We played games, we played sports, we talked, it was awesome! Afterwords, we went back home and played games for the night because we where not allowed outside on Halloween. It was fun

Tuesday - we had a super sick lesson with a new investigator Kent, who is an avid smoker and looking for faith, he's a Mainer too haha loves to talk! He builds, in deep detail, model cars and planes, so we got talking about that for a little while then shared with him the restoration, he loved it! He totally can see it and he's way accepting. Awesome dude, we had a dinner with the Cleaves, sister Cleaves husband Kent, isn't a member and not really looking for change. We had a wonderful home made lasagna and then she went off about politics... like way deep.. it was so deep in detail I probably could have enough knowledge to vote now haha holy smokes.

Wednesday - after district meeting we went and hit up a bunch of less actives and potentials that where no shows. But I talked to a cool dude named Juan, he was from Puerto Rico, speaks English but not very well, so I talked to him in Spanish. He is a poor farmer, not really interested in a new faith, but accepted a Libro de Mormón and said if we find him again we can talk to him. We also had a dinner at the Harmons, way awesome couple! They are just funny and sister Harmon is a convert of about 3 years! I never would have guessed! Wow, way awesome stuff! After class, we went to La clase de El Libro de Mormón and I guess I taught haha we had a discussion about the Holy Ghost, shared some scriptures and had a very tender, spiritual discussion. Way sick! Good way to end the day.

Thursday - we had another busy day planned going out and looking around for people, but no luck sadly. We talked to a few, but no interest. We did help some branch members move in a little bit from their old she'd to their house they have been building, met their son who's super awesome, and we had a dinner with Randy Dow and one of his friends at Athens pizza, pretty good stuff, after that we called it and had coordination at about 7:30.


Friday - I got sick!! I hate getting sick, I got a cold and I was out for the day because of my fierce coughing and regurgitating stuff.. but I got some medicine and elder Iverson and I had a heart to heart and had a semi productive day.


Saturday/ Sunday - we had Stake Conference and I got to hear some way awesome talked from the Stake Presidency and other members of a lot of wards and branches, I also got to see a lot of members from Brewer! Holy smokes was that awesome! I miss them all so much! Even though I wasn't there for to long, I still just have a great sense of love for them! The ones I saw, they totally recognized me and where like "what's up man!?" Awe I miss it! Take me back! Haha I saw the Kilgour's and brother Kilgour is now Presidant Kilgour, stake Presidency. Fits him, he's from Australia haha he's coming to Dover next Sunday so that will be awesome to see him again!


Sunday I got to see a lot of the missionaries serving and I saw sisters Delgado, who came out with me and Kuavaka, who has been out for a little bit, but she came after me. We took a picture because we are the only Latino missionaries in Maine haha awesome girls, also, funny moment, our branch president fell asleep during conference and the elders quorum president got up and fell asleep in the back row of the choir line, awesome lol. After conference I got to be a part of a tender moment for Elder Iverson. He baptized a guy named Berny a year ago when he was in Ellsworth and today, I got to be a part of Elder Iverson giving him the priesthood a year later, HOW SICK IS THAT! It was so sweet, such a strong spirit, such an awesome guy, love him. Afterwards we came home and tried to weekly plan, but we where tired and we did other things for the night, what a great weekend.


Busy week full of eventful turns! It's getting cold up here, like really cold haha this weekend the warmest it got was 38*, we are gonna have a terrible winter up here. Good thing I'm prepared! Hopefully..


Well, I know this work is true and a great and marvelous work, I love the work as a missionary, there's nothing quite like it. It's so rewarding and it's so special to see people come to the gospel and progress and see them get sealed and live together forever. I hope to give this next week a lot more effort than we did, me being out for the day kinda sucked, but I know this week we can do it and pull through for the win!


I love you all! Thanks for all you do!

Con mucho amor de
Elder Vogel

Our New Whip 2017 Ford Escape

It's snowing already...

A little girl at a family we visited...I promise i'm not that fat!

my dear friend is giving some lip...Only in Maine!

Hanover New Hampshire/Vermont, Manchester New Hampshire and Dover Fox-Croft Maine all in one week

Oct 21st - Oct 31st

My new address is 58 Autumn Ave APT 1 Dover Foxcroft ME 04426

Monday - We had a p-day full of cleaning, packing and hanging out haha loved it, loved talking to my friends! Missed them! After p-day, we went to the... well dang I forgot their name haha! Whoops, wait! Their names are the Banks!! thats what happens when i'm in area for 4 days lol, afterwards we went to bed after language study.

Tuesday - We got up bright and early to make 2 trips to the Manchester chapel for exchanges where I saw so may friends!!! I love them!! Elder Iverson and I hit the road to Dover Fox-croft!! We where running pretty late, We didn't get home until about 10pm.. but, we had a dinner with the Moon family! They are a nice couple and I love them! They totally hooked us up with their gym. We gonna get wrecked! Haha after, we went and unpacked a little and went to bed.

Wednesday - We had district meeting and it was awesome! Loved it! Elder Kulkarni is in my district with Elder Morgan, Sisters Mortimer, Turley and the Zone Leaders Elders Timothy and..   I forgot his name.. dang.. afterwards we went and met our investigator Derrik Merrill, he's pretty awesome! He was busy, but we set a time for Friday to see him, pretty awesome! We then went to help the bishop.. wait, i'm in a branch... Branch Pres, move some stuff and then went to Scott's house. Scott's a cool dude! He fed us dinner and we had a chance to talk to him about his concerns and had a wonderful time! Afterwards we went to try and find a few more less actives, but we couldn't find their houses, darn.. but thats okay!

Thursday - We started the day out with doing service at a museum... which we are not doing again lol that was so unproductive we where doing everything accept the service hahah she left us alone and we where like "The heck is this" so we where paying jokes on her haha so fun, afterwards we went and helped a guy named Jim out and Jim speaks Spanish! But its very bad Spanish lol he called us and asked us to help him rake up leaves. We then had a lesson with him and he went on to tell us he's pretty much crazy.. he's a member of the Mexican Mofia and was in the Texas crazy asylum for like.. 8 years... he says he "Fights Demons" but ok haha we said a prayer and headed to see Jim Drinkwater, an older guy and wife, he seems cool, but not to interested, but we will keep teaching and see what happens. We then, after some more finding, we went to the Atwaters for Dinner, we sat down and had a HUGE pot of chicken soup which was BOMB!!! Loved it!! Then we had coordination with Brother Bessell with the Sisters. Love serving with sisters again!!

Friday - We had a apartment inspection, which we passed, then we headed to do weekly planning.. also, IT SNOWED HERE!!!!!!! I'm so not happy. Its not even Halloween yet and we had snow.. I'm not excited for this winter, which I will probably be spending up here in the 100 plus ft of snow.. but anyways, after, we went to see the Andrade family and we set a time to come see them again and then we talked to a member across the hallway named Danielle, a recent convert of about 2 years. We talked to her for a while and she said she would be at church, pretty cool! After we had a lesson with Derrik, it was so awesome!! We talked to him about a bunch of different things and we taught him with music, he works a bunch and we told him to look up songs and listen to the message, it was awesome!! After, we called it a day.

Saturday - We have a bunch of families everywhere, with the same name, so the whole day we chose 3 family names to go meet all their kids. This ward is like a crazy family story of kids moving out having more kids and keep doing that, crazy. Anyway, after seeing a couple families and talking to them, we went to the trunk of treat and met more people and had a great time! After, we called it.


Sunday - Sunday we had a informative sacrament meeting. It was interesting, we then went to Ryan to see Jim but he didn't show, so we came home and had studies and pretty much stayed inside the rest of the day.. it was aight tho

Dover is awesome!! So may miracles! I love it! Its going to be different, but I like different, haven't used much Spanish, but i'm still looking hard for those chances to use it! The members are different, I am in Maine, but thats okay, I'm gonna have so much fun! Love you all and thanks for all you do!

Love as always,  Elder Vogel

Oct 17th - Oct 24th

So I don't quite remember all that happened this week.. but I'll d my best

Monday - we had a great PDay having a nerf war with the district then we went to go see Sharon. Where we taught the word of wisdom.

Tuesday - we don't have the car so we walked all day today with no luck and it rained on us. Kinda sucks. But we managed to go to the Bettweisers and talk and have a great time there, we received our transfer calls also.

Elder Espinoza is going to Lawrence, Mass. and I will be going to Dover Fox-Croft Maine with Elder Iverson!!

We where told we have to be packed and ready to go on Saturday and to not tell the district until Friday night. Elder Espinoza had a meeting in Lawrence and I will be going to Manchester for the weekend.

Wednesday - we had district meeting about charity and comp unity. We then went to the haven then out to dinner with brother Roderick and stopped by Vince Williams house to see how he is doing.

Friday - we did more walking and lots of packing. We then had a ward Halloween party

And said goodbye to the brown family and the rest of the ward. Super sad.


Saturday - we woke up and hit the road bright and early and I was with Elders Kulkarni, Nielson and Owens. Elder Owens and I hit the streets of Manchester and talked to Spanish people while Kulkarni and Nielson went to appointments. It was cool, we then had a dinner with the Banks family, they are a little off the wall, but full of love. After that we called it a night .

Sunday - I am here in the Manchester chapel, speaking more Spanish then I thought I would, it was so fun!! After church, we split and headed home to study and wait for Elder Nielson to pack. After, we had another dinner with the banks family then waited for elder Owens to get back.


So this week has been difficult and interesting. Sorry its so short but I will tell you why this is different. We have had many changes, elder Espinoza wrote me and this is what he said.

" He told us that all the Lawrence elders had a meeting with president on Saturday and that we would be picked up by the assistants to take me down to Lawrence. So we prepared. The assistants picked us up and we got back down to Lawrence for a meeting with president at 2. There were 8 of us in the room all Spanish speakers except for Elder Sealy who is our district leader down here for the moment. As we had the opening prayer that Sister Blair offered (our mission presidents wife) she was crying and we all realized that something was weird. President then proceeded to tell us how Lawrence and Methuen were being put into a new stake called the Northshore, Massachusetts stake and Lawrence and Methuen would be a part of this stake. The stake however is in the Boston Mission... so to make this a little bit shorter all 8 of us Elder Bills, Elder Strong, Me(elder Espinoza), Elder Miller, Elder Richens, Elder Stephens, Elder Hall, and Elder Sealy are being transferred to the Boston Mission!"




Long story short, the Lawrence ward doesn't exist in the mission anymore, and neither does a Spanish area in the mission.... which changes SO MUCH!! Portsmouth is now the designated "Spanish Area" now. In Dover Maine, where I'm going, there used to be Spanish elders that got lots done, so now I'll have to work super super hard. And some of my best friends are now in the Boston mission, and I have no hope of being "immersed" in the Spanish area... I need all prayers and advice, I'm using it loads. I'll keep going.


I love you all, thanks for all you do!!
Con mucho amor de

Serving.. stacking 700 bales of  Hay...can you say allergy attack!!

Love this, Elder Liljenquist is in the coral shirt next to Matt. they are great freinds

Oct 10th - Oct 17th


Monday - we went on exchanges and elder Liljenquist and I went to see a lady named Amanda who seems super solid. We also got to meet the Hoyt's who, sister Hoyt went to school with brother sergeant in Exeter!! Super stoked to talk to her and talk about those people! Awesome.

Tuesday - we went and did service all day. We went to a investigators named Tom, who, is an old fogy and is a self employed carpenter. He was building a roof and he asked for our help, which was way fun. Then, we went to a thrift store and I met some awesomely cool people who made it way fun. Afterwords we went to see some members then back home for the night.

Wednesday/Thursday - we went and had district meeting and afterwards we went to a Barn in Plainfield to Stack hay bales! It was so fun! We stacked about 700 bales and felt like body builders after, but the hay must have been grown weird and we all had bad allergic reactions.

I had it way bad, it felt like I had severe asthma and I was choking, but I later felt better after getting some fresh air. But we stayed in because we all got sick.
Stayed home Thursday all day and then went to a lesson with Nancy Hanger, who was also sick so it was chill haha we had a great discussion about 3 Nephi. It was good

Friday - we tried finding all day but no luck, we missed weekly planning and dinner because we went up north. No luck

Saturday - we tried going again up north to find some people because we lose the car soon, so we went and stopped by some members and other formers with no luck

Sunday - we had a great Sabbath, the messages where good and we saw Gladis and talked to her a bit.

We had lunch at Dartmouth with the students and I met a girl named Valentina from Puerto Rico. She speaks fluent Spanish and English, but we talked English because she was more comfortable with that, but she was really nice. Invited her to church and she said she would come. Awesome, after we had a great discussion with the Schwarz family. A less active family that wants to get sealed. When we got there, we set expectations and they have some stuff to think about, awesome.

Not alot this week, transfers are next week. we will hear Saturday if I stay or get transferred.

Con mucho amor de  Elder Vogel

Oct 3rd - Oct 10th

Monday - we had a pretty chill PDay, nothing to crazy, but we did however go tracting, then we called it a night. We did come in contact with a guy named Cierran, who is a hotel owner. He seems pretty interested and we set a time to see him next week.

Tuesday - we went up north and tried to see Deb Anderson, which she wasn't there sadly, all the way out in Woodsville.. we then went to the Brigham's and had a wonderful time seeing them and sharing a scripture. We then went to have lunch, then to see Nancy Hanger. We went to her bookstore in Bradford and had a very long conversation with someone in her store... who was kinda on the odd side haha but afterword, we went to try and find more people but had no luck. We then went to Vince Williams and had a great time seeing him and his sons! They are pretty awesome! I played guitar with him, we talked about his mission and shared a spiritual thought and made it in time to teach Sharon the Word of Wisdom again. She's so awesome, she's reading and praying despite of all this hardship.

After we had language study.

Wednesday/Thursday - after district meeting we went on exchanges in Laconia with the Zone Leaders Elder Birch and Summers. I was with Elder Birch, we went and saw some less actives, but no luck. After some talking, we went street contacting and ran into this dude who was listening to some music, we where able to talk to him and give him some encouragement and a Book of Mormon. He then said "thank you for talking to me, I really needed it"

On Thursday we went to see a investigator who was a no show, so we talked to sister Emmory, we shared a scripture and her granddaughter again, was flirting with me... winking and all that awakward stuff.. haha after, we went and saw Auto, who gave me a replica knife of the joker in the dark night rises and a butterfly knife! Awesome dude! After that we went to try and see some other potentials and formers, who where nice. We met a guy named Chandler, who's son is a farmer and loves Missionaries, so we chatted and got to know him a little better and left with a prayer and a new investigator! After, we talked some more and went to try and see some more people and we then headed back to Hanover.


Friday - we had a busy day full of planning and studies. We then went to Gladys's, who is from Buenos Aires Argentina and speaks no English... she is a Nanny and we met her boss and their family. It was fun, but my head got slaughtered. I was so lost and listening so hard, I totally missed when she asked me how old I was and if I was learning Spanish... I know those questions and how to respond to those, but I lost it, dang!! That's okay, the family was chill with us coming over and teaching the lessons in Spanish. I talked to the kids in Spanish, THEY ARE SO CUTE!!!!!! 8 and 6 year old girls, so nice! It was easy to talk to them because that's about where my Spanish is at lol. after my headache, we went to Jen Smiths and shared a message and called it a night, then we went to Camp Jospeh next to the JSM and listened to a discourse from Pres and sister Blair and the rest of the district was over and it was so much fun, we had some families show up and it was a nice activity.



Saturday - we went to Grantham and tried to see a potential the sisters gave us, the record says to have Hanover Elders contact, but she wasn't home. So huge waste of miles. After, we tried stopping by a lot of people, we saw Will Hillard and talked to him about his new project and offered to help with anything, then we left. We then met the Preston Family, who live in... not healthy circumstances.. and we offered to help stack their wood and they are chill with us coming and teaching them. Awesome! After we kept trying to find people but no luck. So we called it a day.


Sunday - it was a good fast Sunday. After, we went to the Shwarz's in Fairlee and we talked to them, they where so happy to see us! They love Missionaries. A less active family who want to try and progress more, awesome, we visited with them for a while then headed off to Hunters and we met his family and talked more about our beliefs and helped guide him to find out his answers on his own because we can't and won't do it for him. After that we had a crazy crazy dinner with the Zimnicks family. Then called it a night.



Sharing the love and praying for all of you, works moving, we see miracles!



Con mucho amor deElder Vogel

goofing with the sisters on p-day

smelling the cows

beautiful scenery

 more beautiful scenery

english and spanish tags

elder thorpe

opening his birthday box. Favorite cars calendar

Card from Aunt Jen and uncle Tom

feliz Cumpleanos  Elder Vogel

not liking the wig so much

misionero mexicano

Hi

Just Chillin'

Sept 26th - Oct 3rd


Monday - We didn't really do much for p day, but we had a dinner with brother Roderick at a Japanese steakhouse with a habatchi grill table. WAY COOL! It was really entertaining haha after, we went to Vince Williams to say hi and meet his kids.


Tuesday - We had a power hour and we went tracting down by Hanover. We met a dude named Hunter who was really interested in the gospel, We taught the restoration and he was interested in learning more, so we got his info and are planning to see him next week. We then tracted into a guy straight outta Japan. Speaks no English, read my Spanish name tag and probably said what the heck. We left a English pamphlet with him and left. haha Then we went to go to the Kings. Sister Kings father is from Guatemala and we shared a message in Spanish and headed off with some dinner and called it a day. The Ascutney elders came for exchange after we spend dinner at 5 Guys.


Wednesday - Elder Thorpe and I headed to Matt's house, Matt is a new investigator and we taught the plan of salvation. Elder Thorpe is. Greenie! He has only 2 weeks in the field!! Lol, so weird having a fresh MTC trainee as a companion, it was way fun tho! We went to Woodsville and tried to contact a referral named Deb. Deb said to come back next Tuesday so we planned that and moved on. I talked to a guy that had a rocking, 2012 ZR1 Corvette and he took a book of Mormon and said to try him next week. We then went walking around, hopping to find people, which we didn't haha but we took some sweet pictures of the view we had and we headed off to the Brigham's. They are doing awesome, they spoiled elder Thorpe and we all had a wonderful time there. Then we went into Bradford and taught sister Bailey, which was kinda.. odd today, but after we where going to go see more, but I didn't plan in 12 Week.(a new missionary guide). so we went home and did that and I did language study and we called it a day. Way cool experience.


Thursday - we had Zone Interviews all day. The interview went great, short, sweet, simple and we moved to Zone Meeting. We exercised how to have better unity with members and how to interact like normal people haha it was awesome. Later, we traveled home with Ascutney.


Friday - after weekly planning all we did is go and find, we tried seeing potentials but none worked out. We did however get to see Rosío. We gave her El plan de salvación pamphlet and continued to walk, but no luck sadly.

Saturday/Sunday - we had the wonderful opportunity to watch conference in the chapel. I love the leaders of the church, so inspired and dedicated to our work. That's really all we did this last few days, but i love how it was mostly centered around prayer. Prayer is so important for anything, when I shook Elder Rasbands hand at our mission conference a few months ago,  he told us we where 1 hand shake away from the prophet. When I was listening to a talk about prayer, we are 1 simple, innocent prayer away from our Heavenly Father. I think that was an eye opener, not so much the importance of prayer, but how close he really is to us. We really have no clue how close he is. He loves us, he knows us and he wants us to be happy. That's why we have the commandments and the other rules as a guideline, not to restrain us, but to show us the way to pure, godly joy in this earth life. 

Love you all, stay fresh, hope to talk to you all soon!

Con mucho amor deElder Vogel

September 19th - September 26th

Boy this week was super fast and fun!! Let me tell you why!!

Monday - So Monday was officially the start of fall here, the leaves are changing (it's not to glamorous at the moment so no pics yet) and the weather is a cool, Washington 60s!!! Love it!!! It went from 90 last weekend and this whole week the highest was 65ish, love it!!! Anyway,

Tuesday - we had a half mission conference and Elder Bennett and Elder Dufeó from the Quorum of the Seventy came and spoke to us! Way cool! It got us pumped, so pumped that we had about 100 missionaries, 16 Spanish, 2 French and 5 Russian with the rest English speaking missionaries, blitz the streets of downtown Concord!! Way cool!! Elder Espinoza and I went and talked to a lady who was super nice and we taught the restoration with her and she accepted to meet again, and another dude who's name was Bill, he wasn't to interested and he started bashing on child baptisms.. so we pulled Moroni 4 on him and threw doooowwwwnnnn! So much, he accepted a Book of Mormon and a return appointment. HOLLA! Way cool, Afterwords we went back to hear more stuff, more training and how to be better. Afterthe conference was over, we went to Dartmouth and talked to some people, mainly a lady in a store names Rosía. She's from Guatemala, speaks English well, but that isn't important because we have a Spanish investigator!!! WHOOOO!!!! Fruits!!! Afterwords we came home and practiced Spanish haha


Wednesday -We had no district meeting so bright and early, we went to try and contact our referral Matt, but no luck, so we went to Dartmouth again to see Rosía, on our way we ran into this LDS family, the Morgan's, they are from Utah and served as mission presidents in St Louis and knew the Blairs!! Way cool, they where looking at a original copy of the Book of Mormon. Dartmouth has a copy and shows and tells the story of the Restoration because the doctor that operated on Jospeh smiths leg when he was a boy, was a doctor from Dartmouth and he created the surgery and they pretty much go through a history of the impact they could have on someone for being a doctor. Pretty cool if you ask me haha. Anyway, after that, they invited us to dinner tomorrow night. We then, went to see Rosía again and taught her the plan of salvation, which was... for me... a little rocky, but that's how I learn haha after, we had exchanges unexpectedly and Elder Sobisky and I went to Woodsville to try and contact a referral. Which we couldn't do so we knocked and found a couple cool people. We contacted a group of homeless people, whoops, that said they are interested in coming to church and are interested in learning more. They asked where church was and I said in Enfield and they said "what da ef, you a bunch of crazy mutha effas" hahaha classic, (guess they really weren't that interested) so we moved on and taught a lady the restoration who was painting and her dog was jumping all over us haha she lives in Lyndon so we moved the referral over to the Lyndon Elders. After that we went and taught brother Brigham and Sister Tyler and helped prepare Brother Brigham for the temple! He's going to the temple tomorrow to get sealed, way awesome! After that we went home for the night.

Thursday - We went and saw brother Fogg, we just talked and helped him feel better and invited him to start working on family history and he shared stories about how he needs to start doing it. We shared miracles about our experiences and he's working with his neighbor for us to have a lesson with them. Way cool!! We then went to Will Mohn's house and tried to see him, but he wasn't home so we went to try and see Matt again with no luck. We went to the Browns and taught them. Never a dull moment with the Brown family haha we taught them about faith and related it with Pokémon. NAILED IT!! The kids loved it and they understood completely haha awesome! We then planned to go see Vince, but we where inspired to go see Will Mohn again. So we did and it was a fabulous lesson. We taught the second step of the addiction recovery and had a really spiritual experience. HE ACCEPTED A BAPTISM DATE AFTER 10 YEARS OF INVESTIGATING FOR JANUARY 21st !!!!!!!!! Holy crap!!! So stoked! Great end to the day.

Friday - After weekly planning we went to go find. We went and knocked but not much new luck so we moved onto another street and had a lunch with the Bettweisers. We then started tracting and we talked to a really nice girl named Sarah, who probably we won't be teaching because she was really flirty and... not to dressed and.... really wanted us to come inside, she was like 20s... so we said we couldn't right now but we would stop by another time and would call her before and she said "alrighty, I'll be waiting ;)" I was laughing pretty hard and elder Espinoza was looking a little shell shocked and freaked out haha. The rest of the street was pretty chill, we talked to the people and they politely said no until Will. We where walking back to our car and Will was outside and we where like "hey you got a second?" Which you shouldn't do and he said "not really" and we said "just a quick second" then he said okay and once we got passed his hate for Muslims and the government, we had a 45 min discussion about Joseph Smith!! He said he has been around the memorial before but never actually went, so he's all in board with the missionary fireside and he wants us to teach him again. MIRACLES!!

Saturday - We found a mouse in our apartment so we tried to kill it.... but failed... a lot.. so we went down to Ascutney for a baptism interview and then had dinner and we where late to coordination, which is chill because our mission leader wasn't home. So we shared a lesson in Spanish to sister Kings parents. Which was fun! Then went home.

Sunday - today was fun because in church, the talks where great, the spirit was warm. We babysat in primary and had a interesting time doing it haha after church we went to the Mohns again and shared a little message and that was it because.. we got home late..


Miracles are true!! They are real!!! God is a god of miracles!! Love you!!

Con mucho amor deElder Vogel

August 12th - August 19th

Sorry it's short. The area is starting to get hard.

Monday - we really didn't do much for a p-day. We went and had breakfast with a member down in Ascutney, then we hung the rest of the day and watched our plans melt away.. classic

Tuesday - Wednesday - I have got the beginning of the school year sickness. I threw up, mixed with allergies, I've had a dry throat, sinus congestion and I've been addicted to nose spray. Go figure. Hahaha dang.

We met a dude named Riley, who looked like a member of black veil brides. Gothic, crazy, weird. Anyway, we where walking down the sidewalk and about 30 yards ahead I told Elder Espinoza to walk around the building and avoid this guy because I got weird vibes. Anyway, as we where walking we here from behind us "hey! Why you walking so fast!" We turned around and there he is. We walked in front of a hair salon for witnesses. Anyway, we asked where he was from. He said, salt lake and he was a Mormon!!!..... we asked why he's here and he said he's a traveler, he wanted to bum a suit off the bishop and as funny as that would be, we decided not to do that.. he said 3 days ago he was in Portland Maine, and a week ago in Seattle... what?.... so after that, he was gone... never to be seen again..

Thursday -  I was so sick but we had district meeting and I went and we talked about comp unity. Later, we went and stopped by the Browns and the Zimnicks, who were all sick too and it was totally chill to teach haha

Friday/Saturday - Friday was a unsuccessful day. Other then Dartmouth. I'll tell the story.

Friday afternoon we went to Dartmouth Administration to try and see what we where allowed to do on campus. We talked to some super high up people (intimidating) and they where very nice and told us we would receive a call Saturday. Saturday rolled around and we got a call from a ward member, who was the religious representative for Dartmouth. She promptly and quickly said "you can't do anything at Dartmouth" so we said okay and left it at that. A couple hours later we got a phone call from President Blair. He said "Elders I just got off the phone with Bishop Crossett.. Elders, I'm not happy. He said he wanted me to pull you back from Dartmouth and I said nope. then Pres. Blair said,  "Here's your new mission, should you choose to accept it. Elders, he ruffled my feathers. You are to go back on campus and interview the churches on campus. Gather information for me and I will meet with your ward member Thursday and get you back on campus. I don't care if you get arrested, if things get salty, speak Spanish."


So this week we are doing that.. kind of intense.


Sunday - church was interesting, sacrament meeting was good, second hour a teacher announced she was a feminist and wanted the priesthood and asked us why women can't have it... so dang.. had to wreck some feelings... then we went and saw the Browns again and hung out with them then did some Spanish the rest of the night.



Sorry for this crappy e mail.. it's been a tough week.. I'll do better next time!!

Con mucho amor deElder Vogel

September 5th - September 12th


Monday - we got to go to the Temple!! The temple was so cool!! I freaking loved it!! I didn't get to take pictures because elder Espinoza and I where late to a session so we did other things until it was our turn and by the time we where done, we had to book it home. But anyway, when I was in there I met a family from Lawrence! They are amazing, I loved them so so much and I told them I volunteered to do Spanish, they where so happy and they emulated so so much love!! Amazing!!


Tuesday - we had exchanges and elder Hill and I went and taught the Brigham's, I freaking love the Brigham's!! They are so funny, I love talking to them and being able to share the gospel. After words we went and tried to see other people but no luck.


Wednesday district meeting was funny, we all kinda just goofed around haha but had a great time. We then had service at the Haven. Then taught the Browns, which was awesome!!


Thursday - we went tried finding all day. But no luck


Friday - we weekly planned and went to see the Brickles. Awesome, kinda weird, we then had a dinner with the Bettweisers and went to help wire their downstairs for a while. It was way cool.


Saturday - we went and had a "member stop-by madness" thing. We went and tried to see as many members as we could, which was fun! We saw the Fishers, Cunninghams, Sharon (investigator) Vince, all them folks. Then we went and had a corn roast at the Cahoons which a bunch of the members. It was way cool, then we went and hung out and waited for transfer calls.


I'm staying in Hanover with elder Espinoza! No transfer this time.


Sunday - was a hard one because we have members moving, but we hung with the Dartmouth students, there's about 8 of them and they are all awesome. Love them, then we went to the Browns and hung out for a little bit, didn't teach because they where not feeling good. Bummer, then we called it a day.


This week hasn't been the best.. Or the last couple weeks. But my Spanish is improving and I am working super hard! I'm sad I wasn't transferred because I was excited for Exeter Stake Conference, but that's okay, keeping my head up and going strong! To make it better, we are gonna find more Spanish speakers, I'm way excited, love you all!!



Con mucho amor deElder Vogel