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| Elder Vogel, Elder Liljenquist, Elder Peterson |
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| Parting picture with Pres. and Sis. Stoker |
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| Elders Liljenquist and Vogel being goofy |
June 6th - 13th
Monday - We went to Walmart and did some shopping and pretty much stayed home all day, craziness with planning exchanges this weekend got us a little upset, but that's okay. Just exchanges I guess.
Tuesday - We went to Walmart to get a couple things. Chase canceled coordination and I studied Spanish to the point I had a headache haha. We later planned to go see Rory Smith with brother Jons. He didn't show up and Rory wasn't home so we went to John Eastmans and he was home! We have been trying to contact that guy the past 12 weeks!! Awesome! We have a appointment Thursday! After that we went to the Yorks for dinner again and as always, a riot! Haha we has sloppy joes and we talked and shared stories and had a great spiritual thought. Awesome day.
Wednesday - This morning I made some waffles! #Bomb!! Anywho, we did our laundry because we slacked the last few days haha but afterwords we went out to go and do boot camp with some ward members! Holy crap was it hard!! I'm so tired I almost threw up! I never was good at pacing myself unless I was borderline dead haha afterwords, we got Mcdonalds..... We're terrible haha but hey! I felt like I lost a tone of weight doing those! They are called high intensity interval training workouts. They're I guess better than p90X and we are said to lose 10lbs every 2 weeks!! Deal!!! Awesomeness!!
Thursday - Today was Zone Conference. Gonna be honest, I've been feeling down lately, but today and speaking with my family, the talks where super inspired and I needed to hear them. It was amazing, Sister Hawks takes about not giving up, she gave wonderful scripture and testimony that got me engaged and with hope in my heart to press forward. President Hawks talked about the tree of life and he is a children's book illustrator, he painted probably the best picture of the tree of life I have ever seen. It was Awsome, glowing tree with millions of people and animals all gathered around it, with mossy, slippery rocks around it with the river flowing and around the rest was darkness. I realize that my description is never going to match it, but it was worth a shot. Sister Stoker spoke on work, how important it is to stay engaged and get out and do. So there I am, with hopes of moving on and not giving up, now there is my course of action, to go do. From that I learned that Heavenly Father has a plan for us. I know he is watching and helping, along with the other wonderful angels around me. President Stoker spoke on scriptures, talks, anything that has helped me along the way as a missionary. I will expand more in my weekly summery at the bottom. After lunch we split up into zones and we talked about planning, goals and the Book of Mormon. After that, we all went back and got a training on lesson plans. Then, President and Sister Stoker gave emotional testimonies of the Savior, missionary work and us. How much we have changed them, how much they will miss us. They go home in two weeks. We all had the chance to hug both of them and say goodbye. It was so, so, so hard to do that. But I know great things are to come to pass at the end of this month.
After that, we went to try and see John Eastman and he wasn't home so we are gonna try again later tonight. The foxes also cancelled so instead, we cried a little more, studied a little more then went to volleyball!!! Holy smokes was that fun! We got there and set up, then gave a ward member a blessing, then we played! So heated, so energetic!! Brother Idell and I where getting into it!! Boy I really needed that after some hard few days! Awesome! Going to bed with a smile on my face!!
Friday - We had a breakfast with brother Cavarretta!! It was awesome! It was nice to sit down and talk with him and be a blessing to his family. He's getting ready for a test to take so he can get a job, so it was nice for him to get some time and relax with us. Afterwords we came home and did some studies and then moved over to the food pantry. After that we went to Zions camp and helped paint a shed, brought back memories of my eagle project! It was fun, people are getting ready for the father and sons camp out, miss those. After that we high tailed it to Derry for exchange
Saturday - Exchanges were awesome! We did a weird one haha since it's so late in the transfer, we switched halfway through the day. I was with Elder VanWay and we went and saw brother Lowe and we taught a new investigator that accepted baptism!! His name is David, awesome dude, he has some mental illness, but that's okay because he felt something when we where teaching which was great! Later, I was with Elder Pace and we went to go find people! We tracted and where able to talk with a few people. It was awesome, we also chatted about different things. Just like old times, it was great! We then made the journey home. When we got home we recieved the news of one of my favorite singers, Christina Grimmie, had been shot last night and died this morning in the Orlando hospital. She was 22 and I'm very sad because I loved her music and her as a person, right when I saw her in the voice couple years ago
:( #SadFan. Anyway, they rest of the day was good.
Sunday - Today we had a good day at church, the talks today where pretty good, nothing to special. Second hour, we talked about the roles of people in the family, then third hour, we talked about... Well.. Something, ha ha the person who taught was kinda all over the place. After church, we went to the Wolcots for lunch, which was awesome! We had grilled cheese with tomato soup! Which was bomb!!!! Loved it! Then afterwards we came home for the night, we had to do studies and finish up some planning and all of that fancy jazz, we took a nap after dinner that went... A little longer than normal... So tonight will be fun haha
Monday - We went to Walmart and did some shopping and pretty much stayed home all day, craziness with planning exchanges this weekend got us a little upset, but that's okay. Just exchanges I guess.
Tuesday - We went to Walmart to get a couple things. Chase canceled coordination and I studied Spanish to the point I had a headache haha. We later planned to go see Rory Smith with brother Jons. He didn't show up and Rory wasn't home so we went to John Eastmans and he was home! We have been trying to contact that guy the past 12 weeks!! Awesome! We have a appointment Thursday! After that we went to the Yorks for dinner again and as always, a riot! Haha we has sloppy joes and we talked and shared stories and had a great spiritual thought. Awesome day.
Wednesday - This morning I made some waffles! #Bomb!! Anywho, we did our laundry because we slacked the last few days haha but afterwords we went out to go and do boot camp with some ward members! Holy crap was it hard!! I'm so tired I almost threw up! I never was good at pacing myself unless I was borderline dead haha afterwords, we got Mcdonalds..... We're terrible haha but hey! I felt like I lost a tone of weight doing those! They are called high intensity interval training workouts. They're I guess better than p90X and we are said to lose 10lbs every 2 weeks!! Deal!!! Awesomeness!!
Thursday - Today was Zone Conference. Gonna be honest, I've been feeling down lately, but today and speaking with my family, the talks where super inspired and I needed to hear them. It was amazing, Sister Hawks takes about not giving up, she gave wonderful scripture and testimony that got me engaged and with hope in my heart to press forward. President Hawks talked about the tree of life and he is a children's book illustrator, he painted probably the best picture of the tree of life I have ever seen. It was Awsome, glowing tree with millions of people and animals all gathered around it, with mossy, slippery rocks around it with the river flowing and around the rest was darkness. I realize that my description is never going to match it, but it was worth a shot. Sister Stoker spoke on work, how important it is to stay engaged and get out and do. So there I am, with hopes of moving on and not giving up, now there is my course of action, to go do. From that I learned that Heavenly Father has a plan for us. I know he is watching and helping, along with the other wonderful angels around me. President Stoker spoke on scriptures, talks, anything that has helped me along the way as a missionary. I will expand more in my weekly summery at the bottom. After lunch we split up into zones and we talked about planning, goals and the Book of Mormon. After that, we all went back and got a training on lesson plans. Then, President and Sister Stoker gave emotional testimonies of the Savior, missionary work and us. How much we have changed them, how much they will miss us. They go home in two weeks. We all had the chance to hug both of them and say goodbye. It was so, so, so hard to do that. But I know great things are to come to pass at the end of this month.
After that, we went to try and see John Eastman and he wasn't home so we are gonna try again later tonight. The foxes also cancelled so instead, we cried a little more, studied a little more then went to volleyball!!! Holy smokes was that fun! We got there and set up, then gave a ward member a blessing, then we played! So heated, so energetic!! Brother Idell and I where getting into it!! Boy I really needed that after some hard few days! Awesome! Going to bed with a smile on my face!!
Friday - We had a breakfast with brother Cavarretta!! It was awesome! It was nice to sit down and talk with him and be a blessing to his family. He's getting ready for a test to take so he can get a job, so it was nice for him to get some time and relax with us. Afterwords we came home and did some studies and then moved over to the food pantry. After that we went to Zions camp and helped paint a shed, brought back memories of my eagle project! It was fun, people are getting ready for the father and sons camp out, miss those. After that we high tailed it to Derry for exchange
Saturday - Exchanges were awesome! We did a weird one haha since it's so late in the transfer, we switched halfway through the day. I was with Elder VanWay and we went and saw brother Lowe and we taught a new investigator that accepted baptism!! His name is David, awesome dude, he has some mental illness, but that's okay because he felt something when we where teaching which was great! Later, I was with Elder Pace and we went to go find people! We tracted and where able to talk with a few people. It was awesome, we also chatted about different things. Just like old times, it was great! We then made the journey home. When we got home we recieved the news of one of my favorite singers, Christina Grimmie, had been shot last night and died this morning in the Orlando hospital. She was 22 and I'm very sad because I loved her music and her as a person, right when I saw her in the voice couple years ago
:( #SadFan. Anyway, they rest of the day was good.
Sunday - Today we had a good day at church, the talks today where pretty good, nothing to special. Second hour, we talked about the roles of people in the family, then third hour, we talked about... Well.. Something, ha ha the person who taught was kinda all over the place. After church, we went to the Wolcots for lunch, which was awesome! We had grilled cheese with tomato soup! Which was bomb!!!! Loved it! Then afterwards we came home for the night, we had to do studies and finish up some planning and all of that fancy jazz, we took a nap after dinner that went... A little longer than normal... So tonight will be fun haha
This week was interesting! A lot of different emotions. The lord is probably testing me on patients, which is good because I need it. Someone today gave a great analogy about our agency, which was funny because I think he told the story for glory.. Anywho, when he was younger, he was riding a bike and when he got really dehydrated he jumped in a lake to cool off then before he got home, he got heat exhaustion because he had drank no water. Long story short, we can be consumed in spiritual things to our neck, but still choose not to partake of it. All the stuff around us doesn't matter unless we open our hearts.
Elder Pace and I went for a run Saturday and I told him I'm kinda frustrated for not being able to use and grow my leadership qualities and he told me the greatest leader is the best follower. So I need to be even more consumed in the gospel then I already am. I feel stagnate, because I feel like I have no use being s junior companion, but I actually have a little more than I think and I need to be able to be that example for people.
The mission always teaches me something new even when I don't think I can learn more. It's pretty cool, it's harder of course, but it's so worth it. I need to remember my purpose. Elder Peterson and I are gonna start tracting again, which we haven't done since we first where companions in Portsmouth..... So we will be having fun with that!
I know that when I exercise different things that I think I may be okay with, like talking to people, a miracle will happen. I don't know what, I don't know when, but someone needs to hear our voices and be uplifted about the gospel. I can't wait to see that again!
Love you all, hope to hear from you!!
Con amor deElder Vogel
Elder Pace and I went for a run Saturday and I told him I'm kinda frustrated for not being able to use and grow my leadership qualities and he told me the greatest leader is the best follower. So I need to be even more consumed in the gospel then I already am. I feel stagnate, because I feel like I have no use being s junior companion, but I actually have a little more than I think and I need to be able to be that example for people.
The mission always teaches me something new even when I don't think I can learn more. It's pretty cool, it's harder of course, but it's so worth it. I need to remember my purpose. Elder Peterson and I are gonna start tracting again, which we haven't done since we first where companions in Portsmouth..... So we will be having fun with that!
I know that when I exercise different things that I think I may be okay with, like talking to people, a miracle will happen. I don't know what, I don't know when, but someone needs to hear our voices and be uplifted about the gospel. I can't wait to see that again!
Love you all, hope to hear from you!!
Con amor deElder Vogel
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