Elder Timothy, Elder Vogel, Elder Pettingill, Elder Hill and Elder liljinquist

Elder timothy is so tired

their District

Beautiful Vermont countryside

Concord North and South Zones with their new mission President. President and Sis. Blair

random..where's waldo...or Elder Vogel

more Vermont countryside
and below 4th of July shenanigans videos

July 4th - July 11th




¡Hola mi familia y mis amigos! Espero que todos hayan tenido una gran semana!


Monday - the 4th of July!! What a day! We got up bright and early and headed over to the Lebanon elders apartment for breakfast and studies! Which, we didn't really study haha we also, went with the Hermanas to a park in Gratham to celebrate the 4th. The fire department was putting on a show for us and made us lunch with ventriloquists, a RC air show and a bunch of games!! It was awesome! After that, we headed to the zimnicks for a dinner, after we where already full.. Haha and we stopped by the Mohns. That was it for that day! Pretty crazy!

Tuesday - today was the day that we met the Blairs and the meet and greet in Plymouth! We got there at about 10am with all of the Concord stake missionaries. They are the funniest people I've ever met! Haha they both where throwing jokes at each other haha Elder Luu who is in Plymouth, asked President Blair how he felt when he was called to be a mission president and we get this 5 min random tangent about how he punished his baseball kids with ice, tennis balls thrown about 20 feet away haha then, after he asked what the question was again, he quickly said "I fell to my knees and balled like a baby!" Haha they are awesome! I can't wait for Interviews next week! I loved how they recognized the Stokers and saw how much they meant to us, but also shared how they are not them and how hard they are going to work to make this mission change for the better. I'm excited!! After the meet and greet we went to give a lesson with Shannon,  she's completely solid. We blitzed her with so much because her interview for baptism is on Thursday, but she was able to handle it! Awesome! After that we went to the Mohns and shared a couple things... To long haha but we went to Sharon's and talked about prophets and she totally got it! Awesome! Then we called it a day after the Ascutney Elders got here.



Wednesday - Elder Gassaway and I where on exchange together! We went to the northlands for the day. We stopped by the Brigham's,  they were not home... So on the drive to a couple other people's homes, who where not home, I took pictures because the mountains where awesome! We stopped by Kent and he was feeling under the weather so we had to reschedule... After we tried a potential, who shooed us away, we went and got subway. Re-looked over our plans,  and we headed for a couple potentials named Lily and Hannah. We couldn't find there house so we decided to go down this road, where, I literally had to Rally race the car to get it anywhere and... We got stuck.. But it was way fun! We where about 3 or 4 miles into the back trails, I got to slide around because it's all dirt, Elder Gassaway was having a blast. AWESOME!! After our rally stage, we tried to go to the bishops, but he's gone too so went to the Sonhalters and we shared about prayer and the spirit. As we where leaving, we got a call asking us to go back and have dinner. So we did and I got to talk to Matt and I got a T Shirt from Matt, it was way cool! They made us burgers with salad and potatoes and macaroni, awesome. We spent way to long and to tally up the day, the Sonhalters where the only ones we saw and 150 miles later.. Elder Timothy wasn't happy haha but we talked about it and I'm now working on planning better.



Thursday - we had Shannon's interview today! She passed with flying colors! Awesome!! Afterwords, we went with The Laconia Zone Leaders to Denny's and had a blast there. After, we tried seeing some less actives, but didn't work because we went to Grandma Baltch's instead. She had dinner, but changed it to a lunch because we had a dinner tonight already, we talked about church, her farm, and hid from the gross rain. It was fun! Afterwords we went to brother Zimmers and talked about repentance. It was very spiritual and Elder Timothy and I both had revelation of what brother Zimmer was doing. So we addressed it and we where able to help him feel loved and feel like he needs to do this. It was amazing. After, we went to Sharon's again. Awesome. Called it a day.




Friday - we weekly planned... Until Denny's with Lebanon! We also talked to Kim, she's our permanent waitress, she's awesome! Haha after that, we weekly planned more until we went to the Browns. We talked about the word of wisdom and Brother Brown committed to live it, while sister brown wouldn't. She's being stubborn... We are gonna bring it up again and help encourage her, we will see how it goes because she's holding her son Logan back from being baptized. Then we called it a night.



Saturday - we had a family history fair with the Lebanon Elders and sisters! It was so much fun! The Pettingills and the Allens (Office Staff) came and we talked and had a great time! After that, we went to Ascutney for a baptism interview with their investigators. We talked with them for a while and we talked to the husband and made jokes and got along great, so much fun! After we had lunch we came back home because Elder Timothy wast feeling good. Then we went to the Zimnicks again for dinner and Michaels birthday celebration. Called it a night after that.




Sunday - church was great! I felt the spirit and we taught gospel principles class and related Agency to how Heavenly Father didn't want us to leave his presence, but we had to in order to become like him, then we related it to leaving on missions and sister Nolton, had an Epiphany and clearly was talking about it the rest of the day. It was great! I'm glad she's so happy about that! We went to the Jaretts for dinner, where all 4, daughters where there with brother Rodrick. There oldest daughter Elizabeth, was playing footsies with me.. Which weirdly, was awkward.. THE MISSION IS CHANGING ME!!! I was shocked that it felt awkward haha but after I had to compose myself before I freaked out, we had a great dinner with great spiritual, thoughts and called it a night afterwords.


Con amor deElder Vogel