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| Elder Vogel and Elder Espinoza and Logan at his baptism |
August 15th - 22nd
Hola mis amigos y mi familia!
Monday - We didn't do anything really fun for P-Day just kinda sat around sadly, but after we had a dinner with the Kings and got haircuts. They took a very long time!! But it all worked out and I like my cut! I can now style it and look a little more appealing when I see people haha
Tuesday - We went up north and saw the Brigham's, they are doing great! I missed them! Hermano Brigham had completed LASIK Eye Surgery and can now see and he was at church with a brand new suit and also received his patriarchal Blessing! How exciting!! After we went and tried to see Kent, but no luck. We then went to see the Houge family and we came across a lady named Jessica who was very nice and stopped and talked to us. She was very open to us and accepted a pamphlet about the plan of salvation and we hope to hear from her soon! We then went out to try and find some Spanish speakers over by sister Balch, but they got booted and no longer live there sadly, so we visited with sister Balch and helped her out with her new phone after we went to the Mohns and shared a short lesson and then had dinner.
Wednesday - We had district meeting then we went to Laconia for exchanges. I was with Elder Summers. Elder Summers is from Auburn Washington and I played him in water polo! He graduated from Auburn Riverside High School! My junior year was the year I played him! How awesome! We talked about that for pretty much the whole transfer, right after our prayers together we were walking outside and a guy was walking past, no big deal, then a cop car came flying down our little street, lady cop (freaking crazy) jumped out with her taser and screamed "Hector get on the ground!!!" While we where minding our own business, we looked over and Hector was getting on the ground and she straight shoots him with her taser... Then no more then 10 mi later, it seems like the whole city of laconias police department is on the is guy.. Little overkill if you ask me, but oh well. With like 4 dogs and about 12 cops total for one old man named Hector. Elder Summers and I where in shock haha, but we went and saw some people. We talked to a guy named Bill (wasn't his name) and we think he was stoned because he kept talking about magic and other random topics, Elder Summers and I started speaking Spanish to him and all he said was (he guys, I don't speak Vietnamese aight, my cat throw up and imma dig a pit for my cattle) funniest thing ever, then he starts flexing his muscles and says "the medicine the doctors gave me made my muscles grow twice as big" crazy people haha We went and talked to a couple investigators and had a blast doing it. Language study, we all talked in Spanish accept for Elder Jensen haha but that's okay.
Thursday - Elder Summers and I went to try and find people the whole day, I played the guitar for a kid named Chris. I CANT PLAY THE GUITAR ANYMORE!!!!! I've been out of sync for so long that I can't even play the songs I use to. I can still play stairway to heaven (mom) and it's not even near as smooth as when I left. I can't play any other songs I use to when I was home. I cried with Elder Summers.. I was pretty upset, but oh well. Elder Summers said, "When you get home, say hi. to the family and satisfy their needs, then go straight to your guitars". I miss my baby's!! Anyway, we also tried stopping by other people that just gave us some lip and acted like we where the police and where really rude haha. One lady was at the door and we told her who we were and what we wanted to share and she looks at us and goes "wtf is wrong with you? Why would you leave your family for religion? That's absolutely stupid.." We couldn't help but just laugh super hard because the funniest thing was, I think she really meant it haha and we know why we are here and the sacrifice it is, but we just started laughing all the way back to our car and to the net appointment and made a joke out of it haha people are funny. We then went back to Hanover
Friday - After weekly planning we went and helped out the Lebanon Elders. one of the Elders had a ingrown toenail that just got taken out and he had to stay off of it so I stayed with him and did Spanish for about 4 hours. It was cool to watch movies and write and really get some good studying in. I really surprised at how much I've learned already. I watched the family for Costa Rica in meet the Mormons and the one where he leaves for his mission along with several Mormon messages and I read some Book of Mormon and wrote testimonies and give myself a huge headache. Worth it. Afterword we went and had dinner.
Saturday - we had Logan's baptism!! It was so awesome!!! Loved it!! After our studies we went to a ward party on treasure island at lake Fairlee Vermont where we talked to a lot of ward members, had some great food and had a great time.
Spiritual miracle
We, at the party, went and talked to Hermana Jayne. Hermana Jayne is from Brazil, she speaks Portuguese. That language is different, but not so different that we couldn't communicate. We started a small talk to get to know her and then it went deeper and deeper until she started really explaining something sad to us in Portuguese, I understood her explain to us that her English isn't very good and she has a very hard time responding to people. In church, she listens and she is able to get a lot of It but when people come to her and say hi, she has the hardest time because she just doesn't speak English. She wants so badly to have friends but she's at this point given up.
The miracle was that we both 100% understood and both bared strong, fluent testimonies to her in Spanish explaining that Jesus Christ is always there for us, understands and will continue to help her. She understood and we all left with tears in our eyes and a new friend. It's a miracle because I don't speak Portuguese, or Spanish fluently. When Elder Espinoza and I got back in the car he looks at me and asked where I learned the words and where my testimony came from. I, for now, can't repeat what I said. I have no idea what I said. True testimony about the Holy Ghost right there. Amazing.
That sums up Saturday.
Sunday - Church was kinda wild. Second hour we taught about the scriptures and I third hour we talked about marriage... After church we went to the Kings and I taught my first restoration lesson in Spanish! It went good, the Spanish I spoke I was more comfortable and where I knew I was at, although, I still pushed myself and was still able to surprise the Kings. My accent is pretty good and all I need to do is work out kinks in grammar and learn more vocab. SWEET!! Onto the next topic! After we went and did studies and went to pick up Justin Call and took him to try and teach Dakota but failed. So we went to the Mohns. We taught Sonya about the Book of Mormon and read with her. Then Will told us to comeback Tuesday because Jodie won't be there and we can have a heart to heart with Will. Awesome.
What a crazy week! Can't believe all that has happened. Only 3 more weeks until I in Lawrence Mass!! I'm super excited! I'm going to continue working hard in Hanover until that time! Hermano Powell told us to tract farms for Spanish speakers. So we will start doing that and also, we had a referral last week about a Fostino Ramierez and we are to go see him and share spiritual messages in Spanish. That will be fun!
Thanks everyone for all you do, thanks for the prayers! Hope to hear from you all!!
Con mucho amor deElder Vogel
Hola mis amigos y mi familia!
Monday - We didn't do anything really fun for P-Day just kinda sat around sadly, but after we had a dinner with the Kings and got haircuts. They took a very long time!! But it all worked out and I like my cut! I can now style it and look a little more appealing when I see people haha
Tuesday - We went up north and saw the Brigham's, they are doing great! I missed them! Hermano Brigham had completed LASIK Eye Surgery and can now see and he was at church with a brand new suit and also received his patriarchal Blessing! How exciting!! After we went and tried to see Kent, but no luck. We then went to see the Houge family and we came across a lady named Jessica who was very nice and stopped and talked to us. She was very open to us and accepted a pamphlet about the plan of salvation and we hope to hear from her soon! We then went out to try and find some Spanish speakers over by sister Balch, but they got booted and no longer live there sadly, so we visited with sister Balch and helped her out with her new phone after we went to the Mohns and shared a short lesson and then had dinner.
Wednesday - We had district meeting then we went to Laconia for exchanges. I was with Elder Summers. Elder Summers is from Auburn Washington and I played him in water polo! He graduated from Auburn Riverside High School! My junior year was the year I played him! How awesome! We talked about that for pretty much the whole transfer, right after our prayers together we were walking outside and a guy was walking past, no big deal, then a cop car came flying down our little street, lady cop (freaking crazy) jumped out with her taser and screamed "Hector get on the ground!!!" While we where minding our own business, we looked over and Hector was getting on the ground and she straight shoots him with her taser... Then no more then 10 mi later, it seems like the whole city of laconias police department is on the is guy.. Little overkill if you ask me, but oh well. With like 4 dogs and about 12 cops total for one old man named Hector. Elder Summers and I where in shock haha, but we went and saw some people. We talked to a guy named Bill (wasn't his name) and we think he was stoned because he kept talking about magic and other random topics, Elder Summers and I started speaking Spanish to him and all he said was (he guys, I don't speak Vietnamese aight, my cat throw up and imma dig a pit for my cattle) funniest thing ever, then he starts flexing his muscles and says "the medicine the doctors gave me made my muscles grow twice as big" crazy people haha We went and talked to a couple investigators and had a blast doing it. Language study, we all talked in Spanish accept for Elder Jensen haha but that's okay.
Thursday - Elder Summers and I went to try and find people the whole day, I played the guitar for a kid named Chris. I CANT PLAY THE GUITAR ANYMORE!!!!! I've been out of sync for so long that I can't even play the songs I use to. I can still play stairway to heaven (mom) and it's not even near as smooth as when I left. I can't play any other songs I use to when I was home. I cried with Elder Summers.. I was pretty upset, but oh well. Elder Summers said, "When you get home, say hi. to the family and satisfy their needs, then go straight to your guitars". I miss my baby's!! Anyway, we also tried stopping by other people that just gave us some lip and acted like we where the police and where really rude haha. One lady was at the door and we told her who we were and what we wanted to share and she looks at us and goes "wtf is wrong with you? Why would you leave your family for religion? That's absolutely stupid.." We couldn't help but just laugh super hard because the funniest thing was, I think she really meant it haha and we know why we are here and the sacrifice it is, but we just started laughing all the way back to our car and to the net appointment and made a joke out of it haha people are funny. We then went back to Hanover
Friday - After weekly planning we went and helped out the Lebanon Elders. one of the Elders had a ingrown toenail that just got taken out and he had to stay off of it so I stayed with him and did Spanish for about 4 hours. It was cool to watch movies and write and really get some good studying in. I really surprised at how much I've learned already. I watched the family for Costa Rica in meet the Mormons and the one where he leaves for his mission along with several Mormon messages and I read some Book of Mormon and wrote testimonies and give myself a huge headache. Worth it. Afterword we went and had dinner.
Saturday - we had Logan's baptism!! It was so awesome!!! Loved it!! After our studies we went to a ward party on treasure island at lake Fairlee Vermont where we talked to a lot of ward members, had some great food and had a great time.
Spiritual miracle
We, at the party, went and talked to Hermana Jayne. Hermana Jayne is from Brazil, she speaks Portuguese. That language is different, but not so different that we couldn't communicate. We started a small talk to get to know her and then it went deeper and deeper until she started really explaining something sad to us in Portuguese, I understood her explain to us that her English isn't very good and she has a very hard time responding to people. In church, she listens and she is able to get a lot of It but when people come to her and say hi, she has the hardest time because she just doesn't speak English. She wants so badly to have friends but she's at this point given up.
The miracle was that we both 100% understood and both bared strong, fluent testimonies to her in Spanish explaining that Jesus Christ is always there for us, understands and will continue to help her. She understood and we all left with tears in our eyes and a new friend. It's a miracle because I don't speak Portuguese, or Spanish fluently. When Elder Espinoza and I got back in the car he looks at me and asked where I learned the words and where my testimony came from. I, for now, can't repeat what I said. I have no idea what I said. True testimony about the Holy Ghost right there. Amazing.
That sums up Saturday.
Sunday - Church was kinda wild. Second hour we taught about the scriptures and I third hour we talked about marriage... After church we went to the Kings and I taught my first restoration lesson in Spanish! It went good, the Spanish I spoke I was more comfortable and where I knew I was at, although, I still pushed myself and was still able to surprise the Kings. My accent is pretty good and all I need to do is work out kinks in grammar and learn more vocab. SWEET!! Onto the next topic! After we went and did studies and went to pick up Justin Call and took him to try and teach Dakota but failed. So we went to the Mohns. We taught Sonya about the Book of Mormon and read with her. Then Will told us to comeback Tuesday because Jodie won't be there and we can have a heart to heart with Will. Awesome.
What a crazy week! Can't believe all that has happened. Only 3 more weeks until I in Lawrence Mass!! I'm super excited! I'm going to continue working hard in Hanover until that time! Hermano Powell told us to tract farms for Spanish speakers. So we will start doing that and also, we had a referral last week about a Fostino Ramierez and we are to go see him and share spiritual messages in Spanish. That will be fun!
Thanks everyone for all you do, thanks for the prayers! Hope to hear from you all!!
Con mucho amor deElder Vogel
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