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May 15th - May 22nd
We had a great week!
First I wanna say that I'm being transferred once again! Haha I will be with Elder Slaugh, we will be shotgunning Skowhegan Maine! Gonna be super awesome! We both are Spanish speakers, Skowhegan will be a Spanish branch when we are done! Woohooo!!!
We had a pretty awesome PDay and we played volleyball, we made shirts and we blitzed the crap outta Ellsworth! It was way sweet!
Elder Sobisky and I went and saw Eric St.Pierre, the guy I taught in Ellsworth, he was super happy to see me and he let us right in and started talking with us, he wasn't feeling very good but we shared 3rd Nephi 11:15 with him and talked about our foundation and our belief, how we can also have a sure knowledge that Christ lives. Awesome.
We also tracted into this guy, his name is Derek and he had a 85 chevy, so I was like "dude I love your truck! My friend has a 77 that he built" and we talked about that for a few min and accepted an invitation to learn and we set up for next week! Awesome.
We did service at the Sushkos, we went over and Hermana Sushko asked if we had eaten
breakfast, I said no, so she made us breakfast! Super good, it was some egg, tortilla thing, forgot the name haha but it was really good! We helped them pick up leaves and get the place presentable because they are selling their house and moving to Arizona. Rad stuff.
So when we where almost done, she called us in and we had lunch.
In a Latin American country, lunch is the biggest meal of the day, like dinner is here in America, lunch is for Latin American people, so she made us a huge plate of chicken, bunch of rice, beans, green and healthy stuff with some amazing mashed potatoes. It was SO GOOD! I can't imagine what it's like getting that everyday, I'd be so fat haha I bet all my friends in Argentina, Mexico, and other Latin American places are all just getting the pounds from the food. haha
Anyway, afterwards, we finished cleaning the leaves and we cleaned ourselves up and I got hit really bad with my allergies... like really bad.. so, I went and bought a nasal rinse thing from rite aid, and... holy crap was that weird...
The directions say to gently squeeze the bottle in your nose until it runs out your other nostril, so I did and honestly, if you haven't tried it, you have to at least once, it's probably the weirdest thing you'll ever do, but it's a feeling that you won't get anywhere else haha I was freaking out! And elder Hansen just laughed at me...
We went and did service for a lady named Jenny, where she also had us rake up leaves and she made us a wonderful hamburger and hot dog lunch, it was fabulous! Afterwards, she's like "you can go swimming or go canoing if you'd like" and we where obedient and said we couldn't because it was our rules for being safe and she said "are yours serious? That's beyond not fair to you at all" and elder Hansen said "I can't swim worth a darn, so I also don't want to drown and leave Elder Vogel all alone without a companion, he'd get so lonely. He's almost like a lost puppy without a companion" 😂😂😂😂lol great stuff Elder Hansen haha
We had a dinner this week with the Whitneys, Jim and Jon and Nancy, they fed us pizza again, which is always wonderful, and I said goodbye.
Something that I got to do today was help Mel understand something in church. The thing with some people, is they love their lives and they don't really take in account a lot of what people in the church do. Let me explain.
Mel went on a 15 min or so tangent about less active members and how we should be getting them into church to help them grow and feel loved by others. He expressed his thoughts, and pretty much skipped to the end result, but he didn't take in account our agency, the ability to chose and our role as members.
I continued to share with him what repentance was, how it's a joyful thing and even though it's so simple, it's also super hard to understand, and our agency, weather we use it for good or bad, has a effect on more people then just us.
I continued to explain that Agency is what's keeping people home, keeping people from asking questions and taking an effort to understand the gospel and that's why they are not here.
Our role as members of any faith is to simply invite. That's what the Savior did, he was walking to find Peter James, John, his original apostles and said "come follow me" while some dropped everything and followed him, others said "wait, I have to finish" but he wasn't waiting. He moved on, he found people that make the hard sacrifice, and later became chief apostles of the Savior Jesus Christ.
Nothing is easy, if it was, everyone would do it, life isn't easy, it sucks more times then not.
But it's the times it doesn't suck, that makes it all worth it.
A quote I will always remember will be from Brother Kettle here in Lincoln. He said "if He brought you to it, He can bring you through it" how true that is.
I now continue to my 8th area and 15th companion on my mission. Still 5 months left, I'm curious to see what will happen in the Skowhegan area, I love my mission and I love the people I get to meet and teach everyday. It's amazing what can happen when we put the lord first in our lives. We soon are molded, changed, and soon see it's all for the better. It always is.
I love and miss you all. You're in my prayers.
We had a great week!
First I wanna say that I'm being transferred once again! Haha I will be with Elder Slaugh, we will be shotgunning Skowhegan Maine! Gonna be super awesome! We both are Spanish speakers, Skowhegan will be a Spanish branch when we are done! Woohooo!!!
We had a pretty awesome PDay and we played volleyball, we made shirts and we blitzed the crap outta Ellsworth! It was way sweet!
Elder Sobisky and I went and saw Eric St.Pierre, the guy I taught in Ellsworth, he was super happy to see me and he let us right in and started talking with us, he wasn't feeling very good but we shared 3rd Nephi 11:15 with him and talked about our foundation and our belief, how we can also have a sure knowledge that Christ lives. Awesome.
We also tracted into this guy, his name is Derek and he had a 85 chevy, so I was like "dude I love your truck! My friend has a 77 that he built" and we talked about that for a few min and accepted an invitation to learn and we set up for next week! Awesome.
We did service at the Sushkos, we went over and Hermana Sushko asked if we had eaten
breakfast, I said no, so she made us breakfast! Super good, it was some egg, tortilla thing, forgot the name haha but it was really good! We helped them pick up leaves and get the place presentable because they are selling their house and moving to Arizona. Rad stuff.
So when we where almost done, she called us in and we had lunch.
In a Latin American country, lunch is the biggest meal of the day, like dinner is here in America, lunch is for Latin American people, so she made us a huge plate of chicken, bunch of rice, beans, green and healthy stuff with some amazing mashed potatoes. It was SO GOOD! I can't imagine what it's like getting that everyday, I'd be so fat haha I bet all my friends in Argentina, Mexico, and other Latin American places are all just getting the pounds from the food. haha
Anyway, afterwards, we finished cleaning the leaves and we cleaned ourselves up and I got hit really bad with my allergies... like really bad.. so, I went and bought a nasal rinse thing from rite aid, and... holy crap was that weird...
The directions say to gently squeeze the bottle in your nose until it runs out your other nostril, so I did and honestly, if you haven't tried it, you have to at least once, it's probably the weirdest thing you'll ever do, but it's a feeling that you won't get anywhere else haha I was freaking out! And elder Hansen just laughed at me...
We went and did service for a lady named Jenny, where she also had us rake up leaves and she made us a wonderful hamburger and hot dog lunch, it was fabulous! Afterwards, she's like "you can go swimming or go canoing if you'd like" and we where obedient and said we couldn't because it was our rules for being safe and she said "are yours serious? That's beyond not fair to you at all" and elder Hansen said "I can't swim worth a darn, so I also don't want to drown and leave Elder Vogel all alone without a companion, he'd get so lonely. He's almost like a lost puppy without a companion" 😂😂😂😂lol great stuff Elder Hansen haha
We had a dinner this week with the Whitneys, Jim and Jon and Nancy, they fed us pizza again, which is always wonderful, and I said goodbye.
Something that I got to do today was help Mel understand something in church. The thing with some people, is they love their lives and they don't really take in account a lot of what people in the church do. Let me explain.
Mel went on a 15 min or so tangent about less active members and how we should be getting them into church to help them grow and feel loved by others. He expressed his thoughts, and pretty much skipped to the end result, but he didn't take in account our agency, the ability to chose and our role as members.
I continued to share with him what repentance was, how it's a joyful thing and even though it's so simple, it's also super hard to understand, and our agency, weather we use it for good or bad, has a effect on more people then just us.
I continued to explain that Agency is what's keeping people home, keeping people from asking questions and taking an effort to understand the gospel and that's why they are not here.
Our role as members of any faith is to simply invite. That's what the Savior did, he was walking to find Peter James, John, his original apostles and said "come follow me" while some dropped everything and followed him, others said "wait, I have to finish" but he wasn't waiting. He moved on, he found people that make the hard sacrifice, and later became chief apostles of the Savior Jesus Christ.
Nothing is easy, if it was, everyone would do it, life isn't easy, it sucks more times then not.
But it's the times it doesn't suck, that makes it all worth it.
A quote I will always remember will be from Brother Kettle here in Lincoln. He said "if He brought you to it, He can bring you through it" how true that is.
I now continue to my 8th area and 15th companion on my mission. Still 5 months left, I'm curious to see what will happen in the Skowhegan area, I love my mission and I love the people I get to meet and teach everyday. It's amazing what can happen when we put the lord first in our lives. We soon are molded, changed, and soon see it's all for the better. It always is.
I love and miss you all. You're in my prayers.
Con mucho amor deElder Vogel
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