Elder Vogel and Elder Slaugh

beautiful Maine sunset

District fun

So tired...oh the life of a missionary

I see you Elder Vogel

June 5th - June 12th

This was another busy week! We had more service at the deer farm!

We went over a little later, about 10 in the morning and when we arrived, Beth came and picked us up and we rode down in the gator.

When we got down there Norman was like "I said a little prayer just before you got here asking for some help" BOOYA! It was super awesome, we talked and worked hard! More getting dirty, so much fun! Then, afterwards, he took us for a ride in his '57 Belair and went to go get ice cream, and a tour of where Norman grew up, it was pretty awesome!

We also had more service at the Tweeties and we pulled out more weeds and stuff like that.

We had a super awesome surprise lesson with Patrick, he's a less active member, we caught him smoking and we had a great heart to heart with him. He expressed concerns about church and we taught him about having faith and working hard through our hardships.

There was a unexpected meeting that Elder Slaugh went to down in Manchester, so Elder O'Rourke and I chilled in Skowhegan cuz we had appointments.

We had one with a lady named Ida, she's sweet, old and loves to talk! She talked our ears right off, but that's okay because we taught a little of the restoration to her.

We also went finding, not to much but we where able to talk to a few people. We ran  into Kahn and Paul again on the street and said hi and tried to set something up for next week, so it's going good there.

I talked to about 6 dudes that rode motorcycles. It's great cuz they're like "you ride bikes?" - "Naa, my uncle had a fatboy back in the day" - "respect to your uncle brotha"

Pretty awesome stuff, once that's there, I just talk about their bikes, a lot of guys out here have one because it holds a special memory, like my guitars do for me, super cool to hear some stories.

We also had some awesome chances to speak Spanish! On exchanges, I was doing laundry and I heard our neighbors talking pretty loud and I leaned to listen and it was Spanish! So a few days later, elder Slaugh and I went over and played the old "do you have eggs?" Trick and got em!

Jaymi (Hi-Me) works out in Madison and his wife and kids are from Mexico! And he said he'd love to talk with us and help us learn Spanish! Also, we had a maid come in and she's also from Mexico! Super nice, she showed us pictures of her family and she asked questions about us and our family and we sat down and spoke Spanish for about an hour, it was awesome!


Some unexpected news.

So recently since the transition of the Nashua NH stake in our mission, Pres. Blair is continuing to close areas in the mission and unfortunately, Farmington elders have been closed and are now being transferred to Nashua.

So Elder Slaugh and I are Co-District leaders with a district full of hermanas. Oh boy. Pray for us.


The work continues and we still see miracles! Love ya all! Miss you!

Con mucho amor de Elder Vogel