June 26th - July 3rd
So, just to eliminate confusion. Elder Slaugh and I are staying here in Skowhegan for another transfer! The mission wanted us to take P-Day on Saturday cuz Presidant Blair wanted missionaries to be in their areas for the 4th, but since we where staying here and we where already teaching at the deer farm, sorry mom, no pics yet! But soon! We decided to take it as a normal day and have P-Day on Monday. #Reblels
We had a fun week! We went down to Waterville for a zone meeting, which wasn't really anything big or cool. It was okay I guess, but elder Slaugh and I got good work done anyway.
We went to go see Naomi, she's progressing, but really slow. But at least she is. We where telling her that we could be transferred so we said goodbyes and we showed up on Sunday and she's like "what the freak! I thought you where gone city boy! (Me)" haha so that was a nice surprise! We taught her about trials and being an example.
We went to the Goforths and had a great discussion for a few min, then they asked if we could fix their car, so we tried for a while and they have a bad distributor, so we couldn't do to much more after that. We walked in a thunder storm, probably wasn't the best decision, but hey, it was fun! We got soaked.
We went and saw Aaron Rollins. We had a RM (returned missionary) come visit the ward and she was able to get in a lot of homes with a ton of people so we just slid right in under the radar like a mouse and we got talking with Aaron.
Aaron is a cool guy, we talked about his new guns and his life a bit, then we shared a message and found concerns that probably where bigger than we could handle. #Oops so we told bishop instead and he's got it now. Haha
On Saturday, we got a call from a less active member that said her husband was dying, so we decided to go out and see her and boy do I hate the GPS sometimes..
We where driving and me, not really caring or paying attention, we find ourselves on a quad trail.. oops 😂 so we drove it. Mud, rocks, you name it. We even saw deer down the trail. It was pretty bad. At the end of our little trek, there was this big mid hole, and I was driving over it and the car started to slide, and elder Slaugh was like "don't stop, we'll get stuck!" So I floored it and we slid on this rock with some hits and bangs and bumps and we come out to see these two guys just staring at us and funny old me, I just waved at them and they waved back with the look of "did they just drive through that crap?" And we kept movin. It was quite funny and an adventure well worth it. #Maine
We have been working a lot with members, like a lot a lot. We have potential to really change this ward around, and we are working closely with bishop to set up a training for the ward, that we will lead out. It's gonna be awesome! We have about 3 or 4 families that are ready to be active again, so that's our focus. It's gonna be awesome! We are gonna see so much success!
My testimony this week is a quote from Pres. Monson, our Prophet. He says, "true love can change human lives"
That statement is so true. This Sunday was fast and testimony meeting and a member got up and told her experience about our lesson we had with her this last week, she expressed a quote at the end of the Mormon message called "Staying Spiritually Fit" and at the end the kid says, "at the end of the day, when I can go back to God's kingdom, which I hope I can, I want to look Him in the eyes and say I gave you everything I had. Just like you gave me everything you had"
That is my purpose as a missionary. Since my mission hasn't been at all what I wanted, it's always been what's best, and I want to stand before my Savior and tell Him that I gave it all I had. That I worked hard, that I loved these people enough to do everything I could for them. As I reflect on my mission, there are times I wish I would have done more, but that's in the past, I can only improve and do better today, and that's what Elder Slaugh and I are doing. We are giving our all because we want to one day look back and say that we did it. That our hard work payed off. When you accept someone, you'll do minor, little things. But when you love someone as Christ loves them, you'll do everything you can to help them. That's when you because a true follower of Christ. That's what a consecrated missionary is. That's how Christ is.
That's my testimony about love.
Love you all, hope you had a wonderful week!
Con mucho amor deElder Vogel
Aaron is a cool guy, we talked about his new guns and his life a bit, then we shared a message and found concerns that probably where bigger than we could handle. #Oops so we told bishop instead and he's got it now. Haha
On Saturday, we got a call from a less active member that said her husband was dying, so we decided to go out and see her and boy do I hate the GPS sometimes..
We where driving and me, not really caring or paying attention, we find ourselves on a quad trail.. oops 😂 so we drove it. Mud, rocks, you name it. We even saw deer down the trail. It was pretty bad. At the end of our little trek, there was this big mid hole, and I was driving over it and the car started to slide, and elder Slaugh was like "don't stop, we'll get stuck!" So I floored it and we slid on this rock with some hits and bangs and bumps and we come out to see these two guys just staring at us and funny old me, I just waved at them and they waved back with the look of "did they just drive through that crap?" And we kept movin. It was quite funny and an adventure well worth it. #Maine
We have been working a lot with members, like a lot a lot. We have potential to really change this ward around, and we are working closely with bishop to set up a training for the ward, that we will lead out. It's gonna be awesome! We have about 3 or 4 families that are ready to be active again, so that's our focus. It's gonna be awesome! We are gonna see so much success!
My testimony this week is a quote from Pres. Monson, our Prophet. He says, "true love can change human lives"
That statement is so true. This Sunday was fast and testimony meeting and a member got up and told her experience about our lesson we had with her this last week, she expressed a quote at the end of the Mormon message called "Staying Spiritually Fit" and at the end the kid says, "at the end of the day, when I can go back to God's kingdom, which I hope I can, I want to look Him in the eyes and say I gave you everything I had. Just like you gave me everything you had"
That is my purpose as a missionary. Since my mission hasn't been at all what I wanted, it's always been what's best, and I want to stand before my Savior and tell Him that I gave it all I had. That I worked hard, that I loved these people enough to do everything I could for them. As I reflect on my mission, there are times I wish I would have done more, but that's in the past, I can only improve and do better today, and that's what Elder Slaugh and I are doing. We are giving our all because we want to one day look back and say that we did it. That our hard work payed off. When you accept someone, you'll do minor, little things. But when you love someone as Christ loves them, you'll do everything you can to help them. That's when you because a true follower of Christ. That's what a consecrated missionary is. That's how Christ is.
That's my testimony about love.
Love you all, hope you had a wonderful week!
Con mucho amor deElder Vogel
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