tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-26687700836319117042024-03-20T16:08:56.207-07:00Aaron's Mish!Elder Aaron Macfarlane's mission to Boise, Idaho and the surrounding area, including Nampa, and La Grande, OregonAnonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08540824344780553130noreply@blogger.comBlogger55125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2668770083631911704.post-71615343193731053492014-04-14T15:46:00.000-07:002014-04-19T16:10:43.856-07:00Easter Week!<span style="font-family: inherit;">Hey everyone!! </span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;">Sooo this week freally flew by! hahha it
really pretty crazy! I can't believe that its already been a month since I've
been out on my mission! haha wierd huh? Thanks for the Emails they are so
awesome! This week was pretty dang good! haha it wasn't super full of lessons
like normal but it was full of some good missionary work I though! </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">First off we
had a zone conference that was way cool! I learned abunch about new teaching
skills and how I can improve myself as a teacher! haha I thought I was a good
teacher but then I realized I need a ton of work lol.. Thats actually been
something that has been kinda hard for me this first month.. I used to be such
a confident teacher and I felt like my teaching was way more effective! but
recently Its been hard to get my confidence back and get back into the rythm of
teaching again. We are now supposed to have only 10-15 minute lessons because
we are focusing on shorter and more powerful messages.. haha and teaching the
entire plan of salvation and restoration in 15mins is way hard if you try to be
an effective teacher by using scriptures and asking inspired questions and all
that! haha pretty much your lesson has to be perfectly planned out! which is
something that really hit me because back home if I had to give a talk or teach
a lesson I would spend a few hours getting it ready and preparing it. That is
how our missionary lessons should be with the same amount of preparation and
all that stuff! haha because I have gotten into a bad habbit of thinking I
already know the lesson and how to teach it so I really don't need to put a
whole ton of prep work into it. So thats something I've been trying to work on!
and my companion is working really hard too! We teach way different and we've
kinda clashed with our teaching styles so we've been working hard to get
unified so we can teach powerfully. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Ummm We found a new family this week!!! the
Chockers!! they are a young couple with 2 way cute kids and a little blonde 2
year old named Miranda haha which actually kinda looks like the wittle version
of you dear sister ;) haha but anyways josh is a convert of 10 years and sarah
has taken missionary lessons in the past but just never had a desire to find
out if it was true or not.. anyways they have been going to a bunch of
different churches the past little while and each one has fallen apart by some
kind of disagreement or scandal.. They were talking about it the night before
we came over and they decided that they wanted to raise their family in our
church because its the only one that has always remained constant! hahaha sooo
we had a bomb lesson and we are going to set a baptismal date with Sarah this
week!!! I'm so stoked because they are definitely really prepared and they want
to raise their family in the gospel and support eachother and its way cool!! We
had a bomb Mexican breakfast and lesson with Silvia this week! haha she like's
to cook for us before lessons so we don't complain ;) she's the same way and
she wants to raise her family in the church and she says that she has just felt
more at peace the past few weeks since she has been coming to church! We had a super
powerful lesson with Rick and Ranae last night where we watched the restoration
video with them and then we testified about the prophet Joeseph Smith. I really
realized how much I loved him this past week. I've always felt close to Joesph
Smith and I've never really doubted that he was a prophet but we had a lesson
in church about him and it seems like we've been listening to a bunch of music
about him and what he did and I just felt in my heart that I knew him before
this life and that he is my close friend and that I know he was a good and
rightous man who really did see God and our savior and was actually called to
be a latter day prophet. It just felt cool :) haha because I get to tell people
about what he did and I get to defend who he was! Anyways Rick really sarted to
feel the spirit and the Elder manygoats asked his wife ranae what the Prophet
Joesph Smith meant to her and as she bore her testimony I could definitely tell
Rick was touched! He's coming along ;) haha those were the highlights! </span><br />
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we are teaching a special easter message that me and manygoats prepared to a
bunch of Ward members and we are super excited about that! I love Easter! I've
been reading the gospels and a bunch of talks on the Atonement and I have just
felt so grateful and so happy that Jesus Christ is a real and actual person and
everything that is written about him in the scriptures is true :) anyways its
been a good week and I know this next one will be a good one too!! Remeber
Jesus this week ok? remeber that he died for us but more especially remember
that he lives for us still! I love the scriptural account in <a href="https://www.lds.org/scriptures/nt/luke/24?lang=eng" target="_blank">Luke 24</a> "why
seek ye the living among the dead? He is not here, He is risen!" That is
so true and I love it! I love you guys!! have a super dope week and get work
done! Mic and Joe you need to get some school work done from all this crazy
break you have been haveing ;) haha I'm gunna miss you guys on Easter but just
know that I am haveing a blast and I'm with people I really love and care
about<3 haha But since your my fam and all that I guess I love you more ;)
anyways I love you guys! Happy
Easter!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Love Elder Macfarlane!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">P.S.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><o:p><span style="font-family: inherit;">so we ran into a few families with the cutest little kittens
and the we went to this fam who seriously has a doc dewlittle type thing going
on with like every kind of animal possible but the baby rabbits where the
cutest :) haha they have this giant rabbit that is house trained and you can
take for walks on a leash and stuf!! so dope! haha and then I ran into Rockhard
is my little brother from the last family I lived with before I left! It was so
awesome to see him again!!! soo yup! lol fun times :)</span><br />
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08540824344780553130noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2668770083631911704.post-44608916200836514652014-04-07T16:31:00.000-07:002014-04-19T16:31:40.200-07:00Bomb Week Fo Sho!
<span style="font-family: inherit;">Que pasa calihasa? </span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;">haha thats not even close to correct
spelling but one of my zone leaders is a Spanish missionary that came out at
the same time with my so he's been teaching me up en some espanol slang haha.
Its suppose to mean whats up pumkin? haha anyways.. This week was so awesome!!!
man I can't even believe its Monday again because this one seemed to fly by!
Conference was awesome as always and man! It was just way good!<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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</span><span style="font-family: inherit;"></span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;">We got to go on a temple trip as a district on
Tuesday!! that was so incredible! The spirit was so strong and it was just nice
to feel confidence and recharge to do the Lords work! I was thinking about and
praying alot for added strength to become the absolute best missionary the Lord
can make me and the opportunity to have the holy ghost with me all the time to
guide me in my work this time around. I felt like I definitely got some
specific answers in the temple that helped prepare me to receive even more
during conference! After our Temple trip on Tuesday I went on exchanges with
elder Spencer in his area! man that was so fun! Him and his comp E Teione the
big poly guy are so awesome! They both want to work hard and be the best
missionaries they can be which to me means everything in the world. That's
something I felt alot this week was just overwhelming gratitude for the
missionaries I get to serve and work with. Anyways Friday we did exchanges
again but with our Zone leaders this time. I got to go with E Eisenhower which
was sooo awesome because he was in my mtc district and we have always been good
friends! It was awesome to catch up with him and learn from him. He's a little
older then the rest of us(24) but even if he's older I've always admired how
humble and Christlike he is. He is always willing to learn and listen and for
the most part be obedient ;) haha I love him! </span><a href="https://www.lds.org/church/events/watch-april-2014-general-conference?lang=eng" target="_blank"><img alt="https://www.lds.org/church/events/watch-april-2014-general-conference?lang=eng" border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiD-8oFgRtcxncqdC10GsWqEPdaavH4c-tIk142u5bFyAj4WElwZYtOHd8wl7FN3ELEExxCZHHhVKDEv3DReK0lOG40fBpFGoedhiwPvwHUknsdaPlLFaAsprG9nkWOVWw6db24SlnYoQ/s1600/general+conference.png" height="354" width="640" /></a><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;"></span> <span style="font-family: inherit;">then of course this weekend was
conference!!! I loved all the talks! it just really hit me again that these men
truly are prophets and they receive direct revelation and authority from God.
It made me want to strengthen my testimony in a living prophet so that I can
always have the faith and humility to boldly follow anything the prophet tells
us. I was just super grateful that we have direction from Jesus Christ even
while he isn't currently on the earth. I definitely felt the spirit confirm
that it really is Christ who is at the head of our church. I loved E Uchtdorf's
talk it was super bomb! I've needed to hear it because we really can be
grateful in any circumstance! like Richard the dude I told you about last week
he has just about nothing in the world as far as possessions but he can still
tear up praying to God and praising him for is continual goodness and mercy
towards all of us. I know that's true and that's a lesson I need to keep
learning. Hahaha probably more know then ever because things have been going so
awesome! I do love being a missionary! I love being able to make a difference
in someone's life by showing them a way and a person who makes all of the
difference. Something else in conference that hit me was just the need to
always be willing to do what is right and let everything else follow how it
will. I want to live the gospel always and put it first because really what
else matters in the end? The Gospel covers like everything that is of real
importance in this life especially our families! I love you guys! I love your
examples to me and the people around you! have a good week! and live what we
learned in conference! I know that its by living true principles we receive the
full blessings! </span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;"></span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;">Love E Aaron Mac!<o:p></o:p></span><br />
Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08540824344780553130noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2668770083631911704.post-18127920065989259502014-03-31T16:33:00.000-07:002014-04-19T16:37:01.599-07:00It a beautiful day in the Neighbor hood!
<span style="font-family: inherit;">Hhahaha actualy it was way cold wet and rainy this week ;)
hahaha but thats fine! It was actually kinda soothing because it reminded me of
home seeing as it NEVER RAINS here haha. It was all and all a very good week!!
We really have been super blessed! We have a bunch of awesome people to teach
that I didn't get to tell y'all about last week so I'll give ya a run down of
whats been going on!<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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</span><span style="font-family: inherit;"></span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;">Well I'm stationed in the Twin Falls South
10th ward. Which really is a pretty sweet ward! Our ward boudaries are super
big fo an Idaho ward which is a huge blessing seeing as we only cover one ward
now and we need a bunch of people to teach! And thats another thing I feel that
we have been blessed with is People to teach!!!! Its not quite like before when
we would have like 40 investigators but its still pretty dang solid. We taoght
a Part member family, Rick and Renae fischer, They are super awesome! they feed
us dinner ever Wednesday eveing and we do lessons after :) its fun<3 Rick says
he's a Lutheran and Renae hasn't been to church in 7 years but before that she
was super active and sent one of her sons on a mission and everything. She
still knows the church is true she's just having a hard time coming back.
Buttt they both came to church last week!!! haha unfortunately Rick wasn't
overwhelmed so we'll see what it takes ti get him back! He's a busy guy and he
likes to work on projects all day and hates wasteing time and he just feels
like 3 hours at church will take all his time to do work around the house and
yard and stuff. Little does he know that he'll be giving all of that stuff up
to rest on sunday here pretty soon ;) hahaha but ya they are both making be
strides and we're so happy for em! We teach this young Mexican mother of 2
named Silvia Chaves and her kids as well. She had us over for dinner on
friday!! haha we got there at 5 like she said and she was just then really
starting to cook but she was super relaxed and just enjoyed visiting for awhile
and all that hahaha she is super Mexican in that way :) also a bomb cook! haha
we had a super awesome lesson after dinner though about how we can build and
develop our faith in Jesus Christ and the spirit was super strong! We invited
her to be baptized but she said she wanted to learn a little more before she
does it! But after we really challenged her to read Moroni 10 and kneel down
and pray that night if it was true and she said that she felt very peaceful
when she prayed :) she's been coming to church with her kids for the past 2
weeks and the ward has been so awesome and welcoming. She is one of the elect
that have been prepared to receive the fullness of the gospel that the
scriptures talk about! We teahc this guy named Richard Millhouse who lives in
this home for guys who need a cheap place to stay while they get back on there
feet. He's a carpenter and he recently had rotator cuff surgery on his shoulder
and he's in the same sling thing I was in soo I thought that was really neat
because I know about how much he's hurting and what his limits are. We were
just walking by on Saturday night and we saw him out side smoking and called
over and went up to say hi for a sec(it was getting kinda late) He was not in
the best mood and told us that he had a really hard day and he was just feeling
overwhelmed with everything. He said that then said not tonight boys and
started to walk away but a got a very clear impression that we needed to say a
prayer with him so I called after him and asked and he said it was fine and
came back over but only if I said it lol.. haha I felt the spirit so strong
while we were praying kinda huddled in a circle in the dark and after I said
amen he said "just hold on there Lord we're not done yet" and he said
one of the sweetest prayer about how grateful he was for us and he asked the
lord to watch over his "little brothers" while we were walking around
in the dark :) He invited us to dinner with him on Tuesday and yaa :) its just
cool! I had a clear vision of him dressed in white getting baptized and I wan
that so bad for him! We have a bunch of other people and family's we are
working with including a young ingle mom and her 2 kids that we just started
teaching yesterday!!! that was another huge blessing! <o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">All and al I'm loving the work :) Its been hard for
sure. And I still feel pretty rusty but when I need it most I have felt
strength to be bold and words come into my mouth. I know that God is really
there and that he loves us because he's been letting me see a small portion of
his love for all these people I've just met! I love you all so much!! I
couldn't do this without my incredible family! Remember how much He loves us
this week and get ready for some serious revelation at general Conf!!! Have an
awesome week!!!! </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Love Elder Macfarlane!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!1whahahaha or Just
Aaron ;) love ya!</span> </div>
Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08540824344780553130noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2668770083631911704.post-11710842958874950062014-03-24T16:40:00.000-07:002014-04-19T16:40:19.181-07:00I'm back!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Hey
everyone!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! </span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Holy cow I miss you guys! But I'm having a
blast! I don't have a ton of time to email today so this might be short.. Its
been a little weird being a missionary but its been super natural at the same
time if that makes sens haha. Like it amazed me how many of the rules and
lessons and all of that that i have forgot but I'm getting it back pretty
quick! Hahaha I guess right now I have an excuse to go do something crazy lol
;) But anyways its just been so good to be back! I started to tear up when I
got on the plane to twin because it really hit me that I'm actually here and
I'm actually going to be a missionary again! My comps name is E Manygoats and
He's way cool! He's a Navaho Indian so thats been super fun! He is super hard
working and very obedient so we have gotten along awesomely! :) We have kinda a
slow ward right now.. But we are working hard to pick the work back up! and we
are already starting to see blessings!!! and yaaa we only cover one ward!!!!
its crazy! I have no idea how to work with just 1 but I'm learning ;) </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">The
mission has grown a ton!!! I'm like some kind of urban legend because almost
all the missionaries here now came out since I've been home.. Hahahaha
President Curtis was excited to have some experience but he's in for a
bit of a surprise.. haha I'll get it back though!!! Something I have been
studying along with freaking everything I need to get caught up on is the
power of giving ourselves completely over to the Lord. Like I'm going to try
as hard as I can to do his will but also I earnestly want to do his will and
only his will. I studied a talk called the fourth missionary that can apply to
all of us about learning to consecrate our lives to the Lord. I feel so blessed
to be here :) Thank you for getting me back out here and all of the love and
support I've felt. I love you all so much but I feel grateful to be apart for a
bit and give myself to this work.. not that I'm glad to be gone ;) but I'm
grateful that you all are willing to help me spend this time serving!! it means
the world! I have more specific next week! I got to go! </span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Pray and love and be
happy!!! </span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Love you all!</span></span>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08540824344780553130noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2668770083631911704.post-76777654013300611362013-09-16T18:20:00.000-07:002013-09-16T18:49:01.598-07:00See you tomorrow!<span style="font-family: inherit; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;">Well I guess I can
just tell you about my week tomorrow.. Its still unreal thinking that I'll be
on my way back to VA.. Crazy stuff!! </span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;"></span><br />
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today and hopefully have some fun to! I'm actually not nervous at all which is
weird.. mainly because its still not sinking in no matter how much I tell
myself I'm leaving its just hard to believe ahah I guess thats a good thing! </span><br />
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have a couple lessons scheduled tonight which will be awesome! I'm glad that
I'll get to teach! Its actually crazy looking back at the past week how the
Lord blessed us and allowed me to do some good work!! we taught 26 lessons!!!
which was so awesome!! we had 14 lessons taught with members present! that is
way good for missionaries! we also found 13 new investigators!! in a normal
week you find like 2. We had an awesome time working with the Burmease!! we
found a new family! they are going to be setting 4 Baptisimal dates with
Burmease next week!! so tight! the only problem is i didn't get pictures with
most of them.. but thats ok :) I think i might try and request this area as my
last one! get some Burmease language down! </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;">We also found an awesome new English
family of 5 to teach! the dad is a la member but the wife and the kids are so
ready to learn!! they fed us steak last night for dinner. But ya there was a
bunch and I loved every second of it :) The only time reality hit in and I
started to really feel going home was last night when we were watching Finding
Faith in Christ with Shawna Bowman who is a way cool investigator. Anyways I
was just sitting there watching the spirit testify to Shawna that Christ is the
way back to our Father in Heaven and it was just dang...I'm doing something
eternally important right now. The message that Shawna is learning and
receiving will completely change her life and everything. I felt super grateful
that I have been able to share that with others for the past year.. I know I
haven't even been close to the most successful missionary. And I have so much
to work on. But I've worked my hardest.. I can honestly say I've tried my
hardest everyday so far even when I didn't want to and that feels good :) haha
It feels even better knowing that I'll get to keep doing this stuff and get
fixed up at the same time! </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">I love you all! See some of you tomorrow!</span> </span>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08540824344780553130noreply@blogger.com0Twin Falls, ID, USA42.5629668 -114.4608711000000242.4694028 -114.62223260000002 42.6565308 -114.29950960000002tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2668770083631911704.post-51537430894988812182013-09-09T18:24:00.000-07:002013-09-16T19:45:07.487-07:00Well - 1 more week in Paradise! haha<span style="font-family: inherit;">Hey everyone! It was actually a really good week :) haha it
was crazy but way fun!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">I got my ticket info on Wednesday which was nuts.. I'm
leaving next Tuesday morning at 530 in the morning. I'll be getting into
Norfolk at like 5 or so... It still hasn't really set in that I'm actually
going to be in VA in like a week.. but I'm kinda glad for that! haha I think
its an answer to a prayer that I'll be able to treat this week as just a normal
week on the mission and get to work! I have had some peace about everything :)
its been nice! We had interviews with president this week and that was good we
got to talk about during the surgery then what will happen after and that
helped alot. I'm hoping to try to keep my schedule as much as I can especially
my study schedule! I'm actually excited to get some of the reading that I've
wanted to done so that will be nice! <o:p></o:p></span><br />
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</span><span style="font-family: inherit;">We have some good stuff going for us in our
area - one of our wards is on fire! we have a baptism this Saturday of Anthony!
he is so cool! he's like the most spiritual 12 year old ever!! We also have a
part-member family where 2 son James(11) and Landon(9) are getting baptized on
September 28th and Holly the mom is coming along! We are gunna get her to
church! and she's gunna get dunked with her kids! I'm pumped! We also have
Pah-ley this Burmese guy and his family who want to get baptized! we asked him
why and he said because he feels the holy Spirit when we teach him! man those people
are so awesome! we also are teaching the Bo Thien family, Bo was a Buddhist monk
in Mayanmar(Burma) but he feels the spirit when we teach him about Jesus
Christ! his wife is a strong Christian and wants him to develop faith so bad!
We invite him to read out of the New Testament because they don't have the BOM
in Burmese yet.. He cried when he read John 3:16 and we were able to tell him
that it was the God telling him that Jesus is our savior and that through him
we can receive Eternal life! he said that he will try to develop faith! I love
it! We found a whole Burmese family of 5 this week! They just lost their
youngest son a month ago and teaching them has been awesome so far! We are
going to invite the family to be baptized this week! Hahaha </span><br />
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always leave and area right before we have like 20 baptisms but that's ok! It
really doesn't matter if I see it as long as it happens! I love it! It really
has brought me so much peace recently knowing that I have made a difference so
far on my mission :) I'm glad that I will get to reevaluate what I've done on
my mission and discover how I can improve! Being a missionary is definitely a
learning process. You never really feel like you know how to do the work but
you do get better as you walk forward. We've really been trying to work on
receiving revelation and praying specifically for specific goals for people
and it has been awesome! Its the best feeling in the world to get insight for
and investigator and then go and use it with faith and see how its exactly what
they need! I love it! its amazing to see God in our lifes when we really look
:) I know that it will be harder once I'm home but its something I've needed to
work on! So be grateful for blessings this week and try and notice how God works
in your lives this week!</span></div>
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macfarlane!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08540824344780553130noreply@blogger.com0Twin Falls, ID, USA42.5629668 -114.4608711000000242.4694028 -114.62223260000002 42.6565308 -114.29950960000002tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2668770083631911704.post-82552992701066430812013-09-02T18:34:00.000-07:002013-09-16T19:41:04.056-07:00Well Howdy :)haha that is a recognized greeting of
Twinfalls Idaho! <br />
<br />
Its been a crazy week and it was kind of hard for awhile. I
had my first ever sick day on the mission on Tuesday.. haha I was up all night
with the stomach flu and was just super wiped and weak the next day and
couldn't do a whole lot.. We really are blessed to live with such amazing
members here though. Sis Waters is like my Idaho mom and she made me peppermint
tea and gave me medicine to help me feel better! She is so amazing! It makes me
worry for missionaries who don't get to live with families haha they don't have
moms away from home to take care of them! We also had as bunch of lessons
cancel and fall through this week which was kinda rough but we worked through
it and contacted like a million people lol! We try not to just straight tract
to find, normally we'll make lists of in-active and Part-member families that
live in the same neighborhood and we go visit all of those and invite them to
learn and come back and all that good stuff :) haha which can yield a lot
of good results or you can have alot of people that really don't want the church
right now come and talk to you haha which can be fun ;) haha we had more of the
latter this past week, but we do what we can! In our 2 wards they both have
about 580 members listed on the roster and only about 250 each come to church..
Which is still alot but there is a ton of LA work to do! There are people
prepared to came back and learn about the gospel so we keep pluggin along! <br />
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We
found a new Burmese investigator this week! haha his name is Day Poe and he is
way cool! He speaks pretty good English and with the years of listening to
teachers with heavy Chinese accents I can actually understand him pretty well!
He's around our age and love sports and he's newly married but his wife is in
Oklahoma for the next year.. Which has been rough on him but he has to stay
here and work! The Burmese really put us to shame! They work so hard and their
families mean everything to them! We have a bunch of our investigators that
sacrifice their only day off to come to church and they can't even understand
anything being taught! haha we went to there Sunday school class yesterday
which was super funny ;D hahaha they teach them English church words and then
teach them super briefly! its awesome! We started teaching a new family where
the dad Jeremy is a member who wants to come back and his kids want to get
baptized and his wife Holly is still questioning lol :) haha she's super funny
but she loves us and is coming around! Anthony our 12 year old is doing well
still! we taught him the Word of Wisdom and invited him to live it and he was
like of course! He drinks coffee and tea everyday and he had like no problem
giving it all up! unfortunately we have to push his baptism back a week cuz he
didn't come to church yesterday.. But thats ok! Really we need to work with his
mom Kelly to get her more converted! So thats whats going on as far as
the work goes.<o:p></o:p><br />
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It was kinda hard working with president this
week to getting everything ready for me going home.. It's just been a little
stressful. I think the whole uncertainty of how quickly it will go and how long
it will take before I get back has been kind of weighing on me.. Me and Elder
Durney are just going to try to work hard and have fun though this week! I hope
we really can bless this area with the time we have left. It hit me like a
brick realizing that I'll be home in like 2 weeks.. that's just nuts.. It seems
like I've been here forever and its just crazy to think I have to leave it.. I
guess everything happens for a reason. I read Mosiah 3:19 and the end of the
verse really hit me this time. I know that I need to develop patience and be
submissive to everything that Heavenly Father decided to put on me. I know that
we have trials for a reason and we learn from each and every one of them. I've
taught that lesson like 500 times on my mission so far but now I need to
internalize it and apply it to my life. Keep the prayers up! It'll be a good
next couple of weeks! <br />
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08540824344780553130noreply@blogger.com0Twin Falls, ID, USA42.5629668 -114.4608711000000242.4694028 -114.62223260000002 42.6565308 -114.29950960000002tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2668770083631911704.post-31277836589021797012013-08-26T13:11:00.000-07:002013-09-16T19:15:38.411-07:00Hello. VIA TFS!!Well whats up eustedes?? <br />
<br />
haha so this week was pretty
dang cool actually! Like It was tough leaving Jerome but I prayed that I would
be filled with love for my new area and holy cow that worked! I freakin Love
it! Its just sweet! We had a baptism of a ex member named D!
That was super cool! D has been out of the church for 32 years and forgot
like literally everything and hearing his story is really humbling. He prayed
about 6 months ago about what God truly wanted him to do and he got an answer
that he needed to give the mormons another chance and he said that he was like
NOOO!! hahaha but he is a huge example to me of how the Atonement can heal a
broken heart and how the Holy Ghost can comfort a troubled soul! I just
got to teach him once before his baptism but I was glad I got to be apart of
it!! Chase in Jerome got Baptized this week too! I got to talk to
him on the phone on Sat and he was super excited! man that guy is so humble!
I'm so glad I had the opportunity to teach him from the beginning! going to the
baptism would have been cool but the important thing is it happened and Chase
is so happy that he can start a new life living the gospel of Jesus Christ!!
Because of my surgery I might get to go with him to the temple and see him and
Taylor get sealed!! <br />
<br />
So the work out here is going ok! Hhaha there is tons of
potential! We have a Burmese branch inside one of our English wards!!! its
flippin sweet! haha when we teach them we have to have a translator which is a
different experience but It has really strengthend my testimony of how the
Holy Ghost can testify of truth even in a different languag! We taught a whole
family of 6!! and they all committed to get baptized and come to all of church
every week! We have another lesson with a family of 7 tonight!! its freakin
awesome!! they are such a loveing and humble people! they like hunger for the
gospel! They have had like 60 Burmease get baptised in the past 2 years or so!
Its actually pretty crazy all the people that we teach! We teach 2 Iraqi
families that are originally Muslim but they want to believe in Christanity! We
also teach this brothers form boutsuana in Africa! they speak pretty good
english but they are so freakin knowlegeable about the bible! but they also
love learning and like reading out of the Book of Mormon!! We have a 12 year
old named Anthony that is so freakin awesome!! We set a baptisimal date with
him for September 7th! He love reading and praying and is a spiritual giant!
his mom is LA and he drags her to church and all that! its cool :) We teach a
couple other families and we have a ton of potential! The family we live with
is so awesome! they take such good care opf us and they love us because we are
trying to work hard and be obedient! which is a bit differetn then what they
have experienced... Hahah there 14 yr old son Rockard loves board games and we
play 15mins of monopoly with him as we write in our jurnels every night! Its
fun! The work is good and we have a bunch of good stuff comeing! I love doing
this work! It definitely can get hard sometimes but its so rewarding! I know
that this is Gods work and I want to do it as best as I can! Today will be
pretty cool! <br />
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">P.s my companion Elder Durney is way cool and so
hard working! I love him!</span> </span>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08540824344780553130noreply@blogger.com0Twin Falls, ID, USA42.5629668 -114.4608711000000242.4694028 -114.62223260000002 42.6565308 -114.29950960000002tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2668770083631911704.post-47905030535296011782013-08-19T12:50:00.000-07:002013-08-26T12:58:05.238-07:00HOLA... from Twin Falls!
Well hey everyone! <br />
I'm sorry about not emailing yesterday
but it was crazy.. We had transfers and lo and behold just as things were
getting awesome in Jerome I got transfered to Twin Falls... It hurt like crazy
when I first got the phone call.. like I feel like I really put all of my heart
and mind into that area like I haven't done before and because of all that I
kinda fell in love with all my people.. But we get transfered for reasons and I
know the Lord needs me here in the Twin South stake. I had to help organize and
move people yesterday and work out getting cars around so thats why I didn't
get to email. Eler Perdue is training in Jerome after only 9 weeks! crazy! My
new comp Elder Durney has been out for 6 weeks and he is way cool! His last
comp was E Bloomfeild!!!!! unfortunaly for him Bloom was going home and was
feeling pretty lazy this past transfer so he didn't get the best example of
missionary work.. or obedience.. But thats ok!! He is way cool and he is so
willing to work hard and be obiedient so I'm stoked! Ok our area is like in
down town(hahaha they have freaking corn and potato fields in the middle of the
city out here lolololol) but we live on a farm kinda lol! We live with the
Waters family and they are so awesome!! we had FHE with them last night and
they gave us like 6 referals! nice! the area hasn't had a lot of work put into
it for the past 6 months or so,so we are stoked to get it all jumpin!! Ok! so
in Jerome the past week it was kinda tough.. we were in a 3some for awhile
because one of our zonleaders got called to be an assistant to the president.
So we worked both areas.. haha and on top of that our phone busted on Thursday
so setting things up and contacting was tough.. It was good though! Chase is
all set to be baptised this Saturday!!!!!! way pumped for that! He is so ready
and he deffinitelpy has his eyes pointed on the temple in a year! which I could
go to with him! Terrian is still on for September 7th. She took the transfer
kinda hard but we are gunna see if I can go up to baptise her and Tory her 13yr
old son. O yeah!!! Tory is getting baptised now to!! way cool! I didnt get
pictures with them this time aroung though because they were out of town this
past weekend. But yup! We had a bunch of fun! Elder Perdue is way nervous about
training but he asked if he could have a blessing and we both felt alot better
afterward. My testimony contiues to grow on how real the preisthood is and how
really the Holy Ghost is. Its amzing to have words come out of your mouth in a
lesson or a blessing or something that6 you know are not yours.. I love that :)
I'm loveing my mission guys! It seriously the best thing that has ever happened
to me! I'm really starting to realize just how much I have to be grateful for.
I love you! Thanks for all of the love and support! keep the prayers rolling
and i challenge yall for 15mins a day in the scrips! ;) sound like a deal!?
Have an awesome week! MIRANDA!!!!!!!!!! Good luck at flippin college!! Love
you!<o:p></o:p><br />
Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08540824344780553130noreply@blogger.com0Twin Falls, ID, USA42.5629668 -114.4608711000000242.4694028 -114.62223260000002 42.6565308 -114.29950960000002tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2668770083631911704.post-6026061991585844682013-08-12T11:00:00.000-07:002013-08-18T22:24:57.759-07:00Why Hello!Hey everybody!! <br />
<br />
this was a pretty crazy week as far as my
weeks are conserned :) haha ofcourse we were just doing the same ole thing but
it was just good! No update for my shoulder.. Dr Linjinquist called to see if I
had heard anything from yall which i hadn't and I haven't read any of your
emails yet so you know as much as me :) <br />
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The work has been going really well! It
was the county fair this week which in Idaho is a huge deal... lol like the
whole town shuts down to go watch things like pig wrestleing... which is really
crazy.. also extremely.. country? haaha they make a massive mud pit then they
grease up a big ole pig and you and your team have like 2 mins to catch it and
put it in this bucket thing... hahahhahaha they have like all age groups! haha
its a bi deal to be the pig wrestleing chapion in these parts! Haha
Everyone wanted us to make a missionary team for it because it would apparently
be a great way to find people to recieve the gospel lol... we turned down that
offer but it just funny.. People around here are to funny! I've noticed that
I've deffinitley become more ascstomed to small country towns and stuff but I
don't think I'm a cow-boy rancher quite yet lol. <br />
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We had some awesome teaching experiences
this week! we Set a baptisimal date with Terrian Jenkins!!! holy cow that was
the craziest thing ever! She has just completely through the Atonement 180
changed her life around am I'm so glad I got to be apart of it! Hahaha she had
to set it for September 7th at 7'oclock because its the luckiest time lol. She
wanted to do it on the 7th month as well but she didn't want to wait and she
said that the 9th month can be just as lucky! It was just a super powerful
lesson with her! We read Mosiah 18 8-10 with her and asked her what was holding
her back and she said absolutely nothing that the Lord couldn't help her with!
She has been super invloved in relief sosiety and wants to be called to be a
ward missionary! haha she got a copy of PMG last week so she could learn our
tricks so she can start warming her friends up to us! haha she is so funny! She
is like the toughest lady ever and she NEVER cries but when she was telling us
how grateful she has been for all of the missionaries that wouldn't give up on her
and for how the perfect message of the gospel helped her come form the darkest
place anyone can be to liveing in to constant light :) she was tearing up a
little :) she's so awesome! She says that because of the darkness she saw she
can see so easly the dark from the light and she is staying as far in the light
as she can!! Its been crazy to see the change in her even since I got here! She
used to be kinda sad and still had a darker countenance but now she is the
happiest person ever and her whole countance just seems to glow!!! its
super cool!!! Deffinietly one of the miricles of serveing a mission!<br />
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I got to
go on exchanges in the Spainish area this week! Which was super tight! I can
testify now of the gift of toungues. I started the day off not understaning
anything but as we sat and taught and talked to those people in Spainish the
craziest thing happened! I could totally understand what they were talking
about!! ahahaha like not every word at all but I understood what we were
talking about. Especially when we got into Gospel topics and our lessons! that
was way cool! I learned enough from E Grajalaz to bear my testimony of Christ
and Joesph Smith and the Book of Moromon and just stuuf like that! which was so
cool. I was super nervous to say anything at first but when It came my turn to
testify I felt the spirit super strong and the words just came out smoothly and
I know they understood them and felt the spirit to! haha they said my spainish
was good but they were just being kind. It deffintiely wasn't eloquint but it
just was a testimony builder that you don't have to speak all fancy, If it
comes from your heart and its true the spirit will wittness the truth of it!!
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We had a bunch of other really cool lessons! Cage the 13 year old we started
teaching accepted an invite to be baptized and is just waiting for his brother
to get some time to come up and baptise him!! way cool! he reads and prays ever
night! Yup! it was a good week! The fair got in the way of a few lessons but we
worked aroung it and were deffinitley blessed because of it! Me and E Perdue
started asking every single member we talked to at church for referals and we
got quite a few of them! that was super cool! haha and everyone we asked at
least said they would be thinking about it and working on it! The culture of
our wards is slowly becomeing more missionary minded and we are doing
everything we can to move that along! I Know that the work is going to explode
out here super soon!! We have transfers next monday and I'm really hopeing to
stay 1 more with E Perdue but We'll see! <br />
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I love what I'm doing and I love you
all!! Thank you for the prayers and support! <br />
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Love Elder Macfarlane!<o:p></o:p>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08540824344780553130noreply@blogger.com0Jerome, ID 83338, USA42.7240732 -114.518653442.7240732 -114.5186534 42.7240732 -114.5186534tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2668770083631911704.post-37840793153984290662013-08-05T20:27:00.000-07:002013-08-18T20:44:25.208-07:00Hey-yo people :)Que onda mi amigos! <br />
<br />
This was a really good week! But holy
cow there was a bunch of stuff that reminded me of home! Its kinda funny though
that even when I get reminded of home I don't get home sick anymore. Which is
nice! I've been really blessed in that has never really been a big problem for
me! My shoulder is feeling fine! I have no updates on my end really.. I got to
go to the temple on Thursday that was awesome! I had the opportunity to just
sit and pray and think about a bunch od things and the more I prayed and asked
about my shoulder surgery the more at peace I felt about the whole situation
which was really awesome! I kinda just got the answer that Heavenly Father
wants me to take care of my self, and that I will still be his servant during
my surgery and I'll get to go back after! I also got the feeling that if I
would use my faith and work with my situation he would lift me up and help me
magnify my calling even if I'm not 100%. So that was cool :) haha I've been
really worried and hurting at the idea of having to leave and take a break right
when I'm getting the hang of all this but now I'm much more at peace with the
idea! Thank you for the prayers! I've definitely felt them! Its pretty crazy
the difference they have made! haha my testimony of Heavenly Fathers lover for
us has definitely been strengthened! <o:p></o:p><br />
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Any ways the week was awesome! Our
fireside last night went really well!!! we had the whole stake center packed
with people all the way to the back of the gym and up on the stage!! People
seemed to really get involved and I thought me and e Perdue pretty much
beasted our part ;) haha whats pretty crazy I realized that before my mission
I got super nervous top talk just in our sacrament meetings and now I wasn't
nervous at all last night and there was over 700 people there last night!!!
haha I can definitely tell that even us English missionaries get gifts of the
spirit because I was able to just speak clearly the words that came to my mind
and joke with everyone and it was a good time! haha I'm sure I'll go back to
getting super nervous after my mission! But anyways for the closing hymn of
the fireside the missionaries sang the first verse of called to serve and then
the congregation joined in the second verse! Holy cow!!!!!!! The spirit was
almost over powering! As soon as we started the second verse everyone started
to stand up and you could look out over the audience and there was a lot of
people with tears in there eyes singing about our mandate to spread the gospel.
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The
Church is so strong here and the members have such a strong desire to serve our
Father in Heaven! we are really blessed to be here at this time and to be a part
of the work of salvation for the children of God! We also had a bunch of
awesome lessons this week! Kara Scott who is an incredible investigator who has
had such a hard life called us and said she wants to set a goal to be baptized!
she has been reading the assignments we've given her and praying hard about
making this change in her life and she said that the most incredible feeling of
peace came over her! we are going to set a baptismal goal for September with
her this week! Terrian came to all of church yesterday!!!!!!!!! which was
freakin cool! she said that August is her new start and for now on she is
coming to church every sunday!! the bishop and members of the ward were so
warm and welcoming!! holy cow I love that woman! she is so awesome and I am
amazed at how the light have Christ as illuminated her life and brought a great
change in her! heck ya! It people like her and Kara and a bunch of the others
we get to teach that make this so rewarding! I've really found lately when I
try my hardest to absolutely forget my self and do what the Lord wants me to by
serving with all my heart I have been filled with desire to do this work and
love for my peoples :) Chase is still on track to get baptized on the 24th and
he commited to live the Word of Wisdom! <o:p></o:p></div>
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That's about it for my week! thanks for
all of the love and support! Keep me in the loop about whats been going on ok??
haha I love My savior and his work! Its just freakin cool! <br />
<br />
Have an stupendous
week!!!! <br />
Love E Aaron mac!<o:p></o:p>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08540824344780553130noreply@blogger.com0Jerome, ID 83338, USA42.7240732 -114.518653442.7240732 -114.5186534 42.7240732 -114.5186534tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2668770083631911704.post-32267866639778979622013-07-30T12:17:00.000-07:002013-07-30T17:45:22.462-07:00Training, teaching, and baptisms in LaGrandeHey everybody!! This week was pretty awesome but it felt
super long for some reason.. <br />
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As far as my Shoulder updates I don't know a whole
lot more then you all do. I had President and Sister Curtis join me and Elder
Perdue for our companion study on Thursday and then we had interviews with
President afterward. It felt good to just sit and talk about the whole
situation. He's all for helping me get the ball rolling with all the doctors
stuff and also in making the right decision. He gave me a blessing afterwards
and I felt alot more at peace about the possibility of getting this done now.
So we'll see how long it will take to get all of the doctor stuff and
appointments taken care of. I'm just trying to not let it bother me. Thank you
all for fasting and praying for me!!! I know that its helped a bunch!! thats
for sure! I'm still looking at my options but I really have been feeling more
at peace with getting it taken care of now! Honestly it doesn't hurt like at
all!! Like its just weird.. It just feels really loose and unstable and I can
definitely feel it bounce around in there and stuff but its not painful! Haha
the reason Id get surgery now is so I wont have sever arthritis pain when I'm 30
lol. But I am definitely willing to just be patient and see how everything
pans out!<o:p></o:p><br />
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The week was really good though! We had a
trainers meeting thing on Wednesday and that was awesome! It was actually pretty
crazy, I had been praying super hard all morning to be able to feel the Spirit
and learn what I needed to learn and all that and I definitely had my prayer
answered! haha I guess that I must have had some emotions built up or something
because of all this medical stuff cuz like everything made me cry lol like I
was kinda a mess haha and that almost never happens to me. But It was just
really amazing to feel the Holy Ghost just kinda overpower me when I needed to
hear something! It was a cool experience :) haha I realized just how much I
still had to work on and everything and how much I still had to grow as a
missionary and person but ya can't change something unless you know you need to
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Anyways we had some incredible lessons this week! We have 2 more weeks
left in this transfer and I really hope I get to stay but we'll see whats up..
I Love this area though!! the members are so incredible! one of our wards is so
entirely focused on missionary work its freakin legit! haha I never really
thought about if we had a missionary minded ward back home.. I feel like we
might have had some improving to do ;) but its super cool! we are having a
stake wide fast for missionary work this Sunday and a fireside on being an
everyday missionary and everyone is super excited about it! they have been
announcing it for 2 weeks already and everyone is talking about it! We have a
member of the 70 coming Elder and sister Allen and President and Sister Curtis
are coming as well! It'll be awesome!! haha Its a little nerve racking because
I get to talk and teach quite a bit and it'll be pretty much a stake conference
size deal on missionary work! but I'm pumped!! </div>
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The work here in Jerome is about
to explode and I'm super excited to be here to see it! I just hope I don't get
transferred before all of the fruits of our labors come in!! C is still super
pumped about his baptism! and we are going to be setting at least 2 more dates
this week with a couple of youth that we are going to begin teaching! One of
them (CP 13) we found by contacting a part member family before and
appointment and while the parents were super not happy to see us C was all
excited and accepted and invite to take the lessons and has been coming to
church with his grandma ever since! super awesome! he's a good kid! I love
being able to teach youth because I know that if they can make changes know and
accept the gospel in their lives they can avoid most if not all of the
heartache our older investigators have felt! T committed to come to
church every week starting in August!! We are going to get her to talk with her
parole officer and get her an interview with president Curtis and she can get
baptized!!! she strengthens my testimony of the Gospel of Jesus Christ so much
because her life was just completely full of darkness and now it is full of
light and happiness!!! She'll kill it as a Relief Society president someday!!!
Some people I taught in Lagrande got baptized recently!!! S this past Saturday
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This week we are going to work hard and kill
it! our area is really beginning to come along and we are haveing a blast in
doing it! I haven't felt as frustrated or stressed recently and while the work
is still hard and a little scary it is just been super enjoayable and I've been
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Thanks again for all of the love and support!!! Send some
prayers Larissa's way ok?? SHE'S GOING TO ARGENTINA TODAY!!!! Thats sweet! I
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08540824344780553130noreply@blogger.com0Jerome, ID 83338, USA42.7240732 -114.518653442.6307377 -114.6800149 42.8174087 -114.3572919tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2668770083631911704.post-57383931055489237692013-07-22T12:02:00.000-07:002013-07-30T12:18:18.363-07:00Well hey peoples of home!<span style="font-family: inherit;">So Hola! haha this week has been kinda crazy! I 'll get the
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"> So I'm sure you all know by now but I had a
doctors appointment on Thursday. I finally felt like I just had to get it
checked out and I couldn't wait anymore. Doctor Mckee is a really good doctor
and he's a member as well so that was nice. Its apparently just as or more
unstable as it was before. He's not sure of what condition my labrum is in but
I got X-rays and the bone socket that holds the round arm bone part(I forgot
all the medical names for these things haha) in place is broken.. apart of the
circleular area has been shoved back down my arm which allows my shoulder to
pretty much slide in and out and all around pretty constantly.. He says it
feels pretty bad and that I will need open surgery on the bone to re-shape the
whole socket area and probably put the labrum back together as well.. So thats
all kinda tough. He recomended surgery soon but he told me to make sure I get a
blessing and to fast and pray to see if its what the Lord wants me todo right
now. I'm all for that! haha it didn't even really hit me that I might have to
go home for surgery untill the next day when President Curtis called me and
talked about the situation... I probably haven't cried like that for awhile.. I
just really don't want to leave.. you here about missionaries that have to take
time off for medical issues but you never think it will be you. It just hit me
super hard how much I love what I'm here doing and how incredibly grateful I am
to have this chance and to be right here in Twin Falls Idaho.. If it was up to
me I would wait untill my time is up but I'm definitely going to find out as
much as I can and pray and fast really hard before deciding to go back for
surgery. I just know I'm here for a reason and I want so bad to beable to serve
and do everything I am meant to do. That all :) anyways I guess I'll be finding
out more about the whole thing here pretty soon. I'm deffinitely open to all
advice for sure :) haha whether I have to go home for a bit or I get to
stay and finish I just want yall to know that I love being here and honestly it
is the biggest blessing I've ever recieved and its not a sacrifice at all! haha
the thought of being released to be home for surgery soon is super weird.. I'll
have no idea what to do with myself lol!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"> Anyways heres the good part! We had an awesome
week!!! despite distractions we were able to pick ourselves up and get work
done!! The most awesomest part was on Saturday we set 2 baptismal dates!!! one
with C Who I've talked about a bit but he is so awesome!! we were just
teaching about faith and reading out of Alma 32 with him when we felt inspired
to ask him how his prays about being ready have been going and him and his wife
both got the biggest smiles on their faces and he said 'they've been good and I
think he's telling me I'm ready to be dunked"!!! haha so awesome! The next
one was a kid we met for the first time!! His name is Z and he is 16 and just
moved up form Utah!! The Spanish elders accidentally ran into him and asked him
if he would like to learn about Heavenly Father and he said yes!! They set up a
time for us and we came by and taught him the Restoration and he said it just
felt right! He agreed to read out of the Book of Moromon and pray for
confirmation that he is making the right choice! He agreed to be baptized on
Aug 24th! We are pumped! he didn't make it to church yesterday because his mom
made him drive her to SLC.. She is an athiest so we have been praying really
hard for her heart to be softened and all of that! So that was way cool! </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">We also
found a few solid new investigators and a bunch of them are really making some
great progress!! We are super pumped! We are definitely blessed for staying
focused and keeping the work up! The member support is just awesome! we have
been getting Home and Visiting teachers assigned to our investigator families
and getting all of the auxiliaries involved in helping them progress! Its meant
the world to a bunch of people! We had the opportunity to teach a woman named
L this week who really needs the gopel right now! She lost her husband 3
months ago and she is losing her house right now.. We taught her about the Plan
of Salvation and invited her to read an pray. She says she really wants to
have her faith strengthened again and she know that we'll be able to help her
do that! We are meeting with her this week so that'll be awesome! Its just been
good all around teaching and doing service! <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"> Haha don't worry about me I'm fine! It really
doesn't hurt to bad and its definitely manageable! Just pray that the whole
insurance and getting all of the medical thingts set up and squared away goes
smoothly so that all of this can get done! I'm just going to work really hard
in the mean time and focus only on the people out here! Thank you for all of
the love and support and all of that jazz! It means the world! I love what I'm
doing and I want to keep doing it for as long as I can! </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Have an awesome week!
Let me know whats up at home yall slackers!!!! haha </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">E Aaron Macfarlane!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08540824344780553130noreply@blogger.com0Jerome, ID 83338, USA42.7240732 -114.518653442.6307377 -114.6800149 42.8174087 -114.3572919tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2668770083631911704.post-74743053264251427602013-07-16T11:16:00.000-07:002013-07-16T14:58:52.647-07:00Buenos Dias!<span style="font-family: inherit;">Hhaha Hola! como estas!?! </span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;">I'm a missionario de la espanol
now lol! haha it was a fun week! mi districo esta fantastico! its kinda weird
having 5 spainish missionaries in my district but its cool! District meeting
was super fun! I spoke in all the Spainish I knew and I probably offended sis
Maese(who is from a actual mexican family that speaks only spainish..)
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">It felt weird being a district leader which is just
one of those silly missionary things but still... Hahaha I'm going to get to go
on exchanges with the Spanish elders in the Spanish area! I'm excited to pick
up some more words! We went to a legit Mexican place for lunch and I ate my
first Leguo! Which is cow tongue! haha the texture felt super weird.. but it
tasted pretty good! this place also serves Tripas which is pig intestines!
nice! <o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"> The week was super good though! we had a few
awesome lessons! C is comeing along and I'm really thinking that we'll set
a Bap date with him soon! If he gets dunked soon I'll get to go with him to the
temple and see his family get sealed! that would be so sick! We helped T
move this week. She is this super awesome lady who has been in and out of jail
for most of her life. So while we were helping her move I accidentally dropped
a picture of Christ on the ground and I kept on taking other things out of
the truck. She immediately ran over and picked the picture up and cleaned it
off and said "I'm sorry buddy" :) That picture was the first thing to
be put up in her house<3 That was the most incredible feeling. Her love for
the Savior is so strong because she has had to lean on him so much to lift
herself up and change! She is so awesome! If her parole officer gives her
permission she will be baptized her very soon! </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">We started teaching a new
family this week! Their names are M and L. They are super cool! M is
a member and L was raised Baptist! We talked to them for like an hour
on Saturday and holy cow they have had a colorful past! haha matt has been to
jail a few times and used to be involved with a pretty rough crowd. They are
really trying to turn their lives around though! They are getting married this
week! we invited them to hear the lessons and they said they would love to!
L will definitely get baptized and it would be so cool if Matt could get
worthy to preform the baptisim! We'll see though! We have 3 sets of kids who
are getting really close to baptism! they are so awesome! most of these kids
have a better knowledge and desire then I did at their age! The Ms
V(15) and E13) are really cool! We had a lesson just all about why
the gospel of Jesus Christ is so important! That is like the first time I've
taught someone who had like no idea about the Atonment before but completely
understood what we taught them! It was awesome! the only thing slowing us with
them and alot of these kids is that they trade off between divorced parents
during the summer. I feel so bad for them because you can tell it hurts a bunch
having their families separated.. I think that it has brought them to
search for love from their Father in Heaven though so that is way cool. We
teach in alot of homes that our ether broken or just messed up. We teach alot
of people that have been to prison and have been involved with some serious
stuff. Its incredible :) I love this kind of work! The Lord prepares people to
hear the gospel. Just like in the BOM with the Zoramites people in humble
circumstances turn to God for help and he is so willing to open his arms to
them and forgive them and heal them. Its the most amazing feeling to see the
spiritual scars a person caries with them heal! Some of these ex-convicts are
such spirtual power houses because they have tangibly felt the physical and
spiritual healing powers of the Atonement. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">My faith has grown so much and my
desire to help these people continue to learn and grow has changed and grown so
much. I am really trying to allow love to be my motivator for all of my
actions. And its not easy thats for sure! I get tired and I get cranky and
sometimes I even feel lazy ;) haha but the more I try to love the people I am
called to minister to, the easier it is to fight off all of those negative
emotions! its been cool :) I had the opportunity to speak on Sunday and it was
so awesome! I had the spirit give me so much of my talk right there on the
spot! It is the most amazing feeling to know that the Holy Ghost is with you
and can guide and direct you. I really do want to always be worthy enough so
that the Lord can use me as a tool when he needs to! </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">I love you all so much!
haha I've been missing home and all of you this week but I've felt alot of
peace and comfort to helping me out! I'm 11 months today!!! aint that
crazy!!!!! hahaha let me know how yall's weeks be going ok?? </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Love E Aaron!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08540824344780553130noreply@blogger.com0Jerome, ID 83338, USA42.7240732 -114.518653442.6307377 -114.6800149 42.8174087 -114.3572919tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2668770083631911704.post-44146969735752517562013-07-08T21:10:00.000-07:002013-09-16T19:48:50.091-07:00Hey all my peoples!!<span style="font-family: inherit;">Whats upp!!!!! this week was freakin awesome!! no kidding it
was a ton of fun! haha the 4th made it a little bit harder to do missionary
work but we just had some fun! <o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Soooo I guess the biggest news this week is we got
transfer calls on saturday(we had a 3 week transfer..) and me and elder Perdue
are both staying!!! which is way sweet!! we were eating breakfast with the
english sisters and the Spanish zoneleaders at our High councilmen over
missionary works house when we got our calls and I wasn't nervous at first but
the spainish got theirs first and there was a ton of changes!! like everyone
was moving and they created like 5 new areas sooo i got pretty nervous for
ours.. our district got changed alot! we added a set of spainish elders and
sisters and the old district leader got transfered out and they made me the new
District leader.. Essentially all that means is that I check up on all the
people of my district and lead district meetings once a week. I'm actually
pretty excited about it! me and Elder Perdue are gunna have some super fun
District meetings! theres 11ppl in my district which is the biggest district in
the mission... so that'll be interesting. Haha but thats whats new! </span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Shoshone Falls (outside of Twin Falls)</td></tr>
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Our week
was solid! we didn't have as many teaching appointments because of people being
out of town but the lessons we did teach were flippin awesome! We have a family
of 5 named the Perishs that we finally had a lesson with! they are pretty cool!
haha the mom has been a little disinterested lately so we just went there with
bro Black and pretty much taught a whole lesson of testimony of how the gospel
will bless their family! they definitely felt the spirit and they agreed to put
more effort into learning and finding the truth of our message! The whole
family came with us to a convert baptisim in one of the other wards on
Saturday which was super good for the kids! they are 15, 13, 11, and 10! the
youngest son Mikey is so on fire and loves church and the gospel! he reads out
of the friend every day! if he had the chance he would be baptised tomorrow!
but we want the whole family to expereince the same conversion so they can be
there for each other!<span style="font-family: inherit;"></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">We taught this woman named Terriann Jenkins and her son on
Saturday night! it was awesome! terrian got out of prision a couple years ago
and she is doing all she can to turn her life around! her son(Tory, 13) was
with his dad while she was in prison and he wasn't the best example to him so
he's had a rough start to life.. but he has such a good heart! and he's super
smart! we taught him about the true nature of Heavenly Father and Jesus Christ
and he loved it! we invited them both to be baptised and they both said yes!
Terrian needs to work some stuff out with her Parol officer and she'll need to
be interviewed by the mission president but she'll do it!! we are going to help
them move into a new house out of this ghetto trailor park this week and its
just way cool! we are hopeing to set a date with at least Tory this week! </span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">sandy wind storm on the 4th of July!</td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">We
found a new Investigator last night with Bro Black! her name is Kara Scott and
she is so awesome! she also got out of prison about 2 years ago.. she said that
in jail she started to really read out of the bible and she attended LDS
services! she was taught about almost all of the core doctirne of the church
and was challenged to read and pray about the Book of Mormon! she said she did
and knew that it was true! she just got the most excited happy feeling after
she asked! Its so cool how the Holy Ghost works with each of us to give us the
awnsers and help that wer most need! but anyways she had some friends show up
but we set up a time for Thursday and she said she was super excited to learn
more! also what was really cool with her is that 2 weeks ago while she was
praying she heard a whisper in heart/head that Christ needed her to quit smoking
now! so she's been working on it and she's already down to like 1 a day!! isn't
that neat! the Lord deffinitely prepares people to be ready and willing to
accept the gospel!! I'll keep yall up to date on her! </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">We had a lesson with this
dude named Chase Satterwhite and his wife taylor! he promised his wife that
some day they would be sealed in the temple! so we were teaching and asking him
abunch of questions and bearing testimony when we asked him if he knew the BOM
was true and he said he did. We asked him if knew Joesoph Smith was
Prophet of God and he said he did. We asked him if he believed the LDS
church was Christ's church on the earth and he said he absolutely did! Recently
he's found a new job with better influences around him that allows him to go to
church on Sunday to! we asked him why he hasn't been baptised and he said he
felt unprepared. So we bore testimony that he was ready and by takeing this
step now he'll be so blessed! He promised to pray every night this week to find
out that he was ready!! I love that guy! he made some mistakes early in life
but he married his Girlfriend and is working hard to provide for his family which
includes a super cute 7 month old boy named Asher! I'm stoked for them! </span><br />
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thats the teaching highlights! </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">On the 4th we had a ward breakfast in the
morning which was fun! its so nice to actually get to know the members here and
spend some time with them! We then had a 4th lunch party at this super awesome
old guy named John's tiny little house! haha we had 6 missionaries in there!
but he made the works for us as far as food! He is the funniest guy ever! I
love that guy so much! We spent the rest of the day with a few different member
families, more getting to know and haveing fun then teaching but it was nice to
have a relaxing day to :) at night we sat on our porch and watched Fireworks
with the Powell family who we live with! that was sweet! we could see like 4
fireworks shows from their back porch! that family is so amazing! </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">We had the
opportunity a couple mornings this week to go with them to put up a barbwire
fence at their son's house! That was fun! I now am pretty
proficient in the whole barbwire fencing business ;) haha its cool to learn
stuff like that! O ya! yesterday we had a powerhouse fast and testimony
meeting!!! the spirit was so strong! the Powell boys James(16) and Josh(14)
went and bore thier testimonies on missionary work which was so cool! they are
like my little brothers away from home! Anyways thats about all I have time
for! <o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">It sounds like yall had a sweet 4th! Mnm and
Mic were complaining about yard work lol ;) hahaha yard work becomes fun on the
mission! have fun and relax! I hope you all are healthy and can avoid more
injury this month! </span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;"></span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;">I love shareing the Gospel of Christ guys :) it can be super
hard and tedious at times but I've really been trying to give God all of my
heart and mind.. I read a talk about becoming a consecrated disciple of the
Lord and I want that so badly! It talked about how when we give our will to the
Lord he will bring us happiness and mold us into the person we are capable of
becoming. I love you all so much! thanks for the love and support! </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Love E
Aaron!<o:p></o:p></span>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08540824344780553130noreply@blogger.com0Jerome, ID 83338, USA42.7240732 -114.518653442.6307377 -114.6800149 42.8174087 -114.3572919tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2668770083631911704.post-44764777172289581102013-07-02T08:57:00.002-07:002013-07-02T09:38:50.756-07:00Week 2 in Jerome!<span style="font-family: inherit;">Hey all yalls!!<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">What a crazy week!!! haha we had a ton of great stuff
happen and i'm not really sure where to start.. We got our new mission
president on Saturday!!!! President and Sister Curtis! that was nuts! We had a big
meeting to get to know them and they seem really awesome and just ready to get
to work! thats my kind of mission president! they are form utah but have been
sereveing a mission in Georgia when they got there call to come here! so thats
cool they know what it feels like to be a missionary! </span></div>
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haha we taught a lesson in there home every week for 6 months! so awesome I
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">They told us about some
crazy changes and stuff.... drum roll.... we aren't aloud to wear backpacks
anymore... haha the church instead asks us to use man purses... or "saddle
bags" that stinks... so ya I have 3 months to find one that I like to
replace the good old backpack.. but the cool thing is the reason we wont wear
backpacks anymore is because we wont be carying that much materieals any more!!
because by the end of this year we are going to be a completely digital mission
and each companionship will have an ipad for record keeping and teaching!! haha
thats pretty crazy! other things changed now to like we can wear kaki pants
now!!! haha I know sweet!!!! I'm pretty excited lol! but ya they just really
relaxed the dress code and the church is letting more personality through in
the way we dress! haha still white shirts and ties though! but ya theres a
bunch of new stuff going on! <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">And DOUG!!! At his goat cabin in the mountains!! - Holy hard it was to say goodbye to this guy but I love him so much!</td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">In the area we were without a car for a few days cuz
the other missionaries put a nice dent in it.. so we walked in the heat and we
were blessed for it! we were able to teach so many LA members!!! it was pretty
crazy! literally everyone seemed to be home! We also found a guy who invited us
in for some water and asked us for a BOM!!! That was legit!! haha too bad he's
moveing in a couple weeks but he is just full of questions! </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">We taught a coulple
kids named Chloe and Trevan who are 11 and 13 and holy cow they are so
prepared! They are like spiritual giants and have a way better understanding of
the gospel then I did at their age! They will get baptized soon! the only
problem is they go to church with their grandparents up in Burley Idaho soo it
makes the whole baptiseing them in this ward kinda tricky! they are so solid
and read and pray everyday though! That seems to be the case with alot of the
young people we teach in this area! The kids are thirsty for it and have to
drag their parents along! It goes to show that this comeing generation is even
more rightous and ready for the world then mine was! ummm The family we live
with is super awesome! </span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Me and Mallory and the Royers!! I love those ppl!!</td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">The Powells have a son on a mission and take super good
care of us!! we had a big breakfast with them this morning on their poarch over
looking the valley which was super cool! We also tuaght a guy this week named
Chase who promised his wife that they WILL have a Temple marriage so you can
say he's pretty golden! he's super cool to and will get dunked here pretty
quick! Me and Perdue have been getting along super well! I love that kid! he is
an awesome teacher and is just a spiritual giant! I think we'll be able to have
some good sucsess together!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Our wards are really good! Bro Black is a ward
missionary in one of our wards and he seriously would come out with us every
day! he spent probably a solid 6 hours teaching lessons and driveing us around
this week! I've never seen such a devoted member missionary! His love for
everyone is just incredible to! He tells us literally everywhere he takes us
home much he loves the people we are going to see and it show in our lessons!
We started teaching a new family this week! Terrian Jenkins and her son Tory
and his friend Suga Shane Moses lol haha he's like the only black kid in
Jarome! but they are awesome and super solid! They have had a really rough life
and Terri says that literally everytime we come over its an awnser to one of
her prayers!! wow! its really feels good when someone understands how much you
want to help them and how much the message of the gospel will do for
them! <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">That's about it! We have been super blessed in
this area and I know its because how hard we are working to be deligent and
obedient! It crazy how much Heavenly Father loves us! We gave a blessing to a
woman last night and as soon as we walked in ther door the spirit was there and
I felt this unbeleavable love that can only come from a loving heavenly
father! Bro Black gave the blessing and it was really powerful! Its incredible
that the power to administer to the sick is back on ther earth! It made me
really grateful for Dad how he was always willing and worthy to use use the
Priesthood to bless our family. I deffinitely want that for my future family!
I've seen to many broken homes who don't have access to that and it really does
affect everything! </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">I love you all so much! Share the gospel and all of that
jazz! </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Love Aaron<o:p></o:p></span></div>
Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08540824344780553130noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2668770083631911704.post-80279168854320339262013-06-29T16:19:00.002-07:002013-06-29T16:21:08.004-07:00Hello from Twin Falls!<span style="font-family: inherit;">Hahaha hey errrr body! This week has
been so crazy! <o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">well I left Lagrande on Monday and I got to Jerome/Twin on Wednesday!
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">My comp's name is elder Perdue and he's from Dallas Texas! he's a pretty cool lil
guy :) haha he sang in the BYU Men's Choir for a year before he came out so
thats pretty fly. Haha I'm gunna get him to sing to some of our investigators
;) but ya he's super spiritual and very prepared for the work! Haha he is still
really quit and very nervous but the awesome thing is even if he's terrified to
talk to someone he'll do it if I ask him to so that's awesome! It'll be a good
transfer! So we have a 3 week transfer right now! which is pretty crazy! aha me
and Perdue wont get transfered at the end of it but there will be 35 new
missionaries comeing into the Twin falls mission! thats crazy! So ya everything
is changing pretty quick! President Cannon goes home in a week and President
Curtis is coming to be the New Twin Falls mission president! It'll be neat to
see all of the changes but its pretty sad to see P-cannon and sis Cannon leave!
They've done their time though lol! </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">So Jerome!!! </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Its a town about the same size of Lagrande just outside of
Twin Falls! Me and Elder Perdue cover 3 wards who all meet in the same building
which is super cool! it makes sunday's so much easier because we don't have to
drive around all day going to meetings in different buildings! The area is half
rural half town. The farming area's are super cool! The people are just so
humble and love the Lord! our wards are pretty fired up about missionary work
but theres not a whole lot of work going on.. The last missionaries in the 2 area's
that had our wards were ether super lazy or spread way too thin so there wasn't
to much happening in any of our wards but thats ok! Me and Elder Perdue are
going to work like crazy and get this place on Fire! Our Bishops Thompson,
King, and Radford are way cool! and they are so ready for more missionary
attention! So we are ready to get it done! </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Our ward Mission leaders are freakin sweet too! Bro Perry,
Wight, and Walker! They all said they will come out with us whenever we need!
Probably the best thing going in our area is a ward missionary Bro Black!! he
is so awesome!!! He went out with us on Saturday in the middle of his family
reunion! He pretty much talks the gospel to everyone he meets and he is the
fellowshiper for like 7 of our investigators in his ward! I'm excited to work
with him and get some stuff done! There’s definitely alot of potential! We
teach alot of teenage kids of inactive parents and we are excited to get them
coming back to church and get some baptisims! We had a good lesson with a
family the Mcmillians Tessa and Eric are 16 and 12 and they want to come to
church and now all we have to do is get them a little more knowledge and get
the family to church and get them baptized! super awesome! <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Me and elder Perdue also found this super awesome guy named
Rual just talking to people in a trailer park and he is so prepared! We taught
him the Restoration and he accepted everything! When we talked about Joesph
Smith he just said that it made so much sense and it sounded right! We had to
leave pretty soon after that because his girlfriend who he hadn't seen in 6
months pulled up which he was so funny and happy to see her that it was ok that
we had to end early! But ya! we are going back and he is so getting baptized!!
but ya! the work is good! we definitely have to re-build abunch of stuff but it
feels good to work hard and to see an area pick up! hopefully we'll be having a
few baptisms here pretty soon! so ya! anything else you all want to know??</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">I lost my camera on the way over here so I can't send any
pictures... pray that I'll be able to find it cuz that has all my picture of my
whole mission on it so far.. but hopefully it'll turn up soon and I'll get you
all plenty of pictures! Ilove you all and I'm super excited to get to work in
this new area! Me and Elder Perdue have been really trying to be obedient so we
can be a blessing in the lives of these people! So ya I know when we are obedient
to the commandments and we try to be like our Savior we have the ability to
have greater companionship of the Holy Ghost! <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Love you all!!!!! WHat up frm TWIN MISH!!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Sooo this has been a
crazy past few days!! We got the transfer calls Saturday Morning and I'm
heading down to Jarome Idaho. Its in the Twin Falls mission! that was pretty
carzy! I deffinitely didn't seen that comeing! I'll be training a new
missionary down there and I'm pretty excited about it! I'm not going to lie
leaveing La Grande was hard though. You deffinitely make some good friends in 6
months and you develop alot of love for alot of people. It hurt but I did get a
comforting feeling that I worked my hardest to build up The Kingdom of God in
La grande and it feels good. I am deffinitely going back there after the
mission!! Its a pretty incredible place with some pretty incredible peeps! haha
plus a few people said if I came back they would take me around and show me all
the fun unmissionary approved things in Lagrande lol! haha blowing up
refrigerators with explosives is apparently a must lol! I'll send pictures of
people I've been writeing about next week! I'm in Boise untill Wenesday and
these computers are super slow...</div>
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So the week was
really good! S is on track to get baptized in a few weeks! saying goodbye
to her was kinda hard.. she is such a sweet woman and she is just so grateful
for the knowlege of the gospel she now has. She says she has just felt alot
more peace recently. D is doing well! we had another really good lesson with
him up in his mountain cabin by candle light! He is such a spiritual giant! he
has been having alot of concerns lately.. but we taught the plan of salvation
and it awnsered alot of his questions. His health is going down pretty
quickly.. He can't eat alot of solid foods anymore.. and his voice is slurring
alot more. I know he has to be hurting so much. He told us some experiences
about looking forward to the life to come, his faith is so strong. I hope to
beable to see him again but I'm not sure if I'm going to in this life time. I
love that guy so much. JT left for home on Wednesday but we had a
couple lessons with him before he left. We gave him an Ensign to study so he
can gain a testimony of our modern prophet. It's sad I wont get to see him baptized but he has changed so much! He's awesome and we are definitely staying
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Saying goodbye to A was kinda hard haha. She is so funny. I'm glad
that she has missionaries still to help her and be there for her! She's doing
awesome! The Members were hard to say goodbye to for sure. There are some
awesome families that have been a really amazing example to me of a Christ
centered home! Its made me pretty dang grateful for our family and how we were
raised and how we made church and the gospel a priority!</div>
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Thank you so much
for all of the love and support! I love you all so much! it makes a world of
difference to know that I have a loving support group back home! It give me
some pretty solid motivation!</div>
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Idaho Twin Falls
Mission Office<o:p></o:p></div>
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Twin Falls, ID 83301-4932</div>
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This is my new mission mailing address! you all should send
me some mail ;) haha love you all!!!<o:p></o:p></div>
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I am super stoked about today!! we got up at 5 this morning so we
could drive up early to Enterprise and have personal study lake side at Wollawa
lake! Holy cow!! I hope you can kinda tell from the pictures how pretty it is
up here!! the lake is gorgeous! its fed by a mountain stream that runs from the
year round glaciers at the top of the mountains up here! I've never see water
so clear in my life! It looks like a natural swimming pool its so clear!(which
makes it pretty dang tempting...) hahaha but ya its great! we studied lake side
on some tables and it was seriously so peaceful and serine! the bird were out
and its like seriously the perfect temperature today 68!! haha sorry but be
jelous!! Its actually a pretty big tourest area so it has some really cool
buildings and shops and stuff that we might check out! There's this lift thing
that we are goin to go up that take you to the top of the mountains and
apparently you can see all the way over to Idaho from the top! siked!! haha
thought Id let ya know! Its kinda out last hooraa P-day because I'm probably
getting transferred this next week and everyone told me I had to see this
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;">The work this week was surprisingly good!
Haha we had a bunch of canceled appointments and stuff but we were able to make
the most of it and turn out a pretty solid week! we broke our record!! 34
lessons this week! and what was cool is that alot of them were with new
investigators that we found! We were seriously blessed this week! I've have had
a hard time getting over being scared to talk to people on the street and
stuff.. not that I haven't done it but I've always gotten really nervous. But
this week I decided what the heck and I worked hard to get over it! On Saturday
we had an appointment fall through and we prayed that the Lord would put people
in our path and then walked around this apartment complex and holy cow!! we
found 8 new investigators in 1hr!! including a couple awesome young families!!
we just opened our mouths and we were definitely blessed because of it! We have
some follow up appointments this week and I'm really hoping that we can really
start teaching before I leave! He also had 3 lessons with James this week! It
was his last week of school and he's going home on tuesday after finals. He
kind of pulled me aside after our lesson last night and he told me that he
would email me and let me know when he decides to get baptised so I can come up
if I can! That made me freakin happy!! haha we tried to set a date with him a
few times but he's a true bio major and wants to finish reading the BOM and
some gospel library things so he could be a more educated member when he s
baptised! He told us how he has come to a knowledge the past few months of Gods
love for him and he says its one of the best feelings ever!! we are super
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full lesson with them on friday because it was Lynn's 17th B-day and she was
having a party we did get to visit for a little and they want to talk about
there experiences reading this week! We had a awesome lesson with Suzanne On
Thursday and she is looking very solid to be baptized on her date! She came to
church by herself yesterday!! haha we had quite a few people show up for church
which is always awesome! we had a amazing lesson with Roddy Blessem and his
family and we talked about the priesthood and how he will be able to bless his
family as a worthy priesthood holder! Anne and Mallory went to the Temple to do
Baptisms for the dead saturday!!! they both had really awesome experiences!!
Anne had the work done for her husband, parents and some other relatives! Anne
also got her Patriarchal blessing yesterday and because she said that we are
her closest thing to family she wanted us to be there! That was a really cool
experience! I've never her a more spcific blessing that was so full of personal
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for this week! we have some really exciting meetings planned! I'll let you all
know about transfers and I'll be sure to take tones of pictures with people! I
love you all so much and I do truly love this work! It hit me how much love
heavenly Father has blessed me with for these people and I am so grateful for
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08540824344780553130noreply@blogger.com0La Grande, OR 97850, USA45.3245771 -118.087718845.2799201 -118.1683998 45.3692341 -118.0070378tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2668770083631911704.post-43972149558954306012013-06-04T05:49:00.000-07:002013-06-04T05:51:33.416-07:00Another week bites the dust!<span style="font-family: inherit;">Well hey
there familia! <o:p></o:p></span><br />
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been an interesting week out here in beautiful Oregon! its kinda seems like a
blur and we were pretty busy but we had a ton of stuff that got canceled on us
this week. Thats OK though we made due! First off I'm not sure you all can tell
from the pictures I've been sending but it is seriously naturally gorgeous out
here! The mountains are pretty incredible! Its been raining a bunch lately so
everything super green and it just looks awesome! Its a bunch different the
back home beauty. I mean I don't think anything compares to the ocean and all
of our trees and rivers but its pretty dang nice up here! Its also been super
temperate recently! like it was low 70's ish all week long! haha sorry since
its been super hot in VA and Florida and other places.. We've been enjoying it
though! On Wednesday night after we did our planning for the next day we took a
drive up this smaller mountain that has an awesome view of the valley and just
sat there and looked at all the lights and ate Otter pops lol! Its was so cool!
you could see everything! It looked way bigger then it is though lol. We take
time to have little mini adventures like that to de-stress and enjoy the area
while we have it! Next Monday as a last hooraa before transfers we are all
going up to a town called Joesph were they have this incredible glacier lake!
I'm super pumped! Its a bit away so I thought it would be worth it for
potentially my last p-day in the area! I'll take tons of pictures of that! It
apparently looks identical to the Swiss alps up there! Its that pretty! haha
This area is so cool! The Elders in my Apartment are awesome to! I'll miss
Elder Epperson a bunch. I hope we don't end up in separate missions! haha no
dad wants to leave his son behind! but Elder Hatifi and Christanson are way cool
to and we are super close! thats one of the best things about Lagrande is
getting to live with 3 other missionaries! its just fun! haha it can be a
little distracting at time though lol. Anyways we have 2 weeks left in the
transfer and I do think I'll be moved this one...</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Anyways the work this week was up and down. We
had a lot of appointments cancel but we also had a bunch of unplanned
opportunities! We finally found a whole family to teach!!!!!!! I'm flippin out
lol! haha I haven't got to teach a whole nonmember family yet!(well the wife is
a member but she got baptized when she was 10 and never went to church since!)
They are super cool though and they have been sooo prepared! The dad is just
full of questions and he feels that he's been moving towards this path for
awhile! The 2 kids are both teens and are super excited to learn! We taught
them the restoration of the Gospel and gave them each a Book of Mormon! The
spirit was crazy strong! We invited them to be baptized and they said yes!!
haha they also said that they have a bunch of preparing to do and they want to
make this change as a family or not at all! soooo tight!! It stinks that I'm
not going to be here to finish with them but I've just been praying for the
opportunity to help bring the message of the gospel to a whole family! So ya
that was way cool!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The daughter is a
beast XC runner so I told her about you my sista's lol! </span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><a name='more'></a></span><span style="font-family: inherit;">Anyways other awesome
things would be JT our Ginger Student! He has been so on fire. We challenged
him to be baptized this Saturday before he leaves but he says that he does want
to finish the whole book of Mormon and read some of D&C before he takes
that step. He said the biggest reason he wants to wait tell he gets back in the
fall is that he wants to talk to his dad in person and share with his parents
the things that he has come to believe! I thought that it was a mature decision
even if I wanted to see him get baptized! He came to all of church again
yesterday and brought a friend with him! he loved it! Anyways the coolest thing
with JT this week happened last night! We were being a little crazy staying up
talking and he texted us at about 1040, He said that he had been praying and
asking some questions and he just felt overwhelmed by the spirit! He apologized
for texting so late but he felt like he had to tell somebody! He also sent us a
short testimony cuz he was in the mood to testify!!! lol that was so flippin
cool! I've had the opportunity to see him change completely! He was skeptical
about the existence of Heavenly Father and he thought the Bible was just
Fantasy! He prays with so much real intent now! He reads the BOM and Bible
every day even when he's busy! its just been super cool :) I feel crazy blessed
to have got the chance to know him and help him find all these things out for
himself! <o:p></o:p></span><br />
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M has been doing awesome! She's been doing amazing as a missionary! we met with
one of her friends this past week and we are going to meet another one this
week! she is just on fire! she loves the gospel and isn't afraid to share it
with anyone!!! She's going to do baptisims for the dead at the Temple this
Saturday!! she sounded super excited about it! haha she was stoked to be
declared by the bishop a "goodish human being" haha so ya she got her
temple recommend! Anne is also going this Saturday to start her husband’s work
and a bunch of other relatives haha! she's done way good with all of that!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We had a really good lesson with S and we
reset her baptismal date for 6/29. She just has a hard time feeling worthy of
all the blessings the gospel has and will bring her.. thats exactly why she
needs it! She also has a hard time coming to church because she is so shy.. I
guess one step at a time though. Haha Me and Epperson tried some tracting for
fun this week and we actually found a few people to teach from it! So we might
do it a little more often haha nothing crazy though :) Ideally we have set
appointments all day or we are contacting referrals but when we have some of
that fall through we've hit some doors haha. It was a fun week for sure!
Anything you all want from Oregon? haha I'll find out soon but I want to be
prepared for when the time comes! The members here sure do spoil us! Its been
really cool to actually get to know these people! Love it!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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thanks for the Emails! those have been so awesome! Thanks again for my B-day
stuff! holy cow I love my watch!!! have an awesome week and have fun! I know
school and stuff can be boring at times but I've come to realize that no matter
what your situation is you can make it fun and enjoy yourself! I know we have
hard things to do and some stuff that just aint no fun but I know when we
choose to dwell on the positive and forget the negative we can honestly enjoy
just about any situation! haha ok mic and manda.. maybe enjoy life as a whole
while finishing school and studying for tests haha! Just have a blast ok! haha <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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you all a bunch! Summer is almost here!!! go to the beach a few times for me
would ya! haha that is definitely a first weekend home to do list item lol! <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Loveo Elder Aaron mac!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08540824344780553130noreply@blogger.com0La Grande, OR 97850, USA45.3245771 -118.087718845.2799201 -118.1683998 45.3692341 -118.0070378tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2668770083631911704.post-5613735025362283332013-05-28T14:31:00.000-07:002013-05-29T11:40:52.974-07:00Happy Birthday Elder! plus Leadership Training & lessons by candlelightWell hey errryone!<br />
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First off thank you so much for all the Birthday packages
and wishes and all that jazz! That was pretty dang awesome! It made me feel
pretty special and the week went alot better because of it! Haha my birthday
was good! It was just another day at work and really didn't feel much like a
birthday but thats ok! haha I think that's how they are suppose to feel on the
mission! I think because of that I didn't get home sick or anything like that!
Haha on my birthday I was in Caldwell Idaho for leadership training and
President Cannon made me stand up in front of everyone and have them sing happy
birthday.. I did not want that AT ALL but it was ok :) haha I guess it was
kinda like a missionary bday party because I got to see a bunch of my friends
from around the Nampa Idaho area. Being 20,now I feel a complete increase of
knowledge and maturity... :) or something like that ;0 haha actually I feel
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Anyways this week we didn't get as much teaching done because
we were gone all day on Thursday and most of Friday too... But the Training was
super fun! We learned a lot of pretty basic things! It was cool though because
it was only the leadership so there was a bunch of really experienced
missionaries there! haha I know we aren't suppose to compare but I got called
on to do a role play in front of everyone with my comp for the day Elder Cellua
and we pretty much killed it! haha ofcourse everyone sounds like a really good
teacher in a role play. Teaching a real person with the guidance of the spirit
is a whole other ball park! anyways so the meeting was fun and I learned
a bunch! I got to see Elder Bloomfield!! holy cow I've missed that guy!
After the training we went on mass exchanges to kinda get a feel of what
other missionaries do in their areas. I went to Marsing and Homdale Idaho! haha
those are 2 extremely redneck little towns lol! I went out with Elder Cellua
and Nelson. E Cellua is freakin awesome! he's from Figi and he plays for the
Figi national rugby team! Holy cow he's a spiritual giant and is seriously one
of the funniest guys I've met! haha when he first came out he called deer American
sheep lol! anyways it was fun and I learned alot from him! Elder Nelson is also
a super nice guy and a very hard worker. So ya we worked in that area all day
on Thursday and Friday morning we met back up and talked about all of the
things we learned and our experiences. Haha and then we drove for 3 1/2 hours
to get back to Lagrande... The Zone leaders picked us up half way so it was fun
to get to spend some time with them! I met Elder Urmsten the first day in the
field and he's going home in 2 weeks! time fly's!</div>
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lessons for sure! haha we had a really good lesson with Tulley on Tuesday and
we taught him the restoration and how to pray. He said that he always goes over
his day at night before sleep and asks for things about tomorrow anyways, he
says he's just been kinda throwing it out there hoping that someone is
listening and cares!!!! so ya we taught him about prayer and he was super
excited to try it out!! He came to church on Sunday to!! Haha after the lesson
we ate a birthday cake Anne made for me lol she's so funny! it was pretty
awesome to have someone actually remember and care about ya, sometimes people
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family will think. We challenged him to pray every morning and night for
strength and to fast on Sunday for answers. <br />
<a name='more'></a>I hope we can get him baptized
before he heads home but I'm not sure if we are going to be able to. He also
said he would start living the commandments that we taught him! He is so
awesome and I can tell that his faith is growing and that he wants this in his
life it’s just a lifetime commitment and he doesn't want to take that lightly
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I had a really neat opportunity on Tuesday to have a candle
lit lesson up in Doug’s cabin! That was really cool! Doug really opened up
about some of his concerns and beliefs. His disease makes it hard for him to
talk now and that is one of his concerns about church.. He just gets exhausted
sometimes trying to force words out in a conversation and if we took him to
church he would be surrounded by a bunch of people who would want to meet him.
We just promised him blessings if he would come but I definitely understand why
that would be super hard. We are praying like crazy right now for Doug's health
and ability to keep learning and remaining open to the message. He had some
really bad experiences with organized religion growing up so that kind of
turned him off to being a part of any religion. He has his nature and his
family and he loves his God with everything he has. It’s just going to be a
challenge and I want to help Doug feel happier not make life harder.. I know
this message will help him though, it’s just hard getting him to see that. He's
still reading his Book of Mormon like crazy and absolutely knows that it’s from
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Well we had 9 investigators at Church on Sunday!!! That was
flippin awesome! they all seemed to have a good time and feel the spirit to so
that’s a bonus! We also had like 10 or so less active families that we have
been working with for awhile come back to church!!! It was a really good day!
we were flippin blessed! Its crazy all the people around here that I have
really grown to love and how many friends I have made here! I love this area!
We had a Memorial Day breakfast in one of our wards yesterday and it just felt
so good to so many people that honestly care about and want to help ya! I'm
definitely coming back to visit La Grande! We also had a scripture study
yesterday on top Mount Emily( the highest mountain in the valley) overlooking
the whole town/valley/everything around! that was soooo COOL!!! haha we are
definitely doing that again! It felt freakin good to just look at the view and
ponder some questions that I've had! so awesome! the spirit was insanely strong
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So that's my week! I had a lot of fun and this one is going
to be awesome!! we are hoping to really work hard and make up for some lost
time last week! Love you all so much! Keep having fun and remember that we are
never alone and can always have help when we most need it! LOVE E
A-Macdrizzle!!! <o:p></o:p></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;">Welllllll hey there all of yous guys! <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Holy cow this week
has been great! I think skypeing was a boost that just slingshoted us forward
for the rest of the week! I love and miss you guys a bunch though! We taught 32
lessons this week!!! thats my mission record so far! It was so awesome we had a
ton of just amazing and powerful experiences! We also found a few people who
are just so incredible and ready to accept the Gospel in their lives!! on top
of all of that good stuff we were also able to do a bunch of awesome service!!!
I talk more in detail<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>in just a second!
It was just a crazy busy week and I loved every second! We got to help and talk
to soooo many people! Its really pretty incredible when you take a step back at
the end of a hard day's work and you try and think about all of the people that
you were able to talk to and help! It like one of the best feelings ever!!</span><o:p></o:p></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">"Meditating on the Mountain"</td></tr>
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<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;">Ok so awesome
lesson experiences for the week! For starters Suzanne!! such an amazing lesson!
We were going to finish teaching her the Plan of Salvation but as we stared
talking and awensering some of her questions we moved in a different direction.
We taught about the Holy Ghost and how we feel it, I had the Idea to describe
the feeling of warmth and tell her how the Holy Ghost can calm our minds when
we are troubled and Sister Royer (a member who was at the lesson) said the exact
same thing right before I said it and read the same scripture I was going to
read!! Suzanne started crying and said that the past week she was having some
mental issues where she got really down on herself and was wondering if all of
the heartache is worth it.. She said as soon as she started thinking like that
she prayed and her mind was calmed and the most incredible feeling of peace
came over her. She said that her issues cause her to think down on herself alot
and she had never experienced a sudden peace and calm before ever! we talked
about the gift of the holy ghost and she got super happy! Its incredible when
things like that happen and you just think holy cow all of the things we teach
are so real and they really help so many people! Suzanne came to church on
Sunday and really liked it!! We pushed her Bap date back a few weeks to June
15th so we can help her feel more comfortable with the ward first!! We are
super happy for her! </span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;">We taught a woman named Eden in Union on Friday<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>She has been best friends with a member in
the ward there for her whole life. We started out just talking about what
missionaries done but eventually she stared asking all kinds of questions!!!
Her mom had passed away a few weeks ago so we talked to her about the Plan of
Salvation and it was super powerful! She was so excited to read from the Book
of Mormon and pray about it! She also came to church on Sunday!!! haha she
cried through all of the songs because they were all about Heavenly Fathers
love and there was a primary musical number "Families can be together
forever" wow!! so perfect for her and she said she felt all warm but with
goose bumps!! We are going to invite her to be baptized this week!! </span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;">We had an
awesome lesson with Doug. We prayed a ton before and we definitely had some
help during the lesson. He has read so much from the Book of Mormon and he is
so interested and trying to find out fo himself all of this stuff! his hang up
is he doesn't like organized religion because so many terrible thing have been
done in the name of religion.. But He's coming along! We were able to go up to
his goat herding farm thing and it was so awesome!!! he has a log cabin up
there with literally no electricity!! it looks like some thing off little house
on the Prairie !! haha we halped him put up a bunch of fence to make a little
pasture for his goats. Poor guy get so tired because of his ALS.. but he is seriously
the most humble and thankful person in the world. I love that guy so much, He's
someone I couldn't picture Heaven without! haha he told us all kinds of stories
of his adventures up there just hearing his flock! its really one of the
coolest things ever! haha he also has a fire heated hot tub up there and a
stream cooled fridge! We are going to go up to his cabin and have a candle lit
lesson in the mountains here pretty soon! I still need to get a picture with
him!!! </span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;">Ok so that about what I have time for.. We had really good lessons with
James, and Brian, and Tulley!! Ok real quick Tulley is Anne's grandson who is
liveing with her for the summer and he's a super nice guy but just did not want
to meet with us.. But we talked to him for awhile last week and he finally
started asking questions. We asked if we could come back and have a lesson with
him and he accepted!!! so sick! the lesson went really well and he said that
he's be baptised as he came to know our message is true!! we gave him a BOM and
asked him to start at the beginning! We came back the next day to help Anne
prepare for a visitiing teaching lesson and he apologized to us because he had
only read 15 pages!!!! holy cow!!! he prayed about it too and he said he felt
really good afterward! he has so many awesome questions and he's been takeing
notes as he reads!!! so sick!! we have a lesson with him this week and we are
so pumped about it! So ya we had a bunch of miracles this week and a ton of
answered prayers! I'm actually going to be in Boise for 2 days this week
(Thursday & Friday) for this leadership training thing with President
Cannon! I'm pretty excited I'll get to spend some more time with him before he
goes! soo that will be crazy but the week looks good! I'll be on exchanges those
days! </span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;">Hahaha I can't believe its my Birthday already! thats nuts!!!! thanks in
advance for all of the Birthday wishes and prayers!! I love you all so much!
Holy cow I love being a missionary! its pretty dang awesome!!!! have a great
week! try not to cry from missing me to much on the 23rd ;) hahaha jk! I'm
doing what I need to on ma B-day! </span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;">Love E macdawesome! Lol or just Aaron!!! Holy
cow no more teenage for me!!!!!!!!!!</span><o:p></o:p></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;">Hello My
amazing family!!!!!!</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;">Holy good it
was to talk to yall's yesterday!! haha I'm feeling really good today actually!
Like it was hard for a sec after we hang up but after that I just felt super
and was able to focus the rest of the night! Today we are going up to a place
in the mountains called Catherine Creek lodge! It sounds like it'll be pretty
cool! there are some hikeing trails and stuff we are going to explore so ya!
I'll get lots of pictures again!! They have a pipe that
brings natural glacier water down from the top of the mountain and we
are bringing some empty milk juggs to stock up for the week! So ya it'll
be fun! we also have some good lessons planned for this evening and The Baker
city elders came up to hang out with us today so it should be really
good! </span><br />
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seemed really busy but we had a bunch of extra things we had todo along with
our proselyting. We had a Zone Conference on Friday in Caldwell which is pretty
much right next to Boise so we had to get up flippin early.. like 430.. but it
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from Nampa and the MTC and all of that so ya it was cool :) It was President
Cannon's last Zone Conference with us so that was kind of sad.. He shared some
awesome experiences and I learned ab bunch! Haha he asked each of us
to think about what our Mission has meant to us. That was so crazy, You don't
really think about all of the experiences or people or just everything that you
have learned and how things have changed about you untill you take a step back
and look at it as a whole. As I was thinkin back on all the things that I am
grateful about my mission hit me like a wall. I kinda teared up with P-Cannon
as he told us what his mission has meant to him and I really realized just
what its meant to me. That probably one of the reasons I teared up so much
yesterday.. lol. I really am so incredibly grateful. I've had the
opportunity to be a part of some really amazing things. I'm also glad I have
some more time to get work done and have some more experiences on the way!!</span><br />
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something that was super awesome this week was Brian Davis came to church!!! we
have been trying to get him out for awhile! On Wednesday morning while planning
for his lesson we had a few things stick out to us that we felt Brian needed to
hear! We were teaching the Plan of Salvation and we felt that we really needed
to spend some time focusing on Divine potential and individual worth. We read
some scriptures with him and talked about it for awhile and he told us at the
end that he needed that message really badly.. He said that he had
extremely depressed and felt kind of worthless recently and that he had never
really though about what he could eventually become! It was a flippin powerful
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less active guy Roddy who has a bunch of Word of Wisdom problems about the
power of prayer. That was so awesome! he broke down and told us how he's been
afraid to prayer because of the mistakes he's made and everything going in his
life right now.. We just told him about how much he Is loved by Heavenly Father
and he asked him to pray every morning and night. We also invited him to say
the the closing prayer as well and we knelt down and had a BOM
prayer!!! He also invited us back for family home evening with his
fam! We are super excited! He came to church as well! Soo after talking
with yall last night we decided to try some people that are hard to get ahold
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talked to the less active guy named Blake! He is living with his
Girlfriend who is a Prior investigator that we haven't been able to meet with
yet.. We talked to him for a solid 40mins and he said that he was forced into
the Church and that he just never gained his own testimony and that he has been
to lazy to try and find out for himself if the church is true. We talked about
what the gospel means to us and how it could help change his life! The spirit
was crazy working on him the whole time! We talked about him and Sabreina(his
GF) getting married and what would help breing them closer together. He's going
to start comeing to church with her for now on!!! Also we talked about how if
he wanted his own testimony and if he Wanted Sabrina to get one as well they
needed to Read the B.O.M together and pray together every night. He said he
would! We are going to go have a lesson with them on Saturday and text them
dureing the week to see how their reading and stuff is going. He know's he's
the reason Sabrina hasn't got baptised and so it was so good to just talk to
him! I deffinitely was way more bold with him then I am most of the time and
the spirit just testified of all the things we were telling him! Hopefully
we'll see a wedding here pretty soon and then a Baptisim! I'm so hyped!!</span></div>
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is really well :) We have a super busy teaching week planned out so far!
Hopefully we'll set Bap dates With Colton and Brian!!! I love being able to do
this work yall! when ever I get feeling down or missing home or whatever I
focus on all of the crazy awesome thing I get to do and It gets better!! <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Gospel! haha its the "Good News!!" I've come to know my Savior so
much these past few months!!! I love him! and I love my Heavenly Father for
letting me help in this work! Love you all so much!!!!!!!! I'm super excited
for the next few weeks to see what going to happen! Keep on sending the prayers
my way and send a few down to Hermana Conger In Orlando to!!! :) Love you
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;">first off I am so excited to talk with you all on Sunday!!!!!!!!!!!! that is awesome! Only 2 more calls home after this! wow time flies! So I didn't get transfered this time around! Me and Epperson are staying together for 6 mor weeks atleast which is good! we are getting along pretty darn well lately and the work is exploding! Elder Bennett did get transfered though... He's on his way to Kimberly Idaho to be a Zone leader in the Twin Falls mission! I'm proud of that little guy! It'll be wierd serveing in Lagrande without him.. haha we've been together since January and its crazy just how much we went through together! He's one of my best friends for sure! haha I stayed up talking with him while he was packing untill like 4 in the morning lol! It was fun! we had a good heart to heart and played some pranks on the other 2 sleepy heads and it made for a good night lol! haha I'm pretty dang tired today though lol! </span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;">Miranda and Mic have been emailing me and that's been soo awesome!!!!!! I've been missing you guys this past week or so.. I also got a letter from Kera and Josh!! Thank you so much! I'll write back soon! Sounds like things are going well and people are getting healthier! I was so stoked to hear about Miranda's IV treatment stuff!!!! that is so sick!!! lol anyways keep me up on whats going on and I guess I'll get to talk to you all about it on Sunday!!!! </span></div>
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Hey yalll! <br />
First off thank you so much for
the emails!!!!!!!!! This has probably been the best email session I've had
so far! I love em! its so good to hear all abouts whats goings on in yours
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My week was crazy full haha! We did 16 hours of service this
week! That was freakin awesome!@! we ask like everyone if they need help with
anything and offer service but almost everyone says "no we are doing
pretty good right now..." so it felt super nice to actually get out and do
some helping! We mowed a couple lawns, We tore down a wall in this Less active
guys house and helped him cut a hole for his door! haha I'm gunna be pretty
handy with repairing stuff by the time I'm done here! I've already learned how
to plaster walls, put up tile, put in carpet, and a bunch of other fun stuff!
Anyways we also got to help 2 people move which was cool because we found
acouple of potential Investigators from that! And we got to do some
serious yard work for some older members in our area and an Investigator! It
was fun! It was nice and sunny this week so I have a serious farmers tan going
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We'll we also had a good week teaching our investigators! James
Thompson who went to church last week had an awesome experince! He had been
praying if he should keep meeting with us and in Sacrament meeting he said
that he got an overwhelming feeling of Happiness and peace! He said he had to
fight it to stop crying! It was so cool! He has had some serious faith problems
and he said that he's finding his faith again! He said that when he's ready
he'll be baptised!!!!! he said that he feels like the holy ghost has influenced
him in the decisions he made that has led him to meeting with us!
It's been awesome! I've litteraly seen a change since the first time we met
with James! Haha well my hippie goat hearder I named Doug is in Portland right
now going through a surgery. He has Lugarics disease and his health
is slowly declining.. Hopefully we will get to meet with him next week and
give him a blessing! He had to give up his goats though :( because of his
health.. He really needs the gospel in his life right now. He has been reading
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Suzanne was sick this
week and she had to cancel her appointment with us but she let us come over to
give her a blessing. That was an incredible experience! I was given the
opportunity to give her the blessing and as soon as I put my hands on her head
I felt and extent of Love for her that I knew had to come from Heavenly Father.
It was crazy! I don't remember what I said but everysigle word
was distinctly put in my head! The priesthood is real and I'm so
honored for the opportunities I have to use it as directed by the Holy
Ghost! Anyways she has faith problems as well and she is very
self conscious and so the blessing was alot about God's incredible
love for her! Sooo that was so awesome! we had a good lesson with Brian Davis
and he invited us over for Pizza and a lesson this week! He also came to stake
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so speaking of stake conference we had Elder Bowen and
Elder Hamilton of the seventy come down to help in selecting a new stake
president! It was way cool! Elder Bowen had the missionaries stand up and asked
me infront of the whole stake what I was going to do when I got home from my
mission... and I was like a whole bunch of stuff.. get married , go to school,
get job, start a family.. apparently that wasn't good enough so he asked me a
few more questions to get me to read his mind of which I failed at. Haha so He
was shooting for me to say find an eternal companion. Hhaha which was
apparently super obvious to ever single person there accept me.. The next day
at Stake conference he pulled me aside and I got to talk to him for a bit and
he apologized for puttin me on the spot lol! haha it was funny though! everyone
thought it was super funny and I got teased by like the entire stake about not
wanting to get married.. Hahaha if they only knew ;) anyway that was fun! A
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Well thats about it for the week! This is the last week of this
transfer!!!!!!!!!!! isn't that crazy! it seems like me and Epperson just got
here lol! anyways I'll let yall know what happens with transfer calls this
Saturday! I love you all so much! I love being able to help people! Its just a
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Hhaha we also scared the pants off of Elder Bennett
and Christianson last night :) that was super fun! we shut off all the lights
in the house and jumped out from there closets when they finally got to their
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