Hope you had a great BIRTHDAY! Glad you were able to do something fun. Brennan seemed to be very excited about seing the hobbit when we talked at Christmas, I am also a fan of said hobbit, ha ha, so that is cool that you all got to see it. I hope Brett will be able to get his job soon. Wow, all that snow! That's crazy! I haven't seen snow in a while. Things are going well here. We got our mission leader yesterday and he seems pretty excited to work with us so that is good. Things are really not so well with the families we've been teaching. One - they don't want to get married which is sad when they have 12 years together and 4 kids. Two - another family wants that the Dad can listen too, but considering we find out that he doesn't want to listen to us, that doesn't really help. He says it's fine that his family listens and everything but he doesn't want anything to do with it, "I was born and will die catholic". Not to be disrespectful, but I find it interesting that during my whole time as a missionary no one has been able to tell me why they are catholic. We're always looking for more people to teach, it's pretty sad how pretty much all the families have the same problem of never being married or that the parents don't even want to be together. I like being able to share "The Family, a Proclamation" with people. Last week when we were coming back to the room we were going to go up the stairs (we live on the second floor) and I was in front, and it was pretty much pitch black, but I went up about three stairs and I felt very weird, like uncomfortable, I felt (not heard) like someone was coming down the stairs, so I moved up a few stairs and I saw something like a glimpse something coming down the stairs but against the wall and I got to the landing and felt like there was someone there and that I would have to go around them so I took off my backbapck and put it in front of me and there was nothing there, which was very weird, and so we got up to the the room and I asked my companion if he felt something and he said that he felt a very uncomfortalbe feeling too, it was pretty crazy! But after that nothing. Love you and hope you have a great week!
Wednesday, January 16, 2013
Monday, December 31, 2012
Hi Mom,
Wow, Thanks for the pictures! Brennan has grown A LOT, Sadie too! Well everybody! ha ha. Yeah, I read about the new way of teaching that the Church is going to start using, that's pretty cool. I do like that story of baptism, it's pretty amazing how simple the gospel is, and the requirements so that we can one day return to the presence of our Heavenly Father. Maybe like Alma said the easiness of the way is why sometimes we can become slothfull or that people choose not to "Look". We had another family in church this week that was awesome! Whenever we have investigators at church I want so much for everything to go perfect. I've started to get tired of returned missionarys that say "In my MISSION....... IN MY MISSION!" And then they never help us, just criticize. The branch president when I was in Puerto said he's tired of hearing returned missionaries after they've been home for a while only talk about their mission as if they've never had a spiritual experience after their mission. But anyways things are starting to get better here in my sector. Sunday is transfers so will see what happens, I'll let you know! It will be my second to last transfer, so that is crazy! So it's time to work and be better than ever before I feel! Love ya Mom and everybody, I'll talk to you next week!
Love, Aaron
Wow, Thanks for the pictures! Brennan has grown A LOT, Sadie too! Well everybody! ha ha. Yeah, I read about the new way of teaching that the Church is going to start using, that's pretty cool. I do like that story of baptism, it's pretty amazing how simple the gospel is, and the requirements so that we can one day return to the presence of our Heavenly Father. Maybe like Alma said the easiness of the way is why sometimes we can become slothfull or that people choose not to "Look". We had another family in church this week that was awesome! Whenever we have investigators at church I want so much for everything to go perfect. I've started to get tired of returned missionarys that say "In my MISSION....... IN MY MISSION!" And then they never help us, just criticize. The branch president when I was in Puerto said he's tired of hearing returned missionaries after they've been home for a while only talk about their mission as if they've never had a spiritual experience after their mission. But anyways things are starting to get better here in my sector. Sunday is transfers so will see what happens, I'll let you know! It will be my second to last transfer, so that is crazy! So it's time to work and be better than ever before I feel! Love ya Mom and everybody, I'll talk to you next week!
Love, Aaron
Tuesday, December 18, 2012
Hi Mom,
Wow it's almost Christmas! That's cool that you're going to spend Christmas Eve with Brett and Jennie. I think I'll call Christmas day! Tell Brennan he should remember what I taught him and he'll be alright. Things are going good here. We had a family in church on Sunday and that was awesome! It was a little awkward in Sunday school, (we don't have a gospel principles class). The teacher was like, "hey, today we're going to fill out family record sheets for the baptisms of the dead." Then he started to hand out the sheets, and handed them to our investigators, to which they were like "hummm?" So I said to the teacher, "do you think you could share a little introduction because they're investigators" (and you think someone as a returned missionary would understand but NO). Then some other "smart one" in class starts to talk to them and says, "Yeah, the church dumps millions and millions AND MILLIONS of dollers into family history!......" So anyway, just imagine it is your first day visiting a church you show up and they say, "Hey guys! We baptize dead folk and we spend a TON of money doing it!!!!" I was a little upset. As true as it is, if their isn't any explanation for at least come comprehension the spirit is not present and no one will be edified. I didn't want to loose investigators -A FAMILY!-, so my companion and I got up and shared very simply why we do temple work. They were happy at the end of the lesson, so we have to see if they have some crazy questions during our appointment Tuesday. We taught a professor this week, which after so much time of trying to teach things extremely simply, was interesting but also really cool. He had some awesome questions, and it was a really cool lesson. It will be awesome to talk to you guys for Christmas. I hope you have a good week! Love, Aaron
Wow it's almost Christmas! That's cool that you're going to spend Christmas Eve with Brett and Jennie. I think I'll call Christmas day! Tell Brennan he should remember what I taught him and he'll be alright. Things are going good here. We had a family in church on Sunday and that was awesome! It was a little awkward in Sunday school, (we don't have a gospel principles class). The teacher was like, "hey, today we're going to fill out family record sheets for the baptisms of the dead." Then he started to hand out the sheets, and handed them to our investigators, to which they were like "hummm?" So I said to the teacher, "do you think you could share a little introduction because they're investigators" (and you think someone as a returned missionary would understand but NO). Then some other "smart one" in class starts to talk to them and says, "Yeah, the church dumps millions and millions AND MILLIONS of dollers into family history!......" So anyway, just imagine it is your first day visiting a church you show up and they say, "Hey guys! We baptize dead folk and we spend a TON of money doing it!!!!" I was a little upset. As true as it is, if their isn't any explanation for at least come comprehension the spirit is not present and no one will be edified. I didn't want to loose investigators -A FAMILY!-, so my companion and I got up and shared very simply why we do temple work. They were happy at the end of the lesson, so we have to see if they have some crazy questions during our appointment Tuesday. We taught a professor this week, which after so much time of trying to teach things extremely simply, was interesting but also really cool. He had some awesome questions, and it was a really cool lesson. It will be awesome to talk to you guys for Christmas. I hope you have a good week! Love, Aaron
Monday, December 3, 2012
Hi Mom,
Glad things are going good. Hope things go well with Brett. Well I'm in my new Zone here in Andahuaylas. It's in another state of Perú, it´s pretty cool. I'm in a branch again, it's a district with 3 branches. It's a city in a valley, so there is the main road which is like a straight line with houses all around. My first sunday went well, there is one chapel here, and our branch assists there. I liked hearing the testimonies of the members, they seem to be pretty strong, but were going to have do do a lot of work with less actives. Out of about 500 members in the branch about 40 are active, so hope we can really help out there. The Church only has about 20 years here. The Christmas devotional last night was really awesome, i liked it a lot. Well I was informed that the transfer dates have changed and as a result I'll be coming home 3 weeks earlier on the 23rd of April, so that was crazy to hear. Once again I have been attacked or I should say infested - so thats nice. I just barely solved that problem in my last sector, however unfortunately the flees were waiting for me in me new bed! It's pretty brutal. Pretty sure I'll have scars for the rest of my life on my legs and the rest of my body is all eaten up, but anyways I was able to get my foot healed. I've pretty much been sick or bitten the majority of my mission, but I will survive! But yeah, love ya Mom hope you have a great week!
Glad things are going good. Hope things go well with Brett. Well I'm in my new Zone here in Andahuaylas. It's in another state of Perú, it´s pretty cool. I'm in a branch again, it's a district with 3 branches. It's a city in a valley, so there is the main road which is like a straight line with houses all around. My first sunday went well, there is one chapel here, and our branch assists there. I liked hearing the testimonies of the members, they seem to be pretty strong, but were going to have do do a lot of work with less actives. Out of about 500 members in the branch about 40 are active, so hope we can really help out there. The Church only has about 20 years here. The Christmas devotional last night was really awesome, i liked it a lot. Well I was informed that the transfer dates have changed and as a result I'll be coming home 3 weeks earlier on the 23rd of April, so that was crazy to hear. Once again I have been attacked or I should say infested - so thats nice. I just barely solved that problem in my last sector, however unfortunately the flees were waiting for me in me new bed! It's pretty brutal. Pretty sure I'll have scars for the rest of my life on my legs and the rest of my body is all eaten up, but anyways I was able to get my foot healed. I've pretty much been sick or bitten the majority of my mission, but I will survive! But yeah, love ya Mom hope you have a great week!
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