Sunday, March 2, 2014
February 27th, 2014
Transferred to the McClintock YSA ward! Ready to do work with Elder Bryce Latimer!! Also, if you're in the ward, we spend a lot of time at the institute building, so if you see two missionaries that look lost it's probably us.
Feb 17th
It's been kind of a crazy week. I haven't had a whole lot of down time, which is gopod, I suppose, but I am tired. I'me made a list of improtant things that happened during the week so I have something to remember to write about.
Story #1
We're baptizing a kid on Friday. He's super cool and thinks like he's in his mid-20's. When he's only 13. Anyways,m his step-dad started listening to our discussions and started participating a little. We're thinking hey cool! His dad wants to hear about the gospel. THEN we learned that he was and ANTI!!! WhAAAT!!! Yep. Those guys who stand outside the temple with signs and bullhorns? This guy.. CRAP! Then, revelation! We took him to the temple open house with (his son) and it was super fantastic! They both had a super spiritual experience and they both committed to baptism. We'll see how that goes! I'll likely get transferred this month. We'll see. I've been in the same area for 12 weeks now, so maybe I'll get shipped to Yuma or Maricopa. Then our zoned leaders have been in the same area for eight months... so... yeah. We'll see.
Story #2
We were visiting a sister who is an avid stamp collector. We helped her move eight or ten huge crates of stamps that were covered in this black dusty stuff! I thought it was mouse poop or something, but then I noticed the egg sacs.. They were black widow eggs! and the insides of the crates were covered with HUGE black widows! I HATE SPIDERS!!! To make matters worse, [there were a lot of ]feral cats, and they're zooming and hissing and fighting, (and mating) all over the place!....And there is an lot of juice in a black widow. We gooshed bunches of them. That's all for this week!
--Elder Haskell
Story #1
We're baptizing a kid on Friday. He's super cool and thinks like he's in his mid-20's. When he's only 13. Anyways,m his step-dad started listening to our discussions and started participating a little. We're thinking hey cool! His dad wants to hear about the gospel. THEN we learned that he was and ANTI!!! WhAAAT!!! Yep. Those guys who stand outside the temple with signs and bullhorns? This guy.. CRAP! Then, revelation! We took him to the temple open house with (his son) and it was super fantastic! They both had a super spiritual experience and they both committed to baptism. We'll see how that goes! I'll likely get transferred this month. We'll see. I've been in the same area for 12 weeks now, so maybe I'll get shipped to Yuma or Maricopa. Then our zoned leaders have been in the same area for eight months... so... yeah. We'll see.
Story #2
We were visiting a sister who is an avid stamp collector. We helped her move eight or ten huge crates of stamps that were covered in this black dusty stuff! I thought it was mouse poop or something, but then I noticed the egg sacs.. They were black widow eggs! and the insides of the crates were covered with HUGE black widows! I HATE SPIDERS!!! To make matters worse, [there were a lot of ]feral cats, and they're zooming and hissing and fighting, (and mating) all over the place!....And there is an lot of juice in a black widow. We gooshed bunches of them. That's all for this week!
--Elder Haskell
Feb 14th
.... The weather in Chandler/Mesa/Gilbert--75° and sunny... its a really rough winter. I almost threw out my back because I was shoveling SUNSHINE!!!
I saw show choir pics on Fbook and I realized I haven't been to Stars On Stage in a looong time... Did Millage show up?
...The Importance of Being Earnest is a FANTASTIC play! We analyized [it alot] in AP LIT, probably my favorite work we went over. I'm bummed I won't be able to see it, but send me pictures.
We ran into some anti-guy the other day.. He was (maybe) 16, but he was getting into his Jeep he clipped off a Nazi Salute and yelled [at us]. We stopped of course...A stupor of thought hit him like a freight train. It was awesome... I've not seen that before...
We've had all our lessons for yesterday and the day before fall through and have had 2 investigators fall off date for baptism. So it's been a rough couple of days. But all in all we're doing good. We've radically changed the way we do missionary work.. We're training the Stake President and the bishops from our wards tomorrow. Its a complete overhaul of the missionary/bishop/members relationship. I'll know more how to describe it tomorrow. But from what the sone leaders tell us, its sweet!
Elder Haskell
I saw show choir pics on Fbook and I realized I haven't been to Stars On Stage in a looong time... Did Millage show up?
...The Importance of Being Earnest is a FANTASTIC play! We analyized [it alot] in AP LIT, probably my favorite work we went over. I'm bummed I won't be able to see it, but send me pictures.
We ran into some anti-guy the other day.. He was (maybe) 16, but he was getting into his Jeep he clipped off a Nazi Salute and yelled [at us]. We stopped of course...A stupor of thought hit him like a freight train. It was awesome... I've not seen that before...
We've had all our lessons for yesterday and the day before fall through and have had 2 investigators fall off date for baptism. So it's been a rough couple of days. But all in all we're doing good. We've radically changed the way we do missionary work.. We're training the Stake President and the bishops from our wards tomorrow. Its a complete overhaul of the missionary/bishop/members relationship. I'll know more how to describe it tomorrow. But from what the sone leaders tell us, its sweet!
Elder Haskell
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| Feb. 7th--Got the opportunity to go through the Gilbert Temple open house yesterday; it was amazing! What a beautiful (and truly massive) building dedicated to the Lord! Can't wait until the dedication. |
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