This week was something special! A lot happened.
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> Let's just start on Tuesday. We had to go trade in our car to get it repaired from the hail. So we did that then decided to go all the way out to see this one family that was less active. We found their house but there was a huge mud pit in the way. So I turned on all wheel drive and floored it! we only slowed down like twice but other than that the Rouge made it no problem. We got up to their property and figured out they had moved last month. So not to say that was a waste of miles but it was a waste of miles. While leaving the property we hit a different part of the mud pit and got stuck. So as the driver I was the one who had to get out and get help. the mud pit was up to the bottom of the door, so Elder Peel had the "wonderful" idea to crawl out the window instead of getting the interior all muddy. I crawled out the window and in the end fell into the mud. Thankfully I landed on my feet so only my pants got dirty. but I went back to the neighbors property and asked him to pull us out. He did after about 20ish minutes of being stuck. That was a fun experience. Our car got like super dirty and it looks like it was painted brown! HA HA HA!!!!
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> Wednesday we went on exchanges with the Security Elders. I was with Elder Kim in Security. It was like misting and cold all day. We still went trackting and it was probably one of the most successful day for Security.
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> Nothing really happened on Thursday. So yeahhhhhhhhhhhh!
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> Friday we had district council and blitzed Fountain. We found like 2 or 3 new people for us to teach. The rest of the day we were back at the church setting up for our trunk-or-treat. We were also the chili cook-off judges, which was super hard because there were so many great chilis. It was hard to choose, but eventually chose a chili with Elk in it. It was sooooooooo good! The people who won also cut our hair so were we a little biased, maybe, especially sense we got our haircuts this week. They have a barber shop inside their house so that's pretty cool.
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> Well that's all that happened this week! I hope y'all have a great week!
> Elder Grandon
Monday, October 29, 2018
Tuesday, October 16, 2018
I'm Dreaming of a White Halloween
This week has been a really cold one, especially sense I didn't have a winter coat till Wednesday! Well it started snowing this week and didn't really stop till this morning. Fountain does a really good job salting the roads so they aren't too bad. We went tracting like everyday and it was kind of fun. I didn't think it would be but snow just made it fun
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> This week was good. We found some really solid potential gators! One of them let us into her house and we ended up staying there way longer than we wanted to. She wanted to know a lot of what we believe and we stayed there till she was all out of questions. We spent like 2 hours there. It was really nice to kinda teach a lesson through answering her questions. She wants us to come over this week and talk some more. She could't think of a day and time so we gave her our number and we're staying in contact with her all this week. Just hoping she continues down this path and gets baptized.
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> So we met with John, a guy we've been teaching, like twice this week. He really enjoys when we come over. We were over there on Saturday and he said he wanted to come to church. We didn't ask him or anything, he just came out and the first thing he said was "Can I come to your church?". His question kinda through us off so we gave him the address of the church and the time. That man was there before we were, and we always get there like 45mins before the meeting starts. I think he really enjoyed himself.
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> Yesterday we had dinner at the Lewis's. They're a senior couple that works at the bishops warehouse. They have a Chocolate Lab named Jake. He reminds me so much of my dog, Hercules, when he was 1 year old. He's full of energy and always wants to play. I couldn't help myself so I played with him for just about the whole time we were there. He's so adorable and it's hard to say "no" to him.
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> Well sorry it's so short this week. I hope all is going well with y'all!
> Elder Grandon
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> This week was good. We found some really solid potential gators! One of them let us into her house and we ended up staying there way longer than we wanted to. She wanted to know a lot of what we believe and we stayed there till she was all out of questions. We spent like 2 hours there. It was really nice to kinda teach a lesson through answering her questions. She wants us to come over this week and talk some more. She could't think of a day and time so we gave her our number and we're staying in contact with her all this week. Just hoping she continues down this path and gets baptized.
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> So we met with John, a guy we've been teaching, like twice this week. He really enjoys when we come over. We were over there on Saturday and he said he wanted to come to church. We didn't ask him or anything, he just came out and the first thing he said was "Can I come to your church?". His question kinda through us off so we gave him the address of the church and the time. That man was there before we were, and we always get there like 45mins before the meeting starts. I think he really enjoyed himself.
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> Yesterday we had dinner at the Lewis's. They're a senior couple that works at the bishops warehouse. They have a Chocolate Lab named Jake. He reminds me so much of my dog, Hercules, when he was 1 year old. He's full of energy and always wants to play. I couldn't help myself so I played with him for just about the whole time we were there. He's so adorable and it's hard to say "no" to him.
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> Well sorry it's so short this week. I hope all is going well with y'all!
> Elder Grandon
Monday, October 8, 2018
General Conference
> This week was full of changes. Firstly, apparently my man Richard moved. So that was fun knocking on his door and no one ever answering. I know what you're thinking, "Didn't you guys see a sign in the yard?" and no we didn't. There wasn't one. We ended up texting him and figured out where he lives now, and he offered to feed us this week so yeahhhhhhhhhhh!
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> Conference was just absolutely mind blowing! Elder Peel's dad emailed him like 3 weeks ago and guessed that they would be reducing the 3 hour block at church. I don't know how he knew but he did. As that was being announced I just turned to Elder Peel and was super shocked that his dad was literally 100% right! I think my favorite talk was Elder Holland's. He always gives super good talks and he continued that this year. We watched it with the Burlingame's. They are recent converts and have a super cool story on how they found the church. We have been over there a lot because sister Burlingame is having a hard time reading the Book of Mormon. So we've just been over there reading and explaining what we read to her. That family is cool!
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> This week we didn't really do a whole lot of tracting, mainly because we have to wait a couple weeks cause we've done like everywhere in our area, so we really just drove around and reminded like everyone about General Conference. We did finally get to teach this one family we found a couple weeks ago. They had lots of questions. The really interesting thing is that all of their relatives are of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints(almost said "Mormon"). I just wanna like shake them and ask them if they think their relatives know something they don't, but you can't really do that as a missionary.
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> Sorry for the short email today but that's like all I can remember doing this week!
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> Till next week
> Elder Grandon
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> Conference was just absolutely mind blowing! Elder Peel's dad emailed him like 3 weeks ago and guessed that they would be reducing the 3 hour block at church. I don't know how he knew but he did. As that was being announced I just turned to Elder Peel and was super shocked that his dad was literally 100% right! I think my favorite talk was Elder Holland's. He always gives super good talks and he continued that this year. We watched it with the Burlingame's. They are recent converts and have a super cool story on how they found the church. We have been over there a lot because sister Burlingame is having a hard time reading the Book of Mormon. So we've just been over there reading and explaining what we read to her. That family is cool!
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> This week we didn't really do a whole lot of tracting, mainly because we have to wait a couple weeks cause we've done like everywhere in our area, so we really just drove around and reminded like everyone about General Conference. We did finally get to teach this one family we found a couple weeks ago. They had lots of questions. The really interesting thing is that all of their relatives are of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints(almost said "Mormon"). I just wanna like shake them and ask them if they think their relatives know something they don't, but you can't really do that as a missionary.
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> Sorry for the short email today but that's like all I can remember doing this week!
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> Till next week
> Elder Grandon
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Monday, October 1, 2018
Fwd: Pour out blessings, Fountain
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> This week I was probably one of the best weeks I've ever had on my mission. I saw so many miracles this week.
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> Firstly, my faith in praying was really strengthened on Sunday. We were on out way to see a referral named John. We typed in his address and started to follow it. We were low on gas but according to the "miles left" thing on the dashboard we had 20 left. His house was only 8 miles away. If you do some quick math you know that round trip we had... more than enough to get there and back. There was only one problem, the address we got led us to a tree next to the highway. So obviously that wasn't right. Instead of turning back we decided to drive farther because his house must be around there somewhere. It wasn't! So there we were, 15 miles away from the closest gas station. We were in the middle of nowhere with about 10 miles left. We decided to pull over and say a prayer. After the "amens" were said we started driving back. About halfway back I look over at the dash and the miles estimator is "--" We were literally driving with nothing in the tank, but somehow about 5mins later we rolled into a gas station. The most used saying in this area since then is "the Lord provides a way". So true!
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> Well My man Richard got a truck this week! Ever since we'd been meeting with him, he's told us he would be getting a truck. He got his truck for $750! I know what you're thinking... this truck must be ready to fall apart any second, it's actually in super good condition for being like 20 years old. It is in better condition than some trucks from a couple years ago, and it's pretty cool too.
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> We found 3 new families to teach this week! Which is incredible for Fountain. The McBeth family, The Peeta family, and the Allen family! The Mcbeth family had been Southern Baptist like their whole life but for the past like 5 or 6 years they had been bouncing from one religion to the other and none of them seemed to fit them. While we were talking to them they agreed with like everything we had said. They said that Mormonism might be the one!!!!!! Just talking about them makes my heart race. If we baptize that family that's like 7 new people to our ward. A lot of dunking. HA HA HA! The Peeta and Allen families were in a very similar situation to each other. Both of them were Christians but couldn't find the right church for them. We invited them to come to our church AND THEY ACTUALLY CAME! It was our primary program this week and they both seemed to really enjoy that. so hopefully that hooked them. We'll talk to them this week and see if it did.
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> Well that's it for this week. This week Elder Peel challenged me to keep track of how much I've changed, and compared to my first week, I can see that I've changed spiritually SOOOOOOOOOOOOOO much! I hope everything for you is going great!
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> Till Next Week,
> Elder Grandon
> This week I was probably one of the best weeks I've ever had on my mission. I saw so many miracles this week.
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> Firstly, my faith in praying was really strengthened on Sunday. We were on out way to see a referral named John. We typed in his address and started to follow it. We were low on gas but according to the "miles left" thing on the dashboard we had 20 left. His house was only 8 miles away. If you do some quick math you know that round trip we had... more than enough to get there and back. There was only one problem, the address we got led us to a tree next to the highway. So obviously that wasn't right. Instead of turning back we decided to drive farther because his house must be around there somewhere. It wasn't! So there we were, 15 miles away from the closest gas station. We were in the middle of nowhere with about 10 miles left. We decided to pull over and say a prayer. After the "amens" were said we started driving back. About halfway back I look over at the dash and the miles estimator is "--" We were literally driving with nothing in the tank, but somehow about 5mins later we rolled into a gas station. The most used saying in this area since then is "the Lord provides a way". So true!
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> Well My man Richard got a truck this week! Ever since we'd been meeting with him, he's told us he would be getting a truck. He got his truck for $750! I know what you're thinking... this truck must be ready to fall apart any second, it's actually in super good condition for being like 20 years old. It is in better condition than some trucks from a couple years ago, and it's pretty cool too.
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> We found 3 new families to teach this week! Which is incredible for Fountain. The McBeth family, The Peeta family, and the Allen family! The Mcbeth family had been Southern Baptist like their whole life but for the past like 5 or 6 years they had been bouncing from one religion to the other and none of them seemed to fit them. While we were talking to them they agreed with like everything we had said. They said that Mormonism might be the one!!!!!! Just talking about them makes my heart race. If we baptize that family that's like 7 new people to our ward. A lot of dunking. HA HA HA! The Peeta and Allen families were in a very similar situation to each other. Both of them were Christians but couldn't find the right church for them. We invited them to come to our church AND THEY ACTUALLY CAME! It was our primary program this week and they both seemed to really enjoy that. so hopefully that hooked them. We'll talk to them this week and see if it did.
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> Well that's it for this week. This week Elder Peel challenged me to keep track of how much I've changed, and compared to my first week, I can see that I've changed spiritually SOOOOOOOOOOOOOO much! I hope everything for you is going great!
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> Till Next Week,
> Elder Grandon
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