> This week we were hecka busy. We finished going through the whole area and visited all the less actives. A lot weren't home but a lot of them were home! We talked to a couple families about General Conference(which defiantly feels like it was yesterday and not a week ago) and ended up talking to 3 or 4 families for the whole day. It was pretty awesome!
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> Yesterday we had an "open" sacrament meeting. It was kinda like Fast and Testimony meeting but we were instructed to give our feelings about Conference. Kinda near the end our recently baptized convert, Uydoe(you-dough) got up and bore a super strong testimony about how General Conference was one of his converting tools, and how he had already defended this church to his Uncle and Aunt. It was very powerful and spiritual!
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> That's really it for this week! I hope you all have a fantastic week and continue to grow in your faith of our savior!
> Elder Grandon
Monday, April 15, 2019
Monday, April 8, 2019
Conference
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> This week went by super fast. We stopped by all the less active in our area and reminded them to watch General Conference. We got Francis to watch it but we didn't watch it with her. She said she enjoyed it so hopefully we can start to teach her.
> That's really all for this week. Have a fantastic week and continue to grow in your faith of Jesus Christ
> Elder Grandon
> This week went by super fast. We stopped by all the less active in our area and reminded them to watch General Conference. We got Francis to watch it but we didn't watch it with her. She said she enjoyed it so hopefully we can start to teach her.
> That's really all for this week. Have a fantastic week and continue to grow in your faith of Jesus Christ
> Elder Grandon
Monday, March 25, 2019
Oakwood Week 7
> This week was full of stop bys and basketball games! All this week we stopped by some of the previous investigators the sisters found. Almost none of them answered or weren't home. We tried those same 12 or 13 houses all week! The only one that answered was this single mother named Shareea. She is super strong in her desire to know more about the gospel. The only problem we have is that she works all the time and is exhausted by the end of the day. Along with that she has to come home and take care of 2 firecrackers. Two twin boys that are 4 years old. They're super fun to be around and they're hilarious! So hopefully we can find a time that works for her.
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> On Tuesday we had Zone Conference. It was super spiritual and very rewarding. We talked about how to get more people to church, then we split into districts and role played that. We of course had different scenarios and we were told not to tell them why we wouldn't come to church. It was really fun to try to decipher why they wouldn't come. It's really humbling to go through these Zone Conferences because even if you feel really good at your "missionary craft" these type of role plays expose what you can work on. Really beneficial! 10/10 would recommend!
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> That's really all I have from this past week. I hope y'all have a fantastic week and continue to grow in you faith of the SAVIOR!
> Elder Grandon
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> On Tuesday we had Zone Conference. It was super spiritual and very rewarding. We talked about how to get more people to church, then we split into districts and role played that. We of course had different scenarios and we were told not to tell them why we wouldn't come to church. It was really fun to try to decipher why they wouldn't come. It's really humbling to go through these Zone Conferences because even if you feel really good at your "missionary craft" these type of role plays expose what you can work on. Really beneficial! 10/10 would recommend!
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> That's really all I have from this past week. I hope y'all have a fantastic week and continue to grow in you faith of the SAVIOR!
> Elder Grandon
Monday, March 18, 2019
Oakwood Week 7
> This week was awesome! Firstly, we had transfers on Tuesday. Elder Butterfield is amazing. He has such a caring heart and already loves this area.
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> Literally the day after transfers our Zone Leaders called and asked if we could help them at their service. We of course said "YES!", they came to pick us up and a super bad blizzard started. They stayed with us for a day and a half. About halfway through the day Elder Ofa(one of our ZLs) got super bored. Monopoly is only fun for so long ya know. He got restless and wanted to go out in the blizzard. I was down so we went on an adventure. Just so y'all know we legit couldn't see 5 feet in front of us. I didn't have a mask or anything like that so I took a shirt that you could see through and wrapped it around my face to keep it warm and to be able to see. It was super fun! In our complex some of the snow drifts were over 10 feet tall! It was so Ridiculous! Everything, including the freeway, was closed. People were getting stuck so easily they shut like the whole city down! Once in a life time experience(I hope HA HA HA).
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> After the blizzard finally stopped we went and visited some less active members in our apartment complex. They were all in apartment 302 in different building of course. So that's now a joke in our companionship. Yeahhhhh missionaries are funny!
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> On Saturday we(and about every companionship) got to go to The Lamb of God. It was way better than I expected. It was packed to the rafters with LDS members. I was sitting in the audience and all of the sudden a girl started to sing her solo and it reminded me of my little sister, Hannah, sooooooooo much. Her tone was actually a little bit worse than Hannah's! I was instantly filled with pride. Don't get me wrong, she did amazing, but the whole time she sang all I could think in my head was "My sister would rock this part soooooo hard!" *INSTANTLY FILLED WITH PRIDE* She was tasked to play the part of Mary, Jesus mother. The play was really good! 10/10 would recommend to a friend!
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> That's really all I have this week! Hope y'all have a FANTASTIC week and continue to grow in your faith of our savior!
> Elder Grandon
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> Literally the day after transfers our Zone Leaders called and asked if we could help them at their service. We of course said "YES!", they came to pick us up and a super bad blizzard started. They stayed with us for a day and a half. About halfway through the day Elder Ofa(one of our ZLs) got super bored. Monopoly is only fun for so long ya know. He got restless and wanted to go out in the blizzard. I was down so we went on an adventure. Just so y'all know we legit couldn't see 5 feet in front of us. I didn't have a mask or anything like that so I took a shirt that you could see through and wrapped it around my face to keep it warm and to be able to see. It was super fun! In our complex some of the snow drifts were over 10 feet tall! It was so Ridiculous! Everything, including the freeway, was closed. People were getting stuck so easily they shut like the whole city down! Once in a life time experience(I hope HA HA HA).
>
> After the blizzard finally stopped we went and visited some less active members in our apartment complex. They were all in apartment 302 in different building of course. So that's now a joke in our companionship. Yeahhhhh missionaries are funny!
>
> On Saturday we(and about every companionship) got to go to The Lamb of God. It was way better than I expected. It was packed to the rafters with LDS members. I was sitting in the audience and all of the sudden a girl started to sing her solo and it reminded me of my little sister, Hannah, sooooooooo much. Her tone was actually a little bit worse than Hannah's! I was instantly filled with pride. Don't get me wrong, she did amazing, but the whole time she sang all I could think in my head was "My sister would rock this part soooooo hard!" *INSTANTLY FILLED WITH PRIDE* She was tasked to play the part of Mary, Jesus mother. The play was really good! 10/10 would recommend to a friend!
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> That's really all I have this week! Hope y'all have a FANTASTIC week and continue to grow in your faith of our savior!
> Elder Grandon
Monday, March 11, 2019
Transfer Week
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> Well this week is transfer week. We are saying goodbye to Elder Modesto and welcoming Elder Butterfield! I've served around him and been on exchanges with him so this should be a super fun transfer!
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> This week we ruined our SIM card. So long story short, I was doing the dishes and checked my phone cause we had a dinner about to come. In doing that I dropped my phone in the sink. I shoved my hand in there and started to dry off my phone. I put it in rice. I took everything out of the phone(my SD card and the SIM card) and placed them on a towel. Unaware of the whole situation Elder Modesto picked up the towel that had everything in it and started drying of the dishes. I turned around just in time to see the SIM card fall into the sink and down the drain. My SD card fell on the floor instead of the sink so I guess this story isn't that bad. HA HA HA! He felt so bad once I told him what had just happened. It was alright though, the office got us one the next day so not all is lost in the end!
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> Besides that nothing really exciting happened this week. All of our 3 return appointments cancelled on us but said to try again next week. So Elder Butterfield and I will have to try again next week.
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> Other than that I really have nothing else to say. Have a great day and a fantastic week! Continue in your faith and keep on keeping on. Nothing but love for each of you!
> Elder Grandon
> Well this week is transfer week. We are saying goodbye to Elder Modesto and welcoming Elder Butterfield! I've served around him and been on exchanges with him so this should be a super fun transfer!
>
> This week we ruined our SIM card. So long story short, I was doing the dishes and checked my phone cause we had a dinner about to come. In doing that I dropped my phone in the sink. I shoved my hand in there and started to dry off my phone. I put it in rice. I took everything out of the phone(my SD card and the SIM card) and placed them on a towel. Unaware of the whole situation Elder Modesto picked up the towel that had everything in it and started drying of the dishes. I turned around just in time to see the SIM card fall into the sink and down the drain. My SD card fell on the floor instead of the sink so I guess this story isn't that bad. HA HA HA! He felt so bad once I told him what had just happened. It was alright though, the office got us one the next day so not all is lost in the end!
>
> Besides that nothing really exciting happened this week. All of our 3 return appointments cancelled on us but said to try again next week. So Elder Butterfield and I will have to try again next week.
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> Other than that I really have nothing else to say. Have a great day and a fantastic week! Continue in your faith and keep on keeping on. Nothing but love for each of you!
> Elder Grandon
Sunday, March 10, 2019
Monday, March 4, 2019
Miracles are real
> This week was full of miracles! Our finding efforts were finally rewarding, our ward is starting to trust us, and we finally met Bettina!
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> Firstly, our finding! We were out all week trying to find people to teach. On Thursday we started to knock a street. The first like 4 doors were super awesome! The first door was a family that literally got done praying to find a church. *ENTER MISSIONARIES* She answered the door and started exploding with joy. She told us she and her family had just moved in and was praying to know what church to go to. It was an amazing experience! She came to church yesterday and she told us she loved it! We set up an appointment for this Wednesday. The next door we found a single mother who had talked to missionaries before. She said her past feeling for our church were very negative but then the past missionaries had talked to her and now she's super friendly towards us. She said we could come back anytime and talk to her. We are defiantly going to do that! The next door was a less active member who was not on the records anymore so we had no idea she was there. She was rushing out of the house to go pick up her sons from school but was very friendly and invited us to come back anytime. A couple of houses later Elder Modesto had to use the restroom so we went back to what we thought was one of the people we had just encountered, unfortunately it wasn't but he let us in anyways. While my companion was in the bathroom, we started talking and I figured out he had been going through a hard time recently and was starting to question God and his plan for him. I told him that originally we thought this was someone elses house and that our meeting him was no coincidence. I told him that God has something in store for him, He(God) just needs to humble him before it was reveled to him. Then I told him about the gospel and how it can help him more than anything. He accepted to take the lessons. He also came to church on Sunday and said that one meeting changed his point of view on everything. A lot of people bore their testimony on faith. God certainly knew what would help him.
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> We had another surprise on Sunday. after weeks of trying to meet her, Bettina came to church just out of the blue and we finally got to meet her! She stayed for the whole 2 hours(WOW That's weird to type out. 2hrs instead of 3!) and loved every minute of it.
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> It's amazing how God tests you to see if you're humble enough to receive blessings from him! That's all from this week. Have a GREAT week. Continue in your faith and move mountains!
> Elder Grandon
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> Firstly, our finding! We were out all week trying to find people to teach. On Thursday we started to knock a street. The first like 4 doors were super awesome! The first door was a family that literally got done praying to find a church. *ENTER MISSIONARIES* She answered the door and started exploding with joy. She told us she and her family had just moved in and was praying to know what church to go to. It was an amazing experience! She came to church yesterday and she told us she loved it! We set up an appointment for this Wednesday. The next door we found a single mother who had talked to missionaries before. She said her past feeling for our church were very negative but then the past missionaries had talked to her and now she's super friendly towards us. She said we could come back anytime and talk to her. We are defiantly going to do that! The next door was a less active member who was not on the records anymore so we had no idea she was there. She was rushing out of the house to go pick up her sons from school but was very friendly and invited us to come back anytime. A couple of houses later Elder Modesto had to use the restroom so we went back to what we thought was one of the people we had just encountered, unfortunately it wasn't but he let us in anyways. While my companion was in the bathroom, we started talking and I figured out he had been going through a hard time recently and was starting to question God and his plan for him. I told him that originally we thought this was someone elses house and that our meeting him was no coincidence. I told him that God has something in store for him, He(God) just needs to humble him before it was reveled to him. Then I told him about the gospel and how it can help him more than anything. He accepted to take the lessons. He also came to church on Sunday and said that one meeting changed his point of view on everything. A lot of people bore their testimony on faith. God certainly knew what would help him.
>
> We had another surprise on Sunday. after weeks of trying to meet her, Bettina came to church just out of the blue and we finally got to meet her! She stayed for the whole 2 hours(WOW That's weird to type out. 2hrs instead of 3!) and loved every minute of it.
>
> It's amazing how God tests you to see if you're humble enough to receive blessings from him! That's all from this week. Have a GREAT week. Continue in your faith and move mountains!
> Elder Grandon
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