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!
>
> 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.
>
> 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!
>
> 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.
>
> 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
Monday, September 10, 2018
One Month Out
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> In 3 days it marks my one month being out in the field! Man how time flies! It feels like just yesterday I was at the mission home wondering who my companion will be and where I'll be going. I guess time really does fly when you're having fun!
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> This past week has been just like last week. ZOOM and it's P day already! I do remember quite a few more events then last week though.
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> This past week the biggest thing that happened was Richard! Oh boy is he a ball of laughs! He's like an older Kevin Hart. Sooooooooooo funny! We visited him twice this week. The first time we visited him it was because we got a notification that he requested a Book of Mormon but had never gotten it. That was way WRONG! In fact he had gotten one, read it several times, met with 4 or 5 different companionships of missionaries, and been to church a handful of times. He told us that he knows the church is the true church but is afraid to tell his wife cause she hates Mormonism for some reason. They don't go to the same church already and she's ok with him going to any church BUT ours. So we talked to ward council about him and they told us to "befriend him first, Then get his wife to trust us, then start converting them." so that's what we're doing. the next time we "accidentally" bumped into him we were going on a "run" and saw him working on a bench in the front yard. We stopped and talked for a solid hour and a half and the funny thing was, we had no intention of bringing up the gospel, but he did! I think we're cracking through his shell. As we were leaving he promised to come to church soon. Elder Peel and I stopped, turned around and pointed at him and said "That's a promise, so we'll see you at church!" He started dying laughing because we had the same reaction. He's a good dude and needs to be baptized. He told us that he's a happy dude but when he sees us he gets a little sad because he feels/knows he's missing something. We're baptizing him within this transfer. I'm calling it right now!
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> I tell you what... Fridays are continuing to be my favorite day. Every week we get invited to come watch the local high school's football game. It makes me miss Friday night lights but it also keeps the fire burning for college game days in two years. I can't wait. After the game we always go to the park cause every Friday there's a roping competition. If you don't know what that is, it's when a bunch of people with horses get together and rope cows. That probably doesn't make any sense, but just know it's a fun event to watch and participate in. A member saw us there and offered dinner and a horse back ride this upcoming week. So let's just hope he doesn't cancel!
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> Recently we were invited to join in and pray for people that are effected by suicide or are struggling with suicidal behavior and mental illness. I invite all to participate in this! It has humbled me every time I pray for these people. It has effected my friends back home and even some people in my ward. I invite everyone again to join me in these prayers.
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> I hope everything back home is going well! I pray for you guys and all missionaries around the world every night!
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> Humbly yours,
> Elder Grandon
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> In 3 days it marks my one month being out in the field! Man how time flies! It feels like just yesterday I was at the mission home wondering who my companion will be and where I'll be going. I guess time really does fly when you're having fun!
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> This past week has been just like last week. ZOOM and it's P day already! I do remember quite a few more events then last week though.
>
> This past week the biggest thing that happened was Richard! Oh boy is he a ball of laughs! He's like an older Kevin Hart. Sooooooooooo funny! We visited him twice this week. The first time we visited him it was because we got a notification that he requested a Book of Mormon but had never gotten it. That was way WRONG! In fact he had gotten one, read it several times, met with 4 or 5 different companionships of missionaries, and been to church a handful of times. He told us that he knows the church is the true church but is afraid to tell his wife cause she hates Mormonism for some reason. They don't go to the same church already and she's ok with him going to any church BUT ours. So we talked to ward council about him and they told us to "befriend him first, Then get his wife to trust us, then start converting them." so that's what we're doing. the next time we "accidentally" bumped into him we were going on a "run" and saw him working on a bench in the front yard. We stopped and talked for a solid hour and a half and the funny thing was, we had no intention of bringing up the gospel, but he did! I think we're cracking through his shell. As we were leaving he promised to come to church soon. Elder Peel and I stopped, turned around and pointed at him and said "That's a promise, so we'll see you at church!" He started dying laughing because we had the same reaction. He's a good dude and needs to be baptized. He told us that he's a happy dude but when he sees us he gets a little sad because he feels/knows he's missing something. We're baptizing him within this transfer. I'm calling it right now!
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> I tell you what... Fridays are continuing to be my favorite day. Every week we get invited to come watch the local high school's football game. It makes me miss Friday night lights but it also keeps the fire burning for college game days in two years. I can't wait. After the game we always go to the park cause every Friday there's a roping competition. If you don't know what that is, it's when a bunch of people with horses get together and rope cows. That probably doesn't make any sense, but just know it's a fun event to watch and participate in. A member saw us there and offered dinner and a horse back ride this upcoming week. So let's just hope he doesn't cancel!
>
> Recently we were invited to join in and pray for people that are effected by suicide or are struggling with suicidal behavior and mental illness. I invite all to participate in this! It has humbled me every time I pray for these people. It has effected my friends back home and even some people in my ward. I invite everyone again to join me in these prayers.
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> I hope everything back home is going well! I pray for you guys and all missionaries around the world every night!
>
> Humbly yours,
> Elder Grandon
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>
Monday, September 3, 2018
Week 4
> Huge HOWDY from Fountain!
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> This week was another blur week. I felt like the weeks are getting faster and faster! I sure hope that they slow down cause I want more out of my mission than a big blur.
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> Well, it didn't take long for me to have a boring P day. Last Monday all we did was stay at our building and just sit in the Relief Society room. No one had the key for the basketball hoops so we were kinda just sitting there doing nothing. Monday was by far the longest day of the week! But it's whatever, it's just a P day.
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> Tuesday was a so fun (sarcasm). we went from one service opportunity to another, which I guess is ok but our mission is to invite others to come unto Christ, and we can't really do that unless we make time for it by going around and teaching. We can only get so far with some people because where we were the people were only there for a couple minutes, then they left.
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> Wednesday was Zone conference! So yeah that was pretty boring just sitting at the stake center from 9-4:30ish. Major flashback to the MTC!
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> I know it sounds horrible but I don't really remember Thursday... I think we just went tracting all day.
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> Friday was so fun. We went tracting, like normal, but the fun was later that night. So we were planning on going on exchanges, but because we were all invited to a part-member family birthday party we decided to call the zone leaders and see if all the Elders could have a sleepover at the Mesa Ridge apartment because it was the closest apartment to the house. What a night! we stayed up playing Texas hold em' and it was a ball. I had fun!
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> Saturday was mostly taken up by the birthday party. We were there from 12-3 and then we finally went on exchanges! I was with Elder Butterfield from Mesa Ridge and we went to Fountain. Which, if you're keeping score, that's twice a greeny led Fountain! Which is pretty awesome. We went to a neighborhood that was like all catholic. But we still got a new (investa)gator! We taught her the plan of salvation on her doorstep and then afterwards she seemed very grateful because her Mom had just recently died and she was worried she would be "lost". We had no idea her Mom had just died but we weren't really the teacher. We were just the mouthpiece for the spirit. That event really strengthens my testimony of the marvelous gospel Heavenly Father gave to us. Elder Peel and I have a return appointment next week.
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> Sunday was Sunday. We napped and did some stop bys. No one seemed to be home so go them!
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> I HAVE A NEW SISTER!! Welcome to the wild Grandon Family Tirsa! I'm so happy to see that you two got married! I defiantly wish I could've been there, especially sense it was 10 minutes out of my mission, but I've seen the joy they bring each other and I know they'll have a long eternity together. Also I do wish you luck Tirsa. I've known my brother for a long time and I don't know how you're gonna whip him into shape but I know the Lord always provides a way! HA HA HA HA:)
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> Well it's been real everyone, Till next week!
> Thy humble Servant,
> Elder Grandon
>
> This week was another blur week. I felt like the weeks are getting faster and faster! I sure hope that they slow down cause I want more out of my mission than a big blur.
>
> Well, it didn't take long for me to have a boring P day. Last Monday all we did was stay at our building and just sit in the Relief Society room. No one had the key for the basketball hoops so we were kinda just sitting there doing nothing. Monday was by far the longest day of the week! But it's whatever, it's just a P day.
>
> Tuesday was a so fun (sarcasm). we went from one service opportunity to another, which I guess is ok but our mission is to invite others to come unto Christ, and we can't really do that unless we make time for it by going around and teaching. We can only get so far with some people because where we were the people were only there for a couple minutes, then they left.
>
> Wednesday was Zone conference! So yeah that was pretty boring just sitting at the stake center from 9-4:30ish. Major flashback to the MTC!
>
> I know it sounds horrible but I don't really remember Thursday... I think we just went tracting all day.
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> Friday was so fun. We went tracting, like normal, but the fun was later that night. So we were planning on going on exchanges, but because we were all invited to a part-member family birthday party we decided to call the zone leaders and see if all the Elders could have a sleepover at the Mesa Ridge apartment because it was the closest apartment to the house. What a night! we stayed up playing Texas hold em' and it was a ball. I had fun!
>
> Saturday was mostly taken up by the birthday party. We were there from 12-3 and then we finally went on exchanges! I was with Elder Butterfield from Mesa Ridge and we went to Fountain. Which, if you're keeping score, that's twice a greeny led Fountain! Which is pretty awesome. We went to a neighborhood that was like all catholic. But we still got a new (investa)gator! We taught her the plan of salvation on her doorstep and then afterwards she seemed very grateful because her Mom had just recently died and she was worried she would be "lost". We had no idea her Mom had just died but we weren't really the teacher. We were just the mouthpiece for the spirit. That event really strengthens my testimony of the marvelous gospel Heavenly Father gave to us. Elder Peel and I have a return appointment next week.
>
> Sunday was Sunday. We napped and did some stop bys. No one seemed to be home so go them!
>
> I HAVE A NEW SISTER!! Welcome to the wild Grandon Family Tirsa! I'm so happy to see that you two got married! I defiantly wish I could've been there, especially sense it was 10 minutes out of my mission, but I've seen the joy they bring each other and I know they'll have a long eternity together. Also I do wish you luck Tirsa. I've known my brother for a long time and I don't know how you're gonna whip him into shape but I know the Lord always provides a way! HA HA HA HA:)
>
> Well it's been real everyone, Till next week!
> Thy humble Servant,
> Elder Grandon
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