I am loving this and where I am

Dear Family and Friends,

OH my, Well i got transferred soo im no longer in Sandy with elder ramos. i am in Herriman with elder Foster. I love it soo much! i am sooo excited to be here. we are in the corner of the mission. I cover the rose canyon stake and we drive a truck and go up into the mountains and the cove! it is soo much fun! i really love it. i dont feel like in in utah because ive seen soo much deer and even a few peacocks that a family has wild. We cover 12 wards and its super crazy. I am still a Zone leader and i have a lot of responsibilities to do today... sorry ill send more info next week. 

But We found a new investigator this last week and we are really focusing on testifying to everyone and its soo much fun. i am loving this and where i am. Oh its snowed in the mountains the other day here. its crazy! anyways i love you all and ill write more next week. 

Elder Salmon

HAPPY EASTER

Dear Family and Friends,

Well it is the end of another transfer. our transfers go by so fast now... It was a disappointment really Elder Ramos and i did our very best but we did not see many fruit. it was a tough transfer and we are praying to god to help know what we must do in order to be good leaders. i know that we need to lead our for this zone and its hard to help other people become better missionaries when they don't see us being successful. This was a very good Easter week with studying the atonement and thinking of the atonement and the resurrection. on sunday we had a bishop call us up to give a talk on the moment and i am grateful that i had been studying it and had it on my mind. 

We didnt have contact with any of our investigators this week with it bein spring break it was rough contacting people. But although we are having hard times Elder Ramos and i are still having fun. we just started walking around our area during times when people are outside and its actually kinda nice because we dont have to rush anywhere and we can take time talking and getting to know people and inviting everyone. we have had no success from it but i feel like im doing really good missionary work when i talk to lots of people. 

So for easter our landlord had us over for dinner and he made some great stuff. ribs and ham and deviled eggs. It was really good then they made us join in on the easter egg hunt. and they put money in there eggs. I made $25 and elder ramos made $23. haha it was pretty cool. i enjoyed it. And its been great weather for spring. in the mid to high 60s everyday with the sun shining! i think that i am starting to enjoy the sun but i still dont like the heat. that kinda sucks still. 

HAPPY EASTER to everyone. i hope that you enjoyed it and were able to enjoy  this time of the year. i know that we have a savior who paid the price for us because he loves us and that he has called us to follow him. and we show our faith and devotion by making covenants so that the grace of god can change us into the people that God wants us to be. The atonement of god does not take away our personal responsibility to keep the commandments. But it des save us from physical death so that we can be brought before god to be judge according to what we had desired here in this life. And we will be raised to that state we were in when we left this world. that means we have to decide to follow him here. For in Heaven there are many mansions and Jesus will prepare the mansion that we want to live in. And for those of us who have not learned how to be godlike, we wont want to be around someone who is a god. Just like we dont want to play in Carnegie hall if we cant play the piano, or be a major league baseball player if we never hit the ball or any number of analogies i could use. But if we continue in the gospel and try our best the atonement will change us. i know that god lives and that he has a son. 

Elder Salmon

This week was kinda crazy...

Dear family and friends,

Well this week was kinda crazy... Dealing with some disobedience in our zone. we have had to waste a lot of our time correcting this problem, investigating this problem and making sure that the members were not negatively affected. we havent really gotten to the bottom of it all so over time im sure all of it will come out. but unfortunately that is what my week was full of. interviews and talks with many missionaries. Its nothing too serious, i doubt people will go home but it is a total disregard for the sacred trust that they have been given and i and very disappointed in many of the zone members. 

However despite the distractions we have we did find a new investigator. It was such a spiritual experience and i thought for sure when we extended the baptismal invitation that she would accept. But she didn't... in fact she kinda blew us off and said we could come back some other time. So we need to somehow make her see that she needs this... this weekend she said we can come back. 

Our other investigator bree did come to church and she feel off date again... We did all we could and we even had a ride at her house at 10:30 and found out she was sick. man somethings are very disappointing. this is probably a good thing because then its allows us to meet with her and her mom more often so we can get her mom activated. 

This week we have a few lessons set up for new investigators however i think they might be set ups... i dont think they are sincere and they just want to bash. i think they dont realize is that my companion and i combined have almost 45 months experience together. i mean we are not going to bash if they want to but i dont think they are going to get anywhere. But i am still hopeful that they are actually interested!! which is why we are going. 

Thanks for all the birthday wishes... we will celebrate when i get home! august swim party!

Love Elder Salmon

I love conference time

Dear Family and Friends,

It has been a really good weekend. i love conference time. it is like the super bowl. infact i think this is the most excited i was for conference in a long time. so i was able to attend 2 sessions at the conference center. the sat am session and the sunday pm session. its was very fulfilling. But despite what you saw on the camera it was not sunny and there were not a whole lot of flowers out! haha it was rainy and cloudy the whole weekend. So that stuff they show before conference definitely not use or filmed recently. i think they just pick and choose the videos they want from past videos! haha 

So i was thinking about all the words and i think that we need to be better at the information we have on family search.org. there are not sources or stories from any of the grandparents or great grand parents and i think that we as grandkids and great grand kids would read them if they were up there. it would also be very nice to have the stories of all the conversions in our line. 

This past week we picked up a new inv! Yes! i was so happy. its an 11 year old girl named breanica Erickson and she just moved into her active grandparents house with her less active mom. so hopefully we will get the mom active. it was a long time since we were able to teach an investigator so it made my day. 

Oh and i have to tell you of a dinner expereince we had the other day! There was a lot of mix ups and she thought were were coming at 6. well we showed up at 5 and she was just peeling the potatoes... and i dunno we just didnt realize that she wasnt close to being ready because she said she was. then she told us to cook a little bit while she left... so she left and we started cooking. she grabbed this 93 year old to eat with us and while she finished cooking he told us story after story after story. i dont know how many were true. they were pretty far fetched. To make a long story short, we didnt start eating until 6:45. thats when dinner was finally ready. Dinner actually was very good. Except! i put poopy seed dressing on my salad and after i was eating it for a while i saw that it expired in 2007... i was 14 when this dressing expired! to be polite i ate my whole salad and drank a lot of water! oh man it was nasty. i didnt get sick though...

Well life here is going great. i am gratefulfor this mission and for the testimony i have recieved. gratitude is something i am trying to be better at.

Love elder Salmon