Well I come home this week

Well i come home this week. soo ill see you soon! I have loved my time. I definitely have mixed feelings. But today i host a BBQ. it will be great! i am taking our car coordinators truck and his Grill! haha connections. and we had some missionaries talk to the mayor (because they baptized his grandkids) and get this park reserved and tables out for us which is usually 300 dollars. So things just worked out. gotta go

Love Elder Salmon

Sprinting to the end

I am doing really good! im sprinting to the end. But i dont have a lot of fesire to email... sorry. haha

But the weather has been nice! We get thunderstorms every so often. 

OUr investigators are doing great! Jet is ready for his baptism this saturday and this other 8 yr old we are teaching is also getting baptized this saturday. The family was LA and are now active. 

Connor Green is likewise ready to be baptized and it was supposed to be this saturday but they pushed it back so that family could fly in and attend. they also want to do his baptism, confirmation, priest ordination and sealing all on that saturday... It put elder Northrop and myself in a sticky spot as we klnow thats not the order of things. the church doesnt do things that like for convienience. each one is an ordinance and is very special. this doesnt teach him the importance of the ordinances. Thye insisted on asking our president and so i wrote hijm about ti today. i do not think they will get the exception. 

Also this week i had a baptismal interview. It was a very interesting one. The person was not ready and i could easily tell. he didnt believe in joseph smith or the book of mormon. they really wanted me to interview him because they wanted me to teach him why he cant get baptized if he doesnt believe those things. i had a good hour talk with him. And by the end the conversation ended with, "Paul you believe in the apostasy, you believe the church has been changed since the time of Christ. You better believe that the restoration happened or it will happen soon. Other wise we are all lost." he believed that. so i also convinced him he needs to pray about it and he said he would. so i hope i helped him. 

anyways gotta go

Love YA

Elder Salmon

 

The zone

 

 

I love learning from the Brethren

Dear Family and Friends,

this past week was good. We taught a far amount of lessons to connor and jet who are both prepareing for baptisms for the end of this month. A very sad note when i was going down to temple square i left my scriptures at one of the trax stations... i am very sad because i dont know where they are. they were gone when i went back. i hope no one stole them... and i hope a member picked them up becuase it has my patriarchal blessing in it, and i really want my name tag that are on the scriptures. so that was a damper but the lesson we taught was very effective. Connor loved the whole thing and the idea of being with his family forever. He doesnt want to wait to be baptized. now we just need his parents on board and set a date for him! they are very hesistant as all parents should be but they are actually hindering his ability to progress as fast as he should be. Its a little frustrating because Connor wants this. Anyways his parents are thinking of a date right now. And Jet is doing well is is getting ready for his baptism on the 23rd. At the end of this transfer thye are going to split the stake as far as missionary work. i did not feel like i could give adequate time and attention to all the wards so i asked president to put another set of missionaries in here and i think he will do it.

Had another exchange this past week. my last one. It was very good. i got to see how well this district leader works with his members and he has some great ideas. I learned probably as much as he did. i was also sick one day this week. not sure what is was but im good now. THis week we have Don R clark coming to do a mission conference i am very excited for that. i love learning from the Brethren. They just know exactly what we need to here. Well gotta go. 

Love Elder Salmon

The Lord loves us

Dear Family and Friends,

Well this past week was kinda rough. we didnt teach any non-members until sunday night. but that whole week i was thinking if i want to baptized 1 more person i have to find them this week! i was praying really hard for the opportunity to help 1 more person and we put our heads down. there was adversity because we had meeting and service that people called us to do and i cant turn down LA members who need service. So some days it didnt feel like we got a lot accomplished. But i have faith that the no matter how much i work if its not the lords way it will be in vain. So i would rather have 2 hours of consecrated finding then working all day. So we kept at it. praying nd doing things we felt was right and the Lord provided. We got a referral from a bishop contacted it right when we got it and we picked up a new investigator and put him on date for the 23rd of august!! The lord provides. That was easily the highlight of the week. Well that and Preston got confirmed. Ordinances are soo nice. and we were asked to participate in a baby blessing for the strains. they are a family that we reactivated. They are a very good family and wants to do whats best for there kids and there kids love the gospel soo thats just what happens. the kids pull the parents into the gospel. 

Today we have a Pday activity with the mission president so should be pretty fun. Last week we just did the usual, and then had a quiet pday. played speedball, shadow and elder northrop and i enjoy the hard rain that came down. it was pouring and everyone else left and we just went to a big hill and slid down on our backs in the half muddy grass. it kinda worked. He is also from washington so he loves the rain as much as i do. i find the august summers soooo weird here. its always cloudy and rains randomly with thunderstorms. i would toatlly take sammamish summers over here. atleast its not random. 

We have a zone training meeting tomorrow, and we have been hitting the scriptures hard. We are going to teach out of numbers ch. 11 probably and talk about how we can get the investigators from on date to actually baptized. we have 18 people on date in the zone which is the best our zone has had in a long time! So we are working super hard to solidify the people on date. 

Well gotta go.

Love Elder Salmon

No time

i am sorry i really dont have time to email this week. it wasnt too exciting but we had another baptism!!!! sooooooo good. the father did the baptism it was worth it.

Fire alarm

Dear Family and Friends,

Well everyone i bet your dying to know what happened during transfers!!!! haha well im staying here in herriman as ZL with elder Northrop. wasnt much of a surprise really. I really didnt not want to move for my last transfer and my desire was granted. 

Crap fire alarm going off!!! NOOOOOOO I WILL BE BACK!!!!!!!

 

 

 

Okay part 2

so yeah the fire alarm went off with all of us missionaries emailing. elder northrop and i left instead of waiting for them to turn off the fire alarm. We went and picked up mail for everyone at the mission office and went shopping at walmart. 

But this past week was alright. transfers always make our days super crazy. we had an emergency zone meeting on Tuesday after district meeting then we gave everyone there information of what was happening, then we had everyone move on wednesday, elder northrop and i have soo much other stuff we have to do we didnt even proselyte until after dinner on Wednesday and Thursday. Thursday we had another zone meeting so that everyone could meet each other and we can set expectations. Both zone meetings went well. But kept us on our toes. We had saras baptism on saturday! it was really good. She was freaking out a little about all the people and going through with it, but she calmed down and it was really a sweet experience. Then we had her confirmation after sacrement meeting the next day. we had to get an exception for that. but part of the deal was she still had to stand up and so that everyone could see her. Ya she stood up for the shortest possible time and sat right back down. Her confirmation prayer was very sweet. Her ex father in law did it and he knew her very well and gave her a very personalized blessing. Her daughter came to church who is a non member and she even was there for the confirmation. Saras daughter cami got a little teary eyed as well as every other woman in the room. She has a great ward and really great support. We will continue to teach sara and do the new member lessons and help her towards the temple in a year.

So mom i got voluntold to sing again at zone conference. i am doing a duet with a sister in our zone named sister garretson. Hse really good at singing so i hope i dont mess it up. We are just doing 1 verse as a duet and then other people will join us for the other verses but still kinda nervous. Tomorrow is our zone conference and it should be very good. But there i give my farewell testimony... and i am really not looking forward to it. Infact i just dont like anything that reminds me that i am going home. and it kinda kills me inside everyday when people remind me and talk about it all the time. but i cant avoid it. So i just deal with it. 

We taught guy last night as an impromptu lesson. We are going to have contact with him every single day to help him. we will probably send himm scriptures each day. Our other investigators are just slow progressing. We definitely need to find the elect right now. Prestons baptism is stalled... and the ward leaders are wanting us to even wait even more for him to be baptized. Stuff always happens when people dont keep there original baptism date. its very sad really. i still want him to be baptized this saturday, but it looks like and august 2nd baptism. 

I am doing a good job keeping up with my audio journal. i am glad i started it. It will help me remember my mission better. and its only like 5 min each night and i can do the whole day easy. 

Well life is good here in herriman. Be good. Invite someone to church this week! its easy. i do it every day. 

Love elder Salmon