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

Good week

Dear Family and Friends,

Well since we are done with the holiday weekend this past week was so much better. the week started off pretty slow as far as contacting and referrals and lessons. that was probably because we have meetings every single day from Tuesday until Friday. I am not a fan of meetings and some of these meeting were very long. We were mostly discussing MLS couples. Thats member leadership support couples. they are every missionaries dream or should be. they help us work effectively and teach people who are not progressing fast enough for us to teach them. so a few people we are working with we would love to give to a MLS couple but we dont have on in our stake. So we rely on the ward council which unfortunately isnt as reliable. So our meetings were all about working effectively with the,m.

I have some bad news preston didnt get baptized this last weekend. his father got called out to work in another state and is going to be gone for a few weeks. so we wont have his baptism until later. hopefully the 26th of this month. However Sara is looking really good for this saturday! we are very excited for her. she is committed and dedicated and we have a great support net around her. we made sure she has visiting and home teachers and everyone has met her on ward council. 

We picked up a new investigator on saturday. a 10 year old boy. he is a foster boy and he just got permission to get baptized and taught by the missionaries so we taught him twice, once on saturday and once on sunday. he is a sharp kid and accepted a baptismal date of august 9th. hopefully we can teach him enough as his family goes out of town for two weeks. i hate vacations! haha man soo many people have too much going on in there lives that they cant slow down and feel the spirit. i think as a people we need to commit to doing less so that we dont always have to be on the go. his nae is tristan and he comes from a tough family. 4 siblings and there are 4 different fathers for the 5 kids. i feel bad for him. 

Since guy called us we havent heard anything from him. he doesnt return our calls and infact our calls go straight to voicemail. we dont know whats up. 

This past week ive been so tired. i have just been crashing. i fall asleep as soon as my head hits the pillow. But also in our spare time elder northrop and i have been planning minute to win it. and today we have to buy everything and set it all up and just have fun. im excited but a littel stressed getting everything done. Our zone will probably hit 9 baptism this month. Next month we are projecting 8 already. The work always progresses here. there is always something to do. always people to teach. 

This transfer comes to an end this week. we get transfer emails on tuesday and then we get to call everyone. people alwyas get nervous around this time. Personally i love it because i get to mess with all of them. and they all try to bribe us and ask us to call them first and all that. its very funny. everyone wants to be our friend right about now. Of course we just call people according to the order that we see it. 

Fun story, saturday night we got done with everything we needed to and we decided to help our land lady with her fish. so we ewent into her pond and went about cathcing 8-10 fish with a net and flashlight. haha it was a lot of fun. dont worry we didnt go swimming. the pond was like a foot deep and only 5 feet accross. its more like a river fountain thingy. anyways i enjoy it. 

Connor is also going vey well. our lesson with him was really good. we decided to focus on the ordinace of baptism and the lesson went really smooth. he wants to be baptized. no date yet but we know he felt the spirit as we taught him about that sacred ordinance.

well gotta go. hope this is a little longer.

Elder Salmon

Progress does come

Hello family and Friends!

so this was the week of the 4th... wasnt the best week to do missionary service. a lot of people went out of town so finding people home was terrible. It was a little frustrating but then i just thought about enduring to the end... of the day. haha friday and saturday were both bad. but we had blessings from working hard. we did get a lot done for our investigators to prepare them for there upcoming baptisms. We taught preston twice and we had good contact with sara. Also a tender mercy, while at church yesterday guy called us. We havent heard from him in almost 2 weeks and he called an was at church and said he wanted to meet again. he also said he wanted to take on the challenge of quitting smoking. he had already quit alcohol and was going to work on coffee and cigarettes.  TYhat made the week worth it knowing we have another appointment. 

This week are are trying to find new people so we are visiting random members and setting up appointments to teach them the message of the restoration to look for new investigators. so far we havent got any referrals but its gives usa  good excuse just to get to know certain families. Thats where the work is. letting them members know who we are so that they feel comfortable referring there friends to us. 

We are still having a really hard time teaching connor. the sister at temple square are not staying in good contact with us. they cancel lessons and set them up without us knowing so we are not even involved that much. We just need to be patient. the lord with make sure this young man gets the knowledge he needs. 

We also were teaching a less active family and have for a while now. this last lesson the father prayed and it actually felt like he was praying to god. it was amazing! so progress does come but sometimes its very slow. 

Well gotta go. 

Love Elder Salmon