Posts for Elder_Jex
Chapter 11: Leadership?
2009 May 18
So this was a rather busy weekend. The week preceding it was rather quiet. We did a lot of tracting because most of our appointments fell through. That doesn't make for a whole lot of excitement. The weather was pretty warm, too. Saturday, however was a long and busy day. We started off with a pretty normal morning, and then headed up to Reno around 1pm. We got there and had lunch, visited with some people, and then we went to the Golconda building for our meeting... except that somebody had put the wrong building on the agendas, and we ...
Quiet
2009 May 11
So this felt like a pretty long week, but there wasn't too much that happened beyond Zone Conference. That was pretty awesome, though. We also had some lessons. We're trying to get people moving along, but it's just way complicated sometimes. It never ends. Right now we just want people to show up for church... The weather's been pretty nice, although it's getting a little warmer than it was. I keep telling myself that it will just stay spring the whole time and that I won't have to deal with Summer, but somehow that just doesn't seem too likely. Oh, ...
More rain?
2009 May 04
So this week wasn't too exciting. We have people moving along, but they aren't really ready yet, so that's a little depressing. Not too depressing though. We spent a bunch of time this week trying to figure out what to do... There's this point at which you start to wonder what you can do, and we're starting to hit that (although maybe this week was more difficult than usual). Enclosed is a picture we took this morning, at the corner of Adams and Fall streets (if we had gone shopping first, I would have gotten an apple, but I digress...). ...
Weather psychosis
2009 April 27
Another pretty decent week. We taught 9 lessons this week, which is the highest I've done in a while. The area's starting to get rolling finally, which is nice, although we still end up struggling to find things to do. Such is life sometimes. I'm still pretty tired, although the upside here is that it's just mental, and not physical exhaustion. So many things happening. We almost had a baptism this week, but we didn't quite make it---sometimes word of wisdom issues can take a while. I think we're almost there, though. We have a couple more investigators that we're ...
Sunny days, cool nights
2009 April 20
So this week was pretty good. The weather has been a little odd, but it's been good otherwise. I'm still getting used to sharing a ward with other missionaries. It is pretty fun having Elder Pruitt around again, even if for some reason he isn't in our district (why do we have Dayton, but not the Span-ams in our ward? hmm). Although there are some white handbook rules that I'm beginning to understand much better now that there are other missionaries around during church. The work is going ok. We've added another investigator to our pool, and we also are ...
Back in the North
2009 April 13
So... I've got another new address. Whee! Elder Michael Larsen / 305 W 8th St / Carson City, NV 89703 The van ride up here was pretty crowded. It's a looong drive from Vegas to Sparks (stops in Beatty, Tonopah and Fallon, as usual). Had Ausmus and Pruitt and Brown and some other people and some greenies in the van. 11 in all, not counting Elder Monroe, who was driving. It was pretty squished. I also think I ate too many chocolate-covered gummy bears on the way up (got them at the candy shop in Beatty). Yep. It's pretty exciting. ...
Back in the North
2009 April 13
So... I've got another new address. Whee! Elder Michael Larsen / 305 W 8th St / Carson City, NV 89703 The van ride up here was pretty crowded. It's a looong drive from Vegas to Sparks (stops in Beatty, Tonopah and Fallon, as usual). Had Ausmus and Pruitt and Brown and some other people and some greenies in the van. 11 in all, not counting Elder Monroe, who was driving. It was pretty squished. I also think I ate too many chocolate-covered gummy bears on the way up (got them at the candy shop in Beatty). Yep. It's pretty exciting. ...
Chapter 10: Expect the unexpected
2009 April 06
So you might think after having been in my previous area for 4 transfers, and having only been here for 6 weeks, that I wouldn't get moved for a little while longer. Maybe a new companion or something, right?... *Wrong* Transfer calls is: Elder Larsen to Carson City as Jr. Comp. with Elder Jex in a car. Covering: Hot Springs, Carson River. Yep. Expect the unexpected. Anyways, this week wasn't too bad otherwise. Conference was pretty awesome, especially Saturday Morning, since we watched that with our investigators (I feel so happy to have done that, and also that we have ...