Posts for Elder_Paul
Chapter 18: The wild blue yonder
2010 March 08
So all of you that have been counting can guess really easy what I've been up to this morning. It's been a little weird. I'm not sure if everything fits in one bag yet, but it turns out I can do 2 bags if I need to, so not a huge deal. I found it really ironic this morning when Elder Mismash told me that I'm too trunky as I'm packing my bags... really? Anyways, we had an ok week, although mainly because we were busy Sunday. Pretty much everybody was sick or had other issues the whole week. Not ...
Last week
2010 March 01
Ok, not a really exciting week. We didn't have a whole lot going on, and we had a bit of a cold going around the apartment. That always seems to put a damper on things. We did, however, manage to find a couple of new investigators this week, although mainly by accident, in that they started talking to the spanish missionaries when they were walking to their car. I guess on that front it was pretty exciting. This week looks to be pretty good. We've got a temple trip for all the going home people, and then I've got my ...
Zone Conference! 2 weeks?
2010 February 22
Ok, so this has been an exciting week in some ways, and not very interesting in other ways. The interesting part was that we had zone conference. It was at the Twain building, which is kind of funny, since my first, third and fourth ones were there, too. We had all 5 zones here in Vegas there, since we actually had that general authority tour that they'd been telling us we were going to have since November. We had Elder Spencer V. Jones of the Seventy (2nd quorum) visiting. It was a pretty fun meeting, and it was nice to ...
Good week. 3 left.
2010 February 15
Ok, so they went and changed my email address for the next 3 weeks. The new one is michaell@myldsmail.net (Kind of silly, I know). We're now using gmail internally, which is a whole lot more responsive than the old system (written by Novell). Anyways, this week was pretty awesome in that we had a baptism... It's really fun to see when people are excited and growing in the gospel. I think that's probably one of the most rewarding things about being here, just being able to see that firsthand. It really made my week. Besides that, we also had another ...
Good week. 3 left.
2010 February 15
Ok, so they went and changed my email address for the next 3 weeks. The new one is michaell@myldsmail.net (Kind of silly, I know). We're now using gmail internally, which is a whole lot more responsive than the old system (written by Novell).
Time flies...
2010 February 08
This week was actually really good. We had a whole 9 lessons (Yay!! this area is coming back to life!), and we're getting pretty excited about the baptism we have this week. So, I thought we might be updgrading to the new myldsmail, and we are, but first it has to decide to actually migrate me. Oy vey. Anyways, stay tuned for a possibly new email address. Anyways, this weekend was pretty awesome because one of our less-active families had their son baptized, and we got one of our investigators there, and she's getting baptized this week, and she went ...
Temple Trip, other fun stuff
2010 February 03
So it's been a pretty good week. We've gotten pretty much all settled now, which is nice. The work is going pretty well, and we're looking forward to a baptism at the end of next week. Things are looking pretty good from that front. We had a missionary farewell this week--there's a guy from our ward going to the Washington Spokane mission. That made our sacrament meeting extra packed... all the way into the second overflow. We've had pretty high attendance for the past couple of weeks, although I'm not really sure why that is... This morning we had our ...
Chapter 17: One more go around
2010 January 25
So, transfers is up again, and I'm staying here for the last little bit, but Elder Ostler is leaving me. He's going to Lakes Ward (the west half of my second area). My new companion is Elder Paul. He's been out about 9 months, and is coming from my old Highland Hills area (Aliante & Waterfall wards). Beyond that, we had two pretty interesting events this week. The first was zone conference, which was supposed to be a general authority tour, but ended up just being a really big zone conference because the tour got canceled. It was still pretty ...