5-26-14
Sorry about the late notice of the guy, Bro. M. Deakin, stopping by to drop off a card. He called us the night before and asked if there was anything he could take since he was going there the next day. Thanks for putting together something for me last minute. Well, I'm getting transferred and it stinks! I was expecting to be here for one more transfer since that would make it 6 months, so we'll see if this will be my last area. If it is, hopefully, it will be good because it will be a long time! I might possibly have a couple more smaller areas-I have no clue! Yesterday was a pretty good day. We got to church and we were about to go into ward council and a member of the mission presidency was there, President Lemon, and he said a lady had come in wanting to know more! We skipped ward council and talked with her. IT WAS SUPER AWESOME because we were seeing why she had come in and trying to figure out her background and she had just gotten out of Mass or something like that from her church. She said she just felt like she needed to come-she just needed to know more so she actually drove there and parked where everyone else parked and came in. We went and got her a Book of Mormon, since she was asking for one, and taught her the restoration and it went great. She accepted everything we said. She told us some of her spiritual gifts that she has and it was really cool! When we talked about Joseph Smith getting the plates, she asked where it was, so we told her Palmyra and she didn't know where that was. We told her up state New York, and she basically said, "Oh my gosh, I have been telling my mom that I felt like I've needed to go there for some reason!" She is pretty in tune with the Spirit, so at the end of the lesson, I invited her to be baptized and she said "yes" if she comes to know if the church it true! What an awesome lesson....AND I'M BEING MOVED.....DANG IT!!!!! We have picked up quite a few investigators this last transfer and the work is really starting to move!!!!! Shoot!!! We had a really good week this week, actually it was a BOMB WEEK! We had 500+ contacts, 23 lessons, 11 of those were non-members, 10 members present, 6 acts for 13 hours of service....just go go go! It was a SUPER GREAT WEEK! And I have to LEAVE!!! NOOOOOoooo! I guess only time will tell...right as we are finding people who are getting close to baptism! Shoot! Man, this is such a great area!
I gave a talk yesterday that went well and I had a couple of members find out I was leaving and I thought they were going to start crying. A couple of little kids said good bye and one told me I was his favorite missionary-man it breaks my heart to leave this area and the people here! I guess the Lord has something else for me to do. But man, that was one of the best weeks! Shoot! The Howard's are feeding me for my "last supper" before I leave! They are an awesome family! It should be fun! I'll let you know next week where I'm at. I get transferred Tuesday morning! Yes, I would like the book, but hold off till I get you the new info. where I'm at. Hopefully, you have a great week and enjoy the last couple days of school! Enjoy the summer! Love ya!
Elder Whaley
Ofa Atu
*Hopefully, I get transferred to the Tongan program or beach side! :)
Wednesday, June 4, 2014
Sunday, May 25, 2014
Another week in Cali
5-19-14
Mom,
I don't know if you sent an email or not, I'm guessing you did, but I didn't get it. (I did send one, but lately they don't always go through). This last week was pretty good. We didn't do so great on lessons, but Monday I went to Poly days with Elder Pekipaki since his comp didn't want to go. We went to Sunnyvale and met up with other Polynesians of the mission, which quite a few of them were ones I had served around in Menlo Park. We played volleyball, rugby, ate food, and listened to people play guitar and the uke. It was a lot of fun!!!!!!! On Tuesday, we had Zone Conference that lasted from about 8 a.m. to 4 p.m. It was long, but really good. They did a Q & A at the beginning so we could ask president and his counselors questions about almost anything. A lot of the questions were about the future like how to prepare for a spouse or family, how to balance family, work, and church, how to get a good eduction, what we should do about college, how to stay focused on the mission, and other questions like that. It was really good. I can't remember the answers, but I took notes. A lot of the advice was really good. We did that for about 2 hours I think. That was the best part. Then we heard from some of the senior missionaries about cars and housing, then had lunch. We then came back and listened to President Watkins and Sister Watkins speak. They are both awesome speakers! They always have really good talks! On Wednesday, we did service down in Gilroy handing out food to people who need it. Then, we did some more service after that. We then went around trying to visit people. After that, we went on splits with some members of the ward in the evening and visited some more people. On Saturday, we helped clean up one of the high school's here in town, Live Oak, and were there from about 8-12 and they fed us afterwards. That night we went to the adult session of Stake Conference and that was really good, as well. The missionaries had to sing in it. President and Sister Watkins spoke again and it was really good as always. They spoke along with the Stake President and his counselors. On Sunday, we had Stake Conference, which was very good. President and Sister Watkins came back and spoke again about love, faith, and missionary work. The rest of Sunday was alright. We went and tried visiting some people, but no one was home, so then we had dinner with the Faulk family and they made really good chicken! After that, we went and visited Mama Smith.....it's always fun to go over there-haha. That was basically my week. Hopefully, your week went well. I look forward to hearing from you! Just so you know, transfer calls are coming up Saturday, so we'll see what happens!
Love ya,
Ofa Atu,
Elder Whaley
Mom,
I don't know if you sent an email or not, I'm guessing you did, but I didn't get it. (I did send one, but lately they don't always go through). This last week was pretty good. We didn't do so great on lessons, but Monday I went to Poly days with Elder Pekipaki since his comp didn't want to go. We went to Sunnyvale and met up with other Polynesians of the mission, which quite a few of them were ones I had served around in Menlo Park. We played volleyball, rugby, ate food, and listened to people play guitar and the uke. It was a lot of fun!!!!!!! On Tuesday, we had Zone Conference that lasted from about 8 a.m. to 4 p.m. It was long, but really good. They did a Q & A at the beginning so we could ask president and his counselors questions about almost anything. A lot of the questions were about the future like how to prepare for a spouse or family, how to balance family, work, and church, how to get a good eduction, what we should do about college, how to stay focused on the mission, and other questions like that. It was really good. I can't remember the answers, but I took notes. A lot of the advice was really good. We did that for about 2 hours I think. That was the best part. Then we heard from some of the senior missionaries about cars and housing, then had lunch. We then came back and listened to President Watkins and Sister Watkins speak. They are both awesome speakers! They always have really good talks! On Wednesday, we did service down in Gilroy handing out food to people who need it. Then, we did some more service after that. We then went around trying to visit people. After that, we went on splits with some members of the ward in the evening and visited some more people. On Saturday, we helped clean up one of the high school's here in town, Live Oak, and were there from about 8-12 and they fed us afterwards. That night we went to the adult session of Stake Conference and that was really good, as well. The missionaries had to sing in it. President and Sister Watkins spoke again and it was really good as always. They spoke along with the Stake President and his counselors. On Sunday, we had Stake Conference, which was very good. President and Sister Watkins came back and spoke again about love, faith, and missionary work. The rest of Sunday was alright. We went and tried visiting some people, but no one was home, so then we had dinner with the Faulk family and they made really good chicken! After that, we went and visited Mama Smith.....it's always fun to go over there-haha. That was basically my week. Hopefully, your week went well. I look forward to hearing from you! Just so you know, transfer calls are coming up Saturday, so we'll see what happens!
Love ya,
Ofa Atu,
Elder Whaley
Sunday, May 18, 2014
15 Months in the Field!
5-5-14
Mon, time is going by so fast! It's crazy! It sounds like you had a pretty good week! That's good you fed the sister missionaries and had Brittney and her husband over! I'm glad to hear that you and Dad went to the temple. You should go more often, it will help out with things that are going on! I love going to the temple when we get to! Thanks for getting ahold of USU-I'll watch for an email from them. Chalmers is leaving.....NOOOOOOO-that really stinks!
This week was pretty good. Looking back, we had 20 lessons with 9 non-member and 8 less actives. It was pretty good, which was surprising since most of our appointments cancelled on us this week, which stunk at the time. But, it all worked out! On Monday, we visited Lola Rodriguez-a lady we had contacted the week previous. She invited us into her home and we taught a quick, simple restoration lesson since they were asking us a lot of questions-which was great! Then, we were about to leave and she invited us to stay and eat with them since it was her son-in-law's birthday. We didn't have dinner scheduled that night, so we stayed and the rest of the family tricked in through the evening and it was awesome. We got bombarded with questions, but they loved it and they said they wanted to come to church on Sunday and we hadn't even invited them yet! It was super cool and her daughter-in-law invited us over to dinner on Tuesday, but we couldn't make it to that, but it was awesome! They are a super cool family! Two days before Sunday, they texted and said something came up so they couldn't make it on Sunday, but they would call us when they were going to come, since they wanted to go. On Tuesday, we taught Douglas, and investigator, and that went well. We invited him to church and he said he would be there, then it ended up he couldn't make it, but he called us saying he was sorry he couldn't make it and that he'll try to make it next time. Wednesday, we did service at St. Joseph's, another church, handing out food to homeless people and people that need it. Then our splits cancelled with the Sweats and Stebbin's-two people we really needed to see! Thursday, we had dinner with a part-member that went well. We then caught a less-active at home who we haven't seen for a while, so that was good! Friday, we were doing weekly planning and a part member family called us up really needing us to do service for them, so we went over and helped them out. It was great! Later that night, we taught Brad Rentfrow and we have another appointment with him this week, so things are going well. Saturday morning we had a Bible bash with a guy at Starbucks that we had met 2 weeks ago. We'll see what happens. He wants to meet with us again. On Sunday, we had a great testimony meeting, but non of our people showed up, which stunk, but hopefully, they come next week. We had dinner with the Fisher's that night and they made 3 racks of ribs....I ate a side of a cow-haha! He was my first ward mission leader in my first area, it was pretty cool. We then picked up a new investigator and talked about the church and the church he just joined, so we're going to meet with him on Tuesday. So, in all, we had a pretty good week. Hopefully, we have mother! Hopefully, you guys do too! Love ya! Talk to ya soon!
Ofa Atu
Elder Whaley
Mon, time is going by so fast! It's crazy! It sounds like you had a pretty good week! That's good you fed the sister missionaries and had Brittney and her husband over! I'm glad to hear that you and Dad went to the temple. You should go more often, it will help out with things that are going on! I love going to the temple when we get to! Thanks for getting ahold of USU-I'll watch for an email from them. Chalmers is leaving.....NOOOOOOO-that really stinks!
This week was pretty good. Looking back, we had 20 lessons with 9 non-member and 8 less actives. It was pretty good, which was surprising since most of our appointments cancelled on us this week, which stunk at the time. But, it all worked out! On Monday, we visited Lola Rodriguez-a lady we had contacted the week previous. She invited us into her home and we taught a quick, simple restoration lesson since they were asking us a lot of questions-which was great! Then, we were about to leave and she invited us to stay and eat with them since it was her son-in-law's birthday. We didn't have dinner scheduled that night, so we stayed and the rest of the family tricked in through the evening and it was awesome. We got bombarded with questions, but they loved it and they said they wanted to come to church on Sunday and we hadn't even invited them yet! It was super cool and her daughter-in-law invited us over to dinner on Tuesday, but we couldn't make it to that, but it was awesome! They are a super cool family! Two days before Sunday, they texted and said something came up so they couldn't make it on Sunday, but they would call us when they were going to come, since they wanted to go. On Tuesday, we taught Douglas, and investigator, and that went well. We invited him to church and he said he would be there, then it ended up he couldn't make it, but he called us saying he was sorry he couldn't make it and that he'll try to make it next time. Wednesday, we did service at St. Joseph's, another church, handing out food to homeless people and people that need it. Then our splits cancelled with the Sweats and Stebbin's-two people we really needed to see! Thursday, we had dinner with a part-member that went well. We then caught a less-active at home who we haven't seen for a while, so that was good! Friday, we were doing weekly planning and a part member family called us up really needing us to do service for them, so we went over and helped them out. It was great! Later that night, we taught Brad Rentfrow and we have another appointment with him this week, so things are going well. Saturday morning we had a Bible bash with a guy at Starbucks that we had met 2 weeks ago. We'll see what happens. He wants to meet with us again. On Sunday, we had a great testimony meeting, but non of our people showed up, which stunk, but hopefully, they come next week. We had dinner with the Fisher's that night and they made 3 racks of ribs....I ate a side of a cow-haha! He was my first ward mission leader in my first area, it was pretty cool. We then picked up a new investigator and talked about the church and the church he just joined, so we're going to meet with him on Tuesday. So, in all, we had a pretty good week. Hopefully, we have mother! Hopefully, you guys do too! Love ya! Talk to ya soon!
Ofa Atu
Elder Whaley
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Sunday, May 4, 2014
The Week's Rundown
4-28-14
Ahhhhhh mom, why do you remind me of how long I've been out? I don't want to know-haha! It's going by way too fast! Man, Austin's been out 10 months-that's crazy! Well, I'm glad you were able to visit with Uncle Craig-that's always good. Mom, you sang in Sacrament-that's great!
Well, this week was awesome! We had 22 lessons and 10 of those were non-members. A couple of them we're going back this next week for a return appointment and we did 13 hours of service! I am freakin' tired though! That's a good sign I guess, but no fun to be tired! There were so many things going on, but it was awesome! We had 6 lessons on Friday and most of them were non-members! On Monday, I mentioned that we were able to go to Monterey, which was cool. We didn't get to go to the beach, which was disappointing, but it was really pretty. We drove up by Big Sir and Fifer beach and over by Carmel and over by Monterey Warf/boardwalk. I wish we just had more time! On Tuesday, it was a pretty slow day for the most part. We taught a guy named Douglas and he was doing pretty good. He played a couple of songs he made on his guitar, then we had a little time right before dinner, so we drove to the top of our area, up by Henry Cove park and that was pretty cool. Then, we had dinner with the Howards, which is a super cool family. Their boys are going to BYUI and their son Taylor is in the same mission as Thomas M. and Sister Howard thinks she has heard Thomas' name mentioned once. Supposedly, Thomas took her son's spot in an area. On Wednesday, we got stuck in Gilroy with the other Elders since they wanted to carpool. They had to take their car in to get the oil changed and it took a couple of hours, so that kinda stunk since we had things we needed to do. We had splits that night and were able to make up the things we had to cancel. We taught the Sweat's and Ariel Falcon and his family-so it was good! On Thursday, we were on exchanges and I went to another area for the day -that wasn't too exciting. Friday was busy. We did 2 service projects helping some nonmembers and taught them while doing it, then we taught some people we ran into. We were trying to find people through the records, and we contacted a refferal that we are going to start teaching the lessons to-hopefully. His name is Brad and he seemed pretty interested, especially about the Book of Mormon. We then had dinner with the Deakin's, great family! After that, we went and dropped by a part member family and that went alright. On Saturday, the ward had their yearly service project and we cleaned the Morgan Hill Cemetery. That was pretty fun. We did that for about 4 hours, then we did our weekly planning and then went contacting and talked to a lot of people in downtown Morgan Hill since they had a "wine stroll' down there. We talked to some drunk people and that was pretty interesting! After that, we went to dinner and had some super good taco salad with the Green's and a sister missionary made me some Otai that I drank a big pitcher in 2 hours-it was so good!!!! After that, we went and visited Mama Smith and she always is a hoot. On Sunday, church was good, we had a lot of meeting. That basically was our week. Hopefully, we have another great one and hopefully, your week goes better! Hang in there! Love ya!
Elder Whaley
*P.S. I love the CD!!! My comp doesn't like it because I listen to it a lot! :) Oh well!
Ahhhhhh mom, why do you remind me of how long I've been out? I don't want to know-haha! It's going by way too fast! Man, Austin's been out 10 months-that's crazy! Well, I'm glad you were able to visit with Uncle Craig-that's always good. Mom, you sang in Sacrament-that's great!
Well, this week was awesome! We had 22 lessons and 10 of those were non-members. A couple of them we're going back this next week for a return appointment and we did 13 hours of service! I am freakin' tired though! That's a good sign I guess, but no fun to be tired! There were so many things going on, but it was awesome! We had 6 lessons on Friday and most of them were non-members! On Monday, I mentioned that we were able to go to Monterey, which was cool. We didn't get to go to the beach, which was disappointing, but it was really pretty. We drove up by Big Sir and Fifer beach and over by Carmel and over by Monterey Warf/boardwalk. I wish we just had more time! On Tuesday, it was a pretty slow day for the most part. We taught a guy named Douglas and he was doing pretty good. He played a couple of songs he made on his guitar, then we had a little time right before dinner, so we drove to the top of our area, up by Henry Cove park and that was pretty cool. Then, we had dinner with the Howards, which is a super cool family. Their boys are going to BYUI and their son Taylor is in the same mission as Thomas M. and Sister Howard thinks she has heard Thomas' name mentioned once. Supposedly, Thomas took her son's spot in an area. On Wednesday, we got stuck in Gilroy with the other Elders since they wanted to carpool. They had to take their car in to get the oil changed and it took a couple of hours, so that kinda stunk since we had things we needed to do. We had splits that night and were able to make up the things we had to cancel. We taught the Sweat's and Ariel Falcon and his family-so it was good! On Thursday, we were on exchanges and I went to another area for the day -that wasn't too exciting. Friday was busy. We did 2 service projects helping some nonmembers and taught them while doing it, then we taught some people we ran into. We were trying to find people through the records, and we contacted a refferal that we are going to start teaching the lessons to-hopefully. His name is Brad and he seemed pretty interested, especially about the Book of Mormon. We then had dinner with the Deakin's, great family! After that, we went and dropped by a part member family and that went alright. On Saturday, the ward had their yearly service project and we cleaned the Morgan Hill Cemetery. That was pretty fun. We did that for about 4 hours, then we did our weekly planning and then went contacting and talked to a lot of people in downtown Morgan Hill since they had a "wine stroll' down there. We talked to some drunk people and that was pretty interesting! After that, we went to dinner and had some super good taco salad with the Green's and a sister missionary made me some Otai that I drank a big pitcher in 2 hours-it was so good!!!! After that, we went and visited Mama Smith and she always is a hoot. On Sunday, church was good, we had a lot of meeting. That basically was our week. Hopefully, we have another great one and hopefully, your week goes better! Hang in there! Love ya!
Elder Whaley
*P.S. I love the CD!!! My comp doesn't like it because I listen to it a lot! :) Oh well!
Easter and Monterey
4-21-14
Happy Easter! Thank you so much for the package! I LOVED it!!!! It sounds like you had a good sacrament! That's really cool that Brian go to bless his son. Good for him. At the same time though, it's really weird that he has a child. I'm glad to hear that Jordan is going back out on his mission and is making a great recovery from his accident. You had asked about how much service we are suppose to do in the mission field. They would like us to get 5 acts for 10 hours in a week. We talked with Mama Smith yesterday and she told us she talked to you. It was pretty funny. Next time you talk to her, ask her about her dream about me since she won't tell me! Basically, from the past things, she's told us she is pretty much psychic. She slipped and started saying something and stopped midway of what she was saying. Now I want to know!!!!! Well, nothing new or spectacular this week. The week was slow and we didn't have that many lessons or non-members to teach, but we did get our car back, so that's good. Hopefully, we'll get back up to where we were before! We just got back from Monterrey. It was pretty cool. We basically just drove around and took some pictures. We didn't really get out and play on the beach though, so that was a bummer! Hopefully, next time. Dad, that book you mentioned, The Power of Everyday Missionaries, is very good. There were a couple of members reading it in my first area and they really liked it! It is good to teach the members how to approach people about the gospel. Sometimes, I am so focused on less actives and non members, that I forget about helping the members know how to share the gospel. Thanks for the reminder. Hopefully, all is going well back home and it's always good hearing from you!
Love,
Elder Whaley
Happy Easter! Thank you so much for the package! I LOVED it!!!! It sounds like you had a good sacrament! That's really cool that Brian go to bless his son. Good for him. At the same time though, it's really weird that he has a child. I'm glad to hear that Jordan is going back out on his mission and is making a great recovery from his accident. You had asked about how much service we are suppose to do in the mission field. They would like us to get 5 acts for 10 hours in a week. We talked with Mama Smith yesterday and she told us she talked to you. It was pretty funny. Next time you talk to her, ask her about her dream about me since she won't tell me! Basically, from the past things, she's told us she is pretty much psychic. She slipped and started saying something and stopped midway of what she was saying. Now I want to know!!!!! Well, nothing new or spectacular this week. The week was slow and we didn't have that many lessons or non-members to teach, but we did get our car back, so that's good. Hopefully, we'll get back up to where we were before! We just got back from Monterrey. It was pretty cool. We basically just drove around and took some pictures. We didn't really get out and play on the beach though, so that was a bummer! Hopefully, next time. Dad, that book you mentioned, The Power of Everyday Missionaries, is very good. There were a couple of members reading it in my first area and they really liked it! It is good to teach the members how to approach people about the gospel. Sometimes, I am so focused on less actives and non members, that I forget about helping the members know how to share the gospel. Thanks for the reminder. Hopefully, all is going well back home and it's always good hearing from you!
Love,
Elder Whaley
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Sunday, April 20, 2014
Wanting their Car Back!
4-14-14
Dad,
So you gave the Book of Mormon to that lady huh? That is a really cool experience! Hopefully, she will read the highlighted parts and feel the Spirit and hopefully, through you planting a seed and her daughter, she can see the joy and blessing the gospel brings! That's really cool you were able to do it! Just remember back to those people you helped and the joy you felt! You can feel that same joy even though you're not a full time missionary, but that same joy comes from helping others and serving them and bringing the light of Christ into their life! Just remember back to your successful moments in your mission and try using them somehow! Good luck with the rest of your missionary work!
Well, this week was alright. We have been on bikes the last 2 weeks since our car is in the shop since a previous missionary cracked it and didn't fix it. Our area is big, so we were full car before, so we haven't been able to go up into the hills at all really, so the work has taken a hit and this week wasn't that great with lessons and things like that! We had meetings throughout the week, as well! This week was a little slow! We are starting up splits with the ward this Wednesday, so that should be awesome and we'll hopefully get the work to pick up from the low weeks! On Friday, we just walked around Morgan Hill all day looking for people to teach since we didn't have anyone for the day, but we were able to teach the 1st lesson to a couple of people on the streets, but they weren't really interested, though! We only really have one family that we are teaching right now-the Falcon family-but they look ready, so we'll see! Last night was great! They had the outgoing fireside for the missionaries going home and my trainer was one of them and basically gave his last testimony! It was super good! It's super weird that he will be on a plane on Wednesday going home! Time flies by super fast! Another Elder that I lived with, Elder Anderson, is also going home, as well, with some other sisters I served around! They were great testimonies! Those firesides are the best! Man, it's weird watching people you served with and around start to go home! Ahhhh! The sisters I came out with go home in August. It's super crazy! They only have like 4 months left! Hopefully, this week goes better for us and hopefully, we'll get the car back this week! Well, I hope all goes well for you and you find great success! Love ya!
Elder Whaley
Dad,
So you gave the Book of Mormon to that lady huh? That is a really cool experience! Hopefully, she will read the highlighted parts and feel the Spirit and hopefully, through you planting a seed and her daughter, she can see the joy and blessing the gospel brings! That's really cool you were able to do it! Just remember back to those people you helped and the joy you felt! You can feel that same joy even though you're not a full time missionary, but that same joy comes from helping others and serving them and bringing the light of Christ into their life! Just remember back to your successful moments in your mission and try using them somehow! Good luck with the rest of your missionary work!
Well, this week was alright. We have been on bikes the last 2 weeks since our car is in the shop since a previous missionary cracked it and didn't fix it. Our area is big, so we were full car before, so we haven't been able to go up into the hills at all really, so the work has taken a hit and this week wasn't that great with lessons and things like that! We had meetings throughout the week, as well! This week was a little slow! We are starting up splits with the ward this Wednesday, so that should be awesome and we'll hopefully get the work to pick up from the low weeks! On Friday, we just walked around Morgan Hill all day looking for people to teach since we didn't have anyone for the day, but we were able to teach the 1st lesson to a couple of people on the streets, but they weren't really interested, though! We only really have one family that we are teaching right now-the Falcon family-but they look ready, so we'll see! Last night was great! They had the outgoing fireside for the missionaries going home and my trainer was one of them and basically gave his last testimony! It was super good! It's super weird that he will be on a plane on Wednesday going home! Time flies by super fast! Another Elder that I lived with, Elder Anderson, is also going home, as well, with some other sisters I served around! They were great testimonies! Those firesides are the best! Man, it's weird watching people you served with and around start to go home! Ahhhh! The sisters I came out with go home in August. It's super crazy! They only have like 4 months left! Hopefully, this week goes better for us and hopefully, we'll get the car back this week! Well, I hope all goes well for you and you find great success! Love ya!
Elder Whaley
14 Months and Counting!
4-7-14
Nooooooooooo! Don't remind me how long I've been out! I don't know what you're talking about. I have only been out 6 months-haha! I'm going to extend-hopefully! :) Things are going alright with my comp and the other elders. There's always things that come up, but they usually settle down. I just found out that one of my companions, Elder Dalton, is getting married this month! It's crazy! Man, I didn't read the whole April Fools thing at first and it scared me-haha. It sounds like you had fun going on a spontaneous drive! I loved General Conference. All of it was Super Good! I especially liked the priesthood session! We tried to invite people to come and watch, but no one came. We watched the first session on a computer in the Family History Center, then we watched the rest of the sessions in the chapel and it was basically just missionaries! There were lots of scriptures that I enjoyed, but I can't remember them right now. They're more of in the moment scriptures, I guess. Mother's Day is 5 weeks away? Wow! Time is going by too FAST!
This last week was really good. A missionary before me, had cracked the bumper on our car, so we had to take it in to get fixed on Monday and it was supposed to be done Friday. We were on bikes all week, which kinda killed the work since we couldn't really go into the hills. We've already done it once and it stunk. It was WAY too steep. It rained a lot and hard the first part of the week-so that was fun. We ended up getting to go to the temple on Wednesday with Elder Pekipaki and Elder Jenkins! We stayed overnight at their place since we were leaving early in the morning with them and that was lots of fun! Going to the temple was super fun! I LOVE going to the temple. It is soooooo great and VERY uplifting! We got to see the new video-it was really good! I enjoyed it! The air was clear this time, so you could see the Golden Gate, San Francisco, and other cities from a distance-it was pretty cool! Then, we went to eat after with the member that drove us up there and we just went to In-and-Out Burger and McDonald's and killed 4 burgers-it was super good! On Saturday, we watched Conference basically all day and had pizza delivered to the church. Then, on Sunday, we watched conference for most of the day-it was great! Oh-I forgot-we found out on Friday that the car wasn't finished when we called in because someone messed up on the paperwork and got the wrong bumper or something, so it will be in there another week! Dang it! My camera is in there so I didn't have it when we went to the temple! That means we are on bikes again yahoo.....not! We'll see how this next week goes! The sister missionaries stopped by huh? Interesting! Maybe there was a reason. Maybe it was a sign to do more missionary work or something. Especially with the prophet and apostles just talking about sharing the gospel! Hopefully, you guys can help them out by finding someone and feeding them! I'm sure they would appreciate it! It definitely takes stepping out of your comfort zone! You guys can do it! Good luck and keep me updated! Hopefully, all goes well for you guys back home and you have a great week! Love Ya!
Elder Whaley
Nooooooooooo! Don't remind me how long I've been out! I don't know what you're talking about. I have only been out 6 months-haha! I'm going to extend-hopefully! :) Things are going alright with my comp and the other elders. There's always things that come up, but they usually settle down. I just found out that one of my companions, Elder Dalton, is getting married this month! It's crazy! Man, I didn't read the whole April Fools thing at first and it scared me-haha. It sounds like you had fun going on a spontaneous drive! I loved General Conference. All of it was Super Good! I especially liked the priesthood session! We tried to invite people to come and watch, but no one came. We watched the first session on a computer in the Family History Center, then we watched the rest of the sessions in the chapel and it was basically just missionaries! There were lots of scriptures that I enjoyed, but I can't remember them right now. They're more of in the moment scriptures, I guess. Mother's Day is 5 weeks away? Wow! Time is going by too FAST!
This last week was really good. A missionary before me, had cracked the bumper on our car, so we had to take it in to get fixed on Monday and it was supposed to be done Friday. We were on bikes all week, which kinda killed the work since we couldn't really go into the hills. We've already done it once and it stunk. It was WAY too steep. It rained a lot and hard the first part of the week-so that was fun. We ended up getting to go to the temple on Wednesday with Elder Pekipaki and Elder Jenkins! We stayed overnight at their place since we were leaving early in the morning with them and that was lots of fun! Going to the temple was super fun! I LOVE going to the temple. It is soooooo great and VERY uplifting! We got to see the new video-it was really good! I enjoyed it! The air was clear this time, so you could see the Golden Gate, San Francisco, and other cities from a distance-it was pretty cool! Then, we went to eat after with the member that drove us up there and we just went to In-and-Out Burger and McDonald's and killed 4 burgers-it was super good! On Saturday, we watched Conference basically all day and had pizza delivered to the church. Then, on Sunday, we watched conference for most of the day-it was great! Oh-I forgot-we found out on Friday that the car wasn't finished when we called in because someone messed up on the paperwork and got the wrong bumper or something, so it will be in there another week! Dang it! My camera is in there so I didn't have it when we went to the temple! That means we are on bikes again yahoo.....not! We'll see how this next week goes! The sister missionaries stopped by huh? Interesting! Maybe there was a reason. Maybe it was a sign to do more missionary work or something. Especially with the prophet and apostles just talking about sharing the gospel! Hopefully, you guys can help them out by finding someone and feeding them! I'm sure they would appreciate it! It definitely takes stepping out of your comfort zone! You guys can do it! Good luck and keep me updated! Hopefully, all goes well for you guys back home and you have a great week! Love Ya!
Elder Whaley
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