Moments from a Missionary

Dearest All Good Afternoon All, it was a great week, with a few interesting miracles. Miracles at the PUB! So we regularly deliver posters for Carnegie Hall and one of the stops is the Irish Pub in Downtown Lewisburg, so the pub and the rest of the shops etc. in downtown Lewisburg are very familiar with us. We had previously gone to the pub to hear a potential investigator play some music, and later were walking past and the manager (who we met from the our previous visit) was outside on a street bench, and we sat down on the adjacent bench and started talking with her, she mentioned that she had seen The Book of Mormon Musical on Broadway (I love it when people say that they saw the play, because I love to laugh at myself a little, and that really helps people to feel comfortable with us, knowing we have a sense of humor) By the end of the few min conversation, she asked about The Book of Mormon and she invited us to come to the Pub in a couple days, to answer her questions and s

April 22nd, 2015 Dearest Mother, Father and all else,  In regards to reaching the year mark in my mission...really it has felt exactly as one year should, at times it has flown others it has really crawled...but I know that this is my time to serve, and the year mark is bitter sweet, because "full-time missions" were never meant to be a life time, they begin and are meant to end, because they prepare they way to a life time in gospel living and service. There are greater and even better purposes I will yet accomplish over the course of my life in his service. Missions are a short time to get close to the lord then stay close the lord the rest of my life; in marriage, family, and career...there was a time when Katie and I pondered about staying and getting married, (more of just a thought than any actual consideration, because we both really wanted to go!) Because both of us just knew that we needed to go...looking back I can't believe it was even a thought, I wo

​so I discovered that I have some sort of strange thrill in organization projects, this the shed of the H family...he mentioned how he finally wanted to tackled the shed which was full of junk from before they moved there...and I almost drooled at the opportunity. here are the before's and after photographs. ​Before ​1.5 hours later cleaned out and de-webbed, snake and rodent evicted. ​Re-stocked and organized...this project was a lot of fun and the perfect opportunity to get to know better Brother H who is a recent convert and is working on getting to the temple with his wife. ​Beautiful Conference  Saturday  at the L's farm...we love them so much. Conference was spectacular...both  Saturday  sessions I was so full of the spirit and full of peace.  And Heavenly Father answered a number of my questions for both my self and my investigators. Elder Ch