hello everyone! last week went amazing. we met all the standards of
excellencce. which means were excellent missionaries. here is an
update on all the people we are teaching.
p.s. me and my companion are only taking like half of a p-day
today so that we can go visit the wu's and deanna and matthew. we are
visiting them today because president scott is coming tomorrow to go
through the baptism interview questions with them.
brother de jong he has a conference talk for about anything. he
also has perfect hair. it is really funny. he used to be a stake
president so he is a really awesome mission leader and really helped
us with the wu family. he is from sweeden. but moved to canada when he
was a little kid. he is a really serious guy and kind of reminds me of
president turley...
wu's- so we went over to the wu's house with our ward mission
leader. he was able to talk to amy wu about his family and how him and
his mom were the only ones form his family that were baptized. this
was what amy wu was really worried about family issues of the rest of
her family that arent baptized. he was able to really connect with her
because he was able to explain with his own life experiences to
explain a lot to her. at the end of the lesson she said a prayer and
thanked heavenly father for sending brother de jong for helping her
with her problems. also today we are going over there to watch a video
with them. (and brother de jong) the video is called on the way home i
think.... we have a lot of appointments with them this week because
they are planning to get baptized this sunday march 18. how awesome it
is that they were willing to change to come closer to christ. here is
another story about the wu's we were teaching them about the law of
tithing and how you have to pay 10 percent of your increase. at the
end the asked us well what if we want to pay more than 10 percent and
sometimes 15-20%. that is just to show you a little more about how
amazing the wu's are.
millers- this week the millers came to church it was the second
time they came to church. this week while deanna was in relief society
this old lady got taking about the catholic church she said it was the
great and adbominable church, and the whore of all the earth. so we
were pretty freaked out about that. but that not all that happened.
her son matthew who is 10 was in class with duncan. duncan is a little
mentally chalenged (or as people say here one fry short of a happy
meal) and he had a freak out in matthews class and started banging his
head against the wall and kicking and punching all the kids. his
teacher who is a little lady who is 63 and has cancer. took him to the
ground and pinned duncan down so he couldnt hurt any of the other
kids. mathhew our investagator took his phone out and flimmed the
whole thing. so after this eventful day at church we went over to
there house. their date was set for april 8th and deanna said that
april was kind of busy. so we talked to her about her baptismal date
and she decided on the date of march 14... since she has only been to
church twice we told her we could do it the week after. so her and her
son matthew are getting baptised march 21st. we also were able to give
both of them blessings i had the oppertunity to give matthew a
blessing. his full name is matthew joesph isiah miller smith.... with
a name like that holy cow he is amazing.
next is Derek. we taught him the doctrine of christ this week.
(faith, repentance,baptism with athourity,holy ghost, and endure to
the end.) this lesson was really powerful he couldnt quit looking at
the diagram i drew. after a little while he said he couldn't deny it.
that was powerful he said he couldnt deny that this was true and that
the book of mormon was true. the only thing that is bothering him is
that his girlfriend is of another faith and doesnt like the mormon
church to much. he is telling her this week that he is hearing the
decussions from us.
phil Waulbourne. phil's wife is a less active member of the
church. and his son alex who is 10 heard the disscussions and was
baptised last transfer with elder sommerfeldt. but we have been
teaching him the past two weeks. he is really excited about the
church. and his wife just figured out she was pregnant.
Elizabeth Fowler- she dropped and doesnt want to hear form us
anymore. she just isnt ready.
here is another cool story. while we were contacting people
downtown this lady came and talked to us. she told us that joesph
smith was burning in hell because he was and adulturer. she told us we
were both going to burn in hell for spreading a false gospel and a lie
from a nut. she kept dissing our church and wouldnt listen to us at
all. she was trying to convert us to ehr church and at the end of her
dissing us all we said was thank you for strengthing my testimony that
joesph smith was prophet. she told us that we had a demoned spirit in
our ends. elder sommerfeldt was pretty fired up and said to someone
like you the holy ghost would seem like a devil. then this random guy
asked us a question he said if you have killed someone are you going
to hell? we told him that it was not up to us to judge and it was god
who judges. the crazy lady said of course their going to hell. this
guy said a long chain of profanities to the lady and said that some
guy raped his daughter and he killed him. he just left after
that........ as we were finishing our talking to the lady she said she
was going to follow us around everywhere we go and convert the people
back to the truth. crazy thing is she did follow us for quite awhile!
hahaha
next after last p-day our basketball had a tumor in it. it was a
really old basketball. on the drive home the sticthing in the
basketball started popping out. while on our drive back to our house
the basketball exploded in our car! it was as loud as a gun shot. it
was really funny we thought someone was shooting at us on the highway.
last week we also went on splits this was the 2nd time ive been
on splits already. this day i was senior companion because we were in
my area. i was with elder wooding. he is from england and has been out
for a year and a half. he was a super funny guy and we had a blast.
so my week was a ton of fun. it was really nice hearing from
everybody. and thank you for all your prayers and support. i love
hearing from everyone.
1. so could you send me my line of authority.
2. send me my retainer.
3.oh who all are you sending my E-mails too.
4. what is colten starrs mission address?
well i love you all and i lover hearing about how all you are doing
tell katie congrats on the cheer, ben should be pretty excited about
march madness soon, just tell everybody i love them.
Nicholas Strobel
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