april 2nd 2012
dear family and friends,
this week was quite good conference was wonderful. yet it was quite
long i had to sit through the sessions at church in my church clothes.
conference is like two hours later here than it is back home. so some
exciting news about transfers is that elder sommerfeldt is leaving and
going zone leader even though he has only been out 9 months. so my new
companion is elder johnson he is from the alberta provence as well. so
pretty much all i have heard about is that he is 24 and is 6 foot 7 so
he is taller then me didnt think that would ever happen. but i guess
it has. oh yeah i got your package like a week after you sent it i
guess i forgot to mention that in my email i really loved getting it!
i just love getting mail from everyone! i love getting letters from
you guys and from kandis. it is really nice to hear about everyones
life. i enjoy it. tell katie congratulations about the pagents! she
made a ton of money for school that is sweet. whoa i totally forgot
that he was that old. tell him i am happy he has made the choice to
get baptised. umm since you sent the other package to the mission home
it might take two or three more weeks to get here. remember whentn
that one guy brrowed austins easter bucket. well i say that if he is
there to stay then he can use my bucket.
the wu's the wu famioly is doing great the really enjoied
conference but we kind of need to teach them about the phophet thomas
s monson. thats big on the list for them. we are trying to get the new
member lessons ready for them with our ward missionaries. those are
the next big things for the wu's everybody loves them a ton! elder
sommerfeldt is going to be super sad when he says goodbye to them. he
is already really worrying about that because they are a super amazing
family. all of them are qutie amazing i am really excited i still get
to get visiting with them.
millers the millers are doing good they came to conference and they
really enjoyed it! matthew is a really funny kid i like him alot.
kira- haha kira had finals this weekend and a few on monday so he
couldn't attend conference on saturday. on sunday he slept in way late
and wasnt able to make it because he needs to study for finals he has
to get stright a's
Derek- this week derek was with his girlfriends family again we
are planning on him to come to church this sunday. he really needs to
so that he can get baptised.
pedersons- the pedersons are an amazing part member family. i love
going over there. and she loves having us over there. we kind of
dropped the ball the first lesson because the very next time we met
with them she asked us what was different about our church from all
the other churches. she is an amazing lady i love going over to visit
them it is kind of like i am at home when i am over there.
diane- this week we started teaching diane about the church! she
is super nice and has two boys that are 10 and 9 they like to play
sports so we might set up some games with other kids from the ward
with them at the church.
so last night president called me and elder sommerfeldt right at
9:00 so we were the first ones he called about transfers. during the
phone call he said that we could get 5 or 6 baptisms here next
transfer. well i hope this is true i dunno how were gonna do it but i
really think that we can. it is gonna be fun i will keep you guys
posted. i dunno why he has so much faith in me.... on average each
missionary baptises 2 people in a whole year........ so i think its
werid that that is the average. i guess i am quite lucky! haha i have
always been lucky my whole entire life!
so conference was great on saturday night me and elder sommerfeldt
got into talking about forgiveness and the commandments. he said that
he forgives everyone and that he lives that commandment. i said to be
funny clearly you dont know the commandments to well becasue it says
we need to forgive all men. that includes yourself and you have a hard
time doing that. it was funny becuase the very next the the first
sunday talk from conference was about forgiveness and said the exact
same thing i said the night before. i looked at elder sommerfeldt
during the talk and said i told ya so!
oh another cool thing that i got from conference is about vision.
that one guys talk was kind of boring. but i kind of zoned out during
it and really wondered what my vision/what my purpose was. you have
to have a vision so i prayed to know what my vision was. i got certain
promptings to different scriptures i have never read before. first was
d&c 16 and 18, and after that d&c 42 then after that was d&c 68.... i
probably should read d&c but yeah i starting studying d&c 16 and 18
and they talk about what is worth the most in the sight of god. and it
talked about missionary work and how happy you will be if you bring
one soul into the gospel.... so i havent read D&C 42 or D&C 68... so i
will have to check those out next week. so pretty much my vision im
suppose to follow is pretty cool so far.
sorry my email is kind of short this week but since it is
transfers elder sommerfeldt wants to say goodbye to everyone. i love
you all
love nick strobel
dear family and friends,
this week was quite good conference was wonderful. yet it was quite
long i had to sit through the sessions at church in my church clothes.
conference is like two hours later here than it is back home. so some
exciting news about transfers is that elder sommerfeldt is leaving and
going zone leader even though he has only been out 9 months. so my new
companion is elder johnson he is from the alberta provence as well. so
pretty much all i have heard about is that he is 24 and is 6 foot 7 so
he is taller then me didnt think that would ever happen. but i guess
it has. oh yeah i got your package like a week after you sent it i
guess i forgot to mention that in my email i really loved getting it!
i just love getting mail from everyone! i love getting letters from
you guys and from kandis. it is really nice to hear about everyones
life. i enjoy it. tell katie congratulations about the pagents! she
made a ton of money for school that is sweet. whoa i totally forgot
that he was that old. tell him i am happy he has made the choice to
get baptised. umm since you sent the other package to the mission home
it might take two or three more weeks to get here. remember whentn
that one guy brrowed austins easter bucket. well i say that if he is
there to stay then he can use my bucket.
the wu's the wu famioly is doing great the really enjoied
conference but we kind of need to teach them about the phophet thomas
s monson. thats big on the list for them. we are trying to get the new
member lessons ready for them with our ward missionaries. those are
the next big things for the wu's everybody loves them a ton! elder
sommerfeldt is going to be super sad when he says goodbye to them. he
is already really worrying about that because they are a super amazing
family. all of them are qutie amazing i am really excited i still get
to get visiting with them.
millers the millers are doing good they came to conference and they
really enjoyed it! matthew is a really funny kid i like him alot.
kira- haha kira had finals this weekend and a few on monday so he
couldn't attend conference on saturday. on sunday he slept in way late
and wasnt able to make it because he needs to study for finals he has
to get stright a's
Derek- this week derek was with his girlfriends family again we
are planning on him to come to church this sunday. he really needs to
so that he can get baptised.
pedersons- the pedersons are an amazing part member family. i love
going over there. and she loves having us over there. we kind of
dropped the ball the first lesson because the very next time we met
with them she asked us what was different about our church from all
the other churches. she is an amazing lady i love going over to visit
them it is kind of like i am at home when i am over there.
diane- this week we started teaching diane about the church! she
is super nice and has two boys that are 10 and 9 they like to play
sports so we might set up some games with other kids from the ward
with them at the church.
so last night president called me and elder sommerfeldt right at
9:00 so we were the first ones he called about transfers. during the
phone call he said that we could get 5 or 6 baptisms here next
transfer. well i hope this is true i dunno how were gonna do it but i
really think that we can. it is gonna be fun i will keep you guys
posted. i dunno why he has so much faith in me.... on average each
missionary baptises 2 people in a whole year........ so i think its
werid that that is the average. i guess i am quite lucky! haha i have
always been lucky my whole entire life!
so conference was great on saturday night me and elder sommerfeldt
got into talking about forgiveness and the commandments. he said that
he forgives everyone and that he lives that commandment. i said to be
funny clearly you dont know the commandments to well becasue it says
we need to forgive all men. that includes yourself and you have a hard
time doing that. it was funny becuase the very next the the first
sunday talk from conference was about forgiveness and said the exact
same thing i said the night before. i looked at elder sommerfeldt
during the talk and said i told ya so!
oh another cool thing that i got from conference is about vision.
that one guys talk was kind of boring. but i kind of zoned out during
it and really wondered what my vision/what my purpose was. you have
to have a vision so i prayed to know what my vision was. i got certain
promptings to different scriptures i have never read before. first was
d&c 16 and 18, and after that d&c 42 then after that was d&c 68.... i
probably should read d&c but yeah i starting studying d&c 16 and 18
and they talk about what is worth the most in the sight of god. and it
talked about missionary work and how happy you will be if you bring
one soul into the gospel.... so i havent read D&C 42 or D&C 68... so i
will have to check those out next week. so pretty much my vision im
suppose to follow is pretty cool so far.
sorry my email is kind of short this week but since it is
transfers elder sommerfeldt wants to say goodbye to everyone. i love
you all
love nick strobel
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