May 29, 2012
hello family,
this week we had a fun week in stoney creek,
we have been out visiting the ward memebers still. the ward still loves us. but now they are only feeding us like 3 or 4 days a week so we still get fed pretty well. we talked to the zone leaders and they only get like one meal a week so that is good.
so things that happened this week. we went on exchanges with the zone leaders. it was kind of interesting. the guy i went with. didnt really care about anything....... he was also very negative about everything... he just said he was being realistic. kind of bugged me a little.
i like being companions with elder peterson we have a lot of fun together. to describe his personality he is a lot like colton starr just a little bit more serious. so i bet you can guess how much fun were having. it is quite fun. we have been working really hard. and we are trying to work smarter. so we got a grasp on everything now we know exactly how big our area is we made a map. and we know most the ward members now there are about 80-90 active people in our ward.
Sharron- so sharron boomed on us again this week. we heard some stories about her from the ward. they said she almost got baptised she was all dressed up in her white clothes and then right before she backed out. and just went to the brunch after her baptism.
this week we met a friend named terry. he is about 70 years old. he is a really nice guy and loves having us come over and talk to him. this week we taught him about what the book of mormon is. he likes me and elder peterson. so he has agreed to listen to the lessons to help elder peterson learn how to teach them. so we should be going over to teach him the restoration this week. i am hoping while we are teaching him he will be able to feel the spirit and want to change his life. he isnt interested in being converted but is curious about what we believe.
yeah our apartment is finally clean. and we have everything organized. yeah it only takes us about 8 minutes to walk to lake ontario. today it is p- day so we are planning to go swimming in the lake. im excited. :) yeah it is already really hot here. it got up to about 90 degrees here last week. but i remember the advice austin gave me about getting the green bottle.
yeah umm that doesnt sound like the elder snealson i know. what a weany you should tell elder fielding to whip him into shape. yeah maybe he was just having a bad week or something. but it is good that he likes his trainer. elder snelson was a realy cool guy.
my allergys kick up pretty bad once it got hot here. yup elder peterson thinks im a drugy probably. so i have beeen taking those pills from the ziploc baggey label allergy 1 per day. and then another ziploc baggey that says nasal decongestant haha so my allregies are better now that i have found those. oh yeah and i got 5 bloody noses this week i ruined one of my new shirts.. oh well.
oh man austin baker is back that awesome tell him to write me a letter or something even though i only wrote him like one.....or two....... i bet he doesnt like seeing katie driving his truck around the town...... yeah it sounds like his homecoming talk was good tell him to send it to me then i can give the same talk at my homecoming.
it is good to hear that zach passed preschool. but said that he came to the conclusion that jimmer likes basketball more then heavenly father. we met a guy from barcelona he said that the religon there was soccer and that their god was this one player. sad to think that people will actually admit to that kind of stuff. and believe that kind of stuff.
well looks like i am running out of time.
goodbye everyone love you,
Elder nick strobel.
P.S. Just kidding about going swimming in the lake!!
May 22,, 2012
Hey family whats up,
yeah are new apartment is nice now. it was trashed when we got here! so we have just been picking up at night. we have thrown away like 7 or 8 huge trash bags of garbage. haha i havent even finished unpacking my bags yet. but yeah we have been cleaning everything up and getting it all organized the past few days. so yeah its good to finally start feeling like we are in a clean apartment. we are all the way up on the 7th floor. one of the pictures i sent you i think is from our balcony we have a pretty good view of the city. and of the lake. the stony creek ward really loves us they were really excited to see two new elders come in. they are inviting us to tons of things. on saturday night there was a ward party. it was a" minute to win it" party like the TV show. they were really shocked when we brought an investigator named sharon to the party. everybody wants to meet us. we have had dinner appointments every night and even lunch appointments sometimes. so like two meals a day this past week. they were really excited to have us here. we have been leaving book of mormon at peoples houses with the questions of the soul highlighted and tabbed out. ( just some idea we had.) i dunno it is kind of funny every place we go to we ask them to give this book of mormon to someone. so far the families have always had somebody in mind. and even a few families said they would invite there friends to come over and have dinner with us. my companions name is micheal Drake peterson. yeah i saw elder Tyler fielding at the meeting with all the other new missionaries. haha funny story is that his trainer was my companion in the MTC Elder Snelson. we were the only young guys that were there. everybody else had been out for over a year. i thought that was pretty sweet. I am glad that you guys enjoyed meeting the Wu's it was kind of sad to say goodbye to them. i really enjoyed being with them and spending time with them and the jones family. it is nice to hear that i am going to get visitors. i guess that means that they actually liked me. so this week we have done a lot of finding just walking around and tracting and just a ton of other stuff. i am actually a little sunburned i wont peel though. it is funny because when i look in the mirror i can see exactly were the collar of my white shirt is. so i have pretty bad tan lines or whatever. so this week we started teaching a former investiagator named sharron. she is an afraican american lady. she is a really funny lady she likes the missionaries and we are supppose to be meeting with her again tonight. so this up coming week we are going to be doing a lot more finding. me and elder Peterson are having a blast here we are enjoying the time here and are getting along great. well see ya everyone hope you are having fun. Love elder nick strobel
May 17, 2012
hey mom,
how are you doing. today we are e mailing in the library. next week i will be e mailing on tuesday. yeah you found the right place the elizabeth apartments. im gonna take some pictures and send them to you stoney creek is a beautiful place. so my new companions name is elder Peterson he is from Bosie Idaho, but lived in Rigby, Idaho for his high school days. he was really big into wrestling. so he knows some of them same people that i do like christian Denny he wrestled him at state. so training is kind of weird i feel like i should still be getting trained. but yeah it is fun. so we are white washing the area. we meet with the ward mission leader and the bishop. the bishop has a nice house right next to the lake. but yeah the ward mission leader was talking to us and what not he said there hasnt been a new investigator here for 6 months....... so we have a lot of work to do. we are starting from square one. we pretty much can choose wherever we want to start. haha it is kind of a challenge. but president Scott e-mailed me today as well it was really good to hear from his e mail. just from what he said i am not worried about anything. yeah elder johnson is staying in Brantford with a new missionary as well. im glad you liked the pictures if i could tell sister jones thank you i would. mmm im pretty sure the wu's have a lot of pictures of me that they want to show you. im so excited that you guys get to meet them. just tell them that i am gong to miss them a lot. and you can also tell the jones family im going to miss them to. especially faith.... haha you should ask sister jones how she is doing with the new missionary. its a lot easier to be myself here.... im still the social butterfly ive always been. nobody here will ever call me quiet. Love Elder Nick Strobel
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