On June 17, Danielle, Jayden and I headed out to Dugway for the "pinning" ceremony for Brent. He is now Captain Joyner. That will take a little getting used to. (Of course, at home he's still just papa, dad, etc.) I pinned on his Captain's badge and Danielle pinned on his captain's bars. It was a really nice little ceremony and Brent is honored to have been given this position. He absolutely loves his job and probably writes more tickets than everyone else combined. We're very proud of him.
Danielle also finished school yesterday. YAHOO!!!!!! It seems like she's been in school forever. She will receive her medical assisting certificate probably in about two weeks and can start looking for a new job. It gives me hope that someday she will move out and have a place of her own. However, I will miss Jayden - my little shadow - a lot.
Here's Kyle's letter for this week. I can't believe he's been gone for over six months. Wow!
Hey!
Well it sounds like there is quite a bit of stuff going on at home. I'm glad to hear that dad was made official as Captain. That's pretty crazy to hear about Jake. Hopefully all is going well. I forgot to bring my letter with me this week so I can't remember everything that you told me. Thank you for sending me the information on the Stake. I still need to call that in to the office.
This week was a pretty good week for us! We taught the most lessons this week since I have been here. We taught six investigator lessons this week, which is really good for us. We also taught 8 lessons to less-active members. We did quite a bit of finding this week as well. A lot of knocking doors. We have more than double the amount of investigators than we did when I got here. The majority of all our investigators are new.
We have interviews with President here on Wednesday. I'm kinda excited about it. It's always a good day. We have to be at the church by 8 in the morning so the interviews can get started cause we have another district that meets with us for them.
Elder Barton and I are going to be singing a duet in church on Sunday. It's going to be pretty awesome! The song that we have is only a solo so we wrote in a lot of harmonies and it sounds really awesome!
We found out that John Sawyer, Mary's husband, is having more problems with his tongue again. He has been recovering from throat cancer for the past while. He may have to have part of his tongue removed or all of it removed. They only give him about a year to live. He has to use his feeding tube for the rest of his life.
Other than that, not a whole lot has been happening. It's been getting really hot, so we sweat like crazy. It's ridiculous. We have to change our clothes just before dinner so that we don't stink. My facial hair is growing like a weed. I have to shave at dinner as well cause it grows so fast.
Well that's pretty much everything. I hope that all continues to go well! I love and pray for you all!
Love Elder Joyner
Investigators:
Brian + Leeann - We taught them on Tuesday and Friday. Thier life is finally starting to get back in order. They are finally going to be getting a new car this week. They should be making it to church this coming Sunday.
Junior - We taught him on Friday. He's a really cool guy. He is from Hawaii. We have visited with him a couple times before, but we hadn't been able to teach him. We taught him about the Restoration. He liked it all. He said he would read and pray about the Book of Mormon.
Clayton - He is friends with one of the youth in our ward. We talked with him for a short while and got to talk about Prophet and God's plan for us. We aren't really considering him an investigator yet cause we haven't been able to give him a commitment yet.
Joel - He is a guy that we tracted into this week. He loves to talk about "God." He's a really cool guy. We taught a lot about the Book of Mormon. We gave him a copy and asked him to read it. he said he would cause he loves stuff about God.
Suellen - We taught her about the Sabbath day and church. She said that she wants to come to church once to check it out. We answered a ton of her questions cause she always has a ton when we are there.
That's all for this week!
Thursday, June 24, 2010
Wednesday, June 16, 2010
The most exciting news that we have right now is that Danielle finishes school next week and will finally be able to go to work doing something she actually enjoys. HURRAY for Danielle.
Here's Kyle's letter for June 14.
Hey!
Well we've had another pretty good week here. We've helped the work pick up quite a bit. I haven't gotten your letter this week so I don't have anything to write back to. Oh, in the next letter that you send, I need you to tell me the name of our new Stake that we're in, Our Stake President's name, and the Home Address of the Stake. I need the info so I can report it to the office sisters.
For Preparation day last week, we played basketball for a couple hours and then we went to the Spanish and Har-ber elders' apartment. We played some pool and ping pong. They have like a lounge place where they have a bunch of stuff like that. It did quite a bit of raining on monday. Luckily, it was all while we were E-mailing and playing basketball. I have sweet pics of the storm clouds forming.
On Tuesday, we did quite a bit of finding. We got two new investigators as well. It's been getting pretty hot and humid here! We'll get done biking and walk up to a house, and there will be a layer of sweat on my arms. I have to use my hanky to wipe myself off quite a bit.
Wednesday, we mowed our lawn and two of our neighbors lawns. We did a lot of finding as well. We talked with one potential for about half an hour, but we weren't really able to teach him. Hopefully we'll be able to teach his whole family. There are like 6 or 7 people in his family living there.
Thursday, we had our weekly planning session, which is always a blast. 3 hours of sitting at a table trying to make plans for the whole next week is really fun. We were able to teach one of our investigators in the afternoon and then we did more finding. We visited with a potential investigator for about 40 min and we're weren't able to teach him either. He and his wife would be solid if we could teach them. We taught one of our Less-Active members in the evening. He had been coming to church regularly for a while, but then something always comes up last minute so he can't come. He's really sick of not being able to come.
Friday, we knocked doors all day until 8. Then we were able to teach one of our Less-Active members. She has problems making it to church in the morning, but she always does her calling.
Saturday, We had our meeting in Tulsa! It was awesome! I got to shake hands with Elder Russell M. Nelson, Elder Maynes of the Seventy, and Elder Gong of the Seventy! It was so cool! They gave some really awesome talks. We talked alot about being effective missionaries. Elder Nelson answered a lot of questions that missionaries had. Our ride to the meeting was President Renfro. He is a counselor in the mission presidency. He is a professional witness for people who have been in car accidents. So the entire time we were pretty much talking about cars and how safe or not safe they are. It was pretty awesome. He bought us breakfast on the way there. He talked to us a little bit about what our plans are for the future. He's a really awesome
guy! After the meeting we did more finding. We had a Stake Priesthood meeting that night as well.
Sunday, we met with Brian and Leeann in the afternoon and in the evening we got a new investigator. So overall this week has been pretty awesome! We have another mission tour at the end of the month. Elder Lyn G. Robins of the Seventy is the one who is coming. That should be pretty awesome as well.
I have my camera with me this week so I am going to be uploading pictures. I'm not really suppossed to be on any other website besides my E-mail and the church website, so I'll just E-mail the pictures to you and then you can upload them from your computer. Well I can't really think of anything that I am in need of. Maybe some cookies or something, but other than that I'm good.
I hope that everything is still going good for you guys! I love you all and I pray for you always!
Love Elder Joyner
Investigators:
Jeremy - He is a new investigator that we picked up on Tuesday. He had been meeting with the missionaries at the beginning of the year, but they had lost contact with him. He is a little bit slow, but is able to comprehend what we talk about. He really likes meeting with us. He says that he needs to come to church and read more from the Book of Mormon.
Lori - She is also a new investigator that we picked up on Tuesday. She has gone to a lot of different churches throughout her life and she doesn't like some of the things that goes on in other churches. When we first met her, she OTM'd us. We were unlocking our bikes and were about to head somewhere else when she yelled over to us. We talked with her for a little while and probably confused her a little bit about the Spirit World. When we were about to leave, we asked if we could come back and visit with her. She said yes, but she didn't think it would do much good. When we went and taught her, we taught about a whole lot of different things. She was asking questions about a whole lot of different things and we were able to answer all of her questions. She said that she did not expect the night to turn out like it did. We commited her to read the Book of Mormon, to pray about it and Joseph Smith, and to come to church with us. She accepted all of the commitments except for church, cause she was going to be out of town. She has definately been prepared by the Lord.
Kong - We watched the Finding Faith in Christ DVD with him. We talked to him about prayer and how our prayers are answered. He said that he had never prayed in his life. He had some family that became Christians and when they did, they pretty much shunned them for not being Christian. So that has kind of turned him away from Christianity. He said that he would pray and give it a shot.
Brian + Leeann - We visited with them for a while. Their car got repoed a couple weeks ago, so we got them in contact with a member that is selling a couple vans. Leeann told us that she was praying about the Book of Mormon and she had a really creepy dream that told her it wasn't true. We talked to her about how the dream made her feel and that the Spirit doesn't make you feel bad. We told her that her dream was from the devil and that she needed to continue praying about it.
Gabriel - She is a new investigator that we picked up on Sunday. She is very nice. She has four kids. Her oldest is 8 then she has twins that are 6 and her youngest is 4. We taught her about the Restoration while our exchange, Bro. Garner (our previous ward mission leader), entertained the kids. It was a really awesome lesson. She asked some really good questions that we were able to answer. She said that she believes what we were teaching her is true and that she will read and pray to know that it is true. She is very prepared by the Lord.
That's all for this week!
Here's Kyle's letter for June 14.
Hey!
Well we've had another pretty good week here. We've helped the work pick up quite a bit. I haven't gotten your letter this week so I don't have anything to write back to. Oh, in the next letter that you send, I need you to tell me the name of our new Stake that we're in, Our Stake President's name, and the Home Address of the Stake. I need the info so I can report it to the office sisters.
For Preparation day last week, we played basketball for a couple hours and then we went to the Spanish and Har-ber elders' apartment. We played some pool and ping pong. They have like a lounge place where they have a bunch of stuff like that. It did quite a bit of raining on monday. Luckily, it was all while we were E-mailing and playing basketball. I have sweet pics of the storm clouds forming.
On Tuesday, we did quite a bit of finding. We got two new investigators as well. It's been getting pretty hot and humid here! We'll get done biking and walk up to a house, and there will be a layer of sweat on my arms. I have to use my hanky to wipe myself off quite a bit.
Wednesday, we mowed our lawn and two of our neighbors lawns. We did a lot of finding as well. We talked with one potential for about half an hour, but we weren't really able to teach him. Hopefully we'll be able to teach his whole family. There are like 6 or 7 people in his family living there.
Thursday, we had our weekly planning session, which is always a blast. 3 hours of sitting at a table trying to make plans for the whole next week is really fun. We were able to teach one of our investigators in the afternoon and then we did more finding. We visited with a potential investigator for about 40 min and we're weren't able to teach him either. He and his wife would be solid if we could teach them. We taught one of our Less-Active members in the evening. He had been coming to church regularly for a while, but then something always comes up last minute so he can't come. He's really sick of not being able to come.
Friday, we knocked doors all day until 8. Then we were able to teach one of our Less-Active members. She has problems making it to church in the morning, but she always does her calling.
Saturday, We had our meeting in Tulsa! It was awesome! I got to shake hands with Elder Russell M. Nelson, Elder Maynes of the Seventy, and Elder Gong of the Seventy! It was so cool! They gave some really awesome talks. We talked alot about being effective missionaries. Elder Nelson answered a lot of questions that missionaries had. Our ride to the meeting was President Renfro. He is a counselor in the mission presidency. He is a professional witness for people who have been in car accidents. So the entire time we were pretty much talking about cars and how safe or not safe they are. It was pretty awesome. He bought us breakfast on the way there. He talked to us a little bit about what our plans are for the future. He's a really awesome
guy! After the meeting we did more finding. We had a Stake Priesthood meeting that night as well.
Sunday, we met with Brian and Leeann in the afternoon and in the evening we got a new investigator. So overall this week has been pretty awesome! We have another mission tour at the end of the month. Elder Lyn G. Robins of the Seventy is the one who is coming. That should be pretty awesome as well.
I have my camera with me this week so I am going to be uploading pictures. I'm not really suppossed to be on any other website besides my E-mail and the church website, so I'll just E-mail the pictures to you and then you can upload them from your computer. Well I can't really think of anything that I am in need of. Maybe some cookies or something, but other than that I'm good.
I hope that everything is still going good for you guys! I love you all and I pray for you always!
Love Elder Joyner
Investigators:
Jeremy - He is a new investigator that we picked up on Tuesday. He had been meeting with the missionaries at the beginning of the year, but they had lost contact with him. He is a little bit slow, but is able to comprehend what we talk about. He really likes meeting with us. He says that he needs to come to church and read more from the Book of Mormon.
Lori - She is also a new investigator that we picked up on Tuesday. She has gone to a lot of different churches throughout her life and she doesn't like some of the things that goes on in other churches. When we first met her, she OTM'd us. We were unlocking our bikes and were about to head somewhere else when she yelled over to us. We talked with her for a little while and probably confused her a little bit about the Spirit World. When we were about to leave, we asked if we could come back and visit with her. She said yes, but she didn't think it would do much good. When we went and taught her, we taught about a whole lot of different things. She was asking questions about a whole lot of different things and we were able to answer all of her questions. She said that she did not expect the night to turn out like it did. We commited her to read the Book of Mormon, to pray about it and Joseph Smith, and to come to church with us. She accepted all of the commitments except for church, cause she was going to be out of town. She has definately been prepared by the Lord.
Kong - We watched the Finding Faith in Christ DVD with him. We talked to him about prayer and how our prayers are answered. He said that he had never prayed in his life. He had some family that became Christians and when they did, they pretty much shunned them for not being Christian. So that has kind of turned him away from Christianity. He said that he would pray and give it a shot.
Brian + Leeann - We visited with them for a while. Their car got repoed a couple weeks ago, so we got them in contact with a member that is selling a couple vans. Leeann told us that she was praying about the Book of Mormon and she had a really creepy dream that told her it wasn't true. We talked to her about how the dream made her feel and that the Spirit doesn't make you feel bad. We told her that her dream was from the devil and that she needed to continue praying about it.
Gabriel - She is a new investigator that we picked up on Sunday. She is very nice. She has four kids. Her oldest is 8 then she has twins that are 6 and her youngest is 4. We taught her about the Restoration while our exchange, Bro. Garner (our previous ward mission leader), entertained the kids. It was a really awesome lesson. She asked some really good questions that we were able to answer. She said that she believes what we were teaching her is true and that she will read and pray to know that it is true. She is very prepared by the Lord.
That's all for this week!
Tuesday, June 15, 2010
This is Kyle's letter from June 7.
Hey!
So this week has been a pretty awesome week! Today it is raining, once again. I have some awesome pictures of the storm forming this morning. I don't have my camera with me today, but I will upload them next week. I have about 70 new ones for you. We taught more lessons this week than any other week since I got here.
Last Monday was really awesome! We went to Lokomotion for 2 hours. We did Go-Karting for about 45 min or so and then we did some Lazertag for a while and then some of the Elders rode the Mechanical Bull they had. I got some awesome pictures of that. For Lazertag, we broke up into 3 teams. 2 teams had 5 people on them and 1 team had 4 people. My team was the team with 4. My team never lost. The last game that we played was Elder Barton and I against 5 other people. Our other 2 teammates went Go-Karting. We still won though! Elder Barton's score was about 2400 and my score was 5500! The other team only scored 6200. It was awesome!
It has been really hot this week. It's been staying up close to 90 degrees for most of the week. It makes for a miserable day on bikes. It was a really good thing that I bought the Camel back.
This Saturday is going to be awesome! We're having a mission conference in Tulsa. Every missionary is going to be there. Elder Russel M. Nelson along with 3 other General Authorities are going to be there. I'm so excited. We have to leave here by 6 in the morning to get there in time. Not excited about waking up that early. I'm guessing that something big might be happening here pretty soon. Marlin K. Jensen of the Seventy is going to be coming here as well at the end of the month. That trip has been scheduled for a while. Elder Nelson's trip was announced just last month.
The Mashallesse missionaries just got a new car today. It's a 2010 Ford Fusion. It's a really nice car. Their last car was the oldest car in the mission. Definitely a big upgrade.
That's awesome that dad got the Captains position. I think it'll be good for him. Sounds like the garden is doing pretty good. That'd be cool if you guys did the corn. I don't know how much work goes into it, but I do know that it would all get eaten. I can't believe that your office has already moved again. When is the next time that your office is going to move again?
Well that's about all for this week! I love you all!
Love Elder Joyner
Investigators:
Mary - Mary is now the newest member of the Springdale 1st ward. She was baptized on June 5th by her husband John Sawyer and was confirmed by Elder Barton on June 6th. She had a great big smile on her face the whole time during the baptismal service. It was awesome! Elder Barton and I had to go to the church at 12 to start filling the baptismal font because it takes 3 hrs. for it to fill up. We didn't get to the church until about 12:30. We each grabbed two pitchers and had to go back and forth between the bathroom and the font with pitchers of water, until 1:30, to fill the font in time. It was pretty awesome!
Brian + Leeann- We visited with them last Monday. Their relationship is pretty much on the rocks. They have both said that they are done with each other, but neither one of them want to move out. Well Leeann wants to move out, but she doesn't have the money to move out. They got into a huge argument while we were over there. Leeann is still committed to meeting with us and is making some progress, but Brian is pretty much going in the opposite direction.
Suellen - We answered a lot of questions that we had. She was talking to us a lot about how the Book of Mormon and the Bible are so similar. She said that she wants to come to our church one day and see what it's like. She really likes meeting with us.
Kong - Kong is a new investigator. He claims that he is an Animist, but he doesn't really practice it. That's just how he was raised. Animists do like animal sacrifices and stuff. We taught him about the Restoration of the church. He doesn't really have much of a belief in Christ. We gave him a copy of the Book of Mormon and asked him to read it. We set up an appointment with him for this Tuesday. After we set that up he said, "That won't give me enough time to finish the book though." It was pretty awesome. When we go over we're going to try and teach his wife and his sister too.
Flor, Meeka, Lilly, + Pena - This is a Marshallesse family that we tracted into a while ago. We went over and they were very welcoming. They invited us in and brought a bunch of chairs into the room so they could all sit in on the lesson. These four are all girls, the boys were sleeping or going to work so they didn't get to sit in on the lesson yet. Flor is the mother and she is really nice. She has met with the missionaries in the past. We gave her a copy of the Book of Mormon and she said that she would read it. We don't know how interested the other girls are yet. We are teaching them because the girls don't speak Marshallesse. There is a total of 7 or 8 people in the house. We haven't really counted them as new investigators
yet. Once we find out their interest level then we'll decide if they are investigators or not.
That's all for this week.
Hey!
So this week has been a pretty awesome week! Today it is raining, once again. I have some awesome pictures of the storm forming this morning. I don't have my camera with me today, but I will upload them next week. I have about 70 new ones for you. We taught more lessons this week than any other week since I got here.
Last Monday was really awesome! We went to Lokomotion for 2 hours. We did Go-Karting for about 45 min or so and then we did some Lazertag for a while and then some of the Elders rode the Mechanical Bull they had. I got some awesome pictures of that. For Lazertag, we broke up into 3 teams. 2 teams had 5 people on them and 1 team had 4 people. My team was the team with 4. My team never lost. The last game that we played was Elder Barton and I against 5 other people. Our other 2 teammates went Go-Karting. We still won though! Elder Barton's score was about 2400 and my score was 5500! The other team only scored 6200. It was awesome!
It has been really hot this week. It's been staying up close to 90 degrees for most of the week. It makes for a miserable day on bikes. It was a really good thing that I bought the Camel back.
This Saturday is going to be awesome! We're having a mission conference in Tulsa. Every missionary is going to be there. Elder Russel M. Nelson along with 3 other General Authorities are going to be there. I'm so excited. We have to leave here by 6 in the morning to get there in time. Not excited about waking up that early. I'm guessing that something big might be happening here pretty soon. Marlin K. Jensen of the Seventy is going to be coming here as well at the end of the month. That trip has been scheduled for a while. Elder Nelson's trip was announced just last month.
The Mashallesse missionaries just got a new car today. It's a 2010 Ford Fusion. It's a really nice car. Their last car was the oldest car in the mission. Definitely a big upgrade.
That's awesome that dad got the Captains position. I think it'll be good for him. Sounds like the garden is doing pretty good. That'd be cool if you guys did the corn. I don't know how much work goes into it, but I do know that it would all get eaten. I can't believe that your office has already moved again. When is the next time that your office is going to move again?
Well that's about all for this week! I love you all!
Love Elder Joyner
Investigators:
Mary - Mary is now the newest member of the Springdale 1st ward. She was baptized on June 5th by her husband John Sawyer and was confirmed by Elder Barton on June 6th. She had a great big smile on her face the whole time during the baptismal service. It was awesome! Elder Barton and I had to go to the church at 12 to start filling the baptismal font because it takes 3 hrs. for it to fill up. We didn't get to the church until about 12:30. We each grabbed two pitchers and had to go back and forth between the bathroom and the font with pitchers of water, until 1:30, to fill the font in time. It was pretty awesome!
Brian + Leeann- We visited with them last Monday. Their relationship is pretty much on the rocks. They have both said that they are done with each other, but neither one of them want to move out. Well Leeann wants to move out, but she doesn't have the money to move out. They got into a huge argument while we were over there. Leeann is still committed to meeting with us and is making some progress, but Brian is pretty much going in the opposite direction.
Suellen - We answered a lot of questions that we had. She was talking to us a lot about how the Book of Mormon and the Bible are so similar. She said that she wants to come to our church one day and see what it's like. She really likes meeting with us.
Kong - Kong is a new investigator. He claims that he is an Animist, but he doesn't really practice it. That's just how he was raised. Animists do like animal sacrifices and stuff. We taught him about the Restoration of the church. He doesn't really have much of a belief in Christ. We gave him a copy of the Book of Mormon and asked him to read it. We set up an appointment with him for this Tuesday. After we set that up he said, "That won't give me enough time to finish the book though." It was pretty awesome. When we go over we're going to try and teach his wife and his sister too.
Flor, Meeka, Lilly, + Pena - This is a Marshallesse family that we tracted into a while ago. We went over and they were very welcoming. They invited us in and brought a bunch of chairs into the room so they could all sit in on the lesson. These four are all girls, the boys were sleeping or going to work so they didn't get to sit in on the lesson yet. Flor is the mother and she is really nice. She has met with the missionaries in the past. We gave her a copy of the Book of Mormon and she said that she would read it. We don't know how interested the other girls are yet. We are teaching them because the girls don't speak Marshallesse. There is a total of 7 or 8 people in the house. We haven't really counted them as new investigators
yet. Once we find out their interest level then we'll decide if they are investigators or not.
That's all for this week.
Tuesday, June 1, 2010
Hey mom!
Yes we are having a lot of fun with the weather. It's been getting up into the high 80's a couple times and that is miserable! The humidity just kills you out here. We step out the door and it's like walking into a wall of water. It's ridiculous. One minute it will be raining and then the next it will be all nice and sunny. That's the worst cause it just creates more humidity!
Yeah we've done quite a bit of tracting this past week. We've found about 21 potentials from tracting last week though. Hopefully we'll be able to contact and teach them all this coming week. Elder Barton told me that the average for the mission is one baptism for about every 18 new investigators. So we've got some work ahead of us.
That's awesome that the lady is getting baptized. That's the same day as Mary's baptism. Dang! The whole ward is going to be different when I get home! Everybody is moving.
That's good that Danielle has the goal to move out. It's a lot different being on your own. You really have to watch the things that you buy so you don't spend all your money on junk. That's awesome that Dad is going to be made a captain! With his schedule changing, is he still going to have Sunday off? The extra money will
probably help quite a bit.
Our survey for Preach My Gospel was to see how much we've grown in the past 6 months. It's to see how effectively we us the teachings of Preach My Gospel. A lot of it is kind of like a self evaluation to see where you're at compared to where you were. Then you can realize the things that we need to work on to become more effective.
We talked to a lot of investigators and Less-Actives this week. We didn't really have much of a chance to teach them at all though. If we had taught a lesson to all the people that we had talked to, we would've had a whole lot of lessons! Some of this week went by pretty slow. Mostly because of the tracting, but that wasn't even too bad.
We've been doing a lot of lawn mowing too. We mow our lawn and our neighbors lawn every Tuesday. We were mowing another members yard on Tuesday too, but now the Elders quorum is taking care of that.
Our ward choir is singing in church this coming Sunday. Elder Barton and I pretty much got volunteered to do a musical number next month by everyone in the choir. That should be pretty fun.
The only thing that I can think of that I need is some stamps. Thank you.
Well I hope that everything continues to go good for you guys! I love you
all!
Love Elder Joyner
Investigators:
Mary - Mary got married to John Sawyer on Saturday. She was very excited about that. She is still very excited about her baptism. We have an appointment set up with her tomorrow. We are going to be going over her program for her baptism and going over the baptismal interview questions with her. We are going to set up a time for her to get interviewed for baptism as well.
Brian + Leeann - We talked with Brian + Leeann about having a family prayer every night. They said that they would do that. We went over there on Saturday and found out that their car had been repossessed. So we spent the time over there finding them a ride to go down and get their stuff out of the car. We set up to come back on Sunday. We got a call from them Sunday afternoon and one of their twins (who is 14 months old) had fallen on the lamanet floor and buster her face open so they were at the emergency room. Hopefully we'll be able to teach them more this week.
Brad + Carrie- They dropped us on Friday. They said they don't feel like it's time for them to change yet. Our old Elders quorum president works with him and they're good buddies so he's going to do some work on them.
That's all!
Yes we are having a lot of fun with the weather. It's been getting up into the high 80's a couple times and that is miserable! The humidity just kills you out here. We step out the door and it's like walking into a wall of water. It's ridiculous. One minute it will be raining and then the next it will be all nice and sunny. That's the worst cause it just creates more humidity!
Yeah we've done quite a bit of tracting this past week. We've found about 21 potentials from tracting last week though. Hopefully we'll be able to contact and teach them all this coming week. Elder Barton told me that the average for the mission is one baptism for about every 18 new investigators. So we've got some work ahead of us.
That's awesome that the lady is getting baptized. That's the same day as Mary's baptism. Dang! The whole ward is going to be different when I get home! Everybody is moving.
That's good that Danielle has the goal to move out. It's a lot different being on your own. You really have to watch the things that you buy so you don't spend all your money on junk. That's awesome that Dad is going to be made a captain! With his schedule changing, is he still going to have Sunday off? The extra money will
probably help quite a bit.
Our survey for Preach My Gospel was to see how much we've grown in the past 6 months. It's to see how effectively we us the teachings of Preach My Gospel. A lot of it is kind of like a self evaluation to see where you're at compared to where you were. Then you can realize the things that we need to work on to become more effective.
We talked to a lot of investigators and Less-Actives this week. We didn't really have much of a chance to teach them at all though. If we had taught a lesson to all the people that we had talked to, we would've had a whole lot of lessons! Some of this week went by pretty slow. Mostly because of the tracting, but that wasn't even too bad.
We've been doing a lot of lawn mowing too. We mow our lawn and our neighbors lawn every Tuesday. We were mowing another members yard on Tuesday too, but now the Elders quorum is taking care of that.
Our ward choir is singing in church this coming Sunday. Elder Barton and I pretty much got volunteered to do a musical number next month by everyone in the choir. That should be pretty fun.
The only thing that I can think of that I need is some stamps. Thank you.
Well I hope that everything continues to go good for you guys! I love you
all!
Love Elder Joyner
Investigators:
Mary - Mary got married to John Sawyer on Saturday. She was very excited about that. She is still very excited about her baptism. We have an appointment set up with her tomorrow. We are going to be going over her program for her baptism and going over the baptismal interview questions with her. We are going to set up a time for her to get interviewed for baptism as well.
Brian + Leeann - We talked with Brian + Leeann about having a family prayer every night. They said that they would do that. We went over there on Saturday and found out that their car had been repossessed. So we spent the time over there finding them a ride to go down and get their stuff out of the car. We set up to come back on Sunday. We got a call from them Sunday afternoon and one of their twins (who is 14 months old) had fallen on the lamanet floor and buster her face open so they were at the emergency room. Hopefully we'll be able to teach them more this week.
Brad + Carrie- They dropped us on Friday. They said they don't feel like it's time for them to change yet. Our old Elders quorum president works with him and they're good buddies so he's going to do some work on them.
That's all!
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