Zone Conference
New Year's Eve
Christmas Conference with Elder Hinckley
January Transfers
One to make you smile! ;)
*Thank you, Sister Winn!
September 6, 2013 - Down on the Farm
11 years ago
Wednesday, February 9, 2011
Monday, February 7, 2011
February 7, 2011 Email...Short and Sweet
We are having some great experiences and are being given tremendous opportunities to share the gospel. I know Heavenly Father will provide a way to get things done. Thanks for everything. Love you!
Elder Partridge.
*Don't know why, but this is all we got this week. Better than nothing!
Elder Partridge.
*Don't know why, but this is all we got this week. Better than nothing!
Monday, January 31, 2011
January 31, 2011 Email
What's happening,
So the baptism yesterday was absolutely fantabulous! A good way to describe it was Mason got shoved under the water and yanked...yes yanked back up off his feet by his uncle. And his dad came to the confirmation yesterday. It was up in the air if he would be coming, but I'm way glad he did. Salena's baptism had to get pushed back to the 12th of Feb. due to Stake Conference next weekend, but it's gonna happen. And Mason did a great job of making us nervous for the confirmation. He literally came at the last second. When Bishop got up to conduct and start the meeting is right when Mason got there.
We had a crazy Sunday yesterday. We spoke in 2 wards, back to back, and the second ward we were speaking in was the same time as Mason's confirmation. So we spoke with the Bishop and we did the confirmation first in all the items of ward business so we could take off. How sweet. When we got to the ward we were speaking at, they were administering the sacrament and so we waited until he excused the priesthood brethren to sit in the congregation. As we walked in at that moment, he saw us, and the whole Bishopric gave a huge sigh of relief. Even though we told them ahead of time what was going on. But I gave one of the best talks ever, probably because we weren't sitting on the stand to get nervous at all before we had to speak. The Bishopric took care of that for us. haha
We got a pretty legit referral yesterday at church. There's a family across the street from us (the Stewarts) that have made up their minds that they are coming to church every week from now on (and they were less-active). They have a son over baptismal age, so we're going to drop by and talk to them ASAP.
Anywho, enough chit chat. My new comp is Elder Aguilar...as in the same Elder Aguilar that came out the same time as me...and we were in the MTC together. I might have sent home some pics with him in them. He's the brown one. haha It's really cool to see how he's grown as a missionary and some experiences he's had while serving downtown. He's eaten dinner with Pres. Monson, gone teaching with Elder Holland and Elder Oaks, and given a talk in front of them, etc. He's also baptized a hecka ton of people! So I hope it follows him still and we get even more people to teach. There's never a dull moment with him. He loves me and jokes with me so much about all our inadequacies. And YES HE CAN DRIVE. I was scared at transfers though, because it said on the paper "bike area" on it. So we talked with Elder Chase (the car Czar) and to make a long story short, we got everything worked out, and we have a car. The district stayed a lot the same. Only Elder Orme, Elder Johnson, and Elder Evans left the district, but the feeling is pretty different with that little change. A bit more my personality. I don't really have more to do than normal from it though. Just the same stuff which keeps me busy enough.
I know that whatever is supposed to happen will. It's like they said in your Ward Conference, "Nothing happens by coincidence." I'm excited for the before and after pics of L. Those are always great.
Cool to hear Kayla was in Provo. An Elder just came into the district from Provo. He sent he papers in from Florida, but is from Provo. And I thought I got called close to home.
Anywho, that's about it. Love you guys. Pray for you always. Make life a blast! Live the Gospel and love every second of it! It's true!
Love Elder Partridge.
So the baptism yesterday was absolutely fantabulous! A good way to describe it was Mason got shoved under the water and yanked...yes yanked back up off his feet by his uncle. And his dad came to the confirmation yesterday. It was up in the air if he would be coming, but I'm way glad he did. Salena's baptism had to get pushed back to the 12th of Feb. due to Stake Conference next weekend, but it's gonna happen. And Mason did a great job of making us nervous for the confirmation. He literally came at the last second. When Bishop got up to conduct and start the meeting is right when Mason got there.
We had a crazy Sunday yesterday. We spoke in 2 wards, back to back, and the second ward we were speaking in was the same time as Mason's confirmation. So we spoke with the Bishop and we did the confirmation first in all the items of ward business so we could take off. How sweet. When we got to the ward we were speaking at, they were administering the sacrament and so we waited until he excused the priesthood brethren to sit in the congregation. As we walked in at that moment, he saw us, and the whole Bishopric gave a huge sigh of relief. Even though we told them ahead of time what was going on. But I gave one of the best talks ever, probably because we weren't sitting on the stand to get nervous at all before we had to speak. The Bishopric took care of that for us. haha
We got a pretty legit referral yesterday at church. There's a family across the street from us (the Stewarts) that have made up their minds that they are coming to church every week from now on (and they were less-active). They have a son over baptismal age, so we're going to drop by and talk to them ASAP.
Anywho, enough chit chat. My new comp is Elder Aguilar...as in the same Elder Aguilar that came out the same time as me...and we were in the MTC together. I might have sent home some pics with him in them. He's the brown one. haha It's really cool to see how he's grown as a missionary and some experiences he's had while serving downtown. He's eaten dinner with Pres. Monson, gone teaching with Elder Holland and Elder Oaks, and given a talk in front of them, etc. He's also baptized a hecka ton of people! So I hope it follows him still and we get even more people to teach. There's never a dull moment with him. He loves me and jokes with me so much about all our inadequacies. And YES HE CAN DRIVE. I was scared at transfers though, because it said on the paper "bike area" on it. So we talked with Elder Chase (the car Czar) and to make a long story short, we got everything worked out, and we have a car. The district stayed a lot the same. Only Elder Orme, Elder Johnson, and Elder Evans left the district, but the feeling is pretty different with that little change. A bit more my personality. I don't really have more to do than normal from it though. Just the same stuff which keeps me busy enough.
I know that whatever is supposed to happen will. It's like they said in your Ward Conference, "Nothing happens by coincidence." I'm excited for the before and after pics of L. Those are always great.
Cool to hear Kayla was in Provo. An Elder just came into the district from Provo. He sent he papers in from Florida, but is from Provo. And I thought I got called close to home.
Anywho, that's about it. Love you guys. Pray for you always. Make life a blast! Live the Gospel and love every second of it! It's true!
Love Elder Partridge.
Wednesday, January 26, 2011
January 25, 2011 Email
Hey guys!
I'm doing pretty fantastic. The work is progressing and it isn't going to stop. Things are still on with Mason and Salena's baptism this weekend. It's going to be crazy cool. So Salena is pretty awesome. She is always embarrassed and shy when we come over and she just giggles a lot and it's hard for her to soak in what we're teaching. But she has such a desire to get baptized; it's amazing. We are going over every day this week to help her understand all she can before she's baptized. Not to just shove information at her, but to help her understand the covenant she wants to make so badly. It is a bummer that Christian's baptism got pushed back, but you're right, at least he's getting baptized, and it's gonna be so much more memorable for him to wait and have his cousin baptize him rather than just having one of the missionaries do it. I feel lucky he asked me to confirm him though. It's cool! We have met a couple of new people. We met a couple named the Dupree's and they are from the South-Mississippi. They're golden and ridiculously solid; they just haven't seen it yet themselves. Crazy! We also added a sister named Melinda who is Less-Active (so we thought) and were teaching before, but they cannot find her records no matter what they try looking it up under. So the process now is to find 2 witnesses that were at her baptism that are still alive and remember, or re-baptize her. So now we're teaching her. It's cool! The Lord keeps providing miracles for us!
Transfers are tomorrow. We just found out the information about it today. I'm staying in the area and Elder Orme is leaving, so I'm getting a new companion. (Hopefully one that won't lose his driving privileges within the first week of being here). That is assuming that they will have driving privileges to begin with. Keep your fingers crossed!
I don't think we are the only mission with the black box in the cars to monitor the missionaries driving, but we are definitely one of the few--for now. Word on the street is that the church will be implementing it into ALL the missions. Not exactly the direction I was hoping for, but I can't drive regardless, so ya.
We sure do get to speak a lot in Church! We did it again this last week! I took 25 minutes because of this cool thing Elder Orme was planning on doing. That's love for your companion; not everyone will take up that much of your companion's time for any reason. But I thought it was a good/powerful example. Standing there silent for 3 minutes looking into the audience (that's intense) then finally talking about how much anxiety is in the air. Then refer to how many people there are that have been anxious to hear the gospel their whole lives, but don't know where to find it. Then he added more, but normally you'd just say "...in the name of Jesus Christ, Amen."
So yesterday, as with all Mondays here in Tooele, the Library and Family History Library are closed. So until we can get something figured out, we just e-mail on Tuesdays.
Elder Reta is from Red Mountain. I didn't know him before the mission, but he lives over by McKellips and Greenfield (if I remember the street names correctly) over by the WalMart Super Center and stuff.
I love being a District Leader! It's changed a lot in the last couple months of how important and how much responsibility DLs have. So it's crazy how much there is and how inadequate I've felt at times, but I love being able to have this opportunity to grow and help others in the district to grow, too.
I'm getting kicked off.
Love u. bye.
I'm doing pretty fantastic. The work is progressing and it isn't going to stop. Things are still on with Mason and Salena's baptism this weekend. It's going to be crazy cool. So Salena is pretty awesome. She is always embarrassed and shy when we come over and she just giggles a lot and it's hard for her to soak in what we're teaching. But she has such a desire to get baptized; it's amazing. We are going over every day this week to help her understand all she can before she's baptized. Not to just shove information at her, but to help her understand the covenant she wants to make so badly. It is a bummer that Christian's baptism got pushed back, but you're right, at least he's getting baptized, and it's gonna be so much more memorable for him to wait and have his cousin baptize him rather than just having one of the missionaries do it. I feel lucky he asked me to confirm him though. It's cool! We have met a couple of new people. We met a couple named the Dupree's and they are from the South-Mississippi. They're golden and ridiculously solid; they just haven't seen it yet themselves. Crazy! We also added a sister named Melinda who is Less-Active (so we thought) and were teaching before, but they cannot find her records no matter what they try looking it up under. So the process now is to find 2 witnesses that were at her baptism that are still alive and remember, or re-baptize her. So now we're teaching her. It's cool! The Lord keeps providing miracles for us!
Transfers are tomorrow. We just found out the information about it today. I'm staying in the area and Elder Orme is leaving, so I'm getting a new companion. (Hopefully one that won't lose his driving privileges within the first week of being here). That is assuming that they will have driving privileges to begin with. Keep your fingers crossed!
I don't think we are the only mission with the black box in the cars to monitor the missionaries driving, but we are definitely one of the few--for now. Word on the street is that the church will be implementing it into ALL the missions. Not exactly the direction I was hoping for, but I can't drive regardless, so ya.
We sure do get to speak a lot in Church! We did it again this last week! I took 25 minutes because of this cool thing Elder Orme was planning on doing. That's love for your companion; not everyone will take up that much of your companion's time for any reason. But I thought it was a good/powerful example. Standing there silent for 3 minutes looking into the audience (that's intense) then finally talking about how much anxiety is in the air. Then refer to how many people there are that have been anxious to hear the gospel their whole lives, but don't know where to find it. Then he added more, but normally you'd just say "...in the name of Jesus Christ, Amen."
So yesterday, as with all Mondays here in Tooele, the Library and Family History Library are closed. So until we can get something figured out, we just e-mail on Tuesdays.
Elder Reta is from Red Mountain. I didn't know him before the mission, but he lives over by McKellips and Greenfield (if I remember the street names correctly) over by the WalMart Super Center and stuff.
I love being a District Leader! It's changed a lot in the last couple months of how important and how much responsibility DLs have. So it's crazy how much there is and how inadequate I've felt at times, but I love being able to have this opportunity to grow and help others in the district to grow, too.
I'm getting kicked off.
Love u. bye.
Tuesday, January 18, 2011
January 18, 2011 Email
Hey Hey Hey,
The mail schedule is all kooky now that our P-day's changed! We don't get mail till Fridays and there's a bunch of confusion with that. But at least things aren't being lost; yet...
Delilah is 8 and Becca is 11! Their baptism was sweet! They got there right as the baptism was supposed to be starting, but it's not like we're going to do anything without them there! haha They're a solid family! After they got baptized and we were shutting the curtain, Giovanni (4 yrs. old) said, "I want to do it!", and Junior (13 yrs. old) said "I'll do it for you!" That's so cool, because when Giovanni turns 8 Junior will definitely be able to baptize him!
Actually, we are having 2 baptisms on the 29! Mason (the one where his aunt stopped us in the street and asked us to teach him) and Salena. We just added Salena on Wednesday last week and put her on date for the 29th. We were introducing ourselves and asking her questions and then we stated our purpose boldly and invited her to be baptized and she said yes like she'd just been waiting that whole time for us to ask her if she would be baptized! And then her dad (the only one on either side of his family that isn't a member of the church) said she should go to a baptism and see what it was like "because they're pretty cool." :)
Christian Guirron's baptism has been pushed back to February 12 because of Stake Conference! Ahhhhh! It should have been moved up to the 29th, but I was on 24 hour exchanges with Elder Reta (from Mesa)-which was awesome btw-and so ya, now Christian's getting baptized on the 12th. He's solid though. They came to church again this week, even though we were speaking in their Ward. I guess we didn't scare them away. Phew... ha
Congrats to K as a Primary teacher. Have fun!
Good luck to L on her surgery!
Thanks for the updates, love, prayers...EVERYTHING!!!! I love you and hope the Lord continues to bless you. I pray for you daily!
Love Elder Partridge!
**If anyone would like to write to Elder Partridge, I'm sure he'd LOVE to hear from you! His address is:
Elder D. Brantley Partridge
Utah Salt Lake City Mission
3487 South 1300 East
Salt Lake City, UT 84106
Thanks!
The mail schedule is all kooky now that our P-day's changed! We don't get mail till Fridays and there's a bunch of confusion with that. But at least things aren't being lost; yet...
Delilah is 8 and Becca is 11! Their baptism was sweet! They got there right as the baptism was supposed to be starting, but it's not like we're going to do anything without them there! haha They're a solid family! After they got baptized and we were shutting the curtain, Giovanni (4 yrs. old) said, "I want to do it!", and Junior (13 yrs. old) said "I'll do it for you!" That's so cool, because when Giovanni turns 8 Junior will definitely be able to baptize him!
Actually, we are having 2 baptisms on the 29! Mason (the one where his aunt stopped us in the street and asked us to teach him) and Salena. We just added Salena on Wednesday last week and put her on date for the 29th. We were introducing ourselves and asking her questions and then we stated our purpose boldly and invited her to be baptized and she said yes like she'd just been waiting that whole time for us to ask her if she would be baptized! And then her dad (the only one on either side of his family that isn't a member of the church) said she should go to a baptism and see what it was like "because they're pretty cool." :)
Christian Guirron's baptism has been pushed back to February 12 because of Stake Conference! Ahhhhh! It should have been moved up to the 29th, but I was on 24 hour exchanges with Elder Reta (from Mesa)-which was awesome btw-and so ya, now Christian's getting baptized on the 12th. He's solid though. They came to church again this week, even though we were speaking in their Ward. I guess we didn't scare them away. Phew... ha
Congrats to K as a Primary teacher. Have fun!
Good luck to L on her surgery!
Thanks for the updates, love, prayers...EVERYTHING!!!! I love you and hope the Lord continues to bless you. I pray for you daily!
Love Elder Partridge!
**If anyone would like to write to Elder Partridge, I'm sure he'd LOVE to hear from you! His address is:
Elder D. Brantley Partridge
Utah Salt Lake City Mission
3487 South 1300 East
Salt Lake City, UT 84106
Thanks!
Tuesday, January 11, 2011
1/11/11 Email
Hey guys!
We had Zone Conference yesterday, so that's why I'm a day late. The weather's not too bad right now. Only down into the single digits! I'm doing a lot better than last year. Still frozen, but it's not affecting me as much.
Emerald's baptism was amazing! There were over 60 people there! E. Orme and I were witnesses for it! She definitely went under the water all the way! There was a musical number and the whole shebang! And even though we had dinner right after, they made us eat food at the after party.
24 hour splits went good! I was really able to help the elder I was with improve. Now we just have to focus on the driving! I do a 24 hour exchange with each companion once a transfer! It is great being a DL. I'm learning a ton, from both the elders and sisters in my district and from the Zone Leaders as they help me!
Ya, I can't believe that it's already time for Dayne to work on his papers! I definitely want to see him at conference in April since it will be so long until I see him again!
So, tons of miracles have happened this last week! We met with Audrey and her kids (Jr., Becca, Delilah, and Giovanni) and Becca and Delilah want to get baptized bad! They are so excited! So they're getting baptized this weekend! It's so cool to see the whole family come to church and incorporate the gospel in their lives and immediately see the blessings come from it!
We also taught the Gierron family! We're teaching Christian who is 9 and is going to have his cousin baptize him on Feb. 5. His dad is not a member but has taken the lessons 2-3 times and felt pushed. But Sis. Gierron was less-active and is coming to church every week now with Christian and her daughter!
Also, we were walking down the street the other day and a lady stopped us and asked us to teach her nephew who has been going to church with her every week! So we went by and he's getting baptized on Jan 29. The Lord is blessing us so much! It's amazing. And I know there's so much more in store for us! It impresses me how amazing the members are here in helping us in all aspects of the work!
Sorry I can't say more, I need to go. Elder Orme has a doctors appointment.
Love you all,
Elder Partridge.
We had Zone Conference yesterday, so that's why I'm a day late. The weather's not too bad right now. Only down into the single digits! I'm doing a lot better than last year. Still frozen, but it's not affecting me as much.
Emerald's baptism was amazing! There were over 60 people there! E. Orme and I were witnesses for it! She definitely went under the water all the way! There was a musical number and the whole shebang! And even though we had dinner right after, they made us eat food at the after party.
24 hour splits went good! I was really able to help the elder I was with improve. Now we just have to focus on the driving! I do a 24 hour exchange with each companion once a transfer! It is great being a DL. I'm learning a ton, from both the elders and sisters in my district and from the Zone Leaders as they help me!
Ya, I can't believe that it's already time for Dayne to work on his papers! I definitely want to see him at conference in April since it will be so long until I see him again!
So, tons of miracles have happened this last week! We met with Audrey and her kids (Jr., Becca, Delilah, and Giovanni) and Becca and Delilah want to get baptized bad! They are so excited! So they're getting baptized this weekend! It's so cool to see the whole family come to church and incorporate the gospel in their lives and immediately see the blessings come from it!
We also taught the Gierron family! We're teaching Christian who is 9 and is going to have his cousin baptize him on Feb. 5. His dad is not a member but has taken the lessons 2-3 times and felt pushed. But Sis. Gierron was less-active and is coming to church every week now with Christian and her daughter!
Also, we were walking down the street the other day and a lady stopped us and asked us to teach her nephew who has been going to church with her every week! So we went by and he's getting baptized on Jan 29. The Lord is blessing us so much! It's amazing. And I know there's so much more in store for us! It impresses me how amazing the members are here in helping us in all aspects of the work!
Sorry I can't say more, I need to go. Elder Orme has a doctors appointment.
Love you all,
Elder Partridge.
Monday, January 3, 2011
January 3, 2011 Email
Hello my people that are AWESOME!
It's really cool having p-day on Monday, but I think I'll still get to Wed. and it will feel like we need to have p-day for some reason. Wouldn't be that I've been accustomed to that for 15 months. (WOW that's a long time). It's awesome though, because now the week will just keep progressing with the work; rolling like a stone cut out of the mountain without hands every week! But we are losing some originality! I'm pretty sure we were like the only mission with p-day on Wed. and now we've just conformed to the rest of the world! So our mission is not unique at all any more. NOT!!!!!!!! We're still awesome and will just keep getting more awesome!
New Years was pretty legit! Everyone in the Mission (except the 2 Elders out in Wendover) went to the Mission Office and we played all sorts of games. Modified basketball, human Foosball, tug-o-war, etc. Sis. Winn's YSA skills from their calling before the mission really came in handy. It felt like a big Institute or YSA activity! LOCO. We drove there in the snow and I've never been more scared in my life. But I always feel that way driving with this new elder that is the only one of 4 of us that has driving privileges. We almost got in a couple of accidents today; one only inches away! I want to drive. I'm pretty sure it would be much safer. Anywho, the party went from 5-10 at night. Then tack on time to drive back to Tooele and starting 24 hour exchanges with two of the Elders in the district and at midnight I was with the crazy driver on the way to their house with all my bedding etc. WOW!!!
Fireworks legal in AZ!?! I never thought that would happen! What a bummer that the cops rained on your parade! But I guess every party needs a pooper. I think it's pretty fun. Not quite as funny as when Kayla got cuffed on New Years Eve for stealing her own car! But good!
I'm doing well! Just barely surviving the cold. It got down to -8 degrees the other day! Brrrrr...We totally go out when it's that cold. And it's not really bad considering Lucas was out tracting in nearly -40 degrees in Canada. Please, no more hot chocolate. I still have a ton you gave me plus more from members for Christmas! :)
Cool that you saw Kristi Oakes, too! Ya I remember Cheyenne Standage. I had seminary with her my Senior year. Good to hear she got married, especially in the Temple. Good old Organ Stop! Never really realized how awesome it was until I thought about it.
I bet dad is looking classy in his new apparel! Good form! I'm sure he gets it from me! haha!
Ya I messed around with some of the settings on the camera, and it's doing better pics now.
I'll keep praying for L and I'm way excited that the other mole isn't cancerous, so there's just the one to deal with.
That's so cool that Rachel's kids pray for me! I definitely feel it! I really appreciate all the prayers I can get! I definitely feel them and they help a ton! My testimony of prayer has been strengthened just recently with L and her mole, too! Big answer to prayers!
I know that a mission has been the best decision I ever made and I've gotten so much better and grown up a ton just from this experience! Granted, I know I would regret it if I didn't serve, due to the fact that it's something the Lord requires and expects of me plus it's all I've looked forward to my whole life! So ya, I wasn't looking forward to marriage or college or really anything else. All I knew and anticipated was what I'm going to do living up until my mission, and everything after that never really crossed my mind. I know after this comes all those steps and I'm excited for it, but it wouldn't mean much/I wouldn't have been ready for bigger steps like that without serving the Lord first. All I can say about my mission is that I've had the HAPPIEST experiences of my life on my mission. It has been hard a bunch, but holy little smokies sausages it's been worth it!
That's awesome that Jackson and Talia's baby girl is here! It is weird to think about and hard to comprehend, but very cool for them. Tell them congrats for me please!
I don't remember the name of the family that knows Dayne, but do you know any Cope's or Daylee's? cause they both asked if they knew you.
Emerald is still amazing and reminds me so much more of L and Payton last lesson. Like when you said she came over and called you mom and stuff; last lesson we had was at her friend Ashley's but Ashley wasn't there, and Emerald kept calling Ashley's mom "mom" and it brought that to mind. So it's really cool!
Audrey and her family came to church on Sunday, which is awesome. Only it's hard because they meet at the same time as Emerald's ward and we weren't able to go to either of those wards this week because we had to teach part of a lesson in Young Women. But they still went! The ward's been great at helping them feel welcome! I love Tooele!
Our teaching pool is growing, in fact, we're adding four investigators tomorrow; two part member families. It's cool.
It's really weird that I'm now on my tail end of my last winter in the mission. I won't even have another entire Fall. Crazy thought!
I love our family! We went to Elders Quorum on Sunday, yesterday, and they were talking about parenting and guess who gave a comment about it...? Me! I know, I was pretty shocked too since I'm not a parent. But it was cool because as missionaries, we deal with all the situations they were talking about. Plus it was prompted by the Spirit, so that helped!
I'll try to keep being one of the best kids in the whole world for you and for Heavenly Father!
Love you tons!
Elder Partridge!
It's really cool having p-day on Monday, but I think I'll still get to Wed. and it will feel like we need to have p-day for some reason. Wouldn't be that I've been accustomed to that for 15 months. (WOW that's a long time). It's awesome though, because now the week will just keep progressing with the work; rolling like a stone cut out of the mountain without hands every week! But we are losing some originality! I'm pretty sure we were like the only mission with p-day on Wed. and now we've just conformed to the rest of the world! So our mission is not unique at all any more. NOT!!!!!!!! We're still awesome and will just keep getting more awesome!
New Years was pretty legit! Everyone in the Mission (except the 2 Elders out in Wendover) went to the Mission Office and we played all sorts of games. Modified basketball, human Foosball, tug-o-war, etc. Sis. Winn's YSA skills from their calling before the mission really came in handy. It felt like a big Institute or YSA activity! LOCO. We drove there in the snow and I've never been more scared in my life. But I always feel that way driving with this new elder that is the only one of 4 of us that has driving privileges. We almost got in a couple of accidents today; one only inches away! I want to drive. I'm pretty sure it would be much safer. Anywho, the party went from 5-10 at night. Then tack on time to drive back to Tooele and starting 24 hour exchanges with two of the Elders in the district and at midnight I was with the crazy driver on the way to their house with all my bedding etc. WOW!!!
Fireworks legal in AZ!?! I never thought that would happen! What a bummer that the cops rained on your parade! But I guess every party needs a pooper. I think it's pretty fun. Not quite as funny as when Kayla got cuffed on New Years Eve for stealing her own car! But good!
I'm doing well! Just barely surviving the cold. It got down to -8 degrees the other day! Brrrrr...We totally go out when it's that cold. And it's not really bad considering Lucas was out tracting in nearly -40 degrees in Canada. Please, no more hot chocolate. I still have a ton you gave me plus more from members for Christmas! :)
Cool that you saw Kristi Oakes, too! Ya I remember Cheyenne Standage. I had seminary with her my Senior year. Good to hear she got married, especially in the Temple. Good old Organ Stop! Never really realized how awesome it was until I thought about it.
I bet dad is looking classy in his new apparel! Good form! I'm sure he gets it from me! haha!
Ya I messed around with some of the settings on the camera, and it's doing better pics now.
I'll keep praying for L and I'm way excited that the other mole isn't cancerous, so there's just the one to deal with.
That's so cool that Rachel's kids pray for me! I definitely feel it! I really appreciate all the prayers I can get! I definitely feel them and they help a ton! My testimony of prayer has been strengthened just recently with L and her mole, too! Big answer to prayers!
I know that a mission has been the best decision I ever made and I've gotten so much better and grown up a ton just from this experience! Granted, I know I would regret it if I didn't serve, due to the fact that it's something the Lord requires and expects of me plus it's all I've looked forward to my whole life! So ya, I wasn't looking forward to marriage or college or really anything else. All I knew and anticipated was what I'm going to do living up until my mission, and everything after that never really crossed my mind. I know after this comes all those steps and I'm excited for it, but it wouldn't mean much/I wouldn't have been ready for bigger steps like that without serving the Lord first. All I can say about my mission is that I've had the HAPPIEST experiences of my life on my mission. It has been hard a bunch, but holy little smokies sausages it's been worth it!
That's awesome that Jackson and Talia's baby girl is here! It is weird to think about and hard to comprehend, but very cool for them. Tell them congrats for me please!
I don't remember the name of the family that knows Dayne, but do you know any Cope's or Daylee's? cause they both asked if they knew you.
Emerald is still amazing and reminds me so much more of L and Payton last lesson. Like when you said she came over and called you mom and stuff; last lesson we had was at her friend Ashley's but Ashley wasn't there, and Emerald kept calling Ashley's mom "mom" and it brought that to mind. So it's really cool!
Audrey and her family came to church on Sunday, which is awesome. Only it's hard because they meet at the same time as Emerald's ward and we weren't able to go to either of those wards this week because we had to teach part of a lesson in Young Women. But they still went! The ward's been great at helping them feel welcome! I love Tooele!
Our teaching pool is growing, in fact, we're adding four investigators tomorrow; two part member families. It's cool.
It's really weird that I'm now on my tail end of my last winter in the mission. I won't even have another entire Fall. Crazy thought!
I love our family! We went to Elders Quorum on Sunday, yesterday, and they were talking about parenting and guess who gave a comment about it...? Me! I know, I was pretty shocked too since I'm not a parent. But it was cool because as missionaries, we deal with all the situations they were talking about. Plus it was prompted by the Spirit, so that helped!
I'll try to keep being one of the best kids in the whole world for you and for Heavenly Father!
Love you tons!
Elder Partridge!
Subscribe to:
Posts (Atom)
