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Week 15 "Thanksgiving Wee"

So I am back and ready to tell you a out my week. So on Monday night I went on exchanges in Great Falls and I was in a Trio with Elder Cody Peterson and Elder Hunter Pererson and that was really fun and that went to Wednesday morning, But on Tuesday morning we went finding and one guy walked up to us and started talking to us on how he is super healthy and keeps his body healthy and he was pretty weird to be honest because his mouth was foaming and it was pretty gross but we gave him our number and he said that he would call us. I believe that he was on drugs but that was pretty good. But one thing that i learned on that exchange is really how to become a better effective teacher and I feel like I've come to understand the lessons more and am able to speak and listen to the promptings and say what He puts in my mind, that is really what I have learned on that exchange.  On Wednesday morning we exchanged back so I went back to Lewistown. On Thursday I had my first Thanks...

Week 14 "3 Months In!"

Hello, so I hit My 3 Month Mark and time is Flying so it is great down here in Montana. So this week we just had a lot of Appointments fall through, so I don't have much to talk about this week But I can tell you that my Testimony of this Gospel has grown since I have been on my mission, it is Just amazing that our Savior has set the atonement for each one of us because he loves us so much to set the Atonement. But on Thursday we had Zone Conference and Elder Gifford Nielsen of the Seventy Came and it was truly Amazing, I learned a lot and it was truly amazing. One thing that I am going to work on as a missionary is to listen to the spirit more and listen to those promptings and act on them more but zone conference was awesome. This week we Just did a lot of Tracting and we found at least 5 new people and that was awesome and they seemed really interested so all we need to do is set up appointments with them. So honestly I feel like there is a lot of people that is ...

Week 13 "7 Inches of Snow"

Hello everybody, I'm back. This week was pretty dang great if you ask me. On Tuesday we had interviews with our Mission President and that was great.  On Wednesday we were going to this less actives house and when we knocked on the door, the less active apparently doesn't live there anymore but lives somewhere else in Lewistown, but the people that opened up the Door were Messianic Jews and that was pretty interesting, but apparently the wife was member but stopped coming to church in about 1975 and it seemed like she was a excommunicated member but we are not exactly sure, but they were interesting and they said that they read the Book Of Mormon, and then on Saturday we went to a Messianic Jew bible study and that was very interesting but me and Elder Giles wish that we could get them to understand some things because they had some truth to what they were saying but they just need to know and understand some more things, but they were interesting people. One thing...

Week 12 (November 5, 2018) "Just Another Week"

So this week has been pretty good I will say, but just another week. But I did not realize how big my mission was until we drove 53 miles to visit a Convert so that was crazy. But on Halloween we are supposed to be done Proselyting at 6:00 p.m. but our mission President gave all the missionaries permission to watch the move Coco so that was really good, we watched it at our bishops house and that movie actually has some connections to Family history so that was pretty interesting but basically we just hung out with members on Halloween night so it was pretty good.   But basically this week we went and contacted like everybody that the missionaries had met with in the past so that was good and we are meeting with a 17 year old that we just met for the first time and he said getting baptized is something he would be willing to be baptized so we taught him the Gospel of Jesus Christ and I'm hoping that he does decide to take that next step. And on Sunday we had a ...

Week 11 "Getting Adjusted to Lewistown"

So this week has just been another week In Montana.  And this email might be short, so be prepared. So one thing that's awesome in Lewistown is that all the members are missionary minded so that is amazing, and there are some awesome people we are teaching, one of them is named Stefani and she just got out of prison a month ago and the missionaries have been teaching her for a year now and she knows a lot, we are really hoping that she wants to come into Christ and be Baptized while we are here because I really think that she is ready and she comes to church every Sunday. Another person we are teaching is Mikey Patterson and he is about 10 years old and his parents are not interested but they are willing to let him chose his religion which is amazing and he comes to church every Sunday as well and even participated in the Primary Program on Sunday which is awesome. On about Thursday or Friday we were walking and we waved at this one lady and this guy jumped out of the doo...

Week 10 "Transfers!"

So My first Transfer happened and of course like I kept saying I stayed,  woo hoo!  Ha ha I'm just kidding, I actually got Transferred and a New Trainer.  So My New Companion is Elder Giles and he is from Cedar City Utah and he is Amazing.   My new area is the Lewistown Montana area.  It is a town of 5,000 people which is 2,000 more than Deer Lodge, and 4,000 less than Anaconda and 4,000 more than Phillipsburg, but it's nice to only have to deal with one area. So starting off at last Monday, so Monday night me and Elder Hallett decided to go Tracting at 8:00 at night and we came a cross this one house and we saw this sign, I can't remember what it said but it was like a no Solicitors sign or something like that.  But we decided to walk a way and I'm pretty sure he saw us, and then when we were getting in our car and we saw a cop drive past and me and Elder Hallett knew that somebody called the cops on us because why else would he drive...

Week 9 (October 15, 2018) SNOW IN OCTOBER!

Well it finally decided that it is going to snow this last week, and it's been kinda weird because snow sticks to the ground and than the Next day it's already melted. So honestly not much happened this week so this email might be short or it might be long.  But transfers are actually this week so I've almost made it through my first transfer. We should get transfer calls tonight, but i'm probably going to stay in Deer Lodge with Elder Hallett and a new set of elders are mostly going to take Anaconda and Phillipsburg, which will be good for both Deer Lodge and Anaconda so we can focus only on Deer Lodge and the other set of elders can be in Anaconda full time, so that will be good. So a couple weeks ago we met this one guy named Kyle and we got in contact with him on Saturday and he is awesome, he is so willing to meet with us so he is going to call us when he has time, so that will be great to meet with him. One thing I like while being out here is doing ...