Tonernation speaking here.
How are you all? from the email it sounds like everyone is doing wonderful. Scripture of the week: Alma 17: 2, 13-14. Matt 10:39.
Oh my goodness where do i even start for this week, i feel like i have so much to tell, but then at the same time not much really happened, but it was still such an amazing week.
I have been going through my General Conference notes trying to decide what talks were my favorite, but i really can not think of one single talk that was my absolute favorite. I took 34 pages of notes, yes 34. I was writing like crazy trying to take in every little thing that i heard. It was the neatest conference experience i have ever had. Being a missionary i have been able to learn so much more from everything than when i was back home, its so great. So here are just a few of my favorite ish ones. but once again they were all so incredible.
Of course the first one that really stood out to me was President Eyrings in the saturday morning session. i love how he talks, he gives such powerful witnesses, and the whole time he is usually crying, but in my conference notes at the bottom of his talk i wrote "i hope my whole family was able to hear this talk". Also loved Elder Cook's from saturday afternoon, Stanley Ellis from saturday afternoon, and Russel M. Neilsen's from saturday noon.
Two that really stood out to me in The Priesthood Session were Tad R. Callister, and President monsons. Some of my favorites from sunday were, President Uctdorf's in the morning, Elder Anderson's, L. Whitney Clayton, L. Tom Perry, Elder Holland's of course, And Bruce D. Porter. But there were so many others that were fantastic as well.
Starting my first transfer in the mission i started writing quotes on the front of my planner. They range from prophets to ward members to family, quotes just by anyone really that help me feel better about the work, this transfers quotes are of course all from conference, well except for the one by uncle bruce about obedience.
Here are some of the quotes i liked from conference that i wrote on my planner. "What E'er thou art, act well thy part", "our living god is a loving god", "Faith is a real power", "Do not die with your music still in you", "Lift up your sickle and put your back into it", "The lords way is THE WAY", "One consistent step at a time". And a bunch of others but i dont want to bore you guys to death with my cheesy quote lovingness. But hey i like quotes they help to seriously motivate me.
The work......... Well....... It is going great. Our numbers dont show that right now, but we are working our tails off. This past week we placed four Books Of Mormon a couple of church DVDs and a few Family Proclamations. Teaching will pick up here soon as we turn all of our potentials into real investigators.
We had quite the miracle yesterday after conference. One of the ward members gave us a refferal of a man who is dying of cancer, i felt we should contact him right away so we changed our post conference plans and headed to East Burke a drive of about 10 miles. The cancer man was not interested so we decided to knock the doors on his street. and then we met CRAIG. He is the nicest guy i have met in Vermont. He accepted a b.o.m a family proc and we talked to him for about 25 minutes and he just kept asking such great questions. So once again the lord works in mysterious ways.
We also had an interesting door knocking experience this week. We knocked an apartment complex that turned out to be all old people on e lady let us in and a few minutes later her phone rings and it was the land lady and she wanted to talk to me, so i take the phone and the crazy land lady just goes off about how the people who live there are very vulnerable adults and they will open the door to anyone and so they dont allow soliciting. So i said well we are not soliciting. But she was still being a butt face so i decided to be polite and honorable and we said good bye and left, but it was pretty funny. Crazy vermonter.
Talk soon love ya!
sorry- i keep remembering things. thought i would tell ya we are headed to manchester tonight to stay in the mission home, in preparation for our new missionary training tomorrow. Well elder guinns new missionary training and my trainers training im excitedcrap i forgot to put in my sign off quote so here it is,
"spreading the restored gospel of peace, one door knock at a time"
So glad to hear all the cows are doing well.
I miss them
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