Hey Family,
Scripture of the week: D&C 10:5
Well i am happy to hear things are well on the home front. Jealous that spring has hit you in full force, but i guess it will be here sometime for me. This week was better for us here in Bedford, but still not a whole lot of teaching happened! You are correct about the ward not being to pumped with missionary work because the assistants never had time to get them excited about it! they are an awesome ward and they love the gospel, they just are not quite sure how to take their everyday good examples and turn it into effective missionary work. We are in the process of planning something to get them excited about it. We want to use the work of salvation broadcast as part of it, so we will have to see what out little minds can come up with.
Elder Nielsen is from Riverton Utah. Remember Elder Jessee whos parents you met at the wilkeys home coming? He and Elder Nielsen grew up as neighbors and now are in the same mission, pretty cool. Elder Nielsen was on the other mtc district, but i do rememeber meeting him at the mtc. If you look back at those old mtc pics in front of the map... he is the one with the goofy red scarf. Elder Childers is the one you were talking about from riverdale, i see him once in a while at meetings, but not very often because he is in maine. Ive decided that my goal is to never get to maine. Few more months here in The HAMP and then back to my Vermont.
Im a bit freaked out that my little sis has her permit, not because i dont trust her just because that makes me feel old. I am old enough now that i can actually say "remember when"! thats a weird thought. Also crazy to think dad is going to be 50 this year. Just as long as he doesnt decide to get like a tramp stamp or something for his mid life crisis. A brother in the bedford ward came in the other day and said im going though a mid life crisis... can you see a difference? we were all confused and wondering what he was refering to.. he then said... i used a blow dryer this morning! ha it was pretty stinkin funny!
Im writing this email in the mission office, they are all in staff meeting, so we snuck in here and stole the computers for a while! You asked if we have taken on office duties, and i guess you could say yes. What happens is there is too much for the assistants to do sometimes so we get called on because we are the zone leaders and are so close. President doesnt like to call regular office elders or sisters so things can get pretty crazy around here, but we make it work, and things actually run quite smoothly. This will be the first week we wont have a bunch of elders sleeping at our apartment and eating all of our food. We have a huge apartment, we have 6 bunk beds, so any time there is a meeting here in manchester we have elders staying the night with us. Gotta love it, except for when they eat my food and then make my apartment a mess. Only problem with a big apartment is having so much more area to keep clean.
So the highlight of this week was when we got to dump a bunch of coffee down the toilet...! We taught a LA and commited him to get off coffee again, he wasnt so sure about it so i said " give it to us and we will dispose of it" it was quite enjoyable!
Well family i sure do love you and hope yall have a fantastic week.
Hold to the rod
Elder Toner
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