Hey Family,
Scripture of the week: Alma 31:5 Alma 37:38-47
No matter how bad the day may seem to be, please dont forget to read the Book of Mormon, it will always change your day i promise you that.
Well it is so good to hear from you. Sounds like its been quite the week once again. Great to hear Pickle gave such a great talk. Still crazy to think he he is home already. the time goes far too fast.
That is great sam and the family are coming out give them all a hug for me. Also give grandma and grandpa B and Z big hugs for me. Happy to hear gram found a place that she like for treatment. She is still continually in my prayers. Grandma BL needs to be careful. I dont know how much more news like that i can handle. Please everyone just be careful. Say your prayers and read your scriptures, and remember that if we are living right, no matter what happens all will be well in the end. ill be looking forward to a package from grandma Z. My prayers will be with megan and her family at this time as well.
Well dont let me depress you with this email, and dont worry about me im doing just fine, its really just been a downer week here in the NHMM. In the last 10 days 5 missionaries have gone home. Its just been really rough. 2 for health reasons and 3 for disobedience. two of the disobedient ones are some of my very best friends in the mission, so that has been really hard this week. i still love them to death, but i just wanna smack them in the face for being stupid and then give them a big hug and tell them i still love them, but goodness soemtimes people just do stupid stupid things. Obedience is key, just be obedient and all will be fine.
We had a media split weekend here in the mission this week. That means that the members would come out with us and take a picture with us and then put it on FB or twitter and tell about their experience. We were super stoked for this, so we set up like 12 appointments for those days, and had members all lined up. well only 1 of the 12 people were home for their appointment. It was really frustrating. But oh well life goes on.
ok thats enough depressing thoughts.
we had two baptisms yesterday!!!!!!!!!!!! You are probably like wait what is he talking about. so let me give you the details. we have been teaching a couple named bill and kelley turner. they moved here from nashua which is like 10 minutes away from bedford, but is in the boston mission. well they started being taught in nashua and we couldnt get them to come to our ward so we just decided to work with them get them baptized and then let the bishop deal with it. So they were baptized in the nashua ward yesterday. Its pretty cool. We didnt get to go but all that matters is they were baptized. We did all the teaching and the boston elders got to be at the baptism. Still just a great thing for them to be baptized though.
We had a sweet mormon helping hands project this week. painted a fence at a cemetery in manchester that was pretty fun.
So this week i made an interesting dish in the crock pot i names it "white trash mexican soup" It actually tasted really good, it just looked weird. But that is what happens when you just pull random stuff out of the apartment.
1 can carrots
1 can black beans
1 can cream of chicken
1 can cream of mushroom
3 chicken breasts.
Serve atop some rice, it tastes pretty good.
Our landlord is wicked cool and he got a grill this week and let us use it that was pretty fun as well.
I was studying this week and it really hit me hard how much i know this gospel to be true. I reflected back on my setting apart when i was told that on my mission i would gain a greater testimony of joseph smith. I can now say that i KNOW he saw what he said he saw. I have of course never met the man, but i feel like i have a personal relationship with him. Its a really neat feeling that i cant really describe. But most importantly that leads me to a personal relationship with my savior who loves each of us perfectly.
The church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints is 100% true
Love you all
Hold to the rod
Elder Toner
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