Sunday, August 11, 2013

August 6th, 2013



Hello everyone! Another transfer here and gone! I can't believe how fast that went! So.....Elder Berry and I are staying together for another one! I am so excited about that! We have been working really hard to build up this area and we have a lot of potential right now! We are doing great!

So first thing to talk about. Greg. Greg is a stud! He is so cool! I can't believe how ready he is for baptism! He is getting more and more excited every day and is so ready to be a part of this church! He is already super active! More so than most of us members! On Sunday there were a few other investigators there and Greg went up to each of them and started to fellowship them!! It was so cool! He talked to them about their problems and told them how he finds answers to the scriptures! He also introduced himself to the wife of our Bishop as "Hi I'm Greg and I will be a member really soon." It was so cool! We love teaching him!

 We had a really cool experience this week as the entire mission had another exchange day. Every missionary in the mission was on an exchange that day! I was with Elder Purcell from American Samoa and we had a great day! Among the cool things that we did that day we had a really cool finding miracle! We had about half hour of free time before our dinner and decided that we should just go knock the street that our dinner was on! We did and on the second house we ran into a guy that was YSA and was interested! His name is Julian and he recently finished his 3rd tour as a marine. He accepted a Book of Mormon and said he would be really interested to learn more! It was awesome!

 One of the coolest things about this week was MLC! This month we had the leadership meeting on the top of Mount Lemon! That was so cool! It felt amazing up there being that it was 68 degrees and we were surrounded by actual trees! It was great! It was weird to have an all-day meeting like that while I was sitting on a log! It was great! There was a really interesting thing that happened with it being that there is no piano up on the Mountain! The assistants asked Elder Berry the afternoon before to bring up his guitar and play a few hymns. He was freaking out because he had to learn 3 new songs and perform them by the next day and we still had a busy day planned! Ha-ha I don't know how it happened but he asked me to play with him so he wouldn't be up there alone! I haven't played guitar for a long time but I agreed and borrowed one from another Elder so we could do it! It actually turned out pretty well! I messed one of the songs up a lot being that I kept getting lost but the other was great! It was really cool!

 We had a really cool YSA activity this week that all the YSA missionaries in Tucson put together. We had a night of sports, food, and a spiritual message! It was great! We had some of the missionaries give a brief message and showed a Mormon message and then President and Sister Killpack shared their testimonies and we opened it up for everyone! Following we had lots of sports and food and everything! It was super fun!

 That would be it for this one! Love you all!

 Elder Banner!

 Ps!

We also had a zone brunch yesterday and Elder Berry and I provided the food. We cooked 32 super stuffed and great breakfast burritos! It took forever but they turned out really good!

Friday, August 2, 2013

July 29th, 2013

Oh it was a crazy week! We had a super good week! But we have been super busy today (we were actually teaching alot today) so this will be super short! Sorry!
 
We went on another crazy hike this morning! It was super long and it was super fun! We went up and saw some waterfalls (this only happens for about a month every year) and it was great! We went up with lots of people from our ward and our investigator Greg even came with us and had a great time!
 
I went on an exchange this week into one of the hardest area's in the mission and I was super happy that I am where I am! It was a good one though. I was able to help the missionary to organize his area book and get them a list of people that they can see made so I hope they can get going soon!
 
We found a new investigator this week! His name is Alec and he is solid! He has been prepared and even taught some of the lessons! We still have some things that we need to help him through and it will be hard but it will be great! We are excited!
 
We had a really cool experience this Sunday with a movie night! We went over to a member in our bishopric's house and watched "Finding Faith in Christ"! It was a missionary experience so the goal was to invite people that it would help out so we had Greg there and 2 less actives and 2 recent converts! We watched the movie which is always great and then we had a brief testimony meeting. Us 4 missionaries started it and then opened it for everyone and Greg was the first person to speak! It was great! Also one of each of the recent converts and less actives shared and it was super spiritual!
 
Greg is doing great! He is on fire! We are so excited to keep meeting with him!
 
That will be all for now!
 
Love you all!
 
Elder Banner