Monday, October 8,
2012 11:14 AM
Well...family...how's
everything going. Good?? WELL, THAT'S JUST FANTASTIC!!!! :)
Life's going pretty
well here for us. Today is a little chillier than it has been but it's
nice. This past weekend was the seafood festival which is a pretty big
thing here in little ol' Morehead City...the roads definitely are not designed
for lots of people. I'm not positive, but I think dad may have a heart
attack if he were to try to long term plan for MHC. :)
Conference was
absolutely fantastic. I loved it!!!!!!!!! Themes, anyone??
Holy Bologna. How many of them talked about family relations???
or...courage and being valiant??? or being a true disciple of Christ ie.
becoming converted ie. becoming something!!!!???? It was intense, to say
the least. And Holy cow on the mission age reduction! Influx, anyone.
Now we know how the Lord was planning on getting enough missionaries to
open up missions in more places. Not only will that add a huge influx of
individuals who are already in those new age ranges, but more people will
continue to serve. Guys won't have that limbo year between high school and
mission, which might dissuade some people from serving and girls will have a
less likely chance of getting married in a year versus 3 years ;) I
really liked the story from I think the presiding Bishop about the one choice
to stay valiant in Japan that completely altered the course of not only his
life, but the life of his friend as well. And this story actually had a
counterpart individual that foiled the protagonist, so we got a glimpse at
where they would have gone if they had not remained valiant. Talk about
gratitude on the friend's part!! There were a ton of other good talks as
well. A++.
We had no
investigators come...again...but we did have the girl friend of this really
nice guy we talk to a lot come to a session. We invited him, but he's not
super religious and so he invited her. We talked with her at conference a
little, and she wants to kind of ease into things a little bit, but she invited
us over for dinner tonight!!!! I really hope it all goes well...which it
will as long as we follow the spirit. The guy is really great :)
super nice. Reminds me a lot of Bro. Varley. He really likes
us too.
Oh, it's also
suit season now, but President Bernhisel is a little
more lenient than others before which is nice. If we are on
bikes, we don't have to wear suits. That's nice of him :)
Anyways, my new
companion......his name is Elder Aldon Moses. He's from Madera,
California. He's the youngest of 5 boys. He's super nice and is
going to be a great missionary. :) We are getting along really
well, and things are looking really good for the next couple of transfers.
ps. I email from the family history library at the church, and a member
of the ward drove us to and from Raleigh. Elder Moses really wants to
learn and he's not afraid of trying new things (Missionary work related of
course, food may be a different story ;) ). I can already see growth in
him, and it hasn't even been a week.
So, was there
anything else you wanted to know about Elder Moses???
I received letters
from Stephanie Hiltscher, Rachel Sherman, Whitney Weda(o)m (MTC teacher), 16
mom, and grandma.
Anyways, life's going
pretty dang good right now, not that I don't feel inadequate like all the time
;), but for the most part, things are going well. This next week should
pretty good. We have a lot of good plans. Now, if we can only
prevent them all from falling through. Oh, agency....sometimes...... ;)
Not much else to say,
I'll send a picture or two.
Love,
Elder Patty
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