Dear Mom and Dad,
How is everything going? Things here are going great. We had a pretty good week. We spent a lot of time trying to get to know all their investigators and find out if any of them are really progressing. It looks like we will be mostly working from scratch. We also found some new people that we are going to be teaching again this week. It was great to be back in Ft. Myers. I think a lot of people were happy to see me back. A few people have made comments about my weight.
The branch is going through some hard times right now. Some of the members are discouraged that there hasn't been much growth lately and some members have also had their feelings hurt. But there are some good things going on as well. Yesterday after church all of the priesthood all got together and went and visited about 20 inactive/part-member families. We are planning on doing that a lot more as well. I think it will be really good for the branch. Also there are two families that are going to be taking the temple prep class. So there are some really good things going on.
So everything is going pretty well right now. It's pretty rainy today. Last night there was lots of lightning and rain. It was quite a show. But today we are planning on playing some b-ball on the new wood floor. I'm excited for that. Also Elder Welch will be transfering here today. So I'm looking forward to a great day and a great week as well. I hope that everything is going well for you! Until next week,
Much love,
Elder Larson
April 26, 2010
April 19, 2010
Email of April 19, 2010
Dear Mom and Dad,
It has been a pretty good week. With Elder Tremblay going home and the two new Elders coming out, we have transfer this week. I will be leaving Naples to go back to Providence B. Elder Whitaker will be training a new missionary. I will eventually be serving in a triple-ship with Elder Seaver and Elder Welch. Elder Seaver has been out about 10 months and Elder Welch goes home the same time as me. We will be zone leaders. But for a week Elder Welch will be in Immokalee to show Elder Arrieus the area. So for this week I will be with Elder Seaver and Elder Smith. Then, next week Elder Smith will go to Immokalee to replace Elder Welch. It's all slightly confusing but it should be good. I'm sad to leave Naples. Especially with the way the work is going right now. We have six or seven really solid investigators who could be baptized in May. But I am excited to go back to Providence B. It should be really fun.
Also, I talked to the office this week and got the whole flight home taken care of. I hope. They moved up our return date by one day, and they just added another flight to Grand Junction. So I will still be flying to Salt Lake with Elder Welch and Elder Harris then after a short layover I will fly to Grand Junction and hopefully land at about 5:50. I hope that works better for you.
Love,
Elder Larson
P.S. I did get the Easter package, thank you!
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On Sun, Apr 18, 2010 at 9:57 PM, Rebecca Larsonwrote:
Dear Elder Don:
What a week. It was tax day this week. We like to get our taxes in early, but we have a couple of investments that send their papers to us just before due date and so we are always scrambling to get them in on time. And we did it. It really is sad to have just one dependent for deductions (you). However, I am proud to fulfll my civic duty and pay my taxes.
The weather has gotten really nice. In fact the water is flowing into Recapture so fast that they expect it to hit the spillway this week, and the snow on the mountain is just beginning to thaw and melt. We will have a lot of water this year. We expected to have trees come for planting, but were disappointed. Maybe this coming week. But I did get the riding mower out and cleaned up the yard a bit.
Mom and I also went to Moab for a Scout event on Thursday. I had to conduct a district election, have a planning meeting, and then we had Chinese before coming home. It was a nice short get-away.
Marley is home and reported his mission. Apparently he had a wonderful mission and experienced a lot of life-changes. His mission only had about forty elders, half were native and most of the remainder have Polynesian blood, like Marley. I haven't talked with him yet, but the talk is floating around about how well he did.
Michael got with his Bishop today to set up the blessing for Ryan next Saturday. I think it is a great step for Michael. They were also able to get a replacement car.
I have final classes and final exams this week. Next week is commencement. Things are wrapping up fast. I am ready for the summer and new experiences.
I will try and find out about your driver's license this week. Could you tell me what your DL number is?
Edward went out with the eleven year old Scouts on a camp out Friday night. One of the boys brought a six-pack of Dr. Pepper and drank it all just before bed. They were up until the middle of the night bouncing off the tent walls. And there was a group of college students from Ft. Lewis College in the next site up playing night games, too. He just went home really tired.
We love you lots and know you are working hard. You are always in our prayers. ELEVEN!
Mom and Dad
P.S. I put some money in your account this week.
P.P.S. Did you get your Easter package?
P.P.P.S. Eleven, again.
It has been a pretty good week. With Elder Tremblay going home and the two new Elders coming out, we have transfer this week. I will be leaving Naples to go back to Providence B. Elder Whitaker will be training a new missionary. I will eventually be serving in a triple-ship with Elder Seaver and Elder Welch. Elder Seaver has been out about 10 months and Elder Welch goes home the same time as me. We will be zone leaders. But for a week Elder Welch will be in Immokalee to show Elder Arrieus the area. So for this week I will be with Elder Seaver and Elder Smith. Then, next week Elder Smith will go to Immokalee to replace Elder Welch. It's all slightly confusing but it should be good. I'm sad to leave Naples. Especially with the way the work is going right now. We have six or seven really solid investigators who could be baptized in May. But I am excited to go back to Providence B. It should be really fun.
Also, I talked to the office this week and got the whole flight home taken care of. I hope. They moved up our return date by one day, and they just added another flight to Grand Junction. So I will still be flying to Salt Lake with Elder Welch and Elder Harris then after a short layover I will fly to Grand Junction and hopefully land at about 5:50. I hope that works better for you.
Love,
Elder Larson
P.S. I did get the Easter package, thank you!
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On Sun, Apr 18, 2010 at 9:57 PM, Rebecca Larson
Dear Elder Don:
What a week. It was tax day this week. We like to get our taxes in early, but we have a couple of investments that send their papers to us just before due date and so we are always scrambling to get them in on time. And we did it. It really is sad to have just one dependent for deductions (you). However, I am proud to fulfll my civic duty and pay my taxes.
The weather has gotten really nice. In fact the water is flowing into Recapture so fast that they expect it to hit the spillway this week, and the snow on the mountain is just beginning to thaw and melt. We will have a lot of water this year. We expected to have trees come for planting, but were disappointed. Maybe this coming week. But I did get the riding mower out and cleaned up the yard a bit.
Mom and I also went to Moab for a Scout event on Thursday. I had to conduct a district election, have a planning meeting, and then we had Chinese before coming home. It was a nice short get-away.
Marley is home and reported his mission. Apparently he had a wonderful mission and experienced a lot of life-changes. His mission only had about forty elders, half were native and most of the remainder have Polynesian blood, like Marley. I haven't talked with him yet, but the talk is floating around about how well he did.
Michael got with his Bishop today to set up the blessing for Ryan next Saturday. I think it is a great step for Michael. They were also able to get a replacement car.
I have final classes and final exams this week. Next week is commencement. Things are wrapping up fast. I am ready for the summer and new experiences.
I will try and find out about your driver's license this week. Could you tell me what your DL number is?
Edward went out with the eleven year old Scouts on a camp out Friday night. One of the boys brought a six-pack of Dr. Pepper and drank it all just before bed. They were up until the middle of the night bouncing off the tent walls. And there was a group of college students from Ft. Lewis College in the next site up playing night games, too. He just went home really tired.
We love you lots and know you are working hard. You are always in our prayers. ELEVEN!
Mom and Dad
P.S. I put some money in your account this week.
P.P.S. Did you get your Easter package?
P.P.P.S. Eleven, again.
April 12, 2010
Email of Apr. 12, 2010
Dear Mom and Dad,
Things here are going great. We held Johnley's baptism on Saturday night. It went quite smoothly. It was a nice change from the hectic Haitian baptisms that I'm used to. It even almost started on time! Elder Whitaker performed the baptism, I was glad that he was able to have that experience. Johnley's mom was also able to attend. She has come to church three times now, including general conference. She has also been reading in the Book of Mormon. We gave her a copy in English when we first started teaching Johnley but she hadn't read it at all. So, on Wednesday we gave her a Kreyol copy. When we saw her again on Friday she was up to chapter 10 in first Nephi. She seems to really like it as well. We haven't taught her very much yet, but she is looking pretty positive. Hopefully the dad will come on eventually as well.
This week we started teaching another friend of a member. The member lives here in Naples but goes to church in Immokalee usually. She's the same member that referred us to Mickenchina. This week she brought her other friend, Miked (pronounced me-ked), to Wednesday night activities. We taught her right before she went with the young women. We also taught her on Thursday. Then Saturday she went to a stake young women's activity, and Sunday she came to church. So, she's had quite the introduction to the church. But she is pretty positive. We've focused a lot on the Holy Ghost with her. She told us she never feels anything when she goes to churches. But yesterday she said she felt good. So we're going to work with that.
The family that just had the two kids, Ruby and Jozelle, baptized just got one bigger. Renan (the dad) has another son who just moved here from Haiti. His name is Rodney. He is 19. He's a pretty cool kid. He was really surprised that we spoke Kreyol. He doesn't speak any English yet so I think it was nice for him to have a few more people to talk to. We're hoping to start teaching him this week. Who knows maybe he'll decide to go on a mission. That would be great for that family. Especially his two younger brothers who could use a good example. So we have three pretty positive investigators who we're hoping will be baptized in May or even sooner.
I will call office about flying into Grand Junction. Elder Welch and Elder Harris will be sad but they'll just have to deal with it. I guess I will see most of my siblings a week or so after anyways. So, no worries. I'll let you know when I find out more.
Thanks again for everything that you do. I love you. Have a great week!
Love,
Elder Larson
Things here are going great. We held Johnley's baptism on Saturday night. It went quite smoothly. It was a nice change from the hectic Haitian baptisms that I'm used to. It even almost started on time! Elder Whitaker performed the baptism, I was glad that he was able to have that experience. Johnley's mom was also able to attend. She has come to church three times now, including general conference. She has also been reading in the Book of Mormon. We gave her a copy in English when we first started teaching Johnley but she hadn't read it at all. So, on Wednesday we gave her a Kreyol copy. When we saw her again on Friday she was up to chapter 10 in first Nephi. She seems to really like it as well. We haven't taught her very much yet, but she is looking pretty positive. Hopefully the dad will come on eventually as well.
This week we started teaching another friend of a member. The member lives here in Naples but goes to church in Immokalee usually. She's the same member that referred us to Mickenchina. This week she brought her other friend, Miked (pronounced me-ked), to Wednesday night activities. We taught her right before she went with the young women. We also taught her on Thursday. Then Saturday she went to a stake young women's activity, and Sunday she came to church. So, she's had quite the introduction to the church. But she is pretty positive. We've focused a lot on the Holy Ghost with her. She told us she never feels anything when she goes to churches. But yesterday she said she felt good. So we're going to work with that.
The family that just had the two kids, Ruby and Jozelle, baptized just got one bigger. Renan (the dad) has another son who just moved here from Haiti. His name is Rodney. He is 19. He's a pretty cool kid. He was really surprised that we spoke Kreyol. He doesn't speak any English yet so I think it was nice for him to have a few more people to talk to. We're hoping to start teaching him this week. Who knows maybe he'll decide to go on a mission. That would be great for that family. Especially his two younger brothers who could use a good example. So we have three pretty positive investigators who we're hoping will be baptized in May or even sooner.
I will call office about flying into Grand Junction. Elder Welch and Elder Harris will be sad but they'll just have to deal with it. I guess I will see most of my siblings a week or so after anyways. So, no worries. I'll let you know when I find out more.
Thanks again for everything that you do. I love you. Have a great week!
Love,
Elder Larson
April 5, 2010
Email of Apr. 5, 2010
Dear Mom and Dad,
It sure was a great conference wasn't it? I really enjoyed all of the talks and the spirit. I learned many things. We didn't have the biggest turn out but there were a few. We only had one investigator. It was Johnley. His mom actually came as well. We are hoping to be able to start teaching her.
I feel like we didn't have a lot of time this week, and not too much was accomplished. But, Johnley is looking good for his baptism this weekend. There were also some inactive members there on Sunday. They were members that we've been working with, so that was pretty exciting. Just as exciting as if they were investigators.
Also this week, we had interviews. They went pretty well. I'm not sure what's going to be happening to me for my last few months. I will probably either be staying here in Naples or going to Immokalee. Either way I think I will be serving with Elder Welch. But that isn't for a couple more weeks anyways. On Friday we had ZLDLC. It went well, I guess. I'm not a big fan of meetings. It wiped out our whole day as well.
The work is going ok. Johnley is doing really well. I'm really excited for him. He's a good kid. He hates the Lakers and he likes country music. Needless to say, we get along great. Most of our other investigators are not doing too well though. That's why we are encouraged to always be finding.
As for the Haiti thing, I will let you know if I need anything or if I find out anything else. Also, what do I need to do about my driver's license? Can I get it renewed from here? Or am I going to have to find another ID to board the plane?
I hope that everything is going great. Thank you for you prayers and your e-mails. I appreciate them all! I hope you have a great week.
Love,
Elder Larson
It sure was a great conference wasn't it? I really enjoyed all of the talks and the spirit. I learned many things. We didn't have the biggest turn out but there were a few. We only had one investigator. It was Johnley. His mom actually came as well. We are hoping to be able to start teaching her.
I feel like we didn't have a lot of time this week, and not too much was accomplished. But, Johnley is looking good for his baptism this weekend. There were also some inactive members there on Sunday. They were members that we've been working with, so that was pretty exciting. Just as exciting as if they were investigators.
Also this week, we had interviews. They went pretty well. I'm not sure what's going to be happening to me for my last few months. I will probably either be staying here in Naples or going to Immokalee. Either way I think I will be serving with Elder Welch. But that isn't for a couple more weeks anyways. On Friday we had ZLDLC. It went well, I guess. I'm not a big fan of meetings. It wiped out our whole day as well.
The work is going ok. Johnley is doing really well. I'm really excited for him. He's a good kid. He hates the Lakers and he likes country music. Needless to say, we get along great. Most of our other investigators are not doing too well though. That's why we are encouraged to always be finding.
As for the Haiti thing, I will let you know if I need anything or if I find out anything else. Also, what do I need to do about my driver's license? Can I get it renewed from here? Or am I going to have to find another ID to board the plane?
I hope that everything is going great. Thank you for you prayers and your e-mails. I appreciate them all! I hope you have a great week.
Love,
Elder Larson
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