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November 24, 2008
Email of Nov. 24, 2008
Dear Mom,
It was nice to get your e-mail this week. I always look forward to Mondays when I get the chance to hear from my family. Thank you for letting me know about your health. You are always in my prayers and I know you are looked out for. Just keep me updated.
This week has been a pretty good one. The best part happened yesterday when were able to confirm the three Galety kids. We waited a week because we had the Primary program last week. It was so great to finally see them become members of the church and to receive the gift of the Holy Ghost. I know that they have some struggles ahead but they are great kids and will only help their family and the branch grow stronger. Right now we are teaching a lot of new member lessons to all of the people that have been recently baptized. It takes away our time from other things we could be doing, but we don't have too much support from the branch mission leader. But I welcome the opportunity to continue working with these awesome people. We also are still teaching a couple etern-igators. The Delva family will probably be investigators until they turn 18, and Joseph is a little bit older so he progresses a little slower. We love all of our investigators but we're still excited to see who the Lord has in store for us to start teaching next.
This Saturday we were also able to watch the BYU-Utah game. I've known for a couple weeks but I just kept forgetting to tell you. It was a pretty sad excuse for a game. But it was still fun. Today we are having a normal working day, except for the e-mail. Thursday we are going down to Naples to celebrate Thanksgiving with most of our zone. We're going to go to the Stake Turkey-Bowl in the morning and then eat at the senior couple's house afterwards. It should be a pretty good day. I'm so grateful for all of the many blessing that I enjoy in my life, especially my family. Thank you for all that you do for me. Have fun with the family on Thursday and I'll talk to you next week
It was nice to get your e-mail this week. I always look forward to Mondays when I get the chance to hear from my family. Thank you for letting me know about your health. You are always in my prayers and I know you are looked out for. Just keep me updated.
This week has been a pretty good one. The best part happened yesterday when were able to confirm the three Galety kids. We waited a week because we had the Primary program last week. It was so great to finally see them become members of the church and to receive the gift of the Holy Ghost. I know that they have some struggles ahead but they are great kids and will only help their family and the branch grow stronger. Right now we are teaching a lot of new member lessons to all of the people that have been recently baptized. It takes away our time from other things we could be doing, but we don't have too much support from the branch mission leader. But I welcome the opportunity to continue working with these awesome people. We also are still teaching a couple etern-igators. The Delva family will probably be investigators until they turn 18, and Joseph is a little bit older so he progresses a little slower. We love all of our investigators but we're still excited to see who the Lord has in store for us to start teaching next.
This Saturday we were also able to watch the BYU-Utah game. I've known for a couple weeks but I just kept forgetting to tell you. It was a pretty sad excuse for a game. But it was still fun. Today we are having a normal working day, except for the e-mail. Thursday we are going down to Naples to celebrate Thanksgiving with most of our zone. We're going to go to the Stake Turkey-Bowl in the morning and then eat at the senior couple's house afterwards. It should be a pretty good day. I'm so grateful for all of the many blessing that I enjoy in my life, especially my family. Thank you for all that you do for me. Have fun with the family on Thursday and I'll talk to you next week
November 17, 2008
Email of Nov. 17, 2008
Dear Family,
Thanks for your e-mail. It sounds like everything is going pretty good.Things here are going pretty well. We've been blessed a lot lately and I'm so grateful for all of the things that I've been able to witness. Our three baptisms went through on Saturday. Those kids are so awesome. Juliette fits right in with the Young Women here and she will be a solid member. The two younger kids are so smart and so funny. They both were able to participate in the combined Spanish-Kreyol primary program. The last number was I am a child of God and they sang the first verse in French. It was so cool to see them participate like that. The baptism went really well for a Haitian baptism. Their cousin, who is one of our strongest youth and who is the one that brought them to church in the first place, gave a really good talk. Another highlight for me was Jerry's baptism. He was the last one to go, and afterwards he started swimming around in the font. Elder Hofer tried to coerce him out which was working until our Branch President asked him to unplug the font. He was on the last step when he turned and jumped back in the font. I guess he just didn't want to leave the font. Other than the baptism our week was pretty exciting. We have a lot of really good people that we're working with and we found some new people as well, we taught a lot of new-member lessons, we made a visit to a local Mosque, and had a lot of fun along the way. Well, that's what's going on in Florida. I hope everything is well at home, you are always in my prayers.
Love,
Elder Larson
Thanks for your e-mail. It sounds like everything is going pretty good.Things here are going pretty well. We've been blessed a lot lately and I'm so grateful for all of the things that I've been able to witness. Our three baptisms went through on Saturday. Those kids are so awesome. Juliette fits right in with the Young Women here and she will be a solid member. The two younger kids are so smart and so funny. They both were able to participate in the combined Spanish-Kreyol primary program. The last number was I am a child of God and they sang the first verse in French. It was so cool to see them participate like that. The baptism went really well for a Haitian baptism. Their cousin, who is one of our strongest youth and who is the one that brought them to church in the first place, gave a really good talk. Another highlight for me was Jerry's baptism. He was the last one to go, and afterwards he started swimming around in the font. Elder Hofer tried to coerce him out which was working until our Branch President asked him to unplug the font. He was on the last step when he turned and jumped back in the font. I guess he just didn't want to leave the font. Other than the baptism our week was pretty exciting. We have a lot of really good people that we're working with and we found some new people as well, we taught a lot of new-member lessons, we made a visit to a local Mosque, and had a lot of fun along the way. Well, that's what's going on in Florida. I hope everything is well at home, you are always in my prayers.
Love,
Elder Larson
November 10, 2008
Email of Nov. 10, 2008
Dear Family,
This week was pretty crazy. First of all, we had a change of plans with the baptism. The three Galety kids asked (on Saturday) to wait a week so that their parents could be there. We happily obliged and so they will be baptized next week. We still had a very wonderful baptism for Marie Fadael on Saturday. Elder Hall came back from Immokalee for the baptism and he'll be back next weekend too. It was a pretty good baptism. It only took her three tries for her to be completely immersed. It was so exciting for me to see her take this step in her life. She has had a really rough life and it has been wonderful to see the changes she's made in her life and the peace and comfort that her decisions are bringing to her.
Other than that, the work is going pretty well. We have lots of good people to work with, not as many as before, but that just gives us a chance to do more finding.This past week has been pretty interesting in a few other ways as well. We got tons of questions about our political views and it was interesting to see the way other people look at the same issues.
I also saw my first alligator this week, it was just walking along the side of the freeway on the way home from zone conference. So it was a pretty exciting week. I hope everything is going well at home, thanks for your prayers, and I look forward to hearing from you next week.
Love,
Elder Larson
This week was pretty crazy. First of all, we had a change of plans with the baptism. The three Galety kids asked (on Saturday) to wait a week so that their parents could be there. We happily obliged and so they will be baptized next week. We still had a very wonderful baptism for Marie Fadael on Saturday. Elder Hall came back from Immokalee for the baptism and he'll be back next weekend too. It was a pretty good baptism. It only took her three tries for her to be completely immersed. It was so exciting for me to see her take this step in her life. She has had a really rough life and it has been wonderful to see the changes she's made in her life and the peace and comfort that her decisions are bringing to her.
Other than that, the work is going pretty well. We have lots of good people to work with, not as many as before, but that just gives us a chance to do more finding.This past week has been pretty interesting in a few other ways as well. We got tons of questions about our political views and it was interesting to see the way other people look at the same issues.
I also saw my first alligator this week, it was just walking along the side of the freeway on the way home from zone conference. So it was a pretty exciting week. I hope everything is going well at home, thanks for your prayers, and I look forward to hearing from you next week.
Love,
Elder Larson
November 3, 2008
Email of Nov. 3, 2008
Che Fanmi m,
What a crazy week! My first week with Elder Valentine was pretty good. We didn't have as much success as we wanted to see but we saw so many good things and I learned some valuable lessons along the way. Right now we have four people scheduled to be baptized this Saturday. Mary Fadeal is finally all set and we also have three young kids named Juliet, Jerry, and Juliana. They are all such great people and I'm so excited to see them enter the waters of baptism but also saddened to realize that I won't be seeing them as often after this weekend. I have learned so much from them and have so many good memories with them. We are also teaching another family who was supposed to be baptized this weekend as well, but unfortunately they aren't going to be ready by Saturday. But they are still really fun to teach and we're looking forward to a new baptismal date later in the month. All in all, we have a ton of really great people to work with (which is pretty easy when you're teaching Haitians).
In other news, the weather here got pretty cold this week got way down into the 50's early on. I even wore a long sleeve shirt on a day besides Sunday. Halloween was pretty uneventful, we were asked to go home an hour early, and we didn't have any trick-or-treaters either. I did get all of the packages you sent, thank you for all of those. Thanks for all that you do for me and I hope everything is still going great at home.
Love,
Elder Larson
What a crazy week! My first week with Elder Valentine was pretty good. We didn't have as much success as we wanted to see but we saw so many good things and I learned some valuable lessons along the way. Right now we have four people scheduled to be baptized this Saturday. Mary Fadeal is finally all set and we also have three young kids named Juliet, Jerry, and Juliana. They are all such great people and I'm so excited to see them enter the waters of baptism but also saddened to realize that I won't be seeing them as often after this weekend. I have learned so much from them and have so many good memories with them. We are also teaching another family who was supposed to be baptized this weekend as well, but unfortunately they aren't going to be ready by Saturday. But they are still really fun to teach and we're looking forward to a new baptismal date later in the month. All in all, we have a ton of really great people to work with (which is pretty easy when you're teaching Haitians).
In other news, the weather here got pretty cold this week got way down into the 50's early on. I even wore a long sleeve shirt on a day besides Sunday. Halloween was pretty uneventful, we were asked to go home an hour early, and we didn't have any trick-or-treaters either. I did get all of the packages you sent, thank you for all of those. Thanks for all that you do for me and I hope everything is still going great at home.
Love,
Elder Larson
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