Dear Mom and Dad,
I hope you had a wonderful holiday! It sounds like you are up to some exciting things. Things here are going pretty well. We are trying to work hard and help our investigators. We had three investigators with a date at points during the week, but, one of them didn't come to church so he lost his date. But, we are hoping to see him today so we'll see how that goes. The two that still have their dates are Michael for the 13th and Reginald for the 18th. They both have some concerns, but hopefully they will both go through. That is pretty much all of the investigators we have right now. It's been hard for us to find very many Haitians. Most of the positive people that we find are referred to either the Spanish or the English missionaries. But the work goes on. I just thought of something that I don't think I ever shared with you. But we found out that all of the Haitian branches in the Ft. Lauderdale and Orlando missions as well as the one in Boston were all shut down. That means that I've served in the only two active Haitian branches in the U.S. and possibly outside of Haiti. I haven't heard why they shut down but I plan on asking my MTC companion who served in Orlando. But, things here are going well. We have some good things planned for this week. I hope that everything is going well for you. I love you and am very grateful for everything that you have done for me. Have a great week and I look forward to hearing from you in a week!
Love,
Elder Larson
June 1, 2010
May 24, 2010
Email of May 24, 2010
Dear Mom and Dad,
It was great to hear from you. Thanks for the birthday wishes. I had a pretty good day. I can't believe I am 21 either!
This past week went fairly well. We had some troubles seeing a couple of our investigators. But we set a baptismal date with Reginald and met a few new people. Reginald was a little reluctant to set a date anytime soon. But we told him to think about it and pray about it and he chose the 18th of June. We're pretty excited for him. We also had an old investigator show up to church out of the blue. Her name is Pasyamise. We taught her during 2nd hour and focused a lot on baptism. She said that she wants to be baptized but she doesn't want to do it any time soon. So we are going to wait and see if she how interested she really is. So things are going forward. Our whole zone is doing pretty good right now. All but two areas have at least one investigator with a baptismal date, and the sisters have 6.
This week we started doing splits with a recently returned missionary that lives pretty close to the church. He served Spanish speaking in Tempe, but he want to be a translator so we've been helping him learn some Creole. He doesn't have a job or anything yet so he has helped us a lot. We also realized that we were in the MTC at the same time. It's weird. Also, yesterday I met a former Haitian missionary from this mission. He visited our branch and we talked to him for a while. He is originally from Monticello. He is Dallin* Boyd's older brother. I had heard that there had been a missionary from Monticello that served here but it wasn't until we asked him where he was from and he responded with "well, have you ever heard of Moab..." and I thought "hey, that's what I always tell people" that I realized who he was.
So things here are going well. I hope that everything is going well for you. Have a great week, and I look forward to hearing from you in a week.
Love,
Elder Larson
It was great to hear from you. Thanks for the birthday wishes. I had a pretty good day. I can't believe I am 21 either!
This past week went fairly well. We had some troubles seeing a couple of our investigators. But we set a baptismal date with Reginald and met a few new people. Reginald was a little reluctant to set a date anytime soon. But we told him to think about it and pray about it and he chose the 18th of June. We're pretty excited for him. We also had an old investigator show up to church out of the blue. Her name is Pasyamise. We taught her during 2nd hour and focused a lot on baptism. She said that she wants to be baptized but she doesn't want to do it any time soon. So we are going to wait and see if she how interested she really is. So things are going forward. Our whole zone is doing pretty good right now. All but two areas have at least one investigator with a baptismal date, and the sisters have 6.
This week we started doing splits with a recently returned missionary that lives pretty close to the church. He served Spanish speaking in Tempe, but he want to be a translator so we've been helping him learn some Creole. He doesn't have a job or anything yet so he has helped us a lot. We also realized that we were in the MTC at the same time. It's weird. Also, yesterday I met a former Haitian missionary from this mission. He visited our branch and we talked to him for a while. He is originally from Monticello. He is Dallin* Boyd's older brother. I had heard that there had been a missionary from Monticello that served here but it wasn't until we asked him where he was from and he responded with "well, have you ever heard of Moab..." and I thought "hey, that's what I always tell people" that I realized who he was.
So things here are going well. I hope that everything is going well for you. Have a great week, and I look forward to hearing from you in a week.
Love,
Elder Larson
May 17, 2010
Email of May 17, 2010
Dear Mom and Dad,
Happy Anniversary! I hope you had a great weekend. Things here went very well. This week we were able to do a lot of good things. We saw some good progress with our investigators. We are still teaching pretty much the same people. We don't have too many investigators, but they are all pretty positive. One of our most positive in a 14 yr old boy named Michael. He is the grandson of a member and friends with a couple of the youth. He is scheduled to be baptized on the 29th. As long as his Dad doesn't give us any grief there shouldn't be any problems. We are just trying to help him read (and understand) the Book of Mormon. Also we are teaching a neighbor of a fairly recent convert. The member's name is Myriam and his name is Elange. He is a really nice guy. He has done a lot to help out Myriam and is just a nice guy. He also a a teenage son. He was scheduled to be baptized on the 29th as well but he didn't come to church yesterday (he said he was looking for work) so we will have to change his date to sometime in June. Also, we are still teaching Reginald. He has come to church three times now. He is no longer a visitor, in the fact that he has his own favorite pew and he didn't have to introduce himself in Sunday School. He is really pretty golden, besides the fact that he isn't sure that he is ready to be baptized. But we can work with that. We are also working with a few members. One family that we are working with has been inactive for a long time but they have a daughter who is home from college for the summer and we are trying to get her to come to church and hopefully bring the family along with her. But we'll see. There is a lot of work to do.
This Saturday we also had the privilege of attending a special conference with the whole mission. It was the first time in at least the last three years that the whole mission has gotten together. The occasion was a visit by Elder Neil _L. _Anderson. It was a really great meeting. We drove up to Plant City in time to be there by about 1:30 and Elder Anderson got there at about 3:30. We had a really nice meeting. We just had a question and answer session with him, but I learned a ton. The Spirit was very strong and it was a good boost for me. He talked a lot about the Atonement and how we should learn as much about the Atonement on our missions as we can. He and his wife are from Tampa and so they had some good stories. We also we able to take some pictures as a mission and see a lot of people that I might not be able to see again. I was able to take some pictures with Elder Garner (He was in my ward at USU). He has served his whole mission North of Tampa. But he was just transferred to Golden Gate, which is right by Naples. But, everything is going great here. I hope that you have a great week! Tell everyone hi for me.
Love,
Elder Larson
Happy Anniversary! I hope you had a great weekend. Things here went very well. This week we were able to do a lot of good things. We saw some good progress with our investigators. We are still teaching pretty much the same people. We don't have too many investigators, but they are all pretty positive. One of our most positive in a 14 yr old boy named Michael. He is the grandson of a member and friends with a couple of the youth. He is scheduled to be baptized on the 29th. As long as his Dad doesn't give us any grief there shouldn't be any problems. We are just trying to help him read (and understand) the Book of Mormon. Also we are teaching a neighbor of a fairly recent convert. The member's name is Myriam and his name is Elange. He is a really nice guy. He has done a lot to help out Myriam and is just a nice guy. He also a a teenage son. He was scheduled to be baptized on the 29th as well but he didn't come to church yesterday (he said he was looking for work) so we will have to change his date to sometime in June. Also, we are still teaching Reginald. He has come to church three times now. He is no longer a visitor, in the fact that he has his own favorite pew and he didn't have to introduce himself in Sunday School. He is really pretty golden, besides the fact that he isn't sure that he is ready to be baptized. But we can work with that. We are also working with a few members. One family that we are working with has been inactive for a long time but they have a daughter who is home from college for the summer and we are trying to get her to come to church and hopefully bring the family along with her. But we'll see. There is a lot of work to do.
This Saturday we also had the privilege of attending a special conference with the whole mission. It was the first time in at least the last three years that the whole mission has gotten together. The occasion was a visit by Elder Neil _L. _Anderson. It was a really great meeting. We drove up to Plant City in time to be there by about 1:30 and Elder Anderson got there at about 3:30. We had a really nice meeting. We just had a question and answer session with him, but I learned a ton. The Spirit was very strong and it was a good boost for me. He talked a lot about the Atonement and how we should learn as much about the Atonement on our missions as we can. He and his wife are from Tampa and so they had some good stories. We also we able to take some pictures as a mission and see a lot of people that I might not be able to see again. I was able to take some pictures with Elder Garner (He was in my ward at USU). He has served his whole mission North of Tampa. But he was just transferred to Golden Gate, which is right by Naples. But, everything is going great here. I hope that you have a great week! Tell everyone hi for me.
Love,
Elder Larson
May 10, 2010
Service project in Immokalee Florida
*Elder Larson can be seen in the last moments of the video (time mark 8:11).
Email of May 10, 2010
Dear Mom and Dad,
It was good to be able to talk to you yesterday! It's good to hear about how everyone is doing. It sounds like everyone is doing great. As for as the 5k I'm not too sure if I want to run it. I'm not in the best shape. But if you sign me up I will do it. Everything is going great here. We had an interesting day at church yesterday. Our investigator got offended in Sunday school, by the teacher. This is the same investigator who told us during Sacrament meeting that he wanted to be baptized. After Sunday school he told us that he didn't want to investigate the church anymore. But after we talked to him he decided that he would just not go to Sunday school. So, we discussed it with President Lowman and we are going to start teaching an investigator class. Hopefully things will get better. Haitians are childish sometimes. I don't know why some people just can't get along. But everything is going great here, We're just trying to work hard. Everything will work out in the end. But I will check on the passport like I said last night and hopefully that will be the solution. I hope that you have a great week and I will hear from you again next week!
Love,
Elder Larson
It was good to be able to talk to you yesterday! It's good to hear about how everyone is doing. It sounds like everyone is doing great. As for as the 5k I'm not too sure if I want to run it. I'm not in the best shape. But if you sign me up I will do it. Everything is going great here. We had an interesting day at church yesterday. Our investigator got offended in Sunday school, by the teacher. This is the same investigator who told us during Sacrament meeting that he wanted to be baptized. After Sunday school he told us that he didn't want to investigate the church anymore. But after we talked to him he decided that he would just not go to Sunday school. So, we discussed it with President Lowman and we are going to start teaching an investigator class. Hopefully things will get better. Haitians are childish sometimes. I don't know why some people just can't get along. But everything is going great here, We're just trying to work hard. Everything will work out in the end. But I will check on the passport like I said last night and hopefully that will be the solution. I hope that you have a great week and I will hear from you again next week!
Love,
Elder Larson
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