Dear Family,
How are you? How is school going? What are all of my brothers and sisters up to? It's good to hear about what they are all up to. Things here are going great. This past week I have had many wonderful opportunities. The work is progressing and the branch is doing really good. Just this last weekend we started teaching a handful of new people. Most of them weren't a direct result of our efforts which is a testimony to me of amount of which the Lord is involved in his work. The first people we met is a family that lives in a house in an area where we don't often go, but we have seen Haitians there and felt prompted to visit them. There are upwards of ten people living there and they are a really cool family. We haven't had a chance to teach them to much but I'm excited for the future. We also got a referral from the other missionaries who is a friend of a inactive member. When we went to the lesson that they had set up for us there were two other people there waiting for us. They all just got to Fort Myers and are searching for a church. One of them is also an advisor to the President of Haiti. The other people we met is a young couple that showed up to church yesterday with one of our members. They are really cool people and are very interested in the church. We are working with a lot of really good people right now and the future looks bright. I continue to see miracles everyday and it is a great blessing in my life to be serving a mission. Things aren't always great but I know that I always have my family's support and the support of my Heavenly Father in who's strength I can do all things. Thanks for the e-mail about Elder Grover. I love hearing about all of those guys all around the world and all of the things that they are up to. Is Sister Royer still doing her letter thing that she was? Tell Tori that pumpkin soup is pretty gross. But I'll get her the recipe anyways. Maybe by the time I get home she can perfect it for me. I hope all is well at home. I look forward to hearing from you next week.
Love,
Elde Larson
February 9, 2009
February 8, 2009
February 2, 2009
Email of Feb. 2, 2009
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Dear Family,
It sounds like things at home are going well, congratulations on your awards! You both really deserve some recognition for all of the work you do. (in scouts)
Things here are going really good. The moral in the branch is really good and I'm sure that will have a positive effect on our missionary efforts. Our new branch presidency is working really well. Our new branch president is named President Lowman. He is a little bit of a younger guy. He has a wife and three young kids. One thing that President Lowman is starting is an English class for the members. It will incorporate gospel topics as well as job skills. It's something that the branch really needs. The work here is doing fairly well. This week we started teaching a few new people. One of them is a husband of a recent convert. His name is Jilbert Jean-Baptiste. He is a really nice guy and loves the church. We'll see where that goes. The branch could really use more families. This coming week we are planning on doing a lot of work with the members. We want to help strengthen the weaker members and try and get referrals from the stronger ones. Finding for us can be difficult at times since the Haitians are fairly spread out around the city. So any referrals we get helps a lot. We're looking forward to a lot of good things in the coming weeks. Including a visit from Elder Craig Zwick of the Seventy. I hope and pray that everything is well at home. I can't wait to hear from you again next week.
Love,
Elder Larson
Dear Family,
It sounds like things at home are going well, congratulations on your awards! You both really deserve some recognition for all of the work you do. (in scouts)
Things here are going really good. The moral in the branch is really good and I'm sure that will have a positive effect on our missionary efforts. Our new branch presidency is working really well. Our new branch president is named President Lowman. He is a little bit of a younger guy. He has a wife and three young kids. One thing that President Lowman is starting is an English class for the members. It will incorporate gospel topics as well as job skills. It's something that the branch really needs. The work here is doing fairly well. This week we started teaching a few new people. One of them is a husband of a recent convert. His name is Jilbert Jean-Baptiste. He is a really nice guy and loves the church. We'll see where that goes. The branch could really use more families. This coming week we are planning on doing a lot of work with the members. We want to help strengthen the weaker members and try and get referrals from the stronger ones. Finding for us can be difficult at times since the Haitians are fairly spread out around the city. So any referrals we get helps a lot. We're looking forward to a lot of good things in the coming weeks. Including a visit from Elder Craig Zwick of the Seventy. I hope and pray that everything is well at home. I can't wait to hear from you again next week.
Love,
Elder Larson
January 26, 2009
Email of Jan. 25, 2009
Dear Family,
So many exciting things! I'm excited for Edward, it sounds like exciting things are happening in his life. I'm also really excited for Colby. The Fijian missionaries were in the same zone as us at the MTC and we were all really good friends. I'm excited for him to meet the missionaries from Kiribati especially. A lot of exciting things have been happening here as well. One of the biggest things happened last Sunday. We had a change in the branch presidency. We will miss our old branch president, he was a really good president and is pretty much the only reason this branch even exists. But we are really excited to work with our new president. He is an American who doesn't speak Kreyol at all. But he has been our High Counsellor for a while and will be really good for the branch. He has been working on his Kreyol for the last six months since Elder Scott came and asked him to start learning. The work is doing pretty good in this area. We have a lot of investigators but not very many of them are willing to progress so we are going to be doing some really good finding this week to try and improve the quality of our teaching pool. We are working with some really good people right now. Our main investigators are a couple named Renel and Barbette. The missionaries have been teaching them for a while and they love the church but they haven't yet received a response yet about the Book of Mormon. This week we are going to focus on helping them recognize the Holy Ghost and try and commit them to accept a baptismal date. Also, Dad will find this interesting, Renel was really active with the Scouts in Haiti and we are getting him involved with the youth here. I think it will be very good for him. We have another investigator named Joel who we just found this week. He is a really nice guy and loves the church. We came to the church to ask about English class and we invited him to take a tour. We gave him a copy of the Book of Mormon and committed him to read and pray. We have our second lesson with him tonight and I am really excited. He also told us that he was the principal mayor a city in Haiti called Cite Soleil. He and his family were forced to leave when the current president's regime took power. It is a pretty amazing story. Those are some of our main investigators right now. This week is going to be really good. The branch is also having a baptism this weekend; Peter and Miara who I taught in the other area are going to be baptized. They are really excited and I'm excited for them. That is pretty much the run down on what's been happening here. I hope everything is going well at home. I can't wait to hear from you next week.
Love,
Elder Larson
So many exciting things! I'm excited for Edward, it sounds like exciting things are happening in his life. I'm also really excited for Colby. The Fijian missionaries were in the same zone as us at the MTC and we were all really good friends. I'm excited for him to meet the missionaries from Kiribati especially. A lot of exciting things have been happening here as well. One of the biggest things happened last Sunday. We had a change in the branch presidency. We will miss our old branch president, he was a really good president and is pretty much the only reason this branch even exists. But we are really excited to work with our new president. He is an American who doesn't speak Kreyol at all. But he has been our High Counsellor for a while and will be really good for the branch. He has been working on his Kreyol for the last six months since Elder Scott came and asked him to start learning. The work is doing pretty good in this area. We have a lot of investigators but not very many of them are willing to progress so we are going to be doing some really good finding this week to try and improve the quality of our teaching pool. We are working with some really good people right now. Our main investigators are a couple named Renel and Barbette. The missionaries have been teaching them for a while and they love the church but they haven't yet received a response yet about the Book of Mormon. This week we are going to focus on helping them recognize the Holy Ghost and try and commit them to accept a baptismal date. Also, Dad will find this interesting, Renel was really active with the Scouts in Haiti and we are getting him involved with the youth here. I think it will be very good for him. We have another investigator named Joel who we just found this week. He is a really nice guy and loves the church. We came to the church to ask about English class and we invited him to take a tour. We gave him a copy of the Book of Mormon and committed him to read and pray. We have our second lesson with him tonight and I am really excited. He also told us that he was the principal mayor a city in Haiti called Cite Soleil. He and his family were forced to leave when the current president's regime took power. It is a pretty amazing story. Those are some of our main investigators right now. This week is going to be really good. The branch is also having a baptism this weekend; Peter and Miara who I taught in the other area are going to be baptized. They are really excited and I'm excited for them. That is pretty much the run down on what's been happening here. I hope everything is going well at home. I can't wait to hear from you next week.
Love,
Elder Larson
January 19, 2009
Email of Jan. 17, 2009
Dear Family,
Surprise! My e-mail is a little early this week. President Colton called us this morning and told us to e-mail today because Monday is a holiday and Tuesday is transfer day. President Colton also informed us that my companion Elder Valentine is going to be serving as our new Zone Leader along with our distrist Leader Elder Hofer. That means that the four of us Haitian missionaries in Fort Myers will just be doing a little switch. I will be moving to the other area to work with Elder Tremblay and Elder Hofer will be taking over my spot. I'm really excited to work with Elder Tremblay, and it'll be nice to have a little bit of a change of scenery even though I'll still be working with the same branch. Elder Tremblay is a really good missionary, he has been out for two months longer than me. He is Canadian but has spent most of his life living in St. George. We are going to have alot of fun. We are going to be getting a new apartment sometime soon too so that should be good. It will be the same apartment that the sister missionaries are living in so we know it's nice. That also means that I will be in the area where Bishni lives so I will finally be able to go visit him. It is pretty different for us to have Haitians serving as zone leaders, it's been about three years since that happened. I am pretty excited for those guys. Also, Elder Hall, my old companion, will be our new district leader. This week we have had some really good experiences. I feel like we are starting to find new people. We did a tour of the church last night with a man named Emmanuel. He has been coming to English class for a while and when we asked him to come on a tour he sounded pretty excited. He is pretty active in his church, although it's in English and he doesn't speak very well (He told he likes that church because it helps him learn the language.) When we gave him the tour, he was very interested and understood all of our points. We had a member with us the whole time who was supposed to help us but for most of the time was just a hindrance. But when we told the Joseph Smith story they were all listening very closely and the Spirit was very strong. It was really good until after when our member brought up some strange topics. It's going to be a little hard to leave this area now that the work has just started picking up, but I'm excited to start working in a new area as well. That area has been having similar problems. They have been teaching a lot of the same people for a while. It will be nice to start finding in some new aces and to talk to some new faces. I hope everything is going great at home, sorry I didn't have any warning that I would be doing e-mail early. I guess you'll just have to write me a letter. Speaking of which, I got that package. Thank you so much for the backpack and the candy canes!
Love,
Elder Larson
Surprise! My e-mail is a little early this week. President Colton called us this morning and told us to e-mail today because Monday is a holiday and Tuesday is transfer day. President Colton also informed us that my companion Elder Valentine is going to be serving as our new Zone Leader along with our distrist Leader Elder Hofer. That means that the four of us Haitian missionaries in Fort Myers will just be doing a little switch. I will be moving to the other area to work with Elder Tremblay and Elder Hofer will be taking over my spot. I'm really excited to work with Elder Tremblay, and it'll be nice to have a little bit of a change of scenery even though I'll still be working with the same branch. Elder Tremblay is a really good missionary, he has been out for two months longer than me. He is Canadian but has spent most of his life living in St. George. We are going to have alot of fun. We are going to be getting a new apartment sometime soon too so that should be good. It will be the same apartment that the sister missionaries are living in so we know it's nice. That also means that I will be in the area where Bishni lives so I will finally be able to go visit him. It is pretty different for us to have Haitians serving as zone leaders, it's been about three years since that happened. I am pretty excited for those guys. Also, Elder Hall, my old companion, will be our new district leader. This week we have had some really good experiences. I feel like we are starting to find new people. We did a tour of the church last night with a man named Emmanuel. He has been coming to English class for a while and when we asked him to come on a tour he sounded pretty excited. He is pretty active in his church, although it's in English and he doesn't speak very well (He told he likes that church because it helps him learn the language.) When we gave him the tour, he was very interested and understood all of our points. We had a member with us the whole time who was supposed to help us but for most of the time was just a hindrance. But when we told the Joseph Smith story they were all listening very closely and the Spirit was very strong. It was really good until after when our member brought up some strange topics. It's going to be a little hard to leave this area now that the work has just started picking up, but I'm excited to start working in a new area as well. That area has been having similar problems. They have been teaching a lot of the same people for a while. It will be nice to start finding in some new aces and to talk to some new faces. I hope everything is going great at home, sorry I didn't have any warning that I would be doing e-mail early. I guess you'll just have to write me a letter. Speaking of which, I got that package. Thank you so much for the backpack and the candy canes!
Love,
Elder Larson
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