APOSTLES!

June 9, 2014

So this week has been crazy fun! Tuesday we were supposed to go on exchanges with our district leader but we had a lesson with B. that I didnt want to miss. So it got rescheduled to this next week! That lesson with B. went fantastic! We taught him the law of Chastity, and literally right after we left he proposed to his girlfriend. He wants to be married so that he can get baptized. Little does he realize that as long as he is living it, he can be baptized at any time. either way we are happy for them! They are doing well, they are both progressing solidly!

Wednesday was my 9 month mark! Freak ya! Its taking forever hahaha I dont know how to describe it, it feels like I have been out for 9 months but its not even bad, its just like whatever. It was still a good day though. It was really hard and hot but we were happy to have to car with us! Its a 2014 Malibu cause our cruze got recalled cause Chevy sucks. So we have a sick car! Unfortunately all of our plans fell through and so we knocked on doors all day. Its cool because nobody can say no to us! 

Thursday we wanted to die because weekly planning took forever! I hate planning more than anything, but I understand why it helps for sure! We had another lesson with Bobby and Jocelyn and it went really well, we talked about the importance of the Book of Mormon. We also had to resolve a lot of concerns because some JW's knocked into them, figured out that they were being taught by us and told them a bunch of anti mormon crap. So it took a while but we solved everything!

Friday we had a zone training meeting, and it sucked. There are a ridiculous amount of new rules in the mission and it sucks majorly! We were all really confused about why this was happening but then we were made aware of some really poor choices of missionaries. Needless to say I didnt enjoy friday, I think it hit 106 degrees. It was HOT!

Saturday was incredible! We had a mission conference, and drove down to Lancaster to hear from Elder Russell M Nelson of the Twelve. With him we got to hear from 3 members of the Seventy. They all spoke about marriage for some odd reason...but it was pretty cool! One spoke of why we wear the nametag, another spoke about conversion, one was about straight up marriages and Elder Nelson touched on all of them. He got into some deep deep doctoring regarding the Abrahamic Covenant. It was absolutely incredible to hear what he had to say! Seriously it was crazy awesome to hear it! 

On Sunday I had to speak in church and it was horrible, I talked about feasting upon the words of christ and the importance of being converted. I was really nervous but I got through it, you would think that coming from Sand Springs with 550+ members to Fairview with only 90 would make speaking easy.....nope! It was long but  I did it! Yay me! So this week was good, Elder Patterson and I get along great we have a lot of fun! I hope to hear from yall soon, have a good week! 

Elder Carper