EQUALITY BRO!!!

 

 

This picture is of my exchange with Elder Peidl (Pie-dell) on tuesday. You know your in Lancaster when you see "Youngblood Place." The other Picture is of me and a big mural after a few african american Women yelled at us for "Hating blacks and gays" We took the pictures to prove we dont hate anyone...and cause it was super funny.

 

Ok for real there has been SO MUCH that has happened this week its insane! At first the week was terrible cause I have had Anti-Mormon stuff thrown at me almost every single day. From RLDS finatics to excommunicated members to Penticostal Ministers. For real it was insanely hard to deal with. The Penticostal minister was literally Saturday night at 8pm after a really long day of just hard work. We have been really really pushing to acheive the goals that Elder Hernandez and I set for ourselves so this week has been full of the Lord testing our diligence and faith. I had to repent after the Penticostal Minister because I was so done with just taking abuse and harsh words from people about the church, so I threw down with him hardcore. He kept trying to get Elder Hernandez riled up and that was when I kinda lost it on him. Turns out Im a lot better with the scriptures than I thought I did! 

My week got super awesome Yesterday when Elder Bruce A. Carlson of the Seventy came and spoke to our mission. There was a lot of things that I know I definitely needed to hear. He gave a lot of advice to missionaries who are going home within 6 months. Talking about how to stay close to the Lord after the missions. It really was a super spiritual experience! It was like 8 hours long! After the meeting President Wilson caught up with me as everyone was leaving and we just started talking about the ward and about our investigators. He told me to turn Somerset ward into a baptizing ward. We honestly talked for like 30 minutes about it, as well as just small talk about how he met his wife and stuff. He also gave me some pretty awesome marriage advice. All he said was to make sure that I marry someone with the same goals as me, bottom line. It was awesome!

 

I got my flight itinerary today....they told me I land in SLC at 10:31am September 2. That was NOT a fun email to read! I guess its good cause I have a pretty solid sense of urgency to do everything I can before then. We will see how it goes!

 

 

Love you all! 

Elder Carper

Happy Mother's Day

This week was a good week to be in Somerset! The ward is super anxious to find people for us to teach. Its been really cool to see the change in the wards of the mission and the people that live in them. When I first came to the mission, it was a dream to get a member refferal and now even though they dont happen often. The Wards are really trying their best which is a miracle!

We found a few new investigators this week named Roxanne and Milly. Roxanne already wants to be baptized and is really excited. We are working with Milly (Roxannes Mom) to try and help her understand why this is the only true and living church on the earth. Once we help her recognize the spirit I have no doubts that she will be baptized!

I hope all of you wished your Mothers a Happy Mother's Day! They definitely deserve it and more! I have a testimony that the Lord knows his children and provides the best ways possible for them to return to him. He loves and knows us and wants us to draw closer to him so that he can come closer to us. Love you all!

Elder Carper

Good Week

This is gonna be a super quick one cause we dont have much time! This week was super quick to go by! As far as the work goes everything is switched. People are coming to church all of the time but they dont want to be baptized. Its super wierd! I dont really know what to do about it all but i guess what happens happens! My toes are doing a ton better, I can finally walk without any pain in them. That was pretty darn exciting!
We went on exchanges with the zone leaders this week. It was a lot of fun, I would say that it was super proffesional and for training purposes but in all reality, Elder Leortscher and I just wanted to be companions for a day haha. It was a ton of fun though, probably the best exchange I have had my whole mission. Too bad we werent ever companions, we would have baptized our whole area! I forgot how easy teaching was when your companions know the lessons just as well or better than I do. I haven't had a experienced companion since Lone Pine. So it was super fun!

Anyways this week we will be tracting a ton! We wanna find like 50 people this week and it will happen!!!!!
Have an awesome week everyone!

Its been a million years since I sent pictures so I took a quick one

 Elder Carper


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