The Atlanta Temple is going to be opening up! Open house is like from April 9th to the 30th (except Sundays of course). Dedication is on May 1st I think. Everyone's excited!
I asked about his profile on Mormon.org. If you want to see it, just put Tyler Garcia in the search box on Mormon.org.
It's hard to do it in one day. It took me like 2-3 days to finish mine and then like a week or two later I changed/added more to mine. My companion finished his in like a week. All the members we showed it to said it takes a while to finish it. Then it takes like a day to a week for them (people in Salt Lake to review it) to actually post it up there.
It's gone from Winter to Spring in a day (no joke!) we were wearing our coats and stuff at the beginning of the week and at the end of the week we were in our short sleeve shirts. I miss the fog. I wish we had it. I'm tired of the rain. It's sprinkling right now.
The actually Spring will be interesting. Missionaries have said the pollen gets pretty think and you can see it flying off cars and it gets all over your clothes and stuff.
-Elder Garcia
Monday, January 31, 2011
Monday, January 24, 2011
7:45 AM
[Tyler had transfers last week and is not transferring out, but staying in the same area. He says in February he will be there six months, this is only his second area since arriving in Georgia.]
I think I'm ready to leave. Same companion. President King said that President Monson asked him to keep missionaries in an area for 6 to 9 months for investigators (I think investigators, I'm sure)
It warmed up but I heard it's supposed to snow again tonight or tomorrow.
[I asked if he's ready to see more of Georgia?]
Yeah, it would be nice to see other places. I feel like there's nothing else for me to do here.
That's cool that Daniels becoming an Elder. Wait, so stake conference was yesterday?
How's Ronnie doing? Does he come to church?
I'm probably going to get off just before 11 again. The zone leaders are inspecting our appartment and we're going to the stake center again.
[I asked if they were going to go play basketball again? At least that is one way to get warmed up!]
Most likely, we don't go to the stake center for anything else, besides district meeting, stake conference or general conference. I'm not much of a basketball fan, I'd rather play volleyball. The weather's pretty nice today.
-Elder Garcia
[Check out Tyler's profile on mormon.org . . . search Tyler Garcia.
[Tyler had transfers last week and is not transferring out, but staying in the same area. He says in February he will be there six months, this is only his second area since arriving in Georgia.]
I think I'm ready to leave. Same companion. President King said that President Monson asked him to keep missionaries in an area for 6 to 9 months for investigators (I think investigators, I'm sure)
It warmed up but I heard it's supposed to snow again tonight or tomorrow.
[I asked if he's ready to see more of Georgia?]
Yeah, it would be nice to see other places. I feel like there's nothing else for me to do here.
That's cool that Daniels becoming an Elder. Wait, so stake conference was yesterday?
How's Ronnie doing? Does he come to church?
I'm probably going to get off just before 11 again. The zone leaders are inspecting our appartment and we're going to the stake center again.
[I asked if they were going to go play basketball again? At least that is one way to get warmed up!]
Most likely, we don't go to the stake center for anything else, besides district meeting, stake conference or general conference. I'm not much of a basketball fan, I'd rather play volleyball. The weather's pretty nice today.
-Elder Garcia
[Check out Tyler's profile on mormon.org . . . search Tyler Garcia.
Monday, January 17, 2011
One thing I've thought about this week is that, we've been asked to ask members to make their own mormon.org profile and to share it with their friends or co-workers, and it didn't hit me till recently that I've made my profile and I haven't shared it with friends. I was thinking if you could share it with the family and if Daniel can show some friends, and maybe "ya'll" both can share it with co-workers.
Mormon.org is a great missionary tool to share with friends, family and co-workers, I heard there's already two baptisms here from someone going on mormon.org. I think it would be cool if all of you can make one. You never know...someone could stumble upon your profile and read your testimony and gain an interest in the gospel.
"...and he inviteth them all to come unto him and partake of his goodness..." 2 Nephi 26:33
Moroni 7:13
"is inspired of God."
Moroni 7:16
"...for every thing which inviteth to do good, and to persuade to believe in Christ, is sent forth by the power and gift of Christ; wherefore ye may know with a perfect knowledge it is of God."
-Elder Garcia
Mormon.org is a great missionary tool to share with friends, family and co-workers, I heard there's already two baptisms here from someone going on mormon.org. I think it would be cool if all of you can make one. You never know...someone could stumble upon your profile and read your testimony and gain an interest in the gospel.
"...and he inviteth them all to come unto him and partake of his goodness..." 2 Nephi 26:33
Moroni 7:13
"is inspired of God."
Moroni 7:16
"...for every thing which inviteth to do good, and to persuade to believe in Christ, is sent forth by the power and gift of Christ; wherefore ye may know with a perfect knowledge it is of God."
-Elder Garcia
Monday, January 10, 2011
The Spirit:
Mine's almost like Temy's, about feeling the spirit. There's a page in Preach My Gospel that talks about the different ways people feel the spirit, I can't remember the page but it's under "Recognizing the Spirit" or something like that. As I looked through it the scripture that would probably best describe how I feel the spirit is found in D&C 8:2,3 (I think 2-3).
I've gone so many times when this thought was just stuck in my head and couldn't get it out and when I don't do it then I regret it because I didn't want to listen. But when I do listen it's amazing how well things fall into place. I've told a story about (looking in) the area book and (finding) two former investigators. (I think I'm going to title my blog stories) And about healing. The story I gave last week about "The Tender Mercies of the Lord". Before Christmas I felt impressed, at the last minute, to write home for everyone at Christmas Eve. I don't know if it's done anything, but I'm learning to better listen to the spirit. Yesterday I listened to "Celestial Marriage" by Elder Russell M. Nelson (2008) I think. This past week this talk has been bothering me so I finally gave in and listened to it yesterday. I don't know if I'll use it but one thing I learned at a zone conference was that Heavenly Father gives us these small impressions at the beginning, and if we listen He'll trust us and give us more and we'll be able to know more fully when the spirit is speaking to us. I'm working on this because I know how important it is to have the spirit in the mission field. There's a scripture, D&C 42:14 "And ye shall receive the Spirit by the prayer of faith, and if ye receive not the Spirit, ye shall not teach." I think this can apply to finding (investigators), and those impressions that Heavenly Father gives us.
-Elder Garcia
Mine's almost like Temy's, about feeling the spirit. There's a page in Preach My Gospel that talks about the different ways people feel the spirit, I can't remember the page but it's under "Recognizing the Spirit" or something like that. As I looked through it the scripture that would probably best describe how I feel the spirit is found in D&C 8:2,3 (I think 2-3).
I've gone so many times when this thought was just stuck in my head and couldn't get it out and when I don't do it then I regret it because I didn't want to listen. But when I do listen it's amazing how well things fall into place. I've told a story about (looking in) the area book and (finding) two former investigators. (I think I'm going to title my blog stories) And about healing. The story I gave last week about "The Tender Mercies of the Lord". Before Christmas I felt impressed, at the last minute, to write home for everyone at Christmas Eve. I don't know if it's done anything, but I'm learning to better listen to the spirit. Yesterday I listened to "Celestial Marriage" by Elder Russell M. Nelson (2008) I think. This past week this talk has been bothering me so I finally gave in and listened to it yesterday. I don't know if I'll use it but one thing I learned at a zone conference was that Heavenly Father gives us these small impressions at the beginning, and if we listen He'll trust us and give us more and we'll be able to know more fully when the spirit is speaking to us. I'm working on this because I know how important it is to have the spirit in the mission field. There's a scripture, D&C 42:14 "And ye shall receive the Spirit by the prayer of faith, and if ye receive not the Spirit, ye shall not teach." I think this can apply to finding (investigators), and those impressions that Heavenly Father gives us.
-Elder Garcia
Monday, January 3, 2011
8:14 AM
Yesterday was my 7 month mark and we had a baptism. (It's the husband of the part member family that we spent the morning with on Christmas). Last week I had Elder Bednar's talk stuck in my head "The Tender Mercies of the Lord." (2005) It's my favorite talk by Elder Bednar and I studied it a couple months ago. But last week that talk had bothered me since the week before. So I listened to it again and I read part of it. Sometime last week the husband told us a story that happened the day before. It was a pretty awesome story about how God's Hand was in it. I remembered Elder Bednar's talk and in it is 1 Nephi 1:20 "But behold, I, Nephi, will show unto you that the tender mercies of the Lord are over all those whom he hath chosen, because of their faith, to make them mighty even unto the power of deliverance." I knew that the spirit wanted me to share that with him and I know that he knows that too.
I hope you have a Happy New Year too.
-Elder Garcia
Yesterday was my 7 month mark and we had a baptism. (It's the husband of the part member family that we spent the morning with on Christmas). Last week I had Elder Bednar's talk stuck in my head "The Tender Mercies of the Lord." (2005) It's my favorite talk by Elder Bednar and I studied it a couple months ago. But last week that talk had bothered me since the week before. So I listened to it again and I read part of it. Sometime last week the husband told us a story that happened the day before. It was a pretty awesome story about how God's Hand was in it. I remembered Elder Bednar's talk and in it is 1 Nephi 1:20 "But behold, I, Nephi, will show unto you that the tender mercies of the Lord are over all those whom he hath chosen, because of their faith, to make them mighty even unto the power of deliverance." I knew that the spirit wanted me to share that with him and I know that he knows that too.
I hope you have a Happy New Year too.
-Elder Garcia
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