Our plans keep changing today so I don't know what we're going to do tonight. We have to be in by 6 and we don't have a dinner with a member so we'll probably just stay inside. The ward party was Saturday night.
I thought the wig [Donald Trump wig, I sent both Tyler and Daniel one.] was messed up because I tried it on before the party but when I went to put it on in the church bathroom I was twisting it on my head and I figured out that I just put it on wrong back at the apartment.
[How did you do in the Chili cook-off?]
People liked it. It might have been a little too soupy. We didn't even get top 3. I didn't want to be a part of it anyways. I don't like chili anymore. We probably got it everyday during the winter time.
You know how there was a crease from the comb over? [The wig] Well I just had the crease in the middle instead of off to the side.
I don't know if anything really special happened this past week.
If I think of or remember something I'll probably put it in the letter I'm going to write later.
I remember what he [Donald Trump] looked like I just thought the wig was messed up haha. The picture on the front did look strange, like the hair is bigger than what's it's supposed to be. I have pictures before I figured out the right way to put it on.
-Elder Garcia
Monday, October 31, 2011
Saturday, October 29, 2011
Monday, October 24th
The weather hasn't been bad. Today is fairly moderate, it's cool but it's warm. But it's been in the 50's for a couple of weeks.
-Elder Garcia
Last Sunday the guy [the new investigator they met in front of Zaxby's] didn't come to church because he had a basketball tournament. Yesterday he didn't come because of our ride we set up for him. He doesn't have a car and so we have a member who lives close by pick him up but Saturday night like around midnight our members little kids got sick so he couldn't pick up our investigator. We've been teaching him and we committed him for baptism and he accepted. We'll talk more about a date next time we go over.
-Elder Garcia
Saturday, October 22, 2011
Sep. 26th - Oct. 17th
Monday, Sep. 26th
Is she [our cat] used to the cat place? Poor Minnie, she probably doesn't know what's going on and wondering why she is always in a different place hahaha.
I think it'll be weird going from Georgia where it takes over half an hour to get to a church building to Utah where I could just walk to one in less than 5 minutes.
So we got transfer calls this morning. Elder Asher is getting transfered. I'm getting two more companions, Elder Smith and Elder Youd. Elder Smith came from Clovis, CA but he's one of those families that move around a lot so I don't really count that he's actually from California. I forget where Elder Youd is from, definitely Utah or Idaho but I'm pretty sure Utah. (I don't really [care for] Elder Smith, I served around him before.)
The last threesome I was in didn't do to well. Hopefully this might be my last transfer in Snellville, I'll at least have two more transfers here. Two more transfers will make 6 transfers here and I was in Webb Bridge for 6 transfers. Yeah there's room [for 3 missionries] but I'll have to rearrange the apartment.
She [Minnie] can't stand Flower [the other female cat in the kitty-kennel] eh? I can see it now. When you guys look at every corner of the condo Minnie will be next to you guys and sniff to make sure there's nothing funny, like a drug cat.
As far as I know Elder Smith is the senior. I never got a call saying I'm going senior. Elder Asher says that you don't get a call to be "co-senior" but I won't count that. I'll ask an AP that I once served with on Wednesday. If Elder Smith is the senior companion I am going to be really upset because he came out a transfer after me.
-Elder Garcia
Monday, Oct. 3rd
General Conference was pretty good!
I thought it was Elder Neil L. Anderson who talked about President Dorius. But I heard it and it took a little while for me to convince my companions that he used to be my Stake President before I went on my mission.
-Elder Garcia
Monday, Oct. 10th
I was looking down when Elder Andersen was speaking, trying to take notes but I just barely caught "Mission President Peru Lima West" and "Dorius". I was pretty shocked too and I didn't get any notes on the story Elder Andersen gave of President Dorius.
Yesterday during the last two hours [of Church] we went over mormon.org. If you go on mormon.org and go under the first tab "Our People" then "Meet Mormons" and in the search bar you can type in "Ceres California" and I'll be the only one. So you can tell the ward they can look me up (easier) and...maybe tell them to make their own profile ;D
Also, on Friday we were walking home before dinner and there was this guy (in front of Zaxby's) walking towards us. So we decided to talk to this guy. We gave him a mormon.org card, we told him that we had our number on it to check out the website and give us a call sometime. We walked off and my companion realized that our number wasn't on the card. So we hoped something good would happen. Well, we get a text Saturday morning, it was a referral for some guy that lives on the street we tracted Friday afternoon. We called the guy and he said that some missionaries stopped him in front of Zaxby's and he checked out the website. Well, we told him that it was us that stopped him and he said he wanted to come to church tomorrow. We called a member to set up a ride. Sunday comes along and he ACTUALLY shows up. I was pretty shocked because that's the first time that's happened to me. I've had investigators come to church but not from a contact on the streets. I was a little nervous because he happens to show up when we're going over mormon.org for the last two hours. It turns out that he enjoyed it, but hopefully he'll come to church next Sunday.
Also, I think I made my decision...I was wondering if you could start applying me to BYU-Hawaii? I've been told that since I'm Asian, and going to be RM and it would be really easy for me to get in.
I don't remember anything else past Friday.
Well, since it's easier for me to get in...and it's not Idaho or Utah. Plus I can finally finish the circle hahaha. [Mom went to Provo and Kaleen went to Rexburg].
Our last stake conference was in Jonesboro since the Jonesboro building used to be a stake center. It took us like 45 to 55 minutes to get there. The building didn't fill all the way. The Conyers Stake is weird. Everybody south of Snellville ward has to drive outside of the mission to get in the mission. We always drive outside the mission to get to Conyers. The only way to get to the south wards in the stake is to drive outside the mission. Oh well I'm not complaining.
-Elder Garcia
Monday, Oct. 17th
Well...I don't really know how to respond to the first few paragraphs so I'll start from the one that you asked about Georgia.
Georgia's cooling down. It rained a few times last week and most of the week was misty. Yesterday in the morning it was 53 degrees and then it got hot and in the evening it was cool again. The ward has a traditional "chili cook-off" for their trunk-or-treat and it's a huge thing within the ward, even the missionaries get involved and enter in a chili. I personally don't want to be in it but my companions are all hyped up about it. It's funny seeing and talking to the ward during dinner. They're really into this contest on who can get the best chili. Anyways nothing else is going on. My "senior" companion is all about "finding" people right now since our "teaching" pool is low. Which means....plenty of TRACTING! because that's the only way to "find" people. I do think I'm getting transfered in 3 weeks. I think it's time for me to leave. After I leave here I'm most likely to die in the next area. 7 more months is a little crazy to think about. I forgot about the wig, I'll probably wear it. I want to get this Captain America shield...it's basically a frisbee with a strap to put your hand in. I still have the sword I got last year so I want to do Ephesian 6 (I believe) so I have the sword of truth, the shield of faith.
We have been getting more Mormon.org referrals but none (right now) who is like "yes, come teach me this instant" more of like "Yeah, I ordered a Book of Mormon, I want to look at it see what it's about and I'll give you a call back." I read Daniels email and I have three thoughts. My first thought was...what is a "pass-along card"? Then I thought. "oh yeah, those old things that we threw away because all we use is the mormon.org cards". Then I thought. What is "pink washing"? and of course those are cool stories. But anyways, it's been so long since we used pass-along cards I don't remember what it was like to pass them out.
We're still on bikes. I doubt I'll get a car. I was on bike last winter.
We're going to go. We need to shop and go play football down in Conyers.
-Elder Garcia
Is she [our cat] used to the cat place? Poor Minnie, she probably doesn't know what's going on and wondering why she is always in a different place hahaha.
I think it'll be weird going from Georgia where it takes over half an hour to get to a church building to Utah where I could just walk to one in less than 5 minutes.
So we got transfer calls this morning. Elder Asher is getting transfered. I'm getting two more companions, Elder Smith and Elder Youd. Elder Smith came from Clovis, CA but he's one of those families that move around a lot so I don't really count that he's actually from California. I forget where Elder Youd is from, definitely Utah or Idaho but I'm pretty sure Utah. (I don't really [care for] Elder Smith, I served around him before.)
The last threesome I was in didn't do to well. Hopefully this might be my last transfer in Snellville, I'll at least have two more transfers here. Two more transfers will make 6 transfers here and I was in Webb Bridge for 6 transfers. Yeah there's room [for 3 missionries] but I'll have to rearrange the apartment.
She [Minnie] can't stand Flower [the other female cat in the kitty-kennel] eh? I can see it now. When you guys look at every corner of the condo Minnie will be next to you guys and sniff to make sure there's nothing funny, like a drug cat.
As far as I know Elder Smith is the senior. I never got a call saying I'm going senior. Elder Asher says that you don't get a call to be "co-senior" but I won't count that. I'll ask an AP that I once served with on Wednesday. If Elder Smith is the senior companion I am going to be really upset because he came out a transfer after me.
-Elder Garcia
Monday, Oct. 3rd
General Conference was pretty good!
I thought it was Elder Neil L. Anderson who talked about President Dorius. But I heard it and it took a little while for me to convince my companions that he used to be my Stake President before I went on my mission.
-Elder Garcia
Monday, Oct. 10th
I was looking down when Elder Andersen was speaking, trying to take notes but I just barely caught "Mission President Peru Lima West" and "Dorius". I was pretty shocked too and I didn't get any notes on the story Elder Andersen gave of President Dorius.
Yesterday during the last two hours [of Church] we went over mormon.org. If you go on mormon.org and go under the first tab "Our People" then "Meet Mormons" and in the search bar you can type in "Ceres California" and I'll be the only one. So you can tell the ward they can look me up (easier) and...maybe tell them to make their own profile ;D
Also, on Friday we were walking home before dinner and there was this guy (in front of Zaxby's) walking towards us. So we decided to talk to this guy. We gave him a mormon.org card, we told him that we had our number on it to check out the website and give us a call sometime. We walked off and my companion realized that our number wasn't on the card. So we hoped something good would happen. Well, we get a text Saturday morning, it was a referral for some guy that lives on the street we tracted Friday afternoon. We called the guy and he said that some missionaries stopped him in front of Zaxby's and he checked out the website. Well, we told him that it was us that stopped him and he said he wanted to come to church tomorrow. We called a member to set up a ride. Sunday comes along and he ACTUALLY shows up. I was pretty shocked because that's the first time that's happened to me. I've had investigators come to church but not from a contact on the streets. I was a little nervous because he happens to show up when we're going over mormon.org for the last two hours. It turns out that he enjoyed it, but hopefully he'll come to church next Sunday.
Also, I think I made my decision...I was wondering if you could start applying me to BYU-Hawaii? I've been told that since I'm Asian, and going to be RM and it would be really easy for me to get in.
I don't remember anything else past Friday.
Well, since it's easier for me to get in...and it's not Idaho or Utah. Plus I can finally finish the circle hahaha. [Mom went to Provo and Kaleen went to Rexburg].
Our last stake conference was in Jonesboro since the Jonesboro building used to be a stake center. It took us like 45 to 55 minutes to get there. The building didn't fill all the way. The Conyers Stake is weird. Everybody south of Snellville ward has to drive outside of the mission to get in the mission. We always drive outside the mission to get to Conyers. The only way to get to the south wards in the stake is to drive outside the mission. Oh well I'm not complaining.
-Elder Garcia
Monday, Oct. 17th
Well...I don't really know how to respond to the first few paragraphs so I'll start from the one that you asked about Georgia.
Georgia's cooling down. It rained a few times last week and most of the week was misty. Yesterday in the morning it was 53 degrees and then it got hot and in the evening it was cool again. The ward has a traditional "chili cook-off" for their trunk-or-treat and it's a huge thing within the ward, even the missionaries get involved and enter in a chili. I personally don't want to be in it but my companions are all hyped up about it. It's funny seeing and talking to the ward during dinner. They're really into this contest on who can get the best chili. Anyways nothing else is going on. My "senior" companion is all about "finding" people right now since our "teaching" pool is low. Which means....plenty of TRACTING! because that's the only way to "find" people. I do think I'm getting transfered in 3 weeks. I think it's time for me to leave. After I leave here I'm most likely to die in the next area. 7 more months is a little crazy to think about. I forgot about the wig, I'll probably wear it. I want to get this Captain America shield...it's basically a frisbee with a strap to put your hand in. I still have the sword I got last year so I want to do Ephesian 6 (I believe) so I have the sword of truth, the shield of faith.
We have been getting more Mormon.org referrals but none (right now) who is like "yes, come teach me this instant" more of like "Yeah, I ordered a Book of Mormon, I want to look at it see what it's about and I'll give you a call back." I read Daniels email and I have three thoughts. My first thought was...what is a "pass-along card"? Then I thought. "oh yeah, those old things that we threw away because all we use is the mormon.org cards". Then I thought. What is "pink washing"? and of course those are cool stories. But anyways, it's been so long since we used pass-along cards I don't remember what it was like to pass them out.
We're still on bikes. I doubt I'll get a car. I was on bike last winter.
We're going to go. We need to shop and go play football down in Conyers.
-Elder Garcia
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