My mission!
is going fantastic!
I am enjoying myself well here!
Sadly this email will be short as i am being swept off for the rest of pday, people to invite, missionaries to have fun with and such.
I don't have much to say as i usually do but it';s really picking up today since i am almost always doing service for others.
Monday, September 16, 2013
Tuesday, September 10, 2013
Member with Toys
the only difference between men and boys...
is the size of their toys!
OK this is a members house and one room is devoted too trains, and shelves of mugs. The center is dominated by train tracks and different toy houses, and even a flying saucer. YEAH imagine how long it took to get that all together. XP Ridiculous! There are TWO levels for these trains also so keep in mind some of these are the table they're on and others are right underneath it.
is the size of their toys!
OK this is a members house and one room is devoted too trains, and shelves of mugs. The center is dominated by train tracks and different toy houses, and even a flying saucer. YEAH imagine how long it took to get that all together. XP Ridiculous! There are TWO levels for these trains also so keep in mind some of these are the table they're on and others are right underneath it.
2013 Aug 27
Thanks SO much DAD that's an awesome idea, thanks for the blooog! Well let me think hmmm, well i have to say thanks to grandma and grandpa for that pentel multicolor pencil, it's coming in handy a LOOOT! Thanks for all your support! My Companion: Elder Colburn is from Falleen Nevada, he is great and he doesn't care for tracting at all. We did it yesterday, met more people then usual and he was just so tickled red to have to do all that. I think he's been a member all his life, pretty sure of it, his dad's a FAA Worker so he checks on flight bases and such. he was in a base overlooking Area 51 and they took away all his cds, flashdrives, and anything that could record data. Hi everybodddy! It's your favorite silly guy out in Idaho! Well, this week has been fun, out here in this mission we do something called church tours and that's where we talk about and bring people through the church talking about sacrament, baptism, and the pictures of Christ we have all around us. In this mission there are two numbers that we report on this one is called CTI(Church tour invites) and CTA(Church Tour Actuals) and we've had three church tours so far this month but we have invited over 35 people to them! yeaah, that's amazing to look back and see that. Well one of my new favorite things as well is to go on exchanges. for those of you who don't know i will explain simply. Exchanges are when your companion is traded for another person and you then teach without your companion for a little, since my companion is district leader he has to do this most weekly. he doesn't like it much but it's his calling. So i get to hang out with elders from Orofino, Grangeville(also known as strangeville to missionaries), and lewiston(known as lewistank.) Lewiston has a paper factory next to it and to treat the paper they use sulfur...yeah its smelly. I went out to Grangeville last week and...well to be honest it felt like i was beginning to step into a Stephen king novel. there are people looking out the windows that hide when they see us, there are so many oddities there(like a church that looks like a KKK hood is on it) and it's just weird out there.It's the southernmost part of the mission too so I was pretty close to the edge. AH! i just remembered something exciting! Jordan Hrabak(Jim hrabak's granson AKA the newest convert in our area that was baptized last week) has been taking the missionary lessons and he is going through leaps and bounds when he's reading his book of Mormon. Yep, he is truly a golden investigator! I hope to get letters from family too y'know, letters are fun to receive in the middle of the week. Also remember next week is labor day so i might not be able to email you next Monday, but i am always able to mail! ^-^ I'm running low on postage stamps too but when my next monthly allotment comes in i'll buy myself a little roll of maybe twenty stamps or so (= approximately ten bucks i think) How is everyone doing out there!? I am so happy that you all are out there and i pray for my family nightly. Well i have to end this email now it's getting a bit too lengthy and i don't want to bore any of you, LATER! Service Journal: Service is one of the best ways to meet with less actives and just get them friends and interested in the church again. There are many blessings to working with members and one of the most interesting ones was last week. I worked with an elderly gentleman just across the street from me named Tom SEaver. He is a collector of Records, Knives, Guns, and transitional technology(I.E. Stuff that can take reels into tape cassette format and tape cassette to mp3) We were moving stuff for him and we finished moving a heavy old metal generator that uses gas to make electricity and we were about to close it up for him when he opened a box and said "i got to thank you boys so take anything you want, don't be bashful i got dozens of them" The wall had boxes and boxes of knives And i was just in heaven looking at knives and looking at fixed blades, switchblades, fancy knives, russ farrells, and apache cutlery. I know that doing service blesses us in ways we could never imagine and this was one of those moments.
2003 Sep 9
Subject: STAYING in KAMIAAH!!!
WOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO
I am staying in kamiaaaahhh! i will sample the fruits of missionary work even more here because a part member family is now being baptiiized! they just got married finally after being taught all the lessons front to back and then some.
Jordan Hrabak is on daate! he will be baptized hopefully this october! Oh i love that guy, he is just soaking in the gospel.
I am doing terrific here in my district thank goodness, i am luviiin it! Well darn i can't think of much else to say cuz im so excited for the baptisms...
Welll i guess i could talk about how thankful i am to stay in my area a little bit longer. but i could talk about that another time. I am loving the weather and soon winter will roll up into here. ^-^
They will have snow! snoooooow!
Hmmmm yawn, it gets kinda dry too though after i see some people week after week and they don't show much progression, but once they're in the church and believing i think they'll have dynamite testimonies.
It's sometimes really stressful being out here and wondering what kind of day will we have!? I don't really know until it happens because we do so much!
well that's all i can think about really right now... >_<
WOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO
I am staying in kamiaaaahhh! i will sample the fruits of missionary work even more here because a part member family is now being baptiiized! they just got married finally after being taught all the lessons front to back and then some.
Jordan Hrabak is on daate! he will be baptized hopefully this october! Oh i love that guy, he is just soaking in the gospel.
I am doing terrific here in my district thank goodness, i am luviiin it! Well darn i can't think of much else to say cuz im so excited for the baptisms...
Welll i guess i could talk about how thankful i am to stay in my area a little bit longer. but i could talk about that another time. I am loving the weather and soon winter will roll up into here. ^-^
They will have snow! snoooooow!
Hmmmm yawn, it gets kinda dry too though after i see some people week after week and they don't show much progression, but once they're in the church and believing i think they'll have dynamite testimonies.
It's sometimes really stressful being out here and wondering what kind of day will we have!? I don't really know until it happens because we do so much!
well that's all i can think about really right now... >_<
Tuesday, September 3, 2013
2003 Sep 3
I have to tell you one thing alll of you, missionaries are ALWAYS serious!
This is the distict with all of our new regulation bags! For those of you who don't know backpacks have been done away with in favor for bags because they are more proffesional(or so i am told, i heard it's because our area will be getting ipads soon and its easier to have those in bags)
Well as you can see we are all stylin' here so don be jealous ya'll.
Well i learned something that's a good way to stonewall a bible basher(and i's not just for that it's good for disputes over doctrine too) say simply "if the book of mormon has the same doctrines as the Holy bible, why are you averse to reading it?"
To give a quick recap of how i got to this let me tell you about Michael Kellim. Michael Kellim is a guy i met on the first day i go out into the missionfield, he stopped me and colburn on our way to the library to check out emails and lds.org. He told us he wanted to ask what we believed in, we met him later that same day and he threw at us stuff about how christmas today is about pagan worship and so is easter. He is a seventh day adventist so he believes the sabbath is on saturday.
Every visit after he kept asking the same thing over and over "why don't you worship on saturday, why do you celebrate christmas and easter, why eat pork at all?" So i finally told him, "Read the book of mormon and find a scripture there and i will totaly know what you preach is true" Simply put he went in circles after that and i felt kinda bad like i had pinched a moths wing or something but the truth is that the book of mormon was given so we wouldn't confuse doctrine. Read it and be blessed is all i have to say on that for now(although i could go for days now that i am all the way in Mosiah. I read the Holy bible too and i have to say this, Psalms is the most BORING DRY book there is in there. T^T oooh my goodness i get bored to tears reading davids songs all ending with Selah over and over again.)
Last fast and testimony meeting i stood up and bore testimony that was pretty cool. I have been doing well and have done service for so long it's going to become second nature. (maybe i'll join a lyons club once i get back in phoenix, i don't know.)
This last weekend a celebration happened in kamiah called barbeque days, and that was excellent! Bro Weeks made us burgers and fries once for lunch and porkchop and dutch oven potatoes one night and both were sooo delicious. (i hugged him later as repayment and told him he was awesome to feed two missionaries) We met people, handed out passalong cards and it was all so much fun. our phones didn't work because of the influx of people and there being only one cell tower around sooo that was a bit annoying but all still good. I also bought a marine corps. pin and have it on my bag now, it's nice too.
Maaan i have to tell you this though, letters cheer up a missionary to no end, my companion got one last tuesday and is still smiling more today, so lighten up your missionaries day and send a letter every so often.(not this wek though cuz i might not get it, who knows where i will go transfer day. the next sunday this week AKA the eighth of september)
This is the distict with all of our new regulation bags! For those of you who don't know backpacks have been done away with in favor for bags because they are more proffesional(or so i am told, i heard it's because our area will be getting ipads soon and its easier to have those in bags)
Well as you can see we are all stylin' here so don be jealous ya'll.
Well i learned something that's a good way to stonewall a bible basher(and i's not just for that it's good for disputes over doctrine too) say simply "if the book of mormon has the same doctrines as the Holy bible, why are you averse to reading it?"
To give a quick recap of how i got to this let me tell you about Michael Kellim. Michael Kellim is a guy i met on the first day i go out into the missionfield, he stopped me and colburn on our way to the library to check out emails and lds.org. He told us he wanted to ask what we believed in, we met him later that same day and he threw at us stuff about how christmas today is about pagan worship and so is easter. He is a seventh day adventist so he believes the sabbath is on saturday.
Every visit after he kept asking the same thing over and over "why don't you worship on saturday, why do you celebrate christmas and easter, why eat pork at all?" So i finally told him, "Read the book of mormon and find a scripture there and i will totaly know what you preach is true" Simply put he went in circles after that and i felt kinda bad like i had pinched a moths wing or something but the truth is that the book of mormon was given so we wouldn't confuse doctrine. Read it and be blessed is all i have to say on that for now(although i could go for days now that i am all the way in Mosiah. I read the Holy bible too and i have to say this, Psalms is the most BORING DRY book there is in there. T^T oooh my goodness i get bored to tears reading davids songs all ending with Selah over and over again.)
Last fast and testimony meeting i stood up and bore testimony that was pretty cool. I have been doing well and have done service for so long it's going to become second nature. (maybe i'll join a lyons club once i get back in phoenix, i don't know.)
This last weekend a celebration happened in kamiah called barbeque days, and that was excellent! Bro Weeks made us burgers and fries once for lunch and porkchop and dutch oven potatoes one night and both were sooo delicious. (i hugged him later as repayment and told him he was awesome to feed two missionaries) We met people, handed out passalong cards and it was all so much fun. our phones didn't work because of the influx of people and there being only one cell tower around sooo that was a bit annoying but all still good. I also bought a marine corps. pin and have it on my bag now, it's nice too.
Maaan i have to tell you this though, letters cheer up a missionary to no end, my companion got one last tuesday and is still smiling more today, so lighten up your missionaries day and send a letter every so often.(not this wek though cuz i might not get it, who knows where i will go transfer day. the next sunday this week AKA the eighth of september)
2013 Sep 3
Dear Family and Friends,
I am doing great, I honestly know why Ammon said he could live with the Lamanites until the end of his days, it's because he loved the people with all his heart.
I think being a missionary is like being a father, you love the people with all your heart and wnt them to do good. When an investigator learns for themselves gospel truths, my soul soars. When a pert-member family drops us and asks us to never see us again I am terribly saddened. Perhaps it happenes that we sometimes need space or perhaps our hearts aren't open enough to receive personal revelation, but when they are, it is such a happy and holy time.
I am reminded of a scripture and story in St Mark, I believe it is there, when Jairus' daughter was seemingly dead, but when he had faith and an open heart he was blessed to have his daughter, live again. With faith in Christ all things are possible.
My scripture study is doing well enough, I am about to finish 2 Nephi, which feels like the longest scriptures I've read in a while.
How is Shad and Lyssa? They haven't mailed, or emailed me yet. Neither Cathy nor even Eli is mailing me either. Tell brother Erb there are Erb's here in Kamiah and that they are nice.
I feel eddified most daily because of this work. I hope that all the cousins I love, Padilla and Gardner, to feel this way someday.
Elder "T" Padilla
Missionary Heart.
I am doing great, I honestly know why Ammon said he could live with the Lamanites until the end of his days, it's because he loved the people with all his heart.
I think being a missionary is like being a father, you love the people with all your heart and wnt them to do good. When an investigator learns for themselves gospel truths, my soul soars. When a pert-member family drops us and asks us to never see us again I am terribly saddened. Perhaps it happenes that we sometimes need space or perhaps our hearts aren't open enough to receive personal revelation, but when they are, it is such a happy and holy time.
I am reminded of a scripture and story in St Mark, I believe it is there, when Jairus' daughter was seemingly dead, but when he had faith and an open heart he was blessed to have his daughter, live again. With faith in Christ all things are possible.
My scripture study is doing well enough, I am about to finish 2 Nephi, which feels like the longest scriptures I've read in a while.
How is Shad and Lyssa? They haven't mailed, or emailed me yet. Neither Cathy nor even Eli is mailing me either. Tell brother Erb there are Erb's here in Kamiah and that they are nice.
I feel eddified most daily because of this work. I hope that all the cousins I love, Padilla and Gardner, to feel this way someday.
Elder "T" Padilla
Missionary Heart.
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