The weeks been great, my last one with Morrison...:(
Today we're having transfers, I'll get my first new comp. Aside from the Mtc. HIs names elder Watson and he's from Hawaii, He's been out just a little longer than me, about six months. So we'll see how things work out. I'm a little nervous, but excited. Elder Morrison's leaving to go to Murrieta where he'll be a zone leader and have a truck. I'm a little jealous. haha. But the bikes great, you can stay in shape. for the most part.
Thats alright, I hear inspiring things quite often. haha. So, its okay. hmmm..inspiring things from me..thats kinda hard to spit out right on the spot, but one thing i can say, is time and talent is sometimes more effective than scripture alone, one thing ive learned is that its hard to move forward and teach when people don't know you or feel comfortable around you, so sometimes its more effective to start slow, and ease into lessons over time. Thats just one thing i've notice. it may or may not be inspiring. lol. But yeah, so far my missionary experience has been great, i'm finally starting to get to know the people in the area better. Anyway, I'm about out of time, I should probably go.
Bye!
Elder Farnsworth
Monday, August 22, 2011
Monday, August 15, 2011
August 15th 2011
I've been doing pretty good, just going with the flow, preaching the word, having a good time. The usual. Its been a great week, we've been driving around in a truck most the week, so thats been nice.
School already started around here, its really weird seeing tons of kids walking the streets.
Yeah, I bet that will be nice to get back to a schedule. My mission schedule is basically the same as you described yours, busy busy busy. Buts its nice knowing what you're gonna do everyday, and your right the sleep is great, you're always wanted more. lol. And yes, we go on splits with members/ward missionaries just about every night from 7-9. Tues-Fri. Its nice cuz we can cover more ground and see more people. but at the same time its frustrating sometimes cuz some of the team-ups we get tend to ruin lessons because they get way too deep on certain subjects and don't know when to stop. In theory splits are amazing though, especially since we're normally on bikes.
Well, I've gotta go now. Thanks for writing! :)
Love Elder Farnsworth
School already started around here, its really weird seeing tons of kids walking the streets.
Yeah, I bet that will be nice to get back to a schedule. My mission schedule is basically the same as you described yours, busy busy busy. Buts its nice knowing what you're gonna do everyday, and your right the sleep is great, you're always wanted more. lol. And yes, we go on splits with members/ward missionaries just about every night from 7-9. Tues-Fri. Its nice cuz we can cover more ground and see more people. but at the same time its frustrating sometimes cuz some of the team-ups we get tend to ruin lessons because they get way too deep on certain subjects and don't know when to stop. In theory splits are amazing though, especially since we're normally on bikes.
Well, I've gotta go now. Thanks for writing! :)
Love Elder Farnsworth
Tuesday, August 9, 2011
August 8th 2011
Nope, I haven't been transferred yet. Still in Elsinore! they haven't seen the last of me. lol. I really love it out here, The weathers actually been a lot better lately as well, It makes me happy, especially when I'm out there riding my bike. I have a few mission stories, but about a minute to write, so...that'll be hard. lol. one thing that was funny was when an old lady tried to seduce my companion it was sooo funny, maybe I'll tell you more about that in the future.
Love, Elder Farnsworth
Love, Elder Farnsworth
Monday, July 25, 2011
July 25th 2010
DAAAANG Thats awesome! Thats soo cool(that Jodi got her mission call). I wish I was there to see her open it. Just a couple more months...wow.
And yes, I do have Jesus the Christ. Ive read a little bit of it and I really like it, but sometimes it gets hard to focus on that. There are so many things I want to study, and eventually i want to focus my study on Jesus the Christ, but I think I'm gonna wait till Ive mastered the basic principles in PMG. There are so many little things that I can touch up on, so i'm gonna take it one step at a time.
Yeah, pictures would be nice to have, cuz like you said people like to see. plus, ive got some pictures of friends, that ive gotten in letters. but none from family so nobody knows what my family looks like.
Sorry I haven't been sending many pictures. I need to take some more. So, i'll send some next week.
Well, Thanks for the letter!!!
Love, Elder Farnsworth
And yes, I do have Jesus the Christ. Ive read a little bit of it and I really like it, but sometimes it gets hard to focus on that. There are so many things I want to study, and eventually i want to focus my study on Jesus the Christ, but I think I'm gonna wait till Ive mastered the basic principles in PMG. There are so many little things that I can touch up on, so i'm gonna take it one step at a time.
Yeah, pictures would be nice to have, cuz like you said people like to see. plus, ive got some pictures of friends, that ive gotten in letters. but none from family so nobody knows what my family looks like.
Sorry I haven't been sending many pictures. I need to take some more. So, i'll send some next week.
Well, Thanks for the letter!!!
Love, Elder Farnsworth
Tuesday, July 19, 2011
July 19th 2011
I wasn't in the choir at the Mtc. But we did sing a lot. And I don't sing too often, mainly just at meetings and church. It must be a little different then ecuador, but that would be cool if we did. I kinda just wish I knew how to sing.
That sounds like us. We try and offer service to people whenever we can. WOW now he's in Helaman, thats awesome!! yeah, Nephi and Lehi were studs, Their story is just so awesome. Lets see...what did I learn? I learned more about the parables of jesus, particularly the one about planting seeds. I think its called the parable of the sower, it was nice to gain a stronger understanding of it. For most of my studying, i'm not necessarily learning a new thing, but ive been trying to gain a stronger knowledge of the things I already know, like scripture masteries, one thing I've been trying to do is study each of the scripture masteries to understand why they are soo important, then my plan is to find ways to incorporate scripture masteries in the lessons we teach. For companion study most of the time we just discuss what we learned in personal study and then we make plans for people we are going to visit during the day and study for them. But when we have enough time we try to read through the scriptures and discuss them, just like you said you did in Ecuador.
Thanks for the letter and Im excited to hear from you again.
Love, Elder Farnsworth
That sounds like us. We try and offer service to people whenever we can. WOW now he's in Helaman, thats awesome!! yeah, Nephi and Lehi were studs, Their story is just so awesome. Lets see...what did I learn? I learned more about the parables of jesus, particularly the one about planting seeds. I think its called the parable of the sower, it was nice to gain a stronger understanding of it. For most of my studying, i'm not necessarily learning a new thing, but ive been trying to gain a stronger knowledge of the things I already know, like scripture masteries, one thing I've been trying to do is study each of the scripture masteries to understand why they are soo important, then my plan is to find ways to incorporate scripture masteries in the lessons we teach. For companion study most of the time we just discuss what we learned in personal study and then we make plans for people we are going to visit during the day and study for them. But when we have enough time we try to read through the scriptures and discuss them, just like you said you did in Ecuador.
Thanks for the letter and Im excited to hear from you again.
Love, Elder Farnsworth
Monday, July 11, 2011
July 11th 2011
I'm glad you liked the pictures. I'll try and get some more to you soon.
Yeah, the fourth was fun, and with the fruit I got I made some freshly squeezed lemonade for the first time. It was pretty cool. I Remember the house from Arizona, but these guys had a lot more trees and stuff. Yeah, the fireworks are much better with music, for us we didn't have any. It would've been a bit more exciting. BUt it was just nice to get the day off, so im not complaining.
For tracting we just go door to door for the most part. we also get to talk to quite a few people on the streets since we're on bikes. We get referrals as well, but most of the time we have a hard time making contact because they won't answer their phone or they're not home. Its definitley exciting to teach the first lesson, just the fact that its really happening and they want to know more. The trick is being able to get a second lesson. Lately we haven't been having much success though, not many people want to hear anything, but there's always that one thats waiting, we just need to find them.
Yeah, I've heard mom's conversion story, its pretty cool. I guess things just clicked.
Anyways, I should probably go..
Love, Elder Farnsworth
Yeah, the fourth was fun, and with the fruit I got I made some freshly squeezed lemonade for the first time. It was pretty cool. I Remember the house from Arizona, but these guys had a lot more trees and stuff. Yeah, the fireworks are much better with music, for us we didn't have any. It would've been a bit more exciting. BUt it was just nice to get the day off, so im not complaining.
For tracting we just go door to door for the most part. we also get to talk to quite a few people on the streets since we're on bikes. We get referrals as well, but most of the time we have a hard time making contact because they won't answer their phone or they're not home. Its definitley exciting to teach the first lesson, just the fact that its really happening and they want to know more. The trick is being able to get a second lesson. Lately we haven't been having much success though, not many people want to hear anything, but there's always that one thats waiting, we just need to find them.
Yeah, I've heard mom's conversion story, its pretty cool. I guess things just clicked.
Anyways, I should probably go..
Love, Elder Farnsworth
Wednesday, July 6, 2011
July 6th 2011
Pictures from the MTC
The fourth was good. we had an extremely laxed day and at te end of he day got to see some fireworks its was crazy, we had a dinner appointment a 5 and then another dinner appointment at 8, i was stuffed by the end of the day. For fireworks we went to a members home who lives on on a hill in our area, their house is pretty big and they had lots of citrus trees so we got to pick tons of fruit and bring it home. the fireworks kindve reminded me of the time i went to utah and watched fireworks with you on the mountain. we were really high up and could see everything that was going on around time. The Fireworks weren't all that exciting but it was still fun. My companion got a few really nice pictures too. How was the fourth for you?
Tim with trainer
Yeah its crazy how fast time passes by, it'll be christmas in no time.
yeah, we get to go to the temple. I haven't been yet but i'm sure we'll go sometime soon. And its not the LA temple we go to. There's one in our area and thats the Redlands temple so we'll go there. I think its about the same distance away as the san diego temple, but thats out of our mission boundaries.
Redlands temple
Nope we don't have any set service days. We're allowed to have 4 hours of service a week, but normally we don't because people normally reject our offer to help out. Sometimes we get opportunities though, sometimes members need help with things and then just recently a non-member who we tracted into said we could come by this weekend to help out with yard work, so thats pretty cool that she's letting us do that, it doesn't happen very often.
Tim with mission president and wife
Anyway, things are going good around here, thanks for the email!
I'll talk to you next week.
Love, Elder Farnsworth
The fourth was good. we had an extremely laxed day and at te end of he day got to see some fireworks its was crazy, we had a dinner appointment a 5 and then another dinner appointment at 8, i was stuffed by the end of the day. For fireworks we went to a members home who lives on on a hill in our area, their house is pretty big and they had lots of citrus trees so we got to pick tons of fruit and bring it home. the fireworks kindve reminded me of the time i went to utah and watched fireworks with you on the mountain. we were really high up and could see everything that was going on around time. The Fireworks weren't all that exciting but it was still fun. My companion got a few really nice pictures too. How was the fourth for you?
Tim with trainer
Yeah its crazy how fast time passes by, it'll be christmas in no time.
yeah, we get to go to the temple. I haven't been yet but i'm sure we'll go sometime soon. And its not the LA temple we go to. There's one in our area and thats the Redlands temple so we'll go there. I think its about the same distance away as the san diego temple, but thats out of our mission boundaries.
Redlands temple
Nope we don't have any set service days. We're allowed to have 4 hours of service a week, but normally we don't because people normally reject our offer to help out. Sometimes we get opportunities though, sometimes members need help with things and then just recently a non-member who we tracted into said we could come by this weekend to help out with yard work, so thats pretty cool that she's letting us do that, it doesn't happen very often.
Tim with mission president and wife
Anyway, things are going good around here, thanks for the email!
I'll talk to you next week.
Love, Elder Farnsworth
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