HEy mom and dad...
HOws everything going? Sounds like you guys had a pretty good easter sunday and also a super fun trip..i'm jealous.lol. Figures..goin from vancouver to....Vancouver. haha. I'm glad you guys had an enjoyable time though, I got the package you guys sent...THANK YOU :) it was great. Aside from that, things have been really slow for me and my companion....Easter was alright, but kinda sad, elder Alo is going home today. The past couple weeks we've hardly been able to do anything, his pains have just been getting worse, i feel really bad and we talked about it a lot and came to the conclusion that that was the best thing to do, So I'll meet my new companion today after I drop Alo off at the mission office. :(. I'm excited for this week though, I feel like I've been stuck in a hole the past few weeks and now I should be able to get out, I just hope my companions cool like elder alo. And I pray that he can get things resolved at home, and then maybe once he's figured out how to cope with the pain he can come back out again. Thats about it for me though, I've really learned a lot out here...but yeah, its about that time again....Bye. Love, Elder Farnsworth
Tuesday, April 10, 2012
Monday, April 9, 2012
April 2nd 2012
Hey mom and Dad,
Thats pretty cool that you guys got a smart car...wow, thats gotta be fun you'll have to tell me how the trip goes. Thanks for the happy easter too, right back at you!! It should be fun, its crazy I haven't even really thought much about the holidays but its gonna be great.
As for me, i've been pretty stressed. lol. Buts its all good, this weeks gonna be great. Last week was rough because my companions still been struggling a lot, and we stayed in for the majority of the week, I just want to get back to work!! but i can't blame him, its just the situation. We were able to go to the temple this week, so that was great, I just felt really good, and then for conference, there were defintely a lot of great talks, like you I loved the talks given by president Uchtdorf. I plan to utilize what I've learned in conference and apply it in the things i'm doing in the missionary work. I just want to go out again and find more people to teach, our teaching pool is constantly fluctuating so we just have to keep moving forward finding new people. This week has a lot in store, the world better watch out....haha. Something goods gonna happen.
BUt yeah, now i've gotta get going, thanks for everything, I look forward to getting a package!! thats gonna be great. And have fun in canada!! Bye...love, Elder Farnsworth
Thats pretty cool that you guys got a smart car...wow, thats gotta be fun you'll have to tell me how the trip goes. Thanks for the happy easter too, right back at you!! It should be fun, its crazy I haven't even really thought much about the holidays but its gonna be great.
As for me, i've been pretty stressed. lol. Buts its all good, this weeks gonna be great. Last week was rough because my companions still been struggling a lot, and we stayed in for the majority of the week, I just want to get back to work!! but i can't blame him, its just the situation. We were able to go to the temple this week, so that was great, I just felt really good, and then for conference, there were defintely a lot of great talks, like you I loved the talks given by president Uchtdorf. I plan to utilize what I've learned in conference and apply it in the things i'm doing in the missionary work. I just want to go out again and find more people to teach, our teaching pool is constantly fluctuating so we just have to keep moving forward finding new people. This week has a lot in store, the world better watch out....haha. Something goods gonna happen.
BUt yeah, now i've gotta get going, thanks for everything, I look forward to getting a package!! thats gonna be great. And have fun in canada!! Bye...love, Elder Farnsworth
Monday, March 26, 2012
March 26th 2012
I'm defintiely excited for conference, i just wanna hear some good new and more direction on how we can do a better job out here. I see myself and my companinos all making steady progress as the days weeks and months go on, but everytime we improve its just like a holiday, I'm thankful for it, just all the help from god in carrying out his righteous purposes, Things are going great with the ward, my companions been going through some rough times but we're both pushing forward and looks towards this week, its gonna be great. I just know we're gonna find someone ready to be baptized soon. Those are great pictures of oyur family, tell everyone I say hi. And if this goes on the blog or something like that, I would like everyone to know that I love them and miss everyone very much, I'm doing great out here in moval and i'm pretty focused on working and stuff, so yeah, I can't wait to hear from people!!! and i'm gonna try my best to reply to everyone soon. its Been anywhere between 6 and 3 months since ive repliled to letters.
Hey mom and dad,
Hows everything going? SOunds great that you guys will be able to go to canada, this next week, have Fun!! My Week was okay, the luau was great, we had lots of fun and I got another lava lava, the new zone seems pretty good too, the districts got changed up too so now I'm the DL over some other elders. The Valley view and Lasselle ward elders. Its gonna be great. The rest of the week has been a bit of a struggle though, my companion elder alo has been going through a rough time, his whole mission he's had back problems and this week we went to the doctor out in hemet and they determined that he has fibro maialgea(my-al-ja), its been really hard for him and the majority of the week we sat in cuz his new pills threw off his sleeping schedule and he needed the energy. He contemplated going home and talked to president smart. After all of that he decided he wants to keep pushing forward, so i'm thankful for that, this next weeks gonna be great, He seems to be doing better already. Thats crazy that you guys are still getting snow, I just don't even think about it out here cuz its not very cold, we have been getting a large portion of rain though. Well, anyway, thats how the weeks been, thanks for everything and have an amazing trip. Love Elder Farnsworth!
Hey mom and dad,
Hows everything going? SOunds great that you guys will be able to go to canada, this next week, have Fun!! My Week was okay, the luau was great, we had lots of fun and I got another lava lava, the new zone seems pretty good too, the districts got changed up too so now I'm the DL over some other elders. The Valley view and Lasselle ward elders. Its gonna be great. The rest of the week has been a bit of a struggle though, my companion elder alo has been going through a rough time, his whole mission he's had back problems and this week we went to the doctor out in hemet and they determined that he has fibro maialgea(my-al-ja), its been really hard for him and the majority of the week we sat in cuz his new pills threw off his sleeping schedule and he needed the energy. He contemplated going home and talked to president smart. After all of that he decided he wants to keep pushing forward, so i'm thankful for that, this next weeks gonna be great, He seems to be doing better already. Thats crazy that you guys are still getting snow, I just don't even think about it out here cuz its not very cold, we have been getting a large portion of rain though. Well, anyway, thats how the weeks been, thanks for everything and have an amazing trip. Love Elder Farnsworth!
Wednesday, March 14, 2012
March 14th 2012
HEy mom and dad,
HOws everything going? I'm glad you enjoyed sunday school and reading from 2 nephi 31 and 33. I love those chapters, they're really great in giving a good description for the importance of baptism and bearing frequent testimony. Thats the key in trying to bring the spirit, so I'm glad the both of you felt good going over it in class, its something to always remember, thats for sure.
Thats too bad that you and dad have both been feeling sick lately...:( Hopefully everythings starting to feel better. Thats about the same for me, I was sick all week and from tues-sat. I layed in bed most of the time trying to recover. I just had a bad cold and was feeling lots of sinus pressure in my head, its still there but thankfully I'm able to work now, I'm tired of being home... On sunday melody bloom and bill covell from lake elsinore came to visit for a little while, so that made my day, it was really nice to see some familiar faces. Good news is, elder alo and I are both determined to not let this last week bring us down, but we want to be the best we've been and better in the time to come. I know everythings going to work out. yesterday the computers were down so we had to do emails today, sadly I still wasn't able to reply to any letters...we went tracting instead...which is great,l'd still like to say hi to everybody though. I hope everyone knows, i just want to work hard, but at the same i love everyone and hope things are going well with you guys and all my friends. Thanks so much for letting me see how victors doing, same with jodi, its nice to hear about them. Thanks for everything, Love, Elder Farnsworth
HOws everything going? I'm glad you enjoyed sunday school and reading from 2 nephi 31 and 33. I love those chapters, they're really great in giving a good description for the importance of baptism and bearing frequent testimony. Thats the key in trying to bring the spirit, so I'm glad the both of you felt good going over it in class, its something to always remember, thats for sure.
Thats too bad that you and dad have both been feeling sick lately...:( Hopefully everythings starting to feel better. Thats about the same for me, I was sick all week and from tues-sat. I layed in bed most of the time trying to recover. I just had a bad cold and was feeling lots of sinus pressure in my head, its still there but thankfully I'm able to work now, I'm tired of being home... On sunday melody bloom and bill covell from lake elsinore came to visit for a little while, so that made my day, it was really nice to see some familiar faces. Good news is, elder alo and I are both determined to not let this last week bring us down, but we want to be the best we've been and better in the time to come. I know everythings going to work out. yesterday the computers were down so we had to do emails today, sadly I still wasn't able to reply to any letters...we went tracting instead...which is great,l'd still like to say hi to everybody though. I hope everyone knows, i just want to work hard, but at the same i love everyone and hope things are going well with you guys and all my friends. Thanks so much for letting me see how victors doing, same with jodi, its nice to hear about them. Thanks for everything, Love, Elder Farnsworth
Monday, March 5, 2012
March 5th 2012
Hey mom and dad,
hows everything going? thats great to hear about home and everything thats going on, i'm sorry to hear about mr. wargo...thats pretty sad, but its true he's in a better place now. Thats cool that dad bore his testimony as well, its always good to bear your testimony and express gratitude publicly. As for me, I've had a long week. I had to go on two exchanges this week and its brutal. I get upset at myself if I'm not working hard and if I don't have good plans for the day...but then seeing others that just don't have much of anything going on, its rough. thats kinda how it was on the exchanges, both the elders I went with didn't seem to know what they were doing and basically planned to fail, because they didn't have anybody in line to see. That just wore me out a bit. Luckily the work in my area seems to be making progress, we're constantly finding new people to teach and new ways to work better with the ward, so its pretty exciting. I reallly hope they don't transfer me, I feel like there's still a lot to be done. I've had a bit of a cold the past few weeks, so hopefully that'll go away soon, mainly I just want to have more people to teach and more ideas on improvement, once that comes I'll be fine.
thanks for sending me victors letter, i love hearing for everyone. I've got about 9 letters to write so hopefully I can get on that a little bit today, i hope people aren't upset. The works been really good though, I've been trying just to forget about everything and focus more on the work, but I'm still working on that. If there's anything I can say about how i'm doing now, its that i'm doing great, My teachings gotten a lot better and so has my finding, just working with people in general has gotten better, I still hesitate in big crowds and sometimes even talking to people at church, but overall its getting better. Now the goal has just been to perfect the teaching and everything that goes in to it, like extending different kinds of commitments and incorporating commandments within each lesson. We're also just working on being even more united in everything we teach, always feeding off of each other. I really think that as we begin to utilize the gospel as whole within each teaching scenario, that our lessons will improve and we'll be able to feel the spirit more, so thats what we're trying to do now. Anyway, my times runnning low, so take care. Have a great week. Love, Elder Farnsworth
hows everything going? thats great to hear about home and everything thats going on, i'm sorry to hear about mr. wargo...thats pretty sad, but its true he's in a better place now. Thats cool that dad bore his testimony as well, its always good to bear your testimony and express gratitude publicly. As for me, I've had a long week. I had to go on two exchanges this week and its brutal. I get upset at myself if I'm not working hard and if I don't have good plans for the day...but then seeing others that just don't have much of anything going on, its rough. thats kinda how it was on the exchanges, both the elders I went with didn't seem to know what they were doing and basically planned to fail, because they didn't have anybody in line to see. That just wore me out a bit. Luckily the work in my area seems to be making progress, we're constantly finding new people to teach and new ways to work better with the ward, so its pretty exciting. I reallly hope they don't transfer me, I feel like there's still a lot to be done. I've had a bit of a cold the past few weeks, so hopefully that'll go away soon, mainly I just want to have more people to teach and more ideas on improvement, once that comes I'll be fine.
thanks for sending me victors letter, i love hearing for everyone. I've got about 9 letters to write so hopefully I can get on that a little bit today, i hope people aren't upset. The works been really good though, I've been trying just to forget about everything and focus more on the work, but I'm still working on that. If there's anything I can say about how i'm doing now, its that i'm doing great, My teachings gotten a lot better and so has my finding, just working with people in general has gotten better, I still hesitate in big crowds and sometimes even talking to people at church, but overall its getting better. Now the goal has just been to perfect the teaching and everything that goes in to it, like extending different kinds of commitments and incorporating commandments within each lesson. We're also just working on being even more united in everything we teach, always feeding off of each other. I really think that as we begin to utilize the gospel as whole within each teaching scenario, that our lessons will improve and we'll be able to feel the spirit more, so thats what we're trying to do now. Anyway, my times runnning low, so take care. Have a great week. Love, Elder Farnsworth
Tuesday, February 28, 2012
February 27th 2012
Hey mom and dad,
things are going great, my week was pretty good. the beginning of the week felt off, things just weren't going the way that i would like, but on thursday we had a multi-zone conference and that helped me feel better, you could feel the spirit pretty strong. It was cool to see elder robertson too, he's a district leader as well in his area. so that was pretty sweet, we did some practice role playing together, it was just like home in mission prep, but it was cool to see how much we've both grown. that was defintely a highlight of the week. I've really been trying to work hard though, and it seems to be paying off, my companion and I have been trying to find everytthing possible that we can improve on and we've been doing our best to make corrections and set new goals everyday. Its been very helpful.
Thats great that braden had a good time on his mission and was able to find ways to love his companions. I understand how he must've felt, As I said towards the beginning of my mission I did have a few struggles when I first got out, but I can generally get along with the people i'm around, and that gives me strength, especially when I look towards christ with every step. I really love working with elder alo, because he wants to work as hard as I do, and we both try and motivate eachother to do better, cuz even though we want to work hard, we still have hard times. As for the languages and the wards, its still a work and progress, i'm not really sure what to mention about it right now, but were doing the best we can. For the samoan ward we're gonna have a lua, on march 19th, the day of transers where the whole zone will get together to celebrate.
Thanks dad, I'm trying my best. At times I have felt a little overwhelmed, but I've managed and I know things will be okay as long as I keep trying, I just want to do better and I love seeing improvement. I'm glad i have been overwhelmed though, cuz at least it shows that i care, and want to help. And thats what counts, cuz I know people need me, they need the gospel, and the hope that comes from living it. Thats what gives me strength. And I'm thankful that you're thinking of me, its nice to hear from you.
And When it comes to Nashville, tennessee being the best mission, I'd have to agree him on that. Its the best mission for him. And this is the best mission for me. There's somebody who needs me, and there were people who needed him.
But yeah, thats how everythings been going for me, just gotta keep trying.
Anyway, i guess I should go now. Love you, Elder Farnsworth
things are going great, my week was pretty good. the beginning of the week felt off, things just weren't going the way that i would like, but on thursday we had a multi-zone conference and that helped me feel better, you could feel the spirit pretty strong. It was cool to see elder robertson too, he's a district leader as well in his area. so that was pretty sweet, we did some practice role playing together, it was just like home in mission prep, but it was cool to see how much we've both grown. that was defintely a highlight of the week. I've really been trying to work hard though, and it seems to be paying off, my companion and I have been trying to find everytthing possible that we can improve on and we've been doing our best to make corrections and set new goals everyday. Its been very helpful.
Thats great that braden had a good time on his mission and was able to find ways to love his companions. I understand how he must've felt, As I said towards the beginning of my mission I did have a few struggles when I first got out, but I can generally get along with the people i'm around, and that gives me strength, especially when I look towards christ with every step. I really love working with elder alo, because he wants to work as hard as I do, and we both try and motivate eachother to do better, cuz even though we want to work hard, we still have hard times. As for the languages and the wards, its still a work and progress, i'm not really sure what to mention about it right now, but were doing the best we can. For the samoan ward we're gonna have a lua, on march 19th, the day of transers where the whole zone will get together to celebrate.
Thanks dad, I'm trying my best. At times I have felt a little overwhelmed, but I've managed and I know things will be okay as long as I keep trying, I just want to do better and I love seeing improvement. I'm glad i have been overwhelmed though, cuz at least it shows that i care, and want to help. And thats what counts, cuz I know people need me, they need the gospel, and the hope that comes from living it. Thats what gives me strength. And I'm thankful that you're thinking of me, its nice to hear from you.
And When it comes to Nashville, tennessee being the best mission, I'd have to agree him on that. Its the best mission for him. And this is the best mission for me. There's somebody who needs me, and there were people who needed him.
But yeah, thats how everythings been going for me, just gotta keep trying.
Anyway, i guess I should go now. Love you, Elder Farnsworth
Tuesday, February 7, 2012
February 6th 2012
My week was pretty good, I interviewed a few different people for baptism, and now they're all set...except for one, who had to get interviewed by the president as well. Allround its about the same as last week though, This weekends been crazy though..considering its transfers and all. Half the zone is leaving...elder kaulave is leaving to menifee lake to be with one of my mtc companions elder snyder, and my new companions coming from murrieta, and is samoan from utah. So that makes me one of the most diverse missionaries i'd say. I've been companions with a hawaiin, phillipino,Tongan, and now a Samoan. And serving in a samoan ward. And trying to learn spanish, as a white english elder. haha. My companion should be here around 4 or 5, and thats when Kaulave will be leaving too. But that pretty much somes up the week. Anything else happening at home?? Thats great that you guys were able to go to the temple. keep it up! well, Ishould probably get going now. Love, Elder Farnsworth
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