8/19/13
The Fair sounds like it was Super Fun!!! I wish I could have been there to experience it but, I know that I'm supposed to be here on a mission right now! It's pretty awesome! This week has been crazy for me as well, with Elder Barney getting ready to go home! He's now at the mission home and I am with our Zone Leaders, Elder Braithwaite and Elder Felt. They're pretty cool! Elder Braithwaite is from Riverton, Utah! His first name is Taylor. JP, I'm pretty sure you went to school with him for a year or so! Does the name sound familiar at all? I will be with them until the 28th!
I'm digging the garden! What type of gardening style is it called again? Box plot gardening? One guy in my last area did that, his wife was a member and he was atheist so teaching them was kind of difficult when we had the opportunity. I pray it works out for them.
I will have to print out this picture of Kate and Bacon when I get it! I'm super excited! Kate, how was the fair? Did you enjoy it? What was your favorite part?
Here are the answers to your questions:
King George is as hot as: A nice spring day, but can be as humid as the bathroom after a hot shower!
King George smells like: I don't know! Sometimes it smells like pure c__p though! Ha Ha!
King George is as Ghetto as: Umm, not Wakefield, but it's only ghetto in some spots where you expect drug dealers to live.
Elder Barney is as wise as: the next guy
Elder Bird is as funny as: Oh my gosh, I just peed my pants I laughed so hard!
My favorite investigator is as smart as: Umm idk, but he knows how to work and get the job done!
Our most challenging investigator is: Arthur because he can act like a little kid when it comes to goofing off randomly ha ha!
My family is as crazy as: the stereotypical Mormon family
My mission is as awesome as: The leaders I have had and friends that have been extremely awesome examples for me!
My Testimony is as strong as: Iron Man!!! Come on, who is stronger than Iron Man? Well, who could take him down? Hulk doesn't think and neither does Thor! They got no brains like Iron Man does! Ha ha! So, Iron man wins!!!
Love all of you!!!
Elder Austin Mounts
Monday, August 19, 2013
8/12/13
For some reason pictures aren't working this week with the sending :/
Elder Barney is great! This is his last P-Day! I like that he loves doing service for others and loves to get outdoors and have fun! He's taught me that service works with investigators because we have a baptism this next Sunday! He can also lasso a rope so that's pretty cool!
Probably the most spiritual thing that has happened this week was the baptism for this 8 year old that we helped with. Elder Barney performed the ordinance and I was a witness and gave a short talk on what the Gift of the Holy Ghost is. It took this girl, Sierra, like 10 minutes or more before she had the courage to get in the water! Crazy huh? We had to send the kids in front of the glass back to their families so Sierra wouldn't feel so nervous. She feels super nervous when a lot of people are focusing on her. All in all, it turned out to be a great baptism and one of our investigators, Richard Strickland, is going to be baptized because of the confirmation of the Spirit there that he should! We're super excited for him!
Arthur, the investigator who had cancer, isn't coming along as we had hoped. I mean, he listens when we teach lessons, but then he totally changes the subject with something weird. I don't know how he heard about the church. I think he was tracted into actually. He says God has told him to start his own church and that he can make his spirit leave his body at will. Just crazy random stuff like that. We are doing our best to have patience, sometimes we're just caught off guard with what he randomly brings up, ha ha!
No interesting door responses yet. I've only tracted once in this area because we have so many people we are already working with. The most interesting one I can think of is when a guy saw us and shut the door right away, then opened it again and said, "Please don't come back." Then he shut it again. He had a dog, a big dog right there too that he was holding back so we were like, "Okay, cool."
We have a zone conference coming soon. I'm excited to see Elder Bird there!
I love you Too! I love everyone!
Elder Austin Mounts
For some reason pictures aren't working this week with the sending :/
Elder Barney is great! This is his last P-Day! I like that he loves doing service for others and loves to get outdoors and have fun! He's taught me that service works with investigators because we have a baptism this next Sunday! He can also lasso a rope so that's pretty cool!
Probably the most spiritual thing that has happened this week was the baptism for this 8 year old that we helped with. Elder Barney performed the ordinance and I was a witness and gave a short talk on what the Gift of the Holy Ghost is. It took this girl, Sierra, like 10 minutes or more before she had the courage to get in the water! Crazy huh? We had to send the kids in front of the glass back to their families so Sierra wouldn't feel so nervous. She feels super nervous when a lot of people are focusing on her. All in all, it turned out to be a great baptism and one of our investigators, Richard Strickland, is going to be baptized because of the confirmation of the Spirit there that he should! We're super excited for him!
Arthur, the investigator who had cancer, isn't coming along as we had hoped. I mean, he listens when we teach lessons, but then he totally changes the subject with something weird. I don't know how he heard about the church. I think he was tracted into actually. He says God has told him to start his own church and that he can make his spirit leave his body at will. Just crazy random stuff like that. We are doing our best to have patience, sometimes we're just caught off guard with what he randomly brings up, ha ha!
No interesting door responses yet. I've only tracted once in this area because we have so many people we are already working with. The most interesting one I can think of is when a guy saw us and shut the door right away, then opened it again and said, "Please don't come back." Then he shut it again. He had a dog, a big dog right there too that he was holding back so we were like, "Okay, cool."
We have a zone conference coming soon. I'm excited to see Elder Bird there!
I love you Too! I love everyone!
Elder Austin Mounts
8/5/13
Sounds like a fun week! I'm glad to hear that everyone is doing great and that Uncle Todd is recovering quickly! Glad you liked the voice recordings! I'm sorry I didn't get around to any this week, it totally slipped my mind :/ I'll be sure to write it down as a must do this week so I remember to do it! Pictures are so hard to send on the computer. The lds missionary email will only let you send like 25 megabites of memory at a time so it takes FOREVER! It's really rather frustrating, if it was a different email and the computers had iPhoto I could do it all in seconds! Maybe I'll just send the SD card in a letter or something? Our investigators are really...interesting lol! It's Virginia, everyone is unique. Arthur as I told you still is a kid and looks like a giant kid, I'll have to get a picture with him sometime, at his baptism, once he comes to know that the LDS church is the ONLY church with the proper priesthood authority from God and His son Jesus Christ! Our other investigator, Barb, owns like 10 horses, and is currently residing at a ranch. She will probably be moving soon, but it's beautiful out there and yesterday we went out with her to see the horses in their natural habitat, 12 horses in a herd. They just roam the many acres of land and it's so cool! They're very people friendly and we might be able to ride a few soon! I'll be sending pictures and maybe video for sure!
I still have my bike! That thing is going to be lasting me for a LONG time. It's not going to waste. Oh, my noise makers? Yeah, they don't make noise, they just blow up. I blew them all once then threw them away during a deep clean. I just didn't really have any use for them, sorry. No dogs running after us yet but the dogs I have met are super cool and people friendly!
Yes, Elder Bird and I did write the lyrics for the song I sent you. However, we are still not done. Hopefully, we will be companions again!
Can you please get me Daniel's email?
The most inspirational moment this week? Probably when we were doing our best to teach Arthur about Priesthood Authority, even though it was like trying to teach a little kid, and you really had to have patience with him, the Spirit was there. We were guided in what to say and we believed we did our best in teaching by the Spirit. It was pretty great!
Love Y'all! Till next week!
Elder Austin Mounts
Sounds like a fun week! I'm glad to hear that everyone is doing great and that Uncle Todd is recovering quickly! Glad you liked the voice recordings! I'm sorry I didn't get around to any this week, it totally slipped my mind :/ I'll be sure to write it down as a must do this week so I remember to do it! Pictures are so hard to send on the computer. The lds missionary email will only let you send like 25 megabites of memory at a time so it takes FOREVER! It's really rather frustrating, if it was a different email and the computers had iPhoto I could do it all in seconds! Maybe I'll just send the SD card in a letter or something? Our investigators are really...interesting lol! It's Virginia, everyone is unique. Arthur as I told you still is a kid and looks like a giant kid, I'll have to get a picture with him sometime, at his baptism, once he comes to know that the LDS church is the ONLY church with the proper priesthood authority from God and His son Jesus Christ! Our other investigator, Barb, owns like 10 horses, and is currently residing at a ranch. She will probably be moving soon, but it's beautiful out there and yesterday we went out with her to see the horses in their natural habitat, 12 horses in a herd. They just roam the many acres of land and it's so cool! They're very people friendly and we might be able to ride a few soon! I'll be sending pictures and maybe video for sure!
I still have my bike! That thing is going to be lasting me for a LONG time. It's not going to waste. Oh, my noise makers? Yeah, they don't make noise, they just blow up. I blew them all once then threw them away during a deep clean. I just didn't really have any use for them, sorry. No dogs running after us yet but the dogs I have met are super cool and people friendly!
Yes, Elder Bird and I did write the lyrics for the song I sent you. However, we are still not done. Hopefully, we will be companions again!
Can you please get me Daniel's email?
The most inspirational moment this week? Probably when we were doing our best to teach Arthur about Priesthood Authority, even though it was like trying to teach a little kid, and you really had to have patience with him, the Spirit was there. We were guided in what to say and we believed we did our best in teaching by the Spirit. It was pretty great!
Love Y'all! Till next week!
Elder Austin Mounts
Thursday, August 8, 2013
7/29/13
I'm doing pretty great! Yeah, I've been trying to respond to everyone at once with the emailing so that it saves time and I've got a lot more emails to respond to now with these Birthday wishes and my trainer writing me. I need to get Daniel Suoms email address and Jordan Moreno's. It would be nice if I could get those as well as Bryce, Parker's and Dallin's, thank you!
I used my card to buy food recently because I ran out of my MSF for the month. But the month is almost over and I had used the money on my MSF right before transfers so I was upset that I wouldn't be able to take most of what I bought with me.
So Wakefield and King George are different in the fact that Wakefield is SO much more ghetto. That's pretty much the only difference, ha ha! We can see the coastline and some factory. A big bridge connects Maryland to Virginia in the view that we have.
Oh, sweet, you're with the Reagh's!!! Please get me JP's email address! Give them my love for me!
Elder Barney is great! He's from Arkansas and loves sports and roping. He's going home in 4 weeks! I will have yet another new companion.
Mom asked how we get most of our investigators and it's still mainly tracting and referrals from other missionaries. This area has a TON of less active members so we're working really hard to invite them to come back and offer any services we can to them! Our most interesting investigator is a man named Arthur. He is 32 years old, but because of cancer he had when he was a young kid, he acts like a 15 year old boy and his testosterone is like gone. We are working with him to determine which Church is the true church for him. The one he currently attends or the LDS church. He said he received an answer saying that the one he was attending currently was the one he was told to go to. I then asked him if he had been reading from the Book of Mormon. He said he had not. I then told him that if he wanted to receive the answer he was looking for, because he really loves the LDS church and was disappointed in his answer, that he would have to put forth the effort and read from it. I invited him to read 3 Nephi 11, the crowning point in the Book of Mormon when Jesus Christ appears to the Nephites and to read Moroni 10. Then pray and continue to read and then he would receive the answer that The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints is the only true Church and that The Book of Mormon is true and that Joseph Smith indeed was a prophet of God, called to restore the fullness of the Gospel on the earth today!
Love y'all!
Elder Austin Mounts
I'm doing pretty great! Yeah, I've been trying to respond to everyone at once with the emailing so that it saves time and I've got a lot more emails to respond to now with these Birthday wishes and my trainer writing me. I need to get Daniel Suoms email address and Jordan Moreno's. It would be nice if I could get those as well as Bryce, Parker's and Dallin's, thank you!
I used my card to buy food recently because I ran out of my MSF for the month. But the month is almost over and I had used the money on my MSF right before transfers so I was upset that I wouldn't be able to take most of what I bought with me.
So Wakefield and King George are different in the fact that Wakefield is SO much more ghetto. That's pretty much the only difference, ha ha! We can see the coastline and some factory. A big bridge connects Maryland to Virginia in the view that we have.
Oh, sweet, you're with the Reagh's!!! Please get me JP's email address! Give them my love for me!
Elder Barney is great! He's from Arkansas and loves sports and roping. He's going home in 4 weeks! I will have yet another new companion.
Mom asked how we get most of our investigators and it's still mainly tracting and referrals from other missionaries. This area has a TON of less active members so we're working really hard to invite them to come back and offer any services we can to them! Our most interesting investigator is a man named Arthur. He is 32 years old, but because of cancer he had when he was a young kid, he acts like a 15 year old boy and his testosterone is like gone. We are working with him to determine which Church is the true church for him. The one he currently attends or the LDS church. He said he received an answer saying that the one he was attending currently was the one he was told to go to. I then asked him if he had been reading from the Book of Mormon. He said he had not. I then told him that if he wanted to receive the answer he was looking for, because he really loves the LDS church and was disappointed in his answer, that he would have to put forth the effort and read from it. I invited him to read 3 Nephi 11, the crowning point in the Book of Mormon when Jesus Christ appears to the Nephites and to read Moroni 10. Then pray and continue to read and then he would receive the answer that The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints is the only true Church and that The Book of Mormon is true and that Joseph Smith indeed was a prophet of God, called to restore the fullness of the Gospel on the earth today!
Love y'all!
Elder Austin Mounts
7/22/13
Kate and Ellie, it's good to hear from you! Sounds like you are enjoying life and doing well! I pray you're doing well!
Elder Barney is my new companion. He is from Arkansas. I don't know too many details about my new area yet. We live in a nice apartment and it's pretty clean. Our ward is a bunch of either scientists or navy people. The ward is quite young and just barely big enough to be a branch. We have quite a few investigators whom I have yet to still meet, some I have and I'm trying to remember their names. One guy is named Arthur, he's 32 and he had cancer when he was younger and removing it caused his testosterone to not really develop so he looks like a big 15 year old who acts about the same way, but he's pretty open to us and likes us! We are reactivating the Alvarez family who is an older couple and they are great! They are very nice and Brother Alvarez is funny!
I'm almost finished with Alma again in the Book of Mormon. I love the war chapters! It's pretty cool how you can see the Lord work through his people and protect them. Just look at the 2000 Stripling Warriors!
I'm in the old Washington DC South mission because of the boundary changes. We can see Maryland like daily! It's pretty cool!
Elder Barney is about to go home. I'm "killing" him off, it's crazy! He's a nice guy! President Wilson is a great guy, very soft spoken though so sometimes it's really hard to understand him, but I like him!
Thank you for the Birthday package!!!!
Love Y'all!!!
Elder Austin Mounts
Kate and Ellie, it's good to hear from you! Sounds like you are enjoying life and doing well! I pray you're doing well!
Elder Barney is my new companion. He is from Arkansas. I don't know too many details about my new area yet. We live in a nice apartment and it's pretty clean. Our ward is a bunch of either scientists or navy people. The ward is quite young and just barely big enough to be a branch. We have quite a few investigators whom I have yet to still meet, some I have and I'm trying to remember their names. One guy is named Arthur, he's 32 and he had cancer when he was younger and removing it caused his testosterone to not really develop so he looks like a big 15 year old who acts about the same way, but he's pretty open to us and likes us! We are reactivating the Alvarez family who is an older couple and they are great! They are very nice and Brother Alvarez is funny!
I'm almost finished with Alma again in the Book of Mormon. I love the war chapters! It's pretty cool how you can see the Lord work through his people and protect them. Just look at the 2000 Stripling Warriors!
I'm in the old Washington DC South mission because of the boundary changes. We can see Maryland like daily! It's pretty cool!
Elder Barney is about to go home. I'm "killing" him off, it's crazy! He's a nice guy! President Wilson is a great guy, very soft spoken though so sometimes it's really hard to understand him, but I like him!
Thank you for the Birthday package!!!!
Love Y'all!!!
Elder Austin Mounts
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