August 26, 2013

This week was pretty good.  Kimie was baptized and confirmed a member of the church!!!  We did a recap with Kimie this past week just to make sure she understood everything.  All was good and she was baptized!!
We did find a new investigator this week.  We were looking through our area book when we came across this name and decided to go and check it out.  We were able to answer some of his questions but then all he wanted to do was argue so we told him we needed to go because we had another appointment.
We were able to meet with Danny.  He wants to be baptized Sunday.  We met with him after church Sunday and will meet with him again this week.  Everything looks good for him getting baptized this week.
I am still working out in the mornings.  In fact I've had a couple of the members ask me if I'm losing weight.  My hard work is paying off.

That's about it for this week.

Love,
Scott

August 19, 2013

This week has been a crazy one.  Monday, Elder Walker went to the mission home so I got paired up with 2 other missionaries and all of us stayed in my apartment.  It was a challenge trying to juggle both of our areas.  Tuesday we went and visited some less active members which was fun.  There was a guy that needed up with his 76 step side Chevy. (All that work we did on Heather's truck paid off).  Also on Tuesday we started helping the Simpsons pack.  I will miss seeing her at church.  We also were able to meet with Kimie and showed her the Restoration video and taught her the law of tithing.  I think she had a hard time grasping that.  We did our best to explain it to her though.
 Wednesday we finished helping the Simpsons pack, when we were done she asked if I could give her a blessing, so I did.  It was pretty awesome.  Wednesday evening I got my new companion, Elder Greenwell.  He has only been out for 1 transfer so I will finish up his training.  Hopefully I will do okay.
Thursday was a busy day.  We went to teach an investigator named Tony.  This was the 2nd time we had met with him, I asked him if he remembered anything from the last time we meet, but he didn't remember much.  We recapped on what we had taught him before.  He remembered some but not much.  We taught him the Plan of Salvation, which went okay.  Before we left we had asked him to say the closing prayer, but said that he didn't know how or what to say, so we explained to him how to pray, but still didn't want to so I said the pray and asked him to keep trying.  Later that day evening we had a lesson with with a new investigator and a less active member.  We taught them at the institute building.  Elder Greenwell taught the lesson, not sure if it was his first time to teach a lesson, he rushed through a few things so we had to go back and explain some things, but Elder Greenwell did a good job.
We have a couple of investigators that are on date to be baptized which is real exciting.
That's about it for this week.  I love you.

Love,
Scott

August 12, 2013

I do feel a little older but not too much.  I had a pretty good birthday.  We had a lot a church yesterday and a few appointments.  Sister Simpson had us over for dinner.  She made me a cake, which was nice of her.  She also got me a camo hat, a knife and hair clippers.  I will have to attempt to cut my own hair again.
This week was pretty good.  We did the usual.  We met with Kimie and we will meet with her again tomorrow night.  We will teach her the law of tithing and keeping the Sabbath day holy.  Saturday the Spanish elders were had a baptism, we thought it would be good idea to take Kimie so she can see how long she would be under water.  We got everything lined up and got her a ride, but her ride forgot and showed up.  She got there a minuted too late.  Oh well.
We had a zone meeting Thursday.  It was pretty good.  After the meeting some of the members invited us over for lunch.  They fed us steak, potatoes and corn.  While we were there the conversation somehow changed to the sisters chasing chickens.  The sisters asked if we could them catch some of the chickens for one of their investigators.  After we got done chasing them we put them back in their coop.  The husband said that if we want a duck to eat we can catch them.  We were able to catch them and then we used them as duck guns and acted like we were shooting each other.  It was pretty fun.  My duck ended up pooping on me. =(.
That was my week.  It was pretty interesting.
I did find out that my new companion has only been out for one transfer so I will finish his training.  I hope I do a good job.

I love you.

Love,
Scott

August 5, 2013

This week has been pretty good.  I've been trying to keep my companion motivated by going and seeing people and tracting.  We've also been doing some service work as well.
We were able to meet with Kimie this week.  It's hard to keep her focused and keep her on the topic of what we are teaching her.  Our Branch President even has a hard time keeping her focused.  She has cats at her place and they seem to distract her so we changed locations of where we teach her and she still some how changes the subject and talks about her cats.  It's a little frustrating.  She is however still scheduled to be baptized on the 24th of August.  As for Johnny, we haven't heard from him in a couple of weeks.
On Friday we were over at Sis. Simpson's house digging a trench for her sprinkler system.  She invited us for dinner that night, after dinner she said that we could make smores.  We went back over there for dinner that evening.  After dinner we built a fire in her front yard to make the smores.  After about 15 minutes the fire department and an ambulance showed up.  The fireman walks up to us and asks if everything is fine because someone had called and reported that there was a fire.  They told us it was a legal fire since we were using it to cook.  We offered them a smore while they filled out the paperwork.  That made for an interesting evening.
I did go golfing this morning.  That was pretty fun.  I did better than the last time I went.
Take pictures of Heather when she gets her wisdom teeth pulled.  I would like to see them.

That's about all for now.

I love you.

Love,
Elder Poling