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

July 29, 2013

This week was a pretty good week.  On Tuesday we helped a sister clean her yard and her garage.  Tuesday night we went on exchanges with the Zone Leaders.  Our zone leader is ver direct and to the point so it was interesting to be with him.  All he talked about was the scriptures.  We stopped by less active members during the day on Wednesday.  Wednesday night when we were to exchange back he told that I was a good missionary and that he could see a lot of potential in me.  That made me feel good.
On Thursday we had zone conference which took up most of the day.  We got trained on revelation through church attendance and how to get investigators into the church buildings.  Witch that helped a lot of people.  That night for dinner we had an appointment with a part member family.  One of the family members was feeling sick so they asked for a blessing and I was able to give her a blessing.  Then on Friday we got asked by member of the YSA ward to help him move.  While we were waiting around we got a call from the bishop and was asked if we could stop by and give a blessing to a less active member.  She was going in for back surgery.  When we got there she had asked me to give her a blessing.  I don't think I've ever given so many blessings before in one week so that was kind of cool.  Later that day we helped a member of the YSA ward move on Friday night.
We were able to meet with Kimie and put her back on target to be baptized.  If all goes according to plan she will be baptized on August 24.
They had some boat races on the river close to where we live and could hear them.  We wanted to go and watch the races but decided that we probably shouldn't go.

That's about all for this week.

Love you.

Love,
Elder Poling

July 22, 2013

Not too much going on this week.  We were able to get in touch with Kimie and she was able to make it to church.  We got a new investigator this week.  He has met with the missonaires the past 2 years and has only missed church 4 times in 2 years!!  We have met with him and have him on date to be baptized on August 3
My new companion in from NM.  He goes home August 13 so he is super trunky.  Some times I have to give hime an extra push to get out and do some missionary work.
We helped some members clean out their garage this week.
That's about all for this week. 

I love you.

Love,
Scott

July 15, 2013

This week was pretty good but the weekend was interesting.
We went on exchanges Friday night with the Zone Leaders.  The elder that I was with goes home in a month and is really trunckie.  He's really into baseball and talked about playing for BYU.  He wanted to see Max so I took him over to see him and then tried to go and see some other people but no one was home.
Saturday we got up and went for a run and when we got back we were getting ready for our study time when his companion called and said there was a problem and they needed to take care of it.  So our exchanges ended early.  When Elder Tubbs got back we went over to see Max, he had us help him organize his garage.  While we were over there we got a phone call from the Zone Leaders asking us if we could take a missionary for a couple of days (apparently there were some missionaries that got in trouble).  We told the Zone Leader that we take one of the missionaries.  After getting off the phone we told Max that we would have to leave soon to pick up the other missionary that would be staying with us for the next couple of days.  Max told us to come back around 6 and he would feed us dinner.
When we pick up the other missionary, he told us that he and his previous companion watched a couple of movies when the members that they were staying with were out of town.  We also found out that there will be a transfer tomorrow.  Elder Tubbs and the other elder are both getting transferred tomorrow and I will be getting a new companion.  So it's been an interesting week.

Our next transfer will be in 4 week and there will be 38 new missionaries!!

Our baptism that we have scheduled for the 20th has been postponed since we have not been able to meet with her for the last couple of weeks.  Hopefully we will be able to meet with her soon.

We were able to go to the Columbia River Temple last week.  It's a little bigger than OKC Temple.

I was also able to give a 4 year old a blessing for a part member family.

That's about it for now.

I love you.

Love,
Scott