This past week was a super fun week. We got to spend Christmas morning with the Anoka Elders at the members house they live at. The members got me and my comp stockings too so that was super awesome! Then we got to Skype and that was fun. We had an early Christmas dinner at a members home at 2:30 but we were there till 6 it was super fun and it was good food. I got to drink all the Egg Nog I wanted because they had a ton of it. So I was super happy with that because I love my Egg Nog! That night we watched a movie with Harry and it is crazy he just loves anything and everything put out by the church it is so awesome to see!
So the beginning of Christmas was green and then it snowed the whole rest of the day so we had a good 5 inches on Friday morning and the temperatures just dropped form like mid 30's to low 20 at the highest for the next week. It is crazy how fast it can just get cold here, but i feel like I was meant for this climate because the cold really doesn't bother me that much which is great because there is plenty of cold to go around in this state!
Friday was a really slow day but on Saturday something super weird happened we have these investigators Ron and Heather and they are strange people. We were over there and they were just venting to us. He always says he wants my CTR ring so Heather, his wife, was trying to find it online and she looked up the wrong ring. Well in the middle of our appointment he just starts to ask me a question and Heater tries to stop him, but he asks me anyways. He asks are you gay and I said no! Heather thought I was because she looked up the wrong ring and she found a gay promise ring and thought it was mine. It was super weird and awkward, but I am glad that that is all cleared up now!
On Friday a member told us a way he planned on his mission was to try and make the days more effective and it was by planning 3 plans for every 30 min interval in the day! so we decided to try it and man is it hard. It usually takes us like 30 mins to plan, but it took us like an hour and 15 both times we have done it. It is super hard, but i think it will be worth it in the end!
This Sunday was our last Sunday at 9 am thank goodness, but we were at the church for ever waiting to meet with the Bishop, but we had dinner with this family who's son is named Seth who just got back from college and it was so confusing. Every time someone would say Seth i would look. It was really weird!
On Monday next week we find out about transfers we will see what happens. If my comp gets transferred I kinda want to train a new missionary because I think that would be a lot of fun to help some one learn what it is like and it would also be a learning experience for me as well.
Well that is all till next week!
love
Seth
Tuesday, December 30, 2014
Tuesday, December 23, 2014
Phiscaly tough week, but an ok week
So this week was a slow week mainly because we didn't have a car. We have a pretty dang big area and so we were kind of restricted to where we can bike and walk to. Biking for me is not fun because my loner bike from the mission office is no good. It has some problems but I pushed through it. When I walk for a decent amount of time my feet kill, but I am trying to just push through it because I know what I am doing is important!
Not too much stuff really happened until Friday this week. We had this appointment set up with a former investigator and we confirmed it 2 hours before we were supposed to be there. We didn't have a ride so we had to bike 3.5 miles to his place and there were some hills. When we we get there he was not even there anymore. I was so mad because it was a really tough bike ride for me because of my bike and we just had to turn around and bike all the way back to our apartment it was 7 miles total. Oh my gosh it was not fun but I got over it. Then we had the apartment building Christmas party for dinner that night and that was good. It was a buffet potluck type thing it was pretty good!
On Saturday we did some more biking and then went with our Bishop to see a less active, but on our way there we stopped for gas and the guy we were going to go see was at the same gas station it was crazy ha ha! So instead we went to drop off some gifts to some of his neighbors so that was kinda cool. Then he gave us this thing that had mini 2 summer sausages in it and some cheese and it was good! The we saw Harry and he has been wanting some Christmas music so we spent the majority of the time going though the Christmas disk that we have. He was choosing which ones he liked best so we could make him a Christmas CD.
Sunday we were riding our bikes and my dang bike ripped my black pants when I was getting on it so now I am down to 2 pairs of pants instead of 3 because it looks like the rip will not sew back well at all. So that is no good. Sunday night we ate dinner and then right before we went on to our next appointment we get a call from Harry saying the sisters never showed up for dinner so we had to go eat dinner over there as well. It was a lot of food. It was called bitter greens, I think, and it was super spicy I was sweating while I was eating it. Oh my gosh it was super hot! Today we got a loner car from the mission office thank goodness because I was getting so frustrated with my bike! Now we have a car so it is all good. Well that is all for this week I hope everybody has a Merry Christmas!!
till next week
Love Seth
oh ya one more thing this former/current investigator we had got me and my companion some slippers a pumice stone and some gold bond for Christmas it is kinda funny and his kids made us stockings to hang up!
Not too much stuff really happened until Friday this week. We had this appointment set up with a former investigator and we confirmed it 2 hours before we were supposed to be there. We didn't have a ride so we had to bike 3.5 miles to his place and there were some hills. When we we get there he was not even there anymore. I was so mad because it was a really tough bike ride for me because of my bike and we just had to turn around and bike all the way back to our apartment it was 7 miles total. Oh my gosh it was not fun but I got over it. Then we had the apartment building Christmas party for dinner that night and that was good. It was a buffet potluck type thing it was pretty good!
On Saturday we did some more biking and then went with our Bishop to see a less active, but on our way there we stopped for gas and the guy we were going to go see was at the same gas station it was crazy ha ha! So instead we went to drop off some gifts to some of his neighbors so that was kinda cool. Then he gave us this thing that had mini 2 summer sausages in it and some cheese and it was good! The we saw Harry and he has been wanting some Christmas music so we spent the majority of the time going though the Christmas disk that we have. He was choosing which ones he liked best so we could make him a Christmas CD.
Sunday we were riding our bikes and my dang bike ripped my black pants when I was getting on it so now I am down to 2 pairs of pants instead of 3 because it looks like the rip will not sew back well at all. So that is no good. Sunday night we ate dinner and then right before we went on to our next appointment we get a call from Harry saying the sisters never showed up for dinner so we had to go eat dinner over there as well. It was a lot of food. It was called bitter greens, I think, and it was super spicy I was sweating while I was eating it. Oh my gosh it was super hot! Today we got a loner car from the mission office thank goodness because I was getting so frustrated with my bike! Now we have a car so it is all good. Well that is all for this week I hope everybody has a Merry Christmas!!
till next week
Love Seth
oh ya one more thing this former/current investigator we had got me and my companion some slippers a pumice stone and some gold bond for Christmas it is kinda funny and his kids made us stockings to hang up!
Thursday, December 18, 2014
Taking the Good with the Bad this week
So this week was a good week, but also kinda a sucky week. A lot of awesome and fun things happened as well so that is good. Tuesday this past week I was on exchanges with one of my zone leaders and that was fun. I learned some things I need to work on and then in our interview he said that he could tell that I am just trying to love the people and that I am good at talking to people which was super comforting to hear because those were two things that I was really doubting myself on. So it was great to hear that I have made progress in that area of missionary work it was great!
Wednesday we had exchanges again, but this time with the Anoka elders and I stayed in Andover and it was not a good night. All of our plans and our backup plans fell through so it was a pretty slow night the only person that didn't fall through that day was Harry and he never falls through so that is super good! Harry is just so super awesome he is a solid member. He just loves the church with all his heart and you can tell. It is awesome to see how much he has changed!
Thursday was cool we got to teach one of our investigators who took a brake for a while again and he said he wants to get baptized, but he wants to read through the whole Book of Mormon first so we will see how that goes. Then we went and helped our investigators Dotte and Mike set up and decorate their tree. Dotte's mom is dying and will pass on soon so having us help decorate their tree was a big blessing for her because she has so much that she has to do right now with her mom. It is crazy how just the littlest acts of service can affect someone's life so much it is great to see!
Well Friday is where the bad comes in. We had a good day up until that night. We had just been tracting and then we were going to help the sister's teach their investigator who is getting close to baptism. They live a decent ways out in our area so we drove out that way and were tracting along they way. Then 5 mins from their house I am driving and the car just stops accelerating so we had to pull off the road. It would start, but it wouldn't run it would just die as soon as it turned over. So the Sister's investigator came and tried to jump us, but that didn't work either so we had it towed to a Goodyear. I will continue this story later in the email!
So Saturday morning we had a Zone service where we went to a church where they had gathered a bunch of toys and we helped parents go through and get Christmas presents for all of their kids it was such a fun service project. Doing service out here is just so much fun! Back to the car story after service we go to the Goodyear and they said they would look at it so we were there for 3 hours and he comes out and says they found the problem. Then he comes out 30 mins later and says well your car still won't start so we will have to keep it here over the weekend. We were not in our area so we just walked to the church from there and got a ride back to our apartment. So we had to get a ride everywhere on Sunday. Then Monday we got a call after Mission Conference and they said it turns out our car needs a new engine so that sucks. So we have to get it towed to a dealership for them to do it. Hopefully we will get it back soon! Our Mission Conference was awesome there was a lot of good training on how to use this Chritmas time to our advantage and how to use this "he is the gift" initiative to our advantage. If you haven't seen the video yet watch it! Then show it to all your friends because it is a super powerfull video!
Then after all of our training we got to watch It's a Wonderful Life and that was awesome! We had Eggnog and that was great! That night we went to the Bishop's house in the other Ward to have ice cream because one of the sisters in our district is going home. That was lots of fun. Then we got permission to watch Frozen. So this morning before she went down to Bloomington we all watched Frozen as a District and that was awesome. It was lots of fun! As you can see lots of fun and exciting things happened this week so that was awesome but that is all.
So till next week
Love Seth!
Wednesday we had exchanges again, but this time with the Anoka elders and I stayed in Andover and it was not a good night. All of our plans and our backup plans fell through so it was a pretty slow night the only person that didn't fall through that day was Harry and he never falls through so that is super good! Harry is just so super awesome he is a solid member. He just loves the church with all his heart and you can tell. It is awesome to see how much he has changed!
Thursday was cool we got to teach one of our investigators who took a brake for a while again and he said he wants to get baptized, but he wants to read through the whole Book of Mormon first so we will see how that goes. Then we went and helped our investigators Dotte and Mike set up and decorate their tree. Dotte's mom is dying and will pass on soon so having us help decorate their tree was a big blessing for her because she has so much that she has to do right now with her mom. It is crazy how just the littlest acts of service can affect someone's life so much it is great to see!
Well Friday is where the bad comes in. We had a good day up until that night. We had just been tracting and then we were going to help the sister's teach their investigator who is getting close to baptism. They live a decent ways out in our area so we drove out that way and were tracting along they way. Then 5 mins from their house I am driving and the car just stops accelerating so we had to pull off the road. It would start, but it wouldn't run it would just die as soon as it turned over. So the Sister's investigator came and tried to jump us, but that didn't work either so we had it towed to a Goodyear. I will continue this story later in the email!
So Saturday morning we had a Zone service where we went to a church where they had gathered a bunch of toys and we helped parents go through and get Christmas presents for all of their kids it was such a fun service project. Doing service out here is just so much fun! Back to the car story after service we go to the Goodyear and they said they would look at it so we were there for 3 hours and he comes out and says they found the problem. Then he comes out 30 mins later and says well your car still won't start so we will have to keep it here over the weekend. We were not in our area so we just walked to the church from there and got a ride back to our apartment. So we had to get a ride everywhere on Sunday. Then Monday we got a call after Mission Conference and they said it turns out our car needs a new engine so that sucks. So we have to get it towed to a dealership for them to do it. Hopefully we will get it back soon! Our Mission Conference was awesome there was a lot of good training on how to use this Chritmas time to our advantage and how to use this "he is the gift" initiative to our advantage. If you haven't seen the video yet watch it! Then show it to all your friends because it is a super powerfull video!
Then after all of our training we got to watch It's a Wonderful Life and that was awesome! We had Eggnog and that was great! That night we went to the Bishop's house in the other Ward to have ice cream because one of the sisters in our district is going home. That was lots of fun. Then we got permission to watch Frozen. So this morning before she went down to Bloomington we all watched Frozen as a District and that was awesome. It was lots of fun! As you can see lots of fun and exciting things happened this week so that was awesome but that is all.
So till next week
Love Seth!
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| An Ornament a 1st Grader in the Ward made for me |
Finally a not slow week!
So as you can tell by the title it was a little bit faster of a week so that was great. Quite a few interesting things happened I will say latter. The Mission came out with two new key indicators so that is crazy, but also cool because it has motivated us more to talk to everyone. Then as a district we are tracking how many of the #heisthegfit cards we hand out a week. This past week we gave out 24 so that was great. They are great cards and it is a great initiative!
On wednesday we had exchanges and I went out of the area to Anoka and we taught these two investigators who are 14 and they know it is true but are too scared to tell their parents about it because their parents are very big seventh day Adventists it is sad to see they can't act on the feelings they are getting from the Spirit, but hopefully one day they will be able to get the courage to do so!
Thursday we get a call from the other elders and my comp just says Elder Howe you might be the new designated driver and that was all he said. It turns out he got a speeding ticket on Wednesday afternoon. He called President and President took away his driving privileges for a while. So I am doing all the driving now which is crazy because once it gets icy and snowy again it will be my first time really driving on any of it. So it should be a fun experience, but I love driving so much better then having the phone that is for sure!!!
Friday we went and helped set up for our Ward Christmas Party and that was cool. On Saturday we had a great lesson with Harry about the Priesthood and then he brought his family with him to the Christmas party so that was awesome. We also had a family that we used to teach come to the party so that was awesome as well!! The party was great it was more of a fancy party where they served us, but it was such great food it was fantastic!
Sunday was a great day we did a lot of tracting and had a lot of good contacts with people and gave out a lot of he is the gift cards so that was awesome and that night we finally found a new lady to teach she sounded super interested so that should be great can't wait to go back to teach her again. Today we had zone pday and we played basketball which was a ton of fun and then did a white elephant gift exchange which was awesome! I got some Samoa girl scout cookies but I don't like coconut so they will probably just get given as a gift to somebody! Well it was a fantastic week here. I keep meaning to take more pictures I am going to try and be better about that this week.
Well till next week
Love Seth!
On wednesday we had exchanges and I went out of the area to Anoka and we taught these two investigators who are 14 and they know it is true but are too scared to tell their parents about it because their parents are very big seventh day Adventists it is sad to see they can't act on the feelings they are getting from the Spirit, but hopefully one day they will be able to get the courage to do so!
Thursday we get a call from the other elders and my comp just says Elder Howe you might be the new designated driver and that was all he said. It turns out he got a speeding ticket on Wednesday afternoon. He called President and President took away his driving privileges for a while. So I am doing all the driving now which is crazy because once it gets icy and snowy again it will be my first time really driving on any of it. So it should be a fun experience, but I love driving so much better then having the phone that is for sure!!!
Friday we went and helped set up for our Ward Christmas Party and that was cool. On Saturday we had a great lesson with Harry about the Priesthood and then he brought his family with him to the Christmas party so that was awesome. We also had a family that we used to teach come to the party so that was awesome as well!! The party was great it was more of a fancy party where they served us, but it was such great food it was fantastic!
Sunday was a great day we did a lot of tracting and had a lot of good contacts with people and gave out a lot of he is the gift cards so that was awesome and that night we finally found a new lady to teach she sounded super interested so that should be great can't wait to go back to teach her again. Today we had zone pday and we played basketball which was a ton of fun and then did a white elephant gift exchange which was awesome! I got some Samoa girl scout cookies but I don't like coconut so they will probably just get given as a gift to somebody! Well it was a fantastic week here. I keep meaning to take more pictures I am going to try and be better about that this week.
Well till next week
Love Seth!
Monday, December 1, 2014
Holy coldness and a dream I hope to accomplish
This week was another slow week, but it was super fun week as well. On Monday we didn't have p-day we just had time to email and shop. Our p-day was moved to Thanksgiving. Monday night I had the most filling soup of my life! I had no idea soup could be so filling but wow it was. I only had 2 bowls and I was filled. I don't know what was in it, but it was great!
I am trying so hard to think of things that happened on Tuesday and Wednesday, but nothing comes to mind they were really slow days, but Thursday was a blast. In the morning we had the turkey bowl at 8 am. That morning I had to go buy a sweatshirt and sweatpants because when we started to play it was -2. It was so cold, but it was super fun! For some reason I play better in the cold because I played pretty good. I had 2 picks 1 was a pick 6 and then 4 or 5 other touchdowns. So that was good and then we went and played basketball so that was fun as well. Then we had Thanksgiving dinner at this member houses and they live alone so they invited this other couple over and it was weird because it was so quiet because there were no kids running around. It was a gluten free thanksgiving so there was no regular stuffing which is my favorite part of thanksgiving, but it is all good. All the rest of the food was super good so that is good! Then we just went to the church with the other elders and messed around on the piano and stuff till p-day was over. At like 9:30 that night we stopped by our investigators house and they gave us pie and apple cider and it was super good because it was my favorite, apple pie. It was awesome!
The next day wow was I sore, but i just took some ibuprofen and moved on. My companion was so sore it was ridiculous he made it sound like he was dying. He kept telling me he taught he had Ebola. That night we had kinda had a weird dinner it was a pizza crust with tuna on it then covered with provolone cheese and we baked in in the oven. It was OK, but not the greatest thing ever!
Saturday we had a zone service where we packed a ton of apples at this food distribution place that distributes food to homeless shelters and stuff like that. We packed just over 10 thousand pounds of apple and my job was putting every box of apples on a pallet it was quite the workout I basically lifted 10 thousand pounds that day.
Sunday we had a miracle happen this guy we used to teach just randomly decide to show up to church again. So that was awesome. We will most likely be picking him up again to teach so that is great! oh yeah on Tuesday I ate at White Castle and I will never do that gain ever. It was nasty never ever again will i eat there! Today I got my hair cut! My dream I talk about in the subject is to, if it is not against the rules, walk across the frozen Mississippi River this winter!
Well that is all till next week
love Elder Howe
I am trying so hard to think of things that happened on Tuesday and Wednesday, but nothing comes to mind they were really slow days, but Thursday was a blast. In the morning we had the turkey bowl at 8 am. That morning I had to go buy a sweatshirt and sweatpants because when we started to play it was -2. It was so cold, but it was super fun! For some reason I play better in the cold because I played pretty good. I had 2 picks 1 was a pick 6 and then 4 or 5 other touchdowns. So that was good and then we went and played basketball so that was fun as well. Then we had Thanksgiving dinner at this member houses and they live alone so they invited this other couple over and it was weird because it was so quiet because there were no kids running around. It was a gluten free thanksgiving so there was no regular stuffing which is my favorite part of thanksgiving, but it is all good. All the rest of the food was super good so that is good! Then we just went to the church with the other elders and messed around on the piano and stuff till p-day was over. At like 9:30 that night we stopped by our investigators house and they gave us pie and apple cider and it was super good because it was my favorite, apple pie. It was awesome!
The next day wow was I sore, but i just took some ibuprofen and moved on. My companion was so sore it was ridiculous he made it sound like he was dying. He kept telling me he taught he had Ebola. That night we had kinda had a weird dinner it was a pizza crust with tuna on it then covered with provolone cheese and we baked in in the oven. It was OK, but not the greatest thing ever!
Saturday we had a zone service where we packed a ton of apples at this food distribution place that distributes food to homeless shelters and stuff like that. We packed just over 10 thousand pounds of apple and my job was putting every box of apples on a pallet it was quite the workout I basically lifted 10 thousand pounds that day.
Sunday we had a miracle happen this guy we used to teach just randomly decide to show up to church again. So that was awesome. We will most likely be picking him up again to teach so that is great! oh yeah on Tuesday I ate at White Castle and I will never do that gain ever. It was nasty never ever again will i eat there! Today I got my hair cut! My dream I talk about in the subject is to, if it is not against the rules, walk across the frozen Mississippi River this winter!
Well that is all till next week
love Elder Howe
Heat waves....and slow once again
So this week was a pretty dang slow week, but on Monday we had zone p-day and we played volleyball and then people started some leg wrestling and I went unbeaten. So now some people refer to me as "The Legend Howe" just because I beat this guy who is 6-5 and was beating everyone, but i beat him! It was super fun.
On Tuesday we had exchanges and we had to get our tire changed because we had a flat. I take it in to pep boys and in took 2 dang hours just to replace the tire it was ridiculous so much time was wasted on getting the tire fixed. Gosh it was aggravating! then on Wednesday we did exchanges again and I went to Anoka the other area and it was fun we taught these awesome Freshman twins the Tarrs. They were cool they told me they wanted me to come back so hopefully I will get to teach them again sometime!
Thursday was fantastic because we got to go to the temple for a session and because I was on exchanges the member who took us left super early so we got there a lot earlier and we got to do some initiatories that was cool. It was just a great way to clear my mind and just think it was fantastic!
Friday we had something fall through again so we were tracting and we knocked in to this former investigator who was super nice and we set up another appointment with him so that was super awesome! He is way cool I might get to play one of his electric guitars and that would be awesome. I would definately get a picture with it!
Saturday all but 2 of our appointments fell through it was ridiculous! Then on Sunday the same thing happened again. All but one of our appointments fell through it was crazy. That has just been the trend lately we have just had appointment after appointment fall through it is no fun!
Today we found out about transfers and surprisingly me and my companion are staying. He has been here for 6 months. I am not counting it all done until tomorrow morning because last transfer President called some sisters in our district at 9:00 on Monday and told them they were being transferred. I won't be sure until 10:31 tonight when we got to bed we will see what happens! That is all for this week.
till next week
love Seth
On Tuesday we had exchanges and we had to get our tire changed because we had a flat. I take it in to pep boys and in took 2 dang hours just to replace the tire it was ridiculous so much time was wasted on getting the tire fixed. Gosh it was aggravating! then on Wednesday we did exchanges again and I went to Anoka the other area and it was fun we taught these awesome Freshman twins the Tarrs. They were cool they told me they wanted me to come back so hopefully I will get to teach them again sometime!
Thursday was fantastic because we got to go to the temple for a session and because I was on exchanges the member who took us left super early so we got there a lot earlier and we got to do some initiatories that was cool. It was just a great way to clear my mind and just think it was fantastic!
Friday we had something fall through again so we were tracting and we knocked in to this former investigator who was super nice and we set up another appointment with him so that was super awesome! He is way cool I might get to play one of his electric guitars and that would be awesome. I would definately get a picture with it!
Saturday all but 2 of our appointments fell through it was ridiculous! Then on Sunday the same thing happened again. All but one of our appointments fell through it was crazy. That has just been the trend lately we have just had appointment after appointment fall through it is no fun!
Today we found out about transfers and surprisingly me and my companion are staying. He has been here for 6 months. I am not counting it all done until tomorrow morning because last transfer President called some sisters in our district at 9:00 on Monday and told them they were being transferred. I won't be sure until 10:31 tonight when we got to bed we will see what happens! That is all for this week.
till next week
love Seth
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