Espanish

We have done a ton load of service at the Bishop's storehouse. On Monday we counted all the inventory and I was in the freezer at -5 for 15 min! I about lost my ears, mind and fingers. Then on Tuesday we had the normal filling orders. I had so much fun doing stuff at the storehouse though! I wore my overalls and trucking hat on Tuesday and got a lot of complements. Also, for those who know him, I work under Brother Abawajae (I can't spell it). He is so cool and such a spiritual man!

Announcement, we will have smartphones next week so download the app Google Hangouts so I can chat with you. I am excited to have one because my ipad has given up the ghost. All I can do on it is play music. Also, Mom don't freak out, but David Archuleta sang "Be Still My Soul" in sacrament meeting and I am now not skeptical of him because he actually has an amazing voice. He will go teach with us sometime if we ask him ha!

I am loving serving with Elder Hunter. We do a lot of good work together and we are getting this area moving! We had a lady come to church this weekend and it was so cool! We are still finding people out our ears but it has been fun. We gave a blessing to a nonmember and he teared up. He will be at church not this weekend but next. I absolutely love serving with new missionaries! So many miracles happen!

Those are the highlights of the week. I love yall and have a blessed week!

ElderQ

 

 

Yahtzee Crew

Where to begin! This week was pretty awesome! First off I got my sick new missionary! His name is Elder Hunter and I can already tell that we will have a good time. He is from southern Utah and went to SUU before the mission! He is a genius and a very good basketball player. We are opening an area so we didn’t even have a phone for a while and almost got the new smart phones, but we ended up getting a regular old one. We will get smart phones beginning of March. Anyways we showed up to our apartment with the Spanish trio, and man, it has been sick! I am having so much fun working with E. Hunter and then coming home to the homies.  There are 5 of us in the apartment and we just have a great time together.

We have been tracting our shoes off and I literally tore holes in my shoes but I am proud of myself for having them last 18 months. Anyways, we were knocking and this lady just starts yelling at us through the window. I testify of the Book of Mormon and says that we read the Bible too she goes, “ha! No you don’t!” I just love people, ha! Another funny story was when E. Hunter tracted for his first time he got so nervous and word vomit the “we are missionaries and are you interested in our message.” I laughed and then he goes “if I say that again you can stab me” hahah!

We do some sick service here too! We work at the Bishops Store House for like 6 hours. It is so fun! That is the summery of the week. We are driving a van by the way. I am just getting ready for when I have soccer kids. Love y’all have a blessed day!

Love, Elder Q

Jesus Loves Me, This I Know

I love Valentine’s Day! Happy V-day y’all! ️

We got transfer calls and I will not be finishing my mission in Altamont. I am going to go open an area, Goodletsville, with a trainee that I get tomorrow and I will be the district leader there. I am super stoked because I will also be in an apartment with a trio so there will be five of us! They will also have a newbie (Spanish). Elder Clarke is going to Lewisburg in a trio! We have grown pretty close these last 6 weeks and I am sad to see him go. I am also gonna miss Altamont because I have made so many stories here! There is a new adventure for me though and I go where the Lord needs me.

We had an awesome meeting this week called trainer and trainee meeting. I learned so much in that meeting! Sister Stone gave us a training on Christlike attributes and I have made it a goal to really study chapter 6 of PMG. I want to be able to such a representative of Jesus Christ that I hallow every door that I knock. I have learned a lot in this area about prayer and personal revelation and I expect to continue growing closer to God. If y’all haven’t done a vocal personal prayer in a while I say try it out. I like to picture myself at the throne on God and man I can just feel the love he has for me and I can promise he loves you very much too.

We also had a stellar lesson yesterday! There just happened to be 5 of our investigators in one room! We taught from the Book of Mormon and did a kneeling prayer and it was awesome! The sisters that are replacing us have some awesome people to work with!

That is about it this week remember “perfect love a casteth out fear.”
I love y’all and I know Heavenly Father loves you perfectly. Have a blessed week y’all!

Love, Elder Q

 

Teach Repentance from the BoM

This week has just flown by! I can't even remember what I did but I do remember some highlights.

First thing is first, a member of the ward council set up a time to meet with a less active. When we arrived we also learned that the lady has a non member grandson. Someone pointed out the temple and the grandson, Drew, asked about it. We taught him a bit about baptisms for the dead and he said that it made sense and got really excited about it. We then proceed to teach about the Book of Mormon and he has all ready READ some of it! I am so stoked that the Lord blessed us with someone to teach on this mountain. He will be out of town this week but thank goodness for Facebook.

Another note, we had the best district meeting that I have ever been apart of. All we did is our opening stuff, our "yays" for the week.  I will have to thank my mom for that idea, she made us do it every. single. day.  But it's something that has stuck with me and now a habit. Then we all shared the scripture from the Book of Mormon that has changed our life. Mine is 2 Nephi 28:32. I love that no matter how many times I mess up in life, I still have the Lords hand extended to me. We all almost came to tears sharing our scriptures and it was just so powerful for the rest of the meeting. I haven't felt this unified with my district since the MTC. When the stuff happens before the second coming I am going to call all these guys up because we have each other's backs. We finished the meeting with hot dogs.

We did an exchange with McMinnville and had such a blast! Oh, another highlight is we cleaned and painted this whole ceiling which took us like 8 hours to do over the course of the week. I am happy that the Eagles won and happy that this is the last Super Bowl that I will have to miss. Bring on March Madness!

I love ya'll and hope ya'll have a blessed week!

ElderQ