Transfer Week!

Hello Everybody!

So this week I lost mi papi (my trainer). He went up to sunnyside and I got a giant companion. He is 6' 7" and I look like a midget next to him. He is super funny and has been out on his mission for 19 months. He is a hard worker and I really appreciate that.

Something kinda funny that we found out this week. On my birthday last week,  we found a new investigator and she was pretty pregnant at the time. We set a return appointment for tuesday but werent able to make it because we needed to say goodbye to a few more people. My new companion and I go over to visit her on thursday and found out that she went in to the hospital later that night and had her baby. She is a pretty cool lady and we are hoping that we can start teaching her husband soon too.

The next day we were tracting through the trailer park again (in the area book its call the BTP or Big Trailer Park) and came across a Pentecostal lady. She talked to us for like 20 minutes without letting us talk. She was pretty interesting and maybe a little crazy. Pero asi es la vida. (but thats life).

Hope you all have a great week!

Elder Young

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Birthday and Transfer Calls

Hello Everybody!

This week was pretty good but a little and it was my birthday. Thank you everyone that wished me happy birthday, I really appreciate that. 

This week we have mainly focused on finding but we are finding that tracting isn't all that effective but this week we were able to find someone for the branch. Hopefully she will begin progressing and really grasp onto the gospel.

On Saturday we got our transfer calls. My companion is going to Sunnyside and I am staying here with another Elder thats been out for longer. I've never met him before so it will be fun to work with him. This transfer is only 4 weeks long because of the mission splitting and then then transfer after that is 2 months long so it evens out anyways.

Hope you all have a great week!

Elder Young

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Slow but Good Week

Hello everybody!

This week seemed to go really slow but it ended up being a good week anyway.

Since we just baptized our top 2 investigators, this week was more focused on finding new people to teach. However, tracting in this area is not very effective. One day that we were tracting, two different houses had hairy shirtless men that answered the door. The first was skinny and friendly but he was busy and not very interested. The second however was the funniest. We knocked on the door and few moments later he answers. He was a very large, very hairy man and he said "I'm sick! I'm going back to bed!" and shut the door. It was rather funny to us and we just walked away.

Since we have been spending a good deal amount of time walking around, I have gotten a lovely missionary tan. That consists of a tan face and arms. A line in the middle my neck because of my collared shirt and a lovely watch tan. There have been a couple of days where we walk from 5-10 miles. It has been warm (80-90) but there is no humidity and for that I am very grateful.

This week was missionary week in the seminary class. We were asked if we could teach for a day and just answer questions about being a missionary. It was fun to tell stories about some of my experiences and kind of reflect on the time that I have spent as a missionary. It's an amazing experience to be able to share the gospel with others and be a servant of the Lord.

Thanks for all the letters and birthday wishes this week. Hope you all have a  great week. This picture is just outside of basin city.

Elder Young

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The work is progressing

Hello everybody!

This week was pretty good. We had a baptism and 2 confirmations which was awesome.

So we went tracting again this week. Unfortunately no one was very receptive, At all. We knocked a whole street and got the door slammed in our faces almost every time. I'm starting to learn that the best way to find the elect is through the members. Hopefully we will find some more investigators this week because we just baptized our 2 top investigators. I still love the experiences that I have gained as a missionary.

The weather is starting to get warmer here, 70s and 80s but its not humid and I am super grateful for that. The orchards are turning really green now and it looks really pretty for being a desert. I'll try to take a few more pictures this week so you can see what it looks like.

I love being a missionary! The gospel is an amazing thing, especially how it changes lives. Its really apparent when someone isn't living the way they should because the gospel brings a light into peoples eyes that isn't there normally. I love the things I have learned and experienced and wouldn't trade them for the world. If any of you are on the fence about serving a mission, go. It will be the best thing you ever do.

Have a great week everybody! Oh! I love getting mail just so you all know so please send some if you feel so inclined.

Elder Young

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What a week!

Hello everybody!

We had a pretty eventful week here in Connell and Basin City.

We have had lots of lessons, a car wreck and then to end the week we had a baptism.

So the car wreck wasn't our fault. We were in a parking lot and came to a T, we looked both ways and then started to go. A lady with her truck pulled into the parking and was on the right side of the road. As we started to turn, she cut onto our side and hit us. Since it was on private property, the police couldnt do anything about it. I didn't get good pictures of it on my camera but my companion got some that really proved it was her fault.

Yesterday we had a baptism in Basin City. It was awesome to be able to see someone change their life and become baptized. It has been so much fun to work with that family and it will be amazing to go to the temple with them in a year.

Hope you all have a great week!

Elder Young

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Another Great Week in the WKM

Thank you to all that wrote me this week. It was nice to hear how things are going back home.

This week was really good. We taught a bunch of lessons and found a few new investigators. The next couple of weekends we have baptisms planned of some really awesome investigators. The work is going forward and its exciting to see the changes is brings in peoples lives.

My language abilities got a nice test yesterday in the spanish branch. My companion and I were asked to speak about how to share the gospel. Of course I was shaking while I was reading but it was still understandable. I'm hoping it will be another little while before I have to speak in sacrament meeting again but its a small branch and the rotation is rather short because of it. Its getting easier to understand and to speak but I still make lots of mistakes.

So funny story for this week. We went over to a non-member lady's house to do some service. My companion and I think she is a bit of a hoarder and this is why; we were cleaning up her garage because she is older and isnt very strong. She has a 3 port garage and 2 of the ports are taken by cars. The last one was stacked floor to ceiling of furniture and boxes of random STUFF. Towards the end (6 hours later) we were putting some of the stuff back so she could pull her cars back in and there were a couple of EMPTY boxes that could be thrown away but she said "thats a good box, i want to keep it." She is a really nice lady and she is lonely but it was kind of ridiculous. Hopefully she will be more willing to listen to the message of the gospel because of the service.

Hope you all have a great week and remember that when life knocks you down, don't let it win. Get up and keep going. You are sons and daughters of God and you potential is more than you know.

Elder Young

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Slow but good week

Hello everybody!

Thank you to all those that sent me a letter this week. It was really good to know how everybody is doing. It sounds like it was a really good week.

Elder Webb and I had a bit of a slow week because most of our investigators are back working the fields and they work super long/strange hours so it is really hard to get a hold of them. We are still working hard though and were able to find one super awesome investigator. We met with him 4 times this week and he has already read through the beginning of 2nd Nephi. Elder and I were floored when he told us where he was because we weren't expecting him to read so much. What is even more awesome is that he said he gets a calming feeling as he reads it. He is an awesome guy and we are super excited for him as he continues to progress in the gospel.

Yesterday as we were driving to basin city we saw a huge fire just a little ways off of the road so we went and took a couple pictures. There were whole trees in there from what we could see. it was pretty cool.

My camera has a cool panoramic feature and this is one of them.

 This is how flat most of the is area is but it is perfect for farmland. This is a field of alfalfa.

Hope you all enjoy your week

Elder Young

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