Week 49

Hey howdy hey familio!

 

So this week has been pretty good, we spent A lot of time with Cyrell this week, mostly cause kaylee was in Idaho for the week.  But it was good, we were able to talk to him more seriously without her there.  Like we were there and at the time were just kinda shooting the breeze when He brings up how he see's all the brother's in the ward and how they are different from what he is used to and how he wants to be more happy like them, then he says he thinks it was the priesthood!  So that was pretty sweet.  He's usually like really hard to teach cause he is so sarcastic and just kinda immature.  But we also spent p-day with him, spent most of Friday with him and like all of Saturday with him..  So he's coming along really well and i expect him to be baptized soon... at least as soon as we can get those two married...

 

We have interviews tomorrow with the new president, so that should be good... First one with him.

 

Oh and there's been a virus going around and 3/4 of us in the apartment have it to varying degrees.  so sleep has been rough.  But it's been like the first time I've been kinda sick.  at least that's lasted longer then 1 day.

 

On a random note,  Here is a sentence that i can't seem to find out how to write.

"There are three 2's in the English language"  

Which 2 do you spell? Two? Too? To?

 

Love ya'll!
#Mission #library #email

-Elder Martin

Week 48

Hello family!

 

This week was pretty darn good!  the guy we are teaching here, Cyrel, is making alot of progress! he finally read from the BoM and prayed about it and had a really good experience with it, i went to the baptism of Ryan's wife which i will go into more detail about in a bit, had my birthday, and stuff like 'aat

 

So the baptism.  The day was kinda crazy for me.  First i got a ride to the mission office from a member in my ward who works like next door to it, where some other elders were supposed to pick me up and i'd spend the morning and afternoon with them until the ride from Lebanon came to take me and Elder Dudley to Illinois.  Well, the elder's didn't come get me till like 1 o'clock...  So i was at the mission office for like 5 hours...  So the office staff people had me doing odd job's filing whatever they needed filing.  So i filed all the emails to president...  so that was kinda weird.  Then they had me file their bills and stuff.  Also kinda weird.  Anyways so the Greenhills elders finally come to pick me up and i spend the next 2 1/2 hours with them.  The greenhills elders are the ones who cover downtown Nashville...  So we had a referral who said he lived at an address on 2nd ave in Nashville, which is like the crazy street in Nashville!  anyways it turned out that the address he gave us was to Coyote Ugly...  ha.

Then my ride to Illinois shows up and we drive for 4 hours down to the baptism, but we hit this nasty traffic for like 3 miles and so we wont get to the baptism till 30 or so minutes after its supposed to start, but we called them and they were nice enough to wait for us to start it.  So finally we have the miracle baptism of Ryan's wife who wouldn't even let us see him for a long time cause she was too die hard catholic!  And the coolest part was that it was on my mission birthday! 

Well ALL the speakers talked forever and the service didn't get over till like 8:45 and we had to stay and talk for a few minutes of course, and we didn't leave till 9:05 or so...  So i had to get permission to stay the night at Lebanon's place cause we had a zone meeting the next day anyways.  We didn't get back until like 1 o'clock...  I was tired the next day.

 

And that is the end of my story!  And my email!

 

Love ya'll!

-Elder Martin

Week 47

Howdy ya'll!

 

So lets start off with the good!  For p-day last week we played Golf, which was the first time for me...  We played 18 holes and i totally sucked for the first 15, but by the 16th i finally got it under a bit of control.   It was fun though.

 

Also there was 2 baptism's in our ward this week!  The Sister's baptized a guy named Donald, and the other elder's baptized a kid named Eric, But his (Eric's) mom is crazy and she only let him get baptized if he came to idaho to do it...  So they went to idaho to do it. 

 

And Elder Dudley and I have a baptism to go to in our last area on Thursday!!!  Which is also my mission birthday! the 18th! So hopefully i can find a ride up there... which might be hard saying how its 3+ hours away. 

 

But other then that not a lot happened here this week.  As the subject implies, this was kind of a slow week here, we've been trying to visit all our referral's from the festivals but no one seems to be home.   It is ridiculous. 

 

We did get to meet the new Mission President on Friday!  That was good, he seems pretty sweet, he was involved a lot with the youth for like his whole married life so he's super fun.  And he play's volleyball so maybe i'll be able to play with him sometime.

 

Welp, not much else to talk about...  Sorry for the puny letter!

 

Love Ya'll!

-Elder Martin