Week 46

That's right peep's, Springfield branch could be started as soon as two weeks.  probably more like 4 weeks but it depends on the next week or two.

 

Anyways, there are a couple of amusing stories that i have for you this week. 

First, there was this inactive guy who passed away last week, and he asked to have a memorial service at the Mormon church, which was pretty neat, and also a good missionary opportunity.  So about 2 days before they decide it might be good to notify us that we (the missionaries in the ward, which is 4 elder's and 3 sister) are going to be singing At the funeral...  So they pick this lame song that no one has ever heard of called the old rugged cross, and the day before were practicing it and it was just Awful...  So after the sisters pleaded with someone to change the song we just sang "I know that my Redeemer Lives" and it was still pretty bad, but A LOT better then the other song would've been.   Oh and also one of the sister's was asked to talk at the funeral... Oh man, that would be weird, talking at someone's funeral who you've Never met... 

 

Next story, we were helping someone move the other day and they gave us an ottoman (i have no idea how to spell that) thing to take home, well it didn't fit in the trunk so we figured "When in Tennessee, do as the Tennesseans do" so we put it on the top of the car and had our arms sticking out the windows to hold it down.  Now, this would've been fine to take it home, which was like 30 minutes away, cause we'd be going 40 mph or so the whole way,  But the lady we helped move needed us to help her unpack a few things at her new house, Which she said was only a few minutes away.  So we follow her with this thing on our car and then she does it..... She turned onto the freeway!!  This is when things got crazy.  At first only the two elder's in back had to hold it down, but on the freeway all of us had to.  And the lady was Hauling in her moving van and we had to keep up cause we didn't know where her new house was.  Needless to say we almost lost it a few times and our arms and wrists were way tired after it all...

 

Anyways...  We had the baptism for the lady on Saturday,and the font had drained like halfway when i actually did it.  The stopper didn't work or something.  So it was pretty sketchy.

 

i guess that's all for now...

 

Love Ya'll!!!

-Elder Martin

Week 45

So! we had this big ol' festival on saturday!  It was Great!  We had a booth like right in the middle of everything, and we got 105 referrals from it!  several of which were people from other places, so we gave alot of referral's to other missionaries as well...

But we've already got 2 families that were teaching now from the festival!  so the work here is definately progressing!

 

Oh, and as we were just talking to the people walking by and stuff at the festival, there was this guy that set up catty corner to us and started yelling that everyone is a sinner and going to hell and stuff like that.  When he set up and started saying all that crap you could totally tell that the spirit wasn't there anymore.  Everyone at the festival hated this guy, we had a bunch of people thank us for the way we went about sharing our belief's and not by telling everyone that they won't ever make it to heaven.   Anyways, after a while, this guy started bashing on us and saying all kinds of crap.  It's funny how you can tell when satan tries to put up obstacles to try to stop the work from progressing.    So after an hour or 2 of this guy being a total dork, the lady who kinda ran the whole thing drove right in front of him with a golf cart and unloaded to big speakers and started blaring music to drown him out.  It was pretty sweet.

The funny thing is, some of the missionaries went up and talked to one of the dude's henchmen and found out that they believed that everyone in the world EXCEPT THEM were sinners.  They thought they were perfect, that the put aside their sins years ago. Hahaha... silly.

 

 

 

We had another one of our FHE group things at our WML's house sunday night, and we had over 60 people there this time, so we are totally gonna have a branch up here probably within a month or 2.

 

Anyways... I'm like out of time, so sorry for the short email again...

 

Love Ya'll

-Elder Martin

Week 44

That's right!  There's totally gonna be a branch here in the near future.  We just had our first FHE group thing last night to see what kind of numbers we'd get to attend a branch if there was one.  And we had 52 people come to it!  With many more who couldn't come this week but will be there next week!  Right now the people here have to drive 30 minutes or more to church depending on where they live, which really puts off a lot of people.  So if we had a meeting place here in town i think it would be really good for the people here. 

 

Also this Saturday there's this huge town festival thing and we're going to have a booth right in the middle of the town square where we'll have presentations about the apostasy and restoration, and about the Book of Mormon.  Another part of the mission did the same thing a few months ago and had a Ton of success and got over 250 referrals!  This was in a town that was in the same boat we are in now, and now they have a branch and will soon have a ward and that unit has 5 or 6 sets of missionaries just to keep up with the referrals! 

So that's what's happening over here right now.

 

Other then those, there hasn't been much that's been too exciting or crazy...  we had to go get our wheel changed at a ford dealership (cause were driving a ford fusion) and they took forever to do it... 

 

I played volleyball for what seems to be the first time in a forever long time last P-day!  but it was sand volleyball.....  so it wasn't nearly as good as it could've been.

 

But yeah....  We also have a baptism on the 15th,  she's been coming to church for like a year and is now finnaly getting baptized! So that's pretty cool!

 

Well!  That's all i got for now folks!

 

Love ya'll

-Elder Martin