Week 61

Yes Indeed!  The leaves are changing and falling all over, Tennessee is Beautiful right now, best time of the year for sure out here.

First a story about what we've been doing pretty much all week... Referral's.

So we get a lot of referrals from festivals and stuff right? well these one missionaries did one(festival) and sent us a referral for a 6 year old kid!!!!! But we didn't know till we got to his house, so we ask for Bryant and the dude who answered said that it was his son (the dude who answered was probably like 30 or so) so one thing led to another and he told us that this kid was only 6.   The funny thing is i know the missionaries who made this kid fill out a questionnaire...  Silly sister missionaries.

But other then that, just about nobody answered there door this week...  Everyone was gone for Fall break i'm guessing, even our ward had hardly anyone at church the past 2 weeks.  But the break is over!  So this week should be really good.

There is also a kid in our ward (Caleb) who has Aspergers and really wanted to go on a mission, so he got interviewed by some people and they decided to let him do a trial mission thing for 12 weeks to see if he can do a full 2 year mission.  He is going to do his trail thing in the Tennessee Nashville Mission, and he's not going to the MTC and he start's at the beginning of this next transfer which is November 4th.  

So we have been asked to kind of be his MTC experience to help him know what he need's to know to be a successful missionary.  So we also will be focusing alot on that, taking him to lesson's, helping him study PMG and other stuff...  So we are basically MTC teachers!  Call me Brother Martin!!! 

That's about it for now though!

Love Ya'll!  

-Elder Martin

Week 60

Yes indeed! Fall is here in all its splendor, in all of it's glory...   The weather this week was so good, mid to upper 70's during the day and mid to low 60's at night.  So just about perfect.  Which is great because we did alot of service this week, alot of wood cutting and stacking, lawn mowing and other odd jobs.

We had Dinner with the Beck's last night, and like two other times during the week. Sister Beck is a Jamaican who cooks alot of roadkill...  yeah, if we ever eat red meat, its roadkill deer...  But last night it was some curry chicken.  John Ogren came with us last night (He being the guy who was just baptized) and we had a really good visit with him there, he plans on going on a mission next year so that's pretty sweet.  He's almost 20 right now.

In other news, i don't know if any of you guys remember me talking about the Newstead Family back in Shelbyville, well they were a family who were super golden and got baptized near the same time that Thomas Jones did, but the Spanish elder's were the ones who were teaching them...  We still saw them sometimes though.  Anyways i just heard that they are going to the temple to be sealed as a family in a couple of weeks!  That was some pretty sweet news, i really like that family.

Well, that's mostly it, so i guess i'll talk to ya'll next week!

Love Ya'll!

-Elder Martin

Week 59

Fall is here! the best time of the year ( at least in Tennessee)!  The leaves are changing and falling, the weather is pretty darn good and it just smell's better!

General Conference was Awesome!  Much good things were learned and many more will be learned when we go back and study the talks for the next 6 months in our daily studies!

John, our recent convert here, came for all 3 sessions on Saturday and enjoyed them a lot, he couldn't come for the Sunday sessions though...  He's doing really good.

This week was kinda slow,  We did have a Lot of lessons with inactives though, so that was good.

Did i mention that i really like our Bishop here?  Well i like him even more now, he's just the best :)

You wouldn't believe how many people don't come here because they've been offended years and years ago... its ridiculous.

Elder Ellerbeck and i are still doing good.  We get Fed Every Night! which is fantastic, great ward in that regard.

Anywho, i don't remember what else i wanted to say...  So i guess that'll do it

Love Ya'll!

-Elder Martin