William's January 3rd and10th Letter

2012 January 3

New Year’s was good, we had fun, with a family playing a board game then we went home to bed. We had a few discussions the day previous but not yet any fruit. We need to get some dates. That’s about it, when did Tyson get engaged?? When did he get home!!  Hope the construction is doing well. And that’s where I am at this week. Love you lots.

2012 January 10

I am doing well. We had a baptism and have picked up two dates. We’ve been working hard, and seen the benefits, we still need Harry to quit smoking, but he is progressing we have a few potentials we are working on. We had a zone party for an elder’s birthday, he was surprised! It was amazing. This transfer has been a little slow but it’s picking up speed, and I love that the Lord is blessing us.

Alyssa's Baptism

William's December 27th Letter with pictures

2011 December 27

Well, it was good. Not too exiting, really, we watched church movies and went to bed after dinner, but I got a stocking so that’s good. Oh yeah and we have mountains of chocolate, its ridiculous.

Pictures

 Zone at a service project.

 Ceaser's baptism

 The Christmas barbel the Jensen’s made me.

Casey baptism 

 Elder Barney’s tie

 Zachreson’s blanket

Candy corn yeah!

William's December 20 Letter

2011 December 20

I had a great week, we have good lessons a baptism on Saturday and plenty of investigators, we've had fun week any way. We had to walk to the family history center, but it was fun. Well we have a Christmas tree set up and were all set!  The class has not yet started so I don't know yet. Um I could call any time after 12:00 my time. We have confirmation and a district thing before that, I'll call dad's phone. Um, I’ll send a time give me a sec

Well I'll call around 1:30 my time so if that works for you.

William's December 13th Letter with pictures

2011 December 13

Well my week was fantastic we had a baptism, I confirmed him, and we have a date for the 24. We have several investigators; I met the Greenies all amazing. We are getting the work going, Elder Daly (daily) is cool, but he isn't so out going, not closed in but just not so out there.  That’s good that I have a new nephew! You probably shouldn’t tell me that you’re going to be an hour and half a way for a week.....!

I have a baptism that week, so that’s great I got some pictures from Richmond I didn’t have. Elder Zachreson gave them to me just now so that’s cool. Have a merry Christmas. Oh we did service the other day that was fun and I’m making pizza for the district!

William's December 6th Letter

2011 December 6, 2011

My week has been great. We have had excellent lessons. We had dinner with an investigator the lesson after was excellent, she just needs to go to church three times with her dad and they both can be baptized. Another one should be baptized this week; hopefully he will stay active after words. His family isn't the most spiritual, although they cleaned their house this last week so it's easier to feel the spirit. we have to get some other ones in the family to get the importance, his family gets that it's good but the dad is (step dad) helpful in getting him to church. The family we are teaching can feel the spirit, although they think the house is possessed. But they will be baptized soon if we can extend a commitment. Other than that most of them are looking up in prospects and circumstance. We have had fun helping our land lord put up lights, and we had a wind storm, 80 miles an hour in some places “weber state university" was bad, they had 5 people hospitalized for it, and windows broke, it was bad, luckily we had mission conference that day and we were all fine. It's been fun; Zachreson is moving, I am getting Elder Daily. He sounds good but I don't know him that well. I think it's been amazing.

Love you lots.

PS

We saw the sheriffs’ office break open a door to investigate a crime. ... We picked up a phone someone dropped and well it seems that it might be evidence or something. We were confused at first but they let us go. We had just got out of a lesson and were walking to the car, we picked up a phone on our way to the car and we tried to call the owner but the battery died and the bill wasn’t paid so we called the number saved as mom. My companion talked to her, and then we watched the sheriff investigation.  we walked up to them and they asked us questions and told us we were good and thanked us then told us we could go home. So that was our most interesting thing about the week.

William's November 29 Letter

2011 November 29

Actually scratch the quilt. I want the usual stocking stuff, yea know Wheat Thins, easy cheese and chocolate fruit orange or lime. I know I said no candy but tradition is more important. And I need a sweater vest because it blows hard and my chest gets cold fast. And I want pictures of Christmas! Oh and we have to decide when to call so me and Dustin can call and talk to each other too. I was also thinking if we had all our friends on missions call at the same time in the same place! But if not I'll call with Dustin.

My investigators are fine, well mostly. One girl’s guardians are so screwed in priority I am astonished. She is ready for baptism but they just don't plan on it. They ground her from church! She does need to do her homework but still she needs baptism more. Course they’re less active. Any way the family we are teaching is progressing slowly but surely. We picked one up this week, he just needs time to feel ready and harry just needs to quit smoking! He’s more active than half the stake, and would have been baptized years ago if the missionaries had been smart! Oh well they learned from it so I guess it wasn't a waste.  Hopefully we will be here to ensure his baptism. Well, Edna, she is ready she just needs to go to church three times and she can be baptized, she is older than grandpa and has done everything; she's a nurse and could be a doctor if she didn’t think that was superfluous at her age. She knew several of the presidents, sang for lots of them, was acquainted with Elvis and has connections all over the places. She is an amazing woman. And Alyssa we are going to have dinner with her and her father and step mom and make sure she’s been going to church, and hopefully commit her to baptism.

It seems that we need to work harder, I fell back into my green ways because , well Zachreson was my second companion so it was just habit, but we our working with improvements and are making excellent progress. Merry Christmas!

William's November 22 Letter

2011 November 22

First off the class doesn’t start until December, but my companion will take it with me. Our week was good, we had a lesson with a family, taught the plan of salvation and the dad was excited because he had a vision about it but didn’t know really how to describe parts of it. We made plans for thanksgiving and, we have a date for this Saturday andthe17th, it's great.  We are teaching a girl who really wants to know a lot and is getting ready for baptism, her dad is going to too, he just doesn't know it yet. We are going to commit him soon. Utah is so funny, we see advertisement s for baptism cloths, and ads use variations of famous scriptures, local ads any way. It’s fun to pick them out. We have a lesson with a man who we don't know why he’s not baptized.  For Christmas, well I want you to wrap everything separately so I can open it. I think pens are nice, maybe a quilt with a star in the middle of a blue circle in the middle of a red circle in the middle of a white circle in the middle of a bigger red circle.  No candy, unless it's candy corn. Basically food stuff is out cause I can get that, way too easily. Things I could use on my mission, I am trying to think. Stuff I would like, things that I can take with me place to place but doesn’t take up too much space, yeah know? But if I just get a whole bunch of small stuff in different wrappings that will be great, my usual list is shot because I don't need any of it and can't have half of it. I have wanted some wrestling shoes but I don't know when I'd use them, but there in East Bay catalog Asics they’re red and silver. Really I don't know just send me pictures of the whole thing and that will be good too.