Last of Lawrenceville in photos

June 6, 2016

I am at the hospital at the moment so this is the only time I have to email...

•  Has it been that long?

•  Goodbye Branch of Lawrenceville

•  Zone meeting madness

So I have been in this area for 7 and 1/2 months (which, for a missionary to be in one area for that long is not as common as one would think). I received my transfer call so I will be leaving Tuesday and it has been a struggle to find the words to describe the amount of love I have developed for the congregation and its members and the downright people in the area.

Oh, I also played my stringed instrument in a duet with another Elder. Elder Harmer. We sang the song How Great Thou Art. It was quite touching.

These pictures tell more than I could ever write in words of what memories I have had for the past 7 and a half months...

Derek Lewis and Marcus Davis

 Dorthy Wilson



The Mendez family

The Rogers Family 

Brother and Sister Covert

The Kings

The Cruz Family

 

Eriksson Family

The Hardy Family

Brother Hiatt and Brother Barry

The Jeffries Family 

The Jenkins 

The Tetto Family and Sister Banister holding the Tetto's youngest 

The Pearson Family (Jeff is crouching by Jr.)

The Jenkins 

All photos will be from top to bottom left to right but if there are more then 2 people I a, just putting the family name.

1Derek Lewis and Marcus Davis

2Dorthy Wilson

3The Mendez family

4The Rogers family

5Brother and Sister Covert

6The Kings

7The Cruz family

8The Eiriksson family

9Brother Hiatt and Brother Barry

10       The Hardy Family

11       The Jeffries family

12       The Tetto family ( and sister Banister, who is holding the Tetto's youngest

13       The Pearson Family (Jeff is the one crouching by jr.)

14       The Jenkins

Sorry if they got mixed up!  The editor 

Keys and what not

May 30, 2016

Week

•  Dorthy Progressing

•  Exchange-o-Rama

•  Fire!

•  Getting the keys

So this week it was very slow overall and there was little to talk about except the things mentioned above.

Dorthy Wilson is already cranking through the Book of Mormon and has read (in the past month at least 130 pages of the Book of Mormon and just literally wants to read the entire Book of Mormon before being baptized so it's just a matter of waiting and patience.

Went on an exchange with Elder Burila so that was fun! We taught a few new people and were able to talk about the past 7 months we had been in the same areas. Good ol' times.

We also had another bonfire at Brother Lewis' place with him and his sister and her family and a few other members of the branch. I had my fill of 8 hotdogs and a few marshmallows and some tortilla wrapped hotdogs. 

Friday we had a bit of an excursion. We moved an old lady from an apartment to a house and I forgot the car keys and house key and didn't know I had left them at her house until like 8:15pm. One would think from 2-8 we would need the car, but we had members with us and driving us already pre-scheduled to teach with us sooo.... Didn't fully recognize it until later. We went up there and thankfully she was awake then got the keys and scurried back home before 9:30pm (the missionary in-apartment deadline time) and sadly, we missed it by a few minutes, but we let the leaders know and they said it was okay. I must fully recognize the full help of Brother Lewis on such a short notice, please pray for him and stuff for helping us out.

So a member was talking with me and he found out about my stomach surgeries and heart surgeries and said "well now you know that the quickest way to a mans house is through his stomach" I was laughing really hard.

Elder Day 

Preaching and Pizza

Black Jesus- Lots of these around here :) 

May 23, 2016

•   Whitehead family

•   Dilworth's house and Dorothy

•   Jeff?

•   Deep Dish Finish

•   Mormon Missionaries sing as they Knock and Knock and Knock aaaand Knock.

•   Cruz(in) Move in

So the Whitehead family was found by knocking doors. We met Sister Whitehead and she was super excited to hear our message and gave a copy of the Book of Mormon to her mom and her mom (in 4 days) read the first 200 pages of the book so... Let's just say she was very interested in our message. Sister Whitehead, her mom, and her three kids (Alea, Tydarious, and Lamaria) all have the desire to be baptized!!! The sad thing is they were not able to come to church this week... When we taught them though, Sister Whitehead was telling us that long questions she had been wondering about were answered and she felt that God had sent us to be a part off their family. That was super nice to hear! So keep them in your prayers my home-dogs back in the non-Lawrenceville area.

We had dinner at the Dilworth household and (per the usual) we had food that they were all super happy there was no leftovers. What can I say, when people make pasta with meat and ricotta cheese bake.... I just gotta have it all! Also, Dorothy has had several dreams about being baptized into the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints... She just won't do it!!! Gahhhhh!!!! That is my main frustration at this point in time.

We saw Jeff (on one of those crazy random happenstance kinda days) and talked with him for a "good minute" and he asked for a blessing because of all the stress he was having. He said that he felt something powerful and it was from God and he also said that "I might have to break out my church tie sooner than I thought". We both got a chuckle out of that. We saw him today with Brother Lewis and had a great brief conversation about       .

My companion and I felt super impressed that we were able to eat the entire deep dish 18" pizza which no missionary (according to the branch president) had never been able to finish in one sitting. We did a lot of finding and helped the Cruz family move in their last truck (which had at least 3million sports cards).

The Dilworth family and me