Greetings from the Springs
Things are going pretty good here. This week was pretty decent. On Tuesday we were on exchanges with our district leader. That was pretty fun and a good change of pace. Elder McG* found a new investigator that day. Her name is F*. I haven't met her yet but we'll be going over there tomorrow cuz she has work off. Wednesday was a pretty average day. We went tracting and this lady started bashing with us. She was kinda crazy. It was pretty funny. She kept saying stuff that totally contradicted the bible and she was saying how the angel Moroni is from the devil because of what it says in Galatians 1:4 i think. The part where it says that if any man or angel proclaim another gospel let him be accursed. But then we told her it was the same gospel but she wouldn't believe us. Then we told her that the gospel was faith, repentance, baptism.. then she stopped us and said that baptism isn't the gospel and you don't need it you just have to say you believe. And apparently Jesus' baptism was a different baptism. Lots of crazy opinions.
Friday was a cool day. We went to district meeting and then we got brand new phones! The mission switched from Verizon over to sprint. We all have the LG Remarq I think it is. Its square and has a sliding full keyboard. Kinda looks like a blackberry. Anyways they re pretty sweet and we now have 300 minutes and unlimited texting. I have a feeling that will get taken away pretty quickly though.
On Sunday all the missionaries in the zone sang at the north stake conference. We sang a song called faith in every footstep. It was printed in an ensign in like 1997 or something. Anyways we did that then went right to our church. We didn't have any investigators show up. It seems like we find all these investigators and then we lose contact with them and they never keep commitments. Its really annoying. Anyways Pday will be on Tuesday next week and that's when we find out transfers. President Pfile goes home in two weeks and President Anderson will be here. It ll be interesting to see what changes he makes.
I think dads idea for the opening of youth conference is awesome. Sounds like it ll be pretty funny. That's crazy that everyone is moving all over the place. I got a letter from Amy and Kristen a couple days ago and one from Spencer and his family. They sent me those talking cards. One of them wasn't working so i cracked it open and fixed it so its all good now. Any luck on finding my watch warranty? I went to JC Penny and they told me what i needed off the receipt or something so that i can get it repaired. I'm pretty sure that the receipt is with the other stuff in the little relic can it came in.
A recent convert's husband is home for R&R for the next two weeks and she said that he had a couple Camelbaks that she'd give one to me so I'm good on that. My bike is all good. I got a new cable for it and put it on so its fine now. And that's pretty much it. Good luck with Youth Conference and I hope Everything goes well.
Love Elder Butler
A blog for close friends and family to keep in touch with Elder Butler while he is serving a 2 year mission for the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints
Thursday, September 29, 2011
6/21/11
So me and Elder McG* will be staying together in the 6th ward for another 7 weeks. I kinda have mixed feelings about it but there's not much I can do. I would like a little change just to make things different but there's some reason why I'm here just have to figure out what it is. The new mission president gets here next week so it ll be really cool and exciting to meet him. I don't know if hes gunna have a little zone conference or something to meet all the elders or what but I expect we'll find out soon.
That's sweet to hear that youth conference went so well. So what exactly did you do? What were the different workshops and stuff? I send a package home yesterday with a bunch of letters and stuff that Ive gotten. I addressed it to myself cuz its my stuff so don't open it and just put it with my other boxes.
So far the texting hasn't been taken away. I think the only reason they would take it away would be for if elders text people from back home or just are texting way too much. I don't think it ll be a problem at least for me.
Pretty much we don't really have any investigators. No one answers our calls and they're never home when we go by to see them. So pretty much we have to start from scratch. Ive been really tired a lot lately. I usually have to take a nap during lunch and even then I'm still super tired. And at night sometimes i don't sleep very good. I don't know its weird.
Spencer emailed me and told me that he got his call to Utah, Provo Spanish speaking mission. That's super awesome for him cuz the Provo mission is the highest baptizing in the US. I don't know about Spanish but it prolly is. that's way exciting. And the Provo mission is pretty big too. Its not just Provo but pretty much everything south of there too.
For some reason I'm drawing a blank. There was something i was gunna say but I cant remember. On the way to the library today Elder McG* got hit by a car. He was going through an intersection and this car was gunna turn right onto the street but decided to stop like 6 feet past the stop sign and caught the back end of his bike. he didn't fall off or anything. It was kinda funny but ridiculous at the same time.
Anyways that's all i can think of for now. I hope everything keeps on going good for you guys. I love you all!
Elder Butler
That's sweet to hear that youth conference went so well. So what exactly did you do? What were the different workshops and stuff? I send a package home yesterday with a bunch of letters and stuff that Ive gotten. I addressed it to myself cuz its my stuff so don't open it and just put it with my other boxes.
So far the texting hasn't been taken away. I think the only reason they would take it away would be for if elders text people from back home or just are texting way too much. I don't think it ll be a problem at least for me.
Pretty much we don't really have any investigators. No one answers our calls and they're never home when we go by to see them. So pretty much we have to start from scratch. Ive been really tired a lot lately. I usually have to take a nap during lunch and even then I'm still super tired. And at night sometimes i don't sleep very good. I don't know its weird.
Spencer emailed me and told me that he got his call to Utah, Provo Spanish speaking mission. That's super awesome for him cuz the Provo mission is the highest baptizing in the US. I don't know about Spanish but it prolly is. that's way exciting. And the Provo mission is pretty big too. Its not just Provo but pretty much everything south of there too.
For some reason I'm drawing a blank. There was something i was gunna say but I cant remember. On the way to the library today Elder McG* got hit by a car. He was going through an intersection and this car was gunna turn right onto the street but decided to stop like 6 feet past the stop sign and caught the back end of his bike. he didn't fall off or anything. It was kinda funny but ridiculous at the same time.
Anyways that's all i can think of for now. I hope everything keeps on going good for you guys. I love you all!
Elder Butler
6/27/11
Alrighty, so this week was alright. Wednesday morning I woke up with a little bit of a cough so I took a shower and rested for a little bit and I was fine after that. This week has been real hot out. A member in the ward have me a water backpack so that really helped out a lot. But the little back pack that it comes in is too small to fit anything else in it. So I cant carry any book of Mormons or my scriptures or anything like that. So I've been trying to find a way to put the water bladder in my back pack that wont make it hard to use the straw thing.
So something really cool happened yesterday. We were talking with our ward mission leader and he said that there's someone in the ward that we can baptize. This family moved into the ward like a month or two ago. We started teaching the kids cuz they had just been baptized in January. The grandma lives with them and we assumed that everybody in the family was members. They came from Utah and the parents are members (I think they are just recently coming back to activity though) and all the kids who are baptismal age are already baptized so we assumed the grandma was too. But she was talking to bishop and she thought she was a member but when they requested her records nothing came up. So She actually isn't a member . She is getting surgery on the 11th so we'll teach her all the lessons in the next two weeks and she'll get baptized on the 9th. Its pretty sweet cuz we haven't had a baptism here yet. Everyone in the ward always tells us about how they had like 12 baptisms last year. But there is only one person that is still there. Everyone else has gone inactive or moved away.
So this morning we wake up and we hear this weird chirping and rustling outside the window. We look out there and there was a little baby bird stuck in the window well. It couldn't fly yet so it was trying to get out but it couldn't. The member we are living with gave us some gloves so I climbed down there and eventually got the bird out of there. It kept flapping around so I couldn't get it for a little while. I didn't want to just grab it cuz I didn't want to crush it or something. But its out now. It was weird cuz at first I thought it was a squirrel. Cuz on Saturday we were tracting and we heard this really weird noise. We thought it was a bird but it was two squirrels like yelling at each other. It was kinda like the sound Brian Regan makes for the rabbit impression.
Anyways have you guys had any luck finding my watch stuff? It should be that hard to find. I'm pretty sure I gave it to dad with the stuff for my razor. If not it should be in the smaller box that I left before I left.
Well that's pretty much it for now. Hope you all are doing well.
7/5/11
Alrighty so this week was pretty sweet. We started teaching Sister D*. She passed her baptismal interview and will be getting baptized on Saturday and then confirmed on Sunday. It will be my second baptism thus far. Well third if you count Jammie's wife who got baptized like 2 weeks after i left Antonito. Anyways its really exciting. We have interviews on Friday with President Anderson. Ill finally get to meet him.
The fourth of July was pretty fun. We went around and visited different families and did some service for a few of them. It was a lot of fun cuz we were on exchanges so we were with our district leader and his companion.
Hopefully we'll find another new investigator soon so that after Sister D* is baptized that we will still have someone to teach. Its weird to think that at the end of this transfer I'll be basically halfway done with my mission.
Sounds like the cabin was fun. Did you guys light any fireworks or go to any fireworks shows? I heard that its been so dry in Pueblo that no one was allowed to do fireworks in the whole city. Apparently its been in the 100's like all last week. Luckily we've got some rain here. The other day we were just leaving dinner and as soon as we got outside and on our bike it started pouring. I think they were the biggest raindrops I have ever seen in my whole life. So after about 15 seconds we were already completely soaked so by the time we got to the house we were dripping wet and had to go change. It was nice though cuz it was the first time since Ive been here where there has been a really good rain. Usually it just sprinkles for a few minutes but this was real nice. Anyways i hope you all are doing well. I miss you!
Love Elder Butler
The fourth of July was pretty fun. We went around and visited different families and did some service for a few of them. It was a lot of fun cuz we were on exchanges so we were with our district leader and his companion.
Hopefully we'll find another new investigator soon so that after Sister D* is baptized that we will still have someone to teach. Its weird to think that at the end of this transfer I'll be basically halfway done with my mission.
Sounds like the cabin was fun. Did you guys light any fireworks or go to any fireworks shows? I heard that its been so dry in Pueblo that no one was allowed to do fireworks in the whole city. Apparently its been in the 100's like all last week. Luckily we've got some rain here. The other day we were just leaving dinner and as soon as we got outside and on our bike it started pouring. I think they were the biggest raindrops I have ever seen in my whole life. So after about 15 seconds we were already completely soaked so by the time we got to the house we were dripping wet and had to go change. It was nice though cuz it was the first time since Ive been here where there has been a really good rain. Usually it just sprinkles for a few minutes but this was real nice. Anyways i hope you all are doing well. I miss you!
Love Elder Butler
7/11/11
I want everyone to know that I'm doing just fine. President Anderson is really cool. Hes from Kalamazoo Michigan. He seems to be a good mission president. He hasn't really made any changes yet except were not suppose to use the word "greenie" anymore. Something to do with respecting people or something. But the mission bought every companionship a portable DVD player and a copy of both the preach my gospel DVDs. So we can use those for studies and stuff in our apartments. And don't worry I'm not gunna abuse it. I'm not dumb enough to watch movies on it.
The baptism went really well on Saturday. The only hitch was that our ward mission leader (who was just released not because of this though. he was it for 3 1/2 years) didn't make programs. He thought that we were gunna make them. But we don't have a computer so I don't know how he thought we were gunna do it. But everything else worked out perfect. Then she was confirmed on Sunday and I got to confirm her which was really cool.
But not much else happened this week. We did get to give a lot of blessings this week which is always really cool but not much else. I got the package you guys sent. I liked the pictures in it. Ive been feeling a lot better. I'm not as tired as I have been lately. things have been going really good. Its nice to hear the news about everyone and stuff. Tell Amy to email me because there's people that she knew and taught that are in my area that want to hear from her. I love and miss you all!
7/18/11
This week was very interesting. Tuesday was a pretty normal day. We went and tried to see some former and potential investigators. No one we tried to see was home except one guy who asked us to come back on Thursday. So that was good cuz he was a referral from Woodland Park. His daughter was recently baptized there. Wednesday we weekly planned and then tracted. Nothing too special. Thursday we went tracting with one of the youth. As we were biking to the area where we were gunna tract elder McG*'s rear derailer snapped in half. So his bike is totally out of commission. So for the past couple days we've been walking or getting rides from people. So its been hard to get things done when you have to walk everywhere. Hes hoping that he can get some money to fix it up in the next few days so that we can get back on the bikes.
So that's been the week thus far. I still take the gummy vitamins but some mornings i just forget on accident. I'm running out of stamps. I think I only have like 3 or 4 left. But other then that i think I'm pretty good. I only got to meet president Anderson that one time. We only see him like once a transfer. so not very often. That was the same way with president Pfile. We only see them at interviews and zone conference.
So what made you guys choose the KIA over the other cars? Does it get pretty good gas mileage? Whats the warranty like on it? It sounds like a pretty cool ride. Good choice on the color too. I live those dark cherry red cars. You guys need to send me some pictures of it.
As far as food and meals and stuff go. We only do breakfast and lunch for ourselves. Our members that we live with don't really cook much and their not home very often. hes the chief of staff for Colorado springs and shes now the relief society president so they stay pretty busy. But we get fed dinner pretty much every night. I think there may be like 1 or 2 nights in a month where we don't get fed but that's nice sometimes.
It sounds like everyone is doing pretty good though. Its weird to think that I'm almost half done. It hasn't felt like Ive been gone for very long. Did the package that i sent home for myself ever come? I sent it like a month or so ago. Ill prolly need to send another one home with shirts in it because I have too many t shirts and I need to get rid of stuff so I don't have so much to lug around with me. We'll be having to move out of our members house the beginning of august because they're gunna be gone pretty much all of that month and then after that their daughter and her husband are moving in with them. As far as I know that haven't found anyone for us to live with yet. So we might just be moving back into the apartments. So we'll see what happens.
That's pretty much it for me. Hope you all are doing well. I miss you!
7/25/11
Arighty then. Where do I start. So this week we did a lot of service. Actually we just spent like a couple hours on Tuesday and Wednesday helping a lady in our ward move out. Her son came to help her and with him we had to put all the big heavy stuff into their truck. It was kinda a last minute thing because her son's wife is very pregnant and was going to have the kid any time. So we had to get it done quick and it was a huge rush. The rest of the week was pretty bland. It rained a few times and there was this really awesome rainbow that we took a picture with our phone. I didn't have my camera with me I wish i did.
Elder Mcg* hasn't gotten his bike fixed yet. he has this other bike that his mom sent him but he doesn't like it. Its a huffy like the kind you buy from target. So hes trying to sell it so he can get parts for his other bike. Most places we can walk to but sometimes he uses the other bike. His dad is a print broker, whatever that is so as far as i know hes not related to the car dealership people.
We haven't gotten to meet the referral guy. Every time we go by hes not home or answers the door. Sometimes you cant tell which. So we found out the people that were moving in with. They have like 15 parrots and the lady is quite blunt. She tells you how it is. Which doesn't put her at the top of the list of most favorable people in the ward. We are moving in next week. Transfers are like the 9th or 10th. So I may only be there for like 9 days. We will see.
As for people that said the send me letters. I haven't gotten any letters from family in quite a while. The last thing I got was the package and a letter from grandma and grandpa. An that was like 3 or 4 weeks ago. I don't have a lot of time to sit down and write letters but when people send me them I usually get one back to them. The easiest way for people to write me a letter and me write them back is to send me an email. I haven't heard from a lot of people in quite some time. Granted sometimes I forget to write back but I don't have all the time in the world. That's why I usually just do a general letter here so that everyone can read it and know whats going on.
Its crazy that every body's getting married. If Erin goes on a mission it looks like either me or Micheal will be the next ones. I think everyone else is already tied down haha. This next transfer is Elder G* last one. He goes home on the 16th of September. Its weird to see all these missionaries that I know go home. Pretty soon I'm not gunna know anybody in the mission.
Anyways I hope you guys are doing good. Hope you all have a lovely last week of July.
Love Elder Butler
8/1/11
Hi there
This week was pretty busy. We spent the weekend doing a lot of service and things like that. We helped out with Three moves on Saturday (including ourselves). That took up mostly the whole day. Friday we had to go to this bike shop so elder McG* could get parts for his bike. Were going over to a members tonight and after that the bikes should be up and running.
The family reunion sounded pretty fun. Sounds like everyone is pretty busy now. When does Andrea start school? I still haven't gotten any letter from anyone in the family. Neither Kristin or Rachel. The last time I got a letter from either one was at least 2 months ago. they must not be getting to me or something.
I got a letter this past week about my temple jubilee. That's where they take all the missionaries who are halfway through the mission and take them to the temple and stuff. So I get to go on the 11th. I'm pretty excited. Its almost been a year since Ive been so I'm looking forward to going back. We find out transfers next week so Ill let you know how that turns out.
So like I said before we started moving into our new abode. Its actually a lot better then I thought it was gunna be. The bathroom is really nice. The bedroom is kinda small but I think we'll live. They make us breakfast every morning so that's really sweet.
Yeah and that's about it. I fixed the watch myself. I just opened it up and used a que tip and got all the moisture out. The second hand fell off but it works plenty fine without it. So its all good. I would like another tie rack if I could. But that's all I can Think of. I miss everyone and I love you all.
Elder Butler
8/8/11
Hello!
So I just opened transfers and I'm staying in 6th ward for another 6 weeks. My new companion will be elder W*. I guess he's from Canada somewhere and he was trained in Antonito just like me. He was trained by Elder Jensen who lives in Long Grove. His mom is that Margo Butler that sister Geigle was telling us about. Anyways I don't really know much about him but he is a pretty new missionary and I guess he is kinda prideful so it should be an interesting transfer.
Elder McG* is going to Alamosa 3rd and is serving with Elder G*. Hes not too happy about going down to the valley. Its weird cuz Elder G* goes home at the end of this transfer and Elder McG* goes home at the end of next transfer. So I guess we'll see how things turn out. The cool thing though is that Elder H* is in my district and elder S* is coming into the district and they both came out with me. So that will be a lot of fun.
Anyways I did get postcards from A* and Kr* but I don't have Kr*'s address. So if I could get that Ill write her back or you can just have her email me cuz that would just be a lot easier.
That's sweet that you got to go to Nauvoo. I miss that place. I haven't been there in a long time. I am super excited though to go to the temple on Thursday. We'll be at the temple from like 1 til 5 or so. Then the rest of the time is talking with President Anderson and having group studies. I'm excited though cuz Ill get a chance to really get to know President Anderson. Normally we would be going to the temple around the 7th of September but the Denver Temple closes for like 2 months. Saturday is the last day its open til the beginning of October. They re replacing the heating and air conditioning. And also they're taking out the cafeteria and putting in a waiting room for marriages.
But that's pretty much it. This last week wasn't too eventful. I had a little cold and my ankle was bothering me but those have now passed and I'm doing just fine. Hope you guys are doing good as well. I miss you all!
8/22/11
Howdy y'all!
Its good to hear from everybody. This week has been a really good one. Tuesday we were at the transfer meeting for a while and I got my new companion Elder W*. He's from British Columbia, Canada. He lives on Victoria Island. So its right there by Seattle. Hes had an interesting mission. For some reason they couldn't get his visa on time so he spent a few months in Canada. Then finally they got the visa and he went to the MTC and then has been here in Colorado for one transfer. So he's been out for about 5 months now.
Tuesday after transfer meeting We dropped off his stuff and had to bike quite a ways up to this lady's house that we were supposed to do service for but when we got there they cancelled the service cuz the young men were supposed to help out but not enough of them could come. So we went back to the house and he started to unpack a little bit. The around 3.30 we went to visit this lady who just moved into the ward just a few days ago. So we biked over there and we met her and her fiance. Their names are K* and R*. She was recently baptized like a year ago or so and her fiance isn't a member. She invited him to church so we talked to him briefly about it but then we had to leave. Just as we left Elder W* threw up all over the parking lot. So I called for a ride to pick us up. We went back to the house and he unpacked a little more and then we went to dinner. After dinner we went and met bishop and some other members of the ward.
On Wednesday we had weekly planning and then did some tracting. Nothing really noteworthy. Oh but that night we found out that they are changing the way that we record our stats. We no longer need to keep track of how long we tract for or how many people we talk to. All the stats are how many people we have baptized, how many have a baptismal date, and how many lessons we teach. And that's pretty much it. They didn't really care about how we find people anymore. They just want to know the results. So it should be really interesting. It gives us a lot more freedom to be creative in finding new investigators. So if you guys have any ideas thatd be sweet and we'll try them out.
Thursday was one of the best days. We met at the mission office at about 11. I got to see all the missionaries that I came out with. We packed up the vans with our overnight bags and stuff and then drove up to the temple. It was a ton of fun. I got to do sealings and then we did an endowment session all together. Then we drove back and had dinner. Then we all sat down together with President Anderson and got to talk about the temple for a few hours. It was a lot of fun. Then the next morning we had breakfast and talked some more about the temple and then we all went back to our areas. After I got back we went to district meeting which was good.
Saturday was packed. In the morning we went and tried to see a bunch of less actives and then in the afternoon we had this lesson with this guy named W*. It was going pretty good until his dad kinda butted into the lesson. he started asking all these questions and got us off topic and basically ruined the lesson. So that was kinda a bummer. Then after dinner we were gunna bike somewhere else but i went to put on my helmet (which is already pretty hammered) and the buckle was missing. So I couldn't ride my bike cuz I couldn't put my helmet on so we had to walk them.
Sunday was pretty good. The best part though was after dinner we went to have a lesson with Rob and explain church a little bit more. So we went over and started teaching him and we then taught a first lesson and asked him to be baptized. He accepted to be baptized on Sep 4. Were super stoked about it. The only huge concern is that they re living together and they have their wedding date planned for not this Halloween but next Halloween. So not until over a year from now. So that's something that were gunna be having to work out and see if we can either get them married within the next three weeks or have them separate until they are married.
So that's pretty much all that's going on with me. Its been a really good week and I'm looking forward to this transfer. I have been in 6th ward for like 7 months now but i still like it for the most part. Sometimes I kinda get sick of it but I have no idea when ill get transferred. So I might as well make it fun while I'm here. Cuz for all I know I could get transferred out to like Kansas or something.
Anyways I miss you all and I hope that your all doing well.
9/6/11
Wow that's some crazy stuff that's going on over there. Where did Hersey get the money to pay for a turf field? interesting.. anyways this week was all over the place. On Monday we were playing basketball and i got tripped up and rolled my ankle. I felt it pop but I walked it off. IT felt fine the rest of the day but towards the night it started to stiffen up little. On Tuesday I was on exchanges with Elder Sc*s companion that he is training. We went out to work in the morning but he got a flat tire so we had to come back home and fix it. The it was lunch time and my ankle was starting to hurt more so we didn't get much work done that day. Wednesday was the Train the Trainers meeting so we got the new training program and they taught us all about the program and how it should be done an stuff like that. That took up most of the day and then after that we had to move a weeks worth of stuff to another members house because the people we normally live with went out of town for a week and their daughter was staying there taking care of all their birds. So Wednesday night I went on exchanges with Elder Sc* in his area. By this time my foot didn't hurt any more. Exchanges on Thursday were good. We got to teach some of their investigators and stuff so it was fun to be with him. Friday was kinda a bummer. We had district meeting which was good. Then the rest of the day was kinda all over the place crazy. We were supposed to have a lesson with R* but when we got there he was already asleep so we just had a lesson with his fiance who is a member. We talked about church and taking the sacrament. She seemed pretty solid to come to church on Sunday. Saturday we went out tracting in the morning and all these people tried to bash with us saying how the book of Mormon had been rewritten multiple times and all this crap. Then after we were done trating my back tire went flat so now i have to go and get a new tube for my bike. So the rest of the day we were on foot so that limited the amount of other stuff that we could do that day. Sunday no one came to church and afterword we had dinner with bishop and then had a new member lesson with sister Da*. Yesterday we worked because of the holiday. We actually had a pretty good day. We found two new investigators and had some good lessons. And that was pretty much it. Kinda crazy.
Ive actually been thinking about college apps. I have a few school in mind that i would like to apply to. They are BYU provo and Idaho, Utah state and UVU. I still haven't really decided if I want to go right out to school when I get home or stay home for a semester and start in January.
We do have a few couple missionaries in the mission. All the ones now are from springs. I think we have three sets of couples that work in the mission office. One couple is also in the mission presidency. But they are way cool and we get to see them every so often.
The weather has finally begun to cool down. It still get really toasty in the afternoons sometimes but its a little more bearable.
I hope you all are doing well. I miss everyone!
Love Elder Butler
Ive actually been thinking about college apps. I have a few school in mind that i would like to apply to. They are BYU provo and Idaho, Utah state and UVU. I still haven't really decided if I want to go right out to school when I get home or stay home for a semester and start in January.
We do have a few couple missionaries in the mission. All the ones now are from springs. I think we have three sets of couples that work in the mission office. One couple is also in the mission presidency. But they are way cool and we get to see them every so often.
The weather has finally begun to cool down. It still get really toasty in the afternoons sometimes but its a little more bearable.
I hope you all are doing well. I miss everyone!
Love Elder Butler
9/12/11
Hey things are going good over here. I watched the video but with no sound. Both josh and max look way older and a little different. I cant believe that its already the last week of the transfer. On Sunday is when Ill find out for sure what is happening next transfer. Both me and Elder W* are supposed to be training and I've been in 6th ward for almost 9 months so ill prolly be getting transferred. I have no idea where to though. It will definitely be tough but I'm pretty excited. We've been able to find a lot of different people but then they fall off the map. We try calling them and txting them and stopping by their house but its so hard to get ahold of people. Its kinda frustrating at times. We started teaching this black lady that lives next door to our ward mission leader. She goes to the baptist church and she still wants to go there but she said that she was gunna read and pray so hopefully she actually does that. I got the tie racks. Sister Sp* who works in the office dropped it off for me. That's one bonus of living pretty close to the mission office and the people who work there. It sounds like things are pretty crazy busy back home. How is Spencer doing? When does he leave for Utah? On Saturday we got to help out with our wards service project. We (the ward) went to like 10 different houses and did yard cleanup. We (myself and elder W*) mostly trimmed bushes at this one house. The had a ton of the weed trees and stuff in their backyard and it had taken over like the whole fence. So we went with clippers and hacked them down. It actually looked pretty nice by the time we were done. Now that I've been out for over a year time seems to be going by even faster. next transfer will be 10 out of 17 and ill have been out for 13 months. Have you found out any info about college apps yet? I need to find out whether i should try and transfer my credits from Harper or just apply as a new student. But I guess before that I really need to decide whether I want to go right out to school or stay home for a little bit. Oh by the way the camera I have no is starting to fall apart. It will last a little while longer but I was thinking that either Jeff could look at amazon and see if they have any good deals cuz he could get a discount maybe or wait til black Friday and get one then. Just ideas. Anyways that's all I got for now. I miss you all!
9/20/11
Are you ready for the big news?? So I am training a new missionary. And on top of that im getting transferred. Im now in the 8th Ward which is in the Foun. Stk. Its south of where I am now a little ways. But the good news is that I get a car!! I wont have to bike anymore for a while which I'm glad about.
This week was outta control. So on Tuesday we went out and had a really good day. We were able to contact a bunch of people that we planned to go and see. it was a pretty good day. Wednesday was psycho. We had weekly planning in the morning and then in the afternoon we planned to go out and work. We went out at it was raining pretty good. We had a lesson with this less active guy who we had been trying to contact for a long while. So we finally got in with him and were talking for a while. He said that he wants to come back to church and have home teachers and stuff. that was really awesome. I think that was the first less active person that actually wanted to come back. So it felt really good. Elder W* and his new missionary are gunna go there and teach him the lesson to help him come back and to practice. After we got out of that lesson it was pouring hardcore. We were wearing sweaters and we got soaked through those. Water was like flooding down the street. It was freezing cold. So we went back to the house and put our clothes in the wash cuz they were covered in mud from the bikes. We spent the rest of the night inside cuz it never stopped. I think it rained from like 1 in the afternoon til sometime the next day. It was super crazy.
Thursday We woke up and there was a thick fog. You could prolly only see maybe like 20 feet. And on top of that it was cold and misting. So we tried to go out and see a few people. We got calls a few days before that there were these surveys that the church wanted us to do about preach my gospel and the mormon.org commercials. So that took a little while and stuff. The rest of the week was just soggy cuz it had rained so hard for so long. Sunday We got the calls about transfers. And then we had pday today instead of Monday cuz they moved transfers a day back. So I get my new missionary tomorrow morning.
So some crazy and exciting stuff. I have a package of extra clothes and books that I want to send home. So depending on when I actually get over to the post office Ill send that off. And that's pretty much everything. I'm sorry to hear about your job mom. =[ I miss you all very much!
Love Elder Butler
This week was outta control. So on Tuesday we went out and had a really good day. We were able to contact a bunch of people that we planned to go and see. it was a pretty good day. Wednesday was psycho. We had weekly planning in the morning and then in the afternoon we planned to go out and work. We went out at it was raining pretty good. We had a lesson with this less active guy who we had been trying to contact for a long while. So we finally got in with him and were talking for a while. He said that he wants to come back to church and have home teachers and stuff. that was really awesome. I think that was the first less active person that actually wanted to come back. So it felt really good. Elder W* and his new missionary are gunna go there and teach him the lesson to help him come back and to practice. After we got out of that lesson it was pouring hardcore. We were wearing sweaters and we got soaked through those. Water was like flooding down the street. It was freezing cold. So we went back to the house and put our clothes in the wash cuz they were covered in mud from the bikes. We spent the rest of the night inside cuz it never stopped. I think it rained from like 1 in the afternoon til sometime the next day. It was super crazy.
Thursday We woke up and there was a thick fog. You could prolly only see maybe like 20 feet. And on top of that it was cold and misting. So we tried to go out and see a few people. We got calls a few days before that there were these surveys that the church wanted us to do about preach my gospel and the mormon.org commercials. So that took a little while and stuff. The rest of the week was just soggy cuz it had rained so hard for so long. Sunday We got the calls about transfers. And then we had pday today instead of Monday cuz they moved transfers a day back. So I get my new missionary tomorrow morning.
So some crazy and exciting stuff. I have a package of extra clothes and books that I want to send home. So depending on when I actually get over to the post office Ill send that off. And that's pretty much everything. I'm sorry to hear about your job mom. =[ I miss you all very much!
Love Elder Butler
9/26/11
Dear home
This week was pretty crazy. My new companions name is Elder H*. Hes from Murray Utah. Its super nice to have a car. Hopefully I get to keep it. they might take it cuz the area is pretty small and the missionary who was here before couldn't ride a bike cuz something with his knee. But anyways my area is in Security, Co which is directly south of springs. Its still basically springs. I'm right east of fort Carson. Its a pretty cool area. Its pretty ghetto though. We have a couple people that the missionaries were working with before we got to the area. One is M* and his brother just got baptized like a month ago. Hes been taught everything and has been to church a bunch of times he just doesn't think hes ready for baptism yet. I don't know why but I have a feeling that he will get baptized soon. Then there is an eternal investigator that is in the same boat. He is like 82 and his whole family are members he just wont get dunked. We picked up another guy named K* who has been taught everything but wont go to church because he has Word of wisdom problems and Law o Chastity problems. So he wants to be fully commited before he comes to church. The members are pretty nice and cool.
Tell grandma that i got her letter and I'm in the process of writing back. its kinda nice to be in an apartment again. Theres a lot more room and we can do our own thing. The only bummer is that I have to buy food now. I'm super excited for conference. Its weird that after this I only have one more left before i go home. My district leader goes home at the end of this transfer. I hope me and elder H* get to stay together for three transfers because i don't wanna have a new companion or area right before Christmas. Have you guys heard anything from Spencer yet? Do you have his address? I haven't heard from him yet so I was just curious. Umm so yeah not much else to report on. I'm doing good and having a lot of fun. I miss you all!
Love Elder Butler
PS. anything about college apps yet?
This week was pretty crazy. My new companions name is Elder H*. Hes from Murray Utah. Its super nice to have a car. Hopefully I get to keep it. they might take it cuz the area is pretty small and the missionary who was here before couldn't ride a bike cuz something with his knee. But anyways my area is in Security, Co which is directly south of springs. Its still basically springs. I'm right east of fort Carson. Its a pretty cool area. Its pretty ghetto though. We have a couple people that the missionaries were working with before we got to the area. One is M* and his brother just got baptized like a month ago. Hes been taught everything and has been to church a bunch of times he just doesn't think hes ready for baptism yet. I don't know why but I have a feeling that he will get baptized soon. Then there is an eternal investigator that is in the same boat. He is like 82 and his whole family are members he just wont get dunked. We picked up another guy named K* who has been taught everything but wont go to church because he has Word of wisdom problems and Law o Chastity problems. So he wants to be fully commited before he comes to church. The members are pretty nice and cool.
Tell grandma that i got her letter and I'm in the process of writing back. its kinda nice to be in an apartment again. Theres a lot more room and we can do our own thing. The only bummer is that I have to buy food now. I'm super excited for conference. Its weird that after this I only have one more left before i go home. My district leader goes home at the end of this transfer. I hope me and elder H* get to stay together for three transfers because i don't wanna have a new companion or area right before Christmas. Have you guys heard anything from Spencer yet? Do you have his address? I haven't heard from him yet so I was just curious. Umm so yeah not much else to report on. I'm doing good and having a lot of fun. I miss you all!
Love Elder Butler
PS. anything about college apps yet?
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