11/4/14

Querida Familia,

Well this week has been really awesome! Since we took over the sisters area, things have been going great! We have been going around and meeting all of their investigators, and things are going really well with them! We had a great day at church this last week! We had an attendance of 61 people this past week, which is really good and a lot higher than we have seen in my time here and a lot higher than the branch has seen been in a while. We were blessed to see 10 of our investigators attend and we had quite a few less actives attend! This next week we are actually hoping to see more, because only one person from the new part of our area came, and there are a lot of people who are really receptive and willing to come! But over all things have been going really well and J and her daughters are still on track for baptism, so that is awesome! Well anyway, Sounds like you all had a pretty good week! Gram, I really liked that story you sent, surely enough we don't get anybody asking for signs! And we did get to see Meet the Mormons! We got to see it in one of our Zone Conferences! It was really good! Anyway I love you all!

Elder Lee

10/27/14

Querida Familia, Well another transfer has come and gone. It felt so short. Well just want to let you know that we have our P-day on today, due to transfers tomorrow! Sadly Elder Esplin will be leaving us and we will miss him greatly! In other news, the branch we serve in has 2 companionships (1 elders and 1 sisters) The south area (sisters) will be closing down and we will be covering the whole branch! We are pretty stoked about that! In other news, as you all know we were planning to have a baptism for 3 of our investigators this past week. Due to a series of unfortunate events we were only able to have 1, which is still such a great blessing. One of the investigators who would have been baptized fell back into old habits and after other happenings, left his house and his wife. The wife, J, The other baptismal candidate, we are glad to say is still very prepared and ready for baptism, due to other circumstances she did not pass her baptismal interview, but by the grace of God she was only slightly discouraged, but is very excited to be getting baptized with her 2 daughters the last weekend of November! Anyway, that is about it for me! Sorry I forgot to tell you all it was P-day! I hope you are all doing well! I love you all! Elder Lee

10/21/14

Querida Familia, This week has been pretty good! We have been seeing lots of progress with our investigators! This weekend we will be holding a baptismal service for 3 of our investigators!! J and J M and E G. So we are really excited for that! The daughters of J and J will probably be baptized the last weekend of November. J was the investigator struggling with Word of Wisdom, but after a lot of hard work and support from his wife, He has been clean for 11 days, so he still has 3 more to go, but we know he can make it! We have also been seeing lots of progress with our other investigators too! We have also found a few new investigators, one of which after our first lesson, believes in Joseph Smith, the Book of Mormon, and accepted a baptismal date! Anyway, thats the big news for this week, I am glad you all are doing well! Sounds like you've been having lots of fun! I love you all! Elder Lee

10/14/14

Querida Familia, This week felt kind of slow, but it still turned out to be a good week! We had some really good lessons with some really solid investigators! We had to push a few baptismal dates back a week, because of Word of Wisdom issues, but things are looking really good for them! Our investigator that is struggling the most is J M, but he is doing so good, he is super excited to get baptized, he just has a few issues with drinking and smoking, but he is already inviting people to his baptism, so we are praying that he can stay clean these last two weeks! He has already made so much progress, its amazing to see such great changes! We also saw a few other super solid investigator families! The week was mainly slow because we didn't have much success with finding which takes up a big portion of our time. But other than that it was great! Well Dad, thats cool that you got a new calling, I hope you enjoy that! I know you don't have a whole lot of time to go out with the missionaries, but I would still encourage you to try to get out with them! You never know who could be waiting for you to be their friend! My comps are great, we are still in a trio! They are awesome, we get along great, and they are both hard workers, which I am so grateful for! We have been having a lot of success lately and it has been awesome! Mom, We have not been able to watch meet the Mormons yet, but There are rumors that say we are watching it at Zone Conference this Thursday, so we will see if that is true or not! The high councilman for our branch came to our meetings on Sunday and he was telling us about it, kind of distracting, but I don't really think about it too much. Kyle, I heard you got a new calling too, that is pretty cool! And I am so happy to hear from you! I'm glad you took the time to give me that update even though it could have seemed so silly to others it really meant a lot to me that I got to hear that from you! Anyway, thats about it for me! I love you all! Elder Lee


Our Zone went bowling last
transfer
That was our second place prize!
Elder Doutre is our Zone leader and we started a campaign for him to be the next AP! haha Just kidding we just wanted to pull a prank on him! It was pretty funny and he really got a kick out of it
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10/7/14

Querida Familia, This week has been pretty good! We had a great General conference week end, with two of our investigators (a couple) who came to 3 of the sessions, so that is awesome, and we are super stoked for them! They are scheduled to be baptized on the 18th, but they may be struggling with word of wisdom problems still, so we might have to push it back. But they will for sure get baptized with their 2 daughters! We also found a really awesome family of 7 who will probably be baptized too, They told us they want to come to church so hopefully we will see them there this week! So they are doing great! Other than that we have been doing a lot of finding, and seeing miracles from it! General Conference was really good! I always like to hear President Uchtdorf speak! I also really liked Christofferson's talk in the first session! Well thats about it for me, We have seen lots of miracles this past week! I am glad everyone is doing well, Thats fun that Ryan, Brittany, and Easton will be spending some time in the Homeland! Haha! Gram, its good to hear how things are going there! I really enjoy the stories you send, they always make me laugh! Anyway, I love you all! Elder Lee

9/30/14

Querida Familia, This week was pretty awesome, we are making a lot of progress with one of our investigator families! They are super awesome, the parents are trying to quit drugs and alcohol, and have made a lot of progress! They have a really awesome friend in the branch, so they are getting a lot of help! They made it to church this past weekend and really liked it! And we are hoping they can make it to General Conference this weekend! They have a baptismal date for the 18th and we think they will make it, so that will be exciting! Also, we got to go to the temple yesterday for our semiannual temple trip! That was really awesome, I heard there was a new video, but I didn't get to see it! Oh well, still awesome! I am so grateful to have a temple in the mission, and I am grateful for the spirit and blessings that the temple brings! I wish we could go more often! Well anyway, thats about it for me, It was a really good week! I love you all! Elder Lee

9/23/14

Querida Familia, This week was really amazing! We have seen so many miracles this week! We got our third companion, his name is Elder Myers, He is from Vermont and has been out for 6 transfers! He is a great missionary! So this last week we found a lot of new investigators! And they are all so great! We have been inviting them all to get baptized and have committed 11 of them to a specific date! I have such a strong testimony that if you pray for miracles and diligently seek them, the Lord will provide them! I can honestly say that this past week, has been the best week on my mission so far! I have such a great love for this area and for my companions! Anyway, I love you all! Elder Lee

9/15/14

Querida Familia, This week was pretty good! We have been getting lots of members out with us recently which is awesome! We had a member out every day last week except for saturday! We have found quite a bit of potential investigators this week too! We actually had a branch party on saturday and about half the people that came were non members, so we are following up with the members that invited them! And the party was really fun! I will send pictures today of that and the Zoo! We also had the primary program on Sunday, so we combined with the english ward for sacrament! Unfortunately we did not have any investigators come to that, but we did have an awesome lesson later that day with our most progressing investigator, and it looks like we will be able to move his date up, hopefully to October! So that will be good! Anyway, I love you all! Elder Lee <

Party!

More Party!! More Party!! District Picture Dirt Road Zoo Time!! Dino Leg Don't Litter! The Polar Bears and Me Us in a cave! The King The Group of Kings Mama and Her Cubs The King has been slain The king and... the Lion! Thought I was gonna say I didn't you? There was even a Unicorn there!