hey everyone!
well its snowing in seattle today!! its pretty cold and i dont like it, i dont think my hands have ever hurt as bad as they did today from the cold they were purplish after i got off my bike today it was pretty crazy hah but the weather here is pretty crazy like today it was sunny and then it was raining and then it hailed and now it is snowing. i just wish it would make up its mind! cause im already on my second pair of clothes today because me and e bonnett were totally soaked through.
we have had a great week though we now have 3 people on date for baptism. we put 2 people on date this last week! and we are going to put someone else on date tonight too! this last week we put Isaiah ****** on date on tuesday. hes a goofy kid he is 14 and his dad is inactive. his dad is from ghana and came to the states to run track for byu so they have a pretty cool story but his dad is going to ghana for a month so we have to wait to march 26th to baptise him so his dad can be here for it. we also put brittnay ***** on date for march 19th on saturday. she is awesome, we tracted in to her and the first time we talked to her she told us that the mormon religion was the only religion that made sense to her! she also loves how we can actully answer her questions she has. he husband is actually a member too but he hasnt been to church since he was like 14 so he can also answer some questions which is great for us because we think he still has a testimony which will help her so much. our other on date is liley ******** she has been on date for a while but we has to bump her date back to march 12th but shes doing pretty good though.
it has been a great week we have been blessed so much, and this morning something way cool happened, we were riding our bikes down the road and normally when we stop to talk to people they try to avoid us but there was this lady today that totally like flagged us down and started to talk to us. she told us how she wanted a new beginng and everything like that we actually said a quick prayer with her on the side of the road and she started to cry. she is awesome so we are going over to her house tonight and she wanted us to come pray with her so we are going to go tonight and dedicate her home and then teach the restoration and then invite her to get baptised and we think its going to go over great! im just kinda scared because ill be on exchanges so ill be in my area tonight with a new comp so its going to be different.
but its been awesome here i hope everything is going well there. and let blake know that he better pick his training up because at this rate when i get home im going to be able to ride him into the ground! haha im getting to be a beast on the bike now these hills are finally paying off. well i hope everything is going good there.
love you guys and give hank a good rub for me
elder berry
Tuesday, February 22, 2011
Monday, February 14, 2011
Benson Hill Transfer One Week Four
hey everyone!
happy valentines day! well it has been another crazy week, truely we have been blessed this week there has been so many great things that have happened we have been doing some serious work too. we got 12 new investigators this week which has been awesome! we found so many people and it is amazing because we found all but one of these from tracting! so things have been going great the lord has been putting so many people in our path. so these next few weeks we are going to be doing a lot of teaching. we have a few golden investigators which is awesome we totally would have them on date already but our fellowship totally messed it up 2 times in a row. they should be quiet and let us teach, we have been kinda fustrated with that but it has been good, we just arent taking fellowship anymore untill after they are on date. other than that things have been awesome. we reput liley back on date for march 12th so she is working towards that and there is really good progress. we also put another guy on date saturday night. we met mark on the side of the road and he is a mess. but saturday night we rode around for like 2 hours in the rain and nobody would let us in, so we were on our way home and we stoped by marks house and we talked with him for a while and we shared a lesson with him and invited him to be baptized. we were pretty excited and its going to take alot of work but it will help him out so much. im excited to be able to see the gospel help in his life.
so i guess dad was here this week and it was a really nice week. it didnt rain much until saturday it made up for the week of not raining. but the rains not to bad you just get used to it after a while. so it has been raining since then.
this week also has been interesting because e bonnett has been in training meetings all week so i have been in a threesome with another greenie that came out with me and a elder that has only been out a trasfer more than me. so none of us knew what was going on so it was pretty crazy being with them all week and going around not realy knowing what we were supposed to do.
we also had a way cool experience this week. when i was out in my threesome we tracted onto a russian lady and i think she recognized our tags so we tried talking to us but we couldnt communicate with her at all. so we ended up just leaving and she looked kinda sad when we left. so i told elder bonnett about it and so later that night we took a russian and an ukrainian b of m over to her appartment. when she answered the door we help the two books of mormon up and let her pick the language she wanted. she took the ukrainina one and we tried to show her what it was, she ran into her house and brought out her bible and tried talking to us about it. we still couldnt communicate with her at all so we had to leave. so now we have been looking for people who speak ukrainian, i realy want to know what she has to say but i dont know if ill ever be able to find out in this life and i might just have to wait till the next to find out what that lady wanted to say and if the book of mormon will change anything.
it has been a great week though im also getting alot better on the bike which is nice!
well i love you all and give hank a good scratch for me
elder berry
happy valentines day! well it has been another crazy week, truely we have been blessed this week there has been so many great things that have happened we have been doing some serious work too. we got 12 new investigators this week which has been awesome! we found so many people and it is amazing because we found all but one of these from tracting! so things have been going great the lord has been putting so many people in our path. so these next few weeks we are going to be doing a lot of teaching. we have a few golden investigators which is awesome we totally would have them on date already but our fellowship totally messed it up 2 times in a row. they should be quiet and let us teach, we have been kinda fustrated with that but it has been good, we just arent taking fellowship anymore untill after they are on date. other than that things have been awesome. we reput liley back on date for march 12th so she is working towards that and there is really good progress. we also put another guy on date saturday night. we met mark on the side of the road and he is a mess. but saturday night we rode around for like 2 hours in the rain and nobody would let us in, so we were on our way home and we stoped by marks house and we talked with him for a while and we shared a lesson with him and invited him to be baptized. we were pretty excited and its going to take alot of work but it will help him out so much. im excited to be able to see the gospel help in his life.
so i guess dad was here this week and it was a really nice week. it didnt rain much until saturday it made up for the week of not raining. but the rains not to bad you just get used to it after a while. so it has been raining since then.
this week also has been interesting because e bonnett has been in training meetings all week so i have been in a threesome with another greenie that came out with me and a elder that has only been out a trasfer more than me. so none of us knew what was going on so it was pretty crazy being with them all week and going around not realy knowing what we were supposed to do.
we also had a way cool experience this week. when i was out in my threesome we tracted onto a russian lady and i think she recognized our tags so we tried talking to us but we couldnt communicate with her at all. so we ended up just leaving and she looked kinda sad when we left. so i told elder bonnett about it and so later that night we took a russian and an ukrainian b of m over to her appartment. when she answered the door we help the two books of mormon up and let her pick the language she wanted. she took the ukrainina one and we tried to show her what it was, she ran into her house and brought out her bible and tried talking to us about it. we still couldnt communicate with her at all so we had to leave. so now we have been looking for people who speak ukrainian, i realy want to know what she has to say but i dont know if ill ever be able to find out in this life and i might just have to wait till the next to find out what that lady wanted to say and if the book of mormon will change anything.
it has been a great week though im also getting alot better on the bike which is nice!
well i love you all and give hank a good scratch for me
elder berry
Monday, February 7, 2011
Benson Hill Transfer One Week Three
hey everyone!
things are giong great here. it has ben a busy last week but it has been good. we have stil been doing alot of tracting which is alright its not as bad now cause i actually kinda know what to say to people. but i never though i would like getting doors slamed in my face but its actualy kinda funny and makes my day. well anyway we have found a few new investigators this week which is great im excited to be able to work with them. we have been kinda bummed because our investigator liley martinez that has been on date is probably going to fall off date. we have been working with her alot but shes just not ready to make all the changes that has to make yet. but we have been trying to work with her son enrique who is 14 and we think hes very promising so we have been tring to work with him because if he gets baptized his mom will. she wants to change for her kids so she eventually will, she wil get baptized but just not on the date we set with here i just still hope i will be here for it.
well i have a new found fear of curbs this week, especiallly the wet painted ones. they can get pretty slick. saturday we were riding back in to our apartment complex and i tried to hop onto a wet painted curb but my front tire just slipped off and i went down. thankfully i got my tuck and roll down pretty good! E. bonnet was behind me and thought it all was pretty funny. it was pretty scary cause i got to see the ground come at my face pretty fast. but its all good now my knee and shoulder are a little sore but thats about it. it wasnt a good biking day at all though, my chain fell off, i crashed and broke my new light all in like 5 minutes. it was rough. but its all good now. i did find out that seattle is the second hilliest citiy in the nation! what a great place to be on a bike! i love it though im really glad i can be on a bike cause you know you worked hard when you are exausted at the end of the day. its crazy though i never thought that i could be totally exausted and completely soaked from riding in the rain and freezing and be happier than i have ever been. it truely is a testiment that im in the right place.
well im glad to hear that everything is going well there. lex you have to let me know how track is. and im excited to see hanks suprise and get the package! well give hank a good scratch for me.
love you all
elder berry
things are giong great here. it has ben a busy last week but it has been good. we have stil been doing alot of tracting which is alright its not as bad now cause i actually kinda know what to say to people. but i never though i would like getting doors slamed in my face but its actualy kinda funny and makes my day. well anyway we have found a few new investigators this week which is great im excited to be able to work with them. we have been kinda bummed because our investigator liley martinez that has been on date is probably going to fall off date. we have been working with her alot but shes just not ready to make all the changes that has to make yet. but we have been trying to work with her son enrique who is 14 and we think hes very promising so we have been tring to work with him because if he gets baptized his mom will. she wants to change for her kids so she eventually will, she wil get baptized but just not on the date we set with here i just still hope i will be here for it.
well i have a new found fear of curbs this week, especiallly the wet painted ones. they can get pretty slick. saturday we were riding back in to our apartment complex and i tried to hop onto a wet painted curb but my front tire just slipped off and i went down. thankfully i got my tuck and roll down pretty good! E. bonnet was behind me and thought it all was pretty funny. it was pretty scary cause i got to see the ground come at my face pretty fast. but its all good now my knee and shoulder are a little sore but thats about it. it wasnt a good biking day at all though, my chain fell off, i crashed and broke my new light all in like 5 minutes. it was rough. but its all good now. i did find out that seattle is the second hilliest citiy in the nation! what a great place to be on a bike! i love it though im really glad i can be on a bike cause you know you worked hard when you are exausted at the end of the day. its crazy though i never thought that i could be totally exausted and completely soaked from riding in the rain and freezing and be happier than i have ever been. it truely is a testiment that im in the right place.
well im glad to hear that everything is going well there. lex you have to let me know how track is. and im excited to see hanks suprise and get the package! well give hank a good scratch for me.
love you all
elder berry
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