What the heck... I'm starting week 100?
It's crazy how fast the time goes. I can still remember my first day like it was yesterday... legit though. I'm not just saying that. I am so thankful for the opportunities and experiences I have had. They really have prepared me, much better than I could have done alone, for the future God wants me to have.
This week has been a lot better than lately. We found six potential investigators that are all really nice. We taught one yesterday and picked her up as a new investigator. Her name is Beth. She is twenty-five and has zero religious background. We have to go very slow with her. We will probably teach about the restoration again if we can, but will be doing the plan of salvation this coming Monday. Oh, snap! I just remembered we can't do Monday. It's okay. We wanted to see her earlier anyway.
The Elder that moved in, Elder Geurts, is from Pocatello, Idaho. Anyway, we have been telling a lot of dumb jokes lately. We were up till like 11:00 last night telling pirate jokes.
What's a pirate's favorite subject in school? ARt!
What's a pirate's favorite veggie? ARsparagus!
What's a pirate's favorite color? PurplAR!
Ha ha, they get stupider and funnier over time.
I love you all so much!
See you in five!
Elder Jamison
27 April 2015
22 April 2015
Chocolate Man and other photos
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| Gifts of Huang |
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| Cricket |
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| Zone Conference with Holyoak |
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| Ping Pong |
19 April 2015
Dylan's baptism
Ho ho ho! This is it - the last transfer!
Man, it’s been good! Dylan's baptism was this week! It went okay... not many people showed up, but it was still awesome. Supes awk Sunday though. They didn't show up.... kind of. I was sweating bullets like, “Where are they?! Dylan hasn't missed church for nine weeks and TODAY is the day he misses?!” All goods though. He was in Perth and his car broke down so it’s not his fault he missed. We will just confirm him next week.
Dwayne and Serena are definitely moving. I'm going to miss them and I hope they do well there. It would have been nice to see them baptized and married here, but maybe it wasn't right yet. It’s okay though. You have got to learn to forget about stuff you can’t control.
It's getting tricky with Elder Yang. We have been having trouble with new investigators lately. It’s hard to find them. He thinks the problem is we don't tract enough. I told him what I think about tracting and how it won’t help, but he got offended (I think) and thinks I don't take his ideas seriously. All goods though. He just thinks I'm mad at him all the time, but he caught me at a bad time. Stuff just hasn't been working out much and I'm always on the edge lately. I get moody when he goes crazy. It would actually be funny if I wasn't so anxious. He has tons of energy and loves to be the center of attention... sometimes a bit too much. I think I was like that too when I first started, so I guess we all have stuff to work through. All goods though. We have plenty of support from our ward and we will find more people to teach.
I love being a missionary! It’s not the clothes or the schedule or the rules I love. In fact, those things are very hard for me. But what I do love is sharing the gospel of Jesus Christ and I would give anything for that chance! I know with all my heart that Jesus Christ is the Son of God and that, because he loved us all, he came to earth to suffer and die so that we could live with our families and Heavenly Father forever. Nothing is more important to me than the gift of hope that Jesus Christ gave to me!
Sorry for going missionary mode, but I really do love the gospel! I love you all!
Elder Jamison
Man, it’s been good! Dylan's baptism was this week! It went okay... not many people showed up, but it was still awesome. Supes awk Sunday though. They didn't show up.... kind of. I was sweating bullets like, “Where are they?! Dylan hasn't missed church for nine weeks and TODAY is the day he misses?!” All goods though. He was in Perth and his car broke down so it’s not his fault he missed. We will just confirm him next week.
Dwayne and Serena are definitely moving. I'm going to miss them and I hope they do well there. It would have been nice to see them baptized and married here, but maybe it wasn't right yet. It’s okay though. You have got to learn to forget about stuff you can’t control.
It's getting tricky with Elder Yang. We have been having trouble with new investigators lately. It’s hard to find them. He thinks the problem is we don't tract enough. I told him what I think about tracting and how it won’t help, but he got offended (I think) and thinks I don't take his ideas seriously. All goods though. He just thinks I'm mad at him all the time, but he caught me at a bad time. Stuff just hasn't been working out much and I'm always on the edge lately. I get moody when he goes crazy. It would actually be funny if I wasn't so anxious. He has tons of energy and loves to be the center of attention... sometimes a bit too much. I think I was like that too when I first started, so I guess we all have stuff to work through. All goods though. We have plenty of support from our ward and we will find more people to teach.
I love being a missionary! It’s not the clothes or the schedule or the rules I love. In fact, those things are very hard for me. But what I do love is sharing the gospel of Jesus Christ and I would give anything for that chance! I know with all my heart that Jesus Christ is the Son of God and that, because he loved us all, he came to earth to suffer and die so that we could live with our families and Heavenly Father forever. Nothing is more important to me than the gift of hope that Jesus Christ gave to me!
Sorry for going missionary mode, but I really do love the gospel! I love you all!
Elder Jamison
13 April 2015
Flushed the phone
Man, time flies.
We had zone conference this week and I realized it was going to be my last one... I had to give my dying testimony and everything. So sad :-( Ha ha. Nah, all goods. Still got seven weeks to go!
Dylan is doing awesome! He is solid as. He passed his interview just before watching the first session of conference. We are helping Tayla move tomorrow and we should be able to get the program set up then.
Dwayne and Serena are definitely moving... and it's too late to get a marriage license. We will still be teaching them as if we were going to baptize them, but it's looking like they will do it in Melbourne. All goods though, as long as they do it and stay strong.
Conference was awesome, but it made me miss home... the fist pounding whenever we heard about "duties", cinnamon rolls, etc. Only like twenty-five people went to priesthood session and eight were missionaries. Thanks for making sure we grew up always going. It really made a difference for me.
It was cool to hear so many talks about families. One of my favorite moments was when the people were opposing the sustaining, but every time they said opposed, less people said it until the last guy kind of coughed it like *opposed* hem, hem. Ha ha, SHAME! That probably wouldn’t be funny to anyone but a missionary, but we all had a good laugh. It’s like when people yell at us from their cars but can’t say anything face to face.
Man those temples too! That’s cool as. They are putting them in Haiti, Thailand, and Ivory Coast. Is Brother Starke stoked? I bet he is. He'll probably go visit. Shout out to Brother Starke!
Elder Yang’s got this weird habit of never leaving me alone. When I go to get a drink, he is a foot away from me. When I go to the toilet, he waits outside. When I get up to grab my bag like five feet away, he gets up to follow me. It’s really annoying, but I was probably like that when I was brand new too.
Bad week for losing stuff... I lost my name tag yesterday. Normally, I would have been cut, but I have learned on my mission how to let go of things more. I haven’t lost hope of finding it. I prayed that it would stay where I lost it so I can go find it tonight.
Ha ha, I lost the phone too. This deserves the full story though… So, it’s Tuesday night. It’s been a long day and I get home and run to the toilet. I finish up and see that the roll is out of paper. I flush the toilet and bend over to get a new roll. The phone is in my shirt pocket. It falls almost in slow motion straight into the flushing toilet. It was gone. There is a headstone taped to the toilet now in memory of the phone. Ha ha. We got a new one with the same number on Friday. Texting on it is awful, but it’s a phone at least. Elder Bennighoff thought I was playing an April fools prank when I called him to tell him I had flushed the phone down the toilet.
Anyway, I love you all so much! See you in 7 weeks. ;-)
Elder Jamison
We had zone conference this week and I realized it was going to be my last one... I had to give my dying testimony and everything. So sad :-( Ha ha. Nah, all goods. Still got seven weeks to go!
Dylan is doing awesome! He is solid as. He passed his interview just before watching the first session of conference. We are helping Tayla move tomorrow and we should be able to get the program set up then.
Dwayne and Serena are definitely moving... and it's too late to get a marriage license. We will still be teaching them as if we were going to baptize them, but it's looking like they will do it in Melbourne. All goods though, as long as they do it and stay strong.
Conference was awesome, but it made me miss home... the fist pounding whenever we heard about "duties", cinnamon rolls, etc. Only like twenty-five people went to priesthood session and eight were missionaries. Thanks for making sure we grew up always going. It really made a difference for me.
It was cool to hear so many talks about families. One of my favorite moments was when the people were opposing the sustaining, but every time they said opposed, less people said it until the last guy kind of coughed it like *opposed* hem, hem. Ha ha, SHAME! That probably wouldn’t be funny to anyone but a missionary, but we all had a good laugh. It’s like when people yell at us from their cars but can’t say anything face to face.
Man those temples too! That’s cool as. They are putting them in Haiti, Thailand, and Ivory Coast. Is Brother Starke stoked? I bet he is. He'll probably go visit. Shout out to Brother Starke!
Elder Yang’s got this weird habit of never leaving me alone. When I go to get a drink, he is a foot away from me. When I go to the toilet, he waits outside. When I get up to grab my bag like five feet away, he gets up to follow me. It’s really annoying, but I was probably like that when I was brand new too.
Bad week for losing stuff... I lost my name tag yesterday. Normally, I would have been cut, but I have learned on my mission how to let go of things more. I haven’t lost hope of finding it. I prayed that it would stay where I lost it so I can go find it tonight.
Ha ha, I lost the phone too. This deserves the full story though… So, it’s Tuesday night. It’s been a long day and I get home and run to the toilet. I finish up and see that the roll is out of paper. I flush the toilet and bend over to get a new roll. The phone is in my shirt pocket. It falls almost in slow motion straight into the flushing toilet. It was gone. There is a headstone taped to the toilet now in memory of the phone. Ha ha. We got a new one with the same number on Friday. Texting on it is awful, but it’s a phone at least. Elder Bennighoff thought I was playing an April fools prank when I called him to tell him I had flushed the phone down the toilet.
Anyway, I love you all so much! See you in 7 weeks. ;-)
Elder Jamison
06 April 2015
Week 96
This week has been really hard for me. I can't really say why. It was just a trying week. All our appointments fell through on Monday and Tuesday, Then, on Wednesday, we went to Perth for follow up training on Thursday, came back Friday and everything went wrong.
We went to our appointment with Dwayne and Serena and they couldn't see us because their kids were sleeping. They said come back at 6:00... all goods. Then, we went to go see a member and they were leaving as we got there... still all goods. We went to Hungry Jacks to grab frozen drinks and talked to these cool kids outside and as we were talking, this guy walks by and says, "you shouldn't teach lies to kids about the bible." Then, I started to get mad.
After we came out of the restaurant, I saw that my tire was totally flat. It's Black Friday, so all the shops are closed and we cant get replacement parts. We tried to at least pump it up again to get home, but someone had run over the pump at the petrol station and it was warped so we couldn't use the air pump. We walked our bikes to the next station and it was closed and you had to get a part from inside to use the air machine, so we walked to the church and locked the bikes. We got a text from Dwayne and Serena saying Serena was sick and we need to reschedule. Saturday was just as bad - people yelling at us all day. Sunday finally picked up though.
Easter Sunday was awesome. It was so nice to be able to rest and just learn more about the atonement all day. The sacrament was awesome. Then, we taught Dwayne and Serena. They said that they have to move to Melbourne, but that they want to be married and baptized before they leave. Not sure how that's gonna work out because they want to move on the 5th of May, and it takes thirty days to do the paper work for marriage. Once bishop is back from Melbourne, we will try to suss it out.
Dylan is doing great. We moved his baptism date to the 18th and he is all ready. So excited! He has so much faith and humility.
The mission is going great.
I love you all.
See you in eight weeks ;)
Elder Jamison
We went to our appointment with Dwayne and Serena and they couldn't see us because their kids were sleeping. They said come back at 6:00... all goods. Then, we went to go see a member and they were leaving as we got there... still all goods. We went to Hungry Jacks to grab frozen drinks and talked to these cool kids outside and as we were talking, this guy walks by and says, "you shouldn't teach lies to kids about the bible." Then, I started to get mad.
After we came out of the restaurant, I saw that my tire was totally flat. It's Black Friday, so all the shops are closed and we cant get replacement parts. We tried to at least pump it up again to get home, but someone had run over the pump at the petrol station and it was warped so we couldn't use the air pump. We walked our bikes to the next station and it was closed and you had to get a part from inside to use the air machine, so we walked to the church and locked the bikes. We got a text from Dwayne and Serena saying Serena was sick and we need to reschedule. Saturday was just as bad - people yelling at us all day. Sunday finally picked up though.
Easter Sunday was awesome. It was so nice to be able to rest and just learn more about the atonement all day. The sacrament was awesome. Then, we taught Dwayne and Serena. They said that they have to move to Melbourne, but that they want to be married and baptized before they leave. Not sure how that's gonna work out because they want to move on the 5th of May, and it takes thirty days to do the paper work for marriage. Once bishop is back from Melbourne, we will try to suss it out.
Dylan is doing great. We moved his baptism date to the 18th and he is all ready. So excited! He has so much faith and humility.
The mission is going great.
I love you all.
See you in eight weeks ;)
Elder Jamison
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