10:36 AM
Hey everyone,
So once again I write mine epistle about nothing.
On Monday I went to the dentist guy to get a crown on my tooth but it never happened. They spent an hour trying to fit in the crown but in the end they just took an impression and told me to come back in two weeks. It was a good thing I ate In-N-Out beforehand or else my jaw would have been killing me.
As far as the work goes, it's beginning to pick up again. Yesterday we taught this lady for the first time, named Tana. She's half Native American. It's kind of hard to teach her because of the beliefs and wicked traditions of her fathers. Yesterday she said that she would like to meet Jesus Christ because he's a human God, but she also wants to meet all the other Gods as well. She asked why can't God be a woman, and said a lot of other weird stuff about how they worship the sun, the moon, and the earth and that we evolved from the animal Gods and what not. She of course was most likely doped up because she was sick and coughed so hard that she seperated a muscle from her ribs or something like that. It's either that or she'd been smoking peote. Or burning too much insense.
We also met with this 20 year old kid named Colton who had gone less active because he'd been thinking without the Spirit and his questions drove him away from the gospel. After our lesson with him, he realized his life sucked and he wanted to change. He confessed that he had a desire to serve a mission, so now, we're going to help him acheive his desire.
So, hope this quenches everyone's thirst.
Later
Elder Garcia
Wednesday, June 30, 2010
Friday, June 25, 2010
16 Jun 10 - 25 Jun 10
June 25, 2010 8:12 AM
Hello from the land of Mordor!
I mean Salt Lake City!
So, transfers was Wednesday and I'm in the Sugarhouse area once again with the same companion. (this transfer is 7 weeks long).
Yesterday was supposed to be our P-Day but we did some temple service from 1-4. So P-Day got moved to today. In the temple we were throwing away concrete. One thing I love about manual labor is that no one ever asks the short skinny kid to do any of the heavy lifting. So I got to sit pretty and just sweep up all the dust and junk.
I'm on the compy right now because today I'll be doing some more service for one of our investigators who's being evicted from her place. I'll be doing that from 10 till whenever. Yesterday, I gave her a blessing and something happened for the first time: she pulled away. Of course the words were not my own and I was prompted to say a lot of things I would never have said. I believe she pulled away because she felt something that she never felt before and I think it scared her. She also looked exhausted. So we placed our hands back on her head and finished the blessing.
Other than that, most of our investigators have either been falling off date or dropping us. Our teaching pool is once again really low. And the thing is that we were told not to tract here since there's so many gay people. So we rely solely on member referrals, and if the members aren't doing their part where does that leave us? We can always always always use more work. Work work work. Something I've never really done till I came on a mission. Now I can't sit around and do nothing. Well... I still can. I just prefer not to now.
Hope everyone is doing well!
Later
Elder Garcia
Hello from the land of Mordor!
I mean Salt Lake City!
So, transfers was Wednesday and I'm in the Sugarhouse area once again with the same companion. (this transfer is 7 weeks long).
Yesterday was supposed to be our P-Day but we did some temple service from 1-4. So P-Day got moved to today. In the temple we were throwing away concrete. One thing I love about manual labor is that no one ever asks the short skinny kid to do any of the heavy lifting. So I got to sit pretty and just sweep up all the dust and junk.
I'm on the compy right now because today I'll be doing some more service for one of our investigators who's being evicted from her place. I'll be doing that from 10 till whenever. Yesterday, I gave her a blessing and something happened for the first time: she pulled away. Of course the words were not my own and I was prompted to say a lot of things I would never have said. I believe she pulled away because she felt something that she never felt before and I think it scared her. She also looked exhausted. So we placed our hands back on her head and finished the blessing.
Other than that, most of our investigators have either been falling off date or dropping us. Our teaching pool is once again really low. And the thing is that we were told not to tract here since there's so many gay people. So we rely solely on member referrals, and if the members aren't doing their part where does that leave us? We can always always always use more work. Work work work. Something I've never really done till I came on a mission. Now I can't sit around and do nothing. Well... I still can. I just prefer not to now.
Hope everyone is doing well!
Later
Elder Garcia
Captions for the slideshow.
#1 Elders: Atanasio, Torres, Johnson, Avery, Morgan, Cammie, Grace, Slesk, Garcia, Dyer, Burkhardt, Doucette.
Sisters: Azzaya, Turner, Morris, Hagemann.
#2 This is Alex Campos. He used to live in the Ceres Spanish Branch. He asked me to tell Bro. Stone, Bro. Mills, & Bro. Brooke about him and ask if they still remember him.
#3 Alex Campos & Sister Campos.
#4 This was taken on April 1st - guess it was for April Fool's Day - there was hair on my chin (can't call it a beard!).
#5 This was actually taken late on 4/2/10. I must have been really tired.
#6 Elder Benadict is now an RM (4/4/10). He was my first DL (District Leader).
#7 Here we were playing with nerf guns.
#8 Elders: Torres, Portugal, Cammie, Morris, Flores, Link, Koepsell, Menke, Houck, Fifita, Bills, Keim, Garcia, Matthews, Muamoholeva.
#9 I surrender! Never!
#10 The Meraz Family. Joseph, the two boys, Rachael (I think), and Rita. Joseph & Rita were baptized. (Rita wanted me to baptize her 'cause I was "funny."
Sisters: Azzaya, Turner, Morris, Hagemann.
#2 This is Alex Campos. He used to live in the Ceres Spanish Branch. He asked me to tell Bro. Stone, Bro. Mills, & Bro. Brooke about him and ask if they still remember him.
#3 Alex Campos & Sister Campos.
#4 This was taken on April 1st - guess it was for April Fool's Day - there was hair on my chin (can't call it a beard!).
#5 This was actually taken late on 4/2/10. I must have been really tired.
#6 Elder Benadict is now an RM (4/4/10). He was my first DL (District Leader).
#7 Here we were playing with nerf guns.
#8 Elders: Torres, Portugal, Cammie, Morris, Flores, Link, Koepsell, Menke, Houck, Fifita, Bills, Keim, Garcia, Matthews, Muamoholeva.
#9 I surrender! Never!
#10 The Meraz Family. Joseph, the two boys, Rachael (I think), and Rita. Joseph & Rita were baptized. (Rita wanted me to baptize her 'cause I was "funny."
Wednesday, June 16, 2010
09 Jun 2010 - 16 Jun 2010
Wednesday, June 16, 2010 11:31 AM
So, yeah...
Uh...
The gospel is true...
I have no clue what to write.
Oh, here's something. There's a member in my area who owns like a blacksmithing/metalwork shop and today he's letting me and my companion make a sword. I shall call her Justice! Maybe I'll make a twin and call her Truth! Then I'll be armed with the sword of Justice and the sword of Truth! I'm not going to be keeping her here though. I'll send her home asap or else I might just snap and start chopping away at bad comps.
My teaching pool is okay. I'm starting to get the feeling that Satan doesn't like me very much. In fact, I feel like he doesn't like me at all... almost as if he wants me to be as miserable as he is... Is it just me or does anyone feel like this as well? Just kidding. Satan's a jerk who doesn't want any of my investigators to come unto God. It's a good thing I'll have the sword of Justice and Truth! But no armor... not yet anyways.
So if none of you can figure it out, right now I'm lost in my own little world full of things that don't exist in real life. Don't know why. Maybe because it's more interesting than right now. As far as missionary work goes, it's the same old same old. I wake up. I teach. I go to bed. And somewhere in the middle of that there's eating and the bathroom. How much can I talk about missionary work while still making everything interesting?
There's a 13 year old kid named Riley who was on date to be baptized but Satan put that on hiatus for right now. We still go by and teach him and play games with him though.
We were teaching four people named Sam, Tyler, Jennifer Lopez, and Jessy Lopez, but Sam and Tyler split. So I pray that Jen and Jessy will stay strong and continue to have us over and seek to have God in their lives.
So... yeah, that's about it. My focus is kinda... croakis...
Later
Elder Garcia
So, yeah...
Uh...
The gospel is true...
I have no clue what to write.
Oh, here's something. There's a member in my area who owns like a blacksmithing/metalwork shop and today he's letting me and my companion make a sword. I shall call her Justice! Maybe I'll make a twin and call her Truth! Then I'll be armed with the sword of Justice and the sword of Truth! I'm not going to be keeping her here though. I'll send her home asap or else I might just snap and start chopping away at bad comps.
My teaching pool is okay. I'm starting to get the feeling that Satan doesn't like me very much. In fact, I feel like he doesn't like me at all... almost as if he wants me to be as miserable as he is... Is it just me or does anyone feel like this as well? Just kidding. Satan's a jerk who doesn't want any of my investigators to come unto God. It's a good thing I'll have the sword of Justice and Truth! But no armor... not yet anyways.
So if none of you can figure it out, right now I'm lost in my own little world full of things that don't exist in real life. Don't know why. Maybe because it's more interesting than right now. As far as missionary work goes, it's the same old same old. I wake up. I teach. I go to bed. And somewhere in the middle of that there's eating and the bathroom. How much can I talk about missionary work while still making everything interesting?
There's a 13 year old kid named Riley who was on date to be baptized but Satan put that on hiatus for right now. We still go by and teach him and play games with him though.
We were teaching four people named Sam, Tyler, Jennifer Lopez, and Jessy Lopez, but Sam and Tyler split. So I pray that Jen and Jessy will stay strong and continue to have us over and seek to have God in their lives.
So... yeah, that's about it. My focus is kinda... croakis...
Later
Elder Garcia
Wednesday, June 9, 2010
02 Jun 10 - 09 Jun 10
Wednesday, June 9, 2010 2:13 PM
So, I'm getting chewed out by an RM for not giving enough details on my life. As far as details go, there's this 13 year old kid who doesn't want to get baptized anymore. I think it's because of the negative influences in his life. There are several other people that I'm teaching who are really awesome, but I won't give more detail than that.
Interviews with my mission president are next Friday at 10:30. I don't have anything to ask him though. It's funny cause I usually spend 30 - 45 mins just talking about simple stuff like how can I become a better missionary or what can I do to further the work in my area. Everytime I come out, everyone always asks me what deep doctrine questions I asked him. I don't know why this happens...
I go to the dentist again tomorrow at 11:45 am and it's near an IN-N-OUT!!! YYYYYYYYYYYYYAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! So, I'm excited to eat In-N-Out right before going to get my teeth worked on. I can just hear the dentist say, "Hey, why does your breath smell like grilled onions?
So, that's about it.
Yeah.
Later
So, I'm getting chewed out by an RM for not giving enough details on my life. As far as details go, there's this 13 year old kid who doesn't want to get baptized anymore. I think it's because of the negative influences in his life. There are several other people that I'm teaching who are really awesome, but I won't give more detail than that.
Interviews with my mission president are next Friday at 10:30. I don't have anything to ask him though. It's funny cause I usually spend 30 - 45 mins just talking about simple stuff like how can I become a better missionary or what can I do to further the work in my area. Everytime I come out, everyone always asks me what deep doctrine questions I asked him. I don't know why this happens...
I go to the dentist again tomorrow at 11:45 am and it's near an IN-N-OUT!!! YYYYYYYYYYYYYAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! So, I'm excited to eat In-N-Out right before going to get my teeth worked on. I can just hear the dentist say, "Hey, why does your breath smell like grilled onions?
So, that's about it.
Yeah.
Later
Thursday, June 3, 2010
26 May 10 - 02 June 10
Wednesday, June 2, 2010 12:08 PM
So... I don't really have anything new. I'm just working out here. Basically the same thing every day. So... yeah...
I don't really know what to say anymore.
Elder Garcia
Note from his Mom:
This is what he had to say about his tooth -
"My tooth is better. Two or so weeks ago they knocked me out and sliced into my gum to remove some puss and then they put me on anti-inflamatory medication and penicilin to fight the disease."
I don't really know what to say anymore.
Elder Garcia
Note from his Mom:
This is what he had to say about his tooth -
"My tooth is better. Two or so weeks ago they knocked me out and sliced into my gum to remove some puss and then they put me on anti-inflamatory medication and penicilin to fight the disease."
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