tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10463190666439404982024-03-13T12:31:24.075-07:00Elder Jorgensen's MissionFollowing Travis's missionary experiences in PortlandAnonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11524828494736709714noreply@blogger.comBlogger86125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1046319066643940498.post-91997754825486190532015-07-12T10:49:00.000-07:002015-07-12T10:49:10.218-07:00Editor's Note: Folks this is Travis' last email/epistle from his mission, and hence the last post we will add to this blog, unless we download pictures from the airport Tuesday night :) Thank you to every one who has followed the blog over the last 24 months. It has definitely been an amazing adventure for him, and for us. We should find out tonight (12 July 15) what the ward boundary changes are and where and when Travis will be speaking after he comes home.<br />
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<pre>So Sister Ballard wanted me to write this up and send it to the
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LIST OF COMPANIONS
Elder Mike G Cooper- September 9th 2013 - Deceber 2nd 2013 - Beaverton West
- Elder Cooper instilled a good work ethic in me. Neither of us really
knew what we were doing, but we didn't let that stop us from working
hard.
Elder Tyler Morrison - December 2nd 2013- February 24th 2014 - Beaverton West
- My companionship with Elder Morrison was one of those that I learned
more from the things that went wrong than the things that went right.
We didn't get along very well and the two biggest factors were A) my
pride and B) the fact that we didn't ever talk through our problems.
Not talking about things usually doesn't help them go away.
Elder Austin Goff- February 24th 2014 - April 7th 2014 - Milwaukie
- Elder Goff is one of the best examples of having a good attitude in
life that I have ever met. He always does his best to be upbeat and
happy even when your area is hard and its cold and rainy outside,
Elder Goff was happy to be working.
Elder Mathew Warenski - April 7th 2014 - June 23rd 2014 - Milwaukie
- I love Elder Warenski. When we first got put together, I wasn't
sure that I would, he reminded me a lot of Elder Morrison. But I made
the decision after Elder Morrison that I'd never have a bad
companionship due to lack of effort on my part again. So I decided
going into that companionship that I was just going to love Elder
Warenski and do all that I could to help us get along, and he is one
of my best friends for life now.
Elder Gerardo Soriano - June 23rd 2014 - September 22nd 2014 - Milwaukie
- Elder Soriano is the best example of the pure love of Christ that I
have ever met in my life. He loves everybody, and insists that you
love them too. When I was with Elder Soriano it really helped me to
look outside myself and realize that there are other people and they
have other ideas than I do, and sometime's it's not all about me.
Elder David Peterson - September 22nd 2014 - November 3rd 2014 - Evergreen
- Elder Peterson was great about being sincere with people, and
helping members understand the vision of and purpose behind missionary
work. We whitewashed into Evergreen, went to work, and saw miracles
happen.
Elder Waylon Jessen - November 3rd 2014 - December 15th 2014 - Evergreen
- Elder Jessen and I got along well as friends but clashed very
frequently as companions. We had different views of missionary work
and often butted heads because of it. One day, after a particularly
heated debate, he told me that before the mission, it was people with
attitudes like mine that had made him not like the church. That was a
profound moment for me. There I was trying to help other people come
unto Jesus Christ, and yet I couldn't even do that in my own
companionship. At that point being a good companion took on a whole
new meaning to me. Was it still important to help my companion be a
good missionary? Yes. But how I went about doing that was equally as
important as what I was trying to do.
Elder Gaven Mann December 15th 2014 - January 22nd 2015 - Tigard
- With Elder Mann I learned to trust in the Lord about how He does
things. Elder Mann and I got along really well, we were like brothers
most of the time. We told each other all of our stories and a lot of
the ones that he told me he said I was the first companion he had told
them to. Towards the end of that transfer, he told me he needed to
meet with President, and subsequently ended up going home. After he
went home, it came to my attention that he had been breaking a lot of
rules that I didn't even know about, which partially opened my vision
to some of the other reasons that he went home. A lot of them were
things that other missionaries knew about, that no one told me about,
and if I had known about them I would have tried to help him with
them. But that would have affected our friendship, and in the end a
good friend can do more for someone than anyone else can.
Elder Marshall Tuten and Elder Dakota Bair January 22nd 2015 - January 26th 2015
- Being with Elders Tuten and Bair was a good little recharge for me.
They are both very diligent missionaries and for the few days that I
was with them I kind of just fed off of their energy.
Elder Parker Engman January 26th 2015 - March 9th 2015
- With Elder Engman I saw from both sides of the spectrum how attitude
really is one of those small things that makes a big difference. While
he was my companion I sprained my ankle really bad and had to take a
few days off. My first day that I was allowed to be back, my ankle
still REALLY hurt to walk on. I could have asked for another day off,
but I knew that if I did that, my heart wouldn't really be in it for
the right reasons.
Elder Dakota Bair - March 9th 2015 - April 20th 2015
- Elder Bair really showed me the value of doing the little things
right all of the time, of just teaching simply and planning thoroughly
and being obedient. We saw a lot of cool things happen together.
Elder Gregory Mayer - April 20th 2015 - July 13th 2015
- Elder Mayer and I worked harder than I would say that I've worked
with anyone else my whole mission. We got along great but also had a
desire to help people. We saw a lot of cool miracles about finding
people. Things happened that no one but God could have lined it up.
And yet even after praying to be able to teach someone who was in the
middle of an addiction and needed the Gospel to make it out, and
finding someone who had been struggling with a pornography addiction
for 5 years, or praying on my birthday that God would lead us to
someone who would be baptized, and the only person that we talked to
that day was someone who told us that she knew God had sent us to her,
and the date we felt like giving her was her birthday, which she
graciously accepted, or praying to find someone who really just needed
to hear our message, and finding someone who did With all of those cool experiences, try
as hard as we could, we couldn't go anywhere with them. It gave us a
unique perspective on enduring to the end because things were going
well, but not the way we had hoped.
MISSION PRESIDENTS.
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President Morby taught me a lot about
the importance of being a good companion, of helping others increase
their faith in Christ. Looking back, I can see that he did that by
giving me companions that helped me a lot, even when at the time I
thought that I was too prideful to be helped. And then for his last
act as my Mission President, he turned the tables on me and gave me
the chance to be a good companion for somebody who needed it.
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<span id="goog_2100740036"></span><span id="goog_2100740037"></span>President Ballard taught me the most about
the importance of personal conversion and living the Gospel every day.
Through his emails, through trainings that he gave, always after
learning from him I came away with a better realization that sometimes
at the end of the day, our testimonies are all that will keep us
going. That feeling was often accompanied by the desire to be
continually strengthening my conversion so that I can be ready when
the storm hits and constantly be helping those around me.
MIRACLES THAT STAND OUT TO ME
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When I first came out on my mission, it was a spur of the moment type
decision, so I probably wasn't as prepared as I should have been, but
I knew, and I still know, that I was where I was, when I was, for a
reason.
In my first area, my trainer and I practically whitewashed it. My
trained had only been out for 3 months longer than me so neither of us
really knew Spanish very well, let alone how to do missionary work.
But we did work hard, and as we did so we met a young man by the name
of Eric Salazar. All three of us quickly became friends and after a
lot of prayers and fasting, he was baptized on my last Sunday with my
trainer. It stands at a testimony to me that God has a plan for each
of us and he knows what He is doing.
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Initially when we started working with Eric, no one in his family
wanted anything to do with us. We usually had to teach him at a time
when no one else was home. So when he made the decision to be
baptized, and told his parents about it, initially there was some
friction, and they said no. I fasted that day that God would soften
Eric's parents' hearts, and the next day they accepted his decision to
be baptized. They came to the baptism, and three weeks later they were
baptized. A few weeks after that, so was his younger sister.
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My second area, Milwaukie, was a very trying time for me. I went from
seeing a lot of success in my greenie area to a hard area where the
work I put in was not always equivalent to what I got out. I was there
for 7 and a half months. After my third transfer there I thought for
sure that I was going to leave. But when transfer calls came, I found
out that I was training and staying, and I was not excited at all.
That two second period when I heard Elder Bair tell me "Elder
Jorgensen, you're staying," was probably the hardest two seconds of my
life. I felt broken. The next thing we had on the plans that day was
to go see one of the few members that we had in our area, her name is
Sister Guerrero, and she is one of the sweetest old grandmas that I
have ever met. She has been through a lot of hard times in her life.
She told us a story about how her husband was abusive and she couldn't
take it anymore, so she was praying hard for help to leave him. She
said she felt a hand on her shoulder, and looked up, and saw someone
dressed in white standing above her. That personage told her that her
husband is important to God, and she was the only one who could help
bring him back. So she endured 10 more years of that relationship, and
just before he died, he had a change of heart.
The reason I share that story is because I had a very strong spiritual
impression as I sat there listening that there was a reason that I was
still in Milwaukie. Soon thereafter one of our investigators started
progressing, and before I left she was baptized.
4. Michael Plummer.
One day Elder Soriano and I went to go be translators at a dentist's
office for one of our investigators. The appointment was in the
southeast part of Portland, in a part of our area that we didn't
venture very frequently We finished at about 10 AM, and wanted to
hurry and get back home so that we could finish our studies and get
out working. As we were walking back towards our car, I had a very
strong impression that we needed to stick around for a little bit. I
had been paying close attention to our surroundings the whole time and
never saw anything that gave me hopes of finding hispanics in the
area. With that, we got in our car and started to drive home.
We didn't make it two blocks before I once again felt like we needed
to go back to where we were. I looked around desperately, trying to
see some clue or glimmer of hope as to why we still felt like staying
where we were. Although I searched with scrutiny, nothing called my
attention, and the more that nothing called my attention, the stronger
the prompting became. So I looked at Elder Soriano and told him, "I
don't know why I feel like this, but we are going back." I found a
spot to turn the car around, and drove back to where we had parked the
first time.
As we got out I noticed a Safeway off to the left, and I decided I was
in the mood to preach to captive audiences. Before we even made it to
the door, a tall, caucasian gentleman in ragged jean shorts, a
threadbare grey shirt, with a white beard covering his face stopped us
politely asked us if we believed in Jesus Christ. He introduced
himself as Michael Plummer. That is one of only 2 times my whole
mission that someone not of our faith has approached me in a non
combative manner to learn more about what we believe. As we got
talking, he told us that he had been bed ridden for 25 years, had just
barely started walking a few months ago, and that in a few weeks he
was being evicted from his home and needed help moving. It took us a
full week, but we helped the man pack up his truck and get on his way
to California. I lived the Ammon experience, and we also got to teach
him. He told us that the first time he saw us, he just felt like
talking to us, he said we had a glow about us. Which is interesting,
because remembering that experience what he saw and how I felt were
two very different perspectives.
3 POIGNANT SCRIPTURES
Alma 31:5. This scripture has really helped me understand the
importance of scripture study. As we study the scriptures we are
enlightened as to how we need to change and what we can do to become
closer to Christ.
Mosiah 24:13-15. I love that the first thing the Lord said to them was
"lift up your heads." I love that, because it shows that we still need
to have confidence in God even when we are going through trials. And
it also opened my eyes as to how the enabling power of the Atonement.
D&C 19:18. Elder Maxwell explained this scripture and said "Not
shrinking is more important than surviving." In my mission I found
that quote very applicable to missionary work. It is easy to "survive"
in an area without necessarily fulfilling our purpose. The same
principle applies in the Gospel and in our callings. Shrinking from a
calling or position and magnifying it are opposite things.
A CHANGED PERSPECTIVE OF THE ATONEMENT
I'll be pretty honest and say that before my mission I didn't really
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the missionaries one day and heard them teach very simply that the
Atonement is A) Christ's suffering in the Garden of Gethsemane B)
Christ's crucifixion on the cross and C) Christ's resurrection. So I
thought I knew it from there. But it turns out I was only brushing the
surface. Later on, through scripture study, I began to understand how
it works. I began to understand that it was more than Christ just
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And I've
just had simple, yet profound experiences my entire mission that have
shown me why that is important. On days when we feel like we don't
know where we are headed or what we are doing and the burdens on our
backs are so heavy that we can't take another step without some divine
means of aid, or so we think, until we take another step because
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Or moments when we
feel that we are the hardest workers, yet the least recognized or
known, and all we want is a little attention from one of our peers,
until we realize that Christ was human too, He knew what it was like
to want some attention for the things that He did. But He gave all of
the glory to the Father because in the end He knew what His priority
was. In the end, the Atonement will never be able to be fully
understood, yet even small fractions of understanding can bless our
lives every day. The Atonement is Christ's greatest teaching, and as
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<pre>first of all... i am sorry this is late... we were making good time on
the hike, and we get back, and the kid who brought us had left his
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we were legit 10 miles off of a
backroad in the middle of nowhere. so we say a prayer asking heavenly
father to help us. we were parked uphill, so we decided to just coast
the car in neutral, and we got several miles that way. just as we were
getting to level ground again, there was a suburban that,
coincidentally, around the same time we had said the prayer, got 2
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so,
sometimes our misfortunes can be answers to others prayers:) so the rest of this was before that
adventure...how am i doing... well... thats a loaded question... i love the
mission. i am honestly scared to go home. not that im a stellar
missionary or anything but i feel like this is all ive done. i still
feel like the next year will be spent trying to motivate myself to get
up in the morning, and going and getting on the grind. but at the same
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mayer and i are honestly working harder that i
ever have before, and weve seen people come to us saying i have a
pornography addiction, can you help me, or i know that God sent you to
me because He knows that i need help, or another that knows without a
doubt that the BOM is true, and another who freaking has had a dream
where God told him that the Bom is true, so im scared to come home but
also getting drained at the same time.</pre>
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<pre>Story time! On Saturday we were driving around, and as we were turning
a corner, our car put put puttered, sputtered, and died because it ran
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We didn't even miss a beat. There was a gas station not
very far away, so I pushed and Mayer drove, we flipped a u-ey, got
back onto the main road, and kept on pushing. The sketchy part was
that the speed limit on that road was like 45 miles an hour, so we got
over to the middle lane, and thankfully there was a slight downhill,
so mayer was like scooter pushing and driving at the same time, and
then I got on the passenger side and we legitimately turned our car
into a scooter going 20 miles an hour in the middle of a 5 lane road.
#score.
And, as far as ZZZZ goes, we fasted for him this week. On Monday we
had a pretty powerful lesson where he gave us his last cigarettes and
started crying because of it. He told us he doesn't even want religion
anymore, just God, he feels like he is on the threshold of change but
doesn't have the fight left in him. So we fasted for him, and we had a
lesson on Friday where he told us in a dream, he saw two outlines,
with like fire around them. He heard a voice (God's voice) telling him
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<span>Hey Guys!</span><br /><span>So... this week was kind of frustrating... especially yesterday.</span><br /><span>Yesterday left a bad taste in my mouth. After PPPP FINALLY came to</span><br /><span>church last week, we were freaking pumped to get a baptism. He works</span><br /><span>from 12 til 9pm and has a horrible habit of sleeping in until 1130 so</span><br /><span>teaching him is a struggle. we usually try to set up an appt at like</span><br /><span>11 or 1030 most days... so this wee, we did, every single morning, and</span><br /><span>every single morning between 3 and 5 am wed get a text saying he had</span><br /><span>stayed up too late and that we should stop by later. So yesterday we</span><br /><span>freaking said to ourselves that we were gonna see him and stopped by</span><br /><span>before church. We woke him up, and he told us that he had been staying</span><br /><span>up each night watching naughty videos... he relapsed. So we asked him</span><br /><span>for the millionth time I swear if he had been reading The Book of</span><br /><span>Mormon each day, and he said no, we asked him why not and if he</span><br /><span>thought it could help him, and he basically told us about how the</span><br /><span>Bible says there's a lot of false profetas.. prophets... and that The</span><br /><span>Book of Mormon is from the devil. He didn't really want us to come</span><br /><span>back that badly.<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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</span><br /><span>That was great. Do you guys remember the rude black guy I told you</span><br /><span>about a few weeks ago?? Well... we ran into him again. In the exact</span><br /><span>same spot. We saw him down the street coming towards us so we headed</span><br /><span>the opposite direction to our lesson. We stopped right outside the apt</span><br /><span>to re go over our plans. The guy took a 90 degree turn to come tell us</span><br /><span>to get away from some guy's truck, we didn't need to be trying to</span><br /><span>steal anything. Elder Mayer Walked a few steps away... however when he</span><br /><span>said that it cut right into my stubborn side... I waited a few</span><br /><span>seconds, and took like maybe a few steps away. The guy told me to move</span><br /><span>again and I should have but I honestly just hate when people belittle</span><br /><span>me and try to tell me what to do.<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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So I stood my ground. The guy said</span><br /><span>"stay right there, Satan, I'll go tell him you are standing by his</span><br /><span>truck and he'll come out here." (quotes aren't exact... there were a</span><br /><span>few more swear words in between and he kept bashing on Joseph Smith.)</span><br /><span>So I should have followed Elder Mayer's example and just stood by him</span><br /><span>but i'll be honest I was pretty freaking pissed and did not want to do</span><br /><span>anything this guy told me. So the black guy disappears, and a few</span><br /><span>minutes later a fat older white dude comes screaming and yelling and</span><br /><span>gets right up in my face, telling me to get off of his property (I'm</span><br /><span>in the driveway in front of an apt complex) anyways... I needed to get</span><br /><span>off of his property or he was gonna call the cops. He was 6 inches</span><br /><span>away from my face and I thought for sure he was gonna take a swing...</span><br /><span>But he stormed back inside yelling about how his Father's Day had been</span><br /><span>ruined... Mayer Nd I were both pretty chapped by this point... We</span><br /><span>waited a few seconds to calm down before knocking on LLLL and JJJJ's</span><br /><span>door, and the black guy came walking by as we were knocking and told</span><br /><span>us we needed to have some more respect. I told him we were trying to</span><br /><span>teach them, and he asked what, because it wasn't salvation, Joseph</span><br /><span>Smith didn't die to save us. And a whole bunch of other retarded</span><br /><span>comments.<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Holy cow guys. I haven't been so upset in a long time. Still</span><br /><span>this morning I was freaking angry still. But then we discovered that</span><br /><span>our lazy boy recliner was super dusty and took it out on the balcony</span><br /><span>and beat the living stuffing out of it... That made me feel better:)</span><br /><span>Other than that.... Not much else is new. Actually things are going</span><br /><span>super well with ZZZZ He has a daughter in a correctional facility and</span><br /><span>she has been talking with a lady 3 times a week about Morrmonism and</span><br /><span>she wants to be baptized:) he went to the hospital this week again for</span><br /><span>his infection, he couldn't come to church because of it...he</span><br /><span>reminds me a lot of Trevor or Clay Nell... And Mayer says that ZZZZ</span><br /><span>and I are exactly alike. You guys remember how I was kind of mouthy</span><br /><span>before? Well.... I have honed that skill on my mission. I'm not sure</span><br /><span>if it's a good skill to have or not but I can go toe to toe with just</span><br /><span>about anybody... So Wes when I get home, watch it;)</span></div>
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<pre>Hey Peeps!
Sooo.... this week was good. Nothing special that I can think of
really. We did 3 exchanges on back to back days so that was a blur. We
had pday, tuesday to wednesday was an exchange, wednesday to thursday,
and thursday to friday. by the time mayer and I got back together on
Friday afternoon... we were freaking tired. As far as the week goes,
we did a lot but not a lot happened. On tuesday afternoon right before
we started the exchange, we got a call from IIII, who was in the
hospital... he has a lot of health issues and is there a lot... so we
went to see him. The video was just him freestyling... he is freaking
funny, one of my favorite people I've ever taught. And then on Friday
after Mayer and I were back together we went and saw him, he had
gotten out of the hospital and was in his house, and his brother in
law was over, and IIII told us his brother in law could "shred us
theologically" and the guy just asked us questions for an hour, trying
to prove that Joseph Smith could have written The Book of Mormon... he
wasn't trying to prove us wrong or bash necessarily he just wanted to
know what we thought and then tell us what he thought... BUT it was
dope because IIII every once in awhile would throw in a "But what if
Joseph Smith really was a prophet?" or, "but what if The Book of
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He told us he has
been doing some deep digging and a lot of research, and we told him
that he didn't need to look any farther than what was right in front
of him. He also wants to come to church at some point... so it's all
going well the only problem is that IIII takes things at his own
speed. So we are just kinda waitin, gotta take things slow.
OH Mom you are going to love this one, so IIII upstairs neighbor
either used to be or is a gang member... the real deal. He has a
couple of teardrops on his left eye, and we were talking to him a
little bit, and mayer used the mediator/debtor example (the one of the
guy who owed a debt but couldn't pay it so he got thrown in jail
because mercy can't rob justice... and then a mediator comes in and
pays the debt so both ends are happy)... so anyways, Mayer used this
example with our gangster amigo and said let's say I owe you 50
dollars... and the guy just laughed... afterwards IIII told us the guy
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so
anyways.... IIII is doing well.
BBBB also made it to Church yesterday... and he said that he wants to
make it next week. We reset another baptismal date with him for the
4th of July... So we're praying really hard that that one happens. I
want at least one more baptism before I come home. IIII should happen
sometime... but that's gonna take awhile.
Anything else... I can't remember... i love you guys!</pre>
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<pre>So these last couple of weeks have just been roller coaster up and
down crazy... Do you remember the guy I told you about last week? we
found him on Monday before the transfer meeting, and he had already
read The Book of Mormon twice. He is so funny. Our senses of humor are
exactly the same... one night we were talking, and had kind of been
bantering like we do, and he said "we had to pick up our holy bible
and respond accordingly" and then he sent us a poem, "Jesus loves me
this I know, for the bible tells me so... little ones to him belong..
they are weak but he is strong." and then he told us to put that in
our pipes and smoke it... and me, never one to back down from a
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I pulled a mister miyagi, clapped my hands together, and
came up with the following "God is mighty and full of grace. you will
know when you stuff your face... with his word cuz it tastes the best.
come, join the feast, and be blest." keep in mind that matt is a
bigger guy who really likes to eat... I told him he might need to eat
some laffy taffies to get him over the heartbreak of that one... he
randomly texted us another day and told us he thinks that we should
get matching jesus tattoos... long story short I love the guy. He is a
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all hard and spiny on the outside (he
has a tattoo right above his left eye that says precious death), but
soft on the inside! he also told us that partially due to his obesity
he has an infection on his leg swelling to his groin, and asked us to
keep him in our prayers. so we set up an appointment, brought our
bishop with us (IIII speaks more english than spanish in case that
wasn't obvious!), and we taught IIII a little about the priesthood. It
was kind of hard because Matt has add and knows a lot... so one
tangent of the lesson was about baptisms for the dead and how IIII
could be baptized for his twin brother who died as a victim of gang
violence. anyways, IIII wanted bishop to give him the blessing because
he "felt a connection to him." by the end of the lesson, IIII was in
tears.he told us that he knew God had sent us to him to help him out,
and we tentatively set a baptismal date for the 11th of July. he
accepted. The next day we got a text from him saying he doesn't think
he is going to be baptized, we went over and talked to him, he didn't
really want to talk doctrine or religion too much... and we've tried
to set up another appointment but he told us he needs to rest all of
this week. We think that because he felt the Spirit penetrate his
tough guy shell... he is scared now. Super freaking frustrating. we
fasted for him yesterday.
On tuesday, the day after we first met IIII, we met another guy named
BBBB who has also already read The Book of Mormon. Tuesday after pday
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845 came
around and nothing had really happened, we were both kinda mad, we
were gonna knock on a few more doors and go home. as we were walking
there was a white guy, or at least it looked like he was, cleaning out
his car. I will be honest, when we saw him, I really really REALLY did
not want to talk to him, but we did, and some of the first words out
of his mouth were "yeah, I've already read The Book of Mormon." and he
was feeling super sick too, but he said he had just "randomly" felt
like going and cleaning out his car, something he had needed to do for
months. We have an appt with him Thursday, freaking hopefully...
The other up down part is GGGG. We've taught the guy like everything
except for tithing and a couple of other principles from PMG lesson 5.
he knows it's all true. the problem HAD been that he couldn't get work
off. He says the closing prayer every lesson and every time asks that
he can get work off so that he can come to church. Well, Sunday he got
work off. And what did he do? went to a party with a friend,
So all in all we are seeing A TON of cool miracles finding people,
more than I've ever seen in my mission, and it's because we are
praying for them and working for them. But it seems like after God
gives them to us, we don't go anywhere with them, that's the
frustrating part. I love these people. I want them to draw closer to
Christ. I know the Gospel can change their lives, and it is really
pushing me to see all of these cool experiences and not be able to
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will come to church this week!
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<div>
Hey guys!</div>
<div>
so... transfers came and went... and Mayer and I
are staying together!! In beaverton!! without a greenie:( We had to go
to the transfer meeting because zls have to... which I don't like. Guys I
love you, but in all honesty I don't really want to come home that bad.
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Sitting in the transfer meeting yesterday it smacked both Mayer and I
that things are coming to an end. It was not a fun thought. We really
are just working like crazy and it's been great. We had everything
planned for our greenie too! Mayer sleeps on a futon, and we were gonna
label it the cradle, leave a pacifier, and make him greenie waffles for
breakfast!! Buuttt... I guess God didn't want us to traumatize the poor
kid:)</div>
<div>
So this week was up and down. The down was that we got
into a couple of really freaking big bashes... the first one was
Saturday, a guy straight was walking after us for like 5 minutes then
said "hey guys, i have a question for you, how do you know what you
believe is true?" "I'm a seeker of the truth." and then he proceeded to
rip into Joseph Smith, hard, and the Book of Abraham, and the premortal
existence... legit like the worst bash I have ever been in, the guy just
went after everything. At the end, we invited him to read the Book of
Mormon. To which he got smart and responded, "I invite you to pray about
your Prophet." And in unison, pretty firmly I would say, both mayer and
I looked him in the eye and said "I have."<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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To which he said "Then
there's nothing I can do to help you." The genteman's name was KKKK. So
now Mayer and I use KKKK as an insult.</div>
<div>
The second one was
with the guy who pretty much had memorized the bible and had a pretty
firm belief in the Trinity.... good thing Joseph Smith saw God and Jesus
Christ in a vision. That was another long one.</div>
<div>
And, once again, no one came to church.</div>
<div>
Yesterday
was a cool miracle though. Before the transfer meeting, we figured we'd
take advantage of being in our area on Monday and prayed to find
someone who is ready to be baptized. Long story short, right before we
left for the meeting... we met this dude, a BIG BOY,<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: right; margin-left: 1em; text-align: right;"><tbody>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Not him, but you get the idea..:)</td></tr>
</tbody></table>
covered in tats,
and he invited us in, and said he has already read The Book of Mormon
twice. He just looks at it as a historical document, but he said he
loves Nephi. We just talked to him and he said he is struggling in his
own faith right now, he used to be in a gang, after that he went to
prison, before that he went through a super hard preacher's school or
something, he told us he has to unlearn some things... right now I don't
really think he has much interest in learning from us, but he says he
feels peaceful around us... and I got a distinct feeling that I am going
to learn a lot from him.</div>
<div>
The last tidbit is that we were
playing ultimate frisbee this morning... and I looked up to catch the
frisbee, and a hand came down super hard and smacked my left eye.<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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My
vision was super milky afterwards, and it's gotten better, but it's
still really blurry in the left eye. I went to the doctor and my vision
in my left eye is crap. Miracles happen though because when we got home,
I looked at it in the mirror, and there was a line of blood in the
iris... I asked Elder Mayer for a blessing and now the line is gone, i
just cant really see... things are super blurry. the doc says that
things should bet better within the next 48 hrs... I've been icing...
but keep it in your prayers I guess.</div>
<div>
see you guys!</div>
Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11524828494736709714noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1046319066643940498.post-24285845189050843142015-06-08T20:37:00.001-07:002015-06-08T20:37:52.371-07:00<div>
Hey Peeps!<div>
<br /></div>
<div>
So... it was a pretty good week. Who wants to
hear about my birthday? It was one for the books. It was pretty
uneventful until about 3 pm... we taught an 18 year old kid that we
haven't seen in like a month... it's only XXXX's 2nd time seeing the
kid... we showed him a mormon message called reclaimed,<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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and asked him
what it made him think about. he talked about kinda how god gives us
commandments... and THEN... Elder Mayer.... made the greenie mistake...
he started talking about the law of Chastity.... I mean he took it, and
ran the lesson off of a cliff!<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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It was so bad... the kid is 18 years old
and has a girlfriend.... holy cow. it was bad. When we got back into the
car, Elder Mayer reclined his seat, curled up into a ball, and screamed
"WHAT DID I JUST DO!!!!".... But legit..... just imagine....
slaughter....</div>
<div>
So not much else really happened... I had been
praying and asked God to help us set a baptismal date with someone... by
845... we still hadn't had a very productive day.... we had an appt set
up with some people we had knocked into the day earlier, we had taught
the daughter and wanted to return to teach the family. It ended up being
only the mom... she is from El Salvador, her name is GGGG, and she is
probably the most prepared lady for baptism that I have ever met my
whole life. One of the very first things that she said to us was, "I
know that you guys were sent here as instruments in the Lord's hands
because He knows I need some help." We taught a short version of the
Restoration, and as I was thinking about when to extend as a baptismal
date, I felt like we should extend the 20th of June. When I extended the
date, she got a really thoughtful look on her face, and said the 20th
is her birthday, and said that if she knew that our message was true by
that day, she would be baptized. That was a pretty cool experience.</div>
<div>
Except
for that SHE DIDN'T COME TO FREAKING CHURCH ON SUNDAY!!!! NO ONE IS
COMING AND IT IS FRUSTRATING ME!!!! That is my rant for the day.<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<div>
So
for our pday, it was pretty good, some members got permission to take
us hiking outside of the mission, at a place called silverton falls,
there will be pics coming next week. This is the only one we took on the
ipad, but I feel like it's a pretty accurate representation of Mayer's
and my take on life... oh and I got my last haircut last monday. And
then the other pic we just found in someone's garden.... and no one was
home... so we took some pictures and bounced:)</div>
<div>
And next week
is transfers... my hope and prayer is that I stay here in Beaverton for
another transfer, with Mayer, and that we get to trio train a greenie!
So keep that in your prayers!</div>
<div>
OH, and it was cemented into my mind today... the woman I marry HAS to like outdoorsy things and hiking. #amust!</div>
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<pre>Hey guys!
So.. this week was pretty bomb. Super bomb actually. Numbers wise, it
was the best week of my mission. We taught 35 lessons and found 18 new
investigators. Most days we didn't have time to take a full lunch!
Freaking the only problem is that NO ONE WILL COME TO CHURCH!!! <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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That
is the current frustration... Beaverton is a blessed area, there are
hispanic people all over the place, but thus far we've only had 1
person to come to church...
anyways... story time... so my companion and I were talking about how
much we hate cats.... and I don't remember how the subject came up...
but we were talking about what we'd do if we were going to propose to
a girl who had a cat... (edited/deleted for content...not exactly missionary focused...:) so... those are
the spiritually uplifting things that my companion and I discuss....
other than that.. nothing is really new. I'm excited to go home but I
really am gonna end on a high note, I've loved the last couple of
months!
also.... this pic is a pretty good representation of how our morning
went this morning...<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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we both woke up and weren't really... well...
yeah. By 930 halfway through comp study mayer was sitting in his chair
screaming "JORGENSEN!!!! I CAN'T DO THIS!!! WE NEED TO LEAVE!!! I NEED
TO PDAY!!!!!" and of course I Had to make some smart comments such as
"elder Mayer... I think we should take some extra hours of study
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:)
I love you guys! talk to you soon!</pre>
Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11524828494736709714noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1046319066643940498.post-90529016037847746802015-05-20T19:49:00.000-07:002015-05-20T19:49:11.456-07:00<div>
May 10th update</div>
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<div>
Hey guys! </div>
<div>
So there's really not much else to update you
on other than what happened yesterday... just a few conversations
between Elder Mayer and I that I thought would make you smile:) So the
other night, we had a late night, and didn't finish planning and whatnot
until about 11... And Mayer was SUPER tired,<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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he was struggling to make
it through the prayer... so me... being me.... I decided to say
something along the lines of "bro, I'm feeling an all nighter. let's
just stay up and talk"... to which he just looked at me like I was the
scum of the earth and very bluntly said "go to "somewhere that is hot and eternal' (edited for content...:).</div>
<div>
Also,
yesterday, during lunch, we got kinda bored. Aunt Heather sent me a
slingshot for christmas... we live on the 3rd floor and there is a cat
that hangs out kind of at the bottom of the stairs, but aways a bit. So
we started shooting advils at it from our balcony.... we got kinda close
but no cigar. So we decided to move in closer for the kill, and took
some close range shots (we ended up hitting him and haven't seen it
chilling there since:).... and that just made us feel so happy that we
talked about how maybe we are gonna take the slingshot with us during
the day and just do driveby shootings... for example when we see random people. or when someone who we are trying to teach runs inside and
shuts the blinds to avoid talking to us:) And, of course, we wouldn't be
able to resist shooting the occasional cat:) we decided that some
nights we might go cat hunting... so anyways as we were driving around
last night I totally could have run over one cat and then we saw like 3
others... so we decided it was a sign to go cat hunting later in the
night:) and as Elder Mayer was saying a prayer before we went into a
lesson, he said, "please bless that we can....." and then paused for a
long time, so I said under my breath "go cat hunting.".... to which he
finished by saying, "Father, you know our plans, please help us make
them happen!".... we were laughing pretty hard after that!</div>
<div>
not
much else is new... just working too hard and sleeping to little...
last week was the first Sunday in this area that I haven't fallen asleep
at some point during church...<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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. If I sit down for an extended period of
time with nothing to do, I fall asleep:) Aight guys that's all, love
ya!</div>
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This will be framed in my house one day. 'Nuff said.<br /><br />Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11524828494736709714noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1046319066643940498.post-81832795074743319342015-05-10T20:30:00.001-07:002015-05-10T20:30:17.774-07:00<div>
<div>
so, to start off with.... we had a couple of really cool
experiences this week... I already wrote Pres about them so I'm just
gonna copy and paste...</div>
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<div>
<span style="color: rgba(0,0,0,0.701961); text-decoration: -webkit-letterpress;">Miracle.
This week's miracle was pretty personal to me, a very big answer to
prayers. When I was with Elder Bair, we met a LOT of really cool people
who had already been through some rough patches in their lives (aka
drugs, youth going to prison, alcoholism... ect.) And, although it's
great that they have made it out of that phase of their lives, because
they've made it through that, they don't see the need to come to know
Christ anymore, He has already saved them and they are fine the way they
are, because what they are is a result of what Christ did for them so
they don't need to change anymore. So in my prayers lately I have been
asking God to be able to find and teach someone who is in the middle of a
crisis or hard time, and wants help out. This week we got a call from
on of our investigators, TLTL . He called the mission office a
couple of weeks ago asking for us to stop by, we ended up teaching him
outside of a taco time, but that was the last we heard from him because
we never knew where he lived. This week we got a call from him, he said
he would be home, he told us where he lived, and he asked us to stop by.
We did. During the middle of the lesson (the restoration), he told us
that he was struggling with an addiction to pornography, he has had it
for 5 years, and he wants to kick it. So in our second lesson with him
we taught him about the enabling power of the Atonement. <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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How God can
strengthen us to bear up our burdens and act and change our
circumstances. And as we were teaching him, I was watching the gears fit
into place in his mind as he applied and understood what was taught. He
has a baptismal date for </span><span style="color: rgba(0,0,0,0.701961); text-decoration: -webkit-letterpress;">May 30th</span><span style="color: rgba(0,0,0,0.701961); text-decoration: -webkit-letterpress;">, we've fasted and are praying that it goes through.</span></div>
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<span style="color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.7019607843137254);"><span style="text-decoration: -webkit-letterpress;"><br /></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: rgba(0,0,0,0.701961); text-decoration: -webkit-letterpress;">Studies.
During sweet hour of prayer yesterday, some scriptures kind of clicked
into place in my mind. Elder Mayer and I had an experience this week
where we were stopped and talked to by a " another religious person" he asked us
some questions, and when we answered, asked us where our answers came
from, and when we told him the Bible and The Book of Mormon, he told us
"uhh... I'm not so sure about the Bible. I know it pretty well. You
could pretty much read to my from anywhere inside it and I'd be able to
tell you where you are reading... and I've never read anything about
that." As Elder Mayer and I were discussing it, scriptures from the
Bible came to our minds that referenced what we were talking about. So I
was bugged by how stubborn and prideful that guy was. I was just kind
of thinking about it during sweet hour of prayer, and I remembered all
of the times that the bible says something along the lines of "seek, and
ye shall find." The Book of Mormon teaches us that "God grants unto men
according to their desires, whether it be unto salvation or
destruction" (Alma 29:4) Which just reiterates that what we are looking
for, we will find. Hence is it is important that we are always trying to
do God's will, which we discern through prayer, and the scriptures we
are commanded to 'pray always, that we may come off conqueror.'... So
obviously that other religious person was missing key points of doctrine, because he wasn't
looking for them.</span></div>
<div>
<span style="color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.7019607843137254);"><span style="text-decoration: -webkit-letterpress;"><span style="color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.7019607843137254);"><br /></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.7019607843137254);"><span style="text-decoration: -webkit-letterpress;"><span style="color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.7019607843137254);">So
that miracle was super cool... I've been getting kind of frustrated
because we've found a lot of cool people but no one is sticking it
through. One of our baptismal dates fell through, the other one is being
postpned.... But <span style="color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.7019607843137254);">TLTL</span> is super cool so our fingers are crossed on that
one.</span></span></span></div>
<div>
<span style="color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.7019607843137254);"><span style="text-decoration: -webkit-letterpress;"><span style="color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.7019607843137254);">Anything
else? As far as Eric goes... their family is still in Beaverton, Eric
might actually start coming to play morning sports with us. And we are
about to go frisbee golfing with him. Do you still have Jose's number?
that's for sure a family I want to spend time with when we come back for
vacation!</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #a00031;"><span style="text-decoration: -webkit-letterpress;">I love you guys! Wes nice job vaulting bro, I'm still waiting on those pics!</span></span>Enviado desde mi iPad</div>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11524828494736709714noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1046319066643940498.post-29646468472523533972015-04-27T13:01:00.001-07:002015-04-27T13:01:19.663-07:00<div>
Hey guys!</div>
<div>
So the craziest thing that happened this week
was that I interpreted a dream of a recent convert/less active. The
story goes a little something like this. When she got baptized 8 months
ago, she said she had a dream wherein she saw the missionaries walking
around in her complex, and she knew that they were messengers from God.
So she listened to everything they said and got baptized. Well, a little
over a month ago, she had another dream, where she saw Elder Bair and
Tuten, (Tuten was here before I was with bair,) in a room, but then she
saw some other doors representing other churches, and chose the catholic
church, and then she said the doors of our church closed on her. So
there's not much we could do there.<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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This week, when we saw
her, however, the dream had changed; This time she told us that in her
dream she had seen a Book of Mormon and a Bible placed on a table, had
felt like she could only choose one, and so she chose the Bible and
later when she tried to come to our church, the doors were closed and
everything was dark. All of the sudden my mouth opened and the next
think I was doing, I was asking her why she had chosen the Bible, and
explained to her that a testimony of our Church, or even just of Christ,
can't be adequately sustained just with the BIble. Both the Book of
Mormon and the Bible are needed.<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Maybe even more miraculously, she
understood what I was saying! Usually she is very hard to teach but she
understood that perfectly! So that was just a cool little experience I
guess.</div>
<div>
What else is new? Not much really... except for FREAK
guys I've only got 12 weeks left. That smacked me in the face this
weekend, getting calls and finding out that Bair was leaving... It was
hard to see him go and even harder for me to realize that I only have
one more transfer call. As much as I have complained and as hard as some
of my areas have been, I have loved my mission, and part of me doesn't
want it to end. Coop also went home today... that was freaking weird,
let me just say. I was not a fan of that.</div>
<div>
We get to see Elder
Holland this week! He is coming to speak to the Mission on Saturday!
He's gonna freaking singe everybody's eyebrows off!</div>
<div>
The area
is going good. We set 2 baptismal dates last week. One of them is with a
15 year old kid named VVVVV He is super legit. We found him
a few weeks ago, and it reminds me almost exactly of what happened when
we taught Eric. We started teaching just Eric, and then slowly
integrated his family. Tonight we are going to go play soccer with VVVV and his dad. I'm pumped. There is another cool young couple named LLLL and SSSS and they both recognize and feel the Spirit very
well, they wanna know more! The other investigator with a baptismal date
is QQQQ, she is 19 and our problem with her is that her mom doesn't
want her talking to us... but we're working on it!</div>
<div>
Wes way to go man on not letting that deacon be a punk!</div>
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<div>
anyways..
all of those plans sound good. Elder Bair's family wants to come to
Oregon too... maybe, if you wanted, you could email them and tell them
some of our plans and then maybe we could hang out at the coast or
something together!</div>
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I love you guys! the pics are of bair and I, and the 2 spanish zones playing soccer last week... Talk to you guys later!</div>
Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11524828494736709714noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1046319066643940498.post-61484154263303351472015-04-27T12:29:00.000-07:002015-04-27T12:29:29.100-07:00<span style="color: rgba(0,0,0,0.701961); text-decoration: -webkit-letterpress;">Familia!!</span><br />
<div style="color: rgba(0,0,0,0.701961); text-decoration: -webkit-letterpress;">
Alright
well do I have some stories to tell this week!! Should I start off with
the spiritual one or the funny one... I'm gonna go with spiritual
because if I go funny first the spiritual one might get shafted....</div>
<div style="color: rgba(0,0,0,0.701961); text-decoration: -webkit-letterpress;">
So
we did 2 exchanges this week. One was tuesday to wednesday, and the
other was wednesday to thursday, back to back. On Tuesday I left and
went to Hillsboro with a new missionary, and then on Wednesday I was
here in Beaverton with an Elder from Portland. His name is Elder
Gregory, he got to Portland (which is a pretty slow, hard area) when I
got to Tigard, he was trained by Elder Goff, and came out right after
Soriano. he is a farmer hick kid from somewhere in Utah... <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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and anyways
since we've served around each other we've become pretty close. When I
was his district leader, calling people every night, he was always very
open and willing to ask for help. There have even been a couple of times
this transfer when he's been having a rough time and has called me
because he said that's what he felt like he should do after he prayed.
Anyways, those are all unnecessary details, but the point is we know
each other pretty well and we did this exchange because he called and
asked if we could.</div>
<div style="color: rgba(0,0,0,0.701961); text-decoration: -webkit-letterpress;">
So
anyways it was around 4 on Wednesday (this exchange had started at 2
after district meeting), and we were just leaving the library, we had
been doing some online teaching on FB. As we were leaving, a man stopped
us and asked us for money, explaining his story which I don't remember a
lot of, but their house was getting fumigated that night and they
needed a place to stay. Anyways, I've been asked by people quite a few
times for money, and he seemed pretty legit. But, when he asked, deep
down I really just didn't want to give him any. Elder Gregory pulled out
his wallet and gave the man $7. As we were walking away, I felt ashamed
for being so selfish. I remembered what President Eyring had said in
Conference about helping others,<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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and silently said a prayer asking
Heavenly Father that driving away from the library I would be able to
see him again to give him some money. As we exited the parking lot my
prayer was answered, I pulled over, got my wallet, and went to give him
$3, but a 5 came out with it, so I gave him 8. Elder Gregory told me
that the same thing had happened to him, he had only meant to give him
$2, but the 5 came out. I felt better afterwards. Now here is the cool
part. For dinner that night, a lady had signed up to feed us, and she
didn't have any males in the house, so she just gave us $20 for the two
of us. Curiously, she had 2 friends over, each of whom decided they each
wanted to give us $5.... so we were up to $30. Elder Gregory had never
had Sushi before, and here they do Sushi restaurants that just have like
little samplers on a conveyor belt, and different colored plates are
different prices. So we walk into the place, sit down, and start eating a
few plates. There was no one else inside. About halfway through our
time there, the cashier came and told us that someone had put $10
towards our bill. That was all we spent, so we got a free dinner. And
the whole time I knew why this was all happening... it was because of
the man we had helped. So although nothing huge, I feel like that was
just a soft little reminder that God is watching over me.<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Ok
story time. (edited for content :) for details, please ask Elder Jorgensen in person anytime after July14 ;)</div>
<div style="color: rgba(0,0,0,0.701961); text-decoration: -webkit-letterpress;">
mom
as to your questions about being a zone leader on sundays... there are 3
sets of spanish missionaries attached to our group, so the 3 of us
cover the stake. we are an appendage of the Beaverton ward, but are in
charge of the group. so no,thankfully no other meetings... the extra
meetings are 2 district meetings every week instead of just 1, and MLC
(mission leadership council) every month.</div>
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anyways... I love you guys! Have a good week! </div>
<div style="color: rgba(0,0,0,0.701961); text-decoration: -webkit-letterpress;">
Ferzulis also got baptized!!</div>
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Hey Peeps!!</div>
<div>
Well... I'm just going to start off by asking
if anyone else noticed a huge get married theme for young adults of
??....That was kind of weird... but definitely hit on a lot... Bair and I
both decided that we are exempt to that counsel and that we are too
immature to get married... anyways... so... yeah... I've become a
girl-phobe on my mission...<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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I don't know how to talk to one without
saying, "Hey, I'm your missionary in the area..." sooo... bair and I are
gonna be hermits abt BYU:D</div>
<div>
However, in obedience (selective
obedience) to the counsel given yesterday to prepare to be a father...
Both bair and I let a 3 yr old nina put nail polish on our
fingernails... it was removable... but it was purple and blue and green
and pink... </div>
<div>
And, for my vent session for the day, we have a
family of recent converts who got into the church as a result of their
18 year old son, he converted when he lived in montana... well now, 6
months later, he's freaking drinking and doing stupid stuff with chicks,
just this week he got piercings in his ear, he never wants to talk to
us and HOLY COW I'm trying my hardest not to rage at him. The other day
at is house we found a corona cap that was from him... obviously I know
we need to love him and be patient with him, but its just frustrating
for me because I want to help him but the only way I can think of to do
that would be bold and straightforward... which would make him mad... In
the perfect world, afterwards there would be the chance to calm him
down and help him improve... the whole bring someone down in order to
bring them higher aspect...</div>
<div>
The ankle brace is working fine. I
played ultimate frisbee last week in the morning and the week before,
no brace, ran 4 miles.... It's still kinda swollen, I kinda tweaked it
again this week chasing elder Bair around trying to put a flower in his
hair... but it's all good.</div>
<div>
The training went pretty well. I guess. No one said otherwise...</div>
<div>
Alright...
well that's about it for me... I'm loving the area, it's kind of
frustrating because there are so many hispanics, and we set up a ton of
lessons every week, but they all freaking cancel!!!!! <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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That is my rant! </div>
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<div>
Hey peeps!!</div>
<div>
Sooo.... this week was pretty good. On
Monday we had a super cool experience. So there is a family of recent
converts, one of whom is 18 and just got back from a vacation to mexico.
And supposedly since he's been back, he's been acting worse towards us
since he came back But every time we teach them, we teach their whole
family. And we needed a lesson with just him. So we prayed for a way to
be able to teach just him, and Monday night when we went to teach his
family, at like 7, everyone in his whole family had fallen asleep,
except for him. So we just got to talk to him and see how he was, it was
a spiritual lesson and a cool miracle.<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<div>
We also found a lot of
new investigators this week. Out of all the Spanish areas in the
mission, this one is probably the best as far as population of hispanics
goes. Everywhere we go there are just a plethora of hispanics, so finding isn't
hard, but both Elder Bair and I are kind of tired of talking to people
who don't care,<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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so we are just freaking praying for the golden
investigators! Fetch.</div>
<div>
Uuuummm as far as Elder Bair goes, I
like him a lot, he is a hard worker but he isn't a robot, he's just a
good comp to have. We did get new ipads like a month
ago... The zone conference training will be march 31st, I think I told
you but bair and I are assigned to talk about teaching simply and asking
inspired questions.... which is super broad and back to basics so again
any advice/thoughts/experiences would be appreciated... we don't wanna
give a boring training and practice...</div>
<div>
not really a lot else
happening... Wes you better write me this week! OH and you guys are
sending me an ankle brace right? I know this is knitpicky of me but
could you try to get it to me by the end of the week? next week we are
playing capture the flag and I'm gonna get it approved to play by my
physical therapist this week...:)</div>
<div>
freak guys I don't know what
else to tell you... we were driving today and some dude freaking almost
changed lanes right into our car. that was stupid.</div>
Ok guys... sorry... I don't really have any updates to give this week... another week down!<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Have a good one! I love ya!</div>
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Elder Travis Jorgensen!</div>
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Well, if I could summarize this week with one sentence, it would be
summarized thusly: The church has to be freaking true otherwise no one
would put up with all the mother fetching meetings. ho. lee. <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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to
quote Cooper... fetch. Am I whining? yes. should I be? no. But, God
still loves me;)</div>
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Ok so it wasn't really that bad of a week...
as a zl I have to go to both district meetings now, and on Friday we had
a meeting called MLC with President Ballard for zone leaders and sister
training leaders, it was kind of a cool one, it was pretty productive,
but it took until like 4. and then Saturday before we had our second
district meeting, we had SPC for the stake... I don't know what that
acronym stands for... I could think of some inappropriate substitutes
but I won't do that pues.<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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So anyways the Stake was just talking about
how to make missionary work more effective, but mostly from the digital
aspect, and... I don't like meetings... that's all I'm gonna say. And
THEN, the stake President wanted to talk with the Spanish zone
leaders... us... and ask about how things could be better in the group.
Because I'm back in a group that means we aren't officially recognized
by Salt Lake as a unit yet, so our group is an appendage to the
Beaverton ward. There are 3 spanish sets in the group, along with a trio
of sisters, so 9 missionaries in the beaverton ward. And it's hard for
the beaverton ward because a lot of our investigators need rides to
church, and the beaverton ward can't do it all alone, so they are
looking outside for help, but no other wards want to help, so the stake
president wants to break us up into 3 groups instead of one... all I
have to say to that is that is EDITED. I
didn't say anything in the meeting, i figured I probably shouldn't make
enemies with the stake president my first week... but wow the whole
time I was just thinking to myself "I hate politics."<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Anyways,
there's my rant. It was actually a super cool week. On Tuesday, right
after dinner, the very first kid we talked to, we just talked to in the
street, and it turns out he is looking for a church to join<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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and has been
through a lot of crap, and it was just cool the way it happened because
right before we got out of the car I felt like we should grab an
english BOM, which took a few extra seconds, and then those seconds
turned out to be the difference in meeting PPPP, and we gave him the
English Bom. that was a good way to start of the companionship.</div>
<div>
Thursday
was also a cool learning experience. We were supposed to do weekly
planning in the early afternoon, but also had a lesson set up at 12, and
one at 2. in between those lessons, when we got wifi and tried to sync
our ipads and plans, and my ipad wouldn't sync, and Elder Bair's, which
had all the plans for the day, crashed and his area book app deleted
everything... legitimately all plans and investigators. gone. so,
anyways we were kind of pissed about that, but then I just figured if
our plans got deleted, it was because God wanted us to do something else
that day. so we were finishing dinner by this time, at around 6, and we
had a meeting at 7 but nothing else. We could have planned or tried
fixing our ipads but neither of us felt like doing that, we wanted to
work. We prayed and asked for what we could do in that hour, what God
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Elder Bair felt impressed to go by a cool family that
they hadn't seen in awhile, and I agreed with him. As we were driving
there, we saw a less active member waiting at the bus stop, we had tried
to see her earlier but were unable to do so... so we knew we had to
talk to her. we flipped our car around, and as we did so we saw that the
car of the family that we wanted to see was home, which was a rarity.
we still felt like we should go see DDDD, the less active. It was cool
because the first thing she said to us when we went up to her was "I
knew you would come back" (she had seen us drive by). we shared a
message with her and went back to the other family, the LLLL's', but
they weren't there. we went to our meeting, and afterwards once again
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again, and did so, and they weren't home. it was 8 by this time.
we knew we needed to see them. We said another prayer, telling Heavenly
Father that we would be back at 845 and asking that they would be home
too. We ended up going back early, at 830, and they weren't there. we
talked to some people, and just as we were leaving at 841, they pulled
up, and we talked to them and set up an appt. I don't know if how I just
described it was as cool as it actually was, but DANG, that was a cool
day. I like Elder Bair a lot, this is my first companionship in 9
months, since I was with warenski, where my comp will get out of bed
without me getting after them about it, and will help me plan,<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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wow. life
is good.</div>
<div>
Wes, write me bro!</div>
<div>
Ok I love you guys! The
Church is true! do you need anything? oh and ps... my comp and I got
free hair cuts from sports clips today... we got scalp massages and a
steamed towel... it's a $24 haircut, we got for freeeeee because of a
certificate. that was very enjoyable!</div>
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and my shirt is from nike:) i was in one of those moods this morning... I had to rebel somehow:)</div>
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So, sometimes I think the Lord works in mysterious ways. My new
companion is Elder Bair, the one I emailed you about saying we might
room at BYU. He was my zone leader. Now he's my companion.<br />
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which, by
default, means that I'm a zone leader. Fetch. Didn't
see that one coming. I thought I was too old to be a zone leader. But
on Saturday President Ballard called me and asked if I would be willing
to serve as a zone leader... I couldn't really say no... So I'm in
Beaverton, right next to my greenie area. But in
a group instead of a ward. There's a good chance I could die here. I
would love to die training but my comp has been here for 6 months
already so next transfer he is out and I will stay probably, and then my
last transfer who knows what will happen.. anyways...
I think they send you guys a letter in the mail or something... I guess
you'll have to tell me if they do. So I'm still in the same district,
and all of the companionships got transferred but in the same district.
So that's kind of cool I guess.... How am
I feeling about it you may be wondering... I'm kind of stressed. <br />
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I
didn't want to really leave Tigard and I for sure don't feel like I
should be a zl... not quite as bad as when I went dl, but same
feeling...<br />
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The ankle is doing pretty good... all the bruising is pretty much
gone and the swelling is still going away slowly. my range of motion is
getting better... so all is well in that department!</div>
<div>
So it sounds like everybody got their birthday present!</div>
<div>
Freak it sounds like you guys are just changing everything up... Wes you have the freaking hook up I hope you know that!</div>
<div>
As far as missionary experiences last week.... I cant really
remember any. Saying goodbye was hard... Oh ok I remember a good lesson
we taught with a recent convert family who is going less active. we read
the talk The Atonement and the Journey of Mortality
by Bednar with them, it talks about how we can access the atonement
daily and is BOMB!! They needed to hear it!<br />
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Alright well I know this is a super short email... Sorry, there's
not much big news except for transfers... it sucks because every times
someone I know has gone zl I've given them crap for it, and boy oh boy
am I reaping what I sew. There was one Elder
who called me on Sunday night, and the conversation proceeded as
follows.</div>
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"Jorgi, i hear you're going zone leader!" I hung up:D When he called back I didn't pick up!</div>
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I love you guys! Have a good week! Wes you copied my shoes! write me a letter!</div>
Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11524828494736709714noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1046319066643940498.post-33791277744937384422015-03-12T19:03:00.002-07:002015-03-12T19:03:53.248-07:00<div>
Hey Guys!!!</div>
<div>
First of all, mom thank you for working on
and taking care of housing for me, it means a lot. Thank you for all you
are doing to help me be ready for when I come home.<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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I hope you had a
good birthday, Wes I hope your birthday is good today, and Dad happy
birthday later this week. There is a present coming. </div>
<div>
Freak
guys, it's march. What the heck. This is the last transfer of this week,
and then after that I have 3 transfers left. So 19 weeks.</div>
<div>
Wes,
first of all I am PUMPED that you are doing track. I wrote you a letter
about it so I won't say too much, but what I will say is don't doubt
yourself and your abilities. If you want to make it to districts, you
can make it to districts. It's all gonna come down to how hard you wanna
push and how bad you are willing to hurt. But especially with Tookey as
your coach, you can do anything. Talk with him about it, he will help
you out.</div>
<div>
Also, I have a request to make... could I please get
an occasional picture/video so I know what's going on? Like when meets
start coming up of Wes racing, or if he has anymore indoor games left...
you can upload 55 second videos through a smart phone/tablet just as an
attachment in an email... I miss you guys!<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Alright, that's
all for that... Well actually, Jonah didn't make it into BYU:( That
really kind of freaking sucks and I'm pretty bummed about it actually...
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So I guess that means that I have another request... Please pray that I
get a cool roommate... And keep me posted on it... also keep me posted
on anything else you need me to do, Dad if you ever sent that email
about all my questions of what to do with the rest of my life, I never
got it... Mom I would love any input from you too! </div>
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As far as
missionary work goes.... this week was SLOW!!! Freak. We had 3 meetings,
2 doctors appointments, a physical therapy appt, which I LOVED! It was
so nice... I just got to lay there and relax for like an hour while my
ankle got massaged and iced. I left a better person.</div>
<div>
Really
not a lot happened this week. My ankle is doing a lot better, all of the
coloration has left the foot.. The ankle and shin are still swollen,
But I can walk without a limp and my lateral ROM is increasing.</div>
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The
pictures I just barely took... at pt they put some kinesio tape on my
ankle, and when I took it off after 4 days it took a lot of leg hair
with it.</div>
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That's about all I think... This week should be better, but nothing really huge happened last week... </div>
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I love you guys! Have a good week!</div>
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Hey guys!!!</div>
<div>
So, I'm not gonna lie, this week was one of
the most painful weeks of my life! My ankle HURTS!!! House arrest was
rough but I made it through...<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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So friday morning comes along, and I woke
up, tried to stand up, and my ankle hurt BAD! I straight couldn't put
any weight on it so I had to elevate it and warm it up for like 30
minutes... anyways... that was not really a good start to my day because
it was supposed to be my first day being able to be back, and there was
a part of me, ever so small, that wanted to use the pain in my ankle as
an excuse to stay in another day... when I prayed that morning, it was
pretty intense, I was just feeling out of it for all sorts of reasons,
so my prayer that morning was like a 20 minute vent session. And I
didn't see an angel nor hear any voices of thunder, but after I did
that, I got up from my knees, and felt better. I felt understood. I
haven't had a prayer like that in awhile, but it was a testimony builder
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And then, I had a doctor's appt
yesterday, and the very first thing the doctor said when he saw it was,
"that looks broken, have you had it xrayed? yes? well, I want you to get
another one." so I got some more, and they said they would get the
results to me last night, but they never ever did, so I was loosing my
mind last night afraid of what would happen if it was broken (see below). this
morning I finally called them and asked, and they told me that
everything was good, so that was a relief.</div>
<div>
Thank you for your
prayers and words of counsel last week, I could feel them keeping me
sane. Dad, that talk by Elder Christofferson is one of my favorites.
Speaking of talks, I found a couple more BYU devos that I would
appreciate if you could send to me... they are</div>
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<span style="color: rgba(0,0,0,0.701961); text-decoration: -webkit-letterpress;">our identity and our destiny</span><div style="color: rgba(0,0,0,0.701961); text-decoration: -webkit-letterpress;">
achieving your full potential</div>
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I forget who they are by but if you need more than that let me know.</div>
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We also got a temple trip this week, in the celestial room I read Mosiah 4:11-12 and they hit me pretty hard! I like them a lot!</div>
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Alright guys! I love you! sorry this is short but not much happened this week! Have a good week wes keep killing it in soccer!!</div>
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Love, </div>
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Elder Travis Jorgensen!</div>
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Well...
Twas a crazy week here in Tigard. In a good way, for the most part. To
start off with, just a random side note, so Dillon Jonah Cody and I came
up with a quick test our senior year to check how chill a girl is. A
very simple thing. From our observations, girls who have seen the movie
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are generally 10x cooler than those that haven't. It's a
real life example of small and simple things bringing to pass great
works. This week, I decided to put it through the trial of faith, and
ask a sister in my district if she
has seen Cool Runnings. And, hallelujah, she hasn't seen it!!! Don't
take that the wrong way, I'm not looking to date any of the sisters I'm
serving around, my heart is locked and I am focused, but, it was just
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ALSO,
just so everybody knows, I haven't sworn since before I went through
the Temple the first time. Which, after what just barely happened to me,
is an accomplishment! Freaking we were playing soccer and an Elder in
my district did a dirty little little cheap shot and slide tackled me.
Boy my left ankle is HUGE.<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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freak that hurt. I was on the ground for like
5 minutes, however, to my credit, I did not swear in English nor
Spanish!<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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And we are about to go play frisbee golf, my ankle is gonna
have my game off but that's ok.</div>
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On Wednesday/Thursday we did
an exchange, I went with Elder Smith to Beaverton #2. It's been a year
since we did an exchange, I was with him when the snow storm hit last
year. It was a bomb exchange, their area is brand new so we just did
some finding and taught some good lessons. Later that night we made a fire in
their apts fire place and cooked up some smores... It was good to just
chillax a little bit.</div>
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Thursday was a freaking rough, trunky
day! It started at like 6, we went by Ester and Ferzulis, and they were
watching Divergent, and as we walked in it was right in the middle of an
intense make out scene... Engman and I just looked at each other, and
back at the tv, and at each other, both of us were just thinking
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And then, like every apt we went to for the rest of the
night, people were playing video games or something. It's not so much
the video games that I miss, but the just being able to chill and not
have to worry about what I'm doing every second for the night...
anyways... glad we made it through that little stretch.</div>
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Freaking
last night I was legitimately afraid that I was going to get kissed by a
man.... We were knocking on the door for an appt, and a guy was walking
by us, so I said hi and asked how he was doing. He said good, how are
you? When I told him I was good, he got super confrontational and was
asking "are you sure?! how do you know?!" and then I don't remember what
I said, but he told us to go up the stairs and talk to him, so we did.
He was a little drunk, that should have been our first hint, anyways the
interesting part came when I asked if he believed that God loved him
enough to call a prophet to guide him today. He said "yeah, I believe
that God loves me. For example, if we were at war, and someone were to
shoot you, and I were to take the bullet for you (at this point he had
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trying
to shield me from danger. my only thought was if he tries to kiss me,
I'm going to freaking lose it)... anyways, thankfully, he didn't kiss
me. We talked for like an hour and then he had to go in and tell his mom
what he had been doing (40 years old and still lives with his mommy....
hrm). Then he wanted us to meet his mother, who is Buhdist, and he
pulls us inside, and to introduce us, he grabbed my arm and said, "Mom,
look at this kid! He's @#$%^& beautiful, and I'm not even gay!"
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I don't have much else to
say... our district is still on fire, last week we picked up like 37
news as a district... that puts us at close to 90 as a district in 3
weeks... last month our zone found 103 and killed everyone else. So if
you are looking for things to keep in your prayers, BBB needs to know
where her husband lives so that she can get divorced and baptized, and
she also needs to not work on LLLL's baptism....</div>
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Oh
and ps dad thanks for sending your conversion story, I used the part
where you talked about how you didn't really get a confirmation it was
right until after all was said and done, and I used that when I was
teaching on the exchange, talking about how sometimes God makes us wait a
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Anyways... thought you'd wanna know!</div>
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And
actually this took so long to send because as I was saying earlier
about spraining my ankle... the mission nurse wanted me to go to the
urgent care center to get it checked out because I really could barely
walk on it, its swollen as freak, and anyways... so just made it back
from that, and nothing is broken, but pretty much everything is torn,
and it will be a 6-8 weeks in the boot... pictures to come... the pic of
my foot was taken like around 430 any questions hit me up with them and
I'll get back to you.</div>
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Well,
last week was pretty good here in Tigard. We set 3 baptismal dates, all
with members of HHHH's family. The best one was her son, VVVV's.
Yesterday was his 10th birthday, and no one else in his family could
come to church, so we got him a ride and he came all by himself. Later
that day we passed by to wish him a happy birthday, and we started
talking about baptism, he said it was something he wants to do. HHHH
was right there and she said she was fine with it. HHHH is also super
solid. We can show her like a 3 minute mormon message and she gives us a
5 minute explanation about it. Every time Elder Engman and I teach her,
we always say she should teach us. So what's impeding her from baptism
currently is that she wants to get divorced. She doesn't need to
according to the rules, but it's something she really wants to do and
when she told us about it, both Elder Engman and I felt like it was
something she needs to do. She can't do it though because she needs to
know her husband's current address, which she doesn't know because they
aren't in communication and he won't give it to her... so that is our
current dilemma here in Tigard... however, my district is getting work
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So my district is 6 companionships, one of which is a senior
couple. My branch is my area, a set of sisters, and the senior couple,
we cover the Tualatin and Lake Oswego Stakes. And then the other half of
the district is the beaverton group (different than the ward I was
serving in). There are 3 companionships in that group, one of which is
the zone leaders, and the other is a brand new area that just got made 2
weeks ago. So my district is my area, the sister's area, the senior
couple, the zone leaders, and 2 other companionships of Elders. It is
the biggest district in the mission by 2 companionships, which I think I
said already, but, anyways, we are DOING WORK!!! In the first 2 weeks
of the transfer, as a district, and not counting the senior couple's
numbers, we have found 58 new investigators. That is more than most
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Everyone is working
hard and I love it. I'm glad I'm in Tigard, I feel like I haven't
actually liked an area that I was in since I served in Nike.</div>
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Other
random sidenote, we are still giving a crazy amount of blessings here.
Last week we gave 7 blessings in 2 days, probably the hardest one was to
a 14 year old in the branch who was hit by a car going 45 mph when he
ran across the freeway. Miraculously, externally there wasn't a lot of
damage. He had bleeding in is brain has been recovering quickly. The
other one was to Elder White, the Elder in the senior couple, he had a
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Ok
Mom I will send you another email about housing later... I love you
guys, I hope Wes gets feeling better! Maybe during his time of illness
he could take time to remember his long lost brother!!</div>
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My new companion is Elder Engman, he
just came from Milwaukie, and he was trained by Elder Warenski, he has
also been companions with Elder Goff and Elder Soriano. We served around
each other for the first 9ish months of my mission, he goes home one
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As for High
adventure, heck yeah dad I want in on that. I hope everyone is feeling
well... I can't really think of much else to update you on, but if I do
I'll let you know! And you don't need to worry too much about how I am
doing emotionally, we went to the Temple today as part of our Pday and
that helped out a ton.</div>
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Ps Both Dad and mom thank you for those emails you sent last week, they helped a ton!!!</div>
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no one got hurt, the driver's door has a pretty good dent in it and the
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Legitimately,
after it happened, we did paperwork all Tuesday and Wednesday, we
didn't have any time to work, which kind of made me mad. As far as
insurance and whatnot, I really don't know, I just know I did the
paperwork and I haven't heard anything about it since... so if you have
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So that
was like the warm-up...Editors' note suffice to say that the missionaries in Travis' zone have had a stressful couple of weeks. Our prayers are with them.</div>
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I don't know if I explained that very well, but by
yesterday at about noon I was drained and feeling pretty down on...
life. I read Jacob 3 for studies yesterday morning and what stuck out to
me was not worrying about yourself, but worrying about other people,
which is mentioned in my Patriarchal Blessing... but still, by around
noon yesterday, I was feeling pretty freaking drained and not knowing
how I'm gonna get through however much longer this lasts... My zone
leaders still don't know how serious things are, and the rest of my
district knows something is up, but not how bad... Pretty much the water
is already pretty warm and about the only thing that can happen is that
it will heat up even more. I decided I needed a blessing from someone
who has no clue about anything that is going on, so I asked one for my
good friends in English Elder Christensen. Holy freaking cow, that was
the best blessing I have had on my mission and probably in several
years. (Elder Christensen was one of the ones who helped me move Michael
in Milwaukie.) He told me I have been called upon to do several hard
things during my mission, but "perhaps the most taxing is that of...
being a friend." Holy freaking cow, I have not cried in close to 3 years
now, but when he said that, I came very close to tearing up. He went on
to say that right now I just need to focus on being my brother's
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or something like that, and he didn't make it sound like things
were gonna get any easier, but he did make it sound like I'd be able to
handle it. <div>
As an interesting side-note,
due to all of the accumulated stress, we went on a 12 mile run Saturday
morning:) We woke up at 530 and went running for an hour and a half, it
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Ok well.... yeah:)
Love you guys! Thanks for your prayers and support!! Any counsel and
wisdom, at anytime you feel inspired to between this week and next, is
always appreciated, the stuff you guys told me last week was right on
point, although mom I did have a little laugh to myself when you called
me mature:) Dad, you asked how I've seen myself change, and I think I'm
still the same in a lot of respects. I've dealt with a lot of hard crap,
but I think that I will forever be that kid who is making jokes at
inappropriate times and just having everyone roll their eyes asking
themselves, "will this kid ever grow up??:)</div>
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I freaking miss my long hair a lot too... I just feel like it's more me.</div>
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Mom
you will be fantastic in your calling, good ole K-15 will have the best
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There's
not really a whole bunch to report on this week. XXXX the lady we
freaking helped move my first few weeks here, is progressing way well,
her son went to Church yesterday, and hopefully we should be able to hit
her with a fetcha (date) this week.</div>
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Oh, well I guess I did
get to meet an Apostle this week. Is that a big deal? You'll never guess
which one... yep, you got it, Elder Ballard!<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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He came and spoke to us on
Friday and it was a memorable experience. He even took pics with each
of our zones, so that should be coming to you guys sometime soon! I
think the most memorable part was when he asked us if we have been to
Gethsemane in our minds<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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... that was a thought provoker. So anyways I got
to shake his hand and feel his spirit... It was a good meeting, really
we just talked about missionary work the whole time, which is good, but
our mission has been hitting that hard lately so it was kind of like
beating a dead horse, only the Apostle was the one dishing the beating
so it was more bearable.</div>
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I also had an interesting experience
on Thursday... so one of the English Elders I am serving around I served
around in Milwaukie for 4 and a half months... he gets a lot of
migraines and depression so several times we've done mini exchanges with
them so his comp can go out and work... that happened again this week,
only he wasn't depressed nor did he have a migraine, he was struggling
personally and needed someone to talk to, so he called me. It ended up
being like a 2 hour long talk, and I don't remember much of what I said,
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and by the end of
the night he was feeling better. It was kind of like a sneak peek into
what being a Bishop would be like, where people come and just lay their
problems on you, and I decided it'll be ok with me if I'm never a
Bishop.... anyways... I don't know, it was just a spiritual and personal
experience that made me think, and I felt the Spirit super strongly for
the rest of the night.</div>
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Alright, well I love yall, have a good week!</div>
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Elder Travis Jorgensen!</div>
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