Hey! It's Lonas!
That's how I open up most of my documentary videos haha. Of which there are a lot, I'm excited to send them home!
Anyways, here's my life: I'm a Dad now! (Dad = responsible for training a newly arrived missionary ) I got my very own little boy, and I love it! His name is Elder B and he's a cool guy! He's from SLC, likes sports and stuff, and we actually have a lot of random similar interests. Like Avatar: the Last Airbender haha. So, one of the great things about the WATAC is that Heavenly Father likes boys to baptize. Therefore, miracles have been happening right and left in order to make that happen.
DeeDee was taught by missionaries about 8 months ago (possibly by Elder K) and she was taught everything, came to church, and just decided that she wasn't ready to commit (mainly she didn't want to quit smoking). Then the apartments she was in were shut down for renovation, she lost contact with the missionaries, plus the original set were transferred, and that was the end of that. We met her not too long ago, and on the doorstep she pretty much told us her backstory, and that she'd just been thinking about it a lot ever since she lost contact with the missionaries. So in between the time they last saw her and the time I met her, she became prepared! She was at church yesterday and loved it, we're re-giving her the lessons, and she is on-date to be baptized on July 14th! Great way for my boy to start his mission :) Being a missionary is so cool.
So, this is really cool too. At church, we had 3 people approach us, and tell us that they had friends or relatives or whomever that they wanted us to teach! One of my favorites was this lady who came up to us, and told us that she has this cowboy friend, and she made him promise to take all the lessons. Furthermore, he has a lot of nonmember friends he works with, and she says there is a small classroom out by the ranch, so she wants to set up so we can teach them all at the same time. How's that for the most golden opportunity ever?!?!?! so she is telling us this, and then she says "Yeah, I've known this guy for a long time, but when I saw you guys in church today I just felt like you were the right missionaries to teach him!" I think that was one of the best compliments I've ever received :)
There is also a lady who pulled us aside to tell us about her non member grandson at church today, who wanted to meet with missionaries again :) We met him, he's pretty cool, we're hopefully going to start teaching him this week!
Oh, and Kendall! She's from a part-member family, and has been someone missionaries have been trying to teach for the longest time. My Boy's first day here, we get in and are able to teach her. Her situation is complicated but she's on date for the 4th of August.
There's other stuff too, but the point is that life is AMAZING right now. The ward (which is incredibly missionary minded) is working with us and great things are happening, and I love that I have the opportunity to be a part of it!
Oh and remember how Christensen is training, too? His Boy is my Boy's MTC companion!
OH! And I almost forgot to tell you! We were knocking as usual, and this old man answers the door, and comes outside and says "Alright, here's the deal, I will listen to whatever you have to say, until one of you makes a grammatical error" hahahahahahaha! So we talked to him for about a half hour (my companion was silent haha) and the whole time I felt like I was on a sitcom. I'm still reasonably sure that was the case. In the end though, he wasn't interested because he had read a specific anti-Mormon book. He asked if we had read it, I indicated that I'd read parts of it, but had never read it cover to cover or anything. He asked what I thought, and I told him it was an unimpressive book about an unimpressive subject, and then bore testimony of the Book of Mormon. I know he felt the Spirit, but he said he was "too old to change his ways" Pretty sad :( but the whole scenario still makes me laugh haha.
So anyways, life is good :)
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