So to the start, we all meet at the Fishers chapel for Transfers and we
find our new companions. I'm sad to leave Elder Coon, I loved him and we
had a lot of fun and I miss him a lot but I like Elder Skoville a lot.
Elder Skoville went to Timpview, and the other 2 Elders in my area that
we're with a lot, they live in Culver, Elder Morgan and Elder Eschler,
Elder Morgan went to Timpview too and his dad is a professor at BYU.
He's hilarious and Elder Eschler is from Hurricane, Utah and he likes to
workout so we have a good group. So at transfers we find are new
companions and start loading our stuff into the car. A member, he's so
funny, his name is Brother Timm he lives in Knox, a smalltown right
outside of Plymouth, i'll tell you a little bit more about him in a
minute, he was the one driving us from Fishers back to Plymouth. So we
all get situated and start our way to Plymouth. Brother Timm is crazy he
is the type of guy that makes me laugh so dang hard I can't stop
laughing, he's a convert to the church, his story is a miracle, on the
way home he tells me everything about how he came to be a member. He has
PTSD, he is a walking miracle, he has seen crazy things since he was a
kid, has had areally hard life and one time his wife met the
missionaries and invited them over. He wasn't overly excited about them
coming over but he told his wife he would listen and so he brought his
bible out, sat down and met the missionaries. This is the way he
explains it, he says "I sat down and started looking at the
missionaries, they look over at me and start smiling and i'm trying to
act tough but something is overcoming me and so I look away, I look back
and they're still smiling at me, so I get up and walk out of the room
and lock myself in the bathroom, he's thinking I've never felt what i'm
feeling, I feel so happy, they start talking with him, he gets baptized,
he felt the spirit so strong, and now he's fired up about missionary
work. I love him, the first thing I say to him is "Do you know Elder
Freeman?" He says "Unfortunately" I start laughing so hard. Elder
Freeman is the one with the Purdue jacket on in the picture. Me and him
are good friends and he served in Culver right next to Plymouth. So on
the way home Brother Timm says "We gotta a lot of work to do, I'm a
missionary, i'm here for a reason" and so later in the drive we're out
in the middle of Indiana Country and there is a school bus driver and he
stops his car, looks up at her and says "You're a cutie" oh man he does
the craziest stuff. He is a nut. So we get to Culver, it's the sweetest
place, it's a lakehouse that the Culver missionaries live in and we've
slept over 2 times this week and it's a cabin pretty much. After that we
get all my stuff in our car, we drive a Jeep Compass and we drove to
Plymouth. Steve might know Brother Timm, I will get his first name but
he was in Okinawa, Japan at the same time Steve was I think and that's
when the missionaries found Brother Timm, and Steve might know those
missionaries too. I'll get there names. We get to Plymouth and meet the
Sister missionaries and they take me and introduce me to Bob and Bonnie.
Bob has been investigating the church for 40 YEARS, he knows it's true,
he comes to church as much as a member, he used to be a Penticostal
Preacher. I love seeing the reasons why I'm put in Plymouth. Bob said
something to me like "There's a reason you're here." Me and him click
and we're already good friends. After that we went to Arby's ate dinner,
got groceries at Walmart and then we went to Sister Sherwood. Sister
Sherwood is a member but she's struggling, she is poor, smokes and is
trying to take care of her family. We uplifted her and then we went back
to Bremen. I get to our apartment for the first time, it smells like
smoke bad, good thing I have vitamins, and we unpacked and went to bed.
Wednesday - On Wednesday
we woke up, I got to take a shower, I hadn't been able to take on in a
few days because I was so busy, and then we went and saw some
potentials. None of them answered so we started tracting. The first
person we talked to and got a return appointment for was Joe. We talked
to him in his front yard, gave him a Plan of Salvation pamphlet and he
was in a hurry so we let him go. After that we met and Older guy but he
was in a rush out his door, he said we could come back, so that's good.
We're off to a pretty good start. After that we met a lady, she was very
nice, she told us to come back and talk to her son. He son was in the
Army and now he's starting to find God. That was a very good referral.
After that we talked to a 16 year old kid in his front yard, we can't
teach anyone under 18 so we set up a time to come back and talk to him
and his family, so we have some good return appointments set up. This
next one was a miracle, we knock on the door, this guy about 60 years
old answers, long gray hair and beard, and we talk for a minute and then
he says "Ok normally I get talking and I never stop, but this time I
just want to listen so you guys teach me" So i'm thinking perfect. We
walk in and there's another person living there, she's a 28 year old
girl that's black. So i'm trying to figure out if there married or
what's going on. It turns out they're living together to get through
hard times. We start teaching him about the Restoration, and he agrees
with most of it. He believes in the foolish belief of the Trinity. I
don't know how someone in their right mind can believe in that but
anyways he goes on to tell us this girl living there used to be a member
of our church. She came out and started talking to us, I cleared up all
the confusion she had, she sincerely thought our church was racist and
didn't like blacks coming in but I told her we love everyone coming. We
answered questions she had about if we believe in a hell and we asked
her if she'd come to church. She said yes and was excited so that was
good. She told me she needs to be re-baptized, but she says she wasn't
ex-communicated. So she has to meet with our Branch President so he can
figure everything out. Then we went to the apartment above Bruce and
Allena's and met a woman named Nicole and talked to her about the Gospel
of Jesus Christ and set up a time to come back. That night we slept
over at Culver's house and played Book of Mormon war, it's a card game,
it's fun.
Thursday - On Thursday we woke up and went to a less active members coloring class at the library. It was fun haha we go there to make his
class seem bigger and we talk to the older ladies and build friendships.
One of the ladies there has family in Utah so we talked about that. We
went out and worked and then in the evening we went to a Hair Salon that
a less active girl named Tori works at. She will cut our hair for free
so that's sweet. That night we went to a Chinese buffet that a member
took us too so that was fun. She is a convert to the church and the only
member in her family. There are so many converts here and i love
hearing there stories of how they converted. After that we went back to
Culver and spent the night again.
Friday - On friday
morning we woke up and went to Culver Academy and worked out. Look up
Culver Academy it's sweet! It's a Top 10 in the nation school, it's a
military school and it's like the ones you see in the movies. So it was
fun working out there. After that we went back to Culver's, I cooked
some sausage and we got ready and went to South Bend for Zone meeting!
It was sweet. I got to drive past Notre Dame! Today we are going to go
tour it and walk around I'm so excited, don't worry I'll take pics :) We
had a good zone meeting and then after that we went to a cajun
restaraunt called Yats and that was fun. After that we came back to
Bremen and worked, we went and saw a guy named Craig, he's an actor, he
is in the movie Sandcastles, it's coming out in February and he was in a
show on Hallmark on Sunday
and he's been in a couple others. OK LISTEN TO THIS, that night we went
to dinner at the Reed's. The Reed's our members but they're converts,
we got talking and GUESS WHO CONVERTED THEM. Brandon Cleverly. Landon
Cleverly's brother. Brandon Cleverly lived in Indianapolis and so did
the Reed's, right next door to each other. Brother Reed said "Ya he had
roots out of Bountiful" and I said "I know a Landon Cleverly, he was my
home teacher" and Sister Reed said "Yep that's him, that's his brother" I
told them how much we loved him. It's a small world!!!
Saturday - On Saturday we woke up got ready and met at the church at 10:30.
We all met there, I met President Kelly, I like him a lot, he's the
branch president and we went on splits with the members and went and saw
a lot of members, less actives, and part member families. I went with
Brother Richhart and it was a lot of fun. Another crazy thing, the first
person we go see, her name is Sister Sam, she has family that live in
North Salt Lake! Do you know David Sam? He is a federal judge and he
lives by Uchtdorf. After that we went on a nice Indiana country drive
way far out to go see people. Our area is huge we cover 5 counties. We
saw some Ice Fishers, he took me to Subway and then at 4 o clock we met
back at the church. After that me and Elder Skoville went and followed
up with some people, we went and saw Joe and it went well, we taught him
Restoration, He read our Plan of Salvation pamphlet and he said he
would continue to read the pamphlets and the Book of Mormon. That's all
we can ask and then the spirit catches them :) we had a good long day
seeing people and then I went straight to bed.
On Sunday we woke up, got ready, went to church, we had to be at the church by 8:30
for a meeting, I met 2 kids, they both go to Culver Academy and one of
them lives in Bountiful, right up the street from the Firestation. And
the other one went to Brighton and we know all the same people. He
played little league football at Brighton a year older then me and I
watched him play Woods Cross and he was the one that fumbled the ball
and ended up losing the game because of that I remember distinctively
watching that game so that was fun to talk about. We were at the church
from 8:30
to 4 and it was a good day! After church, we went and saw a potential
and taught her husband Restoration and gave him a Book of Mormon. That
night we went to dinner at Sister Padilla's. She had all 6 of the
missionaries, us, Culver, and the Sisters and Sister Padilla is a Saint.
She is a convert, the missionaries knocked on her door on New Years
Eve, in 2014 and she told me this story last night, they gave her a Book
of Mormon, she wasn't going to read it, she set it on the table and sat
down and started watching t.v. She kept looking down at the Book of
Mormon and finally she picked it up and read it. She read it all night
till 2 in the morning, she woke her husband up and said "This is the
truth, this is the truth, I know it is" and she was baptized 2 months later.
She has went through a lot after she was baptized and she stayed a
strong member and everyone looks up to her. It was a great week!:) I
love you guys so much! There is a package on the way!
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