Dear Family, 28 September 2009
Many of you have sent letters and we so appreciate them. I just tried to put a few things in this letter that would answer some of your questions. We love hearing about the family and have so enjoyed your letters, and the forwarded letters from Alicia. She sounds like she is doing fine work with the spirit, which will bless her with the language. She already loves these people from her and Maddison’s experience a year or so ago.
We work with a set of Elders (Elder Driscoll from Aberdeen, Idaho, Dad, Mom, and Elder Shull from Pennsylvania. Elder Shull has only been a member 3 years.) here on the island. We are the only called missionaries working on the island. There is one ward, called Douglas Ward. The ward has a very strong missionary committee and they will teach with the Elders “as a lesson taught to investigators with a member present” . Dad and I also teach, just like the full time Elders as we are trained and called to do the same. We also work strongly with the ward less active members and have been able to visit every member of the ward since we have been here.
Many of the wards less active are part member families. Some are child of record who never went to church after they were baptized and know very little about the church. So they are much the same as a new convert.
Here is Sain (pronounced Shawn) Malloy just baptized on the 18th of September by the tall Elder Driscoll. She was golden and came unto Christ by a lot of study and the Elders gave her lessons each week. She would write down her answers and present them each time they came to teach. She is the niece of Wilma (from Scotland) who was baptized in A
ugust. Also Wilma’s mother and her older son, both in Scotland were baptized a week ago. So the field is white and the work goes on. We had 30 baptisms in our mission last month.
We have another baptism scheduled on the 26th if we can get all the paper work proper. The way the missionaries teach now using the Preach my Gospel is wonderful. I think I sent some opening approaches that we use here in the EMM mission that I think will be adopted into the training of the missionaries all over the world. They are taken from the PMG and have doubled our baptism in this mission. If you saw them and read through them, they are words that can be used when first approaching someone, while teaching, and while testifying.
The girl on the left is Jie Shan (Jie is pronounced “G”) She lives above us in the apartment and is from China. She has no knowledge of anything spiritual. All the words we use about Christianity or Religion is totally new to her. We have spent some time just helping her understand who God is and Jesus Christ. She doesn’t understand apostles and prophets. She is very intelligent and speaks English very well. She is on the island as a buyer for China. We will continue teaching her and maybe she will come unto Christ.
We are trying to keep up with the college football teams. Even though we don’t have a TV, we do go on and check the scores at the “end of the day” (an English phrase). We are watching BYU, Boise, U of W, USU and maybe a little UofU. Not to interested in Oregon. I’m sure that Dad is looking at more, but that is enough to make me happy. Kind of surprised at BYU’s last game, but we are still early in the season.
We are enjoying the mission and keep very busy. Dad is in his glory!!! He tells me that he doesn’t talk much, but I can tell you that when he is talking scriptures he never stops talking. I keep reminding him that we need to simplify, but too much information is only confusing. That is Dad’s challenge and mine is not saying enough. So I’m sure we some what balance each other.
We do have some family file names we could send if anyone is interested. They will need to have the baptisms to sealing done. I know that we have a few grandchildren turning 12 and these would be wonderful for them to take to the temple and do the baptism as a family. I will for sure send some for Emily, Pierce and Andrew.
We sure love you all. Please keep your letters coming as we love hearing all about home. We pray for you all each and every day and know the Lord hears and answers our prayers in behalf of our families at home.
Love ya, Mom and Dad
Many of you have sent letters and we so appreciate them. I just tried to put a few things in this letter that would answer some of your questions. We love hearing about the family and have so enjoyed your letters, and the forwarded letters from Alicia. She sounds like she is doing fine work with the spirit, which will bless her with the language. She already loves these people from her and Maddison’s experience a year or so ago.
We work with a set of Elders (Elder Driscoll from Aberdeen, Idaho, Dad, Mom, and Elder Shull from Pennsylvania. Elder Shull has only been a member 3 years.) here on the island. We are the only called missionaries working on the island. There is one ward, called Douglas Ward. The ward has a very strong missionary committee and they will teach with the Elders “as a lesson taught to investigators with a member present” . Dad and I also teach, just like the full time Elders as we are trained and called to do the same. We also work strongly with the ward less active members and have been able to visit every member of the ward since we have been here.
Many of the wards less active are part member families. Some are child of record who never went to church after they were baptized and know very little about the church. So they are much the same as a new convert.
Here is Sain (pronounced Shawn) Malloy just baptized on the 18th of September by the tall Elder Driscoll. She was golden and came unto Christ by a lot of study and the Elders gave her lessons each week. She would write down her answers and present them each time they came to teach. She is the niece of Wilma (from Scotland) who was baptized in A
ugust. Also Wilma’s mother and her older son, both in Scotland were baptized a week ago. So the field is white and the work goes on. We had 30 baptisms in our mission last month.We have another baptism scheduled on the 26th if we can get all the paper work proper. The way the missionaries teach now using the Preach my Gospel is wonderful. I think I sent some opening approaches that we use here in the EMM mission that I think will be adopted into the training of the missionaries all over the world. They are taken from the PMG and have doubled our baptism in this mission. If you saw them and read through them, they are words that can be used when first approaching someone, while teaching, and while testifying.
The girl on the left is Jie Shan (Jie is pronounced “G”) She lives above us in the apartment and is from China. She has no knowledge of anything spiritual. All the words we use about Christianity or Religion is totally new to her. We have spent some time just helping her understand who God is and Jesus Christ. She doesn’t understand apostles and prophets. She is very intelligent and speaks English very well. She is on the island as a buyer for China. We will continue teaching her and maybe she will come unto Christ.
We are trying to keep up with the college football teams. Even though we don’t have a TV, we do go on and check the scores at the “end of the day” (an English phrase). We are watching BYU, Boise, U of W, USU and maybe a little UofU. Not to interested in Oregon. I’m sure that Dad is looking at more, but that is enough to make me happy. Kind of surprised at BYU’s last game, but we are still early in the season.
We are enjoying the mission and keep very busy. Dad is in his glory!!! He tells me that he doesn’t talk much, but I can tell you that when he is talking scriptures he never stops talking. I keep reminding him that we need to simplify, but too much information is only confusing. That is Dad’s challenge and mine is not saying enough. So I’m sure we some what balance each other.
We do have some family file names we could send if anyone is interested. They will need to have the baptisms to sealing done. I know that we have a few grandchildren turning 12 and these would be wonderful for them to take to the temple and do the baptism as a family. I will for sure send some for Emily, Pierce and Andrew.
We sure love you all. Please keep your letters coming as we love hearing all about home. We pray for you all each and every day and know the Lord hears and answers our prayers in behalf of our families at home.
Love ya, Mom and Dad
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