So ya, today Emerson and Bennett ditched me for a zone conference, so for the next day and a half I'm with Elders Seguin, Underwood, Wuthrige and Ortiz (the former two being my "comps") and they are definitely more laid back in terms of "doing" stuff on P-day.
So tomorrow is the first day of December and it feels kinda weird, time moves so slow it feels like I should be further in my mission by now, but oh well. It hasn't started snowing yet (well not a decent snow) but I'm dreaming of a green Christmas (yeah I know, keep dreaming)
I'm getting headaches more frequently, its sort of annoying, I'm sick of cigarette smoke in every house. I've noticed that 80% of the people have word of wisdom issues. It's always a difficult thing to overcome and people don't like being told to quit.
Tell people to write to me!!
Monday, November 30, 2009
P-day after Thanksgiving
Emerson and Bennett are heading over to Rapid City for a zone conference and I'm being passed off to another set of missionaries for a day or two.
You know I never thought that I would quite miss college as much as this, we e-mail in a college library and it makes me reminicient of the old Lied Library back in town (while this one is still like 1/30th the size or more) it has 4 rows of books and about 15 computers (Gillette High Quality right there) but anyway, twas an
average week full of some people being cool and some people being completely retarded, we got a new good investigator who was bascially asking me by the end of the lesson "so... you think there could be a prophet today?" *slap in face* ummm..... yeah! yeah there is in fact meet my friend Tommy Monson... so yeah shes good and we got one who used to be good give us a phone message that basically said "thanks for coming all the time, never come again" um... what???
oh well such is the life of a missionary, everyone hates you or thinks too highly of you... there is such a small grey area... tons of people hate you and well you know how that goes and others are like ooooh! Missionaries! here we give you food now! oh we love you so much!
No real snow up here yet, a little bit here and there but nothing of depth, which is good...doesn't mean its not cold, stupid wind likes to randomly increase 10-20 mph in about 30 seconds, its like great... now I'm walking into the wind and its 10 degrees with wind chill... just what I wanted to tract in.
I about puked on Thanksgiving (oooh story time) actually not really story time... I lied (the paranthesis are a lie?) I had originally 4 dinners planned which on its own would have ended in disaster, but we managed to
fandangle it down to 2 dinners which isn't all bad I suppose... after the first dinner (which we had like 3 ppl forcing more food on us) we went to a Hawaiian family where the dad is 6'8" and a very large man, (he deadlifts 650 lbs O.o) and yeah... he served up our plates and it was huge... and after I barely
managed to get that down he handed us all 1/4 of a whole pumpkin pie slice piled about 4 inches high with Cool Whip... I about died.... I almost threw up so many times but after letting each bite settle for a minute or two I barely managed to push another one down and then wanted to throw up again for a minute or two. We
had another guy come later in the meal and served himself up a plate and I almost threw up just watching him eat.
You know I never thought that I would quite miss college as much as this, we e-mail in a college library and it makes me reminicient of the old Lied Library back in town (while this one is still like 1/30th the size or more) it has 4 rows of books and about 15 computers (Gillette High Quality right there) but anyway, twas an
average week full of some people being cool and some people being completely retarded, we got a new good investigator who was bascially asking me by the end of the lesson "so... you think there could be a prophet today?" *slap in face* ummm..... yeah! yeah there is in fact meet my friend Tommy Monson... so yeah shes good and we got one who used to be good give us a phone message that basically said "thanks for coming all the time, never come again" um... what???
oh well such is the life of a missionary, everyone hates you or thinks too highly of you... there is such a small grey area... tons of people hate you and well you know how that goes and others are like ooooh! Missionaries! here we give you food now! oh we love you so much!
No real snow up here yet, a little bit here and there but nothing of depth, which is good...doesn't mean its not cold, stupid wind likes to randomly increase 10-20 mph in about 30 seconds, its like great... now I'm walking into the wind and its 10 degrees with wind chill... just what I wanted to tract in.
I about puked on Thanksgiving (oooh story time) actually not really story time... I lied (the paranthesis are a lie?) I had originally 4 dinners planned which on its own would have ended in disaster, but we managed to
fandangle it down to 2 dinners which isn't all bad I suppose... after the first dinner (which we had like 3 ppl forcing more food on us) we went to a Hawaiian family where the dad is 6'8" and a very large man, (he deadlifts 650 lbs O.o) and yeah... he served up our plates and it was huge... and after I barely
managed to get that down he handed us all 1/4 of a whole pumpkin pie slice piled about 4 inches high with Cool Whip... I about died.... I almost threw up so many times but after letting each bite settle for a minute or two I barely managed to push another one down and then wanted to throw up again for a minute or two. We
had another guy come later in the meal and served himself up a plate and I almost threw up just watching him eat.
Monday, November 23, 2009
What are you doing out on that mission?
Questions: The boys and me would like actual day by day account of what your doing?
Who you met, Did you get into any homes?
What is the zone leaders doing with you?
What do they do most of their day?
How big is your Zone area?
What type of food you guys eating?
How many elders in your Zone and mission?
Monday: Pday, (today) went to do e-mails, room full, went shopping bought stuff
came back doing e-mails
Tuesday: (last week's) District meeting in the morning, saw Shila a good
investigator, but her family thinks shes nuts for believing in Jesus and Joseph,
ran around with pamphlettes ate at the Dobsons (I dont remember what probably
Lasagna) went to see Cridels for first time (for me) very awkward family, very
quiet and therefore harder to teach.
Wednesday: studied all morning comp studied Spanish so I just overread the
Bible, had an orange for lunch cause I was dumb and bought bread and nothing to
go on it, so also had a slice of bread (dont get me wrong, its good bread) saw
Kirie (oh boy) she was a good progressing investigator, however she's lesbian
and not about to change that, saw the Lazurus family, parents are both inactive,
but want to go to the temple for the first time. Saw Don, Marie, and Doug all of
which smoked multiple cigarettes while we were there and drank beer, I think I
still smell like smoke after that almost a week later. Went to see Kat an
investigator w/ a baptism date that were going to have to push back because
saturday she had 2 ciggarettes had dinner at Kat's (Enchaladas, wow its not
lazagna) then we saw Scott Boydkin, who to this day I really dont remember for
some reason.
Thursday: Planned for the next week in the morning (after study) where we talked
about our investigators and what they need and stuff. Had lunch (same as
yesterday) then went out to deliver pamphlettes for 5 and a half hours... I
never want to see another pamphlette, we had dinner at the Wettons (fajitas)
they live forever and a day out of town, we split up into two teaching groups
with a member and ran around to peoples houses, me and Bennett went to see Denny
Tester, a hilarious family with all sorts of humor and jokes to go around, and
we went to see Tom a curious guy, not always sure what his hangups are about the
church I think he thinks the Book of Mormon is just a copy of the bible.
Friday: Studied, went to a meeting, worked at the Soup Kitchen for a couple
hours making grilled cheese and turkey samwiches and a really good salad and
other random stuffs. Went to see Crowell, a very... how do I put it Opinionated
person who is definitly not afraid to tell you. he would rather you kick in his
teeth then have to go to a mormon church with all those happy smiley people and
their screaming children even though he is mormon. more pamphlettes more splits,
saw the Shermans and the Freemans both of which I can't think of atm.
Saturday: Had breakfast with the Stake President, more studying and spanish
studying, Went out with Kat again to a Chinese buffet and of course ate too
much, pamphlettes, went to see Tanya and Wyona a mother and daughter that live
together with the daughters twin 1 year olds who really just don't have the
drive to do what we ask, they care their just a little too lazy. Went to a
Samoan family named the Taos to have Beef and Rice (this is another one of those
too much food days) then went to see the Cridels again and had a decent lesson.
Sunday: Gave a talk in the College Branch about the importance of Modern day
prophets and how they testify of christ and the book of mormon, and got asked to
give another talk next sunday, was also asked to give a spiritual thought in the
night branch and was asked to act in the Gospel Doctrine class. We also went to
see Shila's family again and watched Joseph Smith: The Prophet of the
Restoration with them. We also saw Don for the last time, he's moving to
Chicago, he was a really good investigator who thought the church made perfect
sence, but wasn't quite ready to be baptised. We saw somone who was being
teached before named Tony, who bascially, nicely said "I'm not interested" but
we talked with him anyway.
Lots of people, yes
Teaching me... and going to zone leader meetings...
Teach, pamphlette, soon to be tract, and talk to pplz...
Nothern Wyoming
Lazagna, Burrito forms, rice w/ meat
22, ~130~ or something around that
Now that that's taken care of and you know all the little details that really
you didn't need to know but now you do, preaty much all my time is spent...
sooooooo~ bye
Who you met, Did you get into any homes?
What is the zone leaders doing with you?
What do they do most of their day?
How big is your Zone area?
What type of food you guys eating?
How many elders in your Zone and mission?
Monday: Pday, (today) went to do e-mails, room full, went shopping bought stuff
came back doing e-mails
Tuesday: (last week's) District meeting in the morning, saw Shila a good
investigator, but her family thinks shes nuts for believing in Jesus and Joseph,
ran around with pamphlettes ate at the Dobsons (I dont remember what probably
Lasagna) went to see Cridels for first time (for me) very awkward family, very
quiet and therefore harder to teach.
Wednesday: studied all morning comp studied Spanish so I just overread the
Bible, had an orange for lunch cause I was dumb and bought bread and nothing to
go on it, so also had a slice of bread (dont get me wrong, its good bread) saw
Kirie (oh boy) she was a good progressing investigator, however she's lesbian
and not about to change that, saw the Lazurus family, parents are both inactive,
but want to go to the temple for the first time. Saw Don, Marie, and Doug all of
which smoked multiple cigarettes while we were there and drank beer, I think I
still smell like smoke after that almost a week later. Went to see Kat an
investigator w/ a baptism date that were going to have to push back because
saturday she had 2 ciggarettes had dinner at Kat's (Enchaladas, wow its not
lazagna) then we saw Scott Boydkin, who to this day I really dont remember for
some reason.
Thursday: Planned for the next week in the morning (after study) where we talked
about our investigators and what they need and stuff. Had lunch (same as
yesterday) then went out to deliver pamphlettes for 5 and a half hours... I
never want to see another pamphlette, we had dinner at the Wettons (fajitas)
they live forever and a day out of town, we split up into two teaching groups
with a member and ran around to peoples houses, me and Bennett went to see Denny
Tester, a hilarious family with all sorts of humor and jokes to go around, and
we went to see Tom a curious guy, not always sure what his hangups are about the
church I think he thinks the Book of Mormon is just a copy of the bible.
Friday: Studied, went to a meeting, worked at the Soup Kitchen for a couple
hours making grilled cheese and turkey samwiches and a really good salad and
other random stuffs. Went to see Crowell, a very... how do I put it Opinionated
person who is definitly not afraid to tell you. he would rather you kick in his
teeth then have to go to a mormon church with all those happy smiley people and
their screaming children even though he is mormon. more pamphlettes more splits,
saw the Shermans and the Freemans both of which I can't think of atm.
Saturday: Had breakfast with the Stake President, more studying and spanish
studying, Went out with Kat again to a Chinese buffet and of course ate too
much, pamphlettes, went to see Tanya and Wyona a mother and daughter that live
together with the daughters twin 1 year olds who really just don't have the
drive to do what we ask, they care their just a little too lazy. Went to a
Samoan family named the Taos to have Beef and Rice (this is another one of those
too much food days) then went to see the Cridels again and had a decent lesson.
Sunday: Gave a talk in the College Branch about the importance of Modern day
prophets and how they testify of christ and the book of mormon, and got asked to
give another talk next sunday, was also asked to give a spiritual thought in the
night branch and was asked to act in the Gospel Doctrine class. We also went to
see Shila's family again and watched Joseph Smith: The Prophet of the
Restoration with them. We also saw Don for the last time, he's moving to
Chicago, he was a really good investigator who thought the church made perfect
sence, but wasn't quite ready to be baptised. We saw somone who was being
teached before named Tony, who bascially, nicely said "I'm not interested" but
we talked with him anyway.
Lots of people, yes
Teaching me... and going to zone leader meetings...
Teach, pamphlette, soon to be tract, and talk to pplz...
Nothern Wyoming
Lazagna, Burrito forms, rice w/ meat
22, ~130~ or something around that
Now that that's taken care of and you know all the little details that really
you didn't need to know but now you do, preaty much all my time is spent...
sooooooo~ bye
Tuesday, November 17, 2009
Saturday, November 14, 2009
First Assignment
Elder Kissner got his first assignment this week. He arrived in the Mission home on Monday, and was in transit by Tuesday. Sometime Wednesday he should have arrived at Gillette Wyoming. It is a medium sized town. He has 2 zone leaders for training companions. Elder Bennett from Mesa Arizona, and Elder Emerson from Roy, Utah. Elder Bennett could probably give him advice on acclimating to the weather. Sis. Layton said that there are a lot of missionaries from warmer areas, like Arizona and Nevada. He is very fortunate to get 2 zone leaders for his first companions. He's the only one who gets to have 2. It may be because Elder Wolfe had his apendix removed the day before they were to leave the MTC. I'm sure he will catch up to them soon.
Gillette is on the North East side of Wyoming, and north-east of Casper. The high today was 56. That's not bad at all. I'm sure he will do great and soon love the cold weather.
Gillette is on the North East side of Wyoming, and north-east of Casper. The high today was 56. That's not bad at all. I'm sure he will do great and soon love the cold weather.
Friday, November 6, 2009
Thursday, Nov. 5, 2009
Doing fine, it's a little overwhelming of course here in the mtc, having to
learn all of these lessons and spend 24/6 working on them (we try to avoid
working on them on prep day) and yes you can say I'm learning lots of stuff...
its crazy all the little nuances that go into teaching, but I've become a hecka
better teacher on like all instances not just these missionary lessons so
yeah... I leave for South Dakota on monday, flight leaves at 10:30, were
spending the first day at our mission president's home then being sent away to
our locations, Its funny my comp Elder Wolfe, who lives in Orem, sent his e-mail last week and got
a package the same day with a message from his mom in it saying "that was a
terrible e-mail" so hes got same day delivery lol So yeah alls well in Zion I
suppose! enjoy the real world!
learn all of these lessons and spend 24/6 working on them (we try to avoid
working on them on prep day) and yes you can say I'm learning lots of stuff...
its crazy all the little nuances that go into teaching, but I've become a hecka
better teacher on like all instances not just these missionary lessons so
yeah... I leave for South Dakota on monday, flight leaves at 10:30, were
spending the first day at our mission president's home then being sent away to
our locations, Its funny my comp Elder Wolfe, who lives in Orem, sent his e-mail last week and got
a package the same day with a message from his mom in it saying "that was a
terrible e-mail" so hes got same day delivery lol So yeah alls well in Zion I
suppose! enjoy the real world!
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