My zone. Zone development meeting.
Dance Festival Redlands Parking Crew. I parked hundreds of cars!
Our new mission president.Thursday, July 31, 2008
Pictures. July 31, 2008
My zone. Zone development meeting. Dance Festival Redlands Parking Crew. I parked hundreds of cars! Our new mission president.
Monday, July 28, 2008
July 27, 2008
Family,
Wow that was a lot of blog on Philmont. Looks like everything is going well over there.
This week definitely wasn't as quiet. On Friday and Saturday there was a huge dance festival. All the missionaries were asked to help. I helped park cars, and got to keep the parking sign and the parking tag they gave me. There were 12 stakes at the Dance Festival. It was held at the University of Redlands. Redlands is the zone right next to ours. I saw some people from Riverside there, and lots of the youth were in the show. There were even missionaries from some of the neighboring missions like San Bernadino. That was big, and definitely not quiet.
Efrian had his baptismal interview and there are a few things still holding him back. Occasionally he drinks and he said he would stop but hasn't yet. Also even though he says he knows the Book of Mormon is true he says he doesn't have a testimony of Joseph Smith. So we are still working with him.
Marcos and Susanna were moving down the street on Sunday so they didn't come to church. Last week when we came over for our appointment we were a little late and Susanna was reading the Book of Mormon. Shes in second Nephi. Marcos is the one we need to work with more now. They're close to- just not quite there yet.
Although the Pachecos came to church. Gracelia the Mom wants to be baptised, and hopefully the rest of the family will follow suit.
The other day while tracting my eyes were hurting earlier that day so I had taken out my contacts. I knocked on the door and someone walked forward but was still behind a screen door. In the light it looked like the person had some kind of beard. So I said "Hello, how it going today, sir". Then she answered "good", but with an angry look on her face.
Then I just sort of muttered "oh sorry". That threw me off so much I just had Elder Crump finish talking to her. That's the last time I'll tract without contacts.
And later there was a guy who had a No Soliciting sign. We knocked on his door and he said "Can't you read the sign". I said "We're not solicitors". Then he said he felt bad for us because we couldn't read. I thought it was pretty funny that a man would say something ridiculous like that to us.
So things are still hopping.
The Elder James Meiners
Wow that was a lot of blog on Philmont. Looks like everything is going well over there.
This week definitely wasn't as quiet. On Friday and Saturday there was a huge dance festival. All the missionaries were asked to help. I helped park cars, and got to keep the parking sign and the parking tag they gave me. There were 12 stakes at the Dance Festival. It was held at the University of Redlands. Redlands is the zone right next to ours. I saw some people from Riverside there, and lots of the youth were in the show. There were even missionaries from some of the neighboring missions like San Bernadino. That was big, and definitely not quiet.
Efrian had his baptismal interview and there are a few things still holding him back. Occasionally he drinks and he said he would stop but hasn't yet. Also even though he says he knows the Book of Mormon is true he says he doesn't have a testimony of Joseph Smith. So we are still working with him.
Marcos and Susanna were moving down the street on Sunday so they didn't come to church. Last week when we came over for our appointment we were a little late and Susanna was reading the Book of Mormon. Shes in second Nephi. Marcos is the one we need to work with more now. They're close to- just not quite there yet.
Although the Pachecos came to church. Gracelia the Mom wants to be baptised, and hopefully the rest of the family will follow suit.
The other day while tracting my eyes were hurting earlier that day so I had taken out my contacts. I knocked on the door and someone walked forward but was still behind a screen door. In the light it looked like the person had some kind of beard. So I said "Hello, how it going today, sir". Then she answered "good", but with an angry look on her face.
Then I just sort of muttered "oh sorry". That threw me off so much I just had Elder Crump finish talking to her. That's the last time I'll tract without contacts.
And later there was a guy who had a No Soliciting sign. We knocked on his door and he said "Can't you read the sign". I said "We're not solicitors". Then he said he felt bad for us because we couldn't read. I thought it was pretty funny that a man would say something ridiculous like that to us.
So things are still hopping.
The Elder James Meiners
Thursday, July 17, 2008
Pictures Received July 17, 2008
What funny looking guys! That is our apartment. Elder Crump always looks like that, although sometime I do have my eyes opened.
Right before fireworks where we saw them 7-4-08. Yucaiga, Riverside, California
I guess you could say I've gotten pretty good. (Written on notebook paper--his picture cut and pasted.)July 14, 2008
Today is the first day of the transfer. Elder Crump and I are still together, but everybody else in the Zone changed companions. We have 4 people in our apartment. Elder Hall is leaving and Elder Fogle is coming in.
Marcos and Susanna still aren't married so we'll propably push back their baptism a little. It was scheduled for the 20th but we'll probably have to push it back on account of them not being married. They are still a little cautious. She says she's a little too young to get married. As counsel we said "You should get married". (They have a kid and are going to have another, and they like each other) So we thought that was what we were supposed to tell them.
One of our investigators Efrain wants to get baptised next Sunday. Slowly but surely he has been making all the changes necessary. He has been taught for about 8 months so hes' ready. Our other investigators are coming slowly but surely. We had 8 at church so we're happy.
Hope You all had fun on your trip.
The Elder James Meiners
Marcos and Susanna still aren't married so we'll propably push back their baptism a little. It was scheduled for the 20th but we'll probably have to push it back on account of them not being married. They are still a little cautious. She says she's a little too young to get married. As counsel we said "You should get married". (They have a kid and are going to have another, and they like each other) So we thought that was what we were supposed to tell them.
One of our investigators Efrain wants to get baptised next Sunday. Slowly but surely he has been making all the changes necessary. He has been taught for about 8 months so hes' ready. Our other investigators are coming slowly but surely. We had 8 at church so we're happy.
Hope You all had fun on your trip.
The Elder James Meiners
Monday, July 7, 2008
July 7, 2008
Family,
Did you know that in two days I will have been out for six months? Not too much out of the ordinary. We set our record for most tracting contacts last week. A tracting contact is when you talk to someone at the door. Last week we had 123.
Its still warm. I don't mind it. I figure it's that much energy less that I have to produce. I figure I should conserve my energy for all the walking and talking.
We watched the fire works for the fourth of July. We got to go with a member and we sat on top of their car.
I also officially met the president and his family this week. They have 12 kids and 4 are with them. They have a returned missionary a son about to go on a mission and twins. (girls fraternal) Even though they're not identical they seem the same to me. As they were leaving the one gave me a dangly handshake, so when I shook the hand I cracked her wrist. I thought to myself 'oops, oh well'. And then the same thing happened with the other twin too. I almost did a double take to see if it was the same girl, but it was her twin sister. Once again 'oops, oh well.'
We don't happen to have a somewhat recent family picture, do we? I might want a small wallet one just in case anyone asks me about my family.
Hope you had fun in Mexico, or New Mexico.
The ELDER JAMES MEINERS
Did you know that in two days I will have been out for six months? Not too much out of the ordinary. We set our record for most tracting contacts last week. A tracting contact is when you talk to someone at the door. Last week we had 123.
Its still warm. I don't mind it. I figure it's that much energy less that I have to produce. I figure I should conserve my energy for all the walking and talking.
We watched the fire works for the fourth of July. We got to go with a member and we sat on top of their car.
I also officially met the president and his family this week. They have 12 kids and 4 are with them. They have a returned missionary a son about to go on a mission and twins. (girls fraternal) Even though they're not identical they seem the same to me. As they were leaving the one gave me a dangly handshake, so when I shook the hand I cracked her wrist. I thought to myself 'oops, oh well'. And then the same thing happened with the other twin too. I almost did a double take to see if it was the same girl, but it was her twin sister. Once again 'oops, oh well.'
We don't happen to have a somewhat recent family picture, do we? I might want a small wallet one just in case anyone asks me about my family.
Hope you had fun in Mexico, or New Mexico.
The ELDER JAMES MEINERS
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