Jared Howell Mission

Hey everyone, This was a pretty solid week to end off the transfer, talked to a lot of good people and surprisingly enough, no crazy people. We did get to meet with a new family this week, we've been trying to set up a time to meet with them for 2 weeks, but Satan kept throwing them curveballs. But we were finally able to sit down and have a great talk. We got to know them and what they are expecting from us, and we had just enough time to briefly introduce the Book of Mormon then we had to leave so we could get home on time. And it is only because of the extra strength of the Spirit that we were able to get home on time, we had about 4 miles to bike and that should've taken us almost 25 minutes but we managed to do it in 18, screaming into the backyard at 9:28. Then we met with Alex and Mona on Thursday with Sister Gish, who sent us over, and we had an intensely spiritual lesson on the Restoration of the Gospel, Mona told us that she knew the Book of Mormon was true w...

Hey Everybody, So this week has been a bit of a whirlwind, but in a good way. We had to jump from lesson to lesson, which is a good thing in missionary work because that means that there are a lot of people who are growing their faith in Christ.   Let's start with Kalil. He was a former who is dating a less active. We were out with Nephi and we decided to go visit that family. Well Kalil happened to be there too, so we had a good talk with all of them and set up an appointment to visit with Kalil and Ambur (his Girlfriend) the next day. So Monday night we went over and started talking to them, trying to figure out where they were at, and their questions kept pointing us to the Restoration of the Gospel, so that's what we talked about. We were going to meet with them again on Wednesday, but he ended up getting called into his recruiting office so we rescheduled for Friday. We met on Friday, this time without Ambur, and he explained how he and Ambur got together. We jok...

Hey Everyone, This week feels like it blazed by, but then I talk to Elder Merkley and he reminds me that what I think was a full week was, in reality, just the last couple days. So Tuesday, we were riding our bikes, when we both took a curve in the sidewalk too fast and we both bumped our tires on the railroad tracks. It was a little jarring, but we both stayed on the bikes and kept riding. We got to the top of the next hill and Elder Merkley stopped. When I caught up to him, I realized that his tire had gone flat. We were riding to meet a member anyway, so we locked up the bikes and had him pick us up. We went to a lesson with a part member family, it was a bit odd, but it ended up going pretty well. Then we went to a dinner with another member family, and visited a couple other people, all with this member, and I forgot to mention that he was one of the priests in the ward. So it was really good to have him out with us. Wednesday we had an extended Zone Conference with E...