Mom,
I am doing wonderful. I keep to a pretty good budget and my needs are take care of. I can spend about 30 dollars a week for food or other personal items. I have found ways to save money. Example, we are to have the car washed once a week. Instead of paying 7 dollars for the cheapest wash, I bought car soap and now wash the car 28 times on 7 dollars! We Wash the car Monday mornings for exercise. So we save roughly 28 dollars a month by washing the car ourselves. :)
Lets see, was the kick off for the 40 day fast. We found someone new to teach. Before Sunday we had five less-active families tell us that they should be at church. We were very excited. None of them came to church but we are going to try and help them come by going and seeing them before church and or calling them before hand. I talked with another missionary, he said that they had 10 less-active at church! That was exciting to hear.
Hmm… we have done a lot of tracting and looking for the Elect. Several doors have opened. With the increase of faith from the members (fasting) we are seeing an increase in people to teach, appointments set up, people answering the phone, and families telling us that they will come to church. The Savior healed and blessed people according to their faith. If they had enough faith, they were healed. There even was a man that had to ask the Savior to “Help though my unbelief” when his faith was lacking. The Members have increased their faith, the Lord has increased the blessings and the work is rolling forward.
Love Elder Durfee
Monday, October 18, 2010
Monday, October 11, 2010
10-11-10
Dear Family,
Hello and greetings, I am doing well. We had transfers today. Elder Regnier and I will both be staying here. We lost a good number of elders in the district. It is hard to see them go. The Lord needs them elsewere.
For fun and entertainment, I cleaned the Kitchen and mop/swept the floors today. It was a dirty job. The sink was piled high with them. I was glad to have it done.
We made contact with Lorence and sister Lindsay. They are rather dificult to contact but sometimes you get lucky. In the middle of the messege we were leaving they picked up the phone and set up an appointment with us. We had no idea what to share with them but the the spirit helped us talk about scripture study and where we want to be in a year. Lorence said he wants to be baptized and sister Lindsy even said that she wants to be a visiting teacher. Now we need to help the Visiting teachers make contact.
Lets see, we road our bikes this last week and got stuck in a rain storm. We rode a good mile before we found refuge in our ward mission leaders home. His wife was great and made us hot chocolate. My left shoe was completely soaked. It was a drenching experience.
This week we started the 40 day fast in our ward. We should eat good. We will be eating dinner with the familes breaking their fast. Family it was a great week. Thankyou for your prayers. That was cool about Elder Phelps and Grandma. We have a member in our ward going to the MTC next week. Brant might see him. His name is Jeff Stien. Could you tell Brant congrats for me? Thanks.
Elder Durfee
PS no we don't grow winter gardens :)
Hello and greetings, I am doing well. We had transfers today. Elder Regnier and I will both be staying here. We lost a good number of elders in the district. It is hard to see them go. The Lord needs them elsewere.
For fun and entertainment, I cleaned the Kitchen and mop/swept the floors today. It was a dirty job. The sink was piled high with them. I was glad to have it done.
We made contact with Lorence and sister Lindsay. They are rather dificult to contact but sometimes you get lucky. In the middle of the messege we were leaving they picked up the phone and set up an appointment with us. We had no idea what to share with them but the the spirit helped us talk about scripture study and where we want to be in a year. Lorence said he wants to be baptized and sister Lindsy even said that she wants to be a visiting teacher. Now we need to help the Visiting teachers make contact.
Lets see, we road our bikes this last week and got stuck in a rain storm. We rode a good mile before we found refuge in our ward mission leaders home. His wife was great and made us hot chocolate. My left shoe was completely soaked. It was a drenching experience.
This week we started the 40 day fast in our ward. We should eat good. We will be eating dinner with the familes breaking their fast. Family it was a great week. Thankyou for your prayers. That was cool about Elder Phelps and Grandma. We have a member in our ward going to the MTC next week. Brant might see him. His name is Jeff Stien. Could you tell Brant congrats for me? Thanks.
Elder Durfee
PS no we don't grow winter gardens :)
Monday, October 4, 2010
10-04-10
Dear Family,
Another week has come and gone. The days seem to fly by. This last week we made contact with our former stake president’s none-member son. Our bishop asked us to go by and invite them to look into the church. We invited and they said no.
We had a cool experience where the teachers of the 10-11 year old girls had a Missionary week. We were invited to come and answer questions about what the MTC and how great it is to be a missionary. The teachers arranged a room as if they were on an air plane. Elder Regnier and I pushed a cart with drinks and pretzels to give to the girls. The girls then “got off the plane” and entered the MTC. We spoke for a minute about how being a missionary means representing the savior. It was a fun experience to see how happy and excited they were to be missionaries.
We also had the second three day training form the mission president. It was exciting. This is about all I have. I love you,
Elder Durfee
Another week has come and gone. The days seem to fly by. This last week we made contact with our former stake president’s none-member son. Our bishop asked us to go by and invite them to look into the church. We invited and they said no.
We had a cool experience where the teachers of the 10-11 year old girls had a Missionary week. We were invited to come and answer questions about what the MTC and how great it is to be a missionary. The teachers arranged a room as if they were on an air plane. Elder Regnier and I pushed a cart with drinks and pretzels to give to the girls. The girls then “got off the plane” and entered the MTC. We spoke for a minute about how being a missionary means representing the savior. It was a fun experience to see how happy and excited they were to be missionaries.
We also had the second three day training form the mission president. It was exciting. This is about all I have. I love you,
Elder Durfee
Subscribe to:
Posts (Atom)
