"mormons in the civil war... all right."

hey all,

 short email this week due to short week.  it's kind of funny that as a student you look forward to the short weeks, but as a missionary the short weeks are just boring.  

Thursday: transfers, shopping and unpacking.

Friday: went out to the food pantry and did service.  tried to see a few people and were able to see "Tall" Tim Moore, a guy that we invited to learn a couple of weeks ago and taught a really good restoration.

Saturday: panic sets in at about noon as first the first councilor in the branch presidency and then the branch president call us to tell us that we are speaking in sacrament meeting the next day ...... that was interesting.  we went out and visited the Raid on Ravenswood, a civil war reenactment and that is where the quote in the subject came from.  the first person that we saw said that as he puffed on a cigar....

elder Goold and I get along really well and are having a blast.  

that is all for this week, besides the fact that it rained cats and dogs yesterday....

*panicked screams echo from background* must be transfers.....I want my miumj

hey all,

this one will probably be the longest one that you will get for a while, transfer week and all

Wednesday: we were able to get in and talk with the Martins ( the family that was referred week before last) and had an amazing lesson.  She is dead set on baptism and the he is living the word of wisdom (more on that later) we had gone in and taught the restoration to them both and then answered some questions about the Word of Wisdom and committed them both to live it.  before that we went and taught Joanne, the woman that we I.T.L.ed at the end of last week, and she had a lot of good questions that we were able to answer and tie back to the Plan of Salvation.

Thursday: exchanges, we got to see Joyce and had a great lesson with her before going and trying a few people out in ravenswood.

Friday: meetings all day.

Saturday: we had another amazing lesson with Joanne, and were able to teach a restoration with a review on the plan of salvation.  it was amazing!  then we went back and taught Sister Martin again, and this is what she told us about the few days in between meetings, her husband set out to "prove us wrong" and decided to follow through with the commitment on the word of wisdom.  it ended up helping prove us right.  she told us that she had been able to see multiple changes in her husband as he has lived the word of wisdom.  and she had taught her mom straight out of Moroni 8 on infant Baptism! it was all I could do not to spin cartwheels all the way around the apartment when we got back.

the rest of the past few days was filled with elder grover's goodbyes and packing.  that means that your's truly is staying in ripley for one more transfer! 

see y'all next week,

 Elder Strunk

I want my mummy!

These don't have captions- must not have had something witty to say about them?

blessings of diligence

Hey all,

this week was great.  we had so many great things happen and we were able to see many blessings from parking the car and walking to places that are close.

Tuesday: we got in to see mike! we had a good lesson on faith and read Alma 32 with him, he asked a lot of good questions and we were able to help him progress a little bit further on the path.  on the way back from that appointment a woman asked us if we were selling something (which was a first for me, usually it is GO AWAY JEHOVA"S WITNESS) we told her no and ended up taking for a good few minutes and set up an appointment for this week.

Wednesday:  not much eventful happened and we ended up going to help get a couch for an active member that we ended up taking out after an hour because it had cat hair all over it and she was allergic....... so yeah.

thursday, we went out to ravenswood and were able to catch a few people before going to see Jeremy and Ashley, a part member couple, and reading the book of mormon with them.  it ended really well and he has really started to open up.

Friday: Zone meeting and Exchanges.  An interesting thing happened this week though, we didn't have to resort to tracting! it was awesome.  

Saturday: slow day nothing much happened...... sorry

Weather update: We are currently getting snow .........................

see y'all next week 

Elder Strunk

"you got the keys?" "........"

hey all,

this week was fairly dry (work wise) due to torrential rains and rising rivers in the hollers.  

Tuesday:  rain, rain , and more rain, we went and set up some appointments with less actives and those nearer to the apartment.

Wednesday:  more rain.  we went and did some knocking around our apartment complex.  only other eventful thing that happened was the fact that we managed to lock ourselves out of our apartment.  A nice neighbor was kind enough to card us into our apartment after noticing our plight.  

Thursday: we ha district meeting and then proceeded to try to see Mike, who promptly canceled on us and rescheduled for saturday.......

Friday: nothing more than knocking 

Saturday: we went to try and see Mike who rescheduled again for tuesday, however as we walked back to our apartment we ended up Inviting To Learning a girl who was out running.  

see y'all next week

Elder Strunk

Jeremiah 4:19-20

hey all, 

this week has been a high and a low.  a high in the fact that we found a place that hasn't been bombed by the sisters that used to be in the area and a low because of complications in bodily functions.

tuesday: I was feeling a little bit strange but we still went out and worked and managed to get a few things done.  nobody was home, due to the fact that until two days ago the weather was in the 70s and sunny.  

wednesday:  we had meetings all day and I ended up with food poisoning from something or another that I had eaten to tuesday........... so needless to say (see scripture for an accurate description of how I felt)  I was miserable.  

thursday: still recovering from food poisoning.  we were able to go and see the Moores a part member family in ravenswood that evening, she is from utah and is still getting used to West Virginia-isms.  we had a good lesson on the isaiah chapter that finishes out first nephi.  

Friday: felt confident enough to go knocking and we explored the couple of towns in Ohio that are in our area.  

that is basically it so hope this finds you all well.

See y'all next week

Elder Strunk

My first attempt at making a potato casserole.

P-day

AY AY AY can't believe it's almost march! (HA PUN!)

hey all, 

the last few days have been fairly slow due to the cancellation of lessons, but we shall not get discouraged!

Tuesday: we went over to try Frank and were actually able to meet with him! It was so cool.  we went over some of the church beliefs and also the beliefs that he has.  it was a good lesson.

wednesday: we went over to the Shamblin's house and had lunch and shared the talk from last general conference about prayer they are so awesome. he has MS so he is unable to come to church but it is always fun to come and see them.

thursday: exchange luck came through again!  nothing went right and we ended up doing a lot of knocking😥

friday: we had district meeting and then went and made attempts to go and see the people of ravenswood.  we were able to talk to a few people but that is about it.  

weather uptdate: (i've decided to do this since I seem to get questions) the Temperature has leveled out into the sixties.  and the clouds are intermittent .  it's interesting.

see y'all next week

Elder Strunk

I wish that the weather would make up its mind!

hey all,

short and to the point this week due to shortness of period between emails.  

thursday: we did a lot of trying and were able to get in with Mike (after six weeks of trying) and had a really good lesson on the gospel of Jesus Christ interspersed with the plan of salvation.

friday: ended up dropping in on a few people and setting up several return appointments (this next week is fairly packed)

Saturday: we were able to see the Adkins family and had a good lesson with them om the plans that the lord has for everyone and the fact that due to faith we can hope for a better tomorrow.  

other than that it was just a bunch of set-ups and other things of that nature.  the weeks are starting to look up .

See y'all next week 

Elder strunk

as to the weather- it goes from seventies to thirties in two days! it is weird!