March 9, 2015

So this week didn't have soooo much stuff happen so I’ll just go through the highlights because I don't have much time!!! 

We had exchanges this week they were super fun! We had some good lessons and it was nice to just change for a little bit. I learned a lot from Elder Baer, he's going home next week...Sad :(, but yeah I saw how he talks and contacts people on the street and I’m going to try and implement what I saw and learned. On the exchange we had dinner with the Iglesias Family. It was super bomb. We had carne asada and frijoles, and arroz, y salsa. It was the best dinner I have had in a while but that’s because we haven't had very many dinners lately :/ But it’s all good! 

We had a super good lesson with Hno. Medina who isn't a member but his family all is. We found out that really the reason he isn't baptized is because he felt pressured by everyone. They kept putting him on date and it kind of freaked him out and he focused more on the baptismal date then on what was going on at church, or in the lessons. So we are just going to teach him and not bring up any dates and when he is ready he'll tell us.

We had ward conference. That was pretty fun. The youth and primary sang and we all got little flowers haha. It was good. Moises Larios just got home from his mission so he bore his testimony. Elder Twitchell and Elder Baer had their Departing Devotional on Sunday to so Workman and I got put together and went and did some work. That night we went to the church for Moises' Home Coming Fireside. It was pretty good. There was Pan Dulce (Sweet Bread, or Candy Bread) after and it was interesting to hear about missions in Spain. I don't want a home coming devotional thing though. So don't do it! I won’t go! haha. 

That was about the week. Other than some district pictures because we had our last district meeting >.< Well for this district. We'll see what happens in a week haha.

I know this church is True. I know we are guided by a living day Prophet who receives direction from God to guide us and help us be happy! General Conference is coming up in a month. I invite everyone to prepare themselves to receive personal revelation. Read the scriptures, pray, think about questions you have and concerns. They can be answered if you are prepared to get the answers.

I'll talk to yall next week!

-Elder Zachary Gore!

March 2, 2015

 Hey mom.

So Monday.

On Monday we had a Noche De Hogar (Family Home Evening) at Bishops house. The Sarabias came and they had a lot of fun! We made some brownies and we had a lot of fun there. Bishop did a lesson about the Word of Wisdom. He did a really good job. Other than that it was pouring when we left the library so we got soaked and decided to just ride through all the puddles. 

Tuesday.

We had the Youth Missionary Activity. We had all the youth come and everyone got a call letter and name tag. We put them in companionship's and had some little workshops and it was almost like we were in the MTC. Elder Twitchell and I had a work shop on how to do door approaches. We had the young men in with us first and they didn't take any of it seriously and just joked through the entire role plays but the YW did awesome! It surprised us how well they did. We had Renevato on the other side of the door for them and he was super impressed to. They young women had a lot of fun doing it even though a few didn't get into the house they learned a lot. 

Wednesday.

We did some service with Hno. Martinez. Tore apart some couches. It was good to get out and do some service again. After we got done we went to In-n-Out. It was super good. Probably the best fast food burger I've ever had in my life!! They need to make some of those back home. 

Friday.

Walked all day. Had almost no lessons. I might lose some weight if we keep it up like this haha. We found 3 new investigators though. They are 3 brothers, their mom is a less active member named Maritza, and the boys are Randy(13), Joshua(11) and Kevin(9). They want to get baptized we just haven't been able to because they don’t have permission from their dad. But we are working on it. 

Saturday.

So we rode down to Bloomington to try a Referral. We find the house, knock the door, but she's not interested. We decided to knock some of her neighbors and while we are doing that we get a call from our ward mission leader to come to his house for the Correlation Meeting. So we ride all the way up there and have a short meeting and then they pull out a cake because its Elder Twitchells birthday!

So we had some cake and then we left.

Sunday was more or less the same as usual. Noelia, Maggy, and Charlie came to church. Had a good time. We have a family home evening with them tonight at the Toriz home. Hopefully everything goes good!

Gotta Run!

Have a great week!

-Elder Zachary Gore

February 23, 2015

Hey Mom! Sooooo

Yes it is raining, at least I think it is. It was on the verge of doing so when we got to the library.  We didn't see any of the dark clouds until about an hour ago.

So from Wednesday of last week.

I went to the dentist again. Doc Bough looked at my mouth and said everything looked good. The pain has basically gone away except in the lower right side of my mouth it sometimes feel like my teeth are getting ripped out when I eat, but that's starting to go away too. So it's all good. The day was pretty slow after that. We tried to visit a bunch of people but nobody was home. So that day ended rather roughly. :/

Thursday.

We rode down to Bloomington and did some service at a food pantry. We helped unload some trucks. It was fun. Two of the elders from the English ward were there too. (We set up with the food pantry people to do service this week. We are going to clean around the place, weed, pick up trash, and so forth. Should be pretty good.) Afterward the 4 of us went to Panda Express for lunch and then we went home for Weekly Planning. We had an interesting experience where we went to see the Sarabia's and Noelia opened the door and told us to come back later and then we got a text from her saying to not come by for a few days. We were pretty concerned,but they said they'd be at church so we just waited it out.

Friday.

Was kind of interesting. We went down to visit one of our referrals his name is Roberto and we found him and we are talking to him about what we do as missionaries and what-not. While there this other guy walks up and looks at us and tells us this story about how he just found out he might have a 20 year old kid that he's never met and so he is looking at all the 20-ish year old people to see if he can see himself in them.  And then he asked if I knew my dad and so all and all it was a very interesting conversation. But then we went down to Bloomington and while we were down there a lady pulled over and asked if we wanted water. Just out of the blue! It was Awesome!! We had dinner with the Medina family that night. It was soooooooo good!!!! Pollo, Frijoles, Papas, with some Tortillas hechas en casa(home-made) Sooooo good!!!

Saturday.

Everything fell through that morning so we just walked and tried to talk to people but nobody was out. So after walking basically all the daylong at 4 we went to our correlation. Elder Twitchell got picked up and went to a baptism so I stayed with the other elders for about 3 hours that night. It was fun we taught some lessons and just enjoyed the coolness of being in a trio!

Domingo.

Sunday was good. We decided to go early and we did our studies outside the church. The Sarabia family hadn't shown up and we called them before church but they hadn't answered. But during the opening hymn of sacrament meeting they called us and said they needed a ride. We had no idea who to ask and then be both had the thought of Hno. Espindola, so we asked him and he went and they came and it was awesome!!! It rained all day after church, no thunder storms, I miss those so much, just rain. We got soaked that night it was really rough. haha. But fun at the same time. and yeah that's been the week.

Katie! Keep being helpful!!

Jena! DO YOUR HOMEWORK!!!

Yay!!! Dad isn't dying!!!

Emily!! Mission!!

Mom! Good luck with school!

I hope everyone has a good week! I love yall mucho! Best family anyone could ask for!!! 

Hasta Luego!

-Elder Zachary Gore

February 17, 2015

Hey mom! So this week was pretty good!

So on Monday we had a lesson with the Sarabia Family. We went over the Restoration and it went good. We also played soccer and it was super fun.

Wednesday.

We got up and borrowed the sisters car and went to San B. (He had all 4 wisdom teeth removed) I went in, paid, and then they led me to a little room. I sat in the chair they did some adjustments to it so it fit me. Then they put a brace on my arm and stuck an I.V. in and I feel asleep. Like it was really fast from me getting there to getting put under. It was crazy!!! I woke up and I wasn't really groggy or anything. I had to be helped to the car but after that I could walk around on my own and stuff. They told me when I left that we should go get a burger or something solid in me. So we went to In-N-Out and I got a burger. It was super hard to eat because my lower lip was numb still but I was able to do it. 

The rest of the day was pretty chill. I just sort of slept and at some point during the day we did a little split.  Elder Twitchell and Elder Workmen went out to take some brownies to the Sarabia family and Elder Baer hung out with me. We ate some ice-cream and talked a bit. And that was about it for that day.

Thursday.

We had weekly planning and that's about it. After that we went out and tried to visit people but nobody was home, and nobody was outside. One nice thing was that an English member stopped us and told us where they lived if we needed water or food or anything so that was really nice. 

 

This picture was taken at Zone Conference 2 days after his extraction.

Friday.

So Zone Conference was cool. We talked a lot about leaving commitments. And that we need to Find out their desires, then promise them the blessings that they need, state our authority as representatives and servants of Jesus Christ, and then do Follow-Up to help them do the work. Among other things but I don't have time to write them all.

Sunday.

We super good. Noelia, Magdelena, and Charlie came to church!! They loved it! and Noelia is signing up for youth conference!!! That night all of our appointments after 7 fell through and so we decided to walk and we were heading for a potentials house and we walked past a less active members home who had just gotten knee surgery.  He walked out of his house just as we walked past and we were able to help him move his garbage cans to the street. Then that night when we got to our potentials house they let us in and we taught about Jesus Christ and they loved it and we have an appointment set up for this Saturday!

That's the week! I know this church is true! I know we will be the most happy if we follow the commandments of God and keep our covenants. I hope everyone has a great week!

Dad! Stop being Sick!

Jena! Stop Procrastinating!!

Katie! Do Something Interesting!

Kitchen looks sweet!!!

Bye!!!