6-1-15
Hello, I only have about 10 minutes of emailing time this week because we are having a "Summer" Christmas party for the mission in just a little bit. I'm not sure how to arrange the bike thing so that you can pay for it online. I will probably pack the bike this weekend in a box that I got and then take it in Monday morning. Sorry, I can't really tell you much about my week right now. I will when I get back. I will have a really short emailing block next Monday as well so include any last things that you need to let me know. Thanks! Love you all!
Love,
Elder A. Whaley
Monday, June 1, 2015
Pushing Hard to the End!
5-28-15
Happy Birthday Mom!!
Sorry, I forgot to tell you all this last week, but I wasn't able to email on Monday because we had a temple trip today! So, they just moved our P-day to Thursday as part of the trip. It was so amazing to be able to go to the temple again after so long. Elder Pond and I got to go with a group of other missionaries that are going to be headed home with us soon. We woke up at 3:30 AM in order to be at the temple to do a session at 8 a.m. I can't believe how much has slipped my mind since the last time I have been. I'm excited to go a lot when I get back.
I got a bike box today and will probably end up shipping the bike Monday morning before we leave to the mission home. I heard that there is a website called shipbikes.com and it makes shipping bikes through FedEx cheaper. Maybe you could check into that and see if that is real or not an dif it would be cheaper that way or just sticking with Premier. Please let me know by this upcoming Monday.
We didn't get in a whole lot of trouble for the apartment, but Elder Reynolds ended up getting moved to another area with the Zone Leaders because I think that President Cusick is going to have him be a Zone Leader this upcoming transfer. So now it is just Elder Pond and I working in Riverview. It has been so hard to stay focused, but we are doing our best to keep pushing ourselves hard to the end. I have so many mixed feelings between the excitement of being home and the sadness that I am going to be leaving the mission soon. I'm doing my best to make the most of it. Love you!
Love,
Elder A. Whaley
Happy Birthday Mom!!
Sorry, I forgot to tell you all this last week, but I wasn't able to email on Monday because we had a temple trip today! So, they just moved our P-day to Thursday as part of the trip. It was so amazing to be able to go to the temple again after so long. Elder Pond and I got to go with a group of other missionaries that are going to be headed home with us soon. We woke up at 3:30 AM in order to be at the temple to do a session at 8 a.m. I can't believe how much has slipped my mind since the last time I have been. I'm excited to go a lot when I get back.
I got a bike box today and will probably end up shipping the bike Monday morning before we leave to the mission home. I heard that there is a website called shipbikes.com and it makes shipping bikes through FedEx cheaper. Maybe you could check into that and see if that is real or not an dif it would be cheaper that way or just sticking with Premier. Please let me know by this upcoming Monday.
We didn't get in a whole lot of trouble for the apartment, but Elder Reynolds ended up getting moved to another area with the Zone Leaders because I think that President Cusick is going to have him be a Zone Leader this upcoming transfer. So now it is just Elder Pond and I working in Riverview. It has been so hard to stay focused, but we are doing our best to keep pushing ourselves hard to the end. I have so many mixed feelings between the excitement of being home and the sadness that I am going to be leaving the mission soon. I'm doing my best to make the most of it. Love you!
Love,
Elder A. Whaley
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| Temple Visit |
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| Orlando Temple |
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| Orlando Temple |
Getting ready to Come Home!
5-18-15
I'm sorry that I forgot to send you the lesson. I have it all in my notebook, but I forgot it this week. I will do my best to remember next week and get that to you. I have just felt so busy with working in the area and having to work on some things to prepare to go home. Our mission President is having us do a Post MTC training where we have to outline our goals in life and do some other things, so I have been focusing on that a lot lately. We actually just did a little devotional on the Book of Mormon last night. The comment that I made was that the Book of Mormon is physical evidence of god's love for us, his children. I think that that is a very central point and all other blessings simply tie back to it.
Sorry, but I only have a few minutes left. We have been cleaning our apartment for the last little while and we are going to go fishing with an investigator in a bit, so I will sum everything up really quick.
We set a baptismal date for June 7th with Alan's friend this last week. We gave him a copy of the Book of Mormon and he has already read to 2 Nephi 11 in just one day. Yesterday we got in trouble because our apartment was kind of a big mess and we had an inspection from someone in the mission presidency. We usually clean everything up Mondays on P-day, but they decided to do the inspection on Sunday. We will have a Zone Conference tomorrow, so we will see if President Cusick says anything to us about it. But as of right now, everything is spic and span.
I hope that you all have a good week and that you all are safe.
Love,
Elder A. Whaley
I'm sorry that I forgot to send you the lesson. I have it all in my notebook, but I forgot it this week. I will do my best to remember next week and get that to you. I have just felt so busy with working in the area and having to work on some things to prepare to go home. Our mission President is having us do a Post MTC training where we have to outline our goals in life and do some other things, so I have been focusing on that a lot lately. We actually just did a little devotional on the Book of Mormon last night. The comment that I made was that the Book of Mormon is physical evidence of god's love for us, his children. I think that that is a very central point and all other blessings simply tie back to it.
Sorry, but I only have a few minutes left. We have been cleaning our apartment for the last little while and we are going to go fishing with an investigator in a bit, so I will sum everything up really quick.
We set a baptismal date for June 7th with Alan's friend this last week. We gave him a copy of the Book of Mormon and he has already read to 2 Nephi 11 in just one day. Yesterday we got in trouble because our apartment was kind of a big mess and we had an inspection from someone in the mission presidency. We usually clean everything up Mondays on P-day, but they decided to do the inspection on Sunday. We will have a Zone Conference tomorrow, so we will see if President Cusick says anything to us about it. But as of right now, everything is spic and span.
I hope that you all have a good week and that you all are safe.
Love,
Elder A. Whaley
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| Zone Conference inspections! Elder Reynolds, Whaley, and Pond |
Fantastic Week! A lot of Blessings!
5-4-15
Well, this last week was fantastic! We had some great weather throughout the week and we saw a lot of blessings and miracles in the work. For some reason, there has been almost no humidity in the last 4 or so days and it has made biking and traveling around so much nicer and bearable. We did not run into a lot of people on the streets to talk to, but we were still able to get a lot of work done. We didn't have any issues with our bikes this week and that helped out a lot.
This last Saturday we were invited to go with a member family to their son's baseball game to support him and meet some of their friends who are not members of the church. It was the first game that I have been to in over a year on my mission and it was a lot of fun. After the game we went over to the member's home for brunch and had crepes. They were so good! We got to know the family better while we were there and I found out that one of their children is going to be going to BYUI this coming Fall for school. After brunch, we sat down and watched "Joseph Smith, The Prophet of the Restoration" with their nonmember friends. You could definitely feel the Spirit during the movie and we had a great discussion following it.
On Saturday evening, we ran into a dog that was like the dog on the movie "The Sandlot". It was absolutely huge and had a deep bark! We were trying to contact a less-active member of the church, but we didn't really get much further than the gate. Too bad I didn't take a picture of it.
Sunday was the baptism for Alan, and everything worked out great. We almost made it to the service late because we were stranded at a birthday party at a park for one of the members and we were waiting for our ride to the baptism. We managed to make it there about 5 minutes before, though, and everything went very smoothly. One of Alan's friends did the talk on baptism and I gave the talk on the Gift of the Holy Ghost. Elder Pond was the one who baptized Alan and he almost did it backwards with his left hand raised to the square. I think he was a little tired that day, so he wasn't thinking completely clear. Haha. We corrected him, though, and it was a great experience for Alan. Right after the baptism was performed, we talked to Alan's nonmember friend that he invited to the service, Cory, and asked him what he thought about it and he said that he wanted to get baptized, as well. He said that he loved the way he felt as he watched Alan being baptized. So, hopefully, we can start to teach him, as well, and possibly the whole family!
This last week has been really great and I am looking forward for this next week. I hope that all goes well for you this next week and that you make the most of it.
Love,
Elder A. Whaley
Well, this last week was fantastic! We had some great weather throughout the week and we saw a lot of blessings and miracles in the work. For some reason, there has been almost no humidity in the last 4 or so days and it has made biking and traveling around so much nicer and bearable. We did not run into a lot of people on the streets to talk to, but we were still able to get a lot of work done. We didn't have any issues with our bikes this week and that helped out a lot.
This last Saturday we were invited to go with a member family to their son's baseball game to support him and meet some of their friends who are not members of the church. It was the first game that I have been to in over a year on my mission and it was a lot of fun. After the game we went over to the member's home for brunch and had crepes. They were so good! We got to know the family better while we were there and I found out that one of their children is going to be going to BYUI this coming Fall for school. After brunch, we sat down and watched "Joseph Smith, The Prophet of the Restoration" with their nonmember friends. You could definitely feel the Spirit during the movie and we had a great discussion following it.
On Saturday evening, we ran into a dog that was like the dog on the movie "The Sandlot". It was absolutely huge and had a deep bark! We were trying to contact a less-active member of the church, but we didn't really get much further than the gate. Too bad I didn't take a picture of it.
Sunday was the baptism for Alan, and everything worked out great. We almost made it to the service late because we were stranded at a birthday party at a park for one of the members and we were waiting for our ride to the baptism. We managed to make it there about 5 minutes before, though, and everything went very smoothly. One of Alan's friends did the talk on baptism and I gave the talk on the Gift of the Holy Ghost. Elder Pond was the one who baptized Alan and he almost did it backwards with his left hand raised to the square. I think he was a little tired that day, so he wasn't thinking completely clear. Haha. We corrected him, though, and it was a great experience for Alan. Right after the baptism was performed, we talked to Alan's nonmember friend that he invited to the service, Cory, and asked him what he thought about it and he said that he wanted to get baptized, as well. He said that he loved the way he felt as he watched Alan being baptized. So, hopefully, we can start to teach him, as well, and possibly the whole family!
This last week has been really great and I am looking forward for this next week. I hope that all goes well for you this next week and that you make the most of it.
Love,
Elder A. Whaley
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| Alan's baptism |
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| Elder Whaley (on the left) and Reynolds raking the mounds/bases to help out! |
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