March 25,2013

Momma!!!

Well, just like you, not much has changed since Wednesday... We are still working, and we are still trying our best! Wait! I though of something interesting that happened on  Saturday! We were weekly planning (because we forgot to do that on Friday....) and someone knocked on our door. When I answered the door, guess who was standing there! One of our former investigators! She was going around knocking on doors and inviting people to come to her church next Sunday! It was really kinda awkward! Mainly for two reasons. First, the church she goes to is really, really, anti-mormon... And when we taught her, she was super anti-mormon too and all she wanted to do was bible bash. (But she is a super cool girl, she invited us to come over for dinner whenever we were hungry!) The people here are so funny! They will tell us that they don't want us to talk about religion or teach them, but we can come over whenever we want to hang out! We have had that like 5 or 6 times already! It's pretty funny! So ya, that was our interesting thing last week. I love you!!!!

-Elder Wesly Lemmon

March 20, 2013

Momma!!!

These last few weeks/days have been crazy!!!!! I haven't had a full P-day in 3 or 4 weeks!!! But I think that the sacrifice has brought lots of blessings!! We have had such a great/fantastic last couple days!! We have gotten a new investigator every day for the past 5 days and we finally got our first progressing investigator on Monday!!!!! Pat is such a sweet lady!! She has definitely strengthened my testimony! She is so ready for the Gospel!!! She already believes in most of what we believe! Hopefully all will go well with her! Oh, and Transfers is tomorrow if you haven't heard yet, so don't send any mail until you know that I'm staying in Oxford! Or send it through the mission office. Both work! Oh!! Elder Clarke (Seth) finally got his visa!! I got a letter from him on Saturday, he should be in Brazil by now! Yay!! And I'm so glad that Elder Allred is finally going to/already in the MTC!! He is going to have such a great time there! I can't wait for him to get out to the mission field, he will be such a good missionary. So ya, these last couple weeks have been pretty crazy, but they have been good!! I love all of you!!!!!

-Elder Lemmon

March 11, 2013

Momma!!!

Ya, I'm pretty sure I sent Dad an e-mail back! Thats super cool that Tyler is going to Paris, and I'm glad nobody got hurt at Ijump!! Grandma e-mailed me about Grandpas surgery and I'm super glad that he is feeling better!

So ya, this last week, and this next week, have and will be super crazy!!! Last week our P-day got moved to thursday. Our Temple day was Thursday also, so we only got 1 official hour of P-day. We had exchanges with the ZLs, and we were both in Hamilton for one and a half days. Today is P-day, but we had a party with all of the Cincinatti zones and the two Dayton zones. We had the party because last year the OCM got 500 baptisms and Pres. promised a party if the mission got 500 baptisms! That was super cool because I got to see some of my MTC district, I've missed them! Also Elder Porter of the Seventy is touring the mission this Thursday and Friday. So on Friday we get to go listen to him. I'm pretty excited about that. Also on Thursday, we are organizing a small Q&A class at the library. Hopefully people will see the flyers and come! Sadly we planned it bad and all of the students are going to be gone for spring break... But hopefully some of the townies will show up!

So ya, that was last week, and most of our plans for this week! It's pretty exciting. Oh! I got to speak at Sacrament meeting on Sunday, that wasn't too bad. Ever since I spoke at Stake Conference, speaking hasn't been too bad! Especially since our Branch has only like... 20-30 people! It was a lot of fun! I spoke on Service. So I kinda half challenged the Branch members to 'serve' their neighbors by helping them receive the Gospel! Hopefully it will make a difference. We have only been getting 1 or 2 member referrals a week, and most of those from only one family... So ya.... We do a lot of knocking on doors. But at least I'm learning how to do it! And I am getting a lot better at it! It's actually not that hard, you just got to know how to do it. So ya, the Temple was super awesome, as always! You should send me some family names so that next time I go, I can do one of our Family names.

So ya, I love all of you!!!! I love the letters I am getting! They always make my day! Oh! Can you tell the Calvin's that I love their letters and will try and send a letter to them as soon as I can? I have so many letters to write to people it's CRAZY! So ya, since this is going on a blog or something like that, Everybody who has sent me a letter and hasn't received one back yet, don't feel bad! It's not because I don't want to write you back, but I only get a couple hours on P-day to take care of stuff like that! And those of you who haven't sent me a letter yet, shame on you!! Just kidding, but I would appreciate more because I love getting letters!

With Love,

-Elder Wesly Lemmon

March 7, 2013

Dear Mother,

So first of all, I just want you to know that our P-Day was today, not monday this week. I don't know if you know that or not. The reason being is because we had our Temple day today. That was super awesome, the Columbus Temple is absolutely beautiful, if not a little on the small side. I was able to do a session for some Sister's family, that was pretty cool!

So this last week and a half, I have done a lot of stuff! But most of it was tracting and contacting, and that just doesn't work well at all here. But we did start talking to a Less Active family, and hopefully we will have them reactivated in just a little while. The main reason they are less active is because the wife has some type of stomoch/esophagus disease that has prevented them from coming. But we are also working with this families granddaughter. She is 9 and wants to get baptized. But her parents got offended a while ago and now they won't let her be baptized. We haven't even been able to talk to them yet, so hopefully sometime within the next week or so we will get in and be able to talk to them.

So ya, thats the most exciting thing that has happened this week besides the Temple! Well, I guess if you include 'Green Beer Day' then thats been pretty exciting..... That is actually today.. It's been really.... fun...... ya...... We aren't getting much finding done tonight I'm assuming.... So ya, thats Oxford, OH for you. It's super cool!

 

-Elder Lemmon