April 22, 2013

Dear Momma,

Well, this week has been fun! The Bass' (The senior couple here in Oxford) are leaving tomorrow! D: But the good thing is that we get a lot of their stuff! We got a bbq, and a new microwave, and tons of food! It's great! But other than that nothing much has happened. We got in a huge (kinda) bible bash with some campus crusaders. I say 'kinda' because Elder Moore and I just kinda sat there. They did ALL the talking. We would say something every 5 or 10 minutes. There was 4 of them, and they just argued with themselves!!! It was hilarious! We did absolutely nothing. But it was still really annoying. It was just a giant waste of our time, and they wouldn't let us out. I tried leaving 4 or 5 times. Eventually I just stood up and walked out... Hopefully they weren't offended! (But a note for up and coming missionaries, don't get in bible bashes, nobody benefits from those, it just drives the spirit away and you just wasted the Lord's time!) So ya, that was everything exciting this last week! 

Love, 

-Elder Lemmon

P.S. Elder Moore is making me wear hair gel :P

The Bass,s before they left with Elder Lemmon and Elder Moore
not sure who the other two elders are.

April 15, 2013

Momma!!!!

I'm doing great! The work is chugging along, and that depends on what you mean by interesting!! Because you can't go one day in Oxford without something kinda strange happening! Dad got a new truck?????????????????????????????????????????????????????? So I leave and all of the sudden Dad goes off the deep end and buys snowmobiles, trucks, almost gets a dog, finishes his own small house, and who knows what else? Is he really saving that much money while I'm out here? Haha, just kidding, I know he just misses me so much that he has to buy stuff to compensate!

So ya, I can't believe Garrett is getting married! And yes I think Karli told me that Todd got married. So ya, I can't think of anything super interesting that has happened over the week.. Frogs are still evil! I love you!

-Elder W.R. Lemmon

April 8, 2013

Momma!

Well, I don't have much to say this week! We had General Conference, Elder Moore and I watched it at the branch building. That was super great, the Bass' watched it with us, that was fun too. We have had a lot of fun this week, Pat hasn't been doing the best. She actually went blind for about 3 days, and she still can't read anything... So we copied off a Book of Mormon onto CD so she can listen to it! Hopefully she has been doing that! Wallie is doing good too. He actually gave us two referrals yesterday! Hopefully we can start teaching them soon. He also wants us to meet with his dad... Which wouldn't be bad, besides the fact that his dad is a Pentecostal preacher!! So we will see how that goes. So ya, thats pretty much the last week! We learned a lot from General Conference! I loved every single talk! And I didn't fall asleep during any of them! (Besides one... But close enough right?) I took a whole bunch of notes, and hopefully I will be able to copy them off and send them next week!

So ya, I love it out here! Today is our first 'non-suit' season day! We aren't wearing suits! Its awesome! I love it! So ya, I love all of you!!!!!!

Operation Sheepish

Elder Lemmon April 8, 2013

• -Elder W.R. Lemmon

April 1, 2013

Momma!

Easter was great! We had a whole bunch of good lessons and a great dinner! The Jones family fed us last night. It was super fun! We used the lesson that you sent us and it went great!! :D I'm definately going to keep it for next year! Moab sounds fun, wish I could be there! And tell Warren that I didn't even get an easter basket! (Not including the package!) 

So our investigators are doing well. We haven't been able to meet with Pat for the last couple days because of spring break. And Wallie is quitting smoking today! We are going to visit him tonight and see how he is doing. Hopefully he has been reading the Book of Mormon too. Well, theres not much else to tell besides the fact that we went to  Jungle Jims last monday. It was AWESOME! I will send pictures today (Not all of them, I took a lot of pictures...). I LOVE ALL OF YOU!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Remember, the Book of Mormon is the most powerful and correct book in the history of the earth! It contains the fullness of Christ's everlasting Gospel, and 'a man will draw nearer to God by living it's precepts, than by any other book'! It is a beautifully simple, plain book! Never underestimate the power of it!

-Elder W.R. Lemmon

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