Letters

Dear Family,

First Happy Birthday Kyler, and I want to thank everyone that has written to me, it is wonderful to hear from you guys. I hope you guys have had an Happy Easter, It has been a very good week this past week, we found 4 new investigators, in an area that we can only find about 1 month, but instead WE FOUND 4. All because of this Easter, I would encourage you if you haven't seen the #Hallelujah video, that you do it is very good and is more spiritual then the last #Becauseofhim which was more inspirational then anything. It is hard to believe that Dean is 3 YEARS old, what happened I thought I still had to wait another 2 years before he could start to grow older.  Soon I will just be the far estranged cousin that they haven't seen in 2 years that is SUPER OLD and smells funny. It was just like yesterday that I was playing the Duh-Wabah game with them, and now when I get back they won't want to play that anymore.

Dear Dad, could you send me my Patriarchal blessing in my birthday package. And I thought of something that could help you prepare us for missions and life, you could have 1 on 1 time with every kid and in that time you study the scriptures together, but focus on the lessons in Preach my gospel, it doesn't need to be long maybe 10 minutes...or longer if you are in a deep spiritual moment. I think that if you do this then we will be more prepared for what life has to throw at us. And this has to be like on your mission when you told the Elders about if they wanted to find success then they had to quit their sinning, now I am not saying your sinning I am saying That you have to do this with the same determination as you had on your mission. And visit the Temple as often as you can as a family

Dear Ambria,

That is awesome that you are doing Track and field, and your Coach is right, daily exercise is necessary for staying in shape for the season. I have found out personally that daily exercise is necessary because we only have ONE mortal body, and if you don't take care of it now, the rest of mortality will stink As a personal example, I fell behind in our daily morning workouts, and I now have 20 lbs that I need to drop (Thank you MTC) because I wouldn't work out, don't learn this the hard way, running with another 20 lbs sucks. Stay in shape and take care of yourself, or you could do as J. Golden Kimbell directs " you want to know the secret to living a long healthy life... get an incurable disease, you'll take better care of yourself."  Now, I am not saying get an incurable disease I am saying BE HEALTHY. I miss you too, and think about you guys often myself.... ugh.. look at that you made me cry :), I need to work on not being so trunkie about home.

Dear Josh,

I have been good, the past week has been an blessing to me and to the families we have visited, its good to hear from you.  Hey have you talked to Tom recently. I wasn't able to find him until he had his grandparent send him my information,

Dear Seth,

THAT IS AWESOME THAT YOU GOT TO BAPTIZE SOMEONE!!!!!! It is different, I haven't baptized someone out here....YET... but I do plan too, hopefully sometime here in the near future. It's wonderful that you are doing sports, I give the same advice to you as I did Ambria. I have found out personally that daily exercise is necessary because we only have ONE mortal body, and if you don't take care of it now the rest of mortality will stink, as a personal example I fell behind in our daily morning workouts, and I now have 20 lbs that I need to drop (Thank you MTC) because I wouldn't work out, don't learn this the hard way, running with another 20 lbs sucks.  Stay in shape and take care of yourself, or you could do as J. Golden Kimbell directs " you want to know the secret to living a long healthy life... get an incurable disease, you'll take better care of yourself" now I am not saying get an incurable disease I am saying BE HEALTHY.  If you find my stuff don't be to torn up about throwing it in the closet or in a tote (NOT totes as in totally but as in a storage container :) and Being an engineer is fun as long as it is something that you enjoy.  Mr. Hall was the same way with me, he would let me in the shop to do things because I was trustworthy, and I agree Big surf is not real Scouting.  If you are picking up Andy for church I would encourage you to KEEP DOING IT. I have tried myself and failed but like missionary work maybe I planted the seed, and you are the one called to collect the harvest, be a example, be light unto the world( Andy), and be that missionary that DAD helps you to be, be that missionary that MOM wants you to be, but be the missionary that the LORD know you are.

Dear Kyler,

HAPPY BIRTHDAY!!!!!!!  I have struggled with coming to know that, I thank you for sending me that It was needed for me to hear, and I will try to follow the rules in EXACT obedience  Thank you for sharing that testimony with me. I met someone that was on your Mission, Jared James and he is a lot like you, and is terribly funny but is now leaving to join the army or Marines.

Dear Abigail,

I hope the Easter you had was like the Lego movie, and "EVERYTHING IS AWESOME" I miss the Pies and rolls that you guys make, I have to try and make them out here and they are mere shadow of what is made at home. I ran into a dog like that out here, it jumped and cleared 3 ft fence and tried to nip at my heels, but once I started to pet it it calmed down and rolled over for me to get its belly the owner didn't like that. We played Volleyball out here once, it was fun, but don't get the Polynesians going because they then think that it then becomes a contact sport.  It is awesome that you got a phone, although it is nice and shiny and not scratched up, don't spend all of your time on it, go out and talk to people face to face, try to use it only in emergencies or when you need to call Family.

Dear Mom,

I hope that the living room is prepped and painted and is beautiful to you, I want you to know that I love you, so much and I thank you for all of the rough times that you were there for me. Oh and if you could send me a whistle called the Dog Dazer or something along those lines (send the slim pocket one if there is one) that would be awesome.

I love you all never doubt it.

Ammon

This next part is to Andy, please give it to him when you pick him up for Church (SETH), and only this Last part not the whole of the letter that I have written.

Dear Andy,

How have you been? I was told that you were going to Church, and I was wondering if you could keep me in the loop of how things are going at home, I didn't get to hear about you or how the Wrestling team was doing..... You remember some of the times when you were paired up with me, I thank you for your patience with me, it was because of you that I had a good time there, you treated me like a brother.  Please continue to be that brother to the team and please be that brother to Seth, I can't be there with him but you can, and a mission is hard and rough and it hurts to be away from your brothers (You are included in that) but you guys are and always will be my brothers. When Seth is cleared from his concussion, try to teach him some wrestling moves, and try not to break him, he won't like it if he has to wait another year to play sports.

 

 From

 Ammon

Not Quitting the Day Job

Dear Family,

  Well the past week has been something of a different experience, I for the first time in my life had to cut my own hair. I will try to send you pictures. I had to buy a razor, IT'S ELECTRIC (said in a song that is not approved by the mission), and a hair clipper kit, it is expensive, we had to leave the zone activity early so that I could cut my hair, if you get the pictures don't laugh, I had no idea what I was doing so I had to eyeball is the whole way. Mom, you should teach Seth how to cut his own hair for his mission... Elder Chamberlain then gave me the basic run down on how to cut ones hair, and I partially fixed it so it would meet mission standards. 

We later went tracting that day and we ran into a family that we get to teach today, they live right across from some members, the mom is 9 weeks pregnant, and they have questions on what we believe and why, we plan to share the PLAN OF SALVATION with them as a place to start. We set up an appointment to go visit them, and they have Eiffel towers EVERYWHERE in their house. They then talked about their mother in law who is "a hard core Christian and puts Mormons to shame," if only she knew what we taught she wouldn't have said that, but we get to teach them on that matter. Elders have told me it was "DEEP", and they commented on my haircut. And we got to meet with Richard again so we read 2 Nephi 3 with him, and we clarified up some points of who was talking and to whom they were talking too (grammar Nazi of a companion). We taught Word of Wisdom to a less active, and I was able to take the lead in the lesson finally because Elder Chamberlain can give the entire lesson by himself if needs be but this time he shoved me under the bus and let me do all of the talking.  The lesson went from an in and out of 45 minutes to a hour and a half, I still need to work on my delivery. 

We started a day by doing service at the Lord's table it's a place the homeless go to get food to eat, instead of us serving drinks like last time, they stuck us back in the kitchen to wash dishes, one of the ladies there wanted to take pictures of us doing the dishes, another lady said that we would make our wives very happy some day (yes, wife points!)  We met up with a less active family and we taught them the gospel as best we could due to the husbands beliefs. We visited more less actives, one we found was a guy that just finished biking cross country from Florida to California and he did it in just under 2 months. We found a potential investigator and setup a return appointment. All right time for embarrassing moments at dinner, at dinner I was a straight up Klutz I was knocking over glasses burning my fingers on pans, and such. Later out tracting I met for the first time on my mission an atheist, who had some interesting views on the world and life in general. We also did service later at squash 4 friends, and we had to leave early to go teach Arnold Tostado the blind guy, the lesson could have been better. 

We went and visited former's and found one, we caught him on the 1 day that he was home and set up a return appointment. We visited another potential and we weren't able to teach her but we did render service and round up her dogs that were out in the street.  We had dinner for Saint Patrick's day at the Raumas. They are a nice family, and they invited Malvuea Thomas to dinner and we on the spot winged a lesson for him, because we were pulled aside and the members told us to don't even bother with them (the members,) just administer to his needs, so the lesson was winged but it was still good, and Malvuea has been meeting with the other missionaries and he shared his story of how the devil is coming after him to get him away from god. We didn't have missionary correlation that day because we were so busy teaching Malvuea.  My week has been nothing but crazy, and one thing that people say out here that bothers me to no end is "cray-cray" just say crazy it's one extra letter. Here come some photos. 

The self-made man of a haircut

YOU IDIOT, YOU TURNED OFF THE FLASHLIGHT

Dear Family,

  Well since last Thursday we spent 2 hours of weekly planning, on changing the "white"board to fit our new layout that we were given by our zone leaders. We visited Reuben, he is the son of a former investigator, he seemed interested and we got a return appointment for Friday of next week. We tracted some more and met a crazy guy that was just messing with us and was trying to pull our chain. We tried a house on Muanoa Loa and the guy said he wasn't in the mood for us to teach him because he said that he would be very rude and may say some offensive things. IT THEN STARTED TO RAIN!!!!!!! We then ran off to Richard an investigator that we found here when I first got here and he is progressing, he is a southern Baptist, who said " I am caught between two churches yours and mine" inside we were like YES!!! The spirit is working on him, now to just get him to get to church with us instead of the southern Baptist church. We then read 1 Nephi 22 and got him into 2 Nephi, and got him a large print Book of Mormon. We then had dinner at subway, don't worry I am eating fresh sandwiches, Sisters Cass and Sephen were there and we taught the cycle of faith (Read Elder Bednar's talk, 'Seek learning by Faith.') We then set up for a funeral for a person in the ward, and visited a less active after that and did How To Begin Teaching with them.

   Saturday, we woke up at 5:30 pm to go get our clothes at the zone leaders house, and to get changed and pick up Elder's Brown and Wedel for the mission conference, Elder Bednar came and was supposed to give a talk to us, but he instead opened it up to a QA session with him. We got to ask questions, express concerns, and I will tell you this NEVER have I felt so rebuked and yet loved at the same time, and wanting more.  He told us not to write a dictation, follow the Holy Ghost and to GET OUT OF THE WAY for the holy ghost to teach. He encouraged us to ALWAYS read our Books of Mormon (sorry, had to change that last bit, not the correct saying(my companion loves the best 2 years.))  He told us a story on why and I quote "YOU IDIOT, YOU TURNED OFF THE FLASHLIGHT", and told us to stop playing as the Mormon culture "Guess What Is In My Head." Elder Bednar then continued and he told us he was prophesying about the church in Africa and then pointed out the only African there (Elder Ogbonna,) not knowing, Elder Ogbonna or any of his background and continued to teach and prophesy.  He then left an Apostolic blessing on us, as he was leaving we were given the opportunity to shake his hand, and I tell you this NOT ONE PERSON DIDN'T SHAKE HIS HAND. So when we went up and shook his hand, I could have died right then and there and would have been fine with it, because I got to shake hands with an apostle of the lord.

   Sunday, we had ward council and we talked about how we as a ward could help us with missionary work. Later in the day, the main thing that we got to teach is Elder Bednar's stories, in particular the Flashlight, little kids love it because they can see it and understand it, and they are willing to actually do it.

I thank you all and hope that you are all blessed, as much as you bless me,

From your son in the field,

Ammon

Temple Tears, Gandalf Style

Dear Family,

  Whoever is praying and fasting for me, thank you I needed it, and I hope you are blessed for your faith.

  We went to the park to play basketball with the new elders in Santa Fe, it was whitewashed. I was so psyched that I forgot my p-day shoes at the apartment and I had to play in my proselyting shoes. It wasn't as fun as playing in my p-day shoes but it was better than cleaning the apartment again. We had dinner at the Noel's at 6 pm but it wasn't served until 7 pm and we didn't get to leave until 8:30 pm, which is something that we are working on, cutting dinners down to 1 hour instead of 2 - 1/2 hours. We then received a text asking if we could help a member move, we then dropped our dirty laundry off with Elder's Low and Infanger. We found Elder Infanger in the Hot Tub, because his back was hurting and he said he got permission from President Hobbs, but that seems kinda out of character for him, but then again I don't know and probably shouldn't jump to conclusions before I weigh all of the evidence. Later in the apartment I received a talk from Elder Chamberlain entitled "Who Cares".

   We had district meeting, and in it I was actually paying attention to what was being said. They were talking about how we should approach studies and how we need to go find people and invite them to church. And our district weekly actual left a lot to be desired only 8 % were making it to church out of our 17. And we set the goal to hit our district standard of excellence. We were told that we make or break the mission in the first 4 hours of your day. We met with a less Active, Bro Hickman, who told us the story of his marriage and how they worked it out, he then told us that as we serve missions that he has seen his sons, and the blessings that they have received that they wouldn't have other wise if they hadn't gone on a mission. He then wished us the best of luck that he could wish for us at that time, it was really needed that day, he then told us that as a member he loves us as people and as missionaries.

   We went and tracted some more and we tracked into a guy named Arnold who has recently gone blind due to a shotgun to his face, he was interested, and told us to come back tomorrow. We then found another Spanish family for the Spanish sister, we have already passed off 3 families to them and this family seemed super solid to us, so fingers crossed. We then went to help the member move... out of a storage unit, we were asking people while tracting if they wanted to come to church (our ward mates used this technique and got 3 potential families from it in 1 day) and we got 1 person who said yes and she said that she liked Mormons but that she was super busy so we would have to catch her whenever we could if we were to teach her. There was a JW pamphlet left on her fence next to our card, she threw away the pamphlet and kept our card (Do people throw our cards away?), we plan to see her in the near future, for dinner. We had breakfast at the members home and we taught about Prayer and Moroni. There was a moth flying around terrorizing the family and I garbed it out of the air in mid flight and they were really amazed by that because I caught it. Later outside I released it and said "watch I'll summon the eagles Gandalf style" we got a good laugh out of it.

  We did service and taught less actives out of Elder Bednars talks.

 We weekly planned and rearranged the study room, we had a lesson with Richard an investigator on the gospel of Jesus Christ and we got a member there and he extended the commitment to come to church but was then promptly rejected because Richard is a southern Baptist. Bro Casino then bought us dinner, when we got back I had 15 minutes to pack for exchanges.

   We tracted, we taught, and we walked. We talked and had a good time.  We shared talks, our opinions, our feelings on Elder Bednar's talks and what we felt from them, and we bore our testimony on them and on what was taught.

Ward Counsel was today and it was great we actually had the auxiliaries interested in who we were teaching and how THEY could help, it was awesome we need more meetings like that. We got Arnold his tapes of the Book of Mormon and in testimony meeting we had 2 investigators (1 was one that had dropped us and only came because he felt loved here instead of the ward he's in at Apple Valley) go up and bear their testimonies and SING over the pulpit, and one didn't want us to teach him so the other missionaries have to teach him now.  Elder Chamberlain said "that it is similar to being dumped by your girlfriend and she goes out with your best friend." We later got dropped by more investigators and we are really tired of it, why don't we do what J. golden Kimbell said " BURN IT ALL UP AND DO BAPTISM FOR THE DEAD" I mean the summer should do most of it for us, but when we would die we would have to do it then, so we procrastinated instead of saved.

   We did service for a member here who served in Holland, and we were shoveling compost, and he commented that he could tell I was dutch because I was able to shovel and dig, he then asked jokingly that if I ever worked on a dyke. 

   We went to the temple here in Redlands, and it was awesome. We got there early so we did initiatories, and there were so many elders there that we had to go do sealing, and it was very emotional.  I am not a crier but I cried, it was touching, and it was hard not to cry. We later went into the Celestial room and I thought I was out of tears but apparently not, I cried some more.

I love you all,

from a servant of the lord,

Elder Van Engelenhoven

Elder Ammon Van Engelenhoven and Elder Chamberlain

After the Temple with Elder Ogbonna

Crap*

Dear Family,

   Life is okay, it is a bit slow, because people here are dropping like flies. Our potential investigator pool has dropped from 20 to 10. So we decided to visit former investigators, and a lot of them are Jehovah Witnesses, and I have a few questions for you dad,

     1) For Jehovah Witnesses, they claim to be the church of god but they are nothing more than a study group.

     2) They claim to be the church of god, if that is so where do they claim their authority to preform ordinances such as baptism

     3) They go out a "Teach" the gospel as "Missionaries" but don't you need to be called of god and given that authority to act in god’s name for the salvation of his children.

 

This past week and a half has been just CRAP* (said in a Scottish accent) because it has been nothing but people dropping us.

 

Thank you dad for filling out my taxes.  I like cookies.  I would like the recipe to your hot chocolate, there are few people that even approach it, but even then it still missing something.  Thank you dad you prepared me in building my testimony, out in the field Satan tries in every which way to break and discourage you, but you have built me up enough that when I become discouraged I can fall back on that testimony that we have built together and continue on in the work.  There has already been a missionary that has come out with me that has gone home, due to being discouraged and which it brought back his depression. Thank you for loving me enough to build me up (see Helaman 5:12). I am living alright within my budget, food is slightly cheaper here but not by much.  I would say the most difficult thing is dealing with people that say no to the gospel even after we have taught them.

 

Ari, yeah those headlights are bright, a lot of people out here have light bars on their cars and it’s useless because everyone is in by 8 and it doesn't get dark till 7:30 pm. How was the baptism, were there lots of people? Who talked and on what subject, were there any investigators that showed up to it, if so how did he/she feel about it?

 

Seth, that is awesome you can once again play sports, and you get to do honors classes.  I recommend going as heavy as possible with AP classes so that when you graduate you have some college credit to use, if you can get it now, even better.  How is the room, is it in one piece, is it messy, what is it like to have a room all to yourself?  If you can find my notes to any of my old classes you are welcome to use them to study, I can't vouch that they are understandable.

 

Abigail, I haven't seen your hair, but I hope you love it.

 

Ambria, I hope you have a good freshman (or err woman) year. I highly recommend to pay attention to your studies because some people out here didn't and they are paying the consequence for that choice. I hope you continue in basketball, if you go on a mission you will know why.

 

Braden Barton, I hope and pray that you will succeed in whatever you do, whether it be school, job, or a mission, I hope the best for you now and in your future. And quick question have you asked or planned to ask anyone to Mormon prom or school prom, which is something that I wished I could get a do over on (looking back with hindsight). You have no idea how badly I want to listen to anything that is not MOTAB.

 

Stirling White, I hope school is awesome for you.  I meet a nurse anesthetist out here and she loves her job and has an okay life now, it was better, her husband died in a car accident, thus we are teaching her. I hope you go on splits with the missionaries there because they are nice to have with a member. In fast and testimony meeting bear your testimony, there is nothing more powerful then bearing witness of Jesus Christ.

 

I love you all, and there is nothing in this world or the next that will change that.

 

Sincerely yours in the service of the lord,

Elder Ammon Van Engelenhoven

 

*Reference

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zJVFJ2kb62c

 

 

Water

Dear Family,

 

I wish to say that I love you all.  Seth I hope that you read your blessing every day and that you will continue in your path for magnifying your priesthood. Ambria and Abigail I don't know exactly what your hair looks like but if it looks good to mom then it’s good for the mission. Ari all I can say is that you are lucky that you didn't have to replace a tie rod instead of a headlight. And Kyler I haven't heard from you but I would like to encourage you to pursue school, and to continue in your progression to become a nurse, some missionaries need a good nurse, (not that I have needed one;) and dad as I have been out in the field I have realized how much you were preparing me for the mission, and I thank you for it, because there are some things out here that if you didn't prep me for I would have been stumped in the questions and in their clever wording. Mom, I thank you for the love that you have given me (even when I didn't deserve it), because there are a lot of families out here who don't have parents that care or "friends".

 

2-15-16

    We had to change our cars out, a Cruise for another Cruise but with a different paint job. And the new cruise NEEDS a good washing because it is so dirty that we were willing to go back to our old cruise. We then played Chess-Capades with its inventor Bro Davies, it’s fun but it sucks up all your time on a p-day so you only play it if you don't have anything to do, and can dedicate the day to it.  We later played basketball and had an investigator come and play, after that we went back to Bro. Davies to finish the laundry and finish the game.

 

2-16-16

   We had an interesting District Meeting, because Elder Carson broke his wrist in 6 places, and was in the hospital down the hill in Rancho, so Elder Hatch had to conduct, and it was funny and awesome when he did it.  We retaught the plan of salvation to an investigator, and had dinner at a Mexican restaurant and I found it to be lacking but it was okay.  We then taught another lesson to another investigator and he liked the Fatherhood comparison to himself and Heavenly Father.

 

2-17-16

    We did service at The Lords Table today and it was great, apart from the rude manners of one of the people in line waiting for food, who had just gotten out of jail that morning, and was hungry by a lot. We then came home and skipped lunch to make it to an appointment on time, but we didn't teach them because they were all screaming and yelling and they were not at all able or willing to calm down, so we got up and left ASAP. We visited potential families and then had dinner. IT THEN RAINED!!!!!!! And a poem to go with it

 

                       "Water, water, everywhere,

                        and all the boards did shrink,

                        Water, water everywhere

                        and not a drop to drink."

 

This poem applies so well to California, because all the people are thirsty for a drop to drink, that they look for the gospel AND THEY WASTE IT ON THEIR LAWN TO WATER THE GRASS!!!!!!  (A curse upon them and their lawn)  We then to taught the restoration to a member and watched the HOUR long movie, 'The Restoration.'

 

2-18-16

We taught Malveua Thomas (a golden drop of light that fell from the sky) and I need to work on my delivery.

 

I got to go, I love you all,

 

Sincerely from the field,

Working

Dear Family,

 

I have been well, and am currently on the way to be a better missionary.

 

2-8-16

We cleaned the apartment today, more for the deep cleaning of the carpet and for the counter tops and the dreaded stove, (you apparently aren't supposed to burn everything out of the oven then clean it because it could light the oven on fire) so we had to scrub it for forever but thanks to hot water and scrub brushes we finished cleaning it.  We then left to the zone activity which was Volleyball, which looked suspiciously like soccer and football.  We left the activity a little later then we planned so we had to have a 10 minute COLD shower, because the hot water has to travel so far (not even 20 feet), but the pipes go up out of the top and make a u-turn and go under the house and provide water for us and our neighbors, but when we were leaving for our appointment they called us and cancelled.  We then went tracting and had dinner at the James’ and we were served Philippian monkey rolls (which is pork because you can't  buy monkey meat in California (the one none too crazy law they have here)). Later we saw a truck that said "JUST DIVORCED"; oh how the world has warped it's perceptions of what is right and wrong, they purposefully mistake Good for evil and evil for good.

 

2-9-16

Zone meeting was today, the main portion of the meeting was on preparing for your investigators and not "winging it", and it lasted from 10 am to 5 pm (I was in a meeting for 7 hours and wasn't bored out of my mind.)  After we talked about everything in the first hour of the meeting we actually went into the doctrine, we asked questions and bounced them off of each other. It was a very insightful meeting, they even had an activity for those that were visual learners, they drew pictures, and I got to read more. We were late to our dinner, they drove FAST, not like 5 mph but like 15 mph, (assuming he means over the speed limit LCVE) we got there safely and told ourselves never to be late again.

 

2-10-16

We did Mormon.org training today, we later taught Richard to use the footnotes in the Book of Mormon to gain a further understanding. We then went and tracted Chestnut and found 3 potential FAMILIES that we could come back and teach (Thank you for your prayers and fasting), although one the members of a family got arrested for Drug use and not reporting in to his parole officer in 3 months (yes, people in California are arrested for drugs.)  We tracted some more but my companion, Elder Chamberlain was grumpy for the rest of the night because we got no one else. We then had dinner with the Pluffe family, we had a sandwich and taught a short lesson on Honesty, then tracted the rest of the night with a grumpy companion (yeaaaaaaaaaaa, NOT) we then went to Bro Rowland to boost ourselves up some (my companion more than me, I was still on a spiritual high from meeting 3 potential families).

 

2-11-16

We met with Malveua Thomas and taught him the restoration, he accepted it and our challenge to read and pray about the scriptures and tracted the rest of the day.

 

2-12-16

We ripped out carpet for some members that were using it as a dog room and the carpet was still wet in some places, all of our appointments cancelled but Malvuea called us and wanted to be taught the next lesson. And we tracted the rest of the day.

 

2-13-16

We did service with the Elder's Quorum and cut wood for the widows and the widowers.  We cut about 1 and a half to 2 cords of wood.  We then weekly planned for the day because guess what... our appointments dropped us for dinner.  We went to the Orozco's and they told us not to preach to their family.  We then went back and finished weekly planning.

 

2-14-16

Malvuea Thomas came to regional conference, and he liked it so much that he requested a copy of the broadcast, we then visited members and tracted till dinner, which by the way we were put in between a rock and a hard place, they said "come out to eat with us or we will have a pizza dropped off at your place" it's a Sunday, I believe that there is something called keep the Sabbath day holy and we weren't able to convince them that they didn't have to give us a pizza but they gave us one anyway.

 

Sincerely yours in the service of the lord,

Elder Van Engelenhoven