April 18th, 2016
Dear Family,
I have been well. I have yet to receive the birthday package
that you guys sent, but I did get the Dog whistle, it has been super
helpful. A dog was barking madly and I
hit the button and he got quiet and I was able to finish talking before the guy
said no thanks, but still, it WORKS!
Oh mom, DO
NOT FOR ANY REASON COME OUT TO CALIFORNIA, because if you do, you will KILL
EVERYBODY. One day out of the three
months I have been out here, I decided to count up all of the sewing machines on
the lawns of the people that we VISITED, and I only counted Singers mom, so
don't be angry, but I counted up to 34 singer sewing machines, that day, for
the people we visited and no one else. The
sewing machines are not in the best of shape, one was so dilapidated that it
was a half pile of rust and machine. If you count up the others that weren't Singers
you are at 42, but they are Kenmore so not as big a deal :) If you count the sewing tables/cabinets that
the machines are in, well you lose count after a while (1-2 hours). I would talk to them about their machines, it
was how we were able to come back and visit.
A vintage sewing machine is like the gospel, it is the same yesterday
today and forever, so don't throw it out in the lawn to decorate, keep it in
your house and use it. They are like the
Atonement, if you use it you can make incredible things and fix rips and tears
in the soul of our bodies.
The area I
am in is still in the desert and there are a lot of houses, and the apartment
where I am at now is the exact same as the one in Mojave river, but
we have a couch now so YEAH, AWESOME. When I find out
more I will tell you in my next letter. I am serving in the Maple ward in Hesperia B, if you look
at the map for the stakes out here it’s the one that looks like a chicken. Our new ward has been great. So far this last sacrament meeting
was awesome a returned missionary gave a talk on Grace.
Elder Heydorn is the new
Ward mission Leader here and he is awesome, I had already met him in the temple
so there is a +. The Ward Council here
is stone Quiet. I had to strain my ears to listen and I didn't know that the
meeting started till about the end. :D
Yeah, The Long Night of Apostasy is
one of the most visited chapters in my collection out here and I understand not
understanding the chapter Early in the morning, because there are a LOT of
people out here who don't believe that the apostasy ever happened. I use it to explain it to them, because they
want logic more than the Spirit in the Restoration lesson, but after sharing
that they usually are confused; so right now I would only use it if you have
been a member for a long time.
We
have been teaching less active members of the Maple ward, in the as we have
termed “The Less Active Bachelor's Club,” not a lot of investigators here. We are going to have to drop an investigator because
he hasn't been keeping any of the commitments that have been left with him. So we are going to have to find more people. :D We have done lots
of service, about 10 hours.
I have kept up on my journal
keeping, I try to write in it every night before I go to bed but there are
sometimes when it's 9:30 pm and you finish planning for tomorrow, and you are
barely making it through planning and you drag yourself to bed, and don't even
bother to get changed for bed because you are too tired to care. I have been working on my pride and on being
humble.
Spiritually, I’m a lot farther along
now than the MTC, I can now go right on in to testifying of the gospel.
Dad, what were the questions to ask
to see if someone has a problem with the church, they were about Joseph smith,
prophets, modern revelations, and things like that?
From,
Ammon
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