Well I have now spent my last time in the office and have returned to more relaxing work of serving in the mission field. The area i was placed in is close to the office still but it definitely isnt the office :P I am serving in the Fairfax ward. I don't have much time to write a long email because I sent a long email to my fam today and I have a limited amount of time on the computers here in the libraries.
I am real excited to be back in the field again and plan to take off running as fast as I can. I said that the field is more relaxing then the office only becasue in the office you are worried about something 100% of the time. I would wake up in the morning, read a chapter out of the book of mormon and head to the office at 9 and be attacked by work until 9 at night sometimes even later, pulling nights as late as 1 if there was a meeting the next day. In the field you don't really have that. The things you are worried about is how to find and meet with people and oonce you meet with them the spirit kinda takes over. Also the work done in the field is 100x more rewarding. Just last night we taught an awesome spirit filled lesson which left us driving home feeling like 100 bucks and that we were on the top of the world. Not once did I get that feeling in the office. Makes missionary work so much more fullfililng when you get that feeling.
My companions name is E. Yates. He played lacrosse at BYU just before he came out and has become one of my best Friends on the mission which makes me extremely excited to be his companion for the next 6 weeks. I imagine in the near future you will be getting some rather funny stories from our time together as well as some amazing miracles happening.
I'll keep this one short and I'll tell more of what I've got planned for this transfer next time. We have some pretty good plans we are going to do for district meetings and such. For now though... this is all you get.
Peace out and I love you all.
Mat
Monday, April 16, 2012
Saturday, April 7, 2012
The end of a great birthday week
Well the week has come to an end but with the end of the week a new year has sprung forth for myself. I was able to share a rather busy birthday week with my roommate E. Johnson who has his birthday on April 5th. This was probably one of the craziest weeks I've had in a while.... for the majority of it I felt like a pretty high roller which is abnormal for a missionary... I was taken out to eat just about every day some day's twice a day. A few of them being a higher end restaurant requiring me to order a 24 dollar entree.... Crazy stuff I tell you. I am sure that some of the pictures will be posted on the mission blog. (armiesofhelaman2.blogspot.com) Along with a large portion of backtrack images of my time in the office. Don't judge me by half of the looks on my face... these past 6 weeks have been the craziest I have seen the office. I am either exhausted in the picture or I am stuffing my face because I didn't have time to eat before the day began.
I have many people to thank this week for making it a great birthday week! Especially my parents. They spoil me rotten even after I get a van towed and have to spend some more of there money ( they will be payed back no worries) Just thought I'd take some time to give them a shout out that I appreciate them and love them a ton! They put up with more then they deserve and they keep going strong.
These posts will probably start to slow down a bit because coming up here soon I am having a change of pace and can't make any promises. Kick me every now and then to make sure I'm alive if you don't hear from me.
Happy Easter!
mat
I have many people to thank this week for making it a great birthday week! Especially my parents. They spoil me rotten even after I get a van towed and have to spend some more of there money ( they will be payed back no worries) Just thought I'd take some time to give them a shout out that I appreciate them and love them a ton! They put up with more then they deserve and they keep going strong.
These posts will probably start to slow down a bit because coming up here soon I am having a change of pace and can't make any promises. Kick me every now and then to make sure I'm alive if you don't hear from me.
Happy Easter!
mat
Monday, April 2, 2012
Who would have thought....
So I made an important discovery this week... Well maybe not all that important but a discovery nonetheless. I learned that it is indeed possible for an E350 to be towed, I also learned that towing companies often charge by weight as opposed to just towing our car which means that not all cars are treated equal... I also reconfirmed that my sweet mom and paps love me still.
This week would definitely have to fall under the category of crappy week. Mostly because I have been fighting something fierce which leaves my body exhausted to the point of accidently falling asleep on the office floor for a decent amount of time. Another reason for the crappy week is it consisted of a good chunk of angry missionaries calling requesting me to do things. I don't mind the doing things but the angry doesn't fly very far in my book. If your gonna ask me to do some ridiculous task that you are too lazy to do you better darn well be happy about it if you ask me :P Then on top of all of that poor old Natasha (my van) got towed late at night while I stopped to check up on a missionary who is going home shortly due to back problems.
Despite the crappy week it ended well with being able to watch conference with some of my mission buddies at the stake center! All in all though I am looking forward to this week... not because something fabulous is going to happen (there are a lot of great things happening this week) but mainly the fact that it is a new week and that its not last week.
On a different note... I have been trying to get E. Bay to open his easter packages all of this week and the man wont budge... he just waves them in our face trying to rub it in that he got 2 easter packages and we have none! (by wave I mean leave them sitting on the desk but wave sounds better) I look up to the man for his self control for everyone in the office has teased him about not opening them and he has held strong. Not going to lie it would make my day if there was some things contained in there that needed to be refrigerated or opened right away. My family expects me to do the same with my B-day package... We will see how strong I will hold... I'm thinking 30 min.
Well its time to go play som v-ball
Mat
This week would definitely have to fall under the category of crappy week. Mostly because I have been fighting something fierce which leaves my body exhausted to the point of accidently falling asleep on the office floor for a decent amount of time. Another reason for the crappy week is it consisted of a good chunk of angry missionaries calling requesting me to do things. I don't mind the doing things but the angry doesn't fly very far in my book. If your gonna ask me to do some ridiculous task that you are too lazy to do you better darn well be happy about it if you ask me :P Then on top of all of that poor old Natasha (my van) got towed late at night while I stopped to check up on a missionary who is going home shortly due to back problems.
Despite the crappy week it ended well with being able to watch conference with some of my mission buddies at the stake center! All in all though I am looking forward to this week... not because something fabulous is going to happen (there are a lot of great things happening this week) but mainly the fact that it is a new week and that its not last week.
On a different note... I have been trying to get E. Bay to open his easter packages all of this week and the man wont budge... he just waves them in our face trying to rub it in that he got 2 easter packages and we have none! (by wave I mean leave them sitting on the desk but wave sounds better) I look up to the man for his self control for everyone in the office has teased him about not opening them and he has held strong. Not going to lie it would make my day if there was some things contained in there that needed to be refrigerated or opened right away. My family expects me to do the same with my B-day package... We will see how strong I will hold... I'm thinking 30 min.
Well its time to go play som v-ball
Mat
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