Motscheidler Madness
The Mott Quad welcomed John Harrison Motschiedler on January 24, 2013 at 3:58pm. He weighed 8lbs 13 oz and was 21.5 inches long. He goes by his middle name with lots of nicknames already (Harris, Harry). Desh is a great big brother to Harris and is pretty indifferent of our new addition. We think he's adorable and love having him in our family.
exchanges with Sister Asay
Missionary Email from Chelsy:
February 4, 2013
Last district picture. the new faces in there are Elder Rutland (tall one) and Elder Hunter (short one)
So good/interesting news. I will not be transfering. Sister Kalani will be transfering. I will be staying in Rogersville for atleast 6 more weeks. There is also a chance i will be training 2 goldens. Sis Mann from the office called last monday morning and said that she was bringing up a bunkbed and 3 dressers. so we did a quick deep clean of the apartment and then at 4 got to help bring in the new furniture. then on friday we got permission for the elders to come into our apartment to help move furniture around. Sis Mann said that we had to switch rooms. Our office is now our bedroom and our bedroom is now our office. So the elders moved our desks and our HUGE map thingy. We are getting 14 new sisters this week and at least 6 the next transfer so things are quite a bit hectic. No one is quite sure how training is going to go cause as it stands we have only 15 sisters available to train this transfer and training lasts for 2. Elder Rutland (zone leader) says that i will be here for only one more transfer then i will leave my golden(s) and get a new one next time. so we will see.
Weather here has been interesting. One weekend it snows and is cold the rest of the following week. then the next weekend we have an ice storm where we get like an inch of solid ice on our car. then it gets warm and we dont have to wear jackets for a couple of days then it rains and washes away all the ice and snow then the temps drop to below freezing. We had a day where it didnt get warmer than 25 degrees. There was one night that it was 16 degrees when we got home. Then thursday night it snows, doesnt snow friday but snows all day saturday and sunday. Church was almost canceled yesterday. We only had sacrament meeting and that lasted a whole 33 min. The only people that were there were Sister Anderson and her daughter Vonnie, President Stockinger and his 3 boys and us and the Nielsons. We were surprised that the Stockingers made it cause they road was solid ice. We are supposed to have dinner with them tonight so we will see if that happens. hope ya'lls weather has been treatin ya nicer than ours has. Elder Lynn and Elder Degraffenried are both being transfered. So i will be the only one left that was in the district 6 months ago.
Last Monday we got to start doing stained glass with the Leishmans. We got to cut out the glass and grind them down to the right size. We got to take the foil home to put around the glass pieces. We will be going back today to finish. we get to sauder (sp?) the pieces together today.
We have finally been able to teach Barbara the full fist lesson. We had to teach it in 2 sections but she seems to be able to understand what we are teaching. She is definitly really lonely and still greiving for her daughter and is still sick (so she says) but she is getting better. She has more color, more energy and is more talkative. She still has not come to church and wont pray with us but we are getting closer. We are hoping to extend a baptismal date either this week or next week.
Darren didnt come to church yesterday (but neither did most of the members). He asked for a blessing on Friday, so Elders Lynn and Hunter gave him one. He asked us for the Book of Mormon on Cd but we told him how he could get in for free on his phone, so we are going to follow up on that. He asked us (me and Elder Lynn) some questions that we have to research. He wants to know how we can say that all sins can be forgiven when in the bible it says "thou shalt not kill" and that you cant be forgiven for it. I know that there is a talk somewhere that talks about that and military people, so that is my homework for the next couple weeks. Unless you know of anything that goes along with that. He will also not be moving to Greeneville.
We picked up a new investigator this week. Her name is Debbie. We met her at the Big Kahuna. We gave her a Book of Mormon and invited her to read and pray about it. We set up an appointment to see her but she cancelled and cancelled the next one we set up. hopefully we will be able to actully meet with her this week. but if she keeps canceling the appointments we may have to drop her. She currently goes to a cowboy church in morrisetown and performs on a drill team with them.
Jeannie is playing hard to get. she calls us to talk with sister Nielson but wont talk with us. When we see her at the senior center (which is next door to library) she does everything she can to not talk to us very long. the last time she was in the hospital the doctor told her that she couldnt drink coffee, or smoke but she is still smoking. she has not come to church in a while but hopefully soon.
Love always
Sister Boggs
Missionary Email from Mica:
February 4, 2013
It's been a great week! We had an awesome zone conference and got the help we needed through the training. We were asked to read a talk from Tad R. Calister about being a consecrated missionary. It talks about putting everything you have on the alter and doing your best no matter how you feel. It's pretty cool, you should read it =). Yesterday was a great day. We found 9 novos and marked 1 person for baptism! I'm so undeserving of such success. People were just falling into our path. I'm so grateful and every miracle makes it so much more real that this is the same church that Christ organized when he was on the earth. I have no doubt that he still leads his church through his leaders. What a privilege it is to help others know the same thing. I'm incredibly blessed.
A quick story. THe first district meeting of the transfer, our new Elders walk in and this STRONG smell of garlic filled the room. WE later discovered that they didn't have time to buy food on p-day and that one of the Elders was so hungry that he ate a garlic clove. HA! He started choking and his comp had to help him. =)
I'm sorry this isn't very long again. I'm at the dumb computer where you have to push the keys extra hard to work. I love you! I'm doing well! I hope you are too. Até próximo!
Com amor,
Sister Duran
