From Mom:
Hi Dallin,
So good to hear from you. I really appreciate the thoughtful, detailed emails letting us know how you are doing and what you are doing. Think how great it will feel to your future family to read your letters and know that you had great days and challenging days in your mission. I think the most important things may be the challenging days because that is where we push ourselves to grow.
And, that is where we can set the best example and help others in the future.
I know that as I go through some pretty tough challenges lately, I rely greatly upon those who have gone before me,who have been through the refiners fire and have remained faithful. Grandparents, brothers, sisters... you name it, we have a totally imperfect family that have overcome some pretty astoundingly difficuly things.
Quote for the day:
"God will place us in the refiners furnace until He can see His image reflected in our thoughts and actions."
YIKES.
I hope Augusta has found a small testimony. Your testimony is such an important springboard for all those you talk to and, especially your companion. I think that knowing your comp has a strong testimony can help bridge a lot of humanish annoyances. Kinda like marriage :) !
Is this transfer week? You mentioned you may have companion change and may do some training.
We are getting ready for graduation weekend. Tiner Gparents and Chels and kids are coming on Wednesday. Tall's are coming on Saturday. Dad is going down to Utah today.
Pretty historic...he's taking the van back to Chelsea :):)
What comes around goes around. That van will be in our family for a long time.
It may be your college car when you get home..HAHAHA.
We have really cleaned up the side of the house. It looks sooooo good. No more crap everywhere. The side walk is totallly clean with only the garbage can there. I'm so bad at taking pics but I will and send them to you. Also, I burned the banana bread that I was going to send you. I'll try again next week, after the week from Hades is over- This is my last week of Seminary.
You know how that goes. Big coffee cake breakfast on Friday.
Well, I have been praying for your am study to improve.
Keep trying and it will become a great habit! I love the scriptures!
President Griffin said to tell you hi. We'll send pics of graduation next week.
Have a great week! We miss you and love you!
Mom
From Dal:
Hey!
*So I need Caleb Kimballs email and President Griffins email*
Wow this is such an exciting time for the family! I definitely want to see the yard so please send pics! I hope your last monday of seminary went well, and that it will continue to go well,
*So I need Caleb Kimballs email and President Griffins email*
Wow this is such an exciting time for the family! I definitely want to see the yard so please send pics! I hope your last monday of seminary went well, and that it will continue to go well,
and I also hope the kids have to eat burned coffee cake because I am jealous.
So this week went very well. We have started teaching a couple with a young kid about Cade's age. We aren't meeting with them again until June, but it should turn out pretty well. We didn't get to teach Agusta this week, but she is singing in the stake choir when Elder Perry is going to be here! Patricia is SOO solid. She comes to church on her own, comments in Gospel Principles Class, and she is gaining a testimony of The Book of Mormon. The feelings as a missionary to have found and taught somebody like her are indescribable. She has visibly changed, her health has improved, and she got her staunch catholic sister to let us give her a blessing. We also did some gardening for her sister. Everybody gardens here! I get to do some landscaping work for this guy that stopped letting us teach him and his wife, but accepted our help this week.
So this week went very well. We have started teaching a couple with a young kid about Cade's age. We aren't meeting with them again until June, but it should turn out pretty well. We didn't get to teach Agusta this week, but she is singing in the stake choir when Elder Perry is going to be here! Patricia is SOO solid. She comes to church on her own, comments in Gospel Principles Class, and she is gaining a testimony of The Book of Mormon. The feelings as a missionary to have found and taught somebody like her are indescribable. She has visibly changed, her health has improved, and she got her staunch catholic sister to let us give her a blessing. We also did some gardening for her sister. Everybody gardens here! I get to do some landscaping work for this guy that stopped letting us teach him and his wife, but accepted our help this week.
I am excited to work in the dirt again!
We found this guy named Rusty. He is inactive. He is a mailman and he works like a dog all week. He served a mission in Argentina, and his mission flag hangs in his garage. More than anybody I have helped on my mission I want to help him. We met him while he was moving dirt into his lawn and we helped him.
His wife is a member also, and says she wished she wasn't.
They are both mad and the church because of the California gay marriage thing.
The conversation went on and on about that stuff, then finally I remembered a talk from last Conference. I bore my testimony about how the church is just a vessel for the more important Gospel, and that we just need to trust in the Lord and keep his commandments and receive the ordinances at church to do so.
He invited us back to share that talk with him. She wasn't too happy about it.
We made it very clear how much we loved them,
and how as missionaries we do everything we can to obtain eyes like Christ has for people.
So on the transfer thing:
We have a transfer meeting where all the elders meet who are getting transfered. We have a very spiritual meeting, and then President Jergensen reads the transfers. This will take place on the 31st. This saturday he will be calling us and telling us our various assignments. I don't know if I will be training a new missionary yet, but we will see. Alot of people don't train until they are really old missionaries.
We found this guy named Rusty. He is inactive. He is a mailman and he works like a dog all week. He served a mission in Argentina, and his mission flag hangs in his garage. More than anybody I have helped on my mission I want to help him. We met him while he was moving dirt into his lawn and we helped him.
His wife is a member also, and says she wished she wasn't.
They are both mad and the church because of the California gay marriage thing.
The conversation went on and on about that stuff, then finally I remembered a talk from last Conference. I bore my testimony about how the church is just a vessel for the more important Gospel, and that we just need to trust in the Lord and keep his commandments and receive the ordinances at church to do so.
He invited us back to share that talk with him. She wasn't too happy about it.
We made it very clear how much we loved them,
and how as missionaries we do everything we can to obtain eyes like Christ has for people.
So on the transfer thing:
We have a transfer meeting where all the elders meet who are getting transfered. We have a very spiritual meeting, and then President Jergensen reads the transfers. This will take place on the 31st. This saturday he will be calling us and telling us our various assignments. I don't know if I will be training a new missionary yet, but we will see. Alot of people don't train until they are really old missionaries.
I will be staying in Iowa City 1st ward though I believe.
It is getting sooo hot and sticky here. You sweat coming out of a cold shower.
I love you guys. This is the experience of a lifetime. I thank the Lord for it every day.
It is getting sooo hot and sticky here. You sweat coming out of a cold shower.
I love you guys. This is the experience of a lifetime. I thank the Lord for it every day.
Love,
Elder Tall
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