Hey Everyone,
This week we spent a lot of time tracting, just knocking doors in the inner city
parts of our area, talking with everybody. Ashley's birthday was probably the
craziest day of my mission yet. We were on exchanges with one of our zone
leaders, so it was me and him. We were tracting, and a guy runs out of his house
at us, and immediately accuses us of being an anti-Christ! We told him to cool
it down, and we'll talk. He started telling us we were a false church because we
worship on Saturdays, we have multiple wives, we don't believe in Jesus, and we
don't read the Bible. yeeaahh...right. So we asked how much he had done his
homework, and he insisted he had studied us for years. He insisted also that he
come tracting with us, so he can tell everybody what he told us. We changed the
subject, and he went away after that. But wow, he wasn't too happy with the
Mormons.
Then we knocked on someones door, and they had a Book of Mormon
sitting on their shelf! We taught her, and she's excited for us to stop back! What a day! Things are going great here, and the work is moving forward! Thanks
so much for all that you do!
Love,
Elder Wallentine
Thursday, September 25, 2008
Thursday, September 18, 2008
Hi Everyone,
I got an email from Ryan last week, and it sounds like he is doing really well, just working a lot, swimming a lot, and going to different orientation classes. It seems like yesterday that I was doing that stuff!
We had a great week! We had a baptism in the Cambridge branch on Sunday! His name was James, and he really is a great guy. He's doing so well, and he is almost through 2 Nephi in the Book of Mormon! It was so much fun. Keep us in your prayers still, though. We are still trying to help some other people see a need to follow in his footsteps!
Things have been going crazy here! I love you tons! Thanks for all your help! You guys really are great!
Love,
Elder Wallentine
I got an email from Ryan last week, and it sounds like he is doing really well, just working a lot, swimming a lot, and going to different orientation classes. It seems like yesterday that I was doing that stuff!
We had a great week! We had a baptism in the Cambridge branch on Sunday! His name was James, and he really is a great guy. He's doing so well, and he is almost through 2 Nephi in the Book of Mormon! It was so much fun. Keep us in your prayers still, though. We are still trying to help some other people see a need to follow in his footsteps!
Things have been going crazy here! I love you tons! Thanks for all your help! You guys really are great!
Love,
Elder Wallentine
Thursday, September 11, 2008
Dear Family,
It feels like I'm serving a totally new mission down here than what was going on in Philadelphia! Last week there were a lot of hurricanes and storms running around the ocean, and everybody was worried because there was a HUGE storm coming our way. We were out tracting that day, and everybody was telling us to get off the streets for when the storm comes. We kept tracting, and it started to rain. It came down pretty hard, but there wasn't really any wind. It was a lot like one of those good rainstorms we'd get in Boise. That was it! We thought it was supposed to be something huge, but the 'hurricane' turned out to be kind of a flop.
We are teaching some great people right now, and the work is really going great here! We've been tracting a lot, even more than when I was closer to Philly! It's a great area, and everything is just a little different.
We ate crab legs the other day because one of our investigators gave us a bag of them. It was pretty fun trying to learn how to eat those things. I guess they are pretty inexpensive over here in Maryland.
I checked my account and grandma and grandpa did deposit the money. Thanks so much for your help! That will be a huge blessing! Keep us in your prayers! I love you tons!
Love,
Elder Wallentine
It feels like I'm serving a totally new mission down here than what was going on in Philadelphia! Last week there were a lot of hurricanes and storms running around the ocean, and everybody was worried because there was a HUGE storm coming our way. We were out tracting that day, and everybody was telling us to get off the streets for when the storm comes. We kept tracting, and it started to rain. It came down pretty hard, but there wasn't really any wind. It was a lot like one of those good rainstorms we'd get in Boise. That was it! We thought it was supposed to be something huge, but the 'hurricane' turned out to be kind of a flop.
We are teaching some great people right now, and the work is really going great here! We've been tracting a lot, even more than when I was closer to Philly! It's a great area, and everything is just a little different.
We ate crab legs the other day because one of our investigators gave us a bag of them. It was pretty fun trying to learn how to eat those things. I guess they are pretty inexpensive over here in Maryland.
I checked my account and grandma and grandpa did deposit the money. Thanks so much for your help! That will be a huge blessing! Keep us in your prayers! I love you tons!
Love,
Elder Wallentine
Thursday, September 4, 2008
Hey there family,
Transfers just came in on Tuesday, and I'm definitely not in Philadelphia anymore. Right now we are in a place called Cambridge, Maryland, 2 hours south of Philadelphia. We have an apartment 200m from the banks of the Chop Tank River and Chesapeake Bay! It's really cool to see that every morning. It looks like the Oregon coast with all the sailboats out there.
The talks in sacrament meeting went very well! The ward is really excited to do missionary work, and the ward made a great ward mission plan. It's a shame I wasn't there to see the fruits of all that work just yet. Cambridge is doing very well. The area we are working in is broken up by the river, so it's over an hour drive to many of the members' homes, and many of them live in a swamp, so we have to walk out to teach them in our jeans. It's a really crazy area, especially since I've been in the concrete jungle for pretty much the last year of my mission. We have a branch, with a kind of strange building we meet in. It's a 'phase II' church building, like the one we had in Meridian, but cut in half. Half the building is gone, and the gym and chapel are the same one room! It's pretty strange. I've heard the branch here is great, and it will be fun to work with them. Hopefully, we will have a baptism here in the next 3 or 4 weeks, so keep us in your prayers! I love you all, and thank you so much for all that you have done, and especially for sending that money! That's really a huge help!
Love,
Elder Wallentine
Transfers just came in on Tuesday, and I'm definitely not in Philadelphia anymore. Right now we are in a place called Cambridge, Maryland, 2 hours south of Philadelphia. We have an apartment 200m from the banks of the Chop Tank River and Chesapeake Bay! It's really cool to see that every morning. It looks like the Oregon coast with all the sailboats out there.
The talks in sacrament meeting went very well! The ward is really excited to do missionary work, and the ward made a great ward mission plan. It's a shame I wasn't there to see the fruits of all that work just yet. Cambridge is doing very well. The area we are working in is broken up by the river, so it's over an hour drive to many of the members' homes, and many of them live in a swamp, so we have to walk out to teach them in our jeans. It's a really crazy area, especially since I've been in the concrete jungle for pretty much the last year of my mission. We have a branch, with a kind of strange building we meet in. It's a 'phase II' church building, like the one we had in Meridian, but cut in half. Half the building is gone, and the gym and chapel are the same one room! It's pretty strange. I've heard the branch here is great, and it will be fun to work with them. Hopefully, we will have a baptism here in the next 3 or 4 weeks, so keep us in your prayers! I love you all, and thank you so much for all that you have done, and especially for sending that money! That's really a huge help!
Love,
Elder Wallentine
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