Tuesday, February 20, 2018

Monday February 19, 2018 Pullman, WA


1. Do you email Logan? Has he told you when he's coming home?
1. Yes, I email Logan. He hasn’t told me when he comes home. Do you know?

2. You mentioned having long Sundays in your last email. What extra meetings do you have besides Ward Council? Do you go to that every week?
2. So yeah we have 2 wards to go to so that takes us from 9:00am to 3:30pm. Then add on ward council to the morning and then we usually teach a lesson to the Tolman’s after church. We don’t leave until 4:30 usually and then if we have members feeding us we don’t even have time for studies until like 6 or later. So it just makes for a long day.

3. How are the members doing in helping your work along?
3. Depends on the members but some are really good. They are all willing to help though.

4. Did you get our package? 
4. Yes! thank you so much! It was a great boost for the week!

5. Do you cook for yourselves at all in this area? What are your specialties these days?
5. Most of the time we get fed dinners. We mostly just cook breakfast and lunch for ourselves. I haven’t been making anything super fancy. Just eggs and protein shakes in the morning like usual.

6. How's your investigator Jesse this week?
6. I’ll update you down below.

So this week has been crazy! There wasn’t really even anything too big or different that happened it was just really busy with normal stuff for some reason. On Tuesday we had zone conference and that was a busy day but it went good. We also had Stake coordination meeting that night so it was another long day. The rest of the week was just filled with lots of missionary work and appointments. It was a really good week. We were able to meet with a lot of people that we hadn’t met with in a while.

Jesse is doing good. He has hit a couple bumps in the road but he is still progressing. I do hope he can overcome the trials and temptations that are being thrown at him. We set a goal with him that he would be able to be baptized in August. That’s quite a while out but he will need the time to get there. He has made so much progress though. I sure hope he can push through.

That’s pretty much my update for the week. 

Also, it made me laugh so much when you were talking about River’s concert thing. It doesn’t surprise me at all that she is still into dumb music. I’ll have to put my sisters in line when I get back. You know, teach em’ a lesson or two. Specifically, about music and clothing. But it will have to wait for now. Thanks for the update mom! Love ya! 





Monday February 12, 2018 Pullman, WA


Hi Mom!
1. What would you say your average temperatures have been there in Pullman?
1. Probably 35-45, but this week has been a little cooler. 

2. How much walking vs. driving do you do? And are you ever on your bikes?
2. We drive a lot. And walk a little. I haven’t ridden my bike in this area at all.

3. Have you done anything fun on a Pday there?
3. No.

4. What made you the happiest this week?
4. Going to Outback after mlc in Spokane.

5. We LOVED your toothbrush video! Can you send us more videos?
5. I’ll think about it.

Well this week was a decent normal-ish week. We had mlc on Tuesday and went to Outback for dinner. Yes, I said Outback like Outback Steakhouse. Elder Horman had 50$ in gift cards that he was dying to use so we helped him out and went to Outback and he bought us dinner. It was great. Then the rest of the week was normal missionary work stuff.

We went to ARP on Tuesday. So ARP stands for Addiction Recovery Program. It is something put on by the church and is super good. It helps a lot of people overcome addictions to almost anything. Drugs or pornography or even addictions to food! It’s a good program though and they have a good size group here in Moscow. Then we taught Jesse on Thursday and taught the Tolman’s on Sunday.

Sundays are long days for us. We have 7 hours of church and then we usually teach a lesson right after so it ends up being 8-9 hours at the church building and then we usually have a member dinner that night. It leaves us about 2hrs to do anything else which usually includes our studies. But if we have something we need to get done like last night then we don’t get all our studies in. So it’s always an adventure on Sundays.

Well this next week we have zone conference again on Tuesday and that is here in Moscow. The rest of the week is just a normal week. So wish me luck!

Also, it kinda hit me the other day when the mission office called me and asked if I needed to move my going home date because they have to order plane tickets six months in advance. So, my time is wearing thin I guess. I still feel like I have a while. But what are your plans for me coming home? Also I was thinking when I get home and head off to college what the driving situation would be? Are you just going to ship me up there? Who knows if the Corolla will make it and plus Hadlie needs a car for high school. Maybe there’s something we can work out. Or what was your plan for that?

Well I hope you have a good week love ya! 
Colt-

Ford Focus RS. Super unique car. It's all wheel drive and turbo. Pretty cool. 
Cool BMW
Us at Outback
A super cool moto

Friday, February 9, 2018

Monday February 5, 2018 Pullman, WA


1. It's Super Bowl Sunday today - did you even know that?
1. Yes I knew it was super bowl day!

2. Regarding your new phone - can you take pictures with it?
2. Absolutely yes. That would be kind of silly if we couldn’t. 

3. Also regarding your new phone - can you read emails on it? If so, can you read emails whenever they come in, or not?
3. Yes we can receive emails throughout the week and read them. We still only can respond on Mondays though.

4. Did anything funny happen this week? Tell us about it!
4. Well Elder Roberts definitely keeps us on our toes. He loves to do his shadow puppet dog and to show off to the members and say his funny jokes all the time. One example of his favorite joke is "Why... is there... a cactus.... a cactus snake.... in our toilet!?!" It doesn’t make much sense but it is hilarious to him.

So for this week we had transfers and I think I said before maybe but we are staying here in a trio. It’s been really good for Elder Roberts to be here. He takes a little more work to take care of but it helps us focus more on the work. He has been a little neglected for the past little while so it’s been good to work through some things with him and help him out. It has been a great blessing to Elder Horman and me.

This week we had the chance to teach our investigator Jesse again. He is doing fantastic!!! It has been so cool to see the spirit work in his life. He has some stuff he has to work through so we are going to ARP with him on Tuesday.

This first week of the transfer will be interesting. We will have MLC on Tuesday and then we have interviews on Friday. So it will be a busy week. Well I hope you know I’m growing and changing a lot. The spirit has an interesting way of telling you what you need to change in your life. Change is a process and it goes step by step, little by little. I’m grateful for the ability to change and become new through Christ.

Love Ya!!!!
-Elder St. John