Hey,
Well, I am now serving in East Orange in a walking area. It has been a weird experience to be in the "hood" as it is called: Lots of crazy people here. My address now is 108 South 11th St. #1 Newark, NJ 07107. Christmas was great and I got to eat so much food from Haiti. It was also a lot of fun to have my mission presidents son in-law. Alex Boye come sing to us for our all mission Christmas conference. I am excited that we have two baptisms set for the 8th, so pray that they will get baptized. Also we have another set for the 22 or 29th. So things are going well here. Sorry, not a lot to really talk about. but I do have a funny story that was creepy at first. We went to see the girl who is set for the 22nd or so and her drunken dad answered the door. He started going off on my companion and then his mood changed after a few min. and he was saying that he liked him. He looked at me and was like this is Jesus. Elder do you know you walk with Jesus (to my companion) and was like you are so blessed to be his disciple and walk with Jesus. He just went on for like 10 min. before he let us in his house. We were just laughing after we left so hard. This is an exciting area because you never know what will happen.
Elder Sanders
Monday, January 2, 2012
12-19-11
Hey,
So this week has been a crazy week. Today I found out I am being transferred, tomorrow right before Christmas. I am ready to leave the area but wish it would be after Christmas. We have a lot set up for this week here in Morristown that I don't want to miss. This morning I solved the Rubik's 360 that I got from our district secret Santa. We had a zone breakfast at the mission home. It was a lot of fun and we all got ties from our mission president and his wife. The other day we did service for a less-active member. It was cool because we built an Ice Rink in their back yard. I thought it was going to be this little thing but it's a really nice size. It was 45 feet by 60 feet. Also we got an investigator who is from China going to school here. His name is Yi. The other day he said his uncle said he needs an English name and asked us to name him. We gave him a list of names and he liked Kyle. So Kyle, in his prayer that day when we left, prayed and thanked God for my companion and I and asked that we could be friends forever and gave thanks for his new name. It was funny. On Friday we woke up early to go to NYC with two other Elders and two Sisters. We had to be at the Mexican Embassy for one of the Elders at 8:00am. So I can say I was in Mexico on my mission for a hour. Well the temple was only a few miles away and our session was at 11:00am so from 9:00am - 10:30am we walked around the city and saw a lot of the sights. I will send pictures soon. It was a lot of fun. Also got NY style pizza. It was really good. Take Care and Merry Christmas.
Elder Sanders
So this week has been a crazy week. Today I found out I am being transferred, tomorrow right before Christmas. I am ready to leave the area but wish it would be after Christmas. We have a lot set up for this week here in Morristown that I don't want to miss. This morning I solved the Rubik's 360 that I got from our district secret Santa. We had a zone breakfast at the mission home. It was a lot of fun and we all got ties from our mission president and his wife. The other day we did service for a less-active member. It was cool because we built an Ice Rink in their back yard. I thought it was going to be this little thing but it's a really nice size. It was 45 feet by 60 feet. Also we got an investigator who is from China going to school here. His name is Yi. The other day he said his uncle said he needs an English name and asked us to name him. We gave him a list of names and he liked Kyle. So Kyle, in his prayer that day when we left, prayed and thanked God for my companion and I and asked that we could be friends forever and gave thanks for his new name. It was funny. On Friday we woke up early to go to NYC with two other Elders and two Sisters. We had to be at the Mexican Embassy for one of the Elders at 8:00am. So I can say I was in Mexico on my mission for a hour. Well the temple was only a few miles away and our session was at 11:00am so from 9:00am - 10:30am we walked around the city and saw a lot of the sights. I will send pictures soon. It was a lot of fun. Also got NY style pizza. It was really good. Take Care and Merry Christmas.
Elder Sanders
Nov. 21, 2011 12:10 P.M.
Hey,
I know it's been some time since I really wrote anything and I am sorry. This we went to a really good pizza place here in Morristown called Tomato Pie. It was probably the best pizza I have ever had. Then on Saturday we spent just about all day doing service helping a member clean up all his leaves. It was crazy. We had six elders working on it and we made a huge pile and then did flips and stuff into it. We had a good time. This week we also found out that one of our investigators is going to jail for 90 days for DUI's. Today we had to practice for our missionary Christmas fireside that is on Sunday. Other then that not a lot of stuff has been going on. I love and miss you all.
Elder Sanders
I know it's been some time since I really wrote anything and I am sorry. This we went to a really good pizza place here in Morristown called Tomato Pie. It was probably the best pizza I have ever had. Then on Saturday we spent just about all day doing service helping a member clean up all his leaves. It was crazy. We had six elders working on it and we made a huge pile and then did flips and stuff into it. We had a good time. This week we also found out that one of our investigators is going to jail for 90 days for DUI's. Today we had to practice for our missionary Christmas fireside that is on Sunday. Other then that not a lot of stuff has been going on. I love and miss you all.
Elder Sanders
Nov 14, 2011 9:09 A.M.
...I have been thinking instead of going to Hawaii next year that we put it off for another time. We will always have time to go on that trip. But this is like oncein a life time that we would be able to do this. Since I am going to UVU it's easier because I will be living at home. But I was thinking that I do want the family to come out and pick me up and then we go tour the mission and see the sights that are in NJ, NY, DC, PA and so on. Because I can always come back to NJ but I will never be able to do a trip like that and see all the sights and I would be able to if you came and got me.
(extract from email from Tyler. We had been discussing whether or not I should come and pick him up and debating about going to Hawaii instead. We now have planned a trip to pick him up on August 13, 2012. Although he starts school on the 25th and it is not a lot of time to prepare as he mentioned it is a once in a lifetime opportunity and we are looking forward to it - Heidi).
(extract from email from Tyler. We had been discussing whether or not I should come and pick him up and debating about going to Hawaii instead. We now have planned a trip to pick him up on August 13, 2012. Although he starts school on the 25th and it is not a lot of time to prepare as he mentioned it is a once in a lifetime opportunity and we are looking forward to it - Heidi).
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