Staying in Moorpark with Elder Griffin....

-
Dinner prep with Elder Tesch
April 15, 2019
“My week was good. We had a few lessons this past week. Nothing special just trying to help people take those steps to come closer to Christ. Slowly keeping everyone progressing. For service this week we helped a lady pull weeds in her back yard for like an hour then went straight from that to help unload a U-Haul trailer for someone all in our white shirts and ties. At the end we were all sweaty and gross and had to go change. Worth it though. And funny stuff happens to us all the time.”
“It’s hard to just think of a story Haha a lot of times different things spark a memory and that's when the stories come. But one that came to mind was from last transfer. So I was on a bike last transfer and one day we were doing a blitz in another area. Its where all the missionaries take a different street in someone's area and hit it. So we were in a car on the way to our streets with another companionship. And it was raining this day and we had to get up over a steep, muddy, full of ruts road. And so the elder driving tried to make it up and got halfway then started slipping and almost took out a fence Haha so I was like let me try it. So I put it in low and revved it and had pretty much the same result. So we decided to take a huge detour which took a little while. But I still got to drive hahaha and so on the way around I was plowing through puddles and drifting a little and the elder whose car it was who was also my district leader was getting way mad and scared. So when we got to our streets he took the keys and told me he would never let me drive again. I was being safe though just having some fun.”
May 5, 2019
“My week was good. It was a quick one. Sadly me and Elder Tesch will no longer be together. I am staying in Moorpark for another transfer thank goodness. I will be with Elder Griffin who played basketball against me at South Summit so its gonna be fun to talk with him about the glory days. I feel like me and him are gonna get along super good though. I'm excited! He will be the second bball player I played against out here. The one from Bear River and him. The only other thing I could think of for my birthday would be another pair of jeans.”
“One thing fun and cool we did was one day some service for a sweet cowboy. He also used to rope professional at rodeos and now he teaches people how to rope.  He also has some horses and so we went and helped him fix a couple horse pens then he gave me a free little roping lesson. It was super awesome. He is a nonmember and not super interested but always good to do some service and also get a roping lesson."
The fog one morning in Moorpark
Elder Carter and Elder Griffin


Comments

Post a Comment

Popular posts from this blog

First week in the MTC

-
Image
A wonderful tender mercy during Elder Carter's first week in the MTC was that the speakers for the devotional on Sunday night were Brother Wayne T. Watson and his wife Luana Watson. President Watson and his wife were Jessica's mission president in the Finland Helsinki Mission. They were released in June of 2017 and Laine attended their homecoming in Orem, Utah and talked to them about how his sister was doing. Our family loves the Watson and Elder Carter reported that it helped him a lot to hear them speak. Elder Carter reported that he is two rooms away from the new missionaries assigned to serve in the Helsinki Finland mission. He talked with them about how cool Finland is and how much he loved meeting their current mission president Ilkka Auara when he visited Finland in June of this year. Sisar Jessica Carter, Sisar Bren Parker, Sister Luana Watson, President Wayne T. Watson in front of the Helsinki Finland Temple May 2017 Elder Carter and his district in front of t...
Read more

Set apart as a full-time missionary for the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints

-
Image
On August 7th, 2018 Laine was set apart as a full-time missionary for the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints by President Joey L. Skinner. Bishop James Fawson and the Morgan 5th ward Young Men's President Kurt Bryant were there to support him, as well as both sets of grandparents, siblings, and parents.This was a very special event for our family and we're very proud of Laine.   Laine's grandparents Rondo and Mary Erickson are serving as full-time missionaries in the Utah Layton Mission as an office couple. Our family is very blessed to have these missionaries serve the Lord.
Read more

Staying isolated in Cali, and my new companion......

-
Image
We are on self-isolation too so all of our lessons and contacting is done through technology. We don’t interact with anyone, even members. It is so hard but we are making it work  We are still getting some missionary work done. Chanel is getting baptized in a couple weeks so we are working a lot with her. We do have to deal with a lot of the changes though.  Funny story: We had a few extra cars from missionaries going home so we were gonna give them to elders who were on bikes. So one day we got the mission 10 passenger van and drove to the elders apartment and picked them up. We didn’t tell them before though. We just showed up and barged in their door and told them they were coming with us. We picked up 3 different companionships and they were all so confused. So after we had them all in we drove to the mission office and when we got there we were like "elders is there something you want to tell us?" And a few of them got bright red then we started laughing and pu...
Read more