Hey Family!
How are you guys doing? This past week was a little discouraging but whatever. I have, what? Like 3 days left here. The reason it was sodiscouraging is Tom Perry ended up dropping us. We saw him Saturday night and he said for a few days he was praying every morning andnight and reading and he didn't feel any different. And then we had a long talk with him and told him we think we should have a fast and if he would come to church fasting for an answer, he would get one.
So everything was going good. We were really excited and got some other missionaries and the Tyrrell family to join us in the fast so itseemed everything was going great. Then at 11:30 at night we got a text from Tom saying that he talked it over with his wife and that he would not be going to our church and that they don't have any intentions to become members. So yeah it was a pretty rough Sunday.
But there was a glimpse of light with another person we started teaching. His name is Tristan. He is the grandson of a convert of about a year and that convert is the boyfriend of a lady in our ward named Sister Bick. Tristan's family is living with Sister Bick so it is pretty convenient. Tristan and his 2 younger brothers have come to church 2 out of the last 3 Sundays and we just started teaching Tristan on Sunday night. We taught the Restoration and it went really well. He was really open to everything and said that everything just made sense. We forgot to set him for baptism (whoops) but still everything went really well. We are planning on teaching him again maybe tonight or tomorrow. We will set him for baptism when we see him next. So that was nice to have happen after a mostly crappy week.
I'm definitely excited to see where I go next. 2 more days and I'll know.
I'll now answer some of Mom's questions. :)
I've seen the "Like A Broken Vessel" talk a few times. It's definitely a good one. Elder Holland is definitely one of the more powerful speakers.
Well as I said earlier in my email Tristan came to church so I guess that's an investigator at church. And we currently have no one set for baptism. I don't know it has been kind of a rough few weeks. The Vigil's wont answer their door. The Perry's dropped us, so yeah.
Yeah I mean I would love to get out and tract but we aren't really monitored on it and our Mission President thinks it's a waste of time and I also hate doing it--not so much the actual doing it, but the getting the motivation to do it. :)
And we are not monitored on service either. It says in the white handbook to do 4-8 hours a week, but that rarely happens. We did help put up some drywall for someone this past week so I guess that counts. We did a lot more service in Grand Island. But there were also more opportunities there because it was more dysfunctional.
And about iPads. No we have not. I'm actually kind of bitter about it. Tons of missions have got them but we have not. I blame the Mission President. :).
I'm staying fairly healthy. Actually I was throwing up last night (don't know from what) but I'm feeling a bit better now. The weather here has been pretty nice as well. It's supposed to get in the 60's today. I'll take that any day over -30.
Well anyways I hope everyone is doing well. 11 more months. That's pretty weird. Well anyways I need to get going.
I love you guys! Have a great and safe week!
Love,
Elder Ballif
Tuesday, February 18, 2014
Monday, February 10, 2014
Slowed by Sickness and Snow
Hey Family!
This week was an alright one. It was pretty darn slow again. Nebraska had the first big snowstorm of the winter on my birthday. And I was a bit sick the beginning of the week and Elder Collins has been sick all week. So yeah there isn't much new with us haha.
Transfers are coming up on the 21st. So yeah I definitely expect to be sleeping somewhere else on the night of the 21st.
The first night we were really able to get out and go do something was night. I mean we still tried to do some things earlier in the week, but with the snow and Collins being sick, we weren't very effective. We weren't even able to see Tom and Sylvia this week. We were going to, but as we walked by we saw they had company over so yeah we didn't end up seeing them. We are going to try to see them though. And a few more times throughout the week so hopefully that works out for us.
At this point all of our investigators are ineligible for baptism by the time I'm probably leaving so that definitely has taken a shot at my motivation haha. Whatever I just need to keep working for 11 more days. Hopefully my next area is in Lincoln or even South Dakota. I hear there are some nice places to serve in that part of the mission.
So yeah I did enjoy the calendar for my birthday. I like how it is a calendar for the rest of my mission and not just 2014 haha. And I also got the picture thing that Jenn put together. Thanks for that. I definitely enjoyed it and it was nice to see some birthday wishes from some people I didn't expect.
So yeah 11 more days (probably) in Bellevue. I am excited for my time here to come to an end. I can't believe I've been here for most of my mission. I wonder how long I'll be in my next area.
Well thank you for all of the birthday wishes. My birthday wasn't too fun haha. I mean I am on a mission. I did have lunch with some other Elders at China Buffet haha. It's a pretty decent Chinese restaurant. It's comparable to Asian Buffet or whatever in Layton. The reason we went there is because if it's your birthday you get to eat there free, so that was nice.
Other than that not much happened because the snow. Cars were grounded and yeah Collins wasn't feeling well so for the most part we didn't do much.
Oh did you hear that Tori passed her NCLEX and is now officially an RN. That's pretty awesome if you ask me. Well anyways well anyways I need to get going. I hope everyone has a safe week.
I love you all!
Love,
Elder Ballif
This week was an alright one. It was pretty darn slow again. Nebraska had the first big snowstorm of the winter on my birthday. And I was a bit sick the beginning of the week and Elder Collins has been sick all week. So yeah there isn't much new with us haha.
Transfers are coming up on the 21st. So yeah I definitely expect to be sleeping somewhere else on the night of the 21st.
The first night we were really able to get out and go do something was night. I mean we still tried to do some things earlier in the week, but with the snow and Collins being sick, we weren't very effective. We weren't even able to see Tom and Sylvia this week. We were going to, but as we walked by we saw they had company over so yeah we didn't end up seeing them. We are going to try to see them though. And a few more times throughout the week so hopefully that works out for us.
At this point all of our investigators are ineligible for baptism by the time I'm probably leaving so that definitely has taken a shot at my motivation haha. Whatever I just need to keep working for 11 more days. Hopefully my next area is in Lincoln or even South Dakota. I hear there are some nice places to serve in that part of the mission.
So yeah I did enjoy the calendar for my birthday. I like how it is a calendar for the rest of my mission and not just 2014 haha. And I also got the picture thing that Jenn put together. Thanks for that. I definitely enjoyed it and it was nice to see some birthday wishes from some people I didn't expect.
So yeah 11 more days (probably) in Bellevue. I am excited for my time here to come to an end. I can't believe I've been here for most of my mission. I wonder how long I'll be in my next area.
Well thank you for all of the birthday wishes. My birthday wasn't too fun haha. I mean I am on a mission. I did have lunch with some other Elders at China Buffet haha. It's a pretty decent Chinese restaurant. It's comparable to Asian Buffet or whatever in Layton. The reason we went there is because if it's your birthday you get to eat there free, so that was nice.
Other than that not much happened because the snow. Cars were grounded and yeah Collins wasn't feeling well so for the most part we didn't do much.
Oh did you hear that Tori passed her NCLEX and is now officially an RN. That's pretty awesome if you ask me. Well anyways well anyways I need to get going. I hope everyone has a safe week.
I love you all!
Love,
Elder Ballif
Friday, February 7, 2014
Happy Birthday Ryan
Hey Family!
So this week was a little slow and there isn't much to talk about. So this will probably be short but I will do my best to make it a decent email. So I got the birthday package. Thanks for that. And I opened it up right when I got it of course. The Jazz shorts are pretty neat. I'm wearing them today at basketball so we'll see if they make me play any better haha. I also ate about all of the beef jerky already. You know how I love my beef jerky. Oh and I wasn't expecting gloves but thanks for those as well, they seem to work better than the gloves I was
using. The ties are pretty sweet as well. I'm wearing that basketball one right now and I think it's fitting seeing how I'm going to play basketball after this. Oh and the $50 doesn't hurt haha :) Thank you everyone.
Like I said this week was a pretty slow one. I did catch a good amount of the superbowl at a part member home. The kick return by Percy Harvin was sick. I was rooting for the Broncos but I honestly didn't care much. I was happy for the Seahawks. The NFL doesn't mean too much to me.
So we were able to have that movie that thing with the Tyrell's and the Perry's. We did it at the Tyrell's home and it went very well. We haven't talked to the Perry's since (they couldn't come to church because they were having friends over for lunch) then but I sure hope they liked it. We'll just have to see when we see them this week. I think it helped paint a picture for them on how the restoration came to be and how it all happened. I mean we have talked about it obviously but movies can do a much better job then we can at explaining things.
As far as other people go, the Vigil's won't answer their door but we haven't given up. We should be setting something up with a investigator named Neil Kingston for this week. He's really busy and travels a lot so hopefully it works out. He's really good friends with a guy in our ward so that should definitely help. Thanks for all the birthday wishes, everyone. My next one will be at home. That's pretty cool.
It looks like the kids had a fun time at Disneyland. Especially Brynlee. She's getting so darn big. Oh and happy birthday to her as well. And this is super late, but I forgot to say it when it was relevant but happy birthday Heather.
So anyways I hope all is well with everyone. I haven't heard from Austin in a while. Whatevs. I'll act like I don't care. Honey badger don't care. See.
Well have a great week everyone! I love you all!
Love,
Elder Ballif
So this week was a little slow and there isn't much to talk about. So this will probably be short but I will do my best to make it a decent email. So I got the birthday package. Thanks for that. And I opened it up right when I got it of course. The Jazz shorts are pretty neat. I'm wearing them today at basketball so we'll see if they make me play any better haha. I also ate about all of the beef jerky already. You know how I love my beef jerky. Oh and I wasn't expecting gloves but thanks for those as well, they seem to work better than the gloves I was
using. The ties are pretty sweet as well. I'm wearing that basketball one right now and I think it's fitting seeing how I'm going to play basketball after this. Oh and the $50 doesn't hurt haha :) Thank you everyone.
Like I said this week was a pretty slow one. I did catch a good amount of the superbowl at a part member home. The kick return by Percy Harvin was sick. I was rooting for the Broncos but I honestly didn't care much. I was happy for the Seahawks. The NFL doesn't mean too much to me.
So we were able to have that movie that thing with the Tyrell's and the Perry's. We did it at the Tyrell's home and it went very well. We haven't talked to the Perry's since (they couldn't come to church because they were having friends over for lunch) then but I sure hope they liked it. We'll just have to see when we see them this week. I think it helped paint a picture for them on how the restoration came to be and how it all happened. I mean we have talked about it obviously but movies can do a much better job then we can at explaining things.
As far as other people go, the Vigil's won't answer their door but we haven't given up. We should be setting something up with a investigator named Neil Kingston for this week. He's really busy and travels a lot so hopefully it works out. He's really good friends with a guy in our ward so that should definitely help. Thanks for all the birthday wishes, everyone. My next one will be at home. That's pretty cool.
It looks like the kids had a fun time at Disneyland. Especially Brynlee. She's getting so darn big. Oh and happy birthday to her as well. And this is super late, but I forgot to say it when it was relevant but happy birthday Heather.
So anyways I hope all is well with everyone. I haven't heard from Austin in a while. Whatevs. I'll act like I don't care. Honey badger don't care. See.
Well have a great week everyone! I love you all!
Love,
Elder Ballif
Sunday, February 2, 2014
And Walked and walked and.... walked
Hey Family!
How is everyone doing? Our week was pretty good. Probably about as good as you can get without a car. Eh not really but it ended up not being too bad. We did a lot of walking so that was fun. We met Dean's wife. She seems pretty nice and she wants to start taking the lessons as soon as the their apartment is cleaned up a bit. We've offered to help out with that but haven't heard much back haha.
Other than that I don't know. We just walked and walked. We were able to see Danny Rameriz again and he gave us a ride to church and so he stayed the entire time which is something he hasn't done in a long time so that was good. He's a pretty awesome guy. He also has an Xbox One and has shown it to us. It's pretty neat. I haven't played it though ;) I will definitely be looking into one when I get back though ;) So the best part of the week was that we ended up seeing Tom and also Sylvia sat in. We talked to both of them on Saturday and had a pretty good discussion. It's kind of weird how much my knowledge has grown over the past year. They're very logical and intellectual about things and it's neat to see myself be able to answer most of their questions.
Anyways Tom came to church yesterday!!! And brought his whole family. Sylvia couldn't come because it was her friend's birthday and she was going to lunch with her but we'll get her there next week. We are planning to do this movie/game night with the Perry's and the Tyrrell's. We plan on playing Settlers of Catan with them and then after we are going to watch Joseph Smith: Prophet of the Restoration. That should be fun. I'm really happy that Tom was able to make it to church. I don't know what his boy's taught of primary but I know his daughter really liked it. It was great that they were able to stay for the whole 3 hours.
This week we've really focused on being more obedient. I mean I don't think I was ever too bad to begin with but it was just a lot of little things that I feel we're holding me back. This week has been a really good one as far as that goes, and I feel more happy. And now I'm just praying that Tom will receive a witness by February 8th.
Well anyways I hope everyone has a great week! We're getting the car back so we definitely should.
I love you all!
Love,
Elder Ballif
How is everyone doing? Our week was pretty good. Probably about as good as you can get without a car. Eh not really but it ended up not being too bad. We did a lot of walking so that was fun. We met Dean's wife. She seems pretty nice and she wants to start taking the lessons as soon as the their apartment is cleaned up a bit. We've offered to help out with that but haven't heard much back haha.
Other than that I don't know. We just walked and walked. We were able to see Danny Rameriz again and he gave us a ride to church and so he stayed the entire time which is something he hasn't done in a long time so that was good. He's a pretty awesome guy. He also has an Xbox One and has shown it to us. It's pretty neat. I haven't played it though ;) I will definitely be looking into one when I get back though ;) So the best part of the week was that we ended up seeing Tom and also Sylvia sat in. We talked to both of them on Saturday and had a pretty good discussion. It's kind of weird how much my knowledge has grown over the past year. They're very logical and intellectual about things and it's neat to see myself be able to answer most of their questions.
Anyways Tom came to church yesterday!!! And brought his whole family. Sylvia couldn't come because it was her friend's birthday and she was going to lunch with her but we'll get her there next week. We are planning to do this movie/game night with the Perry's and the Tyrrell's. We plan on playing Settlers of Catan with them and then after we are going to watch Joseph Smith: Prophet of the Restoration. That should be fun. I'm really happy that Tom was able to make it to church. I don't know what his boy's taught of primary but I know his daughter really liked it. It was great that they were able to stay for the whole 3 hours.
This week we've really focused on being more obedient. I mean I don't think I was ever too bad to begin with but it was just a lot of little things that I feel we're holding me back. This week has been a really good one as far as that goes, and I feel more happy. And now I'm just praying that Tom will receive a witness by February 8th.
Well anyways I hope everyone has a great week! We're getting the car back so we definitely should.
I love you all!
Love,
Elder Ballif
Monday, January 20, 2014
Enduring to End in Bellevue ;)
Hey Family!
I hope everyone is doing well. Sorry this email is getting out a bit late but we weren't even planning on emailing today with the holiday. But seeing how we have a computer lab in our apartment office, we decided to take advantage of that while we don't have anything to do. Mostly because we don't have a car and it's really windy and crappy outside. It was in the 60's yesterday though haha.
This past week was pretty good. I mean it wasn't the greatest but we did get to see Tom and he's still doing good. He just needs to come to church. His wife is not helping in that aspect. They've been to church once and she thinks it's too boring. She like the "Christian Calvary Church" because it has rock bands and free coffee. I think I'vealready mentioned all of this but whatevs I'm doing it again. Tom mentioned he doesn't want to split up the family by going to a different church so Sylvia just needs to quit being so stubborn.
Other than that nothing too crazy happened. Just another week. I'm getting a little sick of Bellevue so my motivation has taken a hit, but I know I need to keep working and stop worrying about it. I'll get a change of scenery soon enough. But in the meantime I'll make the best of my stay here.
We had a nice talk with a less active member this week. John Peoples. I believe I mentioned him before. He says he's really good at basketball and we clarified with him and he said he "used to" be able to dunk but can't anymore. He's only 29 but I guess he broke his ankle a while back among other things. But he opened up with us and we had a nice talk with him. That was on Saturday and he said he know's he needs to make it to church and said he was going to but he didn't. Why is it so darn hard for people to make it to church? I mean I understand if you have work or something, but if you don't and it's at 11 I can't think of many excuses to not come. But whatever hopefully we can get him to come next week.
Oh but another less active member did come to church today--Danny Rameriz. He is a pretty cool guy. I think his wife was the main underlying reason behind his inactivity. She is on vacation in California or something and now he's pretty easy to go and see and he came to church. Weird how it works out like that.
Speaking of less actives the Brosnan's have not come to church for a long time. I'm pretty sure it's because they're smoking (we've asked them about it but they denied it) and are ashamed or something but since they're denying it, it makes it a pretty tough situation to go about.
But yeah anyways today was a pretty decent day. We played basketball pretty early since no one else is doing emails today. After basketball we went to old market in downtown Omaha and browsed around a bit. Antiques are cool and all but I get pretty bored of them after about 30 minutes. Oh and we did get some lunch at a cheesesteak place called Pepperjack's and it was expensive so sorry about that. But was pretty good so that's neat I guess. Not as good as DP though. We're going tohave to hit that place up when I get back but in the meantime Pepperjacks will suffice.
We don't have the car this week so it should be a fun one. Hopefully we can make it out to the further out places and try to see some people. I'm going to close this up.
I love you all! Have a wonderful week everyone! I hope all the people who are in California are having fun.
Oh I did catch part of the Seattle and 49er game last night. I'll definitely be rooting for the Bronco's haha. Especially after that class act showing by that cornerback in the post game interview. Have a great week everyone!
Love,
Elder Ballif
I hope everyone is doing well. Sorry this email is getting out a bit late but we weren't even planning on emailing today with the holiday. But seeing how we have a computer lab in our apartment office, we decided to take advantage of that while we don't have anything to do. Mostly because we don't have a car and it's really windy and crappy outside. It was in the 60's yesterday though haha.
This past week was pretty good. I mean it wasn't the greatest but we did get to see Tom and he's still doing good. He just needs to come to church. His wife is not helping in that aspect. They've been to church once and she thinks it's too boring. She like the "Christian Calvary Church" because it has rock bands and free coffee. I think I'vealready mentioned all of this but whatevs I'm doing it again. Tom mentioned he doesn't want to split up the family by going to a different church so Sylvia just needs to quit being so stubborn.
Other than that nothing too crazy happened. Just another week. I'm getting a little sick of Bellevue so my motivation has taken a hit, but I know I need to keep working and stop worrying about it. I'll get a change of scenery soon enough. But in the meantime I'll make the best of my stay here.
We had a nice talk with a less active member this week. John Peoples. I believe I mentioned him before. He says he's really good at basketball and we clarified with him and he said he "used to" be able to dunk but can't anymore. He's only 29 but I guess he broke his ankle a while back among other things. But he opened up with us and we had a nice talk with him. That was on Saturday and he said he know's he needs to make it to church and said he was going to but he didn't. Why is it so darn hard for people to make it to church? I mean I understand if you have work or something, but if you don't and it's at 11 I can't think of many excuses to not come. But whatever hopefully we can get him to come next week.
Oh but another less active member did come to church today--Danny Rameriz. He is a pretty cool guy. I think his wife was the main underlying reason behind his inactivity. She is on vacation in California or something and now he's pretty easy to go and see and he came to church. Weird how it works out like that.
Speaking of less actives the Brosnan's have not come to church for a long time. I'm pretty sure it's because they're smoking (we've asked them about it but they denied it) and are ashamed or something but since they're denying it, it makes it a pretty tough situation to go about.
But yeah anyways today was a pretty decent day. We played basketball pretty early since no one else is doing emails today. After basketball we went to old market in downtown Omaha and browsed around a bit. Antiques are cool and all but I get pretty bored of them after about 30 minutes. Oh and we did get some lunch at a cheesesteak place called Pepperjack's and it was expensive so sorry about that. But was pretty good so that's neat I guess. Not as good as DP though. We're going tohave to hit that place up when I get back but in the meantime Pepperjacks will suffice.
We don't have the car this week so it should be a fun one. Hopefully we can make it out to the further out places and try to see some people. I'm going to close this up.
I love you all! Have a wonderful week everyone! I hope all the people who are in California are having fun.
Oh I did catch part of the Seattle and 49er game last night. I'll definitely be rooting for the Bronco's haha. Especially after that class act showing by that cornerback in the post game interview. Have a great week everyone!
Love,
Elder Ballif
Monday, January 13, 2014
Still in Bellevue :)
Hey Family!
How is everyone? I doing pretty well. This will probably be a short email this week but I'll try to make it decent. So this week was transfer week. I'm still in Bellevue haha. Probably 1 more transfer here. That will bring me to February 21st.
How is everyone? I doing pretty well. This will probably be a short email this week but I'll try to make it decent. So this week was transfer week. I'm still in Bellevue haha. Probably 1 more transfer here. That will bring me to February 21st.
Well anyways this week has been a fun also because we have lost our car. We got put into a car share which kind of sucks but whatever. We've done a lot of walking the past few days. Which is fine. I could probably use some more walking.
We have not been able to see the Vigil's this week. Things seem to be cooling down with them. They don't answer the door when it seems like they're home and they don't respond to texts or anything. So yeah that is pretty nice. Whatever I'm sure it'll all work out.
Someone that is doing good is Tom Perry. We brought along a couple in the ward with us to see him. He is doing good. He's still reading (listening) to the Book of Mormon and is praying more. We had a very good lesson with him. It was the Webster's that came with us and Sister Webster is a convert of 2 years and Brother Webster is one of the smartest people in the gospel that I've met. He's very into Church History and all that jazz. We have some deep gospel discussions sometimes so that's fun.
That's about all that is new. This week wasn't very eventful. Other than losing the car and having to walk everywhere. So we should have a car every other week. But yeah I'm doing good. I am a little homesick though. Well I always am but I think the holiday season magnified it. But don't worry about me I'll be fine.
I hope everyone is doing good. How is Austin doing? I have not heard from him for a bit. But anyways I love you guys.
I have read the first 25 pages or so of the book Dad sent on the Prophet Joseph Smith. I like it a lot. Some very interesting stuff. It makes me feel not as bad that I goof around seeing that the Joseph Smith did as well--especially with kids.
Well I'm going to play some ball. Love ya! Say hi to everyone! Have great week everyone.
Love,
Elder Ballif
Love,
Elder Ballif
Monday, January 6, 2014
It Is Cold
Hey Family
How is everyone doing? Things went pretty well this last week here in Bellevue. And to answer your question, Mom, I'll probably be here till February 21st like I've said many times haha. I mean there is a slight chance I could get transferred, but seeing how I'm training that probably won't happen. You're generally locked in for 2 transfers when you're training. But I'm alright with that.
So things here are really cold. And Jenn I don't want to hear your complaining haha. It's -9 right now with a real feel of -30 and it could possibly be -40 later on tonight. Last night I think it got to -13 or so. So yeah it's really cold. Good thing today is P-day. But yeah I guess they canceled school and stuff. They're saying if the proper precautions aren't taken frost bite and hypothermia can occur. I'm dressed pretty warmly and shouldn't be outside too much haha. We're going to play basketball again so that'll be fun. As you may have guessed.
Our investigators are doing well. We found out the name to the mystery guy. He said to come back in 2 weeks though because he said things were pretty busy. His name is Tom. So we have 2 Toms now haha. The original Tom is doing good. He is now in 2 Nephi so that's pretty awesome. He was concerned about the whole Nephi beheading Laban but hopefully he can get over that. We did explain it a little to him but hopefully he accepted the answer or either gets answer from Heavenly Father. So yeah he's doing good.
Also Celeste is doing good. She did say she was going to make it to church but she didn't so that was a little disappointing but Joseph did have work so that probably would've been a little scary for her to go. So hopefully next week. But with her not coming her baptismal date will need to be pushed back since you need to have gone to church 3 times before you can get baptized, at least in this mission. So February 1st could be the date. We'll have to figure that out.
I had some really good finds at goodwill today. ;) I found the suit I've been looking for, for my entire mission. It's a very light gray suit and it's a Chaps. So it's an almost brand new suit and it was 8 bucks. I think it would have been around 300 bucks originally. And I got a nice purple argyle sweater. It's pretty neat. So yeah I'm still hunting for things at goodwill. Oh and I got some almost brand new black dress shoes. Gotta love Goodwill.
How is everyone doing? Things went pretty well this last week here in Bellevue. And to answer your question, Mom, I'll probably be here till February 21st like I've said many times haha. I mean there is a slight chance I could get transferred, but seeing how I'm training that probably won't happen. You're generally locked in for 2 transfers when you're training. But I'm alright with that.
So things here are really cold. And Jenn I don't want to hear your complaining haha. It's -9 right now with a real feel of -30 and it could possibly be -40 later on tonight. Last night I think it got to -13 or so. So yeah it's really cold. Good thing today is P-day. But yeah I guess they canceled school and stuff. They're saying if the proper precautions aren't taken frost bite and hypothermia can occur. I'm dressed pretty warmly and shouldn't be outside too much haha. We're going to play basketball again so that'll be fun. As you may have guessed.
Our investigators are doing well. We found out the name to the mystery guy. He said to come back in 2 weeks though because he said things were pretty busy. His name is Tom. So we have 2 Toms now haha. The original Tom is doing good. He is now in 2 Nephi so that's pretty awesome. He was concerned about the whole Nephi beheading Laban but hopefully he can get over that. We did explain it a little to him but hopefully he accepted the answer or either gets answer from Heavenly Father. So yeah he's doing good.
Also Celeste is doing good. She did say she was going to make it to church but she didn't so that was a little disappointing but Joseph did have work so that probably would've been a little scary for her to go. So hopefully next week. But with her not coming her baptismal date will need to be pushed back since you need to have gone to church 3 times before you can get baptized, at least in this mission. So February 1st could be the date. We'll have to figure that out.
I had some really good finds at goodwill today. ;) I found the suit I've been looking for, for my entire mission. It's a very light gray suit and it's a Chaps. So it's an almost brand new suit and it was 8 bucks. I think it would have been around 300 bucks originally. And I got a nice purple argyle sweater. It's pretty neat. So yeah I'm still hunting for things at goodwill. Oh and I got some almost brand new black dress shoes. Gotta love Goodwill.
This week we had a Trainer/Trainee meeting so that was fun. The trainers and trainees split up and got trained on things pertaining to what they're doing. And we got pizza afterwards so that was nice.
Well I need to get going. Sorry if I wasn't able to answer any questions or respond to enough things. Maybe you could highlight some of the things you want me to address and I'll see what I can do.
I love you all! Have a wonderful and safe week!
Love,
Elder Ballif
Love,
Elder Ballif
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