Casey's email 8-27-2012

my new comp is Elder Ker. hes from provo utah and hes been out for 9.5  months now.. he came from a high baptism area and he says its unacceptable to have so little investigators.. so we bringin it up... hes awesome.. 

this weeks been great.. Elder ker and i have been doing so much work. we are determined to get these two wards up. we got 1 more solid investigator from a part member family and he says he knows joseph smith was a prophet and stuff... hes just not ready in this part of his life he says... so we shall see how it all goes..

So I've been with my new companion for a week and a half now. hes pretty much amazing and we have the coolest room mates now... Elder Ker and i are working so dang hard. we are starting to see improvements already!. we have gotten 4 new potentials and we have 2 investigators now. our goal for this transfer is 7 baptisms because there is so much potential with part member families and such. people just like to be difficult so we just have to beat them over the head with the spirit haha...

we are tracting every night every day. we found these apartment places in our area (they were hiding from us) and so we are tackling like 20 doors in half an hour.. so we are doing good.. we keep getting potentials and we just have to keep following up with them to make them progressing investigators... I've got faith in this area and my new companion!! :)

things are cooling down very slowly... but its still hot and humid... i miss snow.. and cold weather.. the day i see 30 degrees ill be so happy...
 

uhm lets see here.. there really isn't anything else to talk about.. no crazy miracles this week.. just lots of hard work and tracting... sorry this is so short guys..and i finally recieved a letter in the mail!! first one in roughly 4 weeks....hah except the package from lake powell...

Casey's email 8-20-2012

we got to go to the Marine corps museum!

im a flippin giant... from left to right. my old DL Elder hussey then his comp elder chung from china. then elder bentley and me... elder hussey as of this transfer is now my Zone leader..

Casey's email 8-13-2012

well we do nothing but tract so i have lots of different experiences. we've had everything from people calling the cops on us to crazy baptists pretty much pulling us in the house to give us water...  we meet a lot of preachers/ministers. everyone around here think they are saved because i know god exists or crazy things like "gos spoke to me through my dog hah" and things like that... we've been yelled at, cursed at, flipped off, hugged, and almost kissed.. hahah its such a variety of people here... Buddhist-Baptist to Catholics and Muslim... i don't know if i told you but we had the opportunity to have a lesson with our investigator and president at the mission home... it was amazing! president riggs is the most spiritual guy I've ever met... he is bound to be an apostle soon!!. so this catholic is 19 years old and is big into logic's.. we talked about things from happiness being relative or objective to god and whether he is a linear god or if he himself have his own god he looks up to and all this crazy stuff... after the lesson president called us and was like i advise you to discontinue all communication with this kid because he is just trying to convert you to Catholicism. sooo.. as of right now we have 1 investigator in prince william and a whopping ZERO investigators in bristow ward. transfers are this Thursday. zone conferences are once a month. district meetings are once a week. ive only had one companion(my trainer.) we have 1 lesson a week. .we have 0 member presents. i still don't know what its like to teach a real full lesson.. they've all just been question and answer lessons with the same person. we find 0 investigators a week. we can stay out till 930 if teaching a lesson. muscle strength is great.. im on creatine. my muscles are 17.5 and solid as a rock. i now flex in my suit and my sleeve is so tight i cant pinch any fabric.. i just do shopping emailing and letters and sports on p-day.. nothing out of the ordinary.. we are going to the marine museum at quantico today tho..we get $165 a month for food and such... so not much.. im sorry i don't write just normal emails.. ill try to do it but i just don't know what to write about lol

well its been about 85 this past weeks so its been a bit chilly... at 85 is when we turn the ac off and just roll down the windows...

       

we have CVS.. our other stores here are Giant, Food lion, Harris Teeters, and walmart

well lets see here... so we got pranked by our district leader a few days ago and our roomate elder forrest got suuuper upset... it was funny cause the district leaders came over while my companion and i were home but they were so quiet we didn't even know they were there so they messed up the place then dipped out.. we had this super long talk with forrest so he wouldn't call president. i did most the talking. forrest kept coming up with ideas to try and prove me wrong and make me feel sorry for him. but in the end i got him to apologize to everyone. he told us he was bullied in high school and his entire life goal is to get revenge on anyone who tries to mess with him... so he just tries to make everyone feel bad 

 

Woodbridge Zone Conference

Woodbridge Zone Conference

Casey's email 8-6-2012

hah funny story... so we've been working with this investigator for about a month now and he came up with this question that we couldn't answer... we got the dale city elders involved and they couldn't answer the question either so we decided to introduce him to president Riggs.... president Riggs is so amazing and in tune with the spirit... we had a 3 hour lesson at the mission home.. the whole time we talked about objectivity and relativity... all this crazy stuff... president kept answering this kids questions and they were PERFECT answers.... but the kid kept twisting and changing his ideas and kept contradicting himself... in the end when we got back to our apartment president called us and was like..."hes a great guy and i loved talking with him but i feel strongly about you needing to drop him because he is trying to convert you to Catholicism..." haha so hes gone... and this kid is only 19... crazy smart..

... i miss lake powell... make sure you keep those waverunners up and running so you can still have some fun!... and if calli goes make sure she does some sweet wakeboarding for me!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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family before friends coco... hah i bet she hasn't heard that one for a while :P

 Teaching.. hah well saying we lost our one main investigator... it slowed way down.. but we are doing everything we can to progress... comps cool... transfers are coming up on the 16th.. hes getting transfer trunky.. he really wants to leave..

My finger's great! i get my stitches out today 

did i tell you i met sister cook of the general yw presidency, she was here for the youth conference.. i played scrabble in front of her.. jha

My companion drew this...shark against penguin... dodge verse a nissan... hah.. his favorite car and animal vs. my favorite car and animal