Fabulous fantastic february finding frenzy!

 Feb. 27th 2012

 

 

This past month President Summerhays gathered the mission together for some new announcements that changed the mission. He talked about many things, and systems put in place to make sure that missionaries are taking care of their cars and apartments. One of which was a new box that would be put into every mission car. They are called black boxes or "Tiwi's". They monitor speed, jarring, braking, location, and even vocals. It's about a $700 investment for each, but they believe it will help save the church money on cars (there are some NASTY drivers out here). And if at any time a missionary goes out of his mission it automatically phones president Summerhays (yes it's a phone too). So a lot of missionaries will be kept under a thumb for a while but I believe it is good. (half that stuff doesn't apply to me anyway, that's probably why I'm so casual about it). And another part was all aisoft guns, bb guns, etc be returned home. This was put in place primarily due to another missionary's unwise actions.

 

He also told us of a new plan, a Fabulous, Fantastic, February, Finding, Frenzy. We've have been concentrating so much on the Ward mission Plan and lessons, that unfortunately finding has decreased, so this month we tried new ways of finding and helping people with service. It was pretty cool, we actually went out and found people at basketball courts after 6pm and invited them to come play with us in a lighted gym. Boy were they happy! We also cleaned yards and helped people with odd jobs, etc. I also had the opportunity to go and do a bible study! The lady there actually served in El Salvador too. But she was from another church. They asked us to help teach the lesson and bear our testimonies! It was so cool! Very Spiritual! We also met a guy that an elder ran into while tracting there, so it was really awesome!

 

Overall everything is going well and I hope to see you all soon! Only 166 days left!!!! btw we are having transfers in a couple days and Fangupo is leaving and Elder Neilson is coming.

 

Happy Birthday to:

 

Dustin Lobato

Tami Proksch

Traci Knowles

and Tracy Brown!!!!

 

~Elder Nessen