Wednesday, January 26, 2011

24 January 2011

yo yo yo,

Freakin awesome week this week! 3 new investigators and alot of fun! Elder Bohman and I have been teaching the nepal family for the last few days and have to "blue box" yeah that is full out acting! maybe the stuff i learned in the plays will help out! but we have acted out the first lesson of the Restoration and have started into the Plan of Salvation! if you can imagine what my turn on earth looked like now think of a missionaries version in silence and no music! haha! I just picked up my companion from the mission office and well we are now in a threesome for the next week and possibly longer! Elder Bohman Elder Bradley and me! I is gonna be a huge blast!!! he is a fun elder ready to work and loves to play too! :) Love it here! Gotta run!!! I know it is kind of short this week sorry but with all the regular stuff and the new missionary coming in time is almost out!
I love you all!

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_\../ Elder Karlson \../_



1840 East River Road Ste 102
Tucson, AZ 85718

korbyn.karlson@myldsmail.net

Tuesday, January 18, 2011

18 January 2011

Alrighty, so the wek of the 18th as it is to be called I guess! it has been a crazy crazy week! we got to see the President this week that was kinda cool, but only as he drove by in a super black Chevy Tahoe... The police have been on a higher alert these past weeks espically the motorbike police! they are all over! There were TV stations for miles and miles with satellites and all on top of them! they were the big big big stations not just the local stations! It was really cool!!! any way the week here has been nuts!! we didn't have p-day yesterday and all 1 reason no email because on monday with MLK day and all nothing was open to email, but the other is we are going to the temple tomorrow!!! :) Also many other things are coming our way in the very near future. We have the new missionary next monday coming in so that could mean that email next week could be messed up hardcore, that also means I am getting a new companion. I'm not for sure when he flies in or anything so it could be a pretty crazy day!!! We found 3 new investigators yesterday and well these ones are going to be a test of our faith and diligence and will help us to develop true love for them! they have NO language skills at all one can sign very little, home and baby sings is all!! it's crazy! They think that God and Jesus Christ are deaf and that all hearing people are the spawn of satan, but we have the faith and desire to change that!
We ahve been chainging our focus recently on how we teach people! We have gone from telling them what they are doing is bad and they need to stop, to teaching them the basics and focusing our teaching on the atonement and the ability to repent and be forgiven! it has truly helped alot and has helped them to really progress and change faster! The Lord knows the best and we just have to Listen and do as he teaches us!
This week I have been studying the Role of the Holy Ghost in conversion Chapter 2 on effective study the second section! it has really helped and benefited the work here and has helped for those we meet and myself to truly listen and recognize the prompting of the spirit!
This work is a Slow process, but I can't believe how the time has flown! if feels just like yesterday that I went into the MTC, and even though the month at home seemed like an eternity, the year flew by! as I look back it seems like so much has changed and life here has become much more grounded in the teachings of jesus christ! effective study every morening is where is starts. I can notice the days I don't have such an effective study are the days that the day doesn't go as well!
I love it here! the temperature is now getting hotter and hotter and before I know it I will be freezing again! scary January is almost over, but a new one is to come!
Take care! Love you all!

_\../ Elder Karlson \../_



1840 East River Road Ste 102
Tucson, AZ 85718

korbyn.karlson@myldsmail.net

Monday, January 10, 2011

10 January 2011

Alrighty! so the update for the week and well the news too...
I just start out by telling you a little information about the shooting and telling you that all is well here. We are not far from where it took place but all places have hyped up security and all is well here! There were 6 deaths and 18 injured. one of which was a young girl who was 9 years old. The 22 year old man who did the shooting was taken down at the scene and is going to be put through trial today at 4 pm in phoenix.

This week has been full of many amazing things! many new challenges and with the heat and the extreme cold for us here comes alot of sickness! that's right! runny noses, headaches, the whole nine yards. crazy!
Yesterday was a truly humbling day along with Saturday. This week we have me so many new deaf people the work is just exploding here so much we have no time to do it all!

Saturday Elder Bohman and I went to help an older couple with some service, and I truly realized how blessed I was to have a body that works even if it is hindered a little every once in a while. The 2 people we went to visit one is in a wheelchair and suffers from post polio, fiber mi alga ( i don't know how to spell it but you get the picture), and something else, along with back surgery and even more and the Sister just had back surgery and is going in to fix the surgery she just had because it wasn't done right. The Kerastas family is so cool!

Yesterday being Sunday we tried to visit all the people we could that didn't go to church, most of those included the Less or Inactive people in the Branch. We went to one man, Michael Bley, and explained to him that drinking beer was wrong and that he needed to stop now and not in april. I was so bold it wasn't me! the Spirit truly took over. We also went to visit one of our investigators Veronica Williams, She has had a rough life, but she came to church yesterday and was interviewed for baptism, which she didn't quite pass because of a Law of Chastity problem. I wish she would just move out, or well first have the money to move to a new apartment and could get away from her boy friend that just takes advantage of her! we have been working with her for the last few months and she has come a long way hoping she will come even that much more before she is to enter the waters of baptism. Can't wait!

This week our Brand new truck broke down and well you can see the pile of junk we took out and set on the side of the road so it could be towed! :) Nice... thanks Chevy!

Well the pictures this week are of the recent campaign ads for the church here! they are advertisments of the new remodeled church website Mormon.org. check it out! :) awesome well Over and out!!


Love you all!

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_\../ Elder Karlson \../_



1840 East River Road Ste 102
Tucson, AZ 85718

korbyn.karlson@myldsmail.net

Monday, January 3, 2011

03 January 2011

Ok so this week has been crazy! fast and slow at the same time!! lots of new stuff happening! we found a new investigator this week her name is christina she is truly ready for the gospel and has been taking the lessons from the spanish missionaries for a while the they called us and asked us to come over! she is almost completely deaf but has been reading their lips! ooh no they have confused her some, but that will all be straightened out soon!! it is truly a blessing to be able to teach instead of just finding or searching for people to teach!! we have been truly blessed the last few weeks! New years holiday was this week and that slows down the work a little! many people don't like to be bothered by missionaries during the holiday so they won't answer the door when they see who it is! it is kind of frustrating!!! Lot is happening and is yet to happen. we are looking forward for the new missionary coming here in well about 2 weeks and a half or so! Life is great here! the weather has been suuuuuuuuuuuuuuper cold this week got down as low as 27! crazy!!!! and is snowed in the mountains as you can see in the pictures! i hope you enjoy some of these pictures! take care and have an awesome week! :)

love you!
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_\../ Elder Karlson \../_