Wow how time flies when you are having fun! I can't believe that it is already the middle of the month and well quite frankly yesterday was the 1st of the month!! This month has literally flown by and well i'm not sure what to say! we found a new investigator this week and well it's been kinda rough teaching him and her both! wow! Alfonzo is a mexican american how he passed the entrance exam is beyond me, but he doesn't sign american sign language or read english so i'm taking it on me to learn a little MSL ( Mexican Sign Language ) It has been real fun! Then Olivia she comes from a really tough life of curiosity and pleasure! She loves the missionaries and the gospel as she recognizes that it helps her to find peace! They have been progressing pretty slow it seems because of their language barrier and their education level, but the lord has been preparing them and is helping them to work towards the goal of baptism!
Things in the mission are changing and they are rather awesome changes! You'll probably hear about them in church news and in the weeks to follow we have zone training and interviews this week so we will see how that goes! :) lots of new things coming our way we are told! so I'm really looking forward to that! The president is looking to change the face of this mission completely! It's gonna be awesome! Can't wait!
Well gotta run!!
Love you all!
_\../ Elder Karlson \../_
Arizona Tucson Mission "Saves Souls"
939 W Chapala Drive
Tucson, AZ 85704
Tuesday, October 18, 2011
11 October 2011
Well it has been a rather interesting week and a pretty rough one too! The Work is very slow and well the Back pain has been through the roof!
We found 2 news this last week one last night and one last week thursday! The one last night has just had an abortion and struggles a lot with repentance and recieving forgiveness! The lord will help her and us as we help her to get though it! The other is a 65-70 year old man from mexico. He signs what it called LSM ( Language of Sign Mexican ) It has been a real challenge espically with a companion who can't sign and who can't understand what i am saying! it is really difficult, but there is still hope! the lord has put me in this situation to learn something, even if it is just that I can do hard things! He knows what he is doing and well I guess I haven't yet learned something that I need to learn! I will be getting a new companion next transfer. That will be a few days prior to Thanks giving! on the 22nd! The Lord loves us and is helping us to prepare his children now and in the future for others to follow!
_\../ Elder Karlson \../_
Arizona Tucson Mission "Saves Souls"
939 W Chapala Drive
Tucson, AZ 85704
We found 2 news this last week one last night and one last week thursday! The one last night has just had an abortion and struggles a lot with repentance and recieving forgiveness! The lord will help her and us as we help her to get though it! The other is a 65-70 year old man from mexico. He signs what it called LSM ( Language of Sign Mexican ) It has been a real challenge espically with a companion who can't sign and who can't understand what i am saying! it is really difficult, but there is still hope! the lord has put me in this situation to learn something, even if it is just that I can do hard things! He knows what he is doing and well I guess I haven't yet learned something that I need to learn! I will be getting a new companion next transfer. That will be a few days prior to Thanks giving! on the 22nd! The Lord loves us and is helping us to prepare his children now and in the future for others to follow!
_\../ Elder Karlson \../_
Arizona Tucson Mission "Saves Souls"
939 W Chapala Drive
Tucson, AZ 85704
3 October 2011
This is once another week of some exciting things and well many new blessings! the Lord has been helping us to continue and to find those who are ready to recieve the gospel. We have been looking for a few new people to teach and it has been pretty difficult for us to find anyone recently. we have a few referrals, but no one has been home...
We had an awesome baptism this week during general conference sessions and I had the opportunity to baptise her! We need to find some new priesthood holders though it seems like we have been teaching women and baptising them and no new priesthood. The Stake president was worried about that some as well as the mission and Branch president. we will do our best and the Lord will make up the difference.
So General Conference WOOOOOOW!!! That is about all that I can say about that!!! It was awesome to watch and to see the bretheren speak right to us!!!
So some of the really cool talks that I enjoyed were 1 from Elder neil L Andersen in the Saturday session and the From Jeffery R Holland in Priesthood meeting! WOW!
Take a watch at that one for sure and if you want to see it even more violent with jeffery R hollands talk pull up the interpreter! WOW! Well it has been a pretty amazing week to say the least, but now it is time to go back to work and "save some souls"!
Know I love you! Have an amazing week!
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_\../ Elder Karlson \../_
Arizona Tucson Mission "Saves Souls"
939 W Chapala Drive
Tucson, AZ 85704
We had an awesome baptism this week during general conference sessions and I had the opportunity to baptise her! We need to find some new priesthood holders though it seems like we have been teaching women and baptising them and no new priesthood. The Stake president was worried about that some as well as the mission and Branch president. we will do our best and the Lord will make up the difference.
So General Conference WOOOOOOW!!! That is about all that I can say about that!!! It was awesome to watch and to see the bretheren speak right to us!!!
So some of the really cool talks that I enjoyed were 1 from Elder neil L Andersen in the Saturday session and the From Jeffery R Holland in Priesthood meeting! WOW!
Take a watch at that one for sure and if you want to see it even more violent with jeffery R hollands talk pull up the interpreter! WOW! Well it has been a pretty amazing week to say the least, but now it is time to go back to work and "save some souls"!
Know I love you! Have an amazing week!
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_\../ Elder Karlson \../_
Arizona Tucson Mission "Saves Souls"
939 W Chapala Drive
Tucson, AZ 85704
26 september 2011
This week has been rather different in more ways than one!! We have been working for the goal of finding a new investigator. we have yet to find one, but we have been searching our hardest and praying A LOT! yes it's been tough, but well worth it! We started the week off really busy since our investigator last week who was baptised on Friday didn't show up for her confirmation. come to find out she got suck far away at her sisters house and missed the last bus to town and the next bus doesn't come until 10 am Sunday morning then the 2 hour ride across town just well we'll put it this way didn't make it to church!!! We continued to teach her and help her to understand the importance of the holy ghost in the process of baptism and becoming a member of the church! she was confirmed by me yesterday during Sacrament meeting! it was awesome! we had the Most people there in the branch and possibly set a record for number in attendance to the branch ever! 57:) awesome! :) We have another baptism planned for this Saturday October 1st. we have been teaching her almost my whole mission and has finally decided that it is more important for her to be baptised than to live with her boyfriend! :) The lord is preparing people every day for us to find and as we are prepared he will bless us and help us in his work!!!
This week we had the opportunity to go to a Deaf Festival. The mission paid for a booth so that we could have a place there to expose the church to the deaf community! we recieved 4 refferals and a few other people we were teaching before told us to come back and one told us that "She wanted to be a Mormon" :) That is the missionaries happiest day when someone comes and says they want it! :)
The work goes well and well it's starting to cool off!!! NOT COOL! it is 85 and I have my sweater on and i'm freezing in the buildings! wow! well gotta run!!!
Love you!
_\../ Elder Karlson \../_
Arizona Tucson Mission "Saves Souls"
939 W Chapala Drive
Tucson, AZ 85704
This week we had the opportunity to go to a Deaf Festival. The mission paid for a booth so that we could have a place there to expose the church to the deaf community! we recieved 4 refferals and a few other people we were teaching before told us to come back and one told us that "She wanted to be a Mormon" :) That is the missionaries happiest day when someone comes and says they want it! :)
The work goes well and well it's starting to cool off!!! NOT COOL! it is 85 and I have my sweater on and i'm freezing in the buildings! wow! well gotta run!!!
Love you!
_\../ Elder Karlson \../_
Arizona Tucson Mission "Saves Souls"
939 W Chapala Drive
Tucson, AZ 85704
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