Great Week!

Well let's see... Last Wednesday we had another mission conference!  This one was pretty special though.  It was the iPad training conference! Elder Schwitzer of the 2nd Quorum of the Seventy came, along with Brother Gonzalez from the Missionary Department, to train us on how to use iPads.  And we will be receiving our iPads in about 2 weeks when we have our Zone Conferences.  It's pretty cool!  We will be able to do a lot of stuff with them. Sadly, everyone going home before Nov 18 will not be able to keep their iPads though.  So I will only get to use a loaner for a few weeks.  Things like social media come later too.  They roll the iPads out in stages.  So chances are we will start using Facebook and Skype and stuff, a week or so before I come home haha.  Too bad.  It'll be cool though!  And we won't get iPhones or anything.  It's cool though. Picture this:  I have an investigator that I am teaching through skype.  He/she needs more fellowshippers and help.  So on the next Skype call with that investigator, YOU join us over skype and help me teach!  And you can be his/her fellowshipper too!  That is something that could actually happen in a couple months.  Crazy!!

Tom is still doing really well too! He had his interview last week and he is ready to go! He is super excited for Saturday!  And Kimberly is doing really well too! Her daughter is progressing a little slower and probably won't be baptized on the 13th with her mom, but I think she will still be baptized.  We are focusing a little more on Kimberly though at the moment.  

The other super cool thing that happened this week was on Saturday.  We were walking down the road and this girl who was out jogging ran past us. Well, like 10 minutes later she came running up behind us again and asked if we were Mormons.  She then asked us if we could teach her everything about Mormons haha.  So we walked up the road with her to her house and taught her the first two discussions, and answered tons of questions. Her name is Paige!  She is super nice. And we have another lesson with her tonight! So that was pretty cool.  

And let's see.... Oh I was sad to hear about Elder Perry. He was one of my favorites.  This week is the last week of transfers as well. So next Monday I will know if I'm staying or leaving.  Crazy! 

It's so crazy that school is already out! And even crazier to think I'll be home before it starts again haha.  I'll definitely be praying for grandpa though!  That's a long drive out there! 

Well, I hope you all have a great week! Love you!

Love, Elder Wise

Woohoo!

Well this last week was pretty awesome!! We had a great lesson with Kimberly and her daughter Tara and they are both on date for June 13!  And Tom is still on track to be baptized on the 6th.  He will be having his interview this week!  He is soooo awesome!  He's been going around to all of his neighbors and praying with them, and sharing the gospel.  He is the best! Haha

On Saturday we had a ward party.  We were the ones who kind of organized the whole thing.  Along with Brother Otis, the WML, and it went really really well!  We watched Meet The Mormons in the cultural hall, and had cotton candy and popcorn machines going.  People brought things to share as well, and it turned out great!  We probably had 60 or so people there, as well as the Katomski's, Tom, and a couple other non-members!  It was awesome!  (We definitely need to invest in a cotton candy machine, just saying)  

And for Memorial day we ended up taking a hike up to a waterfall which was pretty fun.  An RM who just returned took us.  Wyatt Massey is his name. He's super cool.  It was a lot of fun! I'll try to send some pics home.  And after the hike we ate dinner with the Bogh's.  The people who let us skype for mothers day.  We had delicious homemade burgers and stuff. Yummy! 

SO yeah, I think that's the main highlights of the week.  Sorry I don't have much time to email today.  I'll try to send some pics.  

Love you guys!! Have a great week!  

Love, Elder Wise

The waterfall-Forest Falls

And this rolled in while we were getting lunch today at taco bell!  Yucaipa is so fun

Hey hey hey!

Well this week was pretty great!  We had a lot of good stuff happen.  Let's start with Tom Yun.  He was sick for a large portion of the week but we were finally able to meet with him on Saturday.  The plan was teach him about the Word of Wisdom.  So we go and we teach him about it. When we got to the part about not drinking Coffee or Tea, he started freaking out a little bit. "No tea?!? No Coffee?!?  That's like all I drink"  So we tried to calm him down a little bit when he said "Why didn't you tell me about this sooner?!  I would've quit drinking it weeks ago!"  Haha we were so happy!  But he was really quite mad that we hadn't told him earlier.  So now all he drinks is herbal tea, and hot chocolate.  It went well!!

The other good news of the week is that Kimberly is back!  Remember her?  It was always just super hard to meet with her.  But she had an appointment with the bishop, and she told him that she has been praying about it a lot and would really like to be baptized!!  And she also told her mom that.  So we have an appointment with her tonight.  It's going to be great!   

We also got several referrals this week which was nice.  None of them have really panned out yet, but that's ok.  

Well, I think that's all the main news of the week.  Oh wait.  Brother Katomski went into the hospital on Friday and it turns out that he had appendicitis!  So he got his appendix removed on Saturday.  That was kind of exciting.  

Ok, now I think that's all the exciting stuff.  I'm glad to hear that you all had a pretty good week!  It's been raining here in Cali too!  It's been nice.  I'm sorry to hear about grandma walker though.  She was so nice.  

I think being an assistant coach would be pretty cool! That sounds fun! 

Well, I hope you all have a fantastic week!! Love you guys! 

Love, Elder Wise :)

Pretty good week!!

Well it was so great to be able to see you guys yesterday!!! Skyping is so fun!

Let's see, this week was pretty good!  We were able to see Tom quite a few times which was good. He is progressing really well! He came to church and enjoyed it.  We will be teaching him the word of wisdom this week.  He does smoke but he says he's already been trying to quite, just for health reasons, so now that he has the Book of Mormon, he'll be fine! The Katomski's are doing ok, but man...agency is so frustrating.  

We were also able to see Roger a couple times this week. He's doing pretty good!  We read from the book of mormon with him.  We also made a new friend who's name is Chip!  He is a gopher that lives in Roger's front yard.  He is a very brave gopher.  We can feed him and Elder Landgrave even petted him once! Don't worry, we make sure he doesn't bite us.  Wouldn't want to get rabies or something haha.  

But anyways, I think that's about it for the update this week.  I hope you all have a fantabulous week!!  The church is true :)

Love, Elder Wise

Hello!!!

Hey hey!! Well this week was pretty good!  It was sad to say goodbye to Elder Chavez but Elder Landgrave is pretty great.  He is from St Louis Missouri.  He's the youngest of 6 kids (by 9 years), and he is actually from the same stake as Elder Stafford which is kind of cool.  And he loves biking.  So he's kind of sad it's a car area haha.  And he's super funny!  We have a good time. 

So on Monday we had a good lesson with Carmen Mueller (who is the mom) but she isn't really interested in learning more about the church. She still wants her kids to go to YW and stuff though so we might be able to still teach her kids.  Hopefully!   And then Chavez left on Wednesday.  We had a great lesson with Tom Yun on thursday, and he's on date to be baptized on June 6!  And he is pretty excited about it! He is awesome.  And the Katomski's are doing alright.  The two daughters don't really want to learn about it anymore and they won't be getting baptized anymore, at least not anytime soon.  There is still hope for the mom and dad though! We will see.  

Well it sounds like you all had a pretty good week!  Congrats Lars on the mission call!!  That's so awesome!  I have some friends in that mission I think.  It sounds like your week will be pretty insane! Fun though!  I can't wait to talk to you on Sunday!  We will probably do it sunday afternoon sometime.  We are still trying to find a place to do it.  I don't think it will be a problem though.  Our church get's out at 2 so it will be sometime between 2 and 5.  

Well, I think that's about it.  I hope you all have a fantastic week!!  Love you all!  See you on sunday :)

Love, Elder Wise 

Suspense...

Alright here it goes.  Wait for iiiiiiiiiiiiiiit.......  Elder Chavez is being transferred to Fontana to be with Elder Stafford, and I'll be staying here in Yucaipa!!  My new companion is Elder Landgrave.  He's a cool guy.  I haven't served around him before, but I've heard a lot about him.  So it'll be a good transfer I'm sure.

This last week was pretty good!  We found a few investigators which was really nice!!  One of them is named Tom Yun.  He's South Korean!  He just showed up at our scripture study class on Wednesday, and then we started teaching him!  So that was pretty cool.  He's 75 and super funny.  We gave him a Korean Book of Mormon and he loves it!  He has already read quite a bit.  And he came to church!  We also picked up a lady named Danielle and her brother Erik.  They are the brother and sister of a member in the ward.  We had a good lesson with them and they even invited us to come back.  So we will be seeing them again this week.  And tonight we have an appointment set up to meet with the Mueller family, who are the neighbors of one of the members.  The members have been working with the Muellers for quite a while, and now they are ready for missionaries!  So we will be picking them up as investigators tonight.  It's a mom, 2 daughters, and a son.  The husband works a lot and probably won't be there.  We are excited though! 

So yeah that's about the update for this week!  I'm glad you all had a good week!  Wow, that Hades thing looked awesome!! Way to go Sadie!!  And Congratulations Lucie on your math stuff!! That's so awesome!!  You're going to be smarter than I am.  Grandpa T and Grandpa Wise need to be careful!  They need to be around for a long time still.  And that's great about Brody! Tell him I say congrats!  

Well, I hope you all have a fantastic week!! The church is true! :)

Love, Elder Wise

Hello!

Well this last week was pretty good.  Not a whole lot happened.  The Katomski's were pretty busy this week so we didn't really get to meet with them a whole lot.  They are still doing well though, and progressing.  Which is good!   We didn't pick up any new investigators this week, but we have some really good solid potentials for the next couple days which is nice.  So we are looking forward to this week!

Yesterday we had a missionary fireside for the ward.  President Van Cott came and spoke at it.  It was really good!  Mostly just talking about member missionary work.  Elder Chavez and I missed most of it because of other appointments, but we did catch the end, and then had some great dessert!  So that was pretty cool.  

This is the last week of the transfer, so I will know next monday whether I am staying in Yucaipa for another 6 weeks or not.  I guess we will see!  I really have no guess as to whether or not I'll be staying or going.  Anything could happen.

Let's see...yeah I think that's about it.  Glad everything is going well at home though!  I can't wait to see where Lars will be going! That's so exciting! Tell Aunt Susan hi for me. And I will definitely read that talk by Pres. Benson!  It sounds really good! 

Riley is getting married? Good for him!  Yeah I know Shani.  At least I think I do. And Jared is getting married too? That's awesome!  No, I don't think I ever met Alyssa.  That's awesome!   Haha and I would love to help Lucie with her soccer when I get home! That would be super fun! 

Well I hope you all have a fantastic week!!  Missionary work is the greatest :) 

Love Elder Wise