Fam,
Wazzzzzzzzz happenin? I just received a new companion this week. His name is Elder Delucchi; I'm not sure but i might have already told you that. He's super awesome and we are doing a lot of good in St. Cloud. Just so yall know I'm doing great and a lot better so don't worry too much about me.
Well first off we have two baptismal dates for the eleventh of April. We are super excited and are going to set two more with the children of Michael Meadows. He is one that we've set a baptismal date with. We are really looking forward to the next couple of weeks out here. There really is so much to do in our area of St. Cloud.
Probably the best news of all is that we are going to have a zone conference next month and none other than elder Jeffery R. Holland is going to preside booyahh. We are soooooooooo lucky wow. In fact I'm super excited for conference to hear our prophet speak to us.
I'm very grateful for all that yall are doing for me and all the blessings I've been receiving.
love Elder Judd
Monday, March 30, 2009
Monday, March 23, 2009
March 23, 2009
Familly,
First off i would like to say that I'm sad Marci that you did not send me a list of instructions for card for talking. I was really looking forward to playing it on this wonderful fine p-day, but who knows maybe you sent them in the mail because that would be better anyways.
Well hopefully yall don't think i'm just playin on my mission. Oh this is definitely hard work, in fact just today i said good bye to my companion who's going home on Wednesday. In fact i will meet my new companion on Tuesday, his name is Elder Delluchi. I'm way excited to meet him and get out teaching and all.
Well I've had a few sweet experiences this week and a couple from hard day's I'd experienced. This week, as yall who've been on mission can relate with, i had a couple of days where i didn't want to go out and work at all. Shocker i know who wouldn't want to go share this message to the world huh. Well I did go out and work anyways and really was blessed. We had a pretty tough week finding new investigators this week though. People most of the time seem very interested but that's usually where it ends. In fact we'll get done teaching them and ask them when we can come and teach them again and they will say uh just stop by some time when truly they have no desire to learn more.
Well because of this hard week I've been able to learn that doing are Heavenly fathers work is not always going to be fun. In fact some times it's going to be down right hard to get out of the house and start tracting. But when i went to church I saw one the coolest things I've ever seen in my life. Throughout sacrament meeting, which was super spiritual, the speakers spoke on tithing. They told of the blessings that truly come because of paying our tithing. They also hit on the subject a little in Elders quorum. Well to get to the point we have an investigator who's been to church twice and is super excited. We've only had the chance to teach him once without his kids. We only taught him the restoration and really introduced him to the Book of Mormon. After church he came up to me and asked me what the branch number was to put on!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
HIS TITHING SLIP OH MY GOODNESS
He had engulfed the principle of tithing before we had even taught him about it. We are going to set a date with him on Wednesday and I'm super excited for him. I've never seen something so eternally joyful in my life.
I'm way excited for Michael Meadows, I know he will experience the blessings from paying his tithing and will receive an answer if he has not already. But also Mary lou came to church again and already has a baptismal date for the eleventh of April. She's in 3Nephi right now and has only been reading for three weeks, boy is the work here amazing or what?
This ward is absolutely on fire right now. I'm so stoked because the members are fellowshipping our investigators like crazy. They are also throwing out some many referrals for us to start teaching. I love the work and I'm glad I'm a part of it.
Love Elder Judd
ps hope you had fun in Mesquite and Arizona
First off i would like to say that I'm sad Marci that you did not send me a list of instructions for card for talking. I was really looking forward to playing it on this wonderful fine p-day, but who knows maybe you sent them in the mail because that would be better anyways.
Well hopefully yall don't think i'm just playin on my mission. Oh this is definitely hard work, in fact just today i said good bye to my companion who's going home on Wednesday. In fact i will meet my new companion on Tuesday, his name is Elder Delluchi. I'm way excited to meet him and get out teaching and all.
Well I've had a few sweet experiences this week and a couple from hard day's I'd experienced. This week, as yall who've been on mission can relate with, i had a couple of days where i didn't want to go out and work at all. Shocker i know who wouldn't want to go share this message to the world huh. Well I did go out and work anyways and really was blessed. We had a pretty tough week finding new investigators this week though. People most of the time seem very interested but that's usually where it ends. In fact we'll get done teaching them and ask them when we can come and teach them again and they will say uh just stop by some time when truly they have no desire to learn more.
Well because of this hard week I've been able to learn that doing are Heavenly fathers work is not always going to be fun. In fact some times it's going to be down right hard to get out of the house and start tracting. But when i went to church I saw one the coolest things I've ever seen in my life. Throughout sacrament meeting, which was super spiritual, the speakers spoke on tithing. They told of the blessings that truly come because of paying our tithing. They also hit on the subject a little in Elders quorum. Well to get to the point we have an investigator who's been to church twice and is super excited. We've only had the chance to teach him once without his kids. We only taught him the restoration and really introduced him to the Book of Mormon. After church he came up to me and asked me what the branch number was to put on!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
HIS TITHING SLIP OH MY GOODNESS
He had engulfed the principle of tithing before we had even taught him about it. We are going to set a date with him on Wednesday and I'm super excited for him. I've never seen something so eternally joyful in my life.
I'm way excited for Michael Meadows, I know he will experience the blessings from paying his tithing and will receive an answer if he has not already. But also Mary lou came to church again and already has a baptismal date for the eleventh of April. She's in 3Nephi right now and has only been reading for three weeks, boy is the work here amazing or what?
This ward is absolutely on fire right now. I'm so stoked because the members are fellowshipping our investigators like crazy. They are also throwing out some many referrals for us to start teaching. I love the work and I'm glad I'm a part of it.
Love Elder Judd
ps hope you had fun in Mesquite and Arizona
Monday, March 16, 2009
March 16, 2009
Judd Fam,
Hey how's everything going, well i guess i already got my answer. I wish I had been able to go through a temple open house, but I guess just going through it is a lot better haha. Well Florida here is just great. One of the most amazing things to me is how people can just really care less about the commitments they make. They really don't care and take all we do for granted.
Anyways I'm really not mad I just think it is pretty funny. We dropped about four of our investigators this week because they are not putting forth the effort to progress. Angela Disney just flat out told us she had got in trouble for talking to us, and told us the please never come back again. We also had Dale who got sick and is also not willing to progress, while we have the Navaros who are on the verge of being dropped.
Put it this way we did a lot of weeding out this week. In fact we had Mary Lou Hines at church this week, remember she's about seventy five years old and read to Alma fourteen after we gave her the book of Mormon. She really has been a joy to work with and we are very excited for her. We are going to set a baptismal date with her on Tuesday. Yes Grandma I love setting baptismal dates in fact I'm doing it quite often.
I really was having a tough week and i couldn't see the fruits of our labor and we really had a lot of fall out. But just as i had said the lord works in Mysterious ways and that's a fact. We were walking home one day from about two hours of contacting and a lady stopped us and bought us a drink. We talked to her and asked if we could come share our message with her. She agreed and so we are going to see her on Tuesday.
Also another blessing came from a member who saw that we really were working hard. He said he had been given a referral from a lady in Orlando. In fact is was a guy who said he wanted to visit her church so she gave him the address to the chapel and told our member about him. So he went over got in contact with the guy and committed him to listen to the missionary lessons. We didn't see them until Sunday at church but they are super excited to learn. I was able to teach gospel principles class and he was just soaking it all in. In fact we are going to teach them tonight. I'm super excited and know they are just going to love the restoration.
Thanks my family for all that you do and for all of the letters that just make my day. Love you all so much. And dad get better.
Love Elder Judd
ps who is still working out every morning watch out!!!!!
Hey how's everything going, well i guess i already got my answer. I wish I had been able to go through a temple open house, but I guess just going through it is a lot better haha. Well Florida here is just great. One of the most amazing things to me is how people can just really care less about the commitments they make. They really don't care and take all we do for granted.
Anyways I'm really not mad I just think it is pretty funny. We dropped about four of our investigators this week because they are not putting forth the effort to progress. Angela Disney just flat out told us she had got in trouble for talking to us, and told us the please never come back again. We also had Dale who got sick and is also not willing to progress, while we have the Navaros who are on the verge of being dropped.
Put it this way we did a lot of weeding out this week. In fact we had Mary Lou Hines at church this week, remember she's about seventy five years old and read to Alma fourteen after we gave her the book of Mormon. She really has been a joy to work with and we are very excited for her. We are going to set a baptismal date with her on Tuesday. Yes Grandma I love setting baptismal dates in fact I'm doing it quite often.
I really was having a tough week and i couldn't see the fruits of our labor and we really had a lot of fall out. But just as i had said the lord works in Mysterious ways and that's a fact. We were walking home one day from about two hours of contacting and a lady stopped us and bought us a drink. We talked to her and asked if we could come share our message with her. She agreed and so we are going to see her on Tuesday.
Also another blessing came from a member who saw that we really were working hard. He said he had been given a referral from a lady in Orlando. In fact is was a guy who said he wanted to visit her church so she gave him the address to the chapel and told our member about him. So he went over got in contact with the guy and committed him to listen to the missionary lessons. We didn't see them until Sunday at church but they are super excited to learn. I was able to teach gospel principles class and he was just soaking it all in. In fact we are going to teach them tonight. I'm super excited and know they are just going to love the restoration.
Thanks my family for all that you do and for all of the letters that just make my day. Love you all so much. And dad get better.
Love Elder Judd
ps who is still working out every morning watch out!!!!!
Monday, March 9, 2009
March 9, 2009
Dear Marcilee,
I understand your frustration in fact i had a little bit of my own this last week. You see we had eight solid commitments to church, or so we thought. In fact we had six new investigators and all the people we taught seemed to be accepting the message very well. On Sunday however we had no investigators show up to church, and because of that we will now have to reset our three baptismal dates with Cameron Blanco, his sister Madison, and Dale Buster. You can just tell dad that I'm not happy I'm not getting any email from him. Y'all expect letters and emails with out writing hahahaha, if only if only that's how it worked out.
Well I've had one busy week this past week. We taught a lot of lesson and found six new investigators. They are all way sweet first there is Cameron and Madison. They are relatives to some less active members who have a daughter who is not baptized either. They will come to church if the less active member family does. Henceforth they've been tough but are coming around and their daughter, Ashley really wants to be baptized also.
Second is Dale, who is a potential investigator from about a year ago. We went through them and decided to go to his house. He was really receptive. In fact the second time we taught him he was waiting right by his door for us. He's very nice and we taught him the gospel of Jesus Christ as outlined in preach my gospel. He's scared of coming to church so we really have to work on it and teach him the importance. He had a baptismal date but since he didn't come to church we will have to reset it.
Third Mary Lou Hines, she is an eighty year old who is very nice and receptive to the message we share. She needs to come to church but she's reading. We will commit her to baptism this week.
Fourth we have Angela, who's about thirty years old and believe it or not prayed us there in a way. We were out in the middle of nowhere just tracting and found her. She said that she needed a bible and told us her mom was a ladder day saint. She said she had be looking for the church but couldn't find it. We haven't been able to teach her again but when we do we are going to commit her to baptism.
Fifth on our list would have to be Sandr. We just found Sandra painting and had made many stops but never convenient so we were about to give up and drop her. But we didn't and our first lesson with her was on an exchange. She was very receptive to the message and is reading the Book of Mormon. She is also going to set a baptismal date with us for herself in the coming week.
Sixth, oh y'all thought i was done huh. Ha ha Devin who is about seventeen is very interesting and really loves to learn and wants to learn more. We also have goals of setting a baptismal date this week with him. We also saw Brandon Barber at church again two weeks ago and are still trying to teach him but he will be a gradual process.
Well as you can see I'm really busy out here and I'm working very hard. I'm very excited for the coming week in which we have over ten appointments scheduled throughout the week. y'all just wait and see I'll be setting dates and baptizing the heck literally the heck out of St. Cloud forgive my language, love y'all.
Love, Elder Judd
I understand your frustration in fact i had a little bit of my own this last week. You see we had eight solid commitments to church, or so we thought. In fact we had six new investigators and all the people we taught seemed to be accepting the message very well. On Sunday however we had no investigators show up to church, and because of that we will now have to reset our three baptismal dates with Cameron Blanco, his sister Madison, and Dale Buster. You can just tell dad that I'm not happy I'm not getting any email from him. Y'all expect letters and emails with out writing hahahaha, if only if only that's how it worked out.
Well I've had one busy week this past week. We taught a lot of lesson and found six new investigators. They are all way sweet first there is Cameron and Madison. They are relatives to some less active members who have a daughter who is not baptized either. They will come to church if the less active member family does. Henceforth they've been tough but are coming around and their daughter, Ashley really wants to be baptized also.
Second is Dale, who is a potential investigator from about a year ago. We went through them and decided to go to his house. He was really receptive. In fact the second time we taught him he was waiting right by his door for us. He's very nice and we taught him the gospel of Jesus Christ as outlined in preach my gospel. He's scared of coming to church so we really have to work on it and teach him the importance. He had a baptismal date but since he didn't come to church we will have to reset it.
Third Mary Lou Hines, she is an eighty year old who is very nice and receptive to the message we share. She needs to come to church but she's reading. We will commit her to baptism this week.
Fourth we have Angela, who's about thirty years old and believe it or not prayed us there in a way. We were out in the middle of nowhere just tracting and found her. She said that she needed a bible and told us her mom was a ladder day saint. She said she had be looking for the church but couldn't find it. We haven't been able to teach her again but when we do we are going to commit her to baptism.
Fifth on our list would have to be Sandr. We just found Sandra painting and had made many stops but never convenient so we were about to give up and drop her. But we didn't and our first lesson with her was on an exchange. She was very receptive to the message and is reading the Book of Mormon. She is also going to set a baptismal date with us for herself in the coming week.
Sixth, oh y'all thought i was done huh. Ha ha Devin who is about seventeen is very interesting and really loves to learn and wants to learn more. We also have goals of setting a baptismal date this week with him. We also saw Brandon Barber at church again two weeks ago and are still trying to teach him but he will be a gradual process.
Well as you can see I'm really busy out here and I'm working very hard. I'm very excited for the coming week in which we have over ten appointments scheduled throughout the week. y'all just wait and see I'll be setting dates and baptizing the heck literally the heck out of St. Cloud forgive my language, love y'all.
Love, Elder Judd
Tuesday, March 3, 2009
March 3, 2009
Sister Jenny,
Well you be the lucky one because I'm going to write you the email and you'll have to be the one to forward it to every one else because dad didn't send me an email this week.
Well the mission has been getting a lot better as each day goes by, and really, as Ruffin and Brent know, you only remember the good times you have and not the bad i think that's why every one comes home and says i wish i could be back on my mission.
The members out here have been really great to us and feed us every day. Funny thing about how we got to eat all those interesting types of food.
Berris our top investigator is doing well and is scheduled to get baptized this week. He didn't come to church this week because he felt bad that he only had sneakers and jeans and felt he wasn't showing enough respect wearing them. i was so glad that he said that was his big problem cause we thought it might be something worse. Anyways today were taking over nice Sunday clothes for him so all will be well.
Analia and Ricardo did come to church though and we were able to teach Ricardo and he's doing awesome. Analia hasn't come to the second hour yet but is showing her desire to learn by coming to church each week i'm very excited for her.
We got a new elder this week to take the place of Elder Bakker his name is Elder Smith and he rocks the piano, he's really amazing. He's way cool and is from Pleasant grove so we are way excited mom.
Ruffin i was glad to get your email and when i read over the last part where you put uncle Verle i thought i sound old it was really funny. I said i don't think that's me I'm not an uncle but i guess i am. I hope your deal on the house will go through there are so many houses for sale here and nothing happening with them, it's definitely not a sellers market right now.
Jenny about face book i gave you more information in the letter i sent you so don't worry about it. I got the Valentines you sent me and I really enjoyed it. In fact I've been eating a lot of candy lately which really isn't good. I just keep gaining weight and can't keep any off but who cares it's not like I'm trying to impress anyone out here haha.
Love Elder Judd
Well you be the lucky one because I'm going to write you the email and you'll have to be the one to forward it to every one else because dad didn't send me an email this week.
Well the mission has been getting a lot better as each day goes by, and really, as Ruffin and Brent know, you only remember the good times you have and not the bad i think that's why every one comes home and says i wish i could be back on my mission.
The members out here have been really great to us and feed us every day. Funny thing about how we got to eat all those interesting types of food.
Berris our top investigator is doing well and is scheduled to get baptized this week. He didn't come to church this week because he felt bad that he only had sneakers and jeans and felt he wasn't showing enough respect wearing them. i was so glad that he said that was his big problem cause we thought it might be something worse. Anyways today were taking over nice Sunday clothes for him so all will be well.
Analia and Ricardo did come to church though and we were able to teach Ricardo and he's doing awesome. Analia hasn't come to the second hour yet but is showing her desire to learn by coming to church each week i'm very excited for her.
We got a new elder this week to take the place of Elder Bakker his name is Elder Smith and he rocks the piano, he's really amazing. He's way cool and is from Pleasant grove so we are way excited mom.
Ruffin i was glad to get your email and when i read over the last part where you put uncle Verle i thought i sound old it was really funny. I said i don't think that's me I'm not an uncle but i guess i am. I hope your deal on the house will go through there are so many houses for sale here and nothing happening with them, it's definitely not a sellers market right now.
Jenny about face book i gave you more information in the letter i sent you so don't worry about it. I got the Valentines you sent me and I really enjoyed it. In fact I've been eating a lot of candy lately which really isn't good. I just keep gaining weight and can't keep any off but who cares it's not like I'm trying to impress anyone out here haha.
Love Elder Judd
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