July 26, 2010

Dear Family,

What a week, this week has been really tough because of the new simplified cirriculum they have introduced, which is supposed to bring us back to PMG (Preach My Gospel). The problem is that this week we had a training that lasted three days long and only gave us so much time to work in our area. We really were not given that much time at all to work with our investigators or much time at all to find new people to teach. I know you all hate the short emails but I really don't have much to say. I guess one funny story I can tell you about. There was this girl who got baptized in our ward this Sunday. She was taught by Sister Periera and Sister Gervais, yes she is the one from springville, however this girl had a man from a ward up north come down to baptize her. Well I guess he decided for some reason that he would wear a colored shirt. Well in order to baptize her we had to find him a white shirt. So my bishop gave me a smaller one and I gave mine to him, it was really funny. The sacrifices you make for baptism ahha.

Love Elder Judd

mom the resort sounds fine.

July 19, 2010

Hey everyone,

This week has been a great week for us and also for our zone we have all been working very hard and are beginning to see the fruits of our labor. This week we stopped by Davids to see how he enjoyed church, to our dismay he didn't like it in fact he told us he would never be attending again. We tried to find out why and he said it was because we were putting the priesthood in front of Jesus Christ. We tried to help him but he was set that he would not be attending. However at least he did say he would be looking for a church to attend because he hasn't been going for a long while so at least something good came of it i hope.

Well lucky for us we have some other people that we are working with and this allowed us to focus more on them and really what they need. This week the sisters gave us a referral, his name is Ken Kamphoumy. He goes to UCF and has had no religious background at all but is very excited to learn more about the church and really desires to know god. Our first meeting with him was very neet and we got him to pray for us and we all knelt down and it was very neat. We also had a guy named josh and katherine who i told you about a couple of weeks ago they both came to church and really enjoyed it.

The work here is great and your prayers for help with these people to recognize the spirit in our teaching is greatly appreciated.

Love Elder Judd

July 12, 2010

Hey everyone,

Oh boy it still continues to get hotter and it hasn't rained really well for about a week. I know you all in St.George are probably like a week who is this kid. Seriously though it rains normally just about every day here in Florida and the rain really effects the heat. Anyhow no complaining cause i remember how mom said i was great at not complaining about the weather so i guess i need to chastise myself and do better. While i'm talking to you mom elder Larmore says he would like a letter. He also says you need to send your son a package i mean both of us? 100 dollar bills are always accepted. hahahahahahaha. Jk mom but seriously i'm due for a package love yah.

Missionary work is great here we are teaching three main individuals who are awesome. Still teaching Katherine who wasn't able to make it to church but will make it next week. David also came to church and our last one is josh who really just likes to hang out with us but we are getting better at teaching him. I love you all and sorry for the short email but my times up being a zone leader stinks too much responsibility.

Love Elder Judd

July 5, 2010

Dear Family,

Well just another week in the mission field has gone by, and once again, not much to tell you all about what's happening here. This week we have been stacked with meetings with the new mission president and all, he's a great guy President Hall and his wife is also amazing. We are really excited to work with him, and hopefully he'll be able to help grow to our full potential.

Well, as for the best stories of the week, I've got a couple. First of all you have to understand that working in the singles ward can be very challenging, because a lot of time we find a lot of people for the elders who cover the area in which we work. In fact, we only have three new investigators from this last week, but we actually found nine investigators if that gives you a sense of the how frustrating it can be some times.

Well now with all of that said this week we found this girl named Katherine who's going to full sail, which is a little unusual her being a girl and all. She's really cool, but has really been turned off to God, well actually just giving that higher power a name, mainly because she had been taught that god is a god of wrath and vengance. We helped her a little, but she still wouldn't committ to church, because she doesn't do well in a crowd. However in our weekly planning we chose some people to be her friend and while we were planning we both just thought of a recent convert named Stormi who also is a girl and goes to full sail. We both were like ok whatever and just continued planning. Well we just happened to have Stormi with us on the way home from church yesterday and we decided to stop by well you won't believe what happened. Holy cow, they hit it off like crazy. I mean crazy! I've never seen people warm up to each other so fast it was extremely ridiculous. They had so much in common, and this was some wierd stuff so I knew god was answering our prayers. Oh, by the way, the night before I was praying and letting Heavenly Father know that we had done everything we knew of and that we needed a miracle now to take place to help us with her. We knew she was extremely positive and ready so we wanted to do everything we could.

The lord has really been blessing me and I thank you for all of your prayers.

Love Elder Judd