Family Judd the baker's dozen,
What up my family. I'm so excited to be able to write you this wonderful Monday morning. I've really been spiritually fed this week and hope to really make something of it.
As yall probably know I was able to hear from Elder Foster of the quorum of the seventy this last Saturday. He was very humble and spoke of being a greeny compared to the man he was speaking with. He taught a lot of important things we could do to increase the baptisms here in the FOM. We are really looking forward to the ideas he has given us. We are going to try a lot of them this coming week and see the difference in our work.
But the speaker yall really want to here about is, the one and only, Jeffery R. Holland. Oh what a joy it really was to have a prophet seer and revelator of the lord speak to and share his personal witness of the Savior Jesus Christ. He focused a lot on letting us know how much he loves us. He told us he owes everything he has to us the missionaries of the church. I could really feel the sincerity of the words he spoke. His humble demeanor was unbelievable, I did not expect it especially from him when he usually gives the chastising talk in conference. I really enjoyed listening to him and can't tell you how great of a spirit he truly has.
Anyways back to the week that i had because it was a good one. We were able to find a few new investigators but our numbers are still down a little. For anyone who's been a mission you can relate to what I'm going to say. It is very hard to stay focused on the goals that you set, not really the daily goals but maybe the weekly or monthly goals. But I am working on it and will get better at doing it.
Our investigators are Ransom, who is about sixteen years old, and I met him playing football the first time. The second time we were tracting and tracted his house and taught him. The spirit was strong, I've really been pondering the last week on why it was so strong. I came to the conclusion that it was so strong because he was being prepared. He was truly looking for more he has been looking for something more and we've been able to bring it to him.
Heather is an interesting story and real testimony builder. We were biking and ran into a twelve year old kid named Jeremy Fisher. My companion started teaching him a little and set up an appointment for later that day with his family. I thought this was very strange because usually if you talk to kids you just give them a card but he actually set up an appointment with him. I was thinking that my companion was crazy, but then I thought to myself there has to be some thing else that was no coincidence so we made sure we went there at four o'clock. Well it turns out that we didn't meet Jeremy Fisher at his house, in fact it was not his house at all but we met Heather. Heather is a single parent about twenty five years old and has a friend on a mission. She really has a lot of questions and I know the lord has been preparing her to recieve the restored gospel.
Ashley Gonzales is the last but not least. We met her family tracting and they were very awesome. However they've been really hard to help progress, but their daughter(Ashley) is about thirteen years old and has been once to young womens and came to church yesterday. We are really excited to work with her. She really could be the means by which her family comes into the church so we are very excited to work with her.
St.Cloud's new bishop is amazing and really a big help to us. Bishop Forte is such a strength and very missionary oriented. He's very good and doesn't seem new at all. St.Cloud is really going to explode and I'm so happy I'm going to be a part of it. Well I'd just like to say good bye and also tell you once again to send any letter to the mission home address not the St. Cloud address because I could be transferred at any time and would not receive your letters for a long time so please write to the mission home address.
Love you all Elder Judd
Monday, April 27, 2009
Monday, April 20, 2009
April 20, 2009
Dear Family,
I'm having a stellar time out here in St. Cloud Florida. The members here are super awesome and have such great families. In fact we had a family home evening last night in one of their homes with the Meadows family who were baptized and confirmed yeah. Any ways after the lesson i told jokes with the four little girls they have and we laughed like crazy. In fact one of the girls really had a hard time stopping so i kept trying to make her laugh even more. It was so nice and reminded me a lot of home so i felt just as though i was home.
Like i said though we had three baptisms this Saturday and on Sunday they were all confirmed. This family is really just amazing i'm so very excited for them. They have a lot of desire and becoming what their heavenly father wants them to be. It was really funny because at the interviews for their baptisms they were so nervous to answer one of the questions wrong. In fact while their dad was having his Mitchel turned to me and asked me what else they were going to ask him. I said it's OK and gave him my planner to look over the interview questions so that calmed him down.
Well sorry about not being as good at sending pictures, for any one who knows me you would know that i'm not much of a picture taker so i really don't have a lot but i am sending some that should get to you probably on Saturday if not Monday. Well not much else going on with investigators in fact we probably didn't spend enough time finding this week so we only recieved one new investigator. We are going to focus all our efforts on finding this week.
Well in the middle of no where yesterday at sacrament meeting we received a new bishop Bishop Johnston was replaced by Bishop Forte, I guess our stake is notorious for switching in the middle of no where. i am however very excited because Bishop Forte is very missionary minded and is just very excited to help.
Well i love you all so much and i feel your prayers out here. In fact i've really been strengthened by them this week you don't even know.
Love Elder Judd
I'm having a stellar time out here in St. Cloud Florida. The members here are super awesome and have such great families. In fact we had a family home evening last night in one of their homes with the Meadows family who were baptized and confirmed yeah. Any ways after the lesson i told jokes with the four little girls they have and we laughed like crazy. In fact one of the girls really had a hard time stopping so i kept trying to make her laugh even more. It was so nice and reminded me a lot of home so i felt just as though i was home.
Like i said though we had three baptisms this Saturday and on Sunday they were all confirmed. This family is really just amazing i'm so very excited for them. They have a lot of desire and becoming what their heavenly father wants them to be. It was really funny because at the interviews for their baptisms they were so nervous to answer one of the questions wrong. In fact while their dad was having his Mitchel turned to me and asked me what else they were going to ask him. I said it's OK and gave him my planner to look over the interview questions so that calmed him down.
Well sorry about not being as good at sending pictures, for any one who knows me you would know that i'm not much of a picture taker so i really don't have a lot but i am sending some that should get to you probably on Saturday if not Monday. Well not much else going on with investigators in fact we probably didn't spend enough time finding this week so we only recieved one new investigator. We are going to focus all our efforts on finding this week.
Well in the middle of no where yesterday at sacrament meeting we received a new bishop Bishop Johnston was replaced by Bishop Forte, I guess our stake is notorious for switching in the middle of no where. i am however very excited because Bishop Forte is very missionary minded and is just very excited to help.
Well i love you all so much and i feel your prayers out here. In fact i've really been strengthened by them this week you don't even know.
Love Elder Judd
Sunday, April 12, 2009
April 12, 2009
Dear Family,
This week has been a good one but also had some of its downs. We were supposed to have baptized sister Hines this week but she told us she's not ready to do it. We are helping her still and hope she'll be able to understand the importance of what our message can bring into her life.
The Meadows family is supppppppppppperr awesome. They are all going to be baptized this weekend on the eighteenth of April and we are so excited for them. You can really see the change they have made in their countenance. He gave up coffee like it was nothing and said he never really drank that much either. Oh man I'm so excited for them and so is the St. Cloud ward. In fact they are helping us so much. This really has got them all excited and they are really looking forward to helping us out is much as possible. In fact a lot of them are looking for missionary opportunities and are being blessed with them.
My Easter was amazing but i won't lie after hearing Jeffery R. Holland's talk on the atonement was incomparable. The talks that were given though were very heart felt and you could really feel the spirit so strong. We have been very blessed in St. Cloud and have been able to find eight new investigators this week. They are very cool and have made missionary work all worth it.
I guess by being and staying away from the world you gain a prospective on how unimportant the world really is. You are able to see those who have the gospel and stay away from the world prosper. While those who don't have the gospel and are of the world struggle especially in this economic crisis. I'm very thankful for all the things my mission has really taught me, and look forward to learning even more.
Love Elder Judd
This week has been a good one but also had some of its downs. We were supposed to have baptized sister Hines this week but she told us she's not ready to do it. We are helping her still and hope she'll be able to understand the importance of what our message can bring into her life.
The Meadows family is supppppppppppperr awesome. They are all going to be baptized this weekend on the eighteenth of April and we are so excited for them. You can really see the change they have made in their countenance. He gave up coffee like it was nothing and said he never really drank that much either. Oh man I'm so excited for them and so is the St. Cloud ward. In fact they are helping us so much. This really has got them all excited and they are really looking forward to helping us out is much as possible. In fact a lot of them are looking for missionary opportunities and are being blessed with them.
My Easter was amazing but i won't lie after hearing Jeffery R. Holland's talk on the atonement was incomparable. The talks that were given though were very heart felt and you could really feel the spirit so strong. We have been very blessed in St. Cloud and have been able to find eight new investigators this week. They are very cool and have made missionary work all worth it.
I guess by being and staying away from the world you gain a prospective on how unimportant the world really is. You are able to see those who have the gospel and stay away from the world prosper. While those who don't have the gospel and are of the world struggle especially in this economic crisis. I'm very thankful for all the things my mission has really taught me, and look forward to learning even more.
Love Elder Judd
Monday, April 6, 2009
April 6, 2009
Hey Family,
Well another great week in the mission has just come and gone. It's very interesting how the lord works in mysterious ways. He has sure done a lot of it in the last couple of weeks. Both our baptismal dates are still good. However we might move Micheal Meadows back so that we can baptize his children with him. We can only meet with his children on the weekend because they stay with their mom on the week days.
Well we are also teaching a new investigator. His name is Caesar and has been able to see the difference the gospel makes in a family. He's really longing for something more and he knows he's finding it in the gospel of Jesus Christ. I'm very excited for him and know he will do great. So far we've had the chance to teach him once and we taught the restoration. He also came to a members home with us on Sunday to watch conference and said he liked it. At first he was a little uncomfortable because he didn't know everyone. But by the time it was time for him to go he really didn't want to leave and in fact he wanted to stay but that's because he could feel the difference.
Well keep praying for me because I need your prayers every day. It's sort of weird but Florida is beginning to look more and more like home. Even though I still miss my family I'm doing a lot better with that feeling of home for me. The members here are awesome and they are part of the reason I feel more at home here. Thanks once again for all the emails and letters you are all way awesome. Dad say hi to all the priest for me, tell them to get into preach my gospel because it will help them the most on a mission.
love your favorite missionary we all know
Elder Judd
Well another great week in the mission has just come and gone. It's very interesting how the lord works in mysterious ways. He has sure done a lot of it in the last couple of weeks. Both our baptismal dates are still good. However we might move Micheal Meadows back so that we can baptize his children with him. We can only meet with his children on the weekend because they stay with their mom on the week days.
Well we are also teaching a new investigator. His name is Caesar and has been able to see the difference the gospel makes in a family. He's really longing for something more and he knows he's finding it in the gospel of Jesus Christ. I'm very excited for him and know he will do great. So far we've had the chance to teach him once and we taught the restoration. He also came to a members home with us on Sunday to watch conference and said he liked it. At first he was a little uncomfortable because he didn't know everyone. But by the time it was time for him to go he really didn't want to leave and in fact he wanted to stay but that's because he could feel the difference.
Well keep praying for me because I need your prayers every day. It's sort of weird but Florida is beginning to look more and more like home. Even though I still miss my family I'm doing a lot better with that feeling of home for me. The members here are awesome and they are part of the reason I feel more at home here. Thanks once again for all the emails and letters you are all way awesome. Dad say hi to all the priest for me, tell them to get into preach my gospel because it will help them the most on a mission.
love your favorite missionary we all know
Elder Judd
Monday, March 30, 2009
March 30, 2009
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
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 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!!!!!
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