Dear family,
Mom, well it sounds like Danielle is staying busy with work and synchro etc and dad is definitely busy with his big bike trip, what are you doing to keep busy? Keep me posted on Dad's trip! I will definitely be prayerful about his trip :).
This week was a little crazy. We had fairly ''normal'' days Monday and Tuesday, Wednesday, and then Thursday we went out to Belgium to look up a referral. This was really tricky because, to begin with, the info we got for the referral was spelled wrong, but we eventually figured that out. We take a bus to the station and a train from the station to sittard station which is north east of Heerlen which brought us somewhat closer. From Sittard there is no transportation over the border into Belgium so we had to walk 30 minutes in a heavy rain lol to get over the border and then another bus towards Dilsen, where the referral lives. We ask the bus driver where to get out and he assures us the it is at a certain stop. We get out and ask directions again and find out that the street is some 3 miles from where we were.
Coincidently, the place we stopped to ask directions for was a taxi service so we asked him how much it would cost us to get there and it was some 5 Euros. We finally get there after about 3 hours of traveling etc and then have to wait till he got home cuz he was at the dentist. We have a good talk with him and walked in circles about opinions and interpretations of the bible and doctrine etc and finally tell him that that was exactly why we have so many churches today and that such confusion etc is cleared by the book of Mormon and we introduce the book to him and he is going to read and pray about it. We will see what comes of it. We make our way back to Heerlen the same way we came and get back at 7 pm after leaving at 1130 lol. We taught then Guido and had a solid lesson and that was our whole day.
The next day was much the same except we ended up doing service the whole day for our previous ward mission leader helping him and his family put in a kitchen.
Saturday was a ward picnic and we were able to bring Lillian along and I think she had a good time; we played sports and ate and ate more and played some more sports and I am simply kaput (dead!). At one point during our football playing (soccer) someone had the bright idea to play North America players vs. the Europeans. We were out numbered and playing their bread and butter sport and yet we were able to hold em off and put em away 6 to 5 us. I am SO sore! I can feel every muscle in my body...I am SO out of shape lol! Then Sunday we had good mtings and we were able to bring Guido to elder’s quorum and translate for him there and I think he really enjoyed it so that was great! After church we had a dinner appointment in Germany with the Woodburys whom I love! We came home did some planning etc and later that night we get THE CALL aka yesterday was transfer night. Elder Brown and I are both staying in Heerlen and are going to be District leader. I am nervous but I think it will work out just fine, however, I would appreciate any advice or words of wisdom and I take on the new calling :).
On the whole things are just peachy and we are continuously being blessed guided and strengthened. I hope things for yell are something similar! I love you lots and will talk to you next week!
Love Elder Leash
Ryan's Entire Mission
ryan is in the far right corner
Ryan at a Zone Conference...
Ryan and President Brubaker
eating raw fish -- eeewww
Ryan at temple - day before MTC drop off
handsome guy!
Ryan and President Smith
getting set apart as a missionary
Tuesday, July 26, 2011
Many missionary opportunities
Dear family,
It sounds like yall had a good week, Ian’s home made banana ice cream and dad's rice and bbq chicken made me drool lol! Sounds like the bike trip were a success; I have no doubt that dad was leading the pack and showing those little deacons how it’s done! It sounds like petite momma vs. boo boo was a success, as well seeing as you both survived Dad's absence as well lol, I hope the conditioner was found before anyone got hurt lol! The sight seeing sounds just great, I’m down as long as I can visit a day or two with some ppl from Kortrijk and Heerlen :). As for the b-day package, I could use maybe a few garment bottoms, dry lux; do they have a brief style of garments? That would be awesome (size s). COOKIES sound good!
Well, we had a solid week. I felt really good about it. We stayed pretty balanced this week in what we did and hard work really paid off. The week started out with a bang. on Monday we had a consecrated hour of finding, during which we found a lady and had a great discussion with her about scripture and truth, about how when we read things we can follow either the light of Christ or the Holy Ghost to recognize and learn truth. She has a B.O.M and we will visit with her this coming week and see how it went with her and her experience with reading the BOM. Tuesday was also nothing short of awesome. We had another C.H wherein we accidently tracted out a member’s home and had a great talk with them. While we were talking to them I received a call from someone who 'received a card(pass-along card) from the elders and he said 'I think I want to learn more, actually I think I want to come to church, in fact, when can I meet with yall' lol. We met with him the next day and had a great and open talk about Christ’s church, certain things we do differently than others, in general just got a feel from where he was coming from. At the end of our lesson we introduced and committed him to a teaching calendar. His name is Tennison. Also, during that next day we met with Brother Barodka, whose son Denis, will now be moving to the Netherlands and who will now be taking the missionary lesson. He comes from Belarus where the church is viewed very poorly for political reasons.... he now is ready to learn more! Directly after this appointment, I got a call back from an investigator we hadn’t seen in a while and we were able to set up an appointment for Saturday! The appointment Saturday went very well! We were able to get two joint teaches about her age and they really hit it off and seem to be good friends now :), she is praying and reading – a.k.a progressing!
Game Day, we were able to see 3 investigators in church. Lillian is still hanging around. We thought we were going to have to drop her, but she is still coming to activities and to appointments and I think very slowly, but surely, the Lord is working in her and she is progressing, slowly but surely. Guido was in church as well and he made some great strides as far as fellowship goes. He really hit it off with brother Van Gemeert and bro De Vylder during ward potluck! Awesome guy, we are going to have dinner at his place tomorrow night and share a lesson on the organization of the priesthood. Last, but not least, we saw Tennyson in church and I think he had a good experience; many were on vacation in the ward and all the empty seats made me a little nervous, but I think he really liked the meetings etc. During investigator’s class nobody was around to teach the lesson (we are without ward mission leader at the moment) so we ended up having a great discussion at a very elementary level, our Heavenly Father, Our Heavenly Family. It went really well and we had great participation!
A solid week in the books :), I love yall lots and look forward to hearing how your week goes.
Love,
Elder Leash
It sounds like yall had a good week, Ian’s home made banana ice cream and dad's rice and bbq chicken made me drool lol! Sounds like the bike trip were a success; I have no doubt that dad was leading the pack and showing those little deacons how it’s done! It sounds like petite momma vs. boo boo was a success, as well seeing as you both survived Dad's absence as well lol, I hope the conditioner was found before anyone got hurt lol! The sight seeing sounds just great, I’m down as long as I can visit a day or two with some ppl from Kortrijk and Heerlen :). As for the b-day package, I could use maybe a few garment bottoms, dry lux; do they have a brief style of garments? That would be awesome (size s). COOKIES sound good!
Well, we had a solid week. I felt really good about it. We stayed pretty balanced this week in what we did and hard work really paid off. The week started out with a bang. on Monday we had a consecrated hour of finding, during which we found a lady and had a great discussion with her about scripture and truth, about how when we read things we can follow either the light of Christ or the Holy Ghost to recognize and learn truth. She has a B.O.M and we will visit with her this coming week and see how it went with her and her experience with reading the BOM. Tuesday was also nothing short of awesome. We had another C.H wherein we accidently tracted out a member’s home and had a great talk with them. While we were talking to them I received a call from someone who 'received a card(pass-along card) from the elders and he said 'I think I want to learn more, actually I think I want to come to church, in fact, when can I meet with yall' lol. We met with him the next day and had a great and open talk about Christ’s church, certain things we do differently than others, in general just got a feel from where he was coming from. At the end of our lesson we introduced and committed him to a teaching calendar. His name is Tennison. Also, during that next day we met with Brother Barodka, whose son Denis, will now be moving to the Netherlands and who will now be taking the missionary lesson. He comes from Belarus where the church is viewed very poorly for political reasons.... he now is ready to learn more! Directly after this appointment, I got a call back from an investigator we hadn’t seen in a while and we were able to set up an appointment for Saturday! The appointment Saturday went very well! We were able to get two joint teaches about her age and they really hit it off and seem to be good friends now :), she is praying and reading – a.k.a progressing!
Game Day, we were able to see 3 investigators in church. Lillian is still hanging around. We thought we were going to have to drop her, but she is still coming to activities and to appointments and I think very slowly, but surely, the Lord is working in her and she is progressing, slowly but surely. Guido was in church as well and he made some great strides as far as fellowship goes. He really hit it off with brother Van Gemeert and bro De Vylder during ward potluck! Awesome guy, we are going to have dinner at his place tomorrow night and share a lesson on the organization of the priesthood. Last, but not least, we saw Tennyson in church and I think he had a good experience; many were on vacation in the ward and all the empty seats made me a little nervous, but I think he really liked the meetings etc. During investigator’s class nobody was around to teach the lesson (we are without ward mission leader at the moment) so we ended up having a great discussion at a very elementary level, our Heavenly Father, Our Heavenly Family. It went really well and we had great participation!
A solid week in the books :), I love yall lots and look forward to hearing how your week goes.
Love,
Elder Leash
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