From Joram's 10/27 Letter:
Things are going pretty good here. We have still been biking about 30 miles a day and it is pretty rough ride, we have to go up and over a massive bridge [YouTube video of this bridge] over the I90 into morgan city, it is a big bridge and a rough ride but oh well. Its getting harder and harder to stay busy, everyday we are losing people to teach because they are sick of us and we have found every Spanish person in this entire area. So our numbers were pretty dang bad but we are doing our best and always trying to do the Lords work so thats good. I don't mind the little towns, its nice and the branch is strong, but small. My branch president is a Doctor so i have had some good talks with him. ... They are way cool, President Albert is from Hawaii and his wife is from Tonga. They have some pretty good stories. Apparently her grandpa was the king of Tonga but when he was baptized they told him to pick one or the other, so he said he would rather be a deacon than the king, so pretty cool stuff. "
[We asked about a Bro. Rivero who we bought a Spanish Triple for] "Bro. Rivero is a member in New Orleans who helped us out with rides for our investigators all the time and he gave his triple to a member that couldn't get one. It is hard to get triples for some reason, anyway i told him i would try to get one and you guys did so that is cool. It is also amazing that the companion i am with now actually baptized him a year ago so we get to go to the temple with him next month! So i will give that to him and watch him go through the temple. So that is way cool and i am excited. ... And the highlight of last week was when we were biking some guy stopped and pulled us over and talked to us and we found out he was an RM about 4 years ago but had fallen away. He had been drinking and stuff, but he took us to get food, gave us a ride to our apartment, saved us about 20 miles of biking, and tuned up my bike, AND he came to church for the first time in a year with us on Sunday, so that was amazing. We are trying to get him back on track and hopefully it will work.
Monday, October 27, 2008
Monday, October 20, 2008
New Area
From Joram's 10/20 Letter:
"Hey everybody, things are going pretty good here. Yes my new area is patterson and it is the largest spanish area by far and also it has the least spanish people. We are also out of miles for the month so we have been riding bicycles. Yeah so it is a hard area, Saturday we rode about 40 miles to and from a little town called Amelia. It is rough but oh well at least i am doing missionary work again. ... We are in a small branch and i met someone from Pleasant Grove who knows the Hanks and Diamonds and Warnicks. Man everyone knows the warnicks. So that was cool to talk to them."
Joram's new address is:
PO Box 902
Patterson LA, 70392
Apartment is on Progresso Road
"Hey everybody, things are going pretty good here. Yes my new area is patterson and it is the largest spanish area by far and also it has the least spanish people. We are also out of miles for the month so we have been riding bicycles. Yeah so it is a hard area, Saturday we rode about 40 miles to and from a little town called Amelia. It is rough but oh well at least i am doing missionary work again. ... We are in a small branch and i met someone from Pleasant Grove who knows the Hanks and Diamonds and Warnicks. Man everyone knows the warnicks. So that was cool to talk to them."
Joram's new address is:
PO Box 902
Patterson LA, 70392
Apartment is on Progresso Road
Tuesday, October 14, 2008
It's Transfer Time
From Joram's 10/14 Letters:
"Lets see i received a call from president last night and i am getting transfered!!! ... I am going to an area called Patterson which is pretty much the swamp lands of Louisiana so that is cool. I am going with Elder Jensen from Pleasant Grove, no lies." and "yes giggle giggle he lives up on the hill behind keetchs and apparently is 6:2 180 and funny. I think we might just tell everyone we are related to save energy."
"Lets see i received a call from president last night and i am getting transfered!!! ... I am going to an area called Patterson which is pretty much the swamp lands of Louisiana so that is cool. I am going with Elder Jensen from Pleasant Grove, no lies." and "yes giggle giggle he lives up on the hill behind keetchs and apparently is 6:2 180 and funny. I think we might just tell everyone we are related to save energy."
Monday, October 6, 2008
General Conference
From Joram's 10/6 Letter
"We baptized our family yesterday [10/5]. It was crazy. We baptized Jacklyn the mother between sessions on Saturday and then we decided to wait until next week and hope the rest of the family would be ready. But they all came to the priesthood session and really enjoyed it. I didn't think anything about it until they called us at 12:30 and said that they all wanted to be baptized. They had been struggling with the idea of prophets in this day but after hearing President Monson they apparently felt the Spirit way strong and decided to get baptized. So we [baptized] Allen, Bernardo, and Leonel before the first session on Sunday. Crazy!!!"
"We baptized our family yesterday [10/5]. It was crazy. We baptized Jacklyn the mother between sessions on Saturday and then we decided to wait until next week and hope the rest of the family would be ready. But they all came to the priesthood session and really enjoyed it. I didn't think anything about it until they called us at 12:30 and said that they all wanted to be baptized. They had been struggling with the idea of prophets in this day but after hearing President Monson they apparently felt the Spirit way strong and decided to get baptized. So we [baptized] Allen, Bernardo, and Leonel before the first session on Sunday. Crazy!!!"
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