This week was fantastic. We reached 20 lessons which is the first time for me since my first area which was really just Elder Jordan running the show since I didn't quite know what I was doing. We had amazing lessons with a ton of less actives. They sincerely wanted to make changes. The Spirit was definitely in those lessons. I apparently offended one less active lady and made her pretty angry when I told her that we needed to bring another person in order for us to continue to see her since we can't be alone with a woman. So that's too bad, but the Spirit will help her. She has social anxiety and is already going less active after being baptized for just a few months so it's really sad. We're learning to love and understand her. A ton of less actives said they would be at church but weren't so that was a bummer. But ONE did come so that's all that matters. We also had 2 investigators which was really sweet.
Tally is doing awesome. She's the 9 year old that is being adopted and wants to be baptized. We were afraid that she just wants to just because her friends are and her step sisters that want to be as well but this last lesson was really good and she genuinely wants to be.
Apparently the 2 Muslim girls are living in our area more than any other so we get to teach them!!! It's really exciting!! Their step grandma told us that after we taught them that they kept having questions and are reading a lot. It's so exciting how the Spirit is preparring so many people! We're seeing so many miracles as we just loose ourselves in the work! I fall in love more and more with this work every day.
We met a crazy that left the church at 7 but said he was an elder that wanted to be apart of a blessing we were giving but the person giving it was too nice to say no so that was fun.
An RM of 6 months is living in our ward for 3 weeks and coming out when he has time. He sounds like he was a boss missionary. He was definitly a leader with the way he talked, "ok elders, what went good, what could we do better?" "How was your elders planning last night?" Hahaha We're so excited to learn from him though. It's such a huge blessing to have him with us.
Elder Johnson and I get along really good. Time has flown but so that's a good sign that we're both getting focused. I'm trying to learn to work with members better and get them going to share the Gospel. That will be the best way to find the elect. People that already have fellowshippers.
I love you all. All I can say is that I feel so much more healthy and happy. I'm not free of mistakes or hard times but so much good is happening out here. Miracles are happening. So many people want to be taught. So many people have friends that want to be taught. The field is so white. Don't be afraid to share the Gospel with your friends. Don't hold the Gospel back from people. It is such a blessing. People are looking for it. You have it! So share it!
I love you all
Elder Edgel
Monday, March 31, 2014
Friday, March 28, 2014
Third area
Elder Edgel is in Jeff Crookstons ward in Colorado. It is the Foothills ward. The Golden Colorado Stake.
His new address is:
1700 Robb St. Building 15 Apartment 106
Lakewood, CO 80215
His new address is:
1700 Robb St. Building 15 Apartment 106
Lakewood, CO 80215
Our problems can be solved through work.
The ward is great. It was my first Sunday in normal church and it was great meeting everyone. We're going to be taking the young men out with us a ton more.
We found Tally, a 9 year old that wants to be baptized whose being adopted into an active family and the moms 7 grandkids aren't baptized and want to as well!!! Unfortunetly they live in another ward but we had a great lesson with 3 of them. 2 are adopted from Africa and are Muslim! Even if I remembered how to pronounce their names I could never spell them haha. They're so prepared. I'm so jealous. I've always wanted to baptize a muslim! And on top of that on exchanges with the elders we found a new investigator who was Muslim from Iraq! He was the first person to answer the door to us when we went tracting and invited us in. He used to be in the military but came here because it was too dangerous there. Apparently people killed his family. I asked if he had a wife and kids and all he said was I don't want to remember it. So sad. I really hope he reads the Book of Mormon and prays about it so that he can have the peace and assurance that he can be with them again forever.
We received a refferal for a guy from Haiti and he was really neat. He talked for the entire hour that we were there. And when we said we needed to leave, he talked to us for another 30 minutes. In the beginning I tried to teach him but realized that it was pointless. That he wasn't listening and just wanted to talk. I remembered Dad saying that he learned people learn more from a question being answered than a lecture. So he did ask us questions. He asked if we were rich and why we served a mission. We told him that we weren't but we gave our money to serve a mission to share the joy we have. He was blown away and said that he wanted to learn more and wanted to read the Book of Mormon. So Dad was right! We'll see how teaching him goes. It's hard to tell if he really wants to learn and come closer to the Savior, or just simply talk about it. Talk a LOT about it.
It's so neat that when we really want to find people that God sends us the most prepared. Like Kirk, Nichole, Matt and Tally. They're from barley anything on my part. Mostly just the Spirit. But the Lord blessed me and prepared people for me teach. The great thing about a mission is learning the humility and selflessness. That it's not me at all that teaching or finding these people. I'm so happy to be apart of their conversions in the smallest ways though.
A mission is tough but An apostle said, 95% of all problems as a missionary can be solved through work. Or something like that.
So we're doing really good out here in Foothills. I might ask president if I can switch over to spanish, apparently we can do that. But we'll see how that goes. I like preaching that gospel without a language barrier. I love you all.
Los amo a todos!
-Elder Edgel
We found Tally, a 9 year old that wants to be baptized whose being adopted into an active family and the moms 7 grandkids aren't baptized and want to as well!!! Unfortunetly they live in another ward but we had a great lesson with 3 of them. 2 are adopted from Africa and are Muslim! Even if I remembered how to pronounce their names I could never spell them haha. They're so prepared. I'm so jealous. I've always wanted to baptize a muslim! And on top of that on exchanges with the elders we found a new investigator who was Muslim from Iraq! He was the first person to answer the door to us when we went tracting and invited us in. He used to be in the military but came here because it was too dangerous there. Apparently people killed his family. I asked if he had a wife and kids and all he said was I don't want to remember it. So sad. I really hope he reads the Book of Mormon and prays about it so that he can have the peace and assurance that he can be with them again forever.
We received a refferal for a guy from Haiti and he was really neat. He talked for the entire hour that we were there. And when we said we needed to leave, he talked to us for another 30 minutes. In the beginning I tried to teach him but realized that it was pointless. That he wasn't listening and just wanted to talk. I remembered Dad saying that he learned people learn more from a question being answered than a lecture. So he did ask us questions. He asked if we were rich and why we served a mission. We told him that we weren't but we gave our money to serve a mission to share the joy we have. He was blown away and said that he wanted to learn more and wanted to read the Book of Mormon. So Dad was right! We'll see how teaching him goes. It's hard to tell if he really wants to learn and come closer to the Savior, or just simply talk about it. Talk a LOT about it.
It's so neat that when we really want to find people that God sends us the most prepared. Like Kirk, Nichole, Matt and Tally. They're from barley anything on my part. Mostly just the Spirit. But the Lord blessed me and prepared people for me teach. The great thing about a mission is learning the humility and selflessness. That it's not me at all that teaching or finding these people. I'm so happy to be apart of their conversions in the smallest ways though.
A mission is tough but An apostle said, 95% of all problems as a missionary can be solved through work. Or something like that.
So we're doing really good out here in Foothills. I might ask president if I can switch over to spanish, apparently we can do that. But we'll see how that goes. I like preaching that gospel without a language barrier. I love you all.
Los amo a todos!
-Elder Edgel
Monday, March 17, 2014
As I loose myself and become swallowed up in the joy of Christ I know that everything is ok.
Oh ya, I'm in the Denver! It's weird thinking about the concept that this city doesn't ever stop. I'm so used to small towns. Like yesterday I saw people waiting for the bus and thought, "oh ya the other side of town is like 6 miles away, they'll need the bus" then realized, "wait a second... the city has no limit! It never ends it's so huge!" I haven't had a panic attack yet so that's good. Needless to say, I love me my small towns. The drive down is so beautiful and so dangerous. It's the gorge the whole way. But so beautiful. We drove down when it was snowing and they close the highway for a little bit it's that bad. All these warning signs for truckers and what not. One that said, "truckers, you're not done, more turns and steep slopes." intense but beautiful. I drove one of the cars and I think I made enemies with other missionaries in other cars because of my driving haha.
It's great being here though because we have a temple. That is so cool. We get to go to it the first Wednesday of every month so I'm really looking forward to being able to go to that again. Also President is here so that's really cool. We had Stake Conference and I got to see him and his wife. Man I love those two so much. They have such strong powerful testimonies. So it's really good being able to see them casually. And seeing other missionaries! I'm not used to that. Whenever you see another missionary it's exciting and you run up and hug each other(talking about ELDERS). But now it's just like, oh hey whats up again. When I got here to the mission home I saw my MTC companion that I hadn't seen since so that was really neat. He's on fire. I also found out as I arrived and was about to leave to my new area that I was district leader again without being told but I'm excited to continue being filled with love for my district. I learn so much from them.
Jeff Crookston is in this ward! He's a ward missionary. That was absolutely crazy. He called up Jared on speaker in front of me and almost drove me crazy haha.
My companion is pretty great. It's crazy how alike we are actually. He's from Boulder City. We talked a lot the first day and he said that he's told me more knowing me less than 24 hours than any of his companions that he's been with for months. So I hope we can continue to get along and work hard together.
It's confusing sometimes finding the balance of a mission and life. Because a mission is already naturally hard and figuring out if you're making it too hard or if it is just like that for everyone as well is a tough one. But as I loose myself and become swallowed up in the joy of Christ I know that everything is ok.
We do a lot of work with less actives. Pretty much just have health problems or anxiety and don't like church. It feels like most of the time it's a cop out so we'll see how it goes. I love teaching my non members but I also hope some of these people can make it to the temple and stay there. Our ward mission leader is way cool. He's already come out with us.
Our address is
1700 Robb St. Building 15 Apartment 106
Lakewood, CO 80215
Our number is
720-PSYCH
I'm excited to find people that want to accept the gospel in this area. Stake conference was all about missionary work and temple work and hastening those works. The temple president and his wife spoke and our mission president and his wife spoke. About simply inviting everyone. Even youth spoke about their friends that were converted simply because they invited.
I love you all!
It's great being here though because we have a temple. That is so cool. We get to go to it the first Wednesday of every month so I'm really looking forward to being able to go to that again. Also President is here so that's really cool. We had Stake Conference and I got to see him and his wife. Man I love those two so much. They have such strong powerful testimonies. So it's really good being able to see them casually. And seeing other missionaries! I'm not used to that. Whenever you see another missionary it's exciting and you run up and hug each other(talking about ELDERS). But now it's just like, oh hey whats up again. When I got here to the mission home I saw my MTC companion that I hadn't seen since so that was really neat. He's on fire. I also found out as I arrived and was about to leave to my new area that I was district leader again without being told but I'm excited to continue being filled with love for my district. I learn so much from them.
Jeff Crookston is in this ward! He's a ward missionary. That was absolutely crazy. He called up Jared on speaker in front of me and almost drove me crazy haha.
My companion is pretty great. It's crazy how alike we are actually. He's from Boulder City. We talked a lot the first day and he said that he's told me more knowing me less than 24 hours than any of his companions that he's been with for months. So I hope we can continue to get along and work hard together.
It's confusing sometimes finding the balance of a mission and life. Because a mission is already naturally hard and figuring out if you're making it too hard or if it is just like that for everyone as well is a tough one. But as I loose myself and become swallowed up in the joy of Christ I know that everything is ok.
We do a lot of work with less actives. Pretty much just have health problems or anxiety and don't like church. It feels like most of the time it's a cop out so we'll see how it goes. I love teaching my non members but I also hope some of these people can make it to the temple and stay there. Our ward mission leader is way cool. He's already come out with us.
Our address is
1700 Robb St. Building 15 Apartment 106
Lakewood, CO 80215
Our number is
720-PSYCH
I'm excited to find people that want to accept the gospel in this area. Stake conference was all about missionary work and temple work and hastening those works. The temple president and his wife spoke and our mission president and his wife spoke. About simply inviting everyone. Even youth spoke about their friends that were converted simply because they invited.
I love you all!
Tuesday, March 11, 2014
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