Alright, if you must know, we've just been up to baptizing our investigator Bo this week. Yeah, she was baptized on Saturday and then confirmed in sacrament meeting yesterday. Her name is actually Amornrat Cheewasopit, but she's from Thailand and everyone here calls her Bo. Her English is very limited, but it's much much better than my Thai. We had been teaching here several months ago, but her visa was up and she had to return to Thailand. But she came back a month or so ago and we picked up where we left off and she was baptized! It was super exciting. Pics included...
Also, I had my first experience with roadkill this week. It's all over the place here in Tennessee, but still, I had never before in my life ran over a small animal in the road, but this squirrel saw me coming a mile away and didn't move!!! I felt very sorrowful and my companion just laughed as he looked behind and saw the furry creature flying around in the air. I humbly ask for your forgiveness.
What a broadcast last night, huh? I enjoyed the soccer analogy that was given. It's true, we do missionary work out here (and I would guess most everywhere) like a 5 year-old soccer game where everyone just converges on the ball. We will be much more efficient if we each take the time to understand our own role, and then the other players roles on the field so we can make a point without everyone running all over the field. Well said...
Crazy experience. We got a referral this week for a couple of investigators who went to sacrament meeting last week in the Farragut Ward. It turns out that they live in our area and were just ecstatic when they found that there's a meetinghouse just a couple of miles from there home here in West Knoxville. They came to church yesterday and we had a wonderful lesson in gospel principles about The Church of Jesus Christ in former times. She is in love with the church and practically espouses all of the beliefs and her sister is a member over in the Maryville ward. He is her fiance I believe (or at least boyfriend) and he is super interested as well and the more they learn the more the hunger for truth. It's marvelous.
We did indeed get half price shakes on Thursday. It was glorious.
I will leave you 1 Pet 2:9 to ponder on. It's a scripture that has spoken to my heart recently and I really appreciate it. I miss you bunches.
Love
Elder Grabinger
Monday, June 24, 2013
Monday, June 17, 2013
Funky Week
Hola Amigos,
Hahahaha, your experience with programming that mannequin is just hilarious!!! Now you know I feel when I have to help out the family with computer troubles...
"Okay, so you press this big button with the power symbol on it. Good. Yes that turns it on."
"Now we double click this 'Internet Explorer' icon. Yes, that turns on the internet google machine thingy. No, no, the clicks have to be faster... No like this... UGH I'LL JUST DO IT FOR YOU!!!"
Classic.
Actually, just now after writing these last two paragraphs I had to help a lady here in the library with some basic computer functions. The joke's on me. What else is new...?
Nothing at all exciting happened last week. Or at least nothing that I can think of. I was kind of in a funky, lethargic sort of mood much of last week anyway. That's probably the culprit. But we've made a lot of great contacts and taught some good lessons so we will see what comes of it all.
Have a great week!
Love,
Elder Grabinger
Hahahaha, your experience with programming that mannequin is just hilarious!!! Now you know I feel when I have to help out the family with computer troubles...
"Okay, so you press this big button with the power symbol on it. Good. Yes that turns it on."
"Now we double click this 'Internet Explorer' icon. Yes, that turns on the internet google machine thingy. No, no, the clicks have to be faster... No like this... UGH I'LL JUST DO IT FOR YOU!!!"
Classic.
Actually, just now after writing these last two paragraphs I had to help a lady here in the library with some basic computer functions. The joke's on me. What else is new...?
Nothing at all exciting happened last week. Or at least nothing that I can think of. I was kind of in a funky, lethargic sort of mood much of last week anyway. That's probably the culprit. But we've made a lot of great contacts and taught some good lessons so we will see what comes of it all.
Have a great week!
Love,
Elder Grabinger
Monday, June 3, 2013
Towed Car and Baptisms
Dear Associates,
This week has been... whatever. My companion and I will both be transferred this Wednesday, but we're just moving to West Knoxville. So it's just back across the river for me. After this coming transfer, I will have been in Knoxville proper for a year. Pretty crazy, huh?
One funny story this week was that the assistants to the president stayed over at our apartment one night last week. Our apartment complex requires your car to be registered and have a parking sticker though, so their van was towed in the middle of the night. We woke up that morning and one of the assistants was like "Dude, where's my car?" It was pretty funny. So we just had to go search for the towing company and get that back.
Okay, one other crazy thing is that we went to Sevierville to conduct some baptismal interviews for a family that was going to be baptized there. Well, the person that I was assigned to interview was not really planning to be baptized so our interview took like an hour and 20 minutes and I shouldn't have even done it but it was just a really crazy day... Anyway, on Saturday, we went to the baptismal service for her mother and sister and it was a just a really spiritual meeting (Myself and Elder Davis were asked to present the message of the Restoration and we did so while focusing on the importance of the family and the mother bore a really powerful testimony after the ordinance). Afterward, the girl that I had interviewed that was unsure about being baptized asked for another interview and the rest of the family ended up getting baptized the next day. So the whole family was baptized this weekend! Pretty cool stuff.
Things work out. Just do your best and trust that the Lord will fix everything that you mess up. That's the spiritual thought/moral of that story for this week.
It's just going to be a really busy week. We have to prepare for a Stake Correlation Meeting, plan a District Leader Training Meeting and a Zone Training meeting, and give talks in sacrament meeting. Pray that I don't just blow it all off.
Love
Elder Grabinger
This week has been... whatever. My companion and I will both be transferred this Wednesday, but we're just moving to West Knoxville. So it's just back across the river for me. After this coming transfer, I will have been in Knoxville proper for a year. Pretty crazy, huh?
One funny story this week was that the assistants to the president stayed over at our apartment one night last week. Our apartment complex requires your car to be registered and have a parking sticker though, so their van was towed in the middle of the night. We woke up that morning and one of the assistants was like "Dude, where's my car?" It was pretty funny. So we just had to go search for the towing company and get that back.
Okay, one other crazy thing is that we went to Sevierville to conduct some baptismal interviews for a family that was going to be baptized there. Well, the person that I was assigned to interview was not really planning to be baptized so our interview took like an hour and 20 minutes and I shouldn't have even done it but it was just a really crazy day... Anyway, on Saturday, we went to the baptismal service for her mother and sister and it was a just a really spiritual meeting (Myself and Elder Davis were asked to present the message of the Restoration and we did so while focusing on the importance of the family and the mother bore a really powerful testimony after the ordinance). Afterward, the girl that I had interviewed that was unsure about being baptized asked for another interview and the rest of the family ended up getting baptized the next day. So the whole family was baptized this weekend! Pretty cool stuff.
Things work out. Just do your best and trust that the Lord will fix everything that you mess up. That's the spiritual thought/moral of that story for this week.
It's just going to be a really busy week. We have to prepare for a Stake Correlation Meeting, plan a District Leader Training Meeting and a Zone Training meeting, and give talks in sacrament meeting. Pray that I don't just blow it all off.
Love
Elder Grabinger
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