December 30, 2013
Missionary Slim is closing in on 2014. Happy New Year! (Week 99 in Pennsylvania, Week 10 in Wintersville, Ohio)
It was a delightful Christmas for Missionary Slim. Few presents except an overload of candy and goodies, no snow, but still good company and good fun. Through it all, the work has been moving on. The day after Christmas, we paid a visit to Paul and Melinda, the blind chap and his wife. We explained the Plan of Salvation to them, tying in Christmas and our own personal Spiritual gifts...
December 23, 2013
Missionary Slim wishes you a Very Merry Christmas! (Week 98 in Pennsylvania, Week 9 in Wintersville, Ohio)
'Twas a rainy week, as Missionary Slim worked his best to be prepared for the coming feast of Yule and celebration of the birth of the Christ Child. Nevertheless, the cheer of Christmas rang through the air in people's hearts and homes.
We paid a visit to Mick and Annette, a hysterical part-member family. Annette has been a long-time member, but drifted away shortly after joining...
December 16, 2013
Missionary Slim reminds you to keep on keepin' on (Week 97 in Pennsylvania, Week 8 in Wintersville, Ohio)
It's been a slow week - with Christmas, the hustle and bustle, the busyness, the finals and tests in school, the cold and the snow, it's been slow.
One low-light. The Browns, the ginormous family that we've been teaching the gospel to, decided to quit investigating. The hard way. After numerous attempts to visit them, call them, and get in touch with them in general, Elder Almond...
December 9, 2013
Missionary Slim puts his "Magic" black name badge to good use (Week 96 in Pennsylvania, Week 7 in Wintersville, Ohio)
Our week has been pretty exciting, with one or two amazing experiences here and there.We went to visit a less-active brother. We've been over to his house many times, and have enjoyed his... interesting humor as we do service or try to teach a lesson. This time, though, we found his wife at home, something that isn't a usual thing. This was the first time that I met his wife.She herself...
December 2, 2013
Missionary Slim Wishes you a very Happy Thanksgiving, Hanukkah, Advent? Is Slim getting confused? (Week 95 in Pennsylvania, Week 6 in Wintersville, Ohio)
Happy Turkey Holocaust Day, everyone! And happy Hanukkah. And Advent. All that jazz. We had a crazy week. We were walking around in downtown Stuebenville, you know, the place where everyone says "Don't go there at night!" And it was night. We hopped out of our car to visit a member when a guy walked up to us. "What's on your nametags?""Oh, we're missionaries.""Oh, great! I've been...
November 25, 2013
Missionary Slim is in West Virginia? How did this happen? (Week 94 in Pennsylvania, Week 5 in Wintersville, Ohio)
I was on exchange down in Wheeling, West Virginia, going around with Elder Coleman, and missionary who came out with me. We had several visits lined up, and most of them worked out, almost miraculously.
One was pretty remarkable. It was a former investigator who didn't know that we were coming. We knocked on the door, and she was home and invited us in. We sat down, and started getting...
November 18, 2013
Missionary Slim teaches us that everyone has a great story (Week 93 in Pennsylvania, Week 4 in Wintersville, Ohio)
Monday evening, we went to go visit with Nancy. Nancy is a very outspoken, opinionated and quick-to-the-point kind of lady. She's a baptist by faith, and regularly attends her Sunday meetings, revivals all that jazz. Oh, and she's an avid coffee-aholic. Seriously, ever time we've been over there to visit her, she's had a pot brewing. (And it smells so good!)
We finally got the...
November 11, 2013
Missionary Slim is the Wizard of Wintersville (Week 92 in Pennsylvania, Week 3 in Wintersville, Ohio)
What a weird week...On Monday, we went out to old man Zook's house. He's a great old guy who's been around for a really long time, and has seen the ward grow from a twig to where it is now. He's got a lot of random tricks up his sleeve too. While we were out there, he pulled out his...
November 4, 2013
Missionary Slim is in the right place at the right time to help people feel the power of the Spirit (Week 91 in Pennsylvania, Week 2 in Wintersville, Ohio)
We've had a couple of really great, cool experiences this week. Tuesday, we had an appointment with a less active brother, Jason. He's a hip, hair-stylin' Mormon who either joined the church later in life, or fell out of the church pretty hard. But don't let his appearance fool you - his tattoos and earrings only adorn the outside warmhearted family man. He's working on quitting...
October 28, 2013
Missionary Slim doesn't have to use his ruby slippers to get home, just the power of prayer and a tank of gas (Week 90 in Pennsylvania, Week 1 in Wintersville, Ohio)
"Gee, Toto, I don't think we're in Pennsylvania anymore!"
And isn't that the truth! After a wild turn of events, I finally made it to... well, maybe I'd better explain those wild events.
Monday, a preparation day like any other. I worked hard to pack and do laundry while saying my goodbyes to all the wonderful people that I'll be missing as I go to my new area. Tuesday, I was...
October 21, 2013
Missionary Slim likes photoblogging (Week 89 in Pennsylvania, Week 13 in Dover, PA)
This might be mostly a photo blog post. Lots of
great things have been talked about in the blog, but I haven't put up
pictures in a while.
A recent hurricane blew through, causing this flooding. It was pretty intense!
Kyle's baptism!
In other news, Transfers!...
October 14, 2013
Missionary Slim sees a TON of fish but is having the best success being a 'Fisher of Men' (Week 88 in Pennsylvania, Week 12 in Dover, PA)
Missionary work is going well. We pulled out our
area book this week and found this name under the potential investigator
section:
Valentin. Contacted August 2007. Note: "This guy is SO prepared!"
And with that to work with, we stopped by. Sure enough,
we found him at home. Actually, he was leaving in about 5 minutes, but
he had time to get to know us...
October 7, 2013
Missionary Slim has a few words to pass on to everyone (Week 87 in Pennsylvania, Week 11 in Dover, PA)
Today, Slim has been extremely busy and didn't have a lot of time to write. Here are a few of his own words to sum up his week:
-General Conference. Two words: HOME RUN!
-Remember
Kyle? I mentioned him weeks ago. He's been taught by the sister
missionaries, and will probably be getting baptized this coming week. Do
like one of the seventies (I can't remember which)...
September 30, 2013
Missionary Slim encounters a new opportunity and an old one. Coincidence? I think not. (Week 86 in Pennsylvania, Week 10 in Dover, PA)
We were walking down the street. It was a pleasant
day; the sun was shining, and clouds glided by, creating shadows here
and there occasionally. A gentleman we had passed earlier when he was
tinkering with a lawn mower was now out walking his puppy. We decided to
say hi. Here's the gist of the conversation:
"Hey there!"
"Oh, hi guys. How are you doing? I was...
September 23, 2013
Missionary Slim forgets that it was ' International talk like a Pirate Day ' last week (Week 85 in Pennsylvania, Week 9 in Dover, PA)
There's an awesome family that we've been able to
visit, the Gonzales'. And don't let the name fool you - they're
Filipino. The son is a security guard working nights and has a really
hard time getting to church because its right when he's supposed to be
sleeping. He hasn't come to church in several years. Well, we had a chat
with him and found out that he's really been thinking...
September 16, 2013
Missionary Slim has a week of many changes and adventures (Week 84 in Pennsylvania, Week 8 in Dover, PA)
It's been a really fun week. Seriously. Incredibly fun. Here's the rundown:
Monday
I went up to Harrisburg. Because Elder Ramos is training during this
new transfer, he needed to drive out to Pittsburgh to be part of the
trainer's meeting. I was going to be babysat by another elder in
Pittsburgh, Elder Brady.
We did work up there. He's in the walking area, so
we...
September 9, 2013
Missionary Slim and his new-found mascot (Week 83 in Pennsylvania, Week 7 in Dover, PA)
Like our usual work, we've been finding, finding,
finding. Oh, and finding. Even with all of the awesome new investigators
that we got last week, we're still in the midst of an investigator
crisis. All of those people we were teaching who were close to baptism
did just that. So,...
September 3, 2013
Missionary Slim finds out that giants really do exist and they are friendly! (Week 82 in Pennsylvania, Week 6 in Dover, PA)
This blog post is probably going to sound like a Shakespeare comedy or a daytime soap opera. Just sayin'.
Earlier
this week, we called Bolvina, the Mexican lady that we started teaching
last week. I'll give a rough paraphrase of what she said: "Oh, I talked
to my husband, and we're Catholic. We believe in the Bible. He doesn't
want to meet you guys... Bye!" Yeah, that's...
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