Pittsburgh Mission Memoirs

And again! Missionary Slim packs all of his worldly possessions (including his trusty toothbrush!) into two suitcases, says his goodbyes, and is off to Pittsburgh for the meeting which will determine the next six to a lot of weeks. And as he predicted, he ended up going to exactly where he expected: West York, Pennsylvania. In a few words: It's different out here. It's a whole new...

We've had a pretty interesting week. As usual, lots of amazing, almost miraculous, things have happened. Monday, we were still on our spiritual high from seeing an apostle, so naturally it bled through to our missionary work and efforts with the members. I was giving a little spiel about the conference to a member family we were having dinner with when the mom of the member family...

Wow. That's really all that I can say, is Wow. It was an intense week this week, one which certainly will never be forgotten by myself. I had better just jump into things.I'd better start with a disclaimer. I fear that I might be using this blog as a way of saying "Look at me! I'm so awesome and spiritual." In other words, gratifying my pride. I really hope that is not the case. I...

As I've mentioned in the past, a lot of our work in Somerset has been focused on finding the lost sheep, those members of the church who have simply slipped through the cracks. First and foremost, this work we've done (with the abundant help of Elder and Sister Neuder, two wonderful senior missionaries) has really been a boost to my testimony of the Lords hand in all the work...