May 25, 2015
Hi Mom and Dad,
Teaching and language
are going well. There's always room to improve! I think that's how a lot of
things in life are, the more I study the scriptures, the more I know, the more
I'm aware of what I don't know and what I want to learn. Growing faith and Heavenly
Father helps me to be humble.
Sweet that Connor and
Tommy are home, great missionaries and great friends! What are they up to now?
Breather before BYU or other things on the Menu now?
Emily and Talyon,
checking in and heading off. Mom, do you have new young women coming into your
class [see note at bottom] ? How's
the rising generation of youth in the Las Flores ward looking?
Have a fun Memorial Day,
today is Pentecost
so we have a Holiday in Germany as well. I feel like every other week is a
holiday over here. Due to two things. 1 Germans simply celebrate more Holidays
I think. 2 Time flies when you're a missionary. Have a fun day without school!
(also, does Austin have his own email, sometimes I want to send him stuff but
don't know where to send it..)
Seminary [check the
link for explanation of Seminary] is already coming to a close, wow, enjoying
the last few days there and of school. I didn't know Taylor got to teach
Elder's quorum.
We had an awesome lesson about the temple
over here. Current temple recommend always, whether you can physically make it
or not. Mom, what if Taylor marries a German girl and moves to Germany when
he's done at BYU? Yep, working on taking more pictures over here. Whenever I
get transferred you'll probably get a bunch of pictures of my apartment, drive
to church, Bahnhof [train station] and just day in the life sort of things like
that.
I don't know about that
yet, but we have an exchange tonight into tomorrow, so I'll find out if she
made it again. [The lady Hayden met in
Langen during an earlier exchange]
This week we had a lot
of 'coincidences' which were really cool. Call them tender Mercies, call them
miracles, divine chance, lucky encounters. We visit less active church members
to see how they're doing and if we can help them at all and this week we were
just in the area so we stopped by a man whom we had never stopped by on and he
was home. We saw some people with whom we had previously chatted on the street
(Mainz is Much bigger than Mission Viejo). My favorite though, we were walking
through a shopping center area (since we're planning to have a street display
in a few weeks so we were just looking things over. I made eye contact with a
man, smiled and waved from afar, automatically he was really friendly, then he
motioned for us to come over. The thoughts going through my mind 'Ok, he
probably has some friends who are members of our church, or he's talked to some
missionaries before, exciting, always nice when people invite you to talk with
them'. To my surprise, that wasn't the case. I don't know what his thought
process was when we were farther away, but we talked and he really wants us to
come by. Help him strengthen his family through the gospel and teachings of
Jesus Christ. Brother Singh. Looking forward to visiting him this week. I know
that when we do our best to do God's will He will lead us to those who are
looking for Him. Doctrine
and Covenants 112:10 Be thou humble; and the Lord thy God shall lead thee by the hand, and give thee answer to thy prayers.
Have a fun week, be
safe, don't have too much fun with no school in ;)
Love,
Elder Blanchard
Below, a Note not easily linked to another websites
Young Women Organization
Young women ages 12 to 17 belong to the ward’s Young Women
organization. The purpose of this organization is to help young women build
their testimonies of Christ and prepare to receive the blessings of the temple.
The Young Women organization also prepares them for their future roles as women
in the Church and as contributing members of society.
The bishop calls exemplary adult women in the ward to serve as the
presidency and advisers in the Young Women organization. The young women meet
on Sundays for gospel instruction and during the week for social, service, or
cultural activities. During these meeting times—and in their personal
time—young women also participate in a program called Personal Progress by
setting and achieving goals in eight value areas.
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