TKM June 20, 2011

Elder Struthers, Bro. Burgin and Elder Pearson at Rose's home.

June 20, 2011

Hey-oh! HAPPY FATHERS DAY DAD!!!! Shout out to all y'all dads out there (Grandpa's too) ;D How is everyone doing back in Utah and everywhere else in the world!?!? We have been having some funny weather here in Tennessee.. Its always random. One min it will be all sunny and 90 degrees and then the next it will be pouring rain for 5 min and then go right back to sunshine Hahaha

Well last Monday Elder Struthers and I got another companion with us. His name in Brother Barret Burgan from Knoxville. He has been a lot of fun to have around. He is serving a "mini-mission" with us for 2 weeks to help him be more prepared for his real mission. Its fun to watch how excited he gets when we are at an investigators house teaching a lesson. =D

The whole week has just kinda blurred together and a lot has happened, but I am having a hard time thinking of a specific event or story to tell. Dennis Chess, Ray, Theressa and her two boys have all accepted to be baptized! So that's good. Now Dennis and Theressa just have to quit smoking...

I dont have a lot of time but I wanted to throw in some of the high lights of the week.

Love ya! Elder Pearson

Additional Tidbits....Elder Pearson has been serving in Rotherwood/Kingsport for 6 months and 4 companions. He asked how much money he had in his account and I jokingly asked if he was buying everyone lunch today..."I did buy my companions lunch lol. i found out I'm still staying in Rotherwood for another 7 weeks at least. in our Zone we have a lot of people. l think like 13 companionships.

I also received a copy of his companion, Elder Struthers' email - he gave a few more details of their week that you might enjoy....

June 20, 2011 – Elder Struthers

So this week was a fantastic week! Definitely one of the top ones I've had so far on my mission. On Monday we got our mini missionary like I was talking about Monday. His name is Barrett Burgin. He is really cool and already a great missionary. He knows the lessons really well and all that. He just goes off on tangents and wants to teach everything about our church at once. He is really working on eliminating the fluff and he is doing really well. He is a lot of fun to have around.

On Tuesday we went and saw Ray. We had a really good lesson on prayer and how to pray with real intent. The spirit was really strong and we committed him for baptism on the 25th. So this Saturday. It was really cool. He didn't come to church yesterday though! Which is ironic because he was our only investigator that came last week. On Wednesday we went and saw our investigator Dennis and taught the Plan of Salvation. We committed him for baptism on the 2nd of July knowing he still had to come to church twice and quit smoking before. He is excited for his baptism and knows its true. He is already to 2 Nephi 20 in his Book of Mormon reading.

So Ray and Dennis brought our committed investigators to five. The Lord really blessed us this week. While tracting this week we were able to get ten new investigators. By far my record for a week. They are legit ones too not just "'hey can we come back sometime?' 'Sure I'll listen if you're talking about Jesus'". But like sat down taught a whole lesson and got a specific return appointment. I'm really excited about it.

At church yesterday Theresa didn't come :( but her two sons did Jonathon and Brandon. So Theresa's date for this Saturday had to be dropped but her sons are still on at the moment. We had a total of 8 investigators at church. It was awesome! I'm really looking forward to what this week will bring.

Well that's about all the news I can think of at the moment. This week was definitely full of blessings!- Elder Struthers