Sam’s Mount Nebo mountain bike team had a race in Moab over the weekend. We drove up Friday night and stayed in a tent and did some hiking. Then went to the race in the morning.
Sam’s mountain bike race in Moab
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[S3E1] Enter the Baguette!
Well, Elder Willits has gone home, and that was really hard to see him go. But now I have Elder Jeanselme! Yup, its French, and it’s pronounced “John- Salm” He’s got to explain it every time we talk to someone, its fun. Anywho, i’m going to get started on my top 10!
10: Well, this week was transfers, and Elder Willits went home. I’m going to miss him a lot! The worst part is that when we were saying goodbye at the transfer spot it wasn’t really goodbye, since he was coming to a ward event with his family. He was doing a mission tour, meeting everyone from his previous areas, and so we met up and did our final good-byes on Friday. Miss that man.
9: So this is the first time I’ve had a new companion, and it’s very weird, he has a totally different style of tracting, is a very different type of personality from Elder Willits, and just everything. It’ll take a while to get used to the differences, but that’s okay, He’s a great guy, and I can’t wait to work with him.
8: This p-day we went on a little hike, up to “Table Rock” check the pics below.
7: Had dinner at the Medina’s, which was funny because they are very well put together, and I forgot to tell elder Jeanselme about it, and he was just in awe of everything they had. They are a very musical family, and let me check out the Lute guitar that they had gotten from Athens, Greece! Very cool.
6: Bri’s family has a bunny apparently, and so when I asked to see it, they brought it down. and then told me I could have it! But I kinda can’t, because I’m doing too much missionary stuff to take care of a bunny. But they said that I could get him after my mission!!! Sweet, I can have a low-maintenance pet for after the mission!!
5: This week has been long, and weird. Getting used to a new companion, taking over the area is hard. But it’ll be good, I’ll learn how to be a BIGE boy.
4: After finding out that it’s really hard to get gospel knowledge into a whole family, we have started to teach the Hall family individually. It’s been great, we now have planned lessons laid out almost every day of the week.
3: Speaking of the Hall family, they will be moving really soon! NOOOOO!!! but not until they are baptized. So now the pressure is on to get them through all the lessons, and get them dunked as fast as we can.
2: We are getting a new car! The one that we are currently using is getting a little up in the miles (50k) and the church likes to sell them at that point. Our new car is going to be a 2019 Toyota corolla. Nice. because of that, we’ll have all our miles for the month refunded when we get the new car, so we’ve been planning plenty of boonie tracting. Gonna be sweeeet!
1: I am just very happy for life to be going on, for everyone. Don’t ever doubt that. No matter what happens, life will keep going. Just keep going with it.
Love you all,
Elder Berky
[S2E6] Homeward bound
Nope, not me, but Elder Willits just had his last week. Yeah, it’s hard. I don’t know what I’m going to do without him. Well, keep going on, but it just isn’t going to be the same. Anyways… Top list time!
7: I’m sure some of you might have seen this on good old Facebook, but Bri has gone to the temple! After just a week of being baptized! That’s nuts! This kinda thing just doesn’t happen! She wanted to do some family names, but couldn’t get the right permissions lined up, so that was sad. But who cares? Temple!
6: While playing gatorball (a combination of soccer and rugby) I got the ball kicked into my face, and it jammed my glasses into my nose. Which caused me to bleed, and might leave a scar. So that was pretty cool. Luckily it stopped bleeding so I didn’t get any blood on my clothes. In fact, I didn’t even notice until we stopped playing and somebody said something.
5: Bri’s whole family, who hasn’t really been fans of the church have now all committed to be baptized! That’s so great! They’ve come a long way!
4: That’s really all we’ve been doing. Like all week we have been teaching them, either all together (doesn’t go so well) or by themselves (goes very well)
3: Got to spend a couple days with Elder Allan! He came out with me, but he’s going to the Philippines! He’s just staying here while he waits on his visa. We got to hang out, and he went to the Temple here in Medford, while Elder Willits went up to the one in Portland. That was a weird day.
2: I got to do service in in a homeless shelter, feeding people, and some dude brought in all these freaking pies! I kinda wish I was homeless now, I want some pies!
1: Sometimes i think “what am I doing out here?” But seeing the change that the Lord has brought to people, just because I’ve simply showed up where he told me to, has totally changed me. I am so thankful to be here today.
I love you all, and want y’all to read from 2 Nephi 31! Do some homework guys!
Elder Berky
[S2E5] Baptism! Clean skies! Elder Willits is a sad little fellow!
Yeah, this has been a great week! Bri got baptized! And her family, who hasn’t been the biggest fans of the church came to her baptism and confirmation! Woo! List time!
10: I’m just going to make #10 the paragraph above.
9: Got to do exchanges Monday , and be a real missionary, riding a real bike! It has been a HOT MINUTE since I’ve ridden a bike so that was fun to get back into that. I had to borrow Elder kays bike, and he is a BIGG BOYE so I had to drop the seat so much!
8: Got to help out at the pear farm, and pick on the platform! It’s basically a big machine that lets us grab all the parts at the tops of the trees! It was really scary, but fun!
7: We met a former Nun! She’s down to chat, but not read the book of Mormon, so we’ll see what happens after our first meeting.
6: Zone conference was this week! It was a bundle of fun, and we got to see a bunch of the other missionaries! Because a lot of the missionaries are going home this transfer, we had a lot of great testimonies borne. Nobody cried that hard tho, so that was surprising.
5: Mí mama sent a bunch if music, and for some reason my phone just wouldn’t recognize any of them. So after a while of messing around with my phone trying to get them to work, with no real progress, I finally tried adding “.mp3” at the end of the name and viola! It worked! Thanks so much Mom!
4: in the morning I’ve been developing my artsy talents by working on a superhero collage. And I finally finished it! See if you can name all the characters!
3: On Friday, as I was getting out of the car, I saw a little dead bird! That was sad, and I’m glad I didn’t step on it.
2: Man, the gospel just blesses us so much! The peace that we get from simply following Christ is incredible. You can also get sooo many solutions from just listening to God and his prophets.
#1: Stefán Karl Stefánsson. RIP
I love you all. Remember that Christ loves you too.
Elder Berky
Yard work
Working in the yard. Probably labor day since the flags are posted.
Concert in the park
Attended a vocal concert in the Scera Shell Theater. This one LaReita wasn’t performing in so she got to watch it too.
[S2E4] Pandemic 2: The electric Boogaloo
10: Elder Willits got sick! It might have been a combination of my sick, and the nasty smoke that has been up here. So u got a whole Saturday to read the new testament, and do some other paper stuff.
9: Thank you for the letters! It was very fun to read them, and was a great spiritual boost.
8: I found a road kill skunk.
7: the smoke was very bad one day on one half of the sky, but really nice on the other half. This is a weird state.
6: We ha dinner with President Orton at this really good seafood place. It was great to talk with them about the work and stuff. Also I had a really good lobster roll.
4: not too much else happened this week, it has been really wack.
3: After stake conference Sunday we ran Into a couple ladies sitting on the grass talking, and so we went up to them, and talked for an hour. They weren’t interested, but at least they know that us latter day saints aren’t totally nuts.
1: gonna play glow in the dark volley ball now, love you all!
Elder Berky
Leavitt Family Reunion
[S2E4] Pandemic!
10: I got freaking sick on Friday, and was totally incapacitated on Saturday. Luckily I was feeling better on Sunday, good enough to go to church! I think it was the flu, and luckily am getting over it, just gotta take it easy for the next little bit.
9: while on exchanges with Elder Law, we saw a decapitated cow head in a less active members hard. That was cool, there dogs were eating at it the whole time we were talking.
8: Today for pday we are at a members of the mission presidency, and had a really cool object lesson about sifting wheat. We got to harvest some if the wheat with sickles, sift the chaff out, and make some great pancakes!
7: I lost all understanding of basic economics. (See pic below)
6: On Friday we went to the church pear farm, and we picked a whole basket faster than another group who had way more people than us! Hahaha! #missionarypower
5: I really want some chicken noodle soup, but we don’t have any.
4: We had exchanges back to back, one with the white city elders, and the other with our zone leaders. That was fun, but we didn’t get much done in the ways of teaching or finding. The most memorable thing that happened was we ran into this one inactive sister who was crazy! She was suggesting all these things we should do to get more baptisms.
3: Now that I think about it, this week hasn’t been very effective missionary wise. But that’s okay, stuff happens, we’ll just make sure next week is super missionary work!
2: I think I sprained my pinky. It’s kinda numb at the tip, but doesn’t hurt enough to interfere with anything.
1: The app that the church uses to make sure we’re using our phone properly went nuts and deleted a ton of apps from everybody’s phone/ tablet. Super helpful…
I love all of you, and make sure that you try to put more good into the world than you receive. Or, if not, find some other inspirational quote that would fit well on a t-shirt and follow that.
Ya boi,
Elder Berky
S2E2
Week status: It has been a week.
10: On Tuesday we helped a part member family dig up a ton of aluminum, and as we were pulling it out of the ground we saw that it was an old wrecked trailer. I Also found a pink Floyd cassette tape, but it was filled with earwigs, so…. Yeah. Can’t exactly try to pawn that off.
9: Today, we went bowling, and it was pretty lit. I keep forgetting how fun bowling is. Let’s go bowling when I get back.
8: We walked up to this one house, and the lady in her backyard saw us all the way through her back and front door, and just waved us in. So we were like “ummmmm… okay….” and walked into this lady’s house and talked to her about the book of Mormon. It was weird.
7: found a big spider named Eliot at the bishops house. Bishops son found out what it was, but i forgot the name.
6: Weather is getting better.
5: We kinda skipped weekly planning so that was great.
4: We were walking to our car, and the same truck that uncle Dave has drove by! I waved at him and said “hey that’s my uncle’s truck.” Then he backed up and asked if we were handing out free books, so we said yeah, and he told us that his grandson was dead. So it was a good thing that I had a plan of Salvation pamphlet on me.
3: We met this lady from Rhodesia. Her name was Diana, like wonder woman. She was’t interested at all.
2: We made some really cute notebooks! Pics included
1: I got a ton of jelly beans! Elder Willits bought them for me!
Love you all.
