[S13E2] The plauge has come back??

We were talking to a guy this week, and apparently the Bubonic Plague has been found in California. Scary right? But hey, maybe we’ll get the plague doctors back, they look pretty cool. Speaking of sickness, guess what happened to us this week?

6: That’s right, we caught the plague! Not really, we’d probably be on our way home. I got the common cold, and my companion got food poisoning! Protip, make sure your chicken stew is fully cooked before you eat it. So this week we were absolutely laid out. But whoever was cognizant enough to go out tracting did with the Zls, until they got sick. So uhhh, fun week.

5: WHAT? No lifting while sick?? That was real sad, while the both of us were laid out, our weight room was just collecting dust. So sad.

4: But when not sick, Missionary Leadership Conference is totally unnecessary The district leaders got the Privilege of going to MLC this week. In which we talked about useful things, like the Light The World Campaign, talked to missionary friends, and had some awesome chilli! but we also discussed for too long some useless things. Like the new District leader teaching program that I am not a fan of, but President Orton has decided that this is a thing we will be doing so there was no sense in discussing it. 

3: Service out in the boons! Yesterday someone asked us if we could help an older sister with chopping and stacking wood. It’s about 30 minutes away, but was plenty fun. The sister we helped really appreciated it, and it helped build ward trust! 

2: Christmas time should be in your heart all year long! Because I thunk Christmas should be in your heart all year long, we’ve been listening to Christmas music for the past couple of weeks. I’ve found a couple new favorite Christmas songs, like there was a man named Parson Brown, and white winter hymnal.

1: Whät? I løve böąřđ ğåmëß Today we are playing board games, like cataan today. I’m pretty hungry so imma wrap this up with the fact that Jesus loves you, and you will live with your family after this life.

Ya boi

Elder James Berky 

[S13E1] Enter Elder Stringham!

5: Elder Stringham’s enjoying Oregon! My trainee is Elder Stringham, he’s from South Jordan Utah, and we’ve had a good time working, and getting to know the people of Klamath Falls!

4: Time to go to leadership conference! I am very much absolutely ecstatic to go to a leadership conference that I have heard my zone leaders complain about for the past 18 months! For some reason President Orton wants to bring all the District Leaders to participate. Lucky me, I wonder what he is going to talk about that requires the district leaders to be there.

3: I am going to purchase a Del Taco cheeseburger I will not say anything further about this subject.

2: It’s so nice to be able to study the scriptures For the past week, we haven’t had the chance to do a normal personal study, because of meetings and the such. So when we had the opportunity to do a 45 minute session before church, it was incredible! I was able to read about faith and how we need to be watering that seed continually. After a week of not having a study that hit me hard. I will do my best to do studies even on days with meetings.

1: It’s nice seeing my old companions As my Zone leaders, I’ve seen Elder Randall before, at transfer spots and Zone conference, but it Has been quite some time since I’ve seen Elder Jeanselme. It’s been good catching up and seeing how much we’ve grown as people in the past year and a half. 

I love you all, and want to let you know that Jesus loves ya too!

Ya Boi,

Elder James Berky

[S12E6] What? Finally training?

4: Transfer calls!! We got our calls from president Orton and while I will be staying in Klamath, I will be training! I’m heading up to eugene for a couple of days, and then I’ll bring my trainee all the way down here. Long couple of days in the car ahead of me.

3: White washing Zone Leaders? That doesn’t happen But it did! Elder Jeanselme and Randall will be coming in, two of my previous companions! It’s going to be a lot of fun.

2: the 2020 Tacoma has an eject button  Not really, but our new 2020 Tacoma does have an automatic 911 button. It’s pretty neat, pretty clean, and has under 1000 miles on it. I’m never going to drive a car this nice or new again.

1: lil Thanksgiving!  Because we are impatient our zone is doing a little Thanksgiving today. Complete with stuffing, green beans, rolls, rotisserie chicken (cause Turkey is expensive) and more. I’ve actually gotta start cooking the green beans now, so don’t have much time to embellish. Here’s some pictures!

Love ya – Ya boi,

Elder James Berky

Halloween

In keeping with the traditional lining the front porch…Anthony is Black Plague, Ben is Forrest Gump, Sam a motocross rider, Jacob an 80s exerciser, Ammon “Dark Vader” as he calls it. They all went to the Halloween party at the Dempsey’s from 6:30-8:30. Except Jacob, who insisted on going to swim team free day from 5:45-6:30. He was THE ONLY one and had so much fun with the coaches playing various games and making up new strokes 

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After practice he and Ammon went from 7-8:45. It was so cold outside They didn’t even go trick or treating. 

[S12E5] Mad Dogg’n it

This week has been plenty fun. In way of meetings not so much, but we have been very busy.

4: Last week, Mt. Shasta!! Last week we went down to California and went as far up Mount Shasta as we could. We would have gone up much further, but the state of California demands sacrifice of $25 for a federal park. Oh well, we went up where we could, and took some nice pics.

3: After a long night of less-than-fruitful tracting; Laurie! We had been tracting for quite a while, and no one seemed to be listening, or wanting to listen. Got in an argument with a guy who kept talking about church history, and when we would ask him where he got his information, he would just say “Well, I’m not a historian, but it is common knowledge…” or something dumb like that. Many more encounters like that we had, but we ended the night with meeting Laurie. She is super excited to hear about the gospel, even though she has some conspiracy theories bouncing around. (Did you know that signs in front of a dollar store promoting blood donation means that the big Island of Hawaii is going start a new world war?)

2: Lots of contacting done, and cleaning of area book We have figured out that in the spare time between appointments, we can clean up area book, instead of gunk it up with fruitless tracting! Quite a bit of dropping, re-contacting and teaching has been done this week. 

1: D&D is fun, I might get into it when I get back home. Even though what we were playing isn’t actual Dungeons and Dragons, but a very light version of it, we had fun! It all started off with Elder Hoenigman asking Elder Smith; “A bear takes a swing at you in the woods, what do you do?” It has since evolved into saving a city from anarchists, only to get magic-nuked in the end. Very fun, big recommend.

Taking things to a more gospel tone, I have been able to see the hand of the Lord in my work out here, guiding me what to say, study, and search for. Christ will guide you to truth, and never steer you away, but it is up to you if you will let him steer you. I may be the captain of my fate, but Jesus is the master of my soul.

Ya boi,

Elder James Berky