Heyy

This week's been SWEET!

Elder Waggoner is a stud! He is not from Texas like I thought. He's from Southern Illinois, but he's got the accent to fool anyone. I'm doing my best to pick it up. He'll probably be the one who will kill me off - but we'll see.

The area is pretty cool. We have a stake in Brigham and a stake in Perry. The area isn't very busy right now, oddly enough, even less busy than my last one. But we're working hard to fix that. We've already picked up several new investigators and a date for baptism.

This area has the Utah famous Maddox restaurant. Good food. I've been hearing about it my whole mission, and now I get it free once a week. Also, in our area is the only person I know that President Monson, the Prophet of the Church, has called an Anti-Christ. He's the guy responsible for the most famous anti-LDS movies and literature. There's a lot more he does, but I'll just leave it at we have been commanded from the First Presidency that if we knock his door we get sent home. Crazy stuff.

Anywho, Things are going along great. We've got someone we're teaching who is EXACTLY like Butters on South Park. It's hilarious. This is going to be a sweet area to finish up in. And Waggoner is gonna make sure I finish working hard.

Transfers

My last area as a missionary in the Utah Ogden Mission will be in Perry Utah. It's just South of Brigham City. So I will get to see the Brigham Temple go up, which will be sweet. Perry is in the Willard Bay Zone, which goes from basically North Ogden into Malad, Idaho. So it's pretty big.

I'll be serving with Elder Waggnor, who I haven't ever served around, but I hear he's a stud. I'm way pumped for this area and comp. The area next to us is where Ed Davis, a recent convert I started teaching in my first area, lives. So it'll be awesome to see him. He's doing well from what I hear. Going strong in the gospel. I'll have a car to end my mission with. And a gym close by. Gotta continue the 6 months to sexy.

It's sad to leave this area. Transfers are always hard when you've been working with people for so long. But I'll be close enough to come back for baptisms. And a wedding in August! An investigator, James, is getting married to his fiance so he can get baptized! That will be sweet to go to.

This Friday, [last Friday] we had Elder D. Todd Christoffersen come speak to the mission. It was mostly an open Q&A with an Apostle. We were told twice, by President Olsen and him, not to ask dumb questions about the 3 Nephites and stuff. We only had one idiot missionary ask a dumb question, which Elder Christoffersen basically told him so in the answer. It was sweet!  Also, at another time, while reading Preach My Gospel, he let out a big DUH. So it is now completely acceptable, lol.

After all that, we went to Chipotle for lunch. It was amazing! Still delicious after 21 months of not eatin it. I gotta go get ready for the move, but I love yall, and hope all is well.



Elder Pearson with his district June 2011



Mavs Won!

Elder Pearson playing "Scripture Jenga"

Not a spiritual title, but O so important. The Dallas Mavericks are this year's NBA champions! Dirk finally got a ring! So pumped!

Besides that, the work's been going along. Not too much to report. This Friday we're having Elder D. Todd Christofferson of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles come to speak to the mission. So I'm pretty excited about that.

This week, Bohanan the Great and I were checking up on a referral. We knocked on the door and heard "Come on in."  I hate walking into peoples homes. It happens a lot. So we knocked again and got the exact same response. I tried yelling "are you home alone?" and just got "Come on in" again. After about 4 more "Come on in's" I assumed it was not an old lady telling us to come inside, but in fact an empty home with a parrot in the front room. We're gonna go back to further investigate, but it was pretty funny. We almost walked in.

Anyway, I gotta go play capture the flag with some people. Sending letters = loving a missionary.





To show how large the area is - and they are on bikes!


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Week 4 of 6 of the Transfer

These last 2 weeks have been crazy! Trying to do double the work, in double the area, with the same amount of time isn't the easiest. Luckily we have bikes. We just have to work on riding them a bit faster now, so it'll actually benefit us.

The new Providence stake is awesome!! They are so pumped to have missionaries that give them the time of day. One of our Ward Mission Leaders in the new stake is a Professor for one of the Ward Mission Leaders in the Logan stake.  Pretty funny stuff.

We've been doing a lot of Exchanges this week. That is when 2 companionships switch for a 24 hr period. So you get a new companion to be with for the day. We were on exchanges yesterday and had a sweet lesson. It was with Chap, who Bohanan and I have been trying to get a hold of for 3 months now. He just graduated H.S., so he's got a bit more time. The spirit was strong and even though it was our first lesson teaching together, Elder Mansell and I taught together pretty unified. It's been a while since I've had a lesson like that, which definitely has taken it's toll on me. But it was sweet just getting one great lesson in.

Snow on Memorial Day

I never thought I'd see snow at the end of May. But that's what I saw yesterday.


May 30, 2011

The mountains are white again, and the cold was there. Luckily, it's warmed up again and the snow down here is all melted.

We got a phone call on Thursday telling us we now cover the Providence stake as well. So our area has now doubled, making it one of the largest bike areas in the mission! Luckily, Bohanan's bike is going be here Thursday so we'll actually start getting work done. I'm pumped.

The area is similar to Kaysville. Too many girls, and very financially stable people. Oddly enough, so far, I like it. That makes it way different from Kaysville. I've had 2 former companions, Elders Henke and Houghton who have served in this stake before.

Since we have been working in this stake, we've taught a family from India. They were not interested, but I learned all about their beliefs. And we're going to start teaching 2 girls from Ethiopia. They seem way cool.

Besides that, we're just continuing to work.



One of our investigators, Breanna, drew this after we taught her about the Tree of Life.  Notice the Tree of Life has Dr. Pepper on it!



Elder Flake (on exchanges) Elder Pearson, Michelle (friend of Breanna)  and Breanna the investigator having fun after the lesson.