The Field Is White

Rachel sent this photo and said...
This photo makes me think of D&C section 4
"The field is white and ready to harvest..."
I had to smile.
I love that girl... ♥

The Flu

so yeah last week i was really sick with the flu. not the swine flu. wednesday i had a fever of like 100 all day. and then thursday i felt like i was going to throw up all day (which i didn't) and then after that i just felt really tired and even still my stomach isn't totally back to normal and i`m still tired sometimes. i think my body is just done!

oh yes i just remembered i need to tell you the story about the picture. well elder mccurdy also got the flu. he had the same thing as me but like a day behind. anyway so he was feeling like he was going to throw up so we decided to bring him some peppermint tea to help. plus i was tired of being in the apartment. so i was dressed in sweats and a sweatshirt because i still felt sick. we got on the bus to head over to the elders apartment and it started POURING down rain! so by the time we got to their apartment i was SOAKED. elder smith answered the door and i said: i need to borrow some clothes. shorts and a sweatshirt quick! so he runs back into his room and grabs shorts and a sweatshirt and then i ran into their bathroom (it's right by the door) and changed into his clothes. and then i borrowed his clothes to go back home and washed them for him and gave them back on sunday. but anyway the whole thing was really funny at the time. so that explains the picture.

i get to meet daniel this week! on saturday! we`re having a street preach in duisburg and he said that he`d be there! so be waiting next week for pictures! i can't wait to meet him.

Ready to Harvest

The Doctrine & Covenants Section 4 talks about
the field being ready to harvest.
If we have desires to serve God
we are called to the work.
When I saw these pictures of Rachel
it reminded me of those scriptures.

my elder friends!!!
left to right: elder wood, elder welch, elder McCurdy, and elder marsh

elder josh malyon
(for people at home...he's in the bellevue stake and we think he was in al`s prom group)

me and sister ninow
the mission president's wife

When Do I Get Released?

i totally forgot to tell you last week but Yvonne went and did temple baptisms a few weeks ago with the ward. she LOVED it!

my last interview is this week....its wierd, president and i have like a good relationship now. he keeps calling me and asking me to do him favors. but then he doesn' t do any favors for me... wait a minute he's just using me! i might have to ask for a favor then during my interview.......

my last street preach is on august 1st....in Duisberg. i think that's when i`ll meet daniel. he's busy with school this week even though he has a break. bummer. but i WILL meet him before i go home.

anyway there is a fair in düsseldorf this week and so a bunch of us are going. i`m way excited. i don't have many p-days left....ok well i guess in a few weeks i`ll be on like permanent p-day....but i still want to do fun things while i`m here!

i got my flight plans.... one question... when do i get released? do we get to go straight to the stake presidents house after the airport or do i have to wait until friday? anyway sorry not much news here. so what we doing when i get home?? what time is church? do i have to give a talk? if so, when?

Note from Rachel's mom: Rachel arrives home on August 13th!!! YEA!

Annoyed

last week was zone conference. unfortunately i was not given the opportunity to bare my ´dying´ testimony. i was so ticked! we had mission tour and had the opportunity to hear from elder causse from the first quorm of 70.
i was asked by one of my zone leaders to share daniel`s story. how he found out about it i have no idea but i said i would.

so the computer i`m on is really lame and i can't email pictures this week. i actually have pictures to email as well! and it wouldn't let me look at the pictures that mom emailed me so i will have to wait till next week... :( and we still have NO INVESTIGATORS!

i`m running very low on patience. it's a good thing we`re playing soccer today. i need to get some anger out. why i`m so annoyed i dunno.

The Blog

I've been thinking lately about the blog...
this blog.
Rachel and I started it together before she left on her mission.
I told her I wanted to do it so that her friends would have a way
to follow her while she served.
Well...
little did I know that it would be a missionary tool.
Back in April I found a comment that had been posted on the blog
by a young man named Daniel.
It was a very nice comment.
Apparently Daniel was trying to get some information
about our church on the internet
and he found Rachel's blog.
He said, "I have to say that it is amazing what you are doing
for your beliefs and for all the people out there.
You are trying to show them some answers for important questions.
I by myself just started to think
about the Church Of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints,
because I think that I am on a point in my life
where I have to ask myself what is important.
In what direction I will go."

I e-mailed Rachel Daniel's comment
and the next week she asked me to post a note to him on the blog.
(See post on April 28th)
Since then Rachel and Daniel have e-mailed each other weekly
as a missionary and an investigator.
Daniel has been meeting with the elders in his area
which as it turns out isn't too far from where Rachel is serving.

In Rachel's last e-mail to the family she wrote:
Daniel's getting baptized at the end of august. i'm going to miss it.
but we`re for sure going to meet before i leave.
pretty much daniel's emails have been getting me through.
i printed them off and i read them like all the time.
he's so amazing!
his email this week really touched me
because he said that my emails have helped him.
throughout this whole thing i haven't felt like i've made much of a difference
but he said that it's nice to have email support
since he doesn't get it from family or friends.
so way to go mom in wanting to create a blog for me!

Who would have thought.
Daniel: you are in our prayers.