Monday, February 13, 2012
Good News
I got big news for you all and I am super excited, but you will have to read through the letter to find out.
Monday:
After writing you guys we went up to the mall so Elder Brown could buy some things then we came back to the church and watched some movies. After the movies we went contacting
Tuesday:
In the morning we went to go get a copy of our key made so that the other elders could get into our apartment when they needed to with out us. Well the key didn't work so we had to go back (he had made it upside down.) After we finally got the spare key working we went to buy a new camera for elder Young because his got stolen from him. Other than that we just contacted all day until the evening time.
Wednesday:
Wednesday was amazing. We had mission tour. So Mission Tour is like a zone conference but one of the area presidency comes. President Lawrence came this time and his and his wife's talks were amazing. His wife talked about the house of Israel and more fully explained it and President Lawrence focused on the week points of our mission and helped us build them up. Mission tour was a tone of fun. I also got to see Sister Killian and Loss who were in the MTC with me. They are heading home this week so this was the last time that I got to see them. So we said our goodbyes and parted ways. They are amazing missionaries and the mission won't be the same without them. After Mission Tour and all of the goodbyes we cleaned up and then went home for the night.
Thursday:
Basically we contacted all day. We had a lot of success though and one of the coolest things was we got a received from a guy who had ordered a Book of Mormon from Salt Lake back in 2006 and he had read it all the way through. He wasn't that interested in religion but he agreed to meet and talk about the Book of Mormon with us sometime. It was pretty cool sadly though the number we got doesn't work so we won't be able to meet with him. It was still a cool run in. We also got another received to so we were happy with the days work. In the evening we had English which was a blast. I was teaching the parts of the body and let me just say there are a lot of parts. It took the whole class and we still didn't finish. After English we came back in had some delicious Musaka and went to bed.
Friday:
In the morning I did some tasks with Elder Young. For the rest of the day I was with Elder Furtado though because he had to get a new filling (tore his old one out while flossing) and because of that he couldn't speak Bulgarian. So we couldn't contact but we did try to find the other Elders a new apartment. The day was fun though and we got some things done that we had been putting of. Other than that friday was alright.
Saturday:
Well first off we had english which was a lot of fun. After that we had lunch and contacted until Transfere calls. We got our calls and I am going back to Pleven! Plus I am going with a Mini Missionary from Plovdiv. His name is Ivan Chakerov and he has turned in his mission papers. He knows english well but we will be speaking bulgarian the majority of the time. He is really cool and serving with him is going to be a blast. I am also including a picture for you guys to look at. I am supper excited and I can't wait to go back to Pleven. Other than that the day was normal. I am super happy and am looking forward to going to Pleven again. YEA!!!!
Sunday:
Other than saying goodbye to everyone at church the day was just filled with contacting. I was told something very cool though. I was on splits with Elder Brown about 2 weeks ago and I had told an investagator that we were teaching (okay it is all I focused on) to read the Book of Mormon slowly and with prayer. After sacrament meeting she told me that she had done what I had said and that for the first time ever she was enjoying reading the Book of Mormon and was filling the spirit. That comment made my whole day.
That was the week and I am looking forward a ton to the last six months of my mission. See you all soon.
Love,
Elder Austin James Ewell
Monday, February 6, 2012
Feb. 6
Well this week was a good week though not much to talk about so sorry if the letter is shorter than normal.
Monday:
After writing we bought some food and then watched a movie. At night we went out and contacted
Tuesday:
Basicly contacted all day. We were trying to find a less active though and lets just say we got lost again but it was still a good day. Oh it was about 1 degree outside though. That was fun trying to stop people in that weather.
Wednesday:
Other than district meeting we were just contacting all day. We did go on splits though which was a lot of fun.
Thursday:
Other than english we just contacted all day.
Friday:
We finally met with Mladen again. It was a really cool meeting because he understands the importance of what we are teaching if it is true. So he is actually reading and praying and doing what we ask of him. It is great and he is really fun to teach. Other than that just weekly planning and contacting.
Saturday:
Saturday was fun because we after english we had to help the other elders move to our place because due to some complications they can't stay at their place anymore and they don't have a new apartment yet. At night though we were at the church and the Zone Leaders were there and we got into a huge snowball fight. It was increadbly fun.
Sunday:
Church was good but aside from that we just contacted all day like normal.
Sorry for the short letter. Next week should be a longer one. I hope you guys all have a great week. Write you next week.
Love,
Elder Austin James Ewell
Monday:
After writing we bought some food and then watched a movie. At night we went out and contacted
Tuesday:
Basicly contacted all day. We were trying to find a less active though and lets just say we got lost again but it was still a good day. Oh it was about 1 degree outside though. That was fun trying to stop people in that weather.
Wednesday:
Other than district meeting we were just contacting all day. We did go on splits though which was a lot of fun.
Thursday:
Other than english we just contacted all day.
Friday:
We finally met with Mladen again. It was a really cool meeting because he understands the importance of what we are teaching if it is true. So he is actually reading and praying and doing what we ask of him. It is great and he is really fun to teach. Other than that just weekly planning and contacting.
Saturday:
Saturday was fun because we after english we had to help the other elders move to our place because due to some complications they can't stay at their place anymore and they don't have a new apartment yet. At night though we were at the church and the Zone Leaders were there and we got into a huge snowball fight. It was increadbly fun.
Sunday:
Church was good but aside from that we just contacted all day like normal.
Sorry for the short letter. Next week should be a longer one. I hope you guys all have a great week. Write you next week.
Love,
Elder Austin James Ewell
Monday, January 23, 2012
January 23, 2012
Okay this letter is really long and I have some big news in it.
Monday:
After writing you guys we hung out at the church with the other elders most of the day. In the evening we prepared for a trip to Pazarjik the next day.
Tuesday:
We got ready to head to Pazarjik in the morning. We had a route planned out to see all the members as quick as we could (we can't contact in Pazarjik,) so we wouldn't waist time. All we needed was some Liahonas to give to the members. so we headed to the church to grab some. While there we ran into the Zone leaders. We told them what we were doing and they vetoed it. We are going to go over our plans on sunday because they didn't want to us to meet with people they had just met with. So hopefully that will work out and we will be on next week. So for the rest of the day we attempted to contact but my energy was gone. We did get a meeting though with a member and her less active friend so that helped end the day well for me.
Wednesday:
Today we were on splits with the District Leader adn his companion. I was with Elder Furtado. First we had district meeting and then lunch. After district meeting and lunch we had a language study and then a meeting with a real estate lady. Elders Furtadao and Brown are getting a new apartment and this meeting was to go over the contracts and see if everything was on track. We then contacted and tracted the rest of the day until dinner. This is were the big news comes from for this week. Elders Furtado and Brown were staying at our place because their sink was broken. So while we were eating dinner Elder Brown was talking with Sister Loss from Stara Zagora and we found out that four of our missionaries had been called that day to serve in Instanble, Turkey. Thier names are Elders Huish, Chiristainsion (I think I spelled that wrong,) Seymour, and Redpath. It is so exciting and it is so cool I am here to see church history happen. They go at the end of this transfere (Feburary 14th) and will serve the rest of their missions there. They can't openly proselite on the streets, but that isn't a problem because the branch president there has about 1,000 refferals of which they need to teach, so they will be busy. For about half of the day while they are there they are going to learn Turkish at the university and the second half teach lessons and work with members. This is so huge adn we are all super excited. The four missionaries going are hard workers and amazing at the language so tehy shouldn't have to many problems. Elder Redpath and Seymour have more than a year left and Elders Huish and Christaintion less than a year. That is the big news and lets just say it was hard to go to sleep that night, but we managed.
Thursday:
Thursday was a normal day. We surveyed in the morning as normal did some tasks in the afternoon and had Enlgish in the evening. We did get lost in the after noon though trying to find Elder Young some new shoe laces. During English I also learned some Bulgarian idoms that will help me a ton. After English we had dinner and went to bed.
Friday:
Friday was a lot of fun. Most of the day we were visiting a member in her Selo (village.) We almost didn't make it though because Elder Young had written the Selo's name down wrong. We figured it out though and got to the Selo just fine. The members name is Gulabinka (means Pigeon or Dove) and she is around 80. She is a very sweet smart lady and can't come to church only because of distance and cost. Other than that she is a very spiritual lady. She also had 15 cats! I I would make the cat call for food and they would all swarm me. It was hilarious. Dispite all the cats her house didn't smell like them at all. We also helped her chop some wook and had a nice lesson with her. We left after the lesson and once we got to Plovdiv we hurried over to another members house and had dinner with them. Then we came home for bed.
Saturday:
Not much saturday. We had Enlish in the morning and I helped with 1st level because I had no students in 3rd. We then cleaned the church had lunch, weekly planned, contacted, cleaned our phone, had language study, dinner and went to bed.
Sunday:
Really just church and contacting.
Love,
Elder Austin James Ewell
Monday:
After writing you guys we hung out at the church with the other elders most of the day. In the evening we prepared for a trip to Pazarjik the next day.
Tuesday:
We got ready to head to Pazarjik in the morning. We had a route planned out to see all the members as quick as we could (we can't contact in Pazarjik,) so we wouldn't waist time. All we needed was some Liahonas to give to the members. so we headed to the church to grab some. While there we ran into the Zone leaders. We told them what we were doing and they vetoed it. We are going to go over our plans on sunday because they didn't want to us to meet with people they had just met with. So hopefully that will work out and we will be on next week. So for the rest of the day we attempted to contact but my energy was gone. We did get a meeting though with a member and her less active friend so that helped end the day well for me.
Wednesday:
Today we were on splits with the District Leader adn his companion. I was with Elder Furtado. First we had district meeting and then lunch. After district meeting and lunch we had a language study and then a meeting with a real estate lady. Elders Furtadao and Brown are getting a new apartment and this meeting was to go over the contracts and see if everything was on track. We then contacted and tracted the rest of the day until dinner. This is were the big news comes from for this week. Elders Furtado and Brown were staying at our place because their sink was broken. So while we were eating dinner Elder Brown was talking with Sister Loss from Stara Zagora and we found out that four of our missionaries had been called that day to serve in Instanble, Turkey. Thier names are Elders Huish, Chiristainsion (I think I spelled that wrong,) Seymour, and Redpath. It is so exciting and it is so cool I am here to see church history happen. They go at the end of this transfere (Feburary 14th) and will serve the rest of their missions there. They can't openly proselite on the streets, but that isn't a problem because the branch president there has about 1,000 refferals of which they need to teach, so they will be busy. For about half of the day while they are there they are going to learn Turkish at the university and the second half teach lessons and work with members. This is so huge adn we are all super excited. The four missionaries going are hard workers and amazing at the language so tehy shouldn't have to many problems. Elder Redpath and Seymour have more than a year left and Elders Huish and Christaintion less than a year. That is the big news and lets just say it was hard to go to sleep that night, but we managed.
Thursday:
Thursday was a normal day. We surveyed in the morning as normal did some tasks in the afternoon and had Enlgish in the evening. We did get lost in the after noon though trying to find Elder Young some new shoe laces. During English I also learned some Bulgarian idoms that will help me a ton. After English we had dinner and went to bed.
Friday:
Friday was a lot of fun. Most of the day we were visiting a member in her Selo (village.) We almost didn't make it though because Elder Young had written the Selo's name down wrong. We figured it out though and got to the Selo just fine. The members name is Gulabinka (means Pigeon or Dove) and she is around 80. She is a very sweet smart lady and can't come to church only because of distance and cost. Other than that she is a very spiritual lady. She also had 15 cats! I I would make the cat call for food and they would all swarm me. It was hilarious. Dispite all the cats her house didn't smell like them at all. We also helped her chop some wook and had a nice lesson with her. We left after the lesson and once we got to Plovdiv we hurried over to another members house and had dinner with them. Then we came home for bed.
Saturday:
Not much saturday. We had Enlish in the morning and I helped with 1st level because I had no students in 3rd. We then cleaned the church had lunch, weekly planned, contacted, cleaned our phone, had language study, dinner and went to bed.
Sunday:
Really just church and contacting.
Love,
Elder Austin James Ewell
Thursday, January 19, 2012
Hey Everybody
Hey everybody ready to hear about my week.
Monday: After writing to you guys we hung out with the other elders all day. At night we needed a ton of new cleaning supplies because we were all out so we went and got those.
Tuesday:
In the Morning we went out and contacted. And in the Afternoon we contacted. With Dimiter gone our teaching pool is down to one investagator who can't meet much. So we are basically contacting all the time and meeting with as many members as we can. At night though the Ap's came over to go on splits with us on Wednesday. It was fun having them over and sorry mom but I pulled out some money to treat them to a nice dinner.
Wednesday:
So in the morning we had district meeting. District Meeting was fun and afterwards we all went to this restruant called the Golden Pear. After eating Elder Morgan and I (yea he is Ap so I got to work with him again) went contacting all day. We got one persons number and a meeting with another. It was good to talk with him again though and it was a fun day working with him. In the Evening they left to go back to Sofia and we had language study and Dinner.
Thursday:
In the morning we Contacted, in the afternoon we did some tasks and in the evening we had english. It was a good day just not much to mention.
Friday:
In the morning we did some contacting and then we had a meeting with a member name Ivan. He is really cool and one of our youth here. He also plans on serving a mission so that is really exciting. After him we had lunch and weekly planning then we had another meeting with the branch clerk. It was good to get to know him and we had a fun time looking at pictures. After him we had to do some ward list work because we have a big excursion planned for Tuesday. We are going to Pazarjik a city that was closed to visit the members there. So we had to get them of of the ward list for Plovdiv and make one of our own so it would be easier to find them all.
Saturday:
In the morning we had English and I was helping teach first level this time. It was fun and I really enjoyed it a lot. We then cleaned the building extremely well because we had a youth activity that night in the church and it needed to be cleaned really bad. We then had the activity. We only played ping-pong, some other little games, and had Musacka. It was really fun though and after wards I was exaughsted.
Sunday:
We first of all went to church and then after church it was contacting all day. Yea.
I am so grateful for all of your guy's letters and I wish you the best.
Love,
Elder Austin James Ewell
Monday: After writing to you guys we hung out with the other elders all day. At night we needed a ton of new cleaning supplies because we were all out so we went and got those.
Tuesday:
In the Morning we went out and contacted. And in the Afternoon we contacted. With Dimiter gone our teaching pool is down to one investagator who can't meet much. So we are basically contacting all the time and meeting with as many members as we can. At night though the Ap's came over to go on splits with us on Wednesday. It was fun having them over and sorry mom but I pulled out some money to treat them to a nice dinner.
Wednesday:
So in the morning we had district meeting. District Meeting was fun and afterwards we all went to this restruant called the Golden Pear. After eating Elder Morgan and I (yea he is Ap so I got to work with him again) went contacting all day. We got one persons number and a meeting with another. It was good to talk with him again though and it was a fun day working with him. In the Evening they left to go back to Sofia and we had language study and Dinner.
Thursday:
In the morning we Contacted, in the afternoon we did some tasks and in the evening we had english. It was a good day just not much to mention.
Friday:
In the morning we did some contacting and then we had a meeting with a member name Ivan. He is really cool and one of our youth here. He also plans on serving a mission so that is really exciting. After him we had lunch and weekly planning then we had another meeting with the branch clerk. It was good to get to know him and we had a fun time looking at pictures. After him we had to do some ward list work because we have a big excursion planned for Tuesday. We are going to Pazarjik a city that was closed to visit the members there. So we had to get them of of the ward list for Plovdiv and make one of our own so it would be easier to find them all.
Saturday:
In the morning we had English and I was helping teach first level this time. It was fun and I really enjoyed it a lot. We then cleaned the building extremely well because we had a youth activity that night in the church and it needed to be cleaned really bad. We then had the activity. We only played ping-pong, some other little games, and had Musacka. It was really fun though and after wards I was exaughsted.
Sunday:
We first of all went to church and then after church it was contacting all day. Yea.
I am so grateful for all of your guy's letters and I wish you the best.
Love,
Elder Austin James Ewell
Monday, January 2, 2012
Happy New Year
Well New Years was amazing as always but the rest of the week sucked because no one would talk to us and all of our investigators were gone so here it goes anyways.
Monday:
After writing you guys we hung out the rest of the day, and then contacted at night.
Tuesday:
Well Tuesday was a pattern for the rest of the week. Most of our day was spent preparing to advertise and advertising for English. It was good and needs to be done but it isn't fun how it takes a huge chunk out of our week. Luckily it is only once a transfer if that.
Wednesday:
Well aside for district meeting Wednesday was like Tuesday. District meeting was good though and I enjoyed it a lot.
Thursday:
Well more English advertising and contacting.
Friday:
Well more English, but during weekly planning we managed to organize the members we are in charge of into a list. This will help us a ton with being able to meet with them.
Saturday:
Well here is where the letter get long. First of all we finished advertising for English! Yea! The next part deals with New Years here. First of all New years here is like a war zone. People all over the place fire of fireworks. They even fire them at other people (I am talking about big ones too not just Roman Candles.) So for our safety we were not allowed to work or were church cloths once it got dark. So we had all the Elders in Plovdiv come to our place (Since there is enough room there,) we ordered pizza, and played games and watched movies until Midnight. At Midnight we got on the roof of our apartment building to watch fireworks. Well just like last year it was chaos. There were fire works everywhere. There were people shooting them off from their windows and balconies and even right next to our apartment building. I will try to post the videos. Also we saw some one who accidently set off fireworks in their apartment (nothing caught fire.) It was crazy. After it started to calm down (even though fireworks were going off all night) we went to bed.
Sunday:
Well Church wasn't till two and we couldn't contact because nobody is out in the morning New Years Day. So we got ready and did some tasks then we went to church. Church was good but we were stuck there the rest of the day so that sucked.
Well that was the week but now everything should be back to normal and no more breaks until I get home see you all then.
Love,
Elder Ewell
Monday:
After writing you guys we hung out the rest of the day, and then contacted at night.
Tuesday:
Well Tuesday was a pattern for the rest of the week. Most of our day was spent preparing to advertise and advertising for English. It was good and needs to be done but it isn't fun how it takes a huge chunk out of our week. Luckily it is only once a transfer if that.
Wednesday:
Well aside for district meeting Wednesday was like Tuesday. District meeting was good though and I enjoyed it a lot.
Thursday:
Well more English advertising and contacting.
Friday:
Well more English, but during weekly planning we managed to organize the members we are in charge of into a list. This will help us a ton with being able to meet with them.
Saturday:
Well here is where the letter get long. First of all we finished advertising for English! Yea! The next part deals with New Years here. First of all New years here is like a war zone. People all over the place fire of fireworks. They even fire them at other people (I am talking about big ones too not just Roman Candles.) So for our safety we were not allowed to work or were church cloths once it got dark. So we had all the Elders in Plovdiv come to our place (Since there is enough room there,) we ordered pizza, and played games and watched movies until Midnight. At Midnight we got on the roof of our apartment building to watch fireworks. Well just like last year it was chaos. There were fire works everywhere. There were people shooting them off from their windows and balconies and even right next to our apartment building. I will try to post the videos. Also we saw some one who accidently set off fireworks in their apartment (nothing caught fire.) It was crazy. After it started to calm down (even though fireworks were going off all night) we went to bed.
Sunday:
Well Church wasn't till two and we couldn't contact because nobody is out in the morning New Years Day. So we got ready and did some tasks then we went to church. Church was good but we were stuck there the rest of the day so that sucked.
Well that was the week but now everything should be back to normal and no more breaks until I get home see you all then.
Love,
Elder Ewell
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