November 26, 2012 E-mail

This is going to be a short email, the computer and internet I am on keep losing connection :( .

 

So anyway, Thanksgiving went like a charm.  I didn't weigh myself, lol I forgot to... :)  But any how, we had a turkey that was marinated with the sanpete marinade..so so good!  Something fun we did before dinner is we made as many cookies we could in 2 hours then spent all the rest of the day taking them to everyone.  Everyone loved the cookies by the way ... :)

So the past 4 weeks we we have been on the ball or something; everyone has been inviting us to come teach their friends and the ward is super happy with us. We have every day full for dinner for a month and have lots and lots of support from everyone...

 

Anyway, our mission presidents wife had a heart attack this past week, but everything was caught in time - she's doing better.

 

Got to go, bye

 

Caleb

November 19, 2012 E-mail

Everything is going good here in Paris. :)  In the past 3 weeks we have really started to get some people looking into the church and are really getting interested!  The gospel is a wild fire here in the south. Just to say some numbers, right now in Paris we are teaching 32 people (investigators).   Things are looking good :)  But for some odd reason no one will commit to baptism. But we teach them and they love everything, so I guess it's just not their time yet.  We had a member of the seventy come last Wednesday and he told us that this mission is working too hard... our numbers are the highest for english missions but we are not getting baptisms.  So we were told to start working smarter.  I was wondering to myself, "Is that possible?" lol

Today has started out with a crazy twist: we already talked to this kid named Jake. He is 19 and borderline homeless, we gave him some food that we had at the apartment... We have been meeting with Jake for the past two weeks and we finally set up an apointment at the church for tomorrow.

So I have been baking lots of cookies. I'm getting real good at that. lol. Last night I made some snickerdoodles from scratch. They were so goood! lol. I have been giving them to everyone. It really makes them feel good. :) Little do they know that I have been making them lol....  So for this Thanksgiving we have two families who are going to feed us. First we got the Barrons, a part member family at 2:30, and then around 5:00 the Vasquez family, a new convert family who is going to the temple real soon.

-Caleb

Nov. 12, 2012 E-mail

Hello!

 

We went to stake conference yesterday in Paducah, KY.   We showed up 2 hours early (it was the only ride we could get) and the building was locked up tighter then Fort Knox, lol....   

 

So any way, some cool new missionary info- the first of the younger missionaries are hitting the first areas.  The typical size of the groups are normally around 8 to 16 new missionaries, but with the new ages they are filling up.  They have sent some missions 130 new missionaries in one group!  That's massive, wow!   We have 4 more weeks before our mission gets its group of younger missionaries.

 

This past week we have gotten 8 new people looking into the church, which is amazing because we have not had any new people to work with for the past 3 months.  We are truly being blessed for our labors.  We met with this older lady who has been studing anti LDS literature for years.  She told us that she does not care what anybody says, she is going to join this church because it is the only church of God.  We have also come across this part member family that the 12 year old granddaughter has been looking for a church the same way Joseph Smith did (going here and there).  Then she asked her grandmother what churches she had been to?  Her grandmother said she had been baptized LDS 20 years ago so they decided to give it a try again:)   They said it felt like coming home after being away for a long time.  These are two of thousands of experiences that are happening everyday.

Elder Caleb Poulson

November 5, 2012 E-mail

Hello!

 

So the Tenn Nasville mission now has 7 stakes. Elder Christofferson came and split the stakes last week. He also left a blessing to the new stakes that this time forth they will not have any shortage of food and that they are to gather food for them selves and their neighbors...   That's some heavy stuff there, lol.      

 

I am still in Paris. I have a new companion Elder Dempsey.   We have really hit the ground and have already seen a night and day difference in the area. Everyone we have been working with is now willing to change their lives.

 

So there is this man named Alvin Travis that we have been working with for a while. He use to be a pastor at this other church, he belives in the Book of Mormon and all the stuff we teach him. Today we are going over to his house to fix 2 cars and one truck. lol.

 

Any way life is good. We are busy with work and I am enjoying everything. :)

 

Caleb