April 29, 2013 E-mail

Do you remember a gal named Gwen Mcnut?  She is getting baptized this Saturday the 4th of May. It's pretty exciting.  We are skipping out on a baptism here so we can go see Gwen get baptized
over in Paris. :)    This is truly a wonderful thing.

Franklin is doing good.  From October of last year until March this year Franklin area had 0 new investigators.  In 8 weeks of hard work and being real with people we have 35 new people to teach, making the ward take a turn for the better.  It only takes one person to change the attitude of the ward.  :)

Any way, I have a new companion.  There was an emergency transfer. Elder Wells from Washington state is my new companion ... he is really cool. He has been out for 6 months.

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March 11, 2013

Hey, all is good. We had a fantastic week - we picked up five  new friends to go teach this week and we got 9 member referrals from the ward.  It's a lot of fun here in Franklin.  Sorry it short but we are going to our p-day activity.

March 18, 2013

I am going to have to e-mail later ...there are 6 missionaries who use 2 computers ...  sorry for not being able to e-mail more yet ...

April 8, 2013

Things are going good in Franklin.  This past week we saw this investigator that has received lessons from missionaries for a year.  She has been to church at least every other week for the past year.  We read from the Book of Mormon with her then boldly asked her if she would be baptized.  She said no  :) but we don't take repentance lightly here in Franklin, so we asked her again using the scriptures if  she would be baptized and she said she was not sure about it.  So we invited her to take it to God through prayer if she should be baptized. (It was amazing experience) after she agreed to pray we invited her again to be baptized, this time she said yes :) April 27.

  

 We are having lots of success here. There are hundreds of stories like this. 

So a funny funny story this past wed: we went over to this older couples ( they are in there 90s) house to move a laZboy for them. It was in there bedroom up stairs.  Brother Williams had us come up stairs and he heads right in to the bedroom, and I am right behind him. As soon as I turned the corner, there is his wife sitting in the chair naked. She starts frantically trying to put her robe on.  I had turned around and started pointing back down the stairs.  Elder cherry and the member that brought us to their house (brother Kennely ) both stopped in their tracks and looked down the stairs.  We waited a second then brother Williams said "Get in here and move this chair." .... so we went back up and made the turn an there was sister Williams half way to the bathroom still not covered. :(   I never want to get that old.   So again we turned around and waited until we heard the door shut.  So we moved it out and brought up a new one.  Any way, there was a little port a potty for old people just inside the door.  Dun dun duuun...as we were walking into the room Elder Cherry tripped on it and it tipped over and got all over him (he was in church clothes).  lol :)  I could not stop laughing about it.  We had another appointment right after so he had to sit in the lesson with it all over him.  (She is getting baptized on the 27 of April)    so whether you stink or not, the gospel moves forward :)  ;)  

 Elder Poulson    

April 15, 2013

It's really cool to be next to the temple. We use it to refer every body to church. It's really cool. Yesterday we had 9 of our friends (investigator peoples) at church we had a really cool experience. After church we asked if they wanted to see the baptismal font. They were like "Ya we want to see it." so we opened up the doors and showed them.  I announced it like the announcer for the Price is Right (not very spiritual, but boy I tell you it was fun. lol) They had a good time.  It's really cool to see people change their lives.  The best thing I like about being out here is we get to go see people who are frustrated with their lives.  We smack them up the side of the head with the Book of Mormon, lol (not really) and for those that read, we see first hand the spark of hope and eternal happiness. That is the coolest thing ever ... 

 We are at the church and around  20 min ago I went in to the bathroom and heard a voice i knew.  Lo and behold it was someone  we taught and brought to baptism a year and a month ago.  It was amazing.  :)     PS-   he is really cool and Italian.  He like the meata balla :) 

 Elder Poulson