Monday, September 12, 2016

Casi esta atonio y no puedo casar.. No es bueno;) PERO los investigadores estan pregresando!!!! Weston Poulson 9/12/2016


HOLA MIS CHERO'S COMO ESTAN?? I've been doing well! I heard that chero means friend but don't quote me on that but QUE ONDA QUATES? It's been going good out here in Payson I mean Lake Mills. We had two investigators show up on sunday how cool is that? Well we knew they were coming but yeah, they came. 

One's named Derek Moore and he's 18, going to UW Whitewater which is the university in our area and his girlfriend in Appleton is a member. Anyways, long story short either he is really whipped or she is a great member missionary! Haha just kidding, I'm sure she's a great member missionary but we got the text saying he is moving into our area and we go to meet him at Culvers and I was blown away! He's been taught quite a bit.. I think he knows more about this mission then me!! haha he comes to church with us and introduces himself and says "I moved to Whitewater for school and I'm from the Appleton first ward but I'll be bringing visitors  to church with me so yeah.." WHAT??? WHAT??? (sorry I thought I'd let you in on my thoughts at that moment.. ) But.. WHAT? haha so cool! We've been waiting and I've been praying for a fellowshipper for all the younger people we meet and we found him! Investigator or not I'm bringing him to lessons! He's got a testimony and we're rollin with it!

We picked Ahron up, Brother Cabrera, me and Burgon, and brought him to church! He made it about 20 min in and crashed haha his medicine for some health issues kicked in and put him out! He politely asked us to take him back home so he could sleep. But hey, who's mad? I was proud of him! 

What else, oh this week, at Tuesday night ball, me and a member who's from idaho destroyed. haha He played at UW Whitewater and we kept making our free-throws and being on the same team so that was fun! They made us split up though.. Kinda lame but I was always sceptical of whether or not lifting actually helped in bball and I'll testify to you all after almost 2 months in a row, IT HELPS! Thanks to Ammon Fifita for the motivation. Yall should email him if you have time. 

We also played some night ball at an outdoor court with a less active and his friend! pretty fun!

Oh this morning, I bought a temporary new camera from Walmart until I get Elder Neves' when he goes home and we went golfing this morning right? Well, Elder Burgon decided to be a photographer for me and let me just golf which I was cool with and well, hole 8 comes around and I'm like ooo take a pic this whole is cool! and he's like.. uhh.. I hope you have the camera.. CRAP! haha and hour after buying it, we thought we lost it but two holes back we found it haha all good! I still have it!

Anyways, It was a good week, I don't have hardly any more time to write but all of you who are hunting, ever been hunting, ever heard of the word hunting need to email me and let me know what's going on! This is my only full hunting season out so I want to hear it all! Thanks! 

Love you all, church is true.. HOLD IT DOWN!​  Weston

¡Maheco maheco maheco! ¡Subíte vos! Dallin Poulson 9/10/2016


Saturday night we had another midnight hospital run. I have become Elder Ambulance! But an elder went to the hospital for some pain in his nether regions. Turns out he had some pretty fun kidney stones but was able to get that all taken care of. We got the call to come pick him up at about 1:00 am. We brought them to the house and went to sleep! Can't say I ever thought I would be doing this during my mission! 

Sunday we had two investigators come to church! Mina and her son Eric. I was pretty surprised that Eric came because he hasn't really been in any of our lessons. He's atheist but says he likes our church a lot because it is organized and orderly. The ward did a great job at fellow-shipping them. Almost too good! Mina hardly talks to us at church! Which is great, she has a bunch of friends here now and has come 3 times! The hard part is actually finding time to have a lesson with her. We'll get it though :D

On Monday I made a pretty expensive but tasty mistake! I accidentally scheduled the caterer to make lunch for 90 people for the 5th of September when it really was supposed to be the 12th! So he called me asking if everything was ready at the church and I realized that I told him the wrong dates. He had already made the food so we had him bring a bunch of it to the office and we shared with the other mission's office as well. He took the rest of the food to two zone meetings the next day so, after all, a lot of people love me for my lack of attention to details! (President didn't kick me out of the office, so I think I'm okay!) 

On Wednesday we went to help some new people make bread. 
We found them on Sunday and they said we could come help them make a bunch of bread and cakes to sell. We arrived and they couldn't think of anything for us to do so they handed us a big box of bread and told us to go sell it! Mostly to the pulperias, which are little corner stores on every corner. Wut. haha we took the bread, tried to see if the pulperias wanted any. They didn't, a guy on the street wanted one so he bought one. We decided that we really didn't want to sell the bread so we met up with a member at their house and we just bought it all and brought back the box empty! Only cost me about $2 so I think I will survive. It was funny though.

I woke up early to go with President Bush to the police station. He had to do traffic school!! He crashed his car last Sunday and part of paying the fines is sitting through an hour of traffic school. We got there early and a different church was doing a presentation of who they were and had a guy bear his testimony of our Living God. It was fine but he took forever. He spoke for about 30 minutes and had everyone (including us) repeat after him for a prayer. I didn't know if that was okay but President did it so I just followed! 
The traffic school was just a 45 minute lecture on defensive driving and other things but really, it was comparing their traffic and police to that of the united states. He asked us several questions and it was really odd. But we did it and got on with our day. I got free Denny's after so I'm happy!

This week I got my shipment from the LDS Store that I ordered about two months ago! I got a mini military set of scriptures and a GIANT book of the teachings of Joseph Smith. I saw the large text option and thought, meh, why not, and BOOM a huge book shows up! Time to get readin! 

Hope you all had a great week, we had a good one! Just a heads up, I have quite a bit less time to write now, which is totally fine, but as a result I may not be able to write each of you back every week. Hope you understand but it will help me and the other missionaries stay focused I think. 

Awesome possum. See ya later folks! Dallin
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Wednesday, September 7, 2016

Bap Date Irruption Weston Poulson 9/8/2016


How's it hangin? Well, not a whole lot happened this week but one big thing so let's hop to it! 

Monday, talked to a guy named Dennis, he sits on his porch some nights and we just talk, he's cool and an army vet it's awesome.

Tuesday, things went down. After District meeting me and Elder Shepherd went on exchanges to my area so it was time to get some stuff done and that's what we did! Our first three appointments, we came out with them on date for Oct 1st and one was a hispanic family of 4! Also gave the mom a blessing for her surgery so she can heal up. The following day one of them did drop us, Tim, and so that kind of sucked but we're all good! Got to play some b-ball Tuesday night as well so that was tight! 

Got Elder Burgon back Thursday morning cause it was a new month and we went back to contact and old potential we had found and had a great in depth lesson on the restoration it was pretty legit, her name is Kim and she is on date for Oct 15th now! I feel good about her too! 

Wednesday during exchanges an old potential me and DeSantis found randomly called us and wanted to meet. His name is Aaron and he's 27. Needs some direction in life, watched "The Hope Of Gods Light" on the mormon channel and felt that God told him to call us so he did! Had another great lesson with him Friday and now he's on a date for Oct 15th!

Saturday we went to contact a girl who is going to school at UW Whitewater and when she came out she accidentally locked herself out of the building. After like 45 minutes of waiting it out and some good talk about why she aint going to church I got tired of fiddle fartin' and found my way into the building. She doubted me but if Neves taught me anything it's how to climb a balcony haha I climbed right up no problem and we were set! Here's a pic of it! haha

​It was real easy.

Labor day was fun, had a cook out (Brats, Burgers and Steak) with the Earle family. They are legit! Brother Earle has been in so many car crashes it's not even funny but hey like I've said, no scars, no stories. 

Good things are happening here in Lake Mills! Saw my first hint of fall colors and I'm excited about it! Work is going good and the weather should be cooling off soon! Just a reminder to you all I'm not that close to my year mark! haha It doesn't bug me but I still haven't made it to 11 months! Not even close actually but just so you know, Oct 21st is my year mark! 

Hope yall had a great week! I sucked at taking pictures so I might just send some throwback ones from milwaukee! Love yall! Hold it down!!
~Elder Weston Poulson

Saturday, September 3, 2016

¿Ey chikis que tal? Dallin Poulson 9/3/2016


On Sunday, we had Ward Conference. It was really great and we had a lot more people come to church. Mina, our investigator came all on her own! Also has friends in the church and hardly talks to us! I'm okay with it! 

We sang Battle Hymn of the Republic as part of the choir and I learned how to sing in parts! Pretty dang difficult for me! But it was really cool. My companion couldn't come because about 20 minutes before church he said he was dizzy. I gave him a glass of water annnnnd BLEH! He threw up like 20 times. So we let him stay with Elder Correa, who was supposed to stay in bed and rest. So it kinda worked out! He got better by Monday.

On Monday night the nurse called me at about 9:30 asking for a ride to the hospital cause Sister Bueso was on her way with an appendicitis! We gave her a ride and she said that she would call later to give the other sisters there a ride to the house so they could rest. I woke up to a call at 1:30 am! So we had to be a bit of a midnight taxi service but it all turned out okay! Sister Bueso got a surgery and is doing fine now. That's three appendicitis' that we've had in 3 months(too many tortillas :D )

Throughout the week we helped companionships change houses and we made some deliveries. We got to work in the area a lot more this week so it was nice! We mostly just contacted but it was nice to get some more work out in the area. 

We found a really cool older couple that let us come in and chat and explain to them what we do. The husband had a Book of Mormon from when the missionaries visited him 35 years ago! He didn't know where but he still remembered the missionaries name! Really cool and nice people. 

Something I have noticed during these last two weeks of a bit of a crazy schedule was that I missed a couple days of scripture study. I realized it because I was just feeling a bit unconcentrated as a missionary! I couldn't really figure it out but when i did, I made a little promise to myself to never go another day on the mission without reading out of the scriptures. It really makes every day so much better and helps us in more ways than just doctrinal knowledge. A little challenge to all of you read something out of the scriptures every day. Read until you learn something! 

Aside from that, not too much else to share!

Love you all, ¡hasta luego!  Dallin

We Be Dunkin! Weston Poulson 8/29/2016


Dunkin as in baptism! I lost the bounce.. that's not what is important though what is important is that Tiana is baptized and confirmed! Super cool day yesterday, the grandpa, Brother Makua, was raised in hawaii and so we played the guitar for our hymns! pretty hectic and crazy week but it at least ended well and Tiana's baptism is done! Now time to get her brother the priesthood! That will be fun! Something that was amazing about the baptism is I got to have some Sopa Sui. It has different names depending on what island their from but it's just freaking amazing. I remember the first time I had it at the Fifita's house and Ammon told me it was good but man I think I ate like 3 plates that night haha. And at the baptism I didn't hold back either! Good stuff. 
We basically just spent the whole week preparing for the baptism, that's kinda how those weeks go. Didn't get out to do a whole lot of contacting so as far as the investigators go its basically the same as last week! but something funny to lighten up your day was our quest to find a 3x white jump suit for the grandpa. All we were told about him was he "is a 6'4" Samoan and big" and when Samoans say big they usually mean BIG. so we spent a good while texting around the Milwaukee south zone and after hours of searching Janesville came up with a 4x somehow! Well, gramps wasn't that big.. haha oh well he still rocked the jump suit!

What else what else.. OH MY GOODNESS MISSION TOUR!! Holy Hanna I totally almost forgot we had Elder Ringwood of the 70 come and also Elder Cordon. It was so awesome and I would share a bunch of stuff with yall but ain't nobody got time for that! I will share one thing, and I'll change it into something you can learn but he said to see our investigators through Christ's eyes and to look at people through the eye of Christ. Kinda my mind on a spin table cause its so true! Not only for missionaries but for other people too! Yall at home, if you look around at people through Christ's eyes it makes driving in traffic a whole lot easier! haha not only that but you can see what people are made of. Everyone is fighting their own battles and it's everybody's job to pick each other up! So.. DO IT! And we are and that's what I love about this world is how much GOOD there is too it! Don't get so caught up like the rest of the world and only look at the bad. I challenge all of you to think about your values for 10 minutes. 10 minutes is very short but it could be what flips your day around into a happy positive way. Think about your passions and spend some time that day or week pursuing it! Promise you all as you put the bad down for a bit and spend some time with these things that the spirit will testify that you are a select son or daughter of god.

Alright sorry to get a little preachy, sometimes my fingers just fly on this keyboard but its whatever! Sunday morning we were going to contact  someone before church and there was a ton of fog! They didn't answer so we did our studies by the lake. Kinda turned into a photo shoot haha but look how cool this is! sooo peaceful felt like it was the vail right in front of me. 

Anyways I'll attach some pictures of the week! Got to see Elder Neves,Elder Norris, DeSantis and Reina at mission tour so that was sweet! yall have a good week! 

HOLD IT DOWNNNNN! 
~Elder Poulson



Aguacatero - El héroe de la calle Dallin Poulson 8/27/2016

Oiiiii! 

On Sunday we went on splits with some members of the ward again to help us get more work done in our area. I went with Moises! Moises is the most interesting person I have ever met. He is french canadian, speaks french, german, english, spanish, kikché, and is learning italian! He moved to Guatemala and owns two bilingual schools but moved to Honduras recently. He served his mission in California. Recently he went with a body on a giant hippy backpacking trip through Central America up to Canada and back. They rode on trains, went with the illegal immigrants and had crazy experiences. One time he found one of the people he baptized while he was at a restaurant. Anyways, he is coming back to the church right now and is really, really helpful and awesome about it. 

We went and visited an inactive young man and Moises really helped him feel loved and appreciated. He seemed so ready to come back to church at the end of the visit. It was great.
We contacted people in the richest part of my area and he taught me what he used to do in California. Just to ask for a glass of water. It kind of breaks the ice, they do service, and we get water! Win Win! We even got some Coca Cola haha. 
At one point he said to me that he really misses doing missionary work. It was just a great day, all in all! 

This week was our transfers/changes. Always a crazy week here in the office. I had to go close houses and clean them out and open others. From 7am to
9:30pm
 I was out and running around for a couple days! But we got it all done! 

On Tuesday the new kids came to the mission. Err, the new missionaries! I was assigned to go out and work with Elder Cox, from Las Vegas! We went out and contacted while we waited for his interview with president. I took him on a rapidito! He told me while we were walking around that he felt like he was in a dream and it was super hot! hahahh That's exactly how I felt! I told him to give himself two weeks and he'll be alright. He had a good time. We ran into a member that was the first lesson I had in Honduras on my first day! Kinda cool.
We talked to a guard on a street and he was super nice and interested. Really cool guy. I found out later that the guard lives in the area that Elder Cox went to and I am going to send him the number! 

A rapidito (but the one we went on was full of dents and pretty full!):

I went to Copan again to open a house. I wish I took a photo of how Elder Elmer and I loaded up the truck, we put everything in it! Beds, fridge, wardrobes, microwaves, table, chairs, and more! Redneck style of course, don't you worry!

Welp, there's that. Keep being great people everyone! Have a happy week!
- Elder Supermega (presidents nickname for me)

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