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12/20/10 News from Seattle 3rd!!!
Hey family what's up,
Everything is fun here, this last week has been great, I found out that I am over all the youth for the whole stake, which means where ever there is youth I go. So I go anywhere and everywhere I want to go in the stake which is awesome.
Elder Mellor is fun, we have a lot of fun together. Did I tell you about me knowing him before? Well on my second transfer and his first transfer we told each other that we would be companions and what do ya know we are companions, cool huh?
So today I have pday which means we are headed to pikes place after emailing.
About the sword they are just small samurai swords so probably not that heavy.
Oh and the reason I want that 50 dollars is to help me buy a GPS I need about that much to buy one, because my area is roughly 30 square miles and there is no way I am ever going to be able to memorize that big of an area so if ya could send some money that would be awesome.
Anyways love ya all and have a great Christmas.
Love,
Elder O'Brien
P.S. I will call you guys when I find out where I am calling from.
Everything is fun here, this last week has been great, I found out that I am over all the youth for the whole stake, which means where ever there is youth I go. So I go anywhere and everywhere I want to go in the stake which is awesome.
Elder Mellor is fun, we have a lot of fun together. Did I tell you about me knowing him before? Well on my second transfer and his first transfer we told each other that we would be companions and what do ya know we are companions, cool huh?
So today I have pday which means we are headed to pikes place after emailing.
About the sword they are just small samurai swords so probably not that heavy.
Oh and the reason I want that 50 dollars is to help me buy a GPS I need about that much to buy one, because my area is roughly 30 square miles and there is no way I am ever going to be able to memorize that big of an area so if ya could send some money that would be awesome.
Anyways love ya all and have a great Christmas.
Love,
Elder O'Brien
P.S. I will call you guys when I find out where I am calling from.
12/14/10 News from Seattle 3rd!!!
Hey family,
Transfers where today and I got a new companion and a new area which I'm a little bummed because I loved Burien ward, but hey good news I made senior companion so I must be doing something right. I am also in a car which I am the driver, woot woot, my new comp's name is Elder Mellor from Orem Utah (yeah I know another one of those dang Utahans) what is it with this mission sending so many people from Utah to here (wink wink lol), so I am officially in dad's old stomping grounds downtown Seattle, so where does pappy want me to go?
These last few days have been very sad having to leave my favorite area in the whole world, the Burien ward. I got a lot of hugs, no kisses thank goodness from my Chuuk and all the people I visited, apparently I was everyone's favorite missionary because everyone gave a lot of parting gifts or maybe it is just the Christmas season, either or. But yeah my favorite family the Dacus's gave me a bunch of presents, I got a few toys and a few ties, I think one of my favorite gifts was when I was doing some service for a less active guy and when he heard that I was going he went into his bedroom and brought out not 1 not 2 but three swords and gave them to me. I told him I couldn't take them, but he said it would break his heart so I said yes and then he made a comment, think of it as my Christmas present to you from me, so yeah I might be mailing home some swords, just because I don't want to lug them all over the place and don't freak it wasn't my fault, is the season to be jolly right?
About the Christmas presents, don't need any clothing I'm good in that department, how bout I make it easy for ya, just give me 50 bucks or something like that and a few goodies and I will be happy with that.
I could use a couple more temple slips that would be nice, tho I did forget to take one to the temple this last time I went, so yeah that's all I need.
Love ya much,
Elder O'Brien
Transfers where today and I got a new companion and a new area which I'm a little bummed because I loved Burien ward, but hey good news I made senior companion so I must be doing something right. I am also in a car which I am the driver, woot woot, my new comp's name is Elder Mellor from Orem Utah (yeah I know another one of those dang Utahans) what is it with this mission sending so many people from Utah to here (wink wink lol), so I am officially in dad's old stomping grounds downtown Seattle, so where does pappy want me to go?
These last few days have been very sad having to leave my favorite area in the whole world, the Burien ward. I got a lot of hugs, no kisses thank goodness from my Chuuk and all the people I visited, apparently I was everyone's favorite missionary because everyone gave a lot of parting gifts or maybe it is just the Christmas season, either or. But yeah my favorite family the Dacus's gave me a bunch of presents, I got a few toys and a few ties, I think one of my favorite gifts was when I was doing some service for a less active guy and when he heard that I was going he went into his bedroom and brought out not 1 not 2 but three swords and gave them to me. I told him I couldn't take them, but he said it would break his heart so I said yes and then he made a comment, think of it as my Christmas present to you from me, so yeah I might be mailing home some swords, just because I don't want to lug them all over the place and don't freak it wasn't my fault, is the season to be jolly right?
About the Christmas presents, don't need any clothing I'm good in that department, how bout I make it easy for ya, just give me 50 bucks or something like that and a few goodies and I will be happy with that.
I could use a couple more temple slips that would be nice, tho I did forget to take one to the temple this last time I went, so yeah that's all I need.
Love ya much,
Elder O'Brien
12/7/2010 Greetings from Burien!!!!!!!!!!!
Hey y'all how have you been doing,
Life is great here as usual don't have that much to report tho these past three days has been awesome. First on Saturday we had dinner with our Chuuks and they sent us home with a lot of food and then on Sunday we went to our bishop's house the Pulokas, the Tongans in our ward, and they sent us home with a lot of food. Then yesterday we went to a single's potluck and they sent us home with a lot of food. We have dinner tonight at the Dacu's an awesome family in our ward and no doubt they will sent a lot of food home with us as well, so yeah mom you you don't have to worry about your son not getting fed. Elder Armstrong and I are getting stuffed hopefully it won't put too much weight on. lol
Oh and we also was able to go to the temple today so that was as always a very spiritual experience and that is about all to report.
So ta ta.
Love ya,
Elder O'Brien
Life is great here as usual don't have that much to report tho these past three days has been awesome. First on Saturday we had dinner with our Chuuks and they sent us home with a lot of food and then on Sunday we went to our bishop's house the Pulokas, the Tongans in our ward, and they sent us home with a lot of food. Then yesterday we went to a single's potluck and they sent us home with a lot of food. We have dinner tonight at the Dacu's an awesome family in our ward and no doubt they will sent a lot of food home with us as well, so yeah mom you you don't have to worry about your son not getting fed. Elder Armstrong and I are getting stuffed hopefully it won't put too much weight on. lol
Oh and we also was able to go to the temple today so that was as always a very spiritual experience and that is about all to report.
So ta ta.
Love ya,
Elder O'Brien
11/29/2010 News from Burien!!!!
Hello family how are you?
Thing's have been going great here, we where able to get rings for our Chuuk investigators Ipha Arongaw and Wea Herry and they will be getting married in December. It has been a long six months working with those two and is rewarding for them to make that much progress. Also hopefully if all goes as planned, they both, along with their daughter Tvanna are going to be baptized in December so it should be a great month, I am looking forward to it.
My Thanksgiving was great. We where able to go to our Phillipino members house for dinner and it was delicious. They sent us home with a bunch of food and then we went to another family on Friday, they also sent us home with a bunch of food, which I am glad for, because I am out of money on my card and this food should last us until next Monday, when we can shop for more food yeah!!
Anyways that's all to report this week.
Love,
Elder O'Brien
Thing's have been going great here, we where able to get rings for our Chuuk investigators Ipha Arongaw and Wea Herry and they will be getting married in December. It has been a long six months working with those two and is rewarding for them to make that much progress. Also hopefully if all goes as planned, they both, along with their daughter Tvanna are going to be baptized in December so it should be a great month, I am looking forward to it.
My Thanksgiving was great. We where able to go to our Phillipino members house for dinner and it was delicious. They sent us home with a bunch of food and then we went to another family on Friday, they also sent us home with a bunch of food, which I am glad for, because I am out of money on my card and this food should last us until next Monday, when we can shop for more food yeah!!
Anyways that's all to report this week.
Love,
Elder O'Brien
11/22/2010 News from Burien!!!!
Hey mom and all,
Life is the norm here, nothing exciting going on here except it being freezing cold, right not it is in the 20's and the weatherman says it will be getting down in the teens tonight, chilly chilly. Oh and we also have snow here, yeah it only about half a foot, but hey it's still snow. I got wet outside today and built myself a snowman which is something I have not been able to do in a long time. Yes the snow here is nothing like the snow in Sanpete the snow here is pathetic!!!!!! I was lucky enough to get little tiny snowballs to stick together long enough for me to take a picture before they fell apart, yea it was that much of an epic failure.
Anyway that's all for this week, talk to ya next week and have a great Thanksgiving weekend.
Love,
Elder O'Brien
Life is the norm here, nothing exciting going on here except it being freezing cold, right not it is in the 20's and the weatherman says it will be getting down in the teens tonight, chilly chilly. Oh and we also have snow here, yeah it only about half a foot, but hey it's still snow. I got wet outside today and built myself a snowman which is something I have not been able to do in a long time. Yes the snow here is nothing like the snow in Sanpete the snow here is pathetic!!!!!! I was lucky enough to get little tiny snowballs to stick together long enough for me to take a picture before they fell apart, yea it was that much of an epic failure.
Anyway that's all for this week, talk to ya next week and have a great Thanksgiving weekend.
Love,
Elder O'Brien
11/15/2010 News from Burien!!!!
Hey family how are you all,
Things are great, I got the pictures from Jared and they are great. Life here has had it's ups and downs, we had most of our investigators drop us, but we are slowly getting more and with the Lord's help we will be baptizing more people soon.
Burien has been a wonderful ward so far and I hope that I can contribute more baptisms for it, man I can't believe that it has been almost six months here in the Burien ward, it's crazy how time flies.
Our recent convert Tarson Iphraim is doing great, he is only 9 and he is learning about the gospel really quick, he reads the book of Mormon all by himself and with our help is learning a lot of stuff in it.
Well that's it for this week. Thanks for the update from home. No it's not in the 50-60s here. it's just in the 40-50s lol
Love ya all,
Elder O'Brien
Things are great, I got the pictures from Jared and they are great. Life here has had it's ups and downs, we had most of our investigators drop us, but we are slowly getting more and with the Lord's help we will be baptizing more people soon.
Burien has been a wonderful ward so far and I hope that I can contribute more baptisms for it, man I can't believe that it has been almost six months here in the Burien ward, it's crazy how time flies.
Our recent convert Tarson Iphraim is doing great, he is only 9 and he is learning about the gospel really quick, he reads the book of Mormon all by himself and with our help is learning a lot of stuff in it.
Well that's it for this week. Thanks for the update from home. No it's not in the 50-60s here. it's just in the 40-50s lol
Love ya all,
Elder O'Brien
11/8/2010 News from Burien!!!!
Hey mom and family,
To answer your question. No I have not personally baptized anybody yet and to be truthful it would be cool but, I don't care. As yet no one has asked me, so I wait until someone asks which if it is never than at least I get to teach them and progress them towards the waters of baptism. Beside it's better if a member in the ward baptizes them anyways, because it is more special to them, it is someone they will see for a long time which is better than someone who will be here for only a short period of time. And yes this mission is a lot harder than Brazil, Brazil doesn't have a lot of rich snotty people as the Seattle area does. We are going to be lucky if we reach 720 baptisms this year alone and we are at 486 as of yesterdays 5 baptisms, so yeah, I still have one person on date for baptism so I am still praying for that to happen on the 19 of Nov.
So that's it for the week. Talk to ya later.
Love,
Elder O'Brien
To answer your question. No I have not personally baptized anybody yet and to be truthful it would be cool but, I don't care. As yet no one has asked me, so I wait until someone asks which if it is never than at least I get to teach them and progress them towards the waters of baptism. Beside it's better if a member in the ward baptizes them anyways, because it is more special to them, it is someone they will see for a long time which is better than someone who will be here for only a short period of time. And yes this mission is a lot harder than Brazil, Brazil doesn't have a lot of rich snotty people as the Seattle area does. We are going to be lucky if we reach 720 baptisms this year alone and we are at 486 as of yesterdays 5 baptisms, so yeah, I still have one person on date for baptism so I am still praying for that to happen on the 19 of Nov.
So that's it for the week. Talk to ya later.
Love,
Elder O'Brien
10/25/2010 News from Burien!!!
Hello,
This last week was awesome. We had an awesome baptism this last Saturday the 23rd, one of our chuuk people got baptized, 1 down 9 to go (Pres. Larkin told me to get 10 chuuk (pronounced chook) by the end of the year). His name is Tarson Arongaw Iphraim he is 9 years old and an awesome kid. I will send you some pictures. Oh did I tell you guys about the chuuk branch we are starting up? Well not quite a branch yet give it a couple years and it will be, but anyways my bishop started the chuuk class so that all our chuuks, about an average of 6 to 7 so far, can have a place so that they can learn gospel principles in their own language. It has been a blast for me and Elder Armstrong, we switch off one week I go to the chuuk class and he goes to the English class and then we switch the next week. I'm also starting to pick up a little chuukese as well, so that is pretty fun and it's so funny all the chuuk call me Elder Chuuk or my howlie chuuk, howlie transelated as white boy in chuukese LOL. So yeah this week was great.
I have gotten my memory card back did you like the pics?
Anyways love ya all have a great Halloween I guess and talk to ya next week.
Love,
Elder O'Brien
Here is the baptism of Tarson Arongaw Iphraim baptized by Elder Nathanael Read. enjoy
This last week was awesome. We had an awesome baptism this last Saturday the 23rd, one of our chuuk people got baptized, 1 down 9 to go (Pres. Larkin told me to get 10 chuuk (pronounced chook) by the end of the year). His name is Tarson Arongaw Iphraim he is 9 years old and an awesome kid. I will send you some pictures. Oh did I tell you guys about the chuuk branch we are starting up? Well not quite a branch yet give it a couple years and it will be, but anyways my bishop started the chuuk class so that all our chuuks, about an average of 6 to 7 so far, can have a place so that they can learn gospel principles in their own language. It has been a blast for me and Elder Armstrong, we switch off one week I go to the chuuk class and he goes to the English class and then we switch the next week. I'm also starting to pick up a little chuukese as well, so that is pretty fun and it's so funny all the chuuk call me Elder Chuuk or my howlie chuuk, howlie transelated as white boy in chuukese LOL. So yeah this week was great.
I have gotten my memory card back did you like the pics?
Anyways love ya all have a great Halloween I guess and talk to ya next week.
Love,
Elder O'Brien
Here is the baptism of Tarson Arongaw Iphraim baptized by Elder Nathanael Read. enjoy
10/18/2010 News from Burien!!!
How y'all doing?
Life is great here we have still two people on date and am working with them, Tarson one of our on dates. We just taught him all the lessons so all he needs is an interview and then on to baptism this Saturday the 23rd. I am way excited this is the only person so far on my mission that I have taught from the first lesson to baptism I am so excited for him.
Anyways love y'all and y'all are in my prayers.
Love,
Elder O'Brien
Life is great here we have still two people on date and am working with them, Tarson one of our on dates. We just taught him all the lessons so all he needs is an interview and then on to baptism this Saturday the 23rd. I am way excited this is the only person so far on my mission that I have taught from the first lesson to baptism I am so excited for him.
Anyways love y'all and y'all are in my prayers.
Love,
Elder O'Brien
10/11/2010 News from Burien!!!!!!!!!
Hey family how are you,
This last week was great we where able to find a new investigator named Debbie Ballard she is an awesome lady who Elder Read and I found and who Elder Armstrong and I just taught. We are going to have a church tour with her and put her on date in October. Also all our other investigators are doing great and progressing very well. It is always a joy to watch, as the gospel changes lives for the better.
Today the temperature is pretty nice it's not as cold as Utah, but it's a little nippy probably in the lower 60's to higher 50's not too bad.
Love ya much,
Elder O'Brien
This last week was great we where able to find a new investigator named Debbie Ballard she is an awesome lady who Elder Read and I found and who Elder Armstrong and I just taught. We are going to have a church tour with her and put her on date in October. Also all our other investigators are doing great and progressing very well. It is always a joy to watch, as the gospel changes lives for the better.
Today the temperature is pretty nice it's not as cold as Utah, but it's a little nippy probably in the lower 60's to higher 50's not too bad.
Love ya much,
Elder O'Brien
10/4/2010 News from Burien!!!!!!!!!
Hi Family,
This week was great with conference weekend and yes I did go to all five session why would I not. They where all awesome I think my favorite one was in the priesthood session and it was on pride by Pres. Uchtdorf become I have a real big problem with pride.
Yeah sister Luksan is the the best, the sister that called you. She makes great dinners and yes that stir-fry was amazing not as good as yours of course but amazing. It reminded me of the great Sunday dinners that we make. The funny thing is tho when I was talking about it to sis Luksan some other member heard in and invited us over to dinner so I had my favorite stir fry two days in a row, which both of them if I say so myself was delicious yum yum.
Love ya much,
Elder O'Brien
This week was great with conference weekend and yes I did go to all five session why would I not. They where all awesome I think my favorite one was in the priesthood session and it was on pride by Pres. Uchtdorf become I have a real big problem with pride.
Yeah sister Luksan is the the best, the sister that called you. She makes great dinners and yes that stir-fry was amazing not as good as yours of course but amazing. It reminded me of the great Sunday dinners that we make. The funny thing is tho when I was talking about it to sis Luksan some other member heard in and invited us over to dinner so I had my favorite stir fry two days in a row, which both of them if I say so myself was delicious yum yum.
Love ya much,
Elder O'Brien
9/27/2010 News from Burien!!!!!!!!!
Hey family how's it going?
Things are great here. It has been fun serving with Elder Armstrong this last week, me and him mesh perfectly and we joke around with each other all the time. Also our on-dates are going great, still trying to get them married and taught all the lessons.
Also the mission is revamping a lot, we now do not tract what so ever (which if you don't know what that is, it is walking up and down streets and knocking on every door, which is very boring) we now do street contacting which yields a lot more investigators and is a lot more fun than tracting.
Also we now have dinner every night opposed to how it was before to where we only had Sundays and Mondays. Now I'm gonna start getting fat, especially with all the Tongans I have in this ward wanting us over for dinner all the time which is awesome. So yeah so far we have dinner tonight at the Dorset's, dinner with the Dalrymples tommorrow and dinner with the Luksans on Wednesday and we are working on getting dinner for the other days.
So that is all to report on this week.
Love ya,
Elder O'Brien
Things are great here. It has been fun serving with Elder Armstrong this last week, me and him mesh perfectly and we joke around with each other all the time. Also our on-dates are going great, still trying to get them married and taught all the lessons.
Also the mission is revamping a lot, we now do not tract what so ever (which if you don't know what that is, it is walking up and down streets and knocking on every door, which is very boring) we now do street contacting which yields a lot more investigators and is a lot more fun than tracting.
Also we now have dinner every night opposed to how it was before to where we only had Sundays and Mondays. Now I'm gonna start getting fat, especially with all the Tongans I have in this ward wanting us over for dinner all the time which is awesome. So yeah so far we have dinner tonight at the Dorset's, dinner with the Dalrymples tommorrow and dinner with the Luksans on Wednesday and we are working on getting dinner for the other days.
So that is all to report on this week.
Love ya,
Elder O'Brien
9/21/2010 Greetings from Burien!!!!!!!!!!!
Hi Family,
This week was great. I had a bunch of lessons with my on-date investigator and then where able to teach her a lot of stuff, she is an amazing lady.
Also we just had a 3 hour meeting with Elder Kikuchi of the first quorum of the seventy so that was awesome, it didn't feel like it was 3 hours, but it was very mentally and spiritually uplifting, and I was able to learn a lot from him.
Also transfers where today and I got a new companion, his name is Elder Armstrong he is an awesome guy very fun. I've served around him before and now I'm his companion, so yeah that is all for this week.
So yeah I will be getting those pictures to you soon I just need a package to put it in and it'll be great.
Anyways love ya much, talk to ya later,
Elder O'Brien
This week was great. I had a bunch of lessons with my on-date investigator and then where able to teach her a lot of stuff, she is an amazing lady.
Also we just had a 3 hour meeting with Elder Kikuchi of the first quorum of the seventy so that was awesome, it didn't feel like it was 3 hours, but it was very mentally and spiritually uplifting, and I was able to learn a lot from him.
Also transfers where today and I got a new companion, his name is Elder Armstrong he is an awesome guy very fun. I've served around him before and now I'm his companion, so yeah that is all for this week.
So yeah I will be getting those pictures to you soon I just need a package to put it in and it'll be great.
Anyways love ya much, talk to ya later,
Elder O'Brien
9/13/2010 Greetings from Burien!!!!!!!!!!!
Hey family,
This last week has been fun, we where able to teach a lot of our investigators and was also able to put two on date which was awesome.
Also today was my cultural day and Elder Read and I went to down-town Seattle. It wasn't as fun as I thought it would be, but that's also probably because we only had time to go to the free places because we where poor. But hey we where able to get some pictures of the sites there, so I will be sending some pics home this week.
Oh and I went to the temple last week and I was able to go through for one of the two cards you guys gave me so I will be sending that home as well.
Well that's it.
Love,
Elder O'Brien
This last week has been fun, we where able to teach a lot of our investigators and was also able to put two on date which was awesome.
Also today was my cultural day and Elder Read and I went to down-town Seattle. It wasn't as fun as I thought it would be, but that's also probably because we only had time to go to the free places because we where poor. But hey we where able to get some pictures of the sites there, so I will be sending some pics home this week.
Oh and I went to the temple last week and I was able to go through for one of the two cards you guys gave me so I will be sending that home as well.
Well that's it.
Love,
Elder O'Brien
9/7/2010 Hello from Burien!!!
Hey family,
Sorry I didn't write last week, there was this really stinky guy sitting next to me and he was giving me migraines so I got off and tried to get to another computer but there was none available sorry.
Yes my MP3 is here, thanks for it, thing is huge, Elder Read calls it a brick lol.
So you went to Portland ehh? 100 that is incredible that grandma is still alive. I hope she's still there when I get home.
Anyways these past couple weeks has been so so I guess nothing really exciting to report. My two drunk investigators who we where teaching is in detox tho for the next three months which is sad.
That's about it, talk to ya all later.
Love,
Elder O'Brien
Sorry I didn't write last week, there was this really stinky guy sitting next to me and he was giving me migraines so I got off and tried to get to another computer but there was none available sorry.
Yes my MP3 is here, thanks for it, thing is huge, Elder Read calls it a brick lol.
So you went to Portland ehh? 100 that is incredible that grandma is still alive. I hope she's still there when I get home.
Anyways these past couple weeks has been so so I guess nothing really exciting to report. My two drunk investigators who we where teaching is in detox tho for the next three months which is sad.
That's about it, talk to ya all later.
Love,
Elder O'Brien
8/23/2010 News from Burien!!!!!
Hey how y'all doing,
This week has been great we where able to put Kimberly, that lady with the drinking problem, and her boyfriend on-date for baptism on the 18 of Sept. which is awesome, they are progressing very well and they are going to ARP (Addiction Recovery Program) ARP is something that the church put on to help people with the addictions they may have in their life. Also our other investigators are progressing very well one of them Eva is awesome, she is chuuke and is an amazing girl and has a lot of faith, she came to church yesterday and stayed all three hours and learned a lot from the classes there. We are teaching her tonight and it is going to be fun.
Elder Read my companion just got his itinerary and is flying home on September 20 at 4:20pm, I've talked to him about it and he is both siked and extremely scared at the same time. He doesn't want to go home, but at the same time he does, he is a crazy fellow, but hey what can ya expect from a person that is going home in four weeks.
Love ya much,
Elder O'Brien
This week has been great we where able to put Kimberly, that lady with the drinking problem, and her boyfriend on-date for baptism on the 18 of Sept. which is awesome, they are progressing very well and they are going to ARP (Addiction Recovery Program) ARP is something that the church put on to help people with the addictions they may have in their life. Also our other investigators are progressing very well one of them Eva is awesome, she is chuuke and is an amazing girl and has a lot of faith, she came to church yesterday and stayed all three hours and learned a lot from the classes there. We are teaching her tonight and it is going to be fun.
Elder Read my companion just got his itinerary and is flying home on September 20 at 4:20pm, I've talked to him about it and he is both siked and extremely scared at the same time. He doesn't want to go home, but at the same time he does, he is a crazy fellow, but hey what can ya expect from a person that is going home in four weeks.
Love ya much,
Elder O'Brien
8/16/2010 Hello from Burien!!!
Hey Everyone,
How have you been doing?
Things have been great here. Two of our new investigators are a great lady named Kimberly and her boyfriend Don. They are fun people, we tracted to them and she was the one that answered the door. As we started talking to her we found out that she was a heavy alcoholic and was looking to have Jesus in her life. So we set up an appointment with her the next day and taught her the plan of salvation. Her boyfriend Don came in, after we where done teaching the plan of salvation to her, he sat down and started asking us questions. So we set up a church tour with them on Saturday and this is the funny part. We came to her house with our fellowship and there she was having a huge party with some Mexicans and she was hammered I mean literally hammered or if you don't know what that is she was extremely drunk. But she still insisted that she come on a church tour, but when she tried to get up, she was very wobbly and tipsy so we convinced her to stay put. We told her we would pick her up for church the next day. When we came and picked her up, she was a bit tipsy, but at least she was coherent enough to maybe understand the speakers so we brought her to church. She liked it a lot, but needless to say it was a very interesting sacrament meeting. So that is my report for this week.
Love ya all,
Elder O'Brien
How have you been doing?
Things have been great here. Two of our new investigators are a great lady named Kimberly and her boyfriend Don. They are fun people, we tracted to them and she was the one that answered the door. As we started talking to her we found out that she was a heavy alcoholic and was looking to have Jesus in her life. So we set up an appointment with her the next day and taught her the plan of salvation. Her boyfriend Don came in, after we where done teaching the plan of salvation to her, he sat down and started asking us questions. So we set up a church tour with them on Saturday and this is the funny part. We came to her house with our fellowship and there she was having a huge party with some Mexicans and she was hammered I mean literally hammered or if you don't know what that is she was extremely drunk. But she still insisted that she come on a church tour, but when she tried to get up, she was very wobbly and tipsy so we convinced her to stay put. We told her we would pick her up for church the next day. When we came and picked her up, she was a bit tipsy, but at least she was coherent enough to maybe understand the speakers so we brought her to church. She liked it a lot, but needless to say it was a very interesting sacrament meeting. So that is my report for this week.
Love ya all,
Elder O'Brien
8/10/2010 News from Burien!!!!!
Hello Everyone,
How you'll doing? Life is great here. Just got transfer calls last Saturday and I and my companion are staying. Man Elder Read is so trunky right now. He only has six more weeks left and he is making it known to the world, which has made me EXTREMELY trunky my self. But hay the good part is when he dies I get the stuff he leaves behind yeah.
Anyways life has been great here, this past week, we have found 6 new investigators and are going to teach one of them tonight. Also we got one of our investigators to church after seven weeks of trying to get her to church, so that was awesome.
That is all for this week.
Love,
Elder O'Brien
How you'll doing? Life is great here. Just got transfer calls last Saturday and I and my companion are staying. Man Elder Read is so trunky right now. He only has six more weeks left and he is making it known to the world, which has made me EXTREMELY trunky my self. But hay the good part is when he dies I get the stuff he leaves behind yeah.
Anyways life has been great here, this past week, we have found 6 new investigators and are going to teach one of them tonight. Also we got one of our investigators to church after seven weeks of trying to get her to church, so that was awesome.
That is all for this week.
Love,
Elder O'Brien
8/3/2010 News from Burien!!!!!
Hello y'all,
Wusup, this week was great, well some of it was at least. We didn't find very many solid investigators which is kind of a bummer, but hey life is still fun.
Yes in those pictures that you sent I feel that tired 24/7 I never seem to get enough sleep even when I get to bed at 10:30 and get up at 6:30, still tired all the time, I think I've gotten used to it now, but it took me a long time to do it tho.
Also our first zone conference with our new mission president was yesterday, I don't know if I have told you about him, but his name is President Todd Larkin, he is an awesome guy, he is very spiritual and sees great things for this mission. He is also hilarious, every time he talks to us missionaries he always jokes around with us. Man he is sooooo new lol, I love him a lot. Zone conference was about obedience and sacrifice and how important it is to follow the rules.
Anyways that's all for this week, talk to ya later.
Love,
Elder O'Brien
Wusup, this week was great, well some of it was at least. We didn't find very many solid investigators which is kind of a bummer, but hey life is still fun.
Yes in those pictures that you sent I feel that tired 24/7 I never seem to get enough sleep even when I get to bed at 10:30 and get up at 6:30, still tired all the time, I think I've gotten used to it now, but it took me a long time to do it tho.
Also our first zone conference with our new mission president was yesterday, I don't know if I have told you about him, but his name is President Todd Larkin, he is an awesome guy, he is very spiritual and sees great things for this mission. He is also hilarious, every time he talks to us missionaries he always jokes around with us. Man he is sooooo new lol, I love him a lot. Zone conference was about obedience and sacrifice and how important it is to follow the rules.
Anyways that's all for this week, talk to ya later.
Love,
Elder O'Brien
July 28, 2010 Greetings From President and Sister Larkin
Dear Parents of Elder O’Brien,
My wife and I arrived a few weeks ago to preside over the Washington Seattle Mission. Our names are Todd and Laura Larkin and we came to the mission from our home in Las Vegas, Nevada. We have a ten year old daughter named Allie and a thirteen year old son Levi with us in the mission field, and a son named Jordan who turns nineteen next week and is currently in the Missionary Training Center preparing to go to Nagoya, Japan on his mission. We dropped Jordan off at the MTC on June 30th and then reported to the Washington Seattle Mission about noon on July 1st. We anticipated a very joyous moment as our son marched into the MTC to serve a long awaited mission, but we sure found out that along with the joy it was also about the hardest thing that we have ever done. We quickly found out how difficult it is not to be able to contact him regularly and check up on how he is doing.
After our experience with our own son, we could not let another day go by without sending you a note to let you know how your son is doing here in the Washington Seattle Mission. We have met with every missionary in the mission at least twice and Sister Larkin and I have each had personal interviews with every missionary. Sister Larkin has discussed personal health issues in detail and has insured that each missionary is taking proper care of their physical, mental, and emotional health. She has also learned everything about your family and has done her best to make sure that each missionary writes home regularly.
I also had a twenty to thirty minute interview with your son, Elder O’Brien and want you to know how impressed I am with his testimony and commitment to our Savior. You should be very proud of the incredible missionary that you have raised and sent here to preach the Gospel. You son has truly been an instrument in the hands of God in bringing many people to a knowledge of the truth.
We are sending a picture taken the day we had our interviews. Thank you so much for all the training you have provided in your home and for raising such a valiant child of our Father in Heaven. We know that we can never be a substitute for your affection, but we promise that we will keep our arms of love wrapped tightly around your precious child until the day that you are reunited together again.
With Warmest Regards,
President and Sister Larkin
See photo at bottom of blog
My wife and I arrived a few weeks ago to preside over the Washington Seattle Mission. Our names are Todd and Laura Larkin and we came to the mission from our home in Las Vegas, Nevada. We have a ten year old daughter named Allie and a thirteen year old son Levi with us in the mission field, and a son named Jordan who turns nineteen next week and is currently in the Missionary Training Center preparing to go to Nagoya, Japan on his mission. We dropped Jordan off at the MTC on June 30th and then reported to the Washington Seattle Mission about noon on July 1st. We anticipated a very joyous moment as our son marched into the MTC to serve a long awaited mission, but we sure found out that along with the joy it was also about the hardest thing that we have ever done. We quickly found out how difficult it is not to be able to contact him regularly and check up on how he is doing.
After our experience with our own son, we could not let another day go by without sending you a note to let you know how your son is doing here in the Washington Seattle Mission. We have met with every missionary in the mission at least twice and Sister Larkin and I have each had personal interviews with every missionary. Sister Larkin has discussed personal health issues in detail and has insured that each missionary is taking proper care of their physical, mental, and emotional health. She has also learned everything about your family and has done her best to make sure that each missionary writes home regularly.
I also had a twenty to thirty minute interview with your son, Elder O’Brien and want you to know how impressed I am with his testimony and commitment to our Savior. You should be very proud of the incredible missionary that you have raised and sent here to preach the Gospel. You son has truly been an instrument in the hands of God in bringing many people to a knowledge of the truth.
We are sending a picture taken the day we had our interviews. Thank you so much for all the training you have provided in your home and for raising such a valiant child of our Father in Heaven. We know that we can never be a substitute for your affection, but we promise that we will keep our arms of love wrapped tightly around your precious child until the day that you are reunited together again.
With Warmest Regards,
President and Sister Larkin
See photo at bottom of blog
7/26/2010 News from Burien!!!!!!!!!
Hello,
How are y'all? I am doing great. This week has been hot as well, it was been between 80 and 95 this whole last week which has been very miserable walking around in. I come home every time drenched in sweat, everyday, remind me never to move to this place EVER!!!!!.
Also this last week has been about the same as the past few weeks we have been having. We are finding a few investigators here and there but most of them are Spanish referrals.(this place has lots of Mexicans) The investigators that we do find, half of them aren't solid ones, so yeah nothing new to report.
Yes I will get those pictures to you as soon as I get things in order, there is some videos of some Samoan Hakas that some other missionaries want, so as soon as they get those copied then I will send them to you.
Love ya much,
Elder O'Brien
How are y'all? I am doing great. This week has been hot as well, it was been between 80 and 95 this whole last week which has been very miserable walking around in. I come home every time drenched in sweat, everyday, remind me never to move to this place EVER!!!!!.
Also this last week has been about the same as the past few weeks we have been having. We are finding a few investigators here and there but most of them are Spanish referrals.(this place has lots of Mexicans) The investigators that we do find, half of them aren't solid ones, so yeah nothing new to report.
Yes I will get those pictures to you as soon as I get things in order, there is some videos of some Samoan Hakas that some other missionaries want, so as soon as they get those copied then I will send them to you.
Love ya much,
Elder O'Brien
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