August 11, 2014

This week was good.  Looks like you guys had an awesome week as well!!! dang, looks like the busiest/funnsest summer ive ever seen! 

We walked a ton this week! ha. we are working more in the nieghborhood close to the church, it is literally enormous!!! But we had a really cool experience this week:

Our Leaders are encouraging us to teach more and giving us ideas, they said when you go to contact an adress and noone answers, theirs a reason God sent you there, knock on the nieghbors doors.  So we did that this week and talked with their nieghbors,and their its a house with 9 woman, 1 is the owner and she rents it to college girls,  we taught the owner and 1 of the girls. the owner said she didnt believe in anything we taught, but the young woman liked the message and wanted to get to know the church and she went with us to church this Sunday! The members treated her so well, and she really liked it!  The Lord works in misterious ways.  

Saturday night i was trying to get more adresses, we have a goal/rule we have to achieve, and i was trying to get a ton of adresses and i tlaked to one young man who is a member that moved from another ward and didnt know where the church was! he said he wants to serve a mission and has a ton of referalls for us! i invited him to church and he went and really likes the ward! 

Well it was cool to see all the couples together in Utah! ha..and jacob alone...keep it that way! ha. 

im glad to hear that everyone is doing well.  That camp sounds like an awesome thing, if it convinces anyone to play football its gotta be great! ha. I almost yelled when i read that hes gonna play football! my comp looked super fast to see what it was. ha. yes!!! hes gonna tear it up, he good easily be better than me.

I read the cards from the box last pday and found the recipe, ha. i loved my birthday card! hahahaha i died laughing. Thanks everybody for the cards!

Last week we went to walmart and the mall with our zone leaders, it was cool to spend a day with my "dad"/trainer(Elder Blake) one last time, he will head home back to provo next month!

I have a strong testimony of the gospel, i know i may not be accomplishing the things i wanted and reaching my expectations i had for myself, but i know im doing the work of the Lord because of the blessing i see in my life and in the lifes of others, especially my family!  I may suffer fisically sometimes out here, but im so greatful for this opportunity to bring blessings to others. THE CHURCH IS TRUE! THE BOOK IS BLUE! GO BYU!!!

Love you guys! Have a Great week!

-Elder Grondel

THANKS GERRITT FOR THE BRACELET!!! its freaken sweet! i cant believe you made it! thats super awesome!!! youll have to teach me when i get back!!!

love you bud!