Mansfield OH #14

Hello family,

So just another one of the weird weeks on the mission where the mission president told us not to email you till this day. Today was my Pday and I got to go to the Temple and that was my whole day. We drove to the Temple and went through our session and then drove back and were able to buy a few things to make it to make it to Monday. But that was my day and because today is my Pday I can now email you.

So last week what stood out was we were given a call to come visit a member who was on his death bed. When we got there we were asked to say a prayer with them and I'm not going to lie I was scared out of my mind. But I said a prayer with them and I felt the spirit even though the reason and environment was a little strange. Then we learned that he died the next day and that they were very thankful for us being there. What was funny was they didn't even remember my name but they remembered Elder Larsen's, so the spirit works in mysterious ways. But yea that was most definitely a first for me.

So investigator update for this week and last. Joe is doing really well and says that he can't prove the Book of Mormon wrong and that he wants to be baptized once he quits smoking. Which is a big step for him,next will be the Plan of Salvations. I met a former investigator with his uncle who is a less active member and that was awesome and weird at the same time. So Danny Rhea who is less active gave his testimony which was so powerful and I have no clue why he is less active at all. In fact that whole lesson was lead by him and I was just kind of there but to be honest I don't think I was meant to say anything. 

Also I had an really big testimony building experience this week. So we were biking along and a guy flags us down and then proceeded to bible thump us. In the end we stood there for three hours while this man told us that our church was false and why the trinity was really. He had a terrible argument bases and Elder Larsen did a good job at pointing out the holes in his argument. Any way it was a great faith builder because now I know even more that what we believe is true because in went and found those answers in the scripture and I prayed. Also before this happened I had prayed to gain a stronger faith in the things we teach and long behold we get bible thumped the next day. So a rude awakening answer to a prayer that helped a lot so I'm very happy right now. 

So that was what stood out in my week and I am sorry it took so long to respond. Sorry to hear that mom is getting sick and that Emma has that infection. Also happy very late Birthday Mom! I am a terrible son. I however love you all and wish you a great week and that you achieve your goals what ever they may be. Love you so very much and think about you oft.

Love Elder Young

Ohio Temple

Elder Larsen and Elder Young

Ohio Columbus Mission: Elder Young and his District

Mansfield OH #13

Well I am glad to hear that you all have moved in to the new house and that everything is done with moving for a long time hopefully. Sorry to hear that Emma is sick and not feeling good, and that mom got all bruised from the move. I hope everything gets all figured out and you get everything were you want it.

This week was really good but the heat decided to come back for a little while and it's starting to get dark earlier. Elder Larsen and I are getting along great and are working really hard here and are trying to meet all the Less active families and all the accumulated potential investigators. Also we have been finding out that a lot of our investigators just need some time so we will see them a little latter down the road maybe. We are just out trying to build our teaching pool again and to hopefully meet someone who will progress.

So we are meeting the majority of our goals and we re getting a lot more lessons in a week then before. Our investigators are doing good an we are trying to help them feel the spirit and to convert them selves. Joe is doing good and we have been meeting with him more and he is very happy with what he sees in our church. We have also lately been meeting some really cool people that are really interested. So we will try to continue to meet with them and teach them.

This week has been really good and I have higher spirits now that I am not with someone who is dragging me down. I think this area is going to see some great changes as we work hard and follow the spirit. I hope everything is going well with you and that you get the rest that you need from this move. You should send me a video of the new house! I hope that you all are doing well and continue to be awesome.

P.s So the time has come that my eyes need glasses to read. I have noticed that when I read the paper Book of Mormon the words are harder to read then they use to be.

Double Rainbow!

Showing off his wrist watch tan

Tayler's District

The people in Mansfield keep losing their bullets 

Tayler's companion Elder Larsen

At the penitentiary 

This almost looks like it could be an album cover for some Rock Missionary band haha

Mansfield OH #12

Hello Family,

Sorry for the long wait of my lovely emails I grace you with. I got a lovely comment from Judy about my writing skills so that means Emma or mom are doing a good job of fixing my grammar before they post them. So thank you. I had a great birthday full of service and hard work, and I had a blast. I also got a great tan, and my neck got fried. Over all a great great day. Oh and I got to spread concrete as it came out of the cement truck. I had a blast but my pants and one of my shirts are now covered in paint I washed the cement out when it was fresh.

Anyway in this apartment it is just Elder Jones and me. This apartment does not have have a washer and dryer in it, but it is down the hall. It coasts $1.50 for each machine, so three dollars total when you are done with one color or load. It kind of sucks but it's what we have to work with.

So what was cool this week was that Elder Cook came to town and we as a mission got to be taught by him. There was also Elder Hallstrom and Elder Titera of the Seventy and they also taught us. It was very fun and I learned a lot about how to work with the ward and to work in unison. The spirt was very strong when he bore his apostolic witness and gave us a blessing. It was a great experience and I was lucky to be there.

Also something that was really cool this week so far was that we went and saw a potential that we met last month. He was kind of shocked that we remembered him and that he said to come back in a month. I felt very strongly that we needed to see him and I'm glad that I did because he he is awesome. He was very open to talking with us and asked tons of questions. One funny thing about him is he is a big fan of American Pickers and is picker himself. So he had some of those little kids cars that you peddle. He calls them his rusty treasures. I can't wait to meet with him again and hopefully he read the Book of Mormon.

I'm sorry to here that Emma is having trouble at work with some of her co-workers and that people are that way sometimes. But it sounds like you figured it out and everything is cooling down a little. Happy to hear that you will be finally moving into a house that will be yours. No more rentals! That's exciting!

Sorry again that this is happening latter in the week than usual. This week is transfers and so they have started having us email on Wednesday instead of Monday. Yep today is my prep day instead of Monday so my whole schedule has been changed. Anyway I love you and wish you a great rest of the week.

Love Elder Young

I almost forgot. Happy Anniversary Mom and Dad! 

I hope I am remembering this correctly.

Happy Birthday!!

Apparently we aren't the only ones that know Tayler loves Star Wars :)  We sent the shirt he is wearing and his old companion Elder Simkin gave him one of the others and Elder Simkins  mother sent him the other shirt :)  My Son is loved

Mansfield OH #11

Well hello family,

Sounds like you have a very good plan ready to implement for your up coming move. Don't sell my stuff I already don't have much stuff for you to sell. But then if you feel it really needs to go then sell it just not my night stand, because I made that. Sorry to hear that you have not spiced up your lives yet maybe in a few weeks when things cool down. So there is storage under the house, that's really cool. You should send a video of the house or something.

This week was ok and then the last few days were really awesome and we had some really good lessons and stuff. So what was really cool this week was a family in the ward invited some people they met to church. What was really cool was they came and said that they want to join the church. So we got so new investigators and they came to church. Then we had dinner with them at a members house. So they are also being fellowshipped by the ward. 

That's what has been happening in my life right now. Other then the fact that I am about to turn 20. Also Elder Cook is coming to talk to our mission which will be fun and exciting. Sorry that I am so expensive with me being here. Maybe you should sell all my stuff. I love you all a lot and I am thankful for all you do for me. Sorry that this email is so short but not much happened this week. The days are getting shorter and a lot cooler already in August, like a lot cooler. 

I hope everything goes well with you all this week as you prepare to move yet again. I love you and think about you all the time and hope you are safe. You are one of the rocks of my life and I am blessed to have you in my life. Jesus is the number one rock but your a close second. Be safe and remember to pray every morning and night and to read your scriptures. They will bring you happiness and joy.

Love Elder Young

Mansfield OH #10

Well sounds like a normal week from you guys yet again. You need to change up your lives a little and go on a hike or something fun like that. Even I have brakes from the norm and do something different. Granted I'm shopping for food and emailing and doing laundry but it's different from the rest of the week. Anyway so you have also begun the down sizing of all the accumulated things of our family. Don't get rid of any of my stuff please😭 that wouldn't be cool.

Glad to hear that Emma is getting ready for school and is hopefully getting over that sickness. Being sick is no fun and I'm glad I have only been sick once on my mission. It also must be nice only having to work 20 hours this week. Hope you all are doing well with your work and stuff. You all are crazy worker bees.

So when is the big move date then if Sandy Jo is already getting the house ready to be sold? Also will all of our shed stuff fit in the new house? I'm sure you have a game plan and know what your doing I'm just inquisitive.

So all the people we meet with are doing well, we just have been having trouble meeting with them. We did meet with Joe and had a question about why the Book of Mormon was not on the earth for a long time if it was good. We however were able to answer his concern and then gave him an interesting reding assignment. We both felt prompted to read Jacob chapter 5. Which normally you don't do and just wait for them to find it them selves, but so far he says he has gotten a lot from it and likes it.

Goals we have set for our selves are to always invite others to be baptized. Thing is most of our investigators are hesitant to set dates right now. So that he made baptismal goals hard to set for this area but we have some we feel will soon. So hopefully we will see more results from that area. 

Thank you so much for the birthday gifts I did get them. I forgot to tell you though my apartment number is 301 so next time the mail people won't have to work as hard. I love the puzzle but I solved it really fast. I'm just to good. But some of the other Elders have found it hard. Loved it all though and I liked the card. So with the pictures for my frame it works by SD cards, and I am no longer allowed to use computers now that I have the iPad. So it may be easier if you send me and SD card with pictures on it. IDk but know you know a bit of the predicament we have here.

Also I got the Ipad case, isn't it great it's my birthday gift to me, I'm so happy. Anyway this week has been good and I am thankful for all you do for me. I think about you all the time pray for your safety and welfare all the time. Be careful with this move and don't hurt yourselves. Y'all best be in the same condition that I left you in. Love you so very much.

Love Elder Young

P.s. Looking for this, (cough), Is that my voice.

Green blooded hobgoblin

The rain in Spain stays mainly in the plane

Ok let's go through this again, I put on my hat then my glasses my glasses.

  Wait who are you? What you do with uncle slim?

It's still me you idiots!

Leave Mickie out of this!

I'm getting the pig!

P.s.s settle a debate for me does Hami the squirrel get pepper sprayed? 

Mansfield OH #9

Well sounds like you all are a bunch of worker bees. All work and no fun. I even have a day of rest which is on Monday instead of Sunday. Anyway this week was really good and we have been having some good success. We also had the assistance to the president come on splits with us, which was different and weird but good. We got more done in that one day than through the whole week. Having four missionaries tag team an are is very effective. We also got three new investigators and some solid appointments set up for the next week. So I am very excited for this next week, because things are just picking up.

The members here are very nice. In fact I am at a members house right now using there wifi because they are closer than the church and the library which we are no longer allowed to go to anyway. These iPads rule our lives and we need wifi and there is no free wifi close by. We get feed every so often. It's hard because there are three sets of missionaries to feed in this Ward and only a few people really sign up to feed us. Also we don't have a car and some people live far away. But I don't complain because they come out on lessons and are very helpful, not like Reynoldsburg were they take over and do a terrible job.

I like Mansfield I really love the people and have gotten to know some really nice people. Plus the people just seem more down to earth than in my last area. Also less crazy. That has been a real perk to this area. Weather is getting hotter so we take breaks at gas stations and get fountain drinks to cool off. It works for a short period of time. I love this area though.

I'm not going to lie I have know clue what I want. Just send me what you think I will like and enjoy. Also send some more black socks, so I don't have to make as many laundry stops. Other than that I say just surprise me😁 I really am at a loss( Elder Jones says to ask for candy but I get enough sugar so don't do that) *elder jones whispers do it!!!* but ya I have gotten boring on my mission oh send some puzzles. I am just writing this as things come to mind. But ya stuff.

Anyway love you all and wish you the best in all you do.

Love Elder Young

P.s Emma you are really funny.

P.ss I hear that ant man was a good movie, did you see it, and what is it about. I have reached the point were I don't know what is happening in the world anymore😭

Also could you tell dad to send the 3d printed cars pics again I didn't get them. And guess what I went to catholic mass on Saturday with a less active member. It was so cool. I wasn't able to get pictures but look up St. Peter's in Mansfield Ohio and I'm sure you will find pictures.