Bellefontaine #4

Hello Family,

It has been a long week and I am still getting use to Bellefontaine because we cover a large area around it as well. We have been trying to help the people we are helping toward baptism to understand the things that they committing to and the covenants and there significance in our lives. Judy who is working toward the 28 is doing great and is moving forward with great faith and has made a date to quite smoking on the 13 of this month. We are very excited for her and are meeting with her as much as we can each week.

This last week has gone by very slowly but that is because I really just am still not use to the area and am always surprised by how many towns we cover. We just went to this town that is 13 miles from Bellefontaine and it took half an hour to get there. We were lucky and the Rasmussen's who are the senior couple took us down. They are awesome and are from Oregon. I continue to struggle with the area but I am slowly getting it down.

Just learned that I will be staying here in Bellefontaine with Elder Knudsen, and my other district members are staying as well which makes me happy because I was in the MTC with one of them. Actually my district might be growing and we may have a new set of missionaries in Sidney. I'm excited for that.

Happy to hear that you are all doing great back there and that Emma is staying busy with work and school. I don't know about the boy she likes though I don't like the sound of him. Mainly because I don't know his name. Anyway happy that you are having fun decorating the house with dad. Your a little be hind me though because I all ready have my lights out. Elder Knudsen is still a little mad that I put them up but he has trouble staying mad at me. 

A lot of fun things are happening back home, thank you for keeping me in the loop. Things are changing so much back there I can't keep track of it all, but that is ok. I love you all so very much and miss you.

Love 

Elder Young

Bellefontaine Picture + Video

A less actives husband who is not a member really liked me because I knew a little about guns and knifes so he showed me a few of his toys.

One of them was a 50. Caliber bullet. It was really cool. He has a few knives and guns. I love Ohio!

Bellefontaine Ohio #3

Hello Dad,

This week has been interesting and seemed to take for ever as we went out and tried to meet people and had little success. We had some great lessons with the investigators that have a date to be baptized. So we are working hard to help Judy to be baptized on the 28th of this month. We got some things to help her get over but I think that she can do it because she has great faith.

I really don't know what else to say other than that I am working hard and having fun with Elder Knudsen who says that he is not related to the Knudsen's in Delta. We are working hard to make this Branch a ward one day. So we are trying to meet with less actives and help them come to church. The members here are really strong though so that it really encouraging for the work here.

Sorry to hear about the weather and that the church building was a mess and that you cleaned it all by yourself. Hope that your week goes better and that you have time to have fun. Love ya so very much.

Love

Elder Young

Hello Mom,

Sounds like you had a great week with Dallin and the rest of the family. So if Dallin doesn't call you Grandma what does he call you. Glad that you are all doing ok and that you had a fun Halloween. My week was a little slow and we taught a few lessons that went well and I had the slowest fast Sunday ever because people don't share there testimonies. So we shared our testimonies and so did the Senior couple and maybe 5 branch members the rest was sitting in silence.

Anyway we have been trying hard to find people to teach and trying to meet less actives and get them to church. We actually found a less active not on the branch membership list. It was really cool. So we taught a little girl the Gospel of Jesus Christ and it went well till the end. That's when her less active mom asked her to say the closing prayer and she broke down in tears, it was weird and awkward. 

I got your package thank you for the candy and cookies and jerky. I love it, it didn't get here till Saturday but I didn't get till Sunday night but I got it. Looking forward to next week and all. Next week I will email on Wednesday be use next week is transfer week. It will fun to see what happens.

Love Elder Young

Bellefontaine Ohio #2

Hello Family,

Well this was a very active week and we got a lot done. So my new companion is Elder Knudsen who is from Cedar Hills Utah. We have been getting along really well and we have been working hard to activate the less actives because Bellefontaine is a branch. So it has been a lot of hard work.

So this week I went on exchanges with a zone leader and with the assistance and I got trained on how to be a district leader. Then the next day I had to run a district meeting and to teach the district. That was weird and didn't flow very well. Then I got trained on how to do a baptism interview which was weird to think that I could interview someone for baptism. Ya so there is some new responsibilities I have as a district leader.

One cool thing happened this week that was really fun. One of our investigators has some really nice speakers and he showed us how good they were. The floor was shaking and I'm sure people could hear him from a couple streets away. I will show you a video. It was really cool!

We taught a lesson to some investigators that are from Japan and we brought a member who is going to Japan for his mission. So he tried to translate what we said into Japanese and it was very slow and we got to the Atonement in an hour. It was fun though and something new.

Anyway hope you have fun this week.

Love Elder Young 

Bellefontaine Ohio #1

Hello Family,

Lots of cool things have happened in a relatively short period of time. So last week we had interviews with the mission President in the Mansfield building, which was nice because we did have to drive as far. We also had some great lessons and had a great Sunday, it was the Primary program so it was cute and of course a little humorous. But then everything got very crazy after church. 

So we were out walking around minding our own business when we got a call from the Mission President. It went a little like this, Elders I'm have some information for you, some missionaries are going home because of medical issues and I want you Elder Young to got to Bellefontaine and be a district leader and for Elder Larsen to go to Marion and be in a tripanionship. And we said ok President Daines. Then he said go to your apartment and pack and clean, I want you at the mission home by noon tomorrow.

So Sunday night I packed and cleaned and didn't sleep well that night got up and got a ride from a member to Powell Ohio. So my area has been temporarily closed and who knows when it will be opened again. Any way I am now in Bellefontaine Ohio with my companion who's name is Elder Knudsen (pronounced as spelled). We are getting along but we just got to our area.

So with the Package I would say send it to the mission office and just do that with all future packages just in case. This may not be my last mid cycle transfer so if you send it to the office they will make sure it gets to the right place. All I want is pumpkin cookies I love those cookies. Also could you send me the recipes for pancakes and waffles and other easy fast foods that I can make and eat in an hour. You can email the recipes.

Anyway I am on a new adventure and I am having fun. Hope you all have a great week and that you stay safe. Glad that you like my stories.

Love Elder Young

Tayler's Green Robe :)

One of the members in Tayler's ward in Mansfield made him this green robe :)

Mansfield OH #19

Well sounds like a great week and that you have been busy at work and stuff. Guess what me too. This week we have had some great success and met almost all our goals by Thursday so that was awesome. So in the end we have exceeded our goal for lessons this week. I am very happy.

We also found a new investigator who's name is WJ Worthim and he is awesome and we have had a great first lesson with him. We met him while looking for people that told missionaries to come back in the past. We saw him sitting on a porch and we stride talking to him. While we were talking to him a lady pulled up in a car and got out and asked is if we would say a prayer with her or for her I don't remember exactly. Anyway we stopped and said a prayer with her and she left. As we walked back to talk to WJ he asked us what make us so happy so we told him and he set up a time for us to come see him.

He told us that the reason he wanted to talk to us is that when we walked up we had smiles on our faces and he said to himself those are some young men that are happy doing something. And he wanted to know why we are so happy and willing to go out and talk to people.

So that was a really cool experience and I am happy that we were in the right place at the right time to meet this prepared son of our Heavenly Father. On a sad note Joe is having issues with the things that we are teaching now. I don't think we will be having very many more lessons with him. But he likes us and has enjoyed some of the things that we have shared with him. So I hope General Conference helps him with his jest ions and will help him to keep his heart open.

Glad to hear that you are starting to get the house the way you like it and that you have the opportunity to own a house after all these years. God is watching over y'all back home for me. Hope that you all continue to be safe and hope Emma does good in school. By the way why did Emma go to Prime Time with both Austin and Mac? 

Stay safe and know that I love you all!

Elder Young