Famous rappers - Week 43 - October 25, 2021

This week we had our ward Halloween party. It was a lot of fun and we had 10 of our friends come to the party!! We had a less active family come too. For the trunk or treat we passed our candy with pictures of Jesus taped on the back. The less active families kids loved it so much, and were so extatic that they want the missionaries to come over and re-activate them. We also joined the chili cooking contest...but lost. 

We ran into a rapper. He said he's made thousands of songs and that he's famous--man was mad tripping. He showed us one of his songs, he tells us that there is no swear words in the song. Oh boy let me tell you there was swear words in the song. 

Oh, then we got dropped by two people yesterday. Someone we were going to put on baptismal date, and then another person we were excited about. So yesterday was depressing. 

Nothing else too exciting happened. So I'll see y'all later. 

Elder Larsen.  

I thought this photo was funny of the two Elders looking pissed during a mission training.

Referrals and Miracles - Week 42 - October 18, 2021

Hello everyone, this email will be a short one. 

This week we found a couple solid people to start teaching; I am super excited. One we always see at the gym in the mornings, we started talking to him and he had a lot of questions about our church. So we went over on Monday evening and taught him the Restoration. He started listening to the Book of Mormon, which is awesome. The other we found, knocking on members doors. The member didn't live there but a man named Robert did. He was open to a message, we taught him the Restoration also, and he set up our next appointment. It was so cool, I can definitely tell that God's hand is I this work. 

We got a referral for someone this week that moved from California. The missionaries over there taught him everything and this man wants to get baptized so badly. He had a calling in his other ward, without being baptized! He came to church on Sunday, and we hope to put him on date on Tuesday. 

We did some service this week for a member. We caught a baby rattlesnake and were caring it around, haha. I then caught a frog and put it next to the snake hoping to watch the snake eat it. However it didn't. 

That's it for this week! Love y'all. 

Elder Larsen

Michael Jackson and AK 407's - Week 41 - October 11, 2021

Yo yo, hello everybody I hope y'all are doing well. This week was probably the craziest week of my mission in the best way. 

I had to give a training in district council, which is my favorite thing to do! Not, they aren't my favorite but they got to be done right? It went pretty well actually I felt like everyone was engaged. 

Saturday night we did a blitz. Which means that everyone in your district goes to one place and you street contact. It was pretty fun, however the only one's who could make it was us and the Sisters. We accidentally picked this super sketchy apartment complex, oops sorry Sisters.  The people that lived there were just strapped with pistols and were all gang related. We found like 5 people that night it was crazy. We had a crazy miracle too, so we were walking the neighborhoods in that area and it was pitch black. We were trying to make it back to our car, then we see a man riding a motor wheelchair. We stop him and ask if we could share a scripture with him. He says yes and goes on to tell us all these things he's been struggling with and needs help. He just gives us his phone number and address without us even asking. It was awesome. Then after that while we were still walking we see this man get in his friends car with an AK 407, and they looked like they were about to do a drive by or something. It was sketchy. 

Also there is a guy who dresses up as Michael Jackson and busts down. He's got some crazy dance moves, he just stands on the side of a intersection.

Yesterday we had 8 people at church!!!! It was insane I was so stressed the whole time at church. Also during second hour a members friend they had brought to church wasnt happy for some reason (I'm not aloud to say). So we sat with him the whole second hour just talking with him and helping him feel loved and accepted. He wants to take the missionary discussion which is awesome. 

This ward is awesome and we are seeing some crazy miracles here and are working super hard. I've never been this busy in my whole life, we have SO MUCH to do in this area. It's so fruitful. 

I love y'all and hope you have a great rest of your week! 

Elder Larsen. 

Transfers - Week 40 - October 4, 2021

This week was awesome!!

We dropped off Elder Portlock on Monday at the mission home. President invited me into his office and I had a great little interview with him. I then was in a trio with Elders Murray and Johnson for a couple of days. We had an amazing temple tour with one of their friends, the next night.  

On Thursday I got my new companion. I love transfers, because almost all the missionaries are there, so I can just go talk to everyone. We'll my new companion is Elder Hogan. He is running at Utah State, so he goes running every morning, then today he's about to run 11 miles. I love him so much already. He is perfect for me, we are the same person and are getting a long super well. He's been out for 14 months now. 

We have been really trying to work on getting members involved in lessons. Sometimes it can be interesting for the members I think. In two of our lessons we had members in, our friends were just saying some crazy stuff. Some lady picked up her car from the shop(this lesson was over the phone), so she was muted for like 5 minutes. We finally say her name to see if she was still there, then out of the blue she's like yes yes I'm still here. Then goes on to tell us that her car she picked up, the breaks weren't working. She told us that she flew up on a curb and couldn't stop. This all happened while she was muted. This lady then was still driving but at very slow speeds, man I was tripping. I was just so confused with what was going on hahah. I could only imagine what the member was thinking this whole time. 

Saturday was so crazy; we over scheduled that day. To make it even worse a member signed up for dinner that live 40 minutes away...welp rest in peace to us I thought. We had a member lesson right before the dinner with a member. We run over to the members home ask them if we can come after our dinner with the other member. We asked them this because we were running like 20 minutes late and didn't have time to share a message. Thankfully they said yes. So we go to dinner and keep dinner to 45 minutes. On the way to the member lesson we were planning on having a lesson with one of our friends, while driving. Well our friend asked if we could do it in 15 minutes. We were like shoot. So we called the members who we were going to, to see if they could join us in the lesson and they said yes. We get to their home and our friend doesn't answer. So we share a short message then we had to go because we were having a lesson with the no brakes lady. When I type it out it doesn't sound crazy but the whole evening was just so crazy. 

General Conference was awesome! I hope everyone had the opportunity to watch it. I know that I will be looking over the talks frequently until the next conference and I invite y'all to do the same thing. 

Love y'all

Elder Larsen