June 29, 2015

this week was a very eventful week!

Monday: we WE had a great lesson with our investigators and also a great dinner lesson with a less active member!

Tuesday: we mowed a lawn for a member,  then we had a great lesson with our investigators. and a lot of knocking doors.

Wednesday: We had a great district meeting! Learned a lot! and then we went and helped a member put up a fence for their new pony (dog) it is small enough to be a dog and is trained as a dog would be. Then we rushed home and had a lesson right before we had to be back home.

Thursday: we weekly planned, then we went and tracted all day! haha Trailer park! found a bunch of Latinos for the hermanas! Then had  great lesson with our investigator that we found out is moving to New Albany Indiana! Then we had dinner with a member for our birthdays! Then we had another great lesson with some other investigators.

Friday: IT was my birthday!!! I had a pretty lame birthday actually! haha we spent the whole day spraying the base of the walls and drying all of our clothes to kill bed bugs!!!! we did that all day! and we vacuumed the whole house our beds our  car and it was just super stressful! but we got rid of them!! we won the battle!!! Then we went and had a lesson with an investigator and when we got home I found a bed bug on Elder Stevens and so we stripped down dried the clothes we were wearing changed vacuumed the car again, and called the mission office for advice all day, they said we picked it up from wherever we just came from. so we now know where we are getting them from!!!! We solved the Issue!!!!

Saturday: We tracted all day and saw a less active and had another lesson with one of our investigators.

Sunday: we had a great sacrament service! I learned a lot as to what I need to do to help the investigators we have to progress! and we tracted. and then we had another great lesson with our investigators.

This week was filled with trials but as we kept faith and endured we were able to overcome the obstacles!

Love Elder Durfee 

June 22, 2015

This week was filled with a lot of changing peoples records of what they've been taught from paper to the ipad!! we are officially moved all over from paper to electronics!! It took a lot of time to get it done! But I am sure glad it's all done!

Monday: we had a lot of great appointments at the end of the day!! We spend most of our preparation day filling out areabook information!

Tuesday: We had interviews with President Brough! I love President Brough! he is so funny! I love meeting with him! I also love our Discussions! Then we went and saw a member, then we added area book information. Then Saw two more less actives, they hadn't seen missionaries in a long time! It was good! the one is the daughter of a member that was in Beattyville my last area! So it was great getting to meet her!

Wednesday: WE had all of our appointments fall through! :( it was super sad! So we entered info on our area book as our back up, Then we went to mutual with the youth, we helped unload the cement from the members trailer that we loaded the other week.

Thursday: Today was a pretty great day! we went into a different town in our area that I had only been to once, was able to meet some less actives, I hadn't met before and visit some that I'd met once before! It rained all day!

Friday: We Set up the church building, and cleaned it! the best it has looked in a long time said the Branch President! the Air conditioning went out in the building so it was hot all week!!! and they installed  a little window unit for sunday and so it was hot! but they were drilling holes in floor to add a new a/c unit so there was dust all over, so we had to clean it!

Saturday: we were on exchanges I was with Elder Langston in LaGrange! we rode bikes most of the day! We met this one member couple they were super funny! kinda scared me alittle, haha but I had fun! Then we did a lot of talking with people on the street. Then exchanged back! we took an awesome way home down dark hollows at night! super fun! almost hit a deer! we had an awesome fish sandwich for dinner!

Sunday: We had church for 1 hour! we had sacrament and then went home because it was super hot with just a window A/C unit! it was miserable! We had Easy bake lasagna for lunch! and bbq ribs and chicken on a grill for dinner!! we ate good on fathers day! and I made homemade oreos! But we entered in area book information all day! and we finally finished it at 9:00 pm! I'm glad to have it done!

As long as we keep pushing forward with faith in Christ and keep praying and reading our scriptures everything is possible!!!

Love,

 Elder Durfee

June 15, 2015

Monday: We had a great preparation day we got a lot of needed things done. and we were able to meet with a less active!

Tuesday: We had a good day of tracting!! we tracted like 4 streets! in the 100 degree weather with the humidity on top of that! But we did find some new people to teach this coming week! :) and we also had a great lesson with our investigator with a Baptismal date! she is progressing really well! I'm excited for her!

Wednesday: We had a good day of tracting again! we had a lady hand us her card from her church! that was weird! haha. We also had another great lesson with our investigator with the baptismal date.

Thursday: We had a good weekly planning session we were able to plan for all of our investigators for this next week! We also did some more tracting! haha. Then all of our appointments dropped through except for the one with our solid investigator!

Friday: we had zone meeting so we were inside a building all day learning about our ipads then we went and saw a member and saw if she needed any help around the yard and then had dinner at a members and helped them move railroad ties that was fun!!! got us our of our prostelyting clothes! haha then we had another great lesson with our progressing investigator! :)

Saturday: We had a good long day of mowing lawns!! we got up did our normal studies then we started mowing lawns at 10 and finished mowing at 3!!! in 100 degree weather with the humidity added onto it!!!! it's been super hot here! Then we went and set up the church building for our sunday service. Then we had some appointments fall through so we tracted some more doors! haha then we had an awesome lesson with our progressing investigator!

Sunday: We had a great Church Service in our little store front building! haha I learned so much from the spirit!! Then we had a couple of great lessons!!! I love this work!! and seeing how the gospel blesses peoples lives! It is hard to believe that there are people out there that aren't as lucky as us to have the gospel in their lives!

We all need to be thankful for what we have!!! And we all must rely on the Lord for everything we need help with he is our biggest most effective way to help us in our lives!

Love,

Elder Durfee

The Elders after some Lawn Cutting!

White Tail Crossing!

Hamburger Helper Taco Masterpiece....

Corn Bread

Cinnamon Rolls!

June 8, 2015

I hit my 9 month mark!! can you believe it's been 9 months already!!? time is flying bye!!! So Monday was a good day we got a lot of shopping done and we also had a great lesson with one of our investigators and set a baptismal date!!!

Tuesday: we had a good day as well filled with finding new people to teach Elder Stevens and myself have been tracting and we have found some people to teach for this upcoming week! it's going to be awesome!!!

Wednesday: we had district meeting learning a lot on how to use our I pads to the fullest as a missionary!! it's pretty different! we also got in contact with some less actives and had a great dinner with a member! then we had mutual!! the Youth shot Bows!! it was fun!!

Thursday: We were able to weekly plan and plan for all of our investigators for this next week! then we mowed lawns for the rest of the day! it was a lot of work! we were physically drained!!

Friday: We Tracted all day as well! I was on an exchange with our district leader today and we found a lot of new people to teach!! this next week is going to be a very exciting week!! the work here in Carrollton is starting to boom!! I'm excited!! we had a great lesson with a less active on the Restoration!

Saturday: we tracted all day today as well! we also were able to go and say a prayer with a non member that is housing a less active, she has cancer and so we were able to say a prayer for peace and comfort and for the strength. 

Sunday: This day was pretty awesome! and sad at the same time! we had an awesome Fast and Testimony meeting! then Elder Stevens and myself tracted all day again and then we were able to attend a memorial for one of the members of the branches daughter that just passed away from cancer.. it was a very spiritual meeting!

This week has been very hard in the heat and humidity, but I know that as we are obedient to the commandments and are doing all of the necessary things we must do that we will be blessed! 

Love, Elder Durfee 

Doing Service!

Eating Like Kings here!

New Scripture Case

Urkle Style!

Huge Cookie!

Big Butterfly!

June 1, 2015

This week was a pretty crazy one!!

Monday: we stayed home so Elder Benham could get packed to go to his new area. Then we went and had an awesome Restoration lesson with a less active family!

Tuesday: We had transfers!!! So we got there and I was talking to this one elder that Elder Caskey had trained and I was like man you and me are gonna be companions!! and that is who I got!! we are two very country boys!! he is from millvale Utah! we are like two peas in a pod!! This transfer is gonna be awesome!! That and I am now Senior Companion, I get to drive the car!

Wednesday: We did some Weekly planning to try and get him a little familiar with the names of the people we are teaching. Then we went and visited some less actives and we had mutual with the youth, we got to shoot bows!!! I've still got it!

Thursday: We had a mini zone meeting, we got the ipads!!! it was pretty awesome!! they are sweet devices! It is going to make missionary work much more effective! I'm excited to see how it is going to change missionary work!!! we went and tried some investigators and read from the book of Mormon with them.

Friday: We went and we mowed lawns all day! we mowed the one less actives lawn the one that is like the hay field, then we went and mowed the other members lawn.

Saturday: We had lunch with a member! and then we went and tried some investigators, none were home and it rained all day today!

Sunday: today was an awesome day!!! we had church. and then we had lunch, then we went saw some less actives, then we had an awesome lesson with these investigators we have!!! lesson one!! the restoration the spirit was very strong!! one of the best lessons I've had! being senior companion is a little bit different leading out the lessons and driving and taking over the area and the one being aable to show a round the area. i'm loving it!!!1 and we were notified that Elder Tom Perry passed away today! that was very sad to hear about that! So send your prayers to the perry family!

Love Elder Durfee

Dakota and new Comp.

Lasagna!

Dakota mowing lawn!