Dear
Family and Friends,
Well it's now been over
a week and a half since you've heard from me so I'll see if I can remember
everything that has happened. This email might be pretty short since I'm not
feeling 100% today so I apologize in advance.
So Christmas. Justin,
Kadie, and their son Axel made it to church which was a great Christmas
present. So excited for them :) After church we went to our Bishop's house to
skype and eat lunch. It's always neat to be able to talk face to face, can't
believe it will only happen 1 more time on my mission. In the evening we went
over to a members house and had dinner and played games. For being away from
home, it was a fantastic Christmas! :)
Monday we moved
furniture, cleaned, went out to lunch with some members, and said goodbye to
some people. Our appointment in the evening with Demetra fell through and so we
went back to the apartment and did more cleaning.
Tuesday after studies we
had a lesson with and said goodbye to Christian and Cail. In the afternoon we
packed, got some other stuff done, said some more goodbyes, handed off one of
our investigators to the sisters, and ate dinner with a recent convert. It was
a fun last day in Ardmore :)
Wednesday we woke up at
5AM, loaded up the car, and went to transfers. Since almost the whole mission
was there, they did a transfer meeting to get everything organized. All of the
missionaries going to Tulsa left at 12 and got to the Tulsa stake center around
2 where we had another transfer meeting with the missionaries from the Arkansas
Bentonville Mission. The 2 missionaries previously in Tahlequah stayed with us
for 6 days so they could transfer information to us.
Thursday we did a little
planning and lots of trying to visit investigators and potentials.
Friday we had our
district meeting in Muskogee. There are 2 other elder companionship and a
sister companionship in our district. After that we did some more planning and
visiting people.
Saturday we finally
finished our weekly planning. Drove out to Stillwell to teach an investigator
named William who said he would come to church but then wasn't there when a
member went to go pick him up on Sunday. In the afternoon we visited a
less-active/part-member family. At 8 there was a little ward get together at
the church for new years eve so went and had some snacks, played games, and met
some of the members.
Sunday was awesome. Not
only does this ward have a ward mission leader, but he actually does his job!
After church we had Elder Hanks first missionary coordination meeting which
went well.
Monday all the libraries
were closed and so we couldn't email. So we played some basketball at the
church and finally got to unpack our stuff since the other missionaries had to
pack their stuff up.
Tuesday morning the
Arkansas Missionaries left and we woke up at 4:30 so I could go to Missionary
Leadership Council in the city. That lasted basically the whole day and it was
a great experience. Seeing how different the Arkansas mission is from our
mission made me more fully appreciate President Mansell and the culture in our
mission of being master teachers and working hard, being obedient, and having
fun. The Oklahoma City Mission is simply the best! :)
"Where there is no
vision, the people perish." - Proverbs 28:19
New years is a great
time to establish a vision and set some goals so that we can become better this
coming year. I'm so grateful for all that serving a mission has done to teach
me the importance of goal setting. It's January 4th so make sure you haven't
already forgotten about those new year resolutions ;)
Sorry for the lack of
detail and emotion, I hope y'all have wonderful back to school week!
Love, Elder Larsen
2 Nephi 5:27
P.S. Here is my new
address:
1105 A East Allen Road
Tahlequah, OK 74464
Also, for the first time
on my mission, I'm not living in an apartment. We're living in a gym barn house
thing that's next to a house that some members in Muskogee rent out. So yay for
free exercise equipment!
1. Selfie on Christmas
with my gifts
2. Elder Hanks and I
with the Tahlequah Elders
3. It's not new years
without Matinellis!
4. Been using this as a
closet for the past week
5. Our kitchen has one
of these signs in it. I love missionary apartments ;)
Pictures of the apartment
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