We love Elder and Sister Postma! What great pics!
Marcie
Friday, June 24, 2011
Baseball and Baptism Dates! June 23, 2011
Wow, what a week!! I think the Lord wanted to keep me busy this last week so that I wasn't thinking about how I was missing the wedding!
It has been really good though! We actually have two investigators that are scheduled to be baptized!!! One of them is 9 years old, and his father is a recently returning member that was baptized in 1995 and just barely started coming back about 5 or 6 months ago and is on fire!! There is just a minor hold-up, his mother is not a member and even though she won't say it, I think she doesn't like the idea of us coming over there too often, and the fact that her husband is spending more time doing things involved with the church may not be helping either. He is awesome though, and we are going to be trying to meet with him at least a few times a week!
The other lady that is scheduled to be baptized is a surper cool lady that apparently worked with the missionaries about 14 years ago she said. Her recent interest was sparked when she asked her pastor if he believed that there could be a prophet today and he told her no, so she hasn't been back since! We met her on Thursday, and we had a really good lesson with her, and then she came to church on Sunday! Which was Stake Conference by the way, so it wasn't a usual service, but she said she liked it! Elder Allan Packer (son of President Boyd K. Packer) came out here for stake conference, and it was really sweet! He and his wife spoke on Saturday Night, Sunday at stake conference, and then Sunday night at the Visitor's Center for the "Why I Believe," it was awesome!
We also had a pretty cool opportunity this last week, I have told you about the push that our ward has had lately on missionary work, and so the Relief Society decided that it would be the subject of their activity this month, and they invited us to it just so they could have kind of a Q&A with us. It was interesting some of the questions that they asked us, such as, "So if we have you over to our home with some friends, are you going to commit them to be baptized on the first visit?" Just some concerns like that, I guess I just never thought about things like that, but it was good to be able to tell them that we are not going to push their friends into anything that they don't want us to, haha we didn't say that we wouldn't invite them to be baptized on the first visit, but we told them that we wouldn't push it if it wasn't there.
Well, I am really sorry, but I don't have my card reader to send you pictures this week! Which is a bummer, because I actually took quite a few pictures this last week, but that just means that you guys will get double the pics next week! I am glad to hear that everything went well with the wedding!!! Sorry I couldn't be there! But I love you guys!! And I promise to send more pics next week! LOVE YOU!
- Elder Schaap
P.S. The [Nationals v Mariners] baseball game was good, actually it was a little boring haha but it was more fun just to see everyone! [Nationals won 1-0 in the bottom of the 9th.]
P.P.S. Happy Birthday Mom!!!!!!!!! Hope you have a good one!!! I LOVE YOU!!!
It has been really good though! We actually have two investigators that are scheduled to be baptized!!! One of them is 9 years old, and his father is a recently returning member that was baptized in 1995 and just barely started coming back about 5 or 6 months ago and is on fire!! There is just a minor hold-up, his mother is not a member and even though she won't say it, I think she doesn't like the idea of us coming over there too often, and the fact that her husband is spending more time doing things involved with the church may not be helping either. He is awesome though, and we are going to be trying to meet with him at least a few times a week!
The other lady that is scheduled to be baptized is a surper cool lady that apparently worked with the missionaries about 14 years ago she said. Her recent interest was sparked when she asked her pastor if he believed that there could be a prophet today and he told her no, so she hasn't been back since! We met her on Thursday, and we had a really good lesson with her, and then she came to church on Sunday! Which was Stake Conference by the way, so it wasn't a usual service, but she said she liked it! Elder Allan Packer (son of President Boyd K. Packer) came out here for stake conference, and it was really sweet! He and his wife spoke on Saturday Night, Sunday at stake conference, and then Sunday night at the Visitor's Center for the "Why I Believe," it was awesome!
We also had a pretty cool opportunity this last week, I have told you about the push that our ward has had lately on missionary work, and so the Relief Society decided that it would be the subject of their activity this month, and they invited us to it just so they could have kind of a Q&A with us. It was interesting some of the questions that they asked us, such as, "So if we have you over to our home with some friends, are you going to commit them to be baptized on the first visit?" Just some concerns like that, I guess I just never thought about things like that, but it was good to be able to tell them that we are not going to push their friends into anything that they don't want us to, haha we didn't say that we wouldn't invite them to be baptized on the first visit, but we told them that we wouldn't push it if it wasn't there.
Well, I am really sorry, but I don't have my card reader to send you pictures this week! Which is a bummer, because I actually took quite a few pictures this last week, but that just means that you guys will get double the pics next week! I am glad to hear that everything went well with the wedding!!! Sorry I couldn't be there! But I love you guys!! And I promise to send more pics next week! LOVE YOU!
- Elder Schaap
P.S. The [Nationals v Mariners] baseball game was good, actually it was a little boring haha but it was more fun just to see everyone! [Nationals won 1-0 in the bottom of the 9th.]
P.P.S. Happy Birthday Mom!!!!!!!!! Hope you have a good one!!! I LOVE YOU!!!
Wednesday, June 15, 2011
Teaching Investigators and Bowling(?)
Hello Everyone!
Man, I can't believe that it is so close to Dani's wedding!!! That is crazy! and it doesn't even feel like it to me... weird! Anyways, this week was an interesting one for us haha we had a few good visits with our investigators. We met with one brother on Thursday, and had a really good talk with him, I don't remember how much I told you before about him, but he was pretty interested in our message, but he wanted to read the Bible cover to cover before he did anything else. Well this last time we went over there we talked a lot about the Restoration, Prophets, and the Book of Mormon, he was asking really good questions, and we were able to spark his interest in reading the Book of Mormon!
We were also able to meet with another couple on Saturday, and yesterday as well. While we were there on Saturday, we were focusing on trying to get them to church, sometime during the middle of the lesson he said, "Man, I just thought of this, the only way to know if this is the church we are supposed to go to, is if we go to it!" Haha that made me realize that no matter how many times you tell someone something, it really doesn't matter until they understand it for themselves, because I think I told that to him several times before, but it didn't click with him until just then. So he told us that he knew he had promised us before that he would come to church, but he hadn't, and that this time he was coming for sure! Church here starts at 10:00 because we are the only ward that meets in our building, so 9:53 rolls around, and I am starting to wonder what is going on, so I call her cell phone, she answers and tells me that he woke up early in the morning and took his lawn mower out to go and cut some of his neighbor's lawns to try and make a few extra bucks (we haven't taught him about keeping the Sabbath yet haha), and that she hadn't seen him since... Haha that taught me another valuable lesson, all I could do was just laugh because Elder Kennedy and I had done everything we could to get them to church, we met with them the day before, we knew that they understood the importance of coming to church, and they had committed to come. We did everything short of going to their house and dragging them out to come! So by that time it was out of our power, and it was up to them to decide, unfortunately they didn't make it to church. However, they invited us over last night for dinner, and we had a good visit with them, and she is for sure committed to making it to church on Sunday, hopefully he is as well.
Well, I am glad that all is well at home, good to hear the Temple went good for Dani! I wish I could have been there! I got the invitation Yesterday! It looks good!!! I am not sure if it was the first or the second one that you guys sent though... But good luck with everything this week!!!! I hope the weather holds up for you, and that everything else goes smoothly!!!! Love you guys!! Wish I could be there!!!!
- Elder Schaap
P.S. We went Bowling today!!! haha I am rusty since I took my class... as you can tell, I did decent the second game though! (I am SCOOP by the way haha)
P.P.S. All these wedding plans are making ME tired!!! I don't know how you guys are doing it!!! Crazy!!!
Wednesday, June 8, 2011
New Teaching Opportunities
Hello Family!
Man things sound like they are going about a million miles an hour at home with all the wedding plans and such! Unfortunately I still haven't gotten the wedding invite yet... the mail system is kind of weird around here though, especially because it goes through our mission office first, so I am sure I will get it soon! But things are going really well for us here still! The ward is great, and we are going to have a lot of teaching opportunities coming up here soon! There are a few Part-Member families that have been showing interest in coming back to church lately! So I will definitely keep you up to date on that!
But our investigators are doing pretty well, we were able to meet with one young man on Sunday, and just talk to him for a while and we were able to clear up some of his other concerns that he had, he wasn't at church, but hopefully this next week he will be! As for the couple we've been teaching, they are struggling a little bit, it is kind of a long story, but the only way for us to get in contact with them is to go over and visit them, so I will let you know what happens with them.
Well it sounds like things are going well there! I totally love the cut-out haha that is awesome! Hope everything goes well with the wedding plans! Love you guys!! Have a good week!!!
- Elder Schaap
Man things sound like they are going about a million miles an hour at home with all the wedding plans and such! Unfortunately I still haven't gotten the wedding invite yet... the mail system is kind of weird around here though, especially because it goes through our mission office first, so I am sure I will get it soon! But things are going really well for us here still! The ward is great, and we are going to have a lot of teaching opportunities coming up here soon! There are a few Part-Member families that have been showing interest in coming back to church lately! So I will definitely keep you up to date on that!
But our investigators are doing pretty well, we were able to meet with one young man on Sunday, and just talk to him for a while and we were able to clear up some of his other concerns that he had, he wasn't at church, but hopefully this next week he will be! As for the couple we've been teaching, they are struggling a little bit, it is kind of a long story, but the only way for us to get in contact with them is to go over and visit them, so I will let you know what happens with them.
Well it sounds like things are going well there! I totally love the cut-out haha that is awesome! Hope everything goes well with the wedding plans! Love you guys!! Have a good week!!!
- Elder Schaap
Wednesday, June 1, 2011
Members Helping Missionaries
Hello!!!
How is everyone doing?? I hope that all is well back there! Things are going really good here! I don't remember if I told you or not, but our ward is doing this big push on missionary work! And it is sweet! 2 Sundays ago, the 3rd hour of church was combined to introduce the new ward mission plan! And then this last Sunday, the sacrament meeting talks were all focused on missionary work. And this next Sunday, the ward will be fasting for more missionary opportunities! And both this last week and the one before, our bishop got up and said to everyone something to the effect of, "I don't ever want to hear another prayer that the missionaries will be led to people who are ready to hear the gospel, their job is to teach not to find. We should be praying that the Lord will present opportunities for us to share the gospel with others, because the members of the church have the responsibility to find people for the missionaries to teach!" So this ward is ready to go!!
We have been focusing a lot on working with the members this past week, and I have a feeling that pretty soon we will have a lot of people to teach that the members find for us! It makes complete sense to me too, when we go around looking for people to teach, we automatically have a huge disadvantage, as soon as people see us in our shirts and ties, they think they know exactly what we are all about and write us off as crazy (of course not everyone does this, but most of the time this is what happens!) That doesn't happen to regular members, I don't know why this has taken me almost a year to figure out haha but I am pretty excited to see what happens in our ward in the next few weeks!
As for our investigators, the young man we've been teaching is doing really well! He wasn't at church this last week, but I am pretty sure he got a little intimidated because he thought that he was going to have to make some huge commitment right away, but we were able to talk to him and clear that up. He came to the ward's Memorial day picnic on Monday, and we were able to talk to him there. The family we've been teaching are doing ok, they are having a some struggles in their lives, and they are kind of focusing more on that more than anything else, but we are planning on going over there tonight with one of the members of our ward, so that should be good!
Well that's about it for this week! Love you guys!!! And hope that everything is going well... I still didn't get the wedding invite, but hopefully I do soon! Dani, your memory card will be in the mail by the end of the day! Love you!
- Elder Schaap
p.s. sorry no pictures :(
How is everyone doing?? I hope that all is well back there! Things are going really good here! I don't remember if I told you or not, but our ward is doing this big push on missionary work! And it is sweet! 2 Sundays ago, the 3rd hour of church was combined to introduce the new ward mission plan! And then this last Sunday, the sacrament meeting talks were all focused on missionary work. And this next Sunday, the ward will be fasting for more missionary opportunities! And both this last week and the one before, our bishop got up and said to everyone something to the effect of, "I don't ever want to hear another prayer that the missionaries will be led to people who are ready to hear the gospel, their job is to teach not to find. We should be praying that the Lord will present opportunities for us to share the gospel with others, because the members of the church have the responsibility to find people for the missionaries to teach!" So this ward is ready to go!!
We have been focusing a lot on working with the members this past week, and I have a feeling that pretty soon we will have a lot of people to teach that the members find for us! It makes complete sense to me too, when we go around looking for people to teach, we automatically have a huge disadvantage, as soon as people see us in our shirts and ties, they think they know exactly what we are all about and write us off as crazy (of course not everyone does this, but most of the time this is what happens!) That doesn't happen to regular members, I don't know why this has taken me almost a year to figure out haha but I am pretty excited to see what happens in our ward in the next few weeks!
As for our investigators, the young man we've been teaching is doing really well! He wasn't at church this last week, but I am pretty sure he got a little intimidated because he thought that he was going to have to make some huge commitment right away, but we were able to talk to him and clear that up. He came to the ward's Memorial day picnic on Monday, and we were able to talk to him there. The family we've been teaching are doing ok, they are having a some struggles in their lives, and they are kind of focusing more on that more than anything else, but we are planning on going over there tonight with one of the members of our ward, so that should be good!
Well that's about it for this week! Love you guys!!! And hope that everything is going well... I still didn't get the wedding invite, but hopefully I do soon! Dani, your memory card will be in the mail by the end of the day! Love you!
- Elder Schaap
p.s. sorry no pictures :(
Wednesday, May 25, 2011
A Baptism and Transfer Day!
Pic #1 - Our Baptism (Man, I didn't realize how short she was until I saw this picture!), Bro Wilson, Elder Grant (Elder Vakalahi's last companion)
Pic #2 - Us with a great family
Pic #3 - District Picture
Pic #4 - A great man that we go and play checkers with every Tuesday
Hello!!!
How is everyone doing! I hope really well! This past week was a really good one for us, our cute lady that we've been teaching was baptized!!!! And she will be confirmed during sacrament meeting this Sunday, in CEBUANO! By one of our members that served his mission in the Phillipines. It should be pretty sweet! Sunday was a pretty sweet day, after the baptism, we went with he and another investigator up to the Visitor's Center for the "Why I Believe" Fireside, which was really good, and they both liked it a lot! He is doing really well, he came to church again this last Sunday, and as far as I know he is planning on it this Sunday as well! We are going to start teaching him the lessons hopefully starting right after church, he likes what he has experienced so far!
I think I forgot to mention last week that this week was transfers... yes Elder Vakalahi did get transfered... he went to the DC 3rd ward! So he will be serving with the Postma's!! My new companion though is Elder Kennedy, we actually came out at the same time and were in the MTC together so it should be pretty fun!
Glad to hear that things are going well back home! Crazy how soon D&B are getting married!! Weird that I am going to get a wedding invitation soon! Yikes!
Love you guys, and hope you have an amazing week!
- Elder Schaap
Tuesday, May 17, 2011
Hello Family!!!
So I forgot to tell you that P-day is on Tuesday this week because of the baseball game.... my bad! But things are going good here, the young lady we're teaching is still scheduled to be baptized this Sunday! So that will be really exciting!! We are doing all that we can to get her prepared for that day, we still have a little bit to do, but she will be ready!
As for our other investigators, the family we're teaching, we actually haven't been able to come in contact with them for about a week and a half now... we don't really know why, but we keep talking to members of their family, and they seem interested, so we will see what comes out of that! We had a really cool lesson this Sunday with another young man, and also a new guy that we just started teaching. He is a friend of a member in our ward, and has actually been at church the past two Sundays, but we hadn't had an oppurtuninty to teach him until this past Sunday, he is very cool and likes what he has seen of the church so far! He also wants to go to the "Why I Believe" Fireside this coming Sunday too!
Well, that is about all I have for you this week,I Love you guys!! And Sorry again for not reminding you about P-Day switching!! LOVE YOU!
- Elder Schaap
Note from Marcie: The whole mission gets to go to a Nationals MLB game, but it appears that the Nationals game was cancelled for "threat of rain" today, so they'll get to go on a different day.
So I forgot to tell you that P-day is on Tuesday this week because of the baseball game.... my bad! But things are going good here, the young lady we're teaching is still scheduled to be baptized this Sunday! So that will be really exciting!! We are doing all that we can to get her prepared for that day, we still have a little bit to do, but she will be ready!
As for our other investigators, the family we're teaching, we actually haven't been able to come in contact with them for about a week and a half now... we don't really know why, but we keep talking to members of their family, and they seem interested, so we will see what comes out of that! We had a really cool lesson this Sunday with another young man, and also a new guy that we just started teaching. He is a friend of a member in our ward, and has actually been at church the past two Sundays, but we hadn't had an oppurtuninty to teach him until this past Sunday, he is very cool and likes what he has seen of the church so far! He also wants to go to the "Why I Believe" Fireside this coming Sunday too!
Well, that is about all I have for you this week,I Love you guys!! And Sorry again for not reminding you about P-Day switching!! LOVE YOU!
- Elder Schaap
Note from Marcie: The whole mission gets to go to a Nationals MLB game, but it appears that the Nationals game was cancelled for "threat of rain" today, so they'll get to go on a different day.
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