ok so i konw that i didnt tell you i was going to have pday on tuesday this week, im sorry! i didnt know. i didnt actually find out until sunday evening. this happens very little of the time. We are only having pday on tuesday this week because we have interviews with the president tomorrow so we had to switch it up a little bit.
This week was pretty good, It was a little harder to stay busy because it was family week up here and everyone goes out of town, gay i know, but we still did pretty good. We had five baptismal dates set, but yesterday one of them dropped. one of the philippino. paul, "my wife say i cant" sso who knows what that means. it is kind of a joke. But we still are planning on four other baptisms. All i know is that i just want 1!!!!! i cant get over the hump of 1 baptism. it is killin me. me and elder estupinan are getting along pretty good. i cant understand him half the time cause he talks so dang fast. i just tell him to slow down and then he gets mad at me! hahah i have been trying to teach him how to do a rubics cube this week. yeah, he cant figure it out. i guess i am just one of the elect.
We are in Medicine Hat this week for pday. So it is kind of fun that we get to spend it with the whole zone. I am going to buy some sun glasses after this because the sun is always so dang bright up here. it never gets high in the sky, it just stays low to the horizon. it is kind of annoying. i hear summer will be opposite though and the sun basically stays up in the middle of the sky until like 10 at night. so that will be cool.
so like i was telling you about our trial of faith, i know that satan is working really hard messing up our investigators. but i still have a testimony that we will have 100 baptisms in march. We are asking each of the ward members to fast with us on march 7th (fast sunday) and fast for those 100 baptisms. Every miracle comes with a trial, so hopefully we are over that trial! Tomorrow I should be getting mail, if i have any! haha hopefully like 500 letters and a few packages.
We have continued to try and get 20 lessons a week. it is definitely tough. we got like 16 two weeks ago and 14 last week. so i need to step up my game! i swear we have taught the whole ward every lesson! just keep on keepin.. well i guess that is all i have to say right now! i love you guys and miss you
love elder dastrup
Tuesday, February 23, 2010
Monday, February 22, 2010
Email from Feb 17th, 2010
Hey family how is it goin! So this week has been good. We set four baptismal dates!!! I am so excited about that. Bijou and Ocean, black, friends that just showed up at church. We gave them a baptismal date of march 6th and they accepted! They have started reading random parts in the book of mormon.. haha i dont know why they havent read the chapters we told them to read. but hey they are reading so that is all that matters! They we have a baptismal date with florence, a 19 year old black girl. for march 13th, She has been out of town so we are going to try to meet up with her this weekend! then our last baptismal date is with paul, one of the philippino guys for march 13th. He is nervous and has to over come some stuff. but we are doing our best with him! We are doing a lot of point systems now to see that our days have been affective. So we are actually accountable for each day. I love it! It totally helps you see what we need to improve on.Elder Estupinan and i are getting along good. most of the time! sometimes i have to force a rule down his throat before he will finally accept it and live by it. And sometimes i can barely understand him. i say what like 8 times and tell him he needs to talk slower without his accent! hhahaha he just gets mad at me. But i am doing good helping him gain confedence. he is a shy and nervous elder. I just keep telling him to teach by the spirit. it is the only way to not be nervous!
Dad I totally want you to keep sending your stories! Dont get mad at me because i dont say anything about them. i just forget to write them. i think they are funny. everytime i read them i just imagine you probably waking up at 330 in the morning to start writing a story you were having a dream about!
Katie sorry i couldnt listen to that song! first of all i cant get on youtube. second of all, the comp doesnt have sound i dont think. but i bet it was good! ps you shawn and terra are going to die in that wasatch run.. Jeremy will be the only one that can handle that heat! and then again, he probably wont even train for it so he will be dead for the next couple weeks.. hahaha
Dana you still making these cds for me or what! the long drives with a spanish kid next to me is killin me. he wants me to learn spanish. and i just say no way jose.... even though his name is alvin..
I am glad i am serving in brooks the first part of my mission so every other area i go into for now on i will be able to play basketball! i still love my mission and just for the record, i still havent called home yet! i dont think i will;.. haha how many calls do you think dusty had made at this point of his mission, what about devin? hahaha So how is timpview doing? they play provo again yet? i think that is all i have for about write now.. i love you guys, hang in there with the canadian national anthem, every time you hear it, just think about how much i have to listen to it then you wont hate it so much. you will be happy you only have to hear it a few times!
ps how are the jazz doin? i cant check espn anymore because of 100% obedience and it is killin me. i heard d will made the all star team! that is sweet. well i love you guys and ill talk to you later.
love elder dastrup
So i forgot to tell you guys that we as a mission average about 20-25 baptisms each month. since this 100% obedience thing as a mission has gone down, (taken place, for you old folks) We have made a baptismal goal of 100 baptisms in march. i personally have a testimony that is going to happen. i know it will.miracles all over the place are starting to happen.. at any given time, our mission normally has aboout 25 baptismal dates set. write now it is sky rocketing. as a mission we have about 70.
Miracles are already starting to be shown. Our mission president has testified that he has had a revelation that we will have 100 baptisms in march. I know that each of your prayers will be appreciated in our mission... When we get 100 baptisms, we will be the 3rd highest baptizing mission in the northern hemisphere behind the Provo utah mission and the Mexico City mission.. We will be fasting march 7 as a mission. You are all more than welcome to join! love you guys
Dad I totally want you to keep sending your stories! Dont get mad at me because i dont say anything about them. i just forget to write them. i think they are funny. everytime i read them i just imagine you probably waking up at 330 in the morning to start writing a story you were having a dream about!
Katie sorry i couldnt listen to that song! first of all i cant get on youtube. second of all, the comp doesnt have sound i dont think. but i bet it was good! ps you shawn and terra are going to die in that wasatch run.. Jeremy will be the only one that can handle that heat! and then again, he probably wont even train for it so he will be dead for the next couple weeks.. hahaha
Dana you still making these cds for me or what! the long drives with a spanish kid next to me is killin me. he wants me to learn spanish. and i just say no way jose.... even though his name is alvin..
I am glad i am serving in brooks the first part of my mission so every other area i go into for now on i will be able to play basketball! i still love my mission and just for the record, i still havent called home yet! i dont think i will;.. haha how many calls do you think dusty had made at this point of his mission, what about devin? hahaha So how is timpview doing? they play provo again yet? i think that is all i have for about write now.. i love you guys, hang in there with the canadian national anthem, every time you hear it, just think about how much i have to listen to it then you wont hate it so much. you will be happy you only have to hear it a few times!
ps how are the jazz doin? i cant check espn anymore because of 100% obedience and it is killin me. i heard d will made the all star team! that is sweet. well i love you guys and ill talk to you later.
love elder dastrup
So i forgot to tell you guys that we as a mission average about 20-25 baptisms each month. since this 100% obedience thing as a mission has gone down, (taken place, for you old folks) We have made a baptismal goal of 100 baptisms in march. i personally have a testimony that is going to happen. i know it will.miracles all over the place are starting to happen.. at any given time, our mission normally has aboout 25 baptismal dates set. write now it is sky rocketing. as a mission we have about 70.
Miracles are already starting to be shown. Our mission president has testified that he has had a revelation that we will have 100 baptisms in march. I know that each of your prayers will be appreciated in our mission... When we get 100 baptisms, we will be the 3rd highest baptizing mission in the northern hemisphere behind the Provo utah mission and the Mexico City mission.. We will be fasting march 7 as a mission. You are all more than welcome to join! love you guys
Email from Feb 9th 2010
yo hows it going!so i guess i will start off with the good news! I got made Trainer this last week and i will start training tomorrow. I am the only missionary out for 3 months and already traiining. i am really excited. I am really excited jsut to be senior companion! haha i finally get to be incharge of what we do. I did love serving with elder riggs though. there was definitely ups and downs but for the most part. good. I dont know my new companions name yet. i will find out tomorrow. I will get to email everyone again tomorrow just so you know. when the new elders come in, we basically go straight to hte library so that he can tell his family he got here ok! so i basically get to pdays in a row. but i wont be able to email until late tomorrow. like 4 or 5. i am really excited. The obedience is paying off! But we have been giving a lot more "7 day challenges" lately so that is good. we basically tell members they have to find us someone to teach in 7 days. even though most of the time they dont find any one for us. at least we are doing our job. We have given several invitations to non members to be baptized this last week. one said maybe, she had to pray about it. so that is awesome! but the other people were pretty quick to say no. that is ok! i know that the lord will bless us and put people in my path!
so this week me and elder riggs decided to do some service for the womens shelter. Bad decision.... We scraped about 6 inches of ice off of their whole drive way. we didnt think it would be to bad. yeah it was definitely bad... terrible...My hands still hurt and that was on saturday! elder riggs has a huge blister. i just got swelling and bruising. it was pretty brutal. but hey. it took up a couple of hours so we were happy. i have just been very tired since then hahah. so what else happened this week..... We continued to be 100% obedient. which i am still excited about. it is alot easier to be obedient then to feel bad about what you have done..
So dana says i jump all over the place in my letters?? yeah i know i do. i just think of stuff and write it! haha i dont care i am just getting the info to you guys! so dev you sending me any ties yet? ya know you are all welcome to send packages! :) hopefully i will get a few at transfers tomorrow.. this transfer i am wearing each tie one time. i will just need about 4 more ties to go the whole transfer. (i started a couple days ago with wearing every tie once.)so katie and shawn are going to the globetrotters game tonight? that is pretty awesome. I: went last year with dad and devin and dusty? i think, it was a lot of fun.. coleman will love it. it is kind of frustrating when they stop in the middle of the play. when it is on the jazz floor, you feel like you are going to actually see a real game..... yeah not so much. well i dont know what else to say! so i will let ya all go. i love you guys. i miss you all!
love elder dastrup
so this week me and elder riggs decided to do some service for the womens shelter. Bad decision.... We scraped about 6 inches of ice off of their whole drive way. we didnt think it would be to bad. yeah it was definitely bad... terrible...My hands still hurt and that was on saturday! elder riggs has a huge blister. i just got swelling and bruising. it was pretty brutal. but hey. it took up a couple of hours so we were happy. i have just been very tired since then hahah. so what else happened this week..... We continued to be 100% obedient. which i am still excited about. it is alot easier to be obedient then to feel bad about what you have done..
So dana says i jump all over the place in my letters?? yeah i know i do. i just think of stuff and write it! haha i dont care i am just getting the info to you guys! so dev you sending me any ties yet? ya know you are all welcome to send packages! :) hopefully i will get a few at transfers tomorrow.. this transfer i am wearing each tie one time. i will just need about 4 more ties to go the whole transfer. (i started a couple days ago with wearing every tie once.)so katie and shawn are going to the globetrotters game tonight? that is pretty awesome. I: went last year with dad and devin and dusty? i think, it was a lot of fun.. coleman will love it. it is kind of frustrating when they stop in the middle of the play. when it is on the jazz floor, you feel like you are going to actually see a real game..... yeah not so much. well i dont know what else to say! so i will let ya all go. i love you guys. i miss you all!
love elder dastrup
Sunday, February 7, 2010
1/31/10 - Letter from Tyler
Family:
Hey Family! One more week down. A lot more to go. It was a pretty good week though. A lot of our lessons had planned didn't go as planned. So that is a bummer. But, we still got about 12 this week. So that is still very good for us. I hope it continues to go up! We only have so many people in Brooks to teach!
So Austin goes into the MTC this week! That is sweet. Even sweeter, I have been out for 3 months. It has definitely been a VERY long 3 months. I hear at 9 months it goes fast, So I am just aiming for that. But then again, most people say different things. Mom, I got your package. Thank You. One of the jerseys is one that I wanted. But I will do great. The newspaper article of Dusty's lot was sweet. Sounds like you guys got people scared having a drug rehab place there!
So I am definitely ready for some type of change. (Either me or Riggs leaving) It is hard being around the same person for so long. I do ALL the planning. It is so annoying, But hey oh well. I'll get over it. So since Brooks has so many people working during Church, They are doing the new thing where they have a summarized sacrament. It is kind of neat. We went last week for support. This week we had a lesson at 7, so we couldn't go. But hopefully we can schedule around it now. Today I did a Rubic's cube in under two minutes. It was so sweet. I will probably never do it again.
The whole mission (including me) is fasting for 24 hours right now. We have been meeting in medicine hat, (1 hour away) tomorrow and they are telling us tomorrow what the big change is. It is suppose to be sweet. I am VERY excited. So I think I should buy a hockey jersey. I think that would be sweet. I could add to my sweet collection. So you guys never told me, did you get my tape? Do I sound the same? I am still the same cool cat, Don't worry. Terra, I can't belive you been married for 5 years! I feel that was so long ago. You're getting kinda old :) and by the time you will read this letter you will almost be older! Feb 21st right? Wait Feb 2nd? Freak I have a bad memory. I can't remember. I'm sorry. So I haven't been able to sleep the last couple of nights. So I took a Tylenol PM tonight. I am starting to get tired. So I guess I will talk to you later. I love you guys! I miss you all!
Hey Family! One more week down. A lot more to go. It was a pretty good week though. A lot of our lessons had planned didn't go as planned. So that is a bummer. But, we still got about 12 this week. So that is still very good for us. I hope it continues to go up! We only have so many people in Brooks to teach!
So Austin goes into the MTC this week! That is sweet. Even sweeter, I have been out for 3 months. It has definitely been a VERY long 3 months. I hear at 9 months it goes fast, So I am just aiming for that. But then again, most people say different things. Mom, I got your package. Thank You. One of the jerseys is one that I wanted. But I will do great. The newspaper article of Dusty's lot was sweet. Sounds like you guys got people scared having a drug rehab place there!
So I am definitely ready for some type of change. (Either me or Riggs leaving) It is hard being around the same person for so long. I do ALL the planning. It is so annoying, But hey oh well. I'll get over it. So since Brooks has so many people working during Church, They are doing the new thing where they have a summarized sacrament. It is kind of neat. We went last week for support. This week we had a lesson at 7, so we couldn't go. But hopefully we can schedule around it now. Today I did a Rubic's cube in under two minutes. It was so sweet. I will probably never do it again.
The whole mission (including me) is fasting for 24 hours right now. We have been meeting in medicine hat, (1 hour away) tomorrow and they are telling us tomorrow what the big change is. It is suppose to be sweet. I am VERY excited. So I think I should buy a hockey jersey. I think that would be sweet. I could add to my sweet collection. So you guys never told me, did you get my tape? Do I sound the same? I am still the same cool cat, Don't worry. Terra, I can't belive you been married for 5 years! I feel that was so long ago. You're getting kinda old :) and by the time you will read this letter you will almost be older! Feb 21st right? Wait Feb 2nd? Freak I have a bad memory. I can't remember. I'm sorry. So I haven't been able to sleep the last couple of nights. So I took a Tylenol PM tonight. I am starting to get tired. So I guess I will talk to you later. I love you guys! I miss you all!
Love Elder Dastrup
Wednesday, February 3, 2010
An email from Ty
Hey guys
whats up! So as you might have already noticed my email is a littel different. now it is tyler.dastrup@myldsmail.net they made new ones for us. Basically using gmail. it is a lot better just kind of annoying to have a different email. So this week was really good. We had a training on monday from our zone leaders about comple obedience. it was awesome. I know that it will change my mission. I have committed 100% to be 100% obedient.. I know it will be hard. but i know that the blessing will be worth it. So now i cant email friends, NOT work out in the mornin. which is a good thing. then also like no buying food on other days besides pday. It might sound kinda like not a big deal. but a lot of little stuff adds up to be big. So dana you can definitely start putting my emails up on that blog or whatever it is because i cant talk to people near as much..
mom, austin has always had way more hair than me, have you really not noticed that. his hair is soooooooooooooooooooo thick.. it is crazy.. that is so awesome that his farewell was good. i wish i could have had a copy of his talk or something. that would have been cool.thank you for going. that means a lot to me. was there a lot of people there? more than mine ? :) haha but i dont know if you heard. skyler is going to des moines iowa spanish speaking.what the random..... but that is sweet that he gets to learn a language. but i am still glad i am just speakin english.
Dad, I think i have been getting all your emails. i dont know why you have so many for me! i think they still came to me even if you put .com.. oh well now you know what it is! terra i still dont believe tess is bigger than jackson.. but if you say so! hmm i dont see it staying like that for long. :) So austin was praying for me in his sleep?!?! that is the cooolest thing i have ever heard. i love that little guy. no wonder i am seeing awesome blessings :)
Dana get on those packages.. taht will be nice.
i will probably have a new companion this next up coming week with transfers. but maybe not. i guess we will see. Still no baptisms or really even close. our mission goal is 100 baptisms in march, which we average about 20-25. I know with everyone tryin to be more obedient that this is definitely possible. i ahve already seen specific blessing from being 100 percent obedient this last week. We have a non member lesson already. ya never know. she could be baptized in march. that would be sooooooo cool! so yeah that is about all the time i have. but i lvoe you guys all a ton and miss ya! oh yeah and one last thing. i heard a rumor that deron williams got baptized? i bet it will only stay a rumor... but if it was true. that would be pretty sweet. most likely he will just get baptized once he is dead! love elder dastrup
whats up! So as you might have already noticed my email is a littel different. now it is tyler.dastrup@myldsmail.net they made new ones for us. Basically using gmail. it is a lot better just kind of annoying to have a different email. So this week was really good. We had a training on monday from our zone leaders about comple obedience. it was awesome. I know that it will change my mission. I have committed 100% to be 100% obedient.. I know it will be hard. but i know that the blessing will be worth it. So now i cant email friends, NOT work out in the mornin. which is a good thing. then also like no buying food on other days besides pday. It might sound kinda like not a big deal. but a lot of little stuff adds up to be big. So dana you can definitely start putting my emails up on that blog or whatever it is because i cant talk to people near as much..
mom, austin has always had way more hair than me, have you really not noticed that. his hair is soooooooooooooooooooo thick.. it is crazy.. that is so awesome that his farewell was good. i wish i could have had a copy of his talk or something. that would have been cool.thank you for going. that means a lot to me. was there a lot of people there? more than mine ? :) haha but i dont know if you heard. skyler is going to des moines iowa spanish speaking.what the random..... but that is sweet that he gets to learn a language. but i am still glad i am just speakin english.
Dad, I think i have been getting all your emails. i dont know why you have so many for me! i think they still came to me even if you put .com.. oh well now you know what it is! terra i still dont believe tess is bigger than jackson.. but if you say so! hmm i dont see it staying like that for long. :) So austin was praying for me in his sleep?!?! that is the cooolest thing i have ever heard. i love that little guy. no wonder i am seeing awesome blessings :)
Dana get on those packages.. taht will be nice.
i will probably have a new companion this next up coming week with transfers. but maybe not. i guess we will see. Still no baptisms or really even close. our mission goal is 100 baptisms in march, which we average about 20-25. I know with everyone tryin to be more obedient that this is definitely possible. i ahve already seen specific blessing from being 100 percent obedient this last week. We have a non member lesson already. ya never know. she could be baptized in march. that would be sooooooo cool! so yeah that is about all the time i have. but i lvoe you guys all a ton and miss ya! oh yeah and one last thing. i heard a rumor that deron williams got baptized? i bet it will only stay a rumor... but if it was true. that would be pretty sweet. most likely he will just get baptized once he is dead! love elder dastrup
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