Nov 7, 2011

Good Morning,
This week was another great week. Yes, the weather has cooled off quite a bitWe have had lots of rain as well. Daylight savings has started so nowit's dark by five. It’s really weird but we got an extra hour ofsleep. That was nice. Yes I have the same companion. Today we will be playing sports again. It’s probably the funnest andmost relaxing thing you can do as a missionary. Last Halloween we went out and worked. This Halloween they wanted usto stay in and clean if we didn't have any appointments. We had acouple appointments and after teaching a couple lessons we went in andcleaned the rest of the time. No thought of the week but I’ll try really hard to have one next week.Sorry. We’ve just been really busy which I’m not sorry for. The busierthe better... you can never be too busy as a missionary. This week I got to curb stomp our investigators cigarettes. If youcurb stomp a person you make them bite a curb on the side of the roadand then you stomp on the back of there head with your foot. Verypainful! Well I did that with the cigarettes. He went from 2 packs aday to 3-4 cigarettes a day and now he's gone a couple days withoutthem so he can be baptized. While filling up with gas this week, a man walks up to my companionand asks him what church he was from. He then asks if he was on thestreet early this morning in which my companion replies no we were inour apartment. The man opens up his shirt and shows us his U.S.Marshall badge and says were you on the street earlier selling drugs?No, my companion replies and the man says can I see your licenseplease... you are under arrest.CRAZY!!!! The man also had a lady in his car and she had a couplebullet bandages on her body (the big ones you see in the movies.) Hethen explains he's just kidding. He’s a member of our church but is onhis way to go and arrest a couple people and asked us if we'd like tocome along. As much as we wanted to we denied. He introduced us tothe lady in the car. It was his wife. That’s some of the excitement we had this week. Thanks for the Ensign Love Elder Yeaman

Nov 14, 2011

Good Morning,


This week our zone had interviews with the mission president and I asked for, in my final
interview if I could get a blessing so that I would know what talents
and abilities I have so that I can have guidance as to what career I should look into. The thing is there's a lot of things I can do, butI'm not great at them. I can't really do much with typing or
piano for instance because my forearms start to hurt and I'm not very
fast. I like to cook but i'm not great at it. President said he'd give me a blessing when I have my final interview.
Maybe the blessing will help me so when I do take the aptitude test it
will be more effective than the one I took in high school.

Did you get my itinerary? If not I fly in at like 9:00 am or something like that.

Josh sent me an email today. Since he is in California, he might come by today and pick up my bike. I'll have to call and get permission.
This week we ate a King Palace Buffet. I ate there at the start of my
mission and that's where I ate raw and cooked clams, cooked
oysters, and craw fish for the first time. I also ate octopus this
last time.
I think I might buy myself a cd today for my birthday next week. Alex Boye's Christmas cd.

These past few months have been really hard to keep up in my journal.
We've just been super busy and there's a lot that we have needed to
do. Today I'm going to try and catch up. I'm missing about eight days
that i'll just go back and fill in. Today we will also do sports and I will give my companion
a haircut.

Thanks for all you help and support. I'll be on a little longer if you
need anything.

Elder Yeaman

October 31, 2011,

Good morning,

This week was amazing. This week was tough but it was a goodfaith-building week as well. This week he had over six of ourinvestigators loose interest. However, about 3 months ago we started teaching thisperson but her boyfriend she was living with was againsteverything. Things became pretty bad and he wouldn't let her see us.A month later she called us and said she was moving out of her boyfriend's place.Then her phone stopped working. We didn't know where shewas living and so there was almost nothing we could do. So we wroteher up on our white board so we wouldn't forget to pray for her. Weprayed for her everyday, several times a day for an entire month thatshe would be reminded by the spirit to get in contact with us. Well onSaturday, after a long hard week, with our hopes not to high becauseof the things that took place this week, we received a call from her.She’s getting settled in and wants us to start coming by and teachingher. This time she has no one to hold her back. What a blessing! TheLord is merciful, he does answer prayers, and he does love all of hischildren. We received a witness after the trial of our faith. To answer your questions; The octathon was fun and we have 6 sisters in our zone. Yes I’m staying here this transfer. Yesterday was the primary sacrament meeting and it wasy way good. We had some investigators show up to it and they really liked it.Busy week.This week we ate at a place called the Soup Plantation. It’s likeHometown Buffet but I like it a little better. I don't really have toomany updated pictures. All of my recent ones were on the card I lost.I’ve taken a couple since then but not much. I’ll try and take more. For Halloween they want us to deep clean our apartments if we don'thave any appointments. We have a couple for tonight but if they fallthrough we'll come back and clean.Elder Yeaman's quote of the week. “Your foot bone's connected to yourankle bone..."I won't for give them until they apologize, they started it, I didnothing wrong. Elder Lynn G Robbins also talked about forgiveness, andhow it's so crucial to forgive everyone regardless of what they havesaid or done. And he talked about how silly it is not to forgivesomeone until they apologize. He share with us the account of theatonement of Jesus Christ. How Jesus, at that point, had forgiveneveryone who was, is, and was to come, from sins that they had not yetcommitted. The atonement was made for everyone. We should be willingto forgive everyone. When Jesus prayed with his disciples he asked thefather to make his disciples one with his as he is with God. Can we beone with God if we are not one with our fellowmen? Can our footdisagree with ankle? No because it is apart of one body. So we cannotbe one with our fellowmen if we do not forgive. If we do not forgiveregardless of what has happened we are not apart of the body ofChrist. Love Elder Yeaman

Oct. 10, 2011

 My car will be taken in to get fixed tomorrow. Yes, I do remember Brother and Sis Tyler Moore. Yes, I received Christopher’s letter. Thanks!

I’ll fly home Dec. 13th and it'll be in the morning. My flight willmost likely leave here about 6:00am. That’s what time other missionaries normally leave.

Yeah so I bought 3 shirts and 1 hoodie. The place is called 3H's andit has the Long Beach logo on all of it's clothes. So they're more like souvenirs. I won't wear them until I get back from my mission. Today we're going to have a zone activity. It’ll be an octathalon andwe've come up with a bunch of different games and what not. The mission tour and stake conference was really good. I’ll share whatthey talked about in my quote of the week.

Elder yeaman's quote of the week: "Having love at first sight."You can't fall in or out of love. Lynn G. Robbins talked about thisand said that love isn't something we fall in and out of. Falling intosomething implies that it was an accident, something you had nocontrol over. With that, people occasionally say I don't love thisperson (spouse) anymore. Or they fell out of love. We can choose tolook past faults and love. Or look at faults and allow it to destroyour love, but it is our choice. It would be like saying I fell intohope or I fell out of charity. It doesn't work. Having hope is achoice, having charity is a choice, having love is a choice.Additionally we need to love at first sight. Love othersunconditionally. Like President Thomas S. Monsoon, you can feel hislove for all of us as he said "I love you" to many people he'snever met, just seen. We should have, love at first sight with thosewe come in contact with. Is it hard? Yes, but it's a choice.

Love, Elder Yeaman

Oct 4, 2011

Good morning,


General Conference was amazing, and the temple this morning was good.
We went to the 5:30 session. Super tired.
I crashed after and yes... quite a humbling experience.
The general authority visiting the mission this week is Elder Choi
(pronounced "chay.")
The General Authority visiting stake conference this weekend will be
Elder Lynn G. Robbins. He spoke last general conference and I believe
his talk was titled, "What manner of men and women ought ye to be".
His talk starts off with to be or not to be," and he talked about the
difference of being and doing.

You can send me the pictures, but i'll probably throw them away before
I come back. and no they won't make me trunky. The only time i've gotten
homesick was maybe once and that was the first time on my
mission I called home. I bought myself some really nice polyester ties.
That's why my card was used. So you don't need to send me any this
month. In fact, not to sound trunky, I'd prefer not to get any more
packages on my mission because i'll probably end up throwing or giving
away most of it. Not even for my birthday. Save yourself the time and
the money. If i get a package, I'll probably just write on it return
to sender or forward it back home. However I would still like a
Conference Ensign when it comes out but that's it. Thanks. I just
don't want to have to throw stuff away or send very much home.
We're going to go down to a place called "HHH" to buy some Long Beach
t-shirts and maybe a jacket today. Is that alright?
Elder Yeaman's quote of the week: "Come what may and apply it."

Explanation: Every speaker in general conference spoke for a reason.

They were prayerfully selected and then prayerfully selected a topic.
On my mission thus far I've learned a couple things to try and apply
to myself. Right before it started, I came to realize that every
speaker is leaving an invitation whether it be directly on indirectly.
They spoke to help us motivate ourselves to do something and when we
realize what the invitation was it makes it easier to fulfill it. As
we fulfill the invitation we'll be blessed and so the more invitations
we apply to our lives the better off we will be. So my invitation is
to find one if not more invitations from each talk and apply it to
your life.
Love Elder Yeaman

Sept 25, 2011

Good Morning,


Tuesday, October 4 I'll be going to the temple and October 6 we have a

general authority visiting our mission. It'll be an exciting week.

General conference, temple, zone tour with a general authority, and a

stake conference with a different general authority.

I can look it up on mormon.org when it gets published. We go once a

week for an hour to use it to try and find stuff for our

investigators.

Guess what! I crashed our car into a wall! Well actually I turned a

corner to tight and it scraped up against a wall. Big stressful

bummer! I won't be able to drive the rest of my mission. Plus it'll

take a lot of time out of our day to get it fixed. But to avoid

further damage to the car, four guys came and helped us lift the

car away from the wall instead of trying to drive it away from the

wall.

For breakfast I had a smoothie o.j., berries, bananas, granola.

Right now we're teaching a family that was married in the temple and

the husband served a mission, but are now atheist. They have a bunch

of doubts and concerns about the church but they're very kind, and

they're giving us the time to resolve their concerns. For the most

part, if people are willing to give us (missionaries in general) the

time of day, problems or concerns they have can be resolved through

the spirit.

Today we'll play some sports, probably chairball, basketball, and

maybe volleyball.

We went to Costco last week so I don't really need to go shopping this week.

For service this week we trimmed a tree with a large hornet’s nest in

It. We also washed and waxed a car.

Sorry once again no quote of the week. I'll work on one for next week.
Love Elder Yeaman

Sept 19, 2011

Good Morning,
Transfer starts tomorrow. So we'll most likely go Tuesday, October 4th or possibly the week before. I’ll be staying here and will probably finish my mission inBellflower. I won't have ever have served in a Spanish ward. But I’mokay with that. I’ve been in the areas I was supposed to be in and ifI would have been in different areas I wouldn't have met the people Imet. It’s a good thing that I learned the Spanish that I didbecause I’ve been able to contact and teach people on the street inspanish and able to get their information and hand it over to thespanish missionaries in that area. Some of them ended up being baptized. In fact this week is a baptism for a spanish family I handed over to the spanish elders. Just don't expect me to translate or talk to people in spanish. I can talk about gospel stuff and not much else and when it comes to understanding, no matter what they're talking about, I don't understand. Yes I got the ties, thanks. I really like the letter you wrote too. How come I never heard yourconversion story? Last General Conference Elder Eyring told us to to have a picture of thetemple in each room of our house. Do you have one? Another crazy stressful week. I can't remember the last time I wasn'ttired, or felt like I got enough sleep. But it's good. It’s worth it.My joy is full. More challenges and different challenges are coming myway but good always comes from it. Thanks for you love and support. Elder Yeaman’s quote of the week: “Watch general conference”!Sorry no quote of the week. It’s been really crazy and we've had muchto do. Haven’t had time to come up with one.

Elder Yeaman

September 12, 2011

Good Morning Everyone, 

Yes create a mormon.org page. That will be awesome. We go on

mormon.org once a week to look up stuff for our investigators. It’s an

amazing website! There’s people on there who explain a variety of

things. Watch some video profiles and read some as well before you

make one. You can type any topic in the "search" box and it'll bring

up people who are similar to you. There’s people who share something

simple like how they came to know if it's true and other people who

share how they used to be anti or lots of other stuff. 

of the church.

I made banana bread like 2 weeks ago with butterscotch chips. It was

really good.

Food of the week: a member had made us lemonade and instead of sugar

they used salt. I don't think they realized it. It was very nasty, but

super funny.

The weather has been crazy. Up in the 110’s.  I think people have a wrong i

dea about California weather. It's only stays in the 80’s on the coast not 

everywhere. Bellflower isn't too far from the coast and it's

highest was 110 this past week. Plus it's humid. People always say oh

so this weather is nothing compared to Arizona, you’re used to it right? 

But humidity makes it feel much hotter and I never walked around Arizona 

in pants, shirt, and tie. But we have a car in our area now so that's kind of nice.

They want us to buy a flu shot and that'll coast $10. I'll just use

the money I never deposited back into my account from home.

Did I ever explain the money I spent at "Ensign book store?" I

received a really nice quad while on my mission and it was in really

nice condition and when our recent convert signed up for all of these

institute classes she needed more than just a copy of the Book of

Mormon that we hand out. So I bought a cover and gave her the quad as

well. She was super excited and said she had actually been praying

that she'd be able to save the money so she could by one. Everything

happens for a reason right?

Did you type up and post our exciting call to the police last week? :-)

Elder Yeaman's quote of the week "I can not explain what you are not

willing to understand." Explanation: the gospel of Jesus Christ is simple. 

It is easy to explain yet it takes time to explain. If people will not give t

he time for one to explain, they will not understand. If they do not 

understand they make assumptions to ones belief and automatically 

assume because they do not understand it that it must be wrong. However, 

the scriptures clearly teach us to study, to seek, to

meditate. They all take time. It's a process. You can't always ask a

question and expect it to be answered clearly in one minute, let alone

5. It would be like asking someone to teach you calculus with out

understanding algebra or simple math. If you expect to understand an

entire principle in just a minute, good luck. Try to get someone who

has never heard of Jesus Christ to believe in him in 5 min. You would

need to have a little more time to explain His importance. But if you’re 

willing to put in the time and if your really willing to understand, it can be explained.

Love Elder Yeaman

Sept 5, 2011

“This is an email Michael started last week, but lost power in the middle of it. Today he emailed it.”
 
Good Morning,
 
Another crazy busy week!
 
We called the police while driving around last night. So last night
this man slammed into the car next to us, he got out, checked the
damage, told the person, yeah I wouldn't make a report, don't wory
about it. Then he got back in and took off. We were talking to the
police, following him a ways back with his license plate information
and the direction he was going when he hits car number 2. He gets out
as well as the person who was hit and says the same thing after
checking the damage. Then he takes off again. We start following him 
again and he goes into a neighborhood. The police are still on the phone, 
and at thirty miles an hour he's driving on the wrong side of the road when 
we see him hit car 3 which hits car 4. Car 3 and 4 were parked. His car and 
car 3 were totaled. The entire neighborhood came outside and he says the 
same thing and then asks people if they can help him start his car. It was 
crazy. A couple other things happened.
 
“Then Michael lost power on his computer and never finished”

8-29-11

Good morning, This week was really good as well. We are teaching this really neatfamily, and on our first visit they said they believe the Book ofMormon is true. Our new convert is doing really well. She just signed up for collageand is taking 5 institute classes! It’s crazy. I don't go to the temple until next transfer. Most likelynot until the second week. As in like 5 more weeks. I’ll let you knowbefore hand if I can remember. Plans for today, we'll probably play sports and write letters. By the way, if you are wondering why I never tell you the names of myinvestigators, it's because the first presidency sent out a lettertelling us not to mention the names in e-mails, so those names don'tget put on blogs. So if I accidentally slip, and mention a name,Please be sure to not post it. Thank you. Food of the week: we had a member feed us probably the most healthymeal I have ever eaten on my mission. and it was really good. It waslike vegetable enchiladas. He really likes to cook and knows hisstuff. No quote of the week. Sorry

 Love,
 elder Yeaman