Family and Friends,
This week was great. Met a family who simply accepted everything we taught.
Yesterday I was on my bike all day because we had to take our car into the shop. It was great. I loved it! I just felt like I had more energy through out the day and was less tired when I woke up this morning. We’ll be on bike until Thursday or Friday. We're still in Whittier and so it's a hilly area. I loved it though. Yes we still run every morning.
Because we're on bike today, we plan to go get groceries, laundry and then stay in our apartment.
The LA temple just finished constructing their visitor’s center and the members have said it's really high-tech, like really high-tech. It would be nice to be able to go. Oh well.
Elder yeaman's quote of the week "Hand me downs; they just don't fit. "Explanation: Children develop certain genes from there parents. I inherited my father’s voice, my mother’s height, and many other wonderful abilities and talents. However, my mother new the times table and when I was born that wasn't something I was born with. My father knew how to cook but that wasn't something that I was born with either. Many things we have to learn through experience. Everyone knows how to drive a car, but that's not something you necessarily inherit from your family. In general conference there was a talk given by Elder Bednar and he talked about bearing your testimony spontaneously to your children. Like Lehi, his children didn't inherit his testimony and children today will never automatically inherit the testimony of their parents. They won't automatically inherit the desire to read from the scriptures! Just like the times table we won’t automatically learn it. However it can be learned. Elder Bednar gave us a list of three things we can do to prepare and help our children. However, won’t say what those three steps are. You’ll have to go back and read the talk. Its right before elder Holland’s talk “Room no more for the enemy of my soul”.
Love you all,
Elder Yeaman
Wednesday, August 11, 2010
Aug 3, 2010
Crazy week! Hope you didn't send anything to the address I gave you!
Let’s start with Tuesday. Rode my bike for the first time and found out that it was not sent to me correctly assembled. Rode it and a bunch of things kept falling off and the bike fell apart. Surprisingly the pedals stayed on. Very frustrating to buy an expensive bike and not have it work. The lock they gave me has an attachment which holds it on the bike and that is broken as well. I think I would have been better off buying a bike from Wal-Mart. Also tore a pair of pants.
Wed, no longer in a trio They called me during our studies and told me I needed to re-pack all my stuff plus all the food I just bought on Tuesday. I’m was being transferred to another Elder. They had a problem with the companionship and so now I’m with one of the elders and the other elder got sent somewhere else into a different trio not the one I was in.
Thursday and today - Working on cleaning the apartment.
I was really looking forward to riding bike! But now I’m in a car. However one of the last Elders wrecked the car. So next week we will be riding bikes while it's in the shop.
The trio companionship was really fun for the day. Everyone here in the mission agrees and I was really looking forward to it.
I was excited to see what the Lord had in store for us being in a threesome. I know the Lord will bless me here as well.
Quote of the week: "A tithing of time" Explanation: Luke 18:12; genesis 14:20 say that wee need to give a tithing of all we have D&C say we need to give a tithing of our gain. However you look at it we always gain more time each se we live in one week there's something like 168 hour that week have. However for the most part we sleep and so there's about 112 hours we're awake. We’ll go ahead and round it so that 11 hours a week we should have devoted to the lord. 3 hours at church isn't enough. We need to be reading and praying and giving a tithing of our time. Everyone asks for more from us. We give more that 11 hours a week to our work more that 11 hours a week to our family. Hopefully not 11 hours to TV. When we take out a loan from the bank they ask much more from us then 10% interest I believe. Everyone uses up our time and our money hopefully we're not wasting the time that we do have. As you make time for the lord and if you are willing to give a tithe of time. The lord will help you accomplish everything you need to. 11 hours in one week seems like a lot however lets break it down. 3 hours at church brings it o 7 mutual/ home teaching/ visiting teaching will on average bring it down to 5.5 hours. Let’s say in one week we give 2 hours of service.3.5 we can read 30 min a day from scriptures and that would be it. However don't stop there! Fill your time with activities that will bring you closer to god. A tithing of ten percent is the minimal requirement. Do more;-)
Love you all,
Elder Yeaman
Let’s start with Tuesday. Rode my bike for the first time and found out that it was not sent to me correctly assembled. Rode it and a bunch of things kept falling off and the bike fell apart. Surprisingly the pedals stayed on. Very frustrating to buy an expensive bike and not have it work. The lock they gave me has an attachment which holds it on the bike and that is broken as well. I think I would have been better off buying a bike from Wal-Mart. Also tore a pair of pants.
Wed, no longer in a trio They called me during our studies and told me I needed to re-pack all my stuff plus all the food I just bought on Tuesday. I’m was being transferred to another Elder. They had a problem with the companionship and so now I’m with one of the elders and the other elder got sent somewhere else into a different trio not the one I was in.
Thursday and today - Working on cleaning the apartment.
I was really looking forward to riding bike! But now I’m in a car. However one of the last Elders wrecked the car. So next week we will be riding bikes while it's in the shop.
The trio companionship was really fun for the day. Everyone here in the mission agrees and I was really looking forward to it.
I was excited to see what the Lord had in store for us being in a threesome. I know the Lord will bless me here as well.
Quote of the week: "A tithing of time" Explanation: Luke 18:12; genesis 14:20 say that wee need to give a tithing of all we have D&C say we need to give a tithing of our gain. However you look at it we always gain more time each se we live in one week there's something like 168 hour that week have. However for the most part we sleep and so there's about 112 hours we're awake. We’ll go ahead and round it so that 11 hours a week we should have devoted to the lord. 3 hours at church isn't enough. We need to be reading and praying and giving a tithing of our time. Everyone asks for more from us. We give more that 11 hours a week to our work more that 11 hours a week to our family. Hopefully not 11 hours to TV. When we take out a loan from the bank they ask much more from us then 10% interest I believe. Everyone uses up our time and our money hopefully we're not wasting the time that we do have. As you make time for the lord and if you are willing to give a tithe of time. The lord will help you accomplish everything you need to. 11 hours in one week seems like a lot however lets break it down. 3 hours at church brings it o 7 mutual/ home teaching/ visiting teaching will on average bring it down to 5.5 hours. Let’s say in one week we give 2 hours of service.3.5 we can read 30 min a day from scriptures and that would be it. However don't stop there! Fill your time with activities that will bring you closer to god. A tithing of ten percent is the minimal requirement. Do more;-)
Love you all,
Elder Yeaman
July 5, 2010
Family and friends,
Great week! We met our new mission president and his family yesterday and everything seems like it will be great! We will miss President Sexton though. By the way did you know President Sexton is a professor at BYU-I? He’s going back to teach now that he's done with his mission.
I was going to send the memory stick home but I want to get pictures printed off first. However I need to go and buy an extension so it will fit into the computer thing at Walgreens.
I’m glad you had a great birthday party. What a crazy busy week. Hope you all had a great 4th! The 4th of July was crazy here. There were billions of fire works that were shot off. What the high schools do for a fundraiser here at the end of the year is sell fire works. They had a stand on every corner no joke and when the 4th of July came around it was dangerous to drive because there was so much firework smoke you could barely see. What was even crazier is from about 6:00pm till about 3:00am the entire place sounded like a war zone. It was really hard to talk to anybody because you had to yell really loud, half the people were drunk, and the other people were to busy playing with firework. So many people offered us fireworks and I wanted to light them off so bad but we told them we're not allowed to have them. It was fun though.
Food of the week: Last Tuesday I made a bunch of bread, and this time I let it rise! It’s amazing how much better it is when you let it rise a couple times for a couple hours! It was super good. I made plain bread, oat bread, and cinnamon raisin bread.
Elder Yeaman's quote of the week: "Works without faith are dead"
Explanation: We often hear the phrase “faith with out works is dead”, which is so true and it's been explained a thousand times about how you need to act on your faith. However I’d like to focus on how work without faith is dead. It’s often easy to go and do something but not believe it's going to do you any good. With this attitude you can work hard but not get anything done. However, it's normally not to that extreme. Normally we do something within our comfort level of faith. We feel that we can do certain things with no problem because of our faith. But we're staying still. We’re not progressing in our faith and our comfort zone is limited. Lets compare it to stretching... within reason, when you go outside of your comfort zone when stretching, the next time you stretch you can stretch farther. If you can't touch your toes, stretch everyday and go as far as you can and hold it there and it'll start to hurt, but a good hurt. Within a week you'd be able to touch your toes. Next, try to go past your toes. What I’m getting at is: all too often we do things that are convenient to us that require some faith, but we're not growing from it. We’re not allowing ourselves to stretch. Just like stretching, it requires hard work constantly day by day. Going to church requires faith, but if you go to church every week it's like touching your nose for some. It doesn’t require that much faith. So how do we stretch from there? Take some one to church with you! If you feel that's stretching you too far, invite some one to church or ask the missionaries if anyone needs a ride and ask the bishop if anyone needs a ride. Paying tithing is something that hasn't always been easy for me but I was able to do it. How do we grow from that? There are people on the street with signs saying will work for food. You don't have to give them money just a loaf of bread or something. There’s ways to grow in every aspect but like stretching, we know we are stretching when we get to that uncomfortable part. If you don't know what I mean, try it now. Stretch as far as you can and you will feel when you get to that uncomfortable part. However when you stretch everyday for a week, you can now stretch just as far with out it feeling uncomfortable. Then you stretch farther. When we serve the lord, we will have to go out of our comfort level. By doing so, we will have a bigger/wider comfort level range. I leave with you this last thing. Do you feel like your stretching? Are you comfortable with where you are? If so, it's time to start stretching! If you don't know what more you can do, ask God and be prepared to be humbled.:-)
Elder Yeaman
Great week! We met our new mission president and his family yesterday and everything seems like it will be great! We will miss President Sexton though. By the way did you know President Sexton is a professor at BYU-I? He’s going back to teach now that he's done with his mission.
I was going to send the memory stick home but I want to get pictures printed off first. However I need to go and buy an extension so it will fit into the computer thing at Walgreens.
I’m glad you had a great birthday party. What a crazy busy week. Hope you all had a great 4th! The 4th of July was crazy here. There were billions of fire works that were shot off. What the high schools do for a fundraiser here at the end of the year is sell fire works. They had a stand on every corner no joke and when the 4th of July came around it was dangerous to drive because there was so much firework smoke you could barely see. What was even crazier is from about 6:00pm till about 3:00am the entire place sounded like a war zone. It was really hard to talk to anybody because you had to yell really loud, half the people were drunk, and the other people were to busy playing with firework. So many people offered us fireworks and I wanted to light them off so bad but we told them we're not allowed to have them. It was fun though.
Food of the week: Last Tuesday I made a bunch of bread, and this time I let it rise! It’s amazing how much better it is when you let it rise a couple times for a couple hours! It was super good. I made plain bread, oat bread, and cinnamon raisin bread.
Elder Yeaman's quote of the week: "Works without faith are dead"
Explanation: We often hear the phrase “faith with out works is dead”, which is so true and it's been explained a thousand times about how you need to act on your faith. However I’d like to focus on how work without faith is dead. It’s often easy to go and do something but not believe it's going to do you any good. With this attitude you can work hard but not get anything done. However, it's normally not to that extreme. Normally we do something within our comfort level of faith. We feel that we can do certain things with no problem because of our faith. But we're staying still. We’re not progressing in our faith and our comfort zone is limited. Lets compare it to stretching... within reason, when you go outside of your comfort zone when stretching, the next time you stretch you can stretch farther. If you can't touch your toes, stretch everyday and go as far as you can and hold it there and it'll start to hurt, but a good hurt. Within a week you'd be able to touch your toes. Next, try to go past your toes. What I’m getting at is: all too often we do things that are convenient to us that require some faith, but we're not growing from it. We’re not allowing ourselves to stretch. Just like stretching, it requires hard work constantly day by day. Going to church requires faith, but if you go to church every week it's like touching your nose for some. It doesn’t require that much faith. So how do we stretch from there? Take some one to church with you! If you feel that's stretching you too far, invite some one to church or ask the missionaries if anyone needs a ride and ask the bishop if anyone needs a ride. Paying tithing is something that hasn't always been easy for me but I was able to do it. How do we grow from that? There are people on the street with signs saying will work for food. You don't have to give them money just a loaf of bread or something. There’s ways to grow in every aspect but like stretching, we know we are stretching when we get to that uncomfortable part. If you don't know what I mean, try it now. Stretch as far as you can and you will feel when you get to that uncomfortable part. However when you stretch everyday for a week, you can now stretch just as far with out it feeling uncomfortable. Then you stretch farther. When we serve the lord, we will have to go out of our comfort level. By doing so, we will have a bigger/wider comfort level range. I leave with you this last thing. Do you feel like your stretching? Are you comfortable with where you are? If so, it's time to start stretching! If you don't know what more you can do, ask God and be prepared to be humbled.:-)
Elder Yeaman
July 27, 2010
Family and friends,
I've been transferred. I’m now on bike with Elder Solis and Elder Yellowhorse as my companions. Yes I have two companions and we're on bike in a very hilly area. It’s very unusual that there is a trio on bike. But I’m excited. Don’t know much about the area I can't wait to get to know it. Elder Solis is from Peru and Elder Yellowhorse from Utah. We've all been out about the same time.
Plans for today are unpack! It’s weird moving apartments!
Elder Yeaman’s thought of the week: to be continued. Explanation: crazy week and once I found out I was leaving it was hard to think straight. Don’t have a good one to share yet.
Don’t know what else to right about sorry it's short. Love you all
Elder yeaman
I've been transferred. I’m now on bike with Elder Solis and Elder Yellowhorse as my companions. Yes I have two companions and we're on bike in a very hilly area. It’s very unusual that there is a trio on bike. But I’m excited. Don’t know much about the area I can't wait to get to know it. Elder Solis is from Peru and Elder Yellowhorse from Utah. We've all been out about the same time.
Plans for today are unpack! It’s weird moving apartments!
Elder Yeaman’s thought of the week: to be continued. Explanation: crazy week and once I found out I was leaving it was hard to think straight. Don’t have a good one to share yet.
Don’t know what else to right about sorry it's short. Love you all
Elder yeaman
July 13, 2010
Family and friends,
Our new mission president’s name is President Bubert. pronounced Be--oo--bert. He has a big family he brought out here with him. He and his wife want to serve 5 different missions together. I thought that was cool. He’s really nice and a lot different then President Sexton. Not in a good or bad way. They’re just different.
Long week. We worked super hard and had everything set up for a baptism. We made a bunch of phone calls and finally had the baptism program finished at 8:45 the night before. We were supposed to have the baptism the following morning. Everyone was ready for the baptism and everything was done but the person who was supposed to be baptized went missing and we haven't been able to get a hold of her. We stopped by her home and called her 1000 times but we can’t find her. Crazy week.
The bread was good and I made a bunch so I put them in bags and at the end of the week after I finished a second loaf, I went for the next one and it had mold all over it. I thought it molded pretty quickly. I guess I should have frozen the stuff I didn't eat right away. Maybe because it doesn't have a lot of preservatives in it? Today I won't be cooking. We have a zone activity which I’m so excited for. Normally I’d go out with a few other elders on p-day to go play basketball but Elder Nielsen just got back from surgery and can't do anything like that. It doesn't bother me at all, but it's just nice to go and do some type of sport. We’ll be playing dodge ball today! I miss swimming by the way. Just thought I’d throw that in there. Sometimes you just get a whiff of air that smells like pool/ocean water and it smells so good!
Food of the week: there's a member that is amazing in our ward. In his house lives him and his wife, his two daughters, one of his daughters is married and has 4 children. The house isn't super big, but every week for the past five weeks they feed all four of the missionaries in the ward. (The sisters and us). Amazing family!
Elder Yeaman’s quote of the week: "It's the thought that counts but in reality it doesn't matter. Explanation. In general conference Elder Ballard quoted a quote from some one that said "What you do is so loud I cannot hear your words." Normally the saying, "It's the thought that counts" refers to the effort you put into your thought. Like when we make a card for mother’s day it's the effort that matters. I can think about making a card and get nothing done. It’s what you do! We live in a world today where people think about reading the Bible or Book of Mormon, think about cleaning the house, or think about how bad the government is. But thinking isn't going to get you anywhere if you don't act on it. The reason Satan is winning the hearts of so many people is because he is working so hard. He thinks about what to do to make us fall and then he acts on it. So to fight off the power of the adversary we need to think and act as well. It’s a two way battle. There's another quote I heard I don't remember where but it says something like: God's not mad at people because they do bad things, he's mad because they don't care and aren't willing to do anything about it. All God wants us to do is try our hardest and he's promised that he'll make up for the rest and he'll help us through our lives.
Love you all,
Elder yeaman
Our new mission president’s name is President Bubert. pronounced Be--oo--bert. He has a big family he brought out here with him. He and his wife want to serve 5 different missions together. I thought that was cool. He’s really nice and a lot different then President Sexton. Not in a good or bad way. They’re just different.
Long week. We worked super hard and had everything set up for a baptism. We made a bunch of phone calls and finally had the baptism program finished at 8:45 the night before. We were supposed to have the baptism the following morning. Everyone was ready for the baptism and everything was done but the person who was supposed to be baptized went missing and we haven't been able to get a hold of her. We stopped by her home and called her 1000 times but we can’t find her. Crazy week.
The bread was good and I made a bunch so I put them in bags and at the end of the week after I finished a second loaf, I went for the next one and it had mold all over it. I thought it molded pretty quickly. I guess I should have frozen the stuff I didn't eat right away. Maybe because it doesn't have a lot of preservatives in it? Today I won't be cooking. We have a zone activity which I’m so excited for. Normally I’d go out with a few other elders on p-day to go play basketball but Elder Nielsen just got back from surgery and can't do anything like that. It doesn't bother me at all, but it's just nice to go and do some type of sport. We’ll be playing dodge ball today! I miss swimming by the way. Just thought I’d throw that in there. Sometimes you just get a whiff of air that smells like pool/ocean water and it smells so good!
Food of the week: there's a member that is amazing in our ward. In his house lives him and his wife, his two daughters, one of his daughters is married and has 4 children. The house isn't super big, but every week for the past five weeks they feed all four of the missionaries in the ward. (The sisters and us). Amazing family!
Elder Yeaman’s quote of the week: "It's the thought that counts but in reality it doesn't matter. Explanation. In general conference Elder Ballard quoted a quote from some one that said "What you do is so loud I cannot hear your words." Normally the saying, "It's the thought that counts" refers to the effort you put into your thought. Like when we make a card for mother’s day it's the effort that matters. I can think about making a card and get nothing done. It’s what you do! We live in a world today where people think about reading the Bible or Book of Mormon, think about cleaning the house, or think about how bad the government is. But thinking isn't going to get you anywhere if you don't act on it. The reason Satan is winning the hearts of so many people is because he is working so hard. He thinks about what to do to make us fall and then he acts on it. So to fight off the power of the adversary we need to think and act as well. It’s a two way battle. There's another quote I heard I don't remember where but it says something like: God's not mad at people because they do bad things, he's mad because they don't care and aren't willing to do anything about it. All God wants us to do is try our hardest and he's promised that he'll make up for the rest and he'll help us through our lives.
Love you all,
Elder yeaman
July 20, 2010
Dear family and friends,
This week is great! Very busy and we have some great investigators. There’s so many ways to come across different people and we keep finding different ways to find people. Transfers are next Tuesday so don't send anything to the apartment after Wed. I’ve been here a long time so there's a good chance that I’m leaving. But I don't feel like I am yet. My brain says I’m leaving because you normally don't stay in an area, especially your first area longer than four months. But I don't feel like I’ll be transferred completely. I’ve had thoughts to where I’ll go if I do leave but nothing to different from before.
Yes we found the missing girl who was supposed to be baptized and hopefully everything works out. She went to the hospital for a bunch of reasons and it's a long story.
The zone activity was great last week. It was so much fun. We played a bunch of different versions of dongeball everyone’s favorite was medic! Everyone left fine but this whole week everyone had sore shoulders. Mine is still sore from all the throwing we did.
Christopher! Great job with swimming! That’s so cool!
School starts Monday? That’s crazy. It feels like they just got out. Well they did just get out of school in Cali, about 2 weeks ago I think.
Nothing big planned for today
Food of the week: We went to a member for a dinner appointment and had lasagna and he also made a bunch extra and so he sent a pan of lasagna home with us! Yum
Elder Yeaman’s thought of the week: Share the oranges with those you love from off your tree" Explanation: In Preach My Gospel there's a bunch of great quotes. At the end of chapter one in Preach My Gospel there's a quote from one of the prophets who say making it back to the presence of God will depend on what we've done to share the Gospel with others. In chapter nine under working with members President Hinckley has said the ideal situation would be having members invite others to learn, having the missionaries teach them in the member’s home and have the member testify. That would be such a better use of the missionary’s time. President Hinckley said in the same chapter, that if members did invited people to listen to the Gospel. There would be many more baptisms, resent converts would stay active. Now right off the bat some people would take offence if you did invite them to read the Book of Mormon or listen to the missionaries. You don't have to do that to invite people. Depending on the person, you might or may not. In 1 Nephi chapter 8 Lehi explains about the fruit. The fruit is the love of God and is desirable above any other fruit. It will make you happy if you partake of it. Why wouldn't you want to help those around to be happy? Share the fruit! Any way you can. It will bless your life and the life of those whom you share it with. If you knew your salvation solely depended on sharing the Gospel what more would you be willing to do? Please do anything you can to help the missionaries. This week we had a member come up and offer to help out at a baptism. That’s the way it should be I was so grateful for that member and her willingness to help out. We spend so much time planning! So much! Baptisms take a long time to set up when members don't call you back right away or when many members say no. Missionaries are supposed to help the members do THEIR missionary work. However this member who offered to help us is doing her missionary work. We help them all we can but they don't need it because they're doing it. If that make sense. I guess what I mean to say it is much easier to help members do their missionary work when they want to do it as well.
Love Elder Yeaman
This week is great! Very busy and we have some great investigators. There’s so many ways to come across different people and we keep finding different ways to find people. Transfers are next Tuesday so don't send anything to the apartment after Wed. I’ve been here a long time so there's a good chance that I’m leaving. But I don't feel like I am yet. My brain says I’m leaving because you normally don't stay in an area, especially your first area longer than four months. But I don't feel like I’ll be transferred completely. I’ve had thoughts to where I’ll go if I do leave but nothing to different from before.
Yes we found the missing girl who was supposed to be baptized and hopefully everything works out. She went to the hospital for a bunch of reasons and it's a long story.
The zone activity was great last week. It was so much fun. We played a bunch of different versions of dongeball everyone’s favorite was medic! Everyone left fine but this whole week everyone had sore shoulders. Mine is still sore from all the throwing we did.
Christopher! Great job with swimming! That’s so cool!
School starts Monday? That’s crazy. It feels like they just got out. Well they did just get out of school in Cali, about 2 weeks ago I think.
Nothing big planned for today
Food of the week: We went to a member for a dinner appointment and had lasagna and he also made a bunch extra and so he sent a pan of lasagna home with us! Yum
Elder Yeaman’s thought of the week: Share the oranges with those you love from off your tree" Explanation: In Preach My Gospel there's a bunch of great quotes. At the end of chapter one in Preach My Gospel there's a quote from one of the prophets who say making it back to the presence of God will depend on what we've done to share the Gospel with others. In chapter nine under working with members President Hinckley has said the ideal situation would be having members invite others to learn, having the missionaries teach them in the member’s home and have the member testify. That would be such a better use of the missionary’s time. President Hinckley said in the same chapter, that if members did invited people to listen to the Gospel. There would be many more baptisms, resent converts would stay active. Now right off the bat some people would take offence if you did invite them to read the Book of Mormon or listen to the missionaries. You don't have to do that to invite people. Depending on the person, you might or may not. In 1 Nephi chapter 8 Lehi explains about the fruit. The fruit is the love of God and is desirable above any other fruit. It will make you happy if you partake of it. Why wouldn't you want to help those around to be happy? Share the fruit! Any way you can. It will bless your life and the life of those whom you share it with. If you knew your salvation solely depended on sharing the Gospel what more would you be willing to do? Please do anything you can to help the missionaries. This week we had a member come up and offer to help out at a baptism. That’s the way it should be I was so grateful for that member and her willingness to help out. We spend so much time planning! So much! Baptisms take a long time to set up when members don't call you back right away or when many members say no. Missionaries are supposed to help the members do THEIR missionary work. However this member who offered to help us is doing her missionary work. We help them all we can but they don't need it because they're doing it. If that make sense. I guess what I mean to say it is much easier to help members do their missionary work when they want to do it as well.
Love Elder Yeaman
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