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
Friday, October 28, 2011
Sunday, October 16, 2011
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
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
Thursday, October 6, 2011
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
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
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