Mission XP - 28 March 2016

This week has been slow but we did receive a referral from the media about a lady who might be interested. We stopped by and she had loads of questions but she would ask one and go on to the next with out giving us time to answer so we scheduled a return appointment so we can teach her. We praying everything goes well.
I've been studying mostly in preach my gopel, finding people to teach and we've been trying to apply everything there.
Other than that nothing really. I'll try to have more news next time. 

Happy Easter!

Elder Kremer

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Mission XP - 16 March 2016

It wasn't a super productive week but we were able to see miracles nontheless! We went on splits with two of the country crossing 8thward young men and one of thier fathers. We had originally planned to go out from 7-8 on thursday evening and while I was out with Adam we talked to a Young Women's President about a referal and we talked to two people on the street. But that's not the miracle, we met back at our house at 8 and Elder Schunk wasn't back yet so I called them twice and they didn't answer. So I thought they were in the lesson and Adam and I decided to go and try to share a message with Brian and Nikki. When we went to their apartment no one answered and of course we were disappointed because they are moving but as we got to the car we saw two people moving furniture. We offered to help them and at first they were hesitant and then they were like for real and then we started helping them move. After we finished helping them move we were in their apartment and they started asking us questions to get to know us and the way they face a questions made me realize they were members and so I asked if they were and if they were able to go to church recently. Their response was not since we moved here. So Adam and I shared her testimony at church and the importance of the sacrament and the atonement and through our discussion we asked if we could come back and share a message with them. They said yes and we also invited them to come to church and they said they would think about it. When we got home Elder Schunk in the whites (his split) we're waiting for us. When I asked if they had gotten into a home and shared a message they said no our car broke down so Brother White calls a mechanic in his neighborhood who was a nonmember to tow his car. As they road back to his house they shared your message with him and while they were out they were able to set up three appointments with less actives. The miracle and this is that because Brother Whites car broke down Adam and I were able to find the one that was ready to receive the message again and that wouldn't have happened if we had met back at eight. I know that God truly does know each one of us that he loves us and that he knows who is ready to come back to him and who can help them. I love how heavenly father can see so clearly who's ready, and the way he sees people's potential is helping me better see and focus on who people can become. Elder Schunk and I are doing great.

Love you,

Elder Kremer
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Mission XP - 7 March 2016

So good! I'm only covering 12 Wards and 1 Branch (2 Stakes) again! We are going to the temple next week, so be prepared for emails on a different day. What did you do in the temple? What was your experience this time? This week was a roller coaster but there was lil a lot of great stuff. We had a Zone meeting with President Chambers and Sister Chambers and they talked about grit. I loved the grit training and some of the things that were said made me come up with new goals for myself. Elder Schunk and I are doing pretty good together. We are dong much better with O.Y.M.ing (open your mouth and talking to people on the street) together. Elder Schunk is feeling more comfortable with asking questions and I've noticed that even with the simple O.Y.M.'s one of us will start and as we transition often times I don't know what to ask next or Elder Schunk doesn't, but the other always asks something which leads to a though or question or testimony that comes to my mid or his mind by the spirit. Without fail . . . mostly . . . until we don't know what to say at all and the guy has already walked away.:( but luckily that only happens most of the time . . . never mind.

The other night we were at member's house and they gave us a referral of a less active family. The husband was diagnosed with cancer and he just had an operation and they told us we should stop by.. The first miracle is that we stopped by within a minute of them giving us the referral and the people were home!!! The next miracle is that as we talked to the wife we asked if we could share a message and she said not at the moment because the husband was in bed resting but she said to stop by again. Then . . . wait for it . . . Elder Schunk asked if there was anything we could do to help out and she said not really but for whatever reason we pushed a little more than usual and she saw that we really wanted to help and so she said, "well actually their are some dried up tomato plants that my husband was going to get to but can't now." So we scheduled a time to come the next day. I liked that miracle. It's been re-emphasized to me in studies just how important doing how to being teaching correctly and in every lesson is. I always do it just not as good as I could so that's one of my goals tis week.

Love ya ma,
Elder Kremer
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Mission XP - 29 February 2016. Leap Day

I did get your package. My new companion actually took Japanese for a year in high school so he knows how to read a bit and write a little. This has been a good week. I was sad because Elder Bouchillon left and he is one of my favorite companions. Transfers were last Tuesday and I stayed in Country Crossing Stake and Mitas Creek Stake and I left Parkway Stake which is where Debbie lives so I don't know how she is doing and Elder Schunk came in and is my new companion. He is from Kansas...poor guy ;) Elder Schunk and I are doing great so far. In studies we've been reading and role-playing the first couple lessons and we've been working on b.c.s ing the restoration and plan of salvation so we can teach it in an o.y.m. We had been stopping potentials everywhere and we weren't finding anyone home. Mostly the same thing that happened last transfer and I was sick of that so Elder Schunk and I decided we had been blessed with appartments so tracking time she came! We figured at least if most people weren't home we would still be able to find a couple people home and we would have plenty of opprotunity to open our mouths to people we saw walking to their car. As we tracted, we had the opprotunity to meet at least nine members/family and invited them to pray for a missionary opprotunity and to hand out at least one Book of Mormon this week. They all said yes so we are going back next Saturday to follow up. We also tracted into a non-member who is living with his girlfriend and as we got talking we found he hasn't gone to church in the last month so we testified of a couple things and invited him to make church a goal for this next week and we also asked if we could come by and share a brief message with them and he said yes! So we get to go by this Tuesday at 6:30! I love that miracle because we knocked so many doors before we were able to talk to him and literally right before we knocked on his door I was thinking," this is going nowhere, we are just waisting time" then I thought," if we stop now and do something else we might not find the one we need to find" so we kept going and that's when we found him!

Love ya mom!

Elder Kremer
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Mission XP - 22 February 2016

Elder Bouchillon and I had a great week! We had the most spiritually guided teaching and learning expiriences with one of our new investigators on Tuesday. Debbi (new investigator) met with us Tuesday and I wont go into the whole lesson even though id love to but everything that Elder Bouchillon, Elder and Sister Smurthwaite, and I were saying was guided specifically for debbie. I invited her to be baptized after Elder Bouchillon guided her through 60 seconds of reflection but she said no. So I expained goals and working for things and that heavenly father see's her potential. She still said no and later the Smuthwaites found out that she is drinking constantly and that she has struggled with law of chastity so we feel thats why she was so firm with no. However, the spirit prompted me to invite her to pray every day about a day she can set for herself as a goal to be prepared for baptism. I also got to whitness the beautiful sealing of Lauren and Eric Shelline yesterday. Elder Scarlett and I taught them and helped baptize her and re-activate him and she is on fire. She has been doing so much family history and seeing many miracles from it.


Elder Kremer
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Mission XP - 15 February 2016

Thanks

 This week was such an amazing week. We saw quite a few miracles. On Wednesday during exchanges, Elder Bouchillon recieved a referral for our area from someone who wanted to be taught. She pretty much set the lesson up and said she'd be at her friends house. So Wednesday night we taught her and it was so awesome! We prayed, I did 60 seconds of power, taught up to Christ's earthly ministry and atonement, then Elder Bouchillon did 60 seconds of reflection and invited her to be baptized and she said yes! To March 6th! We taught her three times last week. She is amazing! And Friday we taught Matt, who we talked about last week in our miracles, he's got a bit more work but he said that the message we shared was powerful and he agrees with most of it. We invited him to read and pray about the book of mormon and he said yes then we invited him to be baptized and he said hed have to read and pray first. Then last night as we were waiting for our other investigator to get home we prayed about were we should go and we remembered a referral we had recieved yesterday morning, so we went by and found that it was an active family but one of their brothers was with them and he was less active but had gone to church with his mother yesterday and that had been the first time in a long time. At first he didn't want to be part of the lesson, he had just gotten home, but we didn't leave, instead we shared DAILY BREAD with the rest of the family and he sat in on most of it and then he had some great comments on the importance of sacrament and praying and it was just amazing. He wants us to come back too! Soo wow! So many spectacular opportunities!

 Elder Bouchillon and I are doing great! We have been working hard and achieving the goals we set as a companionship this week to improve ourselves and stay focused on our finding ideas. We are getting really excited to because even though we will be passing Melissa and Matt off the the mid singles Elders Heavenly Father gave us the opprotunity to find and teach this week and that is what we have been longing to do for five weeks! 

 I was studying a lot on how to use time wisely in preach my gospel and how to better work with ward council members and so Elder Bouchillon and I are going to take so time to stop by a couple ward council members this week and share brief powerful messages with them to uplift and motivate them.

Love ya mom!

Elder Kremer 

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Mission XP - 8 February - last week and this week

Hey mom! 

Last week was so good. We went by so many potential investigators and
referrals and we are doing almost everything we can but very few people
have been home so we've only contacted a couple. We are going to do continuous planning this week to help us with that problem and really apply "finding the one" this week. We know that we are going to find the people that we are here to find this week . . . or at least it will be the beginning of it.
Last Sunday we witnessed the miracle of true desire, faith, repentance. Nikki, our investigator in the Country Crossing stake is preparing to be baptized on February 6th. Her faith hasn't wavered once. She is getting baptized. She cut back from 15 cigarettes to 3 cigarettes in one day and today only one. We got her cinnamon jolly ranchers and gum to help them. 

Elder Bouchilon  and I have been progressively figuring out how to be effective in three stakes and we have gone through a week and a half of trial and error but we feel really good about the revelation that we're receiving.

This week was also so good! After we had our interviews Elder Bouchilon and I repented and the next day we saw the coolest miracle come from obedience and trust. About two nights ago we were trying to contact a referral that we had recieved for Tom. Now I had put Tom in the area book plans for last Friday about two weeks ago. I can't remember why I just got this impression to. Well, at first we couldn't find were he lived. On our maps it had a similar street but not the exact one we were looking for so we went to that street and looked for the address. Eventually we found the house with the correct address and realized we had walked onto the right street, so we knocked on the door. Tom wasn't there but his friend who was visiting was. We talked to him and found out he was a less active member and he had several questions. Elder Bouchilon  asked him what one of them was. He gave a really good question and Elder Bouchilon answered splendidly. Right,
and I mean exactly when we finished talking to him, a lady came around the corner. So, naturally, we talked to her. We found out that she was visiting her friend also. When we asked her if she knew anyone she said no. So then we asked if she knew anyone who would know anyone that we could share a message with and she pointed at a house on the corner and said their were some people there that should know people. So we knocked and there were to sisters there who we found were going to Y.S.A.  and one of their boyfriends were there. As we talked we asked if they knew any non members that we could share our message with. They both immediately pointed at the guy there. He was studying for his L.S.A.T. but we set up an appointment with him this friday!

Love you

Elder Kremer