Mission XP - 11 January Transfer Time

We had transfer calls and I have to pack because I'm going back to South Jordan. I've only been in draper for two transfers. 

Love y'all

Elder Kremer
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Mission XP - 4 January 2016 Happy New Year!

Haha!

My week was good too.

Monday we played volleyball and something else! We also got a referral from the family we had been working on our duet with and we contacted that family of a less active wife and 

non-member husband that night.
We shared a message then the wife asked us our personal conversion story. It was very good. We set up a return appointment with them for Saturday. Also our family of investigators fell through Monday. They couldn't meet but they went to church Sunday and we are taking them to
temple square next week!

Tuesday was Zone Conference! So much good stuff. Elder Fehoko and I sang a super awesome version of If The Savior Stood Beside Me and it was good enough but I want to sing it for a special musical number in sacrament meeting and he doesn't. We also had dinner with the Michels and during dinner they had cards so I did a couple magic tricks and
blew there minds because that just how I do . . . ️ that's not how talk . . .

Wednesday we ate dinner with one of our recent converts!

Thursday was just really cold. It's really cold everyday but I had nothing else to put and explaining this made at least two sentences for Thursday ;)

Friday...dang it was also really cold.

Saturday we had three appointments . . . and they all..fell through. Sickness is..yea. I had a pretty cool experience for me though. I got to see how much I actually have grown in the last year. Elder Fehoko went to a baptism and so I went on a split with a young man (Brad) who is working on being able to go on a mission. He was going to go to dinner with me and then we were going to teach the restoration to a new investigator. Brad had come with us to lessons before but we had
just asked him question or asked him to share his testimony and I didn't really like that to much because he should be getting the teaching experience. So for 30 minutes before dinner we went home and review a couple principles then I role played with him. First it reminded me exactly of me at the beginning of my mission. I couldn't remember what I had just read. I couldn't say much of anything about the principle without stopping and just saying I have no idea what to say. I was helping him with transitions sharing personal experiences and testimony and I told him no matter what you do, if you feel like you don't know what to say don't try to wrap up the principle and
transition because it's destroys b.c.s when we have to go back and cover stuff we missed. So I said just do say what you know and remember and then testify before you stop and I'll always be ready to testify to you and continue teaching the principle. He seemed a little at ease after I said that so we role-played a couple more times. And each time he would add a little more before stopping. And I shared how each missionary has a different teaching style and how as long as you continuously study the lessons and keep your testimony strong that I've found it really doesn't matter the different teaching styles. When you teach with the spirit and put enough study so he can remind you what to say it will be always what the individual needs. I felt pretty good about it. We only got through Christs earthy ministry and atonement in 30 minutes. When we got to dinner the family said they had to go right after dinner to drop the grandmother off at the
airport so we weren't able to teach the new investigator. It would have been an awesome expirience for Brad but I feel it was still a great expirience for both of us.

Sunday- honestly I loved sacrament meetings today. There were so many beautiful testimonies shared and the spirit was felt very strong by all who attended. It was great because the Ward we have the most work going on in had several less active members we are working with and one of our investigators attend church. Very powerful for anyone who was there.

Also the companionship is still doing great! We have a great vision for this stake. And we have such a great stake with an amazing stake presidency who is so focused on the missionary work!

Love ya mom!

Elder Kremer
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Mission XP - 28 December 2015 Last email for 2015!

Monday we had a zone activity and most played basketball but all the cool Elders and Sisters played soccer.   Then we practiced O Holy Night for the Mission's Christmas devotional! 'Twas vedy good...

Tuesday was district meeting. We also taught the new family of investigators we picked up the other week! Other than that it was a lot of walking...and talking to people outside.

Wednesday was the Christmas devotional and our Zone sounded amazing! then more walking in the not 75 degree weather.

Thursday we didn't have any appointments but we got to get into a couple houses of less active people who we saw at church on Sunday! And we ate Teriaki Chicken, Pulled Pork, and Teriaki Steak with rice, fruit salad, bread, and something else. It was cooked by a Family from Hawaii. And multiply that by two very full plates.

Friday I got to talk to my family which was awesome! But really short. Only like 40 minutes of the seventeen thousand four hundred and seventy two hours I'll be gone...but it was still great
And we also ate a ton of food on Christmas.

Saturday was a blessed day! Rebecka got baptized! She was so excited to finally get baptized! And the spirit was strong and she has a ton of support. The Relief Society room was completely filled plus some.

Sunday was the confirmation of Rebecka. And our family of investigators who are on date for the 30th of January to be baptized where there!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Today we got to...TO BE CONTINUED.......



Elder Kremer
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Mission - Extra special email

Dear Kremer Family,

Hi, my name is Keith Call. I am the ward mission leader in the Lone Rock Ward in Draper Utah. I just wanted to let you know how much I love working with Elder Kremer. He has a great sense of humor and never misses the chance to joke with me. He is also a great teacher of the gospel. He recently taught in the home of a part member family in our ward. Our Elders Quorum President was there, and gave a glowing report of what a great job Elder Kremer did. He is truly doing a great work in our ward and stake. We love him. Thank you for sharing him with us!

Here is a picture of Elder Kremer with his last companion, Elder Bell.

Mission - Extras from the Heaton family Christmas Day - Draper and Skyping with him

Here are photos from The Heaton Family in Draper, UT. Sister Heaton said: "They were so much fun to have at the house. Our family nicknamed them Elder Nash and Elder Tonga. they are really funny together.

                                           Photo of Skyping Elder Kremer on Christmas Day

Mission - XP 21 December 2015

Merry Christmas! 

      Miracles are wrought in the Draper Meadows Stake!! This week was literally filled with miracles. We got texted on Sunday about a family of three from Brazil who wanted to be baptized before they went home on the 23rd so we met with them on Monday and taught them almost everyday and on Friday they all got baptized on Friday and confirmed today in Sacrament meeting. On Tuesday we were on splits and I met with a potential investigator, Sister Anderson, and I didn't even teach the full restoration. I got to families then as she asked questions it lead to my experiences with prayer which helped her because she asked how can I tell when I have been answered and she asked a question about families that had been on her mind since she lost her baby at birth and I did not know how to answer it and I could not rely on me because I had never been asked this before and I could not rely on my companion because he was not there and so I just paused, listened,and remembered what Elder Bell taught me about talking slow so I could let the spirit talk through me, and with faith and without thinking my own thoughts I opened my mouth and I heard the words coming out and they were incredibly smooth, they were perfect in a sense. Everything about the answer coming out of my mouth seemed to be affecting her and I knew that it was the Holy Ghost. It was incredible. I've taught with the spirit several times and it's always easier when they ask questions instead of just teaching but I wasn't even teaching with the spirit the spirit was teaching by itself I was literally just the mouth piece. She cried and further explained the reason behind her question and I didn't even know how I answered her or gave her comfort but the Holy Ghost knew exactly what she needed to know and how she needed to hear it. Maybe I was the one on splits at her house because I knew so little about what she would ask that I wouldn't be able to try and answer from what I knew but that I would have to rely completely on the spirit. It was truly an amazing spiritual and testimony building experience for me. Then on Friday evening after the baptism we met with her again and the rest of the family, a part member family. The husband is trying to come back to activity and the kids are also non members and they don't have a religious background or know much if anything about Jesus Christ and have been meeting with the Bishop! They are on date for January!

  I have been learning more how to listen to my investigators and to teach by the spirit in my studies and in teaching opportunities. I can tell the difference when I teach with the spirit and when I teach without it. One I stumble and can't always get what I want out and the other time it's perfect for the investigator. Every time I've been complimented on my teaching it has been one of those times I've had the spirit teaching through me. After having those types of teaching experiences I really dislike when I'm not teaching with the spirit. It helps me try to rely more on the lord.

 Elder Fehoko and I are still getting along great and I feel we are a really strong two-man army of the lord. The members all comment on how they feel we get along together which shows me that we have member trust which is one of the most important things to have to hasten the works in individual stakes.

Love ya mom!

Elder Kremer 

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Mission XP - 14 December 2015

Sorry I didn't email last week it just completely skipped my mind. 

This week was greatish mostly...except for when it wasn't

Monday we had p-day and we played volleyball!!! It was pretty awesome! We also did other stuff that I've forgotten about.

Tuesday our lesson cancelled...I think it was a good day though.

Wednesday was exchanges. The district leaders companion biked in our area with me. It was pretty fun. We both joke around with members a lot and dinner was awesome. That family we ate with said they didn't really like past missionaries because they were robots kind of and that we were awesome...! Our lesson also cancelled today but we'll have it next Wednesday.

Thursday we went to a baptism in the district leaders' area. James got baptized! He's from China. Elders Kim, Ray, Fehoko, and I all have actually taught him before so it was nice that we all happened to be in his district when he finally got baptized! He is firm in the gospel now! Exchanges ended at 1, then we went to the zone building to meet with the zone to practice a song for the mission Christmas devotional. Three hours later we only had 1 and a half versus down haha..the struggle though... Then a lesson cancelled and we had our first lesson of the week with an investigator we picked up last week who lives with an awesome family! Tsubasa is from Japan! Which is awesome because I gave up on French because nobody in Utah is going to speak French so I'm starting to try and at least learn to teach in Japanese - so as the lesson progressed we started teaching about the area of things I knew in Japanese which wasn't that much because I'd only been at it a week but it was still awesome and I only butchered everything probably but the spirit was there!

Friday weekly planning 😴😵 again... And only one of our three lessons cancelled and it was the same one from earlier. We are helping one of our investigators overcome smoking. This person really wants to and is working so hard to quit and is down to three a day and 11-12 on a stressful day. The goal is 1 a day and 3 on stressful days so please pray and fast with us for Kim.

Saturday someone asked for our help to move them out of their trailer home. We went by 4-5 different times during the day and they weren't out once nor did they answer their door. But oh well. And we had a kind of lesson with a 10 year old boy but the mom was crazy...it's ok though God's plan is mostly for us crazy people 😱😜 anyway!i!

Sunday was a blast!!! Haha just kidding we went to church for 9 hours again. Actually it was a pretty awesome day and we only went to church for 7 1/2 hours because we went to a baptismal interview for one of our investigators who is getting baptized on the 26th! Annddd...we got a miracle text Sunday but more on that next week when the mystery miracle unfolds.

Love ya,

Elder Kremer 

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