April 29, 2019

From Mason's email:

Hey yall! It's been another good week! And the start of a new transfer! So first things first, Elder Cluff is a stud! I already love him and we're having a good time. He's also such a good teacher. He could school me in a Bible bash, that's for sure! Good thing we don't Bible bash right?

Bailey came to church again and we had an awesome lesson! In church they talked about the Plan of Salvation but went super deep and in depth and he had tons of questions and was really confused. So after church we had a lesson with him and went over the plan of salvation. We were able to answer his questions and after we finished he said "I don't see why I would want to turn back now, I wanna keep moving forward and eventually be baptized." So that was a huge miracle and we're really excited for him!

(Old comp Elder Nelson and new comp Elder Cluff)

(Elder Broadbent, Mason, Elder Nelson and Elder ?)

April 28, 2019

Rainbows. Parks. Good books - especially intermediate books - "You can't fix the world.  But you can do your best in your own little corner of it.  And. you hope."  (A Drop of Hope by Keith Calabrese.)  Green grass. Just after it rains. Doodling. Soccer games in Heber. Driving by somewhere you recently hiked. Elder Wirthlin GC talk October 2001. Lunch with Gracee. Sunday lunch in Richfield. Camrie's Zipadeedoodah remix.  Mason texts. 

April 22, 2019

From Mason's email:

So if I could describe this week in 3 words it would be temple open house. That made up most of our week. Which is good because it's a one time thing, and we were able to get a lot of people through it, and it's the temple so it's awesome. It just took up a lot of time for us, so not very many cool finding stories or anything, just cool temple stories. The temple is amazing and beautiful and we went on many tours, and every time I was in there, I felt the spirit. It's so amazing.

He also told us how they ended up taking a protestor that was at the temple out to lunch and had a good conversation with him and also got him away from protesting the open house.  :)

April 21, 2019

4-21. Watching a movie you want to watch all by yourself. Bare feet in the grass. Snow capped mountains as a backdrop for soccer games. Just sitting outside. Cool rocks to sit on and eat a hiking snack. Captain Marvel movie with D - I loved it. Easter. The song Beautiful Savior. Singing “Savior” with the choir. 2 awesome April 2019 BYU speeches.  Birds singing in the morning. Chedda Burger for Kenzie’s birthday. Yummy dinner in SJ. Sadie finding the golden egg. Bubbles.

April 15, 2019

From Mason's email:

Aaaand another miracle (This might be a long story so bear with me). We were on exchanges and I was with Elder Ridgwell. We had a lesson that fell through and knocked on someone's door that we're teaching, but they weren't home. Then we saw a family across the street and went up to them and talked with them. It was a fairly normal contact, they were nice, and we set a return appointment the next day and walked away. Then the dad starts running up to us and thanks us over and over for stopping by. He says it's an answer to his prayers because his daughters are really struggling with life and he doesn't know how to help them. We asked if he felt his prayers were being answered and he said no so we left him with a cliffhanger that when we come back tomorrow, we will teach him a way to pray that he will get answers. He was really excited. So the next day rolls around and I'm with Elder Nelson and we stop by to teach them. He opens the door before we even get there and his whole family is in chairs waiting for us. The only way I can describe it is reverently waiting to be taught. So we start with a prayer and teach a little bit about the Plan of Salvation and how God loves them because the daughters are struggling with self worth. We then taught about prayer and how to pray (a lot of people in the south pray to Jesus instead of Heavenly father). Then we knelt with all of them and the dad (his name is Morris) said the prayer. When we ended he juts kept saying he felt it and the family all hugged and everyone was happy (because the spirit was there). It was such an amazing experience and we're going back tomorrow to introduce the Book of Mormon to them.

(Elder Ridgwell, Mason, Elder Nelson, Elder Turner)

Apriil 14, 2019

4-14. When the sun comes out after a rain and warms things up and it smells amazing. Seeing a moose from a safe distance. Beautiful white new soft mountain snow. President Kimball BYU devotional. Resurrection quotes, especially from President Benson and President Nelson. Friends to talk things out with. Calm, quiet mornings. Movies with Cam. 3/3 happy ending soccer games. Living in Utah valley. Memphis temple. Come follow me family discussions. Bishop Edgley October 2010 GC talk. Guardians of the galaxy soundtrack. Baylie with her yellow bone.

April 8, 2019

From Mason's email:

I wanna share about a man named Ed. It's a part member family who we tracted into (her records haven't been moved over here yet). We have been teaching them and he's been really interested, because of the fruits he's seen from our church. He said he needed his lawn mowed so we said, if we mow his lawn, will he come to Priesthood Session of General Conference with us in a members home. He agreed so we borrowed a lawn mower and mowed his lawn and he came with us to Priesthood Session and absolutely loved it!

A funny thing that happened is we went on exchanges with the Spanish elders and we were in the middle of Memphis and there was a big fat pig! Like, a live, real pig. So that was pretty funny to see.

 (Elder Nelson and Mason)

April 7, 2019

Video chat with Mason and all things California.

- Cars ride

- Ducks getting Darren’s sunglasses

- Thunder Mountain

- Seeing anemones and crabs in the tide pools

- Rabbits and lizards on the trails

- Beautiful sunsets 

- Cam’s Moto Moto voice 

- Boogie boarding

- Guardians of the Galaxy 5 times

- Playing Toy Story

- Cam saying “isn’t haunted mansion just like it’s a small world except less scary”

- Ry screaming in toy story when the thing came flying at your face in 3D

- Crazy people in line (including a little boy petting Rylie’s leg)

- Ginormous corn dogs

- Yummy soup and bread bowls

- All of our funny ride pictures 

- The fake castle

- Meeting Groot 

- Cool sunsets

- Sadie and Ry playing “don’t be a chicken”

- 3 minute walk to the beach 

- Sadie’s face on the space mountain pic 

- “Smells like zippadeedodah” - Darren

- Camrie’s Moto Moto voice 

- Ghirardelli ice cream 

- Seeing the sea hare/slug thing 

- Ry and Cam getting soaked on splash mountain 

- Tanner impersonating Michael Carbonaro

- Watching lots of Carbonaro Effect episodes

- “I do... I mean I did!” 

- Nate the photographer making us do the weirdest poses 

- “We’re going to the beach today and Disneyland tomorrow”.   - Cam

- “I’m organic.” (Or authentic. :)) - Kenzie 

- “It’s a little earth after all.” - Darren

- Eating seafood at Hook and Anchor. 

- “That was not like lady bug drop.” - Sadie

- Beach time 

- Space mountain

- Tanner eating the turkey leg

 

 

 

April 1, 2019

From Mason's email:

This one day in exchanges, we were walking down the street and saw a guy washing his car. We came over and talked to him and he was really friendly. We shared about the Book of Mormon and who we were and he said missionaries stopped by a while ago and then just never came back. He was kind of skeptical because he was a victim of credit card fraud not too long ago but he was excited to learn more, and it was just a tender mercy to run into him. Crazy how some people are actually interested, but don't know how to get back in contact with missionaries.