P-Day 64 (and pictures!!!!)

Hi mom!

I am doing awesome! So happy all the Zone Conference stuff is done. I did get the voice recorder! President brought it with him to zone conference. It's awesome, thank you! I love it. 

Haha I love teaching people how to speak English! It is fun. And stop flaking on the missionaries :P gosh! I also have a request. Can you get me Kirk Russell and Tracy Purtee's email address?! Remember them? They were the fishing tournament people. Tracy's should be on the website. Wasn't it like Go fishin? Also, Kirk's should be on there too, if not, he sponsors them. So under the sponsors you can look. I can't remember specific names but yeah.. 

So last P-Day was hectic. We ran people around and fished in between. It was super fun and stressful. Plans were late and such. Stupid delays. 

Zone conference went well! It was a spiritual meeting. Our training didn't go as planned because it got cut in half but people said it was good and they learned a lot. We are having problems with motivation. We have a rather old Zone. Not a lot of greenie fire so we talked about Jesus's life. We went through main events then focused on the atonement. Because PMG says, as you learn more about the atonement, your desires to share the gospel are increased. 

Wednesday was like Monday minus fishing. We were running people around and hosting them. Planes were delayed and such. We got like no sleep. It was a tiring day. 

The baptism was awesome! We each baptized and confirmed one. The water in the building is super weird and the hot water doesn't work well. So we ended up boiling water and using the little hot water in the church. So we did it very slowly. It didn't turn out very warm but it was warmer then Andy's. 

This week was good! I love you! 

Elder Haydonis 

FISHING!!

 Baptism of the Tyskas

Zone Conference

Lucky 2.0

P-Day 63

Hi Mom!

Juneau is awesome! It's rained a lot and very hard. Sounds like a bunch of things happened! Fun. 

So we have the baptism for the Tyskas this Saturday! They are super excited. We finished up the lessons and just have the baptismal interview this week. You'll hear all about it next week. 

We got a new investigator this week. His name is Kurry and he's 19. He is a funny guy and his grandma was a member and she passed when he was 8. He is remembering the stuff she taught him and he has decided to learn more about what made her happy.

We had a huge Polynesian breakfast last week with waffles. Super unhealthy, but super good. We made waffles with Nutella, fruit and about half a can of whipped cream per waffle... Then chickens

Zone conference is tomorrow so we are bussing around missionaries today.  Probably some fishing right before that with the APs. Elder Keys caught two silvers last week, I caught a bunch of flounders but nothing noteworthy like silvers. We'll try again this today!

We have a cool training for Zone Conference, I'll talk about it next week. Not a lot of time today. I love and miss you! 

Elder Frey 

P-Day 62

Hi Mom!

So about the Tongan thing, this mission is considered a Tongan, Samoan, Spanish and English mission. They will call Tongan and Samoan missionaries but they are usually from the islands or are Tongan or Samoan. Then they will call a few Filipinos from the island and Hmong people every once in a while. But we aren't considered a Tagalong or Hmong mission by headquarters. 

Haha love the pictures of Garrett. What a gorp. My birthday was good. We were so exhausted we ended up napping it out and it was awesome! Juneau is awesome! But I have one request. So Gma and Gpa Cervelli sent me a 200 Amazon E Card... I figured something I wanted. So you know the old fashion tape recorders? Can I get one but not old fashioned. I think they would have a new electronic one that goes to like a USB or something. But I want it to record and listen back to my Hmong. Also if (when) I go back to Hmong, I can use it to record conversations and play it back to increase my Hmong skills (: I'll forward the email to you. And use whatever is left for whatever you need. Happy Being Awesome Mom day! 

Tuesday was a normal proselyting day. What what?!?! The only thing crazy going on was Tuesday and Wednesday was transfers. Since we were both staying we didn't have anything logistically for us. But since we are the zone leaders... Everyone leaving and coming into SE Alaska, we were in charge of. So Tuesday night we were going to host 2 missionaries: Elder Janes and Elder Noack. Their ferry was supposed to come in at 9pm, and it was a 9 hour ferry ride. Well.. It left late. So we didn't get them until 11pm. So we took them back to our place, did the whole talking thing and went to bed. 

Well, Elder Janes had to be at the airport at 6:15am the next morning. So we got up earlier and dropped him off. We then just chilled with Elder Noack and did a little bit of studies until we had to go get Elder White and Elder Dunn. They were flying to Petersburg. They had a 4 hour layover in Juneau so we picked them up and hauled them around at 9:30 am. So us 5 just went to eat until Elder Noack had to be at the airport at Noon. Then we hung out with Elder White and Dunn until they had to be at the airport at 1:30pm. Basically that was the only administration stuff we had to do. It was only a few hours!

We taught the Tyskas some more commandments. Their baptism is in 2 weeks on the 24th, so we are taking our time with them. They are excited for the baptism. They asked their mom to make it sooner because they couldn't wait. They are fun! 

We started the new member lessons with Andy. Gerrardo, his brother, is 17 and amped to go on a mission. He talks about it all the time. He is always reading Preach My Gospel in church and stuff. So we decided to help him be the teacher for the new member lessons. We went over the restoration. Andy was also playing with a Rubix cube so we did an impromptu visual lesson with the Rubix cube involving the restoration! It was pretty sweet. 

Zone conference is on the 20th so we have to plan our training this week. It's a 60 minute training 😅😅 haha just kidding, all me and Elder Keys trainings always go longer then planned so we'll be fine. 

We had a guy randomly show up to church yesterday. He said he was walking around and saw our church and felt like he should go. So he did. He came to sacrament meeting and saw we worshipped Christ and wanted to learn more. So we gave him a BoM and explained a little bit and invited him to learn more. Cool little miracle. 

Next week is Zone conference, the week after, we go to Ketchikan. Then the week after that is MLC/Zone meeting, then the week after that is transfer calls. We are about to be packed the rest of the month. Pray for me to survive haha😅😅 also, pray for me to catch a Coho salmon finally... I should probably stick to bass fishing. But I love you all and the gospel is true. Have a good week!

Love you!

Elder Haydenious 

P-Day 61

This week Elder Frey sent out a voice recording to everyone.  He was limited on time because he had gone to breakfast with some members and was going to go fishing.  He did send some pictures from a baptism, and I got this little story...
Haha cool miracle. I was in the airport flying back from ANC and I had
to get patted down. Well the guy was Hmong. So we had a conversation
in Hmong. Haha I almost had a referral ready to go but he had to go
pat somebody else down. So close!

P-Day 60

Hi Mom! 

Hahaha... You're soooooo funny*. What a busy week! There was a lot of stuff packed into a short of amount of time. We have Mission Leadership Council again, so we will be flying into Anchorage tomorrow. We hope we have a good training planned. We also have transfer calls and interviews with the Mission President this weekend. So by next email I can let you know if I stay in Juneau or leave! #PrayForHmong

We were supposed to have a baptism but we pushed off the Tyskas. Andy Ramirez is going to get baptized this Saturday! He's super excited. We finished up the lessons yesterday and have the interview tomorrow. His mom took notes on everything and Andy studies off of it so he will be fine. He's the best! 

Then we have the Tyska girls getting baptized in 2 weeks or so. They are the most energetic little girls ever. They are excited as well and doing well.  

So we went fishing with the APs last week. And..... We caught nothing again. I need to stick to bass instead of salmon I guess! We went out and found a salmon that got stuck on the bank when the tide was going out. Since it was still fresh, Elder Bird wanted to take it. So we filleted it for him. 

Elder Wilson and Elder Keys ended up teaching someone while we were fishing. So me and Elder Bird came over and started talking too. He was bashing but we unveiled the scriptures.... So he became interested and we taught the restoration. Hopefully a new potential! 

So all of the summer YSA workers that are going to BYU left. So the YSA branch was tiny and is only going to get smaller. Then Vili Tuopou, one of the YSA members got married on Saturday in Portland. So every Polynesian that was somewhat related to him left. That means every Tongan in Juneau was gone for the week. Our Mt. Juneau Ward attendance went from 180ish to about 50. And the YSA branch went from 60 to 15 because of the Tongans and BYU students. Haha good thing they will be back this week, Juneau doesn't run without Tongans!

Elder Keys and I had to give talks in the YSA branch this week. I talked about Renlands recent talk and the statement: "The greater the distance between the giver and the receiver, the more the receiver develops a sense of entitlement." But I changed it to The greater the distance between us, and God, the ultimate giver, the more we develop a sense of entitlement. Elder Keys talked about always remembering the savior. Our talks went very well together. It was amazing to see revelation play out throughout the week while we prepared. 

We picked up several new potential investigators this week, so we are hoping they are receptive. It will be cool to see how they develop during the week. 

I think that's all for the week. I don't know what we are doing today... We may just try and go fishing again. I am determined to catch a salmon in Alaska! Haha no pictures again... Sorry!! Nothing interesting to take pictures of. 

I love you! Hehe 

*I told him that I was forgetting what he looked like because it had been so long since I had gotten any pictures.

P-Day 59

Hi Mom,

That's so cool about the Greers*. I figured they were because they said they had family in San Tan area. Also that's cool about Clint! Tell him Anchorage is the best!! 

We went fishing last week and I caught one zombie dog... So a dog is a type of salmon and after the salmon spawn they start to die. So this was a 90% dead fish so it was gross. We are going today again because the APs are in town and the Coho salmon are running. We also went running 5 miles on a trail last week... It sucked. But it was fun too. 

Nothing unusual or extremely noteworthy happened. We had this extremely awesome week planned about and about half of it fell through so we had an average week. 

I went on exchanges with the DL to his area. We just walked and tracted all day. They live in the rich part of Juneau and we went to this area where all the houses are on the ocean. The problem was the road was a 1/4 mile away. You had to walk down stairs for a quarter of a mile. Which means after you knock... You walk a 1/4 mile back up. So I got a huge workout and sweat a ton. 

We were supposed to have a baptism this Saturday but the Tyskas pushed it back a few weeks. Which is good because we have to finish up the lessons. Also Andy Ramirez is on Sept 3. 

And about the gift- I just meant like birthday, Christmas or whenever. I don't care. It was just a gift idea. Love you!

Elder Frey

* Turns out the couple who took the picture while on an Alaskan cruise are related to members of our ward- brothers)

** I asked for more pictures and got this response...

How can I serve with all my heart, might, mind and strength if I am distracted taking pictures?

Hahaha jkjk 

"Cute Alaskan Missionaries"

My husband, Dodd Greer, and I (from Payson, Utah) just returned from an Alaskan cruise. When we stopped in Juneau, we saw your sons and had a nice chat with them. 

They looked well and happy.  We told them we would write to you and send a picture. ...

It's such a treat to see the church represented by such capable young men.

Best wishes,
Dodd and Annalyn Greer