April 1, 2013
Happy Birthday Dad!!
Hello,
So I have a lot to tell you! That
is for sure. I arrived in Rochester this Monday and was able to relax for a
little bit at the mission home and eat some dinner. Our mission President did
however keep us up until 1 am which was ridiculous (I got 4hrs of sleep in two
days). On Tuesday we woke up super early and drove to the church history
sites and got to see where they were all at. After that we went and spent some
time in the sacred Grove which was wonderful, a fun fact is it was the same
exact day that Joseph Smith went into the grove and saw Heavenly Father and
Jesus Christ. Its crazy to think that I was in there at the same place around
the same time.
After the Sacred Grove we
drove to our transfer meeting at the Stake Center where I met my companion
Elder Danielson. He is a cool guy. I found out that everyone out here is
from Utah, Idaho, or California. He is from Alpine, Utah. So anyways we
were assigned to work in Lewiston New York which is just north of
Niagra Falls. However for the past week we have been living in the ghetto
of Niagra Falls. I always thought it would have been nice and very
touristy but nope that is the Canadian side (which is just across the river
from us). So Elder Danielson and I are opening a new area that has not had
missionaries for a while, so we are basically starting from scratch! We
have a ton of finding to do and are really working hard to get some
investigators. We have found 4 new investigators from tracking which
is rare here. All of our investigators as of now are women. We have three
over the age of 60 one is 87 and the oldest is 93. Yeah for some reason
they are the only people who will listen to us out
here. Everyone else is "set" that is the typical response.
My companion and I have really
been trying to find some male investigators mainly because its hard
to find members to come with you to teach. So as we were walking around we
saw some people playing basketball and decided to go challenge them. So we
told them if we win they have to listen to a lesson about Jesus.
Well we played and we lost hahahah (we let them win) but afterwards they were
really interested in why we were there and our lesson. So we got to teach
them the lesson anyways. So we got some of there numbers and got 8 male
potential investigators. It was pretty cool to see how things work out :) (my
feet are all blistered from playing basketball in dress shoes.)
Easter Sunday was pretty good. I
got to meet all of the ward which is not that big and covers three of our
areas. We have three sets of missionaries in one ward which shows you
how big the ward boundaries are. Anyways during sacrament the Bishop
had me come up and bear my testimony which was cool. (our fast Sunday is after
GC). So for P-day we are finally moving out of the ghetto and into our actually
area in Lewiston!!
My Address is
440 ridge street
apartment #2
Lewiston, NY 14092
So now you can send letters
straight to me because I am three hours away from the mission home! Ask me any
questions I did not answer!
Love,
Elder Bevan
Elder Bevan
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