Dear Family, October 4, 2010
Everything is going well in Ohio. It is starting to get cooler now that we are getting close to winter. It rained all day yesterday! That meant no sunshine. General Conference was the best ever, I love it all. There was some talks that I did not get much out of but President Deiter F. Uchtdorf and President Thomas S. Monson made all the difference. Just to let you know I have two peanut butter bars left. They will most likely not survive today. I am writing in my missionary journal as much as possible sometimes we get in too late and I do not have time to write in it but I write in my journal whenever I can. Things with our investigators have not been going so well. None of them showed up for any of the General Conference sessions. SAD!!!! Our Ward mission leader and My companion and I have doubts as to the mental status of our investigator Gia. What I am trying to say is that we all have a feeling that our most progressing investigator might be crazy. Sad to say, no we do not have any new investigators in fact we lost one this past Saturday. Her name is Mandy, the person who showed up and we found out that there was no nursery, and she is juggling between her schooling, her kids, and her study of the Gospel. She is a single parent! We went over and found out that she put School and her kids first before taking the lessons of us missionaries. So we know she was not ready and we dropped her. Hopefully she will be ready in the future. I saw the pictures of Dad and Austin on the High Adventure and I thought, "Man, Austin is a Beast!!" I love you all and hope things continue to go well for everyone. Take care!
Love
Dear Family, October 12, 2010
This week has been really slow. We do not have any new investigators. We are trying to search for some more. All we have is Vince, Don, Gia, and Kevin. All of them are stalled at this time except for Gia. Now we are trying to get out ward mission leader over to Gia's and figure out the situation since the ward members think that Gia is crazy. So far she is still set on being baptized on October 24. Just to let you all know I will stay in Elyria another transfer with Elder Leake. The leaves are changing. I took a couple of pictures this morning. It is amazing. Some trees are blood red, some are golden yellow and bright orange. I will take a few more pictures when more trees turn colors. I am glad things are going well for everyone. This past week I ran into somebody while tracting. It is very interesting to know that there are too many people in Ohio that have completly gone off the deep end (crazy). He said that his soul is saved through the elemental gods of Thor!!! That is terrible. He believes his soul is saved through a comic book. Good luck with that one dude! Things continue to move on. Still trying to work with the ward. Take care you will all be in my prayers!
Love Elder Behrmann
Dear family, October 18, 2010
This week was terrible! We went over to Gia's with our ward mission leader a few days ago to get a green light on the baptism. Unfortunately, that didn't go so well. We all found out that Gia is not all the way there as in she is too far on the left field or in other words. She has gone crazy. She didn't know who Thomas S. Monson was, even though we told her 5-10 times about that, and she hasn't been reading at all in the book of Mormon. Gia is telling all these false stories to our ward mission leader how she got a job at a company that no one has heard of and showing her resume with no educational background and many other things but what made the cherry on top was that Gia is not her legal name. The name she used is Cristi J. Williams. So Gia or Cristi or whoever she is, is telling us (the missionaries) on story and goes and tells some totally different story to our Ward mission leader. So to make a long story short we dropped her baptism and now she is not progressing to well. In fact the only progression she has made is that she is still smoke free. So enough about that. It has been a difficult week for Elder Leake and I again. there are many things that we have a hard time seeing eye to eye. Anyway, life goes on out here in the field. I hope things have been going well for everyone at home. We have made great contact with the 5-5-5 families and we even made the mistake of scheduling 2 dinner appointments in one day. It is starting to happen more frequently now that the holidays are around the corner. So my metabolism is continuously under attack so I am being fed super well, Everyday! Oh, one more thing if the time comes around I want the General conference Ensign for November. That way I can enjoy the talks. That is all I have to say at this time, I hope everything is going well for everyone and hope to hear from you soon. Take care!
Love,
Elder Behrmann
Dear Family, October 25, 2010
My Health is doing just fine. I have not been sick for a while. No I have not had the flu shot this year. I bet Sis. Sorensen will nag on the whole mission to get one. We know that Gia is crazy because she believes that she can build a time machine, a hover craft, and a box that can power your entire house and take you off the grid. You know Ideas that are not in tune with the gospel and stop her progression to being baptized. We brought this up too her and she said she will stop these ideas. Also about Gia is that Gia is not her real name. In order to be a member of the church we have to use her real name which is Christi J. Williams. We are in the process of letting her know about that. So in other words we are starting over with Gia (aka Christi). None of our investigators came to church yesterday, oh well there is always next week. I am getting close to sending the SD card over to you guys I am just going to take a few more pictures and send them to you soon. I do not know when but I will send the SD card soon. My suits and shoes are doing fine. Still in great shape. This whole missionary schedule and being 3 hours ahead of you guys drains me of energy and missionaries are not allowed to take naps. Which means we only have enough time to take naps on P-day. So far, none of our investigators are progressing. We received a new investigator last Friday. Her name is Shirley. She is not progressing because she is not keeping her commitments and not coming to church. It is still a working process. Apparently there is a store out in Sandusky called Elder Behrmanns. I have to look into it and once I have found it, it will be worth a picture to send to you guys. Hope everything improves for everyone. Have a great week, take care!
Love
Dear Family, November 1, 2010
This week has had its ups and downs with no improvement with investigators. There was one bad storm a week ago but it was just wind. Sandusky received a tornado watch, but nothing happened. It is now getting cold into the 40's and 50's. I am able to manage, that is nothing. The leaves have fallen and the trees are bare so it all looks depressing. Luckily tho I have taken pictures and will send you the SD Card today maybe tomorrow or whenever time allows me to permit. YES!!! I need you to send me the General Conference issue for November. I need the written word of the prophets!!! Thank you for sending it to me. The ward's party stunk. They do not have a big youth out here on the East side. So no Halloween party no trunk or treat deal just a Pot luck skit thing , but I heard that the ward thanksgiving dinner is amazing so I will see about that. Just a little heads up apparently some packages are still being sent to Ashtabula. So just get the word out to the ward that I am in Elyira. Things continue to move on, I still have not gained any weight so I am still winning the battle, woo hoo. I am still 135- 137 pounds around that range. It fluctuates around there everyday. It has not snowed yet. I am not ready to deal with working in the snow all day. It better snow late in the year like after thanksgiving. It seems that things are going great for everyone. Otherwise, that is my updates. I hope you all have a great week. Take care, and hope to hear from you next week.
