Judd's mission

Sunday, March 25, 2012

Wednesday, March 21, 2012

Hey Family!

To answer your question, Kent is about the size of Logan. And In case you were wondering, I am e-mailing today because it was transfer day today. Neither of us got transferred so we are really happy about that! Elder Gilbert gets to Kill Me Off.

You got my flight plans already?! I haven't even got those yet.. (we call them "Trunky Papers" by the way) that means I will probably be getting them this week :(
I cannot believe that this is my final transfer.. I think it is starting to hit me a little bit. After today, you only get 5 more e-mails from me... WIERD!!! That doesn't leave much more time to send letters and packages :)

This has been one of the best weeks of my mission. The baptism on saturday was so good! I baptized Stellyar, Elder Gilbert baptized Martha, and then we both baptized Mark haha. I baptized him and Elder Gilbert was in the font for help just in case he needed help since he only has one leg. It went really well though. We have grown such a great love for this family. It will be sad to leave them. They are so funny! I wish I could explain it but I guess you will just have to meet them one day.
On Sunday we had a member of the Lake Meridian ward that has befriended Mark confirm him, and then each of us did a confirmation. After, they stood up and waved to the congregation. They are so happy.

Our goal this transfer is to have something happen in the Lake Sawyer ward.. They need it. Both of the wards have amazing members who want converts.
This past week we finally got to teach this man we have been trying to teach since we've been here. His name is Justin and he's investigated the church before. He has 4 young kids and he recently went through a separation. He has a testimony of the Book of Mormon and Joseph Smith already, he just needs to make time in his busy schedule to meet with us and to come to church. On monday night we went over there with what's called a baptismal calendar. IT has EVERYTHING that needs to happen to prepare people to be baptized. The whole lesson consisted of reading part of 2nd Nephi 31 and showing him the baptismal calendar. He is leaving town for 3 weeks but he committed to come to church when he gets back and to be baptized on the 28th of April... the last weekend of my mission. He is really cool but super hard to meet with. He wants to get his kids involved as well and at least 2 of them are baptismal age. When we told the Lake Sawyer ward about this family in PEC on sunday, they jumped all over it. The Primary and Young mens Presidents are going to go introduce themselves and the Bishop assigned a family to help fellowship him, it was really cool and we are excited to see what comes of it.
Also, the other night, Elder Gilbert was led by the spirit and told me where to drive and we found another SUDANESE family!! We weren't able to teach them but the dad said to come back haha. It was a cool experience for the both of us. We are going to start a Sudanese Branch pretty soon :)
Anyway love ya!
Love Elder Workman

Tuesday, March 6, 2012

From today's email

This week has flown by. It was a pretty good one though. We started teaching a family who was taught in the past but stopped investigating for some reason. They are from England and they have 4 children. Our Ward Mission Leader knows the father from work and their youngest daughter plays and comes to church with a member family. When they moved here, the only people that were nice to them and reached out were the members that live in their neighborhood. That really touched them so back in October they came to the trunk or treat and went on a tour of the church. That was all the Elders were able to teach them. The member family that lives by them gave them a Book Of Mormon, and when we taught them we found out that the mother of the family has read the ENTIRE thing! She wouldn't say it in her own words but the way she talks about it makes it seem like she definitely knows it's true. When we were teaching we shared some scriptures and they just so happened to be scriptures that she marked in her copy. The father on the other hand will take a little longer. He is committed to read and pray though. She grew up catholic and he grew up with nothing so both of them are kinda on different pages which makes it difficult. They were reluctant to commit to baptism just yet, (especially the father) But they are progressing nicely. We had another lesson last night with them and our Ward Mission Leader. It went really well. Their name is the Fryats.

Mark, Martha and James were not able to come to church because they were out of town. But they are still solid. We met yesterday and they are so sweet. They asked for our forgiveness for not being able to come to church. They are progressing nicely towards next saturday, the 17th. That is pretty much it as far as the week goes.
Elder Gilbert is doing great. He will be a BOMB missionary once he gets rid of this old fart. He is already way better than me... and he is keeping me from not getting trunky. Bishop Smith in the Lake Meridian ward asked us to speak on sunday. This will be like my 6th or 7th time on my mission, and hopefully my last.. until my homecoming. Anyway thanks for everything. Send more pics of Lyla and your trip.