Mike was like 45 minutes late for his own baptism. He's been late to
every meeting. Except his bap interview, he was 30mins early..
So my white pants were extremely tight. They're a 42 and I'm now
46... It was quite a squish.
I had to dunk him three (3) times. The first time I said the wrong
word. I said ..commissioned "BY", instead of "OF". But I didn't know
what to say until like 5 mins before I went in the font. And elder
galloni told me, so I didn't really understand him. (His accent is
still there). But he went completely under the water. So I had to do
it again, and something didn't go under. Third times a charm!
He invited his friends and only two came. But galloni jumped on them
and got their info.
Then on Sunday Mike was late to sacrament. He came in the middle of
the sacrament so he didn't get confirmed before he took the sacrament.
But ..... Ehhhhh....
He got confirmed by Bro Scott who is awesome.
So now he's a member of the church! But his membership record is at
the bishops house.
The baptism went well. The other missionaries in the district sang
It's pretty nice. Reminds me of the fulton's relatives. He adopts as
well. But he's one of those guys who makes sales and has meetings with
high end business men all while playing golf. So he's really good at
golf.
We went to talk about a service activity he's hosting. Well he paid
$2,500 to work on building a house for a day. It's a 4 day long thing,
and we'll help him on that day.
He's rich. Paul tona or tonna. He's rich.
I'm feeling better about life now, after seeing that baptism. Like...
I have no worries. Until we get another person to get dunked. Then
I'll worry about that. Hehe....
But I'm super tired today for some reason. I think I'll end here, cuz
I've said pretty much all that's really happened.
See ya.
Monday, June 23, 2014
Monday, June 16, 2014
My companion's not dead!
Elder hart is deathly allergic to nuts esp tree nuts. But apparently
peanuts are legumes that grow on a vine so he can eat those. But he
always thought that coconut falls under that category of what not to
eat. But the other day he bought some Girl Scout Samoa ice cream, and
as he was eating it he was like "I don't know if I can eat this" and I
was like "it would suck if you don't wake up in the morning". Then we
talked about if coconut is a fruit or a nut. And I said "pineapples
are neither apples or pines, that's just what they're called." We
joked around a little about what I would do if he did die. Like I'd be
eating the rest of that ice cream crying about how something so good
could be so bad. But it's been two days and he's not dead!
Oh mum, I did not get that package. Maybe in a few days. Sometimes
people go to the office and grab their zones stuff.
It's Been rainy and stormy and cloudy all week, and Saturday was the
first nice day in a while. And since yesterday it's pretty good.
But the "good" I like and the "good" to other people is different.
I prefer the dark cloudy skies over sunny cloudless skies. Elder
Izatt wondered if that is related to my depression. Cuz another
depressed elder he knew likes that kind of weather as well.
My watch battery died. So I put tape over the face. I still like to
wear it, but it's just for show now.
peanuts are legumes that grow on a vine so he can eat those. But he
always thought that coconut falls under that category of what not to
eat. But the other day he bought some Girl Scout Samoa ice cream, and
as he was eating it he was like "I don't know if I can eat this" and I
was like "it would suck if you don't wake up in the morning". Then we
talked about if coconut is a fruit or a nut. And I said "pineapples
are neither apples or pines, that's just what they're called." We
joked around a little about what I would do if he did die. Like I'd be
eating the rest of that ice cream crying about how something so good
could be so bad. But it's been two days and he's not dead!
Oh mum, I did not get that package. Maybe in a few days. Sometimes
people go to the office and grab their zones stuff.
It's Been rainy and stormy and cloudy all week, and Saturday was the
first nice day in a while. And since yesterday it's pretty good.
But the "good" I like and the "good" to other people is different.
I prefer the dark cloudy skies over sunny cloudless skies. Elder
Izatt wondered if that is related to my depression. Cuz another
depressed elder he knew likes that kind of weather as well.
My watch battery died. So I put tape over the face. I still like to
wear it, but it's just for show now.
Monday, June 9, 2014
Mike is set for the 22nd of this month, and that's the best news so
far! I am super happy about that. Mostly because of how much he
understands. He says he's totally different -in a good way- from where
he was before we met him. It took him a while to start reading the
Book of Mormon, but once he did, he likes it now and it makes him
think and ask questions. Last time we met with him we finished the
commandments and went over the baptismal questions. He had some
hesitations about the two tougher ones (law of chastity and word of
wisdom) but he's been doing very well with WoW. And he's working on
chastity. He was doing great for a whole week, then his boss took him
out and it wasn't good. But Mike knew it wasn't good and he felt bad
about it. He knew he had made a mistake. But it wasn't his fault
because he didn't know at first where he was going. Other than that,
he's super great!
I went back to the doctors this week and we talked for less time
than before. But he had asked me to write a history of my life as well
as I could. So I did that and that's what we went over. I have another
app in two weeks. And he didn't give me anything new to try or do
until then. But I have been thinking more positively, he said that my
countenance was brighter and something else was better.
Even though sometimes I feel like I wanna quit, and get sad easily. I
know that I just have to keep going. Cuz that's what enduring to the
end means. Getting through the crap life gives you.
Well yesterday we knocked a whole street of really rich people. And
out of like 12 or 14 houses, we got one potential. She was hesitant
about listening to us cuz she's Christian and like other Christians
she thinks that as long as you believe in Jesus, it doesn't matter
what religion you belong to. It's all good. So we explained that there
are differences and we can talk to her and her family once and if they
don't want to continue, that's okay.
Just give it a try.
I kinda want to keep knocking the really rich people because they
are rich. And the church needs people who can support themselves and
can drive themselves to church. Because in the last few years, the
only people baptized where older single Spanish ladies who only got
baptized because of the elders. And when they leave, the new converts
turn into RCLA's. (Recent convert, less active).
The rich people need their hearts softened, too. They are comfortable
with their money. And like a quarter of that street was Jewish. So
they are wealthy and don't like Jesus. So even though that's tough,
our message is for Jew and gentile. When they are comfortable with
money, it takes away God because they can get what they want without
Him.
Now it's starting to get hot and humid. It's super hot like 79-82 and
I hate it. And everyone says it's going to get worse.
I hate the sunny days. I love when it's cloudy and a cool breeze. Like
yesterday. It's raining now. So it's humid and warm. But not as bad as
%100 humidity and 80+ degrees. Which I'm AM NOT looking forward to. I
have joked about going home this summer again. And only be in the
mission during the winter time.
It seems that every summer is the same bad experience that makes you
want to be inside all day. But when winter comes, it's different every
year. Last winter was super crazy. Lots and lots of snow. The
Christmas had absolutely no snow. But afterwards came the white death.
Hehe. And the winter before wasn't bad at all-my first winter. But I
heard that the winter before I came in was horrible too. But also the
last winter for me lasted longer than anyone thought. It was just so
flippin cold.
I think today we will go to plainview to play ball. I won't, of course.
Unless it's volleyball. But I wasn't expecting on doing much today. I
just want to chill. I wish I had a hammock here.
We were planning on running this morning, but it's raining kinda a
lot. Once or twice we went when there was a heavy mist/fog and I
couldn't see out my glasses.
It's just so warm or hot all the time. Even though yesterday was nice,
I was still sweating a lot. In the last few days I've been sleeping
without a blanket over my legs. The window in this room has been open
all spring I to summer. There used to be an A/C in there, but it's
busted. So I have to rely on the occasional breeze. And also we don't
have real blinds on the windows so this one has a blanket over it, and
the blinds are because the train station right behind us has those
bright lights on in the morning and it comes in here like midday at 5
in the morning. The struggle...
Anyway, that's about it so far. I bought like 6 loaves of bread last
Monday because they were cheap/on sale. I spent like $30 on food and
ended up with 6 loaves, 2 large bunches of bananas. That's about the
majority of it. I need to buy real food. I kinda rely on going out to
eat. Like subway. But I don't know what I want to buy because I don't
want to take time to prepare something. Peanut butter/jelly sandwich
is as far as I'll go. I don't like buying things like eggs or meat,
cheese, milk... Like they'll go bad if I don't commit myself to eating
them. And sometimes I'm not in the mood for that. Most of the time.
I'll send this one off, and maybe write more later after things happen.
See ya- Elder Peck - NY
far! I am super happy about that. Mostly because of how much he
understands. He says he's totally different -in a good way- from where
he was before we met him. It took him a while to start reading the
Book of Mormon, but once he did, he likes it now and it makes him
think and ask questions. Last time we met with him we finished the
commandments and went over the baptismal questions. He had some
hesitations about the two tougher ones (law of chastity and word of
wisdom) but he's been doing very well with WoW. And he's working on
chastity. He was doing great for a whole week, then his boss took him
out and it wasn't good. But Mike knew it wasn't good and he felt bad
about it. He knew he had made a mistake. But it wasn't his fault
because he didn't know at first where he was going. Other than that,
he's super great!
I went back to the doctors this week and we talked for less time
than before. But he had asked me to write a history of my life as well
as I could. So I did that and that's what we went over. I have another
app in two weeks. And he didn't give me anything new to try or do
until then. But I have been thinking more positively, he said that my
countenance was brighter and something else was better.
Even though sometimes I feel like I wanna quit, and get sad easily. I
know that I just have to keep going. Cuz that's what enduring to the
end means. Getting through the crap life gives you.
Well yesterday we knocked a whole street of really rich people. And
out of like 12 or 14 houses, we got one potential. She was hesitant
about listening to us cuz she's Christian and like other Christians
she thinks that as long as you believe in Jesus, it doesn't matter
what religion you belong to. It's all good. So we explained that there
are differences and we can talk to her and her family once and if they
don't want to continue, that's okay.
Just give it a try.
I kinda want to keep knocking the really rich people because they
are rich. And the church needs people who can support themselves and
can drive themselves to church. Because in the last few years, the
only people baptized where older single Spanish ladies who only got
baptized because of the elders. And when they leave, the new converts
turn into RCLA's. (Recent convert, less active).
The rich people need their hearts softened, too. They are comfortable
with their money. And like a quarter of that street was Jewish. So
they are wealthy and don't like Jesus. So even though that's tough,
our message is for Jew and gentile. When they are comfortable with
money, it takes away God because they can get what they want without
Him.
Now it's starting to get hot and humid. It's super hot like 79-82 and
I hate it. And everyone says it's going to get worse.
I hate the sunny days. I love when it's cloudy and a cool breeze. Like
yesterday. It's raining now. So it's humid and warm. But not as bad as
%100 humidity and 80+ degrees. Which I'm AM NOT looking forward to. I
have joked about going home this summer again. And only be in the
mission during the winter time.
It seems that every summer is the same bad experience that makes you
want to be inside all day. But when winter comes, it's different every
year. Last winter was super crazy. Lots and lots of snow. The
Christmas had absolutely no snow. But afterwards came the white death.
Hehe. And the winter before wasn't bad at all-my first winter. But I
heard that the winter before I came in was horrible too. But also the
last winter for me lasted longer than anyone thought. It was just so
flippin cold.
I think today we will go to plainview to play ball. I won't, of course.
Unless it's volleyball. But I wasn't expecting on doing much today. I
just want to chill. I wish I had a hammock here.
We were planning on running this morning, but it's raining kinda a
lot. Once or twice we went when there was a heavy mist/fog and I
couldn't see out my glasses.
It's just so warm or hot all the time. Even though yesterday was nice,
I was still sweating a lot. In the last few days I've been sleeping
without a blanket over my legs. The window in this room has been open
all spring I to summer. There used to be an A/C in there, but it's
busted. So I have to rely on the occasional breeze. And also we don't
have real blinds on the windows so this one has a blanket over it, and
the blinds are because the train station right behind us has those
bright lights on in the morning and it comes in here like midday at 5
in the morning. The struggle...
Anyway, that's about it so far. I bought like 6 loaves of bread last
Monday because they were cheap/on sale. I spent like $30 on food and
ended up with 6 loaves, 2 large bunches of bananas. That's about the
majority of it. I need to buy real food. I kinda rely on going out to
eat. Like subway. But I don't know what I want to buy because I don't
want to take time to prepare something. Peanut butter/jelly sandwich
is as far as I'll go. I don't like buying things like eggs or meat,
cheese, milk... Like they'll go bad if I don't commit myself to eating
them. And sometimes I'm not in the mood for that. Most of the time.
I'll send this one off, and maybe write more later after things happen.
See ya- Elder Peck - NY
Monday, June 2, 2014
Doughnuts for Breakfast!
The breakfast of champions.
I'll get fat, and die happy.
That's cool you sent a package to Geoff.
A few days ago we were welcomed to a dead mouse on our door step. I
heard cats fighting the night before. I left it there but then he
started to stink, so I chucked him in the lawn. (I used a garbage pail
lid, mom).
We have a brown-new missionary in our district. Sister Anderson. From
walnut creek, California.
We went to the park again yesterday and the daddy swan was trying to
kill the baby geese. He was chasing some other geese around the pond,
and it was freaky. He was hissing and making himself look bigger. Then
he took off after one goose and they were skimming on the water, not
taking off, but just hauling on the water, and the swan was slapping
the water to make a loud noise. And his wingspan was probably 10 feet
or more! Swans are huge and evil. Especially when it comes to
territory.
It was attracting a lot of people and they were standing pretty
close the the action.
A little while later we're sittin on a bench and this little girl
goes up to a goose to pet it and it's hissing and trying scare her
off, but she just gets closer, and her mom grabs her hand before the
goose bites her finger(s) off. The mom said something about learning
the hard way... You have no eyes? Well you shouldn't have gone near a
hissing goose!
Haha well one goose was laying on a nest and the dad (I guess) was
protecting that spot.
Mikes baptism has been pushed back to June 22. Yesterday we had a
good talk and he wants to perfect these things before. But we told him
no one does that. Even us as members aren't perfect in everything.
He's going to Haiti around the same time. But we hope to dunk him
before he goes.
I just remembered something kinda funny last transfer. So we were in
our trio on the last week, on Memorial Day, walking the park. We pass
a guy and Martinez says "happy Memorial Day" the guy says something
like "happy isn't a good word to associate with this day". So martinez
says "Memorial Day" and waves.
Elder hart is cool. He's a black convert from Utah. And he's only been
a member for like two years. I say his race cuz there are black people
in Utah, just more in the north. He's from around salt lake area. He
goes home around the same time I do.
I still don't know exactly when I go home.
I'm so fat. But I jogged this morning.
There's this crazy lady in plainview ward who's super less active, but
invited me along with a handful of other elders who served in that
ward into a group chat thing. I've never seen her, and the people in
the group don't even serve there anymore. I don't know if I should
leave the group, or just keep ignoring it. I'm not even her friend on
FB. But I don't want to be rude. Once she messaged me how transfers
went. That was last transfer, I've been out of plainview for 3 months!
That's how much she doesn't know about what's going on.
Oh well.....
I got a sour cream doughnut. It's so smooth and soft. It turns people
off at the name, but because I'll try anything, I've had it before.
And it doesn't taste like sour cream. I guess it's like putting apple
sauce in cakes instead of oil. You can't taste it, but there is a
difference in the texture.
It's not even really summer yet and the other day it was so humid it
was hard to breathe outside. Like it was just a heat wave. And now for
the past few days it's been cold and rainy. I don't know why the
weather is more bi-polar than Utah. Like Utah will have it all in one
day. But here it's throughout the week. And the Humidity doesn't help.
Oh, the doctor visit went well. On the paper I wrote that I'm lazy and
have no motivation. And after talking about life and what I haven't
done, he told me I do have motivation and that I'm not lazy. I have
built a wall up around those things and gotten comfortable with doing
less. And he said I need to tell myself these positive things, so I
can break that wall. Or be able to see over it. And in time be able to
do things without hesitation. I guess that's what is best with
missionary work, especially talking with new people.
He asked me to write a history of my life. Like a page long. I
don't know exactly what he wants in it... But I'll do it.
He's a therapist, actually. And he said I need to go to a psychiatrist
for the meds. But he's nice. He's a bishop as well, in the manhattan
ward there. His name is George kem Nixon. I think. He had his wall
covered in his certificates and such, and I couldn't see his name
clearly enough. But he goes by kem. Hearing that, it sounds like cam
or Kim.
But I go back on Thursday. Getting there is fun. Riding the subway
is always a crazy adventure. The chapel is probably to coolest looking
building in that area. If they had something like that in Utah, I
think I'd be turned into a temple. Cuz it's tall and got some cool
spires. It's like a small, red, salt lake temple.
The area is north east of the temple. Far away from all those...
Famous landmarks/buildings. On the other side of the park.
The ASL missionaries get to go there cuz that's where the deaf
branch goes. There's no deaf branches or wards in the island.
I don't know what else to say. ... I think Hannah has a teacher that
is 6 feet tall. I can see how things play out when I get home.
So many people off the mission are getting together. Elder hart
thought it was only in our mission that it happened. But I told him
that's where my parents met, he's still new to the concept. But I
don't know if I'll do that... So far there's not anyone I'd see myself
with... There's a few here and there that I might hang out with, but
we'll see..
Emily gets home September 18.
We were looking people up in this neighborhood and I was like "this
neighborhood is predominately black and Spanish". Then elder hart says
"I'm predominately black and Spanish" haha cuz I kinda forgot. Last
transfer we were looking for English speakers. Not that black people
aren't who we're looking for, it's just that here, they're ghetto. But
else hart speaks Spanish. He was called Spanish speaking. So it was
kinda funny.
What would be nice is a rich white family. Like this one family we
found last transfer. The Krywak family. (Cry-wack). They are white and
wealthy. But they are also very busy.
Ok, I think that is it for now. I might have more to say later.
Ttfn - elder peck
I'll get fat, and die happy.
That's cool you sent a package to Geoff.
A few days ago we were welcomed to a dead mouse on our door step. I
heard cats fighting the night before. I left it there but then he
started to stink, so I chucked him in the lawn. (I used a garbage pail
lid, mom).
We have a brown-new missionary in our district. Sister Anderson. From
walnut creek, California.
We went to the park again yesterday and the daddy swan was trying to
kill the baby geese. He was chasing some other geese around the pond,
and it was freaky. He was hissing and making himself look bigger. Then
he took off after one goose and they were skimming on the water, not
taking off, but just hauling on the water, and the swan was slapping
the water to make a loud noise. And his wingspan was probably 10 feet
or more! Swans are huge and evil. Especially when it comes to
territory.
It was attracting a lot of people and they were standing pretty
close the the action.
A little while later we're sittin on a bench and this little girl
goes up to a goose to pet it and it's hissing and trying scare her
off, but she just gets closer, and her mom grabs her hand before the
goose bites her finger(s) off. The mom said something about learning
the hard way... You have no eyes? Well you shouldn't have gone near a
hissing goose!
Haha well one goose was laying on a nest and the dad (I guess) was
protecting that spot.
Mikes baptism has been pushed back to June 22. Yesterday we had a
good talk and he wants to perfect these things before. But we told him
no one does that. Even us as members aren't perfect in everything.
He's going to Haiti around the same time. But we hope to dunk him
before he goes.
I just remembered something kinda funny last transfer. So we were in
our trio on the last week, on Memorial Day, walking the park. We pass
a guy and Martinez says "happy Memorial Day" the guy says something
like "happy isn't a good word to associate with this day". So martinez
says "Memorial Day" and waves.
Elder hart is cool. He's a black convert from Utah. And he's only been
a member for like two years. I say his race cuz there are black people
in Utah, just more in the north. He's from around salt lake area. He
goes home around the same time I do.
I still don't know exactly when I go home.
I'm so fat. But I jogged this morning.
There's this crazy lady in plainview ward who's super less active, but
invited me along with a handful of other elders who served in that
ward into a group chat thing. I've never seen her, and the people in
the group don't even serve there anymore. I don't know if I should
leave the group, or just keep ignoring it. I'm not even her friend on
FB. But I don't want to be rude. Once she messaged me how transfers
went. That was last transfer, I've been out of plainview for 3 months!
That's how much she doesn't know about what's going on.
Oh well.....
I got a sour cream doughnut. It's so smooth and soft. It turns people
off at the name, but because I'll try anything, I've had it before.
And it doesn't taste like sour cream. I guess it's like putting apple
sauce in cakes instead of oil. You can't taste it, but there is a
difference in the texture.
It's not even really summer yet and the other day it was so humid it
was hard to breathe outside. Like it was just a heat wave. And now for
the past few days it's been cold and rainy. I don't know why the
weather is more bi-polar than Utah. Like Utah will have it all in one
day. But here it's throughout the week. And the Humidity doesn't help.
Oh, the doctor visit went well. On the paper I wrote that I'm lazy and
have no motivation. And after talking about life and what I haven't
done, he told me I do have motivation and that I'm not lazy. I have
built a wall up around those things and gotten comfortable with doing
less. And he said I need to tell myself these positive things, so I
can break that wall. Or be able to see over it. And in time be able to
do things without hesitation. I guess that's what is best with
missionary work, especially talking with new people.
He asked me to write a history of my life. Like a page long. I
don't know exactly what he wants in it... But I'll do it.
He's a therapist, actually. And he said I need to go to a psychiatrist
for the meds. But he's nice. He's a bishop as well, in the manhattan
ward there. His name is George kem Nixon. I think. He had his wall
covered in his certificates and such, and I couldn't see his name
clearly enough. But he goes by kem. Hearing that, it sounds like cam
or Kim.
But I go back on Thursday. Getting there is fun. Riding the subway
is always a crazy adventure. The chapel is probably to coolest looking
building in that area. If they had something like that in Utah, I
think I'd be turned into a temple. Cuz it's tall and got some cool
spires. It's like a small, red, salt lake temple.
The area is north east of the temple. Far away from all those...
Famous landmarks/buildings. On the other side of the park.
The ASL missionaries get to go there cuz that's where the deaf
branch goes. There's no deaf branches or wards in the island.
I don't know what else to say. ... I think Hannah has a teacher that
is 6 feet tall. I can see how things play out when I get home.
So many people off the mission are getting together. Elder hart
thought it was only in our mission that it happened. But I told him
that's where my parents met, he's still new to the concept. But I
don't know if I'll do that... So far there's not anyone I'd see myself
with... There's a few here and there that I might hang out with, but
we'll see..
Emily gets home September 18.
We were looking people up in this neighborhood and I was like "this
neighborhood is predominately black and Spanish". Then elder hart says
"I'm predominately black and Spanish" haha cuz I kinda forgot. Last
transfer we were looking for English speakers. Not that black people
aren't who we're looking for, it's just that here, they're ghetto. But
else hart speaks Spanish. He was called Spanish speaking. So it was
kinda funny.
What would be nice is a rich white family. Like this one family we
found last transfer. The Krywak family. (Cry-wack). They are white and
wealthy. But they are also very busy.
Ok, I think that is it for now. I might have more to say later.
Ttfn - elder peck
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