Dear Family and Friends,
I am really excited this week for a lot of reasons. I am really happy that my brother Jace is heading out on his mission. I am so proud of you Jace for this decision. I know that you are going to be a great missionary. Good luck and do your best out there!!! I am also excited because we just started teaching a lady named Karin. She has been coming to church the last two Sundays with her grandmother and with her four daughters. We taught Karin and her oldest daughter, McKayla, who turns 8 this August, last Wednesday and they both want to be baptized.
We have been keeping very busy here and I am really looking forward to the next couple of weeks. I got to do a baptismal interview this week and it was very special to me. I felt the Spirit so strongly during that time. I am so thankful for all of the blessings I have been given and for everyone's support back home. I can't wait for next week to come so I can write you all about it. Thanks again for everything.
Love,
Elder Norton
Saturday, July 31, 2010
Tuesday, July 20, 2010
An Exciting Week
Dear Family and Friends,
A lot of things happened this week that makes me really excited. This week we had that special training that was done all week long. During that training, President Pike explained that the reason for the training was emphasize improving how we teach. It is a special training that is being applied to all of the missions around the world and then into the training done at the MTC. It was really cool. I learned so much from it. It is also really cool because during that training, I found out that President Pike has been making changes in our mission to allow him time to go out with individual missionary companionships, especially with district leaders in order to follow-up with how we are implementing all of the things that we learned into our missionary work. It reminds me of how in my blessing from President Ross, it said that I would have the opportunity to work side by side with my mission president, and I feel that this is a fulfillment of that blessing. I don't remember if I mentioned it last week, but we started teaching a new investigator named Cheri. She is Jewish, and some other missionaries found her and gave us a referral to go visit her, so we started teaching her. I think that it is so cool to be teaching her because of her specific connection to the Book of Mormon. She sounds very eager to learn more about the church, but she says that she is not looking and that she does not plan to convert, so we will have to see what happens. We are also going to start teaching a new person named Karin. Her grandmother is a member, and Karin had been coming to church a long time ago, but she decided not to get baptized because she did not want to be baptized without her husband, so she stopped coming to church, but now she feels that she doesn't want her husband's choices to keep holding her and her family back, so she has been coming to church the past two weeks and she wants to take the lessons and become a member. I am so thankful for all of the blessing that the Lord has given me, and I am very excited for everything that is going to take place in the next few months. I'm doing my best to make every minute that I have left on my mission count. Thank you all so much for your love and support.
Love,
Elder Norton
A lot of things happened this week that makes me really excited. This week we had that special training that was done all week long. During that training, President Pike explained that the reason for the training was emphasize improving how we teach. It is a special training that is being applied to all of the missions around the world and then into the training done at the MTC. It was really cool. I learned so much from it. It is also really cool because during that training, I found out that President Pike has been making changes in our mission to allow him time to go out with individual missionary companionships, especially with district leaders in order to follow-up with how we are implementing all of the things that we learned into our missionary work. It reminds me of how in my blessing from President Ross, it said that I would have the opportunity to work side by side with my mission president, and I feel that this is a fulfillment of that blessing. I don't remember if I mentioned it last week, but we started teaching a new investigator named Cheri. She is Jewish, and some other missionaries found her and gave us a referral to go visit her, so we started teaching her. I think that it is so cool to be teaching her because of her specific connection to the Book of Mormon. She sounds very eager to learn more about the church, but she says that she is not looking and that she does not plan to convert, so we will have to see what happens. We are also going to start teaching a new person named Karin. Her grandmother is a member, and Karin had been coming to church a long time ago, but she decided not to get baptized because she did not want to be baptized without her husband, so she stopped coming to church, but now she feels that she doesn't want her husband's choices to keep holding her and her family back, so she has been coming to church the past two weeks and she wants to take the lessons and become a member. I am so thankful for all of the blessing that the Lord has given me, and I am very excited for everything that is going to take place in the next few months. I'm doing my best to make every minute that I have left on my mission count. Thank you all so much for your love and support.
Love,
Elder Norton
Baptism!!
Dear Family and Friends,
This has been a really good week this week. We had a baptism yesterday for Nick, our 15 year old investigator that I mentioned earlier. He wanted me to baptize him, so this makes my third baptism that I have performed on my mission. It was also really cool because we had gotten a referral from other missionaries to go and teach this one person named Cheri, who is Jewish, and she came to the baptism and afterwards we had a really great lesson with her. We are also still teaching Victor, but he is in Las Vegas right now, so we will not be able to see him for a while. This week, however, is going to be really different than usual. There is going to be some special leadership training this week for all missionaries that have leadership assignments each day starting tomorrow until Friday from 9am to 3 pm, and since I am now a District Leader, I will be going to that all this week, so it will be very different. Well, I have to get going now. Thanks for everything. Have fun in New York.
Love,
Elder Norton
P.S. - I'm OK with flying back home with you mom and dad if that will work better for dad.
This has been a really good week this week. We had a baptism yesterday for Nick, our 15 year old investigator that I mentioned earlier. He wanted me to baptize him, so this makes my third baptism that I have performed on my mission. It was also really cool because we had gotten a referral from other missionaries to go and teach this one person named Cheri, who is Jewish, and she came to the baptism and afterwards we had a really great lesson with her. We are also still teaching Victor, but he is in Las Vegas right now, so we will not be able to see him for a while. This week, however, is going to be really different than usual. There is going to be some special leadership training this week for all missionaries that have leadership assignments each day starting tomorrow until Friday from 9am to 3 pm, and since I am now a District Leader, I will be going to that all this week, so it will be very different. Well, I have to get going now. Thanks for everything. Have fun in New York.
Love,
Elder Norton
P.S. - I'm OK with flying back home with you mom and dad if that will work better for dad.
Wednesday, July 7, 2010
Happy 4th of July!
Dear Family and Friends,
Happy 4th of July!!! I will appologize in advance for the length of this e-mail, but I do not have much time left on the computer. First I will answer some questions and tell what happened for transfers.
1. What is your companion’s name and where is he from? I don’t think you ever told us.
His name is Elder Richins and he is from Hennifer, Utah
2. How long does he have left?
He has about two months more than me left
3. Did you get a new bike yet?
Funny you mention that. One elder was going to give me his bike this transfer because he is finished with his mission, but then I was told yesterday that his bike got run over by a car this last transfer before he could give it to me, so I am still bikeless. I will probably try to see if the office has an extra bike. I don't feel like getting a brand new bike with only 4 months left.
Now, as for transfers, I am staying in the Pasadena Ward and with Elder Richins. I did, however, get a new assignment for this transfer. I was assigned to be District Leader, so I have a few more responsibilites than before that I am going to have to get used to. Other than that, nothing much has changed since last week. We are still teaching Victor, our Chinese investigator, but we are still probably going to have the Chinese Elders start teaching him. Well, I have to get going now, but I will write again next week. Thanks again for everything.
Love,
Elder Norton
Happy 4th of July!!! I will appologize in advance for the length of this e-mail, but I do not have much time left on the computer. First I will answer some questions and tell what happened for transfers.
1. What is your companion’s name and where is he from? I don’t think you ever told us.
His name is Elder Richins and he is from Hennifer, Utah
2. How long does he have left?
He has about two months more than me left
3. Did you get a new bike yet?
Funny you mention that. One elder was going to give me his bike this transfer because he is finished with his mission, but then I was told yesterday that his bike got run over by a car this last transfer before he could give it to me, so I am still bikeless. I will probably try to see if the office has an extra bike. I don't feel like getting a brand new bike with only 4 months left.
Now, as for transfers, I am staying in the Pasadena Ward and with Elder Richins. I did, however, get a new assignment for this transfer. I was assigned to be District Leader, so I have a few more responsibilites than before that I am going to have to get used to. Other than that, nothing much has changed since last week. We are still teaching Victor, our Chinese investigator, but we are still probably going to have the Chinese Elders start teaching him. Well, I have to get going now, but I will write again next week. Thanks again for everything.
Love,
Elder Norton
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