Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.
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Garbage Bags for Blankets
Howdy all! All right, first off, I have to apologize for last weeks extremely short letter, but it was for a good cause. We went to go teach a lesson and we have committed this investigator to be baptized on the 17th this month! Second off, Emily has told me basically nothing about the engagement,…
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Cake for Breakfast!
Howdy! How’s it going everyone? It’s been a bit of a tough week down here. We didn’t have any appointments with investigators again this week, so we’ve been doing a lot of street contacting and a bit of door knocking. Our only potential at the moment is an anglican minister. He said we could come…
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Rats and Birds
Howdy! It’s been a bit of a tough week as far as work goes this week, but it’s been great! So, we only taught four lessons, and they were all on the street, but we got to listen to conference! That was amazing “You shouldn’t roam through gargbage.”- absolutely fantastic! It was so great, and…
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Temple Visit!
Howdy! It’s been a good week, although a bit of a slow one, here in the down under. Been seeing a couple of miracles though. I guess first off, the investigator who is going to Fiji is still keen to learn, which I was a bit scared of because she normally is pretty open, until…
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Exchanges
Howdy all! It’s been a rainy week in the down under. Seriously. It’s been good though. I prefer the rain to the scorching heat. It was kind of a weird week. I went on two exchanges, but one of them was perhaps the strangest situation I’ve ever been on for my entire mission. (that’s really…
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A baptism!
Howdy all! It’s been a bit of a slow week this week….. I guess I’ll let you know about it below…. Alright we’re below now. Basically, this week has been walking and having investigators disapear off the face of the planet. The investigator who we set a baptismal date with has not been picking…
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“Loving it all!”
Howdy all! It’s been a good week in the down under. I’ve been sleeping on the zone leaders floor for the last five days, been caught in pouring rain, kicked out of a public event by security and loving it all! Good to hear that everything back home is going well. Like I said it’s…
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Short and Sweet
Howdy! I guess I’ll start off with the miracles. We had some more random people come up to us and ask if we could come and teach them. That was pretty cool especially considering we’re really low on the investigator count at the moment. We had one person invite us in off the street for…
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Fun P-Day & Visit From Elder Russel M. Nelson
Howdy! So starting off, we had an absolutely awesome P-day. It was the last p-day of one of our zone leaders, he’s headed back home to Japan. We all had a zone p-day, and it was awesome. We all met at a place near the zone leader’s flat, and they gave all…
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The craziness continues…
Howdy all! This has been probably the craziest week of my entire mission. It started out fairly normally. We had P-day like normal, but we had to stay with the zone leaders because we had a mission conference the next day. Then we had the mission conference tuesday. That was really good, but…
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Another crazy week…
Howdy all! It’s been a crazy week here in the down under. I was out my flat for about three days just because of how everything went. We stayed at the zone leaders for zone training meeting, exchanges, and church the next day. I’m utterly and totally exhausted. Exchanges was great though. We were in…
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Quick Note
Howdy all! Sorry, this will probably be short, we only have a couple of minutes to email today (yesterday was Australia day, so our place we email was closed), and the keyboard I’m using was specifically engineered to make it hard to type quickly. It’s been pretty good over here.…
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Cockroaches, yuck!
Howdy All! It’s been a crazy week here. A lot of trying to contact people, but not so much actually contacting people. The only lesson I’ve taught to this week was on the street with a guy who wanted to bible bash. The area is great, although I have to cover it on…
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Transferred
It’s been a crazy week down here in the down under. I’ve been transferred. That was one of the hardest things I’ve ever done. I’ve become so close to the people there, I cried no less than four times that last sunday. The week leading up to it was good though. I was able to…
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Things Picking Up Again
Howdy all! It’s been a fantastic week down here. It’s been super crazy with all the people, but it’s now after the holidays and things have started to pick up again. We’ve been teaching this one lady for a couple of weeks now, and she said that she’ll be baptized if…
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Merry Christmas!
Our family was able to talk to Josh via Skype for about an hour on our Christmas night. It was so good to see him, he looks so happy! He told us a little about the mission-wide Christmas Conference and dinner that was held on December 23rd for all of the missionaries in the…
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The Book of Mormon Musical Miracle
Howdy all! It’s been a week of miracles for sure this week. Gather ’round the fire and I will divulge my tales of grandeur and adventure…. First off, I’ll start with the less active we visited this week. This is the same less active that fed us so much and sent…
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In Merimbula for Christmas!
Howdy all! It’s been a fantastic week down under! First things first, I’m staying in Merimbula for another transfer! I’m really exited for that actually, because I get to spend Christmas with people I already know really well. And the area is picking up quickly! This week we went to go…
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A Week of Miracles
Howdy All! This week has been one of miracles for me. For the first time in four months, we ran into someone who will take the missionary lessons. And then about fifteen minutes later, we ran into another person who will as well. Tracting has been so hard. It’s been tough. I’ve had…
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Another Crazy Week Down Under
Howdy All! Another week gone by. Crazy to think about how many times that has happened (closing up on four months now). Been another crazy one at that. We’ve been doing an absolute crazy amount of service this week. Try something like 20 hours. We’ve been helping people move, turn over soil, build rock walls,…
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Tracting Like Crazy
Howdy all! Been a bit of another crazy week down here (seems like every week is a little crazy actually, perhaps crazy is the new normal?). Things have been picking up a bit (not much, but a bit) down here. We’ve been tracting like crazy, and so far we’ve had no success. I’m hoping to…
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Back in Merimbula
Howdy all! After a crazy week up in Sydney, I’ve made it back safely to Merimbula (no small feat, I had to drive seven hours on the wrong side of the road, and the blinker is on the other side of the car, so I almost always hit the windshield wipers when I’m…
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“I’ve never been happier…”
Josh has had a busy several weeks. He and his companion went to Canburra to watch General Conference with his zone, then he and Elder Serle ended up making and emergency trip up to Sydney so that his companion could get some help with some medical problems he’s been dealing with. Josh was told to…
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“You’re my best friend.”
Crazy week here in the down under. Mixed bag of emotions this week. I’ll start off by saying that Elder Serle has really, really been struggling. It’s been tough trying to help him through his current struggles, but I’ve come closer to God in the process. He really is a fantastic missionary, and tries his…
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Zone Conference? What Zone Conference?
Howdy all, another week gone by in the down under. First off it started the week raining. And man did it rain. Most of the streets were flooded over, so our entire day was cancelled and we were only able to do work really close by. We have been trying our hardest to get work…
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Two “Orphans”
Howdy all! it’s been a busy week here in the down under. I wish when I say busy, it meant we were teaching a lot, but it’s mostly been catching Elder Serle up to speed on who’s in the branch, who our investigators are, and where everything is. We did get to do a little…
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First Transfer
It was a long week for Josh. He and Elder Phillips took the bus 5 hours to Canberra for Zone Training Meeting for two days. They traveled back to Merimbula for church on Sunday, then it was transfer day. I had asked Josh if he thought he would stay with Elder Phillips. He said yes…
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More Questions
More questions from Mom… What have you been doing on P-days (besides writing us)? Cleaning, Emails, Shopping, Sleeping/Drawing, and then back to work. Although today was different. We drove out about an hour and a half to go meet with a less active and go on a hike with them. It was absolutely beautiful. We…
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Aussie Slang
Josh helping to clear land for a member’s new home. Howdy all! It’s been a great week here down under. We’ve mostly been working on reactivating less actives, and visiting former investigators to see if they’re still interested. We had a lunch with a less active member, who used to be a cook,…
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Settling In..
It’s been crazy to think I’ve been away for over a month. Time is really flying over here. We’re not having very much luck with investigators at the moment. We technically have more than one investigator now (two), but she doesn’t really seem interested in learning the gospel. She teaches history and religion at school,…
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