Tanner's Mission Experiences

Hello friends!! I hope all is well! For me as a missionary I can't say things are perfect but I can say I'm so incredibly blessed. For any of you debating on serving a mission let me just say this. If you go, you will never regret it. You will learn so much and grow spiritually. You will grow in your ability to love and understand others. You will learn how to deal with people who drive you crazy! haha. Your social skills will improve. You will see lives changed. You will become best friends with your Father in Heaven and the Book of Mormon. Your family will be blessed. You will see miracles. You will develop life long friendships. You will learn to work hard. But best of all you will be happy. Not everyday cuz some days are so hard, but I promise you, if you do all you can to serve, you will be happy. Sooo in short if your are thinking about going but you aren't sure, let me just help you with your decision. GO!!! There is no better thing you can do than serve th...

Tanner didn't have time to write.  Tyson says that usually meant they were playing basketball but I found out the next week he was going to the mall :)

Hello friends! In my personal studies I  learned something that hit me hard. Good thing we have the Atonement! haha. I read Jacob 2:18-19. Basically it talks about first seek the kingdom of God, and if you do you will be blessed with riches. It tells us we need to use what we have to bless the poor and needy and sick and people who are less fortunate than us. So for me I need to be more charitable. I realized I need to give more freely of myself and give more of what I have. Sometimes many of us including myself get so caught up in the world and the riches of it but we don't realize we really have nothing. Everything we have really isn't ours, so whatever we are blessed with we should use it to bless others.  Charity is the pure love of Christ. If we think about Christ our perfect example he wasn't rich as to thing of the world. Instead of chillin in some huge mansion with 12 cars, he gave everything, including his time, talents,and eventually his life. So for this...

Hello friends! I hope all of you had a wonderful Christmas. I know I did!  Seriously, I think this could have been my favorite Christmas so far! It was a little stressful (mom note:  due to a misunderstanding it was announced he was making dinner for the whole ward which he hadn't planned on) but at the end of the day when I went down for bed all I could do was smile. Sooo it was awesome to put it in short. This past week my area was blessed with three baptisms and in the district we had 5! Our district has been dry on baptisms for a while so we are so grateful to finally bring some souls unto Christ. My companion and I are expecting to baptize at least one more this week. What's even better is she is a contact, and usually they are the most stubborn. But this person is seriously powerful. One of our baptisms this past week was Brother Issac. He is a police officer. His wife is a strong member and has been waiting for him to baptize for sooo long! I think in the p...