Tanner's Mission Experiences

These pictures were from his birthday time but I don't think I got them added on here:  He made his own cake--strawberry covered with Nutella and mango and bananas with batman as his decoration.  He is modeling the soccer jerseys his other American flat mate has purchased.  They got to watch some of Saturday conference at the church with pizza! Hello friends, This week was actually a pretty good one! Lots of amazing experiences. So this week started off normal but on Wednesday I started to feel a little sick. I thought it was just something I ate so we went back to the apartment for a while I took some drugs used the washroom and then continued our day. Then next day I woke up feeling more tired than normal and a little nausea, but I'm in Africa sooo usually that just means I'm in Africa haha. So we went on with our day. After seeing like one person I was dead and covered with sweat and I was not feeling well at all sooo my compa...

With Elder Lephoyo and their two baptisms Hello friends!!  Well this week was DOPE! Elder Lephoyo and I were very blessed this week. We were able to meet many new people as well as receive many referrals. We even had 2 baptisms and confirmations to conclude this week! PUMPED. Our sacrament attendance for our investigators keeps growing. This week we had 28 investigators come, and that's only counting those who are 8 years of age or older. Counting everyone we brought we had 67% of our sacrament attendance hahah! These kids we have been teaching are just awesome! They come every week and some of them we will baptize very soon and they are so excited. We were able to go and talk to the parents and for the most part all is good.  Haha Something funny that happened this week was our entire mission got scammed with a fake but official looking letter from the "First Presidency" saying the mission length for males has been reduced to 18 mont...

Previous mission companion and flat mates Previous companion with the kids investigating.  So impressive they get themselves ready and to church on their own! The missionary reading a book with the children is his new companion, Elder Lephoyo. Hey everyone! Well this week was awesome actually! So to start this week off I received a new companion, his name is Elder Lephoyo. He is the coolest, but the best part is he is exactly obedient. Such a good example to me and it's motivating me to be better. This Sunday the kids came to church again. They are multiplying! I also had the opportunity to hear my branch president and his wife's conversion story! Its crazy!  Its long so I won't type it out but I will tell my parents so if you're curious I'm sure they would love to pass it along. My area is really moving along and I can see success everyday. Everyday I come home exhausted but I feel uplifted and spiritually strengthe...

Hello friends! This week was awesome! So the update on my life is I had 11 kids (ages 3-14) come to church!!! We teach them like every other day then out of no where they all came to church!. (He shared a little more of this story with his dad.  This group of kids are waiting for them quite often.  They sit down and teach them and have shared some materials about the church with them.  On Saturday they didn't have time to stop as they had another appointment.  The told the kids that they could study the materials they had and let them know they could come to church the next day.  As they rode away on their bikes they could hear one of the children ask the others..."So what is faith?"  and they proceeded to have their own little lesson!  Although they had invited them to join them at church they didn't think it would actually happen.  Tanner said they doubled the size of the branch that day!)  I get a new companion this week (because of...

Hello everyone!  Let me start off by saying I am doing well and I am no more sick! woot woot! So thankfully I was able to have a full week of service. This week was sweet honestly. We have two people preparing for baptism.  And one of them, is absolutely incredible and so ready. Her name is Sister Lynda. Every lesson I have with her I leave feeling so edified and uplifted. This week I was also blessed to preform the ordinance of baptism for the other elders convert . He was a really big dude and they weren't sure if they would be able to do it so they asked me if I could help them. I'm not going to lie it wasn't easy.  We ended up asking him to kneel down haha. That worked pretty well. One thing I have learned this week from my studies of Jesus the Christ is the cleansing power of the Atonement. I read the parable of the lost sheep and saw it in a different way. The Shepherd left the 99 to save the one. When he found the one he took him on his back ...

Dear friends, Well this week had its downs for sure. To start off this week I got both Malaria and Typhoid. Just my luck! haha. So from Wednesday to Sunday I spent most of my time on the bed resting and trying to get better. To be completely honest the worst part of it all was getting my blood drawn for the tests.  I absolutely hate needles ... that being said there was defiantly some ups to my week.  The biggest being I had a lot of time to study, especially about the life of Jesus Christ. As I studied I learned that he too had to pass through the veil of forgetfulness. This means that He had no immediate knowledge of the pre- existence. The scriptures say little about his childhood, however it notes that he did "grow in wisdom". James 1:5 tells us that" if any man lack wisdom let him ask of God". From this I think we can logically conclude that Jesus Christ obtained his wisdom, through communicating with his father through prayer, and knowledge by studying...

Hello friends! Well I must ask for you all to forgive me last week for not sending out a group email.  Let me start off by saying I miss all of you, so don't be a stranger and FEEL FREE TO EMAIL ME! in fact if you are reading this maybe when you finish you could send a quick update on your life, whoever and wherever you are. I love all of you and I want to hear about you lives.  Okay so an update for me. well I'm doing well, and I can not complain! I have received news on more people I have previously taught being baptized which of course makes me so happy. I have been blessed to recently meet a new family and we have been teaching them, and all of them are very receptive and ready to learn. I was able to have two investigators at church today and I'm so thrilled about that.  This week I also had zone conference. One message that stood out to me was given by our AP Elder Garrett. It was on the power of the Atonement and repentance. This really touched my ...