Memorial Day

Dear Family, Friends, and the rest of you on the interweb!

I do indeed have my camera back this week! This is also a Tuesday email because yesterday was memorial day and everything in the Village of Greenwich was closed. (except for the laundry mat which we were truly greatful for) We did have an awesome stake/zone Activity yesterday! We had a huge picnic, and plenty of sports and activities to play! I did get a little sun burnt.....but it has turned or is turning into a nice tan very quickly ;) haha 

NEWS FLASH! 

There has been a famin in the land of the Greenwich Elders! A famin of food! Well sorta not really haha we both realized that we have already run out of money for the rest of the month. (thank goodness this week is the end of the month) We do have food to eat. Just not too much of it and no meat haha we do have meal appointments this week so we have been blessed for that. :) 

MISSIONARY WORK:

This week for Missionary work we have been truly blessed to see people prepared for the gospel! We have picked up 3 new investigators this past week and we are super excited to teach them all! They are so truly prepared and the Branch is on top of things like Donkey Kong! ( I don't think I used that phrase right haha)  Other than that, we have been busy trying people and have been seeing as many Less Active people as we can! The lord has truly blessed us and the lives of others this week that we are now starting to notice.

STUDY JOURNAL OF THE WEEK:

The past couple weeks I have been studying some of my favorite talks given in our last general conference. The talk I studied last week was Pres. Uchtdorf's talk titled, " The Hope of Gods Light" as well as Elder Hollands talk titled, "Lord, I Believe." 

By re-reading these talks, taking new notes on them, highlighting certain things, and then comparing my notes I took when I watched general conference with my new notes. I was amazed how similar they were. I have never taken notes the same way ever since we had that all mission conference with Elder Bednar when he told us boldly, " Don't ever write things from what people say here at the pulpit. Write the things down that come to your heart and what the spirit tells you to write down." My notes were almost identical and my chest was filled with the spirit giving me a confirmation that this is what I needed to know and to study.

Again I am truly sorry that this is yet another short email I am sending this week. I am trying to do what I can in remembering/writing down what has happened this week as well trying to remember to write in my journal every day. (which sadly hasn't happend once this past week.) I am going to try and do better I promise! 

I love you all and thank you all for all your support and prayers. I pray for all of you daily.

Much love and blessings,

 

Elder Zenger

May 20, 2013

Dear Family/Friends/All Yall!

This past week was a pretty interesting week! I have been doing a lot of cleaning, paper work, and phone calls this week. We now can say that the rest of this transfer (hopefully) will be as normal for a missionary as normal can get. haha We have now got things updated/up and running for this area and are now getting things rolling! I totally felt like a clean up/ Mr. Fix it this week haha But it is all worth it cause since Elder Dalton and I did all of the fixing and updating, the next set of missionaries DON'T HAVE TO DO IT! Which is how it should be in the first place. 

Ok, now that I am done ranting on the hard work, lets get to the fun stuff that happend this week! I cannot sent you all any pictures this week cause I left my Camera with the Albany Zone Leaders (in their Van) last P-Day when we did our activity and they are all the way in Albany (hour and a half away) and I won't get it until tomorrow (tuesday) at district meeting! 

Last P-Day, we had the awesome chance to go to downtown Albany with the other Elders in our Zone to a museum and an out look point that viewed our entire zone! (pictures next week I promise) At the Museum, we got to see things from 911, seaseme street, historic times, and then the whole reason we went there, was for the best thing in the Museum......THE FIRST EDITION OF THE BOOK OF MORMON! We got to see, hold and take pictures of and with the First edition of the book of mormon! It was the coolest thing ever! It was super old though so we couldn't hold it too much or it would like ruin it.

I also have to tell you this story, this story is for all of you who LOVE cheese cake. We were at an investigators house on evening, we were discussing things about the gospel, when we randomly got onto this tangent on food and then cheese cake! They told us there was a place in their village ( I live in the Village of Greenwich they live in the Village of Cambridge) there was this monk place that sold the best cheese cake in the entire world! This was cheese cake that was made by nuns who make cheese cake every day and put love and blessings into it. We thought they were joking, until the next time we stopped by. When we stopped by last time, they said they had something for us. Lo and behold, there it was sitting on the table, a box that read, " Raspberry Swirl Cheese Cake- Made by the Nuns of Cambridge" 0.0 We both could not believe our eyes! They bought us a half a cheese cake for us so that way we could literally eat the "Love, Blessings" and "Eat a Piece of Heaven." It was the most amazing cheese cake I have ever tasted in my entire life! Even though it wasn't cheap, it was pretty much what they had told us it was! 

This last Sunday, we had stake conference. We were told that the way they do stake conference here is that every other year they go to the stake center for conference, and the other year they watch a live broadcast of stake conference. This year it was a live broadcast. Elder Dalton and I both thought, "Well this is weird, they are going to broadcast stake conference from Albany to our ward building. weird..." When we got in and the broadcast started, it was a live broadcast from salt-lake city and that we were the few stakes that were chosen to watch this stake conference, because the people who were speaking at the stake conference had special connections to each of the stakes and wards through Vermont, New York, and England. at the stake conference was Pres. Boyd K. Packer, Elder L. Tom Perry, 2 others from the presidency of the seventy, and the relief society president was there as well. This was an amazing time for all of us and new thing for Elder Dalton and I to experience. It was amazing to hear from all these people and to hear the wonderful messages they had to share with us. 

I sadly do not have anything to share about what I studied this week. I have been running around today and forgot my study Journal at the apartment. 

I love you all and promise that things should not be as crazy or rushed as the past week has been. 

Love and blessings,

Elder Anthony Zenger

Here is Greenwich!

Dear Family and Friends, (and others on the interweb)

This week has been a good week of trying to figure out who is who in our area and what not! haha We spent a day and a half staring at our GPS' punching in all of our Investigators, Formers, Potentials, and Less Active lists and seeing where they are at compared to us. So far things are coming together. I do have 1 thing to say about this area....WHITE PEOPLE ARE RUDE! haha People in Syracuse were so much nicer! Promise me non of you who read this will turn into old, grumpy, hicks, who hate everyone haha We spent a whole day doing some tracking and seeking our some potentials and formers in the area. We didn't find 1 person interested. -.- When we went tracking everyone was saying that they don't want us to come back cause we ALWAYS stop by every six weeks asking the same thing after they have already said no. (stupid missionaries who don't update their records!) When we were looking for some formers and potentials we found that were pretty recent, we went to every door and we literally had everyone tel us that the person had either moved, or had died within 2 years to a couple weeks....Which brings me to a awesome story about something that happened to Elder Dalton and I on the way home from a dinner appointment.

STORY TIME! 

On our back from a dinner appointment, Elder Dalton and I were chatting in the car when all of a sudden Elder Dalton says, " Opps, can't slow down for that one." and then I felt that we had just ran over something. I looked at him and asked, " What did you hit?" He then went to tell me that while we are driving, a rabbit darted out at the last second in front of us and that he knew he had no time to slow down. We then both realized that after we hit the rabbit, we could not see anything behind us in the mirror that we hit something. So we pulled over and took a good look around the car and all of a sudden Elder Dalton freaks out and tells me to look at the license plate. This is what we saw.

That is a Rabbit the size of a desk top computer jammed completely into the grill of our car, still in 1 piece, with no blood or anything. haha

This is what happens when you drive down the road (going the speed limit) at 55 mph and a rabbit hops across the road. :)

That is my little story I have for this week and I will see you all next week! I hope you all had a wonderful mothers day and that your moms all got something nice for mothers day! :) 

Love,

Elder Zenger

 

1. What we call the "Smurf Pancake!" Blueberry pancake

2.Elder Dalton on the way back from ZTM

3. Picture of Greenwich

4. same 

 (His order and my computer's order are backwards >.<)

 

 

 

I've been transferred and transferred AGAIN!

Dear Family and Friends!

In my last letter, I told you about what happened at transfers. I was in Schoharie on Tuesday with the most awesome companions ever in what we called the "3 Nephite Trio" until we got a phone call on Tuesday from President Wirthlin. We all got excited when we saw it was president for Elder Bells viza. We answered the phone, and got the biggest shock and surprise ever. The phone call was for me and I was told that I was being emergency transferred to Greenwich and that he would be at our apartment in 2 hours. We all we very sad to hear that an elder had to go home due to some health issues and I was going to be his replacement. It was some hard felt good byes, cause we all realized that we got to know one another really well in the short 6 days I was there. I am now in Greenwich with Elder Dalton (from Ogden UT) and we both have no idea what we are doing cause he has only been there for 6 days prior to my arrival. That is why this email was sent on wednesday and not on monday cause in Schoharie, they email on tuesday cause of miles and time and we got the phone call from president before I was able to do so. So next week I will be emailing on tuesday because we have ZTM (Zone Training Meeting) on monday. 

As you can see, I have been in now a total of 3 areas, I have now had/have 4 different companions, all within a couple weeks of each other! I was told by president in the car on the way to Greenwich, that he promised me he wouldn't move me until next transfer. Which means, I might either go back to Schoharie, or I might go somewhere else. All I know is that I am in Greenwich until the end of atleast this transfer. I do have some pictures I am sending as well some videos of what schoharie looked like as we drove around between appointments. I hope you enjoy those pictures and videos! 

What I studied this week was in Alma chapter 37

Alma 37 Chapter Heading (Alma 37:36-37)

"Counsel with the Lord in all thy doings-As the liahona guided the nephites, so the word of christ leads men to eternal life."

Alma 37:6

"...by small and simple things are great things brought to pass;" 

Sadly, I can't really write much more cause I haven't really been doing anything besides be shuffled around between people and figuring out who, what, and when we can see people in the area(s). I will hopefully be settled down here and have some fun stories to tell in the near future (next week) I love you all and pray for all of you daily! 

Love,

Elder Anthony Zenger