Crazy Week

Dear all of "Yous Guys" ;)

This past week has been a week of blessings and craziness! Which is why this letter, email, post, what ever you wanna call it is a little later than usual haha

This past week we had to go down and spend time at Transfers. Not because one of us was leaving, but we had to drive all the way down to Utica to get a brand new car! YEAH! No more old, beat up, Missionary Abused 2011 Chev. Malibu! We got to not only spend time with everyone who was at transfers, but we got to drive home our new 2013 Toyota Corolla! WOOO! It's like driving a freaking Go-Kart in that thing! haha It's pretty sweet! I also got to see my "Missionary Father" Elder Evans at transfers, and got to hear Sister Ross's Departing Testimony as she, 2 other Sisters and 2 other Elders gave advice, and shared their Testimonies the as they said good-bye for now before they traveled home the next morning. It was sad to see them go and to be able to say see ya later to others as they went to their new areas, but we all know that this is where the Lord needs us at this time with the people we are assigned with.

We also saw an amazing amount of blessing happen for us in our area this past week as well! Last week we were very sad and discouraged with the small amount of people we could see and that all our appointments fell through. As we stayed faithful and true, we were greatly blessed with many people to see and teach this past week as well as some really good people we can start teaching really soon! Its so awesome! I defiantly learned that I need to wait for the Lord and his timing and not wanting it now when I don't need it now.

The past couple days have been the craziest days of them all this past week! We are moving into our new apartment today (tuesday 7/30/13) and so we have been helping the members (who are renting us the new apartment) remodel, paint, clean, and prep the apartment so that we could move in and not have to worry about anything. We also have been cleaning, packing, and throwing away a lot of things in our apartment so that way we can move right after district meeting today and not have to worry about it. We have been so crazy busy and rushing around (which is really awesome by the way) we actually have no food (cause we packed it all) or time to eat cause we have been so busy! We were truly great full for the members yesterday who after we got done doing final things to our apartment yesterday, took us out to Subway for what they thought was Lunch for us at 1pm, when really that was our breakfast! haha Remember, starving is the wrong way you loose wait kids, DON'T DO IT! haha plus your body will hate you for it as mine has haha

Dispite all the work we have been doing and all the service and craziness, I lay in my bed each night, soar, aching, exhausted, with a smile on my face thinking to myself, "We did so much good today and each second was worth it!" I know that as we look at things with the thought of No one else's standards matter but the Lords, and the Lords standard, is for you to do your best and give everything you've got! and no matter the out come, no matter what any one else tells you, he is sitting there with a smile on his face saying "You did well, my great and faithful servant."

I love you all and am sorry there is no pictures this week but I will try and take pictures when and if I can this up coming week! I hope you all are doing well, that your families are doing well, that your staying faithful, and that you all know that no matter what you do, say or think, it's never to late, the Lord loves you no matter what and will forgive you if you are also willing to forgive yourself.

Love,

Elder Anthony Zenger

Storms and Other Things!

Dear Family and Friends,

This past week I am happy to tell all of you that I am not getting transferred and that Elder Wilson and I will be staying together in Greenwich! I have also finished the Book of Mormon this week and boy is it an awesome read! haha (that was a major duh moment I know haha )

We had a massive tropical storm this past week and it was the best light show I have ever seen in my entire life! There was major wind, lightning every second, tons of rain, and tons of wind! It was so awesome! We did have some people in the Branch loose power but they are all taken care of. (Sadly I don't have pictures of the storm sorry) 

HIGH OF THE WEEK:

The high of this week was being able to know of the things I can do as a missionary and improving my faith in the Lord.

LOW OF THE WEEK:

The Low of this week has been the small numbers we have had with our key indicators. But we need to keep doing our best and doing all that we can!

SOMETHING GRATEFUL FOR:

I am super grateful for the book of mormon and the blessing and feelings I have felt when I read it, finished it, and prayed about it.

SOMETHING I WISH I COULD CHANGE:

I wish could change nothing this past week, this week was a good week regardless of what our numbers say.

I love you all and hope that you all are being blessed in some way!

Love Elder Zenger

P.S. Sorry this email is super super short, nothing happened really haha

 

1. CHEESE CAKE ICE CREAM OVER LOAD! Crazy huh? haha it was good! but It was a lot! haha

2. Elder Wilson's picture of Laben

3. Elder Wilson and I cooling off our feet after walking around in 95 degrees with 10% or higher humidity

4. Elder Wilson and I trying to stay cool in our apartment after we were walking around haha 

5. Me eating a homemade, 100% Juice watermelon Popsicle! (we juiced a watermelon with our juicer) 

6. The comic for this month on my calender (month of July)

7. What I do and look at every day 24/7

 

A Week of Craziness!

 Dear EVERYONE! 

This past week has been a very very odd week. In fact this transfer has been so odd, it's opened my eyes to a lot of things haha ( I know I probably say that about all my transfers so far ) But There have been some awesome things that have happened in the past week that have been very exciting!

The Greenwich Elders are now moving into a new apartment! Yup, we are moving sometime with in the next couple of weeks above our be Branch Mission Leader's home! They remodeled a lot of the old apartment that was there so that we have somewhere nice to be! Elders have been in our current apartment for 5+ Years and we are now finally upgrading! No that is all the real exciting news I have to bring up, except for one other thing. Transfers is Next week on Tuesday the 24th! Which means that Transfer calls are this Saturday on the 20th! I hope that I will be able to stay 1 more transfer so that I can live in the apartment for a little while. haha We sadly move in after Transfers have happened, but we shall see where the lord needs me next transfer!

This past week we have had some random sicknesses going on and around! Our district leader Elder Mecham (Who was my District leader in the MTC) came down with a pretty bad cold and now has pink eye on top of the cold. His companion now also has Lime Disease as well. I did catch a little bit of what Elder Mecham had for a couple days, then It came to me! I have the power of LDM-100! I took some in the morning the next morning and was up right and ready to work full of energy and didn't feel any of the symptoms I had felt the previous couple days. (Thank you Meldrum Family and my mom for sending it to me and introducing it to me!) I will be seeing if it will work for the other Elders on tuesday at district meeting.

HIGH OF THE WEEK:

The high of the week for me this week was being able to help out and do service for our Branch Mission Leader and his family to help us get our new apartment ready for us to move in.

LOW OF THE WEEK:

The low of this week seemed in my eyes a lot this week. When in reality the only true low of this week was, that we had to drop our investigator with a baptismal date. (she was our only one)

SOMETHING I AM GRATEFUL FOR:

Something I am indeed grateful for this week, is the love and guidance that I have received from my Heavenly Father, My family, Friends at home and here out in the mission field. With out any of them, I would have gone insane and would not have had my head on straight. :)

SOMETHING I WISH I COULD HAVE CHANGED:

Something I wish I could have changed this week, would be the way I felt about the things that have happened this week and I wish I could have kept the faith of a child. Which is something I will definitely work on this next week starting right now.

WHAT I STUDIED THIS WEEK:

I read from the Book of Mormon all week this week in study. I read about when Christ came and visited the Americas and ministered to the people, up to when all the Nephites are destroyed and Moroni is the only one left of his kind.

I love you all and hope all is going well back home and that the lord is blessing all of your lives continually!

Love,

Elder Zenger

Friends, Family and All Whom I Love!

Dear All who read this message each and every week! 

This past week, we have had not to much excitement going on with it being the 4th of July weekend, no one was home to teach or talk to. But we did all that we could with the people we could catch at home that stayed home for the hot weekend.

Recently we have been having some major, major thunder and lightning storms this past week. We have pretty much had one every day this week except for one day, that was the 4th when the Branch had their annual Branch picnic at a lake. The Branch picnic was AWESOME! We sadly couldn't go swimming, but did enjoy spending time with all the adults and old people (who couldn't or didn't want to swim with everyone else) and soaked up a lot of sun and got a pretty good tan out of it! haha 

The thunderstorms have been so intense! Elder Wilson and I were eating at a members home when a huge storm passed by. The power first went out and then it turned into a brown out. Since it was so humid and warm, we opened the kitchen door to let it cool off a bit. As we are all trying to unplug the stove and the fridge, this HUGE crack of thunder and lightning hit somewhere close and made all of our ears ring and jump pretty bad. haha It was so cool but so horrifying at the same time haha 

So at the close of this email, I promised you and my Aunt Reba that I would include the following things at the end of each email to all of you.

HIGH OF THE WEEK:

The high of this week was defiantly seeing my prayers answered in certain areas and how much the branch has stepped up to help us in our missionary work!

LOW OF THE WEEK:

The low of the week was pretty much the weekend of the 4th (or after the 4th) when we could not catch anyone home! Especially our investigator with a baptismal date.

SOMETHING I AM GREAT FULL FOR:

Something I am truly so great full for this week, is the amazing chance we have to converse with our heavenly father on a daily bases on anything we need help with. 

SOMETHING I WISH I COULD CHANGE:

Something I wish I could have changed this week is, the way I reacted and looked at certain things and choices I made. I do know that I did learn and grow from those choices and will never forget the amazing feelings I felt afterwards.

I love you all and hope to hear from you sometime soon!

Love,

Elder Zenger

 

Picture #1- Elder Wilson my companion

A BUSY WEEK

Dear Family, Friends, and others.

I have to tell all of you this past week has been a pretty good week, but it has been a little stressful and super exhausting! Which is good, because that means we are staying busy and not sitting around doing nothing all day! haha

The past couple of weeks, I have had to deal with the car we have been given to use in our area. Last month Elder Dalton and I found a huge scratch (that is pretty deep) on the passenger side of our car after we got out of doing our laundry at the laundry mat. Since Elder Dalton kept putting off taking it in to get it looked at and priced, I had to do all of that and make multiple phone calls to Elder Barlow who is over all the mission vehicles in our mission. Well, I got all of that done, and 2 weeks later, Elder Wilson and I walked out of the Laundry Mat and found the driver side Mirror smashed and all over the road. Yeah....I wasn't to happy that P-Day. I called the mission office and explained that we had no idea what had happened and was told to take it back to the body shop and do the process that I did before when I took it in for the scratch. I had to fill out a police accident report, as well as a mission accident report. Fun, Fun. haha I will send a picture of it with this email. 

Elder Wilson and I had an awesome chance to bring some of our investigators to a Dinner appointment on Friday evening last week. It was so much fun and the members we were with helped answer some questions the investigators had about the Plan of Salvation which is what we told them we were going to teach them this week! They are such solid people to teach its crazy! The only thing really holding them back is their current church. Which starts the same time ares does and they are very very active in their current church. But, they are doing their best to try and come to church with us sometime very soon! 

On Saturday, Elder Wilson and I went over to Glens Falls, NY with the Glens Falls Elders (Elder Mooseman and Elder Moore) to help out with a project home for some members that are in our Branch. They bought a home in Glens falls and qualified to have it completely remolded and re done with the Habitat for Humanity project with does it all with Volunteer s and everything is donated. We spent the majority of our saturday up there with the Glens Falls Elders Volunteering to help the house be finished by the 13th. It was such a blessing and amazing time we had with all of the people involved in the project.

In closing I was going to do as my aunt Reba suggested in her letter to me this week, and I totally forgot to bring the letter and or write down what I was supposed to do haha So I will remember to do it next time!

I love you all and hope that the lord is blessing you all continually each day. I know the lord loves each and every one of us no matter what we do, think or say.

Love,

Elder Anthony Zenger