Carless

Dear mom, Friends, and all y'alls who readeth this on the interweb!

This past week has been a freakin weird week! WE had 3 appointments set up last week on Monday, 1 with a less active, 1 with a potential, and 1 with out investigators. The appointment with the less active fell through due to the flu, but our other 2 appointments went through! We picked up a new investigator and are going to teach her again next week! It is awesome to see that if you work hard and are faithful, that the lord will bless you in due time. 

We also haven't been able to use are our car this week due to our lack of miles we has left for the rest of the month. Before my last companion left, we literally used about 200 of the 900 miles we have for the month in less than a week...Which is now biting us in the bum. That is what happens when you don't care about things when you are getting transferred. Because of that we have been stuck in Newark Valley for the bast 4-5 days. It is a little town, not the smallest town we have, but it is still pretty small. It is super hard to spend that many days in one part of your area when you literally have talked to ere'one just a couple days ago. We went tracking the other day on 2 different streets. Ere'single door opened! But they were all not interested, which was a bummer because it was freakin cold outside and the wind was blowing constantly which didn't help either. Yesterday I got up and felt a little sick to my stomach. I thought, well it is because I had a super small breakfast before we left to our meeting this morning. When we got home I ate lunch and it got worse. I went and took a small nap before we went to a less actives house to watch the movie, praise to the man with them. During the movie, I had the feeling of throwing up on and off, I figures it would just be like that until we were able to go home. I was completely wrong. Half way through the movie, I asked to use their bathroom and I puked violently, Talk about freakin embarrassing! I did however feel a little better and I came out and we finished the movie and went home. It was such a blessing that no on knew I went and puked in there. When I got home, I started having super bad chills, aches in all my joints, and I started getting a fever on top of my stomach hurting. I did end up puking again later that night, but boy was it a rough night! Not to much sleep and I messed up my back a little bit. Being sick sucks! Luckily it was only a 24 hour bug. This morning, I woke up (dehydrated) feeling so much better! Especially after I showered. 

Other than that nothing much has happened this week that is out of the ordinary! Hope you all are healthy and doing well!

Love,

Elder Zenger

IT'S COLD AGAIN

Dear Mom, (and many many others across ere'where!)

I would like you to as well send me some of those lactose pill things....I would like to try them to see if they will help even just a little bit. It would be nice to have happiness again when I eat things haha I actually saw a part the trailer for the new Lego Movie. It does look freakin sweet! I remember when they first announced they were going to be making that movie and now it is out and I can't see it yet! haha oh well! Those slippers she made me where her and bro.cox's christmas present to me this year! They are freakin awesome!

So, this past week has been just like last week, we only taught 1 lesson again this last week and it was to a less active couple. Which is funny, because the sisters we share the ward with, taught 10 lessons and got 1 new investigator this past week...which makes us look pretty bad when we report to the ward mission leader, the ward council, and the Assistants to president.We did indeed track and walked who knows how many miles this last week all week with no success what so ever. It has been a trial to try and keep your spirits up when no one wants to talk to you let alone open their freakin door in this cold weather! haha Its all good though, we are hopefull and are hoping that this week is better! Our bodies are super soar and exsausted, but at this point we don't even care anymore because we know that we have to keep going and keep the faith! It has made us feel better when we listen to the Les Miserable sound track and other cds we have that uplift us and help us keep going haha Music is the best thing ever besides movies! haha SO! Funny Story, This last week we had a dinner appointment with a member who has been coming to church again. She made us a wonderful dinner and was aware that I couldn't have dairy because she herself cannot have it either. When we got there for dinner she gave both my companion and I a very big glass of milk each. Since I didn't want to rude and say, " Hey I cannot have this" (especially since she already poured the huge glass and gave it to me) I turned to my companion and jokingly told him to chug my glass of milk when she wasn't looking. When she got up to go do something, that is exactly what my companion did. He chugged both tall huge glasses of milk in literally 10 seconds before she turned back around. Luckily he didn't get sick, but it was pretty gross and impressive at the same time. I do have pictures for you all this week! There is alot so I hope you all will take the time (if you want) to look at them cause there is god number of them. :)

I love yas and hope and pray that you all are safe and in the Lords hands each and ere'day! 

PEACE, LOVE, AND HAPPINESS TO YOUR LIVES!

Love,

Elder Zenger

 

 

An Interesting Week

Dear mom and the world,

 I do not have pictures this week because i am on a members ipad for email today. So i found something out this week that is kinda important. So i literally cannot have dairy in any shape way or form now. I found out the hard way haha so you know how it used to make me hyper and then sick if I had to much? Well.....now this is what happens when I have it; i get a bad stomach ache, I cough super hard (to the point of gagging or puking) and it feels like my throat swells up a little bit....fun huh? Yeah so, sis. Cox just said that I need to stay away from it and do whatever when I get home cause its not to hard to stay away from dairy, it just sucks really bad! Haha so yeah no more happiness! Haha jk it is a little depressing though. Other than that we now have no investigators, and no one will talk to us or keep appointments. So life is dandy right now! Ahaha no really though I am, just saddened a bit. Im not depressed or anything. Don't worry. And I will stay away from dairy so that I don't die haha i love yas and will continue to pray for all of you and I hope that all of you who are reading this are doing well and dandy!

 

Love yas!

Elder Zang-Dangler

Hi There

Dear mom, Famery, and fwiends!

This was indeed transfer calls week (well I guess its now transfers week) I am staying in Owego while my companion Elder Cosman is going to Greenwich NY to be the district leader! If my Greenwich Family is reading this, He is the guy that is in the chirstmas card with me that I sent you. I told him all I know about the area and how awesome it is! I really hope that he will enjoy it as much as I did! I had some awesome memories there and cannot wait to go back there after my mission! This past week has been pretty cold, I have heard from many peoples that trying to tell me what the weather channel said how cold it was and I was suprised how high the numbers were! haha It was cold, but not that cold. It only hit about -9 here this last weekend for 2 days straight. We even shoveled with a member in the morning in the cold! It was pretty awesome but my face was numb and frozen haha So, other than that, I don't know my new companions name....its either Elder Prestwich or Crestwich.... We couldn't understand what the Zone Leaders were sayin on the phone to much....Sprint and upstate NY don't go well together haha Other than that things have been pretty dandy around here! Nothin too exciting going on except the weather and transfers this week. May the Lord bless you where ever you may be reading this forever and always!

Elder Zenger

Holidays

Dear Mom and the World!

I am so glad that Ben got his hairs cut! Now he doesn't look like a bum! haha It was so awesome skyping with you all and David and Linda, it was pretty much like I never even left home or in fact it only felt like I was only gone for a little bit and not for a year. Yup it is super crazy that next month on the 23rd I will have hit 1 year out on my mission! 0.0 It is such a weird feeling! -.- haha I wanna thank you all for the Christmas cards you sent me and the gifts that were sent to me! Speaking of, I got a very interesting present from my best buddy, Elder Dan "The Man" Saunders in the mail and as you can see from the picture attached to this letter, I want to know what kind of looks he got at the post office, and what the mission office thought when they saw what they had to forward to me. haha Pretty creative! I hope you all had a wonderful Christmas this last week! I love Christmas each and every year! I love seeing people express their love for one another and express their love for the Savior who's birth we celebrated this last week. For if it wasn't for his coming to the earth, we would not be able to be forgiven for our sins, and would be able to have a resurrected body and return to live with our Heavenly Father! Heavenly Father gave us the greatest gifts anyone could give us, Our Agency, and His only Begotten Son, Jesus Christ who bore all our pains, afflictions, struggles, and fears, for us; and that was his gift to us because he loves us so much and wants to help us and is always willing to help us. One thing we did at a members home this Christmas, was put on a Nativity Play with everyone. We had the Bishops wife read the scriptures and be the narrator, Her Son Quinn, was the Inn keeper, Bro. Pletcher (member) was the other animals in the manger, the Ward Mission Leader (Bro. Cox) be Joseph, his wife Sis. Cox was Mary, Sister Stewart (Missionary) was baby Jesus, her Companion Sister Stimpson was a sheep, my companion, Elder Cosman was the Shepard, Elders Barton, Wing, and myself were the 3 wise men who came from afar to bear gifts to the son of God who was born in Bethlehem. (See Pictures) This is how we ended our evening on Christmas night, after we were done with that, we all sat around in a circle and sand Christmas Carols for a while before watching a church movie. That brought such an amazing spirit into the room that everyone I hope was felt as I did. I love the Savior with all my Heart and my Father in Heaven who gave us his only Son so that we can one day, return to him and become like him. I hope you all can remember the feelings of the spirit of chirstmas and that you will strive to be able to continually feel that way all year round and not just 1 day a year. For the Spirit of Christmas (take away the mas at the end) is the Spirit of Christ.

I love you all and hope and pray that the Lord will continually bless you and your families through out the year and this upcoming year. Always remember never to be like lots wife and look back on the past, Always, look forward with faith in Jesus Christ, knowing that he is there beside you all the way at you push forward in the new, upcoming year.

Love,
Elder Zenger