The Impossible Happened!! Jul 7th

Dear Family and Friends,

This week has literally been awesome and horrible at the same time. The beginning of this week was really good until yesterday.....the impossible literally has happened. Yesterday I got in a small accident with the car....Not with anyone...with a telephone pole....yeah smart right? I was backing up out of the drive way and we were being disobedient and my trainee didn't back me up and I didn't back into the Drive way like I was supposed to and I dented the and driver side car door and scratched pretty bad. We don't have to pay for as far as we know of yet cause I am doing all the insurance stuff and he told me that I am not allowed to drive for a little bit because I was disobedient. "Its an expensive way to learn Elder but I hope you have learned yer lesson!" is what president told me on the phone. So I feel like dirt like I should so oh well.

That literally was my week, the 4th was pretty good we spent time with the trimms (a recent convert family) and we had a blast!

I don't have much to say because I feel like crap but life moves on!

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Love Ya's! 

-Elder Zenger

Believe in Yourself - Jul 14th

Dear those who I care about and think about daily,

This past week has been an amazing week! So much has happened it has made literally so full of joy, I cannot express in words the least I feel.

This week we did not have very many lessons we taught. We taught a total of 2 lessons. 1 with Syd Trimm (Investigator) and to her parents Debbie and Tracey Trimm ( Recent Converts) Which is as always a grand ol' time! Especially since all of them have come a very very long way since the day the Church had entered into their lives. We sadly had a ton of people to see and other appointments that did not even go through. We have done a lot of finding since Elder Maxwell (My son/Trainee) Which means a lot of phone calls, visiting, and tracting. Which has been good for the both of us to get out and know the area a little better and to see more opprotunites that can lie ahead for those who are "searching to know the truth, but don't know where to find it."

Here is the spin on all of this! This week is what I consider a great and marvelous week because I have been blessed to progress and move forward with faith Mentally and Emotionally with all things. I have been doing my best this week (with the Help of my blessed compaion and the Lord) to not dwel on the negitive, sad, and unecessary things that was surrounding me for not just the last year and a half, but for the Last 19 years of my life. The little nick, picky things that I skipped over as I have come on a mission that I thought to myself, "Those aren't a big deal! They will go away on its own." When they didn't. my mind set is a new when it comes to "JUST DOING IT!" and not worrying about the many out comes that stop me from doing things that I am totally capable of doing. It has not only made me happier, but it has fully made me trust in the Lord more and act upon my faith as a servant of the Lord Jesus Christ. I feel happy, my mind is more clear, I don't feel worried about things that I shouldn't! and I know that it is a true blessing from God as he has helped me get to this point by putting people and opportunities in my path to help me continue forward doing what he would have me do.

The Gospel of Jesus Christ is a true Gospel of change. Change menatly, emotionally, and spiritually for the better!  The Lord designed this gospel for us to become the best of who we can become! And he is willing to hlep us and guide us all along the way if we let him and "Just Do It!" It will help us in ways that we can even imagine they will help. All you got to do is:

"Believe in Yourself, Trust in the Lord, Knowing that he did all of this for you!"

I love you all and hope that as you pray, read, attend church where ever that may be, that the Lord will help you, guide you, and bless you. I also hope and pray that you will allow him to do so, allow him to help you, change you, and have you become who he designed you to become from the beginning! That is what he has done and is continually doing for me each and every day! I hope that you too can one day do the same.

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Love Ya's! 

-Elder Zenger

Dream Big, Work Hard, and Stay Humble.- Jul 28th

Dear all you amazing peoples!

This week has been a kind of a dull week for Elder Maxwell and I. We had 2 major meetings this week that took 2 days out of this week for us to go out and work. I will explain how those days went:

WEDNESDAY:

On wednesday's we have district meeting at 1:00 and we are asked to be there by 12:30 so we have to leave Massena with the other Elders at noon so that we can be in Potsdam by 12:30. District Meeting goes from 1:00-2:30 and then we have to clean up so in all reality we don't leave until 3. this week however we didn't leave at all because we had to go down in the Zone Leaders Truck to Utica (Mission Home) to stay the night because we had whats called return and report for all trainers and trainees on thursday in the morning.So after District meeting we have to wait for the Zone Leaders to come and meet us at the Chapel as well as the Platsburg sisters who are doing down with us in the Truck. Once they all got here and we left, it was about 5:00pm we were told to be in Utica By 8:45. On the way we had to stop for some dinner at subway and we had to pick up another set of elders in Carthage and we got lost cause the mission office gave us the wrong address to their appartment so we didn't get to Utica until 9:45pm.

THURSDAY:

The Next morning we had to be out of the Mission Home by 8am and be over at the chapel to help set up for the meeting. the meeting started at 9am and ended at 4pm. Talk about a long day! We then had to travel all the way back to Carthage to drop off the Carthage Elders which took 2 hours and then to Potsdam which took an hour and a half and then back to Massena which was another 30 min. and we got home to our appartment at 9:30

That is the only epic thing that happened this week on my end haha but I do have pictures to send you all! I am finally on a computer that will let me use my flash drive! :D

I love you all and hope you have a safe, blessed week this week :)

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Love Ya's! 

-Elder Zenger

What do you do in the Summertime? Jul 21st

Dear you folks out there that I love so much!

This week has been a good week! We picked up 3 new investigators and was able to see some miracles happen this week to most of the Branch Members and those who are soon hopefully going to be Branch members as they went on a trip this last weekend with the Senior Couple to the Hill Cumora pagnet and went to the different church sites in Palmyra! I will not mention names or in detail the experiences for they are special to those whom it happened to.

All I am going to say is that all who went on that trip this last weekend came back and had their entire countance change. They came back uplifted, happy, excited, closer to one another and closer to our Savior Jesus Christ. I have seen a lot of these people take big steps forward in things that before they told us and others they would never ever do! And yet after this weekend when they had some amazing experiences with one another and with the Holy Ghost, they were able to over come their fears and trust in God! It makes me over joyed to know that Miracles to happen, and prayers are definatly answered and God still does care and love you! I have seen it many times through out my mission, but I have never seen it happen like this where it has effected so many people in so many different ways. The Gospel of Jesus Christ has been restored by God the Father and his Son Jesus Christ personally along with their heavenly messangers who restored those sacred and eternal priesthood keys and powers to the earth through the Prophet Joseph Smith to help prepare and build the Lords kingdom in these last days before teh 2nd coming of the Lord Jesus Christ. I love him and this gospel so much words and emotions cannot describe what I feel. Not to the least degree.

Keep the faith, stay strong, trust in the Lord your God, and he will bless you and answer your prayers! and I promise that it will be on his time and it will be worth the wait. ever single second of it. I do say this in the sacred name of Jesus Christ, the Savior and Reedeemer of the World, Amen.

P.S sorry no pictures.... the computers that let us send pictures are still off getting fixed :P

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Love Ya's! 

-Elder Zenger