Sick Week Blessings!

Hey hey hey!

This past week has been an all around really good week! WE have had a lot of our investigators move into other areas recently and have been sad to see them go but are glad that they are still meeting with missionaries somewhere else in our mission! One of them only moved into the sisters area so we still get to see him when he comes to church which is super sweet! 

We have been so blessed this week with people to teach both new people and others we have been trying to get a hold of for a long time! We taught a ton a lessons this week and have were also blessed with.......COLDS.....yup...its that stupid time of the year again when sickness just starts floating around between everyone and we always get sick usually cause we are around so many different people and shake thousands of hands haha but I was blessed with only a soar throat (soar and kinda of losing it) and a small cough like I usually do. Elder Geminert on the other hand...well he got all the symptoms he has ever wanted! :D Runny Nose, Cough, headache, tiredness, and yeah he has been having a great time! haha Don't worry I have been making sure that we haven't been pushing anything and we have taken some days for him to just plop in bed and just sleep the day away while I try and stay busy  haha but he is feeling a lot better than he did when he first got it which is good!

The Lord has blessed us so much this week with lessons regardless of us being sick or not. The Lord will always find a way for his work to move forward and will always provide the way! I hope you all have a good week this week and that you all are pumped for Conference!!! WOOO! I hope to see some sweet pictures, posts and such with the hashtag #LDSconf this week while on Facebook! You all are amazing and I hope that the Lord blesses all of you for what you do each and everyday! 

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Love Ya's! 

-Elder Zenger

Winter is Almost Here!

Hey Hey Hey! 

SO this last week was transfer week and I now have a new companion! He is Elder Geminert and he is 6'5 from Temicula California (I don't know if I spelled that right but mom might fix it if its not haha) He has been out 14 months and he just came from being a Zone Leader in the Albany Zone. He is truly a boss! I have learned so much so far and have been even more obedient with him as my companion this week. I sadly do not have pictures for you this week like I said I was going too... but I am hoping by next week that I will cause Elder Geminert loves taking pictures so there should be some good ones coming your way soon! :D

The last couple days have been getting more cold, more windy, and it rained pretty hard yesterday which sucked because when it rains here in upstate new york....it does not get cooler like it does back home....it gets super humid, warm, and muggy....which as a missionary who wears a white shirt, tie, slacks, and a rain coat with a shoulder bag...it makes it even worse haha but we have been able to get a hold of a lot more people this week! Even though we had a super slow week with people moving and the normal stuff that happens to Missionaries on a daily basis, we are excited for what we were able to accomplish and for what we are going to accomplish this upcoming week. 

I will be honest I don't know what else to put in this email since not very much has happened this week at all besides church, and tracting.... haha which is something I have done A LOT recently in my last few areas. What needs to get done needs to get done no matter how hard it is or how much we really don't want to do it. "I told you it wasn't going to be easy, I told you it was going to be worth it." 

I have really been able to see how much over the last almost 20 months now I have actually changed myself and how much I love doing what I can for anyone I come in contact with whether it be fellow missionaries, friends at home, family at home, people I have met in other places, or the people I have been blessed to serve in my current area, and how much the gospel has touched my life and it really makes my heart and soul swell when I see, hear, or read about the gospel and or the Lord has touched other peoples lives in some shape way or form. I know that is how our Father in Heaven feels when we do what we can to share the restored Gospel with those around us and help them come closer to Christ and utilize his infinite Atonement so that one day they may too return to our Father in Heaven and we can all be reunited as a Heavenly Family. That I guess is what you can say is keeping me going and keeps me wanting to do my best every day is all of you both whom I know and love and have met, those I have heard about and haven't met yet, and those I have no idea who you are, I want you to know that God is your Heavenly Father, and he knows you by name and loves you more than you will ever comprehend and wants to do all he can for you so that one day you can come and live with him again. I love you all and will talk to ya's next week! 

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Love Ya's! 

-Elder Zenger

Elder Wankier is going Home!

Dear All y'alls!

Sorry for the short no mass email last week.... I realized that some of you got it and didn't get it cause I sent it to my mom but its ok cause I am writing you this week! :D

This week we indeed got transfer calls! I am staying, Elder Wankier is getting Transferred to Brigham City Utah for the next couple years and is mission is to hopefully find his companion (if ya get what I mean) in that time period ;) haha It's a good thing he doesn't read this! Until somone (Pastor Yost) tells him! 0.0 but by then he can't do anything about it cause that means it is already on Facebook haha 

This week was a pretty good week! Elder Wankier got to go to the temple and I got to spend the day with Elder Wilson here in Liverpool! Yup we were reunited for 1 day and it was pretty good! Other than that we have been doing a lot of juggling with appointments and stuff to see people cause everyone wants to see Elder Wankier before he leaves and then on top of that, the people we teach keep moving things around and or cancelling on us... oh well! That just means we need to lift up our heads and keep on keepin' on! 

My new companions name is Elder Geminert (Gem-Mine-heart) who is currently a Zone leader and will become a normal missionary to spend the next atleast 6 weeks with me! isn't he lucky ;) ahah

I love all so much and I will see some of you on Facebook and pictures are to come next week! 

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Love Ya's! 

-Elder Zenger

I'm Lazy this week! (my title, not his :] )

Dear mom,

SO this email is going to be the mass email as well because I have no idea why.... I will admit I am lazy this week and there aren't any pictures to send any way cause we are lame... haha I know I know. But I am excited that dad has work until he gets another job which I will pray for the interview as well! This week was a good week! Nothing really happened until friday. (the sisters turn to have the car) we get a call from the sisters durning our lunch hour and they told us that the car won't start and that they don't know what to do.... haha not so long story short, we went over with a memeber to jump start it and it started working again so all is well there :) Saturday Elder Wankier and feel super impressed by this by the way, we walked 15 miles through out the whole day in 4 and a half hours! 0.0 My legs were jello and my feet hurt so bad! haha We walked to the library and back to our apartment, then from our apartment to the church, from the church to a potential, from the potential, getting lost in a neighborhood with no outlet, to an investigators home, and then finally back to our apartment. It was a long day! haha Then sunday, our ward got together with Pastor Yost's congregation to make blankets for a nursing home and some soldiers and it was really awesome! We got a ton of stuff done in around an hour! It was cool to see how service can bring the spirit and for everyone to get to know one another and especially to help our Heavenly Fathers children who are in need.

I hope you all have a good week and I love and miss you all so much! 

Love,

Elder Zenger

Found the Missing Email! :] Facebook Facebook Facebook!

Deal all of you over the interweb!

As you may have noticed (or maybe you haven't I don't know) I am now allowed to us Facebook as a missionary! :D I am allowed to only use Facebook to talk to and communicate with Investigators and Less-Actives. I am also encouraged to be friends with members of the church in the areas where I am severing so that way they can share the things we post about the Gospel! If you are family or friends back home and do not have a gospel question, PLEASE still email me or hand write me a letter. I am not allowed to just chat about anything except for the Gospel. My mom will still be putting pictures and this email on the Blog (obviously since you are probably reading this from there haha) and I will post some pictures on Facebook that we are allowed to post. Pretty cool huh? :)

That has literally been the highlight of this last week. WE have had a few investigators move away or who are about ready to move away so that kinda stinks...but it gives a chance to find new people who are prepared to hear the gospel either through members, Facebook, or through our own efforts. 

Elder Wankier and I get to go to the State Fair today with Pastor Yost and will send y'all pictures of that through email next week :) Other than that I hope and pray for all of you daily and I love you all and hope you all have a good week this week! :) 

 

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Love Ya's! 

-Elder Zenger

Fair, Birthday, and Cancellations.

Hey Hey Hey Hey!

I want to first thank you all for the Birthday wishes you guys gave me on Facebook! I will admit I forgot it was my birthday until when I was on exchange that day someone told me happy birthday cause they saw it on Facebook haha 

This last week was aight, It had been a super busy week! Lets go through and see what happened shall we? :) (If you don't want to come that is ok, you can just skip to the end if ya want to haha )

MONDAY- We went to the New York State Fair with Pastor Yost! It was such a blast! We couldn't do too much cause of the rules in the White Hand Book, but we did eat a lot of really good food and had a good time with Pastor Yost! We got to eat Ala gator bites, Kangaroo, Pizze Fritte, and a Twin-X! A Pizze Fritte is just like a Churro except it is 2 feet long and tastes a whole lot better haha The Twin-X was a Twix stuffed in a Twinkie, wrapped in Bacon, and then deep fried. :) It was so good! haha 

WEDNESDAY- We had district meeting, and had exchanges with our Zone Leaders

THURSDAY- We came back from exchange, and did our Weekly Planning

FRIDAY- We went on another exchange

SATURDAY- We cam back from exchange around 3, realized that we left our phone in their car and had to drive all the way back to get it, come back pick up the sisters, go do Facebook time, then gave the sisters the car so they could go to their dinner appointment while Elder Wankier and I sat at the church doing Transfer Suggestions, and some other stuff, and didn't get home till around 8:30 ate dinner, did a District Leader Call, then we planned and went to bed! 

This week was nuts... haha but it also was pretty good! haha We had a ton of people cancel on us this week but we have 6 appointments set up so far for this coming week so we should be good! :) 

Thanks for all that you all do for me, my family, those I love, and for anything else that you do! You all rock my socks and I hope and pray that the Lord will bless all of you this upcoming week as you go through life! :)