Last Email Before Heading Home

Dear Friends of the interweb!!!!

This email is the very last email I will send home as a Missionary for the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints in the New York, Utica Mission. The best part about all of this though, is that I have the same feelings as I did when I left home. Sad to leave those I have come to love, adore, and teach, and am going home to others whom I love, adore, and will get to know. But the one thing that still applies for when I left home on this blessed journey as a missionary, applies now as I depart from being a Missionary ending my journey. This is not good-bye forever, this is only good-bye for now! smile emoticon (Thank goodness for modern technology and Email, Facebook, and Youtube!)

So, as you know I went to the Palmyra Temple last week! Yes I did take pictures and a lot of you that are my Facebook have already seen a sneek peak of what is to be added to this email. Those of you who don't have access to Facebook, will get to see them here smile emoticon Not only did we go to the temple, but we got to tour a lot of church sites there including, the smith far and cabin, peter whitmer farm, the sacred grove, the printing press where the Book of Mormon was printed, and the Hill comurah where the Golden Plates where laid and buried! I will put captions with the pictures so that way you all know what is what. But For this final email I would like to say thank you and bear my testimony of our Savior Jesus Christ.

THANK YOU! To all of you who have supported me in the last 2 years of my life both verbally, spiritually, physically, and everything in between! Nothing can express the Love I have felt from all of you across the United States and else where and my deep gratitude for the blessing you all have been in my life and my families life.

I know that my redeemer lives, I know he is there, knows my name, and knows who I am. I also know that he knows each of you, loves you, knows your name, situation, and is willing and doing all he can to bless you in any way he can. I know that he died for us on the cross so that we can truly become clean from sin, and sorrow too, so that way we can be happy, blessed, and one day united with our families and with our Eternal Father in Heaven and our Savior Jesus Christ for all of Eternity. I have felt that power of the atonement of Jesus Christ in my own life again and again. He has been able to change me, shape me, and help me become whom he wants me to become. I can promise you that I am still learning, growing and will continue to do so, until that bright and perfect day when the savior of us all shall come to the earth once more. That day, will be a truly blessed day. I love my savior with all my heart, might, mind and soul, and will continue to serve him, be his servant, and an instrument in his hands forever till the day I shall surely die. I say these things in the blessed and sacred name of Jesus Christ Amen.
I will see and talk to you all very soon!

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Love Ya's!
-Elder Zenger

RUSSIAN CATS!

Dear You people of the earth! (Aka those who read my emails lol)

!!WARNING!! 

-The following email might be a little scattered brained, excited, random, and completly off topic than usual. This is due to lack of sleep, television, music, and many other things in the last 2 years. This is also due to the fact that the person writing this email is going to expire as a missionary in 9 days and is slowly getting excited. YOU HAVE BEEN WARNED! 

This week has been a pretty good week! I will admit that my caring level for planning the next week or so (since I only have a small time left) has decreased  A TON and It is hard to control and let alone something I cannot control. But I will have you all know that I am excited, like I have said before, to go home and what not. I am not however going to be those "Trunky Missionaries" Who are dumb and break the rules and not teach effectively because I am going home. I have lost part of my caringness for planning, but I am determined to finish strong and do what I can with those around me in the time I do have left. 

Most of you as you are probably reading this, I will be on my way to Utica, NY to spend the night at the Mission home so that tomorrow morning at the bright and early time of 6:00 am we can head off to the Palmyra Temple to go through the temple and visit the church sites that are in Palmyra. It is going to be awesome! I will take and send next week (which is my final email next week) pictures of all of that awesomeness! 

I really don't know what else to say cause I still have 1 more time to email before I go home so I will save those for my final words as a Missionary for the Lord next week :) I love you all and thank you always for all you have done for me, each and everyone of you, in the last 2 years of my life and your continual support as I return home very soon. May the Lord bless you in all that you do as you continually hold to the teachings of our savior Jesus Christ! Have a sweet week! 

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Love Ya's! 

-Elder Zenger

The Dead Sea Squirrels!

Dear Ere' body!

I don't know how long this email will be due to time and other things! ( I hate emailing at freakin library's it sucks) But I will do my best to get off what I can today with the time I do have! It has been an odd week let me tell ya! 

So, I am going to start off with the last few days cause the rest of last week was just the usual stuff haha So Saturday, Elder Connole got some stomach stuff, and on top of that in the morning we had snow flurries through out the day, and when we came in for dinner (and to let Elder Connole rest) we got a text from the Zone Leaders telling us that we are NOT allowed to drive when it is snowing...period... so we looked outside and its not snowing any more but it is now turned into freezing rain... yeah it sucked haha so we stayed inside and did what ever we could to keep ourselves busy and productive.

The following day, we got up in the morning and we got a call from the Branch President saying that church was cancelled due to weather.... So, us being Missionaries and not having anything planned from 8:30 to 2:30 we had no idea what to do! So after telling our investigators and Less actives that there was no church, we got a text from a family we teach and they invited us over for breakfast (lunch) and to have a lesson! It was such a blessing! Especially since none of the roads were super good yet and we only lived like 2 min away up the street so haha 

Then for the epic title of this email! This morning we woke up to a dead squirrel in our toilet! Yup you are reading that right, a dead squirrel in our toilet! It was the oddest thing cause we don't know where it came from, why it was there, or how it died....but we think it drowned itself which is how it died.... haha so yeah that has been my epic week this week and I actually have 2 pictures to send ya! (Yes the Squirrel is included so if you don't want to see it...look away haha) Have a good week and I will talk to you all soon! 

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Love Ya's! 

-Elder Zenger