Something to Ponder

Dear all my Famerie (Asian voice) and Friends! 

This week has been a week of literal nothingness's  haha We had the Washington County Fair this past week which here is like a freakin holiday for everyone! haha so no one was home cause of the fair or they weren't home because they were on their final family vacation before school starts next week. So we had a lot of things cancel and a lot of empty roads and traffic jams haha We were given permission to go to the fair with a member from president on P-Day and to go on a non P-Day to try and do some work there, sadly we didn't get a chance to go because when we got that info it was towards the end of the week and we couldn't go cause the last day of the fair was on Sunday.

We did have a great time at a members farm again this past week. Do you remember the week I told we went and fed cows and what not? We got to go back and do it again and help them prepare to move to a new farm just a miles up the road. They were loading and milking 40 cows the night we got there that they sold that were going to Ohio. That was pretty cool to help with the Milking and watching the trailer guys load up the cows on the trailer. 

Other than that, we had nothing to exciting this week. haha I did get a package from my parents that did contain some things fro my birthday as well as some things I needed haha other than that its been the same old same old :) OH! I almost forgot, Transfer calls are this week on Saturday! So look forward to next weeks email containing the information on what is going to happen with next Transfer! 

I love you all and will hopefully talk to you all very soon!

Love,

Elder Anthony Zenger

Food, Food, Food & Free Stuff!

Dear all 'yall who are readin! haha

This past week has been a great week so far! I got to go on an awesome exchange to Glens Falls this week and work with Elder Moore ( he is still kinda new ) We had a good time working, and of course, having a blast at the same time! haha He is such a great elder and with a little more practice, I do believe he will be a very powerful missionary.

We didn't have to many dinner appointments this week, so I did the impossible and made "BBQ Pulled Pork" with my own BBQ sauce :) We had some left over pork that our Branch mission leader and his wife gave us from their pig roast party they had a week or 2 ago. I put it in the crock pot we had, put some ketchup in it, some sierra mist, and some other spices and let is cook ALL DAY LONG while we were out working! When we got home, I took out all the bones, (the meat just fell apart beautifully) and we started to eat! It was AMAZING! I don't know if it was cause I was just super hungry that it tasted good or what but it was amazing! haha 

We also ran across a free sale on the way home on saturday and I got the following a paintball gun, dvds, ps1 games, and a little mario to go on my desk. I will be sending home all the other stuff when I can get a box to put it all in haha  It's amazing what you can find for free here in the state of new york haha 

HIGH OF THE WEEK:

The high of this week was being able to make a meal out of nothing for my companion and I! haha pretty cool eh?

LOW OF THE WEEK:

We had pretty much everything cancel this week including dinner appointments, but its ok we still had a good week. :)

SOMETHING GRATEFUL FOR:

I am grateful for the many blessing I received this week even though it seemed like we did nothing, we were able to help the people that we say the best we could!

SOMETHING I WISH I COULD CHANGE:

I don't think I would have changed anything I did this week. This week was really a pretty good week all around! :)

I am sorry that this week's email is short, but the time on the computer seems to get shorter and shorter every week! haha I hope you all have an awesome week and may god bless you and your families!

Love,

Elder Zenger

 

Week of Surprises!

Dear all my homies! ( That was just for you Kris haha )

This week has been a blast! Well no literally but it has been a pretty good week! We had ZTM (Zone Training Meeting) on tuesday and the training was on Repentance and how we can truly and fully repent and teach others how to repent. I felt so touched by the spirit and feel more like I can help people understand the power of repentance and show them how they can repent.

So, I know that my cousin Terry is leaving on mission this week, I hope that he can see or hear about this part in my email. (he has been bugging me to do this since I left on my mission) I did indeed make my companion CURRY! :) Yup that is right I made my companion dinner and I made the Adams special curry that Terry and I cherish so dearly! haha I didn't have any of it cause I had a small stomach bug that day but my companion did say it tasted pretty good! haha I did not have any orange chicken though.....stink en K-Mart and Hannaford don't have any! -.-  Lame right? No I don't have a wal-mart I can go to either. haha

I was also surprised by our investigators Denny and Meagan Keegan yesterday with an early birthday cake and them singing me happy birthday! I really felt like I was at home for a moment and it was a surprise I will never forget and am indeed great full for! 

I sadly forgot my camera in my backpack in the apartment today so I will send pictures from what has happened this week as soon as I can get back on the computer! haha

HIGH OF THE WEEK:

My high of the week was being able to be surprised with an early birthday cake and the fact that I have so many people who love me out here when I am so far from home.

I sadly only have time for the high of the week this week,

I love you all and hope that the lord is blessing you all in your efforts!

Love,

Elder Zenger

 

 

Wonderful Smells and Blessings!

Dear my "Peeps!" (Yup I called all of you a yummy Marshmallow treat they hand out on Easter) 

This week has been a joy and wondrous time here in the land of Greenwich NY. Let's start at the beginning of this week shall we?

This week we got the awesome chance to move into our new apartment for the first 3 days of this week. On Monday, we did as much P-day things as we could with packing, dinner appointments, and other service opportunities through out the day. On Tuesday we finished packing everything in the morning, went and had district meeting, and then spent the rest of the day moving into our new apartment as well as cleaning the old one so that we could get our security deposit back from the land lord. On Wednesday, we finished unpacking, arranging and finishing our P-day activities that we didn't have time for on Monday. Talk about a busy three days! haha

On Thursday, We got to have a Semi-Normal day. We went and helped a member with some yard work all that morning (cause he is on disability) and he fed us an amazing lunch afterwards! Later that day we met with a couple people and got a phone call to go on splits with a member of the Branch Council to a Part member/Less active family to do some service. He told us on the phone, "Make sure you wear grubbies and some mud shoes!" When we met him at the church building he gave us both boots to wear and off we went. When we got the members home, we realized that we were now on a dairy farm! Yup, lots and lots and lots of mud, cows, poop, and everything else you could ever imagine! Elder Wilson and I got to help feed the calfs that were born only a week prior to our arrival that day. We also got to help with the Milking process a little bit which was really cool! Needless to say I can now say that I have indeed feed a baby cow, and have milked a cow on my mission and for the first time in my life! Pretty cool huh? Sadly to say, it was dark so we don't have any of pictures of the cows but maybe next we go and visit we will take pictures!

The rest of this week has been pretty normal when it comes to missionary work! We picked up a new investigator and got him with a soft baptismal date (which means he said yes to baptism but doesn't have a date yet.) I wanna thank the people who have started sending out B-Day presents already! 

I love you all and hope that things will be as awesome as they can be! 

Love,

Elder Zenger