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Facebook Missionary

Yes yes i know... you all think i'm being disobedient by going on Facebook... but i'm not. We got our smartphones on Wednesday!!! It's been super weird because we had to get on Facebook and go through all our posts and pictures to make sure it's all missionary appropriate. Its weird seeing all the people that i haven't seen for 2 years... a lot has changed!

Along with facebook, we have a new planner app that we have had to do a lot of logistical work with. we have had to go through our paper area books and planners and add all the information about investigators, potentials, and formers that we can. It's a lot of work, but i think we are getting  close to finishing. The new app makes everything so easy and accessible. It wouuld have been sweet to have for the last 23 months... but hey better late than never!

I also had my departing interview on Wednesday. It was awesome. President helped me see how much i have grown over the short time that i have been here. He also helped me see what i should continue to do to grow when i get home. He helped me set some goals and look at my plans to see what i can change. He also really wants me to get married soon... he and my mom should start an elder carter marriage support group or something.

I still haven't decided if i'm going to even email next week. We will see. I probs will. but who knows!

I love everything!

Elder Carter

The Smart Phones Awaken

This will be the last email that you ever see from me... From a desktop computer. Next week will be Smart phone MANIA. Wowzers

I have no idea what is going to happen. Literally everything we have learned so far is going to be changed. Elder Bendar said so. I'm going to have to start learning how to Facebook and stuff. what a weird turn of events. The mission i started with is completely different now.

We are also doing interviews and zone training on Wednesday. So they will be teaching us how to use smartphones and stuff.

This week has been pretty rough honestly. I got sick Thursday night, so i was out basically all Friday and Saturday. So that was interesting. I'm about 85% better now though!

We did meet this guy named Sun on Tuesday. He is a sweet Vietnamese guy that i guess has met with missionaries for a long time in the past. He was pretty upset because missionaries in the past stopped coming without telling him why. But i guess he has been reading the Book of Mormon every day and wants to be baptized. He has some addiction issues that we will be working on but other than that, he is awesome.

Love you!

Elder Carter

Merry New Year!!!

Wow. Another Year gone by just like that.

Life is so good. This week has been such a party. Christmas was a good time. Then we had p-day on tuesday.

Wednesday we went on exchanges. We had a good time. Walked around... taught some people. And we ate at this place called 1000 degree pizza. Its like subway but pizza, and they cook it at 1000 degrees. 

On saturday I was able to go and see the endowment and sealing of one of the families that I taught in a previous area. It was so amazing. That in an experience that i will never forget. Everything we do as missionaries is about helping families be sealed together, and that was the Living Example of what I have been serving for. I am so grateful that I was able to see that.

Yesterday it was so cold that they canceled church. It was -20. With wind it was probably -35ish. So we were not allowed to go outside for very long. We went to a members house in our ward and had a new years celebration. We played some games, and ate some food. It was a good time.

Today it is -15 outside. With the wind its probably -25 ish. #globalwarming. 

I hope my parents are ready for some real cold. Because yeah.

I love everyone ever

ELder Carter