Easter

Has anyone looked back at their last 5 weeks and realized you have no idea what happened. Yeah that's me. Which is too bad because I bet we did some pretty cool stuff.

My wonderful mother sent me a sweet package this week. There was some good chocolate in them eggs ;).

In other news Gordman's went out of business and so they are closing all the stores here... so we had to go and buy stuff before it was all gone. But we were to late. They pretty much only had boring clothes there or super weird so we didn't get too much... 

But hey our ward mission leader loves golf and he is going to take us to the country club that he is a member of either next week or the week after. Its going to be sweet. Its a super nice course and so we will have a ton of fun I'm sure. Not to mention he's like super hilarious. so that's a plus.

As far as Investigators go, we met with one of our sweet investigators this last week. Her name is June. We have taught her like 3 times. She is like a religion fanatic. She studies anything and everything; shes like in some bible classes for a college and just enjoyed everything about religion. We gave her a book of Mormon 3 weeks ago and she has been reading and has some of the most studious questions. Like I wouldn't even ask them... and ive read it like 20 times... But the other cool thing is she lives right by one of our members. So hopefully they will be able to help June continue to learn the gospel.

This week will be our Zone Training week. Which will be fun. I'm going to make a cake because its my missionary birthday that day! so that's kind of fun.

For future notice, next week our P-day will be on Tuesday. We have a temple trip and so they move our p-day because the trip is supposed to be on p-day but the temple isn't open on Mondays. So yeah don't expect an email from me on Monday next week

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Love you all!

Elder Carter

Easter Greetings

Hello

So I don't know if anyone has seen the Jim Gaffigan Comedy piece where he talks about holidays but we have been talking about that a lot here. So he talk about how Illogical the easter season is....

 What can we do to celebrate the saviors resurrection?

 How bout eggs???

ummm What does that have to do with Jesus?

Alright we'll hide 'em.

I don't follow your logic.... (just watch the video its funny.)

This last week was Transfers and I got a New companion! I stayed here in Omaha. My New Companion is Elder Boswell! He is from Tooele Utah. Hes been out for a little less than a year. Hes a funny guy and we will have a great time together! I'm excited for this new transfer.

Hopefully you all have seen the new Easter Initiative. If not here is the link...https://www.mormon.org/

Watch it or we can no longer be friends.

So I heard that my sister's are both super awesome, Savanna Got 4th on her Solo in clogging! Congrats to her! And my other sister Katie Just won another tennis match! Soon she will take over the state.

This last Sunday was super crazy. We went to church for 6 hours... One of our investigators, Jonas, wanted to come to church but he could only make it for the ward that goes before ours. So we went with him. It was super good. And then we went to our ward. So we were at the church for such a long time... Makes fast sunday go by much faster though. So that was nice! Also our bishop asked us to be in the ward choir. So we also do that Which is nice because I like singing anyways.

This transfer is going to be crazy... Interviews Zone Conference, Zone Training, and temple trip all in 6 weeks. So that will be super fun! I'm excited :) Also I'm sure my mom is keeping track but Its Mothers Day this transfer too! so ill get to see many of you soon!:)

Well I love you all! (unless you didn't watch the video)

Elder Carter

General Conference

Hello!!

Yay Pocatello Idaho Temple!!! How exciting!

General Conference was the BOMB. I'm sure I've said it before but general Conference is like the missionary vacation. Just get to sit back and listen to inspired people speak all day. I really thought this conference was one of the best ones in a long time. I especially liked the one by Yoon Hwan Choi About drinking the rain. Its a pretty awesome analogy about trials. Plus like the music was super sweet

But its always inspiring to hear from the leaders of the church. Hopefully we will be able to keep in remembrance the things that they taught us.

Last P-day we played a little bit of tennis... But it wasn't too much. We mostly just hit around. I was pretty fun but Man I have lost a lot of my former skills haha. Plus its hard because we weren't taking it too serious and I'm just super competitive so that doesn't mix very well. But still we had a good time.

This next week is transfers! I really doubt I will be transferred but you don't really ever know. I hope that the next transfer will be a good one like this one has! It seems to go faster and faster each transfer. Crazy that already 1 year ago I finished my training. Now I still feel as clueless as I was back then! But at least I have practice :P

I love being a missionary!

After all that has been said, the greatest and most important duty is to preach the Gospel -Joseph Smith

Love you all!

Elder Andy Carter

Olympic Fail

Well... I failed us all. I had one Chance to represent Twin Falls and I failed. I didn't win the Free Throw Competition in the Olympics this year... I cracked under the pressure. I made only 7 out of 10 free throws and the winner made 8. Disappointing I know. Sorry family. Sorry Idaho... Sorry America. Maybe next yea..... oh nope I don't have another chance.

But Zone Conference was Great. always love learning more about the gospel from President Gardner. I Also did my musical Number for Zone Conference and it went ok. The Piano that I was playing on was WAY out of tune so it like freaked me out and definitely didn't sound as good as our 100 year old piano at home. But that's all good. Guess they just don't make em like they used to.

Elder Wangsgaard and I Are doing really well. We doing anything and everything to try and find people to teach! We have had some good success recently so its been going pretty well! And its crazy that transfers are already this upcoming week! I suspect I will be here for a little longer but with President Gardner you really just don't know. This transfer has gone by so fast though

As im sure you all know this week is General Conference! I'm super excited to be able to listen to The Prophet and Apostles and learn from their teachings. Should be a great weekend

Love you all!

Elder Carter

Music-Post Monday!

Hello! Glad my family decided to ditch me and go on a cruise...

But this week has been super good! My goodness There was so much music stuff that happened... On sunday there was a lot of our ward members gone because of Spring Break and so They asked me to play the piano for The Primary. That was super interesting. I didn't do that bad surprisingly... But not that good either.

Then this week the Papillion Stake decided to do a missionary musical fireside which all the missionaries in Omaha Participated in. It was very focused around Eternal Families Which is always a great topic for people to hear. There was a ton of childrens songs which is pretty interesting because we don't get to sing those too often! But it went really well!
For this Fireside I was asked to sing in a special Quartet number! I really enjoy that because most of the rest of the fireside was in Unison... And Harmonies sound so much better! So I'm glad that I got to do that. Hopefully there will be another one of those pretty soon!.

On top of preparing for all of that... I had to speak on sunday! I thought it went ok, I had a lot of material and not a lot of time so I had to cut out quite a bit of what I was going to say. But that's a good problem to have!

This week we have zone conference Which should be super good. I am also playing a special musical number for that... guess all the music skills I have learned in my life are ACTUALLY coming to use :P haha

Well I'm just happy to be here!

Love you all!

Elder Carter

Jesus is a God of Miracles

Hi!!! Happy (early) Saint Patrick's day!

Congratz to my sister for making the Varsity Tennis team! As a FRESHMAN! Super sweet.

This week has been pretty amazing.

In our mission we have been focusing on praying for Specifics. Like you wouldn't believe how specific... for example these last 2 weeks I was praying that we would be out walking on the sidewalk, and a man would drive up to us and ask us to come teach him. As a companionship we were praying for a family of 5 to teach. It seems pretty unrealistic but IT TOTALLY WORKED!

Tuesday: we were out walking trying to find someone to teach and somebody started honking their horn and they pulled over and asked us to come teach him. We went to his house and he has 3 kids and a wife. Family of five. Super sweet miracle.

We also had a super sweet stake conference this week. It's always good to hear from church leaders, and there was a lot of great content. A few missionaries and I were asked to do a musical number for the priesthood leadership session. It went pretty well. It wasn't anything fancy but I enjoyed singing!

I'm not sure whats going on but I've been doing so much musical stuff recently. This next Sunday we are doing a special missionary musical fireside. I'm singing in a few small groups as well as a general missionary choir. Guess I took those choir classes for a reason? Oh and next week I'm doing a musical number for zone conference. So yeah that's interesting.

We have interviews with the mission president this week, and I'm sure you've probably seen like 10 pictures of me on the Facebook page! I'm sure my mom likes that.

I'm grateful to be here! wouldn't be anywhere else :)

Love you all!

Elder Carter

Livin' in the Ridges.

Shout-out to my sister for being a better student than me! Got into BYU and BYU Hawaii! Too good... too good.

Zone Training was this week! It was super awesome! we learned a ton of things about personal revelation! And my mother will be happy to know that I did a special musical number for it! And it went pretty awful to be honest but hey its the thought that counts right? Oh and I will be doing another one for zone conference in 2 weeks... so at least I have some more time to practice!

We also did the Zone Olympics. I qualified for the Mission Olympics in the free throw competition. Hopefully I can bring home the gold for good ol' Two T.

We have spent a ton of time working with members in this area. But man I don't know if it was like national go-out-of-town week or what because like Every Door we knocked on no one was there... Even our members! But hey that's No worries. At least we aren't getting beat up and robbed like we did in Council Bluffs  (JK mom I have never been robbed or attacked.)

I like being in Omaha, In a couple of weeks the Omaha zone's are participating in a musical fireside that will be super awesome I'm sure. I might be in a quartet or something with a few other missionaries so that should be fun!

So there is a member here that is From Twin Falls! Her name is Sister Call. She is related to the Crowley's and so we had a nice time reminiscing about the promised land. Its pretty funny because a few weeks ago Lauren Crowley emailed me and told me to watch out for her family and I thought there was no way I'd ever see them... and now here I am in their ward. Pretty ironic!

Well Love you all!

Elder Carter