So...there has been a lot going on these last few weeks and we fell behind a bit. Family reunion, and a fractured ankle for the Dad of the missionary requiring surgery, a hospital stay, and now a stay in a physical rehab facility. Whew!
July 16: Hello everyone, how is everyone doing? I hope everything is going all right. I just sent a letter for Sarah, it probably will show up in your mailbox within several days. Everything is going good here. I did some service on Friday. Phil has been smoke-free for almost 13 days now, several more days and after several more lessons, he will be ready for baptism. Yesterday we went tracting and we found a few potential investigators, we'll see what happens from there. I miss you all and talk to you all later
Letter sent to little sister: Dear Sarah: I'm having a great time here on my mission. Sure, I have had a few tough days on my mission, but we get through them. What I do here as a missionary is to "invite others to come unto Christ, by helping them receive the restored gospel." We teach those who are not members of our Church by teaching them the gospel and encouraging them to read the Book of Mormon. From there, we see if they have the desire to be baptized.
Montana is great! Almost everybody has a dog. On Friday night, we helped a member collect hay and stash it up, and she had a few horses on her property.
We are currently teaching someone named Phil, and he has a strong desire to be baptized and to come unto Christ.
Anyways, I hope you are getting better and I miss you and the rest of the family. Thank you for the pictures, and I love you all. Love, your brother...
July 23: Hi, how is it going? I'm glad that Sarah got that letter. I hope Dad gets better soon. Well things are going well here. Phil finished reading the Book of Mormon yesterday. We also gave Taft a general conference talk to read and he said that he will read it. Transfer is almost over, and work is going well here. Sorry that it's not much here to say. Things are going great and talk to you all later.
Thursday, July 26, 2012
Monday, July 9, 2012
Weekly email - 9 July 2012
Here's the weekly e-mail!
Hi, how is everyone doing? I'm mostly surprized that it is hot over there. I miss all of you guys. I think it's cool that you guys got to go to the movies the other day. I hope Sarah gets better from her cold. Elder Banks is doing a whole lot better. Phil came to church yesterday. He seemed to have enjoyed it. We also got him to do the stop smoking program and he's been smoke free for almost a week and after that week, that will be another step towards baptism. We gave talks in one of our wards that we are covering and that went well. They gave us only a few days to prepare. I sure miss being able to have a few months to prepare. Talk to you all later.
Hi, how is everyone doing? I'm mostly surprized that it is hot over there. I miss all of you guys. I think it's cool that you guys got to go to the movies the other day. I hope Sarah gets better from her cold. Elder Banks is doing a whole lot better. Phil came to church yesterday. He seemed to have enjoyed it. We also got him to do the stop smoking program and he's been smoke free for almost a week and after that week, that will be another step towards baptism. We gave talks in one of our wards that we are covering and that went well. They gave us only a few days to prepare. I sure miss being able to have a few months to prepare. Talk to you all later.
Thursday, July 5, 2012
Weekly email - 2 July 2012
Okay, so I'm a few days late in posting this. I blame it on this extreme heat that we're having. Anyway, it's always good to hear from our missionary!
Hi, how is everyone doing? Happy belated Canada day, and Happy Birthday Mom, best wishes to you, hope today goes great for you. I saw that picture of Sarah feeding the horses and i'm glad that she's feeling better from that little shock. I got to meet the new mission president on saturday, President Mecham, he seems really cool. He's going to be mission president for the rest of my mission.
Also i met one of my fellow missionaries: his name is Elder Rust i think, who happens to be an old friend of Collin Ritchie back from when they were living in Georgia. He didn't know that President Ritchie was once stake president until i said to him that President Ritchie was once stake president. He seems like a nice guy.
Yesterday's fast did go well for me. My companion was sick yesterday, so we couldn't do much yesterday, but he is doing better. I hope everything goes well and again, happy birthday mom, Carpe Diem. Talk to you all later.
Hi, how is everyone doing? Happy belated Canada day, and Happy Birthday Mom, best wishes to you, hope today goes great for you. I saw that picture of Sarah feeding the horses and i'm glad that she's feeling better from that little shock. I got to meet the new mission president on saturday, President Mecham, he seems really cool. He's going to be mission president for the rest of my mission.
Also i met one of my fellow missionaries: his name is Elder Rust i think, who happens to be an old friend of Collin Ritchie back from when they were living in Georgia. He didn't know that President Ritchie was once stake president until i said to him that President Ritchie was once stake president. He seems like a nice guy.
Yesterday's fast did go well for me. My companion was sick yesterday, so we couldn't do much yesterday, but he is doing better. I hope everything goes well and again, happy birthday mom, Carpe Diem. Talk to you all later.
Sunday, July 1, 2012
Letter from the mission president, Pres. Gardner
Elder Page is in the back row, far left.
We got the traditional letter from Elder Page's mission president, Pres. Gardner. He put Elder Page's mailing address in there, plus some helpful info about sending packages, so here it an excerpt:
Elder Page's new address is:
Elder Daniel Page
30 Reinig St
Belgrade, MT 59714
"Missionaries love mail, especially early on. Just as much as they should be writing to you on a weekly basis, we would hope that you would also write positive, encouraging letter to them every week. (italics added) It does wonders for the work. Missionaries are only allowed 30-40 minutes to e-mail each week, so we suggest that a mass mailing or an email forwarding system be established for communicating with the extended family.
When you send a package for your missionary by way of the Mission Office, please send it by First Class or Priority mail only. That way the package can be forwarded to him without additional cost. Otherwise, it will cost the same amount again to be forwarded to him. On the envelope or package, please include their first names, as we have several missionaries with the same last name."
So, some good advice about sending packages! We're looking forward to Elder Page's next email!
Monday, June 25, 2012
Email - 25 June 2012
Here's the usual p-day e-mail from our missionary. Now that he's out in the field, we figure that the Monday e-mails will become the pattern. Anyway, this is a great e-mail - it sounds like his first week out in the mission field has been quite eventful!
hi, how is everything going back home with the family? I hope everything is going all right. Belgrade is about 148 miles from Billings, i think, and we live in a member's home, i'll find out the address and see if you could send things directly there.
We had a special fast on Saturday for the missionary work and remember how i would get really huge headaches when i try to fast, well this time i didn't get any headaches. So this is the first time that i suceeded in fasting, except for the part that i got dehydrated and had to drink something, other then that it went really well. On the day of the fast we tracked into a guy named Patrick who was fixing his truck and he allowed us to come back after he gets his truck fixed, and we think he is someone who is ready to hear the gospel.
Also yesterday, we tracked into [a] grandson of Ezra Taft Benson. He went to his door and he had a couple of dogs who normally bark at strangers, but they did not bark at us at all but came up to us as they knew who we were. He let us in and we talked to him for a bit and apparently he was excommunicated over issues that i don't want to go into detail about, and he felt like he was wronged. He said that we could come back, even though he said it might be a waste of our time. He told us that he let us in because he felt something different about us and that his dogs did not bark at us. I told my companion that i felt that the Spirit led us there to his house, that we were led there for a purpose which might be for us to bring him back into the fold, we'll see how things go from there. Anyway, i hope things are going well and talk to you all later.
hi, how is everything going back home with the family? I hope everything is going all right. Belgrade is about 148 miles from Billings, i think, and we live in a member's home, i'll find out the address and see if you could send things directly there.
We had a special fast on Saturday for the missionary work and remember how i would get really huge headaches when i try to fast, well this time i didn't get any headaches. So this is the first time that i suceeded in fasting, except for the part that i got dehydrated and had to drink something, other then that it went really well. On the day of the fast we tracked into a guy named Patrick who was fixing his truck and he allowed us to come back after he gets his truck fixed, and we think he is someone who is ready to hear the gospel.
Also yesterday, we tracked into [a] grandson of Ezra Taft Benson. He went to his door and he had a couple of dogs who normally bark at strangers, but they did not bark at us at all but came up to us as they knew who we were. He let us in and we talked to him for a bit and apparently he was excommunicated over issues that i don't want to go into detail about, and he felt like he was wronged. He said that we could come back, even though he said it might be a waste of our time. He told us that he let us in because he felt something different about us and that his dogs did not bark at us. I told my companion that i felt that the Spirit led us there to his house, that we were led there for a purpose which might be for us to bring him back into the fold, we'll see how things go from there. Anyway, i hope things are going well and talk to you all later.
Thursday, June 21, 2012
21 June 2012 E-mail
Here's the latest from Elder Page:
Hi, I arrived in Montana safely a couple days ago. I am currently in Belgrade and my companion's name is Elder Banks. He is really nice. So far Montana is beautiful. i love it here. They have a Hardees in Billings, which i haven't seen since Kentucky. My companion tells me that we have an investigator that he was teaching that committed to baptism on August 3rd i think, he just needs to quit smoking before that could happen, and his name is Phil. In the mission office they had me write a letter to you all, but you might get this before you get the letter. Things are going good here and i hope things are going well over there.
We looked up Belgrade on Google Maps, and it is right in the mountains, population 7,389 according to the 2010 census. It is also not too far from Bozeman, which is where my Grandma Lu Knapp was born in 1929. How cool is that?!
Hi, I arrived in Montana safely a couple days ago. I am currently in Belgrade and my companion's name is Elder Banks. He is really nice. So far Montana is beautiful. i love it here. They have a Hardees in Billings, which i haven't seen since Kentucky. My companion tells me that we have an investigator that he was teaching that committed to baptism on August 3rd i think, he just needs to quit smoking before that could happen, and his name is Phil. In the mission office they had me write a letter to you all, but you might get this before you get the letter. Things are going good here and i hope things are going well over there.
We looked up Belgrade on Google Maps, and it is right in the mountains, population 7,389 according to the 2010 census. It is also not too far from Bozeman, which is where my Grandma Lu Knapp was born in 1929. How cool is that?!
Sunday, June 17, 2012
Week 3 email - 16 June 2012
Kind of a short email this week. It's hard to believe that he'll be leaving the MTC this coming Tuesday and be heading to the mission field. Here's where the rubber hits the road. Anyway, in an e-mail to him, I had asked him how he found the MTC, and about what he had learned there. Here's his e-mail:
hey there, how is everyone doing? ... Thanks for the package, i got it yesterday. The MTC was difficult in some ways but it taught me a few things that i need to know to be a good missionary. Come Tuesday, I will be in Montana. I got Sarah's letter from Dear Elder and tell her i miss her too. I hope everything is going well and talk to you guys later.
As of Tuesday, 19 June, he'll be in his assigned area. You can always send a letter to him at the mission office address (on the side bar) or send an e-mail to his e-mail address.
hey there, how is everyone doing? ... Thanks for the package, i got it yesterday. The MTC was difficult in some ways but it taught me a few things that i need to know to be a good missionary. Come Tuesday, I will be in Montana. I got Sarah's letter from Dear Elder and tell her i miss her too. I hope everything is going well and talk to you guys later.
As of Tuesday, 19 June, he'll be in his assigned area. You can always send a letter to him at the mission office address (on the side bar) or send an e-mail to his e-mail address.
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