Elder Pack

 I wanted to record Ethan's grateful posts for the #GiveThanks challenge given to us by President Nelson.  Enjoy!

   Hey everyone! Yesterday I had to say goodbye to Elder Unruh, my trainer and first companion. I got to stay with him for 4 and a half months! He is a great trainer and I'm sad to say goodbye. Also, I will be training as well, so if you'd like, you could include my new companion and me in your prayers. It will make a huge difference! I'm kind of nervous but excited, haha! That gratitude video that President Nelson put out was great! Gratitude really does make a difference in our thinking. I know that there are some things in our lives that we can always be grateful for, even if there is literally nothing else. Some of those include the atonement of Jesus Christ, the chance to live with our families again, and the knowledge that there is life after death, again with our families. These things, plus many others, are the eternal truths that will always exist, and that will never go away. I'm also still staying in Wellington for the next little bit at least. The work is re...

  Hey everyone!  Things have been good here. We had a sweet experience with a referral who didn't actually click on one of the Facebook ads, but still somehow got sent to us with her information. The coolest part was that she was open to a message! So we are going to be teaching her tonight. It is going to be cool! We have found a few new people to teach. The work is moving forward. Thanks for all of your support. Sorry, this is a shorter email, but it has been a busy pday. See ya! From, Elder Pack Ps. The gross looking pictures are exactly what you think it is. That Elder had a bit too much fun on the whirly thing at the park after eating McDonalds. Ethan is wearing all the warm clothes he can find. This elder lost it when they drove around a round-about after eating McDonald's and going on a whirly thing.  I don't know why they thought pictures were a good thing.   Ethan and Elder Unruh.  This was Elder Unruh's last pday.  He goes home next Tuesday a...

  Hey all! I hope things are going well for you all. I didn't get to write an email last week because I got to go through the Fort Collins temple! It was pretty cool. I'm grateful that I got to go, and that my family got to come out and see me for it too! We have been encouraged to be more creative in finding. So, as part of it, I posted something on the Facebook page in Wellington asking if anyone was willing to teach me any skill (I might have told you all this already but I can't remember). So, someone said they could teach me how to fuse glass, and someone else said they could teach me the book of Acts. So, I got to fuse glass! However, that person was already a member, albeit a non-active one, so we're going to try to figure out what's going on. I'm also going to be offering free family photos with my better camera to see if anyone would be interested.  Otherwise, not a lot is going on, other than us finding two more people to teach! It's been a while, ...

Hey everyone! This is Michelle.  You get me this week because Ethan didn't write a letter home because...he was in the Fort Collins Temple taking out his own endowments...and we were there!  So he was a bit busy to write home so I thought I would give you the update on him. Ethan is doing really well.  When the Fort Collins Temple went to Phase 2 we were told we would be able to go through with him and we were so excited.  After a couple months of waiting for our turn, we were on a plane early  Tuesday morning  on our way to Colorado.   Their zone had Zone Conference Tuesday so the rest of their Zone had p-day Monday, but since Ethan was going through the temple, they did regular work on Monday then took Tuesday as p-day and will attend a different Zone's conference on Wednesday.  Kind of crazy but the temple takes priority. We were given permission to spend one hour with Ethan so we decided it would be easiest to take him and Elder Unruh to ...

 This is the appointment schedule for the first time Ethan went through the temple.