Bryce's birthday and last visit with Mullens

June 29, 2015
Hey everyone!

It's been a pretty good birthday week!

Monday we picked up a new investigator and she's super nice and open. her name is Kayla and she's a single mom who's working on finding a job. We told her about LDS employment and she's super excited..

Tuesday we had a few good lessons and we had a good day. Lots of good work.

President and Sister Mullins

Wednesday was good. we did service for Sis. Moosmen, a single sister in the ward, she was really nice. We pulled weeds and enjoyed the heat. That evening we went to an investigator's and helped her quit a certain illegal substance. it was interesting. we also found out some other interesting stuff about Spokane and it's reputation on Sprague Ave. Very informative!

Thursday was weekly planning and a lesson with the collins family, they're awesome! They're preparing for baptism, hopefully in the next couple weeks! We also had a nice visit with Kayla and she is super excited to come to church.

Spencer Larsen

Friday was muffins with the Mullens, it was really good, but it's sad to say bye to the Mullens, I'm going to miss them! I also got packages from Grandma and grandpa, the family, and Marlee, it was exciting opening them all! lots of great stuff! thanks everybody! We had cafe rio for lunch and then the Luna family made Carne Asada for dinner. It was great!

Saturday it was 104 out and we just fried the whole day. tons of water breaks and not NFL player Spencer Larsen was there and he's a super chill guy. It was fun.

Sunday was pretty uneventful. church and some

 hot proselyting in the evening.pretty good week overall!

Love ya'all!

Elder Griffin

Baptism preparation, temple visits and service

June 22, 2015

Hey everyone, it's been a busy week!

Elder Jorgensen, Brandon, Elder Griffin at the temple.

Monday night we had an interesting lesson with a slightly drunk, large, black women, she was straight from the south and she flirted with Elder Jorgensen the whole conversation. It was very interesting and definitely memorable. She even hugged us both several times -- only super uncomfortable!

Tuesday we had dinner with some members and they took us to Hu Hot, it was super tasty! Ii was a good visit and afterwards we had a great lesson with Brandon in preparation for going to the temple for baptisms with him on Thursday.

Wednesday we had a super busy day planned and all of our appointments fell through. It was super funny and we made it fun, even though it was a bit of a bummer.

Thursday we had planning, it went super good and we got a lot done. That evening we went to the temple with Brandon and it was such a great experience. He kept talking about how amazing it was and it was better than he'd imagined and it was just great. He even gave us a referral afterward. 

Friday we did exchanges and I had fun with Elder Mayberry. He was nice. We had some really great lessons and even talked to a few angry people. One guy was really mad, it was kinda funny because he was telling us anti and he was the one who was upset.

Saturday we did service all day, it was funny because we only planned for about an hour of service and then we got a call and did another two hours and then another call and another two hours. The good news was we got dinner out of it and it was great. Pizza!

Sunday was nice, we taught gospel principles and had a great discussion on the sacrament, the spirit was strong and then we went to priests quorum and had a nice discussion on desire and serving a mission. It was nice and it helped me reconnect a bit with my desire to serve.

It was a good week, lots of fun!

Love you guys!

Elder Griffin

Baptism, Service & a visit from Elder L. Whitney Clayton

Elder Clayton of the Seventy

Monday, June 15, 2015

Hey Everyone!

It's been a great week!

Tuesday we did service for Sis Moseman and it was super fun. She's a sweet little old lady in the ward and she just loves the missionaries! We also helped someone move and had a fun dinner at the Wyburgs (our wml - ward mission leader) It was a great day and we ended it at Brandon ( a recent convert in the ward) and had a really good lesson with him. He's got a huge gospel foundation and studies like crazy.

Elder Molder, Griffin, Kepner, Jorgensen

Wednesday was really hot outside. Up in the 90's, just like home! We did service for an elderly brother in the ward and had a good time. We had dinner with the Vansant family that evening and it was just like Sunday dinner at grandma's house! It was great!

Thursday was weekly planning. We had a good planning session and it's gonna be a good week this week! We also had dinner at another senior couples house and they forced us to eat way too much. That was pretty rough on us since we had to ride our bikes the whole rest of the evening.

Chelsea, Molder, Kepner, Carma, McDougal, Red and Griffin

Friday was interesting, we started getting sick and had to slow down a little bit.  We did have a fun lesson with a la  (less active) lady who loves missionaries and she told us all about the different medication she is on.  It was interesting to say the least. We also picked up a new investigator who's super solid!  

We had a mission conference and Elder Clayton of the Seventy came and gave a really good talk on Christlike attributes and mission work. It was great.

Saturday we went to Karma's baptism back on the Southhill, It was super good to see them and it was a great baptismal service! I also got to see Brother Fletcher again and it was fun to see my old area for a little bit.

Chelsea's baptism

Sunday was  pretty normal, we did get to see Brandon pass the sacrament for the first time and that was really great. He also got a temple recommend and we're planning on going with him for baptisms sometime this week. 

We did have a bbq with a family in the ward, it was super good! I'm excited for summer bbq season!

Love ya'll!

Elder Griffin

Transfers and baptisms

June 8, 2015

Hey everyone!

It's been a nice and busy week in the new area!

Elder Keppner, Griffin and Molder

Tuesday we had a crazy transfer day and moved into a 4 man apartment in the Dishman Micah Ponderosa area. It's exciting! I'm part time car, which is mostly biking and Im super excited to be with my new Companion, Elder Jorgensen. He's super cool! Love him! It was really hard saying bye to Elder Molder And Elder Keppner though.

Chelsea

Wednesday  we had an awesome lesson with Jill who was on date for baptism the 6th of June, it was a super good lesson and she is so excited to be baptized!

Thursday we had an awesome weekly planning session and it was perfect. We are so prepped and organized for the week it's great! We also had a nice service project for an older gentelman in the ward. 

We had a funny experience that morning. We were just starting planning and then we heard a knock on the door. Guess who it is? The JW's! So we had a nice discussion and actually left on pretty good terms. Very interesting that they all seem to end up at our house though. Later in the week we had a baptist preacher stop by as well! It was funny! They got all scared when they saw the name tags! 

Friday was nice, we had a zone meeting and then had an evening full of miracles! We all decided to go to dinner together and on the way there Elder Larsen got pulled over and the officer let him off with no problems.  Then we went to Cafe Rio and a member paid for us out of nowhere! Then  we got free frozen yogurt and I found out that Griffin and Katie are on date for baptism and Griffin wants me to baptize him! It was super exciting!

Saturday was Jill's baptism, it was a super spiritual experience and her family was there to support. It was great. I love baptisms. It was a nice day and we did a lot of biking.

Sunday was full of meetings and we even got to hear from Elder Johnson of the 70. It was a good fireside and just a good day.

Elder Griffin, Keppner and Molder

Super good week and i love my new area! 

Love ya'll! 

have a great week!

Elder Griffin

Teaching Griffin & Katie and Lark

June 1, 2015

Hey Everyone!

This weeks been good!

Thursday we had a great lesson with Griffin and Katie in the park, we also had a sweet lesson with Lark, it was a spiritually charged day and I love Griffin, he's so sincere and excited about the gospel!

Friday Was fun, we had ward game night and it was lots of fun, and great fellowship!

Saturday we did service at hope house again and it was tons of fun! afterwards we went and helped someone move and it was rather frustrating, but good. lots too move and not much packed, oh well, we do what we can.

Sunday was a usual Sunday, except we went with one of our recent  converts to get her patriarchal blessing. It was super spiritual and an awesome experience. That evening we found out about transfer calls, I'm going to ponderosa in the valley and Elder molder is staying here with elder Keppner, it's pretty exciting!

Love ya'll! 

Have a great week!

Elder Griffin

Elder Griffin, Elder Molder
Elder Epps (backseat)

Elder Griffin, Elder Keppner, Elder Molder

Fire side, Zone Conference and new investigators

Wednesday, May 27, 2015
(Monday was a holiday, Tuesday was temple day)

Hey Everyone! 

Its been a good week! Monday night we gave a fireside for the ysa ward and had fun. We did a mini MTC and taught about continued revelation, it was super good.

Tuesday we spent a lot of time with a missionary who has been struggling lately, it was good to talk with him. That evening we had a lesson at the park again and guess who decides to show up? more moody bible students. It was a way cool lesson though because our new investigator (large black man whos name is Griffin) was just like "why you tryin to start contention? What if the Book of Mormon is true? I don't wanna be damned because i didn't see what it has to offer. It says Jesus Christ right on the cover of it!" It was super awesome and the moody bible guys ended up taking a BOM as they left. It turned into a super good lesson after they left and we didn't even get a parking ticket after! It was a blessing!

Wednesday we went to urgent care with one of our recent converts and spent some time helping her as she waited for care, it was good. Not too much else happened.

Thursday we found out the missionary who had been struggling was going home on Friday and we got permission to spend some extra time with him. it was tough, but it was definitely good for him. We also got two new investigators who are super super studious and so it's going to be interesting to see how things work out with them. They have a lot to learn and they want to learn it in depth. It will be fun teaching them.

Friday we spent most of the day at zone conference and the Elder went home, It was really tough to see him go. 

We also had game night with the ysa ward and had fun with some of our investigators there.

Saturday we had a really good lesson with our blind investigator and she's doing so well now, we found her a study buddy and she's been loving the Book of Mormon so much! It's been great! 

Sunday was pretty uneventful, except we had an unusual experience that evening with a recent  move in. She was struggling with depression and we ended up having to run over to her place and make sure she was doing okay. It was a different experience, but she really appreciated our visit.

Monday was interesting, i had to go to the hospital to get my blood drawn and then something just hit me and I was down the rest of the day. I spent most of it with our neighbor Bro Fletcher and things worked out pretty good despite the sudden hit.

Tuesday we had a fun day. We got permission for some missionaries to stay the night because they had a long drive and we were going to the temple together. It was lots of fun and it was nice to see them. We also had a great lesson with Griffin and Katie, plan of salvation. They are super solid, so they had lots of questions but just loved it. We also went on splits and contacted some referrals and found a couple super nice people and picked up one new solid investigator! It was awesome!

That's about it for the week,

Love ya'll!

Elder Griffin

Service and Miracles

May 18, 2015

Hey everyone!

It's been a great week, lots of fun and lots of good work!

Monday we had an awesome family home evening with an active family and a less active family, it was great! Afterwards we went to the ysa family home evening and had a great game of volleyball with the ward. It was fun!

Tuesday we found one of our investigators a study buddy to help her with reading the Book of Mormon. It's been great for her and she's progressing so much now! Before the lesson we were at the park and we saw a magician guy and it was super good and pretty funny!

Wednesday we had a good day, went to the mission office and worked on some things for family history, we also had a super good dinner at the Crumps, mexican pot pie, it was tasty and that evening I got to check up on the Dowells and the Tibbets and they're both doing super good! It felt so good to talk to them and catch up. It really helped me feel better.

Thursday we had a birthday party for Moldy at one of our recent converts house and had super tasty tres leches cake and did service and helped someone move. It was a super good day. We also got weekly planning done and just had a good solid day.

Friday was fun, we had district meeting and went to Costa Vida for lunch.  President Mullen showed up with one of the other districts and it was super funny! We even put his wipers up again and he thought it was a good one! love that guy!

Saturday we did service at the house of charity again preparing and serving food. It was way fun and that afternoon we went to work and had little success. It was kinda frustrating, but on our way back to dinner there was a huge rainstorm that rolled in, so we just did what we could and called it an evening.

Sunday was different, some of the missionaries nearby were struggling with some things so we went and took one of them with me to get a checkup from one of their investigators who is an EMT and then we talked about what he's been struggling with. It was really good and he's doing much better. It was a good fun day and we even saw a miracle during church! We went outside to talk to one of our investigators who went to take a smoke and she had her boyfriend with her, he had been kind of standoffish last time we saw him and so we were kinda nervous to talk to him, but after we talked to him Sunday he opened up to us, talked about how cool it was that Jesus came to America and then said he's going to read the Book of Mormon and gladly come to church and take the discussions. It was super cool! Huge miracle, God is awesome!

love ya'll!

have a great week