March 8,2011

This week was great, but a little slow. Transfer calls were this week and i
get to stay in my Area, with my same companion, things are gonna explode in this
area! We had a miracle of finding 6 people to put on date for Baptism in a week,
but 4 of them have fallen off and we cannot get a hold of them, we are not
discouraged just yet and we try many many times to get a hold of them, its just
really sad.

One of our investigators name is Svetlana. She is 19 and adopted from
Russia. She has some issues and doesn't hang out with the right kind of people.
We had an appointment scheduled for Wednesday, we decided to take the Maxwell's
with us (the senior couple missionaries searving in our ward). She apparently
ran away the day before and the police were searching for her with no luck. She
swore she would never come back and that she hated it at her house with her
parents. We got a phone call that she had come back because she remebered we
were comming, the next day we rushed over there and when we got there Svetlana
would not smile or talk at all, except to put down her mother sitting right next
to her. it was a hard lesson, then we started teaching about Christ. The spirit
was deffinetly there, by the end of the lesson she was smiling and laughing and
just beaming. It was the greatest spirit i have felt in a lesson so far on my
mission. Her mother, a practiing jew, wants us to come back and with tears
thanked us for helping her daughter, we have a return appointment for thsi
thursday.

We recieved a phone call form the assistants, again, asking if we could
help a lady move, of course we did. She was newly married and found her husband
cheating with multiple woman he is finding online. she had to be out that day
before he came home, She is not a memeber, we helped as best we could but she
was just so broken and stressed and she just sat and cried praying out lound for
help. We taught her about the priesthood and gave her a blessing, we
accomplished more in that next hour than we had in the previous 3. She was also
lively and cracking jokes and actually smiling. After, her father tried to pay
us, of course we refused, we didnt think much of it and left. Her father and her
and now investigating the church in federal way because of our example. I'm not
trying to brag, but people notice and want to know why we are different, the
best missionaries in my opionion lead and begin there work by example.

I let my companion cut my hair, it's so expensive out here and we dont have
a lot of money so i let him. It's a number 4 all around, ahahaha. I look so
different, its not bad and i dont have to do anything to it after the shower,
but i dont know if i like it ya know? Last, we had a overwhelming miracle
happen, in my ward there are two sets of elders, one covers Queen Anne and
Downtown (me), and the other covers Magnolia and Ballard. Sarting this morning
there are no more boundries. Seattle 1 A and 1 B are now just Seattle 1. We all
cover all four areas and whoever you find, you teach. I love you all, thanks for
the support and prayers talk to you soon!

Elder Trevor Williamson

February 21, 2011

Hello, 

 This week was the most amazing week of my mission so far!! Miracle after
miracle after miracle has been happening! On Tuesday morning we get a call from
our zone leaders, they tell us that they have been praying and they feel like we
can put someone on date for Baptism today, we were excited and determined to
work hard. Later that morning, we recived a call from President Larkin promising
us that we can put someone on date for baptism, by that time were were so
excited and so inspired, we were going to do everything we could to put someone
on date that day. To top it all off we recieved a very similar call from the
Assistants telling us the same thing!!!! We knew this was going to happen and
that the lord was going to bless us. We did everything we could. We found a girl
that let us teach her, we committed her to Baptism, she declined she said she
would call us later to learn more. There was a potential Elder Bjarnson
remebered about and we decied to go and see her. She told us to teach her
daughter, she is now a new investigator and we are planning on teaching her and
her mother next week! A less-active member called and invited us to dinner and
said she was bringing 2 non-members for us to teach, we were so excited!!! We
had already planned on going on exchanges so i left and apparently that lesson
didnt go very well. The next day we were bummed, we felt like failures. We were
givin this amazing promise and we didnt accomplish it. President Larkin, you
called us that morning and renewed our faith by telling us they are still out
there. We planned a whole day of finding, and at 8:00pm we actually planned as a
back-up plan a miracle. We were conatcting and we needed to make a pit-stop, so
we headed over to the church, Elder Bjarnson looked at me and said "it's 7:30
and we havent found someone, what are we going to do?" I said we should kneel
and pray. We went to the chapel and i gave the most heartfelt and sincere prayer
i have ever givin. I was in tears pleading with my father in heaven to bless us
with this miracle. I felt impressed to go to Nishani and Sean's house. We found
them while contacting about 2 weeks ago. We rushed over there. We were able to
put them on date for March 19th. My testimony of prayer has increased so much! I
have learned to never give up and to always be believing, this is how i know
that this is God work, because he is willing to help us when we ask. 

Not much else has hapened this week, we did recieve a referral to a family
that the husband took lessons and the only eason he is not Baptized is because
he was living with his ex, but now he is not and we are going to put him on date
tomorrow!!! My missionis so awesome!!! Thanks for everything everyone does for
me and the prayers on my behalf! I love you all and hopefully talk to you all
next week!

February 14,2011

Dear Avid Readers,

 

     This is week number 13...... I think..... Anyway this week was
amazing! I loved it, one of m favorite weeks so far. As you remember i am in
downtown Seattle, here everyone is in a huge rush to go everywhere, we meet so
so so many new people but no one has the time or even wants to talk to us. Our
average lessons per week is 5 or less. That sounds pathetic, it's because it
is. 

 

     Everything i am wearing, well besides the suit jackets it hug on me
now! haha I could jump out of a plane and be completely ok because i have
parachute pants on! As much as i want them to be they are not in style, darn.
I get some funny looks sometimes but i don't think many people really notice.
Our mission is going through a lot of changes right now, well just one
really, NO MUSIC ALLOWED besides hymns, crazy huh!? well he doesn't restrict the
artists, they just have to be hymns.

 

     I actually get to go on my first 24 hour Exchange tomorrow, cool huh!?
It's where you go with your district leader and are his companion for 24 hours.
My district leader covers The University 1st ward, i get to proselyte in red
sqaure to college kids all day long!!! Our area has not been doing to well as i
explaned earlier, Elder Bjarnson and I decided to talk to every single person we
see, i mean Everybody! The next day we find someone to teach! his name is Walter
he is homeless, but by choice, he loves it. He thinks the world is against him
and everyone wants to kill him..... he is a little crazy! 

 

     We decided to drive home one night without the GPS and we turned
onto a one way road, the wrong way. It was so scary, so to get off we turned off
the road onto another one way road hahahaha scary!! We decied to be completley
obedient and we found a new investigators and set up 8 lessons for next week.
Miracles happen to those who obay him! I love you all 

January 31, 2011

Hey Everyone!!!

 Hey, this week has been Crazy!!! First off, as you all know i didn't get
transfered so i got o saty in my area for longer! My companion's name is Elder
Larson, he is pretty awesome. So wednesday morning we found out there was some
complications with some Elders so Elder Reed (the missionary from Highline
Samoan ward) had to come with us for the rest of the week. So for the week we
had to cover the samoan ward and the Beverly Park Ward. So we drove all over the
mission to just find people that Elder Reed didnt know. So we got nothing really
done. 

 

Saturday we taught Sharon. We put her on date for March 5th!!! Whoo!! she
wants to be baptized beacuse she knows and wants to follow Jesus Christ, she is
amazing. So, i get a call on sunday Morning at 8:00am from the assistants. They
ask me if i can be packed and ready to go monday morning at 11:00 am, i'm
getting transfered. I was so sad, i love this ward so so so so so much! At
church the bishop had me bear my testimony and i almost started crying, i did
cry aftermy last lesson with Cindy and Dennis Clark, we gave Dennis a blessing
and he is just full of faith, he told me "i'll miss you buddy," he is 5 and has
never had a dad, i took it on myself to be there fro him and now i'm leaving,
its so sad. But the lord will provide right? Right!

I will miss the Beverly Park ward dearly, but Seattle north is where i am
now! Elder Bjarnson and I are going to tear it up downtown and turn this area
around, well thats all i have to say right now so........ bye!!! Love you
all!!!!

January 25,2011

Hello Everyone,

Well to start out, Transfers came and went, I got a new Compainon his name
is Elder Larsen, i dont know much about him but he seems really nice and he is
supposed to be a really really hard worker. I am still in my same area! 4 and a
half months in Beverly Park Whoo!!!!! I love this area, i hope to saty here my
whole miss.... well maybe just a year, maybe a year and a half..... Maybe.

So, on the culture day we went to downtown seattle and visited a little old
store called Ye Old Curiosity Shop, they sold the craziest stuff, everything
from jewlry and candy, to shrunken heads and Pertified dog. No joke. We also
went to pikes place market and china town, those stories are for a later date. 

Addie's Baptizm was so perfect!!! she came out of the water with a smile
that can only come from knowing your right with god. She has had a change
wraught in her that only god can bring about. Seeing that makes all the
heartache and struggles so worth it!!! I love my mission and i would have always
regretted it if i didn't go. Not much happened this week, but we have big plans
for this week!! Until next time!

 

Love you all,

Elder Trevor Williamson

January 18,2011

Hey Everyone,

Sorry i didnt e-mail yesterday, it was a crazy day. Elder Jensen took his
Culture day. it was amazing, but more on that later. Last week was interviews
with President Larkin. It was the first one I have had. We talked a lot about
goals and we set a few for me to try and acomplish while on my mission. I am
really starting to love goals, it helps you improve :) Next we had a zone-blitz
in our area. That is where all the missionaries in our zone tract in one area
for a couple of hours. We had no success in finding anyone...... sad :( oh well.
Our mission set a new record of putting 16 people on date for baptism in one
day!!!! WHOO!!! Remember the family we found after taking the wrong bus? Well we
finally got in! We have another lesson tonight and we are planning on extending
the Baptismal commitment the dad actually met with missionaries in the past and
liked it a lot so thats a huge plus!!!

 

Well guys i have officially been out for 3 months!!! Crazy huh? HAHAHA
anyway, Addie's Baptism is on Friday and she has decided we are giving the talks
again so that should be really really great :) I'm excited. There is a new
investigator we are teaching, her name is Sharon, she is Crazy!! She will get
you to laught within 3 seconds of meeting her, this last time we met she was
wearing a bright green one piece dress thing a graduation gown over it and
monkey slippers hahahaha, she is really really fun. So my bag was taken at
church, there was a family that came in and the parents live on the border of
Canada and they accidently thought it was theres and took it. It had my wallet
Camera and everything in it. Sean Pierson left his scripturs at church and
Harrison, our ride, took them back, we actually ran into that family and i got
my bag back!!!! Amazingly lucky!!! Transfers are this tuesday so i wont e-mail
until then but maybe i will be moved maybe i wont, there is a huge chance, like
85% chance that i will get a new companion so hopefully i get a good one :) I
love you all, until next week!

 

Elder Trevor Williamson

January 10,2011

Hello Everyone,

 

Last preparation day was spent on the crazy island of Vashon, It is it;s
own little world, seriously. Everyone there is pretty much insane, there is one
grocery store, and the place to go is "The Hardware Store" it's a restaurant.
HAHAHA The missionaries there are completely crazy, i love them, every night
they play one game of chess and one game of mental chess, don't ask. When we
went to Vashon we played a four man game of chess, they beat us in like 10 moves
CRAZY!!!! Also on Vashon, there was a guy that hid a bike from his brother in a
tree and apparently forgot where he put it, the tree has grown around it!!! its
so cool!

 

This week was pretty good, on Monday we went to Applebee's, it felt just
like home :) There is a family in our ward that are the parents of this ward,
they are pretty much related to everyone, they are both in there 90's and have
great great grandchildren all living in this area!! They are the nicest people
ever! There son in law gave them a bunch of books for Christmas, they are all
about death, what!? who gives there parents books about death! Anyone one looks
really good, it's called "Embraced by the light," get it, read it, love it!
There is a lady named Betsey White, she was taught by the missionaries for
years, i mean years! and she never would make a commitment to be baptized, we
went and helped her build a gate, she is really warming up to us so hopefully we
will get her baptized, she could be baptized tomorrow if she wanted! Last
Wednesday we had a Zone meeting and set goals, Our Mission Goal for 2011 is
1,000 convert baptisms!!!! Whoo!!!!! We can do it! Our Zone Goal for January is
25, we are well on track, if every zone got 25 a month, which is do able, we
would make 1,000 look way easy!!!! The lord is ready to bless this mission, but
are we ready? hmmm.......

 

Well if you didn't know, my knee has been killing me! So i finally went to
the Doctor. I went to a sport injury specialist. They told me after x-rays and
doing crazy things with my legs and stuff that i have a inflamed tendon. It is a
tendon that doesn't even matter and unless it hurts you wouldn't even know its
there. They asked if i want a shot, hahaha Guess what i said, yep your right,
HECK NO!! hahaha. They told me to ice it every night and to use a brace, if that
doesn't work i have to get the shot, if that doesn't work it will be time for
surgery, hopefully the ice just works :)

 

We went back to the 25 cent thrift store where i got my Echos, well i found
a super nice pair of Bostonians for 25 cents so i bought them! also i bought my
companion a pair of B-E-A-utiful pair of Hugo Boss shoes! I wanted them so bad!
they were size 14. Oh well :) There is a lady in my ward that is
completely crazy but in an awesome way, remember Sister Clark? Well she got her
Grandson, whom she is raising, a Wii. He is literally addicted hahaha he
actually pooped his pants because he had to beat a level hahahaha he is about 7.

 

Well last time I E-mailed i had two people on date, well Kala fell off :(
She is becoming president of her non-denominational youth group and is to
busy to talk to us, it really stinks. :( God will provide!! Here is something on
a better note, i found $20 on the street!!! hahaha super lucky! Now back to sad
but inspiring, There is a lass active Member in our ward her name is Rachel her
daughter is suffering from kidney failure. Its so bad the doctors said she could
just not wake up one day...... We had a prompting to see her, we went and found
out they found one of her friends that was a match and was going to donate her
kidney, she needed to quit smoking for one year, after six months she was
smoking again :( Then someone died in Idaho that was a donor that matched!!!
They flew it over and it died on the plane. My heart is broken for this family,
i was prompted to share Alma 40: 11 it says the all spirits after they die are
"Taken home to that God who game them life." Her sister is going to donate but
she has to wait one year after having children, she will be ready soon, i hope
that she will be able to recover soon. After all that Rachel still wakes up
every morning and thanks God for everything she has and for watching out for her
daughter. Rachel is the example we should base our laves after, she even with
her trials accepts God knows best and no matter what happens He is there and He
will carry her through.

 

I love you all.

Elder Trevor Williamson