July 28, 2014 weekly update~

Hey Everyone, this week was sweet. We got like, 5 referrals this week. Thats a lot for Alaska. We also got 12 member findings. A member finding is when a member wants to share the gospel with someone and asks us to help. We set a goal for 12 this month and reached that goal last week, and this week we got 12 more haha. One member who just moved here said her mom wants to be baptised, and so we set up an appointment for Friday. w00t We helped someone build a part of their house this week, that was cool. Put up some supports and some Logs to hold it up. I didn't take anypictures this week though, so .. sorry. haha Well I hope you are all well, miss ya ! Love Elder Pawson

look what the Young Women from GR Stake sent me! (July 21, 2014)

my camera is h igh enough megapixels that you should be able to read them all. aren't they wonderful?

Here are a couple pictures Elder Pawson sent to me

I sent a picture with some stuff in it. Your belt you sent me, the one dad sent me, the red and blue striped tie is from elder springer, or..rj i guess. And a tie i traded ELder Webster for, ask andrew and jack what it reminds them of, they better say Minecraft cuz that what it reminds me of haha.

July 21, 2014 Baptism Nall, old war ruins and forgot to text in again

This week was pretty sweet! Saturday we had a baptism. Shirley Nall was baptised. She met her husband over the internet while he was in Florida, and they got married in Vegas and he moved in with her in Seldovia. She was so prepared when he shared the gospel, and now they are planning hteir temple trip and mission haha. Pretty sweet! Last monday we went and checked out some old War ruins. I haven't gotten a straight answer on whether they are WWII or Cold War Radar stations, but they are tight. It was kind of private property so we were hididn gfrom construction trucks. It was fun haha. On the picture where I am standing on the one that slid down, I actually slipped climbing up there and slid like 50 feet down a gravel hill. Got all dirty haha. Ha. so funny story. I forgot to text in again, I don't know if I told the story about Big Lake, but yea, we text in at night to let our leaders know we are home, well I left the phone in the trucka nd went ot bed. Well President called our bishop and told him to go check on us, he couldn't get in and we wouldn't wake up, so he tried to break in. The police caught him and told him we were probably out having a good time on friday night, but he tried to explain we are missionaries and don't do that. Eventually they woke up Elder Webster, I was still knocked out. This was around midnight, it was pretty hilarious. Bishop was a little upset but he isn't mad. Well that was my week. Love yall! HOpe you are all well! Love Elder Pawson

July 14, 2014 Hand cart Douglas

hey everyone, this week was sweet. Monday we visited a member who has been struggling with kidney stones that are caused by something unkown. She asked us to give her a blessing and we were happy too, and it was way good. We shared a lesson about how CHrist has overcome the world, so we can get by trials. John 16:33. Tuesday we met President RObinson. Ho boy, he is awesome! He is so fired up and wants to do so much good here. He's a hugger too, so thats a nice change. President Beelsey wasn't much into that haha. Well kind of. We have a baptism on Saturday! That is exciting. Shirley Nall, who just married a member, is getting baptised! She is way excited and already is planning her mission and temple sealing. pretty tight like unto a dish. We helped set up a yard sale for a non member too, and he had this cart for firewood. we used it to bring stuff from the house to the shop, and you pulled it like a handcart, so finally I got to be a pioneer haha.. Love you all, hope you are well. Elder Pawson

July 13, 2014 My 10 Favourite memories of Grandpa

My mission president said it would be a good idea to list my 10 favourite memories of grandpa, and I would like to share them with you! :) Admittedly, it was hard to come up with 10 specific events, because most of the good times I had with him I remember more as feelings and happiness, but I did come up with a sweet list :) These are in no particular order! 1. I loved visiting him in Puerto Rico. It was so fun to see El Morro and to just be on vacation in Puerto Rico with you guys. It was something I always looked forward to, and even more so when you moved to Wisconsin! 2. I loved goign to Wisconsin for Thanksgiving. Sleeping in the condo and spending the holiday shopping with you guys and watching thanksgiving football with grandpa was always so fun!! 3. Costa Rica. I didn't even want to go originally! I'm not sure why, i just didn't feel like I wanted to. But while we were there it was so fun! It reminded me of the vacations to Puerto Rico, all of us just hanging out having a blast. 4. Another thing I loved is how he would always try to make fun of me or somethign I was doing, but he could never keep a straight face or would start laughing. It was awesome, and I loved it! 5. One thing I remember a lot was how we would visit in Wisconsin, and we would go play Nintendo, and grandpa would always talk about how he played those games back ni the 80s. 6. I loved watching football on Sundays with him. We always cheered for the same team and it was such a blast! 7. One thing I loved about him was how badly he wanted me to get an education, but as long as I was doing something worthwhile with my life, he was happy and supported me. 8. He took me to a brewers game once! I remember having so much fun there, and thats when I became a brewers fan, but not more than the tigers! 9. I had a lot of fun going tubing and cruising on the boat with Aunt Sue when grandma and grandpa would come to visit! 10. The biggest thing I love and will miss is just how happy he was when I was around him, or when I would call him. He was such a light in the world and will be missed, but I know I will see him again! Hope you enjoy! Love you all! Elder Pawson

July 7, 2014 weekly update

Well this week was good. Interesting at least. We have been working hard to try and get the work moving here, and its slowly but surely getting going. We have an investigator who is getting baptised soon! She met an LDS guy on an online dating site, and he shared the gospel with her, and she loved it! She was really prepared. They got married a few weeks ago and He is coming up to baptise her, and he gets here this week. So I think next week is the service. Pretty awesome! We have been doing a lot of active member lessons, trying to help them to share the gospel. We show a video from hasteningthework.lds.org and talk about how we can be the toolbox to help them share the gospel. It's been going well, people are excited to share the gospel I think. 4th of July was good. We went to a barbeque and then we went and tried to visit people. It was hard though, since everyone was at the parade. In a town like HOmer, literally everyone goes to the parade. So we though, "who doesn't celebrate 4th of July?" and boom, it hit us, russians! so we went to the Russian village, but by the time we found it we had to turn around and go to dinner haha. Well that stunk but what can you do, atleast we found it now! haha. We get to drive up to Soldotna tomorrow and meet our new mission president! I'm excited! He seems really awesome and I'm excited to see what he does with the mission. Well I hope you are all well, love you all! Elder Pawson