5/27/14 Gabrielle and daughters baptized!

Well this week Gabrielle and her daughters were baptised!! The first baptism I've been blessed to be apart of. It was so awesome! The spirit was so strong you could almost feel it. Everyone was trying hard not to weep. I baptised gabrielle (the mom) and the two red headed twins, Aurora and Araina. Elder Stovall baptised Ginger. For the confirmations I did Gabrielle and Ginger, and E. Stovall did the twins. How awesome! So I fed a hawk on my fist. Rhett, is a bird I've written about before, but I was finally allowed to hanlde him. He was a sassypants bird last week and wouldn't cooperate, but this week he stepped right on my hand. With these birds you have to clip a leash to jesses on their legs, so I grabbed one of the jesses and reached for the other, and he just jumped right off. So I held him by one leg til he stopped flailing around and put him on my hand, leashed him, and fed him. it was pretty cool. We had zone conference last week too. we climbed the butte (be-uu-t). It was themed after Zions Camp. We watched the Doctrines and Convenants video for it, which is one of my favourites btw. Then we did hikes where they would make us do things like, carry a huge log up a hill, and then they told us to come back down. While at that point I was really tired, and I had fallen on the way up, so I shouted, "NO, I didn't walk up here just to turn around and walk down!" and if you have watched the Zion's Camp video, thats something that Sylvester Smith says haha. He's the main murmurer. So President started calling me Sylvester. it was pretty fun. So that was my week. Pretty cool I know. I hope things are well with all of you! Love Elder Pawson

5/19/14 weekly update

Well I'm gonna start off by saying I didn't take any pictures last week, So...yea. Sorry about that. this week was kind of slow. Transfers week, I got Elder Hamilton, and that is going pretty good. Gabrielle was interviewed by President Beesley and he also did all the girls too, so they are set for Saturday! They are way excited too. We have been invited everyone to the baptism. There are some senior couples from the office coming, and the missionaries from our district are coming, as well as alot of the ward. Most of the young women are doing a musical number too! It's pretty sweet. One of the members is trying ot see if she has enough money to buy the 3 daughters scriptrues. Its intense. We had already procured a quad for Gabrielle. The guy who served at the Bird center with us left, so we are on our own now. One of the birds, named Rhett, I sent pictuers of home before. He can only be fed on your hand, to train him to come to you. Well they had me try to feed him, and it was super frustrating!! He was just fly around or hop around and avoided me. The lady there said everyone had to go through it at one point, so thats comforting i guess. things are going good here, I hope things are well for all of you! love elder pawson

5/12/14 still in Big Lake

hey everyone! this week was aight. Pretty boring until saturday when I got my transfer call. I'll be staying in Big Lake again. My new companion is Elder Hamilton. I know him already, so it'll be cool to serve with him. I hope we get along well. Gabrielle is being interviewed for baptism this week, so that is exciting. she is being baptised a week from Saturday. Seems like its coming up so fast! Saturday we cleaned kennels at an Iditarod mushers house. Yea, the poop. It was so fun playing with all the dogs. We are going to go paint the kennels soon. After we were done we played in the puppy pen, which is where that cute picture of me and the puppy is from! haha love you all and hope you are well. Elder Pawson

5/5/14 oh ya one more thing

Guess who just walks into church on Sunday like nothing happened? Gabrielle and the girls and darrell. It was so wierd. Then she invited us over again and wants to be baptised. I have no idea what happened or what, but she is back on track now. I think she went back to her other church and felt the difference, thelack of the strong spirit of the Lord's true church. Then she felt it leave her life too, so she is back and ono track, so thats awesome! love elder pawson

5/5/14 weekly update

hey everyone. this week was a little wierd. Tuesday Elder Stovall got the call that he is going to be a Zone Leader next transfer. Which means, I'll be staying here. Probably. I like the area, but I thought I was heading back to A town, so we will see what happens. Stovall was in Anchorage for two days for MLC, and I was with Elder Babb again. It was fun but we didn't get a lot done. This whole week was pretty slow. Friday I was sick and could'nt go out...again.. Its getting pretty old. Satruday we spent the whole day doing service of one kind or another. We spent some time up in Talkeetna with Willow, clearing trees and then burning htem. That was pretty fun, we roasted marshmallows and hot dogs....over a diesel fire...mmmmm I sent some more pics of th ebirds at the bird sanctuary. The two birds are both Rhett, a red tailed hawk. and then a picture of the start of our fire. Hope you are all well, love you! Love elder pawson

4/28/14 service with bees

Hey everyone. this week was a dinger! Gabrielle and the girls, Ginger, Araina and Aurora dropped us out of the blue. We aren't sure what happened, but she texted us and told us to stop coming over. I'm not quite sure what happened. The rest of the week was pretty good, I suppose. Just doing missionary work. We are trying to find new investigators because the ones we have are all dropping off. Its hard to tract, because its kind of dangerous in some areas, so we are trying to find some referrals. One of th emembers in our area is a bee distributer, so we helped move some bee packages around. I took a picture and included it! Sorry so short, not alot of exciting things happening this week, no flipped trucks or anything. hope you are all well, love you all! Elder Pawson

4/21/14 more pictures of the truck

There are some more pics of the truck, and a picture form Elder Stovall and I hauling hay. I made a throne to sit in while she drove to the barn and then a mini throne for elder stovall. We agreed I was King Lamoni's father and he was King Lamoni. He is a king and i am the king of kings haha.