March 2, 2015

Hey my week has been pretty good!

On Tuesday we went to Rochester for a mission wide meeting and Elder Evans from the seventy and Elder Allan from the head of the mission department came and talked to as a little about iPads and how we will get updated ones and how we are going to restart on how we use them for missionary work. But the majority of the meeting was about how the mission prepares us for the rest of our life. It was a really great meeting!!

Then, after the meeting we did exchanges and Elder Gibby came with me down to Wellsville. He's really cool! He's from Idaho and he has a pig farm with over 30,000 pigs and they have pigs in China and all over the world.

We went to institute on the way back at Alfred and had that for an hour and afterwards we had a lot of extra brownies from he meeting, so we went around and handed them to random students across campus, which was great for getting us seen around campus and people more familiar with us. It was kind of funny. Most of them were excited to get the brownies, but some were a little skeptical about what was in the brownies!

Then, the next day we had a couple lessons with less actives. Then we exchanged back the next day. We had district meeting on Thursday as usual. Then we went to Alfred to talk with a member on Friday and he invited us to this activity that the students in his dorm were doing so we went there and got familiar with a couple of the students.

Sunday, we had church but a bunch of people were out of town so we had 15 members plus the missionaries. Then we had dinner at the Millers and with the Alfred students, which was good to get to know them better! It's snowed a couple of days and no snow has melted yet so just keeps building up. We went through a couple Amish communities this week, which was interesting to see their way of life.

Other than that, nothing to exciting going on.

Love ya!

P.S. to dad:

I don't mind the cold. Snow caving sounds fun! I wish I could have gone! You are getting old! Not really though most of the missionaries parents are in there sixties. Nothing too exciting going on here in Wellsville. Transfers are next week though. 

February 23, 2015

Hello,                                                                                          February 23, 2015

This week was good. We taught our usual less active people during the week, nothing too out of the ordinary. Institute was cancelled this week because not very many of the students were going to be able to come. We went and did some service for some less actives this week and we had to dig through random piles of snow to try and find where he put his logs that he cut up during the summer. It took a while but we finally found them. His wife has 39 cats, which is kinda gross!

On Friday we went up to the temple with the Millers and stopped by a few of the less active members that live a long ways away that we don't usually get the chance to see on the way. Both the members said that they don't want to be part of the church anymore and want their records removed. It's kinda funny, since I've been in Wellsville, the branch has gone down probably ten people because we keep finding people who don't want anything to do with the church anymore. It's sad, but we can't force them to stay a part of a church they don't want to be in. So, on the way to the temple we stopped at this restaurant in Rochester called Crab Shack. It was voted best seafood place in Rochester. Dad you would probably like it. Then we went to the temple and did an endowment session and I was able to turn in some names that I found during family history nights when I was back in Springville. I also noticed that there were a bunch of possible duplicates on family search, so maybe you guys could see what was going on with that?

This Sunday we had church and some people from the temple presidency came and spoke and they were great speakers! Also some members from the Warsaw Branch came to ours because they had to cancel theirs because the pipes broke at their church. Then we had our missionary correlation meeting and dinner with the Millers.

Other than that nothing to exciting going on.

Love ya!

Response To Dad:

I heard Niagara Falls is pretty cool right now. Hopefully I get transferred to Buffalo some time so I can go and see it. I heard it looks a lot cooler from the Canada side but I can't go over there because it's out of the mission and I don't have a passport with me. I got to go to the temple this week again, which was cool. I've seen all of the films now. I guess everyone was talking about temples yesterday. We had some one from the temple presidency and his wife come and speak. They were in the Oakland, California temple visitors center on a mission then they immediately got called to here to be in this temple presidency. They've been home for one week in the last five years because of calls to serve. 

Snow caving sounds fun! If you want some snow we've got tons for ya. 

Love ya 

 A little snow here in Wellsville

Pictures of the Wellsville apartment

The finished product

February 16th, 2015

Hey this week was pretty normal except for a few things. We had interviews with president in Hornell on Tuesday, so I got to talk with him for a while and with AP’s, which was good!

Then, Tuesday night we had institute finally at Alfred. There's only six girls that come but when we were on campus trying to find this kid that is a member that moved to Alfred, we found him and then his residence assistant person came and was talking to me and turns out she went to church until she was twelve but she's not interested at all about coming back. Then, kind of weird she invited is to his campus wide yoga thing but I figured I didn't want to go and do yoga in dress clothes. We've gone tracting a couple of times no success though.

We also had zone meeting in Canandaigua on Thursday and that was pretty good. There's a ton of new people on the zone that got here last transfer. It has snowed a couple of days here and president told me to go and shovel snow for random people to see if anything comes of it and I tried to get Elder Christensen to go but he wouldn't. Then, for the past couple days it's been super cold, highs are below zero and it's usually pretty windy so with wind chill it's well below -20 so we aren't supposed to go outside so it's been pretty boring. You can get frostbite after ten minutes when it's that cold so nothing much you can do about it. They even cancelled church for a bunch of branches and wards because of the cold. So for church we just went to the Millers and had lunch and listened to some talks and Elder Miller gave his priesthood lesson he prepared. That's pretty much it!

Love ya!

It looks nice, but it is -21 degrees! Too cold to go outside.

 Puzzle sent from mom to work on.

February 9th, 2015

This week has been ok, nothing too exciting except for more snow. The week was pretty slow. We've run out of less actives to visit and there's only three I think that we can maybe get back active eventually. We went tracking in Alfred in the nicer neighborhoods to try and find some new people to teach but no one really too interested.

I went on exchanges this week over to Bath with Elder Houghton and that was good we got a lot of stuff done that day. We went and helped a guy finish his basement in the morning so it kind of reminded me of working with dad again! Then we went to the car dealership to get their car looked at and we were able to talk to a guy there and give away a Book of Mormon. We also went to a Book of Mormon class that they have at their branch and helped teach/ participate in that. We were also able to work with a couple of less actives there and they said they want to come back to church so that's awesome. We had a meal appointment with the Herringtons at this little diner and had a fish fry Friday, which is really popular here in NY. Other than that nothing too exciting or interesting going on. We need to find something more effective because nothing is working right now. I hope the weather over there gets better so you can get some moisture. You can take some of mine if you want!

People here only have one calling. There are just a bunch of unfilled spots. No young men's or women's, no high priests, one elders quorum president, no counselors, no gospel principles, no home teachers, no branch mission leader, etc... So, not even all of these people have callings.

That's cool you are going on a family cruise! I wish I could go. Where does it go?

We aren't doing much for p-day just hanging out at the church. I convinced Elder Christensen to go to Alfred university and to go and play basketball there tonight in their rec facility to see if we can meet some more people so that should be fun!

Love ya, 

 Elder Daugs 

Hornell Branch President ( check out his shoes!)

Weight lifting during the spare time.