It's been a quick two years!

Well guys this is it!

It's been a quick two years! Sometimes it seems like it flew by but when I think back to the last thing I did while I was home that seemed like forever ago. This week was a pretty good week. I got to go on exchanges with Elder Peters, one of my favorite missionaries, we met lots of new people, we put two people on baptismal dates for the end of August, I won a king sized kit-kat for guessing where Hayden Schaff is going on his mission (he's going to Fresno California ).

I got to meet the new mission president who is really awesome, but unfortunately I won't get to know him. I'll probably only see him twice, the first time I met him and when I Ieave. And I got to go to pageant on Saturday with the Orchard Park Elders and a less active named Sister Plummer who is super awesome! We went to the grove and to pageant and had a great time. We sang Joseph Smith’s First Prayer in the Sacred Grove, made a couple random people cry, and got to meet all of the people I've met over the past two years at pageant.

Then I had my last Sunday as a full time missionary and got to say good-bye to a lot of good people but they are all so excited to meet you guys next week. I signed a bunch of my ties and gave them to the youth so they can take them on their missions and hopefully it will remind them to keep in touch. So it was a pretty good last full week.

I've learned a lot these last few years and I've grown a lot as well. I'm so grateful for all of the people I got to meet, the Owens, Pfaff's, Robison's, Alessi's, all of the youth here in the ward, and the rest of the great families here in Orchard Park Ward. I really appreciate all of the advice they've given me and the relationships with them I've been able to develop. I've really seen why I was sent here to western New York, to meet the people that I did. I'm sure that I will continue see why I was sent here over the rest of my life as well. I'm going to have to try and stay in touch with all of these people for sure.

A lot of really cool missionaries have become great friends that I'll be a friend with for a long time. I've developed some great habits of scripture study, and really increased my knowledge of the gospel being here in the Cradle of the Restoration. I've really come to love this church and being a member of it. I've come to know my savior Jesus Christ so much better and how he can help me with everything. I really appreciate what Joseph Smith did for this church. I love this gospel. I know it's true.

Behold I Addison, son of Ammon, have grown strong in the gospel of Jesus Christ and do promise to stay true and faithful to it. And I make an end to my speaking. ;)

Love you!

Elder Daugs

The Robison Family!

Brett and Nathaniel Burnard!

Bro. Joel Christophersen

I surprised Sister Pfaff at Pageant as she was taking a picture with Elder Pedersen and Elder Fiesler.

Transfers to West Seneca~ Companion Elder Self

Hey guys!

This week was a pretty fun one. So first off I getting transferred to West Seneca which is south buffalo. That should be really fun but I am really going to miss some of the people here especially the Pfaff’s. There's always that family in every area that you really like and that you become part of the family. Here it was the Pfaff’s, the McNees' in Brockport, and the Owens in Springville.

Also, there are a couple of investigators that I will miss too but there are always good people in the next area. So that was the big news for the week. We had a good time at the Teresa house that led to a new investigator and we were able to give her a tour of the church on Saturday and she really liked that so that's awesome and she might come to church in the next couple weeks.

I also went on exchanges with Elder Fieseler on Saturday. We had a good lesson with Rich and he is moving forward steadily. We had a member who has a non-member brother visiting her and he requested a blessing and he was really moved and hopefully it will lead to him investigating more.

We also had Zone Conference this week!

Sunday we had great meetings at church and then we went to the Baldwins with some of their kids, friends, bishop  and the Pfaffs and had a really good Easter dinner and played some games, Easter egg hunt etc... You know. Other than that we did the usual stuff. Have a great week!

Love you!

March 21st, 2016

Hey guys!

This week we did a lot of service again. We raked some leaves for the Pfaff’s, we went to the Teresa house, and the most fun one was we went to the Baldwin’s and we got to use their Rangers and we hauled dirt for most of the day fixing all of the holes in their driveway which might not sound like too much fun, but it's a little different than the usual service,  so it was a nice change. Plus, we got to drive the Rangers.

We had a couple good visits with a member here in Geneseo named Barbie and we are just trying to help her make all of the necessary steps towards becoming active and she's really close. The thing that is just missing is motivation, so we are going to go over at least 3 times a week now. We have also been showing the hallelujah video that he church put out to a bunch of less actives, active members and it's a good excuse to go see the investigators that don't really want to meet with us any more because everyone likes an Easter video.

We had interviews with president this week and those went really well. We just talked about how things are going, how we can improve, we also talked about looking forward to the future etc... We had quite a few of our other appointments cancel but one cool thing this week was I met a lady who used to live in St. George, so we had quite a few things we could talk about.

Then, on Sunday night we went to the Pfaff’s for family home evening and we had a fire and that was a lot of fun!

Transfers are coming up next week so we will see what happens! Have a great week!

Love you!

When life gives you 70 lbs. of lemons.... (That's a lot of lemonade)

Hey guys!

Sorry we are getting to email late today, so it might not be too long.

We had all of the usual service at the Teresa house and we went to the food bank place in Perry. They gave us a ton of food that nobody wanted. Which isn't really a good thing. It is usual a nice thing, but what are four missionaries going to do with 70 lbs. of organic lemons? Nothing! I already squeezed a whole gallon of juice and we have been giving them away to everyone. We also got a bunch of star fruit.

We had a good lesson with Randy this week and we helped resolve a bunch of concerns with him because he saw some anti-stuff online but the good thing was his first instinct was to defend our religion and he's not even a member!

We also had a good lesson with Brian and there was a girl over at his house that we also taught and is going to meet with us again next week.

We met with Rich again and he is awesome and really wants to do everything God wants him to do.

Also funny story, kinda. So there is this lady going on a mission trip to

Guatemala with her church and we told her we could give her some stuff to bring, so we gave her a Spanish Book of Mormon, the

Restoration, the testaments, and a bunch of our stuff from our church and she's super excited to give it all to the people in Guatemala!

We also had some good visits with the active members like the Moon’s, the Larson’s, and the Pfaff’s had us over and had a birthday dinner for me, which was super nice of them! I really appreciate all that the active members do in this ward! Oh yeah,  and I played piano for sacrament meeting this week.

Other than that, a pretty typical week!

Love you!

Transfer day~ new companion again!

Hey guys!

So this morning we got transfer calls and Elder Liefson and Lavin are going to Medina and Niagara Falls. So Elder Holmberg and I will be staying and getting Elder Pederson and Russell, so it should be fun!

So this week I went on exchanges with Elder Liefson and we had a lesson with Randy that went really good and he's almost done with the Book of Mormon! We also had a lesson with Brian and he's not progressing too much. That turned more into arguing but we turned it around by the end and read 3 Nephi 11 and he quietly sat in his seat and by the end he said he really liked it. So hopefully this week he will be a little more open.

We did a lot of the usual stuff but a lot of the students are busy since it’s finals week. We had dinner at the Moons again and there were a lot of the recent converts there for dinner too so it was good to fellowship with them.

Then on Sunday we went to the senior center again and we were able to teach the cop there that does security and we are really good friends now so hopefully it goes somewhere. He was really interested in the bishop’s storehouse stuff and food storage. Idk how he heard about it but he really likes how we do that stuff as a religion. But my favorite thing from this week was we had dinner with this young family named the Larson’s. They are awesome! The funniest part is; they have quads! So, they have four little three year olds who are the cutest kids ever! So I got to play with them after dinner. I will try and get pictures next time and we might go there for Christmas.

Have a good week!

Love you!

I can't believe I Forgot! A member of the seventy came to the mission and we were able to have like a five-hour meeting with him and learn from him and it was sooo awesome. I learned so much and it’s always a blessing to have people like him come. His name is Elder Sweitzer? He and his wife are the ones without name-tags in the pictures.