Fauset Tapestry

Helloooooo! I hope everyone has had a fantastic week! This week was pretty sweet for us! We found a lot more people to teach and our teaching pool is progressing more and more and getting bigger and bigger!

Right now we are teaching a little 9 year old girl named Lilly. I was on a tradeoff when they taught her so I haven't met her yet but we are pretty much just going to teach her all of the lessons and then she will get baptized on Feb 16! We are very excited for her and from what I've heard she is really excited as well.

Milan also finally came to church for the first time this year and his little brother imantha who is super shy and would never talk to us finally opened up to us and had a great time and promised that he would go to primary next week! We are super excited for them! We are going to have to push back Milans baptismal date but he's still progressing and will get baptized eventually. 

Sadly we lost another person we are teaching to anti stuff online. His name is Eddie and we invited him to read the Book of Mormon and pray about it and that's how he can truly know the truth because the internet has a lot of false information and God is the one with all the answers. So we are hoping he accepts are invite and has a change of heart. 

Well that's been pretty much all that's been going on this week! Elder Josse and I created a band with each other called Fauset Tapestry so we've been making some pretty weird music haha! We listen to the efy songs with no lyrics and then we just make up our own lyrics and see what happens...it's pretty terrible but funny too haha! Life of a missionary lol! 

I love you all! Have a great week! Keep on keeping on! 

Love, 

Elder Plumb

Sack of Clothes in August Fire

Hello everybody! This week has been great! Also sorry for the random title lol! I asked Elder Josse what I should title this and that's what he said so I went with it haha! 

This week we really focused on trying to get people to church and sadly were not as successful as we thought we would be for this Sunday. We had one person come but were planning on having a lot more people come. The good thing that came out of it though is we were able to get a whole family we are teaching to come next week because they were a little bit busy this week so we definitely are going to be seeing the fruit of our labors next week and are expecting even more people to come as well!

We have been using the Book of Mormon as the main focus in our finding and have had some great miracles from it! One day we were knocking around in an apartment complex and felt inspired to knock on these certain three doors and all three doors accepted a copy of the Book of Mormon and said they would read it! We've been getting away from asking people if they are interested and just going straight into teaching them how amazing and inspiring the Book of Mormon is and it's been working really well!

We also had stake conference which was super good! We had Elder Costa from the Quorum of the Seventy come and he gave some really good talks! There was also an Elder from the area of seventy there too and he gave some really good talks! President and Sister Lee gave some talks as well and the Orlando Temple President and his wife spoke too! There was so much that went on. We got a new stake president too which was pretty crazy. In the Saturday night session they talked a lot about preparing and studying at home and they compared it to when Christ told the Nephites to go home and ponder His words in their homes and I was like holy cow! I thought that was super cool and it helped strengthe  my testimony of in home church. Christ told the Nephites to ponder on His words so they could really understand on a spiritual level what he was teaching them and so they could receive some personal revelation as they really thought and prayed about His teachings. That's why it's so important to study at home and as a family so that we can receive revelation for ourselves and families so that the teaching of the Gospel can sink into our hearts and not just be heard. It was definitely a very good stake conference and one of the few where I was really paying attention haha!

That's about it for this week! I hope everyone has a wonderful week and I love you all! Keep on keepin on!

Love, 

Elder Plumb

I also got a sweet new star wars puzzle!

Big Stuff Goin' On... Big Stuff

Yello! So the big stuff is pretty much that our mission is going to expand in July when we get a new mission president! We are gonna be huge! Our mission is gonna go all the way down the pan handle to Tallahassee and farther into Georgia to Tifton, GA! Also there will be like 100 more missionaries coming into our mission so that will be weird! I'll only have 1 month left though when it happens so it will pretty much be like I'm in a new mission for the last bit of my mission.

Something else that happened this week was we had a great lesson with someone we are teaching named Terry! We have taught him once before but we had a great lesson with him about prayer and he was asking all of the right questions and the spirit was just super strong and we could tell that he really has a desire to find out the truth! 

We have been teaching some other people that have quite a bit of potential so hopefully all goes well for them! Nesha and Milan have been doing really well! Thanks for all of the prayers! Nesha still has a lot of work so we are still working for her and are planning on teaching her the importance of fasting and doing a fast for her to get a new job and so that she will be able to come to church.

I love y'all so much! Have a great week!

Love,

Elder Plumb

Also I finished a puzzle and I'm gonna be working on a cool Pokemon one! These were some really funny things we saw in someone's yard!

Grandpa Plumb's Passing - 1/7/2019

Calvin and Zhenya- I just found out that Grandpa died this morning. He went to the emergency because he wasn't well. Dad picked him up for church earlier and he collapsed walking to the car and dad caught him and took him back. They said he had been so weak lately. We feel awful we didnt go back after church to give him the sacrament. We are saddened by this news but comforted that he is with grandma again and what a joyous reunion that must have been!  I love this gospel! The knowledge we have from the restored gospel makes times like this more peaceful and hopeful. I am sorry this had to happened while you are away Calvin. I copied Zhenya on this email because she lost Grandma on her mission. Zhenya, maybe you can share how you dealt with that loss away from our family. Grandpa was a great man and will be missed. We will always have fun wonderful memories and stories of him and Grandma. I am so grateful for their legacy of faith they have left for us.

I love you both and will tell u when the funeral is Zhenya. 

Love, Mom

CALVIN'S RESPONSE:

Awwww man! I honestly thought he was going to live another few years. I'm really surprised. That's definitely sad and joyful at the same time. He probably wasn't having the best time spending the rest of his life in a retirement home and now he's with grandma again so I'm sure he is super happy. How's dad doing with it? That's gotta be hard losing your last parent. I'll keep everyone in my prayers. I'll definitely miss grandpa and I'm sad I won't be at the funeral but as long as he's happy in the spirit world and resting than that's all that matters to me. I'm definitely grateful for them both as well and everything they did as parents and grandparents. Till we meet again grandpa! 

Post Holiday Blues

Wassup! It's been a long time since I've written everybody! I had an amazing Christmas and New Year's! We spent pretty much the whole time bother holidays at members houses just hanging out. Mainly the Watchman's and the Smith's! They are both really awesome and fun families! Thanks to everyone who sent me something for Christmas! I really appreciate the love and support from everyone! Thanks!

This week was a pretty good week! It started with new years which was really fun! Like I said we spent the whole time with members so it was really fun! Then when the holidays were over we went right back into working hard and I had a trade off with elder Peterson who has only been out for a few weeks so it was a pretty fun trade off! We went proselyting pretty much the whole day and it reminded me about how scared I was when I first came out and talked to people! It was pretty funny making him talk to some people and then patting him on the back when he was done and seeing him smile with relief about being done talking to someone haha! We had a good time though! He actually had lived in Orange Park in the past when he was really young so he recognized some of the places we drove by. He's also on a test mission too so he is from Florida. He said he will serve for 2 transfers and then see if he can continue from there so hopefully he continues! 

Other than that it was a pretty normal week. The main people we are teaching are Milan and Nesha who both have baptismal dates and there are a few other people too who are progressing pretty well. Milan is Buddhist but wants to be Christian so he doesn't know pretty much anything about God and Jesus so we've been teaching him the really basic principles of the Gosepl but he is learning pretty quick the only problem is his parents want him focusing on school during the week and he works on Saturdays so we can only meet with him on Sundays after church. So please pray for him to continue coming to church so we can keep teaching him.

Nesha is super awesome! She really wants to get baptised she is just insanely busy with work and her kids and her mom trying to get rid of us because she doesn't like the church and she wants Nesha to be Catholic like her so its been hard meeting with her and she can never come to church cuz she always works on Sundays. So please fast and pray for her that she can somehow get work off on Sundays and not feel so overwhelmed with everything. Thank you all so much for all you do!

This week I've been studying a talk by Elder Holland called the Miracle of a Mission. He gave it at the MTC in 2000. It is an amazing talk! It's pretty much a pep talk for missionaries to be 100% missionaries and how important our calling is. It really reemphasized to me that 2 years is not long at all and that God is asking me to go all out and give him 100% for 2 years and help serve His children and bring them back into His fold. It made me feel so much more grateful to be able to serve God and be apart of His work. I can either have these two years be a few good year of my life that made me a better person or I can have these 2 years be the best two years that changed me into the person I want to be and God wants me to be. I know that the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints is God's kingdom on the Earth and I have been called of Him to declare His word among His people that they might have everlasting life. (3 Nephi 5:13)  I'm so happy to be a missionary!

I love you all so much! I hope you all habe a fantastic week and continue to remember your Savior and His perfect example thoughout this week!

Love, 

Elder Plumb