Family!!!
Wow so much good is going on here and sounds like there has
been some major changes to the stake and ward back home. So exciting! I can't
believe they split up the wards again. Sad to hear the families who are leaving
the legendary Snyderville Ward. Super nuts that they put Colony and Sun Peak in
the ward. The Aldens and Bensons and many others are back! Sounds like Zeke's
family might have gotten switched too! Super surprising news to hear that they
switched everything. I will be coming home to a much different Snyderville
ward. Ha! And my amazing Young Men's President Carl Richards is now the Bishop!
Woah He and Bro Peers and Bro Barrett will be outstanding. They have
been some truly loving and inspiring leaders to me, and they will do great
in the leadership of the ward! WoooHooo!
Thanks so much for sending all the stuff for Halloween last
week! We had so much candy to pass around. Luckily we only ate about 10 pieces
each then we were about done. Check out the pictures I will send of everything.
Such a fun Halloween out here in New Jersey. We had to be in our
apartments by 6:00 PM on the 30th and 31st because it gets pretty dangerous. On
the 30th they do something here called "Night of Mischief" which is
something that doesn't happen in Park City or Utah I don't think. Its basically
a night a pranks, where all the high schoolers and everybody pull some crazy
pranks. So yeah pretty dangerous so we all had to stay inside. But we made both
nights a party! On Halloween, Elder Brimley and I ordered some crazy good
Chinese food for the occasion. Mmmmm delicious. We spent basically all
night playing Phase 10. It took us about 3 hours both nights to finish the game
between the four of us. Elder Vargas is a boss and totally creamed us, even
after all that practice I have had at home. Ha such a fun time. And yeah ate
candy as we played. But we all got sick of the candy pretty fast. Didn't eat
very much at all.
Guess what!!!!! We had a baptism last week! Ha okay
kind of.... He was only 9, and had to meet with the missionaries, but still: it
was awesome!! I guess he was planning on getting baptized at age 8,
but he was waiting for his dad to come back from Mexico to be there! Super sad,
because his dad never came! So after a year of waiting Hugo and his mom decided
to have him be baptized now. So yeah once someone turns 9, it is
considered a convert baptism and they have to receive all the
missionary lessons. So we have been teaching him almost everyday the last
9 days and we finished about all of the missionary lessons with him and he
was baptized last Saturday. The 1st Counselor did the actual baptizing. So
pretty neat experience. He is an awesome kid and had a super strong desire to
get baptized. It was nice to go through the whole process and be able to teach
him everything. But yeah counted I guess as a convert baptism so Perth Amboy
had its first convert baptism for the last couple months.
Nelson's baptism fell through. He just isn't 100% committed
yet, but hey, thats alright. We are still working with him tons. S___ and
Ch___ had a pretty interesting week. Full of ups and downs. We showed up to
teach them on Tuesday and things were not looking good. There is always just
tons of people in their house because they live in her parents house
with her two brothers and all of her brother's crazy 20 year old
friends are always coming in and out. We moved the lesson upstairs because
either her brother was playing FiFA 2014 or her dad was watching the latest
Hispanic reality TV show. Can't remember but its usually one or the other. So
we were sitting in their daughter's playroom basically in the attic and we were
all just sitting on the ground. But basically they told us they wanted to split
up, they had been fighting tons and tons. .....We were super sad and didn't know what to do at first, but the
Spirit provided and we told them they need to pray TOGETHER. Even if they were
super mad. We left and the next morning we got a text that said that they did
it and it went really well, with a smiley face. So yeah things are going much
better with them. Its crazy to see how small things like praying and reading
the scriptures change people. It truly was a miracle. When things are going
rough and no matter how much we sometimes don't want to pray or read the
scriptures, reading and praying is exactly what we need to do!
We are getting along well. We are
one of the last four-men apartments in the mission. There is only 3 others we
know of!! President Jeppson is trying to get rid of them, because they truly
are less productive. I have been in a four man my whole mission and MTC, so I
didn't really know the difference until my exchange last night.
I went on almost a 40 hour exchange with my great Zone
Leader Elder Bell from Saturday night until now (Monday morning). It was
awesome. We focused so much in their little apartment and just had the happiest
day on Sunday. He is a super great guy. He is from Bountiful. We get along
super well and for that, it was probably some of the happiest days of my
mission yet. We even got to do the zone numbers for the week of baptisms,
lessons taught, referrals, and other stuff and send them to the assistants to
the President. It was a great opportunity. I got to go to an English ward
yesterday. East Brunswick English Ward. I hadn't been in an English ward since
home! And guess what? This ward has over ONE MILLION people in its
boundaries!!!! The Bishop, in his testimony, said they had lots of missionary
work to do. Ha!
Sorry wow this seems long. Great week. Love you tons!!!
Your Son,Elder Sumsion
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| Elder Shepard, Sumsion, Vargas, Brimley |
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| Changing Colors |
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| The Halloween candy stash (thank you friends for sending) |
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| New 9 year old Hugo's baptism - He really wanted to be baptized! |
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