Friday, April 25, 2014

April 21, 2014

Here is our crazy sweet week


Tue- We had the zone leaders come out for a visit i thought it was funny when they called us to get directions when they were lost in a one horse town but we got them squared away. So we went out to kat's so we could clean out her extra bed room which was a mess so we cleaned out most of it and took way to much junk out to storage which is filled to the max but did anyways. after that we went got lunch and was going to head to Hersey and decided we should just go to North Platte that night rather than coming back to Ogallala and then Heading out in the morning so we grabbed our stuff and went to Hershey to help Bro. McConnell out we got there and got two chain saws and the backhoe out and headed out to where the cows were at and we gathered fallen branches to put on a wind break he was building for the cows then we started to cut into pieces  a few trees that had fallen down loaded them up and cut down a ton of dead ceder trees. after that we nocked a few trees over and i got put in the bucket and cut a few large limbs off a tree over a caving area then we did a few more downed trees and were finished for the night so we headed to north platte for the night.

Wed- was quite exciting as for district meeting elder Postma trained first and then it was Elder Lott's turn to train for the first time in 6 months i trained on How the book of Mormon is a catylist to conversion. which went very well i thought but after that we went to lunch got pizza and went to the jail to see Brian Brawley who they sent back to Ogallala so we headed home for the day.

Thur- We went to the jail and saw Brian which was good to see him again we got him his fathers Phone number and stuff after we got done visiting with him we went to see Jake Vanhorn who owns the saddle shop we stopped to see if he needed any help but he was working on a pair of spurs strapps and we talked for a while seeing how he was doing and after that called Greg Moore he told us he was going to be going to Rehab in Monday so we went to see the Brawleys and told them how Brian was doing and things. After we went to Dennys who see kat she asked us to come by so we went and she told us that Pam a lady she works with needed a couple of pens made for her mairs who will be foling soon so we gave her our number and went home. then we got a call from Christina who told us John needed us to come over and see then ASAP so we rushed over he told us that his youngest son had colapsed and that he had died but they did revive him and that he was not doing well and they don't know if he is going to make it so the Holt's came over and he helped us give him a blessing (John) his son is with a foster parents but it was a ruff time for him.

Friday- we thought that pam was going to call us cause thats what we were told but we never did get a calls so went out and we went by the Jeffers and they told us they were going to be staining their deck the next day and so i asked them when they wanted us to be there to help them cause they needed some help with it so they told us 10 and we left and saw Alaina Wright to see if her and Cindy were planning on coming to church this weekend they told us yes and we told them when to expect their ride the we tried the burnsides but they were taking there truck to the shop top get worked on so we went to see the MaGee's we had a good talk with them they asked us to water their garden while they are away and if we could help there friend with moving and stuff then came home.

sat- we went to the Jeffers and they Fed us breakfast before we started working and then we jumped to it and we got it done in by 3:30 and they gave us our easter baskets she made for us and we went home to get cleaned up and ready for the rest of our day we went to see Anna and she told us she would come to church with us as well we also saw greg he said he wanted to go to church before he took off to rehab so we went to see bro. Teter and told him the plan for Sun and went  home.

Sun- everyone bailed on us again so we went to church kida sad but when we got to the church building that all changed cause i saw the Magees car next to me and i got excited that they came to church they are a less active and this was the second time they had come since i have been here and they stayed for the whole 3 hrs of church then we come home we saw John and Christina who are no longer getting married cause she is taking off to Texas and he doesn't want to go but visited with them be fore he had to go to work then went to see the Holt's then saw Greg he told us he was no longer going to go to Rehab any more but just get a second job to fill more of his time he just need's to go in to the saddle shop and he wouldn't have all his idle time but we will keep helping him with anything he needs but hope everyone is doing great Love Elder Lott

April 14, 2014

Well this week was awesome i hope y'all enjoy hearing about it!

Tue- Was Zone Training we had to go to North Platte were we had a great couple of Training one was on how we can use pray more to help members and it was great i learned a lot after we got done President Weston showed up and interviews started so some of us went to lunch and then we went to visit with our Branch Mission Leader Bro. Lunsford and after visiting with him we had our interviews and man i love getting to see Pres. Weston he is a wonderful man after we finished we again saw Bro. Lunsford and had dinner with him before he had to go to work for the night then we headed home when we got into town we stopped to help anna we had to put up a guard on her bed to keep her from falling out so we did that and then we went to try a Refural we had been given Alaina Wright and this time they had just gotten home from the store so we actually got to meet her and i gave her a book of Mormon and also her friend Cindy and her brothers roommate and invited them all to church they said they didn't have a ride and i told them they did now then we went and saw Jordan and we talked and played cards with him.

Wed- We were going to go out to Keystone to Help Bob Flood but he told us thursday would work better for him. we went to see crazy Sandy K was alright she just complained how she wasn't to go out side but its to cold, windy, never happy and thinking about moving to Texas again then we saw the Brawleys had a good visit with them we are going to see their son who is in jail so he can get his dads number so they can talk some.

Thur- We were going to have breakfast with Greg and he cancelled. Then we headed out to Keystone to help Bob and loaded up their horse trailer with junk to take to the dump had planned for it to take a little more time but oh well then we went and tried sister bates but she wasn't home so we saw the Hornkohls and things were alright until WWE wrestling came on and then we had to leave cause they didnt rally care we were there but we offered to help them with there yard work the next day and left them our number.

Fri- We got a call from Bro. McConnell and he asked if we would be able to come out and help him finish the fence we started and so we headed to Hershey got there went to work i dug 87 post holes and then we set them and Bro. McConnell cut the back of his leg on the barbed wire so we had to get  him all fixed up i told him if he needed a brake that bad he could of just said so rather than going that rought then we went out and checked cows with him no calves today and then we headed home. we tried John Christina they were not home  so we stopped by to try Vince but they were not home Either so we saw greg for 10 minutes.

Sat- We were going to help the Jeffers they told us they would need us at 4:30 so we headed out to Keystone and helped Kat move some stuff around in the bank for a few hours and then when we were on our way to town we saw that the soap box durby was going so we stopped to see the burnsides family who enjoys racing watched Zack race 5 times then he was done then we went to the Jeffers and we went to her moms house and moved some stuff our of the basement to the garbage and then some stuff to their house and went to dinner with Kat, Anna , her Neice and then we saw John, Christina who was having a bad day so we left then tried greg but he was sleeping.

sun- was good snowed all day no one came with us due to the bad weather but we sure enjoyed Fast and Testimony meeting a lot to due with Conference well i hope everyone is doing well love Elder Lott

April 7, 2014

Well this week went by very quick for me but here it is for ya'll


Monday we spent the day out in McCook which was fun it was nice to spend it with a couple more people but we went to a members bowling alley and bowled for a while his son was suppose to show up but never did but we enjoyed having it all to our selves and I won the first game 148 not the best score but for a bunch of elders playing around I will take it. but after we got tired of that we went out got some lunch and went back to the house yes they live in a house all to them self's which is nice but we took our soccer ball over to the park across the street and kicked the ball in 40 mph winds and was Elder Packer and myself ran after a ball well he tried to tackle a tree in his path he lost and I couldn't stop laughing so after getting controle over my self we went to check on him he was fine not even a scratch really and we continued on kicking the ball and then we went back to the house and I shot everyone with a nerf gun they had and we played card hence the reason its nice no one else lives there they don't complain we are too loud and we played dutch blits (aka Pounce) just for fun but I destroyed the elders because they had never played before then we played Egyptian rat screw, Golf, and settlers of Catan Not my favorite game to play but oh well.

Tue. We headed home from McCook and we were only allowed to drove like 55 the whole way in a 65 zone due to Tiwi box in our truck which made me had cause it took for ever to get home but we made it to Imperial when elder Bosen told me he needed to use the restroom so instead of watching for the road sign to Grant we went into town and  stopped then headed out of town and I had a feeling we were going in the wrong direction but I shrugged it off but when I noticed a sign saying WELCOME TO COLORFUL COLORADO

 well I knew we were not going in the right direction which I felt super silly about later in the week because of conference but anyways we did make it home and were able to keep from going over our miles for the month it was close only had like 20 left when we got home so we didn't drive for a while until we got new miles but we went out to the saddle shop and saw Jake we went to help but he had not gotten his zippers in to fix some chaps but he was working on some belts  so we talked and I tried to help with a few things but it was fun after that we went and had dinner with the Holt family and we were going to help them Move some stuff to their house but they decided not to so we went to see sister bates and see when her son was moving into our apartment building she told us 6 on Friday and we would not be able to help cause that was during priesthood session of conference and went home for the day.

Wed. We went to North Platte for district meeting and learned about from elder Lambert talked about Finding and Elder Bosen talked on why does god call mortal men to teach about his perfect Gospel. and after we went to Mongolian Grill for lunch which was good but nothing amazing after we that we did a little shopping at Wal-Mart and good will then headed home and we didn't get lost this time. we had a visit with Brawley's and Magee's and stopped by to see how the Jeffers were doing.

Thur-  We got a referral from Kat a coworkers Vince his  wife's mother had committed suicide and she told us that they did not have a church or anything cause they had just moved here so we should try to see them we stopped and knocked and no answer so we left Greg he said he was just leaving so didn't get to talk with him did go see John and Christina she had surgery this week so we thought we should check on them she is doing rather well. then we went to dinner with Bro. Teter and after we went on a team up with him so we tried Vince again No Answer so we went to see Anna we had a good visit and Brother Teter sat there and watch her TV rather than talking kinda upset me and then we stopped by on Rod and Angela they were just getting ready for bed so didn't visit long then we went to see the Heflens and things started off well but then again Bro. Teter turned his attention to the Television screen and I just wanted to freek out on him we go with him to see these people he is suppose to home teach and he does nothing they go to talk to him and he cant hear them cause he is so taken by the freeking TV.

Fri- We were going to go out to Hershey to help Bro. McConnell with finishing his fence running along a corn field Greg was going to come with us but cancelled last minute so we went and we pulled all the wire out of the old one then went and got everything we needed for checked some Heifers he had in a pen went and got some lunch came back checked the cows again and he had dropped her calf so we jumped in to check on the calf and the sack was over his nose and he was barely breathing so we made it just in time but we were only gone for 30 minutes and then we had to push her over to her calf cause she was chasing after another one then we went and set corner post for the fence and after doing that he was going to go take his wife out for her birthday so we headed home to get changed and we went to dinner with the Brawleys we had Cheese burgers and Fries was good after that had some apple Crisp then we had to go visit John and Christina again we were going to read the Book Of Mormon with them I asked her if she was going to read with us she said no again I kept on her and she told us she would play it on her phone read one chapter then she told me she would read one and I was happy being persistent paid off once then we went home.

Sat/Sun we watched Conference two sessions with Bro.Teter and Priesthood was at the church and Greg came with us this time and Sunday went to the chapel to watch and was kind of sadden when everyone left after the first session cause they were tired. Wow I was not that impressed.
   But hope everyone is well Love Elder Lott

March 31, 2014

Well this week sure has been exciting for sure now we will see if I can remember it all.

Tue- We were able to help the Brawley's as there son Dale was moving into his new house so elder bosen and I drove to Paxton where we unloaded two storage units which included of course a nice heavy piano so that was the last thing in the trailer and the first thing in the house which they made sound heavier that it was but don't get me wrong it was heavy it took 4 of us to get it in the house. then we just brought in all the smaller things so it went fast.

Wed- was district meeting we went and did inspections at North Platte's apartment which they passed after cleaning ha-ha kidding but we were taught about the importance of receiving a witness of the book of Mormon everyday and how the first principals of the gospel govern our daily lives after words we went to Jimmy Johns for lunch then we went to McCook for exchanges and had a good time saw the Michelson family who is good friends with pancheris family so new them a little but he told me that Lucas would be coming out for school there in the fall which is exciting I miss that guy but anyways stopped by another family they talked a lot about getting ready for being married in the temple!! which is great after that we headed home to McCook for the night.

Thur- we got a call from Kat so she told us we would need to pick up some food from taste of Texas BBQ so we stopped a while after they had opened thinking she would have called but to our surprise she had not and the owner had no idea so after 30 minutes they had gotten things figured out and we got her stuff and headed to Hershey where we would be going some work for Bro. McConnell we got there and got to work pulling fence post and setting corner post and then I had to sight in the post for him so using his 7mm we got that done and we started running wire out and I got voted to be the creek crosser only got stuck in the mud once and after we got all that done we had to go check a cow that he thought would calve out that night well it was 40 minutes later when we got there and she had the little guy out and he was trying to feed and she was trying to get him cleaned off then we went up to the house for dinner we had chili and grilled cheese was good then they gave us ice-cream  sundays and we had to leave. then we dropped off all the food to kat and we headed home cause I was sure tired.

Fri- We were suppose to have dinner with John and Christina so we texted them at 4 asking if we were still of for 6 figured we were well when we got there they were sleeping and had forgotten that we were coming for dinner so we read the book of Mormon with them and left and saw the Burnsides we hadn't seen them for a while due to sick ness being in there home but did get in found our she quite her job the day before just was two stressed and was not enjoying it like she had hoped but she is looking for what she wants to be doing now she was running a day care then started working with mentally handicap children.

Sat- We saw the magees he as been working for the last 12 days straight so he had two days off which the day before was his birthday so they went out celebrating that then after we talked with them they were going out to look for turkeys which I wanted to go but had more important things to be doing so we stopped by to see greg who had not been feeling well for a while but told us he was doing well so we got to the do knocked and I could see him through the screen so I  walked in and he was so drunk he thought we were the cops I felt bad because he is afraid of cops but after we got that all out of the way we started talking and when he is drunk he just lets what comes out of his mouth so we heard the F word more than I care to share but we then went to see the brawleys had a good chat with them and they want to have us over for dinner for helping there son move. also got a call from the holts asking if we could teach her sunday school class so we did even though it being short notice.

Sun- we went to church speakers were good I gave the opening prayer and then got yelled at by a 9 year old for not blessing the Holts in there time of need but we taught two kids about Jacob and Eusa was tuff wont lie now know how all those teachers felt when I was that young but had a good day then we went to McCook and when we got there they were having an appointment with a guy and he was shy so he would only sighn to us well for about 10 minutes then he started talking to us and by the end when we left he told me I had earned his trust which was good to hear just love meeting new people hope everyone is doing well Love Elder Lott

March 24, 2014

Well I will try to make this week as crazy as possible but here it goes!

well Tuesday was good we got to go into the saddle shop with Greg and he was working on his saddle he had made in saddle school so we helped him a little and talked with Jake who owns the shop he was putting a saddle together for a guy and making a cell phone case had a guy come in to order a pair of shaps but I was just glad to be able to see greg in and doing something besides drinking away his life. But Later that night we had a dinner appointment with the Holt family we had a great dinner and then we taught them the Law of Chastity which as you could imagine was just a blast to teach some one but it was not as bad as I always thought it would be but good experience for us then we headed home after that.

 Wed- we loaded up cloths for the next two days as we would be staying in North Platte for a while but we loaded up and headed off  we got there a little early so we stopped by the zone leaders apartment and then we left to District meeting which was on why we need to receive a spiritual witness of the book of Mormon by Elder Postma and then the next one was why we need to use the book of Mormon to resolve peoples concerns By Elder Bosen but they were really good after we went to lunch at a Mexican place and got steak tocos which were really good then we went on splits with the zone leaders I went with elder Lambert we went tracting we did get to place two cards in case we could help these two guys out some time. they were splitting wood and they took one look at us and said we were not dressed to work but I tried but we shall see if we have anything come from them but after that we ate dinner with the Branch mission leader and his wife was nice to see them both she started a new job recently but after dinner we went with a member to visit a Less active David Rice who is crazy!!! He told us how he was going to have to kill his brother who threatened to kill him and he showed us how he had a weapon at every door and window kinda scared me but I did make it out a live this time not sure I will go back out there again soon.

Thur- we helped Kat she needed a room cleaned out for their son to stay in when he is not on a train so we came over she took us to Dennys for lunch and then we went to work we loaded up her truck she tried to make me drive because I am the only one who had drove a trailer but we cant drive other peoples vehicles so she drove and we net her at the back and moved everything in for her and then she went back to North Platte we talked with Bob Flood who we are going to help some time this week when its nice with burning a pile of branches and taking some junk to the dump. then we went and moved a plant at Anna Ham's house then went home.

Fri- We helped the apartment manager clean out apartment #11 who when cooking dinner turned the oven on to 500 Degrees!!!! and then left the apartment for over 2 hours so he through them out so we had to go help him clean it out and moved some of it over to Gregs apartment he moved in to our building which makes it nice to visit him now. After that mess we cleaned our selfs up and went out to see the burnsides he told us he was sick and that Zack their son was not feeling well either so we didn't get to visit them that night did see the Brawleys and sister Bates the Brawleys were suppose to be having there kids move otut but do to the weather Snowing all day we didn't get to move them but this week we should be.

Sat/Sun
  We had dinner with Anna and we had enchiladas after that we went over to see if john and Christina were still planning on coming to church and they told us they were after that we tried to figure if greg was coming too and if we were going to need a ride to church or drive but it worked out that we would just ride with brother Teter also.

Church was good had an investigator Christina first time being at church in 11 years so that was good have not yet seen them to see what she thought of it but seemed to have enjoyed it a lot after we went and saw Kiaya /Ray they are both members from Idaho Rigby and Idaho falls which we had a good talk with them she was going to come but had to come a shift for a girl who didn't come in and he had to work as well but we will see if we can get them both off Ray has come once since we have been here so we will keep working with them but love you all hope Love Elder Lott

March 17, 2014

this week was interesting not a ton of crazy things but sure did have a good week.

Monday- we did not have our truck back like we were told we would be getting but found out they had to replace the light because it had cracked and it would be an extra day or two so we got a ride to Paxton with the Branch President to have dinner and then I taught with Drake the 3 lesson  who is preparing for his mission this summer so its fun to go and do that as we will again to night  after that we came home and talked with a couple in our building for about 45 minutes as they sat out side and enjoyed the wonderful evening but had a good time.

Tue- Was so exciting we went over to Bro.Teters so that we could fix his stairs I was able to fix the one of three steps seeing as how the other two were broken in half and noting to nail them into place with then as we sat talking for a little while I got a phone call saying that our truck was done and we could come by and pick it up so Bro.Teter offered us a ride over to get it we didn't denied him of that because it was raining and we didn't want to walk all the way across town in it again so he took us over and I signed the check got our keys and away we went was nice to be driving again. that night we had an appointment with the Holts family that moved here 2 months ago from Preston, ID with there 2 year old had a good time taught them about Tithing and Fast offerings, just fun to be able to teach them.

Wed- was good we had an appointment with the Jeffers a couple who moved here from Cheyenne, Wyoming a few years ago and when they got here they stopped going to the  church which is sad but when we were there he did tell us if he had to choose a group to associate with he would choose the Mormons but had a good time visiting with them then we left. Went to see John and Cristina who will be getting married in a years time she is not a member but we will try to change that but we went over and read the book of Mormon with them more so him she said her dyslexia was to bad and I told her she was full of it and she could read if she really wanted to but we didn't make her. After that we went to see the Heflens found out there house may be getting bought which was a surprise there granddaughters dog was almost stolen too from there back yard but they didn't end up getting away with her. Kim heflen is on dialysis 3 times a week so he want feeling well when we were there.

Thur- we had zone training so we went to North Platte and had our meeting which had a lot to do with working with members and how its better for us and the investigator or Less Actives to have some one to Fellow ship them and things then we got to see the Assistants to the President who were late and so we went out to lunch with them had a good time I had to brake into the Zone Leaders apartment to so elder bosen could get his sunglasses was interesting I am not as good at it as others I have seen but I did get us in then we headed home had dinner with John and Cristina then talked and left and saw greg read from the book of Mormon with him for a half hour then we went to see the Burnsides she had to go to work so we talked to shad for about an hour had a good talk with him then we went home.

Fri- we went to see our good friend sandy ha-ha ya but we talked with her and she still just talks about wanting to get back to Texas she is crazy after a blessed visit from her we went to see Bro. Teter and as we talked he asked us if we wanted to go Dutch for dinner? Well some one didn't know what Dutch meant and but things worked out also I  cleaned his head lights cause you couldn't see anything with them barely the road right in front of him but they work a ton better now so we got Chinese and then we went by to see the Heflens again since they are on his home teaching list so we saw them and then we tried sister bates she wasn't home so we saw the Brawleys and my friend alex she is so funny she always looks in my suit pockes and pulls everything out so I can pull them out of her ears but didn't have anything this time and they told us that Brian there son may get out of out of jail even though he stabbed some guy but he needs out so we will see we are planning on seeing him this Thursday.

Sat- We went to see the Magee family the one who got shot well now he is walking around and doing well but his in laws came down for spring brake from Lehi Utah we had a good talk with everyone had some good hunting stories to share and some amazing pictures as well to go with them but after them we saw john and Cristina who  happened to go for tattoos while we had been gone can you guess what he put on his fore arm...... CTR that's right and he loves it what a guy after a very lengthy visit we departed ways and we stopped by sister bates had a good talk with her then we went home.

 Sun- church was good although a stake member didn't show up to speak it was a good meeting in all we had Greg come this week as well which was good he told us that when he was there he didn't think about Beer, or Cigarettes but as soon as we left the thoughts came to him so I hope he was able to hold off on them again. We saw anna and she is going to quite smoking again for the third time which will be nice for when we see her then we had to go see kat we are going to help her with some yard work this week when we are in North Platte so that should be good but Love you all hope your doing well love Elder Lott