It looks like May 3rd is the day Kevin comes home.
Hello all!
Things are going great here in Rossendale valley. There is definitely sun shine in my soul today, in fact all week it has been quite nice and sunny. People seem to be happy, it’s great.
On Saturday, We were tracting in the evening and we came across a house and the lady answered the door and started screaming at us. Rather than letting it get us down, we carried on tracting, and on the last door we had time to tract we met a really nice man named peter. Peter is a Baptist and as we were talking he didn’t have time to let us in but he promised us that he would come to church. It was a great miracle to see that after we receive opposition, if we continue on we will be blessed.
Yesterday tom came to church! He is quite the trooper he had an 11pm-7am shift at work on sat night. After work he went home, took a shower got ready to go to church and was at church on time. He stayed for all three hours then after church he was going to a YSA dinner at a members home. And then on Sunday evening he had another 11pm-7am shift. He is a trooper!
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With Love,
Elder Ballantyne
Monday, March 26, 2012
Wednesday, March 21, 2012
weekly update 3/21/2012
The winners is YES Kevin will stay in Rossendale for the rest of his mission. Kevin will be home in 5 to 6 more weeks. As soon as I get word on the exacted day I will let you know.
It is another transfer and guess what... I'm Staying in Rossendale w/ Elder Jensen. So i looks like i will die here in the land of Rossendale.
Things have been going well. Tom has been able to establish good solid friendships in the ward other than the Simcock’s, which has been a great blessing. The lesson we had on Monday evening last week, he mentioned that everybody in the church has been brilliant. We are happy to report that the ward is in such a great state. Tom has also been very receptive to the commandments. Without inviting him he is recognizing that there are things that he wants to change, which I think is a good sign.
Sian is doing very well too. She seems to be excited about her baptism. Nothing has come up that would keep her from making that date. So we are excited. As well as the ward is excited.
The other day we felt impressed to go down to Ramsbottom. We were street contacting, and we weren’t seeing to much success. Then 3:00 hit and the streets were covered with school kids. Deciding that it was not the ideal “street contacting” atmosphere, we went and tracting a road in which we felt impressed. As we were tracting we came across a man named James who is from Uganda. He is a really nice man who let us in and we taught him the restoration. There seems to be a language barrier but we are excited about him
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With Love,
Elder Ballantyne
It is another transfer and guess what... I'm Staying in Rossendale w/ Elder Jensen. So i looks like i will die here in the land of Rossendale.
Things have been going well. Tom has been able to establish good solid friendships in the ward other than the Simcock’s, which has been a great blessing. The lesson we had on Monday evening last week, he mentioned that everybody in the church has been brilliant. We are happy to report that the ward is in such a great state. Tom has also been very receptive to the commandments. Without inviting him he is recognizing that there are things that he wants to change, which I think is a good sign.
Sian is doing very well too. She seems to be excited about her baptism. Nothing has come up that would keep her from making that date. So we are excited. As well as the ward is excited.
The other day we felt impressed to go down to Ramsbottom. We were street contacting, and we weren’t seeing to much success. Then 3:00 hit and the streets were covered with school kids. Deciding that it was not the ideal “street contacting” atmosphere, we went and tracting a road in which we felt impressed. As we were tracting we came across a man named James who is from Uganda. He is a really nice man who let us in and we taught him the restoration. There seems to be a language barrier but we are excited about him
--
With Love,
Elder Ballantyne
Monday, March 12, 2012
weekly update 3/12/2012
Hello family!
>
> On Tuesday, we had a round of inspired trainings. To me the focus
> seemed to be using the Book of Mormon to resolve concerns, and answer
> questions. I have recommitted to answering concerns with the Book of
> Mormon.
>
> This week we had a great miracle. We taught a couple named Gas (Gaz)
> and Sam. It started out just being Gas; Sam was in the other room on
> the phone. When the phone call was ended Sam came and sat in the
> lesson. She started cussing and saying there is no God. But by
> applying the trainings we had received on Tuesday about using the book
> of Mormon. We were able to resolve her concern about why bad things
> happen. We simply used the scripture about choice in 2 Nephi 2, which
> helped her to understand! After that we had a great lesson with them.
>
> Thomas Spencer came to church again this week. At first we were
> thinking he was too dependant on Lee Simcock, his member friend, but
> the past two weeks he has come to church on the bus on his own. We
> weren’t even really expecting him to come because usually he has work.
> So tom is doing great. We should be teaching him tonight at the
> bishop’s home.
>
> Elder Jensen is doing great. He is a great confident missionary. He is
> a great teacher with great lesson ideas. Before serving with him I
> always thought he was a quiet missionary but serving with him has
> shown that he is quite the opposite
>
>
> --
> With Love,
> Elder Ballantyne
>
> On Tuesday, we had a round of inspired trainings. To me the focus
> seemed to be using the Book of Mormon to resolve concerns, and answer
> questions. I have recommitted to answering concerns with the Book of
> Mormon.
>
> This week we had a great miracle. We taught a couple named Gas (Gaz)
> and Sam. It started out just being Gas; Sam was in the other room on
> the phone. When the phone call was ended Sam came and sat in the
> lesson. She started cussing and saying there is no God. But by
> applying the trainings we had received on Tuesday about using the book
> of Mormon. We were able to resolve her concern about why bad things
> happen. We simply used the scripture about choice in 2 Nephi 2, which
> helped her to understand! After that we had a great lesson with them.
>
> Thomas Spencer came to church again this week. At first we were
> thinking he was too dependant on Lee Simcock, his member friend, but
> the past two weeks he has come to church on the bus on his own. We
> weren’t even really expecting him to come because usually he has work.
> So tom is doing great. We should be teaching him tonight at the
> bishop’s home.
>
> Elder Jensen is doing great. He is a great confident missionary. He is
> a great teacher with great lesson ideas. Before serving with him I
> always thought he was a quiet missionary but serving with him has
> shown that he is quite the opposite
>
>
> --
> With Love,
> Elder Ballantyne
Monday, March 5, 2012
Weekly update 3/5/2012
Hello!
>
> This week has been a good week in Rossendale valley. Sian has accepted
> another date to be baptised on the 30th of March. As well we taught
> Sarah and Tom on Wednesday, they are doing great, so great that they
> both have accepted baptism, they haven’t accepted dates yet but we
> told them we would bring a calendar to them so they can prayerfully
> choose a date.
>
> This week I was able to go on exchange with Elder Saunders, from
> Colorado. He is a really good missionary. He is very personable and
> kind to the people he speaks to. I was able to learn quite a bit from
> his example. On Wednesday, we had the lesson with Sarah and Tom. We
> reviewed the gospel of Jesus Christ, the last lesson we taught, with
> them. After reviewing about baptism I felt so strongly to invite them
> both to baptism, and then they accepted. Then Lee Simcock extended a
> commitment for them to pick a day. We told them that we would bring a
> baptismal calendar to help them pick a day.
>
> On Sunday, Tom showed a lot of initiative by taking the bus by himself
> to church. Lee, his good friend, was not going to be able to make it
> but tom came anyway! Tom and Sarah have also been going to institute
> with Lee. They are just make great progress.
>
>
> --
> With Love,
> Elder Ballantyne
>
> This week has been a good week in Rossendale valley. Sian has accepted
> another date to be baptised on the 30th of March. As well we taught
> Sarah and Tom on Wednesday, they are doing great, so great that they
> both have accepted baptism, they haven’t accepted dates yet but we
> told them we would bring a calendar to them so they can prayerfully
> choose a date.
>
> This week I was able to go on exchange with Elder Saunders, from
> Colorado. He is a really good missionary. He is very personable and
> kind to the people he speaks to. I was able to learn quite a bit from
> his example. On Wednesday, we had the lesson with Sarah and Tom. We
> reviewed the gospel of Jesus Christ, the last lesson we taught, with
> them. After reviewing about baptism I felt so strongly to invite them
> both to baptism, and then they accepted. Then Lee Simcock extended a
> commitment for them to pick a day. We told them that we would bring a
> baptismal calendar to help them pick a day.
>
> On Sunday, Tom showed a lot of initiative by taking the bus by himself
> to church. Lee, his good friend, was not going to be able to make it
> but tom came anyway! Tom and Sarah have also been going to institute
> with Lee. They are just make great progress.
>
>
> --
> With Love,
> Elder Ballantyne
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