May
22, 2015
SURPRISE J
Hey since today is technically our Pday we
figured that we would come a little early and send a surprise email. We
were supposed to meet at the church for our temple excursion at 6:20 am and we
got here a little after 6:00 am. I did
send you a snail mail last Tuesday but I’m not sure if you’ve received it yet.
I got your final package/letter yesterday so I will answer some of the questions
that you put in your package.
Thanks for the summary
of ward conference, it sounds like you had a great meeting. Also, I really liked the analogy that the
Bishop gave about the Holy Ghost and airplanes. I knew that the windows
were quite small but that is cool how the pilots pretty much rely on others and
their instruments to move around and get direction. I liked the part
about the plane moving on the ground and air traffic control guiding their movement.
It was all a cool concept. Also, I was
studying a talk from the women’s’ conference by Sis. Oscarson and I really
liked the story about her daughter defending the role of motherhood at her kids’
school career day. I thought it was
clever and funny.
I guess I’ll answer your first question about
our mission conference yesterday and the distribution of iPads. The
meeting was just north of Pitt in Cranberry Township. It was awesome, we had all 200 missionaries
gathered in the same meeting and Pres. & Sis. Johnson were quite
excited. Unfortunately, in PJ’s email on
Monday he said that the missionaries going home this transfer won’t get an iPad
at the meeting…sort of a bummer, but whatever. I guess I will just get my own
when I get home. We spent most of the day training on how we can use the iPad
for the good and how it is a tool for us to use and expand our missionary
work. A big chunk of the meeting was spent talking about how to protect
ourselves from the dangers of the internet. We also talked about how we
can use it for good. So even though I am not getting one here, the info is
something that I can bring home with me and use as I integrate back into school
& normal life. As Elder Bednar said in education week last year, we
need to flood the world with good…#sharegoodness. So basically it is
going to be pretty cool, technology is now going to be part of a mission. Starting soon, I guess iPads will now be
included in your initial call packet.
Missionaries will start preparing with things before they ever enter the
MTC. They are not Facebook savy yet and they don't use the area book
stuff yet, those things will be rolled out here in the future. The social
media aspect sounds pretty cool, they are going to be able to face time and
skype and message on fb. It is quite a process and the church has spent
long hours & lots of money to roll the program out. Hopefully we will be
able to see Boris use technology for good in his mission and see the program
work in its entirety.
Well I am running out of time, but I will answer
one last thing regarding me getting released as a missionary. You asked about when I prefer to be released
given the crazy schedule for the day…honestly, I don't care. I’ll
be fine with whatever I get. If I had to choose I’d probably prefer that
night after graduation just to make sure I can be up to SLCC on time on
Thursday morning. But whatever the stake works out will be fine.
I love you and will talk to you Monday and give you the full story of the
temple excursion.
Love you all,
Elder Muir
Below is info from Elder Muir’s snail mail
letter we received today…
Howdy,
I guess we get to converse the old fashioned way
this week. Not much longer and we can
talk face to face in person. I can’t
believe we are down to 2 weeks (less by the time you get this). Boy time is flying fast.
We’ve had a great week here in Meadville. Again, it was filled with lots of
service. We randomly donated blood this
week as part of our service. We also
helped a lot of ward members with their yards & cleanup. It has really been great to get out there and
help them with their needs. We were able
to help RR and her family move a
dryer. She is really going through a lot
right now. Because of her parent’s ill
health she has to pretty much take care of the house and day to day things so
she is very stressed. She is very
grateful for us and our help including the spirit that we bring. "A" is
almost ready for baptism. She is so
close that we may move her date up to May 31st instead of June 13th. That would be so awesome if we could make that
happen for my last weekend.
Also, we met the kid that got baptized in
Florida (Daytona area in the Berry’s mission).
He is originally from the Meadville area but he’s going to school in
Florida and is home for the summer. He
is pretty cool, not at all what I was expecting. He is very, very smart and classy. He doesn’t look at all like a small town
country boy.
Can’t wait to tell you about the temple
trip. Guess I better get this letter in
the mail.
Love
ya!!!
Elder
Muir
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