Zack on AP exchange

could darlene make some cookies the pumpkin chocolate chip ones and send a bunch in we all want some in the apartment you know the ones you sent for thanksgiving :) On Mon, May 26, 2014 at 10:32 AM, Zachary Larsen wrote: well I would just have you take care of my license stuff I cant do anything out here those papers are for Utah only, cali is different style for renewing. Have you talked to shio yet? or parker? I don't wanna risk a new roomie because that would suck. I can trust missionaries I have a harder time trusting random strangers that could possibly have no moral values :) Ya Anti info kinda sucks bad but oh well. so after I jacked up my jaw we have ahd a financial mishap and I have been having to use my home card :( mostly because we had no food. I had no money left after buying the liquid diet thing and then after that they never reimbursed me so yea it sucks :( ssooo sad day family moving to Arizona Christian got traded from the 9ers to Arizona as well. I will set up what we are doing for the pick me up trip and I think it would be best if we go home on sunday so we can spend sacrament with the YSA ward :D if you want to find a hotel in Elk Grove or near it that would be most central to where we are visiting though. no worries about trunkieness im a stone wall when it comes to that I work just as hard as I did when I was in wilton so no worries things are all good here my comp and I are getting along much better! as for your hiking im still jealous because I don't get to do such things and as for teaching I use to stress over it but now im just a lot better at putting together a basic outline and going off that on what needs to be said by how I feel. treasure up in your heart and mind and at the moment I will receive the portion meted so its mostly study that I do. Now I can wing talks better than ever before haha! anyway glad you talked to Dan I need to get in contact with that kid I hope he is doing better im told he is still pretty anti religion. anyway life is pretty great im not too excited for a new mission pres especially for my last month and a half of the mission but oh well what can ya do? uuhh yea lots of preaching at the college campuses and now its done with so we have nowhere to go so hopefully the people we are teaching are going to be enough for the week until CRC opens up again haha! well love you all so much! no huge stories this week just lots of weird things, I was on an AP exchange with my main british man sheppard who is leaving next transfer sadly ill miss him. yup yup love ya!

Zack on AP exchange

could darlene make some cookies the pumpkin chocolate chip ones and send a bunch in we all want some in the apartment you know the ones you sent for thanksgiving :) On Mon, May 26, 2014 at 10:32 AM, Zachary Larsen wrote: well I would just have you take care of my license stuff I cant do anything out here those papers are for Utah only, cali is different style for renewing. Have you talked to shio yet? or parker? I don't wanna risk a new roomie because that would suck. I can trust missionaries I have a harder time trusting random strangers that could possibly have no moral values :) Ya Anti info kinda sucks bad but oh well. so after I jacked up my jaw we have ahd a financial mishap and I have been having to use my home card :( mostly because we had no food. I had no money left after buying the liquid diet thing and then after that they never reimbursed me so yea it sucks :( ssooo sad day family moving to Arizona Christian got traded from the 9ers to Arizona as well. I will set up what we are doing for the pick me up trip and I think it would be best if we go home on sunday so we can spend sacrament with the YSA ward :D if you want to find a hotel in Elk Grove or near it that would be most central to where we are visiting though. no worries about trunkieness im a stone wall when it comes to that I work just as hard as I did when I was in wilton so no worries things are all good here my comp and I are getting along much better! as for your hiking im still jealous because I don't get to do such things and as for teaching I use to stress over it but now im just a lot better at putting together a basic outline and going off that on what needs to be said by how I feel. treasure up in your heart and mind and at the moment I will receive the portion meted so its mostly study that I do. Now I can wing talks better than ever before haha! anyway glad you talked to Dan I need to get in contact with that kid I hope he is doing better im told he is still pretty anti religion. anyway life is pretty great im not too excited for a new mission pres especially for my last month and a half of the mission but oh well what can ya do? uuhh yea lots of preaching at the college campuses and now its done with so we have nowhere to go so hopefully the people we are teaching are going to be enough for the week until CRC opens up again haha! well love you all so much! no huge stories this week just lots of weird things, I was on an AP exchange with my main british man sheppard who is leaving next transfer sadly ill miss him. yup yup love ya!

Jeremy grows a moustache in his sleep?

So this has been conference week! We've been doing ZC's throughout the mission, Monday we were in Bend, Wednesday Newberg, and Friday Salem. He lord had a different message to share with each area surprisingly. It's been cool to see how The Lord works through our President and his wife, but also my comp and I. I'm exhausted now though. I passed out on the couch last night trying to write in my journal for the first time in two weeks and I passed out... So Norton drew a fake mustache on me, woke me up, in my confusion I tried to go brush my teeth and I ended up using Ribieo's tooth brush, and Norton got a picture of it. It was hilarious, but sad at the same time. So I haven't yet taught with the 70, that's next week Tuesday! So pumped! It'll be a crazy week also, we are doing the same traveling amount only 3 days consecutive.... It'll be NUTS! Life is fast... So during all this craziness we have a family on date for baptism comig up on the 31st. Zack and Lexi Common please pray for them, they are awesome! We just found an awesome family also! Such a miracle :) Their names are Carolyn and Guillermo! We found them by dive bombing em in the Mamba! They were just the sweetest looking family in the world and we would be dammed if we didn't attempt to make the an eternal family for sure. No way was I going to look God in the eye and tell him why I passed them up. We committed them the next day to work towards eternal marriage, totally skipped baptism, going big! We are going to the temple with them soon and they will be at church this week! Going to be so awesome!,well I gotta go love ya bye! Elder Larseny Sr.

Amazing letter from Salem!

Brother & Sister Larsen, First, I need to tell both of you what an amazing young man your son is. I don’t use those words lightly. As you may know, he is serving as one of my Assistants. Prior to this, he served as a Zone Leader and trainer of a new missionary. Your son has made a significant impact on so many of our missionaries and has helped establish a new culture here in this new mission. It is starting to become….a culture of Christ. We have fun, we work hard, we love people and we are intense and passionate about the Gospel and our callings here. Your son is all of that, and so much more. Just yesterday, we were holding our first of a series of Zone Conferences, Elder Larsen was planning on speaking on a completely different subject, but upon arrival it was clear that the Lord had a different message for all of us to deliver. And deliver your son did! I know that this young man has caused you and your wife some sleepless nights, but let me tell you he has changed SO much just in the short time we have known him. He will be a leader in the church, he will amaze you. He will marry a wonderful young lady, and he will be a force for good within your family. It will be very difficult for my wife and I to give him back to you, but we will do so with the knowledge that it will be time for him to start a new phase of his life. Currently his release date is scheduled for Wednesday, September 17 (we moved the date from Tuesday Sept 16). I would say that you should plan to pick him up on Wednesday, Sept 17th in the morning, maybe at the Portland airport so he can experience much of the total going home experience. We would love to spend some time with you but due to the fact that we will have all our new missionaries flying in that same morning we will not be free until that weekend. Maybe we could get together for breakfast on Saturday, Sept 20? But I don’t know how much time you are planning on being here?? Hope this helps, you can coordinate this with our office and your son. Tell the office we have corresponded with me on this issue. Kind Regards, President Samuelian

Zack and firey carpet

yea my jaw is all jacked up still but at least im eating regular food it is just really tight. all is well though. this week has been pretty crazy i must say. i cant believe dallin is getting married and i cant believe sam is leaving me :( as for shio i just talked to him and told him to contact ya. what happens if i dont find a roommate? uuhh.... as for my liscense thing i got the papers i have no idea what im doing with it. also you will love trek i did. Kate will love college i am sure of it, she is a smart girl. is she still planning on a mission? so this week we got permission to hit up the campus of CRC to proselyte which is great! YSA galore! sad thing is we had a very promising INV who was ready for baptism but got onto a anti mormon website and threw it all in our faces. hardcore antied us and was trying to "save" us for a couple days so i had to be very bold and stern with him but it just sucked because i really liked him he is a great guy. i still wish him the best but he is in a bad place haha. however we have an investigator with a baptism date for june who is really going strong! the work is pretty hard the YSA is not helping a ton like they use to but we are getting them into shape. Sis Minnick should be sending that paper you need with date of release. keep calling her about it. she knows one of your partners at the hospital too she worked with him. so i just got done lighting a tennis ball on fire and throwing it with my roomate and we took vids of our hands lighting fire while throwing it around and we lit our carpet on fire on accident haha! i have vids for ya! lets see, i went into laotion work which was a lot of fun! TONS of WEED!! i went into a house and they had over 100 plants they were growing in the back yard. thats part of the laos business they are expert farmers and weed sells haha! i ate some interesting food but no stomach parasite yet ;) i got offered more drugs and alcohol this week than ever before i was also offered free beer at the bar we were contacting around which was fun haha! very nice people in Elk Grove, beer is expensive haha! we sent a funny but sassy text to someone we dont know. there was a mass text sent to all old INV's on the phone that was unknown to the missionaries and said ELDERS: hey we are missionaries sharing a message about god are you interested in learning more (something to that extent) INV: i am satan! i talk to that fag every day ELDERS: Great! so you know he exists, would you like to know more about his eternal plan of happiness? INV: NO! thats not part of my plan to take over the world. ELDERS: Well your doing a great job now, but spoiler alert.....god wins. INV: FALSE! so yea it was a great text convo haha! i thought it was hilarious! but you know me i think things are funny that are not always funny. so if i can get anything from ya it would be another shaver, mine died for lack of a better phrase. im stealing my comps razor which makes me feel manly because i use it without shaving cream i just go dry but i would like my electric one back :) thanks for the pics i love having them!! i havve some families set up to visit with on the 28th so hopefully people will be home. i was thinking of maybe attending a sacrament meeting and going home sunday afternoon is that possible? i could take you to some sites that way too like big trees or black chasm or somethin. if not its all good :) anyway thats about my week! thats my peace thats my cent im out :D love you all lots! things are great here! im happy and lovin my mission! our zone conference was great and i love training the missionaries its so much fun! and i love to see how it helps because it gives me confidence in my planning and i love seeing them progress alrighty dighty peace!

Zack and the Lady Preacher

hey dad! things are great here! that's a crazy story about what happened to Ashley and Jordan! Hope that gets all sorted out although I must say out here a break in is fairly normal haha :) but that's only in the Florin area which is a shoot off of south sac which is not exactly a great place to be. So with the living I though either shio or parker was going to live with me?.... what's going on with that? so what job does Kevin have that's go great? glad he is getting his degree!!! Keep up the great missionary efforts that's awesome!! anyway things are great here! my comp and I struggle at times but we get things done decently! we had a baptism get away from us sadly.. he disappeared for 3 days I guess he went for a walk and we found him walking for 3 days with no food or water and he was a little heat exhausted and confused so we brought him to the church and he met with our bishop and we helped him out and now he is moving back to DC to live with his brothers :) so we will make sure he gets baptized there he was supposed to yesterday but that's when we got a call from someone on the street saying he needed help. anyway life is good im just chugging along. im still studying the Atonement and stuff which is great, im always learning from that! well yea that was exciting! I prayed with a super black lady who said she was a bishop, priest, minister, preacher person she was normal to talk to but when she started praying she was freakin out! it was awesome! we had our zone training which went well and was spiritual! we havnt done a lot of crazy stuff this week other than lots puns and pick up lines that scared my comp out of the room and yea. im trying to get him to work himself into the ward and stuff but its not working well haha! the ward is very hesitant around him and he doesn't even like being here so that makes it tough but things will work out for sure! we are making it work and im just loving him anyway! well love you all so much!!!!!

Subway and the Spirit (Jers)

Hola! So.............. Another crazy week. Things just aren't slowing down here, and the next three weeks are going to be even crazier. Okay so we have MLC tomorrow so we are working that. Then we have transfer calls Saturday...... Then, next week, we have the gauntlet. Transfer week is already back, this time with a vengeance. The week after that we are going to have Zone conferences every other day the next week so I'll be touring the mission. The week after that we have a 70 coming into the mission and so we are touring the mission with him... We also get to proselyte with that 70. It's going to be nuts! We are working with this family right now the Common's that is going to get dunked for sure after a visit from this guy! So the next few weeks are honestly looking like a roller coaster of craziness. Sounds like on your end you've got some craziness going on as well. You've got weddings for days! That's a bummer deal that Kevin has to ditch that job, that really is a heartbreaker. Kev is planning on going to UVU? That is so cool! Bummer to hear about the scariness going on with Ash and Jordan. Hopefully all will work out with them... You know when it comes to missionary moments you need to go read Power of the Everyday Missionary, it will help you so much with those moments. I know as you pray for opportunities and act on the spirit you will have tons of opportunities to share by example and by word. Mainly I feel like The Lord will give you opportunities to love those around you in a much more profound way. Sososososososo... Sweet story time. So we are on this hitch of only eating when the spirit prompts us to go see some investigators or potentials at subway or Wendy's or wherever. So we were talking the I was like! We need to see Subway Girl! So we rushed off, got there, then we saw that another investigator was there. So we talked with her, it was awesome. Then we went out and saw a gal wrapping presents. So we went over and she needed help wrapping presents. She then followed us to see where the church building was and said she would come. Next day... We go to church, we cover the Newberg 1 and 2nd ward. So we are sitting, then bam! She comes in with 3kids. Next thing you know the ward just hops on her, they set up lessons in their houses and she just has the most spiritually insane experience of her life. She said that she felt like she was coming home! So sweet. Gotta love the spirit allowing us to go get 6 inch subs and talk to a 2 new investigator! Life is good. I don't know when I'm sky ping, when is Bullcut? Let me know, love ya! Elder Lary Sr. Sent from my iPad