Elder Dalton Groen: April 2015

Monday, April 27, 2015

A new week and a new missionary

Hello,
so on wednes day i did recieve a brand new missionary!!! he is from
arizona gilbert area!! he is 18 years old and is calld elder vance!!!
we are working good and hard!!! im teaching him the was of how to do
things!!
this week our focuses were focused on finding new investigators!! we
knocked a lot of doors and asked a lot of members for references!! we
didnt have any imideate success but im sure that it is comming!! the
blessings will come!!!
we have a few people that we are working with but none that look like
seguros.(sorry i dont know how to say that in english)
elder vance is doing awesome!!! he likes to work and he wants to
participate!! whice is awesome!! im giving him chances in the lessons
to teach and he seems to like it so its awesome!! he is a very smart
kid and im super excited and very lucky to have the opertunity to
train him!!!
love,elder groen

Monday, April 20, 2015

I'm Training!!!

hey all!! so another six weeks has come and gone (so dang fast) Transfer time!!! so like every transfer before this one i am changing compsonce again!!!! and theres more!!! im going to be training!!! i am so excited for the opertunity that i have to be a leader and help a new missionary learn the ways of a celestial missionary!!! concerning this week it has been pretty normal! we did find some good news and im super excited for that!!! ill keep you updated!!! im sorry i dont have that much for you today but i love you all and am so thankfull for you prayers and support!!! love elder groen

ps today i hit my toe and ripped the toe nail almost clean off... ouch!!! that hurt...

Tuesday, April 14, 2015

That was a fast week!!

Dear Everyone,

So today in the morning i was reading a talk by Elder Faust called (Things I want my grandson to know before he goes on a mission.) or something like that and there was one part that talked about what i think was a two horse buggie or something. and he said if one horse is slower then the other horse the other horse will struggle pulling the cart by its self. and i kind of feel like that is what i am doing now. i have alwayse in my life like to follow the popular kids... even if they werent the ones doing the right things, i would follow the to be ''cool''. and since i have been with elder udall i have started to do that... the first day i was with him i wanted to get along with him really well because the realationship between me and my last companion wasnt up to par. So i did what i thought would make me look cool in ''the eyes of man'' not looking upward and trying to think how i looked in the eyes of the one that it really matters. so my obedience went downhill...

Now because im a very lucky Elder and becuse my god loves me he has just been sending his spirit into my soul as often as he gets the chance to tell me to do differently. and it has worked! little by little i have gotten up the courage to put my foot down to something he wants to do thats not what we should be doing. i have poured out my heart in pray several times to god to ask for forgiveness and stregnth! and he has give it to me and i can notice a very notable difference at how much happier i am throught my day!! it is amazing!! i have also noticed that although my comp may be mad for a little we alwayse end up loughing and making jokes!!

My comp really doesnt like looking for new people. In the five weeks that i have been in castillo we have no started visiting even one single new house. so its been hard because we are not progresing with any investigators... but i have now started to be able to get him to go and knock on some doors!! im excited for this week and very optimistic!!!

I do have a question though. when im trying to get him to do weekly planning and he starts doing but he either doesnt take it seriously or is a jerk to me... what can i do to help him not be a jerk about it? or to take it seriously?

another question. when we need to come back on tuesdays and sundays to studay and when we get a vianda he just sleeps. How can i help him to be motivated to study during those times?

i know that obedience is so importante and the first law of heaven!! i know the lord will bless us for our obedience! he has to!! (DandC 82:10)

thanks for all of the prayers

Love, Elder Groen

An hammock Dalton bought "from a Brazilian"

Dalton sleeping at night in the hammock and getting "eaten by mosquitoes!"

Monday, April 6, 2015

Que Semana Dichoso!!!

so the week started of a little comicle.

the story goes like this. so we were all preparing to leave the apartment at 6:00 on p-day to go out and work. this needs a little bit of explination first. our front door doesnt lead us out to the street. it leads us to a front year and from there we have to go through someone elses grage and another door to get to the street. so we never lock our front door... I was the first one ready and so i got a little courious and decided to see what key locked the front door. i locked it and was like oh cool its this one. keep in mind we were all inside. i then presided to unlock the door but it wouldnt budge... we were all four of us locked in the pench at 6:00 right when we needed to be leaving... and to make matters worse the other elders had an apointment at 6:30... so we called the (sorry i dont know how to say this in english...) dueño and she told us that she didnt know what to do... so we asked if it was ok breaking it and she said yes and so we did!! we were stuck in the apartment for one hour... woops... the other elders were late... but they told me it worked out anyway! feww!!

the next day we bought a new lock and hammered the door and door frame back to shape haha!! so its all good now!!!

General Conference was so awesome!!

the mission is great!! we're a little short on investigators because my comp dosent really like looking for news... but im about to change that so no worries!! they feed us so much... practicly shove the food down our throughts... if you stop eating for more then 30 secouds they say comen comen chicos. haha the members are great!!

i realized how much i love the cold weather!!!