Elder Roach in Atlanta Georgia North Mission

Hey fam. Shout out to my immediate fam for sending me the captain America shield. It spins for like 6 minutes straight. It's weird, it feels like I just emailed you guys. I'll tell you what updates have happened since then. So this week again, we didn't really have too much wacky stories. I have some pics from the temple trip, and I have some other stuff. I'll just tell you guys about some mission stuff Our top investigator is David Lancaster. He is currently on date for baptism, and he recently got to know his neighbor who is a member. We taught him the word of wisdom and he just flat out accepted it. He's been that way with all of his commitments, and he's reading and praying. We have high hopes for him. So we had a pretty cool miracle that happened  Saturday . A week ago we finished knocking part of an apartment complex, but not many answered, so we decided to go back. After we went through a different part with little success, we went downstairs and a man wa...

What's up y'all, today's Wednesday and I'm going to be emailing. We're going to the temple today which is the reason why we're doing it Wednesday, so that's pretty awesome. I had a really fun filled week here in Georgia and like to tell you all about it. So as far as mission stuff goes, we have been trying to get at least 10 lessons a week and at least 70 contacts a week. We were able to teach a lot last week and we are able to find a bunch of people! We found this one family that I'm really excited about. We were just knocking around and we ran into them. They know a member here really well, in fact the daughter was homeschooled by her, so boom instant fellowshipper, and she happened to be studying about the Apocryphal Book of Enoch. We had an interesting contact about chapter 6 of the Book of Moses, that was a new one. The coolest part was we had the member text her and invite her to church the next day and she came! That was a big lesson, it definitel...

Hi family! What's up? We had a good week! I have a new companion.... Elder Egbert! He's back! After 6 months in Marietta together we're companions. What a wild ride. We have a funny story. So  on Tuesday  here's what happened, we met this guy named Devin, he was blasting rap music, and when we came up he was like "oh! Sorry for the music, I swear I'm Christian!" Then he came out and he kept saying "in Jesus's name amen", because it kept the evil spirits away. Also he's dating a 16 year old and he's 30. While we were talking to him, old red dog came up to us and looked like he was going to kill us, but he gave us a beer and told us to sit with him. (We told him we were Mormon and also that I was 19, but he didn't care) Then he gave us a knife, and then we fixed his mailbox. Just a day in the life. The coolest experience from this week happened right after transfers. It was Elder Egbert's first night here, and we were knocking d...

Hey guys, so I'm going to email you all today. I talked to some of you yesterday, and I heard that you would like to hear more about the actual work and our investigators. Well you picked a great week to hear about that stuff, we met a guy named Brayden this week. We found him Monday night, and he was walking away from us, smoking a cigarette and kind of shady looking. We went and offered him a card and he invited us into his backyard. He has looked at a lot of anti and he has also done a lot of research on the church, so we answered some of his questions (he asked about polygamy and he said he already knew the answer, he was testing us to see if we would try to lie to him about it, and we passed!), and he asked for a Book of Mormon. He texted us later that night and said he already started reading it. Tuesday morning he texted us and said he felt weirdly drawn into the Book and when we sent him a scripture about praying he said he felt like a wave of warm hit him. We were so pumpe...

Hello dear family and hi dear friends. Welcome to another week that has gone by. We had a lot of fun adventures this week and we're looking forward to more fun adventures soon! I'll tell you all about it. So the weather is nice up here, when it's not raining. It's rained a ton. But on the plus side some guy gave us free umbrellas on Saturday, but I'm getting ahead of myself. I learned to clean out a carb on a lawn mower, we fixed two for our investigator Tim, so now I'm a mechanic! We went to a retirement home and we talked to a bunch of old guys, and we played uno and an old lady said if she was 100 years younger she would have two new boyfriends, and then she kissed us on the cheek. Elder Larsen got an infectious disease! Some guy opened the door and shook his hand and kind of paused and was like "oh, I shouldn't have done that. I have an infectious disease, I just got back from the hospital" and then he ran inside and grabbed some hand sanitizer...

Hello my family and hi my friends. How have you been? Have you had a fruitful week? I hope so, we had a good week, but I left my journal in the other elders car. I'll try to remember what I did this week. I think this week we just found and taught and contacted a ton of people. We now have two people on date for baptism, we've been teaching a bunch, and it's really just been good. I guess I should tell you about our investigators, a really cool one is Dennis Lee. He accepted to be baptized on the 20th, and he has a really sick mother that he needs to care for 24/7. It's pretty sad, and he can't leave for more than 30 mins, so he can't come to church. We have some ideas though. The other one who is on date is an 8 year old daughter of a kind of member. He recently got custody of her, and she loves reading the Book of Mormon with us. It's been fun to meet with them. We have an investigator named Tim, I don't know if I've talked about him before. He has...

Hey fam. We had a week! It was a good week! I got an unapproved haircut! I'll send a selfie in a sec. We had Elder Rasband come to our stake this week! It was awesome, he first came and spoke to the youth, and it was really packed apparently. Everyone loved it though, and he spoke about families. He quoted the saying that said no success can compensate for failure in the family, he talked about what makes a family a failure (when people stop trying), and he told us about what happened when he was ordained an apostle. It was awesome, he told us about what happens in the upper room of the temple and the words they used to ordain him. I've never heard it before. So there were also other things during the week. We ate at a restaurant called the pool room, where NASCAR started. Apparently it was bootleggers that started it, and a bunch of NASCAR guys are from Dawsonville. Also moonshine was invented here! We went to a zoo, I petted a baby black bear, I bought a beanie with a c...

Hey everyone, how's it going? It's been a good week here, spring is upon us! It was upon us for a few weeks now, but now it's been Easter, so it's official. Happy Easter also by the way! Thanks for the package as well, I got it Saturday night and then I took a selfie to prove it. Thank you all for the letters, I love hearing from you guys, I'll start writing replies, but it may be a while. So we had a great week. I made my companion dig his own grave on Monday. Jk, it was a grave for a dog. That wasn't dead yet. But it will soon be dead, it's really sad looking, it can't walk or really breathe. The rest of our week was fairly normal besides the weekend, just interviews with president, zone conference, lots of traveling because we live out in the boonies. Good stuff, I'll tell you guys about the weekend though, lots of fun stuff. So Saturday was good, we met a guy who was a free mason, and he was really chill, offered to buy us a pizza and told us tha...

Hey. How's it goin? Everything alright? Good, well I'm glad to hear it. I have some exciting stories and experiences to tell you guys about from this week of April! Also a lot of pictures, that I will explain at the end. So this week we had a tornado, that was fun. It poured rain and was super windy all day, but we didn't lose power and it wasn't that bad to be honest. I think it was like a long spread out tornado or something. And there was a rainbow at the end! We also had a pretty great lesson with an investigator named Darnell, and he's pretty funny. He calls the spirit the Koodalini. Also he has fake teeth, but he doesn't always wear them, so sometimes he looks really country.  We had a fun day  on Friday , we met a guy who opened the door and kind of smiled and "oh hey guys." We introduced ourselves and asked his name and he paused and said "... Smith... Joseph Smith" and then it turns out his family is Mormon, and he knows a bunch ...

Hey my friend. I am speaking to you personally. How are you doing? I have wonderful news about my life that I want to share with you! Oh, and transfers were this week and I'm staying another transfer here with Elder Larsen! Season three baby! It's pretty unusual to stay with one companion for three transfers, and now I'm doing it again! So some fun things happened this week. A pretty cool experience happened to us Monday, we left dinner and our plans fell through for the night. Happens all the time, whatever, we had backup tracting! We were going to leave, when we remembered our dinner gave us a sort of referral, so we tried that. They weren't interested, but we felt we should keep going. The second door we knocked on was a woman who said "who sent you?" And it turns out she was a member who hasn't been active for a long time! We shared the Easter video with her, it was a good time. We heard of something funny too, they called it the "kiddie dip"...