tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-89801525892289951062024-02-18T18:16:54.554-08:00Elder Jacob KlimaElder Jacob Klimahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10929767913982868956noreply@blogger.comBlogger109125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8980152589228995106.post-72162464036265548372018-08-20T12:43:00.000-07:002018-08-20T12:43:16.372-07:00Final P-Day<br />
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super busy today so I won’t be able to write much. This week was good. I had a District Leader Training in Newberg
and was able to see a lot of missionaries that I have served around and say
goodbye to them. I got to see Elder Holt and that was a lot of fun! </span></div>
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<span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">While I was
gone, Elder Gutierrez got hit by a truck on his bike! By he is totally fine, so
that is evidence of the Lord protecting us as missionaries. I had a great week
with Elder Giles and Gutierrez. They are both awesome. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<br />Elder Jacob Klimahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10929767913982868956noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8980152589228995106.post-87144226428415007522018-08-13T16:48:00.003-07:002018-08-13T16:48:55.620-07:00Too Busy to Write<br />
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support. We had a good week. We had three people show up to church yesterday
just randomly. We had never met them before, but they just walked into church,
so that was awesome. It seems like the Lord has really prepared them. We had
another missionary join our companionship this week for the last week, so
that’s been good. Sorry I don’t have time to send a lot today. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
<br />Elder Jacob Klimahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10929767913982868956noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8980152589228995106.post-87108633113729838352018-08-06T12:20:00.000-07:002018-08-06T12:20:23.984-07:00Blessed with New People to Teach<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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week was good! We were blessed with a lot of new people to teach. The Lord has
been blessing us with people every day to hand out Books of Mormon to. It has
definitely helped to grow my testimony that He will prepare a way for us to
accomplish our goals if they are in accordance with His will. We have also been
praying more specifically for the weekly goals that we have set, and have seen
those goals come to fruition as well. We had one day where we were walking to
an appointment and as we were walking, we saw a man in the stairwell of an
apartment complex. We went to talk to him and then we walked with him for a few
minutes and right after he left, we were right by a guy who was on his porch.
He is a young man with a young family, and he was really nice and said we could
come back this week. After that, we went back to our original destination of
the first guy’s home. Apparently we had the wrong address, because he lived
next door. But the blessing in that was that we were able to meet a man named
Bill who was extremely nice and willing to learn more. He even helped on the
construction of our church building! It was pretty amazing to see how the Lord
guided us that entire trip and led us exactly where we needed to go. </div>
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Elder Jacob Klimahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10929767913982868956noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8980152589228995106.post-69954155796289613492018-08-03T19:44:00.000-07:002018-08-03T19:44:02.236-07:00Baptism<br />
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baptism went really well. Because of Lynne’s health, we had to have two people
in the Font for the ordinance. We ordained Eric, who was baptized a month ago,
about 30 minutes before the baptism and he participated in the ordinance. So
that was exciting! Our Book of Mormon study class has been going really well.
We have been getting consistently 20+ people. It’s really to the point where I
feel like it could be a calling for someone because it is a consistent group of
20+ people. We are looking for some more people to teach. We had a ton, and now
it kind of dropped off a little bit, but the Lord will provide more people to
teach. Our 5th Sunday lesson was really, really good! We definitely were guided
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goal, and it’s because we didn’t pray for it specifically. We got really busy
that day and it just didn’t happen. We were really busy Sunday, but we prayed
about it and took 15 minutes and the Lord led us to someone right away. It was
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<br />Elder Jacob Klimahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10929767913982868956noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8980152589228995106.post-66497718297330037892018-07-26T14:28:00.000-07:002018-07-26T14:28:03.171-07:00Great Week<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="color: #454545; font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">The week here was good, we have been pretty busy. We were finally able to meet with a guy that we have been trying to meet with for a while. He was really open to talking and we had a great lesson with him about the Restoration. On Wednesday, we had a church tour with him with one of our members. It was a really powerful church tour. It is really good to be able to take people to the church prior to their first Sunday coming. Later this week, Eric, one of our recent converts of of few weeks, came to a lesson with Jared to fellowship him and it was great! </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">This weekend we had a really good Book of Mormon study class. We have been doing it for about 10 Weeks and have gradually grown in numbers. This past week we had 21 people! It was a our biggest showing and at least 3 or 4 of the people there were people who are preparing for baptism. So that was great. This week, Lynne is getting baptized. She has been going through so much. It is pretty crazy how much she has been getting hit by the opposition, but she has been so hopeful and positive throughout the entire experience. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">We are excited to do a 5th Sunday presentation on that 101 ways to do member missionary work this Sunday. Today was Elder Gutierrez’ birthday!</span></span></div>
Elder Jacob Klimahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10929767913982868956noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8980152589228995106.post-78206197836029763702018-07-16T17:27:00.000-07:002018-07-16T17:27:04.172-07:00Amazing Missionary Fireside<br />
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Our week out here was really good. Elder Gutierrez is from
Las Almas New Mexico. The past few years he has been living in Las Vegas
though. He has been out for 9 months. We have been doing really good and have
been seeing a lot of cool things happen. This week, I don't really remember a
lot. It has kind of been a whirlwind. We had an amazing missionary fireside
last night. It was cool to be a part of another one, as we did one when I was
in McMinnville Stake in Newberg. We, as missionaries and the stake, have been
really pushing this event for the past 6 weeks or so. We had a great turnout!
The entire chapel was full and some of the overflow. These firesides are so
powerful. And although our numbers as a missionary choir were small, the Spirit
really made up for us and delivered our songs strongly. It was cool. President
Stevens (Stake President) spoke about keeping our eyes on the Savior. He told a
story about a young boy who was asking his dad how to plow in straight lines.
The dad told him to pick an object in the distance and keep your eyes on that
object. The dad left and came back and the line was straight for a little, and
then started looking like an "S". He asked his son what happened with
keeping his eyes on an object. The son said that he did. He picked their cow
Bessie and follow her and then she walked into the barn and he didn't know what
to do after that. I thought that was funny! He gave a great talk about focusing
on the Savior. That was really cool and perfect for everyone there. President Tateoka
sang Savior, Redeemer of My Soul and that was powerful. Sister McCall was
supposed to give a brief testimony, but her car had been giving her trouble all
day. She left Portland around 8am and was running really late. It was amazing
because the Lord gave us the idea (and actually prompted President Stevens to
help prepare Bailey for this) to ask Bailey (a convert of about 16 months) to
fill in if need be. And the need was there for her to do that! The Lord truly
had her ready and prepared to do that. And she gave a great testimony. Sister
McCall walked in right after that and was able to sit and enjoy the program. It
was a blessing that she was there to be able to hear and listen to the music
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Other than that, things are going really well. We are seeing
a lot of miracles. We are really busy. Brother Beaver is progressing a lot. He
has been to church 8 weeks in a row and is making great progress. Sister
Buckley, a lady we are teaching, has been doing great as well. She is getting very
close to baptism and we are excited about that. It has been cool to see the
faith of the ward continue to grow. A member of the Bishopric brought a
non-member family with them to the fireside last night, so that was great! We
had a farewell again this week. This was for Tanner. He is going to Uruguay. He
has helped us a lot with lessons and it has been fun to see him prepare. We
have another farewell next week for Ethan! The missionary spirit in the ward is
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Nonu will be transferred to Turner in the Salem stake. It is really close to
Stayton. We were definitely not expecting that, but that is obviously where the
Lord has need for him at this time. The last 6 weeks really flew by. My new
companion will be Elder Gutierrez. He has been out for about a year I think. I
am excited to be staying here in High Desert. I am getting a little nervous
about this being my last six weeks though. It just feels weird. Our entire
district is getting pretty shaken up. One of the Sisters goes home, another is
getting transferred, and then we have 5 other elders getting transferred. So it
is going to be pretty crazy. Elder Greenwood, who lived with me in Newberg and
was trained by Elder Bills & Patterson, is going to be one of our zone
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what happened. It is really hard for me to remember on Monday what happened the
rest of the week. We have one sister we are teaching, Lynne. She is in her 60s.
She had a good amount of exposure to the church growing up. She is very
prepared to be baptized. She has a really hard health trial, which makes things
hard. On Friday, she had a really hard day with other things as well, so after
our lesson we gave her a blessing. She showed up to church on Sunday glowing.
She was so happy and she did not even have her walker! She loves church and
loves the feelings that she is feeling. It has been really amazing to see how
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not a member, but we have met her a bunch of times since I have been here. When
Elder Nonu got here, she finally started opening up and being willing to talk
with us! She apparently lived with Tongans in California, one of which being
one that Elder Nonu knows. So that really softened her heart. She reached out
to us this week because she was moving to Idaho and really needed some help. We
were able to contact the Elder's Quorum and they did a great job of showing up
to help. Overall, I think that there were 12 of us there. As she pulled in with
the Uhaul, she was in tears. Originally, she was supposed to be waiting for us
with the Uhaul ready at noon. Well, the owner of the Uhaul had a flat tire, so
he was not able to get it to her until near 1215 and she didn't show up until
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of members who are just standing around waiting. But now as I am typing this
up, I think that it is important that she was late, because she was able to see
this force of people standing there ready to help her when she pulled in. I
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we had 4 people that we are teaching show up to participate! One miracle on
that day was that we went by with Stan to pick up Brother Beaver, a man we are
teaching. He lives right next to Crystil and her family. Right when we pulled
up, Angelica (Crystil's daughter) texted us saying that she did not have to
work. It was just a blessing because we were able to go see if she needed a
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Elder Jacob Klimahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10929767913982868956noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8980152589228995106.post-86853701158455966632018-07-02T14:04:00.000-07:002018-07-02T14:04:05.684-07:00Eric's Baptism!<br />
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Our week was good. It was really busy. We had an exchange
this week with the Elders in Cascade Crest. It went really well. During the
exchange we met a lady who has run into missionaries three times within the
past few weeks, so she thought that was interesting. We had Zone Conference
this week, which was really good. It was really good to be able to see some of
the missionaries in the other Zone, like Elder Oswald. A lot of the
missionaries that came out around the same time as me are going home, so it was
weird to here all of their final testimonies before they leave. It has been
really cool to see how much the mission has changed since when I first got here
and to see the impact that President Tateoka and Sister Tateoka have had on the
missionaries in the mission. The highlight of the week was Eric's baptism. Eric
has a very strong testimony of Jesus Christ and has a very strong knowledge of
the Bible. We have been teaching him for a couple of months and it has been
really cool to see the changes that have been made in his life as he has
started to learn more about the Gospel and read the Book of Mormon. But
specifically as he has started to come to church. The first time he came to
church was right at the beginning of the transfer. He was struggling to make it
out to church, and Elder Nonu just asked him, "If Jesus Christ was here
inviting you to come to church, would you come?" That really changed his
perspective and ever since then his progression has taken off! That was really
cool for me to see how simply Elder Nonu put it and how much of an impact that
it had on Eric. The baptismal service was great and the confirmation on sunday
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towards baptism. The faith of the members in the ward has been growing steadily
over the past five months. I have been thinking a lot about that and about how
important faith is, especially as we unify our faith as children of Heavenly
Father. As the faith in the ward has grown, more miracles are happening. I
believe that as more miracles continue to happen, the faith in the Savior
preparing the hearts of the people here will grow in the ward. As that faith
continues to grow, I think our faith as a whole to stretch out of our comfort
zone and invite our friends and acquaintances to learn will grow, and in turn
we will see more miracles. I am learning a lot about unity and how essential it
is. There really is no limit to what the Savior can do. Things can change
everywhere if our faith as members of the church and children of Heavenly
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miracles and success. This Saturday, a man that we are teaching is going to be
baptized. His name is Eric. We had a really good week this week with a lot of
our investigators coming to church! We are seeing that the Lord is preparing
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are seeing that that is very true in our area. We had a great experience with
the Elders in Cascade Crest sending us an awesome referral! They were walking
quickly because they were running late to an appointment. All of the sudden,
they heard someone whistle at them. They turned around and it was a lady in her
30's. She started talking to them and discussing how she wants to start attending
church with her husband because all of her children have been going to
different churches, but they haven't found the one that works for them yet. The
Elders were able to have a great discussion with her on the street about the
Plan of Salvation and now she wants to meet with us! It is really amazing to
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week here was good. It’s been busy and lots of things happening. We have been
teaching a lot of people, which is good. We have three guys that we are
teaching that are all doing good on their own right. Two of them are close to
baptism. One of them is getting closer. He has been to church four weeks in a
row and seems to like it. Josh told us this past week told us that he wants to
be baptized, so that will probably happen within the next couple of
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had a cool experience this week. We were in an apartment complex and saw a
couple that we have talked with a bunch. One of them was on the phone and she
was asking about an HDMI cable and how much it costs. We had an HDMI cable in
our bag, so we pulled it out and gave it to them. This was a very big miracle
in their lives. They saw it as a testimony that Heavenly Father is aware of
them. We were able to start talking more and started talking about baptism. He
has wanted to be baptized for a while apparently, but has to change because of
the commandments. But they both accepted the invitation to prepare to be
baptized on July 21st! So that was really cool. We are excited for them. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<br />Elder Jacob Klimahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10929767913982868956noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8980152589228995106.post-82417488295719333372018-06-11T13:16:00.001-07:002018-06-11T13:16:41.778-07:00Cool Experiences<br />
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week with Elder Nonu has been good. It’s definitely a learning experience for
both of us. He is doing well though and he is starting to pick up the language
better. It’s just different for him, not going to the MTC. We saw some cool
experiences this week. We went to Costco for lunch on Thursday and while we
were there, a guy working pest control came up to us and bought us lunch. He
served a mission in independence, Missouri. He is only in Bend for the week.
Well, a couple of days later, we were really late for lunch and decided to go
to Subway (we really haven’t been eating out that much lately because we have
been eating healthier.. ) but we got there and got into line and guess who was
in front of us? The same guy! He bought us lunch again. It was really nice of
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had a cool experience yesterday. We went in the morning to go wake up one of
our investigators. When we got there, there were a couple of people outside.
The natural man didn’t want to talk to them because we were already late to
wake Eric up and we had church soon, etc. But we decided to do it anyways. It
turns out that they were really cool! They had even talked to the Sisters the
other day. The one guy asked pretty much why God doesn’t send anyone today
because it’s a crazy world. So we told him how Heavenly Father calls a prophet
and that there is one on the earth today and they liked that! <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<br />Elder Jacob Klimahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10929767913982868956noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8980152589228995106.post-3501074164268073892018-06-04T16:08:00.001-07:002018-06-04T16:08:42.847-07:00Elder Nonu<br />
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Tonga. He has lived in Seattle for a year, but is not very familiar with
America or the English language. We are working on his english and trying to
help him to feel comfortable teaching the lessons. He has had a long journey in
trying to come out on a mission, because of visa issues in the past. He is actually
a few months older than me. And he came straight from home, not going to the
MTC. But he is a really good man and very humble. I am excited to work with him
until I go home. </span></span></div>
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the two days that I waited for Elder Nonu, I was with Elder McElreath and
Schultz. It was really good. We talked with a lot of people and had a lot of
really good lessons. We watched the Day's of Harmony video with one of our
investigators, and then afterwards the Spirit really impressed us to talk about
baptism. So we talked to him about it and he is going to pray about a date to
be baptized. It was really good. We had a really good scripture study class
this past week. One of our investigators, Eric, came to the class and after the
class we talked about coming to church on Sunday. He works really late into the
night, but he told us that we could come wake him up. So we went over in the
morning and woke him up and he came to church for the first time! We were
really excited about that. At church, Sister McCall bore her testimony, which
was really cool to see! She has missed the past couple of weeks and bore her
testimony of how she has felt the absence in her heart because of not being
there, so that was good. </span></span></div>
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Book of Mormon study class is going really well! We had almost twice as many
people there this week and it was really successful. A lot of investigators
came and they really enjoyed it. We are excited to keep doing that moving
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week here was good. I don’t have a ton of time to write today because we are
busy packing up Elder Holt and everything. But the week went great. We met a
really cool guy named Jason. He has battled some mental health issues for a lot
of his life, so that has kept him from progressing much spiritually. On the day
of our lesson, we talked to him on the phone to confirm and he didn’t want to
meet any more because he read the intro to the Book of Mormon and didn’t really
think it was for him. Elder Holt did a great job of talking to him and allowing
the Spirit to work with him and eventually Jason reschedule for the next day.
At that lesson, we realized how prepared Jason was! He told us that he wanted a
moral compass for his life and he wanted to quit smoking and drinking coffee!
At that lesson, we talked about baptism and he accepted the invitation to be baptized!
Then in the next lesson he said, “So essentially in Mormonism you believe that
your church is Christ’s original church?” That was pretty cool to hear! He’s
probably the fastest I have seen someone understand that principle. He came to
church on Sunday and had a good time. We had another investigator there on
Sunday as well for the first time and he really enjoyed it too. It’s been fun
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week went pretty well. It went by really quickly. The trip to Newberg and the
mission tour was really good! Elder Whiting was a really good man and he taught
us a lot. I learned a lot from what he taught and I’m grateful for the chance
to have been there and learn. I think I learned the most, however, during a
few minutes that President instructed us. President told a story that I have
heard him tell a few times, but I learned a few more things from it this time.
He told a story of when he was sick right before a Stake Presidency Meeting.
Sister Tateoka had to take him to the hospital and he was in pretty intense
pain, and he cried out to Christ just as Alma the Younger did when he saw
the angel. It stuck with me a lot this week. I was thinking about Alma the
Younger and what he said about his experience. He said that his mind caught
hold of the thought (the thought being that of Jesus Christ coming to atone for
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yesterday was really good. We had a really good ward council and a great
Sacrament Meeting. I definitely felt edified from church. I learned a lesson in
ward Council. We are working on the Melchizedek Priesthood Rescue. We have a
bunch of names, but were going to start with the first three. The third name on
the list was a name that a lot of people thought had moved and wasn’t in our
ward anymore, so we skipped to the fourth. Well... when church started, guess
who showed up to church with his family? The third man on the list! His kids
are not members, and after Sacrament, the mom asked if we could start teaching
the kids the lessons. So we were excited about that!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Saturday, we had a great experience doing a Book of Mormon study class. This
was our first class. There were about 10 of us there. But it was great! At
first, one of our investigators got sort of contentious. He sort of felt that
God was both good and evil, but as we read in 2 Nephi 2, his heart softened and
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When he first came into the mission, I was his Zone Leader in
Keizer. He has come a long way. He is very loving and so it was good to be with
him and be able to talk with him. Our exchange was really good. We had a really
powerful lesson when we first started the exchange. We were teaching one of
their investigators who has been struggling off and on but overall is doing
well. The members in the ward did a really good job at the lesson bearing
testimony and inviting the Spirit. We invited her to be baptized, but she
didn’t feel like she could. Then the Spirit helped us remember a scripture to
share with her and it was the perfect scripture for her. Her whole demeanor
changed and she accepted the invitation. That was pretty cool! </div>
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<br />Elder Jacob Klimahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10929767913982868956noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8980152589228995106.post-24573941890316896642018-05-07T11:06:00.000-07:002018-05-07T11:06:02.272-07:00Happy Birthday with a Baptism<br />
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The baptism went really well! There was a really good turn
out from the ward once again. Angelica asked a couple of the young women to be
the speakers and they did awesome. The next person that we were working towards
baptism with, Crystil's neighbor, hit some major stumbling blocks and it has
really halted her from progressing towards that. But the miracle is that she
attended Angelica's baptism because she wanted to support her! So it was
awesome that she was able to be there to hear the young women give simple and
sincere talks. And the Sister Missionaries, during the interlude time after the
Baptism while Angelica and Elder Holt had to change, taught the Restoration and
so that was really good for her to hear as well! </div>
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well and we are really excited for them. The rest of the week was pretty good.
I don't remember a ton of what happened though. But overall it was good! We had
an exchange with the Cascade Crest Elders, which was good. During the exchange,
we were biking and saw someone far away so We went over to talk to them. They
were getting in their car and weren't interested, but as We were about to
leave, someone behind us starting talking to us. She is not a member, but her
husband is and they have been taught off and on by some other Elders nearby. So
we were able to have a good conversation with her ans encouraged her to start
meeting with them again. I believe that the elders said that she came to church
this week so that was good! We also had a great lesson this week with a less
active sister that we are teaching. She has had such a strong desire to get on
track and so it has been really great to see her progression. She has been to
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week here was good! We had a really good weekend. Crystil and Anthony were able
to join the youth for the temple trip. They were able to do baptisms for the
dead and have a really enjoyable experience. The Bishopric asked them to bear
their testimonies about it on Sunday at church, so that was awesome to hear!
Crystil is excited to continue taking her family back to the temple. Her
daughter, Angelica, joined the youth as well. But since she hasn’t been
baptized yet, she went to the visitors center and hung out with the visitors
center Sisters. The Sisters there talked to her about a Baptismal date and invited
her to pray about one. The Sisters were able to really connect with her and
talk with her, which was great! She went to a tree on the temple grounds and
prayed about a date and had a really cool experience! Her answer was that she
should be baptized this upcoming Saturday! We are really excited for her. She
has been doing really well and it is great to see her reach this point. </div>
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had a good week with lots of experiences. We had an exchange on Wednesday.
During the exchange, we were driving back to our apartment in the morning to
come back for lunch. As we were driving, we felt prompted to pull over and talk
to someone. At first we didn’t do it, but then it stayed there, so we followed
the prompting and talked with her. She turned out to be really cool and it was
a great conversation. We were able to send her as a referral to the Sisters in
the neighboring area. It was just another lesson that a) Heavenly Father is
always aware of us and He will prompt others to do things to be of help to us.
And b) that we need to always follow His promptings. At first we didn’t, but
I’m grateful that we did. We just have to always learn to follow the first time
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<br />Elder Jacob Klimahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10929767913982868956noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8980152589228995106.post-6986923127020716252018-04-23T14:41:00.000-07:002018-04-23T14:41:30.731-07:00Great Things Happening<br />
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Things here are good with the work. It has been amazing to
see the ways that our investigators are progressing. Ashley, who is Crystil's
neighbor, is doing so good. She was able to make it to the full day at church
for the first time this week and she had a really good time. The Spirit has
been working with her so much. She has absolutely started to love reading the
Book of Mormon and has been cruising through it so fast! We were able to read
the Book of Mormon with her in a members home this week, and that was so good.
That is something that can really help investigators, reading in members homes.
We have really been focusing on reading the Book of Mormon as a mission
recently, and it has helped a lot. It was really cool this week because the
Relief Society in our ward threw a baby shower for Crystil's daughter and apparently
it went extremely well. Crystil's daughter felt so loved and the sisters in the
ward did such a good job at fellowshipping her. Crystil and Anthony are going
to be going up to the Portland temple this week to do baptisms for the dead!
The youth are going up for a temple trip, so it is going to be a great
opportunity for them. Ashley and Angelica are also going to be going up with
the youth and are going to be visiting the visitor's center while the rest of
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investigators that we are teaching. His name is Andrew. He has been having a
rough week, so we went and visited him on Saturday. We had a really good
conversation with him and invited him to church. He said that he would try to
come to church, but wasn't sure. On Sunday morning, we received a text from him
and he said that he was going to come! He showed up to church and stayed for
Sacrament meeting and he really enjoyed it. The ward did a really good job at
helping him feel loved and he said that he wanted to come back again. We were
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<br />Elder Jacob Klimahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10929767913982868956noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8980152589228995106.post-33292073383465583702018-04-16T14:15:00.000-07:002018-04-16T14:15:02.609-07:00Staying in High Desert<br />
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able to go to the temple visitors center this week with Anthony, so that was
really good for them. We had a lesson this week with Crystil’s neighbor,
Ashley. We did it at the church and had a church tour with them. It was really
cool because Crystil, who has only been a member for about three weeks, was
bearing a lot of testimony and helped out a lot. We showed a little video about
the Relief society and Crystil said, “Oh it’s much better than that!” So it was
really good experience for Ashley. She was really excited to come to church on
Sunday, but then Sunday morning she messaged us saying that she had to help her
mom with some car problems. We messaged her back saying that she could come
late if she could make it. We got a text with about 5 minutes left in Gospel
Principles saying that she was in the hallway! She went to relief society and
had an awesome time! She is doing really well and is progressing towards
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were walking towards the mans apartment, we saw another guy and started talking
to him. He invited us to come upstairs. He recently started attending another
church because he is trying to get his life on track. We were able to teach him
the Restoration really briefly and use the Book of Mormon and he said we could
come back Wednesday. It was cool too because right as we were starting to talk
about modern prophets, I saw that on their entertainment center they had a
quote and the author of the quote was James E Faust! So we told him that he was
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Holt and I will both be staying here in High Desert for a third transfer. We
are excited to be able to keep working together and to hopefully keep seeing
more miracles. Elder Patterson is staying in Redmond, so I will be able to see
him at the Zone Conference next month before he goes home. I’m excited for
that. Next month our
Zone Conference will be a mission tour with Elder Whiting of the 70. That will
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<br />Elder Jacob Klimahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10929767913982868956noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8980152589228995106.post-92021059596147519722018-04-09T15:35:00.000-07:002018-04-09T15:35:13.660-07:00<br />
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his testimony at the end and it meant a lot to his mom and sister. It was
really good for his sister to be there and to feel the spirit there. It made
her think more about being baptized and now she is working towards that. The
baptism went really well overall! There was a good showing, especially from the
youth in the ward and the young men’s leaders. We had interviews with President
after the baptism. Those went well. It’s always good to be able to be with them
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about the Book of Mormon and why it’s important to use the Book of Mormon. It
was actually really fun because at one point, I mentioned that Elder Patterson
was really good at that, so President asked that Elder Patterson and I get up
and role play it. Elder Patterson is serving in Redmond now So we were able to
go up and do a role play together of using the Book of Mormon to someone we
just met. That was fun! Elder Patterson also bore his final testimony at Zone
Conference because next Zone conference will be a mission tour and he won’t
have the opportunity to do that there. It was really crazy to see him do that.
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week was good. We had an exchange as well, and during that exchange we had some
good experiences. We saw one guy across the street, so we went over to talk
with him and he didn’t really want to talk. He said he was in a hurry, so we walked
fast with him until we could give him something. It was cool because the Lord
led us straight to another guy who had met with the missionaries in the past
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<br />Elder Jacob Klimahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10929767913982868956noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8980152589228995106.post-35259630040251590342018-04-02T12:17:00.001-07:002018-04-02T12:17:59.416-07:00Good Week in Bend<br />
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week overall was good with the missionary work here. This week we had a
really good lesson with Crystil and her neighbor. Her neighbor has been really
impressed with the ways that Crystil has changed. She says that she has seen a
huge difference in her and that she has a light about her, which is so true.
She said that she wanted that for herself, so this week we had a lesson in
Crystil’s home with this Sister. It’s pretty amazing how she has only been a
member for a week and she is already fellowshipping and reaching out and
inviting others into her home to learn more. She bore a lot of testimony as
well, so that was really cool. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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is getting excited for his baptism on Saturday! He asked one of the Priests to
be the one to perform the baptism, so we are excited for that. It will be a
great experience for him. Tanner is even going to either leave his rugby game
early or skip it to be able to baptize Anthony, so that is really cool to see.
The ward is excited as well, so that’ll be great. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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was great to be able to go back to Newberg this week for the District Leader
Training that we had. It was good to be able to see a lot of missionaries that
I served around and just everyone there in general. It felt good to be back in
the mission home around President and Sister Tateoka. I think the highlight of
my week was being able to talk with President one on one for a few minutes
after the meeting. That was really good. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<br />Elder Jacob Klimahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10929767913982868956noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8980152589228995106.post-87452965141616898192018-03-26T15:32:00.001-07:002018-03-26T15:32:55.469-07:00Crystil's Baptism<div style="background-color: white; font-family: OpenSans, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">
The week here has been really good. It was another really busy week preparing for Crystil's baptism. Crystil is awesome. She has taken the Gospel and has been living it and running with it 100%. At her baptism, when she came out of the water, she said, "Oh, wow!" and then she started to get really emotional because of how good she felt. It was a really unique experience. At the end of the baptism she bore her testimony and it was really powerful. She talked about how she was at the darkest point in her life when she started to talk with us, but then after two weeks of meeting with us she said that she started to feel a sunshine in her life that was hard to explain. It was a really powerful testimony and had an impact on a lot of people who were there. We have a stake temple day coming up in a couple of weeks, so she is going to go up to Portland for that to do baptisms for the dead. We are excited for her! She is also a great example for her family. She is excited to help them accept the gospel because she wants them to all feel how she is feeling. Her son, Anthony, will be baptized on the 7th of April, so we are extremely excited for that as well. <br /></div>
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Other than that, the week was really good. I was able to go on exchanges with the Zone Leaders this week. I was with my MTC companion, Elder Fisk! It has been so cool to see the way that he has changed over the past 19 months. He is an awesome missionary and has been a great example to me. We saw some cool miracles on the exchange. At one point, a lesson that we had set up on facebook was having to be pushed back, so we decided to go out and talk to people for the 15 minutes that we had. We walked in one direction and talked to a bunch of people. Then we saw a hispanic guy across the street and started talking to him. We were able to talk to him in our broken spanish for just long enough to see a guy walking past us. This guy is an investigator that the elders have been teaching recently and have not been able to make contact with him in a while. So we finished talking to this hispanic guy and ran down the street to chase down the other man! It was crazy that we were able to be there to see him and set up a time for the other elders to go back. That was pretty cool. </div>
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Elder Jacob Klimahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10929767913982868956noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8980152589228995106.post-72893273663661114542018-03-19T11:53:00.000-07:002018-03-19T11:53:13.607-07:00Elizabeth's Baptism<br />
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week in general went well. We had a really good turn out at Elizabeth’s
baptism. The Spirit was definitely present and the people in attendance really
enjoyed it. Her confirmation was done on Sunday, which went well. We had ward
conference so it was really cool to be able to have that on the same day. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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had a good day Friday. We have been struggling to find people to teach
recently, compared to when we first got here. On Friday we really tried to
focus on having better contacts with people when we met them. We only had a
couple of hours to be out and contacting people, but we were blessed with a ton
of people to talk with. We also had a cool moment where one of the people that
we have been teaching saw us outside and came out to talk with us. He has been
having trouble with one of his neighbors and he wanted to pray with us to help
himself forgive her. This was a really big step for him because he hasn’t been
too open or anything with us. So we were able to pray with him and then give
him a chapter in the Book of Mormon to read and he read it. Then we went by the
next day to read with him and had a good experience. After we read, he texted
us a question about the reading, which was another big step, so that was
cool. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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week should be good. Crystil and hopefully Anthony will both be baptized on
Saturday, so we are excited for that. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Elder Jacob Klimahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10929767913982868956noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8980152589228995106.post-21700991300513136882018-03-12T13:07:00.002-07:002018-03-12T13:07:31.211-07:00Upcoming Baptisms<br />
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are teaching a 9 year old, Elizabeth, who will be baptized this upcoming
Saturday. We are excited for her. We are also teaching Crystil, who will be
baptized in a couple of weeks. She is doing really well. We taught her about
the word of wisdom and she has totally given up everything that she has needed
to. She feels the Spirit really strong, so it has been really cool to watch as
she has embraced the Gospel and has felt good about it the entire time. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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had another cool experience this week. We have been teaching a guy named Ryan
who has been living at a friends house for a few weeks. Apparently, we found
out this week, that he has been taught by the Zone Leaders for a long time, but
they recently lost contact because he lost his phone. When we found out that it
was the same Ryan, we were going to try and get them in contact with him again,
but when went back to his friends, he wasn’t living there any more. Well, a few
days later we were riding our bikes and started riding next to some guy that we
were talking with and rode all the way to some apartment complex. As we were
talking with this guy, we saw Ryan in the background! He apparently moved in
with a different friend. It was crazy how we were guided to him. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<br />Elder Jacob Klimahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10929767913982868956noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8980152589228995106.post-81412872896409769642018-03-05T13:02:00.000-08:002018-03-05T13:02:30.704-08:00Staying in the High Desert<br />
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are doing well. Transfers are this Tuesday. Elder Holt and I will both be
staying in High Desert. The work has been going really well out here. The ward
has been doing great. We are teaching a family; Crystil, Anthony, and Angelica.
They have been coming to church consistently and it has been going great. We
taught the word of wisdom this week and Crystil has been 100% on board to live
it and has been doing great the past few days. She is preparing to be baptized
on March 24th, so we are excited about that. This week Anthony committed to
work towards April 7th as a date for baptism. It has been really well. The ward
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had Stake Conference this week. President and Sister Tateoka were there to
speak. One of the things I learned from them is that when you speak at Stake
Conference, you need to stay on time so that the Stake President has the time
he needs to speak. Well, the first few speakers took a ton of time. There was
only 30 minutes left by the time President and Sister Tateoka both still had to
speak. they were the last two speakers before the Stake President. It was
really powerful because they both kept their talks short and powerful to allow
for President Stevens to have all the time he needed. President and Sister
Tateoka are amazing. One thing I liked from President Steven’s Talk was that we
need to believe. He said that a lot of people say that seeing is believing, but
truly believing is seeing. As we believe in God and have faith, we will see Him
more in our lives. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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