Posts

August 15 , 2022 | Week 101 in the field | Avon, CT | Avon/Canton Wards | Elder Duclose

  Great week everyone lemme tell ya. we had a lesson we needed another guy for and we had little notice but we were pulling all the stops. As the lesson drew near we were going to just meet at a shop with this lady but that had a huge downside because of the chaotic environment. Suddenly 15 minutes before we meet a Brother pulls through and we are able to have a highly spiritual lesson. I also was able to say grace and a food kitchen we served at which was kinda cool. and we also put one of our friends on date for baptism! And lastly we went golfing today elder hassell

August 8 , 2022 | Week 100 in the field | Avon, CT | Avon/Canton Wards | Elder Duclose

Image
  Hello hello! Hope you all are having a most blessed monday evening. Super hot week but the grind goes on. We had a first visit with some members last monday, had them in a lesson with a friend on Friday did some service for them on Saturday and they brought a friend on Sunday. It was pretty awesome and the lesson with the lady too it was the second person we taught in this area about the Plan of Salvation that absolutely loved it. Loved it so much infact that she shared it with her mom. The gospel is amazing. love, elder hassell

August 1, 2022 | Week 99 in the field | Avon, CT | Avon/Canton Wards | Elder Duclose

  Ive run out of greetings but of course we could use a typical New England greeting so "how ah ya!" Pretty good week we did a lot of tracting and found a couple people. Some of the places were so worn down and rough but those places tend to lead to humble people that except our message. We had to stop teaching our golden friend jane because her family didnt want us seeing her anymore and she was in a rehab place. that one hurt. But we ran into this transgender person and had a wonderful discussion with her and had a second visit that went great too! i also found out today that i am  g a r b a g e  at bowling hahha but my comp broke 100 and another missionary got 196. love yall -elder hassell

July 25, 2022 | Week 98 in the field | Avon, CT | Avon/Canton Wards | Elder Duclose

Image
  Good evening just want everyone to know we saw a bear while tracting. A massive bear. Just going through this persons trash! It was absolutely legendary. We had another person threaten to kill us if we got on their property. But we found an absolutely golden person. We got a "self referral" or request from this person to visit with us. So we had called her but she never answered so we went to go visit in person and it turned out to be a rehab center but we were able to get in and we found her! She told us she actually didnt request it but listened to us anyway. We ended up teaching her a whole ton and she was so interested that we came back the next day. We taught her about the plan of salvation and she absolutely loved it, so much so that she told us she stayed up until 3 in the morning reading the book of mormon and the Plan of Salvation pamphlet! Super coop lady. Oh yeah so now i am in Avon/Canton and we are literally 2 mintues from the Temple! We actually got to go this

July 11, 2022 | Week 96 in the field | Norwich, CT | Norwich Ward | Elder Tochiere

Image
 Good evening  Pretty fresh week, we were out and about and had just finished a lesson with someone and we saw this lady. The conversation went something like this her oh you look like Christians! me yes maam her are you mormon? me yes, well The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, but yes her ah i see you guys out knocking doors sometimes, but you guys have never knocked on mine.  me well we better knock your door then! (her door was pretty close, we were in an apartment complex) her alright lets go do that so we proceeded to knock her door then just sat outside together and she opened up to us about wanting her faith and she wanted to have bible studies with someone so of course we offered and bing bang boom. i also gave a pleasant talk. oh and now im being transferred to Avan/Canton CT. We had another guy that we started talking to that was preparing to become a Pastor. Current game plan, teach correct principles, he teaches his congregation correct principles. bing bang boo

July 4, 2022 | Week 95 in the field | Norwich, CT | Norwich Ward | Elder Tochiere

  Good morning lovely people. had a pretty fast week! We were able to baptize one of our friends! she was super prepared and her grandpa who was a member was able to baptize her:) i also finished off my third journal this week and that was kinda crazy because ive never kept a journal before. also one member taught us a ton about Israel and its actually one of the coolest subjects! anyways not to much else to report elder hassell

June 27, 2022 | Week 94 in the field | Norwich, CT | Norwich Ward | Elder Tochiere

Image
  Id probably describe this week as a grind. One day we had a friend cancel and it made the day real open so so we just went and knocked a couple neighborhoods and it was pretty grueling cause of how hot it was. Another day tho we were about to head home but we decided to go check if one of our friends was around and as we walked there (we were in the hood) people would yell "aye blessings man" to us and do a cross of kiss or something and we invited a bunch of them to church and afterwards had an awesome conversation with the person we were looking for:) id say it was a mega win. we also saw another vulture in the road, a family of skunks (crossed in front of us) and a deer this week -elder hassell