Week 54

12/21/15

Merry Christmas! :) 

In my last area we had several people get baptized this past week! So that's pretty cool. Hopefully I will get pictures from my last companion (I wasnt there for it)

I found a book in a free box this past week at the church called "That all may be edified" by Boyd K Packer and it has his signature in it, that is pretty cool. It has a lot of his sermons and whatnot from late 80's and before. 

We had a big missionary christmas party, saw a lot of my old friends there which was cool. 

I saw a member from a different ward this past week that I knew when I was here before and they were like WHOA you're still here?! haha because it was like 9 months ago when I met them. 

 

At church there is this little 4 year old girl named Sophie who is super funny. I always give her high fives when she walks by and say hi when I see her. So that is the background to the story. So at the end of church yesterday, She was walking 10 feet down the hall towards me with her mom and I wave and she did one of those happy scream things that little kids do and came running at me and hugged my legs and said hi. I was a little embarrassed by her reaction (as missionaries were not supposed to hold kids/play with them) and her mom was a little confused because the girl is pretty shy. But it was alright. pretty funny still, little kids. gotta love them right? 

 

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Elder Quinton

Week 53

12/14/15

 

Hi Everyone,

The other day, when we were exercising, We were playing this game called oompa loompa ball which is basically ultimate frisbee, but with a football and you have to shoot it in the basketball hoop. So we scored and were going to "throw it off" for the other team and another elder was like hey Quinton, you played soccer right? I was like yeaaaaaaa. he was like, kick it in the hoop. I was like uhhhh soccer ball is way different than a football but alright. So I kicked it and it went right in, full court kick I was very suprised. It was complete luck! :) 

Funny miracle of the week, we were about to try this guy that I had taught a couple times and he normally ignores us when we knock, so we were getting out of the car and I was like, "bido, we should probs just pray, or we will never get into his house" so we prayed, walked over. and as Im about to knock he opens the door on his way out to the gym and hes like uhhhh hey guys, come in! hahahahaha it was hilarious. 

My official year mark has passed, I feel the exact same.. hahaha :) 

So theres this old 85 year old lady named Florence who has an ESL program that I found when I was in Carson before and I teamed up with her to teach English to Spanish people. SO I came back and called her this past week and asked if there was a time we could meet so that we could get the English class back on and she said sure and that she was glad I was back. We get over with some other missionaries and her hair is colored so I comment on the fact and she was like "oh please tell me you like it, I feel 20 years younger" and I was like well. "you look 20 years younger" and she was like "awhhh. Im so glad you're back" and she left for a second and the other missionaries were like WOW Quinton and I said what? It's okay to compliment people and help them feel good. It was pretty funny. 

Also a guy named Hector I taught when I was here before met some missionaries this past week and he was like, "oh elder Quinton used to come over and teach me!" so the elders called me and asked if I knew him and obviously I did and so we are going to meet with him this week!

We had our ward christmas party, santa came. I sat on his lap with my companion and said "hey 23 isnt too old to sit on santa's lap!" They got a kick out of that. 

Also one of my investigators from when I was here before, Andy, wants to get baptized! So that is super cool. 

Also I translated for church the other day. first time I had, I did okay. I actually really enjoyed that though, I decided I'm going to start practicing. 

That's basically all! love you all! 

 

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Elder Quinton

Week 52

Dec. 7th 2015

 

Hi Everyone,

We baptized Ricardo and Brenda this past week! That was pretty cool. I was realizing that Ricardo kind of looks like Cody Farias! My friend from back home, we worked together for 4 years. Except you know Ricardo is mexican. haha Mexican Cody! Ill send a picture, those that know cody will probably laugh. At the baptism my companion, 2 other elders an myself decided to do a last minute quartet and it sounded super good, I went bass, another elder went tenor and the other two who dont read music did the melody. 

Also! Last week in my last area someone I was teaching got baptized which was super cool! :) 

Thats it in a nutshell! :) 

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Elder Quinton

New address

                                               Elder Caleb Quinton
                                               1533 Goldfield Ave
                                              Carson City , NV 89701

Week 51

12/3/15

Hello Everyone,

So much to be said!

Someone from my last area just got baptized so that was awesome! 

We were at dinner with the Lopez family and also one of my friends from here, who has been back in the church for about a yea,r and I was going to share a scripture and "randomly" decided to look up at him and a completely different scripture came to my mind so I shared it instead. Then about 2 hours later He came and talked to me about it and how he's been having a hard time in his life and whatnot. It was cool we talked for  like an hour. I gave him a discourse by one of the apostles that really helped my perspective .He told me as well that it helped him a ton so that was pretty awesome! 

Happy late Thanksgiving! I can't spell. Actually I just dont' feel like going back to recorrect that :)  I know my sister or my mom will fix it anyway. lol

I was doing some studying on fear and faith this past week and I had an interesting thought'. So as Im sure you all know, Christ and the Atonement work among men "according to their faith". I was reading about that and then I was reading through fear and stuff on it (its the opposite of faith) and then I thought "Satan works among us according to our fears" which is probably obvious to most of you, I just hadn't thought about it before. Sure changes the way I think about it now.

Not a whole lot else to say after all. lol

 The week went really well though! :) 

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Elder Quinton